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For, in the course of his decade-long return from … 9 Mar 2026 18:00 to 19:00 Event Naïm Vanthieghem The Fayoum merchant archives: testimony to the culture of merchant circles in Tulunid Egypt Seminar Abstract With over two one hundred fifty documents, the archives of Abū Hurayra Ǧaʿfar b. ʾAḥmad (floruit 849-868) constitute one of the richest and best-preserved corpora of medieval Egypt. This exceptional collection includes a wide variety of … 12 Mar 2026 15:30 to 17:00 Event Lionel Marti Can power in Assyria be illegitimate ? Seminar 12 Mar 2026 15:15 to 16:45 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 Thomas Römer Saul, a cursed king? David's arrival at Saul's court (continued) Lecture Documents and media Download support Abstract In some texts, Saul is presented as a cursed king, even a tragic figure. As soon as he is installed, he is rejected by Yhwh. This rejection goes hand in hand with the arrival of young David at Saul's court, of … 12 Mar 2026 14:00 to 15:00 Event Stéphane Feuillas et Claude Romano Around authenticity: readings, reflections, discussions (1) Seminar Stéphane Feuillas (Université Paris Cité) and Claude Romano (Sorbonne Université): "Dialogue on authenticity from Chinese and European textual traditions". Stéphane Feuillas : "Lectures de textes autour des notions de cheng 誠 et de zhen … 12 Mar 2026 14:00 to 17:00 Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge In the cities: Greece as a sacrificial culture (6) Lecture Documents et médias Télécharger le support Résumé « Le serment est ce qui maintient la démocratie », déclare l’orateur et homme politique athénien Lycurgue au IVe siècle avant notre ère. Une fois remise en contexte, cette affirmation fait émerger les … 12 Mar 2026 11:00 to 12:00 Event Samantha Besson Sovereignty, territoriality & property Lecture 12 Mar 2026 10:00 to 11:30 Event Jean-Jacques Hublin Conferences " Prehistory: between utopia and reality " (1) Special events 7 May 2026 18:00 to 19:00 Event Edouard Bard Climates and human societies over the past two thousand years (continued) (6) Lecture 3 Apr 2026 15:00 to 16:30 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 Series Reducing complexity to master the resolution of mathematical models Yvon Maday, chair Computer Sciences and Digital Technologies Opening lecture 19 Feb 2026 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 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 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 Jean-Luc Fournet ... and letters: scribes and copyists (1) Lecture 11 Mar 2026 11:00 to 12:00 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 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 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
Event Daniel Mendelsohn The Odyssey and its migrations: displacement, wandering, identity Guest lecturer Abstract Homer's Odyssey has long been recognized as the West's quintessential founding text on voyages of discovery, serving as a model for works as varied as Dante's Inferno and television's Star Trek . For, in the course of his decade-long return from … 9 Mar 2026 18:00 to 19:00
Event Naïm Vanthieghem The Fayoum merchant archives: testimony to the culture of merchant circles in Tulunid Egypt Seminar Abstract With over two one hundred fifty documents, the archives of Abū Hurayra Ǧaʿfar b. ʾAḥmad (floruit 849-868) constitute one of the richest and best-preserved corpora of medieval Egypt. This exceptional collection includes a wide variety of … 12 Mar 2026 15:30 to 17:00
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 Thomas Römer Saul, a cursed king? David's arrival at Saul's court (continued) Lecture Documents and media Download support Abstract In some texts, Saul is presented as a cursed king, even a tragic figure. As soon as he is installed, he is rejected by Yhwh. This rejection goes hand in hand with the arrival of young David at Saul's court, of … 12 Mar 2026 14:00 to 15:00
Event Stéphane Feuillas et Claude Romano Around authenticity: readings, reflections, discussions (1) Seminar Stéphane Feuillas (Université Paris Cité) and Claude Romano (Sorbonne Université): "Dialogue on authenticity from Chinese and European textual traditions". Stéphane Feuillas : "Lectures de textes autour des notions de cheng 誠 et de zhen … 12 Mar 2026 14:00 to 17:00
Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge In the cities: Greece as a sacrificial culture (6) Lecture Documents et médias Télécharger le support Résumé « Le serment est ce qui maintient la démocratie », déclare l’orateur et homme politique athénien Lycurgue au IVe siècle avant notre ère. Une fois remise en contexte, cette affirmation fait émerger les … 12 Mar 2026 11:00 to 12:00
Event Jean-Jacques Hublin Conferences " Prehistory: between utopia and reality " (1) Special events 7 May 2026 18:00 to 19:00
Event Edouard Bard Climates and human societies over the past two thousand years (continued) (6) Lecture 3 Apr 2026 15:00 to 16:30
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
Series Reducing complexity to master the resolution of mathematical models Yvon Maday, chair Computer Sciences and Digital Technologies Opening lecture 19 Feb 2026
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 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
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
