UPCOMING EVENTS
30 July: Prof. Pieter Duvenage in conversation with Prof. Anton Van Niekerk
27 August: Prof. Minka Woermann as part of a PhilLab event
RECENT EVENTS
2026 DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS:
Prof Frank Hindriks (Groningen) will be presenting on "Why is Institutional Change So Difficult?"
Prof Ryan Nefdt (UCT/ Bristol) talking about his paper-in-progress: "What it's Like to be an LLM."
Dr Pieter Streicher (UJ/ Durham) talking about his recent book Power, Knowledge & Covid-19: The Making of a Scientific Orthodoxy (co-authored with Prof. Alex Broadbent).
Prof Louise du Toit (SU) presenting on "Of Flesh and Ore and the Logic of Rape as Plunder"
Dr Jaco Louw (SU) will be presenting on "Philosophising From Here – Horizon, Place, and the Conditions of Dialogical Encounters"
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."