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December 2012

Date  and Time

Event

Venue

Details

6th December, 4pm

‘Taking Responsibility’

Dr. Christopher Cowley

Lecturer in Philosophy, University College Dublin 

[Royal Institute of Philosophy Public Lecture]

Meredith Room (23.105), 23 University Square

Contact Dr. Benjamin Jarvis (b.jarvis@qub.ac.uk)

6th December, 5-7pm

The Annual John Whyte Memorial Lecture 2012

Living with partition: institutions, public opinion and the question of Irish unity

John Coakley, Professor of Politics, University College Dublin and Visiting Professor, Queen's University Belfast

John Coakley specialises in the study of nationalism, ethnic conflict and Irish and comparative politics,and is author of Nationalism, ethnicity and the state: making and breaking nations (Sage, 2012)

Room 02.017, Peter Froggatt Centre

Newsletter available here

 

11th and 12th December 

Workshop: God, Time, and Eternity 

Speakers:

Professor Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers University), Professor Eleonore Stump (St. Louis University), Professor Timothy O’Connor (Indiana University), Professor Trenton Merricks (University of Virginia), Professor Brian Leftow (University of Oxford), Professor Robin LePoidevin (University of Leeds), Professor Hud Hudson (Western Washington University), Dr. Patrick Todd (University of Innsbruck and Munich School of Philosophy), Dr. Joseph Diekemper (Queen’s University Belfast)

Old Staff Common Room in the Lanyon Building

Details available here.

The workshop will have a read ahead format and will not involve formal presentations of papers.  Therefore, if you wish to attend, please contact Joseph Diekemper (j.diekemper@qub.ac.uk) in order to gain access to the workshop papers.

13th December, 4pm

‘Procreative Liberty’

Professor David Archard

Professor in Philosophy, Queen’s University Belfast

Meredith Room (23.105), 23 University Square

Contact Dr. Benjamin Jarvis (b.jarvis@qub.ac.uk)