This Wednesday (24.9.2008) Ms Sonia Sahoo will give a talk on Linguistics.
On Friday (26.9.2008) Amlan Das Gupta will speak on Walter Benjamin's Theses on History. This is the last lecture in the History segment.
Benjamin's text is available at
http://www.efn.org/~dredmond/ThesesonHistory.html
Please read the text carefully before Friday!
Monday, September 22, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
Class on Friday, 19th September 2008
The second lecture of the History component of our General Theory course, entitled "History and Salvation: Saeculum and the City of God" will take place on Friday, 19th September 2008.
The main text, Augustine's City of God, can be found here. The complete URL for the same can be found here.
For further reference and discussion, you could also look at:
RA Markus, Saeculum (CUP:1970)
JGA Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment (PUP: rev. ed. 2003)
The main text, Augustine's City of God, can be found here. The complete URL for the same can be found here.
For further reference and discussion, you could also look at:
RA Markus, Saeculum (CUP:1970)
JGA Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment (PUP: rev. ed. 2003)
Friday, September 12, 2008
Links
These are links to some of the primary texts for the History component of our General Theory course:
Herodotus, Persian Wars
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian Wars
Xenophon, Cyropaedia
Cicero, On the Orator
The complete URLs for the above can be found here.
Herodotus, Persian Wars
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian Wars
Xenophon, Cyropaedia
Cicero, On the Orator
The complete URLs for the above can be found here.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Class on Friday, 12 September 2008
Professor Amlan Das Gupta will take the General Theory class on Friday, 12th September 2008, on History. Consider this confirmed.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Class on Wednesday, 10th September 2008
On Wednesday, 10th September 2008, Professor Sobha Chattopadhyay will take a class on Modernism as part of the General Background series of lectures. This has been confirmed.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
No class...
...on Friday, 5th September 2008. Dr. Santanu Biswas will take class on Saturday, 6th September 2008 (at 11:00 a.m.) instead. This has been confirmed.
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