Venue: Room-31.C1.060

Speaker: Anne Reijnders

Same Workplace, Different Stories: Navigating Multiple Perspectives in Safety Research

Qualitative research often involves gathering perspectives from different stakeholders, who may experience and interpret the same situation in very different ways. But how do we deal with these differences?

As I prepare for my upcoming case studies on the implementation of safety approaches in the chemical industry, I anticipate three methodological challenges: conflicting stakeholder perspectives, organisational power dynamics, and researcher interpretation.
In this colloquium, I will briefly introduce these dilemmas and explore what existing research tells us about addressing them. Rather than presenting solutions, I would like to open a discussion and learn from colleagues' experiences with similar challenges in their own research.

Venue: TPM

Morning – Room A1.370 (Faculty Boardroom)

09:45-10:00 Coffee & welcome
10:00-11:15 Romy Eskens (Utrecht) – Debts of Agency: A Theory of Positive Accountability Attitudes
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:40 James Hutton (TU Delft) – "The Pretence of Moral Sense": Re-Assessing Kant's Attack on Moral Empiricism
    
12:40-14:00 Lunch (on campus, own expense)

Afternoon – Room B1.300

14:00-15:15 Alfred Archer (Tilburg) – Feelings of Fate
15:15-15:30 Break
15:45-17:00 Lilith Lee (VU Amsterdam) – Lim Boon Keng on the Evolution of Benevolence as a Moral-Political Virtue
17:00 Pub

For informatie and registration: philevents.org/event/show/152513

Venue: C1-060

Venue: Room-31.C1.060

During this colloquium, Audrey Crowe will present the PhD research that she recently started.

Audrey is a program manager at the Canadian National Security & Critical Infrastructure Directorate, and an external PhD researcher.

The topic of the colloquium: Development of an Enterprise-Wide Insider Threat Mitigation Maturity Model for the Nuclear Industry & Field Assessment of National Mitigation Capabilities.

Venue: Theater de Veste, Delft

Each year, our department and Studium Generale host the Van Hasselt Lecture, a tradition that links TU Delft with the city of Delft.

The lecture gives a stage to leading thinkers on topics of “peace and justice in our technological age,” and brings the university community and the wider Delft public together for an evening of stimulating ideas . The lecture commemorates Frans van Hasselt, a Delft student who publicly protested the dismissal of Jewish professors at the university in November 1940, and who was murdered in Buchenwald concentration camp two years later.

This year's lecture takes place on Tuesday 17 November at 20:30 in Theater de Veste. Our speaker is Robert Simpson (UCL), on "Free Speech and Experimentality":

Why do liberal societies value free speech so highly? Political philosopher Robert Simpson argues that one ethical foundation of free speech is the ideal of experimentality: there is value in people testing boundaries and defying established norms. Drawing on the cultural politics of popular music, Simpson explores both the promise of experimentality and the question of whether norm-breaking really deserves the esteem we often give it.

Van Hasselt Lecture 2026
Tuesday 17 November 2026, 20:30-22:30
Theater de Veste, Vesteplein 1, Delft
In English | Free admission | Registration required

Registration:
www.theaterdeveste.nl/programma/van-hasseltlezing-robert-simpson-nlbc

This is one of the fixtures of the department’s year, so I hope to see many of you there. Please do pass it on to your students too.

Best wishes,
James Hutton

Venue: TPM, B1.470

Title: The imperative of hope in education for responsible and sustainable futures.

This colloquium engages with the notion of ‘hope’ in the context of our educational activities and against the backdrop of polycrisis: what are the affordances and limitations of hope in our education and (how) can we equip our students to cultivate hope in their learning and professional lives?

The colloquium will start with a short orientation talk, followed by a roundtable discussion with Sabine, Andrea and Martin. We would be delighted if a PhD or postdoc could also join the roundtable: if you’re interested, please contact Clare directly.

Venue: C1-060

Venue: C1-060

Venue: C1-060