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.

Thursday, 23 January 2020, 14h – Ion Popa (ICUB-Humanities fellow), The Puppet and the Puppeteer: Orthodox Patriarch Miron Cristea and the Problem of Responsibility for the First ‘Dictatorship’ of Modern Romania

Thursday, 30 January 2020, 14h – Mihaela Constantinescu (ICUB-Humanities fellow), Virtue & Virtuousness: Ascribing moral responsibility to individuals and organizations

Thursday, 06 February 2020, 14h – Silvia-Alexandra Ștefan (ICUB-Humanities Grant), «Honesto loco natus, non prima nobilitate, nobilis tamen». The purity of virtue in Fernando de Herrera´s Historical Prose

Thursday, 13 February 2020, 14h – Mihai Ometiță (ICUB-Humanities fellow), Aspects of Cinema and Senses of the Modern

Thursday, 20 February 2020, 14h – Radu Dipratu (ICUB-Humanities fellow), Letters to Jerusalem: Ottoman High-Ranking Officials’ Dealings with Catholics in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century

Thursday, 27 February 2020, 14h – Miklos Redei (London School of Economics), Philosophical qualities of science in Musil’s “Man without qualities”

Thursday, 05 March 2020, 14h – Andrei Mărășoiu (ICUB-Humanities fellow), “Aha!” – “Are you sure?”: contrasting approaches to the nature of insight

CANCELLED Thursday, 12 March 2020, 14h – Andrei Ionescu (ICUB-Humanities fellow), Between Mental Health and Illness: What Can Literature Teach Science and Philosophy?