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Welcome to the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies!

The “Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (MCAS)–Jewish Scepticism” is a DFG-Kolleg-Forschergruppe, directed by Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. Giuseppe Veltri. It opened in October 2015 and is planned to run for eight years. The central aim of the Maimonides Centre is to explore and research scepticism in Judaism in its dual manifestation of a purely philosophical tradition and a more general expression of sceptical strategies, concepts, and attitudes in the cultural field.

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Workshop|22 May 2017
Simone Luzzatto's "Socrates"

The Sceptical Atelier is a pre-read event devoted to the discussion of the forthcoming bilingual (Italian/English) edition of Simone Luzzatto’s Socrate overo dell’humano sapere (1651) prepared by Giuseppe Veltri and Michela Torbidoni. It is an important but overlooked work, which provides a critical perspective on the place...

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Event|8 May 2017
PROGRAMME ONLINE! International Conference on Scepticism

The first International Conference on Scepticism of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies will take place from Monday, 08 May 2017, until Thursday, 11 May 2017.

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Event|3 May 2017
Maimonides Lectures on Scepticism

We would like to invite you to our Maimonides Lectures on Scepticism in the summer term 2017. Our guests are Nuccio Ordine, Jonathan Garb, Jani Hakkarainen, Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, Omri Boehm and Carlos Fraenkel.

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Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies
Schlüterstraße 51 (5th floor)
20146 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-9767
E-Mail: maimonides-centre@uni-hamburg.de