Introduction to Dissertation Research at Wellcome Collection This February!

Dear colleagues,

This email concerns the exciting new ‘Introduction to Dissertation Research’ series to be held at Wellcome Collection this February. These events will showcase the vast potential of our unique and distinctive collections for postgraduate humanities students undertaking dissertations or other collections-based research projects. As a world-leading resource for the study of the social and cultural contexts of health and medicine, our collections span life, death and everything in between. We think the value of our materials speak to a range of disciplines.

We will be holding our ‘Introduction to Dissertation Research’ series across Monday 18th, Wednesday 20th and Friday 22nd February. Each session, lasting ninety minutes, will begin with a general introduction to research at Wellcome Collection before focusing on a selection of our materials and how these might inspire exciting and original research questions.

For further details on these events, including the collections we will be showcasing, visit: https://wellcomecollection.org/events/XBpXCxMAADAAkdeh

Students will be able to book their place at a session through the Wellcome Collection website from Friday 25th January at 11am. Our sessions are primarily intended for postgraduate students, however we welcome the attendance of final year undergraduates. Attendees are invited to browse our catalogues beforehand as there will be time for questions related to their specific areas of interest.

Please share this message with your students. If you have any questions about these events, contact us at collections

Kind regards,

Ross MacFarlane

Research Development Specialist (Modern)

Programme Lead

Collections and Research

Wellcome Collection

183 Euston Road

London NW1 2BE

United Kingdom

T +44 (0)20 7611 7340

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Spring Term: Ralph Miliband Programme Events

LSE	Ralph Miliband Programme Generations	Spring 2019
Wednesday 23rd January, 6:30-8 pm, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE Generations of Feminism? Speakers: Avtar Brah, Clare Hemmings and Imaobong Umoren We often talk about different generations of feminism, but do these distinctions make sense? Our panel examines what differences and similarities there might be between generations of feminists Avtar Brah is Professor Emerita at Birkbeck College, University of London Clare Hemmings is Professor of Feminist Theory at LSE Imaobong Umoren is Assistant Professor in the Department of International History at LSE
Thursday 14th March, 6:30-8 pm, Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE Social Care in Crisis: What Are the Solutions? Speaker: Pat Thane The social and health needs of older people are not easily separable. But care has been institutionally separate since 1948. Did this help create the current crisis? Pat Thane is Research Professor in Contemporary History, King’s College London
Monday 18th March, 6:30-8 pm, Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE Silences of the Great War: All the Things We Cannot Hear Speaker: Jay Winter Silence itself is a language of memory. Jay Winter explores the dialectic between silence and sound in the auditory history of the Great War. Jay Winter is Charles J Stille Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University
Tuesday 26th March, 6:30-8 pm, Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE Intergenerational Justice and Generational Sovereignty: Brexit and Climate Change Speaker: Axel Gosseries Do the intergenerational issues raised by climate change differ from those raised by the Brexit vote? And what can we do to address these issues? Axel Gosseries is Professor of Economics and Social Ethics at Louvain University
All events are free and open to all. Unless stated otherwise seats are allocated on a first come first served basis. If you have any queries please contact m.goodfellow

Call for Abstracts: Communication, Context, Conversation Workshop

ECOM (Expression, Communication, and Origins of Meaning) Research Group will host its 6th annual workshop at UConn on May 3-4 (MCHU/Laurel 305), 2019: “Communication, Context, Conversation”. The workshop will bring together researchers working on the pragmatics, linguistic analysis, and comparative and developmental psychology of communication and conversation.

Invited speakers include:

Anne Bezuidenhout (U of SC)
Robyn Carston (UCL)

Danielle Mathews (Sheffield)

Federico Rossano (UCSD)

Mandy Simons (CMU)

Also on the program: Ruth Millikan, Mitch Green, and Dorit Bar-On (of UConn). A CFP has now been posted on PhilEvents.

(Abstracts — 500-1,000 words, excluding references — should be ready for blind review and include the title of the paper; they should make clear both the topic and the main arguments of the paper. The paper should be suited for a 30-minute presentation, which will be followed by a 15-minute discussion. Please send a separate document with the title of the paper, author’s name, affiliation (if any), and contact information. Abstracts should be sent to Aliyar Ozercan aliyar.ozercan by February 1st, 2019. Notifications of acceptance will be sent no later than February 20, 2019. Authors of accepted papers will be asked to send a draft of their paper by April 1st, 2019.)

University of Calgary 8th Annual Philosophy Graduate Conference

Call for Papers: 8th Annual University of Calgary Graudate Philosophy Conference

Submission Deadline: February 1, 2019.

Send submissions to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fro5

This year’s graduate conference will be held on May 2-3, 2019, and centered on topics of Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Obligation. Papers may be submitted on a wide range of topics including, but not limited to:

· Free Will

· Moral Responsibility

· Obligation

· Moral Luck

· Deontic Logic

· Philosophy of Action

· Reactive Attitudes

· Forgiveness

· Resentment

· Fairness

· Desert

Confirmed keynote speakers will be Derk Pereboom (Susan Linn Sage Professor, Cornell University) and Ishtiyaque Haji (Professor, University of Calgary)

Submission Instructions: Papers up to 3000 words will be accepted for consideration, submitted to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fro5). Papers should be prepared for anonymous review.

Questions should be directed to eric.bohner1

Further information regarding location and conference can be found here:

https://ucalgarygradconference.wordpress.com/2018/12/12/8th-annual-university-of-calgary-graduate-philosophy-conference/

Regards,

Eric Bohner

Philosophy PhD Student

University of Calgary

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