Digest Week 8 Michaelmas Term 2025

MT25, Week 8 (30 November - 6 December)

If you have entries for the weekly Digest, please send information to admin@philosophy.ox.ac.uk by midday, Tuesday the week before the event. 

Notices - other Philosophy events, including those taking place elsewhere in the university and beyond

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The Therapeutic Space: Phenomenological and Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Co-organised with the Values-Based Research Centre, University of Oxford

Title: 'The Therapeutic Space: Phenomenological and Psychoanalytic Perspectives'

Date and time: Tuesday 2nd December, 2:00pm - 4:30pm

Venue: St Catherine's College, and online.

The seminar will explore how therapeutic space - both physical and virtual - shapes the dynamics of therapy, drawing on both phenomenological and psychoanalytic perspectives. It aims to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue between theorists and practitioners on the experience and conceptualisation of therapeutic spaces.

If appropriate, I would be very grateful if you could share the information with colleagues or students who might be interested.

Further details and registration are available here:
Eventbrite – The Therapeutic Space: Phenomenological and Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Literature, Film, and the Desirability of Life Extension

Title: 'Literature, Film, and the Desirability of Life Extension'

Date and time: Tuesday 2nd December, 9:30am - 4:30pm

Venue: Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College

This conference invites scholars of literature, film, and related fields, as well as practitioners, to discuss timely topics relating to life extension, including boredom and alienation, identity and memory, aging and altruism, narrative and selfhood, and the ways cultural memory binds us across generations. Register via Eventbrite.

Senior Seminars in Indian Philosophy

Speaker: Sharvi Maheshwari (University of Oxford)

Title: 'Unfinished Divinity: Liminality and the Logic of Becoming in Bhaktapur's Goddess Cults'

Speaker: Namrata Narula (University of Cambridge)

Title: 'Differences That Make a Difference: Inequality in the Works of Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902)'

Date and time: Wednesday 3rd December, 2:30pm - 4pm

Venue: OCHS Library

Emphasising intellectual exchange, each seminar consists of two twenty-minute discussions on a topic relating to Indian philosophy, followed by an equal amount of time for discussion.