Events 2014-15

Autumn 2014 programme (PDF)
Spring 2015 programme (PDF)

9 September, 11:15 a.m.
Gustaf Arrhenius, Fellow, SCAS. Professor of Practical Philosophy, Stockholm
University
Imprecision and the Repugnant Conclusion
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9 September, 6:15 p.m. BOOK LAUNCH
Presentation of the book Carl Peter Thunberg, Botanist and Physician:
Career-Building across the Oceans in the Eighteenth Century, written by Marie-Christine
Skuncke. Comments by Bertil Nordenstam, Marie-Christine Skuncke and Björn
Wittrock.
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18 September. CEREMONY and LECTURE
Ceremony in honour of the newly appointed scholars of the Pro Futura Scientia Programme
followed by a lecture.

Lorraine Daston, Director, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin.
Permanent Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Professor, Committee on Social Thought,
University of Chicago
The Sciences of the Archive -- Or, The Pathos of Positivism
In collaboration with Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
By invitation only

23 September, 11:15 a.m.
Jonas Olofsson, Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS. Associate Professor of Psychology,
Stockholm University
Time to Smell: A Cascade Model of Human Olfactory Perception Based on
Response-time (RT) Measurement
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25 September, 4:15 p.m.
Katie Steele, Fellow, SCAS. Associate Professor of Philosophy, London School of
Economics and Political Science
On Collective Responsibility
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30 September, 11:15 a.m.
Mikko Yrjönsuuri, Erik Allardt Fellow, SCAS. Professor of Philosophy,
University of Jyväskylä
Four Approaches to the Philosophical Explanation of Personhood
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9 October, 4:15 p.m.
Rodney Edvinsson, Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS. Associate Professor of
Economic History, Stockholm University
Estimating Swedish GDP Back to the Middle Ages
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14 October, 11:15 a.m.
Anandi Hattiangadi, Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS. Professor of Philosophy,
Stockholm University
The Impossibility of Radical Interpretation
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16 October, 4:15 p.m.
John Broome, Fellow, SCAS. White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy and Fellow of
Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. Adjunct Professor, Australian National
University, Canberra
Linguistics and Normativity
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24 October, 6:15p.m. LECTURE
Claudia Rapp, Professor of Byzantine Studies, Universität Wien
Hagiographical Triangulations: Text-Author-Saint
Annual Lecture in Memory of Lennart Rydén. In collaboration with Bysantinska
sällskapet, Uppsala. The lecture will be followed by a reception. Prior registration
is required. Please contact Ingela Nilsson no later than 17 October to register for
the event: ingela.nilsson@lingfil.uu.se

6 November, 4:15 p.m.
Dan Diner, EURIAS Fellow, SCAS. Professor of Modern European History, the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. Director, Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und
Kultur, and Professor of History, Universität Leipzig
World War II Revisited: Reflecting Continental and Colonial Entanglements
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13 November, 4:15 p.m.
Kimmo Alho, Erik Allardt Fellow, SCAS. Professor of Psychology, University of
Helsinki
Is the Human Brain Social?
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17 November, 7:15 p.m. CONCERT
An Evening of Piano Sonatas
Works by Ludwig van Beethoven performed by Johan Ullén.
In collaboration with Musicum/the Royal Academic Orchestra, Uppsala University.
Prior registration is required.
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18 November, 11:15 a.m.
Mika Ojakangas, Erik Allardt Fellow, SCAS. Professor of Political Thought,
University of Jyväskylä
On the Greek Origins of Biopolitics
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27 November, 4:15 p.m.
Johan Östling, Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS. Associate Professor of History,
Lund University
Post-war Humboldt: German Ideas of the University after 1945
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4 December, 4:15 p.m.
Wlodek Rabinowicz, Non-resident Long-term Fellow for Programmes in the
Philosophical, Cultural and Economic Sciences, SCAS. Professor Emeritus of Practical
Philosophy, Lund University. Centennial Professor, London School of Economics and
Political Science
From Values to Probabilities
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29 January, 6:15 p.m.
Gunnel Engwall, Fellow, SCAS. Professor of Romance Languages, specializing in French,
Stockholm University
To Edit Strindberg Again: On the National Edition of August Strindberg’s Collected Works
The seminar will be followed by a reception. Please contact rsvp@swedishcollegium.se no
later than 26 January to sign up.
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3 February, 11:15 a.m.
Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams, Fellow, SCAS. Professor of Scandinavian Studies and
Barbro Osher Endowed Professor of Swedish Studies, University of Washington, Seattle
Can You Trust a Text You Read/Interpret? Case in Point: Strindberg’s Inferno and
Legender in Samlade Skrifter and Samlade Verk, a Text Critical Comparison
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10 February, 11:15 a.m.
Elena Balzamo, Fellow, SCAS. Literary Scholar and Translator, Paris
Translating and Editing ”Unfinished” Writings: August Strindberg’s Diaries and Letters
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25 February. 4:15 p.m.
Dieter Pohl, University Professor of Contemporary History, specializing in Eastern and
South-eastern Europe, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
The Making of an Anti-Jewish Europe 1935-1940
In conversation with Dan Diner, EURIAS Fellow, SCAS. Professor of Modern
European History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Director, Simon-Dubnow-Institut
für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur, and Professor of History, Universität Leipzig.
In collaboration with the Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University
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5 March, 4:15 p.m.
Anthony Lappin, Fellow, SCAS. Research Professor, Maynooth University
Christian Views of Islam at the End of the Middle Ages: How the Qur’an was
Understood by Neo-Platonists and Philo-Kabbalists
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11 March, 6:15 p.m.
Jan Retsö, Fellow, SCAS. Professor of Arabic, University of Gothenburg
Decomposing a ‘Great Narrative’. The Exodus: The Context and Background of the
National Myth of Ancient Israel
The seminar will be followed by a reception. Please contact rsvp@swedishcollegium.se
no later than 6 March to sign up.
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17 March, 11:15 a.m.
Virginia Langum, Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS. Research Fellow, Department of
Language Studies, Umeå University
Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and Culture
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26 March, 4:15 p.m.
Paula Henrikson, Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS. Associate Professor of Literature,
Uppsala University
Transition, Translation, and Travel: Swedish Travellers to Rome and Greece in the Early
19th Century
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16 April, 4:15 p.m.
Isaac Kalimi, Fellow, SCAS. Gutenberg Research Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
Studies and the History of Ancient Israel, and Fellow, Gutenberg Forschungskolleg, Johannes
Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Senior Research Associate, University of Chicago
Esther, Ethics, and Martin Luther: Biblical Interpretation in the Shadow of Judeophobia
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21 April, 11:15 a.m.
Piotr Sztompka, Fellow, SCAS. Professor of Theoretical Sociology, Jagiellonian University,
Kraków
Modalities of the Interpersonal Space
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28 April, 11:15 a.m.
Henrika Tandefelt, Erik Allardt Fellow, SCAS. Adjunct Professor (Docent) of History,
University of Helsinki
Emotions, Strategies and Texts: Marriage and the Upper Class Stratum in the 19th
Century Grand Duchy of Finland
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6 May, 6:15 p.m.
Dena Goodman, Lila Miller Collegiate Professor of History and Women’s Studies,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Science in the Service of a Conquering State, 1793-1814
In collaboration with Uppsala Interdisciplinary Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies,
theDepartment of History and the Office for History of Science, Uppsala University
The seminar will be followed by a reception.
Please contact marie-christine.skuncke@littvet.uu.se no later than 1 May to sign up.
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12 May, 11:15 a.m.
Elizabeth Coppock, Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS. Researcher in Linguistics,
University of Gothenburg
Channels of Meaning
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19 May, 11:15 a.m.
Dirk Meyer, Bernhard Karlgren Fellow, SCAS. Associate Professor of Chinese
Philosophy and Fellow of The Queen’s College, University of Oxford
The Materiality of “Shu” 書 Traditions: The Ancient Classic Documents in Light of
Manuscripts from the Warring States Period
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21-23 May. SYMPOSIUM
The Age of Transregional Reorientations: Rethinking Global History, Tenth to
Thirteenth Centuries
Saïd Arjomand, Johann P. Arnason, Michal Biran, Peter K. Bol, Richard von Glahn,
Judith Herrin, Benjamin Z. Kedar, Donald N. Levine, R.I. Moore, Yuri Pines,
Michael J. Puett, Wang Hui, André Wink and Björn Wittrock, among others.
This is an event of the Bernhard Karlgren Programme.
By invitation or request only


25-26 May. SYMPOSIUM
Human Rights: Constitutive Moments, Intellectual Practices and Shifting Global Contexts
Annabel Brett, Ove Bring, Jan Eckel, Martin van Gelderen, Knud Haakonssen,
Geoffrey Harpham, Hans Joas, Jarna Petman, Michael J. Puett, Shalini Randeria,
Seteney Shami, Jyotirmaya Sharma, Krishnan Srinivasan and Wang Hui, among others.
The symposium will be held in Stockholm.
In collaboration with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy
of Letters, History and Antiquities, the Swedish Academy and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
Prior registration is required. Register here no later than 21 May at 12:00 (noon).
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4 June. CONFERENCE
Textual Criticism and Editing: Between Theoretical Considerations and Empiricism
Elena Balzamo, Olga Drobot, Gunnel Engwall, Pia Forssell, Ann-Charlotte
Gavel Adams, Arnaud Laster, Hans Walter Gabler and Francesco Rognoni
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8-10 June. CONFERENCE
Economics and Philosophy: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead
Richard J. Arneson, Gustaf Arrhenius, Franz Dietrich, Marc Fleurbaey, Robert
Goodin, Lars Magnusson, Vito Peragine, Virginie Pérotin, Gregory Ponthière and
Stéphane Zuber, among others.
This is an event of the Franco-Swedish Programme in Economics and Philosophy.
In collaboration with Collège d’études mondiales, Fondation Maison des sciences de
l’homme, and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
Prior registration is required. Please contact H. Orri Stefánsson to sign up:
hlynur.orri@gmail.com
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