Invited speakers
All talks take place at Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room, from 5:00pm to 6:30pm. Drinks are served afterwards, to which all are warmly invited.
Trinity Term 2017
Topic: 'Julian:historical and philosophical perspectives'
26/04/2017, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room:
Neil McLynn: (University of Oxford)
Sizing up Julian: the Christian Cappadocian Perspective.
03/05/2017, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room:
Rowland Smith (University of Newcastle)
True things in jest: the intrusion of the philosophic in Julian's Caesars.
10/05/2017, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room:
George Woudhuysen (University of Oxford)
17/05/2017, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room:
Adrien Lecerf (Centre Leon Robin, Paris)
New Ways to Tradition: Julian and Cynicism.
24/05/2017, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room:
Alan Ross (University of Southampton)
Kingship in theory and practice: Julian, Themistius and Constantius.
31/05/2017, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room:
Peter Van Nuffelen (University of Ghent)
Speaking out: proper and improper parrhesia in the fourth century.
07/06/2017, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room:
Riccardo Chiaradonna (Roma Tre University)
Teaching Philosophy in the 4th Century: Julian and the so-called "School of Pergamum" [Paper]
14/06/2017, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room:
Gabor Buzasi (ELTE, Budapest)
Emperor Julian's theology of the Sun.
Previous terms:
Hilary Term 2017
18/01/2017, 4:30pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:
Christian Wuthrich (University of Geneva)
When The Actual World Is Not Even Possible.
24/01/2017, 4:30pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Rainolds Room:
Chris Martin (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Peter Abaelard and the Metaphysical Foundations of Logic.
01/02/2017, 4:30pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:
Luke Fenton-Glynn (University College London)
Probabilistic Actual Causation.
15/02/2017, 4:30pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room:
Alyssa Ney (University of California, Davis)
Wave Function Realism in a Relativistic Setting.
01/03/2017, 4:30pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:
Katherine Brading (University of Notre Dame) Cancelled
The force of bodies.Michaelmas Term 2016
All talks take place at Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room, from 4:30pm to 6:30pm (except Jaworski's talk). Drinks are served afterwards, to which all are warmly invited.
13/10/2016, 11:00am-13:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Morelli Room:
William Jaworski (Fordham University)
Contemporary Hylomorphic Theories and the Problems of Philosophy.
19/10/2016, 4:30pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Rainolds Room:
Robert Koons (University of Texas at Austin)
The Oxford Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: A Hylomorphic Critique and Alternative.
26/10/2016, 4:30pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:
Fabrice Correia (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)
07/11/2016, 4.30pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room:
Achille Varzi (Columbia University)
On the Causal Power of Absences.
09/11/2016, 4:30pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:
23/11/2016, 4:30pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:
Elena Castellani (University of Florence, Italy)
Objects, Structures and Physics.
01/12/2016, 11:00am-13:00pm, Corpus Christi College, Morelli Room:
Mark Sinclair (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Being Inclined: Tendency, Inclination and the Metaphysics of Powers.
Trinity Term 2016
All talks take place at Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room, from 5:00pm to 6:30pm. Drinks are served afterwards, to which all are warmly invited.
27/04/2016, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room
Mark Edwards (University of Oxford):
Allegory and Mysticism in Gregory of Nyssa.
04/05/2016, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room
Johannes Zachhuber (University of Oxford):
The Soul as Dynamis in Gregory of Nyssa's De Anima et Resurrectione.
11/05/2016, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room
Christopher Beeley (Yale University, USA):
Predication, Metaphysics, and Divine Impassibility in Gregory of Nyssa's Christological Exegesis.
18/05/2016, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room
Sophie Cartwright (University of London):
Vulnerable Minds and Vulnerable Bodies as the Secret of Strength in Gregory of Nyssa.
25/05/2016, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room
Neil McLynn (University of Oxford)
The two Gregories: Nyssen and Nazianzen.
01/06/2016, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room
Andrew Radde-Gallwitz (University of Notre Dame):
Gregory of Nyssa and the Medical Art.
08/06/2016, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room
Anna Marmodoro (University of Oxford)
Gregory of Nyssa on the Trinity
15/06/2016, 5:00pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Seminar Room
Susanne Elm (Univesity of California Berkeley)
New Romans: Gregory of Nyssa's life of Moses
Hilary Term 2016
20/01/2016, 4:30pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Fraenkel Room:
Stephen Mumford (University of Nottingham):
New meditations on first philosophy, in which causation's nature and existence is demonstrated.
17/02/2016, 4.30pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, MBI Auditorium:
Fabrice Correia (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland):
Essence as generalised identity and real definition. CANCELLED
02/03/2016, 4:30pm-6:30pm, Corpus Christi College, Morelli Room:
Sophie Allen (University of Oxford):
It just had to be this way: dispositional necessity, singularism and tropes.