
Our seasons of "digital dialogues" have been running since autumn 2020. To date, over 15,000 attendees from over 110 countries have tuned in. To watch recordings of many of our past events, click here.
Our spring series will begin on Tuesday 28th March and will run until Monday 26th June. We will upload the listings below within a fortnight of each event (and hopefully sooner).
All our events begin at 11am PST/2pm EST/7pm UK time unless otherwise stated.
They will last for one hour, including time for audience questions.
Our events are free and all are welcome.
Tuesday 28th March
The Political Theory of Algorithms
Josh Simons in conversation with Lily Hu
How can governance of technology support the flourishing of democracy? Artificial intelligence and machine learning are reshaping our world. Powerful prediction tools are changing how decisions are made in key legal, medical, and consumer spheres, narrowing opportunities for the exercise of judgment, empathy, and creativity. How, then, are we to put democracy at the heart of AI governance?
Monday 3rd April
Nihilistic Times
Wendy Brown in conversation with Jana Bacevic
How has politics become a playpen for vain demagogues? Why has the university become an ideological war zone? What has happened to Truth? In this event, eminent political theorist Wendy Brown will place nihilism at the centre of these predicaments. Nihilism removes the foundation on which values, including that of truth itself, stand. How, then, are we to counter nihilism’s devaluations of both knowledge and political responsibility?
Tuesday 11th April
How to Think Like a Woman
Regan Penaluna with Rebecca Buxton and Lisa Whiting
In this conversation with Rebecca Buxton and Lisa Whiting, Regan Penaluna will discuss the women philosophers who rekindled her love of philosophy and awakened her feminist consciousness, including Damaris Cudworth Masham, Mary Astell, Catharine Cockburn, and Mary Wollstonecraft, outlining an alternative history of philosophy as well as how these thinkers aided her in her own search for love and truth.
- Will begin in Spring 2023 - Dates/Time TBCThese classes will take place via Zoom