Cumberland Lodge Weekend 2023

 

We are happy to announce that we will be offering a Cumberland Lodge Weekend on 17-19 November 2023!

This year, the Cumberland Lodge weekend will be centred around the theme of ‘Peace’ offering a variety of interesting talks. Additionally, there will be plenty of opportunity to socialise with the faculty and your peers and to enjoy the scenic views of Cumberland Lodge and surroundings.

About Cumberland Lodge

Cumberland Lodge is a secluded venue in the heart of Windsor Great Park offering historic rooms as well as a spacious park. It is renowned as a place for conference spaces that offer the ideal environment for deep thinking and reflection.

Attending Faculty

Jonathan Birch (academic lead)

Martha Ojo (main organiser)

More faculty to be announced soon

Preliminary Programme

This is not a finalised programme; it is only indicative, to give you an idea of how the weekend will be structured. Once the programme is finalised, this page will be updated.

Friday

5 – 5.45pm         Arrival / Tea

5.45pm             Welcome to the Lodge

6.00pm             Jonathan Birch: Thinking about Peace: An Introduction to the Retreat

6.15pm              Lewis Ross: Peace and the State

7.15pm               Dinner

10.00pm            Bar opens

Saturday

8.15am – 9.00am            Breakfast

10.35am – 11.00am        Tea and coffee

11.00am – 11.45pm        Short talks from Katariina Hynninen and Rafael Ruiz de Lira

11.45pm – 1.00pm         Jonathan Birch: The Pacifist Stance

1.00pm – 2.00pm           Lunch

2.00pm – 5.15pm           Free time to explore the grounds, with optional group walk

2.00pm – 3.00pm           MAP Meet-Up Session, led by James Rice

5.15pm – 6.15pm            A conversation with special guest Joanna Lewis, Director of the LSE’s Centre for Women, Peace and Security.

6.15pm – 7.15pm             Jonathan Parry: The Moral Significance of Anti-War Protest

7.15pm                              Dinner

9.00pm                              Free evening

Sunday (Please vacate rooms by 9am)

8.15am – 9.45am              Breakfast

10.00am – 11.30am           MAP Writing Workshop, led by Sadie Regmi

Free time with options including a chapel service and a group walk

12.00pm – 1.00pm            The LSE Philosophy Peace Prize—Award ceremony and student talk

1.00pm – 2.00pm              Lunch

2.00pm – 3.00pm             Closing talk: Kieran Oberman: War—What Is It Good For? Well, Not Absolutely Nothing, But Probably Less Than You Might Think.

3.00pm                              Depart from Cumberland Lodge

Transportation

Students are expected to make their own way to Cumberland Lodge. Directions will be made available to students once tickets are purchased and your registration is complete.

Accommodation

Rooms are shared and you will have the option to state who you would like to share with in the registration form. You will receive this registration form in an email sent to you by our event’s organiser, after you have purchased your ticket.  There are limited single occupancy rooms, which will be allocated based on health and mobility needs, which must be stated in the registration form.

Tickets

The weekend costs £110 per person. You can buy the tickets directly in the LSE e-shop via the link (goes live on 18 September 2023). Tickets are on a first come first basis and the e-shop link will close on Monday, 6 November. It is likely that ticket will sell out before this date and once tickets are gone, they are gone. We advise your purchase as soon as possible.

Once you purchase a ticket, you will receive a sales notification from LSE e-shop. Within a day of this email, you will then receive a separate email from our event’s organiser which will include a link to a registration form requesting more information. This information will be used to create your visitors’ profile for the Lodge. It is important that you complete your registration as soon as possible.

Important: tickets are non-refundable. If you can no longer attend, it will be your responsibility to find another student to replace you and email their name & email to m.ojo@lse.ac.uk

Bursaries

There are four bursary places available to students. The bursary covers all expenses for the weekend; room & board, & transport to and from Cumberland Lodge.

To be considered, students must fill out this form by 6pm on Friday, 31 October 2023.

Successful applicants will be notified a week after the deadline. Other applicants should consider their application unsuccessful if they are not contacted by 6pm on Friday, 20 October 2023.

Blog Post Competition

This year’s weekend is all about ‘Peace’ and the teacher responsible will be Prof Jonathan Birch. For the first time ever, we will be running a blog post competition ahead of the weekend.

We want to hear your thoughts on the theme of peace. To enter the competition, send a blog post of 1000 words or fewer to Jonathan Birch (j.birch2@lse.ac.uk) and to Martha Ojo (m.ojo@lse.ac.uk) by 5pm on 31 October 2023

The blog post must address the theme of peace. Your entry could (for example) address one of the following questions:

• What is peace?
• What is pacifism and is it justified?
• What role can philosophy play in promoting peace?

Or it might take some particular philosopher and reflect on the relevance of their views on peace for the present day.

Or it might do something completely unexpected!

If you want to see what philosophers have been saying recently about peace, this is quite a good reference point: https://philpapers.org/browse/peace-and-nonviolence

The winning post will be published on the LSE Philosophy Blog and the winning author will receive a full refund of the cost of their Cumberland Lodge ticket. The winning author will also be invited to present their idea during the weekend.

We will allow co-authored entries but may have to split the prize between the authors, rather than awarding more than one prize.

We are looking forward to seeing your entries!

Questions?

We will run an information session on Friday, 29 September, 2pm – 3pm, to answer any questions you may have about the weekend. A link to this information session with be sent to all students via email before the date.

In case you have any questions, please get in touch with our event’s organiser at  m.ojo@lse.ac.uk

We are looking forward to meeting you at Cumberland Lodge!