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SUMMARY:Reidar Due - The Ethics of Responsibility
DESCRIPTION:The Pharos Tuesday Seminars for Autumn 2025\n\n\n\nFocusing on the works of Paul Ricoeur and Jacques Derrida\, these lectures present a tradition of philosophical ethics in France. This ethics does not concern what we should do. Ethics concerns responsibility in an extensive\, immaterial sense: how can you be a person who takes responsibility beyond your immediate personal and social interests? We shall see how for Ricoeur this leads to a reflection on memory as a responsibility for the past and for Derrida it entails a conception of political utopia understood as responsibility for the unfulfilled hopes of history. \n\nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reidar-due-the-ethics-of-responsibility-tickets-1896275122939?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/reidar-due-the-ethics-of-responsibility/2025-11-25
LOCATION:Pusey House\, Ursell Room
CATEGORIES:Studies
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SUMMARY:Andrew O'Shaughnessy - Thomas Jefferson's Idea of a University
DESCRIPTION:Author of The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind\n\n\n\nThomas Jefferson was intimately involved in every aspect of the creation of the University of Virginia.  It represented what he regarded as one of the three greatest achievements of his life to be listed on his tombstone. It revealed his talents as a lawyer who drafted the legislation for the assembly; as a surveyor who personally mapped the grounds; as a politician who masterminded the strategy to win approval in the assembly and to deflect intense opposition; as an architect who designed the layout\, chose the building materials\, and corresponded with the craftsman; and as an intellectual who developed an innovative curriculum\, suggested the books for the library and the criteria for selecting the faculty. Jefferson was concerned with what remains a perennial issue which is the importance of education in the success of the republican democratic experiment. It was integral to his political philosophy in which he regarded public education as essential for the functioning of government by the people. He was part of what he regarded as the moral revolution that should accompany the political revolution of 1776. Although dismissed in higher education histories as a “finishing school for southern aristocrats” which trained many of the future leaders of the Confederacy\, the lecture will argue that his vision of public education was as revolutionary as the other achievements on his tombstone and that it still has the potential to stimulate discussion about the role of universities. Furthermore\, his vision of a university anticipated the idea of a modern university more than any other college in America. \nAndrew O’Shaughnessy is Professor of History at the University of Virginia.  Between 2003 and 2022\, he served as Vice President of The Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello)\, and the Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies. His book The Men Who Lost America. British Leadership\, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire (New Haven: Yale University Press\, 2013) received eight national awards including the New York Historical Society American History Book Prize\, the George Washington Book Prize\, The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Excellence in American History Book Award and The Society of Military History Book Prize. He is also the author of An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2000). His most recent book books are The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind: Thomas Jefferson’s Idea of a University (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press\, 2021) and\, co-authored with Trevor Burnard\, Republic and Empire: Crisis\, Revolution\, and America’s Early Independence to be published by Yale University Press in September 2025. He is an editor of the Jeffersonian America series published by the University of Virginia Press. He coedited Old World\, New World: America and Europe in the Age of Jefferson (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press\, 2010) and The Founding of Thomas Jefferson’s University of Virginia (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press: 2019)\, and The European Friends of the American Revolution (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press\, 2023).
URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/andrew-oshaughnessy-thomas-jeffersons-idea-of-a-university
LOCATION:Buchanan Room\, Jesus College
CATEGORIES:Salons
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SUMMARY:Reidar Due - The Ethics of Responsibility
DESCRIPTION:The Pharos Tuesday Seminars for Autumn 2025\n\n\n\nFocusing on the works of Paul Ricoeur and Jacques Derrida\, these lectures present a tradition of philosophical ethics in France. This ethics does not concern what we should do. Ethics concerns responsibility in an extensive\, immaterial sense: how can you be a person who takes responsibility beyond your immediate personal and social interests? We shall see how for Ricoeur this leads to a reflection on memory as a responsibility for the past and for Derrida it entails a conception of political utopia understood as responsibility for the unfulfilled hopes of history. \n\nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reidar-due-the-ethics-of-responsibility-tickets-1896275122939?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/reidar-due-the-ethics-of-responsibility/2025-11-18
LOCATION:Pusey House\, Ursell Room
CATEGORIES:Studies
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SUMMARY:Reidar Due - The Ethics of Responsibility
DESCRIPTION:The Pharos Tuesday Seminars for Autumn 2025\n\n\n\nFocusing on the works of Paul Ricoeur and Jacques Derrida\, these lectures present a tradition of philosophical ethics in France. This ethics does not concern what we should do. Ethics concerns responsibility in an extensive\, immaterial sense: how can you be a person who takes responsibility beyond your immediate personal and social interests? We shall see how for Ricoeur this leads to a reflection on memory as a responsibility for the past and for Derrida it entails a conception of political utopia understood as responsibility for the unfulfilled hopes of history. \n\nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reidar-due-the-ethics-of-responsibility-tickets-1896275122939?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/reidar-due-the-ethics-of-responsibility/2025-11-11
LOCATION:Pusey House\, Ursell Room
CATEGORIES:Studies
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SUMMARY:Reidar Due - The Ethics of Responsibility
DESCRIPTION:The Pharos Tuesday Seminars for Autumn 2025\n\n\n\nFocusing on the works of Paul Ricoeur and Jacques Derrida\, these lectures present a tradition of philosophical ethics in France. This ethics does not concern what we should do. Ethics concerns responsibility in an extensive\, immaterial sense: how can you be a person who takes responsibility beyond your immediate personal and social interests? We shall see how for Ricoeur this leads to a reflection on memory as a responsibility for the past and for Derrida it entails a conception of political utopia understood as responsibility for the unfulfilled hopes of history. \n\nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reidar-due-the-ethics-of-responsibility-tickets-1896275122939?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/reidar-due-the-ethics-of-responsibility/2025-11-04
LOCATION:Pusey House\, Ursell Room
CATEGORIES:Studies
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SUMMARY:Justin Marozzi - Islam and Slavery
DESCRIPTION:Justin Marozzi has spent most of his professional life living and working in the Muslim world. A Fellow and former Trusteeof the Royal Geographical Society\, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a senior advisor to the Middle East Association. His previous books include South from Barbary: Along the Slave Routes of the Libyan Sahara (2001)\, the bestselling Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization(2019)\, Tamerlane: Sword of Islam\, Conqueror of the World (2004) and The Arab Conquests: The Spread of Islam and the First Caliphates(2021). Baghdad: City of Peace\, City of Blood (2014) won the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize and was praised by the judges as ‘a truly monumental achievement’. His latest book is Captives & Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World\, described by Peter Frankopan as ‘A bold\, brilliant and timely history that confronts one of the most neglected and uncomfortable subjects in global history. Marozzi brings to life the complexity and humanity of the Islamic world’s entanglement with slavery using an extraordinary range of sources\, across more than a millennium and across sweeping geographies. Not just a mesmerising book\, but a profoundly important one too’.\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can find tickets here: \n\nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/justin-marozzi-islam-and-slavery-tickets-1813518174679
URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/justin-marozzi-islam-and-slavery/2025-11-03
LOCATION:Holywell Music Room\, Wadham College\, Holywell St\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 3SB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Studies
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SUMMARY:Dominic Cummings: What Is To Be Done?
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_1731926459743{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 2rem !important;}” text_direction=”default”]\n\n‘Why are western regimes in crisis? What can we do in Britain to turn the tide? Why have political and intellectual elites blown up their credibility? What replaces them?’ \nDominic Cummings is a British political operative who served as Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister from 2019 to 2020. He previously served as director of Vote Leave during the EU Referendum of 2016\, and as Special Adviser at the Ministry of Education from 2010 to 2014. \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/dominic-cummings-what-is-to-be-done-2
LOCATION:Sheldonian Theatre\, Broad St\, Oxford\, OX1 3AZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Sir Paul Marshall - Reflections of an Accidental Media Owner
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URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/sir-paul-marshall-reflections-of-an-accidental-media-owner
LOCATION:Holywell Music Room\, Wadham College\, Holywell St\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 3SB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Edward Howell - South Korean Politics
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URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/edward-howell-south-korean-politics
LOCATION:To Be Confirmed\, Oxford\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Salons
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SUMMARY:Jaspreet Singh Boparai - Painting in Rome after Raphael
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Unlike Michelangelo (1475-1564) he was courtly and tactful; unlike Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) he tended to finish pictures once he was paid to do so. For centuries he was regarded as a model for painters\, in his professional virtues as well as the quality of his work. Was Raphael too perfect an artist? These lectures explore the creative hazards involved with the precedents and conventions established by four Old Masters: Raphael\, Michelangelo\, Caravaggio (1571-1610) and Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665). All were profoundly original; all produced their greatest work in Rome; each\, in his own way\, could potentially be a bad influence on lesser artists\, who felt they had no choice but to imitate these Old Masters’ examples\, and did not necessarily know what to copy. What does an artist really need to know about the creators who came before him? At what point does an influence like Raphael or Michelangelo become a burden that inhibits\, misguides or even cripples those who want to make art? \nAfter initial studies in Classics\, Jaspreet Singh Boparai began studying the classical tradition in French and Italian art and literature. His first MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art focussed on mediaeval manuscript illumination\, and his second MA from the Warburg Institute centred around Renaissance humanism. Thereafter he became interested in the history of classical scholarship\, earning the last-ever PhD from the department of neo-Latin at Cambridge. He has studied the history of art both as an amateur and with the aid of studentships from the École normale supérieure in Paris\, and the British School at Rome\, and a fellowship from the Villa I Tatti Centre for Renaissance Studies in Florence. 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SUMMARY:Adrian Goldsworthy – Greece & Rome at War
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Greeks defeated Persian invasions\, then fought each other. Alexander swept through the Persian empire. Rome and Carthage waged war on an immense scale\, and at the end of it the Carthaginian Republic was eradicated. Rome created and maintained through military force an empire embracing much of the known world. \nWars were important and shaped the development of the ancient world\, but how should we understand them? Battles were major events\, sometimes deciding wars\, and were clearly important and need to be understood. Yet there was a lot more to ancient warfare than pitched battles\, and it is vital to look at the attack and defence of fortified settlements and strongholds\, and at lower level raids and skirmishes. The story of warfare in the Greek and Roman worlds is not simple\, but remains of fundamental importance for understanding the era. \nAdrian Goldsworthy is an historian and novelist who specialises in ancient Roman history. 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LOCATION:Robert Beddard Room\, Oriel College\, Oxford\, OX1 4EW\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Adrian Goldsworthy – Greece & Rome at War
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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. He has worked extensively on the thought of Sir Francis Bacon\, alongside Continental theorists of the twentieth century. \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/samuel-zeitlin-geopolitics-political-thought-in-the-twentieth-century-tickets-1047392809087?aff=odcleoeventsincollection”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/samuel-zeitlin-geopolitics-political-thought-in-the-twentieth-century-2
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
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_1731926697841{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 2rem !important;}” text_direction=”default”]\n\nFrom the satirical barbs of Erasmus’s In Praise of Folly (1511) to the urbane games of Castiglione’s Il libro del cortegiano (1528)\, wit was a serious subject in the Renaissance\, addressed in natural philosophy and medicine as the intellective part of the human soul\, in artistic theory as the wellspring of creativity\, and in criticism as one of the most important markers of authorial voice. 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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URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/alexander-marr-art-wit-in-the-renaissance/2024-11-25
LOCATION:Noel Salter Room\, New College\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241121T170000
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Roberts – Montenegro: Realm of the Black Mountain
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_1731602802294{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 2rem !important;}” text_direction=”default”]Montenegro was admitted to the UN as its 192nd member in June 2006\, thus recovering the independence it had lost nearly ninety years earlier at the Versailles Peace Conference. Realm of the Black Mountain is the first full-length history of the country in English for a century\, tracing the history of the tiny Balkan state from its earliest roots in the medieval empire of Zeta through its consistently ambiguous and frequently problematic relationship with its larger neighbour Serbia\, the emergence of a priest/warrior ruler in the shape of the Vladika and its emergence from Ottoman suzerainty state at the Congress of Berlin. More recently\, the book focuses on its troubled twentieth century history\, its prominent role in the Balkan wars\, its unique deletion from world maps as an independent state despite being on the winning side in the Great War\, its ignominious role in the wars leading to the disintegration of Yugoslavia and its final reemergence as a member of the international community on the anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo in 2006. \nLady Elizabeth Roberts is a Balkan scholar and former diplomat. She has taught Southeast European History at universities in the United States and Ireland. Roberts is also the co-author\, with Kenneth Morrison\, of The Sandžak: A History (2013)[/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/elizabeth-roberts-montenegro-realm-of-the-black-mountain-tickets-1025040783577?aff=odcleoeventsincollection”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:Old Dining Hall\, St Edmund Hall\, Queen's Lane\, Oxford\, OX1 4AR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Salons
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SUMMARY:Adrian Goldsworthy – Greece & Rome at War
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URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/adrian-goldsworthy-greece-rome-at-war/2024-11-20
LOCATION:Robert Beddard Room\, Oriel College\, Oxford\, OX1 4EW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Studies
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SUMMARY:Samuel Zeitlin – Geopolitics & Political Thought in the Twentieth Century
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_1731929706445{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 2rem !important;}” text_direction=”default”]\n\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. 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. He has worked extensively on the thought of Sir Francis Bacon\, alongside Continental theorists of the twentieth century. \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/samuel-zeitlin-geopolitics-political-thought-in-the-twentieth-century-tickets-1047392809087?aff=odcleoeventsincollection”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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
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_1731926697841{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 2rem !important;}” text_direction=”default”]\n\nFrom the satirical barbs of Erasmus’s In Praise of Folly (1511) to the urbane games of Castiglione’s Il libro del cortegiano (1528)\, wit was a serious subject in the Renaissance\, addressed in natural philosophy and medicine as the intellective part of the human soul\, in artistic theory as the wellspring of creativity\, and in criticism as one of the most important markers of authorial voice. 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:Nicholas Rodger – Book Launch: A Naval History of Britain
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_1731603238508{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 2rem !important;}” text_direction=”default”]\n\nThe final instalment of N.A.M. Rodger’s definitive\, authoritative trilogy on Britain’s naval history. At the end of the French and Napoleonic wars\, British sea-power was at its apogee. But by 1840\, as one contemporary commentator put it\, the Admiralty was full of ‘intellects becalmed in the smoke of Trafalgar’. How the Royal Navy reformed and reinvigorated itself in the course of the nineteenth century is just one thread in this magnificent book\, which refuses to accept standard assumptions and analyses. Rodger sets all this in the essential context of politics and geo-strategy. The character and importance of leading admirals – Beatty\, Fisher\, Cunningham – is assessed\, together with the roles of other less famous but no less consequential figures. Based on a lifetime’s learning\, it is the culmination of one of the most significant British historical works in recent decades. \n\n\nNaval specialists will find much that is new here\, and will be invigorated by the originality of Rodger’s judgements; but everyone who is interested in the one of the central threads in British history will find it rewarding. \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/nicholas-rodger-book-launch-a-naval-history-of-britain-tickets-1047407793907?aff=ebdsoporgprofile”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/nicholas-rodger-book-launch-a-naval-history-of-britain
LOCATION:To Be Confirmed\, Oxford\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Salons
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SUMMARY:Laurence Brockliss & Justin Hardy – History and Film
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_1731930320745{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 2rem !important;}” text_direction=”default”]\n\nProfessional historians have always been dismissive of audio-visual accounts of the past. Feature films are regarded as little better than romantic fantasies. Documentaries\, however well intentioned\, are panned for their simple-mindedness. These two presentations on the American and French Revolutions set out to make the case for taking audio-visual accounts of the past seriously. The first is built around two six-hour feature films: the TV biopic John Adams (2008); and the made-for-cinema epic\, La Révolution française (1989). The second is built around two documentaries: Washington (2020) and Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution (2009). All four films are honest attempts to reconstruct the past on the screen. But because they are filmed\, not written\, histories they use techniques and conventions to present their narrative which are either unavailable or unacceptable to the professional historian. The two presenters will introduce a cross-section of these techniques and conventions. They will show their economy as well as their power in informing the poorly informed about past events and firing their interest to learn more. They will also emphasise that of the two filmic genres – the feature and the documentary – the latter has the greater potential as a form of history making. \nLaurence Brockliss is a historian of eighteenth-century France; Justin Hardy is a prizewinning filmmaker who has made a large number of documentaries about eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Britain. They are the authors of the forthcoming The Filmmaker as Historian. \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/laurence-brockliss-justin-hardy-history-on-film-tickets-1047401424857?aff=ebdsoporgprofile”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/laurence-brockliss-justin-hardy-history-and-film
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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T095312
CREATED:20241114T150831Z
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SUMMARY:Niall Ferguson – The Constitution of Academic Liberty
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_1731596658445{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 2rem !important;}” text_direction=”default”]‘In La Trahison des Clercs\, Julien Benda accused the intellectuals of his time of dabbling in “the racial passions\, class passions\, and national passions… owing to which men rise up against other men.” Today’s academic leaders would never recognize themselves as the heirs of those Benda condemned\, insisting that they are on the left\, whereas Benda’s targets were on the right. And yet\, as Victor Klemperer came to understand after 1945\, totalitarianism comes in two flavors\, though the ingredients are the same.’ \nIn this Pharos Summer Lecture\, Prof Niall Ferguson delves into the changes he has observed during his thirty-year career as an academic\, especially during the past decade. He will reflect on the state of academia in the throes of ‘culture wars’\, the crisis of leadership in US universities after the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023\, and why the situation in the UK – and in Oxford especially – is different. \nNiall Ferguson is a distinguished historian\, whose career has taken him to Oxford\, Cambridge\, Harvard\, NYU\, LSE\, and the Hoover Institution. He is now a Founding Fellow of the Pharos Foundation. The author of sixteen books\, his most recent work is Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe\, which wasa published by Allen Lane in 2021. He is also the authorised biographer of Henry Kissinger\, the first volume of which was published in 2015.[/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/niall-ferguson-the-constitution-of-academic-liberty-tickets-854118339947?aff=odcleoeventsincollection”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/niall-ferguson-the-constitution-of-academic-liberty
LOCATION:To Be Confirmed\, Oxford\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240503T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240503T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T095312
CREATED:20241114T154300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241202T160541Z
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SUMMARY:Shaun Maguire – Refounding Democracy: Free Speech and Information Warfare
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_1731598874458{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 2rem !important;}” text_direction=”default”]‘We invested $800M into X. This has given me a front row seat in the battle playing out for freedom of speech: some of the modern tactics being used to a) silence people and b) manipulate the narrative.’ \nIn this special Pharos event\, Sequoia Capital’s Shaun Maguire will speak about investing in democratic renewal in the face of information warfare\, censorship and institutional cowardice. \nDr Shaun Maguire is a Partner at Sequoia Capital. At Sequoia\, Shaun led their investments into SpaceX\, X\, The Boring Company\, Foundry and many others. Prior to Sequoia\, Shaun co-founded a cybersecurity company called Expanse\, which was acquired by Palo Alto Networks. He was a partner at Google Ventures\, and he worked at DARPA. He deployed to Afghanistan in support of DARPA’s mission there. He has a PhD in physics from Caltech\, a Masters degree in Statistics from Caltech\, and he has been to about 100 countries.[/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/shaun-maguire-refounding-democracy-free-speech-and-information-warfare-tickets-880517570757?aff=odcleoeventsincollection”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/shaun-maguire-refounding-democracy-free-speech-and-information-warfare
LOCATION:To Be Confirmed\, Oxford\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Salons
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240502T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240502T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T095312
CREATED:20241118T133448Z
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Sumption & Catharine Titi – Pharos Conversations: The Elgin Marbles
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_1731936866166{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 2rem !important;}” text_direction=”default”]\n\nIn the first ever Pharos Conversation\, a range of distinguished scholars\, intellectuals\, and commentators will debate the future of the Elgin Marbles. \nJonathan Sumption KC is a distinguished historian and one of Britain’s leading jurists\, serving on the UK Supreme Court (2012-2018) after a prodigious career as a barrister. He is also the author of a five volume history of the Hundred Years’ War\, and a prominent commentator on legal issues. His inaugural Pharos Lecture is available online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiM1EYlQgzg . \nCatharine Titi is a professor at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. Her specialisms include public international law\, the settlement of international disputes\, international investment law\, international arbitration\, and cultural heritage law. Her latest book is The Parthenon Marbles and International Law\, which was published by Springer in 2023. \nTiffany Jenkins is a British sociologist and writer\, who currently serves as the culture editor for the journal Sociology Compass. She has written extensively on the controversies surrounding the Elgin Marbles and wider issues around the restitution of cultural heritage. Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums – and Why they Should Stay There was published by Oxford University Press in 2016. \nAlexander Herman is the Director of the Institute of Art and Law. He has written\, taught and presented on an array of topics in relation to art\, law\, and cultural property\, often appearing in the national press and international journals. His most recent book is The Parthenon Marbles Dispute: Heritage\, Law\, Politics\, published by Hart in 2023. \nMario Trabucco della Torretta is a classical archaeoloist trained in Sicily and in Athens. His expertise covers classical Greek architecture and sculpture\, Ancient Athens\, and the Elgin Marbles. He is a prominent commentator and contributor to many journals\, and tweets at @Marrio_Trabucco. \nNigel Spivey is Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Classics at Emmanuel College\, Cambridge\, and a leading authority on Greco-Roman art – particularly of the Etruscans. He is the author many works\, including Etruscan Art (1997)\, Enduring Creation: Art\, Pain\, and Fortitude (2001)\, and Greek Sculpture (2013). \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/pharos-conversations-the-elgin-marbles-jonathan-sumption-catharine-titi-tickets-854122301797?aff=ebdsoporgprofile”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/pharos-conversations-the-elgin-marbles-jonathan-sumption-catharine-titi
LOCATION:To Be Confirmed\, Oxford\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Salons
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240429T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240429T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240429T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240429T190000
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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:Lord Tony Sewell – The End of ‘Race’: Agency & Self-Affirmation
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_1731599157371{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 2rem !important;}” text_direction=”default”]In the Pharos Spring 2024 Lecture\, Tony Sewell explores the drivers of black success in Britain today\, rejecting victimhood and low expectations while embracing a visionary view of black life\, in which achievement has little to do with ‘race’ and everything to do with agency and self-affirmation. Disrupting the very idea of ‘Blackness’ itself\, Lord Sewell presses for the collective humanity that is now so unpopular in the age of ‘identity politics’ and provides an antidote to the idea that the lives of black people should be a decolonising project. Freedom from mental slavery is knowing how to be free\, not struggling to be. After his lecture\, Lord Sewell was  joined for a discussion on stage by Deroy Murdock. \nBorn in Brixton\, Lord Tony Sewell CBE is an internationally-respected author\, educator\, and statesman. His path-breaking charity ‘Generating Genius’ has helped hundreds of young black Britons to forge careers in STEM. In July 2020\, he was appointed Chair of the Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities: the Sewell Report made him the target of a cancellation effort by his critics\, but his recommendations now form the basis for the government’s policy on tackling racial inequalities. Sewell was elevated to the House of Lords in 2022. He was honoured by the government of Jamaica in 2023. His new book\, Black Success: The Surprising Truth will be published by Forum in March. \nDeroy Murdock is a prominent political commentator\, currently contributing editor at the National Review and formerly Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution.[/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/lord-tony-sewell-the-end-of-race-agency-self-affirmation-tickets-795591976017?aff=odcleoeventsincollection”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://pharos.foundation/event/lord-tony-sewell-the-end-of-race-agency-self-affirmation
LOCATION:To Be Confirmed\, Oxford\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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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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