Welcome & Opening Remarks

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Birgit Schippers (St. Mary’s University College/ Queens University)
“Affective States: Rethinking Violence, Ethical Responsibility, and the Social Ontology of the Human”

Dr. Áine Kelly (University College Dublin)
“Marriage and Moral Perfectionism in Siri Hustvedt and Stanley Cavell”

Dr. Clara Fischer (Trinity College Dublin)
“Epistemic Injustice: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking”

Dr. Luna Dolezal (Trinity College Dublin)
“The Malleable Body and the Case of Aimee Mullins”

Session on Edith Stein

Dr. Mette Lebech (NUI Maynooth)
“Stein's Philosophy of Mind in her Earliest Published Works" 

Tim Burns (University College Dublin)
“Communal Experiences: Edith Stein's Theory of Group Experiences in Light of a Spanish Fire-Walking Ritual”

Pegah Lashgarlou (University College Dublin)
"Empathy: Facing the Broken Mirror of Meaning”

Dedicated Postgraduate Work in Progress Session

Nuala Walsh (University College Dublin)
“Ayn Rand, Individualism and Feminism”

Meline Papazian (University College Dublin)
“Is Empathy Necessary to Understand the Other's Point of View?”

Siobhan Doyle (University College Dublin)
“The Philosophy of Self: Reflections of Plotinus’ Metaphysics in the Philosophical Ideas of Søren Kierkegaard”

1pm – 2.30pm

Lunch

2.30pm

Discuss and Vote on SWIP Constitution

3.30pm

Election of Interim Committee (if agreed)

4pm

Tea/Coffee

4.15pm

Mentoring Session and Discussion

6pm

Dinner