23 November 2005, 6pm, Brunei Gallery, SOAS

The legal philosopher HLA Hart once wrote of his own discipline: “jurisprudence trembles uncertainly on the margin of many subjects.” By using the word “tremble” he gave a clue to how the concept of the interdisciplinary be rethought. In this lecture Anthony Julius, the new Chairman of the London Consortium and Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College, pursued Hart’s clue to a series of conclusions about the nature of interdisciplinary practices in the arts and humanities.