Dr Rowan Williams, Professor Judith Butler and guests present Public Talks at Manchester Met
Society for European Philosophy conference the The Transdisciplinary Philosophy Research Group (TPRG) present a series of events open to the public will invite audiences to contemplate European philosophical ideas with renowned international speakers including Dr Rowan Williams and Professor Judith Butler
In collaboration with the Society for European Philosophy (SEP) annual conference The Transdisciplinary Philosophy Research Group (TPRG) at Manchester Met presents a series of events open to the public. Audiences are invited to explore contemporary philosophical ideas with leading international speakers.
The Society for European Philosophy promotes the teaching, research and understanding of all areas of Modern European and continental philosophy. It provides an interdisciplinary forum where people working on a broad range of topics can come together and pursue ideas.
Public Events
Keynote : Dr Rowan Williams – Magdalene College, Cambridge
Wednesday 2nd September 4:30-6.00pm
Dr Rowan Williams studied theology at Christ’s College, Cambridge. A strong interest in Russian Christianity led to research at Oxford in the religious thinkers of the Russian emigration – and later to a book on Dostoevsky. From 2002 until 2012, he was Archbishop of Canterbury, continuing to write on theology, philosophy, and contemporary issues, and retired in 2012 to move back to the university as Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Over the years, he has written a number of books, academic and popular, on Christian faith, as well as publishing several collections of poetry and a number of essays on literary themes, including some studies of Shakespeare and a book on tragedy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature as well as of the British Academy.
Panel & Book Launch: Dramatizing Distanz: Radio and Modern German Philosophy
Thursday 3rd September 9:30-1:00pm
This panel uses the occasion of a shared book launch to explore the theme of radio and modern German philosophy.
Das Kapital: The Audio Drama
Thursday 3rd September 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM.
Sarah Woods’s dramatization of Marx’s Das Kapital. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018, the play is an occasion for us to consider themes of audio dramatization and technology from the book launch.
Keynote: Professor Judith Butler – University of California, Berkeley
Thursday 3rd September 4:30-6.00pm
Professor Butler is one of the world’s leading scholars and philosophers on issues of gender, sexuality, and the cultural phenomena that surround them. They are the author of the landmark 1990 book Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, and more recently the 2024 follow-up work Who’s Afraid of Gender?
Judith has received numerous awards, including the Adorno Prize from the City of Frankfurt in honour of their contributions to feminist and moral philosophy and the diploma of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Cultural Ministry. Judith is active in several human rights organizations, having served on the board of the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York and the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace.
Dr Josh Platzky Miller and Dr Lea Cantor
Friday 4th September 2:15 – 3:45pm
Dr Lea Cantor is the University of Cambridge Blacker Loewe Research Fellow in Philosophy, and was awarded the 2022 British Journal for the History of Philosophy Beaney Prize for the best contribution to widening the philosophical canon. Lea is also an Associate Editor of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy and founded Philiminality, a student-run platform for cross-cultural and interdisciplinary philosophy.
Dr Josh Platzky Miller is a Lecturer in Sociology. Josh’s primary research interests are social movements, African and Latin American politics and political thought, social epistemology and the imagination, and the global history and historiography of philosophy. Main research project: The Myth of ‘Western Philosophy’
Organisers
The The Transdisciplinary Philosophy Research Group (TPRG) brings together researchers in philosophy with those from other disciplinary backgrounds and areas with philosophical interests. The group recognises the interdisciplinary nature of much Modern European (or ‘Continental’) Philosophy.
It also recognises the productive ways in which researchers in other areas have appropriated and transformed this philosophical history. Our members undertake research in both traditional and non-traditional philosophical forms.
Supported by AHEAD
AHEAD is the public engagement programme of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan University.
