Norman Geras conference

by Chris Bertram on March 14, 2004

I’m just back from a trip which included a visit to Manchester for “a conference to honour the academic career of Norman Geras”:http://les1.man.ac.uk/government/whatsnew/manceptconference.html . Chris Brooke of The Virtual Stoa “asks”:http://users.ox.ac.uk/~magd1368/weblog/2004_03_01_archive.html#107920404047110697 how it went. Very well indeed, I think. I gave a paper in the morning on the relationship between Marx and Rousseau, Ian Kershaw gave a most interesting paper on the singularity of the Holocaust, Shane O’Neill spoke about Richard Rorty and Simon Caney about the concept of a crime against humanity. The discussion was all very friendly and civilised and I got the impression that “Norm”:http://normblog.typepad.com/ enjoyed the event (though he hasn’t blogged about it yet). Anyway, thanks to Norm and Hillel and the other folks in Manchester for inviting me: it was an honour and a pleasure.

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Colin Farrelly 03.14.04 at 2:59 pm

Hi Chris,

I wish I could have been there. The Manchester folks are a great bunch. I miss them!

Cheers,
Colin

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Eve Garrard 03.14.04 at 9:58 pm

It was a pleasure to meet you there, Chris, and I very much enjoyed your paper.

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Gandalf 03.18.04 at 2:38 pm

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