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Roger Chartier: Qu’est-ce qu’un livre ? Réponses à une question de Kant

Roger Chartier est historien, professeur au Collège de France titulaire de la chaire « Ecrit et cultures dans l’Europe moderne » depuis 2007, directeur d’études à l’EHESS (au Centre de recherches historiques) depuis 1984 et Annenberg Visiting Professor à l’Université de Pennsylvanie à Philadelphie depuis 2001. Il est spécialiste de l’histoire du livre, de l’édition et de […]

Anne Cheng: Confucian Conceptions of Chinese Universality

The Chiang Ching-kuo International Sinological Center invites to its Open sinological seminar: Professor Anne Cheng, College de France, a leading French sinologist: „Confucian conceptions of Chinese universality” From the abstract: The advent of the universality of human rights is generally seen as a pure product of the Enlightenment in Europe, which itself represented the “triumph of Reason”; whereas […]

Jitka Štollová: “Beyond Shakespeare: Richard III in the Seventeenth Century”

The hasty burial of Richard III in Leicester in 1485 gave rise to one of the most fascinating literary afterlives in English history. In the next two centuries, historians, poets, and playwrights kept examining this controversial figure. Shakespeare’s mesmerising king-villain ultimately became the most iconic and influential portrayal: partly thanks to the intrinsic qualities of […]

Spirituality for Secularised Society

PROGRAMME Wednesday 11 May 2016 16.30 opening 17.00 Introduction (Laurence Freeman OSB) Prof. Ivana Noble: Spirituality and Loneliness in the Post-Secular Societies Laurence Freeman OSB: Mystery in the Technological Age discussion panel 19.45 expected end of the programme THURSDAY 12 May 2016 16.30 opening 17.00 Introduction (Laurence Freeman OSB) Prof. Charles Taylor: Shapes of Spirituality Today […]

Dr Barbara Titus: Maskanda and Globalization. Commercial and Political Dimensions of a World Music Style

The Department of Musicology is happy to invite you to a lecture by Dr Barbara Titus (Universiteit van Amsterdam), focusing on the popular South African musical style maskanda which has become a global phenomenon.

LES ÉLITES PEUVENT-ELLES ÊTRE DÉLINQUANTES ?

Dans le cadre des Grandes conférences de la Plateforme CEFRES, le sociologue Pierre Lascoumes, directeur de recherche émérite du CNRS, donnera une conférence sur « Les élites peuvent-elles être délinquantes ? » Sa présentation sera discutée par Pavol Frič (ISS FSV UK), spécialiste de la corruption dans les relations entre les élites et la sphère publique en République […]

Dr Barbara Titus: Recognizing Music as an Art Form, Friedrich Theodor Vischer and German Music Criticism, 1848–1887

The Department of Musicology is happy to invite you to a lecture by Dr Barbara Titus (Universiteit van Amsterdam), focusing on her recently published book of the same title (published by Leuven University Press). The book is an outcome of her doctoral dissertation, defended in 2005 at St Anne’s College, Oxford University. The lecture shall be held in […]

Prof. Dr. Hans Sauer: Shakespeare’s Language

This talk provides a general introduction to Shakespeare’s language, which is now roughly 400 years old. Although it is recognizably English, it nevertheless differs in many details from Present-Day English. Today it is not always easy to understand even for native speakers of English – of course it is the English language that has moved on, […]

Darina Martykánová (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): Global Engineers: the Birth of a Transnational Professional Culture between Paris and Constantinople

Maharal and Italy: The Trans-National Perspective

Professor David Malkiel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) shall discuss the relationship of Jehuda Levy ben Becalel, known as Maharal (?1525-1609) to Italy, especially his response to the treatise by the Italian Jewish polyhistor Azarji de´ Rossi. The lecture shall contribute to the perception of Maharal as a significant Jewish theologian of the sixteenth century, not only as the […]