Ferenc Hörcher is giving a talk at The Institute of Adanced Studies Kőszeg, on 12 November 2019. His talk is entitled "Nationalism and Conservatism in Contemporary Europe, with Special Attention to Britain and the V4 Countries”.

The BTK Lendület Morals and Science Recearch Group cordially invites you to the panel discussion on

The Future of the Humanities in a Disruptive World
Debating Challenges and Opportunities

with

Karla Pollmann
Dean of the Faculty of Arts,
University of Bristol

Confirmed discussants:
Tim Crane
Tamás Demeter
István Kenesei
Gábor Kiss Farkas
Benedek Láng
Csaba Pléh
Iván Szelényi
Gábor Zemplén

The focal points of the discussion will be:
-The function of the Arts and Humanities in a Changing World: how to Innovate the Curriculum?
-What is "Progress" in the Arts and Humanities?
-Application and Commercialization in Higher Education - Opportunities and Limits
-How to Organize Successful Inter- and Multidisciplinarity in Challenge-led Research Clusters?

Date of the event: 4th of November, 2019, 10 AM
Venue of the event: Research Centre for the Humanities, 1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán st. 4., 7th Floor, Trapéz Room

The Institute of Philosophy, RCH, cordially invites you to its joint workshop with the National University of Public Service on

Urban Cultures in The Early Modern Habsburg Territories

Venue: National University of Public Service, Budapest, Ludovika square 2., main building, 1st floor, room Hunyadi
Date: 4 November 2019

Registration here.

Program:

10-11.15 Keynote lecture

Jaroslav Miller: A Dream World of Ideas and Crudeness of Reality: Early Modern City as an Utopia

Session I.: Town Descriptions

11.30-12.15 Ferenc Hörcher: Town descriptions and urban politics in Márton Szepsi Csombor's European Travel Journal

12.15-13.00 Katalin Simon: Urban Environment in Buda in the 18th Century

13-14.00 Lunch break

Session II.: Governing Urban Communities

14.00-14.45 István Németh: Cities, Self-government, State in the Early Modern Age. The Political Framework of Urban Life

14.45-15.30 Peter Benka: Early modern towns as language communities : The case of Upper Hungarian free royal boroughs

15.30-16.15 Adam Smrcz: Jansenism and Urban Politics in 18th-Century Hungary

16.15-16.45 Coffee break

Session III.: An Outlook on non-Habsburg territories

16.45-17.30 Krisztina Péter: Image, Print and Manuscript in Early Modern Cologne

17.30-18.15 Eszter Kovács: Montaigne as the Mayor of Bordeaux: Mapping a Political Network

The MTA BTK Lendület "Morals and Science" Reasearch Group cordially invites you to its upcoming conference on

Mental Fictionalism

Date: 24-25 October 2019
Helyszín: Institute of Philsophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, 1097 Budapest, 4 Tóth Kálmán str.

For the detailed program see conference poster.

Ferenc Hörcher presents a talk at the annual conference of the Philosophy of the City Research Group, organised in the Law School and the School of Architecture of the University of Detroit Mercy, established by the Jesuits. His paper is scheduled on 4 Oct, 2019, with the title The Political Philosophy of the European City: The Conceptual Framework.