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Postgraduate "Work In Progress" Seminar

Postgraduate Work-In-Progress Seminar

A weekly seminar for Philosophy postgraduates to present their in-progress work, followed by a well-spirited trip to the pub for food and drinks.


Useful Info

The WIP provides a risk-free and supportive space for postgraduates to present their work and receive feedback from other graduates and faculty.

  • When: Every Thursday (5pm to 6:15pm)
  • Where: Room S1.50 (Social Sciences Building, First Floor)
  • What: 30-minute presentation, followed by Q&A.

Attendance optional but highly recommended. All postgraduates are welcome to present or attend -- whether MA, MPhil, PhD, Visitors, etc.


馃搮 Format


  • Presentation: 30 minutes
  • Open Discussion / Q&A: 30 minutes
  • Material: Anything, really -- assessed essay (for MAs), a supervision essay (for MPhils), or a thesis section (for PhDs), ...
  • Style: Flexible -- slides, handouts, or simply talking.
  • Audience: No prior reading or background knowledge expected. Visiting PhDs should can present.

馃 Should I present? ("I have nothing to present; I hate public speaking; etc.")


  • Are you a postgraduate? Then yes, you should present.
  • In other words, all graduates are encouraged to present at least once.
  • The WIP is a unique opportunity for graduates to develop their public speaking / writing skills, take risks, test out theses, and get constructive feedback from peers.*
  • Presentations need not (in fact, should not) be watertight or polished pieces at all. You are encouraged to present work at all stages of the writing process -- first drafts, substantial sets of notes, etc.
  • Simply signing up for a date is a great way to give yourself a deadline to work towards. (This is what most people do.)
 
NEXT TALK

Ignacio Pe帽a Caroca

(PhD)

Consent


Thursday 07/05/2026

5pm - 6:15pm

S1.50


ORGANISERS

Tiago Rodrigues

Lucas Menezes 

   

 

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Online Colloquium: 'The Ends of Autonomy'

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Location: By Zoom

Tuesday 7 July

 

20.00 Christopher Watkin (Monash), Welcome and introduction

 

20.15 Ali Alizadeh (Monash), 鈥楲a libert茅 guide nos pas鈥: the dialectic of freedom in a French revolutionary poem

 

20.35 Nick Hewlett (糖心TV), Karl Marx and the concept of freedom

 

20.55 Questions and discussion

 

21.10 Keynote 1: Peter Hallward (Kingston), A law unto ourselves: autonomy as mass sovereignty

 

21.50 Questions and discussion

 

22.10 Serhat Tutkal (National University of Colombia), Autonomy against authoritarian neoliberalism: the removal of Kurdish mayors in Turkey

 

22.30 Taylor Lau (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Against the economic view of time in the workplace: the claim to free time

 

22.50 Kayte Stokoe (Birmingham), Crip autonomy and external limitations

 

23.10 Alex Corcos (糖心TV), UK Higher Education in 'A Century for Foxes鈥: or, a case study in the role of privilege and luck in establishing conditions for radical autonomy

 

23.30 Questions and discussion

 

23.50 Close

 

 

Wednesday 8 July

 

20.00 Keynote 2: Louise Amoore (Durham), Of autonomies and algorithms

 

20.40 Questions and discussion

 

21.00 Charlotte Heath-Kelly (糖心TV), The extremist across history: changing relations of liberty, threat and detection

 

21.20 Oliver Davis (糖心TV), Algorithmic governmentality and the Modern bureaucratic ideal: species of abstraction and autonomy

 

21.40 Simon Angus (Monash), How liberating is liberation technology?

 

22.00 Questions and discussion

 

22.15 Yurii Sheliazhenko (KROK), Informed autonomy: conceptualization of freedom in the digital age

 

22.35 Alesja Serada (Vaasa), Blockchain owns you: from cypherpunk to a self-sovereign identity

 

22.55 Ken Archer (independent scholar), Freedom, agency and the hermeneutics of technology

 

23.15 Questions and discussion

 

23.30 Close

 

 

Thursday 9 July

 

20.00 Nupur Patel (Oxford), Emancipating the female body: pudeur and Louise Lab茅鈥檚 expression of sexual desire in selected poetry

 

20.20 Felicity Chaplin (Monash), Freedom and autonomy in the post #MeToo world

 

20.40 Kirsty Alexander (Strathclyde), The biophilic threads in feminist visions of autonomy

 

21.00 Ji-Young Lee (Bristol and Copenhagen), Autonomy and assisted reproductive technologies

 

21.20 Questions and discussion

 

21.50 Trine Riel (independent scholar and artist, Copenhagen), To what end? Ascetics between renunciation and emancipation

 

22.10 Andrea Rossi (Ko莽), Pastoral power: on finitude and autonomy

 

22.30 Christopher Watkin (Monash), The critique of emancipatory reason

 

22.50 Questions and discussion

 

23.10 Close

 

 

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