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The BUPS committee are proud to announce that registration has just opened for the BUPS Annual Conference 2008, to be held at St. Catherine's College, University of Cambridge, from Friday 19th - Sunday 21st September. The keynote speaker will be Professor Bill Brewer (Warwick University). You can either register online here or download a postal registration form [PDF]. The call for papers is also now open.
Thanks to all who attended and participated in the BUPS Spring Conference 2008. Details of the next BUPS conference will be forthcoming soon.
The call for papers for the BUPS Spring Conference 2008 has closed.
BUPS is associated with the British Philosophical Association.
BUPS is sponsored by the Universities of Nottingham and Reading
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Issue 2(2) of the BJUP is now online.
Society Introduction
Welcome to the home page of the British Undergraduate Philosophy Society. We are a student-run group open to anyone interested in undergraduate-level philosophy.
Our aims are:
Latest News
11/04/08 - Thanks to all who attended and participated in the BUPS Spring Conference 2008. Details of the next BUPS conference should be forthcoming soon, both on the website and through the mailing lists.
11/04/08 - The call for papers for the BUPS Spring Conference 2008 has now closed. Thankyou for your interest. You can still register online for the conference, and a provisional programme for the conference is now available. [PDF]
24/02/08 - The call for papers for the BUPS Spring Conference 2008 is being sent out to undergraduate philosophy departments across the UK. Check your local departmental notice board for details, or simply register online.
20/12/07 - Registration has now ended for the BUPS Winter Conference 2008. A provisional copy of the programme of events is available. We look forward to seeing all participants in the New Year!
Edmund Hair has also joined the committee, replacing Andrew Bacon as the Web Officer. Any issues with the website should be reported to him.
08/10/07 - We are proud to announce that registration has officially opened for the BUPS Winter Conference 2008. The conference is set to be held at the University of Nottingham from the 4th to 6th of January. Professor Stephen Mumford (Nottingham) will be our keynote speaker.
We are also happy to announce that Oystein Sjotveit and Sophie Erskine have joined the committee as general officers, and that Akosua Bonsu and Alex Milner have replaced Elaine Yeadon and Craig French as specialist officers in charge of the Schools Project and Twelve Project, respectively.
07/04/07 - First of all, the BUPS Committee is proud to introduce its three newest members: Duncan Crowe from Cambridge, Amanda Montgomery from Dundee, and Matteo Russo from UEA. You can head over to our committee page to check out their research interests. For those of you who missed out on the opportunity to meet these fine young lads and lasses that form our committee at the spring conference, we hope you'll seize your chance and come pay us a visit at the BUPS Summer Conference (registration opens today), in Oxford, where we will welcome Professor Timothy Williamson as our keynote speaker. And remember, we will be presenting the prizes for our BJUP Essay Contest during the conference, as well as electing next year's society chair. See you there!
23/03/07 - The deadline for registration for BUPS Skills Conference 2007 has passed. The conference will hosting 8 undergraduate speakers, some workshops and skills talks, and hopefully some lively socialising. Keep checking the site for upcoming announcements about our next event, and information about an essay competition...
20/11/06 - The deadline for submission of papers to the BUPS Winter Conference 2006 is coming up, so make sure to submit your papers on time to avoid disappointment. The deadline for conference registration has also been set: please make sure you book a place by Friday December 8th at noon. On a completely different note, the BUPS committee welcomes Carl Baker (Leeds) into its ranks as a general officer. If, like Carl, you'd like to get involved with BUPS, don't hesitate to drop us a line.
07/11/06 - The BUPS Schools Project is in business! If you are a student (or a teacher) and would like your school to receive information, don't hesitate to get in touch.
10/10/06 - The call for papers for the BUPS Winter Conference 2006 is being sent out to every undergraduate philosophy department in the UK. Check your local departmental notice board for details, or simply register here.
07/08/06 - Issue 1(3) of the British Journal of Undergraduate Philosophy out now! Read the third issue online here.
Previous News
Submission call for BUPC'06 and registration are now closed.
Back from the Nottingham skills conference, happy and dazed - hope you enjoyed it!
Issue 1(2) of the British Journal of Undergraduate Philosophy out now! Read the second issue online here.
April skills conference programme now completed and on the site.
A copy of Issue 1(1) of the British Journal of Undergraduate Philosophy has now been sent to every undergraduate philosophy department in the country. If you'd like to know which member of staff at your uni received one, contact us here.
Sheffield conference done and dusted - hope you enjoyed it!
Issue 1(1) of the British Journal of Undergraduate Philosophy out now! Read the first issue online here.
December 2005 - September 2006 Conference details are up! Announcements via BUPS-L and the unis through December.
The site has been completely re-written from the ground up in CSS so that we are fully accessible to students with disabilities, through specialist reader and parsing software.
The mailing lists are up and running, and are where the main action can be found - you can join up today, or browse the archives from the link at the top of the page.
Emails are going out to all major philosophy departments to spread the word about the society - if you haven't seen one at your uni, please let us know through the 'contact us' address.
We're open to any suggestions about the site, useful features that could be added, or any information that would benefit philosophy students if we gave it a permanent home here. Contact us directly if you've got any bright ideas!
