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Programme seminar series (2023)

Seminars take place on Wednesdays from 11am to 12.30pm in Burns 4 (ground floor of the Arts Building, 95 Albany Street).

(Note: in addition to the programme seminar series, there is a regular postgraduate seminar series.)

DATE SPEAKER TITLE
1 Mar Charles Pigden (Otago)
No-ought-from-is, Prior's Paradox, and Gillian Russell's Solution
6 Mar (Monday) Ewan Kingston (College of Charleston) Pass it on!  The channeling method in consumer ethics
8 Mar
(rescheduled)
15 Mar Thomas Douglas (Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford)
The scope of the right against mental interference
22 Mar Jussi Haukioja (NTNU, Norway) Thought Experiments and the Role of Arguments
29 Mar (no seminar: postgrad conference)

5 Apr

12 Apr no seminar (mid-semester break)

19 Apr Isabella McAllister (UoAuckland, Otago) Rational Belief Revision About Logic
26 April Miranda Johnson (History, Otago)
Troubling the Politics of Indigeneity in Two Southern Settler States: Race, Autochthony, Sovereignty
3 May Michael LeBuffe (Otago)
tbc
10 May

17 May

24 May

31 May Heather Dyke (Otago)
tbc
no seminar (winter break)
12 Jul

19 Jul

26 Jul

2 Aug

9 Aug no speaker: postgraduate conference  
16 Aug

23 Aug

30 Aug no seminar (mid-semester break)
6 Sep Alex Miller (Otago)
tbc
13 Sep

20 Sep

27 Sep

4 Oct

11 Oct


For archives of past seminars, click here.