Departmental Colloquium, Spring Semester 2026

Departmental Colloquium
  • 30 Jan 2026
  • 14:15–15:45
  • Jakobi 2-336
  • Department of Philosophy, Centre for Ethics
  • Estonian, English
Research event For student Sari

Departmental Colloquium in Spring 2026

The colloquium takes place in Jakobi 2, room 336 in Tartu

30 January @14:15 Elizabeth Frisell (University of Nottingham)
“Stoicism & Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: How Ancient Practices Can Improve Modern Mental Health”

13 February @14:15 Beer Prakken (University of Groningen )
“The Challenge of Dark Play in Far Right Politics: Towards a Play Ethic”
Moderator: Ove Averin

27 March @14:15 Maria Robaszkiewicz (Paderborn University)
“’Not a shelter but a field of adventure.’ Early Phenomenologists on Migration Experience”

6 April @ 16:15 Paul McLaughlin (Bath Spa University)
“The Philosophy and Political Economy of Bullshit”

18 May @16:15 Edit Talpsepp ja Kalevi Kull (University of Tartu)
“Filosoofia ja semiootika koostöö bioloogiale selguse toomisel” (“How Philosophy and Semiotics Help Clarify Biology”) /in Estonian/

25 May @16:15 Joshua Mendelsohn (Loyola University Chicago)
“Aristotle's Epistemic Ideal”

See archive of colloquia and open seminars in philosophy

Past events in series

25. May

Joshua Mendelsohn on Aristotle’s theoretical ideal at philosophy departmental colloquium
Research event For student Other 25 May 2026, 16:15–17:45
Jakobi 2-336 Department of Philosophy English

18. May

Edit Talpsepp and Kalevi Kull discuss issues concerning species at the Department of Philosophy colloquium
Research event For student 18 May 2026, 16:15–17:45
Jakobi 2-336 Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics Estonian

06. April

Paul McLaughlin at the departmental colloquium on the philosophy and political economy of bullshit
Research event For student 06 Apr 2026, 14:15–15:45
Jakobi 2-336 Department of Philosophy English
  • 30 Jan 2026
  • 14:15–15:45
  • Jakobi 2-336
  • Department of Philosophy, Centre for Ethics
  • Estonian, English
Research event For student Sari