Senate House Launch Event

This photograph captures Senate House in London, the striking art deco headquarters of the University of London. It holds a special place in Warwick Philosophy’s history as the venue for the department’s 60th anniversary launch, where distinguished speakers Guy Longworth, Heather Widdows, Quassim Cassam, and M.M. McCabe reflected on the department’s past, its future, and philosophy’s wider role in society. The event was both a celebration of six decades of philosophical inquiry and a chance to come together as a community.

Beyond its connection to Warwick, Senate House is notable in its own right: during World War II it housed the Ministry of Information, where George Orwell’s wife worked. The building’s imposing, fortress-like architecture and association with wartime propaganda famously inspired Orwell’s creation of the Ministry of Truth in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.