Digest Summer Vacation 2021
This page lists all Philosophy-related events taking place throughout the Summer vacation. If you have entries for the Digest, please send information to admin@philosophy.ox.ac.uk by midday, Wednesday the week before the event.
Unless otherwise stated, all events will take place online.
Notices - other Philosophy events, including those taking place elsewhere in the university and beyond
The Aristotelian Society | Monday 21 June 2021, 17:30-19:15 | Online
Title: Swimming Happily in Chinese Logic
Speaker: Michael Beaney (Aberdeen/Humboldt)
Chair: Bill Brewer (KCL)
Due to the Covid-19 situation, The Aristotelian Society will be holding its meetings online via Zoom until further notice. To join the presentation and discussion period for each talk you will need to follow this link. If you have any problems or concerns about the software, please contact mail@aristoteliansociety.org.uk. You do not need to have a Zoom account or to download anything in advance but we have found that the software works better on Google Chrome or Firefox, rather than other browsers. Please log into the “waiting room” at least 5 minutes in advance of the talk - so by 17:25 next Monday.
Further details | View the programme | Read the draft paper
Webinar: Women's Choices in Childbirth. Really? | Wednesday 30 June, 12:00-14:00 | Online via Zoom
What do we mean by informed consent and shared decision-making in childbirth? Does informed consent just equate shared decision-making? Who, of all involved, has the final say? Birth care proposes key questions relating to knowledge, freedom, and what it means to be a human being.
The webinar is hosted by the Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice in Health and Social Care.
Register here.
The Aristotelian Society | Monday 28 June 2021, 17:30-19:15 | Online
Title: I wish my speech were like a loadstone: Cavendish on Love and Self-Love
Speaker: Julia Borcherding (Cambridge)
Chair: Bill Brewer (KCL)
Due to the Covid-19 situation, The Aristotelian Society will be holding its meetings online via Zoom until further notice. To join the presentation and discussion period for each talk you will need to follow this link. If you have any problems or concerns about the software, please contact mail@aristoteliansociety.org.uk. You do not need to have a Zoom account or to download anything in advance but we have found that the software works better on Google Chrome or Firefox, rather than other browsers. Please log into the “waiting room” at least 5 minutes in advance of the talk - so by 17:25 next Monday.
Further details | View the programme | Read the draft paper
Book Launch: Anne Schwenkenbecher: 'Getting our act together: collective moral obligations' | Tuesday 6 July, 10:30-11:30 | Online
Dr Anne Schwenkenbecher, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Murdoch University
Chaired by Professor Julian Savulescu, Director, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Together we can often achieve things that are impossible to do on our own. We can prevent something bad from happening, or we can produce something good, even if none of us could do it by ourselves. But when are we morally required to do something of moral importance together with others?
Join Dr Anne Schwenkenbecher, as she discusses her new book, Getting Our Act Together: A Theory of Collective Moral Obligations with Professor Julian Savulescu.
To register and watch this talk live: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/getting-our-act-together
To watch later: https://youtu.be/HXf-kFwcAaI
Oxford Mathematics Online Public Lecture | Tuesday 6 July, 17:00-18:00 | Online
Ingrid Daubechies: Mathemalchemy: a mathematical and artistic adventure
A collaborative art installation celebrating the joy, creativity and beauty of mathematics has been in the works for the past two years, and will soon be ready to emerge from its long gestation. The original idea, conceived by textile artist Dominique Ehrmann and mathematician Ingrid Daubechies inspired a team of 24 Mathemalchemists to work together, transforming the whole conception in the process, and bringing their individual expertise and whimsy to a large installation.
Despite the challenges of Covid-19, the team created a fantasy world where herons haul up nets loaded with special knots in the Knotical scene, a tortoise meditates while ambling along Zeno’s path, chipmunks and squirrels ponder the mysteries of prime numbers, and a cat named Arnold bakes cookies that tile the plane in the Mandelbrot bakery; and a myriad more mathematical ideas swirl through the air.
This presentation will introduce some of the ideas and components, and show the team at work. Here’s a sneak preview: mathemalchemy.org or @mathemalchemy on Instagram.
Multi-award winning Ingrid Daubechies is James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University.
Queerness Beyond Borders Conference | 7-9 July | Online
Registrations are now open for a three-day virtual conference addressing issues of queerness beyond borders, open to all students, staff, alumni, and friends. The conference will explore normative and conceptual issues surrounding queerness and its intersection with academic, political, and geographical borders. It will address issues such as racial equity, moral justifications for queerness as grounds for refugee status, the concept of gender, and practical and theoretical considerations for how to translate academic ideas into policy outcomes.
Register here.
As featured in The Times, Queerness Beyond Borders is proudly supported by Worcester College, the Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute, and the Mind Association.
CPVA Sound Pictures Conference | Saturday 10 July, 16:00-19:00 | Online via Zoom
This even is organised by the King’s College London Centre for Philosophy and the Visual Arts and sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics.
Facebook event page: https://fb.me/e/dbLS7G8z7
Registration link: https://philosophyandvisualarts.com/sound-pictures-registration-page/
Sheffield Postgraduate Philosophy Conference: Understanding Value X | 14-16 July 2021 | Online
Registration on Eventbrite is required and is free. Find the schedule for the conference on our website here.
If you have any questions, please contact valueconference@sheffield.ac.uk
IMPORTANT: All the dates and times are set based on British Summer Time (BST), for your local time zones please refer to https://www.calculator.net/time-
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This conference is kindly supported by The Mind Association, the Arts & Humanities Research Council, and the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities.
Online IRC Conference | Natural Theology in the 21st Century | 15-17 July 2021
Thanks to the support of the Issachar Fund, the Ian Ramsey Centre is pleased to announce its online summer conference, “Natural Theology in the 21st Century,” 15-17 July 2021, access to which via Zoom is free upon registration:
Free registration for the zoom link to the whole conference, here. Free registration for the zoom link to just the plenary, public presentation by Iain Mcgilchrist, 7:30pm, Thursday 15 July, here.
The event finishes with another plenary presentation by the Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion, Alister McGrath, at 1:30pm, Saturday 17 July.
A PDF of the whole can bee found here.
Religious Pluralism in Healthcare | 16-18 July | Online workshop
Please register your interest using this form. There are a limited number of places available for this workshop.
In addition, the workshop schedule is now available here.
The Aristotelian Society: The 95th Joint Session | 16-18 July 2021 | Online event
The Joint Session is the premier UK general philosophy conference, held annually during the summer by the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association.
This year's Joint Session will be held online, organised by the University of Herfordshire and running from 16th to 18th July. The official website, with all you need to know about the conference, is here - and you can now download the schedule here.
Workshop: Reductionism in Meta-ethics and Philosophy of Mind | 23-25 July | Online via Zoom
Hosted by the University of Oxford & Université d Fribourg
Organisers: Alex Moran, Frederic Auderset, Ralf Bader, Martine Nida-Rümelin.
For more details about the event please visit the Philevets page and/or this website.
To register, please email: reductionismworkshop@gmail.com
Debate: "Being Good and Being Authentic" | 18-19 September | Online
Speakers: Jonathan Wolff, Mary Ann Sieghart, Julie Bindel and Jesse Norman
Book here.
Featured Events & Announcements
Online Workshop | Religious Pluralism in Healthcare | 16-18 July
Please register your interest using this form There are a limited number of places available for this workshop.
In addition, the workshop schedule is now available here.
Science & Roger Penrose: A Free Live Online Webinar | 3-6 August, 9:00-12:30 PST Arizona
On the occasion of Roger Penrose's 90th Birthday & Nobel Prize
Broad Street Humanities Review: Call for Pitches and Editorship Applications, Deadline 25 July
For more information, click here.
Call for Submissions: Oxford Public Philosophy Journal, Deadline 31 August
You can find out more on our posters and website, as well as by emailing oxfordpublicphilosophy@gmail.com.
Logic graduate student day at the BLC conference |1 September
For more information, click here.
Call for Submissions: UC Berkeley Undergraduate Law Review
For more information, click here.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR THE OXFORD SLEEP-WAKE STUDY!
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Other events around the University
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