News and Events
Registration for the 'Hellenistic Ethics from Nietzsche to Foucault' Conference is now open
Registration is now open for a three-day conference entitled 'Hellenistic Ethics from Nietzsche to Foucault' (25th–27th September). The conference is free of charge for all Warwick students.This is the first conference of a two-year-long research project entitled 'Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation
', funded by the Monash-Warwick Alliance.
Plenary speakers: Prof. Keith Ansell-Pearson (Warwick), Prof. Daniel Conway (Texas A&M), Prof. Beatrice Han-Pile (Essex), Dr. Edward Harcourt (Oxford), Dr. Kurt Lampe (Bristol), Dr. John Sellars (KCL), and Dr. David Webb (Staffordshire).
A full programme is now available on the website of the conference.
Congratulations graduates!
A huge congratulations to all of our graduates! We hope you've enjoyed your time here at Warwick and wish you the best of luck in the future. We may even see some of you back for further study!
Come along to our graduation party!
All students graduating from the Department are invited to a drinks celebration in the Philosophy foyer. Guests welcome to come along too!
Applications now being taken for two new Teaching Fellow posts
The Department is advertising for two new 10 month posts: Teaching Fellow in Moral and Political Philosophy, and Teaching Fellow in Aesthetics.
The closing dates for both is the 11th July 2014.
Postgraduate Philosophy and Literature student, Philip Gaydon, has been awarded a WATEPGR Teaching Excellence Prize
Philip Gaydon, a postgraduate student in the Department has been selected as a winner in this year’s Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduate Research Students scheme.
The Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduate Research students (WATEPGR) gives students and staff the opportunity to recognise and celebrate excellent teaching by postgraduate research students. Research students can carry out a range of teaching activities including facilitating seminars,lecturing,demonstrating and project supervision.How the scheme works
The award aims to recognise and reward postgraduate research students who teach or demonstrate and who have had positive impact on the student learning experience and also to enhance the profile of teaching excellence at the University.
Philip has been awarded a teaching excellence prize of £500, to spend on teaching or research activities.