Water, Bathing and Gods. Reflections on Spring Cults and Bathing Practice

The Center for Religious Studies
in cooperation with the L’Institut français de Budapest
cordially invite you to a lecture by

John Scheid(Collège de France)

Water, bathing and gods. Reflections on the so-called spring cults and bathing practice

 

Friday,

October 25, 2013

5:30 PM

CEU, Nádor 13
Room 001

Reception to follow

 

Breaching Constitutional Law in the Fight Against Terrorism

In the lecture I am going to analyse the discourse about the conflict between the rule of law and the responses to the terrorist challenge in the US and in Europe (especially in Germany). Besides showing that the structure of the discourse is complicated but also surprisingly similar, we are going to see what kind of implied presuppositions explain disagreements in the debates.

JS Lecture Series: Lars Dencik: The Dialectics of Diaspora: The Art of being Jewish in Contemporary Modernity.

The Central European University

Jewish Studies Program

 

cordially invites you to a lecture by

 

Lars Dencik

Roskilde University

 

The Dialectics of Diaspora: The Art of being Jewish in Contemporary Modernity.

 

George Lakoff: Cascade theory: Embodied Cognition and Language from a Neural Perspective

A general overview of a theory of embodied cognition under development by myself and Srini Narayanan. It will begin with basic cognitive linguistics: Embodied Schemas, Frames, Conceptual Metaphor and Metonymy, Blends, Constructions, and the basic experiments, and will present in general form a theory of the neural circuitry needed to characterize these phenomena in detail. The presentation will be informal and for a nontechnical audience. It will flesh out the presentation on Neural Politics given the previous day.

Mary the Physician: Women, Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages

This lecture explores the interaction of spiritual and physical health in writing by and about late medieval English women. The idea of Christ the Physician was widespread in the Middle Ages because cure of the soul was seen as an essential aspect of medical care. Yet for women in particular, the Virgin Mary seems to have had particular associations with healing that went beyond her more generally recognized association with childbirth.