Barbarism Revisited New Perspectives on an Old Concept 3-day International Conference Leiden, May 31 – June 1, 2012 Organizing institutions: Leiden University (Netherlands) & The University of Bonn (Germany Organizers: Prof. Dr. Christian Moser (Bonn) & Dr. Maria Boletsi (Leiden) More information (poster) Keynote speakers Terry Eagleton (Lancaster University) “The Barbarian in the Citadel” (May 31,… Read more →
Book Presence in a Digital Age
Conference | If books have been increasingly marginalized by screens, pads, and other electronic book-imitators, what is happening to literature as a paper art
The Cultural Meaning of the Life Sciences, with Daniel Dennett
Call for Participants | The American philosopher Daniel Dennett (Center for Cognitive Studies at Tuft’s University) has taken upon two of the major cultural questions of our time, questions that have defined our self-image: where do we come from and what is consciousness? This symposium offers the opportunity for a select group of PhD students to enter into discussion with Dennett on a range of philosophical topics
Patrice Petro, Globalization and the Humanities: Cosmopolitanism, Cities, Security
Lecture | This talk will explore the ways in which the humanities contribute to globalization research and how globalization research, in turn, engages with key issues in the humanities today
Call for papers – Worth a thousand words
“Worth a thousand words”: at the intersections of literature and the visual arts Date: 24 – 26 October 2012 Venue: Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands Confirmed plenary speaker: Elena Gualtieri (University of Groningen) Proposals deadline: 1 July 2012 More information: www.ru.nl/hlcs/worthathousandwords Clement Greenberg once famously said, “photography is closer today to literature than it is… Read more →
