Event Date: 5th November 2010
Room B34, Birkbeck College, Malet St, London WC1

Programme:

Stefan Collini (Cambridge) ‘Holding our nerve’

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Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck)
‘La Fontaine’s Cat, Kafka’s Ape, and the Humanities’

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Francis Mulhern (New Left Review)
‘Humanities and University Corporatism’

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Raimond Gaita (Kings, London)
‘Callicles’ Challenge’ - (AUDIO HERE)

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Iain Pears (Historian and Writer)
‘Taxes, banks, loans, and students’

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Kate Soper (London Met)
‘Rhetoric, Reality, Revisionings’

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Quentin Skinner (QMUL)
‘Why the history of philosophy?’

This event has been recorded and is available as a series of podcasts at the following URL:
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2010/11/why-humanities-conference-page/