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Call for Papers: Seeing Beyond the Human: Attending with Iris Murdoch and Mary Midgley
The AIRE Research Collective is delighted to announce the Call for Papers for our upcoming one-day symposium, Seeing Beyond the Human: Attending with Iris Murdoch and Mary Midgley, which will take place on 24 September 2026 at the University of Galway. The symposium marks the concluding event of our Philosophy in the Wild exhibition and invites scholars to reflect on the enduring significance of two remarkable philosophers and friends, Iris Murdoch and Mary Midgley. Their work on attention, ethics, aesthetics,…
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Call for abstracts special Issue Simone Weil & Art
This special issue proposes a bilingual collaboration between Metaxy Journal. Filosofia, arte, riconoscimento and the E-Journal Attention on the life and legacy of Simone Weil.We welcome applications from researchers and artists alike. Simone Weil has influenced artists across different countries and traditions, including poets and authors such as Albert Camus, Georges Bataille, T. S. Eliot, Cristina Campo, Elsa Morante, Anne Carson, Jan Zwicky; musicians such as Patti Smith; theatre-makers, and filmmakers such as Liliana Cavani and Roberto Rossellini. At the same time, recent scholarship…
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Philosophy in the wild – first workshop
On Wednesday afternoon all members of AIRE came together for our first Philosophy in the Wild workshop at the Ballinfoile-Castlegar Neighbourhood Centre in Galway. The session explored Mary Midgley’s idea of mixed communities, bringing attention to the ways humans and nonhumans co-inhabit shared spaces. Through a biodiversity walk and talk led by scientist Caitríona Carlin, sit spot practices, creative activities, and group inquiry, participants were invited to notice what usually escapes attention and to reflect on how different forms of…
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Attentive Inquiry Reclaiming Environment
We are AIRE.
We work as a collective. We think, write, and do our practice together.
In response to contemporary neo-liberal universities, we challenge the assumption that meaningful scholarship must centre on individual authorship, competition, and institutional prestige.
We think, instead, that there is another way of inhabiting academia, one that values dialogue, collaboration, and care over isolation, productivity, and status.
Our aim is not only to demonstrate that research can emerge through a caring and creative dialogue done together, but to actively embody and promote this alternative model of academic work.
AIRE means attention and care in Irish. It also stands for Attentive Inquiry Reclaiming Environment, a reminder of our commitment to engaged, ethical, and environmentally aware forms of thought and practice. Our work explores how practices of attention can reshape the way we think, learn, and live, in relation to the environment, to others, and to ourselves.
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