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Philosophy for/with Children and Belonging

Philosophy for Children Conference - 15th May 2023

Monday 15th of May

UCD Sutherland School of Law, Room L143

09:40 – 10:00 Coffee and Tea

10:00 – 10:10 Introduction

10:10 – 11:00 Keynote: Laura D’Olimpio, “The Limits to Dialogue in the Community of Philosophical Inquiry” (University of Birmingham)

11:00 – 11:40 Áine Mahon & Hannah Earner-Grote, “Belonging and Alienation in the Contemporary University” (University College Dublin)

11:40 – 12:00 Coffee Break 

12:00 – 12:40  Jaroslaw Marek Spychala, “The Cave Metaphor as a Model for Learning Philosophy and Creativity in School (Collegium Civitas, Warsaw)

12:40 – 14:00 Lunch Break 

14:00 – 14:40 Siobhan Doyle, “Philosophy in Action: Doing Plato’s Philosophy with and for Children (Saint Nicholas Montessori College, Dublin)

14:40 – 15:20 Lisa Foran,  “Voicing Space and Spatializing Voice: Philosophy as Means of Belonging” (University College Dublin)

15:20 – 16:00  Eoin Mac Maoilir, “Philosophy and Critical Pedagogy as Tools of Educational Reengagement” (University College Dublin)

16:00 – 16:20 Break

16:20 –  17:10 Keynote: Walter Omar Kohan, “Might an Ending Turn into a Beginning? On Philosophies and Childhoods in the Middle of Beginnings and Endings...” (State University of Rio De Janeiro) – Via Zoom

Contact the Centre for Ethics in Public Life (CEPL)

CEPL, School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
E: cepl@ucd.ie