Invited by the Sigma Club of the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS) Balazs Gyenis is giving a talk titled "A proof of tendency towards equilibrium". For details see link.

Please find further pieces of information to the CFP Arts of the city.

CFP: Arts and the City

The Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre of the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, together with Károli Gáspár University, is organising a conference entitled Arts and the City. The conference will be held in Budapest, on 23-24 May, 2019.

The Call for Papers is available at https://artsandthecity2019.wordpress.com/ and https://artsandthecity.webnode.hu/

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

ANDREW GIBSON, Royal Holloway, University of London
BERNARDINE EVARISTO, writer, London (author of Lara, Soul Tourists and Blonde Roots, among other novels)
NOÉMI SZÉCSI, writer, Budapest (author of The Finno-Ugrian Vampire and Mandragora Street 7, among other novels)

Leuven University Press has expressed an interest in publishing selected papers, full chapters are expected to be submitted before 15 August, 2019.

For further details, see: https://fi.btk.mta.hu/hu/esemenyek/esemenyek/1214-cfp-the-arts-and-the-city

The Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre of the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, together with Károli Gáspár University, is organising a conference entitled Arts and the City. The conference will be held in Budapest, on 23-24 May, 2019.

The Call for Papers is available at https://artsandthecity2019.wordpress.com/ and https://artsandthecity.webnode.hu/

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
ANDREW GIBSON, Royal Holloway, University of London
BERNARDINE EVARISTO, writer, London (author of Lara, Soul Tourists and Blonde Roots, among other novels)
NOÉMI SZÉCSI, writer, Budapest (author of The Finno-Ugrian Vampire and Mandragora Street 7, among other novels)

Registration fees:

Early Bird (until 30 April)
Full price: 55 EUR; partial fee waiver: 40 EUR
Student: 40 EUR; partial fee waiver: 25 EUR

Normal
Full price: 65 EUR; partial fee waiver: 45 EUR
Student: 45 EUR; partial fee waiver: 30 EUR

Partial registration fee waivers are available to participants from low and middle income countries, please apply before 31 March, 2019.

Please submit 250-word abstracts and short bios using the form under “Contact” at https://artsandthecity2019.wordpress.com/ before 15 February, 2019.

On account of another assignment, Ferenc Hörcher resigned from the position of the director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He held the position for six years between 1 January 2013 and  31 December 2018. He will remain at the institute as senior researcher on a part time basis.

The MTA BTK Morals and Science Research Group cordially invites you to the upcoming talk of its seminar series:

Dr. Charles T. Wolfe (University of Ghent)
Vitalism and the Metaphysics of Life: The Discreet Charm of Eighteenth-Century Vitalism

Date: 10 December 2018, 4pm
Venue: MTA BTK Institute of Philosophy, 4 Tóth Kálmán st., 1097 Budapest, 7th floor