Recordings of the 5th BABEL PhD Colloquium
Please find hereby the recordings of the 5th BABEL PhD Colloquium. First Session: Ima Sri Rahmani (UCLouvain), Women and identity in the spinning of the lexicon Islamophobia in the media text in Belgium Aurélien Bourgaux (ULiège) Martyrdo...
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Workshops on the early reception of Spinoza's political philosophy
Two workshops on the early reception of Spinoza’s political philosophy are organized at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Thursday 25/11 Wiep van Bunge (Erasmus University Rotterdam) will lead a close reading of Pierre Bayle and give a talk on ‘Spinoza and his critics’.
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Publication of Kierkegaard's Afsluitend onwetenschappelijk naschrift
On the occasion of the publication of Søren Kierkegaard's Afsluitend onwetenschappelijk naschrift (Damon 2021), a book presentation will take place on 06/11/21 in Antwerp.
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PhD course: 'The problem of judgment at the intersection of philosophy and law'
Prof. Emiliano Acosta co-organizes the PhD course 'The problem of judgment at the intersection of philosophy and law.' The course explores the concept of judgment from a legal and a philosophical perspective.
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Video of Annual ETHU Seminar now available
The integral Annual ETHU Seminar of this year – titled 'Objects, Technology, Existence: Engaging with Graham Harman’s OOO' – can now be watched on YouTube. Further info on the symposium can be found here. Thank you to everyone involved for making this such a thought-provoking a...
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Emiliano Acosta's Plato lezen longlisted for Socratesbeker
Emiliano Acosta’s book Plato lezen has been selected as one of the best twenty philosophical books in Dutch of 2020. The Socratesbeker is awarded every year to the author of the most urgent, original and stimulating Dutch philosophy book.
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Lezingen Seminar Contemporary Continental Philosophy – Research Master
De volgende lezingen – waaronder bijdragen van ETHU-leden Sonja Lavaert en Emiliano Acosta – zullen online plaatsvinden in het kader van het Seminar Contemporary Continental Philosophy van de interuniversitaire Research Master Philosophy: * Prof. dr.
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Nieuw seizoen Redelijk Eigenzinnig
Het interdisciplinair keuzevak van de VUB 'Redelijk Eigenzinnig' gaat opnieuw van start, met een Q&A met niemand minder dan filmmaker Ken Loach op dinsdag 20 oktober. De 6de editie van Redelijk Eigenzinnig staat in het teken van de vraag: Why do we put up with poverty?
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Second award for The Beauty of Detours
After earlier having received the Susanne K. Langer Award from the Media Ecology Association, Yoni Van Den Eede's book The Beauty of Detours has now won a second award: the S. I. Hayakawa Book Prize of the Institute of General Semantics.
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Successful "hybrid" PhD defense of Sandra Meeuwsen
On September 24th, 2020, Sandra Meeuwsen successfully defended her doctoral dissertation 'Kritiek van de sportieve rede'.
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Nieuw boek: Plato lezen, Emiliano Acosta
Athene, anno 399 voor Christus: Socrates verschijnt voor het gerecht om zich te verdedigen tegen de aanklacht van godslastering en bederf van de jeugd. Niet enkel het lot van Socrates staat op het spel, maar ook het lot van de democratie in Athene, van Plato en bijgevolg van de hele filosofie.
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Publication: Post viraal naar een nieuw normaal
Just published in Dutch: a volume of reflections by VUB academics on the "new normal" after corona.
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