Russelliana (Ruh-sell-ee-ana) are free online events organized or co-organized by the Bertrand Russell Society. They are standard at 1 pm on Saturdays, about six times each year.

Past Russelliana

This list was compiled by Dennis Darland (thank you, Dennis!).

• 9/26/2020 (open discussion) The Russell-Teller Debate
• 12/12/2020 Tony Simpson (Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation), Discussion of Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
• 1/9/2021 Andy Bone (Bertrand Russell Research Centre, McMaster University), “Virtual Launch of v. 26 CPBR”
• 1/30/2021 James Connelly (Trent University), lauch celebrating book on Wittgenstein and Russell’s MRTJ
• 3/27/2021 (open discussion) “Collecting Russell”
• 4/24/2021 Dustin Olson (University of Regina), “Russellian Empiricism”[PHIL]
• 6/12/2021 Bernard Linsky (University of Alberta), “G. H. Hardy’s copy of Principia Mathematica“
• 9/11/2021 Moises Macias Bustos (UMASS/UNAM), “Russell’s Response to the Newman Objection Reconsidered”
• 10/9/2021 (joint with the George Santayana Society) Ruth Derham (Author of Bertrand’s Brother: The Marriages, Morals and Misdemeanors of Frank, 2nd Earl Russell), A Discussion around Frank Russell’s Reputation 
• 11/13/2021 Peter Stone, Master Class on Russell’s “What is democracy?”
• 5/21/2022 (joint with the H. G. Wells Society) Tea and Cake with H.G. Wells and The Russell Brothers
• 9/17/2022 (joint with the British Wittgenstein Society) Jose Zalabardo & James Connelly, Panel discussion of Russell and Wittgenstein
• 10/22/2022 Ruth Derham (Author of On Being Frank), “On Frank Russell”
• 2/11/2023 Tony Simpson (Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation), 90 seconds to Midnight: Russell, Pugwash and Nuclear Weapons
• 3/25/2023 Landon Elkind (Western Kentucky University), Discussion of Digital Principia Mathematica
• 4/15/2023 Marilyn Fischer, Bertrand Russell and Jane Addams
• 9/16/2023 Andy Bone (Bertrand Russell Research Centre), Russell’s New Hopes for a Changing World
• 10/21/2023 (joint with the William James Society), Philosophies of Bertrand Russell and William James
• 11/18/2023 Peter Stone, Master Class on Russell’s “Philosophy’s Ulterior Motives”
• 12/8/2023 Gregory Landini & F. Thomas Burke (University of Iowa & University of South Carolina), Russell and Dewey on the Nature of Logic
• 2/10/2024, On BR’s Marriage and Morals
• 3/30/2024, David Ellwood, New Introduction to Bertrand Russell’s The ABC of Atoms
  5/4/2024, Landon Elkind (Western Kentucky University) and Alex Klein (McMaster University and Russell Research Centre), New Collection of Essays on Russell, Feminism and Women Philosophers
  9/14/2024, Jahnabi Deka (Gauhati University), “Man’s Place in the Universe: Tracing a Russellian Account”
  9/14/2024, Christoper Devlin Brown (Xiamen University), “What Does Russellian Physicalism Require?”
  10/26/2024, Gregory Landini (University of Iowa), “Both *154.242 and *154.251 of Principia Mathematica Are False but Happily *154.241 is True”[LOG]
  12/7/2024, Bill Bruneau and David Harley, “Russell’s Educational Theory/Beacon Hill School”
  1/25/2025, Peter Stone (Trinity College, Dublin), “Philosophy and Politics”
  3/15/2025, Kirk Willis (Univesity of Georgia), “Russell, A History of Western Philosophy, and the War for Civilization”
  5/3/2025, Abhinnshyam Shankar Tiwari (Jawaharial Nehru University), “War and Peace: A Russellian Journey between Two Phenomena”

Registration

Folks interested in attending the for any online meeting should register on this page. There is also no fee to attend. However, we need to verify attendees for purposes of preventing Zoom-bombing and other online trolling behavior.