Professor Richard Bourke’s Inaugural Lecture 3 May 2016, 6.30 pm Professor Richard Bourke’s Inaugural Lecture, “‘And the Glory of Europe is Extinguished Forever’: What was the Old Regime?”, will take place on Tuesday 3 May 2016, 6.30pm, at Queen Mary University of London. Historians tend to explain the origins of modern Europe in terms of the […]
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Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture in Intellectual History
Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture in Intellectual History, Queen Mary Mark Mazower: “The First Greek Debt Crisis: Liberalism and Capitalism in the 1820s” You are warmly invited to the 2016 Annual Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture in Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary University of London, which will be delivered by Professor Mark Mazower […]
The Renaissance as a Metaphor: European, American and Japanese Historiography before and after WWII
The University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy presents a lecture by: Francesco Campagnola (Ghent University): The Renaissance as a Metaphor: European, American and Japanese Historiography before and after WWII 18:00-20:00, June 20 2014 (Collaboration Room 4, Building 18, University of Tokyo, Komaba) Commentators: Ayako Ikeno (JSPS) and Genta Okamoto (Okayama University) Moderator: Futoshi Hoshino (University of […]
The Light Year Public Lecture Series
The Light Year Public Lecture Series In 2013-14 under the auspices of the Institute of Advanced Study, visiting Fellows and Durham researchers are exploring the theme of Light. In addition to a public lectures series delivered by its IAS Fellows, the IAS organises a public lecture series connecting the Institute’s thematic interest, aiming to deliver […]
E. H. Gombrich Lectures on the Classical Tradition 2013
E. H. GOMBRICH LECTURES ON THE CLASSICAL TRADITION 2013 Princeton University Press and The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London The E. H. Gombrich Lectures is an annual series of Lectures on Aspects of the Classical Tradition, named in honour of Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich FBA OM, former Director of the Warburg Institute […]
EMPHASIS Seminar: 16 June 2013
The next EMPHASIS seminar will take place on 16 June 2013 in Room 104 (Senate House, University of London) from 2.00-4.00 pm. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, please see the EMPHASIS website. Speakers: Olivia Smith (St Johns College, Oxford): ‘Locke’s use of underspecification’; Hannah Dawson (University of Edinburgh) and Richard Ellis (University of Cambridge): ‘Locke’s […]
Qu’est-ce que le holisme en biologie? A One-Day Workshop on Holism in Biology
Qu’est-ce que le holisme en biologie? Entre consensus conceptuel et pluralité historique A one-day workshop on holism in biology (historical, theoretical, and scientific perspectives) May 28 2013 at the Centre Cavaillès, ENS, Paris Depuis les réflexions préliminaires sur la nécessité de reconstruire une vision holiste de la biologie à partir du début des années 2000, on constate actuellement […]
The Alphabet of Nature and the Idols of the Market: Bacon on Languages, Natural and Human
The Alphabet of Nature and the Idols of the Market: Bacon on Languages, Natural and Human The Warburg Institute 14-15 June 2013 Speakers: Sorana Corneanu (University of Bucharest), Marta Fattori (University of Rome, La Sapienza), Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute), Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest), Vera Keller (University of Oregon), Fabian Krämer (Ludwig-Maximillians Universität, Munich), James A.T. […]
Virgil in the Trecento: Boccaccio and His Circle
Virgil in the Trecento: Boccaccio and His Circle A one-day international colloquium to be held on 15 October 2013 at the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana di Scienze Lettere e Arti, Mantua, Italy Proposals are invited for papers in English or Italian, of no more than 30 minutes’ duration, on any aspect of the place of Virgil […]
Philosophy and Knowledge in the Renaissance: Interpreting Aristotle in the Vernacular
Philosophy and Knowledge in the Renaissance: Interpreting Aristotle in the Vernacular London, The Warburg Institute, 21-22 June 2013 This event is free and open to all. Furthermore, we are pleased to inform that PhD students and early career researchers who wish to attend the colloquium are invited to apply for reimbursement of their travel and/or accommodation expenses (up […]