…How to dress in Eretz Israel? Clothing, Fashion and Nation Building, 1880s–1948 The identities of many Eastern European and German Jews who immigrated to Eretz Israel between the 1880s and…
Ken Gemes – Nietzsche on The Value of Truth
…(the truth as God’s word) we can now raise the question of why and to what extent we should value truth. He argues that our need for meaning conflicts with…
Paul Herzberg – Acting Jewish: Perception and Reality
…appear as “Jewish”? How do Jews consciously showcase or hide their identity by way of ‘acting’ and dressing in certain ways? And how were these elements conceptualised in the wider…
Leigh Jenco – Moral Knowledge and Empirical Verification in Late Ming China
…and the West (Oxford UP, 2015), and Making the Political: Founding and Action in the Political Theory of Zhang Shizhao (Cambridge UP, 2010). Most recently, with Megan Thomas and Murad…
Penny Roberts – Truth during the French religious wars
…of temporal power. Yet, truth was dependent on the integrity of its carrier, whether the messenger was reliable or likely to be concealing the truth. Furthermore, concealment and subterfuge could…
Hayden White – Truth and Disbelief I
Event Date: 20 February 2012 Clore Management Centre Birkbeck, University of London Malet Street London WC1E 7HX Hayden White – Masterclass Day one : Truth and Disbelief I —————————————————— talk:…
Hayden White -Truth and Disbelief III
Event Date: 23 February 2012 Clore Management Centre Birkbeck, University of London Malet Street London WC1E 7HX Hayden White – Masterclass Day three : Truth and Disbelief III —————————————————— talk:…
Hayden White – Truth and Disbelief II
Event Date: 21 February 2012 Clore Management Centre Birkbeck, University of London Malet Street London WC1E 7HX Hayden White – Masterclass Day two : Truth and Disbelief II —————————————————— talk:…
Jonathan Harris – Byzantine Valhalla: The Life and Death of the Church of the Holy Apostles
…it housed the tombs of Emperor Constantine I and his successors and stood for a thousand years until the Ottoman conquest of 1453. This lecture will reconstruct the building’s appearance…
Tamsyn Challenger – On Truth
…year’s David Vilaseca Memorial Lecture will be given by Tamsyn Challenger and will try to unpick and dissect ‘truth’ in an age of spin, duplicity and brand management. Weaving together…