ICUB Humanities Lunchtime Seminar

The lunchtime seminar is the current research seminar of the Humanities Division of the ICUB, in which fellows and affiliated researchers 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 iulia.nitescu@icub.unibuc.ro.

Thursday, 12 October 2023, 11.30 – Daniel Garber (Princeton University), Living in the Past: Confessions of an Intellectual Tourist

Thursday, 19 October 2023, 14.00 – Argyrios Tasoulas (ICUB Fellow), Soviet intelligence archives on the Cyprus issue

Thursday, 26 October 2023, 14.00 – Virginia Hill (ICUB Visiting Professor), Romanian languages differential object marking and diachrony

Thursday, 23 November, 14.00  – Alexandra Bacalu (University of Bucharest), The Treatise on the Government of Thoughts in the Seventeenth Century: Rearticulating the Imagination and its Remedies

Thursday, 07 December, 14.00  – Marcos Cortés Guadarrama (ICUB Visiting Professor), From the Narratives of the Medicine (16th-18th centuries) to the Spiritism (19th century) - The meeting will take place ONLINE

Thursday, 14 December, 14.00  – Raluca Bujor (ICUB Fellow), Philosophical discourse, freedom and skholē in the Theaetetus