Below is the list of upcoming and past events at the Centre for Ethics. For conferences and workshops of the whole Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, see here.
Upcoming events:
- workshop "Conflict beyond resolution: meta-ethical, normative, and applied perspectives" of the CoRe project, organised by Ondřej Beran, Silvia Caprioglio Panizza and Niklas Forsberg, 27-28 August 2026.
Past Events:
2025
- Conference (Not) Caring to Know, organised by Laura Candiotto and Tanuj Raut for the grant Vicious epistemic cultures, 3-5 September, 2025.
- The Ethics of Moral Criticism: Moral Grandstanding, Social Punishment and Beyond, organised by John Lippitt, Alexei Anisin and Kamila Pacovská for the grant Combatting Self-righteousness, 10-12 September, 2025
- workshop “Ethical framings: sources and critique”, Pardubice, Centre for Ethics (Historical building, Čs. Legií.), 1st-3rd October 2025
- workshop “Orthodox framings”, Pardubice, Centre for Ethics (Historical building, Čs. Legií.), 19th-21th February 2025
- workshop “Unorthodox framings”, Vienna, Messerli Institute, 14th-16th May 2025
2024
2023
- Legitimation of Violence (September 14-15, 2023)
- Mind and Life Europe Workshop (September 25, 2023), Laura Candiotto
- Environmental Grief, Hope and Beyond (August 28-30, 2023), Ondřej Beran
- Conference: Possibilities, Impossibilites, and Conflict in Ethics (June 1-2, 2023)
- The Formations and Reformations of Moral Universes (March 30, 2023)
- Pardubice - Munich - Prague Workshop in Ethics (March 24, 2023)
2022
- From Post-Communism to Post-Capitalism (Sept 6-7, 2022)
- Here i stand, I can do no other; or can I?’ On the reality of moral impossibility (Sept 9-10, 2022)
- Idealism and Realism in the Human Sciences; Collingwood, Winch and Beyond (Sept. 22-23, 2022)
- Graduate Conference: What Really Matters? Reflections on Human Values (August 24-26, 2022)
- The Ethics of Home: Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism and Alienation (June 1-3, 2022)
- Contextual Ethics III: Empirical Input in Ethics (May 23-24, 2022 Uppsala University
- Intensive seminar with Steven Mulhall, 16th - 18th March, 2022
- Ethical Attention: Iris Murdoch in Philosophical Dialogue, 4-5th February 2022
2021
- Death and Afterlife workshop, November 8th to 10th
- Intensive seminar with Rick Furtak, 25th -27th August, 2021
- New Perspectives on Wittgenstein on Expression workshop organised by Michael Campbell (Centre for Ethics, Pardubice) and Lynette Reid (Dalhousie)
- Looking Forward in Hope and Despair: Critical Perspectives on Utopia and Dystopia in Philosophy and the Arts (Graduate, conference, April 2021)
2020
- Fellow-Travelers on Paths across Different Landscapes: Practical Epistemology and Metaphysics (Intensive Seminar with Naomi Scheman), October 21, 2020.
2019
- The Dissident. Seven Readings of “The Power of the Powerless” by Václav Havel (in collaboration with Södertörn University and Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and hosted by Philosophy and the Centre for Baltic and Eastern European Studies (CEBEES) at Södertörn University), Södertörn University, November 21, 2019.
- Intensive seminar with prof. John Lippit, October 15-17, 2019.
- Disagreement, (in)tolerance and political discourse, 12th – 14th September 2019, Pardubice
- Partisanship and Compassion in a Time of Populism (in collaboration with King's College London) August 27-28 2019, King's College London
- Intensive seminar with Veena Das, 25th -27th March, 2019
- Ethics after Murdoch (in collaboration with Iris Murdoch Society) June 6-7 2019, University of Pardubice
2018
- Workshop: The Self and the Moral October 30 2018, University of Pardubice
- INTENSIVE SEMINAR WITH JAMES CONANT AND CORA DIAMOND October 22-24 2018, University of Pardubice
- Love and Justice conference, September 2018
- ETHICS: FORM AND CONTENT (in collaboration with The Nordic Wittgenstein Society) May 26—27, 2018, University of Pardubice
- FORM AND FORMALISM IN LITERARY STUDIES Intensive seminar withToril Moi (Duke University), May 28—30, 2018, University of Pardubic
- KNOWLEDGE, POWER AND TRUTH Internal workshop, May 3rd-4th, 2018, University of Pardubice
2017
- Forms of the Ethical, intensive seminar with Prof. Raimond Gaita (Melbourne/CE), Pardubice, October 2-4, 2017
- CE Launch Workshop: Situating the Human University of Pardubice, September 26-28, 2017
- Truth in Politics and Metaphysics. Celebrating the work of Peter Winch (in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy, Kings College London), King's College London, June 30 - July 2, 2017
- Workshop Ethics in Context, University of Pardubice, 19. 5. 2017
- Workshop Understanding Others with Prof. Constantine Sandis (University of Hertfordshire), Kutná Hora, 11. 4. 2017
