Boole Lectures in Philosophy, 2026-27

In 2026-27, we are pleased to present the following series of lectures.

First Semester:

• Tuesday 22nd September, 1400-1600, CACSSS Seminar Room (O'Rahilly Building)
  • Julie Reshe (UCC), Book Launch: Negative Essays: On Death, Love, and Depressive Realism
  • Abstract: Death is often claimed to be central to philosophy, yet it is frequently approached as something to be overcome, or subordinated to life. This lecture explores what changes when death, instead of being redeemed, is allowed to remain central, and when love is understood, instead of as its opposite, as one of the forms through which finitude becomes most painfully intimate. Drawing on my new book Negative Essays, I propose depressive realism as a perspective that resists consolation and attends instead to the tragic entanglement of love, mortality, and existence.

    Signed copies of Negative Essays will be available for purchase at the event.

• Tuesday 27th October, 1400-1600, CACSSS Seminar Room (O'Rahilly Building)
  • Rachel Barney (University of Toronto), Title TBA

• Wednesday 28th October, 1400-1700, CACSSS Seminar Room (O'Rahilly Building)
  • Vittorio Bufacchi, convenor (UCC): Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels: 300th Anniversary Event
  • Details coming soon

• Tuesday 17th November, 1400-1600, CACSSS Seminar Room (O'Rahilly Building)
  • Farbod Akhlaghi (TCD), Title: TBA

All are welcome!

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