News in Brief – June 2020!
Vid Simoniti joined Eleanor Mills, Charles Ogilvie and Ben Woodeson to discuss art in response to the pandemic. Part of Conscious Isolation's series on culture and humanity.
Tom Hudspeth, who graduated last year, has been awarded a funded place on the Cambridge University MPhil. Well done Tom!
Jan Jobling was appointed to the inaugural Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Developing Academic Practice
Rachael Wiseman and Clare MacCumhaill (Durham) launched Midgley Young Poets. This collaboration with New Writing North invites children (6-12) to learn about Midgley’s philosophy and submit a poem inspired by her work. Download worksheets and enter a poem here.
Vid Simoniti participated in an online seminar on Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics, presented by Aesthetics for Birds. He was speaking on satire & Borat.
Rachael and Clare were on ABC Radio’s Philosophers’ Zone, talking about Iris Murdoch.