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 2-5pm.
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
Spring 2026
Date Speaker Title of paper Room 13th February Elvis Imafidon (SOAS) Place, Body and the Intellectual Tradition of Philosophy The Diamond, Workroom 1 20th February Alex Kaiserman (Oxford) How to be a B-theorist The Diamond, Workroom 1 6th March Giulia Felappi (Southampton) Everyone, it is sometimes said, is born either a little Platonist or a little Aristotelian. Margaret Macdonald as Meta-Philosopher The Diamond, Workroom 1 13th March Katherine Puddifoot (Durham) Unfair Memories: Mnemonic Injustice and Why It Matters The Diamond, Workroom 1 20th March Sarah Moth-Lund Christensen (Sheffield) On AI and the puzzle of Control The Diamond, Workroom 1 27th March Louise Richardson (York) Grief and Memory The Diamond, Workroom 1 1st May CM Lim (Sheffield) Civil disobedience and necessity The Diamond, Workroom 1 8th May Aidan McGlynn (Edinburgh) What Philosophy Can Teach Us About Objectification The Diamond, Workroom 1 15th May Nils Kurbis (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) On ‘On Denoting’ The Diamond, Workroom 1 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 4pm to 6p.m.
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 2026
Date Speaker Title of Paper Room 10th February Research Hubs week ICOSS, Classroom 01 (formerly ICOSS Conference Room) 17th February John Arnold (Cambridge) 'The Donkey, the Boat, and the Wine Tun: Peasant agriculture, viticulture and markets in southern France, c. 1100-1300' ICOSS, Classroom 01 (formerly ICOSS Conference Room) 24th February Tehila Sasson (Oxford) The Social Life of Credit: Migration, Financialization, and Informal Banking in Postimperial Britain” Portobello Centre, John Carr Design Suite C29 3rd March Christopher Heaney Incas of London: British museums, Peruvian Independence and the South American dead in Britain, 1793-1843Portobello Centre, John Carr Design Suite C29 16th March Research Hubs week ICOSS, Classroom 01 (formerly ICOSS Conference Room) 24th March Andrew Hindmoor (Politics), George (History), Nikhil Venkatesh (Philosophy)
Rights, Flows and Global Political Economies
Pam Liversidge Building, Design Studio 01 - D05 21st April Guy Solomon, Andrew Heath, Joe Nockels, Jamie McLaughlin 'Critical Approaches to AI for Historical Research'. Pam Liversidge Building, Design Studio 02 - E05 28th April Quentin Skinner 'Liberty as independence: a reappraisal' ICOSS, Classroom 01 (formerly ICOSS Conference Room) 4th May Research Hubs week ICOSS, Classroom 01 (formerly ICOSS Conference Room) 12th May New books celebration session Pam Liversidge Building, Design Studio 01 - D05