Digest Summer Vacation 2024

This page lists all Philosophy-related events taking place throughout the Summer vacation.

If you have entries please send information to admin@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

Notices - other Philosophy events, including those taking place elsewhere in the university and beyond

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Oxford Forum event

A Creative Transformation: a discussion event exploring creativity, the brain, mental health and making sense of lived experience. 

When:  4.30pm 18 June 2024

Where: Garden Room, Stanford University Centre in Oxford, 65 High St, Oxford

No registration needed, all welcome

The session will include:

Film scenes that explore the creative process and hallucinatory world of Dr. Lorna Collins, an artist, researcher and expert by experience, who lives with the medical condition organic hallucinosis (caused by a traumatic brain injury).

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion about how art and creativity can express and make something tangible and illuminative from 'madness'.

Open floor conversation about art, mental health, sensory disturbances or non-consensus realities, and the effects of brain injury, with attendees.

The workshop is aimed at researchers, educators, academics, students and those interested in the brain, trauma, madness and creativity. The panelists are:

  • Dr. Lorna Collins, artist, filmmaker, independent scholar
  • Professor Paul Lodge, Mansfield College, University of Oxford
  • Dr. Roxana Baiasu, University of Birmingham University of Oxford and Stanford University in Oxford
  • Georgina Aasgaard, Music and Health Practitioner, University of Liverpool

For more information please visit acreativetransformation.org or email the Oxford Forum: theforumatoxford@gmail.com

50th Hume Society Conference

1 -6 July 2024

Wadham College

From Monday 1 July to Saturday 6 July, Oxford is hosting the 50th Hume Society Conference at Wadham College, featuring many of the most influential Hume scholars from across the world. 

If you would like to attend, please register at https://sites.google.com/view/50thhumeconf, which includes the Conference programme. 

For further information about the Conference, please email peter.millican@philosophy.ox.ac.uk.