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KYOTO - CAMBRIDGE International Symposium

Integrating the Humanities: The Roles of Classics and Philosophy

Monday 25 September, 2006
Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge

IHRCP 2006



1st International Symposium

  
Continuity and Change of the Humanism in the Modern Europe
   
―― Political Culture, Classical Studies and University ――

          
The First International Symposium for the Study of
  Historical Structure of the Creation and Development of the Humanities in Europe



        
Time & Date: 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Sunday, 6 March, 2005
        Place: Lecture Room No.3, New Buildings of the Graduate School of Letters
            Kyoto University, KYOTO, JAPAN



            
    Program         → Prospectus
    
   Opening Address: Takashi Minamikawa (Kyoto University)

   Presentation 1: Edward Opalinski
    (Polish Academy of Sciences, the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Poland)
    : The Significance of Classical Education for Political Culture in Poland during the
      Sixteenth-Seventeenth Century

   Presentation 2: Toshimi Morimura (Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo)
    : Antiquity as Lesson: Does Commercial Prosperity lead to the Ruin of Nations?

   Comment: Taku Minagawa (Waseda University, Tokyo)

                 Lunch Time

   Presentation 3: Werner Eck (University of Cologne(Universität zu Köln), Germany)
    : Die Entwicklung der Alten Geschichte in Deutschland seit dem 19. Jh. im
     kulturellen und politischen Kontext
    (The Development of Ancient History in Germany since the 19th Century, in Its
     Cultural and Political Context)

   Presentation 4: Yasunori Kasai (Niigata University, Niigata)
    : Classics under Competition: the Case for Balliol College Oxford

   Comment: Asako Kurihara (Osaka University, Osaka)

                 Short Break

   Points under discussion: Satoshi Koyama (Kyoto University)

   General Discussion
     Chairman: Yoshihisa Hattori (Kyoto University)

   Closing Address: Yoshihisa Hattori

   Reception: cafe restaurant Camphora, Kyoto University (6:00 - 8:00 p.m.)



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