This month’s events

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  1. Knox Lecture 2024 --- Professor Elizabeth Anderson

    Knox Lecture 2024 --- Professor Elizabeth Anderson

    Categorical inequality and the economy of esteem

    The Knox Lecture is an annual public lecture in the area of philosophy. This year's speaker is Professor Elizabeth Anderson (Michigan), who will be speaking on the topic of 'Categorical inequality and the economy of Esteem'. Social theorists have had considerable empirical success in modeling social hierarchy in terms of 'categorical inequality'. In this...

  2. Centre for Energy Ethics: Long Field Loop by Rebecca Sharp

    Centre for Energy Ethics: Long Field Loop by Rebecca Sharp

    FREE but please book

    Join Poet, playwright, and interdisciplinary artist Rebecca Sharp for the finale of her Centre for Energy Ethics resicdency, where she will launch her new collection of poems, Long Field Loop. When so much of moving forward includes looking back, the poems in Long Field Loop make space for making amends --- a space where...

  3. Public lecture by Professor Stephen Gardiner

    Public lecture by Professor Stephen Gardiner

    Beyond institutional denial: a global constitutional convention for future generations

    Join CEPPA (Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs) for a public lecture on climate justice as part of Climate Week. The lecture will be given by Professor Stephen Gardiner of the University of Washington. Humanity is in deep institutional denial. Current institutions are failing future generations, in part because there is a governance...

  4. When Nature stumbles on a good thing: from promiscuous binding to essential enzyme activity

    When Nature stumbles on a good thing: from promiscuous binding to essential enzyme activity

    Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) External Seminar series by Prof. Joelle Pelletier, Department of Chemistry, University of...

  5. Public lecture by Professor Tahseen Jafry

    Public lecture by Professor Tahseen Jafry

    About climate justice: what does it mean and what lies ahead?

    Join CEPPA (Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs) for a public lecture on climate justice as part of Climate Week. The lecture will be given by Professor Tahseen Jafry of Glasgow Caledonian University. In July 2023, Europe reached scorching milestones with relentless heatwaves and Scotland had its hottest June ever. Several regions grappled...

  6. "Protest and Persistence: Analysing the Sweida Movement's Dynamics and Future Pathways."

    "Protest and Persistence: Analysing the Sweida Movement's Dynamics and Future Pathways."

    "The protest movement that erupted in Sweida last year continues to gain attention, particularly as it unfolds in a region predominantly inhabited by the Druzes. These protests, primarily led by the Druze community, a prominent religious minority in the region, have been driven by grievances over economic deterioration, corruption, and the demand for political...