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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

SEP 2026, it's been real. Thank you to everyone that made it possible, especially this year's Conference Officer, Dr Wahida Khandker. The view from MMU's Archway Halls.

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Thank you Prof. Judith Butler for an intellectually rigorous and quite beautiful keynote: ''A Small, Nonsensical Hope: Arendt's Kafka'.

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Thank you @leamundi.bsky.social and @joshplatzkymiller.bsky.social for a stunning keynote: ‘The Idea of “Western Philosophy”: A Critique’. (Don't tell anyone, but it was my favourite of the three.)

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Keynote Dr Rowan Williams, theologian, philosophy and former Archbishop of Canterbury, discusses the ethics of fidelity.

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Lea Cantor @leamundi.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Josh Platzky Miller (@joshplatzkymiller.bsky.social) and I are very excited to be speaking alongside Judith Butler and Rowan Williams at the 2026 Society for European Philosophy conference (@sephilo.bsky.social)! We'll be speaking about our work critiquing the idea of 'Western Philosophy'. #philsky

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Stella Sandford @stellasandford.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Got an idea for a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship that would be a good fit for my research group? www.mmu.ac.uk/about-us/fac... Get in touch: s.sandford@mmu.ac.uk www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...

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Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

For those in NW England, our colleagues in the Transdisciplinary Philosophy Research Group are collaborating with @sephilo.bsky.social and @aheadmmu.bsky.social to deliver this fantastic series of public talks on 2-4 Sept to coincide with SEP's annual conference: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/society-fo...

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Society for European Philosophy Public Events Programme

2nd – 4th September 2026 : Public talks and events to complement the conference, open to all audiences

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

CALL FOR PAPERS SEP's Annual Conference will be held at Manchester Metropolitan University, 2nd – 4th September 2026 Plenary speakers: Rowan Willians, Judith Butler, Lea Cantor and Josh Platzky Miller Deadline: Friday 15th May, 2026 Apply below 👇

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2026 Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline: Friday 15th May, 2026 Society for European Philosophy Annual ConferenceManchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom2nd – 4th September 2026 The Society…

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Thrilled to see several of our SEP grad students presenting at the 'La Philosophie en effet' online seminar. Those interested in French and German thought, hold on to your hats! Contact evejudah@gmail.com for more information.

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Two permanent Lecturer posts at Birkbeck (equivalent of Assistant Professor). Area of specialisation is open but with teaching needs in ethics & phil of AI, ethics and poli phil, ancient, gender, continental, engaged. Closing date August 28th, start in Jan 2026 'a significant advantage' #philsky

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Lecturer in Philosophy (2216) - Birkbeck, University of London

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships are open. The scheme provides exceptional UK-based early-career researchers with the chance to enhance their research and teaching experience within an academic setting. Learn more and apply: buff.ly/McS8lRk

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

CFP International Simondon Conference... in Mexico! Deadline August 15.

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Thank you #SEP2025, it's been a ball. See you all next year at Manchester Metropolitan University! A massive shout out to our organisers, Cillian Ó Fathaigh and Patrick ffrench @pffr.bsky.social, and to King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social for hosting.

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Cameron Etherton is a PhD student at Oxford, working on Derrida and testimony. Thanks for your fantastic paper '“La date est un témoin”: Derrida and the (im)possible testimony of dates'. That concludes our spotlight series on Early Career Researchers! Stay tuned for more ECR events and info.

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uonphilosophy.bsky.social @uonphilosophy.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

EVENT! Midgley, Stebbing, and the History of Philosophy 17 July 2025 @UoNHumanities Details: ianjameskidd.weebly.com/midgley-steb... @thebshp.bsky.social @inparenthesis.bsky.social @philosophellie.bsky.social #philosophy #history #stebbing #midgley

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Dr Juliana de Albuquerque finished her PhD at University College Cork and is now working on a book on Arendt and Jewish thought @ajuliana.bsky.social Thanks for your ~ quite heavenly ~ paper '“It is not in Heaven!” Arendt’s notion of world and the Talmudic tale of Achnai’s Oven in Bava Metzia 59b'

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Dr Hannah Wallenfels just completed her PhD at Folkwang Universistät der Künste, on the self-image of academic philosophy. She is also a founding member of the theory collective diffrakt. Thanks for your illuminating paper ‘Rethinking the Images of Philosophy: Towards an Ethics of Inclination’.

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George Webster @georgewebster.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Had an amazing time at the #SEP2025 conference - many thanks to the organisers for a seamless and engaging event, and to @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social for hosting! @sephilo.bsky.social #philsky

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Ewa Winiarczyk is an MA student in Anthropology at the Uni. of Warsaw studying neurodiversity as site of political critique. She is the MA Scholar for 'Recognising Injustice in the Digital Public Sphere' at the Jagiellonian. Thanks for your excellent paper 'Political Philosophy of Neurodiversity'.

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Thank you UK Simone Veil Research Network and Friends!

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Parrhrsiast @pffr.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Day 3 of SEP 2025. The temperature is rising.

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Erik Brownrigg is a PhD student at York University, Toronto. He currently works on metaphysics, social theory, and utopianism in literature and philosophy. Thanks for your brilliant paper, 'The Ethics of Flight: Nietzsche, Bachelard, and the Poetics of Care', at King's College London. #philsky

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Dr Giovanni Menegalle is a Teaching Fellow in French Studies and International Politics at the University of London in Paris. He specialises in cybernetics, phenomenology and modern French thought. Thanks for your fantastic paper 'The Transindividual in Ruyer and Simondon' at King's College London.

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Martina Barnaba is a postdoctoral researcher at La Sapienza, working on #Hegel and #feminism. Bianca Monteleone is a PhD student at La Sapienza working on #Wollstonecraft and #Hume. Thanks for your excellent joint paper 'Feminine Virtues and Moral Imagination in Wollstonecraft and #deBeauvoir'.

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Reginald Nagaiya is a PhD student at Western Sydney University, working on sovereignty and democracy in Arendt, Negri and Mouffe. Thanks for your great paper, “Rethinking the relation between Sovereignty and Democracy in Hannah Arendt, Antonio Negri and Chantal Mouffe”, and a spirited discussion!

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Mariana Almeida Pereira is a PhD student at the University of Coimbra, where she works on Jacques Derrida and the animal question, as well as sacrifice, subjectivity and responsibility... 🐈 Thanks for your brilliant paper, ‘Vivre (bien) ensemble avec les animaux”: Derrida and the subject-to-come’

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Dr Iain Campbell is a writer and researcher based in Glasgow. He is currently writing a book on experimentation in the work of John Cage and Deleuze. It was thrilling to see this work in progress. His paper was 'At the borders of experimentation: histories and territories of ‘experimental music’'.

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Welcome to our series of profiles on early career researchers👽 Cian O'Farrell is a PhD student and technē scholar at Kingston University London, where he studies the materiality of digital music. Thanks for your fantastic paper 'The Momentum is the Message: Analogue Philosophy for Analogue Music'

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

3 keynotes, 3 days, and almost 100 hundred speakers... It can only mean one thing: #SEP2025! See you all tomorrow at King's College London for the conference of the year.

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢 We are delighted to announce that SEP 2025 will be held at King's College London on 7-9 July 2025. Our confirmed plenary speakers are Dr Julia Ng, Prof. Simon Critchley and Prof. Frédéric Worms. Deadline 1st February. societyforeuropeanphilosophy.com/2024/12/06/s...

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SEP 2025 — King’s College London — 7-9 July 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS Society for European Philosophy Annual Conference King’s College London, United Kingdom 7th – 9th July 2025 The Society for European Philosophy is delighted to announce it…

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Good morning everyone! We are delighted to announce the election of our new society co-chairs, Dr Ashley Woodward (Dundee) and Dr Wahida Khandker (MMU). 🎉 Congratulations to them both. Our warmest gratitude goes out to Dr Clive Cazeaux for his service.

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

Diolch yn fawr iawn to all those who made #SEP2024 such an enriching and exciting event -- Thanks especially to @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social for hosting us and the brilliant work of James Lewis, @jonathanwebber.bsky.social and everyone else at @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social !

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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 04/07/2024

And that's it! #SEP2024 has been brough to a close by the Chair of the SEP Clive Cazeaux and headed off to the pub.

Photo of Clive Cazeaux making some closing remarks.

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Open door to dark and empty lecture theatre. In the distance, the SEP and Cardiff University slide that has featured throughout the conference still glows on the screen.

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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 04/07/2024

One final session of #SEP2024 is a symposium on Henry Somers-Hall's book Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy, with talks by Nathan Widder, Cillian Ó Fathaigh, and Wahida Khandker, and a reply by the author.

Photo of the book panel. Left to right: Nathan Widder, Cillian Ó Fathaigh, Wahida Khandker, Henry Somers-Hall.

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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 04/07/2024

In another final session of #SEP2024 our former (BA and MA) student Jamie Davies is giving a talk entitled 'On The Pain of Returning Home'.

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Photo of Jamie Davies speaking in front of a screen containing a quote from Heraclitus -- 'Ethos, the habitual dwelling place of man, is that which lacerates and divides'.

Photo of Jamie Davies speaking in front of a screen containing the cover of Leonard Cohen's single Hallelujah.

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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 04/07/2024

#SEP2024 Day 3 begins with our third keynote address –– Murdoch and the Idea of Perfection –– Professor Irene McMullin (Essex)

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Photo of McMullin speaking in front of a slide of containing quotes from Iris Murdoch on love as a pilgrimage towards the good.

Photo of McMullin speaking in front of a slide of a quote from Iris Murdoch explaining her conception of enabling love.

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Jonathan Webber @jonathanwebber.bsky.social · 04/07/2024

Superb #SEP2024 session on Simone de Beauvoir with Anna Cornelia Ploug (Copenhagen) on concrete contradictions in The Second Sex and Katja Čičigoj (Klagenfurt) on gendered forms of subjectivation structuring lived experience.

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Photo of Katja Čičigoj (Klagenfurt) on gendered forms of subjectivation structuring lived experience.

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 04/07/2024

#SEP2024 -- a brilliant keynote from Professor Irene McMullin (Essex) on the idea of perfect in Murdoch and Levinas

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Jonathan Webber @jonathanwebber.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Great talk from Juliana de Albuquerque (University College Cork) on Hannah Arendt's theory of the primacy of experience over theory and the centrality of stories to ethical and political understanding. #SEP2024

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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Fascinating session on Husserl, Buddhism, Hume, Kant, and Parfit on selves and persons this afternoon. #SEP2024

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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

#SEP2024 Day 2 is under way with our second keynote address –– Being Disgusted by Hate Speech: Phenomenological Analysis of Political Emotions –– Professor Sara Heinämaa (Jyväskylä)

Screenshot of Professor Sara Heinämaa (Jyväskylä) speaking on Zoom. She is next to a slide containing a lengthy quotation from Harry Frankfurt's famous essay 'On Bullshit'.

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 04/07/2024

#SEP2024 beginning with our final keynote, Professor Irene McMullin (Essex), speaking on 'Murdoch and the Idea of Perfection'.

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Society For European Philosophy @sephilo.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

And our 2 other afternoon panels for #SEP2024: 'Philosophy and Science' with Rebecca Bamford, Trama Folco, & Manjari Chakrabarty 'Technology' with Nolen Gertz, Jessica Lombard, & Gregory Morgan Swer

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