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You are cordially invited to attend our public lectures of the Summer Academy "Language, Science and Aesthetics".Lecture I  11 Sept, 5 – 6.30 pm, AUB, Building 37 Ray Brassier (American University of Beirut)Dialectics between Suspicion and TrustLecture II  12 Sept, 5 – 6.30 pm, Orient-Institut BeirutHans Harder (University of Heidelberg) Reading Paratexts: The significance of textual framesLecture III  13 Sept, 11.30 am – 1.00 pm, Orient-Institut BeirutNader el-Bizri (American University of Beirut)Ontological-Epistemological Renewals within the Dialectics of Tradition and Modernity? Critical reflections onmethodology in the field of ‘Arabic sciences and philosophy’Lecture IV  15 Sept, 5 – 6.30 pm, Orient-Institut BeirutKirsten Scheid (American University of Beirut)DhawqLecture V  16 Sept, 5 – 6.30 pm, Orient-Institut BeirutMonica Juneja (University of Heidelberg)From the Religious to the Aesthetic Image – or the struggle over art that offendsLecture VI  18 Sept, 5 – 6.30 pm, AUB, Building 37Bodhisattva Kar (University of Cape Town)Modernity and Misplacement: A curious history of anachronismThe public lectures are part of the Summer Academy “Language, Science and Aesthetics – Articulations of Subjectivity and Objectivity in the Modern Middle East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia”, which takes place from 11 - 19 September 2014 in Beirut.Jointly organized by Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) and Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin.&#160;&#160;