Troubadour Biographies: From Satire to Courtly Teaching Spanish scholar Miriam Cabré (Universitat de Girona) will speak about the so called Vidas, lives of famous Occitan troubadours and search for their function in medieval Occitan society. poster The series is organized by the Department of Scandinavian Studies and the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages of the […]
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Professor Alexander Etkind: THE KREMLIN WELL – TOWARDS A THEORY OF PARASITIC STATE
The Boris Nemtsov Academic Centre cordially invites you to a lecture by Professor Alexander Etkind “The Kremlin Well: Towards a Theory of Parasitic State”.
Professor Ludo Beheydt: European Influence of Dutch and Flemish Art: Cultural Mobility
The official opening lecture of the postgraduate and post-doctorate colloquium “Meetings in Low Countries Studies”. A new Cultural narrative for Europe is urgently needed in the European context. If we want European citizens to identify with Europe it is absolutely necessary to recognize the dynamics in European culture. Neither the narrow national look on art, […]
Orientalism, the Ottoman Empire, and Turkey: An Ambiguous and Multilayered Context
In 1978, Edward Said published his seminal work, Orientalism, radically changing our understanding of the perception and representation of the East by Western ideology, politics, scholarship, and culture. Today, on the fortieth anniversary of this intellectual benchmark, it seems that orientalism is still alive and well, perhaps even further reinforced by a revived Huntingtonian perception of […]
Life and Biography in the Middle Ages: A Celebrity
Sportsmen and Pop-Stars: The Genre of Biography in the Modern Literature Young Czech literary scholar Klára Soukupová (Charles University, Prague) will speak about the profound changes of the genre of biography in contemporary Europe and trace in how far they reflect the changes of attitude to human life in modern society. poster The series is […]
Current Issues in Archaeology
Eva Rosenstock (Institut für Prähistorische Archäologie der Freien Universität Berlin): Inhibited growth? Farming subsistence and human stature in the OId World
Life and Biography in the Middle Ages: A Bishop
Double life of Henry. Metaphor in the Finnish St. Henry of Uppsala Legend. A young Czech scholar Michal Kovář (Masaryk University Brno) will speak about the role played by metaphors in the legend about the life of the Finnish Bishop St. Henry († 1156). poster The series is organized by the Department of Scandinavian Studies and the Centre […]
Prof. Michael Rosen (Harvard University): Why Does Philosophy Have a History?
Abstract: Quine is supposed to have said that two sorts of people are drawn to the study of philosophy: those interested in the history of philosophy and those interested in philosophy. Yet the history of philosophy is itself a philosophical problem – in fact, one of its deepest – for it challenges the very idea that […]
What Is A Witness? A Lecture by Annette Wieviorka
Annette Wieviorka is probably one of the most famous French historians on the Holocaust and a specialist of the history of Jews in France. A distinguished researcher of French National Research Center (CNRS), she just published 1945, La découverte (Le Seuil, 2017), dealing with the discovery of the Nazi concentration camps in April and May 1945 by […]
Prof. Eva Zettelmann (Universität Wien): Cultural Memory and the Contemporary British Poetry Scene
This lecture focuses on contemporary British poetry (Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Armitage, Alice Oswald, Patience Agbabi, Kate Tempest et al.). It tries to shed light on the specific character of the British poetry scene by referring to the notion of ‚cultural memory‘, i.e., the body of culture-specific knowledge centring on the past which, through its […]
