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In a lecture delivered on 12 September 2006, Pope Benedict XVI quoted from a dialogue believed to have occurred in 1391 between Manuel II and a Persian scholar and recorded in a book by Manuel II ( Dialogue 7 of Twenty-six Dialogues with a Persian ) in which the Emperor stated: " Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.
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He delivered his definitive lecture, Des possibilités de la peinture, at the Sorbonne in 1924.
In some of his work in particular his provocative lecture on " The Nation State and Economic Policy " delivered in 1895, Weber criticizes the immigration of Poles and blames the Junker class for perpetuating Slavic immigration to serve their selfish interests.
This is the transcript of Michael Majerus ' lecture delivered to the British Humanist Association on Darwin Day 2004.
Locally, the main Student Union buildings of the University of Cape Town are named in his honour and each year a commemorative Steve Biko lecture, open to all students, is delivered on the anniversary of his death.
Several months after qualifying as a lecturer in philosophy, Adorno delivered an inaugural lecture at the Institute for Social Research, an independent organization which had recently appointed Horkheimer as its director and, with the arrival of the literary scholar Leo Lowenthal, social psychologist Erich Fromm and philosopher Herbert Marcuse, sought to exploit recent theoretical and methodological advances in the social sciences.
After stopping in Paris, where he met Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Michel Leiris and Rene Leibowitz, Adorno delivered a lecture entitled " The Present State of Empirical Social Research in Germany " at a conference on opinion research.
In 1870, Rudolf Clausius delivered the lecture " On a Mechanical Theorem Applicable to Heat " to the Association for Natural and Medical Sciences of the Lower Rhine, following a 20 year study of thermodynamics.
For instance in a lecture delivered at Bremen in 1949, Heidegger said: " Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.
At an AIEE meeting on May 16, 1888, Nikola Tesla delivered a lecture entitled A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers, describing the equipment which allowed efficient generation and use of polyphase alternating currents.
His lecture, titled, was delivered while wearing a deep-sea diving suit and helmet.
His last display of explosive energy occurred on November 8, 1960 in his polemical lecture, " The Situation of the Black Artist and Intellectual in the United States ", delivered to students and members of the American Church in Paris.
The lecture was delivered to the Foreign Service and the State Department, on 17 September 1947.
Derrida first received major attention outside France with his lecture, " Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences ," delivered at Johns Hopkins University in 1966 ( and subsequently included in Writing and Difference ).
Wellsian dream of World Brain was first expressed in a lecture delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Weekly Evening Meeting, Friday, November 20th, 1936.
" he love feeling ," Rank observes in a lecture delivered in 1927 at the University of Pennsylvania, " unites our I with the other, with the Thou Du, with men, with the world, and so does away with fear.
The inaugural lecture On the origin and duty of literature, delivered by Foscolo in January 1809 when appointed to the chair of Italian eloquence at Pavia, was conceived in the same spirit.
According to the statement of Philostratus, on which little reliance can be placed, he delivered his lecture on virtue and vice in Thebes and Sparta also.
Like Protagoras and others, Prodicus delivered lectures in return for payment of from half a drachma to 50 drachmae, probably according to whether the hearers limited themselves to a single lecture or a more complete course.
* The Romantic Movement and the Study of History: the John Coffin memorial lecture delivered before the University of London on 17 February 1969, 1969.
He never delivered a lecture in his new position.
Berlin is popularly known for his essay " Two Concepts of Liberty ", delivered in 1958 as his inaugural lecture as Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford.
* Modern parliamentary eloquence ; the Rede lecture, delivered before the University of Cambridge, 6 November 1913 by George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston at archive. org
* Abraham Lincoln, an address delivered by Miss Ida Tarbell for the Students ' lecture association of the University of Michigan 1909
The inaugural George Winterton lecture was delivered by Chief Justice Robert French, of the High Court of Australia, at the Sydney Law School, the University of Sydney, on the topic of the Executive Power under the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia in February 2010.
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I was puzzled by the remark, then I recalled the voice of mild Professor Howard Griggs three years ago in a university lecture on primitive societies.
Somehow managing to get out a cool, poised, `` Won't you hold on a second, please '', I covered up the mouthpiece, and with more warmth and less poise, gave a quick lecture on crime and punishment, mostly the latter, including Devil's Island and the remoter reaches of Siberia.
This gave her an opportunity to ring down the curtain with the petulant admonition that we should not presume to lecture her on Abstraction.
This Sunday those attending the second session will hear a lecture by Kern on the world situation ; ;
And at this point, Lucy thought, there should be a lecture on little cousins' sharing dolls -- but she could sympathize with Susan ; ;
Two works by Mauss in particular proved to have enduring relevance: Essay on the Gift, a seminal analysis of exchange and reciprocity, and his Huxley lecture on the notion of the person, the first comparative study of notions of person and selfhood cross-culturally.
Jakob made a lecture tour of the United States and South America where he wrote a paper on the neuropathology of yellow fever.
Popular for his oratory, the ex-President traveled extensively throughout Tennessee and the country on the public lecture circuit.
He was still teaching in 515, since Olympiodorus heard him lecture on Plato's Gorgias in that year.
* The full text of a lecture by John Melville-Jones on the life of this emperor is located at:.
In parallel with the revolutions against rising political absolutism based on established religion and the replacememt of faith by reasonable faith, new systems of metaphysics were promulgated in the lecture halls by charismatic professors, such as Immanuel Kant, Nietzsche and Hegel.
* MIT video lecture series on biology
Here he remained, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII to lecture on polemical theology in the new Roman College.
( A lecture on DVD.
* China Rediscovers its Own History 100 minute lecture on Chinese history given by renowned scholar / author Yu Ying-shih, Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University.
* ( iTunes link ) Podcast lecture on Candide, from Dr Martin Evans at Stanford University
The lecture that evening was on " Fairy Life ", and at the end of the meeting Polly Wright showed the two fairy photographs taken by her daughter and niece to the speaker.
Since then, Escamilla has made additional videos and embarked on lecture tours to promote his claims.
* John Perkins lecture on Corporatocracy
At the University, he founded a lecture course on sociology, maintaining it until his retirement.
The lecture also gives a sort of insight to what Jesus may have be feeling during the execution from the whippings and beatings, to the crown of thorns, to the nailing on the cross.
In a lecture on the current system of international communication Piron argued that " Esperanto relies entirely on innate reflexes " and " differs from all other languages in that you can always trust your natural tendency to generalize patterns ...
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