News in Brief - February 2024

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Philosophy News Digest

Featured News

Vid Simoniti, Harry Drummond and Yiota Vassilopoulou

Dr Harry Drummond on his PhD, viva, and beyond 

NHW Wonder Women

Dr Yiota Vassilopoulou selected for Faculty Learning & Teaching and Student Experience Award 

Professor Michael Hauskeller on his 60th birthday

The Department of Philosophy celebrates Michael Hauskeller’s 60th Birthday 

Artist talk by Andrii Dostliev 

  

International News  

Through the Eyes of the Displaced: Contemporary Art and Political Change for Ukrainian Displaced Persons 

Rachael Wiseman will be speaking at the Gulbenkian Foundation Art of Biography conference in Lisbon, 13-14 March 

Katherine Furman gave a talk on ‘Distrusting Medical Science with All the Feels’ at Aarhus University, Denmark.  

Vid Simoniti’s interview with Jasmina Cibic is in Outsider (in Slovenian)  

Robin McKenna was in New Orleans for an author-meets-critic session on his book Non-Ideal Epistemology at the APA 

Rachael Wiseman and Clare Mac Cumhaill were on Ireland’s U2X-Radio show, Elevation, to talk about Metaphysical Animals. 

 

Publications 

Katherine Furman wrote a blog post on rumours for Cardiff's Open for Debate’ blog. 

 

Other News  

Congratulations to Vid Simoniti and Robin McKenna for promotion to Senior Lecturer and to Rachael Wiseman for promotion to Reader. 

Vid Simoniti gave a talk at Leeds’ CAMP (Centre for Aesthetics, Moral, Political Philosophy). 

Rachael Wiseman gave a talk on ‘Frege, Wittgenstein and Anscombe on Essence’, at University of York 

 

Upcoming Events 

6 March, Philosophy Society Dissertation Showcase. Contact Rachael Wiseman for information 

7 March, Stapledon. Louise Richardson (University of York), ‘The Object of Regret’ 

8 March, ‘Mind, Brain, & Consciousness: Conference for Barry Dainton's 65th Birthday 

14 March, Stapledon [online]. Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam), ‘A Foucauldian critique of the epistemic injustice research program’ 

8-10 April, BSHP Annual Conference. Registration open 

11-12 April HYBRID, ‘Normative Implications of the Metaphysics of Extra-Corporeal Gestation’. Booking required (free)