News & Events

• Open Lectures and other Events

• Podcasts of Humanities Lectures and Events

• Humanities Inaugural Professorial Lectures 2011

• Entries to the 2011 Humanities Mobile Phone Video Competition

• Conferences/Symposia 2011

  • Symposium on Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism
    18-19 April 2011
  • Science Diplomacy: New Day or False Dawn?
    46th Otago Foreign Policy School
    24-26 June 2011
  • Australasian Association of Philosophy conference (AAP)
    3-8 July 2011
  • Australasian Human Development Association conference
    4-6 July 2011
    
  • JAWS conference (The Japan Anthropology Workshop)
    10-11 July 2011
  • Australia and New Zealand Slavists' Association 2011 Conference, Translations/Transitions
    7-8 November 2011
  • NZ Political Studies Association conference
    1-2 December 2011
    

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Open Lectures and other Events

Further details of Humanities open lectures, as well as seminars, can be found on the Events Calendar.

Details of Lunchtime Theatre and Lunchtime Concerts can be found on the Events Calendar.

Thursday 17 November

(Centre for Theology and Public Issues)

Public Forum

Realizing Dunedin’s Potential: Is Inequality a Factor?

• Paul Barber, Policy Advisor, New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services
• Laura Black, Chief Executive, Methodist Mission
• Cr Jinty MacTavish, Councillor, Dunedin City Council
• Neill Ballantyne, Otago Activation Manager, Global Poverty Project
• Aaron Hawkins, Radio One 91FM presenter and former Dunedin mayoral candidate
• Sue Russell, Executive Officer, Council of Social Services (Dunedin)

Burns Hall, First Church, Moray Place
5.00pm–6.30pm

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Saturday 19 November

(Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies)

Professor T.M. Devine, OBE, FBA, FRSE, FRHistS, Hon MRIA
School of History, Classics and Archaeology
University of Edinburgh

The ‘Death’ and Reinvention of Scotland

Otago Settlers Museum
4pm

Entry by free ticket; advance bookings required. 

Email: osmmail@dcc.govt.nz or Tel: 474 2728

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Monday 21 November

(Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies)

Professor T.M. Devine, OBE, FBA, FRSE, FRHistS, Hon MRIA
School of History, Classics and Archaeology
University of Edinburgh

The Lowland Clearances and the Scottish Exodus to New Zealand

Dunedin City Library
5.30pm

Entry by free ticket; advance bookings required.

Email: library@dcc.govt.nz or Tel: 474 3690

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Tuesday 22 November

(Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies)

Professor T.M. Devine, OBE, FBA, FRSE, FRHistS, Hon MRIA
School of History, Classics and Archaeology
University of Edinburgh

The Puzzle of Scottish Sectarianism

St. Paul's Cathedral
6.30pm

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Monday 28 November

(Department of Theology and Religion)

Professor Jens Herzer
Faculty of Theology
University of Leipzig

Pontius Pilate and the Jewish Elites: The Picture of Pilate in Jewish and Christian Literature

Archway 2 Lecture Theatre
5.15pm

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Wednesday 30 November

(Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies)

Dr Alistair MacLeod
Professor Emeritus
Department of English Language, Literature and Creative Writing
University of Windsor
Ontario

Holding Fast: From Scotland to the New World, 1791-2011

Archway 1 Lecture Theatre
5.15pm

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Humanities Inaugural Professorial Lectures 2011

Tuesday 13 September

Professor Andrew Geddes IPL
Faculty of Law

Of flags and protest: dissent, offence and the limits of free speech

Moot Court, Richardson Building
5.30pm

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Wednesday 21 September

Professor Judy Bennett IPL
Department of History and Art History

“Somewhere in the Pacific”: History’s silences of World War Two

Castle 1 Lecture Theatre
5.30pm

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Thursday 13 October

Professor Murray Rae IPL
Department of Theology and Religion

Theology and the Pursuit of Truth

College of Education Auditorium
5.30pm

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Wednesday 19 October

Professor Richard Walter IPL
Department of Anthropology and Archaeology

Challenges and Diversions in Pacific Archaeology

College of Education Auditorium
5.30pm

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Conferences/Symposia/Workshops

Symposium on Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism

18-19 April 2011

This symposium will gather scholars to discuss recent work of the team working on the Marsden-funded project "Experimental philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism" at the University of Otago.

Papers will be on:

• the origins of the experimental/speculative distinction (Peter Anstey)
• Newton and experimental philosophy (Kirsten Walsh)
• Aberdeen experimental philosophy (Juan Gomez)
• experimental philosophy in eighteenth century England and France (Peter Anstey)
• experimental philosophy in eighteenth century Germany (Alberto Vanzo)
• the genesis of empiricism: Kant and the aetas kantiana (Alberto Vanzo)

Commentators:

• Philip Catton (Canterbury)
• Gideon Manning (Caltech)
• Tim Mehigan (Otago)
• Charles Pigden (Otago)
• Anik Waldow (Sydney)
• Eric Watkins (San Diego)

Programme available on:
https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/emxphi/2011/02/symposium-experimental-philosophy-and-empiricism/

Attendance is free. However, space is limited, so we advise you to register early. To register and for information, please email peter.anstey@otago.ac.nz

Papers will be distributed to participants one month before the conference and abstracts will be posted on the Early Modern Experimental Philosophy Blog (https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/emxphi).

If you cannot attend, but would like to read some of the papers, send an email to alberto.vanzo@otago.ac.nz

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