Category: Hyehwa Lectures

• March 25, 2026

  Monarchy and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Frederick the Great as Author

  Convenor Avi LIFSCHITZ (University of Oxford) When 17-23 Apr 2026 Where 31310, Sungkyunkwan University What Lecture 1. (15:30, 17 Apr 2026) How to interpret a monarch’s writings, and why it matters Lecture 2. (15:30, 21 Apr 2026) What is poetry for? Self-disciplining and the verse debate (querelle du vers) Lecture 3. (15:30, 23 Apr 2026) Limits…
• December 28, 2024

  The Moral and Political Economy of Enlightenment in France and Scotland

  Convenor Hiroki UENO (Keio University) When 24-28 Feb 2025 Where 31311, Sungkyunkwan University What Lecture 1. (15:00, 24 Feb 2025) Encyclopedism and its early reception in the Scottish Enlightenment: Comparing Adam Smith’s view of “system” with d’Alembert’s Lecture 2. (15:00, 26 Feb 2025) David Hume as a Francophile “citizen of the world”: Revisiting Richard Sher’s…
• September 18, 2023

  Jacques Derrida and History: Deconstruction as “a philosophy aware of itself as historical in each of its aspects”

  Convenor Minho KIM (Université Paris 8) When Oct – Nov, 2023 Where Online meeting (Zoom)https://zoom.us/j/2739110432 What The aim of these lectures is to provide a new introduction to Derrida’s philosophy with a particular focus on historicity. This is less an explanation of the Derridean understanding of history than a reconstruction of Derrida’s philosophy through the…