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Day 1: The Epistemic Goals and Status of the Humanities
August 21
| 09.00 – 09.30 | Registration | |
| 09.30 – 09.45 | Opening | |
| 09.45 – 11.00 | Lecture 1 | The Humanities, Understanding, and Wisdom Stephen Grimm (Fordham University) |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11.30 – 12.45 | Lecture 2 | The Tragic Consequences of the Secular Imperative on the Humanities: New Possibilities Mary Poplin (Claremont Graduate University) |
| 12.45 – 14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 – 15.15 | Lecture 3 | What can we learn from the high points of European literature about the value and meaning of life? Suzanne Keen (Washington and Lee University) |
| 15.15 – 15.45 | Break | |
| 15.45 – 17.00 | Lecture 4 | How does poetry give us a handle on answers to life’s Big Questions? Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei (Fordham University) |
| 17.30 -
20.00 |
Dinner
Theatre Show |
An Evening with C.S. Lewis |
Day 2: The Humanities and the Big Questions
August 22
| 09.30 – 10.45 | Lecture 5 | Was thinking of theology as the queen of the sciences a mistake? Gijsbert van den Brink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) |
| 10.45 – 11.15 | Break | |
| 11.15 – 12.30 | Lecture 6 | How Literature Embodies Unique Epistemic Value: A Case Study of Ignorance, Knowledge, and Understanding in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Edith Wharton’s Summer Rik Peels (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) |
| 12.30 – 13.45 | Lunch | |
| 13.45 – 15.00 | Lecture 7 | The role of the humanities in liberal democracy Klemens Kappel (University of Copenhagen) |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Break | |
| 15.30 – 16.45 | Lecture 8 | Science and humanities—penultimate and ultimate curiosity? Andrew Briggs (Oxford University) |
| 17.30 | Dinner |
Day 3: Why the Humanities Matter
August 23
| 09.30 – 10.45 | Lecture 9 | Does history teach us anything? Maartje Janse (Leiden University) |
| 10.45 – 11.15 | Break | |
| 11.15 – 12.30 | Lecture 10 | On the Uses and Abuses of the Humanities for University and for Society at large Marcus Düwell (Utrecht University) |
| 12.30 – 13.45 | Lunch | |
| 13.45 – 15.00 | Lecture 11 | Truth, Politics and the Humanistic Attitude Michael Lynch (University of Connecticut) |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Break | |
| 15.30 – 17.00 | Lecture 12 | Panel discussion on valorization in the humanities Sabine Roeser (Delft University of Technology), Ben Peperkamp (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Michael Lynch (University of Connecticut) |
| 17.00 – 18.00 | Closing Drinks |
More information:
- General information
- Theatre show C.S. Lewis
- Conference Venue
- Photos of the Summer Seminar
