Events October | November | December January | 2017–2018

Readings and talks by J M Coetzee, Ali Smith, Monica Ali, David Olusoga, Tom Holland Being Human festival: ‘Lost and Found’ Senate House Library exhibition: ‘Queer Between the Covers’ IALS 70th anniversary celebration Plus hundreds of other events highlighting the latest research across the humanities

sas.ac.uk The School of Advanced Study, University of (SAS) is the UK’s national centre for the support and promotion of research in the humanities. Its nine institutes offer an extensive programme of seminars, workshops, lectures and conferences. Each year around 1,800 events are organised on humanities topics, attracting more than 68,000 participants from around the world. Senate House Library is the central library of the . With more than two million books and 1,200 archival collections, it is one of the UK’s largest academic libraries focused on the arts, humanities and social sciences. Several of SAS’s collections are housed within the Library, which holds a wealth of primary source material from the medieval period to the modern age. The Library organises a number of events and exhibitions throughout the year. The majority of SAS and Senate House Library events and exhibitions are free and open to the public. All are welcome and encouraged to take advantage of the unique access to current research in the humanities and social sciences that these events provide. For a complete list of upcoming events and exhibitions, please visit sas.ac.uk and senatehouselibrary.ac.uk.

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Highlights 02 How to use this guide Exhibitions 27 Events are listed in date and time order. On the left we list the department responsible for Events calendar – listings 35 organising the event, the time, type of event or Seminar series 132 series and the venue. On the right we list the event title, speaker(s) and a short description Research training 137 if available. There is further information about Calls for papers 163 highlighted events at the start of the guide, and about research training events and calls How to find us 168 for papers at the end.

Booking Cover image: Detail of ceiling in Crush Hall, Senate House. Photo by Matt Crossick. Most of our events are free and open to the public. Some events have limited capacity and advance booking is advised. The event information in this guide was correct at the time of going to press, but may be subject to change. Please check our websites for the latest information or email SAS at [email protected] or Senate House Library at [email protected].

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As part of an international conference on Coetzee and the Archive: his literary archive, the Nobel Prize-winning A Reading by J M Coetzee author J M Coetzee will give a public reading at 6 October Senate House. One of the most distinguished novelists in the world, Coetzee is also an eminent critic and reviewer. His work has been recognized through numerous literary prizes, including the Jerusalem Prize, the CAN Prize, the Prix Femina Étranger, and the Booker Prize (twice). Coetzee’s best-known novels include Dusklands (1974), Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), Foe (1986), Disgrace (1999), and The Schooldays of Jesus (2016). Coetzee has also written fictionalised autobiographies, criticism and letters, translations, poetry, and film and television adaptations. The reading will feature a performance of Bach by Kathryn Mosley (Goldsmiths). This event is generously supported by CHASE and The John Coffin Memorial Trust.

See pages 38 and 40 for event information J M Coetzee. Photo credit: Bert-Nienhaus credit: Photo J M Coetzee.

2  School of Advanced Study Highlights Indenture Abolition Centenary Conference 6–7 October In collaboration with the Yesu Centre for Caribbean Studies at the , the Centre for Postcolonial Studies will host this two-day conference to mark the centenary of the abolition of indenture in the British Empire. The conference will include presentations from new and established scholars and feature the latest research on indentureship and its legacies. It will incorporate two significant evening events: the University of Warwick’s inaugural Gafoor Lecture in Indentureship Studies on Friday, 6 October, delivered by Brinsley Samaroo of the University of the West Indies, and an outstanding panel of writers from across the indentured labour diaspora co-curated with Commonwealth Writers on Saturday, 7 October, that will feature readings by Gaiutra Bahadu (), Ananda Devi (Mauritius), Lakshmi Persuad (Trinidad), Mary Rokanadravu (Fiji,) and Agnes Sam (South Africa). This exciting literary evening is made possible with the support of Commonwealth Writers and The John Coffin Memorial Trust .

See pages 40, 41 and 42 for event information Antique postcard from the Caribbean depicting an Indian woman in front of harvested sugar cane (‘cane trash’), trash’), of harvested (‘cane sugar cane depicting in front an Indian woman the Caribbean from postcard Antique 1900–15 c. Trinidad,

School of Advanced Study 3 Highlights Highlights London Library Walk 8 October Spend an early autumn evening exploring some of London’s early eighteenth-century libraries. This walk, led by Alice Ford-Smith of Bernard Quaritch Ltd, will follow in the footsteps of bookseller and antiquary John Bagford, whose An Account of Several Libraries in and about London, for the Satisfaction of the Curious, both Natives and Foreigners was published in 1708. Bagford was at the centre of London’s book trade, selling collections and helping form new ones. In the process he created a unique record of the libraries that operated in the city he loved. This walk features the streets and alleyways of Bagford’s Samuel Beckett. Roger Pic [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia domain], via [Public Roger Pic Samuel Beckett. London, introducing this book history pioneer and the libraries he knew so well. Jouer Beckett / Performing See page 43 Beckett for event information 12–13 October To what extent is the interpretation of a playwright’s works determined by the performance conditions in the country where they are performed? These two study days address this question in relation to Samuel Beckett, whose plays reveal different qualities depending on whether they are staged in France or in the UK. Participants will explore the influence of cultural intermediaries on the reception of Beckett’s bilingual oeuvre through analysis of directorial customs, actor training and acting practices, theatre management, institutional financial and material resources, touring networks, and audience demographics. This event is generously supported by the Cassal Trust Fund.

See page 46 for event information The walk meets at Stationers’ Hall (pictured: interior). Hall (pictured: Stationers’ meets at walk The

4  School of Advanced Study Highlights Dickens’s Dream, Robert William Buss. Photo credit: Charles Dickens Museum, London Dickens Charles credit: Photo Buss. William Robert Dream, Dickens’s

Dickens Day 2017 on Sigmund Freud confirm the fertility of his 14 October work for conceptions of the unconscious and associated mental states. G H Lewes claimed This one-day conference will explore all that Dickens hallucinated his characters aspects of Dickens and fantasy. Fantasy and Robert Buss’s painting Dickens’s Dream pervades Dickens’s writing. His deeply held (above) implies he dreamt them. How does commitment to ‘fancy’, a word from the same Dickens’s creative process relate to fantasy root as ‘fantasy’, and the influence of the One in both the imaginative and psychological Thousand and One Nights on his work is well sense? In what way do Dickens’s ‘Christmas’ known. Dickens also loved theatrical fantasies. books fit within the fantasy tradition and what He often linked scientific and technological is their relationship to his other works? What developments to fancy and fantasy and was Dickens’s influence on contemporary delighted in juxtaposing the fantastic and and subsequent fantasy authors? How does the mundane. Dickens peopled his work with Dickens use fantasy motifs? How does fantasy fantasists of all sorts, from Mr Dick, Josiah use Dickensian motifs? Bounderby and Harold Skimpole to Pleasant See page 49 Riderhood’s fantasies of sailors and breadfruit for event information and Louisa Gradgrind’s visions in the fire. Oliver Twist’s hallucinatory dream, Fagin in the condemned cell, and Dickens’s influence

School of Advanced Study 5 Highlights Highlights Writing Prize-Winning History Why Do We Need Monsters? 17 October 17 October Margot Finn, president of the Royal Historical Almost every society has imagined monsters, Society, talks to the winners of the 2017 RHS often hybrids of humans and beast. Today we Whitfield and Gladstone Prizes for first books: worry about chimaeras, organisms created by William Cavert (St Thomas), author of The combining genes from more than one species, Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the and science fiction writers imagine bizarre Early Modern City (Cambridge University Press, aliens on other planets just as nineteenth- 2016); Alice Taylor (KCL), author of The Shape century novelists placed them in the Centre of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124–1290 of the Earth, on Lost Worlds, or in Lands That (Oxford University Press, 2016); and Claire Time Forgot. This event organised by the Eldridge (Leeds), author of From Empire to Exile: Institute of Classical Studies brings together History and Memory within the Pied-Noir and some of the most interesting research on Harki Communities, 1962–2012 (Manchester ancient monsters and invites us to reflect on University Press, 2016). what purpose these nearly humans serve in societies ancient and modern. This event is See page 51 supported by The John Coffin Memorial Trust. for event information See page 51 for event information , [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia domain] via XII , [Public Inferno William Blake’s image of the Minotaur to illustrate illustrate image of the Minotaur to Blake’s William

6  School of Advanced Study Highlights 2017 Bithell Memorial Lecture: What is Europe? Georg Lukács’s and Roy Pascal’s European Realism Helmut Peitsch 19 October Roy Pascal, the 1977 Bithell Memorial Lecturer, was one of the most influential Germanists in Britain. In 1950, at the height of the Cold War, he wrote the foreword to Studies in European Realism, the first of Georg Lukács’s books to be published in English translation. This year’s Bithell lecturer, Helmut Peitsch, See page 54 will trace the influence of Lukács in Pascal’s own work on for event information German history, in particular The Growth of Modern Germany (1946), and discuss Lukács’s ‘European realism’ in Pascal’s later writing, such as The German Novel (1956) and From Naturalism to Expressionism (1973). Peitsch is emeritus professor of German at the University of Potsdam and an expert on the history of German Studies in the UK.

What’s Happening in Black British History? VII David Olusoga 26 October David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, broadcaster, and film-maker whose most recent television series include Black and British: A Forgotten History (BBC2), The World’s War (BBC2), and the BAFTA-winning Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners (BBC2). He is also the author of Black and British: A Forgotten History, which was awarded both the Longman-History Today Trustees Award and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. His other books include The World’s War, which won First World War Book of the Year in 2015, and The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the See page 60 Colonial Roots of Nazism (2011). Mr Olusoga was also a contributor for event information to the Oxford Companion to Black British History and writes for , , and BBC History Magazine. He is one of three presenters (with and ) of the BBC’s new series of ’s 1969 landmark programme Civilisations. This talk is the keynote address of the ‘What’s Happening in Black British History? VII’ conference sponsored by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.

School of Advanced Study 7 Highlights Highlights Telling Stories about Law and Development Diamond Ashiagbor 26 October Diamond Ashiagbor, professor of law and director of research at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, will deliver her inaugural lecture, examining regions, market building, and labour law in the European Union and the African Union. Before joining the School of Advanced Study in 2016, she was professor of labour law at SOAS and reader in law at UCL. She has been a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School, New York; a senior fellow at Melbourne Law School; and the recipient of a US–EU Fulbright Research Award and a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship. She researches and publishes in the See page 61 areas of labour/employment law; regional integration (the for event information European Union and the African Union); labour law, trade, and development; human rights, equality, and multiculturalism; and economic sociology of law.

History Day 2017 31 October History Day is an information-packed event that provides attendees with the opportunity to talk with representatives of more than 30 research libraries and archives and to attend subject-specific research clinics and pop-up sessions on libraries, archives, digital research and public history. Participating organisations include Archives Hub, Jisc; Black Cultural Archives; ; British Records Association; Brunel University Special Collections; Business Archives Council; CILIP Library and Information History Group; Caird Library and Archive, National Maritime Museum; Conway Hall; Dana Research Centre and Library, Science Museum; Geological Society Library; German Historical Institute Library; Gladstone’s Library; Guildhall Library; Historic Archive and Library; History of Parliament; Institute of Historical Research Library; King’s College London Library Services; The King’s Fund, Information and Knowledge Services; Lambeth Palace Library; Library of the Society of Friends; Lindley Library, Royal Horticultural Society; The Linnean Society of London; London Metropolitan Archives; LSE Library; The National Archives; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Royal College of Physicians Library and Archives; Royal Holloway, University of London; The Royal Society, Collections; Senate House Library; SOAS Library; Society of Antiquaries Library and Collections; St Peter’s House Library, ; Trades Union Congress Library Collections at London Metropolitan University; UCL Library Services; UCL School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies Library; Museums, Archive Collections; University of Westminster Archives; The Warburg Institute Library; The Wiener Library; and Wellcome Library.

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8  for event information School of Advanced Study Highlights Staging Canada at Expo67: Nationalism in the Crucible of Globalization 1 November Staging Canada at Expo67 celebrates the 50th anniversary of the most successful world’s fair of the twentieth century with a four-day event across London featuring films, live performance, Byron’s visit to San Lazzaro as depicted by Ivan Aivazovsky (1899), (1899), Aivazovsky Ivan as depicted by San Lazzaro visit to Byron’s Commons Wikimedia domain] via [Public and the latest research on Expo, Montreal, Quebec, and Canada during that magic year The 2017 Wordsworth Trust of 1967. Highlights include the UK premiere London Lecture: of the ‘documentary-thriller’ Expo67: Mission Byron and Wordsworth, Art Impossible with director Guylaine Maroist; screenings of classic Quebec films from the and Nature late 1960s; a two-day international academic Sir Drummond Bone symposium on Expo67 and world exhibitions 31 October at Senate House and King’s College London; and a newly commissioned performance of the Wordsworth and Byron fell out in a not very forgotten multimedia masterpiece Miracles of dignified way over politics, and there was Modern Medicine, originally produced for Expo’s heavy collateral damage in their opinion ‘Meditheatre’. The event will conclude with a of each other’s poetry. But there was a special programme of innovative Expo films, fundamental intellectual difference, too. most never before shown in the UK, at the BFI Despite his flirtation with Wordsworthean Southbank. This event is generously supported pantheism at Shelley’s behest in 1816, Byron by the Canada-UK Foundation, the Government came to believe that moral and existential of Quebec, and the Cassal Trust Fund. value could only be human constructs, whereas Wordsworth of course saw these very See page 68 constructs as the barrier to an existential value for event information inherent in Nature, the perception of which was the necessary ground of moral behaviour. Sir Drummond Bone (Oxford University) will use this contrast as a way into reading their poetry and spend some time specifically on their differing attitudes to city life and the nature of art.

See page 65 for event information The French pavilion from Expo67, Montreal, Canada Expo67, Montreal, from pavilion French The

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Women in Punch, 1841–1920 between 1841 and 1910, and if so, how and 2 November why? How do the caricatures and/or depictions of women in Punch differ or resemble those Punch, or the London Charivari first appeared in in other illustrated papers, such as the Comic 1841, published as a weekly magazine with a Almanack (1835–1853), The Illustrated London strong political agenda. Although some work News (1842–1989), The Man in the Moon has been done on the social reform agenda (1847–1849), and Fun (1861–1901)? Queen of Punch, very little is known about women Victoria subscribed to Punch; did it have many in the magazine. Were there any women women subscribers and/or readers? How was contributors? What representations of women the ‘New Woman’ reported in the pages of the appeared in the magazine, both in images magazine? Was Punch interested in female and text? Women were certainly a subject education or the entry of women into the for humour and caricature in Punch, but professions? These are some of the questions to what were the political implications of those be explored during this one-day conference. comic illustrations? What was the role played by verse in the depiction of women? Did See page 69 representations of women change significantly for event information

10  School of Advanced Study Highlights Anglophone Travel Writing on Portugal: Anglo-Portuguese Literary Dialogues 2 November This conference will explore literary and cultural Anglo- Portuguese dialogues throughout the centuries, paying special attention to the way English-speaking authors have portrayed Portuguese culture, the country, and its colonies. The conference is organised by the Centre for English, Translation, Portugal in Sintra, Palace Cook’s Sir Francis and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (NOVA, University of Lisbon), See page 70 the KCL Camões Centre, and the Anglo-Portuguese Society. for event information Speakers include Carlos Ceia, David Evans, Isabel Oliveira Martins, João Paulo Silva, António Lopes, and Rogério Miguel Puga.

L.O.V.E. and Other Disaffections 4 November What’s love got to do with it? The field of love studies has enjoyed a reinvigoration in recent years, while love has been increasingly emphasized as a political necessity. Campaigns surrounding the migrant crisis, as well as attempts to halt the rise of fascism in the Western world—for example, Hillary Clinton’s ultimately defeated #LoveTrumpsHate campaign— propose love as political healing, advocating open borders, tolerance, and equality. Scholars from diverse disciplines are again approaching the question of how to define love and how to engage with it from a critical perspective. This conference will consider the following questions: What is the psychology of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania sculpture, LOVE Robert Indiana’s love? Are some people incapable of love, and is the inability to See page 72 feel love a definable pathology? What is the neurology of love: for event information can love be reduced to a finite set of chemical and synaptic impulses in response to a suitable object? What would an effective politics of love look like? What are -philias and are they constructed or are they essential? What does the erotic have to do with love? What does it mean to love in a digital age, or in an age of pornography and disaffection? Is there a cure for love? How is love gendered? How is love colonized, reappropriated, and even weaponized in socio-political economies? What would a post-love world look like—has it already been imagined, or is it already here?

School of Advanced Study 11 Highlights Highlights Inaugural Liberty Lecture: Ali Smith 6 November Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. She is the author of Autumn, How to be both, There but for the, Artful, Free Love, Like, Hotel World, Other Stories and Other Stories, The Whole Story and Other Stories, The Accidental, Girl Meets Boy and The First Person and Other Stories. Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. The Accidental was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Orange Prize. How to be both won the Bailey’s Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014. Autumn was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017. See page 73 for event information Ali Smith. Photo credit: Sarah Wood Sarah credit: Smith. Photo Ali

12  School of Advanced Study Highlights Recent Discoveries and New Directions in the R.E. Hart Collections of the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery 9–10 November In 2015, the Institute of English Studies and the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery established an academic partnership in which the Institute has led research on the manuscript and rare book collections donated by R. E. Hart to the museum in 1946. This two-day conference marks the progress of that research and celebrates the opening of the R. E. Hart Reading Room at the museum.

Anticipation 2017 See page 77 8–10 November for event information The aim of the emerging field of Anticipation Studies is to create new understandings of how individuals, groups, institutions, systems, and cultures use ideas of the future to act in the present. This conference will provide an interdisciplinary meeting ground where researchers, scholars, and practitioners interested in this field can deepen their understanding and create productive new connections. It aims to put into dialogue the empirical, practical, and theoretical insights that are emerging in highly diverse fields

ranging from biology to psychology, cultural 1260–80. around made in Oxford Blackburn Psalter, The geography to critical theory, physics to design, history to mathematics, urban theory to engineering.

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School of Advanced Study 13 Highlights Highlights Penning Their Personal in over 200 missions. The Jesuits pioneered interest in indigenous languages and cultures, Narratives: The Letters, Diaries, compiling dictionaries and writing some of the and Logbooks of British earliest ethnographies of the region. They also Prisoners of War Held in explored the region’s natural history and made Europe in the Second World significant contributions to the development of science and medicine. On their estates and War in the missions they introduced new plants, Clare Makepeace livestock, and agricultural techniques, such 14 November as irrigation. In addition, they left a lasting legacy on the region’s architecture, art, and For scholars researching what life was like in music. This conference will explore these and wartime captivity, the personal narratives of related themes from a variety of disciplinary prisoners of war are a vital and enlightening perspectives and assess the Jesuits’ legacy read, upon which a multitude of histories today. have been based. Too often, however, historians have treated those narratives as See page 86 straightforward records of experience. This for event information talk by Clare Makepeace (Birkbeck) explores the different types of personal narratives composed by POWs: diaries, letters, logbooks and memoirs. It shows how experiences are written up differently in each of these types, and will argue that to assume diaries or letters form single and separate genres, as historians often do, is arbitrary and unhelpful. This talk will be of interest to historians researching experiences in warfare as well as anyone interested in accounts of everyday life.

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The Cultural Legacy of the Jesuits 17 November 2017 marks the 250-year anniversary of the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spanish territories. The Jesuits had a profound effect on the cultural and intellectual life of Latin America. When they were expelled in 1767, they were

administering more than 250,000 Indians R.I. 02912 Providence, University, 1894, Brown Box Library, ©John Carter Brown

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Information Law and Policy from the UK, Israel, Australia, and Europe, and will include Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE Centre Annual Conference 2017: (filmmaker, member of the Royal Foundation Children and Digital Rights – Taskforce on the Prevention of Cyberbullying, Regulating Freedoms and and founder of 5Rights), Anna Morgan Safeguards (Head of Legal, Deputy Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland), Lisa Atkinson (Group 17 November Manager on Policy Engagement, Information The Internet provides children with more Commissioner’s Office), Renate Samson (Chief freedom to communicate, learn, create, share, Executive of Big Brother Watch), Graham Smith and engage with society than ever before. (Bird & Bird LLP solicitor and leading expert Interacting within this connected digital world, in UK Internet law), John Carr OBE, Member however, also presents a number of challenges of the Executive Board of the UK Council on to ensuring the adequate protection of a Child Internet Safety and Ian Walden, Head of child’s rights to privacy, freedom of expression, the Institute of Computer and Communication and safety, both online and offline. At this Law, Queen Mary University of London. conference, regulators, practitioners, civil society, and leading academic experts will See page 85 address the key legal frameworks and policies for event information being used and developed to safeguard these freedoms and rights. Key speakers, chairs, and discussants will provide a range of national and international legal insights and perspectives

School of Advanced Study 15 The UK’s national festival of the humanities – more than 300 events in 54 cities and towns across the country!

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beinghumanfestival.org #BeingHuman17 Highlights Being Human festival 2017 Festival preview event! 17–25 November Lost and Found: Twenty Years The School of Advanced Study’s flagship of Treasure Discoveries in public engagement initiative—the national Being Human festival of the humanities— England, and returns for a fourth year. Wales This year’s festival theme is ‘Lost and Found’. 20 October More than 300 events responding to Ever dreamt of finding lost treasure? this theme and celebrating the very best humanities research will be taking place in 50 This Being Human festival preview event, towns and cities across the UK. A programme organised in collaboration with the British of related international activities will take place Museum and chaired by festival director in Melbourne, Rome, Paris, and Singapore. Professor Sarah Churchwell, marks the twentieth anniversary of the Treasures Act. The School of Advanced Study, based in the Join a panel of experts and curators from the University of London’s iconic Senate House as they dig deep into two in the heart of , serves as the decades of ‘lost and found’ treasures and coordinating hub for the festival and will host debate which have been the best discoveries. a number of events, including: Who owns these treasures, how do we care • A residency by Queerseum – a grass- for them, and what do they tell us about the roots initiative campaigning for a histories of different regions? Participants permanent home for queer voices lost include Michael Lewis, Sam Moorhead, and Ian and found to history Richardson from the Museum’s Department • A pop-up programme including visits of Portable Antiquities and Treasure, as well from The Migration Museum and as Julia Farley, curator of European Iron Age travelling exhibition From Syria with Collections, and Neil Wilkin, curator of British Love and European Bronze Age collections. • Talks from historian Tom Holland and This free event introduces the Being Human from Ruth Barnett, one of the original 2017 ‘Lost and Found’ theme and is part of the passengers on the Kindertransport British Museum’s year-long ‘Treasure 20’ series of events. The London programme will also feature lunchtime talks, workshops, performances, See page 57 and drop-in sessions from some of the School for event information of Advanced Study researchers working in Senate House—from philosophical sensory experiments to 3D printing of lost classical temples. Please visit www.beinghumanfestival.org for festival details. Related events are marked with the Being Human festival logo in the listings section of this publication, beginning on page 53.

School of Advanced Study 17 Highlights Highlights Displaying ‘German Greatness’ in Nazi Germany: The Exhibition Deutsche Größe (1940–42) and its Legacy William J Diebold 19 November Although it is not well known to scholars, the cultural-historical exhibition Deutsche Größe (‘German Greatness’ or ‘Grandeur’) was probably the most important museum display of the Nazi era. The show’s subject was the history of Germany from the early Middle Ages to the assumption of power by Adolf Hitler. Deutsche Größe was supported at the highest levels of the Nazi Party and its presentation of history was frankly ideological, but the show expressed that ideology through a series of ambitious and innovative display techniques. This talk, by William J Diebold (Reed College), presents Deutsche Größe and describes how

it came about and how it worked to shape James with the aid of a bequest from of Portland; purchased of the dukes Collection Roman vase. 1945. British Museum. Vallentin, Rose an understanding of history that would serve Nazi goals. Special attention is paid to Classics and History in 3D: Deutsche Größe as a piece of museology and Lunchtime Workshop to the display of the art and culture of the high Middle Ages, an area of history that was 22 November especially fraught for the National Socialists Take a tour of the Temple of Isis in Pompeii because it came from the First Reich that without leaving London. The new Classics and they saw revived in their Third Reich. The talk History 3D Lab at Senate House is exploring concludes with a consideration of the legacy how 3D imaging, modelling, printing, and of Deutsche Größe in two later exhibitions, Virtual Reality (VR) can inform modern one that took place in Cold War West Germany research. In this interactive workshop, you and the other in the German Federal Republic can see what is going on in the lab, play after unification. with scanned and 3D printed artefacts, and take a stroll through the Temple of Isis on See page 91 a VR headset (without fear of incurring the for event information goddess’s wrath). See page 92 for event information

18  School of Advanced Study Highlights Addressing and Undressing the Female Body in the Magdalene Chapel at San Francesco, Assisi Penny Howell Jolly 23 November Penny Howell Jolly, professor of art history at Skidmore College, will give the keynote lecture for the Warburg Institute’s conference ‘The Body Politics of Mary Magdalene’. Her research focuses largely on the fifteenth century and involves topics such as hair and dress, imagery involving gender, and the iconography of © Charlie Hopkinson © Charlie Mary Magdalene in both northern Europe and Italy in the fourteenth through sixteenth Myths and Origins: Piltdown centuries. She is currently working on narrative Man’s Cricket Bat cycles of Mary Magdalene in late Gothic and Renaissance Italy. Her publications include Tom Holland Picturing the ‘Pregnant’ Magdalene in Northern 22 November Art, 1430–1550: Addressing and Undressing the Sinner-Saint (2014); Made in God’s Image? Eve In 1912, in the midst of a wet cricketing and Adam in the Genesis Mosaics at San Marco, season, a surprising find was unearthed in a Venice (1997); and Hair: Untangling a Social Sussex gravel pit. ‘Piltdown Man’ seemed to History (2004). be the palaeontological find of the century: a Darwinian missing link. Dubbed the ‘first See page 94 Englishman’, he was even found buried for event information with an elephant bone tool that looked suspiciously like a cricket bat. In this lecture, historian and keen cricketer Tom Holland explores the case of Piltdown Man. One of history’s greatest hoaxes, what can this case tell us about myths of national identity, our desire to explore our origins, and the mythic power of cricket itself? See page 93 for event information

School of Advanced Study 19 Highlights Highlights The Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Debate: ‘Cultural Appropriation’ Melvyn Bragg, Sarah Churchwell, Monica Ali, James Young 23 November This year’s debate will address the following motion: ‘In 2017 cultural appropriation is an inappropriate method for writers.’ In recent years, writers and critics have become more aware of the extent to which literature has involved authors from one culture using themes and scenarios from cultures other than their own. This is seen by some as illegitimate, involving as it does a sense that people from one cultural background are entitled to represent other cultures and backgrounds

without actually belonging to them. At a time BY [CC - http://lifeinmegapixels.com) work Wjh31 (Own credit: Photo Station. Kindertransport Street Liverpool at monument Commons Wikimedia via 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], when people are generally more aware of sensitivities arising from cultural differences A Home Lost, a New Life and the extent to which racist assumptions lie beneath the surface of much of modern Found? Kindertransport: life, we need to explore the extent to which Experience and Fiction cultural appropriation in works of literature is Ruth Barnett, Ursula Krechel desirable or appropriate. 24 November See page 95 The Kindertransport enabled nearly 10,000 for event information child refugees to flee from Nazi-occupied territories to the UK in 1938–39. It is remembered as a life-shaping experience of the loss of a homeland, of parents, of family and friends—and also of the finding of refuge and eventually a new life in the UK. This event brings together Kindertransportee Ruth Barnett and Ursula Krechel, the German author whose novel Landgericht is based on documents detailing Barnett’s family story (it won the German Book Prize in 2012). The evening includes the showing of extracts of

Melvyn Bragg the TV adaptation of the novel (in German,

20  School of Advanced Study Highlights with English subtitles). Short introductory and Ruth Barnett. This event is generously talks provide background on the history and supported by The John Coffin Memorial Trust memory of the Kindertransport and on the and is part of the 2017 Being Human festival. treatment of the Kindertransport in fiction. See page 96 The event concludes with an opportunity to for event information discuss issues of loss and belonging in fiction, film, history, and life with Ursula Krechel

The Lost Film Shows: Screening including Townswomen’s Guilds, Working Men’s Clubs, the Home Guard, and Women’s Films on the Home Front Institutes. In the accompanying talk, Hollie 25 November Price, a postdoctoral fellow with the Ministry In 1940, the Ministry of Information launched of Information Project based at the School of a mobile film show scheme that ran for the Advanced Study, will discuss her research on rest of the war. The mobile film units were the organisation of these shows and their role vans containing projectors and screens that in local communities. were driven around the country by a driver- 1940s dress is encouraged and the films will be projectionist, who put on free film shows in followed by tea and cake. village halls, schools and factories. This event will recreate a film show in the former home See page 96 of the Ministry with a selection of information for event information films and documentaries on the war effort and the home front. It will celebrate the many shows given for voluntary groups and societies,

School of Advanced Study 21 Highlights Highlights Self and World, Twenty Years On 28–29 November In 1997, Quassim Cassam published Self and World, which explores the connections between self-consciousness, spatial representations, and bodily awareness. It is a seminal work in the Kantian-Strawsonian tradition, which fell out of fashion at the beginning of this century. However, it cannot be denied that there is much to be learned and reconsidered in this work, and the twentieth anniversary of its publication seems an apt time to take stock and pursue the relevant issues. This event brings together perspectives from different traditions, Gemini News Service/Guardian News & Media Archive including the Kantian, the phenomenological, the analytic, and the empirical. It is an attempt to understand the contemporary relevance of News on a Knife-Edge: Gemini Cassam’s work and to explore the future of the and Development Journalism Kantian-Strawsonian tradition in general. Today See page 98 29 November for event information In 1967, following decolonisation and in the midst of the Cold War, a pioneering news feature service began in London, called Gemini. It covered news from around the developing world and the Commonwealth and lasted until 2002. This symposium will look at what Gemini was and did, and the state of development journalism today. Set up by Derek Ingram, former deputy editor of the Daily Mail, Gemini survived at least two crises, was owned by The Guardian for a while, and was revived with Canadian funding and an educational purpose in 1983. This event will be opened by Sir Trevor McDonald, a contributor and one-time chair of Gemini’s governors; convenors include Richard Bourne, Keith Somerville and Derek Ingram.

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22  School of Advanced Study Highlights IHR Creighton Lecture 2017: Strangers in Medieval Cities Miri Rubin 30 November This talk by Miri Rubin, professor of medieval and early modern history at Queen Mary’s University of London, explores Europe’s remarkable growth after the year 1000—which encouraged migration, the creation of new towns, and the growth of existing urban centres. Buoyant commerce and manufacture encouraged See page 101 cities to accommodate newcomers and to reflect through their for event information institutions of government on how best to turn strangers into neighbours. In some parts of Europe, dynastic rulers developed policies regarding migration and the settlement of useful foreigners. Urban centres large and small became extremely diverse places, made even more so by conquest and settlement at Europe’s borders. This diversity came under new scrutiny in the decades of change in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: religion, occupation, ethnicity, and language could each form the basis for restrictive laws, exclusion, and even expulsion. By the eve of its most dramatic global extension, Europe’s cities had become sites of intense competition and discipline. Rubin studies the social and religious history of Europe between 1100 and 1600, concentrating on the interactions between public rituals, power, and community life. Her latest publications include The Middle Ages: A Very Short Introduction (2014) and a translation of The Life and Passion of William of Norwich by Thomas of Monmouth (2014).

The Country House Library: Some Reflections Mark Purcell 5 December Mark Purcell (Cambridge University Library) will reflect on his own evolving understanding of libraries in country houses, following fifteen years as Libraries Curator to the National Trust and his work on the recently published The Country House Library (Yale, 2017). The seminar is jointly organised by the Institute of Historical Research, the Institute of English Studies, and the Warburg Institute. See page 107 for event information

School of Advanced Study 23 Highlights Highlights Reformation London: society, the role played by the city’s burgeoning communications industry in driving change, A Symposium and the consequences of the emergence of a 6 December new world order through this time period. This symposium will focus on London through See page 108 the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, for event information the impact of the Reformation on culture and

Out of Place: Vagrancy and Settlement 6–7 December This two-day conference explores the shifting experiences, representations, and status of vagrancy in relation to the history of British settlement. How can exploring the images and realities of vagrancy sharpen our understanding of the histories of ‘settled’ communities, cities, and parishes? Speakers include Patricia Fumerton (University of California, Santa Barbara), Nicholas Crowson (Birmingham), and Tim Hitchcock (Sussex).

See page 108 for event information Mihály Munkácsy, ‘Un Vagabond de Nuit’, Wikimedia Commons Commons Wikimedia de Nuit’, Vagabond ‘Un Mihály Munkácsy,

24  School of Advanced Study Highlights Chandaria Lecture Series Cecilia Heyes 8, 12, 15 December Cecilia Heyes, senior research fellow at All Souls College, , explores the evolution of cognition, including the ways in which natural selection, learning, developmental, and cultural processes combine to produce the mature cognitive abilities found in adult humans. She is especially interested in social cognition. Most of her current projects examine the possibility that the neurocognitive mechanisms enabling cultural inheritance—social learning, imitation, mirror neurons, mind reading—are themselves products of cultural evolution.

See pages 111, 114 and 118 The Human Mind Project: for event information Intelligence and the Mind 11 December Every living being interacts with its surroundings, sensing and responding to signals from the environment. Now the technology we use every day does this, too. How is the way we process information being transformed by new forms of intelligence, artificial and social? What can we learn about the nature and functioning of human intelligence? The last public event of The Human Mind Project will bring together experts from computer science and neuro- economics, science and technology studies, and the philosophy of information to discuss how humans have become so good at processing information quickly, extracting meaning from raw data, and building powerful narratives of who we are.

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School of Advanced Study 25 Highlights Highlights director of the Institute of Historical Research), Jost Philipp Klenner (Berlin), Jane O. Newman and Petra Roettig (Hamburger Kunsthalle); and an open day on 16 December, when the Warburg Institute’s Library and Archive will display and offer introductions to materials that relate to Warburg’s Reformation study.

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Dorothy Tarrant Lecture: Earthquakes, Etruscan Priests, and Roman Politics in the Age of Cicero

Aby Warburg, Drawing of Martin Luther’s nativity chart after Johann Carion’s calculation, 1917, Warburg Institute Archive Institute Warburg 1917, calculation, nativity chart Johann Carion’s after of Martin Drawing Luther’s Warburg, Aby Anthony Corbeill 24 January Warburg and Luther: Anthony Corbeill, a Dorothy Tarrant Visiting Word | Image in Times of Crisis, Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies, is a 1517, 1917, 2017 scholar of Roman literature and cultural history who has published books on the meaning of 13–16 December humorous political invective and the meaning The Warburg Institute is holding a series of of gesture in Ancient Rome and most recently events to mark both the 500th anniversary of on Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and the Reformation and the 100th anniversary Biological Sex in Ancient Rome, in which he of Aby Warburg’s seminal lecture on Martin explored relationships between grammatical Luther and the role of propaganda in the gender and Latin poetry, archaic gods, and process of public opinion making. Warburg’s hermaphrodites and for which he won the lecture, delivered in November 1917 and Charles A. Goodwin Award of Merit, 2016, published in 1920 under the title ‘Pagan- from the Society of Classical Studies. He has Antique Prophecy in Words and Images in the held fellowships at the Thesaurus Linguae Age of Martin Luther’ is now considered one Latinae in Munich, the American Academy of the founding documents of Bildwissenschaft in Rome, the Institute for Research in the (the science of images) and of media Humanities (Madison, Wisconsin), and All studies. The series includes a keynote lecture Souls College, Oxford. In 2018 he moves from titled ‘”Luther’s Words are Everywhere”: the University of Kansas to take up the post of Protestantism and Politics, 1517-2017’ by Jane Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the O. Newman (University of California at Irvine) University of Virginia. on 13 December; a roundtable discussion on See page 127 14 December with James Curran (Goldsmiths), for event information Jo Fox (University of Durham and incoming

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Launch: 17 November, 16:30 (reception and Lost Rights, Found Justice? guided commentary) Refugee and Migrant Rights – Workshop: 18 November, 14:00–16:00, Room an exhibition with photo 243 (Senate House) competition and workshop This unique photography exhibition aims to 18–25 November, 09:00–19:00 increase public understanding of the rights Second floor lobby, south block, and situation of refugees, migrants, and those seeking asylum through creative visual and Senate House legal tools. It includes photographs selected by a panel of photojournalists following a public call for submissions. The launch will feature a guided commentary with human rights experts. The workshop on 18 November will be led by documentary photographer Kevin McElvaney, who has worked with refugees in Izmir, Lesbos, Athens, and Idomeni.

School of Advanced Study 27 Exhibitions Exhibitions Coetzee and the Archive 5–6 October Senate House,

Nobel Laureate and double Booker Prize-winning author J M Coetzee will give a reading passionate and often problematic struggles from The Schooldays of Jesus at Queer Between the Covers: for acceptance, liberation, and repression the Institute of English Studies Literature, Queerness, and the that have been waged between the covers of Library books. on Friday, 6 October, at 17:00 Exhibition and events season Senate House Library is working with a in Chancellor’s Hall as part of variety of partners to host a range of events 15 January – 16 June 2018 throughout the season that further engage the Coetzee and the Archive Senate House Library with the exhibition themes. Specific details conference. Joining Mr Coetzee of the events calendar are forthcoming but This exhibition will examine the diverse will include a literary salon, a guided walk of will be pianist Kathryn Mosley ways in which literature has been central to Bloomsbury, a Polari workshop, films from the the culture’s handling and understanding performing selections from Bach. BFI archive, poetry, a live choral performance, of what queerness might mean. Whether a Wikipedia Editathon, a conference on Queer queer sexualities are being celebrated, pitied, publishing, a community discussion, and the mocked, or denounced, books have not only The event is open to the public but work of a book artist. We’ll also be recording been the preeminent means of debate, but and celebrating audience responses to advance registration is required have also been repeatedly taken as primary questions posed by the season, and together data on the nature of homosexuality and thus £10 we’re looking forward to amplifying the the focus of prosecution. Embracing forms gloriously diverse queer voices amongst our from the pornographic to the melodramatic, collections, our staff and our users. the season will unveil and question the many ies.sas.ac.uk/events/ 28  School of Advanced Study conferences/coetzee-archive Coetzee and the Archive 5–6 October Senate House, Malet Street

Nobel Laureate and double Booker Prize-winning author J M Coetzee will give a reading from The Schooldays of Jesus at the Institute of English Studies on Friday, 6 October, at 17:00 in Chancellor’s Hall as part of the Coetzee and the Archive conference. Joining Mr Coetzee will be pianist Kathryn Mosley performing selections from Bach.

The event is open to the public but advance registration is required £10 ies.sas.ac.uk/events/ conferences/coetzee-archive Anniversary Celebration Please join us for an exciting season of special events as the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies celebrates its 70th anniversary. The Institute, founded in 17, is an international crossroads for legal research. Its mission is to promote legal studies nationally and internationally, to support the law schools of the niversity of London, and to bring together academic and practising lawyers. The Institute maintains one of the world’s great comparative legal research libraries, houses specialist research centres and innovative partnerships, and is home to a community of scholars, fellows, and postgraduate students. A maor refurbishment of its iconic building at 17 ussell Square is underway, which will create eciting new spaces for the thousands of students and researchers who visit each year. This year’s events will eamine the Institute’s contribution to legal scholarship, showcase its research activities, and welcome the new irector of esearch at her inaugural lecture. A highlight will be the formal launch of IALS igital, with its portfolio of services to digital legal scholarship, drawing on the eceptional skills and services of the IALS Library. Inaugural Lecture: iamond Ashiagbor, irector of esearch 1 Launch of IALS igital 1 Information Law and Policy Centre Conference: Children and igital ights 1 The IALS Contribution to Legal Scholarship 0 The Past and Future of IALS and Anniversary eception by invitation 1 Sir illiam ale Centre for Legislative Studies Conference: Legislative Aspects of Breit Learn more about these events and discover a range of other lectures, seminars, workshops, and skills training events at

Follow us on: @Legalxl8Hub advancedlegalstudies Reconsidering the Raj 1947 marked the end of British rule in India, two hundred years in which the British replaced the Mughals as controlling power and laid the foundations for modern India. In collaboration with the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, the Institute of Historical Research will reconsider this remarkable period in a series of lectures by leading scholars. 11 December The Chaos of Empire: Rethinking British Rule in India Jon Wilson (KCL) 9 January Myth and History: India and the British Raj Charles Allen (author of Plain Tales from the Raj) 6 February With Havelock at Lucknow, 1857: City, Siege and Resistance Rosie Llewellyn-Jones (author of The Great Uprising in India 1857–58) and Sir Mark Havelock-Allan QC, 5th Baronet of Lucknow 6 March Afghanistan: Britain’s Imperial Misadventures Jules Stewart (author of On Afghanistan’s Plains) 10 April Independence and Partition Panel discussion All sessions run from 18:00 to 19:30 in the Wolfson Conference Suite, Senate House, Malet Street. General Admission: £7.50 per session IHR Friends/BACSA members: £5 per session Register in advance: history.ac.uk/events/event/14561 IHR Winter Conference 2018 Home: new histories of living 8–9 February Wolfson Conference Suite I Senate House I Malet Street New histories of living will host path-breaking research that explores the manifold ways the home has been thought about, utilized and lived within throughout history. These perspectives open the shutters on domesticity by showing how patterns of homemaking can reshape our conceptions of kinship, consumption and the everyday. The conference will take place over two days and is separated into four interrelated avenues of enquiry: • Reconstructions: imagining domestic experience • Dream homes: Envisioning alternative futures for residential experience • Rooms: Furnishing the idiosyncrasies of private life • Home-work: Re-imagining gendered domesticity Confirmed plenary speakers: • Jane Hamlett (Royal Holloway) • Dan Cruickshank (art historian and BBC presenter) • Owen Hatherley (architectural historian and journalist) • Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck) www.winterconference.blogs.sas.ac.uk 2017–18 Programme Neoplatonic Damascius, On Phaedo 5 October i. 1N–25N 12 October ii. 26N–99N Studies 19 October iii. 100N–175N 26 October iv. 176N–206N 2 November v. 207N–252N Seminar 9 November vi. 253N–310N 16 November vii. 311N–360N 23 November viii. 361N–406N 30 November ix. 407N–465N Series 7 December x. 466N–511N 14 December xi. 511N–562N Now in its fourth year, the Neoplatonic Olympiodorus, On Phaedo Studies Seminar invites you to a series of 11 January 1. 1N–17N readings of seminal texts by Damascius, 18 January 2. 18N–44N 25 January 3. 45N–64N Olympiodorus, Porphyry, and Proclus 1 February 4. 65N–83N and an ongoing exchange that includes Porphyry, The Cave of the Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, and Nymphs Peter Singer among many other 8 February i. §§ 1–18 regular and occasional contributors. Porphyry, How Embryos are Ensouled The seminar meets on Thursdays from 15 February i. 33,1K–45,4K 17:30 to 19:30 in Classroom 1 of the 22 February ii. 45,5K–61,13K (and anonymous Christianus and Michael Psellus) Warburg Institute. All are welcome. Proclus, On Alcibiades I For more information, please contact (Page numbers refer to the 1954 Westernink edition) the convener Georgios Tsagdis at 1 March i. 1–24 [email protected]. 8 March ii. 25–47 15 March iii. 48–67 Free and open to the public 22 March iv. 68–92 5 April v. 93–114 12 April vi. 115–137 [email protected] 19 April vii. 138–160 26 April viii. 161–178 3 May ix. 179–201 10 May x. 202–234 17 May xi. 235–260 24 May xii. 261–282 31 May xiii. 283–311 7 June xiv. 312–339 Events calendar

October October

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October October

Monday 02 Institute of Historical Research History of Liturgy Seminar Free advance registration required [email protected] 17:15–19:00 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research ‘Kenya Cowboys’: The Making and Re-Making of a Postcolonial Seminar White African Identity 17:15–19:15 Joshua Doble (Leeds) This event is part of the Imperial and World History Seminar Series. IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Tuesday 03 Institute of Advanced Legal People Trafficking  Studies Speakers include Pam Bowen CBE, Crown Prosecution Service (lead operational Seminar policy adviser and specialist in people trafficking and slavery issues); Brian Donald, Head of Cabinet of the Europol Director; and Klara Skrivankova, Programme 14:30–17:30 Manager for UK and Europe at Anti- Slavery International. IALS This event is part of the European Criminal Law Seminar Series and organised with the European Criminal Law Association (UK). Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Convict Life-Cycles: Survival, Fertility and Venereal Disease Seminar Janet McCalman (Melbourne) 17:15–19:15 This event is part of the Social History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Graphical Reverence and Script Hierarchy in the Manuscript of the Seminar N-town Plays 17:30–19:15 Mary Wellesley (British Library) This event is part of the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Series. Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House Library)

Institute of Classical Studies Accordia Lecture Lecture The Golden Smile: Etruscan innovation and the Women Behind It 17:30–19:30 Jean Turfa (Pennsylvania Museum) Room 349 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

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Institute of Historical Research Britain’s First Talking Book Library for Blind People / Institute of English Studies / Matthew Rubery (QMUL) Warburg Institute Britain’s first Talking Book Library for blind people was established in 1935 to Seminar provide reading material for war-blinded soldiers who could not read braille. Its 17:30–19:30 talking books consisted of specially modified gramophone records containing recitations of the Bible, Shakespeare, popular fiction, and more. Drawing on Warburg Institute archives held by the Royal National Institute of Blind People and Blind Veterans UK, this presentation traces the library’s development from the initial experiments after the War to its reception among blind civilians, and, soon after, a series of controversies over taste, obscenity, and censorship. This event is part of the History of Libraries Seminar Series and is jointly sponsored by the Institute of Historical Research, the Institute of English Studies, and The Warburg Institute. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research New Research in Archives and Records Management Seminar MA students (UCL) 17:45–19:45 This event is part of the Archives and Society Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Wednesday 04 Institute of Classical Studies Creating and Exploring Semantic Annotations of Historical Seminar Documents 13:00–14:00 Valeria Vitale (ICS) This event is part of the ICS Fellows Seminar Series. Room 243 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Aristotle on Political Activity Seminar Giuseppe Cumella (Northwestern) 17:30 This event is part of the History of Political Ideas/Early Career Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Institute of Latin American Contested Memories of the Peruvian Internal Armed Conflict Studies Paulo Drinot (UCL) Seminar This event is part of the London Andean Studies Seminar Series. 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 234 (Senate House)

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Thursday 05 Institute of English Studies Coetzee and the Archive Two-day conference ‘… I have been through the letters and diaries. What Coetzee writes there cannot be trusted, not as a factual record—not because he was a liar but because he 09:00–19:00 was a fictioneer’ (Coetzee, Summertime). What does it mean to be a ‘fictioneer’? Senate House And what precisely is the relationship between the truth of J M Coetzee’s works, especially with regard to the life-story of the fictionalised memoirs, and the factual record that lies behind them? How might such a self-reflexive body of work impact on our reading of archival materials, including manuscripts, drafts, letters and diaries? The recent consolidation in 2012 of the Coetzee Collection at the world-famous Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas – Austin (HRC), offers an exciting opportunity for scholars to address anew such fascinating, enthralling, and intractable questions. Speakers at this inaugural conference on Coetzee’s archive will engage with both the general topic of the archive in Coetzee studies and with the specific and voluminous materials that have travelled to the HRC to date. What might be considered their ‘origins’, their ‘original homes’? Where were they written, drafted, published, otherwise housed? Where, in other words, do archives ‘begin’ and where might they take us? Can we pinpoint such formations, and what are the implications of such geographies and materialities, theoretically and/or empirically, for the story of a writing life? Touching on disciplines as varied as the life sciences, theology and philosophy, South African history and politics, canonical literary intertexts, translation, and engagements with other artistic forms, Coetzee’s richly curated archive serves as a springboard for further investigations into his published writing and collaborative work. Speakers include Derek Attridge (York, in absentia), David Attwell (York, in absentia), Richard A. Barney (SUNY–Albany), Michael Cawood Green (Northumbria), Michele Chinitz (CUNY), Andrew Dean (Oxford), Kai Easton (SOAS), Alessandra Effe (Giessen), Marc Farrant (Goldsmiths), Ian Glenn (UCT), Lucy Graham (UWC), Shaun Irlam (SUNY–Buffalo), David Isaacs (UCL), Peter Johnston (Cambridge), Polona Jonik (Sussex), Peter McDonald (Oxford), Valeria Mosca (Genoa), Dominic O’Key (Leeds), Cristóbal Pérez Barra (Oxford), Rebecca Roach (KCL), Paul Stewart (Nicosia), Pojanut Suthipinittharm (Silpakorn), Charlotte Terrell (Sussex), Jan Wilm (Goethe, in absentia), Hermann Wittenberg (UWC), and Jarad Zimbler (Birmingham). The conference will close on Friday with a reading by J M Coetzee with guest pianist Kathryn Mosley and Richard Mosse. £65 | £45 (conference and J M Coetzee reading on Friday, 6 October) £10 (J M Coetzee reading only) This event is free for all CHASE students and scholars. Please email [email protected] to register, providing details of your institution and studentship. Advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Philosophy Perception and the Arts Conference / Symposium Speakers include Barry Smith (Institute of Philosophy), Corine Beson (Sussex), Manos Tsikaris (Warburg Institute), Matt Nudds (Warwick), Tim Crane (Cambridge), 09:30–18:00 and Stacie Friend (Birkbeck). The Court Room (Senate House) This event is part of The Practical, the Political and the Ethical Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

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Institute of Historical Research Dora Vargha (Exeter) Seminar This event is part of the History and Public Health Seminar Series. 12:45–14:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] LG9, Keppel Street Building, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Institute of Classical Studies Law and Financing Trade Seminar Jean-Jacques Aubert (Neuchâtel) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)

Institute of Advanced Legal Internet Intermediaries – From Defamation to Directive to Data Studies Protection Seminar Speaker: Daithí Mac Síthigh, (Queen's Belfast) 17:30–19:30 Panelists: Lorna Woods (Essex, Senior Associate Research Fellow, IALS), James Michael, Chair of Information Law and Policy Centre Advisory Board and Senior IALS Associate Research Fellow, IALS) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Learning from Catherine Hall: Race, Gender, and Class in the Seminar Writing of History 17:30 Esme Cleall (Sheffield), Simone Borgstede (Leuphana University Lüneburg) This event is part of the Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 1600–2000 Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Pretenders and Returners: Dynastic Imposters in the Middle Ages Seminar Robert Bartlett (St Andrews) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the European History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Secret History of Brian Simon Seminar Gary McCulloch (UCL Institute of Education) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the History of Education Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 642, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL

The Warburg Institute Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship Seminar Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox 17:30–19:30 and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For Warburg Institute details, see page 33. This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

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October October

Institute of Historical Research The Medieval Hortus Concluses: A Gendered Garden? Seminar Liz McAvoy (Swansea) 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the History of Gardens and Landscapes Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Postgraduate Panel: Sarah Kane, Psychiatry and Dramaturgies Seminar of Dislocation; Collaborating with Ghosts to Inhabit the Body: Adapting Women’s Literary Modernism to the Stage 18:30–20:00 Leah Sidi (Birkbeck) and Nina Marie Gardner (Royal Holloway) Gordon Room, G34 This event is part of the London Theatre Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Friday 06 SAS Central Indenture Abolition Centenary Conference Conference / Symposium In collaboration with the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick, the Centre for Postcolonial Studies hosts this two-day 09:30–20:00 international conference to mark the centenary of the abolition of indenture Woburn Suite, G22/26 in the British Empire. The conference will include presentations from both new (Senate House) and established scholars and feature the latest research on indentureship and its legacies. It will incorporate two significant evening events: the University of Warwick’s inaugural Gafoor Lecture in Indentureship Studies on Friday, 6 October, delivered by Brinsley Samaroo of the University of the West Indies, and a literary panel, co-curated with the Commonwealth Writers organisation, on Saturday, 7 October, that will feature readings by Ananda Devi (Mauritius), Gaiutra Bahadur (Guyana), Lakshmi Persuad (Trinidad), Mary Rokanadravu (Fiji) and Agnes Sam (South Africa). £40 | £20 fee includes the Gafoor Lecture and the literary panel as well as lunch and dinner on both days. Advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies Eighteenth-Century Restoration of Ancient Marbles: Questions of Seminar Authenticity in the Collections of Charles Townley and the Marquis of Lansdowne 16:30–18:30 Maree Clegg (Auckland) Room 246 (Senate House) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

Institute of English Studies J M Coetzee Reading Reading Nobel Laureate and double Booker Prize-winning author J M Coetzee will give a reading from The Schooldays of Jesus as part of the Coetzee and the Archive 17:00–18:00 conference. Joining Mr Coetzee will be pianist Kathryn Mosley performing Chancellor's Hall, Senate House selections from Bach. ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/coetzee-archive £10 advance registration required [email protected]

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Institute of Historical Research Rights, Education, and Empowerment: Fashioning ‘feminist Seminar technologies’ and a New Dalit Womanhood in Colonial Western India, 1848–1947 17:15–19:15 Shailaja Paik (Cincinnati) IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 Dalit (‘untouchable’) women in colonial Western India shaped and were in turn (Senate House) transformed by the interlocking technologies of education, caste, community, gender, sexuality, family, and nation. Two radical men, Jotirao Phule and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, and Dalit women engaged with the ‘woman question’, produced arguments for the empowerment of women, and emphasised their indispensable role in the political organization of the community. In so doing, Phule, Ambedkar, and Dalit women themselves reimagined the generative power of gender and the political realm and practiced feminist technologies that sought not only to restructure women’s roles and establish an egalitarian relationship between women and men, but also to explicate how political projects of constructing the nation and community were entangled with Dalits’ sense of self, rights, self- respect, affect, anxiety, desire, and everyday life. This event is part of the Women's History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The State We Are In: Reflections on Recent Studies of Britain’s Seminar Political Economies, 1660–1815 17:15–19:15 Julian Hoppit (UCL) This event is part of the Economic and Social History of the Early Modern World IHR Seminar Room N304 Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Jan van Eyck's Materiality Seminar Andy Murray 17:30 This event is part of the Marxism in Culture Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

SAS Central Inaugural Gafoor Lecture on Indentureship Studies Lecture Changing Caribbean Geographies: Connections in Flora, Fauna 18:00–20:30 and Patterns of Indian Inheritances Brinsley Samaroo (University of the West Indies) Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House) Brinsley Samaroo is one of the pioneers of indentureship studies and the author of numerous books and articles on the Indian presence in the Caribbean. This lecture, introduced by David Dabydeen, will include a Q&A session. An informal dinner, included in the ticket price, will be served after the lecture. £15 | £7.50 advance registration required [email protected]

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Saturday 07 Institute of Historical Research Experiencing the Middle Ages in the Post-Medieval World Conference / Symposium The Middle Ages live on in the post-medieval world, creatively re-imagined and restored in the art, architecture, literature, culture, and ideologies of 09:00–17:00 individual and collective imaginations. London—a city whose medieval history IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, clashes evocatively with its modern cityscapes—is a fitting backdrop for the NB01/NB02 (Malet Street) Interdisciplinary Seminar on Medievalism, a new seminar series that will explore the manifold methods and motivations for transporting ‘the medieval’ across temporal boundaries. Sarah Salih (KCL) is the keynote speaker. Fee applicable advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies War and Post-War: Ian Watt's Prison Camp Conrad; Mountain Seminar Heather and Blunt Trauma: Demob Aftermath, Violent Nature and the Post-War Sublime 11:00–13:00 Marina McKay (Oxford) and Leo Mellor (Cambridge) Room 243 (Senate House) This event is part of the London Modernism Seminar. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies The Secret Lives of an Alchemical Text: Manuscripts of the Seminar Speculum Sapientiae (1st ed. 1705) and Their Stories 14:00–16:00 Mike Zuber (Oxford) This event is part of the Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Room 246 (Senate House) (EMPHASIS) Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Composition Good as Apple Tart: School Magazine Production as a Seminar Form of Education, 1826–75 14:00–16:00 Catherine Sloan This event is part of the Education in the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar Series IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

SAS Central Writing the Literature of Indenture and its Legacies Lecture A highlight of the School of Advanced Study’s two-day conference on the centenary of the abolition of indenture in the British Empire is an evening with 18:00–21:00 an outstanding panel of writers from across the indentured labour diaspora. Join Beveridge Hall (Senate House) co-hosts Commonwealth Writers to listen to readings by award-winning writers Ananda Devi (Mauritius), Gaiutra Bahadur (Guyana), Lakshmi Persaud (Trinidad), Mary Rokanadravu (Fiji), and Agnes Sam (South Africa). An informal dinner, included in the ticket price, will follow the lecture. This event is supported by Commonwealth Writers and The John Coffin Memorial Trust. £15 | £7.50 advance registration required [email protected]

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Sunday 08 Institute of Historical Research London Library Walk Seminar Alice Ford-Smith (Bernard Quaritch Ltd) 15:00–16:30 Spend an early autumn evening exploring some of London’s early eighteenth- century libraries. This walk will follow in the footsteps of bookseller and antiquary Stationers Hall, Ave Maria Lane, John Bagford, whose An Account of Several Libraries in and about London, for the London EC4M 7DD Satisfaction of the Curious, both Natives and Foreigners was published in 1708. Bagford was at the centre of London’s book trade, selling collections and helping form new ones. In the process he created a unique record of the libraries that operated in the city he loved. Alice Ford-Smith will guide you through the streets and alleyways of Bagford’s London, introducing this book history pioneer and the libraries he knew so well. The walk will start in the courtyard of Stationers’ Hall and finish approximately 90 minutes later near Barbican underground station. This event is part of the History of Libraries Seminar Series. £10 (non-refundable). Places are limited. To book, please visit https://goo.gl/LlXOrN.

Monday 09 Institute of Classical Studies Plutarch’s Quaestiones Naturales Seminar Michiel Meeusen (KCL) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Notifications On: Petronian Realism in the Age of Distraction Seminar Tom Geue (St. Andrews) 17:00–19:00 This event is part of the Ancient Literature Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies "Jupiter Descends": Divinity and Spectacle in Cymbeline; [un]Fair Seminar Verona [Beach] 20+ years after: Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet and Mexican film 17:00–19:00 Jesse Lander (Notre Dame) and Alfredo Michel Modenessi (Universidad Nacional The Senate Room (Senate House) Autónoma de México) This event is part of the London Shakespeare Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research ‘Entirely Normal Man – The World’s Greatest Living Freak’: Displays Seminar of ‘Half-Men, Half-Women’ at British Seaside Resorts in the Twentieth Century 17:15 Emma Purce (Kent) IHR Past and Present Room, N202 This event is part of the Sport and Leisure History Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Book launch for Ludivine Broch, Ordinary Workers: French Seminar Railwaymen, Vichy and the Holocaust (Cambridge University Press, 2016) 17:30 Commentators: Robert Gildea (Oxford), Jackie Clarke (Glasgow) IIHR Wolfson Room, NB02 This event is part of the Modern French History Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

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October October

Tuesday 10 Institute of Historical Research ‘This Devil of a Man’: The Wartime Career of General Charles Seminar Mangin 17:15 Tim Gale This event is part of the Military History Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Harold Wilson at the Public Accounts Committee, 1959–63 Seminar Henry Midgley (independent scholar) 17:15–19:15 This event is part of the Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Lonely Fieldworker Qualified: Observations on the Emergence Seminar of Different Forms of Collaborative Projects in Ethnographic Research 17:15–19:15 George Marcus (California, Irvine) IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 This event is part of the London Group of Historical Geographers Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Mythical Sexuality of La Goulue and La Casati Seminar Will Visconti (Sydney) 17:15–19:15 This event is part of the History of Sexuality Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Constructing Cost of Living Indices: Ideas and Individuals, Seminar Argentina, 1918–35 17:30–19:15 Cecilia T. Lanata Briones (Sussex) This talk will illustrate the construction and use of statistics through two estimates IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 of the Argentine cost of living index (CLI) as a case study: the foundational (Senate House) indicator, released privately in 1918 and publicly in 1924, and the index published officially in 1935. How and why were these two estimates produced and how did they differ? In what economic and social context and by who were they elaborated? What does the history of the Argentine index suggest about the history of CLIs in general? This event is part of the Latin American History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies ICS and Friends of the British School at Athens Lecture Indigenous Cattle, Bristly Pigs, Wild Goats and Immortal Sheep: 18:00–20:00 Traditional and Ancient Animal Husbandry in Greece Paul Halstead (Sheffield) Room 349 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

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Institute of English Studies Literary London Reading Group Reading group Since 2012, the Literary London Reading Group, an offshoot of the Literary London Society (literarylondon.org) has offered a seminar series that fosters 18:00–20:00 interdisciplinary and wide-ranging research into London literature in its historical, Room 234 (Senate House) social, and cultural contexts. It aims to include all periods and genres of writing and representation about, set in, inspired by, or alluding to central and suburban London and its environs, from the city’s roots in pre-Roman times to its imagined futures. All are welcome. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Wednesday 11 Institute of Classical Studies Hades: Cake or Death? Seminar Diana Burton (Victoria University, Wellington) 13:00–14:00 This event is part of the ICS Fellows Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Common Cup, Common Fear? Trust, Fear and Communion in the Seminar Church of England during the AIDS Epidemic 17:15 George Severs (Cambridge) This event is part of the Modern Religious History Seminar Series. IHR Professor Olga Crisp Room, N102 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research A Crusade Which Lacks a Cross? Crusader Medievalism and the Seminar Second World War 17:15 Mike Horswell (Royal Holloway) This event is part of the War, Society and Culture Seminar Series. IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Okin, Rawls and the Politics of Political Theory Seminar Sophie Smith (Oxford) 17:15–19:15 This event is part of the History of Political Ideas Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Goodbye London: Will Brexit be the End of the Love Affair between Lecture Italians and England? 18:00–19:30 Enrico Franceschini (La Repubblica) London is the city with the highest number of Italian immigrants in the world: IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 300,000 officially, perhaps two times as many. It is not a ‘Little Italy’ but a ‘Big (Senate House) Italy’—wherever you go, you meet an Italian or something that is Italian. But Brexit threatens to change this. The number of Italians coming to London has already declined. Many who are here have doubts: they could obtain the legal right to stay but do not feel welcome anymore. A great love story might become, at best, a marriage of convenience or end, at worst, with a painful break-up. This event is part of the Rethinking Modern Europe and Modern Italian History Seminar Series. Sponsored by Lord Tugendhat Free advance registration required [email protected]

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Institute of English Studies Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group: Canto 86 Reading group The Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group was formed in 2006. At each meeting, a speaker introduces a canto, followed by discussion. Speakers and members 18:00–20:00 range from internationally established Pound critics to poets, postgraduates, Room 243 (Senate House) independent scholars and Pound enthusiasts. All are welcome. Free advance registration required [email protected]

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Institute of Modern Languages Jouer Beckett / Performing Beckett Research To what extent is the interpretation of a playwright’s works determined by the Two-day conference performance conditions in the country where they are performed? Two study days already held in Bordeaux, and these two study days in London (12 and 13 09:00–18:00 October, address this question in relation to Samuel Beckett, whose plays reveal Senate House different qualities depending on whether they are staged in France or in the UK. Participants will evaluate the influence of cultural intermediaries on the reception of Beckett’s bilingual oeuvre through analysis of the following elements: directorial customs, actor training and acting practices, theatre management, institutional financial and material resources, touring networks, and audience demographics. This event is generously supported by the Cassal Trust Fund. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Modern Languages Translating ‘Development’ Research This seminar provides a forum for translators working in the area of development Seminar to talk about their work and to discuss the challenges that it involves. It will bring key translation studies specialists and trainers into dialogue with practitioners, 13:00–16:00 and it will inform broader translation networks about translation in the field of Bloomsbury Room, G35 development. Translation is an area that has been generally overlooked and (Senate House) underfunded in NGOs. Previous workshops highlighted the challenges the sector faces in using foreign languages in its work and the need for research and collaboration in this area. Aiming to raise the profile and importance of translation in development, this seminar will for the first time bring together the different interest groups involved to think about what practical steps would support translation in and for NGOs, how practitioners might be networked together, and what implications their work has for future research and postgraduate translator training. This seminar is organised as part of the AHRC-research project The Listening Zones of NGOs: Languages and Cultural Knowledge in Development Programmes. It is open to professional translators, NGO staff, academics, translator trainers, and postgraduate students in translation studies. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Special Event to Mark the Retirement of Professor Justin Champion Seminar Mark Goldie (Cambridge), Michael Braddick (Sheffield), Robert Iliffe (Oxford), Charlotte Young (Royal Holloway) 16:00 This event is part of the British History in the Seventeenth Century Seminar Series. IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 Sponsored by the Conrad and Elizabeth Russell Fund (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

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Institute of Latin American The Brazilian Amazon, Its People and the Circulation of Knowledge Studies Mark Harris (St Andrews) Seminar This event is part of the Latin America and the Global History of Knowledge 16:00–18:00 (LAGLOBAL) Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Military Finance during the Peloponnesian War: State vs Seminar Household 16:30–18:30 Manuela Dal Borgo (Cambridge) This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series. Room 349 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research After the Fall: the Genoese Diaspora in the Black Sea in the Seminar Fifteenth Century 17:15 Serena Ferente (KCL) This event is part of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research How to ‘Read’ Acknowledgements of Debt to Jews Seminar Dean Irwin (Canterbury Christ Church) 17:30 This event is part of the History Lab Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Traditions of Extreme Violence in British Colonial Warfare Seminar Michelle Gordon (Royal Holloway) 17:30 This event is part of the Modern British History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Ale, Beer and Brewing in Sixteenth-Century Ireland Seminar Susan Flavin O’Connor (Anglia Ruskin) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the Food History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Charting Contested Caribbean Space: Mapping and Colonization Seminar in the British Ceded Islands, 1763–83 17:30–19:30 Max Edelson (Virginia) This event is part of the North American History Seminar Series. UCL Institute of the Americas, 51 , London Free advance registration required [email protected] WC1H 0PN UK

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October October

The Warburg Institute Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship Seminar Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox 17:30–19:30 and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For Warburg Institute details, see page 33. This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

Friday 13 Institute of Modern Languages The Sacred in the Secular in European Literature Research Modern Humanities Research Association Postgraduate and Early Career Conference / Symposium Conference 10:00–17:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies The Athenian Bank: Between Anthropology and Law Seminar Giacinto Falco (SNS Pisa) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Praemunire: The History of a Reformation Statute Seminar Dan Gosling (Gray’s Inn) 17:30 This event is part of the Late Medieval Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Reading Seminar Steven Morrison (Nottingham), Helen Saunders (KCL) 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 234 (Senate House)

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Saturday 14 Institute of English Studies Dickens Day 2017 Conference Jointly run by Birkbeck, , the Dickens Fellowship, and the Institute of English Studies, this one-day conference will explore all aspects of Dickens and 09:00–18:00 fantasy. Fantasy pervades Dickens’s writing. His deeply held commitment to ‘fancy’, Senate House a word from the same root as ‘fantasy’, and the influence of the One Thousand and One Nights on his work is well known. Dickens also loved theatrical fantasies. He often linked scientific and technological developments to fancy and fantasy and delighted in juxtaposing the fantastic and the mundane. Dickens peopled his work with fantasists of all sorts, from Mr Dick, Josiah Bounderby and Harold Skimpole to Pleasant Riderhood’s fantasies of sailors and breadfruit and Louisa Gradgrind’s visions in the fire. Oliver Twist’s hallucinatory dream, Fagin in the condemned cell, and Dickens’s influence on Sigmund Freud confirm the fertility of his work for conceptions of the unconscious and associated mental states. G H Lewes claimed that Dickens hallucinated his characters and Robert Buss’s painting Dickens’ Dream implies he dreamt them. How does Dickens’s creative process relate to fantasy in both the imaginative and psychological sense? In what way do Dickens’s ‘Christmas’ books fit within the fantasy tradition and what is their relationship to his other works? What was Dickens’s influence on contemporary and subsequent fantasy authors? How does Dickens use fantasy motifs? How does fantasy use Dickensian motifs? £35 | £30 | £25 advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies The Secret Lives of an Alchemical Text: Manuscripts of the Seminar Speculum Sapientiae (1st ed. 1705) and Their Stories 14:00–16:00 Mike Zuber (Oxford) This event is part of the Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination The Court Room (Senate House) (EMPHASIS) Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Katherine Mansfield Society Annual Birthday Lecture Lecture The Yellow Mackintosh: Sights, Sounds, and Smells in the Fiction of 14:00–18:00 Katherine Mansfield David Trotter (Cambridge) The Court Room (Senate House) The lecture will be followed by a cake and wine reception. Copies of the lecture booklet will be available to purchase for a small fee on the day. £18 | £13 advance registration required [email protected]

Monday 16 Institute of Classical Studies Everyday Identities: Poetics and Imagery of Rome's Other 99% Seminar Peter Kruschwitz (Reading) 17:00–19:00 This event is part of the ICS Ancient Literature Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)

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October October

Institute of Historical Research Post-Imperial Demographic Unmixing: The Asian Minority and the Seminar Question of Citizenship in Transitional East Africa; (Un-)Making Connections: East Africa, the Uganda Railway and the Question of 17:15–19:15 Globalization, c. 1890–1914 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 Julia B. Held (Konstanz), Norman Aselmeyer (European University Institute) (Senate House) This event is part of the Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Leveller Revolution Seminar John Rees 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the Socialist History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Tuesday 17 Institute of Historical Research The History of Learning Digital History, c. 1980–2017 Seminar Adam Crymble (Hertfordshire) 17:15–19:15 This event is part of the Digtal History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Transnational Architectural Encounters: Construction of Schools Seminar and (Post)colonialism across Continents, 1945–75 17:15–19:15 Ning de Coninck Smith (Aarhus) This event is part of the Life-Cycles Seminar Series. IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies The Craft of Creative Writing Seminar Jeremy Scott (Kent), Monique Roffey (Trinidadian-born British writer and memoirist) 17:30–19:30 This seminar will look at creative writing from the perspective of language studies, Room 234 (Senate House) considering the creative possibilities of playing with genres and media. This event is part of the Contemporary Cultures of Writing Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Mentoring Mandela’s Generation: Challenges for a Methodist Seminar Mission School in Segregationist South Africa 17:30–19:30 Deborah Gaitskell (SOAS) This event is part of the Christian Missions and Global History Seminar Series. IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research 'A Sheepdog to the Western Diplomatic Flock': Britain and the Seminar Search for a Solution to the West Siberian Pipeline Sanctions Row of 1982 18:00 Richard Smith (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) IHR Pollard Room, N301 This event is part of the International History Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

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Institute of Historical Research Writing Prize-Winning History Lecture Margot Finn, president of the Royal Historical Society, talks to the winners of the 2017 RHS Gladstone and Whitfield Prizes for first books; with William Cavert (St 18:00–19:30 Thomas), Claire Eldridge (Leeds) and Alice Taylor (King’s London). IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Why Do We Need Monsters? Evening event This event is supported by The John Coffin Memorial Trust. 18:00–20:00 Free [email protected] Beveridge Hall (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research ‘Paying our Way in the World’: The Foreign and Commonwealth Seminar Office and Trade with Iran in the 1970s 18:00–20:00 Richard Smith (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 This event is part of the International History Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Wednesday 18 Institute of Historical Research Cultural Citizenship and Nation-building in India: Media, Identity, Seminar and Belonging 12:30 Lion Koening (Oxford) This event is part of the Comparative Histories of Asia Seminar Series. IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies Reconstructing the Architectural Sequence of the Palace at Malia Seminar Maud Devolder (Louvain-la-Neuve) 15:30–17:30 This event is part of the ICS Mycenaean Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House)

Institute of Philosophy Keith Lehrer (Arizona) Seminar This event is part of the London Aesthetics Forum Seminar Series. 16:00–18:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 234 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research From Hegel to Italy: Defence and Revision of the Ethical State in Seminar Bertrando and Silvio Spaventa 17:15 Alessandro de Arcangelis (UCL) This event is part of the History of Political Ideas/Early Career Seminar Series. IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

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October October

Institute of Historical Research Men Performing Masculinity Badly: Or, Fighting in Cheshire during Seminar the Long Eighteenth Century 17:15–19:15 James Sharpe (York) This event is part of the British History in the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Alastair Bennett (Royal Holloway), Catherine Nall (Royal Holloway) Seminar This event is part of the London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS). 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Historic Present, Past Tense: Making Public History and De- Seminar Centering the ‘Civilising’ Curriculum 17:30 Kate Donington (Nottingham), Jason Todd (London) This event is part of the Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 1600–2000 Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Wrong Side of the Tracks: The Separating Effects of London’s Seminar Railway Terminals 17:30–19:30 Tom Bolton (UCL) This event is part of the Metropolitan History Seminar Series. IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Sir David Wilson Lecture in Medieval Studies Seminar The Galloway (2014) Hoard: Vikings (and Anglo-Saxons) in South- 18:15–20:00 West Scotland James Graham-Campbell (UCL) UCL Institute of Archaeology This is a joint meeting with the Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar, followed by a launch party for the seminar series in the Staff Common Room. This event is part of the Earlier Middle Ages Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Thursday 19 Institute of Historical Research Fighting Fire with Fire: The Danysz Virus, Plague Prevention and Seminar Early Twentieth-Century Epidemiology 12:45–14:00 Lukas Engelmann (Cambridge) This event is part of the History and Public Health Seminar Series. LG9, Keppel Street Building, London School of Hygiene & Free advance registration required [email protected] Tropical Medicine

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Senate House Library Revealing the Reformation: Curator’s Tour of the ‘Reformation: Exhibition tour Shattered World, New Beginnings’ Exhibition 14:00–15:00 Karen Attar (Senate House Library) Explore the English Reformation and its communication from its roots to Senate House Library its impact on culture and society at home and abroad in an intellectual trip that ranges from a lost son, lost stories and lost manuscripts to newly found relationships and technology. Lose yourself in the rarely displayed books and manuscripts and find connections with today’s world as you are guided through this Senate House Library exhibition by its curator. Part of the 2017 Being Human festival. Free advance registration required senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies Loans in Kind and Loans in Cash in Roman Egypt Seminar François Lerouxel (Paris-Sorbonne) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Hunting at the Court of King John of England Seminar Hugh Thomas (Miami College of Arts and Sciences) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the European History 1150–1550 Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Stephanie McCurry (Columbia) Seminar This event is part of the North American History Seminar Series. 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] QMUL

Institute of Historical Research Objects, Emotions and an Early Modern Bed-Sheet Seminar Sasha Handley (Manchester) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the Society, Culture and Belief, 1500–1800 Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship Seminar Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox 17:30–19:30 and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For Warburg Institute details, see page 33. This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

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Institute of Modern Languages 2017 Bithell Memorial Lecture Research What is Europe? Georg Lukács’s and Roy Pascal’s European Realism Lecture Helmut Peitsch (Potsdam) 18:00–19:30 Roy Pascal, the 1977 Bithell Memorial Lecturer, was one of the most influential The Court Room (Senate House) Germanists in Britain. At the height of the Cold War, in 1950, he wrote the foreword to Studies in European Realism (1950), the first of Georg Lukács’s books to be published in English translation, and challenged the view that ‘the East’ did not belong to a Europe conceived as ‘the West’. This year’s lecturer will trace the influence of Lukács in Pascal’s own work on German history and discuss Lukács’s ‘European realism’ in Pascal’s later writing, such as The German Novel (1956) and From Naturalism to Expressionism (1973). Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies The House that Never Blew Up: Maeve Brennan’s Dublin Home Seminar Angela Bourke (UCD) 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the Irish Studies Seminar. Free advance registration required [email protected] The Senate Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research ‘Now Let Me Tell You about That Wonderful Plant’: Maud Grieve, Seminar Early Twentieth-Century Herbalist 18:00–20:00 Claire de Carle This event is part of the History of Gardens and Landscapes Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Friday 20 Institute of Philosophy The Philosophy of David Papineau Two-day conference This two-day conference (20 and 21 October) celebrates the work of King’s College London philosopher David Papineau. Talks will cover a range of themes, 09:30–19:00 including philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and naturalism. Woburn Suite, G22/26 The conference will feature a number of panels composed of Professor Papineau’s (Senate House) former students and a panel of distinguished colleagues discussing London philosophy through the years. The first day of the conference will take place in Senate House; the second day of the conference will take place at King’s College London. Free advance registration required [email protected]

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Human Rights Consortium Tenth Anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of One-day conference Indigenous Peoples: Conference to Review Progress and Challenges 09:00–17:45 A decade on from the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Room 349 (Senate House) Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in September 2007, this conference asks what progress has been made in securing indigenous peoples’ rights and about the challenges remaining. It will bring together an international group of scholars and activists to share original research and reflections on practice drawing from inter-disciplinary expertise in law, political science, anthropology and sociology. The keynote panel includes Sheryl Lightfoot (Canada Research Chair in Global Indigenous Rights and Politics at the University of British Colombia), Federico Lenzerini (Rapporteur of the International Law Association Committee on the Implementation of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, University of Siena), and Albert Barume (Chair of the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples). The conference is jointly organised and funded by the Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study, University of London; The City Law School, City, University of London; Queen Mary, University of London’s Centre for European and International Legal Affairs; and the University of Lapland. Additional funding was provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland and the Academy of Finland. For registration details, including fees, please visit the conference website at hrc.sas.ac.uk/events/event/13845

Institute of Advanced Legal The Future of the Commercial Contract in Scholarship and Law Studies Reform: The Interface between Public International Law and Conference / Symposium Substantive Contract Law 10:00–17:00 Recent years have seen new European EU and academic proposals and legislation in the area of contract law (for example, CESL, PECL, the DCFR, and the UK IALS Consumer Rights Act 2015). These are either based on a universal notion of contract or deal predominantly with consumer contracts. Is there therefore a need to focus on commercial contracts in research and legislation? Is the current identity-based system of merchant and consumer law sustainable? How can commercial contracts be defined? Are they a separate contract type? What should be the role of cross-border dealings in this process? Should this outlook be universal or sector specific? This conference presents recent research focusing on the interface between public and private international law. Its keynote speaker is Juergen Basedow, director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg. £75 | £50 | £35 advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies Linked Open Data Applications for the Study on the Ancient World Seminar Paula Granados (), Sarah Middle (Open University) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)

Institute of Modern Languages Music and Marxism: ‘Natural History’ and Music History Research Jeremy Coleman and Johan Siebers Seminar This event is part of the German Philosophy Seminar Series. 17:00–19:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 234 (Senate House)

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Institute of Historical Research Domestic Subversions: Resistance and Affective Labour in the Seminar Settler Colonial Nation 17:15–19:15 Victoria Haskins (Newcastle, Australia) In 1934, a remarkable petition from a group of women calling themselves IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 ‘Halfcastes of Broome’ was submitted for the consideration of a Royal Commission (Senate House) into Aboriginal Status and Conditions in Western Australia. ‘[M]ost of us work for white people for a living’, the petitioners stated, and ‘by doing so get used to their kind of living.’ The petitioners asked the Commissioner to ‘give us our Freedom and release us from the stigma of a native and make us happy Subjects of this our country.’ Such protests provide an insight into the crucial relationship between domestic service and Indigenous civil rights in Australian history. This talk will explore the connections between Indigenous domestic employment and the curtailing and asserting of Indigenous civil rights more generally. This event is part of the Women's History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Revolts in Andalusia (1647–52): The Little Ice Age, the Spanish Seminar Monarchy and the General Crisis 17:15–19:15 Fred Carnegy-Arbuthnott (UCL) This event is part of the Economic and Social History of the Early Modern World, IHR Seminar Room, N304 1500–1800 Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies The Cross-Channel Stage: Transnational Theatre in the Age of Seminar Romanticism 17:30–20:30 Professor Diego Saglia (Parma) This event is part of the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar Series. The Court Room (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Army of 1417 Seminar Anne Curry (Southampton), David Cleverly (Chichester) 17:30 This event is part of the Late Medieval Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Advanced Legal Gustaw Rosenberg: Polish-Jewish Lawyer and his Textbook of Studies English Law Seminar Łukasz Jan Korporowicz (Lodz) 18:00–19:30 This event is part of the Legal History Seminar Series and organised in association with the London Legal History Seminar. IALS Free advance registration required [email protected]

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Being Human Festival Being Human festival preview event! Special event Lost and Found: Twenty Years of Treasure Discoveries in England, Northern Ireland and Wales 18:30–20:00 Ever dreamt of finding lost treasure? BP Lecture Theatre, British This Being Human festival preview event, organised in collaboration with the Museum British Museum and chaired by festival director Professor Sarah Churchwell, marks the twentieth anniversary of the Treasures Act. Join a panel of experts and curators from the British Museum as they dig deep into two decades of ‘lost and found’ treasures and debate which have been the best discoveries. Who owns these treasures, how do we care for them, and what do they tell us about the histories of different regions? Participants include Michael Lewis, Sam Moorhead, and Ian Richardson from the Museum’s Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure, as well as Julia Farley, curator of European Iron Age Collections, and Neil Wilkin, curator of British and European Bronze Age collections. This free event introduces the Being Human 2017 ‘Lost and Found’ theme and is part of the British Museum’s year-long ‘Treasure 20’ series of events. Fee applicable advance registration required [email protected]

Saturday 21 Institute of English Studies Russian Evolution Conference Conference / Symposium This conference features the presentation of a new translation into English of Yuri Rozhdestvensky’s work on philology, narratology, and poetics. A talk by Mary 09:00–17:00 Coghill will analyze his unique contribution to the theory of communication. Room 243 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Monday 23 Institute of Classical Studies Modals and Copulae in Aristotle Seminar Simona Aimar (UCL) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 243, (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Mental Health and the Everyday in Hippocratic Medicine Seminar Chiara Thumiger (Warwick) 17:00–19:00 This event is part of the ICS Ancient Literature Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Woburn Room, G22 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies "Pace, Amble, Trot, Hand-gallop, Wild-gallop, Fals-gallop": Motion Seminar and Conversion in John Taylor's Rebellious Roundhead; Reading Metatheatre 17:00–19:00 Abigail Shinn (Goldsmiths), Harry Newman (Royal Holloway) The Senate Room (Senate House) This event is part of the London Shakespeare Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

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October October

Institute of Historical Research La Bella Principessa: A History of Her Collections Seminar Kasia Wozniak 18:00–20:00 La Bella Principessa, a coloured drawing on vellum, is the newly discovered female portrait attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. This talk will attempt to reconstruct the IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 portrait’s history from the late eighteenth century to its re-emergence in Florence (Senate House) in the late twentieth century. The unusual, richly decorated frame that was added some time after the portrait was laid onto a wooden panel will also be discussed. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Jackie Onassis (Working Woman) and the Writing of a Woman’s Seminar Work Life 17:15 Oline Eaton (KCL) This event is part of the Gender and History in the Americas Seminar Series. IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The 1924 Pageant of Empire: Modernity, Spectacle and Seminar Re-imagining Space 17:15 Deborah Sugg-Ryan (Portsmouth) This event is part of the Sport and Leisure History Seminar Series. IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Richard Titmuss and Voluntary Action: From Problems of Social Seminar Policy to the Gift Relationship 18:00–20:00 John Stewart (Glasgow Caledonian) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Letters, Leaflets, and Lectures: Before and Beyond the Book, Lecture 1840–1945 18:00–20:30 Simon Eliot (IES) Free advance registration required [email protected] Stationers Hall, Ave Maria Lane, London

Tuesday 24 Institute of Historical Research The 1904 British Army Manoeuvres: Amphibious Warfare Eleven Seminar Years Before Gallipoli 17:15 Simon Batten (Bloxham School) This event is part of the Military History Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Privilege versus Prerogative: Conflicts of Interest between the Seminar House of Lords and the Crown, c.1603–30 17:15–19:15 Paul Hunneyball (History of Parliament Trust) This event is part of the Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar Series. IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

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October October

Institute of Historical Research Assembling ‘Negroana’: Black History and the Limits of Universal Seminar Knowledge 17:15–19:15 Jake Hodder (Nottingham) This event is part of the London Group of Historical Geographers Seminar Series. Room 246 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Recreating ‘Reconquista’ in Family Histories in Seventeenth- Seminar Century New Spain 17:30–19:15 Karoline Cook (Royal Holloway) During the mid-seventeenth century, some prominent families in New Spain IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 crafted detailed genealogies that traced their ancestors’ deeds to Christian (Senate House) battles against Muslim forces in Iberia during the tenth and eleventh centuries. Their family histories also incorporated accounts of the conquest of Mexico, placing medieval Iberian conflicts alongside New World conquests. These sources suggest that seventeenth-century Spaniards born in the Americas actively created and maintained connections to peninsular pasts through the production of genealogies and histories. Growing preoccupation with lineage across the Spanish world perpetuated memories of the Reconquest, and informed subsequent interactions between Christians and Muslims, and Spaniards and indigenous peoples. This talk will explore how memory and local interpretations of ‘conquista’ and ‘Reconquista’ transformed relationships in Spanish America as local competitions over status placed increasing importance on lineages, despite the challenges of tracing these in a transatlantic setting. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies Accordia Lecture Lecture At the Heart of Mare Nostrum: Small Islands and connectivity in the 17:30–19:30 Later Prehistory of Sicily Helen Dawson (Free University of Berlin). Room 349 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Refugee Law Initiative Refugee Protection in the beyond Brexit: The Seminar Perils of Australian Exceptionalism 18:00–20:00 Linda Kirk (ANU) This event is part of the RLI International Refugee Law Seminar Series. IALS Free advance registration required [email protected]

Wednesday 25 Institute of Classical Studies The ERC Project: Judaism and Rome: Rome’s Political and Religious Seminar Challenge to Israel and its Impact on Judaism, the Epigraphic Evidence 13:00–14:00 Caroline Barron (ICS) Room 243 (Senate House) This event is part of the ICS Fellows Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

Institute of Commonwealth Refugee Studies Reading Group (1) Studies Free advance registration required [email protected] Reading group 15:00–17:00 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

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October October

Institute of Classical Studies Konstantin Chugunov (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg) Seminar This event is part of the ICS Classical Archaeology Seminar Series. 17:00–19:00 Free [email protected] Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House)

Institute of Modern Languages Veladas con Diferencia: Las Escritoras de Posguerra del Pacifico en Research la Esfera Publica Peru, 1883–95 Seminar Francesca Denegri (Pontificia, Lima) 17:00–19:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 234 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Marco Duranti (Sydney) Seminar This event is part of the Rethinking Modern Europe Seminar Series. 17:30 Sponsored by Lord Tugendhat Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Violent Fraternity: Global Political Thought in the Indian Age Seminar Shruti Kapila (Cambridge) 17:15–19:15 This event is part of the History of Political Ideas Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of Latin American Controlling the Body: Decency in Argentina, 1850–1945 Studies Camila Gatica Mizala (ILAS) Seminar This event is part of the Latin America and the Global History of Knowledge 17:30–19:30 (LAGLOBAL) Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Reading for Queer Openings. Moving. Archives of the Self. Fred Wah Seminar Susan Rudy (QMUL) 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)

Thursday 26 Institute of Commonwealth What’s Happening in Black British History? VII Studies Convenors: Miranda Kaufmann and Michael Ohajuru Workshop Keynote Speaker: David Olusoga, Anglo-Nigerian historian and television producer 10:00–19:00 £20 | £10 advance registration required [email protected] The Senate Room (Senate House)

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Institute of Historical Research Loyalty is ‘in this Age Called High Treason’: The Politics of Seminar Propaganda and the Law in Interregnum England 17:15 Katherine Gail Lazo (Vanderbilt) This event is part of the British History in the Seventeenth Century Seminar Series. IHR Pollard Room Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Sponsored by the Conrad and Elizabeth Russell Fund Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Per cupidigia alle rapine ed ai ladronecci? Brigandage by Balkan Seminar Émigrés in the Italian South (15th–18th c) 17:15 Nada Zečević (Royal Holloway) This event is part of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Natural Laws, Magic Lantern: Scientific Knowledge and the Roots Seminar of Magic Lantern Technology in Tokugawa Japan 17:30 Lewis Bremner (Oxford) This event is part of the History Lab Seminar Series. IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Modern British History Reading Group: Emotions Reading group Rhodri Hayward 17:30 This event is part of the Modern British History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Advanced Legal IALS 70th Anniversary Studies Inaugural Lecture: Telling Stories about Law and Development Lecture Diamond Ashiagbor (IALS) 17:30–19:00 Chair: Rick Rylance, Dean, School of Advanced Study IALS In this inaugural lecture, Diamond Ashiagbor will examine regions, market building and labour law in the European Union and the African Union. She will explore the role of labour law and labour market institutions as part of an array of adjustment mechanisms responding to the liberalisation of trade and the opening of national borders. To what extent can social rights mediate the operation of markets, and what does this mean viewed from the perspective of developing countries as well as industrialised ones? Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Food, Drink and the Bishop in Medieval England, c. 1100–1400 Seminar Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the Food History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

Institute of Latin American Schooling, Mobility and Belonging in Socialist Cuba and its Studies Diaspora Seminar Mette Louse Berg (UCL) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series. Room 246 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

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October October The Warburg Institute ‘Divine Proportion’ in Renaissance Venice: Bellini, Carpaccio and Lecture Luca Pacioli 17:30–19:30 Paul Hills (Courtauld Institute of Art) Venetian painting around 1500 is marked by a distinctive geometry. The speaker Warburg Institute will explore the synergy between the artistic and Euclidian culture of the Venetian Republic, broadly from the arrival of Giorgio Valla in 1481 through to the publication of Luca Pacioli’s Divina proportione in 1509. Examining a number of works by Bellini and Carpaccio, he will suggest how the emphasis on geometry and ‘divine proportion’ confirms the arrival of what Belting has termed ‘the era of art’. This is the first in a series of lectures on New Work on Venice. Free advance registration required [email protected]

The Warburg Institute Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship Seminar Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox 17:30–19:30 and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For Warburg Institute details, see page 33. This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

Institute of Modern Languages Motherhood in Literature and Culture Research This event will celebrate the launch of Motherhood in Literature and Culture: Book launch Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe, a volume of essays from Routledge that raises urgent and fascinating questions about the experience and construction 19:00–21:00 of maternity in contemporary Europe. Dealing with a range of topics including Freud Museum, London maternal ambivalence, mothering and disability, pregnancy and childbirth, and the formation of families, this book, edited by Gill Rye, Victoria Browne, Adalgisa Giorgio, Emily Jeremiah, and Abigail Lee Six, aims to provoke discussion and debate about that most crucial of human activities, mothering. Co-editor Emily Jeremiah (Royal Holloway) will be joined by Carolyn Jess-Cooke (Glasgow), who founded the ‘Writing Motherhood’ project, and by Lisa Baraitser (Birkbeck), a key thinker in contemporary motherhood studies. The discussion will be chaired by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and will be followed by drinks and networking. Advance registration required [email protected]

Friday 27 Institute of Classical Studies Understanding ‘Ancient Videogame’ Play as a Reception Seminar Experience 16:30–18:30 Ross Clare (Liverpool) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series. Room 246 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

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October October Institute of Modern Languages Sketching/Scripting Women: Dominique Goblet on her Graphic Research Novels Seminar Speaker: Dominique Goblet 17:00–20:00 Since the mid-1990s, female artists have become an increasingly visible presence in the bande dessinée (the French-language graphic novel), an art form with Bloomsbury Room, G35 which women were previously rarely associated. Belgian artist Dominique Goblet (Senate House) began her career during this industry evolution and in this seminar will discuss her oeuvre, including the recent translation of her graphic novel Faire semblant, c’est mentir into English. A wine reception will follow. This event is generously supported by the Cassal Trust Fund. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Mobility, Migration and Social Marginality in Late Medieval Seminar London 17:15 Charlotte Berry (IHR) This event is part of the Late Medieval Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Finnegans Wake Reading Group Reading group This reading group has been running regularly since 2007. It studies James Joyce’s final work, Finnegans Wake, at a close level of detail. Discussion is focused on 18:00–20:00 the text and attention is also paid to Joyce’s manuscripts (copies of which are Room 243 (Senate House) displayed on a screen). The group hosts a blog to record its discussions. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Latin American 100 years of Exploration in the Llanos de Moxos: Reflections on Studies Past, Present and Future of the Archeology of Eastern Bolivia Seminar Eduardo Machicado-Rivera (CAU) 18:00–20:00 Kindly organised by the Anglo-Bolivian Society Gordon Room, G34 Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

Saturday 28 Institute of Classical Studies Virgil Society Lecture Lecture Virgil's Disciple: Hector Berlioz's Lifelong Passion for the Aeneid 14:30–17:00 David Cairns (writer and music critic) Room 349 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Monday 30 Institute of Classical Studies Leigh Hunt and the Quotidian Catullus Seminar Henry Stead (Open University) 17:00–19:00 This event is part of the ICS Ancient Literature Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)

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October October Institute of Historical Research Lepanto, the Event: Decentering the History of the Battle of Seminar Lepanto (1571) 17:15–19:15 Stefan Hanss (Cambridge) This event is part of the European History 1500–1800 Seminar Series. IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Putting Down Roots: Afro-Caribbean Place-Making in Post-War Seminar Brixton, 1959–98; The Forging of a Discourse: Caribbean Anti- Imperialism Activists Analyse 1930s Great Power Politics 17:15–19:15 Naomi Oppenheim (KCL), Kesewa John (Chichester) IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

Tuesday 31 Institute of Historical Research History Day 2017 Other Events History Day is an information-packed event that provides attendees with the opportunity to talk with representatives of more than 30 research libraries and 10:00–16:00 archives and to attend subject-specific research clinics and pop-up sessions on Beveridge Hall (Senate House) libraries, archives, digital research and public history. Participating organisations include Archives Hub, Jisc; Black Cultural Archives; British Library; British Records Association; Brunel University Special Collections; Business Archives Council; CILIP Library and Information History Group; Caird Library and Archive, National Maritime Museum; Conway Hall; Dana Research Centre and Library, Science Museum; Geological Society Library; German Historical Institute Library; Gladstone’s Library; Guildhall Library; Historic England Archive and Library; History of Parliament; Institute of Historical Research Library; King’s College London Library Services; The King’s Fund, Information and Knowledge Services; Lambeth Palace Library; Library of the Society of Friends; Lindley Library, Royal Horticultural Society; The Linnean Society of London; London Metropolitan Archives; LSE Library; The National Archives; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Royal College of Physicians Library and Archives; Royal Holloway, University of London; The Royal Society, Collections; Senate House Library; SOAS Library; Society of Antiquaries Library and Collections; St Peter’s House Library, University of Brighton; Trades Union Congress Library Collections at London Metropolitan University; UCL Library Services; UCL School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies Library; University of Cambridge Museums, Archive Collections; University of Westminster Archives; The Warburg Institute Library; The Wiener Library; and Wellcome Library. For complete details, visit the History Day website at historycollections.blogs.sas.ac.uk/history-day-2017/. Free; advance registration: [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies ICS/British School at Athens Lecture Lecture Pella: The Great Capital of the Macedonian Kingdom 17:00–19:00 Elisavet Bettina Tsigarida (Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of the County of Pella) Room 349 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research John Gerard, the Archpriest Affair, and the Construction of 17:15–19:15 Memory in the English Reformation IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 Michael Questier (Senate House) This event is part of the Religious History of Britain 1500–1800 Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

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October October Institute of Historical Research The Streets Swarm with Children: Children and Urban Space in Seminar Chicago, 1890–1910 17:15–19:15 Oenone Kubie (Oxford) This event is part of the Life-Cycles Seminar Series. IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies The Shaping of the Latin Classics in Fourteenth-Century Italy: Seminar Some Case Studies from the Canonici Collection, Bodleian Library 17:30–19:15 Irene Ceccherini (Oxford) This event is part of the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Series. Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House Library)

Institute of Advanced Legal The Transnational Crime of Human Trafficking: Taking the Studies Canadian Human Security Approach Seminar Maria O'Neill (Dundee Business School, IALS, Visiting Fellow) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the IALS Fellows Seminar Series. IALS Free advance booking required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Space and Time Seminar Jone Garmendia (The National Archives), Mark Bell (The National Archives), 17:45–19:45 Matthew Hillyard (The National Archives) IHR Seminar Room, N304 This event is part of the Archives and Society Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies The 2017 Wordsworth Trust London Lecture Lecture Byron and Wordsworth: Art and Nature 18:00–20:00 Sir Drummond Bone (Oxford) Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House) Wordsworth and Byron fell out in a not very dignified way over politics, and there was heavy collateral damage in their opinion of each other’s poetry. But there was a fundamental intellectual difference, too. Despite his flirtation with Wordsworthean pantheism at Shelley’s behest in 1816, Byron came to believe that moral and existential value could only be human constructs, whereas Wordsworth of course saw these very constructs as the barrier to an existential value inherent in Nature, the perception of which was the necessary ground of moral behaviour. Sir Drummond Bone will use this contrast as a way into reading their poetry and spend some time specifically on their differing attitudes to city life and the nature of art. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research London, Washington and the Rhodesian Crisis Seminar Todd Carter (Oxford) 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the International History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

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School of Advanced Study Events calendar November November Wednesday 01 Institute of Advanced Legal Law Reform Project Workshop Studies Convenors: Dr Enrico Albanesi and Jonathan Teasdale Workshop Fee applicable advance registration required [email protected] 13:30–17:30 IALS

Institute of Historical Research The Queen Was Not There: Rights, Violence, and Middlemen in Seminar Britain’s Imperial ‘Coolie Labour’ System 12:30 Sascha Auerbach (Nottingham) This event is part of the Comparative Histories of Asia Seminar Series. IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Modern Languages Staging Canada at Expo67: Nationalism in the Crucible of Globalization Research Staging Canada at Expo67 celebrates the 50th anniversary of the most successful Conference / Symposium world’s fair of the twentieth century with a four-day event across London featuring films, live performance, and the latest research on Expo, Montreal, Quebec, and 14:30–22:00 Canada during that magic year of 1967. Highlights include the UK premiere of the Multiple London venues ‘documentary-thriller’ Expo67: Mission Impossible with director Guylaine Maroist; screenings of classic Quebec films from the late 1960s; a two-day international academic symposium on Expo67 and world exhibitions at Senate House and King’s College London; and a newly commissioned performance of the forgotten multimedia masterpiece Miracles of Modern Medicine, originally produced for Expo’s ‘Meditheatre’. The event will conclude with a special programme of innovative Expo films, most never before shown in the UK, at the BFI Southbank. This event is generously supported by the Canada-UK Foundation, the Government of Quebec, and the Cassal Trust Fund. Advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Philosophy Errol Lord (Pennsylvania) Seminar This event is part of the London Aesthetics Forum Seminar Series. 16:00–18:00 Free advance registration required: [email protected] Room 234 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Justifying Public Funding for Science: From Vannevar Bush to John Seminar Rawls 17:15 Zeynep Pamuk (Oxford) This event is part of the History of Political Ideas/Early Career Seminar Series. IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Arthur Onslow, 1691–1768: The Great Speaker Seminar Mary Clayton (Durham) 17:15–19:15 This event marks the launch of A Portrait of Influence: Life and Letters of Arthur Onslow, the Great Speaker (Parliamentary History: Texts and Studies, 14, 2017) and is Speaker’s House, organised in association with Parliamentary History Trust. Palace of Westminster Free advance registration required [email protected]

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Institute of Historical Research 'With Honour yet Frugality': The Rebuilding of London's Livery Seminar Halls after the Great Fire 17:30–19:30 Anya Matthews (Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich) This event is part of the Metropolitan History Seminar Series. IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Latin American Revolutionary Elections in Colombia: The Presidential Contest of Studies 1836–37 Seminar Eduardo Posada-Carbo (Oxford) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the London Andean Seminar Series. Gordon Room, G34 Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

Institute of Modern Languages Foreign Parts Research Richard Dove (London) Seminar This event is part of Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies 18:00–20:00 Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

Thursday 02 Institute of English Studies Women in Punch, 1841–1920 Conference Punch, or the London Charivari first appeared in 1841, published as a weekly magazine with a strong political agenda. Although some work has been done 09:00–18:00 on the social reform agenda of Punch, very little is known about women in the Room 349 (Senate House) magazine. Were there any women contributors? What representations of women appeared in the magazine, both in images and text? Women were certainly a subject for humour and caricature in Punch, but what were the political implications of those comic illustrations? What was the role played by verse in the depiction of women? Did representations of women change significantly between 1841 and 1910, and if so, how and why? How do the caricatures and/or depictions of women in Punch differ or resemble those in other illustrated papers, such as the Comic Almanack (1835–53), The Illustrated London News (1842–1989), The Man in the Moon (1847–49), and Fun (1861–1901)? Queen Victoria subscribed to Punch; did it have many women subscribers and/or readers? How was the ‘New Woman’ reported in the pages of the magazine? Was Punch interested in female education or the entry of women into the professions? These are some of the questions to be explored during this one-day conference. Fee applicable advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 69 Events calendar November November Institute of Classical Studies Classics and Poetry Now Workshop This event is organised in association with the Classical Studies Reception Network. 09:30–17:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] Woburn Room, G22 (Senate House)

Institute of Modern Languages Anglophone Travel Writing on Portugal: Anglo-Portuguese Research Literary Dialogues Conference / Symposium This conference, organised by the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo- 10:00–18:00 Portuguese Studies (NOVA, Lisbon) and the Anglo-Portuguese Society, will range widely over literature in English that takes Portugal as its subject. Rogerio Puga Room G7 (Senate House) (NOVA) will chair; speakers include Carlos Ceia (NOVA), David Evans (NOVA), Isabel Oliveira Martins (NOVA), João Paulo Silva (NOVA), António Lopes (University of Algarve), and Rogério Miguel Puga (NOVA). Supported by the Camões Centre, KCL. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Advanced Legal The Digital Revolution of the Israeli Judiciary: Historical and Studies Organisational Analysis Seminar Yair Sagy (Haifa, IALS Visiting Fellow) 12:30–13:30 This event is part of the IALS Lunchtime Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IALS

Institute of Historical Research How is Australia Responding to Calls to Allow Medical Uses of Seminar Cannabis? 12:45–14:00 Wayne Hall (Queensland) This event is part of the History of Public Health Seminar Series. LG9, Keppel Street Building, London School of Hygiene & Free advance registration required [email protected] Tropical Medicine

Institute of Modern Languages English Goethe Society Lecture Research Satanic Reflections in Eighteenth-Century German Drama Lecture John Guthrie (Cambridge) 17:15–19:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research European History 1150–1550: two paper event Seminar Daisy Livingston (SOAS), Martin Hall (Royal Holloway) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the European History 1150–1550 Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research From Architectural Planning to Organic Change: Mrs Thatcher and Seminar the Abolition of the Colleges of Education Revisited 17:30–19:30 Robin Simmons (Huddersfield) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

70  School of Advanced Study Events calendar November November Institute of Historical Research ‘We Have Not a Government’: The Articles of Confederation and Seminar the Road to the Constitution 17:30–19:30 George William van Cleve (Seattle) This event is part of the North American History Seminar Series. IHR North American History Room (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

The Warburg Institute Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship Seminar Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox 17:30–19:30 and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For Warburg Institute details, see page 33. This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

Institute of Advanced Legal The Mathematical Philosophy of Law and Finance, A Studies Categorification of Financial Instruments for the Socio-Economic Seminar Good 18:00–20:00 Joe Tanega (University of Westminster School of Law) Free advance registration required [email protected] IALS

Institute of Historical Research Queen Mary’s Exotics Seminar Terry Gough (Head Gardener, Hampton Court Palace) 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the History of Gardens and Landscapes Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Friday 03 Institute of Modern Languages 62nd National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies Research Fee applicable advance registration required [email protected] Colloquium 10:00–18:00 Somerville College, Oxford

Institute of Classical Studies To the Bone: The Male Body in Athletic Art and Society Seminar Caitlan Smith (St Andrews) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Crisis and Austerity in Qing Government Finances in Late Seminar Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century China 17:15–19:15 Elisabeth Kaske (Leipzig) This event is part of the Economic and Social History of the Early Modern World, IHR Seminar Room, N304 1500–1800 Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 71 Events calendar November November Institute of English Studies Nicolaes Witsen, Shipbuilding and the Problem of Technology Seminar Transfer in Early Modern Europe 17:30–19:30 Dániel Margócsy (Cambridge) This event is part of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar Series. Room 243 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Subject to Negotiation? The Security of Aristocratic Women's Seminar Property Rights in Thirteenth-Century England 17:30 Harriet Kersey (Canterbury) This event is part of the Late Medieval Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research October 1917 and its Afterlives Seminar Warren Carter, Antigoni Mamou, Gail Day 17:30 This event is part of the Marxism in Culture Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Saturday 04 Institute of Modern Languages L.O.V.E. and Other Disaffections Research What’s love got to do with it? The field of love studies has enjoyed a reinvigoration Conference / Symposium in recent years, while love has been increasingly emphasized as a political necessity. Campaigns surrounding the migrant crisis, as well as attempts to halt 09:00–19:00 the rise of fascism in the Western world—for example, Hillary Clinton’s ultimately Bloomsbury Room, G35 defeated #LoveTrumpsHate campaign—propose love as political healing, (Senate House) advocating open borders, tolerance, and equality. Scholars from diverse disciplines are again approaching the question of how to define love and how to engage with it from a critical perspective. What is the psychology of love? Are some people incapable of love, and is the inability to feel love a definable pathology? What is the neurology of love: can love be reduced to a finite set of chemical and synaptic impulses in response to a suitable object? What would an effective politics of love look like? What are -philias and are they constructed or are they essential? What does the erotic have to do with love? What does it mean to love in a digital age, or in an age of pornography and disaffection? Is there a cure for love? How is love gendered? How is love colonized, reappropriated, and even weaponized in socio-political economies? What would a post-love world look like—has it already been imagined, or is it already here? Amaleena Damlé (Cambridge) will deliver the keynote lecture. Advance registration required [email protected]

72  School of Advanced Study Events calendar November November Institute of Modern Languages Ethnography and Modern Languages: Critical Reflections Research This workshop provides a forum to reflect on the position of ethnographic Workshop approaches and methods within modern languages research and teaching. Ethnography is a growing area of interest among modern languages 10:00–19:00 scholars, particularly among early career researchers and those working across the Room 243 (Senate House) AHRC’s Open World Research Initiative and the Translating Cultures theme. At the same time, ethnographic approaches often lack visibility within modern languages disciplinary discussions and institutional structures. This workshop invites early career and experienced researchers and lecturers in modern languages to reflect on how they have engaged with ethnography in their research and/or teaching practices. Discussions will focus on how these approaches can be more effectively supported and developed, and how they complement and enter into productive dialogue with more established areas of modern languages research, such as literary and cultural studies. This event is part of the Open World Research Initiative Cross-Language Dynamics translingual strand. Advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Nicolaes Witsen, Shipbuilding and the Problem of Technology Seminar Transfer in Early Modern Europe 14:00–16:00 Dániel Margócsy (Cambridge) This event is part of the Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Room 246 (Senate House) (EMPHASIS) Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Monday 06 Institute of Classical Studies Thinking Makes the World Go Round: Intellection and Astronomy Seminar in Plato’s Timaeus 16:30–18:30 Barbara Sattler (St Andrews) This event is part of the ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series. Room 243 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Yelling at the Television: How Viewer Feedback Helped to Shape Seminar Sport on ITV 17:15 Gareth Edwards (De Montfort) This event is part of the Sport and Leisure History Seminar Series. IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Inaugural Liberty Lecture Lecture Ali Smith CBE FRSL, the award-winning Scottish author, playwright, journalist, and academic, will deliver the first annual Liberty Lecture in association with 18:00–20:00 Liberty. Described by Sebastian Barry as ‘Scotland’s Nobel laureate-in-waiting’, Beveridge Hall (Senate House) Smith is a prolific writer whose work includes fiction and short story collections, autobiographical short stories, and plays. She is the author of Free Love and Other Stories (1995), Hotel World (2001), The Accidental (2005), The First Person and Other Stories (2008), and How to be Both (2014), among others. Smith has received great critical acclaim for her work: she won the 2005 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award (for The Accidental), the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize and the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction (for How to be Both), and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Man Booker Prize, and the Folio Prize. Smith’s latest work Autumn was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017. £10 | £5 advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 73 Events calendar November November Institute of Historical Research The First World War: Reflections on Scholarship and Seminar Commemoration 100 Years On 17:30 A roundtable discussion featuring Franziska Heimburger (Paris-Sorbonne), Marjorie Gehrhardt (Reading), and Alison Fell (Leeds) IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 This event is part of the Modern French History Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Witness Seminar: Working with Voluntary Organisations since Seminar 1975 18:00–20:00 Shirley Otto (independent scholar) This event is part of the Voluntary Action History Seminar Series. IHR Seminar Room N304 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Tuesday 07 Institute of Modern Languages New Work in Italian Studies Research Presentation of two recently published books in Italian studies: Annie Chartres Seminar Vivanti: Transnational Politics, Identity and Culture (ed. by Sharon Wood and Erica Moretti, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016) and Women and the Public 17:00–19:00 Sphere in Modern and Contemporary Italy: Essays for Sharon Wood (ed. by Simona Room 243 (Senate House) Storchi, Marina Spunta, and Maria Morelli, Troubador, 2017). This event will feature the editors in conversation with a panel of respondents. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Strategy, National Decline and Greater Britain in the Late Seminar Nineteenth Century 17:15 James Fargher (KCL) This event is part of the Military History Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Challenges of Designing the House of Lords’ Nineteenth- Seminar Century Ventilation System: A Study of a Political Design Process, 1840–47 17:15–19:15 Henrik Schoenefeldt (Kent) IHR Past and Present Room, N202 This event is part of the Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research A Million Black Anthropocenes or None Seminar Kathryn Yusoff (Queen Mary University of London) 17:15–19:15 This event is part of the London Group of Historical Geographers Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Redefining “Normal” Child Sexuality: Encounters between Seminar Sexologists and Psychoanalysts at the Fin de Siècle 17:15–19:15 Katie Sutton (Australian National University) This event is part of the History of Sexuality Seminar Series. IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

74  School of Advanced Study Events calendar November November Institute of Historical Research Importing the War on Drugs? U.S. Pressure and Mexican Anti- Seminar Drugs Efforts from 1940 to 1980 17:30–19:15 Carlos A. Pérez Ricart (Freie Universität, Berlin) The talk looks at the relationship between the United States and Mexico and the IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 ‘war on drugs’ from 1940 to 1980. During this period, the U.S. deployed a series of (Senate House) pressuring mechanisms that shaped drug policy in Mexico, which was remarkable for its strong prohibitionist and punitive dimension. However, this would not have been possible without the combination of two endogenous factors: the existence of a tradition of low tolerance regarding the use of psychoactive substances and the assimilation of the ‘war on drugs’ rhetoric by Mexican state officials for the purpose of reaping political and bureaucratic benefits. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Imperial War Museum Library Seminar Sarah Paterson (Imperial War Museum Library) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the History of Libraries Seminar Series and is co-sponsored by the Institute of English Studies and The Warburg Institute. Warburg Institute Free advance registration required [email protected]

Wednesday 08 SAS Central Anticipation 2017 Three-day conference The aim of the emerging field of Anticipation Studies is to create new understandings of how individuals, groups, institutions, systems, and cultures 09:00–18:00 use ideas of the future to act in the present. This conference will provide an Senate House interdisciplinary meeting ground where researchers, scholars, and practitioners interested in this field can deepen their understanding and create productive new connections. It aims to put into dialogue the empirical, practical and theoretical insights that are emerging in highly diverse fields ranging from biology to psychology, cultural geography to critical theory, physics to design, history to mathematics, urban theory to engineering. It will build on the first international conference on Anticipation Studies, held in Trento in 2015, which saw 350 delegates gather to explore topics ranging from design futures to anticipatory economics and the philosophy of the present. For registration details, including fees, please visit the conference website at www.anticipation2017.org. [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies Aristotelian Natural Problems in the Roman Empire Seminar Michiel Meeusen (KCL) 13:00–14:00 This event is part of the ICS Fellows Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

Institute of Latin American Caribbean Studies Collection Opening Event Studies Free advance registration required [email protected] Workshop 15:00–20:00 The Court Room (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 75 Events calendar November November

Institute of Classical Studies Irina Shramko (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University) and Stas Zadnikov (V. N. Seminar Karazin Kharkiv National University) This event is part of the ICS Classical Archaeology Seminar Series. 17:00–19:00 Free [email protected] King's College London

Institute of Historical Research The Spoils of War: British Exploitation of German Science and the Seminar Start of the Cold War, 1944-49 17:15 Charlie Hall (Kent) This event is part of the War, Society and Culture Seminar Series. IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Rousseau and Federal Government Seminar Michael Sonenscher (Cambridge) 17:15–19:15 This event is part of the History of Political Ideas Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The William Wilberforce Diaries Project Seminar John Coffey (Leicester), Mark Smith (Oxford), John Wolffe (Open University) 17:15–19:15 This event is part of the Modern Religious History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Olga Crisp Room, N102 (Senate House)

Institute of Latin American Shelf Marks and Subject Classifications in the Jesuit Libraries of Studies Colonial Spanish America Seminar Desiree Arbo (Warwick) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the Latin America and the Global History of Knowledge (LAGLOBAL) Seminar Series. Room 234 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group: Canto 35 Reading group Guy Stevenson (Goldsmiths) 18:00–20:00 The Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group was formed in 2006. At each meeting, a speaker introduces a canto, followed by discussion. Speakers and members Room 243 (Senate House) range from internationally established Pound critics to poets, postgraduates, independent scholars and Pound enthusiasts. All are welcome. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Thursday 09 Human Rights Consortium Human Rights Research Students’ Conference Conference / Symposium This conference is aimed at postgraduate students working within the broad interdisciplinary field of human rights and social justice. It aims to stimulate 09:00–18:00 research on contemporary human rights issues and policies, and to facilitate Senate Room, University of the dissemination of such research. The conference is co-organised by the Glasgow Glasgow Human Rights Network at the , the Human Rights Consortium at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and the Human Rights Centre at the . £15 | £10 (registration fee includes lunch) advance registration required [email protected] or visit hrc.sas.ac.uk/events/event/14104

76  School of Advanced Study Events calendar November November Institute of English Studies ‘Something for my Native Town’: Recent Discoveries and New Two-day conference Directions in the R. E. Hart Collections of the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery 9 November,16:00 – 10 November, 17:00 In 2015, the Institute of English Studies and the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery established an academic partnership in which the Institute has led research on Blackburn the manuscript and rare book collections donated by R. E. Hart to the museum in 1946. This two-day conference (9 and 10 November) marks the progress of that research and celebrates the opening of the R. E. Hart Reading Room at the museum. Funded by an Arts Council England Resilience Grant, research on the manuscript and book collections has yielded extraordinary discoveries. The opening of the Reading Room will enable both academics and the public to access Hart’s collections in a secure and comfortable environment. The conference is co-sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, and the University Centre at Blackburn College. The plenary lecture will be delivered by David McKitterick (Cambridge). £15 | £10 advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies ‘Money’ and the Supply of Slaves in Archaic Greece Seminar David Lewis (Nottingham) 16:30–18:30 This seminar is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series. Free [email protected] The Court Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Principles, Patronage and Impropriety: Dorset Politics in the Age Seminar of Anne 17:30 Kevin Tuffnell (UCL) This event is part of the History Lab Seminar Series. IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Words, Images, and … Action: Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook Seminar (1965) as a Device for Learning and the Changing Attitude Toward Gender Roles within the Home 17:30–19:30 Lorna Sheppard (Falmouth) IHR North American History Room, This event is part of the Food History Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Latin American Philanthrocapitalism in the Brazilian Context: Corporate Elite Studies Engagement in a Localised Development Agenda Seminar Jessica Sklair (ILAS) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series. Room 234 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

The Warburg Institute Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship Seminar Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox 17:30–19:30 and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For Warburg Institute details, see page 33. This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 77 Events calendar November November Institute of Historical Research Special Event: FML Thompson as a Historian of English Landed Seminar Society: A Tribute 18:00 Friends of the IHR/MBH This event is part of the Modern British History Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Stephen Greer (Glasgow) Seminar This event is part of the London Theatre Seminar Series. 18:30–20:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House)

Friday 10 Institute of Modern Languages French Studies and the Medical Humanities Research This two-day symposium explores the affinities between French studies and the Two-day symposium medical humanities, a broad area of interdisciplinary study concerned with the interaction between medicine, cultural expression and critical inquiry. It exploits 09:00–19:00 the privileged access enjoyed by French studies scholars to the wealth of archival Room 243 (Senate House) material and cultural production charting France’s crucial role in the history of medicine, and to the French intellectual tradition’s distinctive critical engagement with medical discourse and practice as they affect, shape, and indeed produce the human subject. The symposium, which seeks common ground for the creation of international research networks, aims also to evaluate the status of the medical humanities in French-speaking academic contexts. Fee applicable advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies ‘Paradeigmata’ and Interstate Politics in Greek Oratory Seminar William Coles (Royal Holloway), Giulia Maltagliati (Royal Holloway) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Proof of Procreation: Qualifying for Curtesy in Medieval England Seminar Gwen Seabourne (Bristol) 17:30 This event is part of the Late Medieval Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Helen Saunders (KCL), Steven Morrison (Nottingham) Seminar This event is part of the Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar Series. 18:00–20:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Beckett and Political Activism Seminar Emilie Morin (York) 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the London Beckett Seminar. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 234 (Senate House)

78  School of Advanced Study Events calendar November November Saturday 11 Institute of Classical Studies British Epigraphy Society Autumn Colloquium Colloquium This event is supported by the Institute of Classical Studies. 09:00–18:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House)

Monday 13 Institute of Classical Studies Athenaeus Remembering Machon Remembering Athens: The Seminar Everyday in Retrospect 17:00–19:00 Pavlos Avlamis (KCL) This event is part of the ICS Ancient Literature Seminar Series. Room 349 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Matins Responsories and Narratives of Divine Encounter Seminar Henry Parkes (Yale) 17:15–19:00 This event is part of the History of Liturgy Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research ‘If the Bachelor Cannot Manage His Own Household, How Can He Seminar Manage a Mess or Club?’ Homebuilding, Imperial Masculinity and the Armies in India, 1799–1900; ‘The Honour of the Nation has 17:15–19:15 been Vindicated’: The Abyssinia Expedition of 1867–68; ‘Mutiny’ IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 Veterans and Retribution in Empire (Senate House) Holly Winter (Warwick), Jacob Smith (Queen Mary University of London) Free advance registration required; [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Adrianna Catena (Warwick) Seminar This event is part of the European History 1500–1800 Seminar Series. 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research ‘Every Cook Can Govern’: CLR James and the Russian Revolution Seminar Christian Hogsbjerg 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Institute of Advanced Legal Annual Lord Renton Lecture Studies Sir John Laws (Cambridge) Lecture Sir John Laws was a Lord Justice of Appeal from 1999 to 2016. He is the Goodhart 18:00–19:00 Visiting Professor of Legal Science at the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge. This event is organised in association with IALS the Statute Law Society. Free advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 79 Events calendar November November Tuesday 14 Institute of Advanced Legal The Victims Directive: Practice makes Perfect? Studies Chair: John Spencer (Cambridge) Seminar Speakers: Andrea Ryan (Limerick), Maria Mousmouti (IALS), Rhiannon Evans 14:30–18:00 (Supporting Justice), Sara Chrzanowska (DG Justice, Procedural Criminal Law Unit, Victims Team) IALS The Victims Directive was adopted in 2012, to be implemented in all Member States by November 2015. This seminar will discuss the findings to date of a project headed by Maria Mousmouti on compatible practices for the identification, assessment, and referral of victims. The Supporting Justice initiative Victims Choice Quality Mark, which assesses victim care services, will also be discussed. This event is part of the European Criminal Law Seminar Series and is organised with the European Criminal Law Association (UK). Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research ‘The Idol of State Innovators and Republicans’: Robert Persons’s Seminar Conference about the Next Succession (1594–5) in Stuart Britain 17:15–19:15 Paulina Kewes Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Penning Their Personal Narratives: The Letters, Diaries and Seminar Logbooks of British Prisoners of War Held in Europe in the Second World War 17:15–19:15 Clare Makepeace (Birkbeck) IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 For scholars researching what life was like in wartime captivity, the personal (Senate House) narratives of prisoners of war are a vital and enlightening read, upon which a multitude of histories have been based. Too often, however, historians have treated those narratives as straightforward records of experience. This talk explores the different types of personal narratives composed by POWs: diaries, letters, logbooks and memoirs. It shows how experiences are written up differently in each of these types, and will argue that to assume diaries or letters form single and separate genres, as historians often do, is arbitrary and unhelpful. This talk will be of interest to historians researching experiences in warfare as well as anyone interested in accounts of everyday life. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Lives and Criminal Careers of Juvenile Offenders Seminar Emma Watkins (Liverpool) 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

Institute of Advanced Legal Towards Establishing a Global Industries Ombudsman Studies Justin Malbon (Monash) Seminar This event is part of the IALS Fellows Seminar Series. 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IALS

80  School of Advanced Study Events calendar November November Institute of English Studies Seminar 2: The Visuality of Creative Writing Seminar Myrrh Domingo (UCL Institute of Education), Nye Wright (graphic artist, author of Things to Do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park) 17:30–19:30 This seminar will look at the art and dynamics of storytelling in words and pictures, Room 234 (Senate House) with a focus on graphic novels. This event is part of the Contemporary Cultures of Writing Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research George Sarawia’s ‘Iona of the South:’ British Celtic Methods in Seminar Melanesian Islands, 1868–1901 17:30–19:30 Jane Samson (Alberta) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Institute of Latin American Chile and the Inter-American Human Rights System Studies Edited by Karinna Fernández, Sebastián Smart, and Cristián Peña Panel and Book Launch Free advance registration required [email protected] 17:30–20:00 The Senate Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Innovative Spaces: The South Bank Archive Studio and Wellcome Seminar Reading Room 17:45–19:45 Clare Wood (South Bank Centre), Loesja Vigour (Wellcome Library), Nicola Cook (Wellcome Library) IHR Seminar Room, N304 This event is part of the Archives and Society Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Kayleigh Betterton (University of London Society of Bibliophiles), Leo Cadogan Seminar (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association Educational Trust) The focus of this year’s series is widening access in book collecting. This event 18:00–20:00 is part of the Book Collecting Seminar Series and is jointly organised with the Bloomsbury Room, G35 University of London Society of Bibliophiles. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Literary London Reading Group Reading group Since 2012, the Literary London Reading Group, an offshoot of the Literary London Society (literarylondon.org) has offered a seminar series that fosters 18:00–20:00 interdisciplinary and wide-ranging research into London literature in its historical, Room 243 (Senate House) social, and cultural contexts. It aims to include all periods and genres of writing and representation about, set in, inspired by, or alluding to central and suburban London and its environs, from the city’s roots in pre-Roman times to its imagined futures. All are welcome. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Alexander McKenna (KCL) Seminar This event is part of the International History Seminar Series. 18:00–20:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 81 Events calendar November November Wednesday 15 Institute of Historical Research Maliwun: The Great Colonial Tin Mine in Southern Burma that Seminar Never Was 12:30 Li Yi (SOAS) This event is part of the Comparative Histories of Asia Seminar Series. IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Chaos on the Ground: Schistosomiasis Control in China, 1950–64 Seminar Xun Zhou (Essex) 12:45–14:00 This event is part of the History and Public Health Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] LG9, Keppel Street Building, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Institute of Classical Studies Bones, Isotopes and Life Histories Seminar Argyro Nafplioti (Cambridge) 15:30–17:30 This event is part of the ICS Mycenaean Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House)

Institute of Modern Languages Music and Marxism: Form and Production in Bloch’s Philosophy of Research Music Seminar Jeremy Coleman and Johan Siebers 16:00–18:00 This event is part of the German Philosophy Seminar Series. Room 234 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Francis Bacon on Peace Seminar Sam Zeitlin (California, Berkeley) 17:15 This event is part of the History of Political Ideas/Early Career Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Methodists and Markets, c.1740–1800 Seminar Clive Norris (Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History) 17:15–19:15 This event is part of the British History in the Long Eighteenth-Century Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Clare Copley (Central Lancashire) Seminar This event is part of the Modern German History Seminar Series. 17:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

82  School of Advanced Study Events calendar November November Institute of Historical Research Debating the Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity: Critics, Defenders, Seminar and Theorists in the Greek and Latin Traditions 17:30–19:30 Efthymios Rizos This event is part of the Earlier Middle Ages Seminar Series. IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N30 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Projecting Metropolitan Worlds: Cinema Architecture in Buenos Seminar Aires and Santiago, 1915–45 17:30–19:30 Camila Gatica Mizala (Warwick) This event is part of the Earlier Middle Ages Seminar Series. IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Advanced Legal Hamlyn Lecture Studies How Might One Improve the Quality of our Legislation? Lecture Andrew Burrows QC (Oxford) 18:00–19:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] IALS

Thursday 16 The Warburg Institute Singular Acts: The Role of the Individual in the Transformation of Conference / Symposium Collective Culture 10:00–17:00 This is a multidisciplinary conference for postgraduate students and early-career researchers who work in different fields of the humanities. For details, please visit Warburg Institute https://warburgpostgrad.wordpress.com. Free [email protected]

Institute of Philosophy Mental Action and the Ontology of Mind Conference / Symposium Participants will explore new ways of understanding mental action and the relations between mental action and the metaphysics of mind, with a particular 10:00–18:00 focus on the question of whether mental action should be included among the Bloomsbury Room, G35 fundamental ontological categories required for making sense of consciousness (Senate House) and intentionality. This event is part of The Practical, the Political and the Ethical Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Trust and Authority: Pragmatic Literacy and Communication in the Seminar Royal Towns of Medieval Hungary 17:15–19:15 This event is part of European History 1150–1550 Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Calling Home to Oneself: Empire and the Politics of Belonging; Did Seminar the Metropole Make Any Difference ‘At Home’? Rogue Settlers and Colonial Belonging on an Imperial Margin 17:30 Onni Gust (Nottingham), Laura Ishiguro (British Columbia) IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 This event is part of the Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World (Senate House) 1600–2000 Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 83 Events calendar November November Institute of Modern Languages The Silence of the Intellectuals: Some Ideas of Europe from Kant Research to Brexit Lecture Jeremy Adler (KCL) 17:30–19:00 The speaker will argue that one cause for the plebiscitary decision to leave the EU lies in the failure of British intellectuals to engage positively with Europe. Room G21A (Senate House) Active engagement might have contributed to a more favourable climate among politicians and the public. Europeans are able to look back on a deep cultural memory of a union. This reaches into the Middle Ages: although rarely invoked, Charlemagne’s empire can nonetheless be seen as the antecedent of a united Europe. The British had no part in this and cannot incorporate its memory into their self-understanding. With the advent of the Enlightenment, German and French intellectuals created the ideal of a republican Europe. From Kant to Habermas, from Rousseau and Saint Simon to Derrida, Foucault and Piketty, the federation of Europe has been a major issue, and intellectuals have sought to create, improve and perfect such a body. By contrast, the British have been guided mainly by their perceived national interest, as defined in the foreign policy pursued by Castlereagh and Lord Derby in the nineteenth century, which tragically turned into Britain’s ‘splendid isolation’. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Advanced Legal IALS 70th Anniversary Studies Launch of IALS Digital Other Events This evening is a celebration of the contribution of the IALS Library to legal 17:30–19:30 scholarship and will include an appreciation of the Library’s renowned foreign and international law collections; its development of legal information skills training IALS and services, including LawPORT; and several digitisation and collaborative information initiatives. The event will also mark the launch of IALS Digital, the extension of open access publishing for law, and the inauguration of the IALS PhD Thesis Book Prize. The evening will close with a wine reception. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Continental Shelf Expansion: The U.S. Interior Department’s Quest Seminar for Territory, Minerals, and Environmental Management, 1945–69 17:30–19:30 Megan Black (LSE) This event is part of the North American History Seminar Series. IHR North American History Room (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Invention of Calligraphy in Early Modern Europe Seminar Hannah Murphy (KCL) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the Society, Culture and Belief, 1500–1800 Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship Seminar Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox 17:30–19:30 and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For Warburg Institute details, see page 33. This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

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Institute of English Studies Ashley Marshall (University of Nevada, Reno) Seminar This event is part of the Irish Studies Seminar Series. 18:00–20:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] The Senate Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Beyond the Pale (Park): Gender and Landscape in Georgian Seminar England 18:00–20:00 Bryony McDonough (Hull) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Friday 17 Institute of Advanced Legal IALS 70th Anniversary Studies Information Law and Policy Centre’s Annual Conference 2017 Conference / Symposium Children and Digital Rights: Regulating Freedoms and Safeguards 09:30–17:30 The Internet provides children with more freedom to communicate, learn, create, IALS share, and engage with society than ever before. Interacting within this connected digital world, however, also presents a number of challenges to ensuring the adequate protection of a child’s rights to privacy, freedom of expression, and safety, both online and offline. At this conference, regulators, practitioners, civil society, and leading academic experts will address the key legal frameworks and policies being used and developed to safeguard these freedoms and rights. Key speakers, chairs, and discussants will provide a range of national and international legal insights and perspectives from the UK, Israel, Australia, and Europe, and will include Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE (filmmaker, member of the Royal Foundation Taskforce on the Prevention of Cyberbullying, and founder of 5Rights), Anna Morgan (Head of Legal, Deputy Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland), Lisa Atkinson (Group Manager on Policy Engagement, Information Commissioner’s Office), Renate Samson (Chief Executive of Big Brother Watch), Graham Smith (Bird & Bird LLP solicitor and leading expert in UK Internet law), John Carr OBE (Member of the Executive Board of the UK Council on Child Internet Safety) and Ian Walden (Head of the Institute of Computer and Communication Law, Queen Mary University of London). The Information Law and Policy Centre, which is part of IALS, produces, promotes, and facilitates research about the law and policy of information and data, and the ways in which law both restricts and enables the sharing, and dissemination, of different types of information. The event is one of a series of events celebrating the 70th Anniversary of IALS in November. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Modern Languages Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies (SFPS) Annual Research Conference Two-day conference £100 /£55; £50/£30 advance registration required [email protected] 09:30–17:30 The Court Room (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 85 Events calendar November November Institute of Latin American The Cultural Legacy of the Jesuits Studies 2017 marks the 250-year anniversary of the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spanish Conference / Symposium territories. The Jesuits had a profound effect on the cultural and intellectual life of Latin America. When they were expelled in 1767, they were administering 10:00–19:00 more than 250,000 Indians in over 200 missions. The Jesuits pioneered interest in Woburn Suite, G22/26 indigenous languages and cultures, compiling dictionaries and writing some of (Senate House) the earliest ethnographies of the region. They also explored the region’s natural history and made significant contributions to the development of science and medicine. On their estates and in the missions they introduced new plants, livestock, and agricultural techniques, such as irrigation. In addition, they left a lasting legacy on the region’s architecture, art, and music. This conference will explore these and related themes from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and assess the Jesuits’ legacy today. Keynote speakers will include Gauvin Alexander Bailey (Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada) and Valerie Fraser (Essex). £20 | £10 advance registration required [email protected]

Human Rights Consortium Lost Rights, Found Justice? Refugee and Migrant Rights Exhibition launch Exhibition: 18–25 November, 09:00–19:00 16:00–18:00 This unique photography competition and exhibition aims to increase public understanding of the rights and situation of refugees, migrants and asylum Second Floor Lobby, South Block seekers through creative visual and legal tools. The launch will feature a (Senate House) guided commentary with human rights experts; a workshop by documentary photographer Kevin McElvaney of #RefugeeCameras will take place on Saturday, 18 November. The themes of the conference include human rights during a time of rising nationalism and backlash against multilateralism; human rights in conflict and post-conflict settings; international human rights instruments and social movements; and epistemological, ethical, and methodological challenges in conducting human rights research in the global South(s). This event is co-organised by the Human Rights Consortium and the Refugee Law Initiative. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies The Little Finger Problem: Scars and Other Distinguishing Features Seminar in Roman Egypt 16:30–18:30 Paul Kelly (KCL) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series. Room 246 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Institutions and Colonial Trade Expansion: Quaker Contract Seminar Enforcement in Philadelphia, 1682–1722 17:15–19:15 Esther Sahle (Bremen) This event is part of the Economic and Social History of the Early Modern World, IHR Seminar Room, N304 1500–1800 Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

86  School of Advanced Study Events calendar November November Institute of Historical Research Two Bodies or One? Conceptualisations of Women in English Pro- Seminar Life Discourse, 1967–92 17:15–19:15 Livi De (Royal Holloway) This talk focuses on conceptualisations of embodiment within the English Pro-Life IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 movement from 1967 to 1992, a period that saw the greatest concentration of (Senate House) Pro-Life activity during the twentieth century and one marked by divisive debate. Drawing on oral history interviews and archival research, it reveals the ways in which understandings of embodiment—both of the pregnant woman and the foetus—were variously imagined, articulated and contested among Pro-Life advocates, establishing a ‘spectrum’ of representation. This event is part of the Women's History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies / Coleridge and Myriad-Mindedness Institute of Modern Languages Laurent Folliot (Paris-Sorbonne) Research This event is part of the London–Paris Romanticism Seminar Series. Seminar Free advance registration required [email protected] 17:30–19:30 Room 349 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Pregnancy Diagnosis in the Later Middle Ages: Medical Methods Seminar and Courtroom Procedures 17:30 Zosia Edwards (Royal Holloway) This event is part of the Late Medieval Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Regarding Contemporary Events in USA From a Queer/Feminist Seminar Perspective 17:30 Holly Lewis This event is part of the Marxism in Culture Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Finding Mr Hart Performance Cynthia Johnston (IES) 18:30–20:30 At the dawn of the twentieth century, Robert Edward Hart lived a quiet life in Blackburn, managing the family rope-making business. Few people realised he The Senate Room (Senate House) was spending his family’s wealth to create one of Britain’s most impressive book and coin collections. Using interviews, letters, business records, and Hart’s personal notes, this creative theatre show takes audiences into the quiet but imaginative world of one of the Britain’s most important collectors. The performance will be repeated at the historic Blackburn Cotton Exchange on Friday, 24 November. Part of the 2017 Being Human festival. £5 advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 87 Events calendar November November Saturday 18 Warburg Institute Memory and Oblivion in the Library’s Mind Lecture A series of talks by Claudia Daniotti (Bath Spa) and Cornelia Linde (German Historical Institute), Warburg staff Jill Kraye and Charles Burnett, and Warburg PhD 14:00-16:00 students Lorenza Gay, James Christie, Juan Acevedo, and Antonia von Karais. Warburg Institute Part of the 2017 Being Human festival. Free [email protected]

Institute of Latin American Latin American Music Seminar Studies Convenor: Henry Stobart (Royal Holloway) Workshop In collaboration with the Institute of Musical Research. 10:15–17:00 This event is part of the Latin American Music Seminar Series. G7, Senate House £8 advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Aesthetics: Getting It: Art and Attunement; Aesthetically Dead? Seminar The Encounter with Abstraction 11:00–13:00 Rita Felski (Virginia), Jeff Wallace (Cardiff Metropolitan) This event is part of the London Modernism Seminar. Room 349 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Philosophy Being Human: Coming to Our Senses Exhibition The experience of daily life is shaped by our senses and yet there is still so much we don’t know about them. Discover senses you didn’t know you had and learn 12:00–18:00 what they do. Find out what it’s like to live with sensory loss and what can be Macmillan Hall (Senate House) done to overcome it. The team from the Centre for the Study of the Senses will guide you through the world of sensory experience with hand-on demonstrations of sensory substitution and sensory extension. You’ll also discover what the arts and industry are doing to enhance your sensory landscape. Part of the 2017 Being Human festival. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Human Rights Consortium Lost Rights, Found Justice? Photography Workshop with Kevin Workshop McElvaney 14:00–16:00 The Lost Rights, Found Justice? photography competition and exhibition aims to increase public understanding of the rights and situation of refugees, migrants Room 246 (Senate House) and asylum seekers through creative visual and legal tools. Related programing includes this workshop with leading documentary photographer Kevin McElvaney of #RefugeeCameras, suitable for all levels of expertise. Exhibition: 18–25 November. This event is co-organised by the Human Rights Consortium and the Refugee Law Initiative. Free advance registration required [email protected]

88  School of Advanced Study Events calendar November November Institute of Modern Languages Who Tells Your Story? Latin America at the British Library Research How will our stories be found and our lives remembered in the future? And how Workshop might our stories connect with those who have gone before? This workshop invites Latin Americans in the UK to explore these questions through the physical 14:00–18:00 and online collections of the British Library. Participants will also share their British Library own objects and materials such as songs, websites and books as we explore what we would like to be remembered and what we may want to be lost or forgotten. Together we will ask how we can shape archives and collections and use them to discover and tell our own individual and collective histories. This event has been organised by the Open World Research Initiative Cross Language Dynamics Consortium in collaboration with the British Library. Part of the 2017 Being Human festival. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Monday 20 SAS Central Doing Day: Body / Brain / Archive Workshop This workshop, presented jointly by Siobhan Davies Dance and the Warburg’s BIAS Project, is part of the 2017 Being Human festival. It will take place at Siobhan 11:00–16:00 Davies Studios, 85 St George’s Road, London. Siobhan Davies Studios, Fee applicable advance registration required [email protected] 85 St George’s Road, London

Institute of Classical Studies No New Pleasures under the Sun: From Lucretius to Montaigne Seminar Nathan Gilbert (Durham) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Sir Michael Howard Lecture Seminar Seminar members are invited to attend the annual Sir Michael Howard Lecture. 17:00 This event is part of the Military History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS

Institute of Classical Studies Joanna Paul (Open University). Seminar This event is part of the ICS Ancient Literature Seminar Series. 17:00–19:00 Free [email protected] Woburn Room, G22 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Shakespeare and Beckett; Circumstantial Shakespeare Seminar Claudia Olk (Freie Universität Berlin), Lorna Hutson (Oxford) 17:00–19:00 This event is part of the London Shakespeare Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] The Senate Room (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 89 Events calendar November November Institute of Historical Research Bringing Spectatorship Home: The Spectacle of Television Viewing Seminar in Postwar Britain 17:15 Emily Rees (Nottingham) This event is part of the Sport and Leisure History Seminar Series. IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research From Clubs to Committees: The Politics of Respectability and Race Seminar in African American Women’s Social Services, St Louis, 1900–17 17:15 Katie Myerscough (Manchester) This event is part of the Gender and History in the Americas Seminar Series. IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Advanced Legal Co-existing with HAL 9000: Being Human in a World with AI Studies As part of the University of London’s Being Human festival, the Information Law Film and discussion panel and Policy Centre will host a film and discussion panel to engage young adults (15–18 years) in a conversation on the implications for democracy, civil liberties, 17:30–19:30 and human rights posed by the increasing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in IALS society. A limited number of places will be available to the general public. The event will focus on the increasingly significant role of AI and the possible ways in which humans will co-exist with AI in future, particularly the impact that this interaction will have on our liberty, privacy, and agency. Will the benefits of AI only be achieved at the expense of these human rights and values? Do current laws, ethics, or technologies offer any guidance with respect to how we should navigate this future society? Confirmed speakers include Nora Ni Loideain (director of the IALS Information Law and Policy Centre), Hamed Haddadi ( and lead researcher of The Human-Data Interaction Project), Hal Hodson (technology journalist at The Economist), John Naughton (project leader of the Technology and Democracy Project, Cambridge, and columnist for The Observer), and Renate Samson (chief executive of Big Brother Watch). Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Philosophy Josefa Toribio (Barcelona) Seminar This event is part of the Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics Seminar Series. 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 234 (Senate House)

90  School of Advanced Study Events calendar November November Institute of Historical Research Displaying ‘German Greatness’ in Nazi Germany: The Exhibition Seminar Deutsche Größe (1940–2) and its Legacy 18:00–20:00 William J. Diebold (Reed College) Although it is not well known to scholars, the cultural-historical exhibition IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 Deutsche Größe (‘German Greatness’ or ‘Grandeur’) was probably the most (Senate House) important museum display of the Nazi era. The show’s subject was the history of Germany from the early Middle Ages to the assumption of power by Adolf Hitler. Deutsche Größe was supported at the highest levels of the Nazi Party and its presentation of history was frankly ideological, but the show expressed that ideology through a series of ambitious and innovative display techniques. This talk presents Deutsche Größe and describes how it came about and how it worked to shape an understanding of history that would serve Nazi goals. Special attention is paid to Deutsche Größe as a piece of museology and to the display of the art and culture of the high Middle Ages, an area of history that was especially fraught for the National Socialists because it came from the First Reich that they saw revived in their Third Reich. The talk concludes with a consideration of the legacy of Deutsche Größe in two later exhibitions, one that took place in Cold War West Germany and the other in the German Federal Republic after unification. This event is part of the Collecting and Display Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Salvage Stewards: Promoting Recycling in the Second World War Seminar Henry Irving (Leeds Beckett) 18:00–20:00 This event Is part of the Voluntary Action History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Tuesday 21 Senate House Library Revealing the Reformation: Curator’s Tour of the ‘Reformation: Exhibition tour Shattered World, New Beginnings’ Exhibition 11:00–12:00 Karen Attar (Senate House Library) Explore the English Reformation and its communication from its roots to Senate House Library its impact on culture and society at home and abroad in an intellectual trip that ranges from a lost son, lost stories and lost manuscripts to newly found relationships and technology. Lose yourself in the rarely displayed books and manuscripts and find connections with today’s world as you are guided through this Senate House Library exhibition by its curator. Part of the 2017 Being Human festival. Free advance registration required senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research Just Giving: British Charities, Decolonisation and Development Seminar Matthew Hilton (QMUL) 17:15–19:15 This event is part of the London Group of Historical Geographers Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Venue: see online for details

Institute of Advanced Legal IALS 70th Anniversary Studies The IALS Contribution to Legal Scholarship Seminar Chair: Diamond Ashiagbor (IALS). 17:30–19:30 Speakers: Fiona Cownie (Keele), Valsamis Mitsilegas (QMUL), Hilary Sommerlad IALS (Leeds) Fee applicable advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 91 Events calendar November November Wednesday 22 Refugee Law Initiative Refugee Studies Reading Group (2) Reading group Free advance registration required [email protected] 15:00–17:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Classics and History in 3D: Lunchtime Workshop Workshop Take a tour of the Temple of Isis in Pompeii without leaving London. The new Classics and History 3D Lab at Senate House is exploring how 3D imaging, 13:00–14:00 modelling, printing, and Virtual Reality (VR) can inform modern research. In this Montague Room, G26 interactive workshop, you can see what is going on in the lab, play with scanned (Senate House) and 3D printed artefacts, and take a stroll through the Temple of Isis on a VR headset (without fear of incurring Isis’ wrath). Part of the 2017 Being Human festival. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies Being a Dissenter: Ancient Forms and Motivations for Dissent in Seminar Greek and Roman Political Thought 13:00–14:00 Alia Rodrigues (Coimbra/ICS) This event is part of the ICS Fellows Seminar Series. Room 243 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Senate House Library Cromwell and Communication Workshop The legacy of the Reformation was not simply a transformation of the religious landscape of England—it also presented an opportunity for change and 14:00–16:00 progression in other areas, such as government and the development of The National Archives, Kew the printing industry. This workshop will explore new interpretations of key documents relating to Thomas Cromwell, communications, and the Reformation period. Participants will consider key themes, such as what was lost from medieval culture with the changes in government and communications, and what was gained moving forward. Part of the 2017 Being Human festival. Nick Barratt (Senate House Library) and Marianne Whitworth (National Archives) Free advance registration required senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research What is Social History of Political Ideas the Name Of? Seminar Arnault Skornicki (Nanterre), Thibaut Rioufreyt (Lyon) 17:15–19:15 This event is part of the History of Political Ideas Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Anglicans and Social Reconstruction in World War Two Seminar Matthew Grimley (Oxford) 17:15–19:15 This event is part of the Modern Religious History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Olga Crisp Room, N102 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Alastair Bennett (Royal Holloway), Catherine Nall (Royal Holloway) Seminar This event is part of the London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS). 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 234 (Senate House)

92  School of Advanced Study Events calendar November November Institute of Historical Research Buried Treasure: The Wreck of ‘The London’ Lecture In 1665, The London exploded and sank off Southend, concealing herself for centuries on the estuary bed. Her wreck was found in 2005, revealing a hidden 18:00–20:30 history of early modern life. Join an immersive evening exploring food, drink and IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, ballads from the time of The London. Plunge beneath the waves in a virtual dive NB01/NB02 (Senate House) of the wreck and see her glow in digitally mapped projection. Fill a pipe, knot rope and interact with artefacts. Meet the archaeologists bringing The London to the surface and life back to the warship that carried Charles II to England during the Restoration. This event is part of the Being Human festival of the humanities and organised in collaboration with Historic England. Free advance registration required [email protected]

SAS Central Myths and Origins: Piltdown Man’s Cricket Bat Lecture In 1912, in the midst of a wet cricketing season, a surprising find was unearthed in a Sussex gravel pit. ‘Piltdown Man’ seemed to be the palaeontological find 18:30–20:00 of the century: a Darwinian missing link. Dubbed the ‘first Englishman’, he was Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House) even found buried with an elephant bone tool that looked suspiciously like a cricket bat. In this lecture, part of the Being Human festival of the humanities, historian and keen cricketer Tom Holland explores the case of Piltdown Man. One of history’s greatest hoaxes, what can this case tell us about myths of national identity, our desire to explore our origins, and the mythic power of cricket itself? Free [email protected]

Thursday 23 Senate House Library Revealing the Reformation: Curator’s Tour of the ‘Reformation: Exhibition tour Shattered World, New Beginnings’ Exhibition 15:00–16:00 Karen Attar (Senate House Library) Explore the English Reformation and its communication from its roots to its impact Senate House Library on culture and society at home and abroad in an intellectual trip that ranges from a lost son, lost stories and lost manuscripts to newly found relationships and technology. Lose yourself in the rarely displayed books and manuscripts and find connections with today’s world as you are guided through this Senate House Library exhibition by its curator. Part of the 2017 Being Human festival. Free advance registration required senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies Currency Exchange in the Greek and Hellenistic World Seminar Sitta von Reden (Freiburg im Breisgau) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research From Common to Courtroom: Contested Ideas of Justice, Seminar Sovereignty and Violence in Fen Drainage Disputes, 1626–60 17:15 Elly Robson (Cambridge) This event is part of the British History in the Seventeenth Century Seminar Series. IHR Pollard Room Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Sponsored by the Conrad and Elizabeth Russell Fund Free advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 93 Events calendar November November Institute of Historical Research Research Clinic Seminar Bring a research problem, big or small, for the seminar to discuss (and solve?) 17:15 Nada Zečević (Royal Holloway) This event is part of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Liable to Spontaneous Ignition: The Planning and Performing of Seminar Public Protest in the Anti-Alien Movement (1887–1905) 17:30 Alexandra Esche (QMUL) This event is part of the History Lab Seminar Series. IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Modern British History Reading Group: Social Democracy and the Reading group Psyche 17:30 Sally Alexander (Goldsmiths) This event is part of the Modern British History Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Early English Bread Project: Meanings and Materiality Seminar Debby Banham (Cambridge) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the Food History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

Institute of Latin American The Pine Nuts are Waiting for You: Pine Nut Gathering and Time Studies Travel in the Pehuenche Veranadas Seminar Gabriela Piña Ahumada (LSE) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series. Room 234 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

The Warburg Institute Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship Seminar Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox 17:30–19:30 and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For Warburg Institute details, see page 33. This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

The Warburg Institute The Body Politics of Mary Magdalene Two-day Conference Keynote lecture on 23 November: Penny Jolly (Skidmore College)—Addressing and Undressing the Female Body in the Magdalene Chapel at San Francesco, Assisi 17:30–20:00 Conference and recital on 24 November: speakers include Joanne Anderson Warburg Institute (Warburg), Diane Apostolos-Cappadona (Georgetown), Lucy Bolton (QMUL), Henrietta Simpson (Slade School of Art, UCL), Joan Taylor (KCL), Francesco Ventrella (Sussex) Free advance registration required [email protected]

94  School of Advanced Study Events calendar November November Institute of Philosophy The Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Debate Debate Chaired by Melvyn Bragg 18:00–20:00 Speakers: Sarah Churchwell (SAS), Monica Ali (novelist), and James Young (University of Victoria, Wellington) Beveridge Hall (Senate House) This year’s debate will address the following motion: ‘In 2017 cultural appropriation is an inappropriate method for writers.’ In recent years, writers and critics have become more aware of the extent to which literature has involved authors from one culture using themes and scenarios from cultures other than their own. This is seen by some as illegitimate, involving as it does a sense that people from one cultural background are entitled to represent other cultures and backgrounds without actually belonging to them. At a time when people are generally more aware of sensitivities arising from cultural differences and the extent to which racist assumptions lie beneath the surface of much of modern life, we need to explore the extent to which cultural appropriation in works of literature is desirable or appropriate. Free advance registration required at www.royalinstitutephilosophy.org

Friday 24 Institute of Classical Studies Cursing Poetry: Tabellae defixionum as Literary Production Seminar Carmine Canfora (Siena) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester: Family Identity and the Seminar Forging of Reputation 17:30 Sophie Ambler (Lancaster) This event is part of the Late Medieval Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Advanced Legal The Rise and Fall of the Reputed Ownership Clause in Bankruptcy Studies Law Seminar Fleur Stolker (Oxford) 18:00–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IALS

Institute of English Studies Finnegans Wake Reading Group Reading group This reading group has been running regularly since 2007. It studies James Joyce’s final work, Finnegans Wake, at a close level of detail. Discussion is focused on 18:00–20:00 the text and attention is also paid to Joyce’s manuscripts (copies of which are Room 243 (Senate House) displayed on a screen). The group hosts a blog to record its discussions. Free advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 95 Events calendar November November Institute of Modern Languages A Home Lost, a New Life Found? Kindertransport: Experience and Research Fiction Evening event Ruth Barnett, Ursula Krechel, Andrea Hammel (Aberystwyth), Stephanie Homer 18:00–20:00 (IMLR) The Kindertransport enabled nearly 10,000 child refugees to flee from Nazi- Bloomsbury Room, G35 occupied territories to the UK in 1938–39. It is remembered as a life-shaping (Senate House) experience of the loss of a homeland, of parents, of family and friends—and also of the finding of refuge and eventually a new life in the UK. This event brings together Kindertransportee Ruth Barnett and Ursula Krechel, the German author whose novel Landgericht is based on documents detailing Barnett’s family story (it won the German Book Prize in 2012). The evening includes the showing of extracts of the TV adaptation of the novel (in German, with English subtitles). Short introductory talks provide background on the history and memory of the Kindertransport and on the treatment of the Kindertransport in fiction. The event concludes with an opportunity to discuss issues of loss and belonging in fiction, film, history, and life with Ursula Krechel and Ruth Barnett. This event is generously supported by The John Coffin Memorial Trust and is part of the 2017 Being Human festival. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Saturday 25 Senate House Library Revealing the Reformation: Curator’s Tour of the ‘Reformation: Exhibition tour Shattered World, New Beginnings’ Exhibition 11:00–12:00 Karen Attar (Senate House Library) Explore the English Reformation and its communication from its roots to Senate House Library its impact on culture and society at home and abroad in an intellectual trip that ranges from a lost son, lost stories and lost manuscripts to newly found relationships and technology. Lose yourself in the rarely displayed books and manuscripts and find connections with today’s world as you are guided through this Senate House Library exhibition by its curator. Part of the 2017 Being Human festival. Free advance registration required senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute Memory and Oblivion in the Library’s Mind Lecture A series of talks by Claudia Daniotti (Bath Spa) and Cornelia Linde (German Historical Institute), Warburg staff Jill Kraye and Charles Burnett, and Warburg PhD 14:00–16:00 students Lorenza Gay, James Christie, Juan Acevedo, and Antonia von Karais. Warburg Institute Part of the 2017 Being Human festival. Free [email protected]

Institute of English Studies The Lost Film Shows: Screening Films on the Home Front Screening In 1940, the Ministry of Information launched a mobile film show scheme that ran for the rest of the war. The mobile film units were vans containing projectors and 15:00–17:00 screens that were driven around the country by a driver-projectionist, who put Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House) on free film shows in village halls, schools and factories. This event will recreate a film show in the former home of the Ministry with a selection of information films and documentaries on the war effort and the home front. It will celebrate the many shows given for voluntary groups and societies, including Townswomen’s Guilds, Working Men’s Clubs, the Home Guard, and Women’s Institutes. In the accompanying talk, Hollie Price, a postdoctoral fellow with the Ministry of Information Project based at the School of Advanced Study, will discuss her research on the organisation of these shows and their role in local communities. 1940s dress is encouraged and the films will be followed by tea and cake. Free advance registration required [email protected]

96  School of Advanced Study Events calendar November Monday 27 November Institute of Classical Studies 'Sicut meus est mos': Habit, Habitus, Habitat. Reflections on the Seminar Quotidian, with Help from Horace and Media Theory 17:00–19:00 Duncan Kennedy (Bristol) This event is part of the ICS Ancient Literature Seminar Series. Room 349 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Consuming the Law? The Social Function of Colonial Law Courts in Seminar Dutch Ceylon 1750–75; Italian Colonialism in Africa as a Connected System: Institutions, Men and Colonial Troops 17:15–19:15 Dries Lyna (Radboud), Massimo Zaccaria (Pavia) IHR Pollard Seminar Room (Senate This event is part of the Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop House) Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Image Question in Reformation Württemberg Seminar Roisin Watson (KCL) 17:15–19:15 This event is part of the European History 1500–1800 Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research From Revolution to Labourism?: Orwell and the Left Seminar John Newsinger 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the Socialist History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute Introducing Dante Lecture Alessandro Scafi (Warburg) and John Took (UCL) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] Warburg Institute

Institute of Advanced Legal Recognition and Mobility of UK Incorporated Companies after Studies Brexit Seminar Peter Kindler (Munich) 18:00–20:00 On 23 June 2016, the people of the United Kingdom voted in a referendum to leave the European Union. A withdrawal agreement under Article 50 will probably IALS cover immediate issues such as the rights of EU citizens living in the UK and of UK citizens living in the EU, but it will not address the issues of recognition and mobility of UK incorporated companies. Withdrawal from the EU will have severe consequences for these companies, especially for those who have their central administration in Germany or another EU country. No longer protected by freedom of establishment within the EU, these so-called pseudo-foreign corporations will be subjected to the company law of the country of their central administration. They will be considered simple partnerships and lose from one day to the next their limited liability status. As far as mobility is concerned, UK incorporated companies will no longer be addressed by the Directive 2005/56 on cross-border mergers of limited liability companies. This talk illustrates these problems and suggests how parties can resolve (at least some of) them. Free advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 97 Events calendar November November Tuesday 28 SAS Central Exploring the Digital Humanities Landscape in the UK Workshop Fee applicable advance registration required [email protected] 09:00–16:00 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House)

Institute of Philosophy Self and World, Twenty Years On Conference / Symposium In 1997, Quassim Cassam published Self and World, which explores the connections between self-consciousness, spatial representations, and bodily 09:30–18:20 awareness. It is a seminal work in the Kantian-Strawsonian tradition, which fell Room 349 (Senate House) out of fashion at the beginning of this century. However, it cannot be denied that there is much to be learned and reconsidered in this work, and the twentieth anniversary of its publication seems an apt time to take stock and pursue the relevant issues. This event brings together perspectives from different traditions, including the Kantian, the phenomenological, the analytic, and the empirical. It is an attempt to understand the contemporary relevance of Cassam’s seminal work and to explore the future of the Kantian-Strawsonian tradition in general. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Confessional Politics, Biblical Criticism, and Hugh Broughton’s Seminar Campaign for a New English Bible, 1588–1612 17:15–19:15 Kirsten Macfarlane This event is part of the Religious History of Britain 1500–1800 Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Ages of Man and the Time of Memory: Structuring Lives in Seminar Early Modern Autobiographical Narrative. 17:15–19:15 Kate Hodgkin (East London) This event is part of the Life-Cycles Seminar Series. IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies ICS and Friends of the British School at Athens Lecture Cyclops: A Portrait of an Ogre from Antiquity until Today 18:00–20:00 Richard Buxton (Bristol) Woburn Suite, G22/26 Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies / Media Theory before Media Theory Institute of Historical Research David Trotter (Cambridge) Seminar This event is part of the Media History Seminar Series. 18:00–20:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

98  School of Advanced Study Events calendar November November Institute of Historical Research Universal Rights in a Divided World? The Protestant Human Rights Seminar Engagement of the World Council of Churches, 1948–75 18:00–20:00 Bastiaan A. Bouwman (LSE) This event is part of the International History Seminar Series. IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Wednesday 29 Institute of Commonwealth News on a Knife-Edge: Gemini and Development Journalism Today Studies In 1967, following decolonisation and in the midst of the Cold War, a pioneering Conference / Symposium news feature service began in London, called Gemini. It covered news from around the developing world and the Commonwealth and lasted until 2002. This 09:30–18:00 symposium will look at what Gemini was and did, and the state of development The Senate Room (Senate House) journalism today. Set up by Derek Ingram, former deputy editor of the Daily Mail, Gemini survived at least two crises, was owned by The Guardian for a while, and was revived with Canadian funding and an educational purpose in 1983. This event will be opened by Sir Trevor McDonald, a contributor and one-time chair of Gemini’s governors; convenors include Richard Bourne, Keith Somerville and Derek Ingram. £20 | £15 advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Lightning Talks by Postgraduates Seminar Joseph Cozens (Essex), Miranda Reading (KCL) 17:15–19:15 This event is part of the British History in the Long Eighteenth-Century Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Saving Coolies: The Creation of Chinese Diplomatic Missions in Seminar Latin America 17:15 Rudolph Ng (Birkbeck) This event is part of the Comparative Histories of Asia Seminar Series. IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research What Should Political Representation Do? The Evolution of the Seminar Idea of Representation in Mill’s Thought 17:15 Ludmilla Lorrain (Paris-Sorbonne) This event is part of the History of Political Ideas/Early Career Seminar Series. IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Metropolitan Ghosts: Second World War-London as Spectro- Seminar Environment 17:30–19:30 Oli Parken (Kent) This event is part of the Metropolitan History Seminar Series. IHR John S Cohen Room (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Norman Conquest and the English Peasantry: Four Points of Seminar View and a Footnote 17:30–19:30 Ros Faith This event is part of the Earlier Middle Ages Seminar Series. IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 99 Events calendar November November Institute of Historical Research Turing in Context: Sexual Offences in Cheshire in the 1950s Seminar Chris Waters (Williams College) 18:00–19:30 This event is part of the one-day conference Queer Lives Past and Present: Interrogating the Legal; for details, please visit www.raphael-samuel.org.uk/ Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck interrogating-the-legal. This event is part of the History of Sexuality Seminar Series. Free advance registration required

Institute of English Studies Reading Movement: Sonic Utterances and Embodied Poetics Seminar Camilla Nelson (Cardiff Metropolitan) 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

Thursday 30 Institute of Modern Languages Memory and Space Research The conference for PhD students and ECRs from any department within the arts Conference and humanities or social sciences seeks to widen the traditional understanding of memory through the exploration of literal and figurative spaces. Keynote speakers 09:00–18:00 include Slawomir Kapralski (Pedagogical University of Cracow) and Patrizia Violi Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Bologna). This event is supported by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership. (Senate House) Advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Negotiating Immunity: Mass Vaccination in Modern China and East Seminar Asia, 1945–75 12:45–14:00 Mary Brazelton (Cambridge) This event is part of the History of Public Health Seminar Series. LG9, Keppel Street Building, London School of Hygiene & Free advance registration required [email protected] Tropical Medicine

Institute of Historical Research The Prairies—Coming Out Strong: Western Canadian Queer Seminar Communities, 1969–85 14:00–15:30 Valerie Korinek (Saskatchewan) This event is part of the one-day conference Queer Lives Past and Present: Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck Interrogating the Legal; for details, please visit www.raphael-samuel.org.uk/ interrogating-the-legal. This event is part of the History of Sexuality Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies Debt Relief in the Late Republic and Early Empire Seminar David Hollander (Iowa State) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)

100  School of Advanced Study Events calendar November November The Warburg Institute Fred W Rose and His Serio-Comic Maps, 1877–1900 Lecture Roderick Baron (independent scholar and map dealer) 17:00–19:00 Part of a regular series of lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (IHR), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Warburg Institute Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, KCL) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg). Free [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Secret Cooperation between Associated Press (AP) and Nazi Seminar Germany 1942–45 17:30 Norman Domeier (Vienna) This event is part of the Modern German History Seminar Series. German Historical Institute, 17 Bloomsbury Square London Free advance registration required [email protected] WC1A 2NJ

Institute of Historical Research Gender Matters: Historicising Patriarchy; New Zealand, Boots the Seminar Chemists, and Challenges to Overseas Expansion, 1935–38 17:30 Fae Dussart (Sussex), Hilary Ingram (Durham) This event is part of the Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 1600–2000 Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Susan Carruthers (Warwick) Seminar This event is part of the North American History Seminar Series. 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship Seminar Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox 17:30–19:30 and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For Warburg Institute details, see page 33. This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research IHR Creighton Lecture 2017 Lecture Strangers in Medieval Cities 18:00–19:30 Miri Rubin (QMUL) IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, Europe’s remarkable growth after the year 1000 encouraged migration, the NB01/NB02 (Senate House) creation of new towns, and the growth of existing urban centres. Buoyant commerce and manufacture encouraged cities to accommodate newcomers and to reflect through their institutions of government on how best to turn strangers into neighbours. In some parts of Europe, dynastic rulers developed policies regarding migration and the settlement of useful foreigners. Urban centres large and small became extremely diverse places, made even more so by conquest and settlement at Europe’s borders. This diversity came under new scrutiny in the decades of change in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: religion, occupation, ethnicity, and language could each form the basis for restrictive laws, exclusion, and even expulsion. By the eve of its most dramatic global extension, Europe’s cities had become sites of intense competition and discipline. Free advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 101 Events calendar November November Institute of Historical Research Women Are Like Flowers: A Review of Representations of Women Seminar in Garden Literature and Art, Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century 18:00–20:00 Christine Lalumia (Sotheby’s and UCL) This event is part of the History of Gardens and Landscapes Seminar Series. Room 243 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

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School of Advanced Study Events calendar December December Friday 01 The Warburg Institute Latin and the Vernacular in Fifteenth-Century Italy Conference A one-day conference organized by the Leonardo da Vinci Society. Speakers include Amos Edelheit (Maynooth), Simon Gilson (Warwick), David A. Lines 10:00–17:30 (Warwick), Letizia Panizza (Royal Holloway), Ben Thomson (Birkbeck), and David Warburg Institute Zagoury (Cambridge). Free [email protected]

Institute of Advanced Legal IALS 70th Anniversary Studies Conference and Annual Lecture Celebrating the 20th Anniversary Conference / Symposium of the Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies 10:00–19:00 Annual Lecture: Legislative Aspects of Brexit, Elizabeth Gardiner (UK Parliamentary Counsel on Legislative Aspects of Brexit) IALS Conference speakers include Helen Xanthaki (IALS), Constantin Stefanou (IALS), Stephen Laws (IALS), and Richard Nzerem (IALS). Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Modern Languages Disorderly Eating Research A cross-cultural seminar on contemporary women’s writing that aims to reach Seminar beyond the much-covered topics of eating disorders as clinically defined and to discuss other ways in which food is used to signify disorder. This event is 12:30–16:30 generously supported by the Cassal Trust Fund. Bloomsbury Room, G35 This event is part of the Centre for Contemporary Women Writers Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies The Narrative Role of the Male Prophet in Greek Epic Literature Seminar Anactoria Clarke (KCL) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Fans and Fanny Burney: Hidden Manufacturing in Eighteenth- Seminar Century London 17:15–19:15 Amy Erickson (Cambridge) The Burneys are one of the most-studied families in eighteenth-century England IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 at a level below the gentry. The musician Charles, his daughter the writer Frances, (Senate House) and her many artistically talented siblings, step-siblings and half-siblings are well- known in the literature. Charles’ wife and Frances’ mother, Esther Sleepe Burney, features almost not at all. This talk introduces her, her sisters and her mother as part of a London fan-making enterprise that was highly lucrative and female- dominated, although by no means exclusively female. The family trade is set in the context of women’s involvement in the luxury trades of eighteenth-century London, as both owners and employees. This event is part of the Women's History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Spread of Improvement: Why Innovation Accelerated in Seminar Britain, 1547–1851 17:15–19:15 Anton Howes (Brown) This event is part of the Economic and Social History of the Early Modern World, IHR Seminar Room, N304 1500–1800 Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

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Institute of Historical Research The Earls of Edward III in the Localities Seminar Matt Raven (Hull/IHR) 17:30 This event is part of the Late Medieval Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Karl Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism Seminar Christian Fuchs 17:30 This event is part of the Marxism in Culture Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Helen Saunders (KCL), Steven Morrison (Nottingham) Seminar This event is part of the Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar Series. 18:00–20:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

Saturday 02 Institute of Latin American South American Archaeology Seminar Studies Bill Sillar (UCL) Seminar £10 advance registration required [email protected] 10:00–17:00 UCL Institute of Archaeology

Institute of Historical Research ‘What Good I May Do in the World Will Have Been in Consequence Seminar of Their Teaching’: Leam House Girls’ Boarding School, Warwickshire, in the 1830s–40s and Its Influence on Bessie Rayner 14:00–16:00 Parkes, Women’s Rights Campaigner and Author of Remarks on the IHR Seminar Room, N304 Education of Girls (1854) (Senate House) Debbie Parker-Kinch This event is part of the Education in the Long Eighteenth-Century Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies Virgil Society Lecture Lecture Virgil and William Gager's Dido (1583) 14:30–17:00 Emma Buckley (St Andrews) Woburn Suite, G22/26 Free [email protected] (Senate House)

Monday 04 Institute of Classical Studies Good–Noble/Humble = Tragic–Heroic/Quotidian ? On Eur. El. 1-431 Seminar Marco Fantuzzi (Macerata) 17:00–19:00 This event is part of the Ancient Literature Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House)

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Institute of Historical Research Katie Myerscough (Manchester) Seminar This event is part of the Gender and History in the Americas Seminar Series. 17:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Mapping Ireland: Irish Villages in the US in the 1890s Seminar Shahmima Akhtar (Birmingham) 17:15 This event is part of the Sport and Leisure History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Orientalism, Empire, and Jews in France's Nineteenth Century Seminar Julie Kalman (Monash University) 17:30 This event is part of the Modern French History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Cloudesley: Five Hundred Years of Charity in Islington Seminar Cathy Ross 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the Voluntary Action History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Tuesday 05 Institute of Historical Research ‘La Revanche’: French and German Operations in Alsace and the Seminar Vosges, August 1914 17:15 Simon House This event is part of the Military History Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Quantifying the Crisis: Home Rule, the Caucus and Popular Politics Seminar in 1886 17:15–19:15 Naomi Lloyd-Jones (KCL) This event is part of the Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar Series. IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Ab Uno Sanguine: Indigenous Rights and the Aborigines’ Seminar Protection Society in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 17:15–19:15 Zoe Laidlaw This event is part of the London Group of Historical Geographers Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

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Institute of Historical Research Rethinking Homology and Analogy of the Sexes in the Seminar Historiography of Sexuality 17:15–19:15 Alison Moore (Western Sydney) This event is part of the History of Sexuality Seminar Series. IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Early Career Researcher Seminar Seminar Margaret Joachim (IES), Manuel Munoz (KCL) 17:30–19:15 This event is part of the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies (Senate House Library)

Institute of English Studies Experiments in Constrained Creativity Seminar Dennis Duncan (Oxford), Emily Critchley (Greenwich), Eric Langley (UCL) 17:30–19:30 This seminar will consider the importance of formal constraints for creativity, looking at the work of the Oulipo group as well as modern experimental writing. Bloomsbury Room, G35 This event is part of the Contemporary Cultures of Writing Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Visibility of Rural Brazil: The Itaipu Dam and the Experience of Seminar Dictatorship in the Countryside 17:30–19:15 Jacob Blanc (Edinburgh) This talk uses the history of the Itaipu hydroelectric dam and the struggle of IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 displaced farmers, peasants, and indigenous groups to understand how Brazil’s (Senate House) dictatorship was experienced and contested in the countryside. By focusing on rural rather than urban spaces, we invert the conceptual and geographic narrative commonly used to study dictatorship in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America. This event is part of the Latin American History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required; [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Country House Library: Some Reflections Seminar Mark Purcell (Cambridge University Library) 17:30–19:30 The speaker will reflect on his own evolving understanding of libraries in country houses, following fifteen years as Libraries Curator to the National Trust and his Warburg Institute work on the recently published The Country House Library (Yale, 2017). The seminar is jointly organised by the Institute of Historical Research, the Institute of English Studies, and the Warburg Institute. This event is part of the History of Libraries Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Philosophy Owen Griffiths (Cambridge) Seminar This event is part of the Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics Seminar Series. 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 107 Events calendar December December Wednesday 06 Senate House Library Reformation London Symposium A one-day symposium exploring the impact of the Reformation on London and its growing influence as a global city. 09:30–17:00 Free advance registration required senatehouselibrary.ac.uk The National Archives

Institute of Historical Research Out of Place: Vagrancy and Settlement Two-day conference This two-day conference (6–7 December) explores the shifting experiences, representations, and status of vagrancy in relation to the history 09:30–18:00 of British settlement. How can exploring the images and realities of vagrancy IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, sharpen our understanding of the histories of ‘settled’ communities, cities, and NB01/NB02 (Senate House) parishes? Plenary speakers include Patricia Fumerton (California, Santa Barbara), ‘Crossing the Limits of the Shakespearean Stage: Roguery, Mobility, and Balladry in The Winter’s Tale’; and Nicholas Crowson (Birmingham), ‘Vagrant Life Stories: Rediscovering the Tramp between the 1880s and 1930s’. £55 | £45 | £30 | £25 advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Commonwealth Media and the 2017 Elections across the Commonwealth Studies Media freedom is under pressure in multiple and complex ways across the Workshop Commonwealth. These pressures assume particular importance at election times, when access to information or restrictions on the news environment assume even 14:00–17:00 greater importance. This workshop will review the assessments and recommen- Gordon Room, G34 dations of Commonwealth election monitoring teams on this crucial aspect of (Senate House) democracy and governance. The particular focus of the workshop will be the 2017 elections, including the contentious Kenyan poll. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies A Locational Analysis of Writing and Sealing Practices at Ayia Seminar Triada in the Late Minoan I period (ca. 1700/1675–1470/1460 BC) 15:30–17:30 Ilse Schoep (Leuven) This event is part of the ICS Mycenaean Seminar Series. Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Institute of Philosophy Lisa Jones (St Andrews) Seminar This event is part of the London Aesthetics Forum. 16:00–18:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 234 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Caspar Meyer (Birkbeck) Seminar This event is part of the ICS Classical Archaeology Seminar Series. 17:00–19:00 Free [email protected] Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Campaign to Control Warfare: 1853–1914 Seminar James Crosland (Liverpool John Moores) 17:15 This event is part of the War, Society and Culture Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

108  School of Advanced Study Events calendar December December Institute of Historical Research The University Settlement Movement, 1884–1920 Seminar Lucinda Matthews-Jones (Liverpool John Moores) 17:15–19:15 This event is part of the Modern Religious History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Professor Olga Crisp Room (Senate House)

Institute of Modern Languages Internment, Repatriation and the Fate of Some German ‘Economic Research Migrants’ after 1915 Seminar Jennifer Taylor (London) 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar Series. Room 243 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Thursday 07 Institute of Historical Research An Authoritarian History of International Health: Public Health and Seminar International Expertise in Franco’s Spain 12:45–14:00 David Brydan (Birkbeck) This event is part of the History of Public Health Seminar Series. LG9, Keppel Street Building, London School of Hygiene & Free advance registration required [email protected] Tropical Medicine

Institute of Classical Studies Law and Commercial Life of Rome Seminar David Johnston (Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series, jointly organised with Tony Thomas seminar in Roman Law Bloomsbury Room, G35 Free [email protected] (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research A Tragicomedy of Peace: Barclay’s Satyricon and European Politics Seminar in the Early Seventeenth Century 17:15 Matthew Growhoski (Vanderbilt) This event is part of the British History in the Seventeenth Century Seminar Series. IHR Pollard Room Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Sponsored by the Conrad and Elizabeth Russell Fund Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Did Cardinal Riario Reject Michelangelo’s Bacchus? Seminar Kathleen Christian (Open University) 17:15 This event is part of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Intellectual Culture of Conservatism After 1945 Seminar Gary Love 17:30 This event is part of the Modern British History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

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Institute of Historical Research Food History Workshop Seminar This event is part of the Food History Seminar Series. 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Narratives of Crisis – 1980s Education Policy and the Ideas Behind Seminar the CTCs 17:30–19:30 Elizabeth Bailey (Birmingham) This event is part of the History of Education Seminar Series. IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Latin American Darkroom Revolutions: Photography and Political Life in Studies Nicaragua Seminar Ileana L. Selejan (UCL) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series. Room 234 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

The Warburg Institute Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship Seminar Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox 17:30–19:30 and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For Warburg Institute details, see page 33. This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Yeats, Satan and Smut Seminar Warwick Gould (Institute of English Studies) 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the Irish Studies Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] The Senate Room (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Caoimhe Mader McGuinness (Kingston) Seminar This event is part of the London Theatre Seminar Series. 18:30–20:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

Friday 08 Institute of Classical Studies Gender Contest and Women’s Appeal to Familial Concord: Plautus’ Seminar Casina 16:30–18:30 Sophie Chavarria (Kent) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series. Room 243 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

110  School of Advanced Study Events calendar December December Institute of Historical Research The Daughters of Edward IV and the Early Tudor Regime Seminar Imogene Dudley (Exeter) 17:30 This event is part of the Late Medieval Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Byron and Romantic Realism: Novelistic Realism in the English Seminar Cantos of Don Juan; Byron and the Borders of Fiction 17:30–19:30 Richard Lansdown (Groningen), Rosa Mucignat (KCL) This event is part of the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar Series. Room G3 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Illustration on London's 'Artists Street' 1800–1820; Reading Seminar Victorian Illustration: Word, Image, Digital 17:30–19:30 Mary Shannon (Roehampton), Julia Thomas (Cardiff) This event is part of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar Series. Room G7 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Institute of Philosophy The Chandaria Lectures 2017 Lecture Cognitive Gadgets 18:00–19:00 Cecilia Heyes (Oxford) Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House) Evolutionary psychology casts the human mind as a collection of cognitive instincts - organs of thought shaped by genetic evolution and constrained by the needs of our Stone Age ancestors. This picture was plausible 25 years ago but, I argue, it no longer fits the facts. Research involving infants and nonhuman animals now suggests that genetic evolution has merely tweaked the human mind, making us more friendly than our pre-human ancestors, more attentive to other agents, and giving us souped-up, general-purpose mechanisms of learning, memory and control. Using these resources, our special-purpose organs of thought are built in the course of development through social interaction. They are products of cultural rather than genetic evolution; cognitive gadgets rather than cognitive instincts. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Comédie (1966): Performing Film and Adapting Play Seminar Jonathan Bignell (Reading) 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the London Beckett Seminar. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

Saturday 09 Institute of English Studies Who’s got the Power? Natural Philosophers and Mystics as Seminar Magicians in Medieval Islam; Astral Magic as an Alternative Soteriology in Twelfth-Century Islamic Thought 14:00–16:00 Liana Saif (Oxford), Michael Noble (Warburg) Room 246 (Senate House) This event is part of the Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar Series (EMPHASIS). Free advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 111 Events calendar December December Monday 11 The Human Mind Project Intelligence and the Mind Symposium Every living being interacts with its surroundings, sensing and responding to signals from the environment. Now the technology we use every day does this, 10:00–17:30 too. How is the way we process information being transformed by new forms The Court Room (Senate House) of intelligence, artificial and social? What can we learn about the nature and functioning of human intelligence? The last public event of The Human Mind Project will bring together experts from computer science and neuro-economics, science and technology studies, and the philosophy of information to discuss how humans have become so good at processing information quickly, extracting meaning from raw data, and building powerful narratives of who we are. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Fashioning of American Indians in Local Settings: A Seminar Postcolonial Perspective on the German and British Circus, 1900–45 17:15–19:15 Sabine Hanke (Sheffield) IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 This event is part of the Imperial and World History Seminar Colonial/Postcolonial (Senate House) New Researchers’ Workshop Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Settlement of Islamic Migrants in the Spanish Empire during Seminar the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 17:15–19:15 Cecilia Tarruell (Oxford) This event is part of the European History 1500–1800 Seminar Series. IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research John Newsinger Seminar This event is part of the Social History Seminar Series. 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Reconsidering the Raj Lecture The Chaos of Empire: Rethinking British Rule in India 18:00–20:30 Jon Wilson (KCL) 1947 marked the end of British rule in India, two hundred years in which the IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 British replaced the Mughals as controlling power and laid the foundations for (Senate House) modern India. In collaboration with the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, the Institute of Historical Research will reconsider this remarkable period in a series of lectures by leading scholars. In the first, Jon Wilson argues that the growth of British rule was from the earliest days often chaotic and accidental, serving British interests rather than any wider good. In the second, on 9 January, Charles Allen responds that the British offered elements of undoubted value to India, not least the exploration and recording of its culture. Later lectures focus on pivotal events: the Indian Mutiny, the Afghan Wars, and Independence and Partition. See page 31 for details of related events. £7.50 | £5 advance registration required [email protected]

112  School of Advanced Study Events calendar December December Tuesday 12 Institute of Classical Studies Language of Religion Conference A one-day conference followed by a workshop on 13 December. 09:30–17:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] Room G7 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Chance Encounters with the Past: Crowdsourcing Early Modern Seminar Recipes 17:15–19:15 Lisa Smith (Essex) This event is part of the Digital History Seminar Series. IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Long Reformation in the Far North: Kirk and Culture in Early Seminar Modern Orkney 17:15–19:15 Peter Marshall IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seditious Memories across Generations: Remembering the British Seminar Revolutions, 1660–88 17:15–19:15 Ed Legon (Historic Royal Palaces/KCL) This event is part of the Life-Cycles Seminar Series. IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies Accordia Anniversary Lecture Lecture Frontiers of Etruria 17:30–19:30 Simon Stoddart (Cambridge) Woburn Suite, G22/26 Free [email protected] (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Mission En Route: African American Christian Activity in Britain, Seminar 1750–1950 17:30–19:30 David Killingray (School of Advanced Study) This event is part of the Christian Missions in Global History Seminar Series. IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 113 Events calendar December December Institute of Philosophy The Chandaria Lectures 2017 Lecture Gadgets for Mindreading and Imitation 18:00–19:00 Cecilia Heyes (Oxford) Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House) Compared with chimpanzees, most adult humans are strikingly good at reading the minds of others, inferring their thoughts and feelings, and at copying the fine details of what others are doing. Mindreading and imitation enable humans to cooperate on grand scales, and to accumulate wisdom over many generations. Given their importance in making human lives so different from those of other animals, it’s tempting to think that mindreading and imitation are ‘in our genes’. However, Heyes argues, using evidence from developmental psychology and social cognitive neuroscience, that mindreading, like print reading, is taught by experts to novices. Similarly, the capacity to imitate is built from ‘old parts’ in the course of childhood, and the construction process is powered by culture-specific patterns of social interaction. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Wednesday 13 Institute of Classical Studies Language of Religion Workshop A workshop following the related conference held on 12 December. 09:30–17:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

Institute of Modern Languages Music and Marxism: Commodity Production and Musical Idealism Research Jeremy Coleman and Johan Siebers Seminar This event is part of the German Philosophy Seminar Series. 16:00–18:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 234 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Imaginary Antiquities and the French Revolution: Modelling on Seminar Greek Lawgivers 17:15 Ariane Fichtl (Lille-Augsburg) This event is part of the History of Political Ideas/Early Career Seminar Series. IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Re-Invention of Samuel Richardson Seminar Bonnie Latimer (Plymouth), Karen Lipsedge (Kingston) 17:15–19:15 This event is part of the British History in the Long Eighteenth-Century Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Demarcating or Blurring the Lines after National Socialism: A Seminar Comparison between West Germany and Austria (1945–65) 17:30 Robert Knight (Loughborough) This event is part of the Modern German History Seminar Series. IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

114  School of Advanced Study Events calendar December December Institute of Historical Research Notions of Totalitarianism in Post-1945 Italy Seminar Carl Levy (Goldsmiths), Nicola Pizzolato 17:30 This event is part of the Modern Italian History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Middle-Class Mansion Block as a Model for Metropolitan Seminar Improvements at Victoria Street, Westminster, 1845–1905 17:30–19:30 Karin Templin (Cambridge) This event is part of the Metropolitan History Seminar Series. IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

The Warburg Institute Warburg and Luther: Word | Image in Times of Crisis, 1517, 1917, Lecture 2017 – ‘Luther’s words are everywhere’: Protestantism and Politics, 1517–2017 17:30–19:30 Jane O. Norman (California, Irvine) Warburg Institute The Warburg Institute is holding a series of events to mark both the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and the 100th anniversary of Aby Warburg’s seminal lecture on Martin Luther and the role of propaganda in the process of public opinion making. Warburg’s lecture, delivered in November 1917 and published in 1920 under the title ‘Pagan-Antique Prophecy in Words and Images in the Age of Martin Luther’ is now considered one of the founding documents of Bildwissenschaft (the science of images) and of media studies. This talk by Jane O. Norman is the series keynote. It will be followed by a roundtable discussion on 14 December and an open day on 16 December, when the Warburg Institute’s Library and Archive will display and offer introductions to materials that relate to Warburg’s Reformation study. See page 26 for details of related events. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group: Canto 87 Reading group The Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group was formed in 2006. At each meeting, a speaker introduces a canto, followed by discussion. Speakers and members 18:00–20:00 range from internationally established Pound critics to poets, postgraduates, Room 243 (Senate House) independent scholars and Pound enthusiasts. All are welcome. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Thursday 14 Institute of Advanced Legal Forfeiture and Confiscation Studies Speakers will include Mike Kennedy (former president of Eurojust), Brian Donald Seminar (Head of Cabinet of the Europol Director), and Klara Skrivankova (Anti Slavery International). 16:30–18:00 This event is part of the European Criminal Law Seminar Series and organised with IALS the European Criminal Law Association (UK). Free advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 115 Events calendar December December Institute of Classical Studies Metal and Coinage Seminar Michael Crawford (UCL) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

Institute of Modern Languages English Goethe Society Lecture Research Life and (Love) Letters: Looking in on Winckelmann’s Lecture Correspondence 17:15–19:00 Katherine Harloe (Reading) and Lucy Russell (Oxford) Room 243 (Senate House) Over the 250 years since his death, Johann Winckelmann’s posthumously published ‘private’ correspondence has shaped understandings of his life and work just as much as his aesthetic and antiquarian writings. While editions appeared as early as the 1770s, the publication of Goethe’s Winkelmann und sein Jahrhundert and the inclusion of two volumes of ‘freundschaftliche Briefe’ within Josef Eiselein’s Sämtliche Werke (1825–) marked a new role for the correspondence in the nineteenth-century monumentalising of Winckelmann as a German ‘classic’. It is suggested that this tradition has generated a distanced, even voyeuristic, perspective on the letters, treating them as windows onto biographical scenes of emotional, and sometimes erotic, intimacy and expression. The speakers at this symposium will criticise some examples of this tendency in recent Winckelmann scholarship, explore the often-adventitious steps by which it arose, and, using examples of particular letters, suggest some alternative interpretations. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Britain and Slavery: The Legacies of LBS Seminar Nick Draper (UCL) 17:30 This event is part of the Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600–2000 Seminar Series. IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Both Free and Ancient Foreigners: The Politics of the Society of Seminar Porters in Early Modern London 17:30–19:30 Claire Benson (York) This event is part of the Society, Culture and Belief, 1500–1800 Seminar Series. IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Rise of Administrative Lordship in Medieval Flanders: New Seminar Perspectives 17:30–19:30 Jean-François Nieus (Namur) This event is part of the European History 1150–1550 Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

The Warburg Institute Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship Seminar Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox 17:30–19:30 and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For Warburg Institute details, see page 33. This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

116  School of Advanced Study Events calendar December December Institute of Historical Research Roundtable: Women in the Garden Seminar The roundtable is an opportunity to assess the extent and impact of women in garden history. 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the History of Gardens and Landscapes Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute Warburg and Luther: Word | Image in Times of Crisis, 1517, 1917, 2017 Seminar Roundtable Discussion 18:15–20:30 The Warburg Institute is holding a series of events to mark both the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and the 100th anniversary of Aby Warburg’s Warburg Institute seminal lecture on Martin Luther and the role of propaganda in the process of public opinion making. Warburg’s lecture, delivered in November 1917 and published in 1920 under the title ‘Pagan-Antique Prophecy in Words and Images in the Age of Martin Luther’ is now considered one of the founding documents of Bildwissenschaft (the science of images) and of media studies. This roundtable discussion is the second in a series of three events on this theme. Participants will include James Curran (Goldsmiths), Jost Philipp Klenner (Berlin), Jane O. Newman (California, Irvine) and Petra Roettig (Hamburger Kunsthalle); the chair will be Johannes von Müller of the Bilderfahrzeuge Project, Warburg Institute. This event will be followed by an open day on 16 December, when the Warburg Institute’s Library and Archive will display and offer introductions to materials that relate to Warburg’s Reformation study. See page 26 for details of related events. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Friday 15 Institute of Advanced Legal Contemporary Issues in Financial Markets Law and Company Law: Studies National, International, European and Comparative Perspectives Conference / Symposium This event is convened by Maren Heidemann (IALS) and Gudula Deipenbrock 10:00–18:00 (HTW Berlin); the keynote speaker will be Joanna Gray (Birmingham). Fee applicable advance registration required [email protected] IALS

Institute of English Studies London Modernism Seminar Postgraduate Conference Conference The London Modernism Seminar, the Northern Modernism Seminar, the Modernist Network Cymru and the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies, in 11:00–13:00 association with the British Association for Modernist Studies, will hold a one-day Leeds postgraduate conference in December. This event is part of the London Modernism Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies Shaping a Space? Reappraising Peisistratid Development of the Seminar Athenian Agora in the Sixth Century BC 16:30–18:30 Kate Caraway (Liverpool) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series. Room 246 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 117 Events calendar December December Institute of Philosophy The Chandaria Lectures 2017 Lecture Cultural Evolutionary Psychology 18:00–19:00 Cecilia Heyes (Oxford) Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House) Evolutionary psychology was an important advance in understanding human origins. Previously, bodies, brains and behaviour had been subjected to evolutionary analysis while the mind sat on a shelf. Now, in the light of new evidence, evolutionary psychology needs to be extended to embrace cultural as well as genetic inheritance; the profound effects of social interaction in shaping the mind. What are the priorities for this new approach? Is it really ‘evolutionary’ in the Darwinian sense? What does it imply about human nature, and our capacity to meet radically new social and technological challenges? In this final lecture, Heyes will consider the prospects for ‘cultural evolutionary psychology’. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Advanced Legal Jeffrey Thomson (City) Studies This event is part of the Legal History Seminar Series. Seminar Free advance registration required [email protected] 18:00–19:30 IALS

Saturday 16 The Warburg Institute Warburg and Luther: Word | Image in Times of Crisis, 1517, 1917, 2017 Exhibition Library and Archive Open Day 14:00–16:00 The Warburg Institute is holding a series of events to mark both the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and the 100th anniversary of Aby Warburg’s Warburg Institute seminal lecture on Martin Luther and the role of propaganda in the process of public opinion making. Warburg’s lecture, delivered in November 1917 and published in 1920 under the title ‘Pagan-Antique Prophecy in Words and Images in the Age of Martin Luther’ is now considered one of the founding documents of Bildwissenschaft (the science of images) and of media studies. For this open day, the Warburg Institute’s Library and Archive will display and offer introductions to materials that relate to Warburg’s Reformation study. See page 26 for details of related events. Free [email protected]

Friday 22 Institute of English Studies Finnegans Wake Reading Group Reading group This reading group has been running regularly since 2007. It studies James Joyce’s final work, Finnegans Wake, at a close level of detail. Discussion is focused on 18:00–20:00 the text and attention is also paid to Joyce’s manuscripts (copies of which are Room 243 (Senate House) displayed on a screen). The group hosts a blog to record its discussions. Free advance registration required [email protected]

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January January Friday 05 Institute of English Studies Joyce's Ulysses Seminar Helen Saunders (KCL), Steven Morrison (Nottingham) 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

Monday 08 Institute of Historical Research What is a Colonial Archive? Government, Authority and the Seminar Making of Archives in French West Africa and Indochina in the Twentieth Century 17:15–19:15 This event is part of the Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 Seminar Series. (Senate House) Fabienne Chamelot (Portsmouth) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Tuesday 09 Institute of Historical Research Childbirth and Religious Ritual in Early Modern London Seminar Emily Vine (QMUL) 17:15–19:15 This talk considers the religious rituals of childbirth and lying-in as practised by Catholic, Jewish and Protestant nonconformist households in early modern IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 London. Childbirth was a time of significance for all of these religious minority (Senate House) communities, who were also united by the shared experience of living in the urban environment of the city and the fact that childbirth generally took place at home during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Making use of religious prescriptive literature, printed funeral sermons, and personal writings, the speaker considers the significance of the home at times of childbirth for those whose ability to openly practise their faith was often restricted. Making use of Van Gennep’s ideas relating to ‘rites of passage’, it demonstrates how the concept of ‘crossing the threshold’ can be just as meaningfully applied to the boundaries of domestic space as it can to the transition points of the life cycle. This event is part of the Life-Cycles Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Identifying Responses to Revolution: The Monks in Motion Seminar Prosopography and the English Benedictines in Revolutionary France, 1789–94 17:15–19:15 Cormac Begadon (Durham) IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 This event is part of the Digital History Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Kayleigh Betterton (University of London Society of Bibliophiles), Leo Cadogan Seminar (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association Educational Trust) The focus of this year’s series is widening access in book collecting. 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the Book Collecting Seminar Series and is jointly organised Room 246 (Senate House) with the University of London Society of Bibliophiles. Free advance registration required [email protected]

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January January Institute of English Studies Literary London Reading Group Reading group Since 2012, the Literary London Reading Group, an offshoot of the Literary London Society (literarylondon.org) has offered a seminar series that fosters 18:00–20:00 interdisciplinary and wide-ranging research into London literature in its historical, Room 243 (Senate House) social, and cultural contexts. It aims to include all periods and genres of writing and representation about, set in, inspired by, or alluding to central and suburban London and its environs, from the city’s roots in pre-Roman times to its imagined futures. All are welcome. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Reconsidering the Raj Lecture Myth and History: India and the British Raj 18:00–20:30 Charles Allen (author and editor) IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 1947 marked the end of British rule in India, two hundred years in which the (Senate House) British replaced the Mughals as controlling power and laid the foundations for modern India. In collaboration with the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, the Institute of Historical Research will reconsider this remarkable period in a series of lectures by leading scholars. In this talk, Charles Allen argues that the British offered elements of undoubted value to India, not least the exploration and recording of its culture. Later lectures focus on pivotal events: the Indian Mutiny, the Afghan Wars, and Independence and Partition. See page 31 for details of related events. £7.50 | £5 advance registration required [email protected]

Wednesday 10 Institute of Historical Research Bolingbroke and Poetry Seminar Joseph Hone (University of Cambridge) 17:15 This event is part of the History of Political Ideas/Early Career Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group: Canto 22 Reading group Roxana Preda (Edinburgh) 18:00–20:00 The Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group was formed in 2006. At each meeting, a speaker introduces a canto, followed by discussion. Speakers and members Room 243 (Senate House) range from internationally established Pound critics to poets, postgraduates, independent scholars and Pound enthusiasts. All are welcome. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Thursday 11 Institute of Classical Studies Franco Basso (Cambridge) Seminar This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series. 16:30–18:30 Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)

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January January Institute of Historical Research Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Seminar Reconstruction 17:30–19:30 Ira Katznelson (Columbia) This event is part of the North American History Seminar Series. IHR North American History Room (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Trustworthy Men: How Inequality and Faith Made the Medieval Seminar Church 17:30–19:30 Ian Forrest (Oxford) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship Seminar Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox 17:30–19:30 and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For Warburg Institute details, see page 33. This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Joint Seminar with European Theatre Research Network: Seminar Performance Activism in Athens 18:30–20:00 This event is part of the London Theatre Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House)

Friday 12 Institute of Classical Studies Τίς πόθεν εἰς ἀνδρῶν ; πόθι τοι πόλις ἠδὲ τοκῆες: A Close-Up Seminar Look at the Members of Private Associations 16:30–18:30 Annamària-Izabella Pàzsint (Babes-Bolyai) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series. Room 246 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Institute of English Studies The Disjunctive Event: Reading Festivals with Beckett Seminar Trish McTighe (Birmingham) 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the London Beckett Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

Saturday 13 Institute of English Studies Art, Science, and Power in the Early French Scientific Academy Seminar Katherine Reinhart (Cambridge) 14:00–16:00 This event is part of the Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar Series (EMPHASIS). Room 246 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

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January January Monday 15 Institute of Classical Studies Marcus Aurelius on Phantasia Seminar John Sellars (Royal Holloway) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Forgetting to Remember, Remembering to Forget: The Pied-Noir Seminar Community and the French State 17:30 Claire Eldridge (Leeds) This event is part of the Modern French History Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Invisibility and Infamy: Exploring the History of Fundraising Seminar in the UK 18:00–20:00 Beth Breeze (Kent) This event is part of the History Lab Seminar Series. IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

The Warburg Institute On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light Seminar Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) 18:30–19:50 This event is part of a series of weekly readings of works by Dante. Free [email protected] Warburg Institute

Tuesday 16 Institute of Historical Research Wet-Nurses, Sexual Restrictions and Wage Labour in Roman Egypt Seminar April Pudsey (Manchester Metropolitan University) 17:15–19:15 This event is part of the Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop Seminar Series. IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N30 Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Greek Medical Manuscripts (10th–15th c.): Texts, Contexts, and Seminar Readers 17:30–19:15 Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (KCL) This event is part of the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Series. Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House Library)

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January January Institute of Historical Research Natural History Values and Meanings in Nineteenth-Century Chile Seminar Patience Schell (Aberdeen) 17:30–19:15 Nineteenth-century natural history flourished in Chile thanks to a collaboration between foreign immigrants and Chileans in a context of Chilean state support for IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 natural history s and training, but also in a context in which the natural sciences, (Senate House) and natural history specifically, came to have multiple meanings. In this talk, the speaker argues that natural history flourished, in part, because it offered its practitioners, both professional and amateur, a physical and intellectual pursuit that was seen to improve the individual while being of benefit to society at large. Analysis of this discourse in Chile contributes to our growing understanding of the specific contexts of natural history practice, the ways in which natural history (and the sciences more broadly) became national concerns, and the transnational circulation of ideas. This event is part of the Latin American History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Wednesday 17 Institute of Classical Studies Proto-Urbanisation, Rising Elites and the Role of Metallurgy in the Seminar Early Bronze Age Aegean-Anatolian World(s) 15:30–17:30 Barbara Horejs (Austrian Academy of Sciences) This event is part of the ICS Mycenaean Seminar Series. Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Ego-Documents and Official History: Crown Prince Rupprecht of Seminar Bavaria's Diary and the Battle for Memory between the Wars 17:15 Jonathan Boff (Birmingham) This event is part of the War, Society and Culture Seminar Series. IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Paul Nolte (Berlin) Seminar This event is part of the History of Political Ideas Seminar Series. 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Thursday 18 The Warburg Institute Maps, and Miasma: Henry Acland’s Maps of Cholera in Oxford in Lecture the 1850s Giles Darkes (British Historic Town Atlas) 17:00–19:00 Part of a regular series of lectures in the history of cartography convened by Warburg Institute Catherine Delano-Smith (IHR), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, KCL) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg). Free [email protected]

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January January The Warburg Institute Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship Seminar Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox 17:30–19:30 and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For Warburg Institute details, see page 33. This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Little Pavilion on the Prairie. Britain and the Untied States at the Seminar World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893 17:30 David Tiedemann (UCL) This event is part of the History Lab Seminar Series. IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Seamus Heaney and Harvard’ Seminar Rosie Lavan (TCD) 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the Irish Studies Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] The Senate Room (Senate House)

Friday 19 Institute of Classical Studies The Good, the Bad and the ‘Haruspex’: Representations of Etruscan Seminar Diviners in Republican Rome Chiara Strazzulla (Cardiff) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series. Room 246 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Blake’s Newton and Romantic Geometry Seminar Sarah Haggarty (Cambridge) This event is part of the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar Series and is co- 17:30–19:30 sponsored by the Institute of Modern Languages Research. Bloomsbury Room, G35 Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

Saturday 20 Institute of Classical Studies Virgil Society Lecture Lecture Tegit rem inhonestam: Sophocles' Tecmessa and Virgil's Dido 14:30–17:00 Patrick Finglass (Bristol) Woburn Suite, G22/26 Free [email protected] (Senate House)

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January January Monday 22 Institute of English Studies Henry’s 'Bruised Helmet': Armour and Weaponry in Henry V; Seminar SysEd vs Ardenspace: The Evolution and Aims of the Imaginarium Learning Modules on the Shakespeare Reloaded Website 17:00–19:00 Line Cottegnies (Paris III), Liam Semler (Sydney) The Senate Room (Senate House) This event is part of the London Shakespeare Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research An Unknown Early Modern New World Epic: Girolamo Vecchietti’s Seminar Delle prodezze di Ferrante Cortese (1587–88) 17:15–19:15 Virginia Cox (New York University) This event is part of the European History 1500–1800 Seminar Series. IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Making of Imperial New Delhi, or: How I Learnt to Understand Seminar the Politics Behind Colonial Architecture and Urbanism 17:15–19:15 Smriti Pant (Brandenburg University of Technology) This event is part of the Imperial and World History Seminar Colonial/Postcolonial IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 New Researchers’ Workshop Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

The Warburg Institute On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light Seminar Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) 18:30–19:50 This event is part of a series of weekly readings of works by Dante. Free [email protected] Warburg Institute

Tuesday 23 Institute of Historical Research ‘You Wouldn’t Want Your Daughter Marrying One’: Parental Seminar Intervention in Mixed Race Relationships in Post-War Britain 17:15–19:15 Emma Watkins (Liverpool) Mixed race relationships and ‘miscegenation’, particularly between men of colour IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 and white women, became the central issue for white perceptions of race in post- (Senate House) war and post-Windrush Britain. While ‘race-relations’ discourse described the ‘dark strangers in our midst’, concerns about the ‘new’ presence of black, predominantly West Indian, men manifested most sharply when it threatened to move from the streets into the familial home. Preconceptions about ‘aggressive’ black masculinity, criminality and lack of family values clashed with suggestions of white women’s sexual deviancy and disrepute in the rhetoric around these relationships, making them a challenge to the white, patriarchal family system. This paper explores the role of parental intervention in both the prevention and occurrence of mixed- race relationships in this period. Were white families tasked with a new parental responsibility in the protection of this intimate, interior boundary? How did parents, both black and white, respond to mixed-race relationships? What were the consequences for family life? This event is part of the Life-Cycles Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

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January January Institute of Classical Studies Accordia Lecture Lecture From Maiolica to Terracotta: An Industrial Reconversion in the 17:30–19:30 Arno Valley in the Early Modern Period Hugo Blake (Royal Holloway) Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Ententes Cordiales? Vichy France and the British Commonwealth Seminar during the Second World War 18:00 Luc-Andre Brunet (Open University) This event is part of the International History Seminar Series. IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Wednesday 24 Institute of Commonwealth Refugee Studies Reading Group (3) Studies Free advance registration required [email protected] Reading group 15:00–17:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Dorothy Tarrant Lecture Lecture Earthquakes, Etruscan Priests, and Roman Politics in the Age of 17:00–19:00 Cicero Anthony Corbeill (Virginia) Room 349 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Amy Evans (Kent), Robert Hampson (Royal Holloway) Seminar This event is part of the Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar Series. 18:00–20:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)

Thursday 25 Institute of Commonwealth Allocation of Competence in Asylum Matters under International Studies and EU Law Seminar Marcello Di Filippo (Pisa) 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the RLI International Refugee Law Seminar Series. IALS Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies Rosalind Thomas (Oxford) Seminar This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series. 16:30–18:30 Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)

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January January Institute of Modern Languages English Goethe Society Lecture Research Hölderlin and the First World War Lecture Nick Martin (Birmingham) 17:15–19:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] German Historical Institute

Institute of Historical Research Government and Inquests from Philip Augustus to the Last Seminar Capetians 17:30–19:30 Marie Dejoux (Pantheon-Sorbonne University Paris 1) This event is part of the European History 1150–1550 Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research New World Marvels and European Craft Cultures: Featherwork and Seminar Cultural Contacts in the Sixteenth Century 17:30–19:30 Stefan Hanss (Cambridge) This event is part of the European History 1500–1800 Seminar Series. IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research ‘We Came Here To Take the Bastille’: The Watergate Babies, Seminar Congress, and the Democratic Party, 1974–92 17:30–19:30 Patrick Andelic (Northumbria) This event is part of the North American History Seminar Series. IHR North American History Room (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

The Warburg Institute Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship Seminar Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox 17:30–19:30 and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For Warburg Institute details, see page 33. This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

Friday 26 Institute of Classical Studies From ‘Panegyricus’ to the ‘Philippus’: Isocrates’ Apology of Seminar Panhellenism 16:30–18:30 Massimiliano Carloni (SNS Pisa) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series. Room 246 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Institute of English Studies 1868: A Roundtable Seminar This event is part of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar Series. 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House)

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January January Institute of English Studies Finnegans Wake Reading Group Reading group This reading group has been running regularly since 2007. It studies James Joyce’s final work, Finnegans Wake, at a close level of detail. Discussion is focused on 18:00–20:00 the text and attention is also paid to Joyce’s manuscripts (copies of which are Room 243 (Senate House) displayed on a screen). The group hosts a blog to record its discussions. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Monday 29 Institute of Classical Studies Metameleia Seminar James Warren (Cambridge) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Building Bridges of Trust: Child Transports from Finland to Sweden Seminar during WWII 18:00–20:00 Ann Nehlin (Stockholm) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light Seminar Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) 18:30–19:50 This event is part of a series of weekly readings of works by Dante. Free [email protected] Warburg Institute

Tuesday 30 Institute of Historical Research Liberals, Peasants and Jacobins: The Mexican Revolution (1910–40) Seminar in Global Perspective 17:30–19:15 Alan Knight (Oxford) This talk starts from the premise that the Mexican Revolution (1910–40) is a IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 major, social revolution, worthy of comparison with the other ‘great’ revolutions (Senate House) of history. It begins with a brief conceptual discussion of what can and cannot be said about revolutions in general. It then focuses on the Mexican case, breaking it down into collective actors (and leaders); it then compares and contrasts the Mexican story and its actors with those that can be teased out of other revolutionary conjunctures (for example, the French, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Bolivian, and Cuban). This event is part of the Latin American History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Advanced Legal Economic Evidence in Utilities Regulation: Delineating the Studies Boundaries of Administrative Discretion Seminar Despoina Mantzari (Reading, IALS Visiting Fellow) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IALS

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January January Institute of Classical Studies ICS and Friends of the British School at Athens Lecture Lecture Free [email protected] 18:00–20:00 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House)

Wednesday 31 Institute of Historical Research Melissa Lane (Princeton) Seminar This event is part of the History of Political Ideas Seminar Series. 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of Modern Languages Changing Countries and Cultural Identities Revisited Research Eva Maria Thüne (Bologna/IMLR) Seminar This event is part of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies 18:00–20:00 Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

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Seminar series Seminar A broad range of seminar series are organised in the Institute of English Studies School and Senate House Library. Many of our series are supported by and organised in collaboration with Contact: [email protected] other institutions and organisations. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated. Dates London Beckett Seminar and times are given below where known and were Once a month on Fridays at 18:00–20:00 correct at the time of going to print. These seminars Dates: 10 Nov; 8 Dec are listed in the calendar where further details are known. Due to the nature of series events, these may Book Collecting Seminar be subject to change. Tuesdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 14 Nov; 9 Jan Institute of Classical Studies Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar Contact: [email protected] Fridays from 18:00–20:00 Ancient History Dates: 22 Sep; 13 Oct; 10 Nov; 1 Dec; 5 Jan Thursdays at 16.30–18.30 Contemporary Cultures of Writing Dates: 5, 12, 19 Oct; 9, 23, 30 Nov; 7, 14 Dec; 11, 18, 25 Jan Tuesdays at 17:30–19:30 Ancient Literature Dates: 17 Oct; 14; 5 Dec Mondays at 17.00–19.00 Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Dates: 9, 16, 23, 30 Oct; 13, 20, 27 Nov; 4 Dec; 15, 22, 29 Jan Wednesdays at 18:00–20:00 Ancient Philosophy Dates: 27 Sep; 25 Oct; 29 Nov; 24 Jan Thursdays at 16.30–18.30 Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Dates: 9, 23 Oct; 6, 20 Nov; 15, 29 Jan Imagination Seminar (EMPHASIS) Classical Archaeology Once a month on Saturdays at 14:00–16:00 Wednesdays at 17.00–19.00 Dates: 14 Oct; 4 Nov; 9 Dec; 13 Jan Dates: 25 Oct; 8 Nov; 6 Dec; 17, 31 Jan Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group Fellows' Seminar Second Wednesday of the month at 18:00–20:00 Wednesdays at 13.00–14.00 Dates: 11 Oct, 8 Nov; 13 Dec; 10 Jan Dates: 4, 11, 25 Oct; 8, 22 Nov Finnegans Wake Research Seminar Mycenaean The last Friday of the month at 18:00–20:00 Wednesdays at 15.30–17.30 Dates: 29 Sep; 27 Oct; 24 Nov; 22 Dec; 26 Jan Dates: 18 Oct; 15 Nov; 6 Dec; 17 Jan History of Libraries Seminar Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Times: 17:30–20:00 Fridays at 16.30–18.30 Dates: 3, 8 Oct; 7 Nov; 5 Dec Dates: 6, 13, 20, 27 Oct; 3, 10, 17, 24 Nov; 1, 8, 15 Dec; 12, 19, Irish Studies Seminar 26 Jan Thursdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 19 Oct; 16 Nov; 7 Dec; 18 Jan Literary London Reading Group The second Tuesday of the month at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 10 Oct; 14 Nov; 9 Jan

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London Old and Middle English Research Seminar Institute of Historical Research series Seminar (LOMERS) Contact: [email protected] Once a month on Wednesdays at 17:30–19:30 Dates: 18 Oct; 22 Nov American History London Shakespeare Seminar Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 5, 19 Oct; 2, 16, 30 Nov; 14 Dec Tuesdays at 17:00–19:00 Dates: 9, 23 Oct; 20 Nov; 22 Jan Archives and Society Media History Seminar Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:45 Dates: 3, 17, 31 Oct; 14, 28 Nov; 12 Dec Tuesdays at 18:00–20:00 Date: 28 Nov British History in the Seventeenth Century Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15 Dates: 28 Sep; 12, 26 Oct; 9, 23 Nov; 7 Dec Tuesdays at 17:30–19:15 Dates: 3, 31 Oct; 5 Dec; 16 Jan British History in the Long Eighteenth Century Modernism Seminar Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15 Dates: 4, 18 Oct; 1, 15, 29 Nov; 13 Dec Saturdays at 11:00–13:00 Dates: 7 Oct; 18 Nov British Maritime History Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar Once a month on a Tuesday at 17:15 Dates: 26 Oct; 14 Nov; 12 Dec Fridays at 17:30–19:30 Dates: 3 Nov; 8 Dec; 26 Jan Christian Missions in Global History London Theatre Seminar Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30 Dates: 3, 17, 31 Oct; 14, 28 Nov; 12 Dec The first Thursday of the month at 18:30–20:00 Dates: 5 Oct; 9 Nov; 7 Dec; 11 Jan Collecting and Display Open University Book History and Bibliography Fortnightly on Mondays at 18:00 Research Seminar Dates: 9, 23 Oct; 6, 20 Nov; 4 Dec Occasional Mondays at 17:30–19:00 Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop Dates: 15, 29 Jan Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 London–Paris Romanticism Seminar Dates: 2, 16, 30 Oct; 13, 27 Nov; 11 Dec Once a month on Fridays at 17:30–19:30 Comparative Histories of Asia Dates: 20 Oct; 17 Nov; 8 Dec; 19 Jan Fortnightly on Thursdays at 12:30 Dates: 4, 18 Oct; 1, 15, 29 Nov; 13 Dec Contemporary British History Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:00 Dates: 27 Sep; 11, 25 Oct; 8, 22 Nov; 6 Dec Conversations and Disputations Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:30 Dates: 29 Sep; 13, 27 Oct; 10, 24 Nov; 8 Dec

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Seminar series Seminar Crusades and the Latin East History of Education Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 First Thursday of every month at 17:30 Dates: 2, 16, 30 Oct; 13, 27 Nov; 11 Dec Dates: 2 Nov; 7 Dec Digital History History of Gardens and Landscapes Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Fortnightly on Thursdays 18:00 Dates: 3, 17, 31 Oct; 14, 28 Nov; 12 Dec Dates: 5, 19 Oct; 2, 16, 30 Nov; 14 Dec Disability History Seminar History of Liturgy First Monday of every month at 17:15 Once a month on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 25 Sep; 23 Oct; 20 Nov; 4 Dec Dates: 2 Oct; 13 Nov; 11 Dec Earlier Middle Ages History of Political Ideas Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:30 Fortnightly on Wednesdays 17:15 Dates: 4 Oct; 1, 15, 29 Nov; 13 Dec Dates: 27 Sep; 11, 25 Oct; 8, 22 Nov; 6 Dec Economic and Social History of the Early Modern History of Political Ideas / Early Career Seminar World Fortnightly on Wednesdays 17:15 Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15 Dates: 4, 18 Oct; 1, 15, 29 Nov; 13 Dec Dates: 6, 20 Oct; 3, 17 Nov; 1, 15 Dec History of Sexuality Seminar Education in the Long Eighteenth Century Once a month on Tuesdays at 17:15 Once a month on a Saturday 14:00–16:00 Dates: 10 Oct; 11 Nov; 5 Dec Dates: 7 Oct; 4 Nov; 2 Dec Imperial and World History European History 1150–1550 Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Fortnightly on Thursdays 17:30 Dates: 25 Sep; 9, 23 Oct; 6, 20 Nov; 4 Dec Dates: 5, 19 Oct; 2, 16, 30 Nov; 14 Dec International History European History 1500–1800 Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 18:00 Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 3, 17, 31 Oct; 14, 28 Nov; 12 Dec Dates: 2, 16, 30 Oct; 13, 27 Nov; 11 Dec Interdisciplinary Seminar on Medievalism Film History Once a month on Wednesdays at 17:30 Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 4 Oct; 15 Nov; 13 Dec Dates: 28 Sep; 12, 26 Oct; 9, 23 Nov; 7 Dec Jewish History Food History Seminar Once a month on Mondays at 17:15 Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 2, 16, 30 Oct; 13, 27 Nov; 11 Dec Dates: 28 Sep, 12, 26 Oct; 9, 23 Nov; 7 Dec Late Medieval Seminar Gender and History in the Americas Weekly on Fridays at 17:30 First Monday of the month at 17:15 Dates: 29 Sep; 6, 13, 20, 27 Oct; 3, 10, 17, 24 Nov; 1, 8, 15 Dec Dates: 25 Sep; 9, 23 Oct; 6, 20 Nov; 4 Dec Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy History Lab Seminar Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15 Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 28 Sep; 12, 26 Oct; 9, 23 Nov; 7 Dec Dates: 28 Sep; 12, 26 Oct; 9, 23 Nov; 7 Dec

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Latin American History Modern Italian History series Seminar Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30 Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 26 Sep; 10, 24 Oct; 7 Nov; 5 Dec Dates: 4, 18 Oct; 1, 15, 29 Nov; 13 Dec Life–Cycles Modern Religious History Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15 Dates: 3, 17, 31 Oct; 14, 28 Nov; 12 Dec Dates: 27 Sep; 11, 25 Oct; 8, 22 Nov; 6 Dec Locality & Region North American History Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Fortnightly on Thursday at 17:30 Dates: 26 Sep; 10, 24 Oct; 7 Nov; 5 Dec Dates: 5, 19 Oct; 2, 16, 30 Nov; 14 Dec London Group of Historical Geographers Oral History Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 First Thursday of every month at 18:00 Dates: 10, 24 Oct; 7 Nov; 5 Dec Dates: 12 Oct; 9 Nov; 7 Dec London Society for Medieval Studies Parliaments, Politics and People Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 19:00 Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 26 Sep; 10, 24 Oct; 7 Nov; 5 Dec Dates: 26 Sep; 10, 24 Oct; 7 Nov; 5 Dec Low Countries History Philosophy of History Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15 Fortnightly on Thursday at 17:30 Dates: 29 Sep; 13, 27 Oct; 10, 24 Nov; 8 Dec Dates: 5, 19 Oct; 2, 16, 30 Nov; 14 Dec Marxism in Culture Psychoanalysis and History Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:30 Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 6, 20 Oct; 3, 17 Nov 1; 15 Dec Dates: 27 Sep; 11, 25 Oct; 8, 22 Nov; 6 Dec Metropolitan History Public History Seminar Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 4, 18 Oct; 1, 15, 29 Nov; 13 Dec Dates: 27 Sep; 11, 25 Oct; 8, 22 Nov; 6 Dec Military History Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600–1900 Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 26 Sep; 10, 24 Oct; 7 Nov; 5 Dec Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 5, 19 Oct; 2, 16, 30 Nov; 14 Dec Modern British History Religious History of Britain 1500–1800 Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15 Dates: 28 Sep; 12, 26 Oct; 9, 23 Nov; 7 Dec Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 3, 17, 31 Oct; 14, 28 Nov; 12 Dec Modern French History Rethinking Modern Europe Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30 Dates: 25 Sep; 9, 23 Oct; 6, 20 Nov; 4 Dec Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 27 Sep; 11, 25 Oct; 8, 22 Nov; 6 Dec Modern German History Socialist History Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 4, 18 Oct; 1, 15, 29 Nov; 13 Dec Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30 Dates: 2, 16, 30 Oct; 13, 27 Nov; 11 Dec

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Seminar series Seminar Society, Culture and Belief, 1500–1800 Institute of Modern Languages Once a month on Thursdays at 17:30 Research Dates: 5, 19 Oct; 2, 16, 30 Nov; 14 Dec Contact: [email protected] Sport and Leisure History German Philosophy: Music and Marxism Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 25 Sep; 9, 23 Oct; 6 20 Nov; 4 Dec Wednesdays at 16:00–19:00 (unless marked) Dates: 20 Oct (Friday, 17:00–19:00); 15 Nov; 13 Dec Studies of Home First Wednesday of every month at 17:30 Institute of Philosophy Dates: 11 Oct; 8 Nov; 6 Dec Contact: [email protected]

Transport and Mobility History Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics Once a month on a Thursday at 17:30 Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30–19:30 Dates: 19 Oct; 16 Nov; 14 Dec 12 Sep; 24 Oct; 7, 20 Nov; 5 Dec Tudor & Stuart History London Aesthetics Forum Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 16:00 – 18:00 Dates: 2, 16, 30 Oct; 13, 27 Nov; 11 Dec 11, 18 Oct; 1, 22 Nov; 6 Dec Voluntary Action History The Warburg Institute Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30 Contact: [email protected] Dates: 25 Sep; 9, 23 Oct; 6, 20 Nov; 4 Dec War, Society and Culture Maps and Society Once a month on Wednesdays at 17:15 Occasional Thursdays, 17:30–19:30 Dates: 11 Oct; 8 Nov; 6 Dec Dates: 30 Nov; 18 Jan Women's History Neoplatonic Studies Group Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15 Thursdays at 17:30–19:30 Dates: 6, 20 Oct; 3, 17 Nov; 1, 15 Dec Dates: 5, 12, 19, 26 Oct; 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Nov; 7, 14 Dec; 11, 18, 25 Jan Institute of Latin American On the Peak of Darkness: from the Abyss to the Studies Light – Dante readings Contact: [email protected] Mondays at 18:30–19:50 Dates: 15, 22, 29 Jan London Andean Studies Seminars Wednesdays at 17:30–19:30 Senate House Library Dates: 4, 18 Oct; 1 Nov Contact: [email protected] Latin American Anthropology Seminars Senate House Library Friends events All from 17:30–19:30 Dates: 25, 26 Oct; 9, 23 Nov; 7 Dec For membership information, visit senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/about-us/friends LAGLOBAL Seminars Wednesdays at 17:30–19:30 (unless marked) Dates: 12 Oct (Thursday, 16:00–18:00), 25 Oct; 8 Nov 136  School of Advanced Study Research training

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Study draws on its Making the most of the expertise available in the School and the University Research training research and teaching of London, the institutes between them also provide well-established discipline-specific research training in core humanities disciplines. expertise to provide a programme of Training in aspects of history, for instance, is extensive, notably in the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), which offers a comprehensive discipline-specific, programme of short courses in research skills for historians. Taking generic and online advantage of the unparalleled availability of historical expertise in the research training University of London and the wealth of archival materials in and around to support the the capital, the Institute’s long-established and highly successful courses are widely recognised as the best means of developing and extending development of the both essential and more specialised research skills. The IHR training scholars of tomorrow. programme is primarily aimed at postgraduate historians, but also welcomes established historians and independent researchers and writers. The School’s programme of personal development Further historical skills courses run by the Warburg Institute include classes in medieval and Renaissance Latin for historians and a and transferable skills programme of training in resources and techniques (jointly with the training is available University of Warwick), which provides specialist research training for in the form of weekly doctoral students working on Renaissance and early modern subjects workshops commencing in a range of disciplines. in the autumn. The London Palaeography Summer School run by the Institute of English Studies provides training in that key skill. This general training Extensive training for students of cultures and literatures is offered by is complemented the Institute of Modern Languages Research, whose well-established by a set of research and popular programme, comprising a series of Saturday workshops, is methodologies courses offered to any postgraduate student working in modern languages or a and specific training related discipline (for instance, film or art history). in the software Most of the School’s training is available to postgraduate students across and management the UK, much of it free of charge. Details of all the research training courses provided are available at our website: sas.ac.uk/support- information tools research/research-training. required to enable Online research training students to complete In addition to the face-to-face training we offer, the School’s Postgraduate their research effectively. Online Research Training (PORT) website provides free online resources including tutorials, handbooks and multimedia. PORT complements postgraduate study, providing training packages that can be accessed anywhere, at any time, and undertaken at any pace. It provides the building blocks for humanities research generally, as well as for particular humanities disciplines and specific topics. Designed to meet the needs of twenty-first-century researchers, PORT offers specific skills-based programmes as well as more general guidance. For further information, please visit port.sas.ac.uk. For a printed copy of our research training handbook or for further information, please contact us: E: [email protected] P: +44 (0)20 7862 8823

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Research training Institute of Advanced Legal Introduction to IALS Library and Its Resources Studies Hester Swift (IALS) Research training Find out everything you need to know to use the IALS Library and its resources 14:30–15:30 effectively. The session includes an introduction to the extensive law collections in the Library; how to search the Library Catalogue; finding what you need in IALS Library the Library; how to access the wide range of law databases for legal research (including remote access); how to print, copy, scan, borrow books and connect to the WiFi; how to find journal articles using print and electronic resources; and where to get help and further legal research training. Any postgraduate student, researcher or academic who is eligible to use the IALS Library is welcome to attend this event. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Wednesday 04 Institute of Historical Research Medieval and Renaissance Latin Languages This course is a comprehensive introduction to post-classical Latin. Aimed at complete beginners or those with a rusty smattering of school Latin, it will cover 14:30–16:00 the fundamentals of grammar and provide a grounding in general vocabulary and IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 the specialised language frequently encountered in historical source materials. (Senate House) • Beginner (Term 1 – 04/10/17 – 06/12/17) • Intermediate (Term 2 – 10/01/18 – 14/03/18) • Further (Term 3 – 04/06/18 – 04/06/18) Each unit can be taken individually or together. The course is open to all who are interested in using Latin for their research; no previous experience is required. Sessions will take place at the IHR on Wednesday afternoons between 2.30 and 4.00. The fee for each course is £250, but students booking for all three may subscribe for the reduced price of £500. SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR research training courses. Advance registration required [email protected].

Institute of Advanced Legal Introduction to IALS Library and Its Resources Studies Hester Swift (IALS) Research training Find out everything you need to know to use the IALS Library and its resources 15:00–16:00 effectively. The session includes an introduction to the extensive law collections in the Library; how to search the Library Catalogue; finding what you need in IALS Library the Library; how to access the wide range of law databases for legal research (including remote access); how to print, copy, scan, borrow books and connect to the WiFi; how to find journal articles using print and electronic resources; and where to get help and further legal research training. Any postgraduate student, researcher or academic who is eligible to use the IALS Library is welcome to attend this event. Free advance registration required [email protected]

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Institute of Advanced Legal Introduction to IALS Library and Its Resources Research training Studies Katherine Read (IALS) Research training Find out everything you need to know to use the IALS Library and its resources 15:00–16:00 effectively. The session includes an introduction to the extensive law collections in the Library; how to search the Library Catalogue; finding what you need in IALS Library the Library; how to access the wide range of law databases for legal research (including remote access); how to print, copy, scan, borrow books and connect to the WiFi; how to find journal articles using print and electronic resources; and where to get help and further legal research training. Any postgraduate student, researcher or academic who is eligible to use the IALS Library is welcome to attend this event. Free advance registration required [email protected]

The Warburg Institute Classical Arabic Reading Class Languages Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) - 15:00–16:30 The Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qasim Ibn H.awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing. Warburg Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. The group will meet at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 2 between 15:00 and 16:30 on selected Thursdays in the autumn and spring terms. The first meeting will be on 5 October and then every Thursday except 2 and 9 November until 14 December. In 2018 the first meeting will be on 11 January then every Thursday except 15 February and 8 March. The last meeting will be on 22 March. Free no prior registration required for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at [email protected].

Friday 06 The Warburg Institute Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group Research training Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) 13:00–14:30 This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Translations will be provided. Please email [email protected] Warburg for further details before joining the group. Free [email protected]

Monday 09 The Warburg Institute Arabic Philosophy Reading Class Languages Charles Burnett (Warburg) 17:00–18:30 Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: [email protected]. Warburg Free [email protected]

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Research training The Warburg Institute Classical Greek Reading Class Languages Charles Burnett (Warburg) 15:00–16:30 The class will be held at the Warburg Institute in Room 308 on alternate Wednesdays starting on 11 October 2017 and continuing on the following Warburg dates in the autumn term: 25 October, 15 November, and 29 November. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: [email protected]. Free [email protected]

Thursday 12 The Warburg Institute Classical Arabic Reading Class - Languages The Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qasim Ibn H.awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing. 15:00–16:30 Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as Warburg he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. The group will meet at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 2 between 15:00 and 16:30 on selected Thursdays in the autumn and spring terms. The first meeting will be on 5 October and then every Thursday except 2 and 9 November until 14 December. In 2018 the first meeting will be on 11 January then every Thursday except 15 February and 8 March. The last meeting will be on 22 March. Free no prior registration required; for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at [email protected].

Institute of Modern Languages IMLR Graduate Forum Research Advance registration required [email protected] Research training 18:00–19:30 Room 234 (Senate House)

Friday 13 The Warburg Institute Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group Research training Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) 13:00–14:30 This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Translations will be provided. Please email [email protected] Warburg for further details before joining the group. Free [email protected]

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Institute of Advanced Legal Westlaw and Lexis Library Introduction: Hands-on Session Research training Studies Katherine Read (IALS) Research training Lexis Library and Westlaw are key databases for legal research. At this session 10:15–12:00 you will learn how to find UK legislation and cases, find legal journal articles, find foreign/international law, search and browse effectively, and download and save IALS Library your results. This training session is for postgraduate students, PhD researchers, and academics with a current IALS Library card or SAScard. It is essential that you have a current card before booking a place for this event. Free advance registration required [email protected]

The Warburg Institute Arabic Philosophy Reading Class Languages Charles Burnett (Warburg) 17:00–18:30 Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: [email protected]. Warburg Free [email protected]

Tuesday 17 Institute of Advanced Legal Westlaw and Lexis Library Introduction: Hands-on Session Studies Narayana Harave (IALS) Research training Lexis Library and Westlaw are key databases for legal research. At this session 10:15–12:00 you will learn how to find UK legislation and cases, find legal journal articles, find foreign/international law, search and browse effectively, and download and save IALS Library your results. This training session is for postgraduate students, PhD researchers, and academics with a current IALS Library card or SAScard. It is essential that you have a current card before booking a place for this event. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Wednesday 18 Institute of Advanced Legal Westlaw and Lexis Library Introduction: Hands-on Session Studies Hester Swift (IALS) Research training Lexis Library and Westlaw are key databases for legal research. At this session 10:15–12:00 you will learn how to find UK legislation and cases, find legal journal articles, find foreign/international law, search and browse effectively, and download and save IALS Library your results. This training session is for postgraduate students, PhD researchers, and academics with a current IALS Library card or SAScard. It is essential that you have a current card before booking a place for this event. Free advance registration required [email protected]

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Research training Institute of Advanced Legal Westlaw and Lexis Library Introduction: Hands-on Session Studies Lindsey Caffin (IALS) Research training Lexis Library and Westlaw are key databases for legal research. At this session 10:15–12:00 you will learn how to find UK legislation and cases, find legal journal articles, find foreign/international law, search and browse effectively, and download and save IALS Library your results. This training session is for postgraduate students, PhD researchers, and academics with a current IALS Library card or SAScard. It is essential that you have a current card before booking a place for this event. Free advance registration required [email protected]

SAS Central EndNote I Research training Workshop Leader: Simon Trafford (SAS) 14:00–16:00 This two-part workshop is ‘hands-on’; aimed principally at complete beginners, it covers the basics and some more advanced features. The first session introduces IHR Research Training Room, N318 the software package and gives practice in sorting, searching, and entering and (Senate House) editing references. More advanced features covered include the use of accents, predefined styles, customising the program, downloading references from internet sources, importing images, and linking with other files. In the second session (26 October, see below), students create and manipulate their own bibliographical database and learn how EndNote integrates with MS Word. Familiarity with basic word-processing will be assumed. The session is suitable both for beginners and those already familiar with EndNote. Advance registration required [email protected]

The Warburg Institute Classical Arabic Reading Class Languages Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) - 15:00–16:30 The Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qasim Ibn H.awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing. Warburg Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. The group will meet at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 2 between 15:00 and 16:30 on selected Thursdays in the autumn and spring terms. The first meeting will be on 5 October and then every Thursday except 2 and 9 November until 14 December. In 2018 the first meeting will be on 11 January then every Thursday except 15 February and 8 March. The last meeting will be on 22 March. Free no prior registration required; for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at [email protected].

Friday 20 The Warburg Institute Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group Research training Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) 13:00–14:30 This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Translations will be provided. Please email [email protected] Warburg for further details before joining the group. Free [email protected]

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Projects in Modern Languages Research training Research An overview of some of the key issues and opportunities related to research in the Research training modern languages. Topics include: 11:00–17:00 Introduction (Katia Pizzi, IMLR) Online research training (Matt Phillpott, SAS Digital): an introduction to MOOCs, Room 246 (Senate House) training guides, and online resources that can be useful for researchers. This session also looks at offerings from SAS and IMLR on the PORT website and offers help for making the best use of these. Research projects in modern languages (Katia Pizzi, IMLR): this session will help you choose, define, and structure a research project. The focus will be on identifying and delimiting your material and research questions, as well as structuring content. The session includes ‘top tips’ to help you navigate through the initial stages of your research. Nuts and bolts of doing postgraduate research in Modern Languages (Tessa Morrison and Daniela Zanini, IMLR) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Monday 23 Institute of Advanced Legal Westlaw and Lexis Library Introduction: Hands-on Session Studies Laura Griffiths (IALS) Research training Lexis Library and Westlaw are key databases for legal research. At this session 10:15–12:00 you will learn how to find UK legislation and cases, find legal journal articles, find foreign/international law, search and browse effectively, and download and save IALS Library your results. This training session is for postgraduate students, PhD researchers, and academics with a current IALS Library card or SAScard. It is essential that you have a current card before booking a place for this event. Free advance registration required [email protected]

The Warburg Institute Arabic Philosophy Reading Class Languages Charles Burnett (Warburg) 17:00–18:30 Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: [email protected]. Warburg Free [email protected]

Wednesday 25 Institute of Advanced Legal Westlaw and Lexis Library Introduction: Hands-on Session Studies Heather Swift (IALS) Research training Lexis Library and Westlaw are key databases for legal research. At this session 10:15–12:00 you will learn how to find UK legislation and cases, find legal journal articles, find foreign/international law, search and browse effectively, and download and save IALS Library your results. This training session is for postgraduate students, PhD researchers, and academics with a current IALS Library card or SAScard. It is essential that you have a current card before booking a place for this event. Free advance registration required [email protected]

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Research training Languages Charles Burnett (Warburg) 12:00–13:30 The class will be held at the Warburg Institute in Room 308 on alternate Wednesdays starting on 11 October 2017 and continuing on the following Warburg dates in the autumn term: 25 October, 15 November, and 29 November. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: [email protected]. Free [email protected]

Thursday 26 Institute of Advanced Legal Westlaw and Lexis Library Introduction: Hands-on Session Studies Lindsey Caffin (IALS) Research training Lexis Library and Westlaw are key databases for legal research. At this session 10:15–12:00 you will learn how to find UK legislation and cases, find legal journal articles, find foreign/international law, search and browse effectively, and download and save IALS Library your results. This training session is for postgraduate students, PhD researchers, and academics with a current IALS Library card or SAScard. It is essential that you have a current card before booking a place for this event. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Advanced Legal IALS PhD Masterclass Studies PhD masterclasses at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies provide an Research training opportunity for current PhD students to discuss research with colleagues, with expert input from senior academics experienced in supervising PhD research. 14:00–15:00 They do not replace the advice and instruction provided by your own supervisor, IALS but complement them. Free advance registration required [email protected]

SAS Central EndNote II Research training Workshop Leader: Simon Trafford 14:00–16:00 This two-part workshop is ‘hands-on’; aimed principally at complete beginners, it covers the basics and some more advanced features. The first session (on IHR Research Training Room, N318 19 October, see above) introduces the software package and gives practice (Senate House) in sorting, searching, and entering and editing references. More advanced features covered include the use of accents, predefined styles, customising the program, downloading references from internet sources, importing images, and linking with other files. In this second session, students create and manipulate their own bibliographical database and learn how EndNote integrates with MS Word. Familiarity with basic word-processing will be assumed. The session is suitable both for beginners and those already familiar with EndNote. Advance registration required [email protected]

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Languages Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) Research training - 15:00–16:30 The Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qasim Ibn H.awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing. Warburg Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. The group will meet at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 2 between 15:00 and 16:30 on selected Thursdays in the autumn and spring terms. The first meeting will be on 5 October and then every Thursday except 2 and 9 November until 14 December. In 2018 the first meeting will be on 11 January then every Thursday except 15 February and 8 March. The last meeting will be on 22 March. Free no prior registration required; for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at [email protected].

Friday 27 The Warburg Institute Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group Research training Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) 13:00–14:30 This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Translations will be provided. Please email [email protected] Warburg for further details before joining the group. Free [email protected]

Monday 30 The Warburg Institute Arabic Philosophy Reading Class Research training Charles Burnett (Warburg) 17:00–18:30 Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: [email protected]. Warburg Free [email protected]

Tuesday 31 Institute of Advanced Legal Westlaw and Lexis Library Introduction: Hands-on Session Studies Narayana Harave (IALS) Research training Lexis Library and Westlaw are key databases for legal research. At this session 10:15–12:00 you will learn how to find UK legislation and cases, find legal journal articles, find foreign/international law, search and browse effectively, and download and save IALS Library your results. This training session is for postgraduate students, PhD researchers, and academics with a current IALS Library card or SAScard. It is essential that you have a current card before booking a place for this event. Free advance registration required [email protected]

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Institute of Historical Research Databases for Historians (1)

Research training Research training The aim of this course is to provide participants with an introduction to database techniques appropriate for historical research, with a focus on the concepts of 10:30–17:00 good database design and the creation of high-quality historical data. The course IHR Research Training Room, N318 is taught through a mixture of formal lectures and ‘hands-on’ practical classes (Senate House) that provide practical guidance on the use of commercially available database software packages. The module covers a broad range of skills and techniques, including data manipulation (searching, sorting, and editing records), modelling historical data for computer-based analysis, methods of data collection and data entry, and principles of coding. The remainder of the course considers the general presentation and publication of historical research findings in terms of the design and production of tables, charts, basic figures, and associated graphics. The module does not require any previous specialist knowledge of computing or training in mathematics, though a working familiarity with Microsoft Windows is necessary and it would be advantageous for participants to take the IHR’s free online course Designing Databases for Historical Research in advance of the start. The course is open to postgraduates, academics, and all who are interested in using databases to organise or analyse historical data. Places are strictly limited and early application is strongly recommended. £265 SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR research training courses. Advance registration required [email protected].

November

Wednesday 01 Institute of Advanced Legal Westlaw and Lexis Library Introduction: Hands-on Session Studies Heather Swift (IALS) Research training Lexis Library and Westlaw are key databases for legal research. At this session 10:15–12:00 you will learn how to find UK legislation and cases, find legal journal articles, find foreign/international law, search and browse effectively, and download and save IALS Library your results. This training session is for postgraduate students, PhD researchers, and academics with a current IALS Library card or SAScard. It is essential that you have a current card before booking a place for this event. Free advance registration required [email protected]

SAS Central Project Organisation and Management Research training Laura Brown (University of London Human Resources) 14:00–16:00 This workshop is designed to help students complete their PhD successfully by planning and organising their research and time, using project management Room 246 (Senate House) techniques to take them from research idea to delivery of the thesis. This session will look at defining the project and its goals, timetabling, milestones, resources, responsibilities, risks and how to review the plan when the project changes. Basic use of the software MS Project will be touched on. The session will allow students the opportunity to start putting together their own project plan, consider the structure and processes that are essential for a successful project, and discuss issues such as estimating inputs, quality management, working with others, and identifying the critical path to delivering the PhD within schedule. Advance registration required [email protected]

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The Warburg Institute Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group Research training Research training Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) 13:00–14:30 This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Translations will be provided. Please email [email protected] Warburg for further details before joining the group. Free [email protected]

Monday 06 Institute of Advanced Legal Westlaw and Lexis Library Introduction: Hands-on Session Studies Katherine Read (IALS) Research training Lexis Library and Westlaw are key databases for legal research. At this session 10:15–12:00 you will learn how to find UK legislation and cases, find legal journal articles, find foreign/international law, search and browse effectively, and download and save IALS Library your results. This training session is for postgraduate students, PhD researchers, and academics with a current IALS Library card or SAScard. It is essential that you have a current card before booking a place for this event. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Tuesday 07 Institute of Historical Research Historical Citation Research training This half-day workshop explains the theory and practice of correct referencing by historians. It explores the different citation systems historians use and explains 14:00–17:00 when, where, and how to cite sources and authorities both manually and using IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 citation management software, such as Zotero. (Senate House) £25 SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR research training courses. Advance registration required [email protected].

Thursday 09 SAS Central Working in Archives Research training Matthew Battey (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London) 14:00–16:00 This session is for those who have recently begun, or are about to begin, to use archives in their research. Its aim is to help researchers develop effective Room 246 (Senate House) strategies for exploring their subjects. Archives are not simply passive repositories of information but bear the imprint of historical process and accident. Thinking about the nature of the archive itself can throw light on the cultural and historical context of the topic being investigated. A number of questions can be explored. What is an ‘archive’? How does it differ from ‘records’ or ‘documents’? Is there a wider view of materials from the past that might be comprehended by the term ‘archive’? Why were certain archives created? How have they survived? How do you formulate a strategy for finding the information that you think you need? What role can random exploration play? Participants are encouraged to come to the session prepared to talk and raise questions about their own experiences. Fee applicable advance registration required [email protected]

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Research training Institute of Modern Languages Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide Research Archive: Tour and Archive Skills Training Research training A tour of the Wiener Library beginning with the current exhibition led by 10:00–13:00 Education and Outreach Manager Barbara Warnock will be followed by an archive skills training session with the Wiener Library’s archivist, Howard Falksohn. Wiener Library, 29 , Participants will acquire the skills to locate and make use of archival material London related to the Holocaust, twentieth-century German history, and European Jewish culture. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Monday 13 Institute of Historical Research Methods and Sources for Historical Research (1) Research training Original research on primary sources lies at the heart of the historian’s enterprise, yet the techniques necessary to locate and obtain archival materials are rarely 10:30–16:30 taught and can be hard to acquire. This course aims to equip historical researchers IHR Research Training Room, N318 with the skills they will need to find and gain access to all the primary source (Senate House) materials they require for their projects. The course is primarily aimed at those engaged in research degrees in history or related disciplines, but is open to all researchers wishing to expand their skills and knowledge in original source materials. Over the course of a week (Monday-Friday), participants will learn, through an intensive programme of lectures and visits to repositories in and around London, how to combine online tools and traditional archival search techniques to locate and obtain evidence. Institutions visited will include the British Library, the National Archives, a number of other major national repositories, and a wide range of smaller and more specialised archives. £265 SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR research training courses. Advance registration required [email protected].

The Warburg Institute Arabic Philosophy Reading Class Languages Charles Burnett (Warburg) 17:00–18:30 Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: [email protected]. Warburg Free [email protected]

Tuesday 14 Senate House Library Commonwealth Studies Research Day Training This research day will focus on the collections of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies held at Senate House Library, which comprise the personal archives 09:30–12:00 of individuals linked to the Commonwealth, records of organisations, and an Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, abundance of scarce material, including pamphlets and ephemera. A great Senate House Library deal of this primary source material relates to political activism, anti-apartheid, civil rights and liberties, the struggle for political independence, journalism and communications, education, workers’ rights and trade unions, as well as the business of government across the Commonwealth. These collections offer a unique opportunity to study the development and continuing history of this group of nations. Free advance registration required [email protected]

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Latin American Studies Research Day Research training Training The Library is home to an extraordinary collection of printed sources on Latin America and the Caribbean, envisaged from its inception as a national resource 13:30–16:00 for study of the area and linked to the Institute of Latin American Studies. The Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Latin American Studies day will provide an opportunity to explore this rich and Senate House Library comprehensive record of the history of the region, with a particular focus on Caribbean resources, the Latin American Pamphlets Collection, and a collaborative AHRC project in partnership with the , the British Library, and Cambridge University Library that will involve the creation of a ‘Cartonera’ Publishers collection at Senate House Library. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Wednesday 15 The Warburg Institute Classical Greek Reading Class Languages Charles Burnett (Warburg) 12:00–13:30 The class will be held at the Warburg Institute in Room 308 on alternate Wednesdays starting on 11 October 2017 and continuing on the following Warburg dates in the autumn term: 25 October, 15 November, and 29 November. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: [email protected].

Thursday 16 Senate House Library Social, Economic and Cultural History Research Day Training This research day will focus on Senate House Library’s extensive collections relating to social, economic, and cultural history in Britain and other parts of the 09:30–12:00 world, with a particular focus on hidden and underused material. These resources Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, can support research on a wide range of topics including transatlantic history, Senate House Library welfare and social reform, the temperance movement, the history of education, the evolution and development of the city of London, enslavement, and the origins and development of industrial societies. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Senate House Library Political Activism Research Day Training Workshop Leader: Kit Good 13:30–16:00 Many archive and special collections at Senate House Library chart the history of left-wing, alternative, and radical political movements in Britain and beyond. Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, This research day will provide an opportunity to explore and interrogate these Senate House Library resources. Of particular interest are the personal papers of Trotskyist activists. Diverse aspects of the history and development of the working class movement and trade unionism throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries can be studied through these collections, which in some cases include both archive and rare printed material. Gender activism can also be explored through periodicals and pamphlets held at the Library. Free advance registration required [email protected]

SAS Central Data Protection and Research Data Research training Workshop Leader: Kit Good 14:00–16:00 This session will examine UK and EU data protection law, UK Freedom of Information law, and how both intersect with research data management. Room 246 (Senate House) Recommended particularly for researchers who will be collecting the personal data of living individuals as part of their research. Free advance registration required [email protected] For further details on the training sessions listed here, or to register, please visit URL. 149 Research training November

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Research training Classical Arabic Reading Class Languages Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) - 15:00–16:30 The Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qasim Ibn H.awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing. Warburg Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. The group will meet at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 2 between 15:00 and 16:30 on selected Thursdays in the autumn and spring terms. The first meeting will be on 5 October and then every Thursday except 2 and 9 November until 14 December. In 2018 the first meeting will be on 11 January then every Thursday except 15 February and 8 March. The last meeting will be on 22 March. Free no prior registration required; for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at [email protected].

Institute of Modern Languages IMLR Graduate Forum Research Advance registration required [email protected] Research training 18:00–19:30 Room 234 (Senate House)

Friday 17 The Warburg Institute Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group Research training Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) 13:00–14:30 This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Translations will be provided. Please email [email protected] Warburg for further details before joining the group. Free [email protected]

Saturday 18 Institute of Modern Languages Modern Languages Archives and Libraries Research This training session introduces students to a range of archives and libraries Research training with significant holdings of material relevant to the study of modern languages. Participants will learn about the Western European Languages collections 11:00–16:00 at Senate House Library, how to build a bibliography and select digital tools, Room 243 and Senate House and about the exile collections in the University of London’s Germanic Studies Library (Senate House) Archives. They will also meet with a specialist librarian from the British Library to learn about electronic resources, digitisation projects, exhibitions and events, and practical matters, such as obtaining a reader’s pass and catalogue search strategies. A close-up view of some special items in the British Library collections will follow. Free advance registration required [email protected]

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The Warburg Institute Arabic Philosophy Reading Class Research training Research training Charles Burnett (Warburg) 17:00–18:30 Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: [email protected]. Warburg Free [email protected]

Tuesday 21 Senate House Library Migration and Cultural Memory Research Day Training Senate House Library holds a wealth of primary source material relating to the experience of migration across different times and places, with a particular focus 09:30–12:00 on forced migration, displaced persons, and exiles as a result of war or political Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, persecution. This research day will focus on some of these collections and how Senate House Library they can be explored from an interdisciplinary angle. The rarity and scarcity of this material, some of which is linked to the Institute of Modern Languages Research, renders it particularly useful for research, not only to explore the experience of forced migration, but more widely to understand issues of identity and belonging, the concept of mobility in the context of forced migration, the cultural impact of forced migration and exile, and personal interactions and their legacy. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Senate House Library The Mind and Magic Research Day Training The collections at Senate House Library are particularly rich and comprehensive in parapsychology and the paranormal. These collections show how human 13:30–16:00 fascination with the occult and the magical can be found in most cultures Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, from antiquity to modern times, and how the division into the distinct fields of Senate House Library psychology and parapsychology is a very recent phenomenon. These holdings enable researchers to investigate and study deeper spiritual realities and experiences that extend beyond the pure reason and science depicted in our nationally significant collections on the history and development of the field of psychology. Together, these collections help trace the history of a search for the meaning of humanity and reach out to many other areas of knowledge such as literature, anthropology and ethnography, philosophy, religion, and the history of ideas. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Thursday 23 Senate House Library Literary Studies Research Day Training This research day will explore Senate House Library’s outstanding collections of manuscript, archive, and printed material relating to English literature. The 09:30–12:00 combined literary holdings within United States and English Studies offer one Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, of the largest and most diverse such collections in a non-copyright library. The Senate House Library Library also holds a considerable body of less easily obtained material in all formats, with specific strengths in periodicals and pamphlets. The day will be an opportunity to discover these resources from a broad range of perspectives, ranging from hidden literary collections to twentieth-century middlebrow literature and the intersections between fantasy as a literary genre and the virtual world of computer games and digital publishing. Free advance registration required [email protected]

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Research training Manuscript and Book Studies Research Day Training History of the book and manuscript studies is a well-established subject strength at Senate House Library. The collections illustrate varied and diverse aspects of 13:30–16:00 both disciplines, including the development of handwriting/scripts; manuscript/ Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, codicology and book production; the transmission, circulation, and dissemination Senate House Library of texts; sigillography; the history of ideas; bibliography; annotations; illuminations illustration; and the formation of collections and libraries and the individuals behind them. This research day will provide an opportunity to learn about recent projects based on some of these sources and how these collections can support and advance further research in the field. Free advance registration required [email protected]

SAS Central Giving a Seminar or Conference Paper Research training Workshop leader: Julian Burger 14:00–16:00 This session will cover the preparation and delivery of a paper for a seminar or specialist conference audience. It will include hints on how to engage an Room 246 (Senate House) audience, the use of visual aids, and different presentation styles. Advance registration required [email protected]

The Warburg Institute Classical Arabic Reading Class Languages Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) - 15:00–16:30 The Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qasim Ibn H.awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing. Warburg Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. The group will meet at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 2 between 15:00 and 16:30 on selected Thursdays in the autumn and spring terms. The first meeting will be on 5 October and then every Thursday except 2 and 9 November until 14 December. In 2018 the first meeting will be on 11 January then every Thursday except 15 February and 8 March. The last meeting will be on 22 March. Free no prior registration required; for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at [email protected].

Friday 24 Institute of Advanced Legal Socio-Legal Sources and Methods in Family and Social Welfare Law Studies This day is aimed at postgraduate researchers, early career academics, and policy Research training researchers. Organised in collaboration with the British Library and the Socio-Legal Studies Association. 09:30–17:00 Fees applicable advance registration required [email protected] IALS

Institute of Philosophy London Intercollegiate Philosophy Graduate Conference Research training Free advance registration required [email protected] 10:00–17:00 See online for venue

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Research training Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) Research training 13:00–14:30 This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Translations will be provided. Please email [email protected] Warburg for further details before joining the group. Free [email protected]

Saturday 25 Institute of Advanced Legal How to Get a PhD in Law: The PhD in Law and Research Methods Studies The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies welcomes postgraduate research Research training students from across the UK to this specially tailored day of presentations, library tours, and networking opportunities. Sessions will include: 10:00–16:00 Becoming a legal researcher: what is a PhD in law? (Diamond Ashiagbor, IALS) IALS Literature reviews (Lisa Webley, University of Westminster) Comparative legal research (Constantin Stefanou, IALS) Qualitative and quantitative research (Lisa Webley, University of Westminster) IALS Library: using electronic resources (Hester Swift, IALS Library) An optional tour of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Library led by senior library staff Two further training days are planned: Friday, 2 March 2018: ‘How to Get a PhD in Law’ and ‘The PhD Journey: Supervision, Research Ethics and Preparing Yourself for Upgrade and the Vivas’, and Friday, 11 May 2018: ‘How to get a PhD in Law: Researching, Disseminating, and Publishing in the Digital World’. £100 | £75 advance registration required [email protected]

Monday 27 The Warburg Institute Arabic Philosophy Reading Class Languages Charles Burnett (Warburg) 17:00–18:30 Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: [email protected]. Warburg Free [email protected]

Wednesday 29 The Warburg Institute Classical Greek Reading Class Languages Charles Burnett (Warburg) 12:00–13:30 The class will be held at the Warburg Institute in Room 308 on alternate Wednesdays starting on 11 October 2017 and continuing on the following Warburg dates in the autumn term: 25 October, 15 November, and 29 November. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: [email protected].

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Research training Institute of Historical Research Historical Research on the Internet (1) Research training This intensive one-day workshop introduces the principal online resources available to historical researchers and shows how to make best use of them in 10:30–17:00 pursuit of primary sources and secondary literature. The tools available online IHR Research Training Room, N318 to the historical researcher are immensely diverse and constantly expanding. (Senate House) Internet resources have become an integral feature of many parts of the process of research for most historians: online bibliographies and library catalogues have made the gathering of secondary literature far easier, and the growing mass of digitised primary source material has not only greatly increased ease of access, but opened up the evidence to new and very powerful types of computer-assisted analysis. Topics covered will include: search techniques (Booleans, wildcards, and choosing search terms); search engines (making the best use of Google and non-specialist tools); reference tools; secondary sources (bibliographies, library catalogues, and accessing full text online); primary sources (locating traditional archival sources and digital/digitised sources); debate, discussion and publication online; and database deposition and data archives. The course covers British, European, and world history from the Romans to the present, but with an emphasis on resources in English. Computers will be provided and there is no need to bring your own laptop. £100 SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR research training courses. Advance registration required [email protected].

Institute of Advanced Legal IALS PhD Masterclass Studies PhD masterclasses at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies provide an Research training opportunity for current PhD students to discuss research with colleagues, with expert input from senior academics experienced in supervising PhD research. 14:00–15:00 They do not replace the advice and instruction provided by your supervisor, but IALS complement them. Free advance registration required [email protected]

SAS Central Using Social Media Research training Workshop Leader: Matt Phillpott 14:00–16:00 Social media (from blogs, Twitter, YouTube, and Vimeo to Facebook, Google+, Flickr, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Academia.edu) can be a powerful tool supporting Room 243 (Senate House) a PhD student’s research and career. This workshop will provide an overview of social media platforms, why you use them, what you share, and which tool you use for what purpose. We will discuss the benefits as well as the challenges of using social media when developing a professional online profile and communicating research as a PhD student. Free advance registration required [email protected]

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Languages Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) Research training - 15:00–16:30 The Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qasim Ibn H.awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing. Warburg Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. The group will meet at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 2 between 15:00 and 16:30 on selected Thursdays in the autumn and spring terms. The first meeting will be on 5 October and then every Thursday except 2 and 9 November until 14 December. In 2018 the first meeting will be on 11 January then every Thursday except 15 February and 8 March. The last meeting will be on 22 March. Free no prior registration required; for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at [email protected].

December

Friday 01 The Warburg Institute Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group Research training Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) 13:00–14:30 This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Translations will be provided. Please email [email protected] Warburg for further details before joining the group. Free [email protected]

Monday 04 Institute of English Studies Selling Rights Short Course Two-day course This course is being run conjointly by the Centre for Publishing at University College London and the Institute of English Studies in the School of Advanced 10:00–17:00 Study. It is one of the first initiatives of the Bloomsbury Chapter, which is being Bloomsbury Room, G35 developed by the two institutions to encourage cooperation in research and (Senate House) teaching. £399 advance registration required [email protected]

The Warburg Institute Arabic Philosophy Reading Class Languages Charles Burnett (Warburg) 17:00–18:30 Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: [email protected]. Warburg Free [email protected]

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Research training Institute of Advanced Legal Introduction to OSCOLA Studies Laura Griffiths (IALS) Research training Learn the basics of citing your references using OSCOLA. All postgraduate law 15:00–16:00 students, researchers, and academics who are eligible to use IALS Library are welcome to attend. IALS Free advance registration required [email protected]

Thursday 07 SAS Central Zotero Research training Workshop Leader: Simon Trafford 14:00–16:00 Zotero is a widely used free and open-source tool for compiling and managing bibliographies. This training session provides a basic introduction to the software IHR Research Training Room, N318 and explains how to input references, create reading lists, and add citations to (Senate House) written work. Advance registration required [email protected]

The Warburg Institute Classical Arabic Reading Class Languages Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) - 15:00–16:30 The Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qasim Ibn H.awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing. Warburg Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. The group will meet at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 2 between 15:00 and 16:30 on selected Thursdays in the autumn and spring terms. The first meeting will be on 5 October and then every Thursday except 2 and 9 November until 14 December. In 2018 the first meeting will be on 11 January then every Thursday except 15 February and 8 March. The last meeting will be on 22 March. Free no prior registration required; for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at [email protected].

Institute of Modern Languages IMLR Graduate Forum Research Advance registration required [email protected] Research training 18:00–19:30 Room G21A (Senate House)

Friday 08 The Warburg Institute Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group Research training Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) 13:00–14:30 This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Translations will be provided. Please email [email protected] Warburg for further details before joining the group. Free [email protected]

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Institute of Modern Languages Digital Languages Research training Research Learn about the latest software tools available to enhance Modern Language Research training presentations for class, conference, and YouTube. Explore the potential of PowerPoint, Prezi, Presentations, RSS feeds, Google Alerts, social bookmarking, and 11:00–17:00 Zotero databases. The room is equipped with PCs; participants may bring their IHR Research Training Room, N318 own laptops/tablets if preferred. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Wednesday 13 Institute of Advanced Legal Introduction to OSCOLA Studies Katherine Read (IALS Library) Research training Learn the basics of citing your references using OSCOLA. All postgraduate law 15:00–16:00 students, researchers, and academics who are eligible to use IALS Library are welcome to attend. IALS Free advance registration required [email protected]

Thursday 14 The Warburg Institute Classical Arabic Reading Class Languages Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) - 15:00–16:30 The Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qasim Ibn H.awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing. Warburg Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. The group will meet at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 2 between 15:00 and 16:30 on selected Thursdays in the autumn and spring terms. The first meeting will be on 5 October and then every Thursday except 2 and 9 November until 14 December. In 2018 the first meeting will be on 11 January then every Thursday except 15 February and 8 March. The last meeting will be on 22 March. Free no prior registration required; for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at [email protected].

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Research training Institute of Advanced Legal Introduction to MPhil/PhD Legal Research Methods Studies Start date: 8 January Research training End date: 19 January 10:30–16:30 This short course aims to introduce a range of research methodologies relevant to MPhil/PhD research in law and law-related fields. Classes run from 8 January IALS to 17 January 2018 and will consist of 16 two-and-a-half-hour sessions. Among the topics to be considered are research methods; legal writing; policy analysis; literature reviews; electronic legal research; and note-taking, organisation, and data management. In addition, participants can choose from parallel sessions on the English legal system in England and Wales for those who have a non-common law background or who are not lawyers; digital methods in legal research; quantitative methods; and qualitative methods. Participants will receive feedback but no formal course mark. For general enquiries contact Belinda Crothers at [email protected]. SAS MPhil/PhD students interested in attending should also contact Belinda Crothers at [email protected]. QMUL MPhil/PhD students interested in attending should contact the QMUL PhD administrator about attending. Fee applicable advance registration required.

Tuesday 09 Institute of Historical Research An Introduction to Oral History 14:30–16:30 This short course is organised as a term of 11 weekly sessions of two hours to be held in the IHR on Tuesday afternoons (2:30- 4.30) from 9 January to 20 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 March. It addresses theoretical and practical issues in oral history through (Senate House) workshop sessions and participants’ own interviewing work. It deals with the historiographical emergence and uses of oral history, with particular reference to voices and stories not always accessible to other historical approaches. As well as addressing theoretical and methodological issues, the course will help students to develop practical skills in interviewing, recording, and the organisation and preservation of oral material. Unlike other, shorter, courses available in oral history, this course, being run over a term, gives students time to conduct their own interviews and discuss them later in a workshop environment. The course is open to postgraduates, academics, and all who are interested in exploring the methods of oral history or interviewing for research purposes. £225 SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR research training courses. Advance registration required [email protected].

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Institute of Historical Research Historical Mapping and GIS Research training Research training The ‘spatial turn’ is now well established in history and scholars, publishers, and readers frequently expect to see space used as a category of analysis, maps used 10:00–17:00 as sources, and research illustrated with custom maps. However, without training IHR Research Training Room, N318 in geographical techniques, tools, and terminology, it can be challenging for (Senate House) historians to begin to work with this material. This two-day course is designed to introduce the history and concepts of mapping, along with the most basic ways of producing your own maps, before moving (on the second day) to the use of Quantum GIS (QGIS), a cross-platform open source mapping package that is rapidly growing in popularity. There are no prerequisites per se, but participants should ensure they have a Google (including Gmail) account available and are familiar with Microsoft Excel. Day One is not a prerequisite for Day Two, but participants should be familiar with concepts such as projection, coordinate systems, and layers. Confidence with spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel is essential and familiarity with relational databases such as Microsoft Access would be beneficial. No previous experience of using GIS software is necessary. £120 two days | £70 one day; SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR research training courses. Advance registration required [email protected].

The Warburg Institute Classical Arabic Reading Class Languages Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) - 15:00–16:30 The Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qasim Ibn H.awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing. Warburg Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. The group will meet at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 2 between 15:00 and 16:30 on selected Thursdays in the autumn and spring terms. The first meeting will be on 5 October and then every Thursday except 2 and 9 November until 14 December. In 2018 the first meeting will be on 11 January then every Thursday except 15 February and 8 March. The last meeting will be on 22 March. Free no prior registration required; for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at [email protected].

Institute of Modern Languages IMLR Graduate Forum Research Fee applicable advance registration required [email protected] 18:00–19:30 Room 234 (Senate House)

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Research training Institute of Historical Research Methods and Sources for Historical Research (2) Research training Original research on primary sources lies at the heart of the historian’s enterprise, yet the techniques necessary to locate and obtain archival materials are rarely 10:30–16:30 taught and can be hard to acquire. This course aims to equip historical researchers IHR, Malet Street, London WC1E with the skills they will need to find and gain access to all the primary source 7HU materials they require for their projects. The course is primarily aimed at those engaged in research degrees in history or related disciplines, but is open to all researchers wishing to expand their skills and knowledge in original source materials. Over the course of a week (Monday-Friday), participants will learn, through an intensive programme of lectures and visits to repositories in and around London, how to combine online tools and traditional archival search techniques to locate and obtain evidence. Institutions visited will include the British Library, the National Archives, a number of other major national repositories, and a wide range of smaller and more specialised archives. £265 SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR research training courses. Advance registration required [email protected].

The Warburg Institute Arabic Philosophy Reading Class Languages Charles Burnett (Warburg) 17:00–18:30 Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: [email protected]. Warburg Free [email protected]

Wednesday 17 The Warburg Institute Classical Greek Reading Class Languages Charles Burnett (Warburg) 12:00–13:30 The class will be held at the Warburg Institute in Room 308 on alternate Wednesdays starting on 11 October 2017 and continuing on the following Warburg dates in the autumn term: 25 October, 15 November, and 29 November. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: [email protected].

Thursday 18 The Warburg Institute Classical Arabic Reading Class Languages Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) - 15:00–16:30 The Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qasim Ibn H.awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing. Warburg Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. The group will meet at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 2 between 15:00 and 16:30 on selected Thursdays in the autumn and spring terms. The first meeting will be on 5 October and then every Thursday except 2 and 9 November until 14 December. In 2018 the first meeting will be on 11 January then every Thursday except 15 February and 8 March. The last meeting will be on 22 March. Free no prior registration required; for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at [email protected].

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The Warburg Institute Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group Research training Research training Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) 13:00–14:30 This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Translations will be provided. Please email [email protected] Warburg for further details before joining the group. Free [email protected]

Saturday 20 Institute of English Studies Palaeography Study Day Research training Fee applicable advance registration required [email protected] 10:00–17:00 Senate House

Monday 22 The Warburg Institute Arabic Philosophy Reading Class Languages Charles Burnett (Warburg) 17:00–18:30 Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: [email protected]. Warburg Free [email protected]

Thursday 25 Institute of Advanced Legal IALS PhD Masterclass Studies PhD masterclasses at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies provide an Research training opportunity for current PhD students to discuss research with colleagues, with expert input from senior academics experienced in supervising PhD research. 14:00–15:00 They do not replace the advice and instruction provided by your own supervisor, IALS but complement them. Free advance registration required [email protected]

The Warburg Institute Classical Arabic Reading Class Languages Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) - 15:00–16:30 TThe Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qasim Ibn H.awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing. Warburg Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. The group will meet at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 2 between 15:00 and 16:30 on selected Thursdays in the autumn and spring terms. The first meeting will be on 5 October and then every Thursday except 2 and 9 November until 14 December. In 2018 the first meeting will be on 11 January then every Thursday except 15 February and 8 March. The last meeting will be on 22 March. Free no prior registration required; for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at [email protected].

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Research training The Warburg Institute Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group Research training Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) 13:00–14:30 This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Translations will be provided. Please email [email protected] Warburg for further details before joining the group. Free [email protected]

Saturday 27 Institute of Modern Languages Theories and Methodologies for Languages Research Research This training day will introduce participants to different theories and Research training methodologies for conducting research in modern languages, including postcolonial theory, Enlightenment critique, and gender studies. An overview 11:00–17:00 of the research model used by the AHRC-funded Transnationalizing Modern Room 243 (Senate House) Languages project, which moves beyond separate national traditions to focus instead on how languages and cultures operate and interact across distinct historical and geographic contexts, will also be provided. Advance registration required [email protected]

Monday 29 The Warburg Institute Arabic Philosophy Reading Class Languages Charles Burnett (Warburg) 17:00–18:30 Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: [email protected]. Warburg Free [email protected]

Wednesday 31 The Warburg Institute Classical Greek Reading Class Languages Charles Burnett (Warburg) 12:00–13:15 The class will be held at the Warburg Institute in Room 308 on alternate Wednesdays starting on 11 October 2017 and continuing on the following Warburg dates in the autumn term: 25 October, 15 November, and 29 November. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: [email protected].

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Legal Discourse: Context, Media and Social highlighting greater opportunities for social media Calls for papers Power knowledge and development in an expanding global 24–26 May 2018 reality and modern society. CFP deadline: 15 November 2017 It is primarily for these reasons that the 5th international conference Legal Discourse: Context, Organised by the Centre for Research in Language Media and Social Power invites paper, panel, and and Law in partnership with the Institute of Advanced poster proposals that explore language through the Legal Studies and the Institute of Modern Languages broad areas alluded to, Including: Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London • Legal discourse in contexts Conference venue: National School of Public • Law in broadcast media (film, radio, television), Administration (Royal Palace of Caserta), Italy digital media (internet/web-based and mobile technologies), and print media (magazines, See the complete CFP: www.crill.unina2.it/ newspapers, books, comics) conference-2018 • Media in the construction, storing, and The influence of web-based technologies and social dissemination of legal knowledge media has entered the mainstream and become so pervasive in human communication today that • Web-based media for the construction of it is difficult to imagine any aspect of academic or interdiscursive/interdisciplinary issues affecting professional life that has not been invaded by recent law and other fields (politics, economics, developments in new media. As a conservative criminology, sociology, psychology, healthcare, discipline, law has always been relatively slow to and medicine) accept any change in its traditions, processes, and Social media in criminal and forensic practices. However, even in law, particularly in the last • few years, there has been an enthusiastic acceptance investigations of the role of new media sites and services in the way • Social media in the process of conflict resolution law enforcement operates in investigative activities, • Issues of harassment, defamation, privacy/ introducing substantial changes to communication publicity/government surveillance, freedom of between organizations, institutions, communities, and individuals and developing comprehensive speech, cyberbullying, trolling, and intellectual integration strategies to improve access to justice. property in social media environments The growing influence of media usage is also making • Disciplining and regulating social media activities its way into novel forms of legal discourse and into Legal and ethical challenges on social media specific issues arising from the use of legal discourse • in its various traditional and newly emerging (social-) • Role, power, identity, and ideology on social media contexts. Alongside this, potential is mounting media for the role of (social-) media as an instrument of • Multilingualism/multiculturalism, migration, race, interdiscursive and interdisciplinary procedure, and ethnicity on social media exploitation, and management of public and private discursive space and practice and is already • Web-based media resources for higher legal visible in current socio-legal media contexts. Today, education (formal and informal learning, Internet and social media platforms dedicated to collaborative work) community-based input, interaction, content-sharing, By providing a forum that presents research from all and collaboration are becoming one of the most forms of discourse theory, data, and methods, the prevalent means of communication in a variety of conference brings together academics, researchers, academic, professional, and organizational contexts,

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Calls for papers practitioners, government officials, and consultants an innovative approach to an existing topic or from different backgrounds to exchange new ideas the emergence of a new research area (this may as well as discuss the challenges encountered and include interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary topics with solutions adopted. legal dimensions); the relevance of the topic to an audience extending beyond the strictly specialist; the opportunities provided for early career scholars to Contributors are invited to send an abstract of their participate in the Workshop; financial circumstances proposed paper, panel or poster in MS Word (12pt) of (that is, the particular value of Hart funding for a not more than 300 words (excluding references) no workshop on this topic; and plans for subsequent later than 15 November 2017 to crill@unicampania. publication. Workshop organisers will receive a grant it. Additional details can be found on the conference of £5,000 plus in-kind support. The Institute covers the website: www.crill.unina2.it/conference-2018. cost of venue hire, publicity, and administrative support. Registration fees for the organisers and keynote speakers are usually waived and other speakers and W G Hart Legal Workshop 2019: Call for panel chairpersons pay a concessionary registration fee. Workshop Proposals and the Nomination The Workshop structure follows the pattern of a two- day event with plenary and parallel sessions to permit of Academic Directors in collaboration with participation by a wide range of scholars. the University of London Law Schools Academic Director(s): The Institute welcomes the Conference date in 2019 to be announced nomination of Academic Directors from across the CFP deadline: 20 November 2017 UK and especially encourages early career scholars with a record of successful conference organisation to Organised and hosted by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of apply. There are generally no fewer than two directors London of the Workshop. The W G Hart Bequest requires that the lead director, or co-lead, come from one of the See the complete CFP: www.sas.ac.uk/events/ University of London Law Schools (Birkbeck, City, KCL, event/13926 LSE, QMUL, Royal Holloway, SOAS, UCL). Therefore, The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies is seeking where nominees are from outside the University proposals and Academic Directors for the 2019 W G of London, they will need to identify and recruit a Hart Legal Workshop from law schools across the UK. member from one of the London Law Schools to Background: In 1966, with funds donated by the Ford co-direct the Workshop. The role of the Academic Foundation, the Institute of Advance Legal Studies Director(s) is to design a detailed programme around organised the first-ever legal workshop held in the the proposal approved by the Advisory Council of United Kingdom based on a concept pioneered a few the Institute. This will involve drawing up an outline years earlier by the Law School of New York University. programme and call for papers, for circulation by the These workshops, which address a different theme Institute; selecting and inviting speakers and drawing each year, have been held annually ever since. The up the final programme, liaising as appropriate with Ford Foundation grant terminated in 1978, but in the Institute concerning its financial implications, 1981 the Institute secured alternative funding under particularly with regard to the participation of the terms of the bequest of the residuary estate of Dr Walter Gray Hart to the University of London to (Workshop-funded) overseas speakers; liaison with be used ‘for the advancement of legal education’. speakers concerning the submission of papers, and Consequently, since 1981 the Workshop has been for ensuring their timely delivery to the Institute in named the W G Hart Legal Workshop. advance of the Workshop; acting as editor(s) of the proceedings of the Workshop papers; and, where Workshop proposals: In selecting the topic to be appropriate, securing outside sponsorship for parts covered in any given year, regard will be had to the following factors, which should be addressed of the programme, such as an evening reception/ in proposals: the existence of a new or developing dinner. No remuneration is payable to the Academic academic literature, which might involve either Director(s) in respect of this work.

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Submission of subject proposals and nominations for studies, and social sciences—and it is of particular Calls for papers Academic Director(s): Please provide the names and interest where Francophones in Canada are CVs of all agreed Academic Director(s); an abstract concerned. A linguistic majority in Quebec but a and rationale of the topic proposed; a list of potential minority in all other provinces and in the country themes for parallel sessions; a list of potential keynote as a whole, Francophone communities across speakers and their institutional affiliations; an Canada are highly heterogeneous. From British indication of whether (and if so which) other sources Columbia to Newfoundland, these communities of financial support are being sought. have different histories and traditions, they vary in size and in ethnolinguistic vitality, and they differ Proposals must reach IALS by 20 November 2017 and in their composition of native-born Canadians and should be sent to: Belinda Crothers, IALS Events and newcomers to the country. This heterogeneity of Conference Office Manager, [email protected]. the Francophone communities is reflected in their If you would like to discuss a possible proposal, please identities. contact Diamond Ashiagbor, Professor of Law and For this interdisciplinary conference, we invite Director of Research, [email protected]. contributions from researchers of all levels and from all disciplines, whose work focuses on any aspect of Language and Identity in Francophone language and identity in any part of Francophone Canada Canada. 5–6 July 2018 Please send abstracts (250–300 words) in either English CFP deadline: 1 December 2017 or French to [email protected] by 1 December 2017, specifying a title, your name, and Organised by Institute of Modern Languages institutional affiliation. Along with your abstract, please Research, School of Advanced Study, University of send a one-page CV. London. Conference venue: Senate House, Malet Street, W G Hart Legal Workshop 2018: Building a London Twenty-First Century Bill of Rights See the complete CFP: modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/ 11–12 June 2018 events/event/13933 CFP deadline: 31 December 2017 When Justin Trudeau told the New York Times that Papers are invited for next year’s W G Hart Legal ‘there is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada’, Workshop, Building a Twenty-First Century Bill of this caused little commotion among Canadians. Rights, to be held at the Institute of Advanced Legal With all of its cultural, ethnic, and linguistic diversity, Studies, University of London, on 11 and 12 June 2018. Canada may well be the ‘first post-national state’ (Foran, 2017). Being Canadian can thus mean many Almost all States have some form of a bill of rights things—and Canadians construct, express, and in their national legal system. While their specific content varies, most cover many of the same issues, perceive their various identities in a multitude of such as the procedure for amendment, links with different ways. international law and institutions, and the status of Based on a large body of research evidence, it the bill of rights in relation to other laws. The purpose of this workshop is to fill a significant gap in practice has long been acknowledged that language is an and scholarship and to make an original contribution important symbol of identity (e.g. Grosjean, 1982). to current debates by bringing together scholars to The link between language and identity is an discuss the construction of an effective twenty-first issue that continues to engage researchers from century bill of rights. all disciplines in the arts, humanities, education

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Calls for papers Confirmed speakers include: Claimants and respondents. What are the benefits and drawbacks of an actio popularis? Should national • Harriet Harman MP, Chair, Joint Committee on human rights commissions have special status to Human Rights bring claims under the bill of rights? What is the role of interveners? Should the bill of rights reach into the • Professor Conor Gearty, LSE private sector or beyond the territorial jurisdiction? Judge Tim Eicke, European Court of Human • Remedies. Does a bill of rights offering less than a Rights strike down power for courts really provide effective • Martha Spurrier, Director, Liberty protection? Are damages an effective and appropriate remedy? What alternatives to damages are possible? • Professor Colm O’Cinneide, UCL Should judges be able to direct respondents to make changes to law, policy, or practice in response to a Alongside keynote addresses, the following nine finding of violation? sessions will address a number of the most important questions any State concluding, or revising, a bill of Rights and civil society. How important is access rights should address. These questions encompass to justice when seeking to put in place an effective issues relating to the process of adoption, content, bill of rights? How can the abilities of legislatures and institutional position of a bill of rights, as well as to prevent violations, and secure broader rights- the relationships between the various governmental, compliance, be enhanced? How important is it for the non-governmental and international actors executive to have a strong human rights policy and conditioned by the bill of rights. procedures in place to check for violations of the bill of rights? Establishing the bases of a bill of rights. What are the purposes of a bill of rights? Can a bill of rights Addressing the populist backlash. Is there a embed in the absence of a human rights ‘culture’? backlash against courts and national human rights law or is this only the experience in a handful of Design and implementation. How can popular states? Are current criticisms of national human rights ‘ownership’ be secured? What role can be played law justified? Is it possible to successfully combat a by social media and other methods of public backlash? Can human rights only gain acceptance in engagement? Is it possible to ‘crowdsource’ a bill of rights? tandem with societal responsibilities?

Linkages with international and comparative laws Papers are welcome on any of these themes. and institutions. Do bills of rights have a common, Abstracts of approximately 300 words and a universal, core? To what extent might (or should) short speaker biography should be submitted constitutional ‘borrowing’ influence the development to the Academic Directors: Merris Amos, of a bill of rights? Can international coordination [email protected]; Roger Masterman, enhance the effectiveness of a bill of rights? [email protected]; and Hélène Tyrrell, The protected rights. What challenges are [email protected] by 31 December 2017. Full presented by the inclusion in the bill of rights of versions of the accepted papers are due by 30 April economic, social, and cultural rights? Should bills of 2018. Contributions from early career researchers are rights protect third generation or group rights? Is particularly welcomed and will be integrated into the list of civil and political rights most commonly the workshop sessions. A selection of the presented protected by national bills of rights unsuited to papers may be published as an edited collection combatting new threats to human interests in the following the workshop. twentieth century? The bill of rights in the national constitutional order. Should the bill of rights be considered as apart from ordinary law? How might questions of interpretation and (dis)application be resolved? How could a bill of rights allocate complementary roles to the branches of government?

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