Archive: Events of the Ernst Cassirer Fellowship Programme

2013

21 January. LECTURE
Peter E. Gordon, Harvard College Professor; Amabel B. James Professor of History,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Cassirer and Heidegger: Origins and Aftershocks of a Continental Divide
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22 January. SYMPOSIUM
A Continental Divide? The Legacy of Ernst Cassirer and the Future of the Human
Sciences

Gustaf Arrhenius, Eva Erman, Peter E. Gordon, Knud Haakonssen, Hans Joas,
Barbro Klein, Hans-Peter Krüger, Michael Moxter, Wilfried Nippel, Christer
Nordlund, Michael J. Puett, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Mats Rosengren, H. Otto
Sibum, Ola Sigurdson, Stephan Steiner, Björn Wittrock, Kristin Zeiler, Johan
Östling
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2009

13-14 May. ERNST CASSIRER SYMPOSIUM
Nineteenth-Century Historiography in a Comparative European Perspective
Ragnar Björk, Knud Haakonssen, Istvan Hont, Wilfried Nippel, Kasper Risbjerg
Eskildsen, Philippe Steiner, Rolf Torstendahl, Keith Tribe

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26 May. ERNST CASSIRER LECTURE
Wilfried Nippel, Fifth Holder of the Visiting Professorship in Honour of Ernst Cassirer,
SCAS; Professor of Ancient History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Nineteenth-Century German Historiography
In collaboration with the University of Gothenburg and the Swedish Ernst Cassirer Society.
Held at the University of Gothenburg.

20-22 August. ERNST CASSIRER SUMMER SCHOOL
Dictatorship: Ancient and Modern
Barbro Klein, Wilfried Nippel, Kari Palonen, Pasquale Pasquino, Sami Pihlström
In collaboration with and held at Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies


2008

26 May, ERNST CASSIRER LECTURE
Michael Moxter, Fourth Holder of the Visiting Professorship in Honour of Ernst Cassirer,
SCAS; Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion, Universität Hamburg
Law, Representation and Violence: The Significance of Cassirer’s Philosophy for the
Legal Sphere

In collaboration with the University of Gothenburg and the Swedish Ernst Cassirer Society.
Held at the University of Gothenburg.

27 May, ERNST CASSIRER SYMPOSIUM
Law and Symbolic Order: Cassirer’s Contribution to Legal Philosophy
Roland Axtmann, Deniz Coskun, Thomas Meyer, Michael Moxter, Thomas Meyer,
Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Björn Wittrock
In collaboration with the University of Gothenburg and the Swedish Ernst Cassirer Society.
Held at the University of Gothenburg.
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25-27 August. ERNST CASSIRER SUMMER SCHOOL
From Myth to Religion – and Back Again? Cassirer, Philosophy of Religion, and Theology
Gerald Hartung, Michael Moxter, Thomas M. Schmidt, Juha Sihvola, Thomas Wabel
In collaboration with and held at Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.
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2006 

Friday, 2 June. ERNST CASSIRER LECTURE
Hans-Peter Krüger
, Third Holder of the Visiting Professorship in Honour of Ernst Cassirer,
SCAS; Professor of Political Philosophy and Philosophical Anthropology, Universität Potsdam
Philosophical Anthropologies in Comparison: The Approaches of Ernst Cassirer and
Helmut Plessner

In collaboration with the University of Gothenburg and the Swedish Ernst Cassirer Society.
Held at the University of Gothenburg

Saturday, 3 June. ERNST CASSIRER SYMPOSIUM
What is Philosophical Anthropology?
Mathias Gutmann, John Michael Krois, Hans-Peter Krüger, Sven-Eric Liedman, Olivia
Mitscherlich, Christian Thies, Volker Schürmann, Björn Wittrock

In collaboration with the University of Gothenburg and the Swedish Ernst Cassirer Society. Held
at the University of Gothenburg.

17-19 August. ERNST CASSIRER SUMMER SCHOOL
Life Politics: Habermas, Foucault, Agamben and Philosophical Anthropology
Hans-Peter Krüger, Gesa Lindemann, Dieter Thomä, among others
In collaboration with and held at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.


2005


Thursday, 19 May. ERNST CASSIRER LECTURE
Hans Joas, Second Holder of the Visiting Professorship in Honour of Ernst Cassirer, SCAS;
Director, Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien, Erfurt, and
Professor of Sociology and Social Thought, University of Chicago.
A German Idea of Freedom? Cassirer and Troeltsch between Germany and the West
In collaboration with the University of Gothenburg and the Swedish Ernst Cassirer Society.
Held at the University of Gothenburg

Friday, 20 May. ERNST CASSIRER SYMPOSIUM
Ernst Cassirer and the Philosophy and Sociology of Religion
Michael Bongardt, Hans Joas, Matthias Jung, John Michael Krois, Ola Sigurdson, Jayne
Svenungsson, Björn Wittrock

In collaboration with the University of Gothenburg and the Swedish Ernst Cassirer Society. Held
at the University of Gothenburg

18-20 August. ERNST CASSIRER SUMMER SCHOOL
The Sacralization of the Person: History, Philosophy and Sociology of Human Rights
Heiner Bielefeldt, Thomas L. Haskell, Hans Joas, Juha Sihvola, Björn Wittrock, among others
In collaboration with and held at the Helsinki Collegium for Advances Studies.


2004


7-9 May. ERNST CASSIRER SYMPOSIUM
The Body and Embodiment: Intersections of Imagery, Literature and Science
Karl Clausberg, Gerhard Danzer, Terrence Deacon, Yvonne Eriksson, Peter Gärdenfors,
John Michael Krois, Sven-Eric Liedman, Alexandre Métraux, Reinhart Meyer-Kalkus,
Brian Poole, Mats Rosengren, Ola Sigurdson, Göran Sonesson, Angela Steidele, Dirk
Westerkamp

In collaboration with the University of Gothenburg and the Swedish Ernst Cassirer Society. Held
at the University of Gothenburg

Saturday, 8 May. ERNST CASSIRER LECTURE
John Michael Krois, First Holder of the Visiting Professorship in Honour of Ernst Cassire, SCAS;
Professor of Philosophy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
“A Passion can only be Overcome by a Stronger Passion”. Philosophical Anthropology Before
and After Cassirer

In collaboration with the University of Gothenburg and the Swedish Ernst Cassirer Society. Held at
the University of Gothenburg

Friday, 14 May. ERNST CASSIRER SPRING SCHOOL
Cassirer, Lotman, Uexküll: Between Biology and Semiotics of Culture
John Michael Krois, Kalevi Kull, Manfred Laubichler, Aleksei Turovski, Frederik Stjernfelt,
Dario Martinelli, Andreas Weber

In collaboration with the Departments of Biology and of Semiotics, University of Tartu and held at the
University of Tartu.