University of Oxford Philosophy faculty 27-29 June 2016 W. E. B. Du Bois famously wrote that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line". All of us now are well into the twenty-first century, and for contemporary Europeans, Du Bois’ remarks may appear distant a second...
Gender, Public Policy, and Philosophies of Emotion
Society for Women in Philosophy Ireland Workshop Programme 9.30-10.00 Registration and Welcome 10.00-11.30 Gender, Public Policy, Emotion: Philosophical Perspectives I When is Shame Good? Thinking about the Dynamics of Punishment through Shameful Exposure (Luna Dolezal, Durham University/Trinity College Dublin) Teaching “Patriotic Love” in Schools (Eileen Brennan, Dublin City University)...
Topics in Global Justice: Agency, Power, Politics
The second annual conference of the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham welcomes submissions on any topic related to global ethics, but will prioritize work focusing on the 2016 theme of agency, power, and policy. Specifically, we are interested...