Events

Upcoming events

Event Information:

  • Fri
    05
    Mar
    2021

    Koen Bostoen (UGent): Epidemic-driven population collapse in Congolese rainforest 1600-1400 years ago urges reassessment of the Bantu Expansion

    3:00 pmMS-Teams

    Koen Bostoen (UGent): “Epidemic-driven population collapse in Congolese rainforest 1600-1400 years ago urges reassessment of the Bantu Expansion”

    Abstract: here

     

    De vergadering zal via MS-Teams plaatsvinden: link te vinden in nieuwsbrief

    Externen kunnen deelnemen door een e-mail te sturen aan dialing@ugent.be.

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Past events

Event Information:

  • Thu
    10
    Dec
    2015

    Shakespeare Forger and Cretan Liar : Puzzling over William Henry Ireland

    Blandijnberg 2

    Jack Lynch (Rutgers University): Shakespeare Forger and Cretan Liar : Puzzling over William Henry Ireland

    I discuss the challenges of using bibliographical evidence to tell the truth about someone who was almost always lying. Most of our evidence about the life of William Henry Ireland is books and manuscripts that have passed through his hands -- but he was such a compulsive and pathological liar that anything he said must be doubted and anything he touched is suspect. The result is a strange version of the Cretan Liar's Paradox, in which we're forced to glean the truth from documents that refuse to give it.

     

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