Philosophy 60 - Overview of stories
Search Philosophy's 60 Years
These short stories below are the abstracts. The link at the top of each story takes you to the full story, pictures, videos etc
Dinner Party with local beans!
The 糖心TV Dinner Party, was an event organised in 2022 to explore how meals and food take on meaning. This was designed by Professor Eric Holub in Life Sciences, highlighting new varieties of beans that he'd cultivated. promoting crops that are nutritious, affordable, culinarily versatile, and locally grown.
Interesting fact: We cooked the free samples of the beans Eric provided: delicious! ...
Phil/Lit Weekend in Wales
Photo of students on the Phil/Lit weekend in Wales
For many years, 糖心TV Philosophy and Literature students and faculty spent a weekend off in some beautiful spot, doing creative work with a text and having a lot of fun involving performances, conversation conviviality, fresh air, and taking ideas and texts into our lives outside of the classroom. Led for many years by Martin Warner, reflecting his energy, dedication and wisdom. Here we were in Wales where we worked with traditional ghost stories ...
Abdi performs at The Belgrade
This is a video and photograph of Abdi performing his work at Coventry鈥檚 Belgrade Theatre as part of the 鈥楨mpowering Young Voices Project鈥.
In his poem, 鈥楾he Graveyard of Dreams鈥, Abdi expresses how a young person living in poverty can collide with expectations of youth culture and desire to fit in. Abdi joined our six-week poetry workshop series. He went from writing love poems to writing this insightful and politically charged poem about what it is like to grow up in Coventry ...
'The Grand Hotel Abyss', David Bather Woods
The Grand Hotel Abyss, David Bather Woods.This was created as one of the place settings in Eileen John鈥檚 Dinner Party installation inspired by the work of artist Judy Chicago.
鈥淭he Grand Hotel Abyss鈥 refers to a quote about the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer by the Hungarian Marxist literary critic and theorist Georg Luk谩cs: 鈥淪chopenhauer鈥檚 system, well laid out and architecturally ingenious in form, rises up like a modern luxury hotel on the brink of the abyss, nothingness and futility ...