Current Seminars & Teaching

Graduate Seminars (2024-2025)

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Faculty: Philosophy

Convenors: Prof Monima Chadha

Tuesdays, 2pm–4pm, Lady Margaret Hall (Lavinia Talbot Room)

More information here.

Faculty: Philosophy

Convenors: Prof Marion Durand & Prof Simon Shogry

Tuesdays, 11am–1pm, Radcliffe Humanities (Ryle Room)

More information here.

Faculty: Philosophy

Convenors: Prof Karen Margrethe Nielsen & Prof Terence Irwin

Tuesdays, 2pm–4pm, Keble College (Seminar Room 1)

More information here.

Faculty: Philosophy

Convenors: Prof Alex Bown & Prof Simon Shogry

Thursdays, 9am–11am, Balliol College (Massey Room except week 3: Russell Room)

More information here.

Faculty: Philosophy

Convenor: Prof Dominic Scott

Tuesdays, 11am–1pm, Radcliffe Humanities building: Ryle Room (first floor)

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Faculty: Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Convenor: Prof. Dirk Meyer

Wednesdays, 11am–1pm, The Queen's College

This seminar convenes each Wednesday between second and eight week of each term.  Each term, we meet to discuss and translate a different text in classical Chinese philosophy.

Please note that a good command of Classical Chinese is a prerequisite for this seminar.

If interested, please contact Prof. Dirk Meyer (dirk.meyer@queens.ox.ac.uk).

 

Upcoming Lectures (HT 2025)

Undergraduate lectures:
For times/locations, see the Philosophy Lecture List and the Theology Lecture List.

 

Other lectures:

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar in the Study of Religions

Below is the programme of the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar in the Study of Religions (ISSR) during the 2025 Trinity Term. Following a long-standing tradition we give advanced DPhil students in the Study of Religion (and related areas) the opportunity to present their research. All talks will be at the Paul Oster Room, Lady Margaret Hall (LMH), Norham Gardens.

  • Week 2, Tuesday, 6 May, 4.00–5.30pm, Paul Oster Room, LMH — Buddhism
    • Kassandra Dugi, “Ignorance and Ethics in Stoic and Madhyamaka Buddhist Philosophy.”
    • Jacob Mortimer, “Dharmakīrti’s Santānāntarasiddhi: Investigating a Buddhist Proof of Other Minds.”
  • Week 4, Tuesday, 20 May, 4.00–5.30pm, Paul Oster Room, LMH — Hindusim
    • Aamir Kaderbhai, “The Transformative Philosophy of the Mokṣopāya.”
    • Natasha Chawla, “Message of the Forest: Tagore, Ecological Relationality, and the Poetics of Being”
  • Week 6, Tuesday, 3 June, 4.00–5.30pm, Paul Oster Room, LMH — Islam
    • Abaas Chaudhry, “The Political Art of Happiness: Ghazālī's Ethics and Politics.”
    • Easa Saad, “’Seeing With Both Eyes': The Path of Opposites in Rūmī’s Masnavī.”