Spring and Summer 2006 the Collegium Is Pleased to Invite Interested Scholars to the Following Events
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Götavägen 4, se-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden, Phone: +46 18 55 70 85, Fax: +46 18 52 11 09 www.swedishcollegium.se Spring and Summer 2006 The Collegium is pleased to invite interested scholars to the following events. They will, unless otherwise indicated, take place at Götavägen4 , Uppsala.
Friday, January 20, 4–6 p.m. Det internationella 1700-talet Stig Strömholm, Former Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala University and Professor Emeritus of Law In collaboration with the Swedish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Wednesday, February 1, 6 p.m. Consuls, Corsairs and Commerce: The Swedish Consular Service and Long-distance Shipping, 1720–1815 Leos Müller, Associate Professor of History, Uppsala University In collaboration with the Uppsala Interdisciplinary Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies
Thursday, February 23, 2 p.m. The Birth of Persian Literature Bo Utas, Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies, Uppsala University
Wednesday, March 1, 6 p.m. The Changing Roles of Eighteenth-Century Latin Hans Helander, Professor of Classical Languages, Uppsala University In collaboration with the Uppsala Interdisciplinary Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies
Thursday, March 9, 2 p.m. The Image of Man in Linguistics Lars Johanson, Professor of Turkology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
Tuesday, March 14, 2 p.m. A Conversation Analytic Approach to the Study of Bilingual Practices in Language Developing Learning Environments Helena Bani-Shoraka, Ph.D. in Iranian Languages, Uppsala University
Thursday, March 16, 2 p.m. Neue türkische Etymologien Árpád Berta, Professor of Turkology, University of Szeged
Thursday, March 23, 2 p.m. Is there a Kashkay Language? Éva Ágnes Csató, Professor of Turkic Languages, Uppsala University
Thursday, March 30, 2 p.m. Medea, Motherhood, and Murder in the Eighteenth Century Anna Cullhed, Assistant Professor of Literature, Uppsala University
Wednesday, April 5, 6 p.m. Enlightenment and Rhetoric in Mozart’s Operas Lars-Olof Åhlberg, Professor of Aesthetics, Uppsala University and Marianne Tråvén, Ph.D. in Music, Stockholm University In collaboration with the Uppsala Interdisciplinary Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies
Tuesday, April 25, 2 p.m. Can Linguistics and Genetics Work Together to Unravel the Pre-history of the Peopling of the Iranian Caspian Seacoast? Donald L. Stilo, Ph.D. in Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Thursday, April 27, 2 p.m. Who Are You? Some Remarks on the History of Identification Maria Johansen, Ph.D. in History of Ideas, Göteborg University. Holder of the Inge Jonsson Pro Futura Fellowship
Tuesday, May 2, 2 p.m. Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Swedish Eyes around 1760 Marie-Christine Skuncke, Professor of Literature, Uppsala University and Non-resident Long-term Fellow at SCASSS
Two events with José V. Casanova, Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research, New York and Fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2005/06. In collaboration with the Uppsala Institute for Diaconal and Social Studies (DVI)
Lecture: Thursday, May 4, 6 p.m. Religion, Secular Identities, and European Integration
Seminar: Friday, May 5, 10 a.m. Religion, European Secular Identities and European Integration, Immigration and the New Religious Pluralism: A EU/US Comparison
Tuesday, May 9, 2 p.m. Re-reading Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition Hans-Peter Krüger, Professor of Political Philosophy and Philosophical Anthropology, University of Potsdam. Third Holder of the Visiting Professorship in Honour of Ernst Cassirer
Thursday, May 11, 6 p.m. War and Peace – Conflict and Cooperation in a Tropical Insect Society Lecture by Raghavendra Gadagkar, Professor of Ecology at the Indian Institute of Science, Vice-President of the Indian National Science Academy and Non-resident Permanent Fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Tuesday, May 16, 2 p.m. A System of Syntactic Categories for Classical Chinese Christoph Harbsmeier, Professor of Sinology, University of Oslo
Thursday, May 18, 2 p.m. Some Linguistic Features of Iran-Turkic Varieties Christiane B. Bulut, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
Saturday, May 20, 3–6 p.m. Turco-Iranica: Early Contacts between Turks and Iranians The First Gunnar Jarring Symposium Held at the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities (Medelhavsmuseet), Fredsgatan 2, Stockholm
Tuesday, May 23, 2 p.m. Helmuth Plessner’s Concept of Philosophical Orientation Olivia Mitscherlich, Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Potsdam. Holder of a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Honour of Ernst Cassirer
Friday, June 2, 6 p.m. Philosophical Anthropologies in Comparison: The Approaches of Ernst Cassirer and Helmuth Plessner. The Third Ernst Cassirer Lecture Hans-Peter Krüger, Professor of Political Philosophy and Philosophical Anthropology, University of Potsdam. Third Holder of the Visiting Professorship in Honour of Ernst Cassirer Held at Göteborg University
Saturday, June 3 What is Philosophical Anthropology? The Third Ernst Cassirer Symposium. Held at Göteborg University
In collaboration with Göteborg University, the Swedish Ernst Cassirer Society and the Volkswagen Foundation
Thursday–Saturday, August 17–19 Life Politics: Habermas, Foucault, Agamben and Philosophical Anthropology The Third Ernst Cassirer Summer School In collaboration with the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and the Volkswagen Foundation
Thursday-Saturday, August 24–26 Crossroads: Writing Conceptual History beyond the Nation-State The 9th International Conceptual History Conference. Held at Van der Nootska Palatset, Stockholm See www.swedishcollegium.se/crossroads for details