ANNUAL REPORT 2009–10
SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY www.sas.ac.uk CONTENTS
Dean’s foreword 2 The intellectual life of the School 3 Events 4 Fellowships 8 Formal networks and collaborations 10 Research 12 Publications 14 Teaching and quality 16 Research training 17 Libraries 18 Digital activities 19 Member Institutes and Consortium 20 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies 20 Institute of Classical Studies 22 Institute of Commonwealth Studies 24 Institute of English Studies 26 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies 28 Institute of Historical Research 30 Institute of Musical Research 33 Institute of Philosophy 35 Institute for the Study of the Americas 38 Warburg Institute 40 Human Rights Consortium 42 Administration and finance 44 Dean’s Office 44 Registry 45 Marketing 46 Development 46 Research Services 47 Publications 47 Finance 48 Governance 49 Board of the School 49 Directorate 50 Committees 50 Central Services 51 Appendices 52 SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY ANNUAL REPORT 2009–10 I DEAN’S REPORT
I DEAN’S REPORT Dean’s foreword The intellectual life of the School
By the time I came into post in April 2010, the School of The School was founded 15 from guidance in archival the Institutes to sustain and Advanced Study had achieved a great many of the tasks it had years ago to protect, foster and library work, through the stimulate their research. set itself following the positive review of the School by the and develop advanced study critical appraisal of colleagues Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) in in the humanities and social at seminars, workshops and As a consequence, the 2007–08. This included the development of a strategic plan, science disciplines represented conferences, to the processes of intellectual life of the 2009–13 and an expanding programme of research facilitation by its constituent Institutes. publication and dissemination. School is rich and varied. and promotion which is establishing an excellent basis for the It unites these Institutes in a Institutes respond to each long-term success of the School as a national and international common goal: the promotion This approach, combined other’s interests, not least resource for research and researchers in the humanities and and facilitation of research with the remarkable library by designing and carrying social sciences. for the benefit of the national and other academic resources through joint events such as and international scholarly which sustain it, distinguishes conferences and seminars, and A first priority for me has been to ensure that we enter HEFCE’s community. The approach to the School of Advanced by more generally encouraging next review of the School (2011–12) with our Institutes in advanced study characterising Study from many other their staff, students and a financially sustainable state and delivering activities that them is that of a small team bodies bearing similar titles. Fellows to cross the boundaries really add value to its UK-wide and international academic of specialist staff which runs a The School does not exist between their disciplines. constituencies. I have found that the School’s outstanding research library collection and primarily for the benefit of Externally, the diversity of performance in these areas meshes perfectly with what I had a range of research projects, its own members, nor does research interests, resources been doing previously at the University of Exeter and with the and manages a broad and it seek to impose a research and approaches has made the British Academy and Arts and Humanities Research Council to freely‐associating community agenda in the form of themes School, through particular promote the health of these disciplines. of scholars, Fellows and or topics, nor conversely Institutes, an attractive partner postgraduate students. The can it offer indiscriminate in recent years for a wide range The period of change continues as the School of Advanced Study develops a very productive working relationship with The five main objectives of the School are: Senate House Libraries (formerly University of London Research Library Services) to strengthen its world-renowned physical • To fulfil the School’s unique national and international research promotion and facilitation role and digital library resources which contribute so much to our for the humanities and social sciences, related disciplines and wider society. academic constituencies. • To produce and disseminate high-quality, internationally recognised, research to underpin the research promotion and facilitation role of the School and benefit the widest possible audience of users. • To continue to develop high-quality postgraduate and research programmes. • To ensure that the School’s structure, governance and management are fit for purpose. • To achieve financial sustainability by 2012–13.
School is open to all who support for all research across of institutions in the UK for feel that their research has the range of the humanities collaborative ventures. something to contribute and social sciences. Instead, to, or to gain from, the it builds upon the skills and In bringing together these School’s resources, and the initiatives of its Institutes, diverse Institutes, the School intellectual association with aiming to foster them, and to unites a rich variety of scholars Roger Kain their peers that it promotes. respond with sensitivity to the and scholarly resources Dean and Chief Executive of the School of Advanced Study The support that is extended needs of the diverse national growing every year. to those engaged in research and international academic is comprehensive, reaching constituencies which look to
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Events summary Events
I DEAN’S REPORT The School’s events On the foundation of John Coffin Memorial Lecture Events were held on a wide range of subjects, including in no particular programme maximises the School the University in the History of the Book, order: intellectual outreach to transferred to its management organised by the IES on 30 June The annual Anglo-American Conference organised by the Institute of the academic and non- a number of University Trust 2010, and delivered by Professor Historical Research (IHR). academic sectors. Events lectures and other events. John Barnard. activities enrich the national These enhance the intellectual John Coffin Memorial Literary The prestigious Sawyer Seminar Series, funded by the Mellon research infrastructure in the profile of the School by Reading, ‘Women writing Foundation and involving all the Institutes of the School and its new humanities and social sciences providing funding for lectures, Human Rights Consortium (HRC). childhood – three readings by enhancing the research recitals, literary readings and by women writers from Italy, base, creating the conditions other activities. The funds Annual Palaeography Lecture organised by the Institute of English Germany and Portugal’, Studies (IES) under the aegis of the University Trust Fund Event for research initiatives and remain University Trust organised by the IGRS on 16 programme (see University Trust Funds below). research networks, and by Funds; ultimate responsibility October 2009, and delivered by enhancing the dissemination remains with the University. ‘Regulating and deregulating lawyers in the 21st century’ organised by Simona Vinci, writer, Ana Luisa of the research and related The relevant Trust funds are the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS). Amaral, University of Oporto, activities of scholars nationally the John Coffin Memorial and Anna Mitgutsch, writer. ‘The peripatetic school through Alexander of Aphrodisias’ under and internationally. The Fund (funding a number the aegis of the Institute of Classical Studies (IClS) and Institute of School organises and hosts of lectures, literary readings John Coffin Memorial Recital, Philosophy (IP). a large and diverse range and recitals); the Staunton- ‘Erik Satie and visual culture in ‘Policing and the policed in the postcolonial state’ organised by the belle époque Paris’, organised by Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICwS). the IMR on 16 April 2010, and During 2009–10, over 1,400 separate events, representing performed by an ensemble of The School ‘London Debates’ in association with the British Museum nearly 4,500 hours spread between seminars, lectures, and five musicians. and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. workshops to major international conferences, took place and The Cassal Lecture 2010, ‘Gender, agency and violence: European perspectives from early welcomed over 4,000 speakers, 45,000 audience members ‘Humanities research in China: modern times to the present day’ organised by the Institute of new horizons’, organised by the Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS). and over 25,000 viewers online. IGRS on 12 July 2010. ‘The symphony orchestra as cultural phenomenon’ organised by the Institute of Musical Research (IMR). The Creighton Lecture, ‘Russia of conferences, workshops, Cassal Fund (lecture and other since 1917 in Western mirrors’, ‘The traditions of liberty in the transatlantic world’ organised by the symposia, seminars, recitals activities for the promotion of organised by the IHR, delivered Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA). and public lectures for both French language and culture); by Professor Robert Service, the research community the Creighton Fund (lecture) University of Oxford, on 18 ‘Fourteenth-century classicism: Bernat Metge and Petrarch’ organised and non-HE sectors. Events and the Hilda Hulme Fund by the Warburg Institute (WI). November. within the Institute for the (lecture). The lectures and Study of the Americas, the other events run on a rotation Hilda Hulme Memorial Institute of Commonwealth cycle, which is approved by the Lecture, ‘Dickens’s Shakespeare’, Images top to bottom: reception at Tower Bridge for the IHR’s Anglo American conference on Environments; image from IES’s Studies and the Institute of Programme Committee of the organised by the IES, on 7 July annual palaeography lecture (British Library, MS Add. 25042, fol. 22v); photograph showing favela tourism as an illustration to the essay ‘Gazing at the poor: favela tours and the colonial legacy’, which was included in London Debates 2010. Advanced Legal Studies, in School. The full programme of 2010, and delivered by Professor particular, frequently include University Trust Fund events Michael Slater, Birkbeck College work with government for this academic year is noted and IES Senior Research Fellow, agencies and contribute to the in the appendices but events internationally renowned School’s participation in policy included the following: Dickens scholar and author outreach. of a recent highly acclaimed biography.
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I DEAN’S REPORT Fratricide and Fraternité London Debates Dean’s Seminars Nine sessions were planned during the In June 2008, the Andrew W. In May 2010, the School The Dean and Deputy Dean academic year: Mellon Foundation awarded hosted the second in a series chaired a regular lunch-time 14 October ‘The new Hyperides’, Acting Dean — a grant of $144,000 to the of international debates interdisciplinary seminar on 2009 Professor Mike Edwards, chaired by Professor School to support a Sawyer (London Debates) for work in progress called Dean’s Charles Hope Seminar on ‘Fratricide and outstanding early career Seminars, the object of which 11 November ‘Argentina and the Inter-American Human Fraternité: understanding researchers in the humanities is to enable those working in 2009 Rights System’, Dr Par Engstrom, Lecturer in and repairing neighbourly and social sciences. The aim or around the School, and on Human Rights, HRC violence.’ The project was is thus not only to make a occasion academic visitors, to 9 December ‘Al-Razi: a tenth-century Arabic physician organised under the auspices of significant contribution to present their latest research 2009 and Platonist’, Professor Peter Adamson, the HRC by Dr Lars Waldorf debate in an important cross- to their colleagues across the University of London Research Fellow at the ICwS, a post-doctoral disciplinary area, but to offer School and indeed anyone 27 January ‘The House of Windsor and the modern fellowship held by Kirrily Pells opportunities, together with else who cares to attend. This 2010 Commonwealth’, Professor Philip Murphy, and two graduate fellowships, an innovatory form of research rich programme of activities Director of the ICwS and involved the participation skills training, to outstanding Front cover of the publication produced can be viewed via our Events 24 February Controversial medical procedures and of seven (out of ten) of the research students and early- after 2010’s London Debates. Calendar: www.sas.ac.uk/ 2010 the criminal law’, Professor Penney Lewis, member Institutes: IClS, career researchers. This events/list/sas_events. A University of London Research Fellow the French Department at ICwS, IGRS, IHR, IMR, small group of researchers, number of academic events 24 March 2010 ‘Pitfalls and pleasures: recording on a 1764 ISA, and the Warburg. The selected by international open King’s. Professor Bayart’s held by the School are now harpsichord’, Professor John Irving, Director of series sought to answer two competition, participated in keynote lecture offered a being recorded in order to the IMR challenging critique of the field overarching and interrelated an intimate workshop with make them available online. 21 April 2010 ‘Skepticism and the space of reasons’, questions: (1) what turns invited senior scholars and of postcolonial studies. The So far over 100 events have Professor Michael Williams, S. T. Lee Visiting neighbour against neighbour? guest discussants to debate papers of our 13 early-career been recorded and many Professorial Fellow speakers, drawn from across and (2) how do neighbours the issue of how, in the 21st of these event videos and 19 May 2010 Seminar was cancelled live together again after century, Europe addresses the Europe and the Americas, audio podcasts are available 9 June 2010 ‘How do you solve a problem like Edmund atrocity? The first half of the legacy of colonialism. More demonstrated the wide variety to view online or download of ways in which the legacy Curll?’, Professor Pat Rogers, School Visiting series examined the causes and information on the series can from the School’s website at of colonialism continues to Professorial Fellow manifestations of neighbourly be viewed here: www.sas.ac.uk/ www.sas.ac.uk/video.html. be felt today, and helped Al-Razi, the tenth-century physician, who was the subject of a Dean’s seminar in 2009. violence, while the second londondebates.html. The Further development of the to explain its continuing half explored the profound workshop was opened by the School’s event recording sensitivity. In discussing these political, social, moral, and Dean and featured a keynote and broadcasting service is papers, the workshop raised cultural consequences of mass talk from Jean-François Bayart, fundamental questions about planned. The School’s aim is violence for individuals and the director of research at the nature of imperialism, the to record and broadcast online communities. Its opening CNRS in Paris. Three other evocation and suppression of around 100 of its events conference was held in distinguished commentators memory and the limitations each year, thereby enabling February 2010 while seven also participated: Richard of our existing conceptual its events to be viewed seminars were held during Drayton, Rhodes Professor tools. It provided a concrete around the world and further the year. The project will also of Imperial History at King’s example of the important strengthening the School’s produce two book chapters College, London; Stephen role the School of Advanced mission to promote and and a journal article for Howe, Professor in the Study can perform in fostering facilitate research across publication. A full report on History and Cultures of genuinely interdisciplinary its specialist subject areas. the Seminar series is available Colonialism at the University debate about subjects of major on our website: www.sas.ac.uk/ of Bristol; and Professor contemporary relevance. fratricide.html. Nicholas Harrison, head of
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Fellowships
I DEAN’S REPORT The School offers a unique Clara Portela Singapore Management University. First fellow of the HRConsortium; research environment for worked on finalising her book entitled European Union Sanctions and postdoctoral and visiting Foreign Policy: When and Why do they Work? fellows to undertake and Dr Chiara Franceschini Received a Newton International Fellowship at the WI, allowing her to disseminate their research, prepare a book on visual and conceptual images of the unbaptised in at national and international late medieval and early modern Europe. level. Through the hosting Professor Ronald Emory University. Organised, on behalf of the IES, the T. S. Eliot of these fellowships, the Schuchard International Summer School. School fulfils its overall aims Professor Michael Williams Chair of the Department of Philosophy, The Johns Hopkins University, of enriching the research Baltimore, Maryland. Was appointed the S. T. Lee Visiting Professorial infrastructure of its national Fellow and gave a lecture on ‘Skepticism, ancient and modern’ on 15 Professor Penney Lewis (left) and Professor Margaret Bent (right): fellows at the June 2010. subject communities and School of Advanced Study 2009/10. other stakeholders. The Professor Pat Rogers Department of English, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. He was appointed the School Visiting Professorial Fellow and took part in inclusion of fellows in the countries, offering seminars being in the one building) has various national events held by the School and other institutions such events programme enhances and talks, as well as providing led to a more lively research as: the 18th-century study group in Pembroke College, Cambridge; the dissemination of their extra stimulus for each of environment. SAS Research the Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh; and the research and related activities. the Institutes in which they Teas now take place each Department of English, University of Liverpool. The School offers several were based. The School and term and give new arrivals a Professor Peter Adamson King’s College, London, University of London Research Fellow at the stipendiary fellowships, for its member Institutes also chance to meet with already School. Worked on a monograph studying the thought of the great doctor and philosopher Abu Bakr al-Razi (who died in 925 AD) and, in example, the prestigious School offer research, honorary and established researchers. addition, edited a volume on Arabic philosophy in the 12th century. S. T. Lee award and many senior fellowships schemes which increase the overall It should be noted that the Dr William Crawley As a Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the Media South Asia Project, he specific Institute fellowships, was based at the ICwS, and received a grant from the Ford Foundation in addition to a large number count of fellows per Institute School may confer annually a in Delhi over two years (2009–11) for a study of media policy and law in of non-stipendiary fellowships. exponentially every year. University of London degree Sri Lanka. Nationally and internationally honoris causa to persons of Professor Penney Lewis King’s College, London, also University of London Research Fellow at renowned researchers are All School fellows were asked conspicuous merit, who are the School. Brought together her two main areas of interest, exploring attracted to these fellowships, to contribute to the life of the outstanding in their field, or the relationship between the criminal law and medical practice by School in various ways. School who have given exceptional examining one of the ways in which the criminal law is used to regulate make full use of the the behaviour of both health care professionals and patients. School’s excellent resources fellows’ reports are available service to the University. on the School’s website. The Professor Sir Brian Vickers, Professor Alastair Hamilton Holds the Arcadian Visiting Research Professorship at the School, and, in return, contribute continued to be based at the Warburg and gave a lecture on 25 to the School’s research Research Services Office aims a Senior Fellow of the IES November entitled ‘Jansenism and Orientalism’. The full account of environment to the benefit of to bring the community of and a School Distinguished Professor Hamilton’s activities this year can be read in the WI’s annual all by enhancing the national fellows together by organising Senior Fellow, was awarded an report available here. research base. the Research Tea events. The honorary Doctor of Literature Professor Margaret Bent Eminent musicologist, was nominated School Distinguished Senior event hosted termly by the degree at the graduation Fellow in 2010 for her strong support to the School and in particular the The School as a whole hosted Dean, is for all members of the ceremony in December 2009. IMR. around 140 (visiting) fellows School’s research community, Further information can be Dr Hong Yu Wong and Dr Will Supported by the University’s Jacobsen fund, these postdoctoral in 2009–10, who contributed whether fellows, academic staff viewed here: www.sas.ac.uk/ Bynoe fellows contributed hugely to the research profile of the IP by organising seminars and fora as part of their research training. to the intellectual and or students. As a means of honorarydegrees.html. academic life of the School bringing people together and Professor Ruth Dawson Emeritus professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Joined the IGRS to work in particular on European and their ‘home’ Institutes. encouraging the exchanging Fellows are full members representations of the Empress Catherine the Great of Russia during Each fellow stayed on average of ideas and information, of the School and here are her lifetime and afterwards. for over seven months. The the move to Senate House some examples of their status, fellows came from a wide (which has resulted in eight research and contribution range of disciplines and of the School’s ten Institutes during their term of office:
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Formal networks and collaborations
I DEAN’S REPORT Through Institute events, research, teaching and fellowship schemes, the School’s activities established the first NZ-UK network established by is a partner of Cultural help to foster strong research networks within and across disciplines. In 2009–10, the School’s Link Visiting Professorship, Professor Iwan Morgan at ISA, Bloomsbury, a collaboration networks and collaborations amounted to some 300, either hosted by the School as a whole in collaboration with the see www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/ of not-for-profit organisations and/or Institutes. These networks provide opportunities to develop new research initiatives, University of London, to be Dbruce/hotcus.html. working together to support collaborations in preparing funding bids, and promotion and dissemination of high‐quality undertaken at the School, in their charitable aims and research nationally and internationally. Through its networking activity, the School and its April 2010. The first recipient CenSes Centre, an to promote the cultural Institutes are able to offer support to individual researchers in the UK and abroad to participate was Professor Margaret international network hosted heritage of the Bloomsbury in research collaborations and to apply for funding that they would not otherwise have the Wilson, Professor of Law by the IP, which organises Quarter. In May 2010, the opportunity to do. Networks and collaborations involving non‐HEI institutions such as libraries and Public Policy at Waikato four workshops a year and School hosted a networking and museums, or non‐HE government agencies, are increasing. University and a former is in partnership with four breakfast for the members of Speaker of the New Zealand other centres: Glasgow, Paris, Cultural Bloomsbury. The Parliament. Toronto and the Institute of School has been involved The School is at the forefront Cognitive Neuroscience. in the development of the of networking activity The Minoan Palace at The Screen Studies Group, Bloomsbury Festival, which nationally and internationally, Knossos, Crete. whose administrative base British Institute of it is hoped will become a both at subject level and organises symposia and International and Comparative permanent fixture in London’s through its leading role in oversees the MA option Law, which is not only an cultural calendar. The School the Consortium of Institutes courses’ intercollegiate event-related and fellowship- was a participant in the first of Advanced Studies (www. exchange. One symposium, related collaboration with two Bloomsbury Festivals held cias.ac.uk). These networks held on 12 March 2010, was IALS, but its Director is also in 2006 and 2007. The next highlight the value of entitled ‘Indian cinema studies a member of the Advisory Festival, of which the School intellectual exchange, the Bollywood and beyond’. Board. was a partner, was due to take potential for core groups place from 22–24 October to provide the impetus for Historians of Twentieth- The School is an active 2010, with a number of new research projects and Century United States participant in local School events planned as part in association with the Eccles catalogues by the School’s (HOTCUS), a national Bloomsbury culture. It of the festivities. externally funded projects, and Centre and ISA, and the system SASCAT. to facilitate the submission research training programme of funding bids. Each year run in collaboration with the The Consortium of Institutes Opening of the Bloomsbury Festival, 2009. the School collaborates with IGRS. of Advanced Studies (CIAS), around 800 higher education hosted and serviced in the institutions and organisations Knossos, an international School since its inception. worldwide in addition to collaboration between the The main aims of CIAS are the institutions to which our British School at Athens to participate actively as an Fellows belong. They include: and the IClS focuses on expert body in the formation archaeological fieldwork, of government and research The British Academy, whose curation and digital resources council research policies — President is a member of the and provides four research for instance, in its response School Board. seminars a year. to the HEFCE consultation on the Research Evaluation The British Library, which The Bibliographical Society, Framework. See www.cias. also collaborates with member hosted by the IES and from ac.uk. Institutes on such projects which the association brings as the joint events and mutual benefit through the The New Zealand-UK Link publications programme, run hosting of online library Foundation, whose partnership
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Research
I DEAN’S REPORT Research promotion and been awarded substantial of T. S. Eliot). Impact support the initial setting up The Knowledge Transfer grants awarded in 2009–10 were facilitation can be credibly funding from the Arts and beyond academia ranges of new strategic initiatives. as follows: carried out only by scholars Humanities Research Council from research funded by the who are well respected in and the T. S. Eliot Estate to European Commission on the Knowledge transfer is David Cantor (ICwS): their specialist fields. It is coordinate, for the first time, development of a European the process by which the workshops on ‘Managing insecurity: forced displacement and return during the Colombian conflict’. therefore essential that the cultural, social and economic School sustain the excellence benefits of research and David Gee (IALS): Six in every ten national research grant applications made by of its research and scholarship scholarship accrue to society placement training programme. reputation. the School are successful. In 2009–10 the School had over in general. The School aims John Irving (IMR): to disseminate the knowledge chamber music lecture-recitals, ‘Practising research in £3 million in research funding income. performance: Beethoven’s chamber music’. The School’s Institutes are it and others generate in the successful in attracting funding humanities and social sciences Avrom Sherr (IALS): for research projects (for the editing of the poetry, plays, Criminal Record (IALS) in order to make a difference lunchtime seminars, ‘Taxation – law and practice’. example, the IES has recently prose and correspondence to an Economic and Social to society locally, in the wider Alejandra Serpente (ISA): Research Council-funded UK and internationally. The ‘Diasporic Argentine and Chilean identities in Britain: the traces ICwS project on enhancing Higher Education Innovation of dictatorship in second-generation “postmemory”’. These are just a few examples of successful research grant Fund (HEIF) was a joint the rights of the rural Indian Bill Sillar (ISA): applications made by the school in 2009–10: initiative by HEFCE and poor, to information about Andean Landscape Conference at the British Museum. the former Department for The Centre for Metropolitan History (CMH) at the IHR was the country’s National Henry Stobart (ISA): Innovation, Universities and awarded funding of £60,000 by the Clothworkers’ Company to Employment Guarantee 20th century Latin American music seminar. Skills. It was designed to undertake a one-year research project, ‘People, property and Scheme. charity: the Clothworkers’ Company 1500–1750’. The project will support and develop a broad Ricarda Vidal (IGRS): result in an online gazetteer of charities and property holdings, range of knowledge transfer ‘A Magical Library for the 21st century — the legacy of Harry Price’. linked to a biographical database of key individuals. Published The School’s successful bids are activities which result in articles will explore broader issues concerning the acquisition detailed in individual reports. economic and social benefit to and management of property by institutions in early modern It should be noted that the the UK. The School received For further information on the above projects, please go to: London. www.sas.ac.uk/530.html climate for research funding funding over three years under ‘Governance for sustainable development’, a project undertaken in the humanities and social the University of London’s by the Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit (part of the ICwS), sciences, especially in the UK, HEIF 4 allocation, a small is funded by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive is challenging and the process Agency. proportion of which was set is more competitive. To assist aside for small-scale knowledge Publication of a book on Jung and Nietzsche, a project Institutes, and particularly transfer projects. undertaken by the IGRS, funded by the Berta Hess-Cohn colleagues who wish to submit Foundation. large‐scale bids, the School has In 2009–10, the School funded projects worth around £400,000. These include: The Warburg collaborated with Bangor University on a new launched a ‘pump‐priming’ project, ‘Production and reading of music sources 1480–1530’, grant scheme, to meet the cost, and with the University of Warwick on ‘Vernacular Aristotelianism IALS: Eagle-i (Electronic Access to Global Legal Information) service web database. for instance, of preparatory in Renaissance Italy’, both funded by the Arts and Humanities IHR: History On-line website. Research Council (AHRC) for three years. A European Starting meetings which might be Grant was awarded under the ERC FP7 programme to Dr Guido needed to set up networks to IMR: Centre for Eighteenth-Century Performance Practice which was renamed DeNOTE during the Giglioni, WI, for research on ‘Medicine of the mind and natural enable collaborative bids under year. philosophy in early modern England: a new way of interpreting one of the bigger EU funding IES: Creating the Virtual Museum of Writing. Francis Bacon’. The project is being carried out in conjunction with the New European College, Bucharest. schemes. The School also runs ISA: a database of UK print media sources on the United States 1914–45. the Dean’s Development Fund The IP’s ‘Sensory exploration and evaluation’ is funded by IClS: Rhetorics (new translations of Greek rhetorical manuals). the British Academy and the large collaborative venture, (DDF) scheme which aims IGRS: translation project, ‘Use your language, use your English’ (research training facilities in ‘Perspectival thoughts and facts’, is being funded by European to provide pump-priming modern languages). FP7 Networks for Initial Training for four years. funding to Institutes to
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I DEAN’S REPORT Publications The School publishes around 50 titles and 15 journals annually. School staff members have Cornwall and the Coast: Mousehole and Newlyn authored or edited almost 2,500 publications and regularly contribute to almost 90 journals Joanna Mattingly • 2009 • ISBN 9781860774898 worldwide. Institutes have been engaged in a wide range of publishing activity during 2009–10, With Phillimore & Co. Ltd both in-house and in conjunction with external publishers. Titles published included: From the medieval market place of Mousehole, to controversial slum clearance and the fight to save the fishing fleet in 20th- and 21st-century BICS Supplement 105: Pheidias: the sculptures and ancient sources Newlyn, the story of the two towns is told against a backdrop of national Claire Cullen Davison • 2009 • ISBN 9781905670215 concerns including the Spanish Raid of 1595, the English Civil War, the What can we know about Pheidias and his work? This presents both visits of John Wesley and the arrival of the railways. Themed chapters the archaeological and the written evidence for the output of this explore the emergence of Newlyn’s artist colony and the centrality of remarkable artist. It assembles and assesses all the available material in Mousehole and Newlyn to the survival of the Cornish language. order to provide insights into Pheidias’s contribution to the development of Greek sculpture. Illustrated discussions of the works associated with Pheidias are accompanied by catalogues of each statue type discussed. World Crisis Effects on Social Security in Latin America and the Caribbean: In addition, the relevant ancient sources are quoted, translated and Lessons and Policies commented upon. This book is published in three volumes. Carmelo Mesa-Lago • 2010 • ISBN 9781900039970 This book assesses the effects of the world financial and economic crisis on social security and welfare in Latin America and the Carribbean. Virginia Woolf’s Bloomsbury: Volume 1, Aesthetic Theory and Literary Practice Drawing on the impact of and lessons from previous crises, it identifies Lisa Shahriari and Gina Potts (eds.) • 2010 • ISBN 9780230517660 the strengths and weakness of Latin American social security before the with Palgrave Macmillan current global crisis, and evaluates its actual and potential effects on pensions, health care and social assistance programmes. Virginia Woolf’s Bloomsbury, published in two volumes, focuses on the politics and aesthetics of Bloomsbury. This volume brings together new scholarship on Woolf’s writing, considering themes such as eco- criticism, women as intellectuals and writers, implications of spaces and places, questions of identity and ideas of the self, and how Woolf’s work has influenced writers from outside her own literary circle and cultural All the publications published in 2009–10 are listed in the appendices. milieu. This collection includes essays by Christina Alt, Beth Rigel The online catalogue of School publications Daugherty, Maggie Humm, Suzanne Raitt and Morag Shiach. www.sas.ac.uk/publications_as.html, which shows all the publications above, continues to prove popular and work to develop this into an online bookshop is well underway. A printed publications catalogue Alfred Döblin. Paradigms of Modernism was also produced in June 2010 and distributed to a wide range of Steffan Davies and Ernest Schonfield (eds.) • 2009 • School contacts, including major booksellers, as well as hundreds of UK ISBN 9780854572229 and European libraries. The distribution of the catalogue has led to a With de Gruyter, Berlin noticeable increase in book sales for several of the Institutes. Döblin's texts, which range widely across contemporary discourses, are paradigms of the encounter between literary and scientific modernity. With their use of ‘Tatsachenphantasie’, they explode conventional School of Advanced Study online publications catalogue language, seeking a new connection with the world of objects and things. This volume reassesses and re-evaluates the uniquely interdisciplinary www.sas.ac.uk/publications_as.html quality of Döblin's interdiscursive, factually-inspired poetics by offering challenging new perspectives on key works.
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Teaching and quality Research training
I DEAN’S REPORT High-quality postgraduate Research training is an of Renaissance and early methodological training teaching, research and doctoral essential part of the School’s modern culture’. offered within Institutes, programmes in specialist provision for students and undertake the School’s areas are essential for the early‐career researchers. The central School programme well-regarded research diversity, continued vitality It ensures that research of Thursday workshops methodologies programme. and sustainability of the areas continues to thrive, is of high offering research and This challenging and thorough of scholarship covered by some quality and at the forefront transferable skills, designed introduction to qualitative Institutes of the School and to of developments, as well as to enhance researchers’ and quantitative research prepare students to go on to providing an environment in employability, ran from methodologies, which runs doctoral and further research. which junior researchers can November 2009 to May 2010, from November to February, They make a particular discuss initiatives and form with the addition of elements provides students with the contribution in terms of networks. Some of its training on peer review and team grounding they need. subject development, emerging is offered in an innovative working. The School draws areas and protecting vulnerable framework — for instance, on its own academic staff to Complementing the School’s fields. The School currently the London Debates — or of deliver the programme, as well training opportunities are the Postgraduate teaching session in progress at the Institute of Germanic & offers a wide variety of highly Romance Studies. unique significance nationally, as on tutors from the wider numerous workshops and valued programmes including: and of an internationally University and beyond, using one-to-one sessions available the MA in Human Rights recognised standard of the extensive research and to students in the Specialist offered by the ICwS; the LLM modern intellectual history, the School. The students were excellence, such as the summer teaching expertise available. Institutions’ Career Service in Advanced Legislative Studies while challenging the students’ challenging and engaged and, schools. In addition, several In 2009–10 for the first time (which provides tailored help offered by the IALS; and the ability to think for themselves as a result of their persistence Institutes offer specialist the Senate House librarians to both Master’s and Research MSc in Globalisation and and start their own career in and dedication a new email research training, such as delivered a hugely successful students) and events run Latin American Development academic research’. The US system was established the ‘Legal research methods’ course, ‘Managing information collaboratively with external offered by the ISA. For more Studies programmes at ISA which gives students space course organised by IALS; the for research’, which enabled institutions: the British information, see: www.sas. were also reviewed. Professor on the network; the issues IP’s graduate‐led workshops; students to hit the ground Library training days, for ac.uk/postgraduatestudy.html. Michael Heale, Professor of use of dictionaries in the School’s summer school, running. In addition to instance. Emeritus, University of examinations, examination ‘Memory, Empire and being useful in terms of skills This year no fewer than nine Lancaster remarked that ‘The procedure, establishment of technology’, mostly run by the development, the workshops The Research Services team new modules for existing US Master’s programmes a SAS student union and a IGRS; and the WI’s ‘Resources allowed participants to meet ensures that the research Master’s programmes were offer something that is student buddy system were and techniques for the study and discuss their work with training it offers its students is approved and others were unusual, indeed unique, also discussed. As a result of those from other Institutes, at the forefront of researcher reviewed: the Warburg’s MA in this country […] I am student determination, the Research training session at the and from universities. The development, and it actively Institute of Historical Research. in Cultural and Intellectual confident that high academic School lobbied successfully School, along with eight other participates in the London History was reviewed standards are maintained for the University to become a nearby institutions, offers its Hub of Vitae, the national successfully by Professor both in the delivery of the centre for Fair Trade. Students transferable skills training organisation which champions Carlo Caruso, from the programmes and in their reported a few problems with within the Bloomsbury the personal, professional and University of Durham. He assessment’. Particular details the Senate House Library Postgraduate Skills Network, career development of doctoral said that the MA ‘shows an of each teaching programme which were mainly due to the so that research students from researchers and research staff. exceptional adaptability to are available on individual refurbishment programme. all participating institutions The Supporting Postgraduate changing circumstances eg. Institute reports. Meetings were held with can sign up to any suitable Researchers’ Group (SPRiG)), to satisfy, whenever possible library senior staff and most training. hosted and run in the School, and appropriate, specific The new academic year saw of these difficulties have now was founded. It enables students’ interests in early 327 postgraduates register with been rectified. The School’s social science London-area universities research students, in addition research training staff to share to the subject-specific best practice and advice.
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Libraries
I DEAN’S REPORT The University of London Digital activities Research Library Services Researchers increasingly value digital resources, and the School has been instrumental in (ULRLS) comprise, collectively, developing innovative provision which can be judged to be of an international standard of the libraries at the centre of excellence in terms of its value to the academic community and other stakeholders. Digital London University — the resources developed by the School include: directories of information and portals, bibliographical Senate House Library, and tools, research data, research papers, research tools, teaching and learning resources, online those of the Institutes of the publications, and research projects. School — and forms one of the main central, shared services of the Federal University. Examples of activities across the School are noted as follows: Following on the School Web These important resources Presence review, extensive — including almost three The School’s e-repository (SAS-Space) at http://sas-space.sas. ac.uk/ continues to offer an institutional repository to preserve work has been undertaken million volumes — are used and disseminate digital scholarly and research materials of to implement the many by many communities across enduring value produced at, or in association with, the School. recommendations of the the University of London in A review was conducted in 2009–10 and changes as well as the report, which recognised the launch of a new site are planned for October 2010. furtherance of its academic array of modern research and Senate House Library envelope value of the School’s digital mission, and also exist to e-delivery tools. While some in September 2009, in some The award-winning Foreign Law Guide (FLAG) in IALS: a resources but asked for more support the research needs of a of the School’s material had cases significantly extending collaborative internet gateway to the holdings of foreign, cohesion by bringing the tools wider national and international international and comparative law in UK universities and to be housed in temporary the hours they are accessible to national libraries. and the purpose together. As scholarly community. accommodation during 2009– researchers. a result, the School initiated Practice as Research in Music Online (PRIMO): a digital 10, other areas were released plans to develop a Register The future for library users is platform for musical research in sound and vision hosted by the from the builders’ grasp to Expert staff in libraries IMR. of Research and Experts close at hand. The ongoing reveal their new aspect. In and Institutes help foster which was due to be launched British History Online, created by the IHR: a digital library refurbishment of the library addition, three Institute intellectual activity across in 2010. In addition, the areas of Senate House will containing some of the core printed primary and secondary libraries (Germanic Studies, disciplines. Institute library sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. School Events Calendar, create well-lit, comfortable Commonwealth Studies, collections comprise in excess the web-accessible database The Latin American and Caribbean Research Portal: an online reading rooms, with wi- Study of the Americas — of 1.2 million volumes, of seminars, conferences, fi connection, purpose- database of information about Latin American Studies in the UK and their special and archive 26,000 electronic journals and (initiated by ISA and developed in collaboration with the British lectures, continued to be very designed furniture and an collections) moved into the 300,000 photographs. Academy and learned societies in the field). successful and was adapted to Postgraduate Online Research Training (PORT): a digital automatically create the Events Over 250,000 visits are made each year to the libraries, which register over 24,000 readers. resource offering online research training in both verbal and brochure. More upgrades will Activities included: video forms, and resources in Czech, French, German, Italian, be made in 2010–11. The The IALS Library was awarded the prestigious Halsbury’s Award for the Best Legal Information Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish studies, offered by the online publications catalogue, Service (Non-Commercial Sector) 2009 by the LexisNexis Halsbury’s Awards in association with IGRS. which was launched in early the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians. Connected Histories, a Joint Information Systems Committee 2009, is very easy to use and The music section of the INTUTE abstracting service for academic websites continued to grow. (JISC)-funded project led by the IHR in collaboration with the has proved an excellent way universities of Sheffield and Hertfordshire and King’s College Jules Winterton, Librarian and Associate Director of IALS, was presented with a citation for London. of disseminating information assistance in establishing the GIALS Library at the launch of the new Ghana Institute of Advanced about the School’s published Legal Studies. PhilPapers: a dynamic on-line index of research articles in output. Work to add an philosophy combined with web-harvesting tools and other Thanks to a grant from the DDF, the WI’s oldest resources, the database of Warburg’s facilities that offer a unique service to individual researchers in online payment component correspondence up to 1929, which went online last year, was finally completed and now includes the discipline. was expected to be completed full summaries of approximately 38,000 letters. during 2010. The Warburg Institute Digital Collection, which makes out-of- Institutes’ library activities this year can be read in the Institutes’ individual reports. print source material on Medieval and Renaissance studies freely available online.
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Member Institutes and Consortium
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies This was a year of prizes as Acting Dean provided an Institute’s legal research library. of the European Journal of and awards for the Institute, important period of reflection A record number of readers Law Reform in memory of Sir especially recognising the on the progress of the School registered to use the library, William Dale. importance of the Library of Advanced Study; and the and over a thousand people received research training The Institute’s Research Jules Winterton, Associate Director of the Institute and from library staff. New digital Programmes in Corporate resources were launched to Law, in Financial Crime, in Librarian, received the Wildy-BIALL Librarian of the
international acclaim, and the Comparative EU Law and II INSTITUTES’ REPORTS Year Award. This acts as a major record of his personal Institute continued to host in Legal Education and the achievement both at the Institute and as President of the the British and Irish Legal Legal Profession all continued Information Institute whose with solid achievements. The International Association of Law Librarians. database was listed among the Institute’s events calendar Guardian’s top 100 UK sites. shows a series of lectures and seminars in each of these areas, of the Institute of Advanced arrival of Professor Roger The School’s internal British and Irish Legal Information Institute website, whose database was listed Institute staff and fellows Legal Studies as a treasure for Kain as incoming Dean and allocation of HEFCE funding among The Guardian’s top 100 UK sites. It is hosted by the Institute for Advanced published in these areas Legal Studies. II INSTITUTES’ REPORTS II INSTITUTES’ legal researchers nationally and Chief Executive of the School to IALS had been reduced during the year and further internationally, and also noting of Advanced Study secured in recent years, and this was funding was granted for the the important contributions a more academically based remedied somewhat in the project on the Independent of the Librarian and other approach to the work to be return to almost historic levels potential for growth in future Workshop on ‘Comparative Peer Review of Legal Aid members of the Institute’s great undertaken in the School and of funding for the Institute’s years. perspectives on constitutions’. Competence, work on online Library and Library services. It particularly in relation to the Library for 2009–10. This Some events were packed dispute resolution and further was also a year of consolidation forthcoming HEFCE Review The three courses at Master’s out to the rafters, including digitisation of legal research. for issues of administration of 2013. degree level are now starting Shami Chakrabarti, Director and integration with the Steve Whittle, IALS to grow PhD students and we of Liberty, talking on In this year the Institute was have a larger body of students ‘Repentance at leisure: the School of Advanced Study and Jules Winterton, Associate Information Systems joined by Will Fitzmaurice, the University of London. In Director of the Institute and researchers present within politics of legislation and law our new Administrator. There this regard the interregnum and Librarian, received the Manager, received the the Institute as our own of unintended consequence’. were immediate achievements of Professor Mike Edwards Wildy-BIALL Librarian of Wallace Breem Memorial academic community. The The Sir William Dale in the administration and the Year Award. This acts as a Institute retains its approach Centre for Legislative organisation of the Institute Award. to the subject matter covered Studies continued its Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, major record of his personal and its ability to report Bedford Way achievement both at the in further degree courses summer course for legal in accordance with the Institute and as President of and in PhDs, attempting to drafters and legal officers, bureaucratic needs of the the International Association development is welcome fill gaps and work in areas funded by Commonwealth School of Advanced Study. Mr of Law Librarians. Steve following the previous otherwise not covered by Governments, the UK Foreign Fitzmaurice hit the ground Whittle, IALS Information differences in vision between the law faculties within the and Commonwealth Office, running and took the Institute Systems Manager, received the internal workings of the University of London. the UK Department for forward to ensure a number the Wallace Breem Memorial School of Advanced Study’s The Institute’s substantial International Development of developments, including Award. Both were presented at allocation system and the high events programme ranged and the Commonwealth a more positive resource the Annual Conference of the regard in which the Institute from a Symposium on Secretariat. Twenty-six allocation in future years. British and Irish Association of has always been held within its the History of Intellectual students from the Inter- Law Librarians in June 2010. research community. Funding Property Law to an afternoon American University of Puerto They are due recognition for allocations for non-library on European Criminal Law Rico attended the Centre’s the excellence achieved in the activities remained low, with and Human Rights and summer course on EU law an excellent W. G. Hart and published the special issue
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Institute of Classical Studies with a joint seminar involving pleasure for us that Bob, constraints the British School ancient history. Lectures though desperately ill, was of Athens (BSA) took the included the annual T. B. L. able to attend the whole day’s decision during the course Webster Lecture (see below), proceedings. of the year to relocate its and special lectures given by London office activities to David Whitehead, Belfast, Another new venture came the British Academy. Our Michael Gagarin, University into effect this year, with long and fruitful relationship
of Texas at Austin, and Maria the commencement of our will continue, however, in II INSTITUTES’ REPORTS Vlazaki, Acting Director publishing agreement with the form of joint events, and General of Antiquities, Greece. Wiley-Blackwell. The Bulletin with the BSA Supplementary A highlight of the year was of the Institute of Classical volumes and the BSA Studies the second John Penrose Studies will now be published series, edited and produced Barron Memorial Lecture on biannually in both hard copy at the Institute by Olga the topic of Herodotus and and online, with the facility Krzyszkowska. Samos given by Christopher of online publication of Mosaic floor, Villa Romana del Casale at Piazza Armerina, 4th century AD, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical UNESCO World Heritage in Sicily, Italy. Pelling, the Regius Chair refereed and edited articles in Studies. Finally, it should be noted II INSTITUTES’ REPORTS II INSTITUTES’ © Shutterstock of Greek at Oxford. We advance of full publication. that the Director served for also hosted guest lectures This exciting development will satisfaction with its new layout six months of the year as the organised in collaboration increase the number of high- on the third floor (much Acting Dean of the School The academic year 2009– promotion and facilitation with our associated bodies, level research papers published improving on the earlier of Advanced Study. This put 10 proved to be another mission, for which we are including Accordia, the British by the Institute and will also layout split between the third extra responsibilities on the challenging, but highly funded by HEFCE. The School at Athens, and the make them more readily floor and the basement). A other staff of the Institute, successful year for the Institute. Institute hosted around 140 Virgil Society, and various available to a global audience. bonus stemming from the who met these with great cheer It was, indeed, a year of new separate events with speakers conferences, including the Two issues of the Bulletin were new configuration is that and professionalism. Richard beginnings. from around the world and Annual Byzantine Colloquium, published during the year, and we have some room still Simpson and Sarah Mayhew at varying stages of their and, with the Institute a further nine volumes in our for further expansion of ensured that our publications The long-awaited return to the careers, an indication of our of Philosophy, a special prestigious Supplements series. the collection. Our team of activity was undisturbed, South Block of Senate House commitment to the promotion conference in honour of Bob dedicated librarians, despite while Olga Krzyszkowska was took place in July 2009, and of all aspects of classical Sharples. It was an enormous The Institute’s T. B. L. a reduction by one member appointed Deputy Director so the year began with the staff antiquity and to those who Webster Fellow for 2009–10 of staff, continued to offer to ensure the smooth running of the Institute settling into study it. Our regular seminar Bob Sharples. was Elizabeth Langridge service of the highest quality, of the Institute when the our new accommodation on series met throughout the year: Noti, Athens. Other visiting maintaining the reputation of Director was, inevitably, the second and third floors. ancient philosophy, Greek fellows included: Guy Bradley, the Library as one of the finest occupied by School business. Thanks to heroic efforts on literature, Latin literature, Cardiff, Angel Ruiz, Santiago classics libraries anywhere in the part of all concerned, the classical archaeology, Accordia, di Compostela, Spain, and the world. The IClS Library It is with great sadness that offices were quickly up and the Mycenaean Seminar, Richard Janko, Michigan. is, without question, one of I have to report the death of running, and the Library in ancient history, postgraduate the jewels in the University of Professor R. W. Sharples, a its excellent new layout was work in progress, and the For many classicists it is the London’s crown. long-time supporter of the opened on schedule, though more recently introduced Library that is the mainstay Institute and former Chair of some teething difficulties and extremely popular of our activity. All visitors It was with regret for the our Finance Committee. with the rolling stacks were to Digi-classicists seminar. We expressed the greatest of Institute that due to financial persist for several months. continued to sponsor the Roman Art seminar held at A full academic programme the Courtauld Institute, this lies at the heart of our research time in the autumn term
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Institute of Commonwealth Studies The academic year 2009–10 Studies Policy Unit in August fellows and research students major reports: Democracy and funding from the World marked the 60th anniversary 2010 to provide renewed to discuss their work. in the Commonwealth and Bank for Professor Manor’s of the foundation of the leadership for its activities From Hook to Plate: The research activities. Institute and the excellence while Dr Corinne Lennox Another key overarching State of Marine Fisheries — A of events and activities during joined the Institute staff in development was the re- Commonwealth Perspective. Finally, the Institute’s teaching the year demonstrated the September 2009, bringing launch of the Institute’s The former was launched at programme, consisting ongoing significance and with her an expertise in website in a more user- the 2009 Commonwealth of the MA in Human
centrality of the ICwS in its the rights of minorities. Dr friendly and accessible form, Heads of Government Rights, continued to show II INSTITUTES’ REPORTS field. The anniversary itself was David Cantor also joined the thereby making the work Meeting, and both have healthy numbers despite the marked by a series of hugely Institute in September 2009, of the Institute more visible received considerable praise economic downturn making successful high-profile lectures and conducted an important to the academic and non- and attention from analysts postgraduate education harder by prominent public figures, fieldwork research visit to academic communities it and policy makers across the for many potential students. led by the Secretary-General Columbia during his first year. serves. As part of the Institute’s Commonwealth. With 49 Master’s students of the Commonwealth, Meanwhile, the work of Dr Par strategic initiative to make in 2009–10, including six Kamalesh Sharma, which Engstrom supplemented the Chagall’s Cain and Abel. The Institute of more resources available In 2009–10, the Institute international students, and a Commonwealth Studies held ‘Fratricide attracted an audience of 90 work of the Institute through and Fraternité’, as part of the Human online, discussions have been administered over £150k of further 21 studying for PhDs, II INSTITUTES’ REPORTS II INSTITUTES’ including representatives his participation in the School’s Rights Consortium’s ‘Truth, justice and taking place concerning the research grant income on the Institute continues to be a from many of the London Human Right Consortium reparations’ series. digitisation of the volumes research projects related to centre of academic endeavour High Commissions of (HRC), with a regular human in the Institute’s British its fields of study, including that not only serves the Commonwealth countries. rights seminar series. seminar series, ‘Fratricide Documents on the End of funding from the Ford existing generation of scholars Subsequent events in the series While the Institute made a and Fraternité’, run as part of Empire series. Traditional Foundation for research on but also adds to the ranks of included lectures by Justice small deficit in 2009–10, its the HRC, including ‘Truth, publications also continued Media Policy and the Law in the next, providing them with Albie Sachs the eminent anti- finances (run without a ‘safety justice and reparations’ in in 2009–10 with the Sri Lanka, a research grant for an excellent grounding for apartheid campaigner and net’ provided by the School June; ‘Perpetrators/Bystanders/ Commonwealth Policy Studies the CPSU on Fisheries policy, their future academic careers. member of the South African and the longer-term financial Rescuers’ in May; and Unit (CPSU) producing two Constitutional Court, and health) appears robust. It is ‘Neighbourly denunciation’ the veteran Labour politician expected that a continued in March. Each of these Asylum Monologues by the iceandfire theatre group. Photograph by Paul H. Robinson. Tony Benn, whose lecture effort to reduce operating events drew considerable entitled ‘The movement for costs at both Institute and audiences, demonstrating colonial freedom’ attracted 330 School level, combined the impact of the Institute’s attendees. with sustaining a strong work on the academic performance in the School’s community and beyond. The year also represented resource allocation model and Meanwhile the performance Professor Philip Murphy’s research undertaken by the of the Asylum Monologues by first in the role of Institute Commonwealth Policy Studies the iceandfire theatre group, Director, as well as the Unit, will return the Institute which attracted more than relocation of the Institute from to surplus in the near future. 100 attendees, attested to its previous home on Russell the eclectic range of events Square to be co-located with In addition to the lecture series hosted by ICwS. The Institute most of the other Institutes of for the 60th anniversary, a also launched new seminar the School of Advanced Study wide programme of events was series on decolonisation and in Senate House, the home held to promote and facilitate on language policy in the of the University of London. research in the fields of study Commonwealth, as well as Meanwhile, Dr Leo Zeilig of the Institute. A key element a special series of lunchtime joined the Commonwealth of this was the Mellon-Sawyer seminars to allow Institute
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Institute of English Studies
Unique as a national forum Examples of the Institute’s of Ulysses’ and the launch Research projects hosted by the Institute included: for its subject community, the public research seminars of the Textual Scholarship Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts Institute prides itself on the include: Research Seminar Series John Ford Project professional delivery by its A John Coffin Memorial were significant initiatives in small team, which collaborates Lecture by Rebecca that field, while the Institute T.S. Eliot Editorial Project intensively with subject leaders. West’s biographer, Victoria continued to host annual Glendinning, during the Francis Bacon Project (funded by British Academy, led by Brian The highly varied programme conferences for UCL English Vickers) of specialised workshops, September conference Graduates (on ‘Nightmare’), II INSTITUTES’ REPORTS international inter-disciplinary The Annual Palaeography the London Old and Middle Museum of Writing Online (led by Simon Eliot with funding from the DDF for one year initially conferences, summer schools, Lecture (by Teresa Webber) English Research Seminar scheduled as part of the public lectures and readings Medieval Manuscripts (on the Gawain Manuscript), saw, in 2009–10, a trend Seminar Series and became the new first- lecture by Professor Michelle Methods and Resources toward smaller events across choice host for the annual Brown (‘Manuscripts from for English MA students, The 2010 Menzies Lecture our diverse subject field. In hosted in conjunction with the Literary London conference Anglo-Saxon Mercia: the Medieval Manuscript Studies the second half of the year conference, ‘Patrick White: (‘Representations of London Staffordshire Hoard, other in the Digital Age, and the return to refurbished Modernist Impact/Critical in Literature’). Other recent finds and the “New the workshop ‘On Paper’, II INSTITUTES’ REPORTS accommodation allowed the Futures’ conferences included: ‘Women Materiality” in book history’). supported by the National Institute to host larger-scale The John Coffin Memorial Writers of the Fin de Siècle’, Research Training Scheme. events once again. Lecture in the History of the ’John Buchan and Modernity’ The seminar programme The London Rare Books Book (by John Barnard) and a postgraduate-led continued to develop in School attracted 93 students, Additionally, the Institute held during the London Rare Open University conference, range and diversity, with 16 55 attended the Palaeography Books School hosted: ‘Comics and ‘Reading Conflict’. of its 23 research seminar Summer School, and 46 medicine: medical narrative The T. S. Eliot International series subsidised by external attended the T. S. Eliot in graphic novels’, sponsored Summer School saw three Broadly, 2,300 people institutions. This year saw International Summer School. associated events in Senate by the Wellcome Trust, two House: an opening address attended the Institute’s the launch of the Textual conferences and a workshop by Sir Tom Stoppard on research seminar series, 2,100 Scholarship series, the Djuna Professors Aamer Hussein and for the Victorian Popular the influence of Eliot on attended lectures/readings/ Barnes series, the Postgraduate Coral Howells, Dr Fiction Association; Dickens 20th-century drama, the prizes/book launches and Feminist Reading Group, the G. Krishnamurti and Dr Colin Day, hosted in conjunction Josephine Hart Poetry Hour, Literature Week, and 1,200 Romantic Period series, the Smythe were appointed Senior with readings by Eileen with Birkbeck College; and a Atkins, Edward Fox and Ian Letter from John Keats to Fanny Keats, attended conferences. The History of Communication, Research Fellows, and the second successive George Eliot McDiarmid, and a John Coffin 1818 (top) and cover of the published Institute scheduled public the Director’s lunchtime series Institute’s nominee, Professor version of Reading in the Refectory, Dr conference, on Adam Bede. A Memorial Poetry Reading by Teresa Webber’s John Coffin Memorial events alongside international for visiting research fellows, Pat Rogers, University of conference on ‘25 Years of the Robin Robertson Palaeography Lecture (bottom). conferences and research and the T. S. Eliot Research South Florida, was the School’s Critical and Synoptic Edition seminar series, to bring an Seminar, arising from the Eliot Visiting Professorial Fellow. interested public together with Editorial Project. There were 15 new Visiting The Institute forged new collaborative institutional links in the delivery of: a specialised audience. Research Fellows. The inaugural British Academy Literature Week About 300 students attended The first International Conference, ‘Language, Culture and Society in Russian/English Studies’, co- Other public events subject-specific short courses Fourteen students were organised with the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages included the Hilda Hulme and workshops, including enrolled on the MA in the A Jonathan Wordsworth Memorial Lecture (by Jonathan Bate FBA), hosted for the Wordsworth Memorial Lecture (‘Dickens’s two British Library Resources History of the Book, and Trust Shakespeare’, by Michael days (English 19–21st century there were nine MPhil/PhD The Poetry Society Annual Lecture, by Les Murray Slater) and an inaugural and Medieval–18th century), students. The Young Muslim Writers Awards, hosted with a display of performance poetry, music and graphic arts The Rebecca West Society’s fourth international conference 26 27 SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY ANNUAL REPORT 2009–10
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies The report of the SAS Review Women’s Writing (CCWW) Katia Pizzi launching the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, February of the IGRS, submitted in July and the Centre for the Study 2010. The Centre opened with a 2009, concludes: ‘The Panel of Cultural Memory (CCM), conference on Transcultural Memory. was impressed by the range directed by Gill Rye and Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural in and quality of the Institute’s Katia Pizzi respectively, were nature, the Centre provides a forum for literary scholars, historians, cultural activities, which have earned launched with the support of critics, sociologists, practising artists it widespread respect within the DDF following a set- and others with an interest in the research and study of memory. the research communities in up year in 2008–09. On 16 II INSTITUTES’ REPORTS French, German, Italian and October, under the theme Spanish studies in particular. It of ‘Writing Childhood’, the was struck by the commitment CCWW hosted a group of of its academic and bilingual readings by authors administrative staff [...] and Ana Luísa Amaral, Portugal, by the leadership offered by Anna Mitgutsch, Austria, and the Director over a very broad Nicoletta Valorani, Italy. On brief’. The year that followed 4–6 February 2010 the CCM Poster for the Writing Childhood event Publications in 2009–10 by Eduarda Mota, along with (Johan Siebers); ‘Who saw
II INSTITUTES’ REPORTS at the Institute of Germanic & Romance has shown the same breadth of held its launch in the form of Studies. included both the Institute’s several other books including a it coming? Prediction and activities as in the IGRS’s first an international conference own publications and those special number of the Journal hindsight in emplotting the five years, from single-language on ‘Transcultural Memory’, of its academic staff. London of Romance Studies celebrating crisis’ (Sándor Hites); ‘Freud events to those in such fields as which was attended by over German Studies XII: The the tenth anniversary of on holiday‘ (Sharon Kivland); cultural memory, exile studies 140 delegates; among the of the CCM, the Institute Racehorse of Genius. Literary the IGRS’s flagship MA in ‘Memories of trauma on film’ or the visual arts. invited speakers were Astrid organised a very successful and Cultural Comparisons, Cultural Memory, coedited (Julia Wagner); and ‘Female Erll, Germany, Andrew Summer School on ‘Cultural edited by Martin Liebscher, by Debra Kelly and Gill Rye performers in narrative fiction’ In November 2009, the Hoskins, UK, Dirk Moses, Memory’ on behalf of SAS Ben Schofield and Godela and entitled The Witness and (Barbara Straumann). Institute’s language cover was Australia, and Michael which included both seminars Weiss-Sussex, and ‘Not an the Text. The publications completed with the arrival of Rothberg, USA. and explorations of London’s Essence but a Positioning’: series igrs books ran its fourth Other highlights include the Dr Maria-José Blanco, who lieux de mémoire, historic German-Jewish Women competition and the first five launch of two reading groups runs Hispanic activities and ‘Cultural Memory’ was also corners and pathways. Writers (1900–1938), edited volumes — monographs and in contemporary Spanish whose research on women’s the subject of two other by Andrea Hammel and collections in French, German, and Portuguese literature writing and autobiographical international events held at This year also saw the launch Godela Weiss-Sussex, were Italian and interdisciplinary (the Tertúlia), the Coffin texts chimes in with the the IGRS this year. The first of a number of other new published in the Institute’s studies — will appear in 2011. Literature Lecture delivered by IGRS’s research interests and was a workshop by invitation, activities. Owing to the Germanic series. Volume 11 Franco Moretti on ‘Network particularly the fields covered funded by the European generous donation of Daniel of the Research Centre for A number of new Honorary theory and its application to by our new Centres. Two Science Foundation (ESF) Miller in the joint names German and Austrian Exile Fellows joined IGRS this literature’, the Cassal Lecture members of the academic and European Cooperation of his actor parents Martin Studies’ Yearbook appeared year from universities as far by sinologist Alain Peyraube staff received promotion in in Science and Technology Miller and Hannah Norbert entitled Exile in and from afield as Aachen, Chicago, on ‘Humanities research 2009–10: Dr Martin Liebscher (COST) as the first of five Miller, the Research Centre Czechoslovakia during the Hamburg, Hawa’ii, Lisbon in China’, and a visual arts became a Senior Lecturer and, debates in a project to examine for German and Austrian Exile 1930s and 1940s. Gill Rye’s and Utrecht. The Institute’s series run by Ricarda Vidal at the other end of the year, the changing place of literary Studies was able to expand second monograph, Narratives Visiting Fellows gave papers to and Sarah Sparkes called Gill Rye was promoted to a and cultural studies in Europe. its programme in a variety of Mothering, and Naomi the Work-in-Progress seminar ‘Ghosting’, which is set to Chair in French studies. Entitled ‘Remembering and of ways; these will include Segal’s sixth, Consensuality: on such subjects as: ‘The continue haunting the halls of forgetting’, it hosted 20 a biennial guest lecture, a Didier Anzieu, Gender and the anticipatory unconscious: Senate House for some time to The Institute’s two new speakers from 12 countries. At stipendiary fellowship and a Sense of Touch, were launched Bloch’s concept of life and the come. Centres, the Centre for the the other end of the year, 29 research studentship, to be in a book launch series run encounter in psychoanalysis’ Study of Contemporary June–3 July, under the aegis filled from 2010–11.
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Institute of Historical Research The IHR had its usual busy Awards, with the British The large-scale ESRC- and Hertfordshire and King’s year in 2009–10. The 79th Postal Archive, the Rothschild funded project, ‘Life in the College London, and the Anglo-American conference on Archive, and the Museum of suburbs: health, domesticity History SPOT (Seminar the theme of ‘Environments’ London. With The National and status in early modern Podcasts and Online Training). was held 1–2 July 2010, Environments Archives the CCBH ran a London’, being undertaken Connected Histories will 79th Anglo–American Conference of Historians drawing over 300 delegates 1–2 July 2010, Senate House, University of London research training network in collaboration with the create a federated search and attracting much media for contemporary history University of Cambridge and facility for a wide range of interest. The IHR also ran its research students, ‘Using Birkbeck, entered its second distributed digital resources II INSTITUTES’ REPORTS usual cycle of annual lectures: archival sources to inform year. These projects are all relating to early modern the Creighton Lecture, given contemporary policymaking’. destined in one way or another and 19th-century British by Professor Robert Service, The CMH and Victoria to be included in British history. The History SPOT Oxford, on 18 November; the County History (VCH) ran History Online. project will develop the IHR’s Fellows’ Lecture by Daniel an AHRC-funded training traditional activities in an Snowman on 1 June; the Marc programme on ‘Landscape IHR Publications led on the online environment. This year Fitch Lecture by Professor and townscape: methods and restructuring and redesign also saw particularly successful Steve Hindle, Warwick, on 28 sources for urban, regional of the IHR website and collaboration with the British II INSTITUTES’ REPORTS June; and the Pimlott Lecture and local history’. The IHR was involved in planning Library, including involvement by Professor Frank Mort, its overseas connections, Australia and the USA. We continued to fund and support the autumn 2010 launch in the organisation of a University of Manchester, on via the North American welcomed 22 Junior Fellows two national postgraduate of IHR Digital, the IHR’s conference in July looking at 8 July. The CMH organised Conference on British on various funded scholarships. and early career researcher new digital publishing and ‘Digitised history: newspapers a number of workshops Studies, the Anglo-Japanese The IHR disbursed over 30 networks: History Lab and research service. Among and their impact on research and conferences, including postgraduate colloquium, and bursaries and awards and History Lab+. And throughout many new projects developed into 18th and 19th century ‘London, the Thames and through ongoing co-operation grants in aid of publication the year we ran our full the most significant are Britain’ (sponsored by Water’ (16 October), and with Nanjing University and and research. Two long- suite of research training Connected Histories, a JISC). In January 2010, the ‘Cities and Nationalisms’ the PKU (Peking University, serving members of the IHR programmes within the Joint Information Systems Royal Historical Society (17–18 June 2010). The Beijing) in China. — Robert Lyons (Librarian, School, as part of its generic Committee (JISC)-funded Bibliography of British and CCBH held its annual 1973–2009) and Mark training programme, and project in collaboration with Irish History was successfully conference on ‘The 1970s’ During the year we hosted Lewisohn (Chairman IHR on occasion, at universities the universities of Sheffield relaunched as a subscription (7–9 July). Throughout the Visiting Fellows from China, Trust 2000–09) — became outside London. The new Institute of Historical HR website. year the IHR has maintained India, Russia, Portugal, Honorary Fellows, as did the outgoing Dean of the School, Our principal departments Sir Roderick Floud. Four and centres ran a full Miles Taylor with new scholars joined as Senior programme of research and Professor Yu Wenjie, Nanjing University. Research Fellows: Dr Roland projects. The CMH completed Quinault, Dr Alan Thacker, two ESRC-funded research Professor Cornelie Usborne, projects, ‘London women and Dr Janet Waymark. and the economy before and after the Black Death’ and The IHR ran two MA ‘London and the tidal Thames programmes in 2009–10, 1250–1550: marine flooding, with 14 registered students, embankment and economic and also supervised 46 change’. Work also continued PhD students. Particularly on ‘London and Middlesex significant were our continuing Hearth Tax (1666)’ (with Collaborative Doctoral Roehampton and Birkbeck).
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Institute of Musical Research service, in partnership with be a member of English It is a pleasure to report that publicity), our Wolfgang Brepols Publishers. Heritage’s London Advisory in 2009–10 the IMR’s events Rihm symposium at Senate Committee. Professor Vivian continued the pattern of House and Satie study day The VCH completed its Bickford-Smith presented growth identified in 2008–09. at Gresham College (both Heritage Lottery-funded seminar papers in San In parallel with the increase the latter in conjunction England’s Past for Everyone Diego (American Historical in activity was a broadening with Kingston University), project on time and on Association), Basel, Durham, of reach. Such developments as well as our collaborative budget, having published 14 Oxford, Cambridge and do not happen overnight, but conferences on ‘Purcell, II INSTITUTES’ REPORTS paperbacks on local history London. Elizabeth Williamson in tune (pun intended) with Handel and Literature’, and themes and produced two The VCH website, incorporating the (VCH) continued her work as the performance‐as‐research on ‘The Music of Hanns websites. Its main website, England’s Past for Everyone project. a Commissioner for English profile of the new Director, Eisler’, considerably raised ‘Explore England’s Past’, was Heritage. Throughout the Professor John Irving who the Institute’s profile. Added added to the IHR’s main at ‘Industrial democracy in the year the IHR met with its began in August 2009, the to these, our provision server as an ongoing resource. 1970s’ as part of the History fellow Subject Associations profile of the IMR’s events of funding for: a series The VCH remains active in and Policy Trade Union (the Royal Historical Society, deriving from practitioner‐led of masterclasses for PhD 15 counties, supported by a Forum. the Historical Association, research steadily increased, composition students held at
II INSTITUTES’ REPORTS Internationally acclaimed fortepianist network of local trusts and History UK, and the History especially towards the end Tom Beghin gave a recital for the John Birmingham University; an appeals, and, alongside full- IHR staff undertook Subject Centre of the Higher of the session when in close Coffin lecture, June 2010. international conference on time staff and volunteers. professional responsibilities Education Academy), and succession we hosted: a study ‘Music and Representation’ at Volumes published during and academic engagements continued to advise national day in Chancellor’s Hall on between 2010 and 2012 in the Merton College, Oxford; and 2009–10 were Sussex V2: during the year: Professor bodies on, variously, school ‘Performativity in song’ led guise of a performance practice an interdisciplinary ‘Music Littlehampton and District, Miles Taylor gave his inaugural curriculum reform, The by an IMR Visiting Fellow, research centre (DeNOTE) and Number’ conference at Middlesex XIII: City of lecture on 24 February. He National Archives, and support Kathryn Whitney, a Canadian that launched on 1 October Canterbury Christ Church Westminster, Landownership made two BBC Radio 4 for history in anticipation of freelance researcher attached 2010, offering opportunities University hopefully count and Religious History, broadcasts, was consultant the Spending Review. to the Royal Welsh College of to link academics with as concrete expressions of Gloucestershire X: Newent to the History Channel Music and Drama, Cardiff; practitioners in the field of our ongoing support for the and Mayhill and Cornwall: production, The People Front cover of Bristol: ethnic minorities a John Coffin Trust lecture‐ 18th-century music. diversity of musical research Religious History to 1560. In its Speak, and continued his and the city, 1000-2001, one of the recital by internationally that falls within our UK remit. England’s Past for Everyone series of final year at the IHR, before work as a member of the paperbacks published by the VCH acclaimed fortepianist Tom Breadth of coverage remains All this is in addition to: the its move to King’s College ESRC Research Grants Board, during their HLF-backed project. Beghin, McGill University; a key principle of the IMR’s full programme of Directions London on 1 August, the the History of Parliament and two ‘Knowledge transfer work in research promotion in Musical Research Seminars Centre for Contemporary editorial board, the Journal recitals’ (held at Goodenough and facilitation. Naturally, at Senate House (which ranged British History (CCBH) of British Studies editorial College, Bloomsbury and research events that focus on in breadth from the music of continued its Witness Seminar board, and the Council of the Morden College Blackheath) performance stand a good Josquin in the 15th century programme and its History British Records Association. in which the Director chance of attracting notice to algorithmic composition and Policy unit further Professor Pat Thane (CCBH) collaborated with two (and DeNOTE already has a in the 21st); our research developed its consultancy and gave 17 speeches and lectures professional players from number of such collaborative groups, Medieval Song op-ed comment activities. during the year including the The Orchestra of the Age of events lined up in London, Network, Music and Science, The CCBH summer keynote at an international Enlightenment in chamber the South West and Wales for Middle East and Central conference explored the theme conference on ‘Women music projects focusing the coming year). But events Asia Music Forum, Latin ‘Reassessing the Seventies’ and Labour History’ in on Beethoven and classical such as the Martinů study American Music Seminar (in with Lord David Lea, former Stockholm. Dr Matthew performance practice. With day held at the Barbican in collaboration with ISA); the Assistant General Secretary of Davies (CMH) continued to generous support from the collaboration with the BBC Popular Music Colloquium, the TUC, in conversation with chair the editorial committee DDF, the IMR was able to Symphony Orchestra (and to which two newcomers Professor Peter Ackers, looking of The London Journal, and plan for more of the same widely advertised in BBC were added this session,
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Institute of Philosophy South Asia Music and Dance material in the Francophone The Institute continued to Feedback on our events Forum, and the International Music Criticism database is expand its activities with the Conference on Near Eastern sends a very strong the largest single quantity of launch of a research centre Archeomusicology; and last, message that what our deposit on the School’s recently for the study of the senses but not least, our Research reconfigured SAS‐Space and the creation of a series of Training in Music series, community values in the resource; and work continued public lectures. We continue which continued to attract IMR is its contribution to throughout the year on the as the biggest provider of great interest this season and National Doctoral Register digital resources to researchers the research infrastructure, II INSTITUTES’ REPORTS which held a regional event of Music (supported by the in philosophy internationally on popular music issues its capacity to represent so DDF). through PhilPapers, an online at Liverpool University. It many types of music and subject repository which is pleasing to report once It is also a pleasure to is growing rapidly in user again that feedback on our musical research, and its report that after protracted numbers. With a grant from events sends a very strong openness to interdisciplinary negotiations spreading across the DDF, David Bourget message that what our activity. virtually the whole of Professor (creator of PhilPapers) will The PhilPapers website. community values in the Irving’s first year as Director, go on to develop PhilEvents, II INSTITUTES’ REPORTS IMR is its contribution to funding of the UK’s inputting agreement with Répertoire a world-wide calendar of the research infrastructure, to Répertoire International de Internationale d’Iconographie philosophy events that can be PETAF (Perspectival centre for the study of the its capacity to represent so Littérature Musicale (RILM) Musicale, a worldwide database searched by topic or region. Truth and Facts) is the first senses, CenSes, co-directed many types of music and which underpins a vast range of musical images was reached, We began an association philosophy project to be so by Fiona Macpherson, musical research, and its of musicological work. Our which now has a base in the with Philosophy Bites, run funded at European level. The Glasgow, Matthew Nudds, openness to interdisciplinary practice‐as-research online IMR offices, having moved by Nigel Warburton and project will be carried out Edinburgh, and Barry C activity. In digital, as well as resource (PRIMO) continued from its previous headquarters David Edmonds, who podcast through conferences, seminars, Smith. The Centre promotes physical terms too, the IMR to develop and now exists in in Paris. It proved a bumper interviews with leading workshops and exchanges research on the nature of has a part to play: the most a more user‐friendly form year for Visiting Fellows, philosophers, attracting a huge involving senior and junior sensory experience and has significant is perhaps the in order to encourage more Overseas Doctoral Fellows and listening audience worldwide: researchers from across the an international scientific least obvious, namely our submissions; the volume of Early Career Associates. Twelve over eight million downloads consortium. advisory board comprising graced the IMR with their on iTunes. philosophers, psychologists presence in 2009–10, and most We organised 82 events and and neuroscientists. It also of them were closely involved The majority of our offered financial support oversees the Sensory Research in our programmes by giving conferences were to two others. We had 18 Forum, which has hosted some seminars or masterminding collaborations with UK conferences (11 collaborative), of Europe’s leading sensory study days (one of them held philosophy departments three graduate conferences, scientists at its meetings. New in association with the Royal and AHRC-funded projects. a joint graduate conference ventures are partnerships College of Music). One of We continued partnerships between the Institute and with Toronto and Harvard our Early Career Associates, with the Northern Institute Berkeley, nine public lectures, Universities. an independent scholar from of Philosophy at Aberdeen, 17 lunchtime seminars, North America, succeeded the New York Institute of eight meetings of the Logic The Centre for Logic and in gaining three fellowships Philosophy at New York and Metaphysics forum, 13 Language (CeLL) co-organised back on the other side of the University, and six European meetings of the Aesthetics events with the Northern Atlantic for the academic year universities with whom forum, and 15 meetings of the Institute of Philosophy, 2010–11, a strong factor in his we form a consortium to Sensory Research Forum. Aberdeen: a summer school and a biennial Logic and Institute of Musical Research director John Irving. selection being his association manage a 1.5 million euro EU with the IMR. Framework grant for training This was the first year Language conference. early career researchers: of the interdisciplinary CeLL also runs the Logic
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campus in Abu Dhabi. The to the workshop through workshop explored the 18th- competition. century extension of our sense of taste to cover aesthetic The Institute hosted four sensibility and how that view post-doctoral fellows: two fares in the light of our new funded by the University’s understanding of how taste Jacobsen fund, Hong Yu works, drawing as it does on Wong and Will Bynoe; an II INSTITUTES’ REPORTS many other senses. Institute Chandaria post- doctoral fellow, Eleanor Our conferences covered a Knox; and JISC-funded Prosocial Primates: Empathy wide range of subject areas research fellow, David such as Sartre (with an AHRC Bourget. They contributed in Animals and Humans project at Cardiff); Rorty hugely to our research profile, Free Public Lecture by Professor Frans de Waal, (with the Humanities and organising seminars, fora, Emory University, Atlanta, USA The Institute of Philosophy has an association with Philosophy Bites, podcasts in Thursday 10th June 2010, 7.00p.m. which philosophers are interviewed on bite-sized topics. Arts Research Centre at Royal and conferences as part of II INSTITUTES’ REPORTS Henry Wellcome Auditorium, Wellcome Collection Conference Centre Holloway); Relativism; The their research training. Our 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE
Future of Philosophy (with intensive research environment This lecture, by the author of The Age of Empathy, shows how empathy comes naturally to a great variety of animals, including humans. By studying social behaviours in animals, Frans de Waal demonstrates journal Metaphilosophy); continued to attract visitors that animals and humans are pre-programmed to reach out, questioning the assumption that humans are inherently selfish. He argues that understanding empathy’s survival value in evolution can help to and Metaphysics Forum; a humans’ by Frans de Wall in Phenomenal Qualities from Europe and the US. build a more just society based on a more accurate view of human nature. Places are free but you need to register as soon as possible as numbers are limited. Please contact series that showcases young association with the Wellcome (with an AHRC project at We hosted three visiting Betty McGrath, The Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, University of Manchester by email UK academics working in Trust. We launched a series Hertfordshire); Computers and professorial fellows, Jerry [email protected] or phone: 0161 275 3473 This event is being run in association with a two day conference ‘Humans and Other Animals: Challenging these areas. The Aesthetics of Chandaria Lectures in Minds (with Queen Mary); Vision, Temple, Steven Hales, the Boundaries of Humanity’ on 11th and 12th June at the Institute of Philosophy, London.
Forum, supported by the association with Oxford Expressivism; Alexander of Bloomsburg, Mariam Thalos, To register for the conference go to: www.philosophy.sas.ac.uk/HumansAnimals_reg.php British Society for Aesthetics, University Press, made possible Aphrodisias (with Classical Utah, and three visiting To find out more about this conference go to: www.isei.manchester.ac.uk continued to attract an by a generous donation from Studies); Consciousness fellows. We also enjoyed a impressive range of national Shamil Chandaria: Stephen and the Will (celebrating close association with Michael
and international speakers. Neale from CUNY gave the Brian O’Shaughnessy); Williams, Johns Hopkins, of Manchester The University Support Services Unit, Teaching Workshop, SupportGraphics the at Produced The lunchtime seminar series first series on ‘Mythologies of and Emergence in Physics the School’s S. T. Lee Visiting The Institute of Philosophy hosted the lecture, ‘Prosocial primates: empathy in continued to include talks context: semantics, archaeology (supported by the British Professor. animals and humans’, by Frans de Wall, in association with the Wellcome Trust. from Institute-based fellows and the law’. We formed a new Society for the Philosophy and, in addition, we had association with the London of Science). The annual We continued our strong speakers from Australia, the US Gastronomy Seminar to stage conference competition relationship with the British include two workshops on rest of the world, gives every (University of California [UC], a series of events exploring was won by the Institute of Philosophical Association, sensory exploration, one in reason to be confident that Berkeley; City University of topics such as coffee, cheese, Science, Ethics and Innovation the national body who speak London and one at Bogota, the Institute will continue New York [CUNY]; Kansas; and wine from the perspective at Manchester, who ran the on behalf of the discipline, Colombia as a result of being to enhance its national UC Riverside; Rutgers; of researchers and producers; ‘Humans and Other Animals’ offering free membership to awarded a British Academy and international role as Southern California), Europe events which proved very conference. Also funded was their members and hosting UK–Latin American and a promoter and facilitator (Crete) and the UK. popular with the public. The an international graduate-led their meetings to discuss issues Caribbean Link Grant. of research excellence in Nature of Taste project, run workshop on ‘Philosophical of policy and funding. We also philosophy. Public lectures included jointly with the New York issues of second-order modal continued our relationship The increased level of research the Jacobsen Lecture, Institute of Philosophy at NY, logic’ focusing on the work with the Aristotelian Society, activity, networking and ‘Instrumental reasoning’ by and involving philosophers of Tim Williamson, who making the most of their grant-holding, and the ever- John Broome, and a lecture from the US and UK, held commented on presentations series of high-profile academic increasing reputation of the on ‘Empathy in animals and its first workshop at the NYU by research students admitted visitors. Future initiatives Institute in the UK and the
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Institute for the Study of the Americas women and US foreign policy; by Reginald Dumas, former In a time of restrained public US democracy promotion; Special Advisor on Haiti to spending, these efforts will and the student sit-ins of the UN Secretary General, continue into 2010–11. 1960 that launched the civil and a book launch of two Similarly, while ISA’s teaching rights protests of the 1960s. new publications on Haiti. In programme has been The Institute also entered a addition, a new seminar series adapted to meet prevailing new partnership with London was launched in 2009–10 funding requirements, it has Metropolitan University to facilitate academic and continued to flourish and II INSTITUTES’ REPORTS for a series of seminars on postgraduate research by to attract students of high American popular culture; providing a forum in which quality. Research students projects were initiated to scholars can share and discuss during this year numbered create digital resources to their ongoing work in the 26 and applications to join facilitate scholarly research field. our doctoral programme on women in US foreign showed a significant increase policy and the reporting of With its focus on ‘Americas over previous years. The US-UK relationship; while plural’, ISA was also pleased Institute intends to increase II INSTITUTES’ REPORTS Dr Tim Lynch was appointed to host events on Canadian its commitment to research
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, August 21: People buying and selling in front of a collapsed building, following the earthquake of January lead editor of the Oxford studies, including an event students by organising more 2010. © arindambanerjee/Shutterstock Encyclopaedia of American for the British Association training days and encouraging Diplomatic and Military of Canadian Studies entitled the formation of research In 2009–10, the Institute Danforth, former US Senator the Eccles Centre of the British History and Iwan Morgan ‘The North Atlantic Triangle networks for young scholars. relocated from Tavistock for Missouri 1976–95 and Library entitled ‘Revolutions! won the 2010 American — a Canadian myth?’ as Pleasingly, a School review of Square to be co-located into US Ambassador to the UN US and Spanish-American Politics Group’s Richard E. well as a major conference the US teaching programme Senate House, the home of the 2004–05; the Ambassador Independence Compared’. Neustadt Book Prize for The on ‘Traditions of Liberty in during the year reported a University of London. Thanks of Columbia, His Excellency A large audience gathered at Age of Deficits: Presidents and the Transatlantic World’ in very positive assessment and to the sterling efforts of several Mauricio Rodriguez Munera; the British Library to hear Unbalanced Budgets from collaboration with the British welcome recognition of the staff, the move concluded the former Paraguayan the views of a distinguished Jimmy Carter to George W. Association for Canadian high quality teaching on offer. smoothly and successfully in Minister of the Environment panel, including the Chair of Bush (University Press of Studies, the International time for the start of term and Jose Luis Casaccia Varas; and the ISA Advisory Council Sir Kansas, 2009). Council for Canadian Studies Following a successful with the minimum possible David McNaught, UK Deputy John Elliott, and the video and the Consejo Superior de funding application, the work disruption. Ambassador to Guatemala. of the event on the School’s The Institute’s vibrant Investigaciones Cientificas, of ISA was supplemented The Institute was also indebted website widened the audience programme of Caribbean Spain. The Institute’s further during 2009–10 As ever, the excellence and to His Excellency Anibal de still further. The event was so events has further prospered in commitment to Canadian by the contribution of Dr depth of the Institute’s work Castro, Ambassador of the successful that ISA is now to 2009–10, attracting £17,000 studies was reaffirmed Par Engstrom to the Latin shone through its events Dominican Republic, who organise an event at the Eccles of funding. One key event was through the appointment of American programme of programme which in 2009–10 donated a rare collection of Centre on an annual basis, an international conference on a fully-funded post-doctoral activities, including a regular comprised no fewer than 61 Juan Bosch’s writings to the building upon several years of Haiti and the aftermath of the position that will assist in human rights seminar series, seminars and 26 lectures, library. successful collaboration that January 2010 earthquake, the further development of our and a co-edited volume on workshops and conferences. allows ISA’s work to be widely speakers for which included programme of events on transitional justice. Funding Our 240 speakers included The Institute marked the disseminated through events representatives of Haitian, Canada. was also successfully received illustrious figures such as ‘Bicentenary of Latin American and published books. Dominican and European for future events on human former US Ambassador to the Independence’ with a series of NGOs who have worked on In 2009–10 ISA posted a rights trials in South America, UN, Nancy Soderberg (also high profile events. Perhaps Our US programme was the ground to assist in Haiti’s small surplus, achieved by the rise of Brazil and the National Security Council foremost amongst these was a marked by three major recovery efforts. The event driving down operating costs International Criminal Court Staff Director 1993–97); John collaborative public event with international conferences on: closed with a keynote address through more shared services. and Colombia.
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Warburg Institute The Warburg has continued has been developed in the on our MA in Cultural and to benefit greatly from the photographic collection. Intellectual History 1300– generosity of readers and Meanwhile, we have continued 1650, the highest number well-wishers, so much so that the programme of digitising ever. There was also strong over half of the acquisitions parts of the book collection support for the training course (excluding periodicals) came and making the texts available on Resources and Techniques by gift or exchange. At the online, which is beneficial for the Study of Renaissance same time, the acquisition both for conservation reasons and Early Modern Culture, II INSTITUTES’ REPORTS budget was, as usual, heavily and for the convenience of run jointly with the University dependent on contributions readers. of Warwick, which now lasts from our endowments. We one week, and which attracts are buying fewer books than a In addition to the regular increasing numbers of students few years ago, largely because series of seminars, four based at universities overseas. of the weakness of the sterling international colloquia were against the euro, the currency held at the Institute during the While work continued on in which most of our purchases year, each with support from existing research projects (‘Medicine of the mind and II INSTITUTES’ REPORTS are made, but the effects have outside organisations. The based at the Institute, we natural philosophy in early not yet been as damaging as subjects were: ‘The Muses and also participated in three modern England: a new might have been anticipated. their Afterlife in Post-Classical successful bids to the AHRC way of interpreting Francis Europe’; ‘Medicine and for research grants, two for Bacon’), in conjunction Much progress has been made Classicism in Comparative three years (‘Vernacular with members of the New in developing the Institute’s Perspective’; ‘Fourteenth- Aristotelianism in Renaissance European College, Bucharest. electronic resources, which Century Classicism: Bernat Italy c.1400–c.1650’; ‘The Our long-term Yates Fellow have become increasingly Metge and Petrarch’; and production and reading of continued to work at the integrated and accessible, as ‘Sense, Affect and Self- music sources 1480–1530’) Institute, and we were also was demonstrated in March able to award 11 short-term at a presentation held at the stipendiary fellowships. Institute. Thanks to a grant The programme of digitising 10,000 images from books We also hosted one British from the DDF, the oldest of Item from the Warburg Institute’s iconographic database: Thessaloniki, Church of in the library for ARTStor was completed during the year, Academy postdoctoral Fellow these resources, the database Hagia Sophia,Greece. Photograph by Robert Weir Schultz and Sidney Barnsley, and one Newton International 1889. and the images themselves are being integrated in the of Warburg’s correspondence Fellow, as well as a number of up to 1929, which went online iconographic database that has been developed in the exchange students. last year, was finally completed grant from the Fund has the correspondence, which will photographic collection. and now includes full enabled work to begin on the greatly enhance the value of In the course of the year the summaries of approximately compilation of ‘Authority Files’ the database for researchers. Institute published three 38,000 letters. A further of the individuals named in Preservation in Bernardino and one for one year books, and the accessibility of The programme of digitising Telesio (1509–88)’. There (‘Landscape aesthetics, the Journal of the Warburg and 10,000 images from books in were also a number of public meaning and experience Courtauld Institutes, which The Warburg’s correspondence up to 1929, which the library for ARTStor was lectures, including a series in Christian pilgrimage’). for the first time included completed during the year, extensive colour illustrations, went online last year, now includes full summaries of on current research given by In addition, a European and the images themselves members of the Institute’s Research Council Starting was enhanced by making approximately 38,000 letters. are being integrated in the staff. Grant under the Community’s all issues available online to iconographic database that 7th Framework Programme subscribers. Four students were awarded was awarded to Dr Guido a PhD and 13 were registered Giglioni for a five-year project
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Human Rights Consortium European Union Sanctions and Foreign entitled ‘Human Rights: Policy - published by visiting fellow, Clara Portela. Effectiveness of International and Regional Mechanisms’ to The International Studies Encyclopedia (Blackwell formulating a joint research Publishing, 2010), and with project and submitting Andrew Hurrell a chapter to network funding applications an edited volume entitled II INSTITUTES’ REPORTS around the broad theme Human Rights Regimes in the of transitional justice. Par Americas, published by United Engstrom was invited to act Nations University Press. He as a co-chair of the London was also invited to contribute Exhibition at the School of Advanced Study, hosted by Institute of Commonwealth Studies, entitled Through the Eyes of Transitional Justice Network. to a series of online roundtable Children: Drawings from Darfur. Corinne Lennox coordinated discussions hosted by Denver the participation of the HRC University’s Human Rights The first year of HRC and Children’s Human Rights’ rights, and finalised her book, in the Association of Human and Human Welfare journal,
II INSTITUTES’ REPORTS activities was very eventful co-convened by Maxine European Union Sanctions and Rights Institutions that brings and to contribute a chapter and successful on a number Molyneux, ISA, with support Foreign Policy (Routledge). ‘International Criminal Court together 29 institutions from on Brazil to a forthcoming of different fronts, including from the Department for The HRC also supported and Colombia’ (February across Europe. The HRC has volume on Foreign Policy research facilitation, International Development the production of a film on 2011). These events will enabled the work of the UK and Human Rights, edited publications, research training (DFID) and the Institute of inclusion and equality issues feature in next year’s annual Minority Rights network by by Centro de Estudios y and teaching. Under the Development Studies, Sussex. involving young people in the report. The HRC was also co-hosting and supporting Programas Interamericanos broad umbrella of research Bloomsbury area. Two MA involved in research bids a workshop on minority at Instituto Tecnológico facilitation, the HRC seminar The HRC also supported a students at ICwS worked hard with partners both within and indigenous rights next Autónomo de México. Par series (run jointly with ICwS well-attended exhibition at over the summer together with and outside the School that academic year. Other research Engstrom also presented his and ISA) was launched at the the School hosted by ICwS Corinne Lennox, ICwS, Dee have targeted a wide range of facilitation activities this year research on the Inter-American beginning of the academic entitled Through the Eyes Burn and a local film company potential funders including included an edited volume Human Rights System at a year with a very good turnout of Children: Drawings from to produce the film due to UNESCO, the British Foreign entitled Taking Stock of number of conferences and overall for the various events Darfur, and a round-table premiere at the Renoir cinema and Commonwealth Office, Transitional Justice: Tensions, seminars over the course organised (a separate report discussion convened by in the Brunswick Centre the Brazilian and Colombian Trends and Future Directions of the year, and a paper on for the Sawyer seminar series ICwS in collaboration with during the Bloomsbury Festival Embassies in London, (co-edited by Par Engstrom Swedish foreign aid and has also been submitted by Minority Rights International in October 2010. the Brazilian Chamber of and colleagues at Oxford human rights policies. He also Kirrily Pells). Other HRC- entitled ‘Winning Africa’s first Commerce and TAM Airlines. Transitional Justice Research) completed visiting fellowships supported events this academic indigenous land rights case: During the year the HRC which is forthcoming with at the Centre for International year included three conferences implications in Kenya and also applied for and obtained In addition, the HRC was Intersentia. Par Engstrom Studies and Research (CERI), entitled: ‘Beyond Statistics: beyond’. funding for a number of involved in furthering and also acted as a reviewer of Sciences-Po Paris, and at the Measuring Education as a forthcoming events including a consolidating a number book manuscripts and articles Center for Human Rights and Human Right’ convened by This academic year the HRC one-day conference on human of different networks of for Routledge Politics Series Global Justice at New York Angela Melchiorre, ActionAid hosted its very first visiting rights trials in South America researchers and practitioners. and Human Rights Review University Law School. International; ‘Migration and fellow, Clara Portela, Singapore (October 2010 co-organised For example, together with (Springer). the Right to Health’ organised Management University. by Cath Collins, HRC visiting colleagues at Essex, Oxford, by Jasmine Gideon, Birkbeck, During her fellowship Clara fellow), a series of debates on the School of Oriental and This year was also productive and Felicity Thomas, Institute conducted research for her ‘Rising Brazil’ (November– African Studies, the University in terms of research and of Education; and ‘Bridging project on targeted sanctions December 2010), and a of East London and York, publications. Par Engstrom the Divide Between Women’s and their effects on human two-day conference on the the HRC is involved in contributed a chapter
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Administration and finance The School Central Services is made up of the Dean’s Office, the Registry, Research Support Services, Development and Marketing, and Publications.
Dean’s Office Registry The Dean’s Office oversaw Sandrine Alarcon-Symonds The year began with a new for offering PG Certificates administrative services. The the relocation of four of the was promoted to Strategic focus for the Academic Policy and Diplomas for those report of the review was due in School’s Institutes and its Planning and Policy Officer and Standards Committee students who, for whatever November 2010. Central Services to the newly to support the developing (APSC) — the School’s reason wished to stop short refurbished Senate House in planning activity in the primary approval and quality of completing a full Master’s. In August the School August 2009. Sir Roderick School and preparation for the assuring body. It became The School was now equipped was notified by the Vice- Floud, Acting Dean at the forthcoming HEFCE Review. the Academic Quality to give Diploma Supplements Chancellor that the Research time of the move, welcomed Lisa Moore joined the School and Standards Committee to students graduating in Degrees Office would be SAS Central Services relocated to the all members of the School as Personal Assistant to the Senate House. (AQSC). With new terms of December 2010. As well as closing resulting in the into the new accommodation Dean and Office Manager. reference, it was felt that this continually updating the School taking on additional saying ‘The Senate House Professor Sir Roderick Floud with all members of staff on more adequately reflected the regulations the Committee responsibility for the building represents the left the Deanship at the end of the School’s Strategic Plan much needed focus on quality approved a mitigating administration of research quintessence of academic life September 2009. He said: ‘I from 2009–10 to 2012–13, and academic standards, circumstances procedure and degrees. and its refurbishment, I am have much enjoyed and valued to ensure that the School particularly as this was the approved no fewer than nine
sure, will bring about a new the contact with scholars delivers the results for which year preceding the Quality new modules for existing In June the School’s Highly III ADMINISTRATION, FINANCE AND and positive era for the School engaged in research in the it receives national funding. Assurance Agency (QAA) Master’s programmes. Trusted Sponsorship status and its community as a whole.’ social sciences and humanities Professor Roger Kain assumed audit of the central academic which licenses the School to and have profited from the the Deanship on 1 April bodies. The new committee This year we also said goodbye bring in international students Having met the Dean’s seminars. I look forward 2010. Almost immediately also began with a new Chair to Wendy Birch, one of the and fellows was renewed. GOVERNANCE recommendations made by to continuing these contacts, Professor Kain was thrust into and Professor Avrom Sherr, Assistant Registrars, who left Sir Ivor Crewe’s review of the after relinquishing the role of a hectic schedule of planning who had chaired the APSC Registry to pursue a period of The School began its School in 2007–08, carried Dean, since I am convinced meetings with Institutes. and implemented School self-employment. Her hard preparation for the out on behalf of HEFCE, that SAS is performing a vital During this early period he set policy harmonisation, stood work and ability to cover so forthcoming QAA audit due GOVERNANCE the Dean’s Office turned its role in facilitating research in up a Dean’s Advisory Group down to make way for first the much ground have been sorely to take place in April 2011. attention to implementing the those fields.’ Distinguished consisting of himself, the Acting Dean, Professor Mike missed. It also left Registry School’s Strategic Plan 2009– classical scholar, Professor Deputy Dean, Professor Mike Edwards, followed by the with a vacancy which for this 10 to 2012–13, which covers Dean, Professor Roger Kain. year was filled by a temporary III ADMINISTRATION, FINANCE AND III ADMINISTRATION, Mike Edwards, Director Edwards, the Chief Operating the period to the next HEFCE of the Institute of Classical Officer, Sally Mallard, and staff member. Review. Studies, succeeded Sir two new Associate Deans: During the year the AQSC Roderick as Acting Dean until Professor Avrom Sherr and established a credit framework, It was three years since the Two new committees a permanent appointment Professor Barry Smith. He which for the first time setting up of the Registry and were created: the Research was made. Professor Edwards’ also began preparation for the attached credits to individual the School commissioned an Committee and the Digital term focused on building on forthcoming HEFCE Review modules and paved the way external review of student Resources and Strategy the strong progress made in by clarifying with HEFCE Committee, while the meeting the recommendations the Terms of Reference for Publications and Programme of the Crewe review. In the Review together with key Committees were merged. particular, he led a consultation performance indicators.
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Marketing Research Services During 2009–10, progress with full-time staff. Instead One of the School’s key These are the Conference was made in developing the Brakeley Ltd recommended strategic aims is to increase its Grant and Sabbatical Leave School’s suite of information a coordinating role for the external funding in support Schemes (both funded from Past and Future
The magazine of the Institute of Historical Research materials to raise awareness of SAS Dean’s Office together of research and research HEFCE’s Rewarding and Issue 8 Autumn/Winter 2010 the School’s activities. A series with external professional resources. To this end, the Developing Staff Fund) and of termly events brochures was fundraising support in Research Services team the Knowledge Transfer produced and disseminated a number of areas. To provides advice, guidance and Scheme (funded from the to academic departments, fully implement these training for Institute staff, to University’s Higher Education professional organisations and recommendations would enable more funding bids, and Innovation Fund grant). In individuals across the UK and require further resources. to achieve a higher success 2009–10, the total claimed the link to the online brochure Neither extra staff time nor rate. from the Conference Grant was sent to departmental and additional funding could, scheme was £11,019; the individual contacts worldwide. however, be made available The School’s new Research amount awarded was £7,926. The School’s annual prospectus in 2009–10. The expectation Committee, chaired by This money supported was produced, in both hard Cover of the SAS Events brochure. was that development Professor Philip Murphy, members of staff (from Cover of the IHR quartlery magazine, copy and online versions, would be included in the held its inaugural meeting on across both the School and typeset by SAS Publications. and distributed to university Marketing Services was pleased review of centrally-provided 21 June 2010. The Research also the ULRLS) to attend departments in the humanities to support a number of School services within the School, Committee provides strategic events in such diverse places and social sciences and careers initiatives during the year, in to be conducted early in the direction and academic as Cambridge, Toronto, of the production process. offices. A regularly updated collaboration with Research academic year 2010–11. overview for the Research Istanbul, Barcelona, New It also provided advice to
guidance sheet on student Services including the School’s Services team and the School Orleans, Amsterdam, Oxford, Institutes on print-on-demand III ADMINISTRATION, FINANCE AND funding opportunities at Knowledge Transfer Scheme As in 2008–09, therefore, in on research grant policy. Bangkok, Norwich, Limerick publications, and guidance on the School continued to be and the London Debates series. co-operation with Finance, the and Venice, in furtherance of a range of other publishing produced. Vice-Chancellor’s Office, the The Research Services team their research and to help with activities from dealing with University’s external student continued to keep colleagues establishing useful networks copyright and permissions, to GOVERNANCE Marketing Services developed Development administration programme informed about current and collaborations. licensing issues and royalties. and maintained a series of During 2009–10 a study on (EISA) and the IHR Trust, funding opportunities, both The School continued to be a member of the Association electronic bulletins. Weekly the feasibility of establishing effort was concentrated upon by means of regular bulletins Publications email bulletins listing all events a Development Office for ensuring that the necessary and individual consultations. of Learned and Professional GOVERNANCE being held in the School were the central University was procedures were in place A series of workshops took The move to Senate House Society Publishers (ALPSP) distributed to humanities and commissioned within the to permit the first claim to place over the year, aimed enabled the publications which provided valuable social science departments in framework of the University’s be made in autumn 2009 primarily at School academic team to develop closer links advice and networking
III ADMINISTRATION, FINANCE AND III ADMINISTRATION, the UK, as well as to relevant Business Change Programme, under the Government and administrative colleagues, with colleagues in other opportunities. email lists and other interested with Valerie James, Head Matched Funding Scheme. research students and, where central SAS administrative parties who subscribe to of Development for the This was accompanied by appropriate, visiting fellows. functions and in Institutes At the end of June 2010, the online mailing list. The School, as project manager, the co-ordination of the The team also assisted and to raise the profile of the Kerry Whitston joined the School’s online newsletter and Sally Mallard heading response to the annual Ross- colleagues to submit a large services they can provide. publications team as School continued to be published, up the project. The Senior CASE survey on Gifts and number of bids, mainly via The team’s primary role is to Publications Manager to with the intention of bringing Management Team of the Costs of Voluntary Giving electronic submission systems, provide support to Institutes provide maternity cover for news and views of interest central University accepted to Higher Education in the to a range of funding bodies, in book publishing, taking Emily Morrell. Valerie Hall to those working in the the recommendation of UK, completion of which is both in the UK and Europe. on functions such as collating continued to manage book humanities and social sciences Brakeley Ltd that, given mandatory for institutions information for directories, sales and distribution for the on a twice-yearly basis. The current circumstances, it taking part in the Matched The Research Services team design, page layout, copy- IHR and ISA and took on newsletter can be viewed at would be inappropriate for Funding Scheme. Some more administers the School’s own editing and proof-reading, and editorial work in addition www.sas.ac.uk/newsletter/ the University to put in place general fundraising advice was internal funding competitions. in some cases full management to this. Jane Winters, who index.htm. a central development office also provided to Institutes and 46 to SAS Central on request. 47 SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY ANNUAL REPORT 2009–10
Governance heads up the publications produced this year were annual Board of the School department of the IHR, handbooks for the Research continued to contribute to Training team and the central publishing activities Registry; the bi-annual IHR through her work on SAS- magazine, Past and Future; the Sir Graeme Davies Vice-Chancellor, University of London, Chairman Space. publication of the IES’s Hilda Hulme lecture; two books Professor Mike Edwards Acting Dean, School of Advanced Study October 2009–March The publications team for ISA; and a number of the 2010; Director, Institute of Classical Studies and Deputy Dean, continued to be involved in IHR’s annual publications. In School of Advanced Study managing the design and addition, it produced leaflets production of a range of and posters for events such as Ms Judith Evans Board of Trustees Representative promotional and information the IHR’s Anglo-American materials in collaboration with conference. The second edition the Dean’s Office, Marketing of the printed publications Professor Richard Evans Cambridge University Services and the Registry. catalogue, which includes new This included the 2008–09 books and backlist titles from Professor Sir Roderick Floud Acting Dean, until September 2009 School annual report as well all the Institutes, was produced Publication produced on behalf of ISA by SAS Publications. as the 2010–11 prospectus. in June 2010. Among the printed materials Mr Matthew Glencross Student, School of Advanced Study
Dr Robin Jackson Chief Executive and Secretary of the British Academy III ADMINISTRATION, FINANCE AND Finance Special Funding for 2009–10 of Institute Directors and years. The fund has been Professor Roger Kain Dean and Chief Executive, School of Advanced Study, from April 2010
was slightly increased from Managers working with staff carried forward to 2010–11 GOVERNANCE 2008–09 to £8,636,338. Of in the Dean’s Office. There and will continue to be used to this, £3,936,617 was allocated were fewer swings in the levels support strategic development. Rt Hon Sir David Keene QC Lord Justice of Appeal, Judiciary of England and Wales to the Libraries. Non-Library of Institute funding which PC funding of £4,699,721 was resulted in reduced reliance The out-turn for 2009–10
GOVERNANCE allocated to the Institutes using on safety nets to cushion showed a deficit of £626,000. Professor Dame Janet Nelson King’s College, London the School’s resource allocation Institutes. We will continue to Whilst this figure was model. work to phase out the safety significant it included almost net. £100,000 of planned spend Dame Janet Ritterman Royal College of Music, London III ADMINISTRATION, FINANCE AND III ADMINISTRATION, The year 2009–10 was the from reserves in the SAS- resource allocation model’s The reduction in reliance on Central units and also a Professor Barry Smith Director, Institute of Philosophy, October 2009–March 2010 third. We refined the collection safety nets meant that a larger number of exceptional items of of the statistical data on which proportion of the Special expenditure in three Institutes Ms Karen Stanton King’s College, London 40 per cent of the funding is Funding could be allocated to which accounted for a large based and worked closely with the DDF. We entered 2009–10 part of the deficit. We fully Institutes to ensure the data with a DDF of £1.2 million. expect the situation to improve Professor Deborah Swallow The Courtauld Institute of Art was robust. We continued By the end of 2009–10 we for 2010–11 as we work the work of the RAM Review had allocated £531,000 of this towards planned sustainability Secretary: Ms Catherine Director of Administration, University of London Group which ensured that to a range of very impressive, by 2013–14. The full accounts Swarbrick all issues were addressed innovative projects and are available in the appendices. by a representative group committed funding for future
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Directorate Central Services
Professor Sir Roderick Floud Acting Dean and Chair, until September 2009 Dean’s Office Professor Michael Edwards Acting Dean and Chair, October 2009–March 2010, Director, Institute of Classical Studies Dean Professor Sir Roderick Floud (until September 2009) Professor Roger Kain Dean and Chair from April 2010 Professor Maxine Molyneux Director, Institute for the Study of the Americas Professor Mike Edwards (until March 2010) Professor Philip Murphy Director, Institute of Commonwealth Studies Professor Roger Kain (from April 2010) Professor John Irving Director, Institute of Musical Research Secretary and Senior Administrator Ms Sally Mallard Professor Warwick Gould Director, Institute of English Studies, represented by Professor Sandra Clark, Deputy Director, during Professor Gould’s absence Executive Officer (until March 2010) Professor Charles Hope Director, Warburg Institute Ms Sandrine Alarçon-Symonds Planning and Policy Officer Professor Naomi Segal Director, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (from April 2010) Professor Avrom Sherr Director, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies PA to the Dean and Office Manager Ms Lisa Moore (from April 2010) Professor Barry Smith Director, Institute of Philosophy Professor Michael Taylor Director, Institute of Historical Research Secretary: Registry Ms Sally Mallard Secretary and Senior Administrator By invitation: Registrar Ms Elaine Walters Ms Christine Muller/Mr Paul Acting Directors, University of London Research Library Services Assistant Registrars Ms Mispa Same Essaka McLaughlin Ms Wendy Birch (until February 2010) Dr D Rippon Director, University of London Computing Centre Ms Catherine Swarbrick Director of Administration, University of London Ms Wendy Malone III ADMINISTRATION, FINANCE AND
Research Services Committees Research Support Officer Ms Rosemary Lambeth GOVERNANCE Academic Quality and Standards Committee Research Grants and Fellowship Officer Mr Peter Niven
Chair Professor Roderick Floud (until September 2009) Professor M Edwards (until March 2010)
GOVERNANCE Marketing and Development Professor Roger Kain (from April 2010) Dean, School of Advanced Study) Head of Marketing Ms Dee Burn Library Committee of the Directorate and Development and Marketing Manager
III ADMINISTRATION, FINANCE AND III ADMINISTRATION, Head of Development and Fund-raising Valerie James (seconded from Institute of Musical Chair Professor Mike Edwards (Deputy Dean, Director, Institute of Research) Classical Studies) Marketing Officer Ms Agnieszka Gillespie Programme Committee Marketing Assistant Mr Troy Rutt Chair Professor Mike Edwards (Deputy Dean, Director, Institute of Classical Studies) Publication Committee Publications
Chair Professor Mike Edwards (Deputy Dean, Director, Institute of Head of Publications Ms Emily Morrell (until June 2010) Classical Studies) Ms Kerry Whitston (from July 2010) Health and Safety Committee Publications Assistant Ms Valerie Hall Chair Ms Elaine Walters (Institute of Historical Research)
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Appendix I: Income, expenditure and reserves Appendix II: HEFCE grants allocated by the board (including library grants)
Central funds and Institutes combined Institute 2008-09 2009-10 2008-09 2009-10 £ £ £ £ Advanced Legal Studies 332,992 315,871 Income Classical Studies 266,555 339,614 Funding Council Grants 5,057,100 5,143,647 Commonwealth Studies 257,956 214,173 Academic Fees and Support Grants 1,227,384 1,215,457 English Studies 307,114 428,746 Research Grants and Contracts 2,955,770 2,383,004 Germanic & Romance Studies 243,984 242,864 Other Operating Income 3,426,289 3,625,798 Historical Research 946,885 890,024 Endowment Income and interest 243,405 246,665 Musical Research 147,007 146,164 Total Income 12,909,948 12,614,571 Philosophy 166,082 188,482 Study of the Americas 658,721 581,478 Expenditure Warburg 515,357 482,934 Staff Costs 7,299,229 6,965,992 School central and grants 900,000 677,417 Other Operating Income 5,685,169 6,274,617 Total Institute grants 4,742,653 4,507,767 Total Expenditure 12,984,398 13,240,610 Libraries Advanced Legal Studies Library 1,007,665 1,170,560 Balance before transfers to/from Reserves -74,450 -626,039 Classical Studies Library 281,275 279,265 Commonwealth Studies Library 312,740 315,250 Non- Designated Reserves Germanic Studies Library 228,693 153,705 Brought forward from previous years 3,517,363 3,384,338 Historical Research Library 349,505 500,129 Transfers from/(to) I&E -74,450 -626,039 Latin American Library 314,099 174,078 Other income direct to/from Reserves -58,575 -6,861 Warburg Library 782,610 909,130 3,384,338 2,751,438 Cognate Collections (see note 1) 239,348 434,500 Total Library grants 3,515,935 3,936,617 Dean’s Development Fund (see note 2) 240,716 232,897 Total grants 8,499,304 8,677,281
Note 1: A recommendation was made in the 2007 Crewe Review to the effect that: in support of the research promotion and facilitation of all the Institutes comprising the School, and in recognition of the integral role of libraries in that objective, part of the special funding to the University of London, at that time allocated to Senate House Library, proportionate to the relative costs incurred by Senate House Library in== its development and management of the collections in English Studies, Music, Philosophy, Romance Studies, US Studies, and immediately cognate studies should be transferred to the special funding for the School of Advanced Study. IV APPENDICES Note 2: Ten per cent of the School’s Special Funding is transferred to a Dean’s Development Fund, to which all institutes can bid for strategic development funding. IV APPENDICES
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Appendix III: Summary of results 2009–10 Appendix V: Publications
Institute Total income Staff Costs Other Operating Surplus/deficit Institute of Classical Studies Expenses £ £ £ £ BICS Supplement 103: Philoponus and the rejection of Aristotelian science (2nd edition) Richard Sorabji (ed.) Advanced Legal Studies 1,316,175 868,343 632,946 -185,114 2010, ISBN 9780801420498 Classical Studies 425,423 105,821 264,123 55,479 Commonwealth Studies 805,953 410,728 416,111 -20,886 BICS Supplement 102.5: Names on Terra Sigillata. L to MASCLUS II English Studies 1,135,663 607,843 528,723 -903 Brian R. Hartley and Brenda M. Dickinson (eds.) Germanic & Romance 546,158 479,540 177,753 -111,135 2010, ISBN 9781905670260 Studies Historical Research 3,761,908 1,927,216 2,014,534 -179,842 BICS Supplement 105: Pheidias: the sculptures and ancient sources Musical Research 243,609 41,748 177,472 24,389 Claire Cullen Davison Philosophy 433,471 261,999 171,113 359 2009, ISBN 9781905670215 Study of the Americas 955,564 613,286 322,806 19,472 Warburg 1,313,431 870,853 572,126 -129,548 BICS Supplement 106: Menander ‘Epitrepontes’ School central and grants 1,677,217 700,721 1,074,808 -98,312 William D. Furley (ed.) 2009, ISBN 9781905670253 Appendix IV Institute of Commonwealth Studies 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 Library usage Democracy in the Commonwealth Total visits to SAS libraries by readers 269,349 263,918 242,965 Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, Asma Jahangir and Tim Sheehy Library readers 2009, ISBN 9780955109560 University of London 5,574 7,370 8542 Other UK universities 3,120 4,714 4775 Institute of English Studies Overseas universities 1,848 2,875 2957 Eliot’s Shakespeare Private/commercial 1,938 3,890 4227 Denis Donoghue Visitors/temporary readers 2,841 2,278 1375 2009 Total registered readers 22,100 24,519 21,876 Main collections Virginia Woolf’s Bloomsbury: Volume 1, Aesthetic Theory and Literary Practice Gift volumes added 5,352 5,057 3859 Lisa Shahriari and Gina Potts (eds.) Total volumes added 18,147 17,679 14,043 2010, ISBN 9780230517660 with Palgrave Macmillan Total volumes 1,271,428 1,511,683 1,300,298 Virginia Woolf’s Bloomsbury: Volume 2, International Influence and Politics Current serial titles 6,902 6,761 7010 Lisa Shahriari and Gina Potts (eds.) Total serial titles 28,375 25,640 28798 2010, ISBN 9780230517677 Electronic periodicals and services 629 656 See below
with Palgrave Macmillan IV APPENDICES Microfilm rolls added 0 6 Microfiches added 402 0 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Archives in metres 867 953.32 685.07 London German Studies XIII: From Charlottenburg to Middleton. Michael Hamburger (1924– 2007): Poet, Translator, Critic Electronic periodicals and services — Institute libraries provide access to a wide range of specialist IV APPENDICES Joyce Crick, Martin Liebscher and Martin Swales (eds.) databases and over 30,000 e-journals and other resources.
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2010, ISBN 9780854572243 Historical Research for Higher Degrees in the United Kingdom, List No. 71. Part II: Theses in Progress With iudicium verlag, Munich 2010 Emily Morrell, Jennifer Wallis and Jane Winters (eds.) Hamann’s Prophetic Mission: a Genetic Study of Three Late Works against the Enlightenment 2010, ISBN 9781905165575 Timothy Beech 2010, ISBN 9781906540227 Teachers of History in the Universities of the United Kingdom 2010 With the MHRA Emily Morrell and Jane Winters (eds.) 2010, ISBN 9781905165551 The Wallenstein Figure in German Literature and Historiography 1790–1920 Steffan Davies Who was Henry VII? The 500th Anniversary of the Death of the First Tudor King (1509–2009) 2010, ISBN 9781906540289 Mark R. Horowitz (ed.) With the MHRA 2009, ISBN 9781905165513
E.T.A. Hoffmann and Alcohol: Biography, Reception and Art The Victoria History of the County of Sussex: Volume V, part 2: Littlehampton and District: Arundel Victoria Dutchman-Smith Rape (south-eastern part) 2010, ISBN 9781906540234 C.P. Lewis (ed.) With the MHRA 2009, ISBN 9781904356196 with Boydell & Brewer Ltd Alfred Döblin. Paradigms of Modernism Steffan Davies and Ernest Schonfield (eds.) The Victoria History of the County of Middlesex: Volume XIII: The City of Westminster: 2009, ISBN 9780854572229 Landownership and Religious History With de Gruyter, Berlin Patricia E.C. Croot with Alan Thacker and Elizabeth Williamson (eds.) 2009, ISBN 9781904356226 Schillers ‘Wallenstein’-Trilogie auf der Bühne with Boydell & Brewer Ltd Peter Stein 2009, ISBN 9780854572236 The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall: Volume II: Religious History to 1560 Nicholas Orme with a contribution from Oliver Padel 2010, ISBN 9781904356127 Institute of Historical Research with Boydell & Brewer Ltd Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541. Vol. II, Hereford Diocese (second edition) Joyce M. Horn, rev. David M. Lepine The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester: Volume XII: Newent and May Hill 2009, ISBN 9781905165506 A.R.J. Jurica (ed.) 2010, ISBN 9781904356363 Grants for History 2010: a Guide to Funding with Boydell & Brewer Ltd John R. Davis, with Emily Morrell and Valerie Hall (eds.) 2009, ISBN 9781905165544 Hardwick: a great house and its estate Philip Riden and Dudley Fowkes Historical Research for Higher Degrees in the United Kingdom, List No. 71. Part I: Theses Completed 2009, ISBN 9781860775444
2009 with Phillimore & Co. Ltd IV APPENDICES Emily Morrell, Jennifer Wallis and Jane Winters (eds.) 2010, ISBN 9781905165568 Henley-on-Thames: town, trade and river Simon Townley 2009, ISBN 9781860775543 with Phillimore & Co. Ltd IV APPENDICES
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The Medway Valley: a Kent landscape transformed Governance after Neoliberalism in Latin America Andrew Hann Jean Grugel and Pía Riggirozzi 2009, ISBN 9781860776007 2009, ISBN 9780230604421 with Phillimore & Co. Ltd with Palgrave Macmillan
Ledbury: people and parish before the Reformation Post-Colonial Trinidad: An Ethnographic Journal Sylvia Pinches Colin Clarke and Gillian Clarke 2010, ISBN 9781860776144 2010, ISBN 9780230622005 with Phillimore & Co. Ltd with Palgrave Macmillan
Sunderland: building a city The Origins of Mercosur: Democracy and Regionalization in South America Gillian Cookson Gian Luca Gardini 2010, ISBN 9781860775475 2010, ISBN 9780230613133 with Phillimore & Co. Ltd with Palgrave Macmillan
Cornwall and the Coast: Mousehole and Newlyn World Crisis Effects on Social Security in Latin America and the Caribbean: Lessons and Policies Joanna Mattingly Carmelo Mesa-Lago 2009, ISBN 9781860774898 2010, ISBN 9781900039970 With Phillimore & Co. Ltd Youth Violence in Latin America: Gangs and Juvenile Justice in Perspective Institute of Philosophy Gareth A. Jones, and Dennis Rodgers (eds.) 2009, ISBN 9780230600560 Sounds and Perception with Palgrave Macmillan Matthew Nudds and Casey O’Callaghan (eds.) 2010, ISBN 9780199282968 Modern Poetics and Hemispheric American Cultural Studies with Oxford University Press Justin Read 2009, ISBN 9780230615960 Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind After 50 Years with Palgrave Macmillan Willem A de Vries (ed.) 2010 with Oxford University Press Warburg Institute Codices Boethiani: Part IV, Portugal and Spain Institute for the Study of the Americas Margaret Gibson, Marina Passalacqua and Lesley Smith (eds.) 2010, ISBN 9780854811502 Quebec and the Heritage of Franco-America Iwan Morgan and Philip Davies (eds.) Images of the Pagan Gods. Papers of a Conference in Honour of Jean Seznec 2010, ISBN 9781900039987 Rembrandt Duits and François Quiviger (eds.) 2010, ISBN 9780854811441
Belize’s Independence and Decolonization in Latin America: Guatemala, Britain and the UN IV APPENDICES Assad Shoman Conflicting Duties: Science, Medicine and Religion in Rome, 1550–1750 2010, ISBN 9780230620667 Maria Pia Donato and Jill Kraye (eds.) with Palgrave Macmillan 2010, ISBN 9780854811496 IV APPENDICES
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APPENDIX VI Periodicals University public lectures, recitals and readings and The following periodicals continued to be published by, in association with, or with the material other events in 2009–10 involvement of, Institutes. John Coffin Memorial Fund Amicus Curiae: Journal of the Society of Advanced Legal Studies (published by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) The Coffin bequest provides, ‘as suitable occasion should arise but not necessarily every year’, for: • ‘a lecture on Christian Ethics’ Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (published by the Institute of Classical Studies) • ‘a lecture on any recent research of historical, literary or scientific interest’; the Lecture in the History of Ideas was added in 1997; the annual Lecture in the History of the Book and the annual European Journal of Law Reform (published by Indiana University School of Law in association Palaeography Lecture were added in 2003 and 2004 respectively with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) • ‘A chamber concert or a recital by an ensemble or instrumentalist’ • ‘Literary readings of prose or poetry’ Financial Services Newsletter (published by Sweet & Maxwell in association with Julian Harris, Coffin Lecture publisher for the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) (a) Organised by the Institute of English Studies (IES) Historical Research: the Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research (published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. for the Institute of Historical Research) (i) (Coffin) Annual Palaeography Lecture — on books used for readings in the liturgy and during chapter, International Journal of the Legal Profession (published by Routledge in association with Avrom mealtimes and collation in English Benedictine houses: Sherr) ‘Reading in the refectory: monastic practice in England from the 11th to the 13th centuries’, 18 February 2010, Journal of Banking Regulation (published by Palgrave Macmillan in association with the Institute Dr Tessa Webber, FSA, FRHistS, Trinity College, of Advanced Legal Studies) Cambridge.
Journal of Latin American Studies (published by Cambridge University Press, with editorial offices The practice of appointing a monk to read aloud to his confrères each at the Institute for the Study of the Americas) week while they ate in silence follows the prescription of the chief monastic rule, that of St Benedict (ch. 38). However, while some 8,000 Journal of Romance Studies (published by Berghahn in association with the Institute of Germanic extant manuscript books have been assigned to specific English houses & Romance Studies) and a few medieval lists survive of monastic book collections, the evidence for what monks actually heard read at mealtimes still remains Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes (published by the Warburg Institute) to be discovered. Dr Webber discussed in front of a large audience various kinds of evidence that may be adduced. A few manuscripts are Money Laundering Monitor (published by Sweet & Maxwell in association with Julian Harris, known which bear an inscription stating that they were to be kept in the publisher for the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) refectory. Close study of some of these reveals that passages of text have been marked up in the margins for public reading (lections), while in Reviews in History (Institute of Historical Research) others hairline strokes are discernible over a syllable in polysyllabic words to indicate where the stress should fall to help the reader pronounce the Theses in Progress in Commonwealth Studies (published by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies) Latin correctly. The early eighth-century directory, the Ordo Romanus XIIIA, established a cycle of lessons and prayers to be read throughout Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies (published by Editions the ecclesiastical year at the night office. These included not only works Rodopi in association with the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies) of the Church Fathers and other writers such as Bede, but readings from the Bible. Piecing together the available evidence, Dr Webber proposed Yeats Annual (published by Palgrave Macmillan in association with the Institute of English that the large Bibles characteristic of the 12th century may not only have IV APPENDICES Studies)
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been displayed on the high altar of the church but could have been read folded in precise ways, creating different areas and sections of the page, in the refectory. which were used for different purposes (including a postscript).
(ii) ‘An unusual subject: Rebecca West and the art of biography’, (b) Organised by the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies 18 September 2009, Victoria Glendinning, PEN Club. (IGRS)
Victoria Glendinning was introduced by Carl Rollyson, the (i) ‘Network theory and its application to literature’, distinguished American biographer. Her talk addressed the writing 5 March 2010, Franco Moretti and research process of the biographer as well as Glendinning’s own recollections of Dame Rebecca West (1893–1982). The audience Franco Moretti earned his doctorate in modern literature from the included several visiting West scholars from the United States, all experts University of Rome in 1972. He was professor of comparative literature in the field of English literature, as well as members of West’s family, at Columbia University before being appointed to his current chair including her niece, nephew and great-niece. The talk was a great success at Stanford University. There, he founded the Stanford Center for the and was recorded. With Ms Glendinning’s permission, it was to be made Study of the Novel. Professor Moretti has given the Carpenter Lectures available to the public via the School’s website, and to members of the at the University of Chicago, the Gauss Seminars in Criticism at Rebecca West Society (New York). Princeton, and the Beckman Lectures at the University of California- Berkeley. In 2006, he was named to the American Academy of Arts and (iii) The Irish Studies Distinguished Lecture planned in winter 2009 Sciences. He has also been a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. with Edna O’Brien had to be cancelled due to circumstances beyond our Professor Moretti is a frequent contributor to the New Left Review, a control. member of Retort, a Bay Area-based group of radical intellectuals and a scientific adviser to the French Ministry of Research. (iv) John Coffin Memorial Lecture in the History of the Book, 30 June 2010. Moretti — who coined the challenging term ‘distant reading’ in 2000 — has always taken the broad view of literature, since his path-breaking Professor John Barnard has been working on John Keats’s letters Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms, first for a new edition. In the light of his current concerns he presented published in Italy in 1983 and translated into English in 1988. In a lecture on ‘Presence and absence in Keats’s letters’, a fascinating this work he can be said to have inaugurated cultural history. His amalgam of literary studies and the material history of text. The later studies moved from cultural history, through cultural geography, literary studies part was concerned with how much the letters were where he traced mappings both internal and external to the fictions, to an exercise in spontaneous self-expression, and the extent to which, the application of the quantitative structure of trees from Darwinian in contradistinction, they were self-conscious literary exercises with a biology. His work has always startled literary theorists by insisting on performative element. With the letters of the latter type, Keats clearly the relevance of quantitative methods to literature; and the talk he gave had in mind two audiences: those who were the immediate recipients at SAS on the application of network theory, was perhaps even more of the letters and — given that a number of these might well have challenging. The talk attracted a large and enthusiastic audience from collected and preserved the letters — those who might read them many subject fields and both London and beyond. He spoke intriguingly months or years afterwards. On occasions Keats seems to have had an and intricately on the application of Bruno Latour’s Actor Network almost theatrical idea of self where he describes in considerable detail his Theory first toHamlet and then to a traditional Chinese novel with a exact posture when writing, and the physical surroundings in which the mass of complicatedly related characters. In discussion, which was very
writing was taking place. Barnard then moved on to discussion of the lively, Moretti argued passionately for the value of interdisciplinary IV APPENDICES material constraints of an early 19th-century letter-writer. The cost of relations between literary scholars and mathematicians, and told us to paper (expensive until the mid 19th century) would usually restrict the await future developments. correspondent to one sheet. The cost of the postal service, governed by distance and weight, would also be an inhibiting factor. This led to the single sheet of paper, which also had to act as its own envelope, being IV APPENDICES
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Coffin Literary Reading childhood. Excerpts from the book were read both in the original and (a) Organised by the IGRS in English translation. Parts of Nicoletta Vallorani’s book, Cordelia, were translated specifically for the event by Ruth Malloy, who also presented (i) ‘Dal balcone del corpo — poesia’, 4 December 2009, Antonella her work. The reading was followed by a discussion led by Professor Anedda, University of Siena, and Jamie McKendrick, University of Abigail Lee Six. Oxford The event, which also inaugurated the newly established Centre for This reading was structured as a dialogue between the Italian poet the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing at the IGRS, attracted a Antonella Anedda and her translator Jamie McKendrick, himself a well- diverse audience, including a group of secondary-school children from known English poet. This format worked well, allowing both Italian a Portuguese School. Feedback from the audience was so positive it led poet and English translator to discuss the process of translation from one to two further workshops on the theme of childhood (May 2010 and language to another, and the audience enjoyed listening to both poets January 2011). Video-recordings of the readings as well as excerpts from discussing their craft. This important event for the Friends of Italian Vallorani’s book and Malloy’s translation have been published on the Studies was well attended by members (and the public), who thanked Centre’s website. not only the speakers but also Lady Gilda Russell for suggesting and promoting the event. (iv) ‘The long arm of dictatorship. Writing in exile’, 4 March 2010, Freya Klier, author, and Gabrielle Alioth, PEN centre for German- (ii) ‘The memory of myths: Sylvie Germain’s narratives’, 22 January speaking writers abroad (event combining reading and discussion) 2010, Sylvie Germain, writer The evening, chaired by Godela Weiss-Sussex, was devoted to exploring This reading followed a round-table discussion of the author’s work, writing and publishing in the context of the German Democratic in which she took part, together with Dr Toby Garfitt, Magdalen Republic (GDR) dictatorship and its aftermath. Prior to Freya Klier’s College, University of Oxford, Dr Carol Gouspy, University of Kent, reading, Gabriele Bock (now a member of the German Embassy) spoke Dr Ana de Medeiros, University of Kent, and Professor Julian Wolfreys, of her experiences as reader and editor in the Reclam publishing house Loughborough University. Sylvie Germain, a very well-known French in Leipzig between 1974 and 1992. She highlighted the possibilities of writer, read excerpts from her work in French, which were followed by resistance that were available to publishers and readers under a political the corresponding English translations. Offering many new insights regime that operated a tight system of censorship. Freya Klier then read into her work, she was an extremely generous speaker and respondent from her essayistic and literary work, focusing on the GDR’s legacy in to questions from the audience, which comprised a mix of senior and the politics and the everyday life of re-united Germany today. She was junior academics, postgraduate students and members of the public. followed by Joey Whitfield, who read excerpts from his translations of The recording can be viewed on the website of the Centre for the Study Klier’s work. Frau Bock and Frau Klier were then joined in discussion of Contemporary Women’s Writing at the IGRS: www.igrs.sas.ac.uk/ by Gabrielle Alioth, a renowned author in her own right. The panel research/CCWW%20FrenchVideos.html. discussion was soon opened to questions from the floor and a lively and controversial conversation ensued. (iii) ‘Women writing childhood — three readings by women writers (v) Reading from his novel The Good German, Joseph Kanon, from Italy, Germany and Portugal’, 16 October 2009, Simona Vinci, 22 September 2009 writer, Ana Luisa Amaral, University of Oporto, and Anna Mitgutsch, writer
This reading, introduced by Pól Ó Dochartaigh, University of Ulster, IV APPENDICES and held as a pre-conference event, was very well attended. The audience ‘Women writing childhood’, which took place on 16 October 2009, enjoyed the reading tremendously and the lively discussions that took consisted of readings by writers representing three of the Institute’s place, particularly concerning the film adaptation of the book. The languages: Portuguese poet Ana Luísa Amaral, Austrian novelist and recording can be viewed on the Institute’s website. essayist Anna Mitgutsch, and Italian novelist and children’s book
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(vi) Reading of unpublished letters by Fabrizia Ramondino, Diaz-Vicedo and Gwen MacKeith read Abelló’s poems in Catalan and 15 January 2010, Livia Patrizi, Fabrizia Ramondino’s daughter, and English while Lala Isla and María Reimóndez read their texts. Copies Valentina Di Rosa, l’Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli of the translations were given to the people present. After the readings the writers answered questions on their work. At the subsequent wine This reading followed a conference on the late Italian writer, Fabrizia reception everyone commented on the achievement of putting the three Ramondino (1936–2008). Professor Valentina Di Rosa, Università degli romance languages together under one roof. Further events of this type Studi di Napoli L’Orientale, Italy, talked about Ramondino’s archive, will be held in the future. The recording can be viewed on the Institute’s especially in relation to the then forthcoming new edition of her book, website. Taccuino tedesco, to which Ramondino just before her death had added a new section about her latest experiences in Germany. Excerpts from (viii) ‘Contemporary Lusophone poets’, 8 July 2010, Valter Hugo Mãe this book were read during Professor Di Rosa’s talk. Unfortunately, and Ana Paula Tavares the second speaker, Ramondino’s daughter, the Berlin-based dancer and choreographer Livia Patrizi, was taken ill and could not take part. This event was part of the series of high-profile live poetry events, Ramondino’s letters to her daughter were therefore read by Professor ‘Waxing Lyrical’, which formed the City of London Festival in June–July Paola Splendore, University of Roma 3, Italy, who was a close friend of 2010. This leading arts festival provides a summer feast of music and the writer. The reading was followed by a question-and-answer session, arts set against the backdrop of the Square Mile’s fabulous buildings, discussion and wine reception. The audience comprised a mix of senior both ancient and modern. In 2010 the Festival ran from 19 June–9 July, and junior academics, postgraduate students and members of the public. celebrating a number of key themes including Lusophone cultures Fabrizia Ramondino was a sharp observer of and commentator on the from around the world. This event, ‘Contemporary Lusophone poets’, cultural and political changes Italy has undergone in the past 50 years. hosted at the offices of Clifford Chance at 10 Upper Bank Street, Canary Her oeuvre includes and crosses the boundaries between poetry, novels, Wharf, brought together four acclaimed contemporary Lusophone plays, travelogues, memoirs, confession, self-reflection, anthropological, poets from Portugal, Angola and Cape Verde, who read a selection of cultural and linguistic comment. their poems in Portuguese; translations into English were provided. The event was run in conjunction with Poet in the City, an innovative (vii) ‘Memories: three languages, three generations, one country’, philanthropic charity committed to attracting new audiences to poetry, 12 March 2010, Montserrat Abello making new connections for poetry and raising money to support poetry education. Specialising in organising high-profile poetry events with An afternoon of readings by writers representing the three romance leading corporate sponsors and creative partners, Poet in the City is one languages of the Spanish Peninsula: Catalan poet Montserrat Abelló the UK’s fastest growing arts organisations. It was a great success and is (1918) [unfortunately Montserrat Abelló had to cancel at the last hoped to be the first of events liaising with both Poet in the City and the minute; her poems were therefore read by Noèlia Diaz-Vicedo]; London business community. Spanish cultural historian Lala Isla (1947); and Galician novelist María Reimóndez (1975). The readings — on the theme of ‘Memories’ — (b) Organised by the Institute of Musical Research (IMR) were taken from recent works. Three different ways of narrating — Handel, 1733, Balthasar poetry, cultural history/autobiography and the novel — were represented Denner (1685–1749). (i) ‘Handel, a 21st-Century dramatist’, 19 November 2009, by these writers: three generations of women who grew up during Amanda Holden very different political and social eras in Spain and who reflected on those times through their writing and memories. The event began Amanda Holden spoke at length and in considerable detail regarding
with a round-table discussion with Lala Isla and María Reimóndez on her involvement in translation of opera librettos for productions of IV APPENDICES the theme of ‘Memory’, presented and chaired by Helena Miguelez, Handel operas over the last three decades. Her breadth of experience in University of Bangor. Students of the Spanish School in London this regard made her uniquely suited to delivering this keynote lecture (Instituto Canada Blanch) then gave readings of translated excerpts in during the successful international conference, ‘Purcell, Handel and Spanish, Catalan, Galician and English. At the last moment, Montserrat Literature’, a collaborative event with IMR, IES, the Royal Musical Abelló was unable to participate in the readings but sent the poems she Association, the Open University, the Handel Institute and the Purcell IV APPENDICES had prepared for the aforementioned readings and translations. Noèlia Society. The perspectives she offered on texts and production values in
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modern operatic practice included many individual insights into the (b) Organised by the IMR design of particular scenes as well as broad plot outlay. Approximately 100 delegates attended the conference, many of whom were present at (i) ‘Erik Satie and visual culture in belle époque Paris’, 16 April Amanda Holden’s speech. 2010, ensemble of five performers, Royal Academy of Music, University of Liverpool, and freelance (c) Organised by the IES Following on from a study day held at Gresham College, and in (i) John Coffin Memorial Poetry Reading, 16 July 2010, association with the University of Kingston, this concert of the music Robin Robertson of the early 20th-century French composer, Erik Satie, featured live performances of solo piano works, works for piano duet, several The poet Robin Robertson delivered a John Coffin Memorial Reading in of his songs and an odd and engaging mixture of chamber music the Beveridge Hall of Senate House to an audience of up to 90 people, pieces. The performers included excellent students from the Royal half of whom were participants in the second T. S. Eliot International Academy of Music, the distinguished pianist, Roy Howat, Satie expert Summer School, hosted by the IES. Mr Robertson, who was introduced Robert Orledge and soprano Jane Manning. Each of the items was by the poet David Harsent, read from his most recent volume, The contextualised for the audience by Orledge and, coming after a day of Wrecking Light (2010), as well as from earlier work. He also included interesting revelations about features of Satie’s style, and an interesting some unpublished poems and a Canto of Dante’s Inferno. Mr Robertson exhibition of materials relating to his life and work, the performances found the reading exceptionally pleasant and rewarding and was succeeded in challenging the view that Satie is a somewhat peripheral particularly delighted ‘by the interesting questions he was asked during figure in the development of early 20th-century French music (indeed, the book signing’. of the general musical languages at the time). Perhaps the most striking item on the programme was a performance (by Orledge) of his reconstruction of the solo piano music accompanying the silent film Coffin Recital Entr’act — its first performance in modern times. At the end of the (a) Organised by the IGRS recital the audience eagerly participated in the ‘Divertissement: la statue retrouvée’, a tiny trumpet and piano work written for a ‘hunt-the-statue’ (i) ‘“Haydn-Spaß” — Joseph Haydn in words and music’, party game. 18 November 2009, Eva Maria Teja Mayer and The Escher Quartet: Ilya Movchan, Erszebet Racz, Sophie Stanley, Naomi Watts (event (ii) ‘The hunt for old Hispanic chant’, 25 May 2010, Dr Emma combining recital and reading) Hornby, University of Bristol
The evening, in commemoration of the Austrian composer Joseph Held in collaboration with Goodenough College and the University of Haydn, began with an introduction by Dr Martin Liebscher, the Bristol, this event offered a window into a wholly forgotten aspect of Director of the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre. The Austrian author Eva the early development of plainchant in the Hispanic world. Developing Maria Teja Mayer’s readings from translations of her children’s stories as part of a large-scale research project funded by the Economic and about Joseph Haydn were combined with a recital by the Mateo Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Leverhulme Trust (held at Quartet. The evening was well attended, the result of joint efforts by Bristol), Dr Hornby’s research into old Hispanic chant is throwing up the Institute, the IMR, the Austrian Cultural Forum and Dame Janet important observations on the reading of texted musical materials from Ritterman, a former Principal of Dartington College of Arts, and the eighth and ninth centuries, as well as their interpretation ― especially
Director of the Royal College of Music London. The event was also of their interpretation in sound. This was demonstrated by the group of IV APPENDICES broader appeal to a non-academic public and the collaboration with singers (all students at Bristol, and conducted by Dr Hornby), who German schools helped bring it to the attention of young people as well. ended the presentation (a double-act between Dr Hornby and her In the presence of the Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum the event research collaborator, Professor Rebecca Maloy, from the University of was well received by an audience of about 60 participants. Colorado) with a captivating 30-minute recital of chant extracts. This was an excellent demonstration, too, of how the Institute can help an IV APPENDICES
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already-established research project to engage with a wider audience in National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), directeur d’études the capital. at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in France and délégué scientifique régional at the CNRS for the Île-de-France region. (iii) ‘Performing Haydn’s piano music’, 24 June 2010, Professor He is a linguist, specialising in sinitic languages, and has published Tom Beghin, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and Professor John five monographs and over 100 articles. He has also taught at several Irving, SAS universities outside France, in the US, Hong Kong and in Taiwan, and is a member of the comité scientifique of the European Research Council, Held at Goodenough College in blistering heat, this lecture-recital by a member of Academia Europaea, a member of the Social Sciences the internationally eminent fortepianist, Tom Beghin, McGill University, Academy of China, a corresponding member of the Academia Sinica of attracted a significant turnout of scholars, performers, students, Taiwan, honorary professor at Beijing University and associate professor conservatoire professors, and the general public to hear an account of at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. From September a recent groundbreaking project to record Haydn’s piano sonatas in 2010 he was due to become the first director of the Collegium de Lyon, virtually reconstructed acoustics of a number of 18th-century buildings. a new Institute of Advanced Studies. He is an observer on the European Excerpts from Professor Beghin’s recent audio CD recording as well as Science Foundation Standing Committee for the Humanities and a an accompanying DVD film were shown, and the topic was explored founder member of the Steering Committee of European Reference in detail in an interview with the Director of the IMR. Following this Index for the Humanities. presentation, Professor Beghin performed a one-hour recital of Haydn’s music on the fortepiano to great acclaim. Feedback afterwards was Professor Peyraube’s paper was of interest to both those with only a very clear: this is exactly the kind of event that our diverse audiences basic knowledge of Chinese language and culture, and those already appreciate, and counts as a significant knowledge transfer opportunity engaged in their study. He began by bemoaning the fact that, despite for the IMR, and by extension the School, and its work in engaging a genuine progress in the visibility of humanities research in China in the variety of audiences in the local community and beyond. A couple of last 15 years, it still lags behind the other ‘sciences’, mainly because the similar knowledge transfer events (one at Goodenough College) were N2SFC — the National Natural Science Foundation of China, which held in the two weeks immediately afterwards, thus establishing some funds basic research — has excluded it from all its funding schemes, momentum for this kind of activity. Professor Beghin’s visit sparked a because they claim it lacks interdisciplinarity and ‘a supranational, trend for potential future activity for the Institute (which would include supra-continental, global and multicultural approach’ extending outside a reciprocal visit to McGill by the IMR Director in November 2010 to China. Keeping in mind the comparison with Europe throughout (in give a lecture-recital). some respects not as far ahead as it believes), Professor Peyraube outlined ways in which the humanities in China still suffer from isolation and Please note that due to circumstances beyond our control the Coffin mono-disciplinary focus, accepting the disadvantages of ‘not being Lecture in the History of Ideas, which was due to be organised by the a real science’. However, he then went on to illustrate a number of Institute of Philosophy, did not take place. ways in which Chinese humanities scholars are developing networks and collaborations, both internally and internationally, and making themselves indispensable to other disciplines, especially in relation Staunton-Casal Lecture (in French culture) to ethical questions. Finally, he offered a glimpse into the history of From the Will of Mrs Dorothy Beatrice Staunton (d. 18 April 1934), in four areas of Chinese humanities scholarship: language and writing; memory of her father Celestin Charles Edward Cassal and her grandfather philosophy and religion; literature and the arts (mainly painting). The Charles Cassal, former Professor of French at UCL. The Senate agreed in lecture, which was well received, was to be published in the Journal of
March 1956 that the fund should support an annual lecture in French. It Romance Studies. IV APPENDICES has since been agreed that the bequest may also be used to finance French studies through support for lectures and conferences organised in the School.
The 2010 Cassal Lecture entitled ‘Humanities research in China: new horizons’, held on 12 July 2010, was organised by the IGRS and IV APPENDICES delivered by Alain Peyraube, directeur de recherches at the Centre
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Appendix VI: Student numbers — Master’s and MPhil/PhD — 2009–10
Creighton Lecture Institute Course MA FT MA PT PhD FT PhD PT Total The Creighton Lecture, on a historical subject, was established in 1907 ISA PhD ------13 13 26 MA Area Studies (United from funds bequeathed to the University by Mrs Creighton. 5 0 ------5 States) MA Area Studies (Latin The 2009 Creighton Lecture, ‘Russia since 1917 in Western mirrors’, 7 6 ------13 organised by the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) was held on American) MA in Area Studies 18 November 2009 and delivered by Professor Robert Service, Professor 0 3 ------3 (Comparative American) of Russian History at the University of Oxford and author of Trotsky: A MA in Caribbean and Latin Biography (2009). The lecture took place in the smart Henry Wellcome 1 2 ------3 82 ISA American Studies Auditorium at London’s Wellcome Collection. Around 80 attendees MSc Globalisation and Latin 9 7 ------16 enjoyed the lecture, with some interesting questions taken afterwards American Development by our chair, Professor Janet Hartley. A small reception at the Wellcome MSc Latin American Politics 2 3 ------5 followed where attention was brought to the The Creighton Century, MSc Latin American Studies 1 0 ------1 1907–-2007 (University of London, 2009) published by the IHR which (Development) celebrates 100 years of the Creighton Lecture. MSc US Foreign Policy 1 2 ------3 MSc US Politics and 6 1 ------7 Hilda Hulme Contemporary History IGRS PhD ------5 2 7 From an endowment by Dr Mohamed Aslam in memory of his wife, IGRS 16 Dr Hilda Hulme. Annual lecture, on one of the three fields in which MA Cultural Memory 7 2 ------9 Dr Hulme specialised: Shakespeare; language in Elizabethan drama; the IALS PhD ------33 15 48 19th-century novel. LLM in Advanced Legislative 9 1 ------10 Studies LLM in Advanced Legislative The Hilda Hulme Memorial Lecture, organised by the IES, was held on ----- 1 ------1 7 July 2010. Entitled ‘Dickens’s Shakespeare’, the lecture was delivered Studies — Distance Learning by Professor Michael Slater, Birkbeck College and Senior Research IALS LLM in International 89 Corporate Governance, Fellow of the IES, and chaired by Professor Barbara Hardy, also Senior 7 2 ------9 Financial Regulation and Research Fellow of the Institute. Michael Slater, an internationally Economic Law renowned Dickens scholar and author of a recent highly acclaimed MA in Taxation (Law, 2 19 ------21 biography, drew on the late Hilda Hulme’s two main fields of scholarly Administration and Practice) interest, Shakespeare and the Victorian novel. Deliberately echoing ICwS PhD ------12 11 23 the title of last year’s lecture, ‘T. S. Eliot’s Shakespeare’, Professor Slater MA Understanding and 40 16 ------56 discussed the history and quality of Dickens’s lifelong concern for ICwS Securing Human Rights 81 Shakespeare, acknowledging work by Valerie Gager, Alfred Harbage MSc Globalisation and 1852 daguerrotype of 0 2 ------2 Charles Dickens by Antoine and others, and stressing the biographical story, from boyhood, when Development Francois Jean Claudet. Charles was influenced by his father’s love of Shakespeare, and formed IES PhD ------2 7 9 Wikicommons. IES 26 the ambition to live in the Shakespeareanly named house Gadshill, MA History of the Book 4 13 ------17 to his later acting, admiration for actors, and the many conspicuous IHR PhD ------22 26 48
and oblique allusions in the plays. The talk combined scholarship and IV APPENDICES MA Contemporary British IHR 2 5 ------7 62 virtuoso readings which were enthusiastically received. History MA in Historical Research 2 5 ------7 MA Cultural and Intellectual 13 0 ------13 WI History 1300–1650 24 Warburg PhD ------11 0 11 IV APPENDICES Total 118 90 98 74 380
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Appendix VII: Student results — Master’s and MPhil/PhD
Taught Master’s Results The Institute of English Studies Institute Distinction Merit Pass Overall fail Arnold, Jonathon Nicholas 2008–09 2009–10 2008–09 2009–10 2008–09 2009–10 2008–09 2009–10 Publishing Theodore Roosevelt 1882–1919 IALS 6 7 8 13 9 4 1 - ICwS 2 10 9 11 23 15 2 - China, Corey IES 3 2 1 1 2 - - - Identities, anxieties: authenticity and ethnicity in contemporary Australian writing in the 1990s IGRS 1 2 3 2 1 - - - IHR - 1 - 3 - 5 - - The Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies ISA 5 8 13 13 18 12 1 1 Schropper, Isabel WI 3 6 - - 4 6 - - Austrian female migration to Britain, 1945–60 Totals 20 36 34 43 57 42 4 1 Stadthaus, Steffen Appendix VIII: ‘Deutsche Jugend wohin?’ Eine Untersuchung des Generationsdiskurses nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg Student results — PhD degrees awarded in 2009–10 am Beispiel von Zeitschriften der “jungen Generation”
The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies The Institute of Historical Research Al-Kashif, Abd Elrehim Mohamed Crowley, Mark James Non-violation complaints in the GATT47/WTO jurisprudence: elements, scope and contribution to Women workers in the General Post Office, 1939–45: gender conflict or political emancipation? the development of international law Glew, Helen Rayleen German, Peter Maurice Women’s employment in the General Post Office, 1914–39 Recovering the proceeds of grand corruption López Galviz, Carlos Andres Lu, Qionglin Polis of the Metro: the introduction of the city railway in 19th-century London and Paris Netting legislation of derivatives and harmonisation in the People’s Republic of China Mizuta, Tomonori (MPhil) Matsaneng, Mathapelo Elizabeth The modernisation process of the lower division of the civil service in the late 19th century The role and consequences of pure corporate control and corporate social responsibility in the Republic of South Africa and the United States of America The Warburg Institute Fane-Saunders, Peter Bernard The Institute for the Study of the Americas The Italian reception of Pliny the Elder’s Account of Architecture, c.1430–1550 Esquivel, Valeria Renata Greenbaum, Dorian Gieseler Time use in the city of Buenos Aires: measuring, analysing and valuing unpaid care work The Daimon in Hellenistic astrology: origins and influence
Richert, Lucas Kern, Ulrike Inge Sabine Pills, politics, and pitfalls: the Food and Drug Administration during the Reagan years Light and shadow in Netherlandish art 1600–1725: theory and practice IV APPENDICES
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