The Dutch Research School of Philosophy (OZSW) and Utrecht University invite Research Masters students in philosophy to register for the Annual OZSW Winter School to take place on March 25-26, 2022.
Organizing university
Date(s)
Location
Departement Filosofie en Religiewetenschap
Universiteit Utrecht
Janskerkhof 13
NL-3512BL Utrecht
Type of activity
Primary target group
Application/registration deadline
January 26th 2022
About the topic
The Winter School aims to provide students from the 6 ReMa programmes in the Netherlands (RUG, RU, EUR, UU, UvA, and VU) with representative samples of the philosophical research carried out at Dutch universities. It will moreover contribute to their professional development and give them an opportunity to meet one another.
Aim / objective
The speakers, who are active at different universities, will give a lecture on a topic linked to their current research. On Friday afternoon, two panel sessions will be held on career prospects within and beyond academia. In the first panel a number of guests will talk about their own experience in obtaining a PhD or a post-doc position or in finding a job outside academia. In the second panel the guests will exchange ideas on the role of philosophy and the humanities in academia and society.
Program
Friday, March 25
Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, room 006
9.30-9.45 Coffee and Registration
9.45: Opening and Welcome
10.00-12.15: Research Session 1
10.00-11.00: Daniel Cohnitz (Utrecht): “Conspiracy Theory” Reconsidered: Generalism vs Particularism
11.15-12.15: Monique Roelofs (UvA): Decoloniality, Identity, and Aesthetic Publicity
Lunch
14.00-15.00: Lodi Nauta (Groningen): Locke and Natural Kinds
15.00-18.00: Issues in the profession and beyond
- Becoming and Being a PhD student (reports from the trenches)
- Rankings of journals and getting published in them
- Career paths in/beyond/with philosophy
- Philosophy that engages the wider world
- How (not) to use social media for networking and philosophizing
Publications, PhD, career: Barbara Bziuk (Utrecht), Annemarie Kalis (Utrecht), T. Fossen (Leiden)
Philosophy in the world, and the social media: Jeroen De Ridder (VU), ), Sven Nyholm (Utrecht), Noemi van Steenbergen (Utrecht)
19.30 – dinner, social event
Saturday, March 26
Theaterzaal at Parnassos Cultural Centre (Kruisstraat 201, 3581 GK Utrecht)
9.30-13.00: Research Session 2
9.30-10.30: Susanna Lindberg (Leiden): What is continental philosophy today?
10.30-11.00: coffe break
11.00-12.00: René van Woudenberg (VU): The Epistemology of Reading and Interpretation
12.00-13.00: Tamar Sharon (Nijmegen): Empirical ethics for a digital age
Lecturers
Susanna Lindberg (Leiden)
René van Woudenberg (VU)
Monique Roelofs (UvA)
Lodi Nauta (Groningen)
Daniel Cohnitz (Utrecht, TF)
Tamar Sharon (Nijmegen, PF)
Required preparations
Reading List
- M. Baurmann – D. Cohnitz, ‘Trust No One? The (Social) Epistemological Consequences of Belief in Conspiracy Theories’, in S. Bernecker, A. Flowerree, T. Grundmann (eds.), The Epistemology of Fake News (Oxford 2021)
- M. Roelofs, Aerts of Address. Being Alive to Language and the World (New York 2020)
- P.R. Anstey, John Lock and Natural Philosophy (Oxford 2011)
- C. Colebrook, ‘The Linguistic Turn in Continental Philosophy’, in A.D. Schrift, The History of Continental Philosophy (Chicago 2010), vol. 6
- R. Van Woudenberg, The Epistemology of Reading and Interpretation (Cambridge 2021): introduction, chapter 5 (and possibly also chapter 7)
- T. Sharon, ‘From hostile worlds to multiple spheres: towards a normative pragmatics of justice for the Googlization of health’, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 24 (2021): 315-327
Certificate / credit points
Students can earn 2.5 EC by completing the readings accompanying the lectures and handing in an essay (max. 2000 words) discussing one of the questions discussed in the talks.
The essay should be emailed to Prof. Mauro Bonazzi (m.bonazzi@uu.nl), with the email title “Name.OZSWessay”. The deadline for submission is Sunday 3 April 2022. Papers are not graded but assessed as follows: sufficient or insufficient.
There is no requirement to participate in the Winter School for credits. However, all participants are expected to read the assigned literature beforehand, and to actively participate in the workshop.
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Costs
Only ReMa student members of the OZSW can participate in this winter school, and the OZSW covers most of the costs for the event.
There is a nominal fee of 30 euro per student, including accommodation, and 10 euro excluding accommodation.
There will be two lunches and a dinner included in the winter school. We can arrange for vegetarian, vegan, gluten- lactose- or nut-free alternatives if asked in advance.
Please note that no-shows may be charged for the actual expenses incurred by the organizers.
How to apply / register
Registration is closed.
Registration/application form
If registration has been closed because the maximum amount of participants has been reached, you can submit your name to the waiting list by sending an email to secretariaat@ozsw.nl. Please also indicate whether you are a ReMa student or PhD candidate and whether you are a member of the OZSW or not.
Cancellation and registration policy
Organizers
Prof. Dr. Mauro Bonazzi
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University
m.bonazzi@uu.nl
Contact info
Please contact Prof. Dr. Mauro Bonazzi for questions regarding the contents of the Winter School, and the OZSW office for practical inquiries (secretariaat@ozsw.nl).