by Anthony Fisher | Dec 20, 2018 | Events
DAVID LEWIS AND HIS PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY 17-19 June 2019, University of Manchester About The conference marks the end of our AHRC-funded project at the University of Manchester, The Age of Metaphysical Revolution: David Lewis and His Place in...
by Frederique Janssen-Lauret | May 15, 2018 | Environmental Sustainability, Events, News
As part of our impact agenda for sustainability, I blog regularly about green issues. This is a third post with tips on how to run a sustainable conference. Previous posts covered travel and travel costs and virtual conferencing. Vegetarian and Vegan Food and Drink A...
by Frederique Janssen-Lauret | Apr 15, 2018 | Environmental Sustainability, Events, News
As part of our impact agenda for this project, I post monthly on environmental sustainability. This month’s post contains more tips for hosting a more sustainable conference. Last month’s post covered travel and costs. Virtual Presentations Consider having...
by Frederique Janssen-Lauret | Mar 15, 2018 | Environmental Sustainability, Events
Our project has an impact agenda of environmental sustainability. There are several things academics can do to promote sustainability when running conferences. Travel to Conferences First, try to minimise the environmental impact of travelling to conferences. Try to...
by Frederique Janssen-Lauret | Feb 25, 2018 | Environmental Sustainability, Events
Our project has an environmental impact agenda. We aim to promote a culture shift among philosophers towards sustainability. We want to encourage them to move away from flying and towards taking public transport and using virtual conference methods. One such method is...
by Frederique Janssen-Lauret | Jan 15, 2018 | Environmental Sustainability, Events, News
A guest post by Prof Helen Beebee reporting on her use of GoToWebinar for a virtual conference. Since one of our aims in this project is to reduce the carbon footprint associated with research events, we took the opportunity of hosting another, unrelated conference to...