Thank you #SEP2025, it's been a ball. See you all next year at Manchester Metropolitan University!

A massive shout out to our organisers, Cillian Ó Fathaigh and Patrick ffrench @pffr.bsky.social, and to King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social for hosting.

Cameron Etherton is a PhD student at Oxford, working on Derrida and testimony.

Thanks for your fantastic paper '“La date est un témoin”: Derrida and the (im)possible testimony of dates'.

That concludes our spotlight series on Early Career Researchers! Stay tuned for more ECR events and info.

Dr Juliana de Albuquerque finished her PhD at University College Cork and is now working on a book on Arendt and Jewish thought @ajuliana.bsky.social

Thanks for your ~ quite heavenly ~ paper '“It is not in Heaven!” Arendt’s notion of world and the Talmudic tale of Achnai’s
Oven in Bava Metzia 59b'

Dr Hannah Wallenfels just completed her PhD at Folkwang Universistät der Künste, on the self-image of academic philosophy. She is also a founding member of the theory collective diffrakt.

Thanks for your illuminating paper ‘Rethinking the Images of Philosophy: Towards an Ethics of Inclination’.

Ewa Winiarczyk is an MA student in Anthropology at the Uni. of Warsaw studying neurodiversity as site of political critique. She is the MA Scholar for 'Recognising Injustice in the Digital Public Sphere' at the Jagiellonian.

Thanks for your excellent paper 'Political Philosophy of Neurodiversity'.

Erik Brownrigg is a PhD student at York University, Toronto. He currently works on metaphysics, social theory, and utopianism in literature and philosophy.

Thanks for your brilliant paper, 'The Ethics of Flight: Nietzsche, Bachelard, and the Poetics of Care', at King's College London. #philsky

Dr Giovanni Menegalle is a Teaching Fellow in French Studies and International Politics at the University of London in Paris. He specialises in cybernetics, phenomenology and modern French thought.

Thanks for your fantastic paper 'The Transindividual in Ruyer and Simondon' at King's College London.

Martina Barnaba is a postdoctoral researcher at La Sapienza, working on #Hegel and #feminism.

Bianca Monteleone is a PhD student at La Sapienza working on #Wollstonecraft and #Hume.

Thanks for your excellent joint paper 'Feminine Virtues and Moral Imagination in Wollstonecraft and
#deBeauvoir'.

Reginald Nagaiya is a PhD student at Western Sydney University, working on sovereignty and democracy in Arendt, Negri and Mouffe.

Thanks for your great paper, “Rethinking the relation between Sovereignty and Democracy in Hannah Arendt,
Antonio Negri and Chantal Mouffe”, and a spirited discussion!

Mariana Almeida Pereira is a PhD student at the University of Coimbra, where she works on Jacques Derrida and the animal question, as well as sacrifice, subjectivity and responsibility... 🐈

Thanks for your brilliant paper, ‘Vivre (bien) ensemble avec les animaux”: Derrida and the subject-to-come’

Thanks for a great first day everyone!

Dr Iain Campbell is a writer and researcher based in Glasgow. He is currently writing a book on experimentation in the work of John Cage and Deleuze.

It was thrilling to see this work in progress. His paper was 'At the borders of experimentation: histories and territories of ‘experimental music’'.

Welcome to our series of profiles on early career researchers👽

Cian O'Farrell is a PhD student and technē scholar at Kingston University London, where he studies the materiality of digital music.

Thanks for your fantastic paper 'The Momentum is the Message: Analogue Philosophy for Analogue Music'

#SEP2024 -- a brilliant keynote from Professor Irene McMullin (Essex) on the idea of perfect in Murdoch and Levinas

Miriam Feldmann-Kaye (Bar-Ilan University) on Caputo's reading of Derrida and its implications for theology and deconstruction. #SEP2024

Tris Hedges (Copenhagen) speaking about serialised styles and stylised seriality in phenomenology -- with a fantastic set of slides! #SEP2024

A brilliant opening keynote from Professor Monique Roelofs (Amsterdam) to begin #SEP2024