Digest Week 4 Trinity Term 2026
Digest Week 5 Trinity Term 2026
TT26, Week 5 (24 May- 30 May)
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Notices - other Philosophy events, including those taking place elsewhere in the university and beyond
Reading Group: Heidegger’s Der Ursprung des Kunstwerks
Introduction: “Das Ding und das Werk” and “Das Werk und die Wahrheit” (44 pages)
Speakers: Prof. Dr. Stephen Mulhall and Dr. Jack Wearing
Date: Tuesday 26 May, 3:30 – 6:30pm
Venue: Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College
The Post-Kantian European Philosophy Centre at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, is organising a two-part reading group on Heidegger’s Der Ursprung des Kunstwerks. The essay will be discussed over two in-person sessions in the Seminar Room at Corpus Christi College, each accompanied by guest speakers.
All are welcome. Discussion will take place in English; the text will be available in German and English (translation by Albert Hofstadter).
Please register by emailing Errol Boon: e.m.boon@phil.leidenuniv.nl
The Meanings of the Revolution
Speaker: Dr Patrick Spero, the CEO of the American Philosophical Society
Date: Thursday 28 May, 4pm
Venue: L1 Lecture Theatre, Schwarzman Centre
Dr Patrick Spero, the CEO of the American Philosophical Society and its former Librarian, will bring us into the Society vault to discuss documents – some well-known like Thomas Jefferson’s final draft of the Declaration and others less so – that will shed light on the various meanings of the Revolution for those who lived through it and will spark conversation on what its legacy may mean for us today.
Further information and tickets, see here.
