Talk: It’s about time! Reflections on the role of chronology in archaeology
Talk: It’s about time! Reflections on the role of chronology in archaeology By Jeroen Poblome (KU Leuven, archaeology) Date: Wednesday 7 February, 2024 Time: 17.30-19.00 Room: H-232 Abstract: In methods, practices and concepts, the discipline of Archaeology remains in full motion. Ever newer computational modelling techniques are being unleased. Ever more detailed methods of spatial analysis are being employed. While […]
Talk: Totality at Trinity – Paranoia and the State in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony
Talk: Totality at Trinity - Paranoia and the State in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony By Devin Daniels (Bryn Mawr College, English) Date: Wednesday 14 February, 2024 Time: 16.30-18.00 Room: G-160 Abstract: The cultural and theoretical production of the 1970s has been largely remembered for its resistance to metanarratives, skepticism towards totality, and embrace of plurality. At the same time, the […]
Talk: An American Divide – The Making of ‘Continental’ Philosophy
Talk: An American Divide - The Making of 'Continental' Philosophy By Jonathan Strassfeld (John Hopkins University, History) Date: Tuesday 20 February, 2024 Time: 16.30-18.00 Room: G-160 Abstract: Western philosophy underwent a dramatic schism during the twentieth century, splitting into two adversarial camps called "analytic" and "continental" philosophy. While this rupture is commonly understood as an ideological divide that reflects cultural […]
Talk: “If I cannot find a shady shelter and a companion for my penance, I shall never turn ascetic”: Modernist Asceticism in Rabindranath Tagore’s “The Ghat’s Story” (1884)
Talk: "If I cannot find a shady shelter and a companion for my penance, I shall never turn ascetic”: Modernist Asceticism in Rabindranath Tagore’s “The Ghat’s Story” (1884) By Apala Das (University of Toronto, Massey College) Date: Wednesday, 21 February 2024, 17:30 (reception at 17:00) Time: 1750-1900 Room: G160 Abstract: “The Ghat’s Story” (1884) is a short story written by […]
Talk: Beyond Empty Homogeneity – Rethinking Serial Form
Talk: Beyond Empty Homogeneity - Rethinking Serial Form By Kyra Sutton (University of California at Berkeley, Rhetoric) Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 Time: 16.30-18.00 Room: G-160 Abstract: Across literary studies, film studies, game studies, and critical theory, recent decades have seen a flurry of interest in “the serial”—a form dynamized by a tension between, to draw on Clare Pettitt, “the […]
Talk: What is (Epic) Truth? Apollonius of Rhodes on the Amazons of Terme (Samsun)
Talk: What is (Epic) Truth? Apollonius of Rhodes on the Amazons of Terme (Samsun) By Brian D. McPhee (Durham University, Loeb Postdoctoral Research Fellow) Date: Thursday, February 29, 2024 Time: 1230-1320 Room: H232 Abstract: This paper uses the curious example of Apollonius of Rhodes’ portrayal of the Amazons to explore the contested relationship between “myth” and “history” in learned Hellenistic […]
Talk: The Inevitability of Corporate Character
Title: The Inevitability of Corporate Character By Kendy M. Hess (Holy Cross, Philosophy) Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 Time: 1730-1900 Room: H232 Abstract: If we assume — as I will, here — that firms and other highly organized groups can qualify as rationally autonomous actors in their own rights, I argue that they will necessarily possess Aristotelian characters as well. […]
Talk: Who built Göbekli Tepe? Of Inspired individuals and Charismatic Leaders
Talk: Who built Göbekli Tepe? Of Inspired individuals and charismatic leaders (including a summary of recent fieldwork) By Lee Clare (Göbekli Tepe Fieldwork and Research/ German Archaeological Institute, Istanbul) Date: Wednesday 13 March 2024 Time: 17.30-19.00 Room: FFB 22 Abstract: tbd. About the speaker: tbd Event organized by the Department of Archaeology
Talk: Small things, big stories: re-writing prehistory from new perspectives
Talk: Small things, big stories: re-writing prehistory from new perspectives By Emma Baysal Date: Wednesday 21 March 2024 Time: 17.30-19.00 Room: H-232 Abstract: Prehistory is generally characterised in terms of grand narratives of human development – technology, symbolism, domestication and sedentary life among others. However, the human experience is often lost in the vast scales of time and space that […]
Talk: Phrygians at the Black Sea? Exploring Ritual Landscapes in Northern Anatolia
Phrygians at the Black Sea? Exploring Ritual Landscapes in Northern Anatolia By Julia Koch (Justus Liebig University Giessen, Archaeology) Date: Wednesday 27 March 2024 Time: 17.30-19.00 Room: H-232 Abstract: The Kingdom of Phrygia is traditionally located in the western Anatolian Plateau centering on the capital at Gordion on the Upper Sangarios River. Recent scholarship, however, has reconstructed the territorial expansion […]
Talk: Translating for the Revolution: Soviet Transformations of Dos Passos
Talk: Translating for the Revolution: Soviet Transformations of Dos Passos By Zachary King (University of Chicago, Slavic Languages and Literature) Date: Friday, March 29, 2024 Time: 1030-1200 Room: H232 Abstract: The 1930s in the Soviet Union witnessed the historic elevation of writers into, as Stalin memorably stated, “engineers of human souls.” Soviet and international writers, critics, and cultural figures participated […]
Talk: Direct Manipulation Undermines Intentional Agency (Not Just Free Agency)
Title: Direct Manipulation Undermines Intentional Agency (Not Just Free Agency) By Andrei Buckareff (Philosophy/ Cognitive Science, Marist College) Date: Thursday, April 18, 2024 Time: 1530-1700 Room: H232 Abstract: An account of what sort of causal integration is necessary for an agent to exercise agency is offered in support of a soft-line response to Derk Pereboom’s four-case argument against source-compatibilism. I […]