Sean Donahue organized the Legitimacy Beyond the State workshop. The aim of the workshop was to advance philosophical research on legitimacy as a normative concept that can apply to non-profit organizations, international corporations, interest groups, and other non-state institutions.

Michael Barnes gave a presentation for the ANU Philosophy Department Seminar Series, on 16 November 2023. The talk, titled ‘Speech Acts on Social Media: Algorithms, Amplifiers, and Affordances,’ is part of a larger project that aims to update speech act theory for online communication, and then apply it to help make sense of various afflictions of our online lives.