All seminars take place on Mondays at 5 pm (UK time) on zoom

5 October 2020

Rüdiger Zill (Einstein Forum), author of Der absolute Leser – Hans Blumenberg. Eine intellektuelle Biographie in conversation with Nicholas Halmi (Oxford) 

12 October 2020

Jeffrey Barash (Amiens): The Power of Rhetoric.  Hans Blumenberg, Ernst Cassirer and the Legacy of Herder

19 October 2020  

Jean-Claude Monod (ENS): Rhetorical concept and platonic concept of politics – from Blumenberg to the ‘post-truth era’ 

26 October 2020

Leif Weatherby (NYU): Illegitimate Intelligence: Hans Blumenberg and AI 

2 November 2020

Angus Nicholls (QMUL) and Felix Heidenreich (Stuttgart): The Original Context and Contemporary Relevance of Hans Blumenberg’s Präfiguration 

9 November 2020

Paul Fleming (Cornell): Giving Pause: Blumenberg and Freud 

16 November 2020 

Hannes Bajohr (Basel), Florian Fuchs (Princeton) and Joe Kroll (Princeton), editors and translators of History, Metaphors, Fables. A Hans Blumenberg Reader (2020) in conversation with Nicholas Halmi (Oxford) and Audrey Borowski (Oxford) 

23 November 2020 

Eva Geulen (ZFL Berlin): Blumenberg ‚in the Horizon‘ 

30 November 2020

Willem Styfhalls (Leuven): Hans Blumenberg’s eschatology – On the Metaphor of the World’s Doom

7 December 2020 

Pini Ifergan (Bar-Ilan): Goethe and Philosophy? Blumenberg’s version