Lectures, talks and symposia archive
Jews, Politics and Austria II. Hans Kelsen - 20th Century Lawyer: Comeback not desired
29 March 2012, 7.00pm
'The complexity of my condition: an Austrian, a Jew'. This diary entry by Arthur Schnitzler in 1913 serves as epigraph of our lecture series Jews, Politics and Austria organised together with the Leo Baeck Institute ...
51st National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies
29 – 30 March 2012 | Institute of German and Romance Studies
The National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies is a biannual event organised in association with the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies at the University of London. Launched in 1987, it provides an informal and friendly ...
Kafka’s Betrachtung – 100 Years On. An international symposium hosted by the Oxford Kafka Research Centre.
23 March 2012
*Old Seminar Room
Programme:
9.00: Carolin Duttlinger (Oxford): Welcome and introduction
9.30-11.00:
Elizabeth Boa (Nottingham): Inside-Outside/Outside-Inside: Topographies of Self and World in Betrachtung Roland Reuß (Heidelberg): Handlung und Reflexion in Kafkas ...
New Perspectives on Post War Art in Britain - cross-cultural engagements
16 March 2012, 2.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
This half-day symposium with invited speakers focuses on the artistic interconnections and friendships formed between Austrian artists in exile in Britain during the Second World War and British artists. Foregrounding the cosmopolitan character of post ...
Ernst Eisenmayer's Public Sculpture
15 March 2012, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
Talk / Presentation
In the mid 1960s, after establishing his artistic career as a painter, Ernst Eisenmayer turned to sculpture. This presentation will focus on his public art commissions in the UK, Slovenia and Kyoto. These ...
The Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture. by Professor Abdulkarim Soroush
15 March 2012, 6.00pm | London School of Economics and Political Science
One of the leading philosophers of the 20th century, Sir Karl Popper founded the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method in 1946. Critical rationalism was the cornerstone not only of his political philosophy but ...
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