David Nirenberg at Gulbenkian. Inaugural lecture of the GIAS
11 and 12 Nov. Free entry
Historian and medievalist David Nirenberg, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, delivers the inaugural lecture of the Gulbenkian Institute for Advanced Study (GIAS) and returns the following day for a public conversation on the place of the humanities in contemporary society.
Experimental Forms for Intellectual Life
11 Nov / 18:30 / Free admission. A historian and medievalist, Nirenberg reflects on the role of institutes for advanced study as spaces for intellectual experimentation, sustained inquiry and dialogue across fields of knowledge.
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Why the Humanities Matter Today. David Nirenberg in conversation with José Maria Pimentel
12 nov / 18:00 / Free admission. What place do the different approaches within the humanities have at a time of rapid technological, political and cultural change? The conversation is a live episode of 45 Graus, the podcast hosted by the economist José Maria Pimentel.
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David Nirenberg is the tenth Director and Leon Levy Professor of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a post he took up in July 2022. Much of his work focuses on Christians, Jews and Muslims in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean. His books include Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages (1996) and Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition (2013). He also wrote Uncountable: A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present (2021) in collaboration with his father, the mathematician Ricardo Nirenberg. At the University of Chicago, he was founding director of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society and Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences.
About the Gulbenkian Institute for Advanced Study
The GIAS is an independent institute established in 2025 by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. It hosts internationally renowned scholars for limited periods, usually between three and eight months, to pursue research of their own choosing with few regular obligations. David Nirenberg’s lecture launches an annual lecture series at the Institute.
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