Seminars and conferences

We run a wide range of seminars and conferences aimed at addressing current issues, presenting work in progress and strengthening department culture. They are open, inclusive and welcoming!

Philosophy, Penelope Mackie seminars

Research seminars

When: every Wednesday at 3pm during term time, unless stated otherwise.
Where: Humanities A02, unless stated otherwise.

We welcome external speakers as well as from within our own department.

For more information contact Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko: joseph.kisolo-ssonko@nottingham.ac.uk.

Seminars - spring term

5 February 2025

Chenwei Nie (University of Warwick) ‘Delusions as seeming-based beliefs’

12 February 2025, room A27

Ellie Robson (King's College London) ‘Susan Stebbing on Moral Philosophy and Ways of Living’

19 February 2025, time change 3:30pm

Emerging Research Slot (UoN)

26 February 2025

Luke Brunning (University of Leeds) ‘Uttering the One: A Platonic and Zhuangzian argument against monism'’

12 March 2025

Charlotte Alderwick (UWE Bristol) 'Schelling, Freedom, and Exhibition: A Response to Stern'

19 March 2025, room A21

Lea Cantor (University of Cambridge) ‘Uttering the One: A Platonic and Zhuangzian argument against monism'’

26 March 2025

Nir Eyal (Rutgers University) TBC

30 April 2025

Ulrike Heuer (University College London) 'Acting for a reason: the problem of intellectualism'

7 May 2025

Mohammed Saleh Zarepour (University of Manchester) 'Future Contingency and God's Foreknowledge in Classical Islamic Philosophy'

See our previous philosophy research seminars

Postgraduate Research Seminars

When: every Wednesday at 1.30pm during term time.
Where: Humanities A01.

Usually, a research student presents their research, although occasionally we set a paper to read and discuss, or a member of staff presents.

For more information contact Kit Alcock: apyca@nottingham.ac.uk

Centre for Theology, Philosophy and Religion seminars

Research seminars

When: selected Wednesdays at 3pm - 5pm during term time
Where: Humanities A01, unless stated otherwise

Everyone is welcome.

Seminars - spring term 2026

28 January 2026

Bennett Zon, (University of Durham): Intertemporality and the Timeless Timefulness of Chant

Joint CTPR/Department of Music seminar

11 February 2026

Tasia Scrutton, (University of Leeds): Psychopathology AND religious experience?

11 March 2026

Christine Joynes (Regent’s Park College, Oxford): Reframing the Canon: Art and Biblical Interpretation

6 May 2026

Badreldeen Ismail (The Classical Institute, Birmingham): An Eleventh-Century Muslim Theologian on God’s Attributes and Human Agency: Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī’s al-Ishāra

See our previous Theology and Religion seminars