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Religion plays an important role in the rhetoric used by the Russians to justify the war. Ukraine, and mostly Kiev, is presented by Russia as a cultural and religious asset for Russian identity and ambitions. What is more, the current war is interpreted as an existential and apocalyptic fight between good and evil.
View webinarEver noticed how your hands form these almost perfect mirror images of each other? Almost perfect, because no matter how you orient them, it is impossible to perfectly superimpose them.
View webinarThe Tractatus gives rise to many exciting issues of interpretation. The speakers of the Heyting Day will throw light on some of these issues, especially on Wittgenstein’s views on the nature of logic and on the role of the first person in the Tractatus.
View webinarIn her lecture Upinder Singh, Professor of History, Ashoka University, Sonepat, India, argues that the fundamental template of ancient Indian political ideology and religious policy was established during the period c. 200 BCE-300 CE through a continuous dialogic process revealed in the manner in which kings inscribed their power on their realm. She does so by drawing on epigraphic evidence to focus on three themes.
View webinarGet inspired and be part of the dialogue of the laureates of the Heineken Prizes.
View webinarWhat role can artists play in the plainly unjust and violent war in Ukraine?
View meetingThe 29th Gonda Lecture will be held by Dominic Goodall, Sanskritist and Professor (directeur d’études) at the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, Pondicherry, India. The title of this lecture is 'Kālidāsa’s Kingship among the Khmers'.
View meetingBob Pinedo Cancer Care Award 2022 for Laurence Zitvogel.
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