60th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture...
12th November 2025
What should educators do about bad beliefs? Neil Levy, Professor of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney The Society is delighted to announce the PESGB 60th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture...
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Thoughtful Conference - Call for...
15th November 2025
Our 2025 conference takes place on Saturday 15 November at our partner institution, the University of South Wales (USW) at their Newport campus. This will be our first conference to be held in Wales....
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Birmingham Branch Seminar
26th November 2025
A model for multicultural character education: reconstructing the understanding of virtue Yun-Chieh (Catherine) Lu, University of Birmingham For further information please contact Michael Hand at...
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60th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture...
10th December 2025
Rita Felski, John Stewart Bryan Professor of English, University of Virginia On resonance: literature, theory, education The Society is delighted to announce the PESGB 60th Anniversary...
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PESF Seminar Series
13th January 2026
The grounds and scope of caring obligations: some implications for education Dr Pip Bennett Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 920 5110 3300 This talk is based on my forthcoming chapter 'The Ground...
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London Branch Seminar
14th January 2026
Beyond the Advice Manual: A Cavellian Philosophy of Doctoral Writing Áine Mahon (University College Dublin) In person and on Zoom This paper draws on the work of Stanley Cavell to explore...
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PESF Seminar Series #2
20th January 2026
To Discipline or to Forget: A Sufi-Zen Comparative Analysis of the Self Dr Saeko Yazaki, University of Glasgow https://ucl.zoom.us/j/99912738606 Meeting ID: 999 1273 8606 Despite their...
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London Branch Seminar
21st January 2026
Mixed Feelings in Response to Art Eileen John (Warwick University) This paper focuses on mixed feelings in response to art - the phenomena of feeling in some way positive and negative about a...
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Birmingham Branch Seminar
21st January 2026
Philosophy of music education: towards an account of aesthetic self-formation Francesca Marcone, University of Genoa Francesca Marcone is Research Fellow in General and Social Pedagogy at the...
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Edinburgh Branch Seminar
27th January 2026
Higher Education Teaching: Crisis and Opportunity - A speaker series inspired by the work of John Dewey This series of talks by international and UK speakers focuses on the theory, practice and...
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PESF Seminar Series #3
27th January 2026
The Academy, Israel's Genocide and the Phases of Denial Prof Martin Shaw, Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals Join Zoom Meeting https://ucl.zoom.us/j/97445147954 Meeting ID: 974 4514...
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London Branch Seminar
28th January 2026
Critical Phenomenology as Method in African Philosophy of Education Dominic Griffiths (University of the Witwatersrand) Online only In person and on Zoom. This presentation introduces an emerging...
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