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Unless otherwise stated, these seminars take place on Wednesdays
from 1.00 - 2.00 p.m. in the
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square (see map)

Spring 2012

18 January
Mark Robson (School of English, University of Nottingham): Fearing Democracy

25 January
Koji Yamamoto (Newby Trust Postdoctoral Fellow, IASH): Capitalism for the Public Good? Innovation, Stereotypes, and the Culture of Projecting in Early Modern England

1 February
Pauline von Bonsdorff (Department of Art and Culture Research, University of Jyväskylä; Nominated Fellow of IASH): Existential Aesthetics of Childhood

8 February
Piyush Mathur (Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow, University of Edinburgh; Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla): " Environmental Citizenship: Lessons from India's Tribal Conundrum"

15 February
Rachel Harkness (Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow, IASH): Embodied Values and Stone Houses

22 February
David Manning (Postdoctoral Fellow of IASH): Rethinking the History of 'Christian Enlightenment': Divine Illumination in British Reformation Discourse

29 February
Prasannanshu (National Law University, Delhi; British Academy Visiting Scholar, University of Edinburgh): The 'X' in the Indian Names

7 March
Kiyoshi Shimokawa (Department of Philosophy, Gakushuin University, Tokyo): Hume and Natural Jurisprudence

21 March
Marilyn Reizbaum (Harrison King McCann Professor of English, Bowdoin College, Maine): Sparknotes: Muriel Spark's Aesthetic of Ridicule

28 March
Stuart McWilliams (Newby Trust Postdoctoral Fellow): The Inscription of Enchantment: Magical Books in Theory and Practice

In April and May 2012 the seminars will be on TUESDAYS from 1.30 - 4.00 pm and we shall have two papers on each occasion:

Tuesday 24 April
Daniela Sechel (Central European University, Budapest; Mellon Fellow, IASH): From Medizinische Polizeiwissenschaft to Staatarzneikunde: A Viennese discourse and its practical applications at the peripheries of the Habsburg Empire 1750-1830

and

Dr. Sándor Hites (Institute for Literary Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; CRF/RSE European Visiting Fellow, IASH): Economy as/of/in/vs. Literature: a comparative approach to 18th -19th century British and Hungarian developments

Tuesday 1 May
Dr. Guy Bennett-Hunter (Postdoctoral Fellow, IASH): Certain Doubts: On the Philosophical Quest for Certainty

and

Dr. Markku Roinila (Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki): G.W. Leibniz on emotions and moral action

Tuesday 8 May
Dr. Heather Moquin (Simon Fellow, IASH): Dialogic methods within community drama

and

Professor Paul Pickering (Research School of Humanities and the Arts, ANU; Visiting Fellow of IASH): From Platform to Parade: Sites of Music and Politics in the Nineteenth Century British World

Wednesday 30 May
Professor Edward Mendelson (Columbia University, New York; Isabel Dalhousie Fellow, IASH): Persons and Categories from Homer until Now

and

Dr. Cheryl Mendelson (Associate Professor in Philosophy, Barnard College; novelist and non-fiction writer): Some Comments on Morality, Science, and Two Humean Proscriptions