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SUMMARY:Samuel Zeitlin – Geopolitics & Political Thought in the Twentieth Century
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The first lectures will examine Schmitt’s analysis of the First World War\, his critique of the League of Nations\, and his characteristic approach to the history of political thought. The final lecture will consider Raymond Aron’s response to Schmitt’s political thought\, particularly on matters of foreign policy international affairs\, in Aron’s studies of Clausewitz and of international relations. The lectures will also consider the Schmitt-Aron correspondence. \nSamuel Garrett Zeitlin is a distinguished historian of political ideas at University College London. He has worked extensively on the thought of Sir Francis Bacon\, alongside Continental theorists of the twentieth century. \nIn the second Pharos Tuesday Seminar\, Samuel Garrett Zeitlin shifts the focus to the liberal conservative political theorist Raymond Aron\, examining his relationship with the German jurist Carl Schmitt to draw out two vastly contrasting perspectives on the international politics of the last century. The first lectures will examine Schmitt’s analysis of the First World War\, his critique of the League of Nations\, and his characteristic approach to the history of political thought. The final lecture will consider Raymond Aron’s response to Schmitt’s political thought\, particularly on matters of foreign policy international affairs\, in Aron’s studies of Clausewitz and of international relations. The lectures will also consider the Schmitt-Aron correspondence. \nSamuel Garrett Zeitlin is a distinguished historian of political ideas at University College London. 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URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/samuel-zeitlin-geopolitics-political-thought-in-the-twentieth-century/2024-11-19
LOCATION:Hinton Seminar Room\, Worcester College\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2HB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Studies
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SUMMARY:Alexander Marr - Art & Wit in the Renaissance
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Yet wit’s visual fortunes in the period have barely been explored. \nVisual wit was a kind of pictorial ingenuity\, through which artists sought to rebut the humanist claim that by imitating nature they were merely replicators\, not inventors. Hans Holbein the Younger\, in particular\, engaged in a kind of guerilla warfare with the humanists he knew and portrayed\, including Erasmus and Sir Thomas More\, appropriating their ingenious techniques of ambiguity\, self-contradiction\, and disguise in a playful contest between painting and poetry. \nThis series of lectures will trace visual wit in Holbein’s hands\, as he evoked breath\, voice\, and brain through cunning conceits such as More’s ambivalent half-smile and Erasmus’s keen nose. In so doing\, we will touch on some major themes in sixteenth-century culture: the complex nature of ‘character’; disputes over biological and artistic parentage; the paradox of lively death; and the vexed relationship between the thinking mind and skilled hand. \nDr Alexander Marr FSA is Professor of Renaissance and Early Modern Art at the University of Cambridge\, a Fellow of Trinity Hall\, and President of Leonardo da Vinci Society. 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LOCATION:Noel Salter Room\, New College\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Studies
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SUMMARY:Laurence Brockliss & Justin Hardy – History and Film
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LOCATION:To Be Confirmed\, Oxford\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Studies
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SUMMARY:Simon Elliott – The African Emperor: Septimius Severus
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1731930838155{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 2rem !important;}” text_direction=”default”]\n\nIn this exclusive lecture\, Dr Simon Elliott will give a preview of his new biography: The African Emperor: The Life of Septimius Severus (Penguin\, 2025). The talk will focus on the northern campaigns of the early 3rd Century\, when the ageing Severus launched a shock and awe assault on northern Britain so savage that it achieved eighty years of peace on Rome’s most troublesome border. He will narrate how\, in these bloody campaigns\, a force of 50\,000 troops\, supported by the fleet\, cut a swathe through the Maeatae tribe around the former Antonine Wall and invaded Caledonian territory up to the Moray Firth. Over the course of the lecture\, Simon will demonstrate how Severus was the first of the great reforming emperors of the Roman military\, and that his reforms are explained in the context of how he concentrated power around the imperial throne. \nDr Simon Elliott is an award-winning archaeologist\, historian\, and broadcaster. He is Honorary Researh Fellow at the University of Kent. \n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” top_padding=”4%” constrain_group_1=”yes” bottom_padding=”4%” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][nectar_cta btn_style=”arrow-animation” heading_tag=”h6″ button_color=”black” button_color_hover=”#d1b876″ text_color=”#ffffff” text_color_hover=”#000000″ button_border_color=”#000000″ button_border_color_hover=”#d1b876″ button_border_thickness=”1px” link_type=”new_tab” alignment=”left” alignment_tablet=”default” alignment_phone=”default” constrain_group_1=”yes” constrain_group_2=”yes” constrain_group_3=”yes” constrain_group_4=”yes” display=”block” display_tablet=”inherit” display_phone=”inherit” font_size_desktop=”1rem” link_text=”BOOK TICKETS” padding_top=”15″ padding_bottom=”15″ padding_left=”15″ padding_right=”15″ url=”https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/simon-elliott-the-african-emperor-septimius-severus-tickets-1017295346767?aff=ebdsoporgprofile”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/simon-elliott-the-african-emperor-septimius-severus
LOCATION:To Be Confirmed\, Oxford\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Studies
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SUMMARY:David Starkey – Renaissances: Past\, Present\, & Future
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1731684574927{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 2rem !important;}” text_direction=”default”]\n\n\nHistorian & Broadcaster \n\n“The Renaissance” (or “Rebirth”) is conventionally defined as the two centuries\, from about 1350 to 1550\, which saw a comprehensive re-engagement with the culture of the Graeco-Roman world: with its philosophy\, literature\, art\, architecture\, history\, science and politics. The movement started in Italy. But it was a much-travelled Englishman\, Geoffrey Chaucer\, who first captured its essence.\n\nFor out of old fields\, as men saith\,\nCometh all this new corn from year to year;\nAnd out of old books\, in good faith\,\nCometh all this new science that men learn. \nThis idea\, of the old fructifying the new\, is also the definition of a Classic. In these lectures\, I want to argue that the Classic\, in both its senses of an age and of specific works\, is the key to Western Civilisation. And that its Twentieth Century rejection in the form of Modernism is the cause of our present discontents. \nBorn in Kendal\, David Starkey read history at Fitzwilliam College\, Cambridge\, where he completed his PhD on Henry VIII’s household under the supervision of Geoffrey Elton\, before teaching at Cambridge and LSE. His many publications include seven major studies of the Tudor period\, most recently Henry: Model of a Tyrant\, which was published by Harper Collins in 2020. Dr Starkey redefined public history in the 1990s and 2000s\, including the landmark series Monarchy\, commissioned by Channel 4 in 2002\, and has been a frequent commentator in the media. He was awarded a CBE in 2007. \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” top_padding=”4%” constrain_group_1=”yes” bottom_padding=”4%” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][nectar_cta btn_style=”arrow-animation” heading_tag=”h6″ button_color=”black” button_color_hover=”#d1b876″ text_color=”#ffffff” text_color_hover=”#000000″ button_border_color=”#000000″ button_border_color_hover=”#d1b876″ button_border_thickness=”1px” link_type=”new_tab” alignment=”left” alignment_tablet=”default” alignment_phone=”default” constrain_group_1=”yes” constrain_group_2=”yes” constrain_group_3=”yes” constrain_group_4=”yes” display=”block” display_tablet=”inherit” display_phone=”inherit” font_size_desktop=”1rem” link_text=”BOOK TICKETS” padding_top=”15″ padding_bottom=”15″ padding_left=”15″ padding_right=”15″ url=”https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/david-starkey-renaissances-past-present-future-tickets-877093780107?aff=oddtdtcreator”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/david-starkey-renaissances-past-present-future
LOCATION:To Be Confirmed\, Oxford\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Studies
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SUMMARY:Ali Ansari - Interpreting Iran
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1731682378682{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 2rem !important;}” text_direction=”default”]\n\nDirector of the Institute for Iranian Studies\, University of St Andrews & Associate Fellow\, Chatham House\n\n\nIn this series of Pharos Monday Lectures\, Prof Ali Ansari looks at the way the West reads and interprets Iran. Western perspectives\, he will argue\, have been misshaped by an over-reliance on abstract theories drawn from international relations and political science\, a corresponding failure to pay attention to culture and historical experience\, and a willingness to sacrifice a deep understanding for foreign policy imperatives and comparative modelling. Discarding the red-herrings of social science\, Prof Ansari will develop a new interpretation of modern Iran and its future relations with the West. \nThe first lecture will look at the tools of scholarship\, the impact of historiography\, the dangers of ideology\, and the consequences of social scientific methodology\, not least the development of a culture of ‘metrics’ and its consequences for our understanding of sources. Lecture Two will look at particular case studies with particular reference to the ideas that underpinned the nuclear negotiations and the ‘theory’ of authoritarian resilience. The final two lectures will seek to construct an alternative narrative from the ground up through the application of historical methods and analysing the state from within\, drawing on Iran’s historical experience and political culture. \nAli Ansari is one of the pre-eminent historians of modern Iran\, its relationship with the West\, and the nexus of myth\, ideology\, and nation-building. He has also written extensively on the history of the Anglo-Scottish union. \n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” top_padding=”4%” constrain_group_1=”yes” bottom_padding=”4%” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][nectar_cta btn_style=”arrow-animation” heading_tag=”h6″ button_color=”black” button_color_hover=”#d1b876″ text_color=”#ffffff” text_color_hover=”#000000″ button_border_color=”#000000″ button_border_color_hover=”#d1b876″ button_border_thickness=”1px” link_type=”new_tab” alignment=”left” alignment_tablet=”default” alignment_phone=”default” constrain_group_1=”yes” constrain_group_2=”yes” constrain_group_3=”yes” constrain_group_4=”yes” display=”block” display_tablet=”inherit” display_phone=”inherit” font_size_desktop=”1rem” link_text=”BOOK TICKETS” padding_top=”15″ padding_bottom=”15″ padding_left=”15″ padding_right=”15″ url=”https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ali-ansari-interpreting-iran-tickets-877086026917?aff=oddtdtcreator”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/ali-ansari-interpreting-iran
LOCATION:To Be Confirmed\, Oxford\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Studies
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SUMMARY:David Butterfield – The Rebirth of Classicism
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1731925943771{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 2rem !important;}” text_direction=”default”]\n\nProfessor of Classics\, University of Cambridge\n\n\nWhat made the Greek and Roman Classics “classic”? Who decided? Was a decision even made? Are the surviving Classics “good”? Have we lost the best books ever written? Who decide what’s worth knowing? What makes something worth reading? And how can we avoid forgetting everything? \nIn the inaugural Pharos @ the Lamb & Flag event\, classicist David Butterfield presents the a series of talks on how the classics of European literature became classic. \nFilmed in February-March 2024\, recordings will be released in May \nThe four lectures span these topics: \nThe birth of writing and the dawn of ‘literature’\nThe birth of the library and the idea of the ‘canon’\nThe birth of the monastery and the advent of ‘universities’\nThe re-birth of Classicism and the crisis of ‘modernity’ \nDr David Butterfield is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University Cambridge\, editor of the Classics journal Antigone\, and literary editor of The Critic. \n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” top_padding=”4%” constrain_group_1=”yes” bottom_padding=”4%” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][nectar_cta btn_style=”arrow-animation” heading_tag=”h6″ button_color=”black” button_color_hover=”#d1b876″ text_color=”#ffffff” text_color_hover=”#000000″ button_border_color=”#000000″ button_border_color_hover=”#d1b876″ button_border_thickness=”1px” link_type=”new_tab” alignment=”left” alignment_tablet=”default” alignment_phone=”default” constrain_group_1=”yes” constrain_group_2=”yes” constrain_group_3=”yes” constrain_group_4=”yes” display=”block” display_tablet=”inherit” display_phone=”inherit” font_size_desktop=”1rem” link_text=”BOOK TICKETS” padding_top=”15″ padding_bottom=”15″ padding_left=”15″ padding_right=”15″ url=”https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/david-butterfield-the-rebirth-of-classicism-tickets-854102412307?aff=oddtdtcreator”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/david-butterfield-the-rebirth-of-classicism
LOCATION:To Be Confirmed\, Oxford\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Studies
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SUMMARY:Noel Malcolm – Emergence of Homosexuality in the Early Modern Period
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1731685237247{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 2rem !important;}” text_direction=”default”]\n\n\nIn a famous statement\, published before almost any serious scholarly work had been done on the history of same-sex relations in pre-modern Europe\, Michel Foucault said that the homosexual\, as a distinct type of person\, was a purely modern phenomenon: in the past\, people thought only in terms of sexual acts\, not sexual identities. This lecture series tests the truth of that assertion\, which has exerted such a strong influence on the whole historiography of the subject\, and lays the ground work for a revisionary understanding of the history of sexuality in Europe. \nThe first lecture discusses the rich evidence which emerged\, in the decades after Foucault wrote\, from the archives of Italy and Spain. In many ways this seemed to prove him right. It revealed a world of activity by men who were happy to have sex with boys as well as women; generally\, their behaviour carried no ‘identity’ implications\, and it was unlike modern homosexuality in other ways too\, not least the lack of sexual interest in other adult males. The second lecture investigates how such same-sex acts were conceptualised and dealt with by the religious and legal norms of the period; it does so not only for these Christian Mediterranean countries\, but also for the Islamic societies of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. The third lecture turns to northern Europe\, including England\, and finds some significant divergences from the Mediterranean pattern. It also looks at European colonial societies\, especially in the Americas\, where some contrasts can be found between the colonies of the northern and southern European powers. The final lecture puts the evidence together\, considers what it tells us about identities and subcultures\, and offers a new account of what has been called the ‘emergence of modern homosexuality. \nRecorded at Magdalen College in February-March 2024\, this inaugural series of Pharos Monday Lectures will be published in May. \nSir Noel Malcolm FRSL FBA is Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College\, a Founding Fellow of the Pharos Foundation\, and one of the country’s pre-eminent intellectual historians. He was foreign editor for The Spectator and a columnist for The Daily Telegraph before returning to academia. He is the author of twelve books\, and the editor of the Clarendon edition of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan\, for which he was awarded a British Academy medal. His latest work\, Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Desire\, 1400-1750 was published by Oxford University Press in November 2023. \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” top_padding=”4%” constrain_group_1=”yes” bottom_padding=”4%” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][nectar_cta btn_style=”arrow-animation” heading_tag=”h6″ button_color=”black” button_color_hover=”#d1b876″ text_color=”#ffffff” text_color_hover=”#000000″ button_border_color=”#000000″ button_border_color_hover=”#d1b876″ button_border_thickness=”1px” link_type=”new_tab” alignment=”left” alignment_tablet=”default” alignment_phone=”default” constrain_group_1=”yes” constrain_group_2=”yes” constrain_group_3=”yes” constrain_group_4=”yes” display=”block” display_tablet=”inherit” display_phone=”inherit” font_size_desktop=”1rem” link_text=”BOOK TICKETS” padding_top=”15″ padding_bottom=”15″ padding_left=”15″ padding_right=”15″ url=”https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ali-ansari-interpreting-iran-tickets-877086026917?aff=oddtdtcreator”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/noel-malcolm-emergence-of-homosexuality-in-the-early-modern-period
LOCATION:To Be Confirmed\, Oxford\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Studies
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SUMMARY:Robert Tombs – A Shameful Conquest? Britain Before and After Brexit
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1731683833265{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 2rem !important;}” text_direction=”default”]\n\n\nProfessor Emeritus of French History\, University of Cambridge \n\nWhen Robert Tombs was invited to speak to Pharos\, it was suggested he could speak on Brexit\, Franco-British relations\, or the culture wars. He decided to try all three. In this series\, Prof Tombs analyses Brexit\, why it happened\, and what it means; how different policies towards European integration taken in Britain and France tell us much about the direction Europe has taken; and how Brexit’s diplomatic and economic impact may be small next to the cultural\, social\, and political consequences.\n\n\nFilmed in St Edmund Hall’s Old Library in November 2023\, this series of lectures will be published online in May 2024. \nProf Robert Tombs is a distinguished historian\, specialising in the history of Britain and France. He is Professor Emeritus of French History at Cambridge and a Fellow of St John’s College. His published works include The War Against Paris\, 1871 (1981)\, That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present (2006\, with Isabelle Tombs); The English and Their History (2014)\, and This Sovereign Isle (2020). His writing appears regularly in The Daily Telegraph\, The Spectator\, and The Times\, and he is the editor of Briefings for Britain and History Reclaimed. In 2007\, the French Government awarded Tombs the prestigious Ordre des Palmes Académiques ‘for services rendered to French culture’. He was appointed to the Franco-British Council the following year. \n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” top_padding=”4%” constrain_group_1=”yes” bottom_padding=”4%” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][nectar_cta btn_style=”arrow-animation” heading_tag=”h6″ button_color=”black” button_color_hover=”#d1b876″ text_color=”#ffffff” text_color_hover=”#000000″ button_border_color=”#000000″ button_border_color_hover=”#d1b876″ button_border_thickness=”1px” link_type=”new_tab” alignment=”left” alignment_tablet=”default” alignment_phone=”default” constrain_group_1=”yes” constrain_group_2=”yes” constrain_group_3=”yes” constrain_group_4=”yes” display=”block” display_tablet=”inherit” display_phone=”inherit” font_size_desktop=”1rem” link_text=”BOOK TICKETS” padding_top=”15″ padding_bottom=”15″ padding_left=”15″ padding_right=”15″ url=”https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robert-tombs-a-shameful-conquest-britain-before-and-after-brexit-tickets-804330483127?aff=ebdsoporgprofile”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/robert-tombs-a-shameful-conquest-britain-before-and-after-brexit
LOCATION:To Be Confirmed\, Oxford\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Studies
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SUMMARY:Marie Kawthar Daouda – Romance and Reality in French Culture
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1731927502197{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 2rem !important;}” text_direction=”default”]\n\n\nFrom the French Revolution to the aftermath of the Second World War\, French literature appears as a field of tension between Romance and Reality. Marie Kawthar Daouda discusses the continuity and rifts between the main aesthetic currents of French contemporary literature\, their connection with French and European politics\, and how authors from Chateaubriand to Camus have endeavoured to distinguish permanent truth behind ever-changing circumstances. \n\n\n\n\nHow did the Romantic movement echo the philosophical issues raised by the French Revolution? Can literature describe the world as it is? How do symbols and language work together in poetry? Does the evil of the war make beauty irrelevant? Marie Kawthar Daouda discusses these questions by engaging with relevant passages of the novels\, poems\, and essays that shaped French literature from 1789 to the 1940s. \nFilmed in the Old Library at St Edmund Hall and in the Ursell Room at Pusey House in November 2023\, this series of lectures will be released online in May. \nLecturer in French Literature\, University of Oxford\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” top_padding=”4%” constrain_group_1=”yes” bottom_padding=”4%” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][nectar_cta btn_style=”arrow-animation” heading_tag=”h6″ button_color=”black” button_color_hover=”#d1b876″ text_color=”#ffffff” text_color_hover=”#000000″ button_border_color=”#000000″ button_border_color_hover=”#d1b876″ button_border_thickness=”1px” link_type=”new_tab” alignment=”left” alignment_tablet=”default” alignment_phone=”default” constrain_group_1=”yes” constrain_group_2=”yes” constrain_group_3=”yes” constrain_group_4=”yes” display=”block” display_tablet=”inherit” display_phone=”inherit” font_size_desktop=”1rem” link_text=”BOOK TICKETS” padding_top=”15″ padding_bottom=”15″ padding_left=”15″ padding_right=”15″ url=”https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ali-ansari-interpreting-iran-tickets-877086026917?aff=oddtdtcreator”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/marie-kawthar-daouda-romance-and-reality-in-french-culture
LOCATION:To Be Confirmed\, Oxford\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Studies
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SUMMARY:Reidar Due – Freedom of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Freedom
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1731928467966{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 2rem !important;}” text_direction=”default”]\n\nIn this inaugural Pharos Tuesday Seminar\, philosopher Reidar Due explores the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault. Icons of the so-called ‘culture war’\, this series of discourses takes the two thinkers out of the fire of contemporary debate\, seeking to understand their place in a longer tradition of French philosophy as a precursor to a better understanding of their contemporary relevance. \nProfessor of Film Aesthetics\, University of Oxford\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” top_padding=”4%” constrain_group_1=”yes” bottom_padding=”4%” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][nectar_cta btn_style=”arrow-animation” heading_tag=”h6″ button_color=”black” button_color_hover=”#d1b876″ text_color=”#ffffff” text_color_hover=”#000000″ button_border_color=”#000000″ button_border_color_hover=”#d1b876″ button_border_thickness=”1px” link_type=”new_tab” alignment=”left” alignment_tablet=”default” alignment_phone=”default” constrain_group_1=”yes” constrain_group_2=”yes” constrain_group_3=”yes” constrain_group_4=”yes” display=”block” display_tablet=”inherit” display_phone=”inherit” font_size_desktop=”1rem” link_text=”BOOK TICKETS” padding_top=”15″ padding_bottom=”15″ padding_left=”15″ padding_right=”15″ url=”https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ali-ansari-interpreting-iran-tickets-877086026917?aff=oddtdtcreator”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/reidar-due-freedom-of-philosophy-and-the-philosophy-of-freedom
LOCATION:To Be Confirmed\, Oxford\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Studies
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