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For the Ransom of the Soul
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Peter R.L. Brown
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Speakers: Peter R.L. Brown
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Speakers: Peter R.L. Brown
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Limits and Divisions of Human Histories
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Andrzej NowakKatherine YoungerLudger Hagedorn
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The theory of history, as presented by Reinhart Koselleck (1923-2006), offers an intellectually tempting structure of three anthropological distinctions that prescribe figures of all possible histories (individual and collective): sooner or later, inside and outside, above and below. The first one signifies the span between being born and having to die, which makes every life unique and at the same time part of a particular generational experience. It could also be rendered as “old” and “new”. Uses of the second pair might be analysed as a contrast between public and private, or as a contemporary fear stemming from the contrast between “home” and “intruders”. The third pair Andrzej Nowak will try to “translate” not just in “master” and “slave” categories, but rather as “pupil” and “teacher”, or even “therapist” and “patient”. Nowak will try to read Koselleck’s structure in a perspective offered by spatial/temporal concepts of contemporary “Europe in progress” (or “Europe in crisis”), as well as in another, non-political perspective of esthetic renditions of the three above mentioned Koselleck’s abstract pairs ¬ in Andrzej Wajda’s “Birchwood” movie, the last scene of Richard Strauss’s “Rosenkavalier”, and in Philip Larkin’s poem: “An Arundel Tomb”. The question is whether love can be included into these conflicting pairs as a possible factor transcending their structures?
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Series: Lecture
The theory of history, as presented by Reinhart Koselleck (1923-2006), offers an intellectually tempting structure of three anthropological distinctions that prescribe figures of all possible histories (individual and collective): sooner or later, inside and outside, above and below. The first one signifies the span between being born and having to die, which makes every life unique and at the same time part of a particular generational experience. It could also be rendered as “old” and “new”. Uses of the second pair might be analysed as a contrast between public and private, or as a contemporary fear stemming from the contrast between “home” and “intruders”. The third pair Andrzej Nowak will try to “translate” not just in “master” and “slave” categories, but rather as “pupil” and “teacher”, or even “therapist” and “patient”. Nowak will try to read Koselleck’s structure in a perspective offered by spatial/temporal concepts of contemporary “Europe in progress” (or “Europe in crisis”), as well as in another, non-political perspective of esthetic renditions of the three above mentioned Koselleck’s abstract pairs ¬ in Andrzej Wajda’s “Birchwood” movie, the last scene of Richard Strauss’s “Rosenkavalier”, and in Philip Larkin’s poem: “An Arundel Tomb”. The question is whether love can be included into these conflicting pairs as a possible factor transcending their structures?
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Revisiting the Social History of Ethnic Violence in Rwanda
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Ayşe ÇağlarGiorgia DonàErin Jessee
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Series: Lecture
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Series: Lecture
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Democracy Is (No!) Fiction
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Ivan Krastev
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Series: Lecture
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The Contamination of History. World War II and How Everything Started to Make Sense
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Holly CaseIvan Vejvoda
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Sovereignty and Political Mythologies
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Colby Dickinson
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Speakers: Colby Dickinson
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Speakers: Colby Dickinson
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Aid in Times of Crisis, the Crisis of Aid
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Ilija Trojanow
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Series: Lecture
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Series: Lecture
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The Future of War
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Rosa Brooks
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Speakers: Rosa Brooks
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Speakers: Rosa Brooks
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Puzzling Identities
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Vincent Descombes
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Speakers: Vincent Descombes
Series: Lecture
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Speakers: Vincent Descombes
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Nichts kommt zweimal vor. Eine neue Biographie über Wisława Szymborska zu ihrem 100. Geburtstag
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Lecture
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Marta Kijowska, Martin Pollack
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Speakers: Marta Kijowska, Martin Pollack
Series: Lecture
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Speakers: Marta Kijowska, Martin Pollack
Series: Lecture
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