Events 2013-14

Autumn 2013 programme (PDF)
Spring 2014 programme (PDF)

9 September, 6:15 p.m. CEREMONY and LECTURE
Ceremony in honour of the newly appointed scholars of the Pro Futura Scientia Programme. Awarding of
diplomas by Björn von Sydow, Member and former Speaker of the Swedish Parliament (Sveriges Riksdag),
and Former Chairman, Swedish Research Council
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John Broome, White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford. Fellow, Corpus Christi College,
Oxford.
Philosophy Fights Climate Change
In collaboration with Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
By invitation only


19 September, 4:15 p.m.
John Lindow, Fellow, SCAS. Professor of Scandinavian, University of California, Berkeley
Oral Religion in Written Culture(s): Pre-Christian Religion of the North
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26 September, 4:15 p.m.
Martin van Gelderen, Director, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Professor of
European Intellectual History, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Republic and Toleration: Grotius and Rembrandt
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4 October, 7:15 p.m. LECTURE and CONCERT
An Evening with Verdi
David Rosen, Professor Emeritus of Musicology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
A Verdian Double Bill: Tonal Trajectories in His Minor-Mode Solo Set Pieces and Themes Seeking Resolution
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The lecture will be followed by a performance of Verdi’s String Quartet in E-minor.
In collaboration with Musicum/Royal Academic Orchestra, Uppsala University.
Prior registration required. Please visit www.swedishcollegium.se for further information.
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10 October, 4:15 p.m.
Poul Holm, EURIAS Fellow, SCAS. Trinity Long Room Hub Professor of Humanities, Trinity College Dublin
Deep Harvests: An Environmental History of the Fisheries
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18 October, 6:15 p.m. LECTURE
Panagiotis A. Agapitos, Professor of Byzantine Studies, University of Cyprus, Nicosia
From Persia to Provence: Tales of Love in Byzantium and Beyond
Annual Lecture in Memory of Lennart Rydén. In collaboration with Bysantinska sällskapet, Uppsala.
Prior registration required. Please contact ingela.nilsson@lingfil.uu.se to sign up for the event.
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24 October, 4:15 p.m.
Maris Gillette, EURIAS Fellow, SCAS. Professor of Anthropology, Haverford College, PA
Post-Industrial Ceramics in China’s (Former) Porcelain Capital
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7 November, 4:15 p.m.
Jens Peter Schjødt, Fellow, SCAS. Professor of the Study of Religion, Aarhus University
New Ways of Dealing with Pre-Christian Scandinavian Religion: Methodological and Theoretical
Considerations
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14 November, 9:15 a.m. WORKSHOP
Democracy’s Others
Gustaf Arrhenius, Ludvig Beckman, Anca Gheaus, Daniel Weinstock, among others.
This is an event of the Franco-Swedish Programme in Philosophy and Economics.
In collaboration with Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
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14 November, 4:15 p.m.
Daniel Weinstock, Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montréal
The Representation of the Voiceless: Challenges for Democratic Theory


18 November, 7:15 p.m. CONCERT
An Evening of Chamber Music
Works by C. Ph. E. Bach, C. M. Bellman, E. Granados, J. M. Kraus, and J. Rodrigo performed by Tobias
Carron (flute) and Per Skareng (guitar).
Prior registration required. Please visit www.swedishcollegium.se for further information
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21 November, 4:15 p.m.
Kalle Puolakka, Erik Allardt Fellow, SCAS. Docent in Aesthetics, University of Helsinki
Dewey and the Everyday in Aesthetics
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28 November, 4:15 p.m.
Pärtel Piirimäe, Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS. Associate Professor of History, University of Tartu
The Law of Civilized Nations from Grotius to Vattel
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5 December, 4:15 p.m.
Anthony Lappin, EURIAS Fellow, SCAS. Senior Lecturer in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies,
University of Manchester
The Devil in the Detail: Annotations to the Alchoran Latinus during the Middle Ages
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12 December, 4:15 p.m.
Kristin Zeiler, Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS. Associate Professor of Ethics with a Focus on Medical Ethics,
Linköping University
Sociality of Suffering and Intersubjectivity in Perception: Relationality, Non-Choice and Autonomy in Parental
Live Organ Donation
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6 February, 11:00 a.m. NEW TIME
Poul Holm, EURIAS Fellow, SCAS. Trinity Long Room Hub Professor of Humanities, Trinity College, Dublin
Baltic Fisheries, c. 1000–1600
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18 February, 11:00 a.m. NEW DATE
Petter Johansson, Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS. Researcher and Lecturer in Cognitive Science, Lund University
Choice Blindness as an Instrument to Study Self-knowledge and Preference Change
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20 February, 4:15 p.m.
Anthony Lappin, Professor of Spanish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
The Early Eighth-Century Fall of Hispania: Close Reading of a Corrupt Textual Tradition
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3 March, 7:15 p.m. CONCERT
An Evening of Chamber Music
Works by John Dowland, Anders Hillborg, and Rudolf Matz will be performed by soprano saxophonist Theo Hillborg and the cello quartet Quattro Ragazzi: Josef Alin, Béla Beer, Filip Graden, Fred Lindberg
Prior registration is required.
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6 March, 11:00 a.m.
Dan Michman, Head, International Institute for Holocaust Research and John Najmann Chair of Holocaust Studies,
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. Professor of Modern Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan
Between History, Memory and Politics: The Holocaust as a Challenge for Professional Historiography
In collaboration with Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University
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11 March, 11:00 a.m.
Gian Vittorio Caprara, Fellow, SCAS. Professor of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome
Personalizing Politics
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13 March, 4:15 p.m.
Julie Hardwick, Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin
Sex and the Early Modern City: Historicizing Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern France
In collaboration with Department of History, Uppsala University
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18 March, 11:00 a.m.
Jari Kaukua, Erik Allardt Fellow, SCAS. Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä
Self-Awareness in Islamic Philosophy
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27 March, 4:15 p.m.
Pärtel Piirimäe, Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS. Associate Professor of History, University of Tartu
The Transformations of ’the Baltic’: Constructing Regions in the Baltic Sea Area
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1 April, 11:00 a.m.
Mirja Hartimo, Erik Allardt Fellow, SCAS. Docent, Theoretical Philosophy, University of Tampere and
University of Helsinki
The Phenomenology of Sciences and Humanities
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9 April, 6:15 p.m.
Michael Yonan, Fellow, SCAS. Professor of Art History, University of Missouri, Columbia
Lace for the Dress of an Empress: Maria Theresa’s Artistic Networks
In collaboration with Uppsala Interdisciplinary Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies and
Department of Art History, Uppsala University
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7 May, 6:15 p.m.
Pierre Briant, Professor of History and Civilisation of the Achaemenid World and of the Empire of Alexander, Collège de France, Paris
Images of Alexander the Great in Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century
In collaboration with Uppsala Interdisciplinary Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the Seminar Series of the Section for Rhetoric and for Greek and Byzantine Studies respectively, Uppsala University
The seminar will be followed by a reception. Please register by sending an email to rsvp@swedishcollegium.se
no later than 5 May.
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15 May. WORKSHOP
The Arts of Imperial Portraiture and the Cultural Construal of the Self
Lothar von Falkenhausen, Christoph Harbsmeier, David Konstan, Christoph König, Lothar Ledderose,
Michael J. Puett, Richard Vinograd
This is an event of the Bernhard Karlgren Programme.
By invitation or request only
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15 May, 4:15 p.m.
David Konstan, Professor of Classics, New York University
When Rulers Become Gods: Art and the Construction of the Imperial Self
This is an event of the Bernhard Karlgren Programme.
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20 May, 11:00 a.m.
Maris Gillette, EURIAS Fellow, SCAS. Professor of Anthropology, Haverford College, PA
Museums, Authenticity, and Jingdezhen Porcelain: Jingdezhen in a Global Value-Producing System
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21 - 23 May. SYMPOSIUM
Sharing Bodies Within and Across Borders
Simone Bateman, Leonardo De Castro, Erica Haimes, Susanne Lundin, Erik Malmqvist, Donna McCormack, Joseph Millum, Silke Schicktanz, Lesley A. Sharp, Fredrik Svenaeus, Sarah Toledano, Kristin Zeiler
By invitation or request only
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21 May, 6:15 p.m.
Lesley A. Sharp, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York
Moral Boundaries of Human/Animal Relations in Highly Experimental Science
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26 - 27 May. EXECUTIVE FORUM MEETING
Andrew W. Mellon Observatory of the New Human Condition in the Age of Global Change
By invitation only

3 June, 11:00 a.m.
Marco Caboara, Bernhard Karlgren Fellow, SCAS. Visiting Fellow, International Consortium for Research in the Humanities, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Bamboo Manuscripts and Virtual Texts: Reading Warring States Recently Excavated Literature in the Age of Digital Philology
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5 June, 4:15 p.m. CANCELLED
Zhang Pei, Bernhard Karlgren Fellow, SCAS. Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Peking University
Wang Tong: An Early 7th Century Confucian Hermit