WHY HUMANITIES?
Event Date: 5th November 2010
Room B34, Birkbeck College, Malet St, London WC1
Programme:
Welcome – Miranda Fricker (Birkbeck) .
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Stefan Collini (Cambridge) ‘Holding our nerve’ – (AUDIO HERE)
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Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck)
‘La Fontaine’s Cat, Kafka’s Ape, and the Humanities’ – (AUDIO HERE)
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Francis Mulhern (New Left Review)
‘Humanities and University Corporatism’ – (AUDIO HERE)
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Raimond Gaita (Kings, London)
‘Callicles’ Challenge’ – (AUDIO HERE)
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Iain Pears (Historian and Writer)
‘Taxes, banks, loans, and students’ – (AUDIO HERE)
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Kate Soper (London Met)
‘Rhetoric, Reality, Revisionings’ – (AUDIO HERE)
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Quentin Skinner (QMUL)
‘Why the history of philosophy?’ – (AUDIO HERE)
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CLOSE .
