2025 Southampton

Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th July 2025. Avenue Campus, University of Southampton.

The discussions were fruitful and constructive, much fun was had by all. Thanks to the Analysis Trust for financial support in the form of bursaries. Photos below, courtesy of Jules Holroyd!

BSET 2026 will be the 30th anniversary of the society and will take place in Leeds! Watch this space for more news.

Wednesday 16th July

11.15: Welcome

11.20: Anneli Jefferson (Cardiff)
There's no Accounting for Blame

12.30: Lunch

1.20: Christina Easton (Warwick)
“But you’re her mother”: The Moral Exploitation of Women in Family Decision-Making

2.35: Romy Eskens (Utrecht)
Degradation and Mental Wronging

3.45: Coffee

4.15: Lisa Forsberg (Oxford)
Great Achievements, Little Effort?

5.30: Keynote 1: Heather Widdows (Warwick), Being and knowing in Selfie Culture

7: BSET AGM

8: Conference Dinner

Thursday 17th July

9.30: Camil Golub (Rutgers-Newark)
Grief, Meaning, and Narratives

10.40: Coffee

11: Francesca Cesarano (Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main)
A Defense of Patriarchal Bargains

12.10: Lunch (+ BSET Exec Committee Meeting)

1.10: Alexander (Sasha) Arridge (St Anne's College, Oxford)
Morality Demands More of You The Better You Are

2.20: Russell McIntosh (UC Berkeley)
Doing What Another Would Want

3.30: Coffee

4: Keynote 2: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus)
What Is My Business? On Standing to Blame and Meddlesomeness

5.30: Conference End

Conference details

All attendees must be members of BSET. There is an option to pay membership during registration, or on the page linked in the previous sentence.

With support from the Analysis Trust, BSET are able to offer support to cover some of the costs of attendance for a number of graduate or underwaged attendees who do not have access to other sources of funds. If you'd like to enquire about this, please contact Brian McElwee.