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The aim is to present capitalism both as a set … 1 Apr 2026 17:00 to 18:00 Event Jean-Jacques Hublin Conferences " Prehistory: between utopia and reality " (1) Special events 7 May 2026 18:00 to 19:00 Event Lea Ypi Progress, history and class Lecture Abstract This session explores the idea of progress, its necessity and its dangers, within the framework of the philosophy of history and the concept of class. Progress is an idea that is both necessary and dangerous : necessary to improve the world and … 11 Mar 2026 17:00 to 18:00 Event Laurent Pernot "The most frequent and by far the most beautiful trick". Greek and Roman theories of metaphor Seminar 11 Mar 2026 16:00 to 18:00 Event Hocine Benkheira Life stages and sacrificial practices : a comparative approach between Islam and cuneiform sources Seminar Mr. Hocine Benkheira's speech is recorded in audio only. … 11 Mar 2026 14:30 to 16:00 Event Dario Mantovani Imagining law as a living body : an introduction to Roman legal metaphors Lecture Calliope, Complesso dei triclini, Moregine, Pompei Abstract When Justinian reorganized law in the VI th century, he spoke of it as a body, in which institutions circulate like blood in the veins. The metaphor draws on the body to think about law, and in … 11 Mar 2026 14:30 to 15:30 Event Samantha Besson Sovereignties of a singular world to be inhabited in the plural Lecture 2 Apr 2026 10:00 to 11:30 Event Akihito Suzuki Madness at Home in Tokyo: The Psychiatrist, the Patient, and the Family in Tokyo, 1920-1945 Guest lecturer Cover of Engei Gaho magazine (演藝画報), July 1940 Abstract The family of a mentally ill patient was one of the most important agents in the general picture of insanity in society. Family members such as husband, wife, father, mother, and children played … 10 Apr 2026 17:00 to 18:00 Event Antoine Lilti The world is full of charlatans Lecture Abstract In 1789, Henri Descremps published Les Petites Aventures de Jérôme Sharp (The Little Adventures of Jerome Sharp ), in which he tells the story of an educated but ruined young man who crosses France from Marseille to Paris and encounters a gallery … 11 Mar 2026 14:00 to 15:00 Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge In the cities: Greece as a sacrificial culture (9) Lecture 2 Apr 2026 11:00 to 12:00 Event Jean-Luc Fournet ... and letters: scribes and copyists (1) Lecture 11 Mar 2026 11:00 to 12:00 Event Thomas Römer David's kingship and the transfer of the Ark to Jerusalem Lecture Abstract As soon as the tribe of Judah rallied to David and he chose Jerusalem as his stronghold, he had the ark of Yhwh brought from Qiryath-Yearim to symbolize Yhwh's presence in Jerusalem. The transfer of the ark is fraught with difficulties, and … 2 Apr 2026 14:00 to 15:00 Event Emmanuelle Pastore King Solomon : a review of the texts and their history Seminar 2 Apr 2026 15:15 to 16:45 Event Jean-Luc Fournet, Korshi Dosoo & Valérie Schram Orpheus on the Nile: a new Orphic poem on papyrus (5) Seminar Abstract Five seminar sessions will be devoted entirely to an exceptional unpublished Greek text spanning 255 verses and preserved in the first six columns of the recto of a large roll of Greek magic papyrus (III rd -IV th century AD), unearthed in … 2 Apr 2026 15:30 to 17:00 Event Frantz Grenet The origins of medieval Khurâsân: interactions between Sassanid Iran and Central Asia (3rd-7th c. AD) (6) Lecture 2 Apr 2026 15:30 to 16:30 Series Reducing complexity to master the resolution of mathematical models Yvon Maday, chair Computer Sciences and Digital Technologies Opening lecture 19 Feb 2026 Series Unpublished papyri or papyrological novelties Jean-Luc Fournet, chair Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology Seminar Saint Luke as a copyist (BnF, Coislin 195 f° 240 v°, 10th century) Presentation The seminar offers complementary Spotlights on the lecture or discussions on new texts. This year, in addition to a presentation of a new ERC project on Greco-Roman education, … 19 Feb 2026 → 16 Apr 2026 Event Nicholas Vrousalis Labour before Citizenship Symposium Nicholas Vrousal is an associate professor in Practical Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam and an associate professor in Political Philosophy at the University of … 15 May 2026 11:00 to 12:00 Event Anca Gheaus Socialist Childhood Symposium Anca Gheaus is a political philosopher interested in justice and the normative significance of personal relationships. Before joining CEU, she worked at various universities in Europe. In 2023 she published a co-authored book on Debating Surrogacy (with … 15 May 2026 13:00 to 14:00 Event Martin O'Neill Capital, Climate Change and Democracy Symposium 15 May 2026 14:00 to 15:00 Event Chiara Cordelli Capitalism, Alienation, and the Rule of None Symposium Abstract Recently, political philosophy has witnessed a revival of debates about the wrong of capitalism and the point of socialism. Some argue that capitalism is unjustly exploitative, but only contingently on unjust distributions. The point of socialism … 15 May 2026 15:30 to 16:30 Event Gabriel Wollner Revolutionary Redemption and the Socialist Afterlife Symposium Abstract In his famous and difficult essay "On the Concept of History," Walter Benjamin introduces the idea of revolutionary redemption. Through their actions, revolutionaries of the present can redeem those whose struggles for liberation failed in the … 15 May 2026 16:30 to 17:30 Event Markus Saur "There is no end to the multiplication of books." (Ecclesiastes 12:12). The Book of Ecclesiastes in the history of literature Guest lecturer Résumé Au début du livre de Qohélet se trouve David : le titre en Eccl 1,1 désigne Qohélet comme fils de David, roi à Jérusalem. Il s’agit d’une référence implicite à Salomon, fils de David sur le trône de Jérusalem. D’autres écrits font explicitement … 4 Mar 2026 11:00 to 12:00 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
Event Dario Mantovani The body of law, "Corpus Iuris". Imagining law through bodily metaphors in Roman legal literature (2) (4) Lecture 1 Apr 2026 14:30 to 15:30
Event Lea Ypi Law, State and Economy Lecture Abstract This session examines capitalism by moving beyond the traditional vision of historical materialism, which often focuses exclusively on economic relations and the determinism that follows from them. The aim is to present capitalism both as a set … 1 Apr 2026 17:00 to 18:00
Event Jean-Jacques Hublin Conferences " Prehistory: between utopia and reality " (1) Special events 7 May 2026 18:00 to 19:00
Event Lea Ypi Progress, history and class Lecture Abstract This session explores the idea of progress, its necessity and its dangers, within the framework of the philosophy of history and the concept of class. Progress is an idea that is both necessary and dangerous : necessary to improve the world and … 11 Mar 2026 17:00 to 18:00
Event Laurent Pernot "The most frequent and by far the most beautiful trick". Greek and Roman theories of metaphor Seminar 11 Mar 2026 16:00 to 18:00
Event Hocine Benkheira Life stages and sacrificial practices : a comparative approach between Islam and cuneiform sources Seminar Mr. Hocine Benkheira's speech is recorded in audio only. … 11 Mar 2026 14:30 to 16:00
Event Dario Mantovani Imagining law as a living body : an introduction to Roman legal metaphors Lecture Calliope, Complesso dei triclini, Moregine, Pompei Abstract When Justinian reorganized law in the VI th century, he spoke of it as a body, in which institutions circulate like blood in the veins. The metaphor draws on the body to think about law, and in … 11 Mar 2026 14:30 to 15:30
Event Samantha Besson Sovereignties of a singular world to be inhabited in the plural Lecture 2 Apr 2026 10:00 to 11:30
Event Akihito Suzuki Madness at Home in Tokyo: The Psychiatrist, the Patient, and the Family in Tokyo, 1920-1945 Guest lecturer Cover of Engei Gaho magazine (演藝画報), July 1940 Abstract The family of a mentally ill patient was one of the most important agents in the general picture of insanity in society. Family members such as husband, wife, father, mother, and children played … 10 Apr 2026 17:00 to 18:00
Event Antoine Lilti The world is full of charlatans Lecture Abstract In 1789, Henri Descremps published Les Petites Aventures de Jérôme Sharp (The Little Adventures of Jerome Sharp ), in which he tells the story of an educated but ruined young man who crosses France from Marseille to Paris and encounters a gallery … 11 Mar 2026 14:00 to 15:00
Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge In the cities: Greece as a sacrificial culture (9) Lecture 2 Apr 2026 11:00 to 12:00
Event Thomas Römer David's kingship and the transfer of the Ark to Jerusalem Lecture Abstract As soon as the tribe of Judah rallied to David and he chose Jerusalem as his stronghold, he had the ark of Yhwh brought from Qiryath-Yearim to symbolize Yhwh's presence in Jerusalem. The transfer of the ark is fraught with difficulties, and … 2 Apr 2026 14:00 to 15:00
Event Emmanuelle Pastore King Solomon : a review of the texts and their history Seminar 2 Apr 2026 15:15 to 16:45
Event Jean-Luc Fournet, Korshi Dosoo & Valérie Schram Orpheus on the Nile: a new Orphic poem on papyrus (5) Seminar Abstract Five seminar sessions will be devoted entirely to an exceptional unpublished Greek text spanning 255 verses and preserved in the first six columns of the recto of a large roll of Greek magic papyrus (III rd -IV th century AD), unearthed in … 2 Apr 2026 15:30 to 17:00
Event Frantz Grenet The origins of medieval Khurâsân: interactions between Sassanid Iran and Central Asia (3rd-7th c. AD) (6) Lecture 2 Apr 2026 15:30 to 16:30
Series Reducing complexity to master the resolution of mathematical models Yvon Maday, chair Computer Sciences and Digital Technologies Opening lecture 19 Feb 2026
Series Unpublished papyri or papyrological novelties Jean-Luc Fournet, chair Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology Seminar Saint Luke as a copyist (BnF, Coislin 195 f° 240 v°, 10th century) Presentation The seminar offers complementary Spotlights on the lecture or discussions on new texts. This year, in addition to a presentation of a new ERC project on Greco-Roman education, … 19 Feb 2026 → 16 Apr 2026
Event Nicholas Vrousalis Labour before Citizenship Symposium Nicholas Vrousal is an associate professor in Practical Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam and an associate professor in Political Philosophy at the University of … 15 May 2026 11:00 to 12:00
Event Anca Gheaus Socialist Childhood Symposium Anca Gheaus is a political philosopher interested in justice and the normative significance of personal relationships. Before joining CEU, she worked at various universities in Europe. In 2023 she published a co-authored book on Debating Surrogacy (with … 15 May 2026 13:00 to 14:00
Event Chiara Cordelli Capitalism, Alienation, and the Rule of None Symposium Abstract Recently, political philosophy has witnessed a revival of debates about the wrong of capitalism and the point of socialism. Some argue that capitalism is unjustly exploitative, but only contingently on unjust distributions. The point of socialism … 15 May 2026 15:30 to 16:30
Event Gabriel Wollner Revolutionary Redemption and the Socialist Afterlife Symposium Abstract In his famous and difficult essay "On the Concept of History," Walter Benjamin introduces the idea of revolutionary redemption. Through their actions, revolutionaries of the present can redeem those whose struggles for liberation failed in the … 15 May 2026 16:30 to 17:30
Event Markus Saur "There is no end to the multiplication of books." (Ecclesiastes 12:12). The Book of Ecclesiastes in the history of literature Guest lecturer Résumé Au début du livre de Qohélet se trouve David : le titre en Eccl 1,1 désigne Qohélet comme fils de David, roi à Jérusalem. Il s’agit d’une référence implicite à Salomon, fils de David sur le trône de Jérusalem. D’autres écrits font explicitement … 4 Mar 2026 11:00 to 12:00
