Tamás Demeter is giving a talk on Hungarian contributions to social theory at the University of Cambridge on the 5th June, 2015, entitled 'Ex Oriente Lux: the legacy of Lukács, Mannheim and Hauser'.

The program of the "Horizons Beyond Borders. Traditions and Perspectives of the Phenomenological Movement in Central and Eastern Europe" conference, containing more than 60 presentations from scholars with affiliations in 30 cities of 16 countries, has been announced and is available for download.

Our speaker for next Wednesday (20th of May, 16h, Pepita room, Orszaghaz str. 30) is Bryan Roberts (LSE) who is going to talk about “New directions for passing time”. Please find the abstract below.

Bryan W. Roberts (LSE), “New directions for passing time”

Abstract:
The problem of passing time is that it is a pervasive part of our experience, and yet seems to have no natural description in our best scientific theories. After introducing this problem I will point out a new way forward using the concept of ‘time observables’, and then indicate some further applications such as for the characterisation of the direction of time.

Next week (Thursday-Friday, May 21-22) the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest will host the 3rd workshop of the Budapest-Krakow Research Group on Probability, Causality and Determinism.

Speakers: Sam Fletcher, Márton Gömöri, Michał Tomasz Godziszewski, Balázs Gyenis, Gábor Hofer-Szabó, Ferenc Huoranszki, Attila Molnár, Bryan Roberts, Iñaki San Pedro, Slobodan Perović, Tomasz Placek, Leszek Wroński.

The workshop website with schedule and further details is here.
Everyone is welcomed to attend!

Ferenc Hörcher, the director of the Insititue of Philosophy at the HAS, has given a talk on the 6th of May at the John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin on the conference on Elites - their past, now and future, entitled The Communist Destruction of the Middle Classes of Hungary - Is There a Way to Heal It? He was and will be giving lectures in Warsaw on the 7th and 20th of May as a part of the Humane Philosophy Project at the University of Warsaw. His lectures are scheduled within the series of talks on Humane Philosophy and the Idea of the Tragic, where he was and will be talking about Sophocles's "Antigone" and T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral".