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  • STAIGS ANNUAL LECTURE. 13 May 2025. DR. ASIYA ISLAM. 鈥榃orking women鈥�: Gender, work, and the politics of refusal

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    鈥榃orking women鈥�: Gender, work, and the politics of refusal Popular discussions about the four-day working week, quiet quitting, and the great resignation following the Covid19 pandemic indicate dissatisfaction with and changing attitudes towards contemporary waged work. And yet, waged work remains central to the construction of the aspirational, entrepreneurial, hyper-industrious woman essential for development in…

  • STAIGS ANNUAL LECTURE. 13 May 2025. DR. ASIYA ISLAM. 鈥榃orking women鈥�: Gender, work, and the politics of refusal

    鈥榃orking women鈥�: Gender, work, and the politics of refusal Popular discussions about the four-day working week, quiet quitting, and the great resignation following the Covid19 pandemic indicate dissatisfaction with and changing attitudes towards contemporary waged work. And yet, waged work remains central to the construction of the aspirational, entrepreneurial, hyper-industrious woman essential for development in…

  • Language and Mind seminar: Ryan Nefdt (University of Cape Town)

    Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams

    Title: The Boundaries of Learning in Humans and AI Abstract: In this talk, I discuss a recent controversy in the philosophies of AI and cognitive science. The issue of ‘impossible grammars’ has some pedigree in theoretical linguistics as an offshoot of both the Universal Grammar postulate and the Principles and Parameters framework of the early…

  • FPST Seminar: Stavroula Pipyrou (Social Anthropology, in-person) – Feminism and Patriarchy in the Shadow of the Cold War

    Edgecliffe G03

    Title:聽Feminism and Patriarchy in the Shadow of the Cold War 聽 Abstract:聽The presentation is an extract from my new book 鈥淟urking Cold War鈥� where I make an argument about historical communion 鈥� history that matters in ways that matter. Two of the protagonists in north Italy, Giorgia and Eleonora are resigned to a life in…

  • Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy XIII

    Senate Room, St Mary's College South St, 精东传媒, Fife, United Kingdom

    15 MAY 11.00-11.15 Welcome 11.15-12.00 Colin Chamberlain (University College London),聽Margaret Cavendish on the Oneness of Colour and Body Alexander Douglas (University of 精东传媒) 12.00-12.45 Elisabeth Thorson (Durham University),聽Philo, Right Reason, and the Power of Platonism in 17th-Century Women Philosophers 12.45-14.00 Lunch 14.00-15.00 Keynote. Ruth Boeker (University College Dublin), Astell on Self-improvement and Friendship Chair:…