Research Seminars
The School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities has a vibrant schedule of research seminars that runs throughout the year.
Below are the live schedules of the upcoming research seminars happening in our School.
All are welcome!
- Philosophy
The Philosophy Research Seminar (formerly known as The Department Seminar) is central to the academic life of the School of History, Philosophy, and Digital Humanities. The seminar runs most weeks in term time.
The Philosophy Research Seminar takes place on Friday afternoons through the Autumn and Spring terms at 3-5pm.
Speakers present their paper (sometime shared in advance) for 45 minutes, followed by a short break and discussion.
For more information, please contact: Jerry via: g.viera@sheffield.ac.uk
Autumn 2026
Date Speaker Title of paper Room 2nd October Dominic Murphy (Sydney) The Negative Theory of Health The Diamond, Workroom 3 16th October Curie Virag (Warwick) Expanding the Canon Lecture: The Standpoint of Anger in Early Confucianism The Diamond, Workroom 3 30th October Yonatan Shemmer & Christopher Bennett (Sheffield) Acting for Others Without Consent The Diamond, Workroom 3 6th November Nikhil Venkatesh (Sheffield) Impartiality Without Alienation (and Within Limits) The Diamond, Workroom 3 20th November Sara Uckleman (Durham) Disability and Difference The Diamond, Workroom 3 27th November Paul Faulkner (Sheffield) Can LLMs Tell us Things? The Diamond, Workroom 3 11th November Jonathan Mitchell (Cardiff) The Here-There Dyad and the Agential The Diamond, Workroom 3 Research seminar series
Reading weekend
Every year Philosophy at the University of Sheffield organises a reading weekend trip for staff, postgraduates and undergraduates. It normally takes place in the spring at a youth hostel in Derbyshire.
Postgraduate seminar
Wednesdays 2-4pm.
This seminar is open to all graduate students in the Department of Philosophy. It runs throughout both semesters, and the students run their own series over the summer. Each week a student presents a paper, followed by discussion. A handout, abstract, or draft of the paper is usually circulated in advance. Anyone from outside the department wishing to attend should email pgrphilosophy@sheffield.ac.uk.
Current postgraduate students in the department can access the list of speakers on the Philosophy Hub.
- History
The History Research Seminar is central to the academic life of the School of History, Philosophy, and Digital Humanities, running most weeks during term time.
Seminars take place on Tuesday afternoons throughout the Autumn and Spring terms, from 4:15pm to 5:30pm.
Each seminar features a 45-minute presentation followed by a discussion.
For more information, please contact Julia Moses at j.moses@sheffield.ac.uk.
Autumn 2026
Date Speaker Title of Paper Room 29th September Research Hub week 1 Diamond Workroom 1 6th October Emma Griffin (QMUL) Why did the Industrial Revoltion Start in Britain? Diamond Workroom 1 13th October Amitava Chowdhury (Queen's University, Canada) Becoming Indian: Indenture and Belonging in the Global British EmpireDiamond Workroom 1 20th October Jennifer Miller (Dartmouth) "Our Plants and Our Lands and Our Homes": US-Japan Competition & Imperial Erasure in the 1980s Diamond Workroom 1 27th October History Inaugural Week - No Seminar 3rd November Udi Greenberg (Dartmouth) How Counterinsurgency Came to Europe: Decolonization and Modern Policing Diamond Workroom 1 10th November Reading Week - No Seminar 17th November Helen Gittos (Oxford) Christianity Before Conversion Diamond Workroom 1 24th November Hilary Buxton (Kenyon College, Ohio) States of Repair: Ex-Servicemen and Interwar Aftercare from Kingston to Kanpur Diamond Workroom 1 1st December Research Hub Week 2 Diamond Workroom 1 8th December History Inaugural Week - No Seminar 15th December Benjamin Ziemann (Sheffield) The German Socialist Labour Movement in the First World War: A Reinterpretation Diamond Workroom 1