Presidential Address 2024 - Royal Institute of Philosophy

Jo Wolff is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. He was named the new President of The Royal Institute of Philosophy in October 2023, and in May 2024 he gave his inaugural Presidential Address.
A political philosopher, he has worked on questions of inequality, disadvantage,social justice, and questions of public policy, and in his Address he explored the positive role of ceremonies in a meaningful life and how ceremonies can help us to think about human values.

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Main part of speech is 53:20 to 56:00. He makes it clear throughout he detests nationalism, and although he doesn't believe in ceremonies, he thinks it would be a good idea to use "subnational and cross-national groups identified through the mechanism of ceremonies" to undermine nationalism. That is why he is studying ceremonies. But is nationalism all bad? Why does he want so badly to undermine it?