Conferences/Events

This event is part of the Healing Horizons: Reimagining Healthcare for Everyone public philosophy series. 

Speakers Raphael Scholl (University of Geneva), Serge Ahmed (Bordeaux), Fay Dennis (Goldsmiths, London) and Caitlin Notley (UEA) discuss why humans are vulnerable to addiction. How should we understand human drug using practices? Join us in a dialogue that explores the many facets of substance dependence - from the hijacking of evolutionary reward mechanisms to the role that modern environments play shaping addiction. 

Location: Council Chamber - opposite the ARTS building - What3Words ///filer.engage.punt

Date: Thursday 29th May

Time: 17.00

Free entry, ticket required.

This summer UEA will welcome this major conference in experimental philosophy, to campus. Keynote speakers include Emma Borg, Susan Gelman, Nat Hansen, Joshua Knobe, and Edouard Machery. The conference will also feature over 60 talks in parallel sessions, four interdisciplinary symposia, a poster session, and a work-in-progress workshop for early career researchers. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in the satellite workshop, Experimental argument analysis: Interdisciplinary perspectives on verbal reasoning, which starts on Wednesday, 9th July.   

The main conference will be 10th - 12 July and the conference dinner on 11th July can be purchased separately as you progress through your booking. 

Find out more about the conference at: 

https://x-phi.uea.ac.uk/EuroX-Phi2025-conference 

PAA Europe 2025 Conference and Meeting
An Ocean of Connection: Oceanic art, artists and museums

Since the 1980s Oceanic scholars (Wendt 1982; Hau‘ofa 1994; Teaiwa 2014, amongst others) have responded to the tendency, resulting from colonialism and developmentalism, for Oceania to be divided into clearly delineated and distinct areas by reminding Islanders and non-Islanders alike that the Pacific Ocean is a linking pathway rather than a separating boundary. They emphasised the connection to the ocean for many people living in the region; a place defined by the seascape as much as the landscape. This discourse continues to resonate and inspire scholars, curators, artists and practitioners in the region and beyond.

The main conference theme is related to the Sainsbury Centre’s exhibition season Can the Seas Survive Us? The exhibition includes Oceanic contemporary art and community responses to the issues that the Pacific region faces, particularly in Yuki Kihara’s Paradise Camp. The conference will explore the Pacific Ocean as a relational entity, as a powerful metaphor for connection, as a pathway that is reclaimed by Oceanic people today by celebrating the impressive navigational skills of their ancestors when settling the islands, as well as a pathway used by collectors who shipped artefacts to museums.

The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing is delighted to announce that this year's Lorna Sage Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Helen Small, the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, Oxford. Professor Small works at the intersection of literature, intellectual history and philosophy and this lecture will look to clarify ‘what sort of critical break with the past’ may be occurring (to borrow a helpful formulation from Stuart Hall), and where and why the shifts and tendencies remain highly uneven. 

This year’s symposium will host a wide-ranging discussion that builds on the work of our memorial lecturer, Professor Helen Small. Speakers will address themes central to Small’s work, including ‘Aging’, ‘the Humanities’, and ‘Philosophy and Literature’. Participants include Ruth Abbott, David McAllister, Heather Love, Tina Lupton, Stafan Collini and Nancy Yousef, alongside speakers from UEA. Helen is giving the Lorna Sage Memorial Lecture at Dragon Hall on Thursday 19^th June, 5:30.

Location: 0.12 Earlham Hall

Date: Friday 20th June

Time: 9.30-3.15

Free entry, ticket required