Philosophy research seminars

The Philosophy programme hosts a seminar series during Trimesters 1 and 2 with papers presented by visiting speakers and academic staff from within the Wellington Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. All are welcome to attend.

Cei Maslen is the coordinator of the series for 2026.

* These dates are provisional, so please wait to receive announcements from the Philosphy Department list before coming along*

Trimester 1

Week 1: Greg Currie (Thursday 26^th February)

Week 2: no seminar (Thursday 5^th March)

Week 3: no seminar (Thursday 12^th March)

Week 4: Simon Keller (Thursday 19^th March)  Title: “Against Human Rights”

Week 5: no seminar (Thursday 26^th March)

Week 6: Sondra Bacharach & Emma Maurice (Thursday 2^nd April) Title: “Museums and Artistic Speech Acts”

Week 7: no seminar (Thursday 23^rd April)

Week 8: Cei Maslen (Thursday 30^th April) Title: “Transmigration time travel”

Week 9: no seminar (Thursday 7^th May)

Week 10: Jesse Spafford (Thursday 14^th May) Title: “A Moral Disregard Theory of Rights Forfeiture”

Week 11: Michael Gilchrist (Thursday 21^st May)

Week 12: Michael Strevens (Thursday 28^th May) Title: “Do Large Language Models Understand What They're Talking About?”

Trimester 2

Week 1: Dan Beck-Lloyd (Thursday 9^th July)  (AAP in Waikato from 5-9^th July)

Week 2: Andrew Moore (Thursday 16^th July)

Week 3:  No Seminar (Thursday 23^rd July)

Week 4: No seminar (Thursday 30^th July)

Week 5: Krushil Watene (Maurice Goldmith lecture on Wednesday 5^th August) No Seminar Thursday 6^th August

Week 6: Snita Ahir-Knight (Thursday 13^th August)

Week 7: Justine Kingsbury (Thursday 3^rd September)

Week 8: No seminar (Thursday 10^th September)

Week 9: No seminar (Thursday 17^th September)

Week 10: Vanessa Schouten (Thursday 24^th September)

Week 11: No seminar (Thursday 1^st October)

Week 12: No seminar (Thursday 8^th October)