Lunchtime Seminar

The lunchtime seminar is the current research seminar of the Humanities Division of the ICUB, in which fellows and affiliated researchers of the are presenting work-in-progress. It takes place every Thursday during term-time (October-June). The seminar begins at 1.30 pm with an informal brown-bag lunch. From 2 pm, the speaker has one hour to present his/her work in progress, followed by 1 hour of discussions. The purpose of the seminar is to provide a collegial, interdisciplinary and competitive environment in which scholars can try and test their ideas and sharpen their arguments. The seminar is open to fellows of the Institute and associate researchers and their guests. If you wish to participate, please send an email at humanities@icub.unibuc.ro.

Thursday, 18 September 2018, 14h – Sigrid Leyssen (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Re-animating Filmology Experiments. Historical and Historiographical Explorations

Thursday, 20 September 2018, 14h – Cătălin Țăranu (ICUB Humanities Fellow), ‘Truth is the trickiest’: Constructing Historical Veracity in Anglo-Saxon England

Thursday, 27 September 2018, 14h – Stephen Howard (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Kant’s critique of rational cosmology

Thursday, 11 October  2018, 14h – Lorena Anton (ICUB Humanities), RedExEd_Levant: Exotic Educational Migration to Ceausescu’s Romania

Thursday, 18 October  2018, 14h – Theodor Ulieriu-Rostás (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Inventors, victors and cataloguers: lists and the construction of knowledge in ancient Greek musical scholarship

Thursday, 25 October  2018, 14h –  Paschalis Pechlivanis (ICUB Humanities Fellow), An Uneasy Triangle: Ceausescu, the Colonels and the Greek Communists (1967-1974)

Thursday, 1 November 2018, 14h – Alessandro Nannini (ICUB Humanities Fellow), From the Density of Sense to the Density of the Sensible. The Emergence of Aesthetic Pregnancy from the Spirit of Hermeneutics in the Early Modern Age

Thursday, 8 November 2018, 14h – Tinca Prunea (ICUB Humanities), Thomasius at the Berlin Academy: eclectic philosophy and academic spirit

Thursday, 15 November 2018, 14h – Oana Maria Cojocaru (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Youth, sex and sexual morality in Byzantium

Thursday, 29 November 2018, 14h – Mihai Ometiță (ICUB Humanities Fellow), Filmmaking and Philosophizing without Theory: Herzog and Wittgenstein

Thursday, 6 December 2018, 14h – Dragos Ivana (ICUB Humanities Grant), Crossing the Atlantic: Representations of Quixotism in the Early American Novel

Thursday, 13 December 2018, 14h – Stathis Psillos (University of Athens), Induction: The history of a Philosophical Problem