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 (2:30-4:30 pm) in Broad Lane, Lecture Theatre 4
Speakers present their paper (sometime shared in advance) for 45 minutes, followed by a short break and discussion.
For more information, please contact: Hallvard Lillehammer- h.lillehammer@sheffield.ac.uk
Spring 2025
Date Speaker Title of paper 21st February Sophie Grace Chappell - The Open University The shield of Achilles and the marvellous sophist’s mirror 28th February Helen Frowe - Stockholm University ‘The New Bigamy?
Systematically Deceptive Relationships and the Law’
7th March Jessie Munton - University of Cambridge Forgetting to some purpose 14th March Nicholas Shea - University of London 'Not just tools, but agents: an overlooked requirement for agentive AI' - Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies' Distinguished Lecture in Cognitive Science 21st March Chris Bennett - University of Sheffield Reparations for Historical Injustice: The Role of Apology 28th March Julia Borcherding - University of Cambridge Towards a History of Philosophy? Early Modern Women Philosophers and the Canon: A Case Study (change of room, please check the event page) 4th April Jessica Begon - Durham University Don’t Worry About Me: Paternalism, Authority, and Relationships 23rd May Dana Nelkin - University of California, San Diego Desert and Liability 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 4:15 to 5:30 p.m.
Seminars in weeks 3 - 8 & 10 will take place in the Pam Liversidge Building, Design Studio 1.
Week 9 will be 38 Mappin Street, Workroom 3.
Each seminar features a 45-minute presentation followed by a discussion.
For more information, please contact Julia Moses at j.moses@sheffield.ac.uk.
Spring 2025
Date Speaker Title of Paper 11.02.2025 History Research Hubs - 25.02.2025 Catherine Fletcher - Manchester Metropolitan University 'The Future Forms of Public History' 04.03.2025 Kate Ferris - University of St Andrews 'Enacting and Resisting Dictorial Power in Everyday Life in Fascist Italy' 11.03.2025 Jane Ohlmeyer & Daniel Patterson - Trinity College Dublin 'Hiding in Plain Sight: Women in Early Modern Ireland and the VOICES Project' - Joint session with SCEMS 18.03.2025 History Research Hubs - 25.03.2025 Deborah Sutton - Lancaster University 'Imperial Salt Harvests: Science, Landscape and Ecology at Sambhar Salt Lake, Rajasthan, 1880 to 1980' 01.04.2025 Stephen Alfold - University of Leeds ‘Robert Cecil and the East Indies’ 29.04.2025 Stephen Mullen - University of Glasgow 'Forgetting Scotland's Slavery Past' 06.05.2025 Adrian Bingham, Anwesha Roy, TBC - University of Sheffield New Books Celebration 13.05.2025 Hilary Buxton - Kenyon College 'Rehabilitating the Empire: Care and the Colonial State in First World War Britain'