Call for Abstracts: Self(less)-Care: Ancient and Contemporary Care Ethics from a Labor Perspective
Conference Date: May 15, 2026
Deadline for Abstracts: December 15, 2025
Location: University of Pardubice, Czech Republic (in person)
Keynote speaker: Stella Sandford (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
The Centre of Ethics Research seminar schedule has now been released here: Research seminar | Centre for ethics
This semester, some changes have been made to our usual meeting place.
Regular Seminars (Tuesdays, 2pm-4pm) will be held in Legie CB/01033 (except September 23rd (Legie CB/03004)) and Online (the seminar is run as hybrid).
Congratulations to Peter Tuck, who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Moral Particularism and the Non-Flatness Requirement" on August 29th. Those in attendance were treated to a lively conversation between Peter, his opponents Jussi Suikkanen (Birmingham) and Tomáš Hříbek (FLU, Prague), his committee and audience members. He was supported by both of his co-supervisors, Niklas Forsberg and Anna Bergqvist (Manchester Metropolitan).
We're excited to following Peter's career in the years to come!
Principal investigator: Doc. Laura Candiotto, Ph.D.
Period: 1. 8. 2025 – 31. 12. 2028
TAČR
We're pleased to announce that, after a robust job competition, Lesley Jamieson has been selected to join Professor John Lippitt's ERC-CZ project, "Combatting Self-Righteousness: A Vice of the Digital Age" as a postdoctoral researcher.
According to university regulations, the dissertation must be at least 234,000 characters including spaces (approximately 130 standard pages) and no more than 1,000,000 characters (about 550 standard pages).
Yes, the bibliography is included in the total character count.
The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of the University of Parfubice invites you to the conference Food and Ethics in Culture and Religion: Historical, Social Scientific and Philosophical Contexts. Have you not submitted a conference paper, but would you still like to attend the conference? Don't despair! Registration for passive participation is open until 8th June 2025. There is no fee for participation.
Dr. Volodymyr Yermolenko (born 1980)
Conference dates: 10-12 September 2025
Venue: The historical building of the University of Pardubice, nám. Čs. legií 565, 530 02 Pardubice, Czech Republic, Room 03004.
