UPCOMING EVENTS
16 APRIL 2026: Dr Pieter Streicher (UJ/ Durham) will be talking about his recent book Power, Knowledge & Covid-19: The Making of a Scientific Orthodoxy (co-authored with Prof. Alex Broadbent). The session will be chaired by Dr. Susan Hall (Head of the Unit for Bioethics).
23 APRIL 2026: Prof Ryan Nefdt (UCT/ Bristol) will be talking about his paper-in-progress: "What it's Like to be an LLM." The session will be chaired by Prof JP Smit.
30 APRIL 2026: Prof Louise d Toit (SU) will be presenting (title TBC)
7 MAY 2026: Dr Jaco Louw (SU) will be presenting (title TBC)
RECENT EVENTS
2026 DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS:
Dr. Maéva Clément from Osnabruck University on "Gendering Community Reconciliation: Transnational Peacebuilding Discourses and Practices." See seminar poster for further details.
Dr Filippos Stamatiou, a postdoctoral fellow in the Unit for the Ethics of Technology, speaking on "The Intercepted Self: Generative AI & the Disrupted Future of Selfhood." See seminar poster for further details.
Prof. Marzia Milazzo (UJ) discussing her book Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power.
2025 DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS:
Dr Anye-Nkwenti Nyamnjoh from UCT speaking on "Ubuntu in AI Ethics: From Cultural Representation to Political Resistance." See seminar poster for further details.
Dr Schalk Gerber from SU speaking on "Beyond Prediction: On the Limits of AI, Spontaneity, and the Ontological Demand in Kant, Heidegger, and Nancy." See seminar poster for further details.
Prof Lucy Allais from Wits/ Johns Hopkins University speaking on "An Antinomy of Agency." See seminar poster for further details.
Dr Emre Çetin Gürer from Koç University in Turkey speaking on "University as a Space of Resistance: The Case of the Boğaziçi University Resistance in Turkey." See seminar poster for further details.
Dr Hugo Uys from UWC speaking on "Theorizing the Vulnerability of Animal Bodies Before the Law."
Prof Philip Kitcher of Columbia University speaking on "Scientific Progress and the Search for Truth."