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The Humanities and Arts Research Centre at Royal Holloway University of London was established to foster a ‘community of enquiry’. It promotes innovative thought, interdisciplinary initiatives and collaborative research.

HARC Seminars 2008/9
The seminars will be broadcast live at the indicated times (times BST up to 25 October 2008, GMT thereafter) and will be made available as audiofiles and downloads shortly thereafter.

15 Oct, 2008

Professor Klaus Berghahn

‘Peace in the Age of Terrorism: Kant’s Peace Utopia Reconsidered’

29 Oct, 2008

Professor Philip Ford

‘Of Lions, Bears and Pigs: Political Allegories of Homer in Renaissance France’

5 Nov, 2008

Classics in France Seminar Series:
Professor Catherine Volpilhac-Auger

‘Was Plato a Christian?’

12 Nov, 2008

Classics in France Series:
Dr. Miriam Leonard

‘Noah and Noesis: Derrida between Greek and Jew’

21 Nov, 2008

Professor David Harvey

‘The Enigma of the Capital’

1 Dec, 2008

Panel Discussion

‘Brickbats in Cyberspace’
How Blogging is Changing the Landscape of Theatre Criticism in London and Beyond’

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3 Dec, 2008

Stephen Frears

‘Cinema and Citizenship Series’

10 Dec, 2008

Professor Andrew Bowie

‘The Future of Philosophy’

21 Jan, 2009

Prof. David Wiles and Dr. Helen Nicholson (Royal Holloway)

Performing Citizenship: The Universal Ideal and the Challenge of Pluralism

4 Feb, 2009

Professor Judith Butler (UC Berkeley)

‘Frames of War: The politics of ungrievable life’

18 Feb, 2009

Dr. Fiona McIntosh

‘Aeschylus and the Enlightenment’

Wed, 25 Feb, 2009

Professor Fran Bartkowski (Rutgers University)

‘In Praise of Mixing’

Wed, 4 Mar, 2009

Professor Toril Moi

‘A New Genealogy of Modernism:: Idealism/Realism/Symbolism’

 

Wed, 18 Mar, 2009
Professor Patrick Pollard ‘Classical Improprieties in Modern France: Before and After Freud’

Sat, 21 Mar, 2009
Alain de Botton ‘The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work’

Wed, 25 Mar, 2009
Ron Hagel ‘Rose-Marie: A Hollywood Operetta’

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UPCOMING:

Tue, 12 May, 2009
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