Friday 6th May, 10:00-17:00, Humanities Studio

This interdisciplinary, gymnasium event invites you to participate in spaces and activities designed for intellectual and physical engagement. Experts from the university and local community will be brought together to lead participants in theoretical and practical explorations of ideas surrounding spaces, practices, philosophies, and pedagogies of sport training and exercise.

Provisional Programme

09:30-10:00 – Tea, coffee, and breakfast snack for early arrivals

10:00-10:45 – Introduction to the gymnasium: an exploration of the space and themes

10:45-11:50 – ‘Gymnasia and spaces of training through the ages’ – Zahra Newby (Classics and Anicent History) and Kathryn Woods (History of Medicine)

11:50-12:00 – Break and nutrition

12:00-13:30 – ‘Boys Dancing: A Practical Workshop and Discussion’ – David McKenna (Being Frank)

13:30-14:15 – Lunch (provided)

14:15-16:00 – ‘PE and Pedagogy’ – Phil Gaydon (Philosophy) and Kate Hamer (Centre for Professional Education)

16:00-17:00 – Roundtable and smoothies - facilitated by Jonathan Heron (IATL)

Find out more and register here: https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/activities/events/spp

This event will form the basis for next year's Sport, Philosophy, and Practice module open to all undergraduates: https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/activities/modules/ugmodules/sportphilosophyandpractice/

If you have any questions please contact Phil Gaydon: P.K.Gaydon@warwick.ac.uk 

The Department of Philosophy is delighted to announce that Dr Alisa Mandrigin, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department has been awarded a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Research Award for 2016 (one of only 29 awards made from a high-calibre field of applications). This scheme provides funding of up to £15,000 to distinguished Early Career Researchers to assist their career development through organising interdisciplinary events for other Early Career Researchers and Alisa’s project will run from April 2016 to March 2017.

Students,

We’re launching a Philosophy photo competition and we’d love you to be involved. We are looking for creative, innovative and intelligent images reflecting the theme ‘What Philosophy means to me’.

We encourage you to be creative as possible – perhaps snapping a selfie with a philosophical statue, or capturing the essence of philosophical debate, the brief is fairly flexible. However, the images must clearly represent Philosophy in some form; all images which meet the brief may be displayed to external audiences without description.

The competition is open to all students – undergrads and postgrads, and each individual can enter as many photos as they wish.

Entry requirements

Resolution: You don’t need to be a professional photographer to enter. The photos could be taken by camera phone or professional camera, it’s totally up to you. But, we do require that these photos are a good enough picture quality for publishing purposes (i.e. that they are not blurry or too light/dark). The photos should also be a good resolution (as high resolution as possible, please!)

Permissions: all entries must be accompanied by the short line below, in the email, acknowledging that you give the Department of Philosophy full permission to use your image:

‘I understand that by submitting this image, I give the Department of Philosophy full permission to use the image as outlined in the entry requirements.’

It is up to you to ensure any necessary permission has been obtained with regard to the subject matter of the photo, e.g., that if a single person is being photographed they are aware of the possible uses of the image, and have given their permission.

Usage: all images submitted which successfully meet the brief and entry requirements, may be used on the Department of Philosophy’s website, and/or in any other appropriate marketing material or channels for the department – e.g. this may include in brochures, posters, social media etc. We’d love to utilise as many of your images as possible. While we can’t promise that we will be able to use them all, we’ll do our best!

Deadline: to be considered, all entries must be received by Thursday 28^th April 2016

Judging: All entries which meet the brief and entry requirements will be judged by an independent panel of judges the following week, based on the most creative, innovative and intelligent interpretations of the theme: ‘What Philosophy means to me’

How to enter: Please send your submissions via email to: PhilosophyMarketing@warwick.ac.uk We suggest that you only send one file at a time. If your file is too large to send via email, please use a Dropbox link or We Transfer to send the file across to us: https://www.wetransfer.com/ You can submit as many images as you like - but they all must meet the above brief and entry requirements.

If you are having trouble submitting your image or you have any questions, please get in touch with us.

Happy snapping!

Best wishes

The Philosophy Marketing Team

We have met our 65% response-rate target, so there will be a prize draw for at least 1 x £50 Amazon voucher. If more of you complete the survey, there will be greater chance of winning a prize!

• If we reach 70% response rate: 2 x £50 Amazon vouchers
• If we reach 75% response rate: 2 x £50 Amazon vouchers and 1 x £75 Amazon voucher
• If we reach 80% response rate: 2 x £50 Amazon vouchers and 2 x £75 Amazon vouchers

The National Student Survey (NSS) is now open! The survey will close on the 30th April.

This is an important opportunity for our undergraduate finalists to give your opinion, in a national forum, on teaching and learning within our department, and on your overall experience at Warwick. We’ll listen carefully to what you say so that your views can help to shape the future of Philosophy at Warwick.

It only takes 5-10 minutes to complete and, as a thank you for completing it, the University will put £5 on your Eating at Warwick card. In addition, if the department reaches its target for completed surveys, we will hold a prize-draw for our finalists for your chance to win Amazon vouchers!

Find out more about the NSS and how the NSS has made a difference to studying philosophy at Warwick