Reading Weekend

Every year the department organises a Reading Weekend for staff, postgraduates and undergraduates. It normally takes place in the spring at a youth hostel in Derbyshire.

The Reading Weekend is a bit like a mini-conference.  Students present some of their recent work and then there is a discussion after each session.  However, you can attend without presenting anything - though most people find that they end up contributing to the discussions.  It's all done in a friendly and supportive atmosphere and is a great place to have a seminar.

It's not all hard work of course: there's a walk around the beautiful countryside, trips to the pub, a Philosophy quiz . . .

All students in second and third years (as well as graduates) can attend: all you need to do is sign up when the lists are put up in the department (about a month before the Reading Weekend takes place). We will bus you there early on the Saturday morning and bring you back on the Sunday. Places are limited, though, and given out on a first-come-first-served basis.  So book early!

This year's Reading Weekend will take place on 2-3 March 2013. 

If you have any enquiries in the meantime, please contact this year's organiser Tom Cochrane (t.cochrane@sheffield.ac.uk).

Click on the photos to the right for pictures of previous Reading Weekends.

The programme will be announced shortly.  To give an idea of what the event is like, here is last year's schedule:

Reading Weekend 2012  10th- 11th March

Programme

Saturday 10th March


9.30 am Departure from department (please turn up on time!)

10.30 am Arrive Youth Hostel, Eyam

Tea/coffee on arrival

11.00 - 1.00 Talk 1: Jonathan Parry - A Dilemma for Collectivist Approaches to Just War Theory

1.00 Lunch

1.30 - 4.15 Free time (optional walk in the Peaks or in Eyam Village)

4.15 Tea/coffee

4.30 - 6.30 Talk 2: Cathy Hopkinson - Zeno and the Arrow Paradox

6.30 Evening meal

7.30 Optional trip to a local pub


Sunday 11th March

9.00 Breakfast

10.30 – 12.30 Talk 3: Charlotte Alderwick - In Defence of Metaphysics

12.30 Lunch

1.30 - 3.30 Talk 4: Tom Quinn - Can We Trust Our Intuitions About Harm?

3.30 Tea/coffee

4.00 Departure