Postgraduate "Work In Progress" Seminar
Postgraduate Work-In-Progress SeminarA weekly seminar for Philosophy postgraduates to present their in-progress work, followed by a well-spirited trip to the pub. OverviewThe WIP provides a risk-free and supportive space for postgraduates to present their work and receive feedback from other graduates and faculty.
Attendance optional but highly recommended. All postgraduates are welcome to present or attend -- whether MA, MPhil, PhD, Visitors, etc. Useful InfoThe WIP is a unique opportunity for graduates to develop their presenting and writing skills, take risks, test out ideas, and receive constructive feedback from peers.
Presentations need not be watertight or polished pieces at all. You are encouraged to present work at all stages of the writing process. Should you present?Are you a postgraduate? Then yes, you should present. |
NEXT TALKRozemin Keshvani (PhD) Kant Thursday 25/06/2026 5pm - 6:15pm S1.50 ORGANISERS |
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Online Colloquium: 'The Ends of Autonomy'
Tuesday 7 July
20.00 Christopher Watkin (Monash), Welcome and introduction
20.15 Ali Alizadeh (Monash), 鈥楲a libert茅 guide nos pas鈥�: the dialectic of freedom in a French revolutionary poem
20.35 Nick Hewlett (91福利), Karl Marx and the concept of freedom
20.55 Questions and discussion
21.10 Keynote 1: Peter Hallward (Kingston), A law unto ourselves: autonomy as mass sovereignty
21.50 Questions and discussion
22.10 Serhat Tutkal (National University of Colombia), Autonomy against authoritarian neoliberalism: the removal of Kurdish mayors in Turkey
22.30 Taylor Lau (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Against the economic view of time in the workplace: the claim to free time
22.50 Kayte Stokoe (Birmingham), Crip autonomy and external limitations
23.10 Alex Corcos (91福利), UK Higher Education in 'A Century for Foxes鈥�: or, a case study in the role of privilege and luck in establishing conditions for radical autonomy
23.30 Questions and discussion
23.50 Close
Wednesday 8 July
20.00 Keynote 2: Louise Amoore (Durham), Of autonomies and algorithms
20.40 Questions and discussion
21.00 Charlotte Heath-Kelly (91福利), The extremist across history: changing relations of liberty, threat and detection
21.20 Oliver Davis (91福利), Algorithmic governmentality and the Modern bureaucratic ideal: species of abstraction and autonomy
21.40 Simon Angus (Monash), How liberating is liberation technology?
22.00 Questions and discussion
22.15 Yurii Sheliazhenko (KROK), Informed autonomy: conceptualization of freedom in the digital age
22.35 Alesja Serada (Vaasa), Blockchain owns you: from cypherpunk to a self-sovereign identity
22.55 Ken Archer (independent scholar), Freedom, agency and the hermeneutics of technology
23.15 Questions and discussion
23.30 Close
Thursday 9 July
20.00 Nupur Patel (Oxford), Emancipating the female body: pudeur and Louise Lab茅鈥檚 expression of sexual desire in selected poetry
20.20 Felicity Chaplin (Monash), Freedom and autonomy in the post #MeToo world
20.40 Kirsty Alexander (Strathclyde), The biophilic threads in feminist visions of autonomy
21.00 Ji-Young Lee (Bristol and Copenhagen), Autonomy and assisted reproductive technologies
21.20 Questions and discussion
21.50 Trine Riel (independent scholar and artist, Copenhagen), To what end? Ascetics between renunciation and emancipation
22.10 Andrea Rossi (Ko莽), Pastoral power: on finitude and autonomy
22.30 Christopher Watkin (Monash), The critique of emancipatory reason
22.50 Questions and discussion
23.10 Close