UPDATE: A recording of this lecture is now available. Monima Chadha (University of Oxford) will deliver our first public lecture. Details are below, and please click to register at our eventbrite page. Title: The Soundness of the Buddhist Project Time: 4pm, 27th March 2025 Location: Seminar Room 3 (room 112), Alan Walters Building, University of […]

What? Talks from leading philosophers of religion: Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame) and Mark Wynn (University of Oxford) Where? University of Birmingham, ERI building room 149 When? 13th May, 12.30pm for informal lunch, 1-2.30pm for talks by each speaker and a general discussion Titles: Audi - Aspirational Theism: Philosophical and Theological Dimensions of Hope […]

UPDATE: A recording of this lecture is now available, please share! Keshav Singh (University of Alabama at Birmingham) will deliver a public lecture, details below: Title: Truthful living Time: 4pm, 23rd October 2025 Location: Room MMAT-GC13, Metallurgy and Materials building, Pritchatts Road, University of Birmingham. Please register your attendance by following the link. Abstract: “Truth is […]

Our first conference will take place in Manila, Philippines, from 1-3 December 2025. This conference is co-organised by JJ Joaquin and Hazel T Biana, both professors in the Philosophy Department at De La Salle University and members of the Southeast Asian Research Center and Hub (SEARCH). The Call for Papers closes on 16th April 2025 […]

Ramon Harvey (Cambridge Muslim College) will deliver a public lecture, details below: Title: Is This the Best of All Possible Worlds? Islamic Reflections on Theodicy Date/Time: 4th February 2026, 12.15pm (lunch provided from 11.45am) Location: Room 201, Arts Building, University of Birmingham Registration: Please register for catering and room capacity purposes Abstract: Centuries before Leibniz’s […]

An African Philosophy of Religion Scholarly Lecture Series talk   Topic: Recent Challenges to Vitalism in African Philosophy of Religion Kirk Lougheed (Unity Health Toronto/University of Toronto/University of Pretoria)   Wednesday, February 11th, 2026 17.30 – 18.30 GMT ZOOM Link: https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86220828193    Abstract Vital force is a substance that flows from God and is imbued in literally everything […]

An African Philosophy of Religion Scholarly Lecture Series Topic: The explanatory powers of divine silence and divine hiddenness in African spirituality Emmanuel Ofuasia (Decoloniality Research Group, Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria, South Africa) Wednesday, 25th February, 2026 12.30 – 13.30 GMT ZOOM Link: https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86220828193 Abstract Both the problems of divine silence and hiddenness are […]

Richard Kim (Loyola University, Chicago) will deliver a public lecture, details below: Title: Acting Into Understanding: Confucian Ritual and Practical Knowledge Date/Time: 9th March 2026, 12.15pm (lunch provided from 12pm) Location: Main Lecture Theatre, Room 120, Arts Building, University of Birmingham Abstract: A natural picture of intentional action puts understanding first: we determine what we […]