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Leading Women, 1868–2018: 150 years of university education for women Home: New Histories of Living Reconsidering the Raj Remembering World War I Being Human Festival: call for participation Plus hundreds of other events highlighting the latest research across the humanities sas.ac.uk The School of Advanced Study, University of London (SAS) is the UK’s national centre for the support and promotion of research in the humanities. Its nine institutes offer an extensive programme of seminars, workshops, lectures and conferences. Each year around 1,800 events are organised on humanities topics, attracting more than 68,000 participants from around the world. Senate House Library is the central library of the University of London. With more than two million books and 1,200 archival collections, it is one of the UK’s largest academic libraries focused on the arts, humanities and social sciences. Several of SAS’s collections are housed within the Library, which holds a wealth of primary source material from the medieval period to the modern age. The Library organises a number of events and exhibitions throughout the year. The majority of SAS and Senate House Library events and exhibitions are free and open to the public. All are welcome and encouraged to take advantage of the unique access to current research in the humanities and social sciences that these events provide. For a complete list of upcoming events and exhibitions, please visit sas.ac.uk and senatehouselibrary.ac.uk.

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Leading Women 2 How to use this guide Highlights 6 Events are listed in date and time order. On the left we list the department responsible for Exhibitions 24 organising the event, the time, type of event or Events calendar – listings 31 series and the venue. On the right we list the event title, speaker(s) and a short description Seminar series 110 if available. There is further information about Research training 117 highlighted events at the start of the guide, and about research training events and calls Calls for papers 125 for papers at the end. How to find us 128 Booking Cover image: Honeysuckle wallpaper, design by May Morris, c. 1883. © William Morris Gallery, London Most of our events are free and open to the Borough of Waltham Forest. public. Some events have limited capacity and advance booking is advised. The event information in this guide was correct at the time of going to press, but may be subject to change. Please check our websites for the latest information or email SAS at [email protected] or Senate House Library at [email protected].

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Leading Women admitted to the University women leading both by being the first, and by of London and permitted leading through their inspirational educational to enrol for a ‘special and professional achievements. examination’ course. This Throughout 2018, a number of events and was the first time in Britain resources—including pop-up exhibitions and that women had gained access to university talks, panel debates, a student art contest, a education and, though it was to be another new student scholarship, and an online gallery ten years before they were admitted on of 150 leading women associated with the equal terms with men to read for the same University—will mark this ‘foot in the door’ degree programmes, this modest event was moment for women in higher education. an immensely significant moment for the The events listed here are those relating to University, for women, and for society as a the Leading Women initiative that have been whole. organised by the School of Advanced Study. Celebrating 150 years since women first For a comprehensive list of Leading Women accessed university education in Britain, events, please visit london.ac.uk/women. the Leading Women campaign celebrates

Deeds Not Words Helen Pankhurst charts how women’s lives have Helen Pankhurst in Conversation with changed over the last century, and offers a new Professor Lynn Abrams (University of way forward. Each of the five chapters within the Glasgow) book explores a different theme; politics, money, family & identity, violence and culture. The voices 13 March, 18:00 | IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, of both pioneers and ordinary women are woven NB01/NB02, Senate House into the analysis which ends with suggestions On the 100th anniversary of women getting the about how to better understand and strengthen vote, Helen Pankhurst—great-granddaughter feminist campaigning and with aims for the future. of suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst and a Combining historical insight with inspiring leading women’s rights campaigner—charts how argument, Deeds Not Words: The Story of Women’s women’s lives have changed over the last century, Rights, Then and Now reveals how far women have and offers a powerful and positive argument for a come since the suffragettes, how far we still have new way forward. to go, and how we might get there. Why is it taking so long? Dr Helen Pankhurst is a women’s rights activist Despite huge progress since the suffragette and senior advisor to CARE International, based in campaigns and wave after wave of feminism, the UK and in Ethiopia. She has extensive media women are still fighting for equality. Why, at the experience including national and international present rate will we have to wait in Britain until radio and print interviews, and was involved in 2069 for the gender pay gap to disappear? Why, the 2015 film Suffragette. Her work in Ethiopia in 2015, did 11% of women lose their jobs due to includes support to program development across pregnancy discrimination? Why, globally, has 1 in 3 different sectors, focused on the interests and women experienced physical or sexual violence? needs of women and girls. In the UK she is a public speaker and writer on feminist issues. She also In 2018, on the centenary of one of the most leads CARE International’s #March4Women event significant steps forward for women—the Fourth in London on 4 March. Reform Act (6 February), which saw propertied women over 30 gain the vote for the first time— See page 81 for event information

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Kalliroa, Razia, Sibulla: Female Supplicants at the Oracle of Dodona in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods 2 February, 16:30 | Room 246, Senate House This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar. See page 35 for event information

Jane Austen Society Study Day: Northanger Abbey – Literature and Life 10 February, 09:00–16:30 | Woburn Suite, Senate House See page 46 for event information

Exit Pursued by a Bear: Tacitus’ Nero, Agrippina, and the Dramatic Turn 19 February, 19:00 | Room 349, Senate House This event is part of the ICS Ancient Literature Seminar. See page 52 for event information

Encounters: Writers and Translators in Conversation – Kerstin Hensel and Jen Calleja 22 February, 18:00 | Gordon Room, G34, Senate House This event is part of the IMLR Encounters: Writers and Translators in Conversation Seminar. See page 58 for event information

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Leading Women Institute of Historical Research: Women’s History Seminar A New Language, a New Life? Translingual Literature by Contemporary Women Writers Women’s Money Management in Eighteenth- 1 March, 14:00 | Gordon Room, G34, Senate House and Nineteenth-Century Glasgow This symposium will bring together scholars Catriona Macleod (University of Glasgow) working on translingual women’s writing in the 9 February, 17:00 | IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 language fields of Italian, French, and German. It will (Senate House) explore the particular richness of texts produced by writers in languages that are not their mother Emotional Culture and Relations with Women tongues. Is translingual writing perceived by the in Rural Edwardian England authors in question as a liberation and a new beginning, or as a requirement demanded by the Hera Cook (University of Otago) literary market? How does the particular attention to 23 February, 17:15 | IHR Pollard Seminar Room, language required in translingual writing affect the N301 (Senate House) text? What are the distinctive literary and linguistic strategies employed in translingual writing? Does “Dear Norah, why did you take my letter writing in a foreign tongue go hand in hand with the wrong way, it was not intended to hurt establishing a new identity? What can translingual or corrupt…”: Danger, Desire and Patriotic writing achieve that goes beyond the possibilities of Femininity in Britain during WW2 texts produced by mother-tongue writers? These are Alison Twells (Sheffield Hallam University) some of the questions that will be explored. 9 March, 17:30 | IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 See page 66 for event information (Senate House) Virgil Society Lecture: The Female Hero and the Aeneid Maria Theresa (1717–80): Tercentenary Workshop on the Empress and Her Time Natalie Haynes (writer and broadcaster) 3 March, 14:30 | Woburn Suite, G22/26, Senate 26 February, 12:45 | Queen’s College, Oxford House Last year marked the tercentenary of the birth of See page 69 for event information Maria Theresa, who ruled the Habsburg Empire from 1740 to 1780. Her reign was steeped in controversies and major wars, but it also saw the dawn of the The Homeric Penelope: A Model ‘Military Austrian Enlightenment and significant political as Wife’? well as cultural reforms. In this workshop, experts 14 March, 13:00 | Room 234, Senate House from across Europe will discuss the prevailing ‘myth’ of Maria Theresa alongside questions of gender and See page 82 for event information political power in the eighteenth century. See page 60 for event information April

Virginia Woolf Society Conference and AGM 2018: Virginia Woolf and Her Relatives 14 April, 10:00–16:00 | Room 349, Senate House See page 101 for event information

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July–December 2018 | Senate House Library This summer, Senate House Library will offer an exhibition and programme of public events exploring historical and contemporary campaigns for equal rights. Taking the right to education and more specifically higher education as the starting point in the long road towards gender equality, the season will also explore other significant women’s rights campaigns, including those related to the right to vote and to hold public office, employment rights, and reproductive rights. See page 28 for event information by Mary Shelley, published by published by Mary by Shelley, edition of Frankenstein the revised to engraving Steel 1831. London and Bentley, Colburn

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Women’s Writing and Science 18 May | Room 243, Senate House Living Literature: Frankenstein 23 May | Senate House The third event in the School of Advanced Study’s acclaimed Living Literature series is an epic thriller brought to life through immersive performances, talks, workshops and activities. Welcome to the world of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein! Listen to chilling ghost stories by candlelight as our experts set the scene of that night in the ‘year without a summer’ at the Villa Diodati, where the first version of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was created. Tread carefully through Victor Frankenstein’s rooms in Ingolstadt, relive the birth of the monster, and learn about the scientific and medical innovations of the period that provided inspiration for Shelley. Listen to talks and join in with activities led by gothic experts, learn about how Shelley’s Frankenstein has inspired popular culture since its publication in 1818, and more! Minutes of the Examiners for the Examination of Women, May 1869 – June 1878, showing the first nine women to sit the Special Examination for Women (University of London Archive, RO/3/10).

School of Advanced Study 5 Highlights Highlights Alan May (r) and Martin Andrews (l) at the Gutenberg Press. Image courtesy of University of Glasgow Library. Press. the Gutenberg (r) and Martin (l) at May Alan Andrews

Coffin Memorial Lecture: invention, and then stand in Gutenberg’s footsteps to print a take-away keepsake on The History of the Book and the replica Gutenberg Press. Alan and Martin Keepsake Printing are world-leading experts in the history of Alan May and Martin Andrews printing techniques. Their reconstruction of the Gutenberg Press pioneered research into 1 February mechanics of the press and methodologies Johannes Gutenberg printed the first book, based on reconstructions. Raphaële Mouren the Gutenberg Bible, around 1455. More than (Warburg) will respond. The lecture marks the 500 years later, his invention still shapes how relaunch of the Institute of English Studies we communicate. But what did his press Annual Lecture in the History of the Book. look like? And how did it work? This event gives participants the rare opportunity to See page 34 learn how Alan May and Martin Andrews for event information reverse-engineered and rebuilt Gutenberg’s

6 School of Advanced Study Highlights Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice? Titian’s Portrait of Clarice Strozzi Beverly Brown 1 February A popular nineteenth-century nursery rhyme tells us that little boys are made of snips and snails and puppy dog tails while little girls are filled with sugar and spice and all things nice. And who could be nicer than two-year-old Clarice Strozzi, who in Titian’s portrait so sweetly shares a ring-shaped biscuit with her toy spaniel? Today, Instagram is overflowing with similar snapshots eagerly sent by adoring parents to family and friends. Such adorable images would seem to embody the essence of childhood by celebrating their of Art, Washington, and as assistant director subjects’ natural spontaneity. They are lasting of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. The reminders of the halcyon days of childhood recipient of fellowships and awards from the innocence. It is in this vein that we might Institute for Mediterranean Studies, the Gladys assume Clarice Strozzi’s parents commissioned Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the American her portrait in 1542. But if we look more Philosophical Society, she was appointed carefully at Titian’s charming portrayal of a little a visiting professor at Villa I Tatti, Harvard girl and her dog, we soon discover that it is University’s Center for Renaissance Studies. She unlikely to have been a mere celebration of has organized numerous exhibitions, including sugar and spice and all things nice. Warburg The Age of Correggio and the Carracci (1986), Institute Fellow Beverly Brown has published Veronese (1988), Jacopo Bassano (1993), widely on Italian Renaissance and Baroque Giambattista Tiepolo: Master of the Oil Sketch art, looking recently at the depiction of (1993), Renaissance Venice and the North: antique sculpture in the work of Bellini and Crosscurrents in the Time of Bellini, Dürer, and Titian. After teaching at Wellesley College as Titian (1999) and The Genius of Rome (2001). well as Brown, Harvard, and Princeton, she See page 34 served as a curator at the National Gallery for event information

School of Advanced Study 7 Highlights Highlights The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America Today Adolfo Pérez Esquivel 5 February Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, artist, educator, author, and promoter of nonviolence, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1980 for his defence of human rights in his native Argentina and throughout Latin America. In this talk he will reflect on progress in the field of human rights since military dictatorships in much of the region ended 30 years ago, analysing how these developed under subsequent democratisation. He will also address some See page 37 of the urgent challenges being faced today as many of these for event information gains are rolled back in Brazil, Venezuela, Honduras, Paraguay, Colombia, Argentina, and elsewhere. This event is sponsored by the Institute of Latin American Studies in collaboration with the Human Rights Consortium.

IHR Historical Research Lecture 2018 V&A: A Museum of the Home and the World Tristram Hunt 7 February This year’s IHR Historical Research Lecture, sponsored by Wiley, features Tristram Hunt, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Dr Hunt will discuss the V&A’s founding commitment to design, education, and industry, which has forged an enduring connection to domesticity and the home. This lasting vision of ‘art for all’ continues to shape the V&A’s world-class collection today. A historian, politician, writer, and broadcaster, Dr Hunt is an expert on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a particular focus on Victorian urban history. He is the author of several books, including The English Civil War: At First Hand, and, most recently, Ten Cities That Made an Empire. See page 42 A regular history broadcaster on BBC and Channel 4, he has for event information made more than a dozen series on subjects including Elgar and empire, Isaac Newton, and the English Civil War. He lectures on modern British history at Queen Mary University of London and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

8 School of Advanced Study Highlights Permeability, Agency, and What happens in the permeable area between the human body and a piece of the Technological History of photographic apparatus? This question is Photography crucial to histories of nineteenth-century Kate Flint photography. Professor Kate Flint will discuss the conceptual and theoretical challenges she 8 February encountered when writing a cultural history of flash photography. She will also consider the usefulness of the hand—both as a physical part of an individual and as a synecdoche—as a means of approaching the conundrum of the interwoven roles of human and mechanical in writing photographic history. The hand proves to be a rhetorical and literal instrument that not only connects eye, brain, and camera, but also helps articulate the art vs. mechanical reproduction/commercial activity distinctions that are inseparable from this history. Kate Flint is Provost Professor of Art History and English at the University of Southern California. She has published The Woman Reader, 1837–1914 (Oxford University Press, 1993), The Victorians and the Visual Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and The Transatlantic Indian 1776–1930 (Princeton University Press, 2008); edited The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature (2012); and written widely on Victorian and modernist fiction, Victorian and early twentieth-century painting and photography, and cultural history. This seminar is supported by the journal Media History, Queen Mary University of London, the Institute of English Studies, and the Institute of Historical Research.

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School of Advanced Study 9 Highlights Highlights The Friends of Senate House Library Charles Holden Lecture The Sterling Library: Twentieth-Century Book Collecting and Twenty-First- Century Book History Julia Walworth 8 February The Sterling Library started out as the private collection of Sir Louis Sterling (1879–1958), a wealthy businessman. When the collection arrived at the Senate House Library in 1956, it comprised more than 4,000 rare printed books and manuscripts of English literary works from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, and it has now grown to more than 7,000 volumes. In this year’s Charles Holden Lecture, Dr Julia Walworth, Fellow Librarian of Merton College, University of Oxford, will introduce some of these treasures and explore how the role and function of the Sterling Library has evolved from a collection of ‘trophy books’ to an IHR Winter Conference invaluable resource for the University’s many activities in the burgeoning field of History of Home: New Histories of Living the Book. 8–9 February

See page 44 This two-day conference will highlight new for event information research exploring the many ways that the home has been thought about, used, and lived within throughout history. These perspectives open the shutters on domesticity by showing how patterns of homemaking shape our conceptions of kinship, consumption, and the everyday. Confirmed plenary speakers include Jane Hamlett (Royal Holloway), Owen Hatherley (architectural historian and journalist), and Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck).

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10 School of Advanced Study Highlights ICS/British School at Rome Elder considered one of the most beautiful creations of antiquity. The Laocoon quickly Lecture became one of the best known sculptural 14 January 1506: The Discovery groups in the world, yet until recently scholars of the Laocoon were unsure of the vineyard’s location. Research began with the owner of the Rita Volpe vineyard and the discovery of new archival 20 February documents that have provided a definitive solution to the problem. The reconstruction of Rita Volpe (Roma Tre University) will deliver a landscape of Rome of the sixteenth century, the 2018 Institute of Classical Studies / British populated by notaries, innkeepers, doctors, School at Rome Lecture. On 14 January and prostitutes, throws light onto the ancient 1506, the statue group of the Laocoon was Rome in which the Laocoon was admired. discovered in a vineyard on the Esquiline Hill in Rome. It was almost intact and recognised See page 53 at once as the same work of art that Pliny the for event information

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Pablo Neruda’s Passion for in both Spanish and English. Mr Feinstein’s Ecuador: A Meeting of Hearts biography Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life was first published by Bloomsbury in 2004 and Minds and reissued in an updated edition in 2013 Adam Feinstein (Harold Pinter called it ‘a masterpiece’). Also 22 February in 2013, Mr Feinstein launched Cantalao, a biannual magazine dedicated to Neruda’s The UK embassies of Chile and Ecuador are life and work. His translations from Neruda, jointly sponsoring this presentation by Adam Lorca, Benedetti, and others have appeared in Feinstein, the acclaimed biographer and many publications, including Modern Poetry in translator of Pablo Neruda, who will tell the Translation and Agenda. His book of translations fascinating story of the Chilean Nobel Prize- from Neruda’s Canto General, with colour winning poet’s relationship with Ecuador. This illustrations by the Brazilian artist Ana Maria passion was conducted largely through his Pacheco, was published by Pratt Contemporary friendships with leading Ecuadorian artists in 2013. This event is jointly organised by the and writers, including the painter Oswaldo Institute of Latin American Studies and the Guayasamín and the poets Jorge Carrera Institute of Modern Languages Research. Andrade and Jorge Enrique Adoum. The talk will be interspersed with readings from See page 58 the poetry of Carrera Andrade and Adoum for event information

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Gerald Aylmer Seminar 2018: Diversity amongst the Documents? The Representation of BAME Communities within the UK’s Archives 23 February Crown Copyright, courtesy of The National Archives (catalogue reference: MEPO 2/11409). reference: (catalogue Archives National The courtesy of Copyright, Crown Researching and writing inclusive histories represented? And what has been the impact that capture the full spectrum of British history of collections and collecting on the historical demands the creation, cataloguing, and use profession? The Gerald Aylmer Seminar is an of diverse archives. Focusing on archives that annual one-day symposium organised by The chronicle Black, Asian, and minority ethnic National Archives, the Royal Historical Society, (BAME) lives, institutions, and initiatives, the and the Institute of Historical Research, which Gerald Aylmer Seminar 2018 will explore how brings together historians and archivists to these communities are represented within discuss topics of mutual interest, particularly local UK archives by bringing together leading the nature of archival research and the use of archivists and historians in discussion and collections. debate. Questions to be considered: how have archives captured social, cultural, and political See page 59 change? How do we ensure that modern- for event information day social and demographic development is

School of Advanced Study 13 Highlights Highlights Warburg on Luther and Dürer: Media Wars and the Freedom to Think Jane O. Newman 26 February Jane O. Newman, professor of comparative literature at the University of California at Irvine, specialises in the pre- and early modern past and the modern and postmodern present. Her talk references Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s assertion that ‘Luther’s words are everywhere’ in his 1937 book Nachfolge, which protested the impoverished ways in which the Great Reformer’s ideas and words were being Virgil Society Lecture: The deployed in support of the Nazi regime. Professor Newman will use Aby Warburg’s Female Hero and the Aeneid theory of the ‘migration routes’ or paths Natalie Haynes (Wanderstraßen) of culture and ideas to explore 3 March the circulation of Martin Luther’s image, ideas, and words in a variety of highly charged Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster, political contexts. These contexts will include and president of the Virgil Society. Her first not only Luther’s own sixteenth century, but novel, The Amber Fury (2014), was published also the volatile worlds of a war-torn early to great acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, twentieth-century Germany, colonial German as was The Ancient Guide to Modern Life (2010). East Africa (Tanzania), and the twenty-first She has spoken on the modern relevance of century world. In his 1920 essay on Luther, the classical world on three continents, from Warburg himself noted that the language Cambridge to Chicago to Auckland. She is a of images was an international one; in her regular contributor to BBC Radio 4: reviewing lecture, Professor Newman discuss the equally for Front Row and Saturday Review, appearing as international circulation of Luther’s ideas in the a team captain on three seasons of Wordaholics, spheres of culture and politics. This event and and presenting her own show, Natalie Haynes a related roundtable discussion on 27 February Stands Up for the Classics. Her documentary on mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation the Defining Beauty exhibition at the British and the 100th anniversary of Warburg’s seminal Museum, Secret Knowledge: The Body Beautiful, lecture on Luther and the role of propaganda aired in 2015 on BBC4 in the UK and on BBC in public opinion-making. Warburg and Luther World News. She was a judge for the 2012 – Word | Image in Times of Crisis – 1517, 1917, Orange Prize for Fiction, the 2013 Man Booker 2017 is supported by the University of London Prize, and the 2014 Independent Foreign Coffin Trust. Fiction Prize. See page 61 See page 69 for event information for event information

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On the Record: Memories of Missing Voices: The Battle of the Anschluss 80 Years Ago Cuito Cuanavale 14 March 15 March This event, organised by the Research Centre This commemorative event organised by the for German & Austrian Exile Studies at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies marks Institute of Modern Languages Research, will the 30th anniversary of the battle of Cuito feature a talk by Dorothea McEwan (Warburg Cuanavale. The momentous events in Southern Institute) with musical interludes by Ensemble Angola in 1988 represented a turning point Émigré. Artistic director and singer Norbert in the history of the Namibian independence Meyn (tenor) and acclaimed pianist Lucy struggle and South Africa’s own lengthy Colquhoun will perform music by émigré transition from apartheid. The event will composers from Austria and Germany living in highlight the important historical antecedents of Britain as well as a selection of German Lieder, the ‘decolonising the academy’ debate, the New popular in British émigré circles for providing International Information Order of the 1970s and a sense of identity and spiritual nourishment. 80s, and the need to emphasise African voices This event is organised under the auspices of in the news narrative. Speakers will also address the Research Centre for German & Austrian the the ‘lost voice’ of the MPLA/FAPLA in Angola, Exile Studies, the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre as set against the current popular narrative for Austrian Literature and Culture, and the around Cuito Cuanavale in South Africa. Austrian Cultural Forum. See page 83 See page 83 for event information for event information

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Reading Human Rights Printing Colour 1700–1830 Morally: (Un)Certainty and 10–12 April Restlessness at the European Following on from last year’s Printing Colour Court of Human Rights 1400–1700 conference, this three-day event organised by the Institute of English Studies Natasa Mavronicola represents the first interdisciplinary assessment 20 March of Western colour printmaking in the long eighteenth century, 1700–1830. It will Dr Natasa Mavronicola, Special Adviser to the bring together researchers, curators, special UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, is a senior collections librarians, printers, printmakers, lecturer at the Birmingham Law School, and cataloguers, conservators, art historians, book a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced historians, digital humanities practitioners, Legal Studies. She researches and teaches scientists, and others who care for colour- on human rights, public law, and legal printed material, seek to understand them, theory as well as on the interplay between or use them in research. The discussion counter-terrorism and human rights and on will encompass all media, techniques, and key intersections between human rights and functions, from fashion to fine art, wallpaper to criminal justice. She has published work in scientific communication. a number of journals, including the Human Rights Law Review and the Modern Law Review. See page 97 for event information See page 90 for event information

16 School of Advanced Study Highlights British Association for Canadian Studies Annual Conference 2018 – A Century Later: Memory, Remembrance, and Change Margaret MacMillan 19–21 April Professor Margaret MacMillan will give the keynote address at the British Association for Canadian Studies annual conference hosted by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Professor MacMillan is Professor of History at the University of Toronto, the Xerox Foundation Distinguished Scholar at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Munk School of Global Affairs. Her research interests include the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth See page 103 centuries and international relations of the twentieth century. for event information Her most recent book is The Uses and Abuses of History (2008). Other books include Women of the Raj; Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World (2002); and Nixon in China: The Week that Changed the World (2006).

The More Things Change? Labour Protection and Labour Migration under Trade Agreements in a Post-Brexit and Trump Era Joo-Cheong Tham 25 April Professor Joo-Cheong Tham, professor at Melbourne Law School and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, studies labour law and public law with a focus on the regulation of precarious work and political finance law. He has also undertaken considerable research into counter-terrorism laws. His publications include Money and Politics: The Democracy We Can’t Afford (University of New South Wales Press, 2010) and See page 106 more than 30 book chapters and articles. He has given evidence for event information to parliamentary inquiries into labour migration, terrorism laws, and political finance laws, and has written key reports for the New South Wales Electoral Commission on the regulation of political finance and lobbying.

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Institute of Classical Studies of Comedy: Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486–280, T.B.L. Webster Lecture edited by Jeffrey Rusten (The Johns Hopkins Caeciliopolis: A Greeker Rome? University Press, 2011). He is currently editing Niall Slater and translating the fragments of Caecilius Statius as part of the new Loeb Library 25 April edition of Fragmentary Republican Latin. Niall Slater is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor ProfessorSlater is T.B.L. Webster Fellow at the of Latin and Greek at Emory University, Institute of Classical Research from mid- where he won the Emory Williams Award March to early June and has previously held for Distinguished Teaching. His research fellowships at the University of Konstanz; the interests include the ancient theatre and its Humanities Research Centre of the Australian archaeology, the ancient novel, gender studies, National University; Clare Hall, Cambridge; and recently warfare and its cultural impacts. Magdalen College, Oxford; the American His books include Euripides: Alcestis (in the Academy in Rome, Ohio State University, and Bloomsbury Companions to Greek and Roman the University of St. Andrews and was Loeb Tragedy series); Spectator Politics: Metatheatre Classical Library Foundation Fellow 2015–2016. and Performance in Aristophanes (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002); Reading Petronius See page 105 for event information (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990); and Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind (Princeton University Press, 1985). His translations of various Middle and New Comedy poets are included in The Birth

18 School of Advanced Study Re-opening the Workshop: Highlights Medieval to Early Modern Lecture series Workshop and workshop practices represent a core and dynamic research strand in the history of art. This strand encompasses the study of canonical artists but equally of the anonymous producers whose activities can be deduced from the surviving art objects, thanks to ever-developing research questions and methodologies. This topic helps us to think about the agents and their networks (artists, patrons, and other market consumers), objects and socio-economic factors (making, buying, and trading) as well as the broader cultural issues of the transmission of skills and ideas (the movement of artists, objects, and imagery). The lecture series brings together leading experts in medieval and early modern historical periods in and beyond Europe, those researching particular high points in workshop practice, and those researching workshop continuities and change in later centuries, including digital mediation. Re-opening the Workshop is supported by the University of London Coffin Trust Fund. Admission is free and open to the public but advance registration is required. Please visit sas.ac.uk/events for booking details.

31 January 21 March Inside Pygmalion’s Workshop: Ivory Carving in The Socialisation and Specialisation of Workshop Gothic Paris Labour at the Charterhouse of Champmol Sarah Guérin (University of Pennsylvania) Andy Murray (Open University) 7 February 9 May Alonso Berruguete, ‘the Son of Laocoon’, and His Mediation and Transformation | Alchemy and Assimilation of Classical Sources New Technology: Factum Arte’s Workshop Practice Manuel Arias (Museo Nacional de Escultura, in an Age of 3D Recording and Printing Valladolid) Adam Lowe (Factum Arte, Madrid) 21 February 16 May Master and Apprentice: Transferring Skills in the Goldsmiths, Ivory Carvers, Embroiderers: Identity in London Huguenot Communities the Medieval Workshop Tessa Murdoch (Victoria and Albert Museum) Glyn Davis (Museum of London) 28 February 27 June The Bernini Workshop (Re)visited Re-opening the Treasury: Meaning in Materials at Joris van Gastel (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome) San Isidoro de León 7 March Therese Martin (Consejo Superior de Botticelli, His Assistants and the Business of the Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid) Workshop Michelle O’ Malley (Warburg Institute)

School of Advanced Study 19 Highlights Highlights On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light

A weekly series of free public readings of Dante’s work hosted by the Warburg Institute and led by Alessandro Scafi (Warburg) and John Took (UCL). Readings begin at 18:00 and end by 19:30 and are held at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square. For more information, please email [email protected].

Spring term 19 March 15 January Purgatorio, Canto X.1-45. Canto XI.1-117. The Inferno, Canto I. The dark wood and wild First Cornice: the proud. The Lord’s Prayer; animals. The appearance of Virgil. Omberto Aldobrandeschi; Oderisi da Gubbio. 22 January 26 March Inferno, Canto V. The lustful. Paolo and Purgatorio, Canto XXX. Appearance of Beatrice Francesca. on the chariot of the Church 29 January Inferno, Canto XIII. The suicides. Pier della Vigna. Summer term 5 February 14 May Inferno, Canto XXVI and XXVII. The evil Purgatorio, Canto XXXIII. Beatrice’s prophesies. counsellors. Ulysses and Guido da Montefeltro. The final ritual of Dante’s spiritual cleansing. 12 February 21 May Inferno, Canto XXXIII. Count Ugolino. Canto Paradiso, Canto I. Ascent to the heaven of fire. XXXIV. Centre of Hell. Lucifer. 4 June 5 March Paradiso, Canto III. Heaven of the moon. Purgatorio, Canto XVI.58-105; Canto XVII.91- Piccarda Donati. 105; Canto XVIII.13-75. 11 June The moral structure of Purgatory; the nature of Paradiso, Canto XI.Thomas Aquinas. Francis of love and its relation to free will. Assisi. 12 March 18 June Purgatorio, Canto I; Canto II.106-132. Dante Paradiso, Canto XVII. Heaven of Mars. and Virgil emerge from the abyss of Hell on the Cacciaguida. shore of Mount Purgatory. Cato. The ritual of 25 June purification. Casella. Paradiso, Canto XXXIII. The Empyrean. The vision of the Trinity.

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Studies Highlights Seminar Series Now in its fourth year, the 2018 Programme Neoplatonic Studies Seminar invites you to a series of readings Olympiodorus, On Phaedo of seminal texts by Damascius, 11 January 1. 1N–17N 18 January 2. 18N–44N Olympiodorus, Porphyry, and 25 January 3. 45N–64N Proclus and an ongoing exchange 1 February 4. 65N–83N that includes Harold Tarrant, Porphyry, The Cave of the Dilwyn Knox, and Peter Singer Nymphs among many other regular and 8 February i. §§ 1–18 occasional contributors. Porphyry, How Embryos are Ensouled The seminar meets on Thursdays from 17:30 to 19:30 in Classroom 15 February i. 33,1K–45,4K 22 February ii. 45,5K–61,13K 1 of the Warburg Institute. All are (and anonymous Christianus and Michael Psellus) welcome. For more information, Proclus, On Alcibiades I please contact the convener (Page numbers refer to the 1954 Westernink edition) Georgios Tsagdis at 1 March i. 1–24 [email protected]. 8 March ii. 25–47 15 March iii. 48–67 Free and open to the public 22 March iv. 68–92 5 April v. 93–114 [email protected] 12 April vi. 115–137 19 April vii. 138–160 26 April viii. 161–178 3 May ix. 179–201 10 May x. 202–234 17 May xi. 235–260 24 May xii. 261–282 31 May xiii. 283–311 7 June xiv. 312–339

School of Advanced Study 21 ‘We will remember them’ The School of Advanced Study commemorates the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I with a number of special events. All are free and open to the public.

27 February national boundaries of ‘no man’s land’ and reflect on their experience as practitioners working across the The 28th Division in 1915 boundaries of heritage and history. Michael Roper Institute of Historical Research is currently working on a Leverhulme Trust funded 17:15–19:15 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 project about childhood and family legacies of the (Senate House) Great War in Britain and a study of the war’s impact across three generations of his family in Australia. He Spencer Jones (Wolverhampton) is a co-investigator in the University of Hertfordshire’s This event is part of the Military History Seminar AHRC/HLF Engagement Centre, ‘Everyday Lives in Series. the First World War’, which funded the collaboration Booking: [email protected] with Age Exchange. Rachel Duffett has a particular interest in the material culture of the First World 28 February War and its legacies in the interwar years and is Making Histories in No Man’s Land: a researcher in AHRC/HLF Centre, ‘Everyday Lives in the First World War’. David Savill specializes in Reflections on the First World War reminiscence practice with older people in care and Commemorations of British and German community settings. His work with older people and Descendants with intergenerational groups has resulted in many theatre productions, exhibitions, documentary films, Institute of Historical Research and most recently dance. 17:30–19:30 | IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Booking: [email protected] Michael Roper (Essex), Rachel Duffett (Essex), David 1 March Savill (Age Exchange) British Ex-Service Students and the In early 2016, David Savill, artistic director of Rebuilding of Europe, 1919–26 the reminiscence organisation Age Exchange, collaborated with Rachel Duffett and Michael Roper Institute of Historical Research of the University of Essex on a five-day event in 17:30–19:30 | IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 Bavaria that explored family legacies of the First (Senate House) World War among British and German descendants. Georgina Brewis (UCL), Sarah Hellawell (Northumbria), For this event, they will talk about their experience Daniel Laqua (Northumbria) of bringing together family stories from across the After the First World War, British universities received an influx of students who had undertaken wartime 20 March service—whether as soldiers serving at the front, members of the field ambulance, or VAD nurses. Humour, Propaganda, and Print Culture: The Board of Education’s scholarship scheme for American Satirical Magazines during the ex-service students helped produce a more socially First World War diverse student body, a social transformation of Institute of English Studies higher education yet to be thoroughly investigated. The post-war enfranchisement of women coincided 17:30–19:00 | Room 243 (Senate House) with further changes in higher education, exemplified Vincent Trott (Open University/Oxford Brookes) by the University of Oxford’s decision to give full This event is part of the Open University History of membership to female students in 1920. This talk Books and Reading (HOBAR) Seminar Series. investigates the war generation’s entry into higher education by focusing on one particular aspect: their Booking: [email protected] contribution to reconstructing Europe by forging 16 April links with students from other countries, including former enemy nations. The immediate post-war years ‘Not the only shells he encountered’: War saw a plethora of international student initiatives, Disabled Poultry Farmers after the First encompassing humanitarian efforts as well as the World War promotion of student interests at the international level. British university students were actively involved Institute of Historical Research in these ventures; indeed, the very foundation of the 17:15–19:15 | IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 National Union of Students (NUS) in 1922 was partly (Senate House) aimed at strengthening international links. Even Emily Bartlett (Kent) when not active in such organisations, many British students engaged in internationalism, for example by After the First World War, servicemen returned home participating in study exchanges and travel schemes. physically altered, with permanently scarred senses, The talk will examine how young adults with bodies, and minds. In the public sphere, charities and direct experience of war experienced and fostered government ministries dealt with their economic and international dialogue and understanding, and is medical needs with varying degrees of success; in based on a collaborative project funded by an AHRC the privacy of homes, families and friends endured First World War Engagement Centre grant and co- their loved one’s pain, disorientation, and distress. The designed with the National Union of Students (NUS) Disability History Seminar Series will commemorate and the North East branch of the Workers’ Educational these living memorials to the aftermath of war in Association (WEA). 2018. Booking: [email protected] Booking: [email protected] 12 March 18 April The Ministry of Pensions and the Neutrality and Resistance: British Disabled Great War Veteran across the Propaganda in Spain in the two World British Empire Wars Institute of Historical Research Institute of Historical Research 17:15–19:15 | IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 17:15–19:15 | IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) (Senate House) Michael Robinson (Liverpool) Marta Garcia-Cabrera (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) After the First World War, servicemen returned home Booking: [email protected] physically altered, with permanently scarred senses, bodies, and minds. In the public sphere, charities and government ministries dealt with their economic and medical needs with varying degrees of success; in the privacy of homes, families and friends endured their loved one’s pain, disorientation, and distress. 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Representing LGBTQ Online: An Introduction Queer Between the Covers to Editing Wikipedia Senate House Library 14 March, 09:30–17:00 Exhibition highlights Exhibition 15 January – 16 June Seng Tee Lee Room, Senate House Library Free Free Queer Between the Covers is a new exhibition Join Senate House Library and Wikimedia UK to and event season at Senate House Library learn how to be a Wikipedia editor and contribute to live entries about queer literature in the online that explores more than 250 years of queer encyclopaedia. Reference works and expert help will literature. The exhibition displays 50 carefully be on hand from Senate House Library, and training selected works from the Library’s collection, and support will be provided by Wikimedia UK. No showcasing works of satire, autographed prior knowledge of editing Wikipedia is necessary. manuscripts, illustrated novels, and pulp fiction book designs, as well as rare editions of works Queer Publishing: A Senate House Library Conference by famous authors such as Oscar Wilde, WH Auden, and Virginia Woolf. The event series 16 March, 09:30–17:30 opened with an evening of poetry reading Wolfson Conference Suite, Institute of Historical and music with Carol Ann Duffy, the UK’s first Research, Senate House female and openly LGBT Poet Laureate. It also £17 (£10 concession) features BFI film screenings in the library and Join us for talks and discussion of the world of walking tours in partnership with Queer Tours queer publishing. The presence of queer works on of London. publishers’ lists has tended to represent complex processes of equivocation, marked by streams of open titillation and multi-layered camouflage. Related events Novels of queer love could be presented by mainstream firms as examining ‘social problems,’ Polari Literary Salon with Neil Bartlett, VG released by pulp presses with lurid covers promising Lee, Alexis Gregory, and Paul Burston erotic excitement, printed in severely limited and expensive editions to avoid censure, or offered 22 February, 19:00–20:30 to the public by imprints more accustomed Periodicals Lounge, Senate House Library to gambling against censorship with works £6 (concessions £3) pornographic in their intent and content. This conference seeks to promote a broad discussion of An exclusive evening with London’s award-winning the subject in an English language context. LGBT literary salon Polari is coming to Senate House Library. Founded in 2007 by author Paul Burston, Polari showcases the best in established Queer Bloomsbury – A Walking Tour with and emerging LGBT literary talent and is based in Queer Tours of London London’s Southbank Centre. 3 April, 18:30–20:30 Meet at Senate House reception Saving Gay’s the Word, and Being Gay in the 80s Free 27 February, 18:00–20:00 Macmillan Hall, Senate House Free

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Film Screenings at Senate House Library Queer Between the Covers... To start at 13:15 ‘Nish the Chat and Pin Back Your Aunt Nells’ Free, including light refreshments Queer creative writing and Polari workshop with Queer Tours of London Killing of Sister George (1968), 135 mins 5 April, 18:30–20:30 14 February Senate House Library Free Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971), 106 mins

BFI Britain on Film: LGBT Britain 21 March 26 April, 19:00–21:00 Paris is Burning (documentary) (1990), 73 mins Senate House Library 18 April Free Tangerine (2015), 88 mins An Evening with the Fourth Choir 16 May 19 May, 19:30–21:30 Crush Hall, Senate House Moonlight (2016), 111 mins £14/£9 6 June

26 School of Advanced Study 15 January–16 June 2018 A free exhibition at Senate House Library 15A free January–16 exhibition at Senate June House 2018Library A free exhibition at Senate House Library

qbtc.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk qbtc.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk qbtc.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk with medieval ornament. Where there is Metadata: How We Relate to information there is metadata. Images This exhibition arises out of a longstanding Exhibition highlights Exhibition Organised by the Warburg Institute collaboration between artists and academics Venue: Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint from Central Saint Martins and the Warburg Martins, University of the Arts research project Bilderfahrzeuge (a phrase coined by art historian Aby Warburg that 10 January – 3 February translates as ‘image vehicles’). Tuesday to Friday: 11:00–18:00 Saturday: 12:00–17:00 Related events We encounter the world through metadata, or data that provides information about other data. The exhibition is accompanied by a series of Maps, calendars, the location and time of a text panel discussions in which curators, artists, and message—all describe and classify information. academics will discuss some of its overarching Images carry their own metadata that affects themes. All events are free and open to the how we relate to them, whether engaging with public. history and the passage of time or as beholders curating our own visual experience. Focusing on Practices of Production the role of metadata in art and art history, this 25 January, 17:00, Lethaby Gallery, 1 Granary Square, exhibition shares contemporary reflections on London N1C 4AA the status of data, extending beyond the digital. Works range from interventions, such as Nora Policies of Ownership Al-Badri and Nikolai Nelles’ Nefertiti Hack Project, 3 February, 14:00, Lethaby Gallery, 1 Granary Square, to the Arts and Crafts movement’s engagement London N1C 4AA

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Rights for Women: Employment rights, including the struggle Campaigning for Equality to end discrimination in the work place

Exhibition highlights Exhibition and equal pay Senate House Library Venue: Senate House Library Reproductive rights, touching on controversial and important issues around 16 July – 15 December 2018 birth control and contraception, abortion, As part of the University of London’s voluntary motherhood, and sexual health celebration of the 150th anniversary of women The exhibition will tell the story of women’s being admitted to its courses through ‘special fight for equal rights through the University examinations’ (see pages xx–xx), Senate House archive and the unique and rich collections of Library will offer an exhibition and programme archives, manuscripts, and printed books held of public events exploring historical and at Senate House Library. It will also provide an contemporary campaigns for equal rights. opportunity to reflect on the current state of Taking the right to education and more women’s equality at a time when some of the specifically higher education as the starting long-fought civil and human rights achieved point in the long road towards gender equality, are at stake. the season will also explore other significant The exhibition will be complemented by women’s rights campaigns, including those a programme of events including lectures, related to: workshops, a conference and a concert by the The right to vote (2018 is also the 100th Berkeley Ensemble. anniversary of the Representation of the For details, please visit People Act, which extended the franchise senatehouselibrary.ac.uk. to most men and some women for the first time) and to hold public office Suffrage pilgrims signing a petition to Mr Asquith, c. 1910. Papers of Molly De Morgan relating to to relating De of Molly Morgan 1910. Papers Mr Asquith, c. pilgrims signing a petition to Suffrage MS 913E/3/4 Suffrage, Women’s

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School of Advanced Study Events calendar February February Thursday 01 Institute of Modern Languages Posthuman Transcultural Memory in European Fiction and Visual Research Culture Seminar Florian Mussgnug (UCL), Matthew Mild, David Lomas (Manchester) 14:30–16:30 From the natural sciences to anthropology, from literary theory to medicine, the posthuman has been called upon to innovate disciplinary discourses by Room 246 (Senate House) articulating what had been unthinkable, unsayable, and untheorisable: the possible obsolescence of the very subject who formulated them. This seminar will discuss posthuman transcultural memory in British Muslim fiction, migrant German and Italian fiction, and French visual culture. The three panelists will draw on the 2017 Utrecht ACLA posthuman seminar in their overview on transcultural memory and posthuman studies. Because ‘humanity’ is never neutral or abstract but always embodied within specifications of gender, sexuality, class, race, and ability, an analysis of the posthuman can productively engage all of these categories. The posthuman opens a space for contamination and intersectionality. This can be fruitfully applied both to ways of conceiving, impersonating, and representing subjects and to ways of producing, organising, and disseminating remembrance. This event is part of the ICS Ancient History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies The Persian Past and Present in Greek Thought, c. 430–330 BCE Seminar Lloyd Llewelyn Jones (Cardiff) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the ICS Ancient History Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research ‘The king touches you, God heals you’: Using Printed Images to Seminar Compare the Royal Touch Ceremonies of Seventeenth-Century England and France 17:15–19:15 Stephen Brogan (RHUL) IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Wall behind the Wall: Global Backgrounds of Maps and Seminar Ambitions in Sixteenth-Century Italy 17:15–19:15 Giuseppe Marcocci (Oxford) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Toward a Transnational History of the English Public Schools Seminar Petter Sandgren (Stockholm) 17:30–19:30 This talk revisits and rethinks the idea of the English public schools as a global model for elite boarding schools. The argument at the heart of this presentation IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 is that from the beginning of the nineteenth century and onwards, there existed (Senate House) something that could be understood as a ’global transnational field’ of elite boarding schools. During the formation of this transnational field, the English public schools quickly emerged as an international gold standard for what an elite boarding school should look like. The ethos and educational ideology of the Victorian English public schools thus not only spread throughout the vast British Empire, but also left a lasting impact in countries such as Denmark, Greece, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Notwithstanding this process of a global diffusion of the English public school model, this talk also highlights the importance that ideas emanating from outside the British Isles have had in shaping the present-day English public schools and the transnational field that they are a part of. Free advance registration required [email protected]

32 School of Advanced Study Events calendar February February Institute of Historical Research All Respectable Medicine Venders: Reputation, Trust and the Sale Seminar of Medicines in England, 1850–1920 17:30–19:30 David Helm (Leicester), Laura Mainwaring (Leicester) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Teaching British History after Brexit (panel discussion) Seminar Free advance registration required [email protected] 17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Latin American ‘The Face of the Corporation’: Understanding Corporate- Studies Community Relations through the Eyes of Villager-Employees Seminar Anneloes Hoff (Oxford) 17:30–19:30 Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork she has conducted as part of a study of a large gold mining corporation in Colombia, the speaker will explore the Room 234 (Senate House) boundaries between corporation and community at the village level by focusing on the village residents who work for the corporation’s Community Relations Department. How do they understand and perform their hybrid ‘villager- employee’ identity? To what extent do they identify with the corporation? As the local agents of corporate social responsibility, they are central to the construction of the so-called ‘social licence to operate’. How do they portray and defend ‘their corporation’ to ‘their community’? How are they, and their work, perceived by other local actors? How do they justify their work to themselves and their social environment? This seminar series is jointly run by the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Anthropology departments of LSE, Goldsmiths, and UCL. This event is part of the Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

The Warburg Institute Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship Seminar Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry, and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, 17:30–19:30 and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For Warburg Institute details, see page 21. Free [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 33 Events calendar February February The Warburg Institute Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice? Titian’s Portrait of Clarice Lecture Strozzi 17:30–19:30 Beverly Brown (Warburg) A popular nineteenth-century nursery rhyme tells us that little boys are made of Warburg Institute snips and snails and puppy dog tails while little girls are filled with sugar and spice and all things nice. And who could be nicer than two-year-old Clarice Strozzi, who in Titian’s portrait so sweetly shares a ring-shaped biscuit with her toy spaniel? Today, Instagram is overflowing with similar snapshots eagerly sent by adoring parents to family and friends. Such adorable images would seem to embody the essence of childhood by celebrating their subjects’ natural spontaneity. They are lasting reminders of the halcyon days of childhood innocence. It is in this vein that we might assume Clarice Strozzi’s parents commissioned her portrait in 1542. But if we look more carefully at Titian’s charming portrayal of a little girl and her dog, we soon discover that it is unlikely to have been a mere celebration of sugar and spice and all things nice. Beverly Brown has published widely on Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, looking recently at the depiction of antique sculpture in the work of Bellini and Titian. After teaching at Wellesley College as well as Brown, Harvard, and Princeton, she served as a curator at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and as assistant director of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. The recipient of fellowships and awards from the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the American Philosophical Society, she was appointed a visiting professor at Villa I Tatti, Harvard University’s Center for Renaissance Studies. She has organized numerous exhibitions, including The Age of Correggio and the Carracci (1986), Veronese (1988), Jacopo Bassano (1993), Giambattista Tiepolo: Master of the Oil Sketch (1993), Renaissance Venice and the North: Crosscurrents in the Time of Bellini, Dürer, and Titian (1999) and The Genius of Rome (2001). Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Coffin Memorial Lecture: Lecture The History of the Book and Keepsake Printing 18:00–20:00 Johannes Gutenberg printed the first book, the Gutenberg Bible, around 1455. More than 500 years later, his invention still shapes how we communicate. But Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House) what did his press look like? And how did it work? This event gives participants the rare opportunity to learn how Alan May and Martin Andrews reverse-engineered and rebuilt Gutenberg’s invention, and then stand in Gutenberg’s footsteps to print a take-away keepsake themselves on the replica Gutenberg Press. Alan and Martin are world-leading experts in the history of printing techniques. Their reconstruction of the Gutenberg Press pioneered research into mechanics of the press and methodologies based on reconstructions. Raphaële Mouren (Warburg) will respond. The lecture marks the relaunch of the Institute of English Studies Annual Lecture in the History of the Book. Free advance registration required [email protected]

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

34 School of Advanced Study Events calendar February February Friday 02 The Warburg Institute Renaissance Travel: In Space, in Time, in the Mind Colloquium The aim of this Warburg colloquium is to mark out new approaches in French Renaissance travel by attention to a representative range of topics, including 10:00–17:00 exploration, ideas of Europe and the foreign, cosmography, pilgrimages, and Warburg Institute utopias. Speakers include Frédéric Tinguely (Geneva): ‘Trois Horloges. Expansion européenne et maîtrise du temps à la Renaissance’, Richard Scholar (Oxford): ‘Travelling Utopia’, Wes Williams (Oxford): ‘“Mind Out!” Thinking through Danger on the Pilgrim Road’, Thibaut Maus de Rolley (UCL): ‘Voyageurs et bateleurs à la Renaissance’, Raphaële Garrod (Cambridge): ‘Une Amérique de papier? Frontières, définitions et preuves géographiques dans la Cosmographia (1550) de Sebastian Munster et sa traduction, la Cosmographie universelle de François de Belleforest (1575)’, and Niall Oddy (Durham): ‘Understanding Europe: Journeys in Space and in the Imagination’. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies Kalliroa, Razia, Sibulla: Female Supplicants at the Seminar Oracle of Dodona in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods 16:30–18:30 Karolina Frank (UCL) Room 246 (Senate House) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Art and the Urban Subconscious: A Long View of Dutch Culture Seminar Elisabeth de Bièvre (independent scholar) 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Knights, Notaries and Chancellors: Slavonian Nobility and the Seminar Court of King and Emperor Sigismund of Luxemburg (1387–1437) 17:30–19:30 Suzana Miljan (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar Seminar The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar is devoted to the line-by-line reading and analysis of James Joyce’s Ulysses and it has acted as a focal point for academic 18:00–20:00 researchers and postgraduate students with research interests in Joyce across Room 243 (Senate House) London and the southeast and beyond for thirty years. Over that time it has built up a dedicated following while also drawing in new participants year on year. It keeps in touch with seminarians past and present by way of a blog that disseminates the seminar’s findings each month. Free advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 35 Events calendar February February Saturday 03 Institute of English Studies Virginia Woolf’s ‘Gigantic Ear’ Seminar Anna Snaith (KCL) 11:00–13:00 Music, Modernism, and the Limits of the Rational Room 349 (Senate House) Gemma Moss (Birmingham City) This event is part of the London Modernism Seminar Free advance registration required [email protected]

The Warburg Institute Policies of Ownership Panel discussion The rapid expansion and proliferation of digital technologies have led to a vast increase in the amount of data being recorded, stored, and broadcast. Inevitably, 14:00–15:00 control and ownership of this data—and its metadata—has become a much- Lethaby Gallery, 1 Granary Square, debated topic in political and economic, but also cultural, arenas, raising questions London N1C 4AA concerning the status of cultural goods and museum collections. This workshop brings together artists commenting on these issues in their practice as well as museum professionals whose collections are the object of these discussions. ‘Metadata: how we relate to images’ is organised by the Bilderfahrzeuge: Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology project in collaboration with Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies An Empiricism of Imperceptible Entities: Robert Boyle on the Seminar Representation of Atoms, the Resurrection, and God 14:00–16:00 Alex Wragge-Morley (UCL) This event is part of the Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Room 246 (Senate House) Seminar (EMPHASIS) Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Monday 05 Institute of Modern Languages Wagner Among the Hegelians Research Organised by Jeremy Coleman (IMLR/Aberdeen) and Johan Siebers (IMLR/ Seminar Middlesex). 16:00–18:00 This event is part of the Music and Marxism Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 234 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies The Drama in the Dance Seminar Helen Slaney (Roehampton) 17:00–19:00 This event is part of the ICS Ancient Literature Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Decrypting Monastic Customaries Seminar Isabelle Cochelin (Toronto) Free advance registration required [email protected] 17:15–19:00 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

36 School of Advanced Study Events calendar February February Institute of Historical Research Guided by Goethe: German-Jewish, Gay Muslim Writer Hugo Seminar Marcus (1880–1966) 17:15–19:15 Marc Baer (LSE) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Healing, Translating, Collecting: Doctor Michelangelo Tilli in the Seminar Ottoman Empire (1683–88) 17:15–19:15 Giulia Calvi (European University Institute) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Dynamics of Caste and Class: Mahar Industrial Workers in Late Seminar Colonial Bombay, 1928–40) 17:15–19:15 Zaen Alkazi (SOAS) Coolie Narratives: Indentured Labour Migration and the ‘Coolie’ in Fiction IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 Purba Hossain (Leeds) (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Queen, the Prince and the Soldier: English Captains and the Seminar Anglo-Dutch Alliance, 1594–1604 17:15–19:15 David Trim (Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Left and the Cult of the Individual Seminar Kevin Morgan (Manchester) Free advance registration required [email protected] 17:30–19:30 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light Seminar A weekly series of public readings of Dante’s work hosted by the Warburg Institute. For details, see page 20. 18:00–19:30 Free [email protected] Warburg Institute

Institute of Latin American The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America Today Studies Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, artist, educator, author, and promoter of nonviolence, Lecture was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1980 for his defence of human rights in his native Argentina and throughout Latin America. In this talk he will reflect on 18:00–20:00 progress in the field of human rights since military dictatorships in much of the Beveridge Hall (Senate House) region ended 30 years ago, analysing how these developed under subsequent democratisation. He will also address some of the urgent challenges being faced today as many of these gains are rolled back in Brazil, Venezuela, Honduras, Paraguay, Colombia, Argentina, and elsewhere. This event is sponsored by the Institute of Latin American Studies in collaboration with the Human Rights Consortium. Organised by Argentina Solidarity Campaign. Free advance registration required goo.gl/F2o77V

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 37 Events calendar February February Tuesday 06 Institute of Historical Research Henry VIII and Luther: A Reappraisal Seminar David Starkey 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] Lambeth Palace, Lambeth, London SE1 7JU

Institute of Historical Research Studying History with Corpora: Social Outsiders in the Seminar Seventeenth Century 17:15–19:15 Tony McEnry (Lancaster), Helen Baker (Lancaster) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Parchment: The Animal Turn Seminar Matthew Collins (York) 17:30–19:15 Most medieval writings were on the skins of animals, that is, on parchment. The speaker begins with the premise that parchment is the largest biological tissue Dr Seng T Lee Centre for bank ever assembled. He will discuss how, working with conservation studios, Manuscript and Book Studies scientists have started to explore this archive, examining the range of animals (Senate House Library) used to contract codices and the patterns seen in production. To what extent do these results have relevance for manuscript studies and how can this type of highly interdisciplinary research be advanced? Matthew Collins FBA, is Niels Bohr Professor at the University of Copenhagen and Professor of Biomolecular Archaeology at the University of York. This event is part of the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Sarum Old and New: a Cathedral Library in Eleven Centuries Seminar Peter Hoare (Salisbury) 17:30–19:30 The Cathedral library at Salisbury, in Wiltshire, began at Old Sarum within twenty years of the Conquest and has an unbroken history ever since, though its home Warburg Lecture Theatre, Warburg has changed two or three times. Its early manuscripts include one of the largest Institute collections from the Norman period to survive in the possession of its original owner. The early printed books derive partly from the rich bequest in 1577 of Bishop Edmund Geste, whose library was one of the most extensive in Elizabethan England, and since then the collections have been enhanced by several donations, with a number of significant rarities (not only theological). The present library building dates from the fifteenth century—with links to Oxford—but it has undergone changes over the years. Despite some earlier periods of neglect, the library is now in a good state and looks forward to the creation of an online catalogue to make its treasures more widely known. This event is part of the History of Libraries Seminar Series jointly sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, the Institute of Historical Research, the Warburg Institute and the Library & Information History Group of CILIP. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Lives and Criminal Careers of Nineteenth-Century Juvenile Seminar Offenders 17:30–19:30 Emma Watkins (Liverpool) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

38 School of Advanced Study Events calendar February February Institute of Philosophy Against Partial Benevolence Seminar Roger Crisp (Oxford) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of The Practical, the Political and the Ethical Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute Iamblichus Seminar Seminar Participants in this seminar series discuss the Reply to Porphyry (De mysteriis) of Iamblichus of Chalcis (c.245–c.325 CE), the most influential Platonic philosopher of 17:45–19:30 late antiquity after Plotinus. Warburg Institute Free [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Religious Heritage and Archives Seminar David Trim (Director of Archives, Statistics, and Research, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists) 17:45–19:45 The usual challenges in organisational archiving are multiplied in an IHR Seminar Room, N304 eschatologically minded religious movement that prioritises mission and growth (Senate House) over consolidation. The Seventh-day Adventist Church, founded in 1863 in the United States, and originally a small movement limited to the American Midwest, has grown into a denomination with more than 20 million members and a presence in almost all the world’s countries. As it expanded, it faced the challenges of creating sound administration, including a records management programme. The General Conference (the overarching Seventh-day Adventist organisation) created an Archives in 1973, giving it responsibility not only for a records management programme at the Church’s world headquarters but also for encouraging, supporting, and coordinating administrative archives around the world. This talk describes the history of this ambitious (and, to date, still not entirely successful) development of archives and records centres around the world. Owen Roberts (Heritage Officer, The Methodist Church of Great Britain) The British Methodist Church has extensive archive material dating back to the early eighteenth century, including two internationally renowned collections held at university libraries, various significant specialist collections, and a vast wealth of localised church records held by every local government-run archives service. The material ranges from the latter grass roots treasures to the correspondence and journals of the founders of the Methodist movement, periodicals and other publications, organisational records as the movement grew into a structured national church and subsequently divided into several separate denominations, and the records of multiple major institutions and smaller agencies (and countless committees) for missionary work, social action, education, and ministerial training. Since the formation of the Methodist Heritage Committee in 2008, the Church has sought to identify contemporary engagement opportunities through all aspects of its heritage. This talk highlights the role that archives play in this developing work. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Reconsidering the Raj Lecture With Havelock at Lucknow, 1857: City, Siege and Resistance 18:00–19:30 Rosie Llewellyn-Jones and Sir Mark Havelock-Allan QC The year 1947 marked the end of British rule in India, two hundred years in which IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 the British replaced the Mughals as controlling power and laid the foundations for (Senate House) modern India. In collaboration with the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, the Institute of Historical Research will reconsider this remarkable period in a series of lectures by leading scholars. Rosie Llewellyn-Jones is the author of The Great Uprising in India 1857-58. Sir Mark Havelock-Allan QC, 5th Baronet of Lucknow, is the great-great-grandson of Sir Henry Havelock. £7.50 | £5 advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 39 Events calendar February February Institute of Historical Research Britain, West Africa and the ‘New Nuclear Imperialism’: Seminar Decolonisation and Development during French Tests 18:00–20:00 Christopher Hill (Birmingham City) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Wednesday 07 Institute of Modern Languages First International Congress – Modes of Production, Revolution Research and Transition to Capitalism in Latin America: Economic Structures, Three-day conference Classes, Networks, Communities, Ethnicities and Languages 09:00–18:00 This event is organised by the Institute of Modern Languages Research in collaboration with the Universidad Pablo de Olavide and Universitat Jaume I as part Universidad Pablo de Olavide, of the Open World Research Initiative (OWRI). The Open World Research Initiative is Seville a four-year project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Fee applicable advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Global Christianity and the Transformation of Dalits in Colonial Seminar and Postcolonial Kerala 12:30–14:30 Sanal Mohan (Mahatma Gandhi University, India) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research From Pleasure to Moral Panic? Tracing the History of Gay Men, Sex Seminar and Drugs 12:45–14:00 Maurice Nangington (Manchester) Free advance registration required [email protected] LG24, Keppel Street Building, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Institute of Historical Research Race and Revolution at the Dawn of the Nineteenth Century: The Seminar Importance of Christoph Meiners and Charles de Villers 17:15–19:15 Morgan Golf-French (UCL) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Slavery and the British Working Class, 1787–1838 Seminar Ryan Hanley (UCL) 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Housing Crisis: Home and Identity in Nineteenth-Century London Seminar Lisa Robertson (Warwick) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

40 School of Advanced Study Events calendar February February Institute of Historical Research Illuminating Homely Atmospheres Seminar Mikkel Bille (Roskilde) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Professor Olga Crisp Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research A Historical Approach to Leghismo: North Italian Regionalism as Seminar Force of Unity or Fragmentation? 17:30–19:30 George Newth (Bath) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Medieval Belonging and Oriental Otherness in Figurations of Seminar Iberia 17:30–19:30 Nadia Altschul (Glasgow) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research New Perspectives on Education during the Third Reich Seminar Free advance registration required [email protected] 17:30–19:30 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

Institute of Latin American Sobre los orígenes globales del populismo latinoamericano: el Studies APRA y el Kuo-Min-Tang Seminar Martín Bergel (Universidad de Buenos Aires) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute Alonso Berruguete, ‘The Son of Laocoon’, and His Assimilation of Lecture Classical Sources 17:30–19:30 Manuel Arias (Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid) This event is part of the Re-opening the Workshop: Medieval to Early Modern Warburg Institute Lecture Series. For details, see page 19. Free advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 41 Events calendar February February Institute of Historical Research IHR Historical Research Lecture 2018 Lecture V&A: A Museum of the Home and the World 18:00–20:30 Tristram Hunt (V&A) IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, This year’s IHR Historical Research Lecture, sponsored by Wiley, features Tristram NB01/NB02 (Senate House) Hunt, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. He will discuss the V&A’s founding commitment to design, education, and industry, which has forged an enduring connection to domesticity and the home. This lasting vision of ‘art for all’ continues to shape the V&A’s world-class collection today. A historian, politician, writer, and broadcaster, Dr Hunt is an expert on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a particular focus on Victorian urban history. He is the author of several books, including The English Civil War: At First Hand, and, most recently, Ten Cities That Made an Empire. A regular history broadcaster on BBC and Channel 4, he has made more than a dozen series on subjects including Elgar and empire, Isaac Newton, and the English Civil War. He lectures on modern British history at Queen Mary University of London and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a founder of the Stoke-on- Trent Literary Festival, and a Patron of the British Ceramics Biennial. He previously served as a trustee of both the Heritage Lottery Fund and the National Heritage Memorial Fund, and as curator of the Mayor of London’s History Festival. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Thursday 08 Institute of Historical Research IHR Winter Conference Two-day conference Home: New Histories of Living 09:30–17:00 This two-day conference will highlight new research exploring the many ways that the home has been thought about, used, and lived within throughout history. IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, These perspectives open the shutters on domesticity by showing how patterns of NB01/NB02 (Senate House) homemaking shape our conceptions of kinship, consumption, and the everyday. Confirmed plenary speakers include Jane Hamlett (RHUL), Owen Hatherley (architectural historian and journalist), and Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck). Fee applicable advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Advanced Legal Armin Kammel (Donau-Universität Krems; IALS) Studies This event is part of the IALS Lunchtime Seminar Series. Seminar Free advance registration required. 12:30–13:30 IALS, Charles Clore House

Institute of Classical Studies Moral Tales of Marathon: Moral Themes in the Historiography of Seminar the Battle of Marathon 16:30–18:30 Sonya Nevin (Roehampton) This event is part of the ICS Ancient History Seminar Series. Room 349 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Modern British History Reading Group Seminar Free advance registration required [email protected] 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

42 School of Advanced Study Events calendar February February Institute of Historical Research A Cultural History of Memory in the Twentieth Century: High Seminar Culture and Popular Culture 17:30–19:30 Patrick Finney (Aberystwyth) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Coincidence and Empire: The United States and the Pacific Seminar Elliott West (Arkansas) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Gender and the Language of Politics in Thirteenth-Century Royal Seminar Letters 17:30–19:30 Anaïs Waag (KCL) Treasured Assets: Jewish Tax-Payers in the Economy of Late Room 243 (Senate House) Medieval Castile Cecil Reid (QMUL) This event is part of the European History 1150–1550 Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Meet the Transport Archivist Seminar Alison Kay (National Railway Museum), Chris Heather (The National Archives) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 43 Events calendar February February Institute of English Studies Permeability, Agency, and the Technological History of Institute of Historical Research Photography Seminar Kate Flint (Southern California) What happens in the permeable area between the human body and a piece of 18:00–20:00 photographic apparatus? This question is crucial to histories of nineteenth-century The Senate Room (Senate House) photography. Professor Kate Flint will discuss the conceptual and theoretical challenges she encountered when writing a cultural history of flash photography. She will also consider the usefulness of the hand—both as a physical part of an individual and as a synecdoche—as a means of approaching the conundrum of the interwoven roles of human and mechanical in writing photographic history. The hand proves to be a rhetorical and literal instrument that not only connects eye, brain, and camera, but also helps articulate the art vs. mechanical reproduction/commercial activity distinctions that are inseparable from this history. Kate Flint is Provost Professor of Art History and English at the University of Southern California. She has published The Woman Reader, 1837–1914 (Oxford University Press, 1993), The Victorians and The Visual Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and The Transatlantic Indian 1776–1930 (Princeton University Press, 2008); edited The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature (2012); and written widely on Victorian and modernist fiction, Victorian and early twentieth-century painting and photography, and cultural history. This seminar is supported by the journal Media History, Queen Mary University of London, the Institute of English Studies, and the Institute of Historical Research. This event is part of the Media History Seminar and Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Senate House Library The Friends of Senate House Library Charles Holden Lecture Lecture The Sterling Library: Twentieth-Century Book Collecting and Twenty-First-Century Book History 18:00–20:30 Julia Walworth (Oxford) Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House) The Sterling Library started out as the private collection of Sir Louis Sterling (1879– 1958), a wealthy businessman. When the collection arrived at the Senate House Library in 1956, it comprised more than 4,000 rare printed books and manuscripts of English literary works from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, and it has now grown to more than 7,000 volumes. In this year's Charles Holden Lecture, Dr Julia Walworth, Fellow Librarian of Merton College, University of Oxford, will introduce some of these treasures and explore how the role and function of the Sterling Library has evolved from a collection of ‘trophy books’ to an invaluable resource for the University’s many activities in the burgeoning field of History of the Book. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Modern Languages Mussolini’s Greek Island: Fascism and the Italian Occupation of Research Syros in World War II Lecture Sheila Lecoeur (Imperial College London) 19:00–21:00 A lecture by Dr Sheila Lecoeur on the publication of her book Mussolini’s Greek Island: Fascism and the Italian Occupation of Syros in World War II. The lecture will Bloomsbury Room, G35 focus on the legacy of the Italian fascist occupation of Greece during the Second (Senate House) World War. This event is generously supported by the British Italian Society. Free advance registration required [email protected]

44 School of Advanced Study Events calendar February February Friday 09 Institute of Classical Studies Anatolian Lexicon in Mycenaean Greek Seminar Michele Bianconi (Oxford) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Women’s Money Management in Eighteenth- and Seminar Nineteenth-Century Glasgow 17:00–19:00 Catriona Macleod (Glasgow) IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 This event is part of the Women’s History Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Subtenancy Uncovered: A New Approach to Agrarian Capitalism in Seminar Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England 17:15–19:15 Joshua Rhodes (Exeter) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Royal Witches: Gendering Treason in the Fifteenth Century Seminar Sarah Stockdale (Winchester) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Politics of Style: Towards a Marxist Poetics Seminar Daniel Hartley (Leeds) 17:30–19:30 In this session, Daniel Hartley will present the main arguments of his book, The Politics of Style: Towards a Marxist Poetics (Brill: 2017). The book develops a Marxist Room 243 (Senate House) theory of literary style through an immanent critique of the work of Raymond Williams, Terry Eagleton, and Fredric Jameson. The first part delineates the historical and conceptual preconditions for the emergence of a ‘politics of style’ and uncovers an underground current of stylistics within the Marxist tradition from Marx to Barthes. The second sets out what each thinker has written on style and demonstrates how this came to figure in their overall intellectual and political projects, focusing above all on a reconstruction of Williams’s best-known concept, the ‘structure of feeling’. The third part sets out an independent theory of style and frames it as a foundational element of a potentially larger Marxist poetics. Daniel Hartley is a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Languages, Cultures, and Societies at the University of Leeds. Free advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 45 Events calendar February February Saturday 10

Institute of English Studies Jane Austen Society Study Day: Northanger Abbey – Study day Literature and Life 09:00–17:00 Speakers include Emma Clery, Jane Darcy, Stephen Mahony, and Bill Woburn Suite, G22/26 Hutchings (Senate House) £35 | £25 | £15 advance registration required [email protected]

Monday 12 Institute of Classical Studies Twelfth London Ancient Science Conference Four-day conference Free [email protected] 10:00–18:00 Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Plato and Aristotle on the Power of Music Seminar Dominic Scott (Oxford) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Remediating Inns of Court Drama: Gismund in Script and Print Seminar Tamara Atkin (QMUL) 17:15–19:00 Shakespeare’s Suppliant Women: Coriolanus as Tragedy of Hiketeia The Senate Room (Senate House) Christina Wald (Konstanz) This event is part of the London Shakespeare Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Television, Taste and Home Decor: Putting Leisure on Display in Seminar the British Home, 1945–75 17:15–19:15 Emily Rees (Nottingham) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Resistible Rise of the Otherwise Neoliberal: On Special Seminar Economic Zones and the (Caribbean) Making of World-History 17:15–19:15 Patrick Neveling (SOAS) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies After Serialisation: Adapting the Mid-Victorian Novel for Later Seminar Audiences 17:30–19:00 Chris Louttit (Radboud, Nijmegen, Netherlands) This event is part of the Open University History of Books and Reading (HOBAR) Room 243 (Senate House) Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

46 School of Advanced Study Events calendar February February Institute of Historical Research Moulinex: Women, Workers and Post-War France Seminar Jackie Clarke (Glasgow) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The First Charity Shops? Salvation Army and Red Cross Stores Seminar (1890s–1910s) 18:00–20:00 Marjorie Gerhardt (Reading) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Visual Knowledge and the Grand Tour: The Print Collection of Seminar Walter Bowman 18:00–20:00 Grant Lewis (British Library) The Grand Tours of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have long IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 proved a rich field for historians of collecting, and increasingly this is as much the (Senate House) case for acquisitions of ‘lesser’ arts like prints as for the celebrated purchases of painting and sculpture. Indeed, over the past few decades several Grand Tourists’ print collections have been the subject of in-depth investigations, and in a new contribution to this body of work, this paper will focus on the collection of the Scottish tutor and antiquary Walter Bowman (1699-1782). Surviving in several carefully curated and presented albums of French and Italian views in the National Library of Scotland and the British Library, each with their own fine manuscript title-page, this collection has been totally overlooked by print scholars, so much so that the two proudly signed volumes in the British Library go unmentioned in Bowman’s entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Yet this is a significant, indeed rare, collection, for unlike the better studied Grand Tour collectors Bowman was not a tourist as such but a cicerone, a guide for foreign travellers, and as a result his collection has a different character from the latters’ aristocratic ones, containing rudimentary and worn out impressions as well as fine art prints, not to mention a distinct function as a dependable educational resource. Grant Lewis is part of the British Library prints and drawings team responsible for cataloguing King George III’s Topographical Collection, a vast array of some 40-50,000 prints and drawings dating from the 1500s to the 1820s. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Tuesday 13 Institute of Historical Research There and Back Again: The Haida Great Box and Its Child Seminar Laura Peers (Pitt Rivers Museum/Oxford) 17:15–19:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 47 Events calendar February February Institute of Historical Research Lesbian Domesticities: Material Structures of Same-Sex Intimacy in Seminar Post-War Britain and Australia 17:15–19:15 Rebecca Jennings (UCL) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Sinew of the Secret War: SOE and Money 1940–45 Seminar Declan O’Reilly (East Anglia) 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Speaking for the Nation: Sheridan, Parliament, and the Seminar Newspapers in 1798 17:15–19:15 Robert Jones (Leeds) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Villa Imperial de Potosí and Legal Diversity in the Seminar Habsburg Andes 17:30–19:15 Renzo Honores (Instituto Internacional de Derecho y Sociedad) The Villa Imperial de Potosí was the largest urban center in the Spanish Atlantic IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 during the Habsburg period. Located at the heart of South America (currently in (Senate House) western Bolivia), the town was the epicenter of the silver industry and a crucial producer for the imperial economy. With a population of more than 100,000, the city was an example of ethnic, political, and legal diversity. Europeans (Spaniards and Portuguese), Africans (slaves and free), Andeans (relocated by the mita system), and a numerous mixed population of mestizos were the main residents. This talk explores the local dynamics of Potosino justice, the strategic use of royal and customary spheres for dispute resolution, and the rise of a colonial legal culture. It presents the complex panorama of the Villa Imperial, its legal debates and social practices, and proposes a reading of Potosí as a pluralistic space, an iconic example of colonial legal diversity. By using the theoretical arsenal of the sociology of law, this presentation highlights the nuances, facets, and features of the vibrant legal world of the Andean Habsburgs in the city of silver. Renzo Honores is a researcher at the Instituto Internacional de Derecho y Sociedad. His specialty is the colonial law of the Andes during the Habsburg period. He is currently researching the circulation of legal doctrines in the sixteenth-century Andes. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Philosophy Two Subject Matter Views in Aboutness Theory Seminar Naomi Osorio-Kupferblum (Vienna) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)

48 School of Advanced Study Events calendar February February Institute of Historical Research Simon de Montfort, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd and the Creation of the Seminar Principality of Wales 19:00–20:30 David Carpenter (KCL) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Wednesday 14 Institute of Classical Studies Suetonius on Greek Insults: the Peri Blasphemion in Context Seminar Amy Coker (ICS) 13:00–14:00 This event is part of the ICS Fellows Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 234 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Minority Governments in Britain Seminar Simon James (KCL) 17:00–19:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Napoleon’s Wars in Scandinavia Seminar Morten Ottosen (University of Southern Denmark/Norwegian Military Academy) 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Towards a History of Liberalism Seminar Alan Kahan (Université de Versailles St Quentin) 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Remembering as Reparation in Psychoanalysis and Post-War Seminar German History 17:30–19:30 Karl Figlio (Essex) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Empires of Race and Spirit: France and Spain in the Americas, Seminar 1860s–1920s 17:30–19:30 Miquel de la Rosa (Sciences-Po, Le Havre), Gäel Sanchez Cano (European University Institute) IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 49 Events calendar February February Institute of English Studies Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group: Canto 88 Seminar The Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group was formed in 2006. At each meeting, a speaker introduces a canto, followed by discussion. Speakers and members 18:00–20:00 range from internationally established Pound critics to poets, postgraduates, Room 246 (Senate House) independent scholars, and Pound enthusiasts. All are welcome. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Thursday 15 The Warburg Institute Early English Globe Making: A Social Study of a Terrestrial Globe Lecture by Morden, Berry and Lea, c.1685 17:00–19:00 Emma Perkins (Cambridge) Free advance registration required [email protected] Warburg Institute

Institute of Historical Research ‘Every low herdsman has a wheel-lock arquebus’: Small Arms Seminar Proliferation in Sixteenth-Century Italy 17:15–19:15 Catherine Fletcher (Swansea) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Evil Counsellors, Popish Plots, and the Origins of Parliamentarian Seminar Sexual Lbel, 1640–44 17:15–19:15 Samuel Fullerton (UC Riverside) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Festivity, Conviviality, and Sociability: Eating Symbols in Early- Seminar Modern Norfolk and Norwich 17:30–19:30 Victor Morgan (East Anglia) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Islamophobia and the Rise of Religiosity amongst British-Born Seminar Muslims 17:30–19:30 Hira Amin (Cambridge) Anti-Semitism and Identity Politics in Post-War Britain IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) David Feldman (Birkbeck) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Race, Politics and Networking: Christoph Meiners in the European Seminar Enlightenment 17:30–19:30 Morgan Golf-French (UCL) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

50 School of Advanced Study Events calendar February February Institute of Latin American Sex, Privacy, and Violence Online: The Construction of Revenge Studies Porn as a Public Debate in Brazil Seminar Beatriz Accioly Lins (Universidade de São Paulo) 17:30–19:30 Smartphones, social networks, and the proliferation of technological devices enable the production and exchange of information online. The term ‘revenge porn’ Room 234 (Senate House) is used in several countries and contexts to refer to the nonconsensual disclosure of intimate, erotic, or sexual images via the web. In Brazil, following the suicides of two teenagers and the creation of bills to criminalise the practice, it became the concern of feminists, the media, and law and policy makers. Sometimes perceived as a sexually permissive country, Brazil can be very conservative when it comes to sexuality and nude bodies. Placing various legal questions about privacy, the liability of internet providers, sexual morals, and the use of online platforms in everyday life, ‘revenge porn’ and the debates that surround it allow us to reflect on how some ‘social markers of difference’—gender, sexuality, class, and generation— operate in an intersectional way to create several forms of conceptualizing and legislating sex. The speaker will bring a Brazilian perspective to the subject, paying special attention to the different nomenclatures in use and in dispute in the identification of this ‘phenomenon’, underlining differences, similarities, questions, and ambivalences in the use of these terms, and thinking about what they say about morality, women, and notions about intimacy and sex. This event is part of the Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series, which is jointly run by the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Anthropology departments of LSE, Goldsmiths, and UCL. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Trouble with a Lower Case ‘t’: Memory, Deindustrialisation and Seminar Urban Redevelopment in Belfast 18:00–19:30 Sean O’Connell (Queen’s University, Belfast) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Pounds or Protestantism? The Modern Democratic Unionist Party Seminar Jon Tonge (Liverpool) 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the Irish Studies Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] The Senate Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Dockrill Lecture Seminar The Lion and the Eagle: The British and American Empires, 1783–1972 18:00–20:00 Kathleen Burk (UCL) Free advance registration required [email protected] The Great Hall, King’s College London

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 51 Events calendar February February Friday 16 Institute of Classical Studies Arcesilaus’ Two Faces in the Philosophical Reception Seminar Anna Schwetz (Tübingen) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Master AC and His Models: Biography and the Netherlandish Seminar Reproductive Print 17:15–19:15 Olenka Horbatsch (British Museum) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Crabb Robinson, Aesthetic Autonomy, and Staël’s Corinne, Or Italy Seminar James Vigus (QMUL) 17:30–19:30 Critical Dissemination: Kant, Hazlitt, and Crabb Robinson Bloomsbury Room, G35 Philip Hunnekuhl (Hamburg) (Senate House) This event is part of the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Service Patterns and the Question of Professionalism in the Seminar Garrisons of Lancastrian Normandy 17:30–19:30 Tom Wex (Winchester) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Saturday 17 Institute of Historical Research Wonder in the Quotidian: Lessons from Barbauld in Late- Seminar Eighteenth Century British Conversational Primers 14:00–16:00 Jessica Lim (Cambridge) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Monday 19

Institute of Classical Studies Exit Pursued by a Bear: Tacitus’ Nero, Agrippina, and Seminar the Dramatic Turn 17:00–19:00 Rhiannon Ash (Oxford) Room 349 (Senate House) This event is part of the ICS Ancient Literature Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

52 School of Advanced Study Events calendar February February Institute of Historical Research What Does It Smell Of? Identifying Drugs and Explaining Scents in Seminar Seventeenth-Century Rome 17:15–19:15 Silvia de Renzi (Open University) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Crusading Context of the Polish Relief of Vienna, 1683 Seminar Philip James (RHUL) 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Scottish Enlightenment and the British Empire: William Seminar Robertson on India 17:15–19:15 Yusuke Wakazawa (York) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Festival of Virility and Virginity: Shrovetide and the Manipulation Seminar of Festive Time at the Courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I 17:15–19:15 Kat Byrne (Kent), Taylor Aucoin (Bristol) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research ‘They were not Communists, they were Independistas!’ The Seminar Beginning of the Cold War in Ghana and Nigeria in 1948 17:30–19:30 Marika Sherwood (SAS) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Tuesday 20 Institute of Classical Studies ICS/British School at Rome Lecture Lecture 14 January 1506: The Discovery of the Laocoon 17:00–19:00 Rita Volpe (Roma Tre) Woburn Suite, G22/26 Rita Volpe will deliver the 2018 Institute of Classical Studies / British School (Senate House) at Rome Lecture. On 14 January 1506, the statue group of the Laocoon was discovered in a vineyard on the Esquiline Hill in Rome. It was almost intact and recognised at once as the same work of art that Pliny the Elder considered one of the most beautiful creations of antiquity. The Laocoon quickly became one of the best known sculptural groups in the world, yet until recently scholars were unsure of the vineyard’s location. Research began with the owner of the vineyard and the discovery of new archival documents that have provided a definitive solution to the problem. The reconstruction of a landscape of Rome of the sixteenth century, populated by notaries, innkeepers, doctors, and prostitutes, throws light onto the ancient Rome in which the Laocoon was admired. Free [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 53 Events calendar February February Institute of Historical Research The English Intellectual Reformation Seminar Polly Ha (UEA) 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Forgotten Boys of the Sea: Marine Society Merchant Sea Seminar Apprentices, 1772–1854 17:15–19:15 Caroline Withall (National Maritime Museum) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Language of Migration in the Victorian Press: A Corpus Seminar Linguistic Approach 17:15–19:15 Ruth Byrne (Lancaster) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Creative Writing and REF21: The Assessment of Practice-based Seminar Research 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the Contemporary Cultures of Writing Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Wolfe Sisters of Foochow, China: The Work of Three CMS Seminar Missionary Sisters, 1886–1944 17:30–19:30 Frances Slater (UCL Institute of Education) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research War Widows in England, 1642–80 Seminar Hannah Worthen (Hull), Stewart Beale (Leicester) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

Institute of Philosophy Scepticism about Practical Reason Seminar Thomas Pink (KCL) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of The Practical, the Political and the Ethical Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)

54 School of Advanced Study Events calendar February February Refugee Law Initiative Authority and Affect in Immigration Detention: A Critical Account 18:00–19:30 Mary Bosworth, Director of Centre of Criminology and Border Criminologies (Oxford) IALS Council Chamber, Charles Clore House Drawing on a long-term research project across a number of British Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs), this talk considers the relationship between authority and affect. In contrast to much of the literature on the prison, which advances a liberal political account in which power is constantly negotiated and based on mutual recognition, in detention, staff authority rests on an abrogation of their self rather than engagement with the other. Officers turn away (deny) and switch off (emotionally withdraw) from those before them in order to do their job. In so doing, they construct a distinct form of power and authority, in which arguments over legitimacy have no currency. Under such circumstances, troubling questions arise over the limits of the power of the state, and how we might call it to account. This event is part of the International Refugee Law Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research An ‘Entente in Good Heart’? UK-French Relations under Thatcher Seminar and Giscard, 1979–81 18:00–20:00 Rachel Utley (Leeds) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Wednesday 21 Institute of Historical Research Doctoral Prize Presentations Seminar Aeron O’Connor (UCL), Judith Jacob (LSE) 12:30–14:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Narratives of Democratization and Decline in Fifth-Century Athens Seminar Tom Hooper (ICS) 13:00–14:00 This event is part of the ICS Fellows Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 234 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Mycenaean Eleon in Eastern Boeotia: From the Shaft Grave Era Seminar through the Post-Palatial Period 15:30–17:30 Brendan Burke (Victoria), Bryan Burns (Wellesley College) Sponsored by INSTAP. Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House) This event is part of the ICS Mycenaean Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

Institute of Philosophy Metaphor in Pictures Seminar John Kulvicki (Dartmouth) 16:00–18:00 This event is part of the London Aesthetics Forum. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 55 Events calendar February February Institute of Historical Research Montesquieu, Hume and English History Seminar Tom Pye (Cambridge) 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Provincial Businesswoman in Georgian England, 1780–1830 Seminar Peter Collinge (Keele) 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] The Court Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research ‘From dusky lane and foetid alley to open, bright Canadian field’: Seminar Anti-Urban Discourse and its Role in Late Nineteenth-Century Child Emigration Programmes 17:30–19:30 Sarah Wise (independent scholar) IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Memory as Resistance to Fascism: Commemoration of Giacomo Seminar Matteotti in Italian Communities of the United States 17:30–19:30 Amy King (Bristol) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Institute of Latin American Crossing Oceans, Transgressing Boundaries: Writing Muslims and Studies Moriscos into Histories of Colonial Spanish America Seminar Kaja Cook (RHUL) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 234 (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute Master and Apprentice: Transferring Skills in the London Lecture Huguenot Communities 17:30–19:30 Tessa Murdoch (V&A) Warburg Institute This event is part of the Re-opening the Workshop: Medieval to Early Modern Lecture Series. For details, see page 19. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Thursday 22 Institute of Historical Research The Emotional Politics of Family Planning Campaigns in 1970s and Seminar 1980s Britain 12:45–14:00 Katie Jones (Birmingham) Free advance registration required [email protected] LG24, Keppel Street Building, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

56 School of Advanced Study Events calendar February February Institute of Classical Studies Ideological Rhetoric in Xenophon’s Historiography Seminar Rosie Harman (UCL) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the ICS Ancient History Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Christienna Fryar (Liverpool) Seminar This event is part of the Modern British History Seminar Series. 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research R. G. Collingwood and the Philosophy of History Seminar Jonas Ahlskog (Åbo Akademi) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Discovering African Americans’ Civil Cases: The Untold Story of Seminar Civil Cases between Black and White Southerners 17:30–19:30 Melissa Milewski (Sussex) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Emotions, Selfhood and Subjectivity in Early Modern Witch Trials Seminar Laura Kounine (Sussex) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Petrifying Wealth: The Southern European Shift to Masonry as Seminar Collective Investment in Identity, c. 1050–1300 17:30–19:30 Ana Rodríguez (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Origins of the Royal Horticultural Society Seminar Brent Elliot (RHS) 18:00–20:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 57 Events calendar February February

Institute of Modern Languages Encounters: Writers and Translators in Conversation – Research Kerstin Hensel and Jen Calleja Seminar This Encounter focuses on Kerstin Hensel’s narration Tanz am Kanal (1997) 18:00–20:00 and Jen Calleja’s translation, published earlier this year as Dance by the Gordon Room, G34 Canal by Peirene Press. Dance by the Canal tells the story of a woman who (Senate House) fails to find her place in society—neither in communist GDR nor in the capitalist West. Her refusal to conform to the patriarchal structures of either society forces her into ever-increasing isolation. Kerstin Hensel was born in 1961 in Karl-Marx-Stadt in former East Germany and studied in Leipzig. She has published more than 30 books, including novels, short story collections, poetry, and plays. She has won numerous prizes, including the Anna Seghers-Preis as well as the Lessing prize for her entire body of work. Jen Calleja is a literary translator from German into English, a writer, editor, and musician. She is currently Translator-in-Residence at the British Library. This event is sponsored by the Keith Spalding Bequest Fund and is part of the IMLR Encounters: Writers and Translators in Conversation Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Latin American Pablo Neruda’s Passion for Ecuador: A Meeting of Hearts and Studies Minds Institute of Modern Languages Adam Feinstein Research The UK embassies of Chile and Ecuador are jointly sponsoring this presentation Seminar by Adam Feinstein, the acclaimed biographer and translator of Pablo Neruda, who will tell the fascinating story of the Chilean Nobel Prize-winning poet’s relationship 18:00–20:30 with Ecuador. This passion was conducted largely through his friendships with The Court Room (Senate House) leading Ecuadorian artists and writers, including the painter Oswaldo Guayasamín and the poets Jorge Carrera Andrade and Jorge Enrique Adoum. The talk will be interspersed with readings from the poetry of Carrera Andrade and Adoum in both Spanish and English. Mr Feinstein’s biography Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life was first published by Bloomsbury in 2004 and reissued in an updated edition in 2013 (Harold Pinter called it ‘a masterpiece’). Also in 2013, Mr Feinstein launched Cantalao, a biannual magazine dedicated to Neruda’s life and work. His translations from Neruda, Lorca, Benedetti, and others have appeared in many publications, including Modern Poetry in Translation and Agenda. His book of translations from Neruda’s Canto General, with colour illustrations by the Brazilian artist Ana Maria Pacheco, was published by Pratt Contemporary in 2013. This event is jointly organised by the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Institute of Modern Languages Research. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Senate House Library Polari Literary Salon Performance London’s award-winning LGBT literary salon Polari is coming to Senate House Library. Founded in 2007 by author Paul Burston, Polari showcases the best in established 19:00–20:30 and emerging LGBT literary talent and is based in London’s Southbank Centre. The Periodicals Room salon also tours regularly, funded by Arts Council England, and has appeared at (Senate House Library) many festivals including Aye Write Glasgow, Belfast Book Festival, Books on Tyne, Homotopia, and Manchester Literature Festival. Thus event features Neil Bartlett, VG Lee, Alex Gregory, and Paul Burston, curator of Polari, who will also be performing. £6 | £3 advance registration required [email protected]

58 School of Advanced Study Events calendar February February Friday 23 Institute of Historical Research Gerald Aylmer Seminar 2018 One-day symposium Diversity amongst the Documents? The Representation of BAME communities within the UK’s Archives 09:00–17:00 Researching and writing inclusive histories that capture the full spectrum of IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, British history demands the creation, cataloguing, and use of diverse archives. NB01/NB02 (Senate House) Focusing on archives that chronicle Black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) lives, institutions, and initiatives, the Gerald Aylmer Seminar 2018 will explore how these communities are represented within local UK archives by bringing together leading archivists and historians in discussion and debate. Questions to be considered: how have archives captured social, cultural, and political change? How do we ensure that modern-day social and demographic development is represented? And what has been the impact of collections and collecting on the historical profession? The Gerald Aylmer Seminar is an annual one-day symposium organised by The National Archives, the Royal Historical Society, and the Institute of Historical Research, which brings together historians and archivists to discuss topics of mutual interest, particularly the nature of archival research and the use of collections. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies Ovidian Appropriations in the Middle Ages Seminar Angela Cossu (EPHE Paris) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research A Perpetual Seminary and Succession of Merchants: The Merchant Seminar Adventurers of England as a Monopoly Company 17:15–19:15 Thomas Leng (Sheffield) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Emotional Culture and Relations with Women in Seminar Rural Edwardian England 17:15–19:15 Hera Cook (Otago) IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 This event is part of the Women’s History Seminar Series. (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Nineteenth-Century Opera Seminar Flora Willson (KCL), Kate Bailey (V&A) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 59 Events calendar February February Institute of Historical Research Sunil Janah: Documenting the Bengal Famine, 1943–44 Seminar Emilia Terracciano (Oxford) 17:30–19:30 Communist Party of India photographer Sunil Janah (1918–2012) indicted the colonial state and its pitiless reduction of three million rural refugees to bare IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 life in his horrific documentary portrayal of the Bengal Famine (1943–44). In the (Senate House) aftermath of 1935 and the Seventh Congress, Janah took up Lenin’s lessons on the role of photography. The speaker argues that Janah creatively negotiated colonial censorship to focus his camera on the evidence of state oppression during World War II. Famine was a recurring phenomenon in the history of India, a collective catastrophe of huge proportions that caused abnormal levels of destitution, hunger, and death. Studies of famished subjects conducted by British photographers suggest that famine was treated as a natural phenomenon, providing visual grounds for the continuation of the Empire, whose ‘civilising’ mission was seen as a cure. Janah, by contrast, honed affective techniques to imply famine was in fact a product of imperialism and the collapse of British governmentality. Janah’s photography contrasted with the highly mediatised, spectacular biomoral resistance and fasting techniques performed by Mahatma Gandhi, one of the leading nationalist figures of the time. Created in the manner of what Benjamin termed phantasmagoria (phantasmagoria as the demonic doppelganger of allegory), the viewer travels through Janah’s spectral landscapes and gazes upon skulls. The push-button moment of shooting is delayed, there is an insistence on the theatrics of preparatory operations to manipulate viewers’ sensory perceptions: the ghostly space of the photograph is meticulously choreographed. Co-opting the medium as a means to further anti-colonial resistance, Janah figured dissent and decried the hypocritical (and political) sacrifice of Indian lives in a world war fought for ‘civilisation’ and against the barbarism of Nazism and Fascism. Emilia Terracciano is the Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Crown’s Ecclesiastical Creditors: State Loans from the English Seminar Church, 1307–77 17:30–19:30 Robin McCallum (Queen’s University Belfast) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

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

Monday 26

Institute of Modern Languages Maria Theresa (1717–80): Tercentenary Workshop on Research the Empress and Her Time Workshop Last year marked the tercentenary of the birth of Maria Theresa, who 12:45–19:00 ruled the Habsburg Empire from 1740 to 1780. Her reign was steeped in The Queen’s College, Oxford controversies and major wars, but it also saw the dawn of the Austrian Enlightenment and significant political as well as cultural reforms. In this workshop, experts from across Europe will discuss the prevailing ‘myth’ of Maria Theresa alongside questions of gender and political power in the eighteenth century. Free advance registration required [email protected]

60 School of Advanced Study Events calendar February February Institute of Classical Studies Matter, Form, and Parthood: How Not to Understand Aristotle’s Seminar Hylomorphism 16:30–18:30 Gabriele Galluzzo (Exeter) This event is part of the ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series. Room 243 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies Theatricality and Affectations: Dramatic Displays in the Latin Seminar Novels 17:00–19:00 Regine May (Leeds) This event is part of the ICS Ancient Literature Seminar Series. Room 349 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research A Roundtable on Rohan Deb Roy’s Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine, Seminar and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909 (Cambridge, 2017) 17:15–19:15 Discussants: Clare Anderson (Leicester), Richard Drayton (KCL), Nayanika Mathur (Oxford), Simon Schaffer (Cambridge), Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge) IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate Free advance registration required [email protected] House)

Institute of Historical Research Oral History of Class and Rugby Union in Post-War Britain Seminar Joe Hall (De Montfort) 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute Warburg on Luther and Dürer: Media Wars and the Freedom to Lecture Think 17:30–19:30 Jane O. Newman Jane O. Newman, professor of comparative literature at the University of California Warburg Institute at Irvine, specialises in the pre- and early modern past and the modern and postmodern present. Her talk references Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s assertion that ‘Luther’s words are everywhere’ in his 1937 book Nachfolge, which protested the impoverished ways in which the Great Reformer’s ideas and words were being deployed in support of the Nazi regime. Professor Newman will use Aby Warburg’s theory of the ‘migration routes’ or paths (Wanderstraßen) of culture and ideas to explore the circulation of Martin Luther’s image, ideas, and words in a variety of highly charged political contexts. These contexts will include not only Luther’s own sixteenth century, but also the volatile worlds of a war-torn early twentieth- century Germany, colonial German East Africa (Tanzania), and the twenty-first century world. In his 1920 essay on Luther, Warburg himself noted that the language of images was an international one; in her lecture, Professor Newman discuss the equally international circulation of Luther’s ideas in the spheres of culture and politics. The lecture will be followed by a roundtable discussion on 27 February with James Curran (Goldsmiths), Jo Fox (IHR), Jane O. Newman, and Petra Roettig (Hamburger Kunsthalle). Both events mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and the 100th anniversary of Warburg’s seminal lecture on Luther and the role of propaganda in public opinion-making. Warburg and Luther – Word | Image in Times of Crisis – 1517, 1917, 2017 is supported by the University of London Coffin Trust. Free advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 61 Events calendar February February Institute of Historical Research Making History: Stories of Brilliant Founders in the Voluntary Seminar Sector 18:00–20:00 Caroline Diehl (Social Founders Network) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Tuesday 27 Institute of Historical Research Objects, Islands, Empire: Collecting in the Western Indian Ocean, Seminar 1860–1930 17:15–19:00 Sarah Longair (Lincoln) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The 28th Division in 1915 Seminar Spencer Jones (Wolverhampton) 17:15–19:15 This event is part of the Military History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Global Coolie Trade between China and Latin America in the Seminar Nineteenth Century: Its Origins and Collapse 17:30–19:15 Rudolph Ng (Birkbeck) This talk details how two opposing coalitions of international agents fought IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 for thirty years, one to continue, the other to abolish, the Chinese coolie trade (Senate House) to Latin America. As abolitionism gained strength in the early 1800s, owners of mines, plantations, and other industries in Latin America began looking with some urgency for a substitute for their African slaves. Failing to find sufficient workers in the Americas or Europe to fill the growing labor shortage, they turned their attention to China, where they found large numbers ready to take on manual work. The result was a massive growth in the so-called coolie trade, by which, from 1847 to 1874, more than 250,000 indentured laborers from Southern China were shipped to Latin America. While some planters, officials, and diplomats in Spanish America argued for the continued import of Chinese coolies, others sought to defeat this human trafficking and in the end prevailed. An assessment of previously unexamined documents in China, Peru, Cuba, and Chile calls for revising the historiography of the coolie story, which has always been interpreted through a nationalistic lens in both Chinese and Latin American scholarship. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Ex-Servicemen and the Liberal Party: The Great War Generation Seminar and the Electoral and Parliamentary Politics of the 1920s 17:30–19:30 Matthew Johnson (Durham) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Institute of Philosophy Contrastivism and the Harm of Death Seminar Tatjana von Solodkoff (Dublin) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)

62 School of Advanced Study Events calendar February February The Warburg Institute Warburg and Luther – Word | Image in Times of Crisis – 1517, 1917, Roundtable discussion 2017 17:30–19:30 This roundtable discussion is the second of two events to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and the 100th anniversary of Aby Warburg’s Warburg Institute seminal lecture on Luther and the role of propaganda in public opinion-making. Participants include James Curran (Goldsmiths), Jo Fox (IHR), Jane O. Newman (California at Irvine), and Petra Roettig (Hamburger Kunsthalle). The other event in this series is a keynote lecture entitled ‘Luther’s words are everywhere’: Protestantism and Politics, 1517–2017 by Jane O. Newman on 26 February. Warburg and Luther – Word | Image in Times of Crisis – 1517, 1917, 2017 is supported by the University of London Coffin Trust. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Senate House Library Saving Gay’s the Word, and Being Gay in the 80s Seminar Hear Jim MacSweeney, manager of London’s leading LGBT bookshop, Gay’s the Word, in a discussion with Graham McKerrow on the raid on the shop by H.M. 18:00–20:30 Customs in 1984, which saw all of its foreign-published stock impounded, and the Macmillan Hall (Senate House) wider experience of being gay in 80s London. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research "Structuring the Sacred": Considering Framing, Space and Place on Seminar the Easby Cross 19:00–20:30 Meg Boulton (York) This event is part of the London Society for Medieval Studies Seminar Series. IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Wednesday 28 Institute of Classical Studies Making Athens Great Again Seminar Sophie Mills (University of North Carolina, Asheville) 13:00–14:00 This event is part of the ICS Fellows Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 234 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Archaeologists and the Management of Heritage Damage in the Seminar Time of War: The Syrian Case 16:30–18:30 Laurence Gillot (Université Paris 7) This event is part of the ICS Classical Archaeology Seminar Series. Room 349 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Losing the War: Grief and Post-War Conservatism Seminar Kit Kowol (Oxford) 17:00–19:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Carl Schmitt’s Concept of Secularisation Seminar Peter E. Gordon (Harvard) 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 63 Events calendar February February Institute of Historical Research ‘The Number One Religious Bestseller’: John Robinson and Seminar Honest to God 17:15–19:15 Hugh McLeod (Birmingham) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Professor Olga Crisp Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Making Histories in No Man’s Land: Reflections on the First World Seminar War Commemorations of British and German Descendants 17:30–19:30 Michael Roper (Essex), Rachel Duffett (Essex), David Savill (Age Exchange) In early 2016, David Savill, artistic director of the reminiscence organisation Age IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 Exchange, collaborated with Rachel Duffett and Michael Roper of the University (Senate House) of Essex on a five-day event in Bavaria that explored family legacies of the First World War among British and German descendants. For this event, they will talk about their experience of bringing together family stories from across the national boundaries of ‘no man’s land’ and reflect on their experience as practitioners working across the boundaries of heritage and history. Michael Roper is currently working on a Leverhulme Trust funded project about childhood and family legacies of the Great War in Britain and a study of the war’s impact across three generations of his family in Australia. He is a co-investigator in the University of Hertfordshire’s AHRC/HLF Engagement Centre, ‘Everyday Lives in the First World War’, which funded the collaboration with Age Exchange. Rachel Duffett has a particular interest in the material culture of the First World War and its legacies in the interwar years and is a researcher in AHRC/HLF Centre, ‘Everyday Lives in the First World War’. David Savill specializes in reminiscence practice with older people in care and community settings. His work with older people and with intergenerational groups has resulted in many theatre productions, exhibitions, documentary films, and most recently dance. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Empire of Taste: French Commodities and Global Power in the Seminar Nineteenth Century 17:30–19:30 David Todd (KCL) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute The Bernini Workshop (Re)visited Lecture Joris van Gastel (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the Re-opening the Workshop: Medieval to Early Modern Lecture Series. For details, see page 19. Warburg Institute Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Anna Margolin’s New York Modernism Seminar Jordan Savage (UEA) 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)

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Institute of Modern Languages A New Language, a New Life? Research Translingual Literature by Contemporary Women Writers Workshop This symposium will bring together scholars working on translingual 14:00–18:00 women’s writing in the language fields of Italian, French, and German. Gordon Room, G34 It will explore the particular richness of texts produced by writers in (Senate House) languages that are not their mother tongues. Is translingual writing perceived by the authors in question as a liberation and a new beginning, or as a requirement demanded by the literary market? How does the particular attention to language required in translingual writing affect the text? What are the distinctive literary and linguistic strategies employed in translingual writing? Does writing in a foreign tongue go hand in hand with establishing a new identity? What can translingual writing achieve that goes beyond the possibilities of texts produced by mother-tongue writers? These are some of the questions that will be explored. This event is supported by the AHRC-funded Open World Research Initiative, and Cassal Trust Fund. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies Thucydides, Homer and the Idea of Historical Distance Seminar Tim Rood (Oxford) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the ICS Ancient History Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research London, Locke, and 1690s Provisions for the Poor in Context: Seminar Beggars, Sailors, Spinners and Slaves; Workhouses, Wars, Coins and Companies; England, Ireland, Scotland and the Caribbean 17:15–19:15 John Marshall (Johns Hopkins) IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Politics and Written Culture in the Early Modern Era: The Italian Seminar Campaign of Charles VIII of France (1494–95) and Its Network of Texts 17:15–19:15 Lorenza Tromboni (Strasbourg) IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

66 School of Advanced Study Events calendar March March Institute of Historical Research British Ex-Service Students and the Rebuilding of Europe, 1919–26 Seminar Georgina Brewis (UCL), Sarah Hellawell (Northumbria), Daniel Laqua (Northumbria) 17:30–19:30 After the First World War, British universities received an influx of students who had undertaken wartime service—whether as soldiers serving at the front, members of IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 the field ambulance, or VAD nurses. The Board of Education’s scholarship scheme for (Senate House) ex-service students helped produce a more socially diverse student body, a social transformation of higher education yet to be thoroughly investigated. The post-war enfranchisement of women coincided with further changes in higher education, exemplified by the University of Oxford’s decision to give full membership to female students in 1920. This talk investigates the war generation’s entry into higher education by focusing on one particular aspect: their contribution to reconstructing Europe by forging links with students from other countries, including former enemy nations. The immediate post-war years saw a plethora of international student initiatives, encompassing humanitarian efforts as well as the promotion of student interests at the international level. British university students were actively involved in these ventures; indeed, the very foundation of the National Union of Students (NUS) in 1922 was partly aimed at strengthening international links. Even when not active in such organisations, many British students engaged in internationalism, for example by participating in study exchanges and travel schemes. The talk will examine how young adults with direct experience of war experienced and fostered international dialogue and understanding, and is based on a collaborative project funded by an AHRC First World War Engagement Centre grant and co-designed with the National Union of Students (NUS) and the North East branch of the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA). Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Britain and the Long Echoes of Empire Seminar Gurminder Bhambra (Sussex), Charlotte Riley (Southampton) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Gone is the Club: Early Labour in the National Daily Press Seminar Christopher Shoop-Worrall (Sheffield) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Profit of Bees and Honey: Beekeeping Manuals on the Cusp of Seminar Scientific Study, 1568–1657 17:30–19:30 Matt Phillpott (SAS) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 67 Events calendar March March Institute of Latin American Young Lives at the Outskirts of Progress: A Child-Centred Study of Studies Indigenous Exclusion and Marginalisation in Amazonian Peru Seminar Camilla Morelli (Bristol) 17:30–19:30 This talk examines the challenges faced by indigenous children and youth in Peru who are rejecting hunter-gathering lifestyles in the rainforest in the hope of Room 234 (Senate House) accessing market-based, urban livelihoods. It examines how young indigenous people are receiving, and actively negotiating, the impact of urbanisation, political readjustments, and rapid expansion of neoliberal markets in Latin America. The analysis draws on ethnographic fieldwork with Matses people in Peru, who have recently ended a long period of voluntary isolation in the rainforest and are currently adjusting to the national economy and enhanced relations with the state. Children and youth play an active role in appropriating national and transnational influences beyond their communities, including urban practices, globalised media, and developmental policies centred on specific ideas of ‘progress’ promoted by the Peruvian state. In choosing to do so, they are entering unprecedented conditions of poverty and marginalisation as they become part of a global economy in which they occupy a peripheral position. This event is part of the Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series, which is jointly run by the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Anthropology departments of LSE, Goldsmiths, and UCL. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Performing Oceans: Interdisciplinary Panel on Dance and English Seminar Literature 18:30–20:00 Arabella Stranger (Sussex), Matt Kerr (Southampton) This event is part of the London Theatre Seminar Series. Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Friday 02 Institute of Classical Studies The Linguistic Landscape of Late Roman Sicily: Interferences and Seminar Resistances 16:30–18:30 Marta Capano (Universita’ degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar Series. Room 246 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Secrets in the Dutch Golden Age and Where to Find Them Seminar Djoeke van Netten (Amsterdam) 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

68 School of Advanced Study Events calendar March March Institute of Historical Research What is a Yeoman? Status and Identity in Later Medieval England Seminar Louisa Foroughi (Fordham) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Saturday 03 Institute of English Studies En/chanting Modernism: Liturgical Reform and the Poetry Reading Seminar Jamie Callison (Nord University) 11:00–13:00 ‘One leant to things’: Domestic Space and Spirituality in Modernist Women’s Writing Room 349 (Senate House) Elizabeth Anderson (Stirling) This event is part of the London Modernism Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Antonio Genovesi and Leibnizio-Wolffianism in Eighteenth- Seminar Century Sicily 14:00–16:00 Felix Waldmann (Cambridge) This event is part of the Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Room 246 (Senate House) Seminar (EMPHASIS) Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies Virgil Society Lecture: The Female Hero and the Aeneid Lecture Natalie Haynes 14:30–17:00 Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster, and president of the Virgil Woburn Suite, G22/26 Society. Her first novel, The Amber Fury (2014), was published to great (Senate House) acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, as was The Ancient Guide to Modern Life (2010). She has spoken on the modern relevance of the classical world on three continents, from Cambridge to Chicago to Auckland. She is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4: reviewing for Front Row and Saturday Review, appearing as a team captain on three seasons of Wordaholics, and presenting her own show, Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics. Her documentary on the Defining Beauty exhibition at the British Museum, Secret Knowledge: The Body Beautiful, aired in 2015 on BBC4 in the UK and on BBC World News. She was a judge for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction, the 2013 Man Booker Prize, and the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Free [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 69 Events calendar March March Monday 05 Institute of Modern Languages Historical Materialism and Models of Criticism Research Organised by Jeremy Coleman (IMLR/Aberdeen) and Johan Siebers (IMLR/ Seminar Middlesex). 16:00–18:00 This event is part of the Music and Marxism Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 234 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Connotations of ‘Comedy’ in Classical Athens Seminar Michael Silk (KCL) 17:00–19:00 This event is part of the ICS Ancient Literature Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Form and Future Seminar A roundtable discussion in which Andrea Brady (QMUL), Hannah Crawforth, Sarah Howe, Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Clare Whitehead (KCL) and Jane Kingsley-Smith 17:15–19:00 (Roehampton) will explore the legacy of Shakespeare’s sonnets in contemporary Bloomsbury Room, G35 poetry and criticism. (Senate House) This event is part of the London Shakespeare Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Liturgical Vision and Liturgical Practice in Crusader Jerusalem Seminar Iris Shagrir (Open University of Israel) 17:15–19:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Between Pietism and the Enlightenment: Johann Gottlieb Seminar Burckhardt, Theologian, Historian and Philosopher 17:15–19:15 Philip Broadhead (University of the Arts) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Mestizos and Limpieza de Sangre in Colonial Latin America: Seminar A Matter of Blood and Milk? 17:15–19:15 Virginia Ghelarducci (ILAS) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Secret Knowledge and Corruption in Late Tudor Projecting Culture Seminar David Smith (Wilfrid Laurier) 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Serial Marketing: Ouida in the 1860s Seminar Andrew King (Greenwich) 17:30–19:00 This event is part of the Open University History of Books and Reading (HOBAR) Seminar Series. Room 243 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

70 School of Advanced Study Events calendar March March Institute of Historical Research Medicine and Hebrew in the Late Renaissance: a Story of Inclusion Seminar or Exclusion? 17:30–19:30 Magdaléna Jánošíková (QMUL) IHR North American History Room Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Monday 10th April 1848 Revisited Seminar Keith Flett 17:30–19:30 This event is part of the Socialist History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Full-Scale Displays and the Reform of Architecture in Germany Seminar Wallis Miller (Kentucky) 18:00–20:00 The speaker is currently writing a book titled Architecture on Display: Exhibitions and the Emergence of Modernism in Germany, 1786-1932. The book uses German IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 case studies to reveal the particular character of an architecture exhibition (Senate House) and demonstrate the ways in which exhibitions contributed to modernism in architecture. He will focus on a specific form of display, the full scale interior, and the ways in which a means of presentation originally developed to portray the past, in the form of the period room, became a catalyst for the early twentieth- century reforms that led to the emergence of modern architecture. Wallis Miller is the Charles P. Graves Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Kentucky, College of Design. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Tuesday 06 Institute of Historical Research English Designed Landscapes, c.1550–1660: Using 3D-GIS to Seminar Recreate ‘Prospects’ and ‘Promenades’ 17:15–19:15 Lizzie Stewart (UEA) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Thomas Cranmer in Light of New Research Seminar Ashley Null (Durham) 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Writing about Writing: What is a Creative Writing PhD Seminar Commentary? 17:30–19:30 In association with the National Association of Writers in Education This event is part of the Contemporary Cultures of Writing Seminar Series. Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 71 Events calendar March March Institute of Historical Research ‘Africa or death’: The Medical Mission of the Comboni Sisters in Seminar Northern Uganda 17:30–19:30 Kathleen Vongsathorn (Warwick) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Problem of Reconstructing a Seventeenth-Century Scholarly Seminar Library: The Case of Lord George Douglas’s Collection 17:30–19:30 W A Kelly (formerly National Library of Scotland) This illustrated lecture will highlight the life and the book collection of Lord Warburg Lecture Theatre, George Douglas, a member of the Queensberry branch of a family long active in Warburg Institute Scottish life. The speaker will trace Douglas’ education from school to his studies at the University of Glasgow, before he travelled through part of Europe on an educational Grand Tour. He will then discuss the manuscript sources for the reconstruction of Douglas’s library and the problems that they pose. This event is part of the History of Libraries Seminar Series jointly sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, the Institute of Historical Research, the Warburg Institute and the Library and Information History Group of CILIP. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Vaccination While You Dance: Persuasive Press and Poster 17:30–19:30 Promotion of the Polio Vaccine to British Publics, 1956–62 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 Gareth Millward and Hannah J Elizabeth (London School of Hygiene and Tropical (Senate House) Medicine) People in the 1950s feared polio. When Jonas Salk’s vaccine was announced to the world in 1955, it was hailed as a miracle of modern science and a victory against a dreaded disease. And yet the British government frequently struggled to raise registration rates for the vaccine. The Ministry of Health embarked on several promotional campaigns across the 1950s. These campaigns were unusual in comparison to previous British vaccine drives, aimed as they were at broad swathes of the public, rather than infants and those occupying professions that placed them at specific risk. Indeed, from 1956 to 1961, the programme expanded from children under the age of 9 to those under the age of 15, to young adults under 26, and finally to all citizens under 40. Unlike typical programmes—where publicity would target parents (usually mothers) to present their children for the procedure—there were several cohorts of differing ages, each requiring different approaches. This talk explores how this was achieved by examining the posters and press advertisements of the period, paying particular attention to the emotions that lay behind polio vaccination promotion. It shows how the government used prevailing emotional responses to polio to try to improve uptake. From bonnie babies to male bread-winners via courting teenagers, polio vaccine was ‘sold’ as an integral part of good healthy citizenship for people of all ages. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Philosophy Getting Rights out of Wrongs Seminar Kimberley Brownlee (Warwick) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of The Practical, the Political and the Ethical Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)

72 School of Advanced Study Events calendar March March Institute of Historical Research Exploring Archive Exhibitions Seminar Peter Lester (Leicester) 17:45–19:45 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Reconsidering the Raj Lecture Afghanistan: Britain’s Imperial Misadventures 18:00–19:29 Jules Stewart IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate The year 1947 marked the end of British rule in India, two hundred years in which House) the British replaced the Mughals as controlling power and laid the foundations for modern India. In collaboration with the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, the Institute of Historical Research will reconsider this remarkable period in a series of lectures by leading scholars. This lecture considers the subject of Afghanistan. Britain’s most recent military involvement in Afghanistan remains a contentious issue, yet it is often overlooked that this engagement is in fact the fourth in a string of conflicts dating back to the nineteenth century. Determined to safeguard British India’s borders from the expanding Russian Empire and Afghan aggression, the British fought three campaigns on Afghan territory between 1838 and 1919. The Anglo-Afghan wars of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries resulted in some of the worst military calamities ever sustained by the Raj in this part of the world. In the first war alone, a column of 16,000 soldiers and civilians was annihilated on the retreat from Kabul. Jules Stewart’s talk looks at the lack of understanding of Afghanistan and its people that led to disaster and considers the lessons to be learnt. Jules Stewart is a journalist and author of On Afghanistan’s Plains, The Savage Border, and five other books on Afghanistan and the North West Frontier. £7.50 | £5 advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Ambassadors: The Struggle in Britain to Maintain a Career Seminar Service, 1919–39 18:00–20:00 Erik Goldstein (Boston) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Wednesday 07 Institute of Historical Research Tibet Lost in Translation: Power Politics, Language and Seminar International Order Transformation at the Simla Convention, 1913–14 12:30–14:30 Amanda Cheney (Lund University, Sweden) IHR Past and Present Room, N202 Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Political, the Emotional, and the Therapeutic: The Women’s Seminar Movement and Mental Health Activism in England, c. 1969–95 12:45–14:00 Kate Mahoney (Essex) Free advance registration required [email protected] LG24, Keppel Street Building, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 73 Events calendar March March

Institute of Philosophy Michael Newall (Kent) Seminar This event is part of the London Aesthetics Forum. 16:00–18:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] Room G21A (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies The Ghost of Palmyra Yet-to-Come? Exploring Memory, People, Seminar and Place in Post-Conflict Reconstruction 16:30–18:30 Zena Kamash (RHUL) This seminar will be screencast via Room 349 (Senate House) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwVQ_yqJ_68. This event is part of the ICS Classical Archaeology Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Dazzling or “Fantastically Dull”? Reconsidering Sociability at the Seminar Eighteenth-Century Masquerade 17:15–19:15 Meghan Kobza (Newcastle) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Regulating Liberty: The State Versus the Man Seminar Steph Conway (RHUL) 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Georges Perec’s Daily Space(s) in the Era of ‘Aménagement’: Seminar Species of Spaces and Town Planning Circa 1974 17:30–19:30 Anna-Louise Milne (University of London Institute in Paris) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Professor Olga Crisp Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Within Worlds: Towards an Intimate History of London’s Docklands Seminar Simeon Koole (Oxford) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Book Launch: Making Italian Jews: Family, Gender, Religion and the Seminar Nation, 1861–1919 (Palgrave, 2017) 17:30–19:30 Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti (UCL) Chair: Nicola Pizzolato; discussants: Elena Bacchin (QMUL) and Michael IHR Past and Present Room, N202 Berkowitz (UCL) (Senate House) This event is produced in collaboration with the UCL Department of Italian–SELCS. Free advance registration required [email protected]

74 School of Advanced Study Events calendar March March Institute of Historical Research Hunger and the Allied Blockade of Germany: Malnutrition and Seminar Humanitarian Aid, 1914–24 17:30–19:30 Mary Cox (Oxford) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Philosophy of Medieval History: An Intellectual Mode for Seminar Experiencing the Middle Ages? 17:30–19:30 Daniel Fairbrother (Warwick) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Appearance of Saints: Photography as Incrimination and Seminar Religious Justification in Secret Police Archives in Romania and the Republic of Moldova 17:30–19:30 James Kapalo (University College Cork) University of Amsterdam This event is part of a roving seminar series co-organised with and hosted at the EAST seminar at University of Amsterdam. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Latin American Science and the Arts in Contemporary Latin America: Towards a Studies Life in Common Seminar Joanna Page (Cambridge) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute Botticelli, His Assistants and the Business Lecture of the Workshop 17:30–19:30 Michelle O’Malley (Warburg Institute) This event is part of the Re-opening the Workshop: Medieval to Early Modern Lecture Warburg Institute Series. For details, see page 19. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group: Cathay, with Kent Su (UCL) Seminar The Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group was formed in 2006. At each meeting, a speaker introduces a canto, followed by discussion. Speakers and members 18:00–20:00 range from internationally established Pound critics to poets, postgraduates, Room 234 (Senate House) independent scholars, and Pound enthusiasts. All are welcome. Free advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 75 Events calendar March March Thursday 08 Institute of Classical Studies Damastes of Sigeion, the ‘Impossible’ Journey of Diotimos to Seminar Sousa, and Other Problematic Cases in Greek fragmentary Historiography 16:30–18:30 Virgilio Costa (University of Rome Tor Vergata) Room 349 (Senate House) This event is part of the ICS Ancient History Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Modern British History Reading Group Seminar Free advance registration required [email protected] 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Framing ‘Rural’ Railway Closures in 1960s Britain: Lessons for Seminar Sustainable Urban Mobilities 17:30–19:30 Colin Divall (York) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Observing Religion: High Medieval Religious Movements and their Seminar Polemical Vocabularies 17:30–19:30 Sita Steckel (Münster) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Slavery and Unfreedom in the Desert South Seminar Kevin Waite (Durham) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Welcoming the King to Normandy: Louis XV and Louis XVI Visit the Seminar Provinces 17:30–19:30 Anne Byrne (Birkbeck) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research What is a Classic in History? Seminar Jaume Aurell (Navarra) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute Architecture without Architects: Scholars as Designers in the Lecture Veneto from Petrarch to Daniele Barbaro 17:30–19:30 Guido Beltramini (Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, Vicenza) Warburg Institute This event is part of the Director's Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

76 School of Advanced Study Events calendar March March Institute of Modern Languages Henry Crabb Robinson and the Diffusion of German Literature in Research Britain Lecture Organised by the Working Group for the Reception of German, Austrian, and Swiss 18:00–19:30 Literature at the Institute of Modern Languages Research. James Vigus (Sheffield) Room 246 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Refugee Law Initiative Protecting Syrian Refugees: Laws, Policies and Global 18:00–19:30 Responsibility-Sharing IALS Council Chamber, Charles Susan Akram (Boston) Clore House This event is part of the 8th International Refugee Law Seminar Series, ‘Refugee Law in the New World Disorder’. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Representation of Country Houses and Gardens, 1720–1845 Seminar Paula Riddy (Sussex) 18:00–20:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)

Friday 09 Institute of Classical Studies ‘Monumentum’, Memory, and the Destruction of Statues in Livy Seminar Book 31 16:30–18:30 Gavin Blasdel (Pennsylvania) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar Series. Room 246 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research German Bubble Companies in 1720: Transferring Power and Seminar Knowledge 17:15–19:15 Eve Rosenhaft (Liverpool) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research "Dear Norah, why did you take my letter the Seminar wrong way, it was not intended to hurt or corrupt…": 17:30–19:30 Danger, Desire, and Patriotic Femininity in Britain during WW2 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Alison Twells (Sheffield Hallam) This event is part of the Women’s History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Histories of Small Group Formation and Publishing on the Seminar International Communist Left: Experimental Sociology from Bataille to Inventory 17:30–19:30 Antony Iles IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 77 Events calendar March March Institute of Historical Research Lyndwood’s Church, 1446–1518 Seminar Paul Cavill (Cambridge) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Advanced Legal Progressive Lawyers? The Law Amendment Society, Studies Market Morality, and the Campaign for Company Law Reform, Seminar 1852–56 18:00–19:30 David Chan Smith (Wilfrid Laurier) This event is part of the IALS Legal History Seminar Series organised in IALS, Charles Clore House collaboration with the London Legal History Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Insufferable: Gender and Sexuality in the Work of Samuel Beckett Seminar Daniela Caselli (Manchester) 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the London Beckett Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

Saturday 10 Institute of English Studies Seventh London Anglo-Saxon Symposium One-day symposium This year’s theme is ‘Anglo-Saxon London’. Drawing on literary, archaeological, and historical sources, the symposium will consider how London was created both as a 14:00–18:30 physical and conceptual place in Anglo-Saxon England. Woburn Suite, G22/26 £20 | £10 advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

Monday 12 Institute of English Studies Print and Digital: National Media Collections and Contemporary Seminar Library Policies 16:00–20:00 Katherine Hayles (Duke), Aled Gruffydd Jones (EMIET), Richard Price (British Library) Free advance registration required [email protected] Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Why Socrates’ Legs Don’t Run Off to Megara: Moral Deliberation in Seminar Plato’s Crito 16:30–18:30 Ellisif Wasmuth (Essex) This event is part of the ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series. Room 243 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies The Drama of Greek Deliberation Seminar Jon Hesk (St Andrews) 17:00–19:00 This event is part of the ICS Ancient Literature Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)

78 School of Advanced Study Events calendar March March Institute of Historical Research ‘This is our town, forged from steel’: Deindustrialisation and Seminar Football in Scotland 17:15–19:15 Andy Clarke (Newcastle) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Ministry of Pensions and the Disabled Great War Veteran Seminar across the British Empire 17:15–19:15 Michael Robinson (Liverpool) After the First World War, servicemen returned home physically altered, with IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 permanently scarred senses, bodies, and minds. In the public sphere, charities and (Senate House) government ministries dealt with their economic and medical needs with varying degrees of success; in the privacy of homes, families and friends endured their loved one’s pain, disorientation, and distress. The Disability History Seminar Series will commemorate these living memorials to the aftermath of war in 2018. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research When Slime Sticks on Clean Deeds: The Political Opportunism of E. Seminar H. Duckworth’s Clean-Up Lagos Campaigns 17:15–19:15 Terri Ochiagha (KCL) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research French Colonialism in India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Seminar Centuries 17:30–19:30 Akhila Yechury (St Andrews) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Print and Digital: National Media Collections and Contemporary Seminar Library Policies 18:00–20:00 Aled Gruffydd Jones (EMIET) and Richard Price (British Library) Free advance registration required [email protected] Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The History of Food Banks Seminar Alex Murdoch (London South Bank) 18:00–20:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 79 Events calendar March March Tuesday 13 Institute of Historical Research Museum, Magic, Memory: The Curating of Paul Montague Seminar Julie Adams (British Museum) 17:15–19:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Rethinking Sexual Geography: ‘Sexuality’ and European Identity, Seminar c. 1550–1700 17:15–19:15 Nailya Shamgunova (Cambridge) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Colophons in Context Seminar Dominique Stutzmann (Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes, Paris) 17:30–19:15 This event is part of the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies (Senate House Library)

Institute of Historical Research ‘Ready for public use on all occasions’: The Politics of Seminar Parliamentary Record Keeping in the English Revolution 17:30–19:30 Kate Peters (Cambridge) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Promise and Peril of the Popular: Peasant and Indigenous Seminar Otherness in the Study of Nineteenth-Century Mexican Liberalism 17:30–19:30 Ariadna Acevedo-Rodrigo (Cinvestav) The historiography on nation-state building in nineteenth-century Mexico now IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 considers peasants and indigenous peoples as political agents in their own right. (Senate House) Research on popular support for liberalism finally put to rest the idea that former Indian pueblos could only be anti-liberal and that liberalism could only be elite. Or did it? One would think that the abundant—and still growing—evidence for this phenomenon would allow us to de-essentialise our understanding of liberalism and of peasants/indigenous peoples. However, the speaker argues that some of this research (including work cast in the new mould of global history) has not completely de-essentialised its concepts and actors, and has therefore concluded that popular liberalism was fundamentally other: an ‘alternative’ liberalism that was significantly different, and more ‘democratic’ or ‘communitarian’, than that of the elite. She argues that there was no such rift and that these works have not engaged sufficiently with a) the old problem that the restitution of subaltern agency seems to lead too often to reifying subaltern autonomy and, with it, their otherness and b) an intellectual history that seeks to understand the contingencies of liberalism rather than fix its contents. Free advance registration required [email protected]

80 School of Advanced Study Events calendar March March Institute of English Studies Teaching and Collecting in a Small Historic Library Seminar Richard Foster (Winchester College) 18:00–20:00 The Fellows’ Library of Winchester College was established soon after the foundation of the school at the end of the fourteenth century. It has grown by Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate purchase and donation over the past six centuries and now contains almost House) 10,000 rare books. This talk will consider the ways in which the library is integrated into the life of the school and its teaching. It will also examine the growth of the collection over the past few decades and strategies for developing the collection of a small historic library on a small budget. This event is part of the Book Collecting Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Literary London Reading Group Seminar Free advance registration required [email protected] 18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Deeds Not Words Lecture Helen Pankhurst in Conversation with Lynn Abrams 18:00–20:30 (Glasgow) IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, On the 100th anniversary of women getting the vote, Helen Pankhurst— NB01/NB02 (Senate House) great-granddaughter of suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst and a leading women’s rights campaigner—charts how women’s lives have changed over the last century, and offers a powerful and positive argument for a new way forward. Why is it taking so long? Despite huge progress since the suffragette campaigns and wave after wave of feminism, women are still fighting for equality. Why, at the present rate will we have to wait in Britain until 2069 for the gender pay gap to disappear? Why, in 2015, did 11% of women lose their jobs due to pregnancy discrimination? Why, globally, has 1 in 3 women experienced physical or sexual violence? In 2018, on the centenary of one of the most significant steps forward for women – the Fourth Reform Act (6 February), which saw propertied women over 30 gain the vote for the first time – Helen Pankhurst charts how women’s lives have changes over the last century, and offers a new way forward. Each of the five chapters within the book explores a different theme; politics, money, family & identity, violence and culture. The voices of both pioneers and ordinary women are woven into the analysis which ends with suggestions about how to better understand and strengthen feminist campaigning and with aims for the future. Combining historical insight with inspiring argument, Deeds Not Words: The Story of Women’s Rights, Then and Now reveals how far women have come since the suffragettes, how far we still have to go, and how we might get there. Dr Helen Pankhurst is a women’s rights activist and senior advisor to CARE International, based in the UK and in Ethiopia. She has extensive media experience including national and international radio and print interviews, and was involved in the 2015 film Suffragette. Her work in Ethiopia includes support to program development across different sectors, focused on the interests and needs of women and girls. In the UK she is a public speaker and writer on feminist issues. She also leads CARE International’s #March4Women event in London on 4 March. Free spaces are limited; advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Feelings of Betrayal and Echoes of the First Crusade in Odo of Seminar Deuil’s Account of the Second Crusade 19:00–20:30 Stephen Spencer (IHR) Free advance registration required [email protected] Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 81 Events calendar March March Wednesday 14 Senate House Library Representing LGBTQ Online: An Introduction to Editing Wikipedia Workshop In the past year, Wikipedia’s pages on LGBTQ culture in the UK have been read more than 100 million times. Join Senate House Library and Wikimedia UK to learn 10:00–17:00 how to be a wiki editor. Reference works and expert help will be on hand from Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room Senate House Library, and training and support will be provided by Wikimedia UK. (Senate House Library) No prior knowledge is necessary. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies The Homeric Penelope: A Model ‘Military Wife’? Seminar Emma Bridges (ICS) 13:00–14:00 This event is part of the ICS Fellows’ Seminar Series. Room 234 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies ‘Hello! Is it (Not) Me You’re Looking For?’ The Many Local Seminar Communities of Middle Eastern Living Heritage Sites 16:30–18:30 Heba Abd el Gawad (Durham) This event is part of the Classical Archaeology Seminar Series and will be Room 349 (Senate House) screencast on youtube.com/watch?v=TqZw72GILrs. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The PACE of Policing 1964–96 Seminar Judith Rowbotham (Plymouth) 17:00–19:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Conflict, Cacti and the Chaco War Seminar Esther Breithoff (UCL) 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Jim Rollo (Open University) Seminar This event is part of the Modern Religious History Seminar Series. 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Professor Olga Crisp Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Politics of Rights: From the Wars of Religion to the Age of Seminar Revolution 17:15–19:15 Dan Edelstein (Stanford) IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

82 School of Advanced Study Events calendar March March Institute of Historical Research Forebodings about Fascism: Marion Milner Reads Virginia Woolf Seminar Helen Tyson (Sussex) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute How X-Ray Imagery Changed the Practice of Art History Lecture Sven Dupre (Utrecht/Amdsterdam) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] Warburg Institute

Institute of Modern Languages On the Record: Memories of the Anschluss 80 Years Ago Research This event hosted by the Institute of Modern Languages Research will feature a Seminar talk by Dorothea McEwan (Warburg) with musical interludes by Ensemble Émigré. Artistic director and singer Norbert Meyn (tenor) and acclaimed pianist Lucy 19:00–21:00 Colquhoun will perform music by émigré composers from Austria and Germany Austrian Cultural Forum London, living in Britain as well as a selection of German Lieder, popular in British émigré 28 Rutland Gate, London SW7 1PQ circles for providing a sense of identity and spiritual nourishment. This event is organised under the auspices of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature and Culture, and the Austrian Cultural Forum. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Thursday 15 Institute of Advanced Legal Pavel Bureš (Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic; IALS Visiting Fellow) Studies This event Is part of the IALS Lunchtime Seminar Series. Seminar Free advance registration required [email protected] 12:30–13:30 IALS, Charles Clore House

Institute of Commonwealth Missing Voices: The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale Studies This commemorative event organised by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Colloquium marks the 30th anniversary of the battle of Cuito Cuanavale. The momentous events in Southern Angola in 1988 represented a turning point in the history of 14:00–18:00 the Namibian independence struggle and South Africa’s own lengthy transition Gordon Room, G34 from apartheid. The event will highlight the important historical antecedents of (Senate House) the ‘decolonising the academy’ debate, the New International Information Order of the 1970s and 80s, and the need to emphasise African voices in the news narrative. Speakers will also address the the ‘lost voice’ of the MPLA/FAPLA in Angola, as set against the current popular narrative around Cuito Cuanavale in South Africa. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies Herodotus and Thucydides in Procopius’ Wars Seminar Vasiliki Zali (Liverpool) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the ICS Ancient History Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 83 Events calendar March March The Warburg Institute Putting Saxton into Context: State Surveys in Early Modern Europe Lecture with Particular Reference to Palatinate-Neuburg (Bavaria), Saxony, and England 17:00–19:00 Thomas Horst (Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Warburg Institute Tecnologia, Lisbon) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research At the Nexus of Lineage and Female Agencies: Luisa Strozzi at the Seminar Este Court 17:15–19:15 Lisa Di Crescenzo (QMUL) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research From Captives to Servants: The Contract Labour of Prisoners of Seminar War in the 1650s 17:15–19:15 Sonia Tycko (Harvard) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research ‘At nature’s mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him’: Seminar Suicide, Masculinity, and the Unproductive Man in Nineteenth- Century Britain 17:30–19:30 Lyndsay Galpin (RHUL) IHR Seminar Room, N304 Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Food, Travel, and the Evolution of Food Tourism Seminar Paul Cleave (Exeter) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research German Orchestras, the Volksgemeinschaft, and the Persecution Seminar of the Jews, 1933–45 17:30–19:30 Neil Gregor (Southampton) Free advance registration required [email protected] German Historical Institute, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2NJ

Institute of Historical Research The ‘Anglosphere’ and the Colonial Past Seminar Michael Collins (UCL) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Markus Prutsch (European Parliament) Seminar Response by Dan Stone (RHUL) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

84 School of Advanced Study Events calendar March March Institute of Latin American Childlessness in Colombia: Changing Family Formation and Non- Studies Motherhood in Intergenerational Perspective Seminar Cristina Perez (UCL) 17:30–19:30 Between 1965 and 2015, Colombia experienced a dramatic fertility decline, as the ‘average’ woman went from having seven children to just two. Since the 1980s, Room 234 (Senate House) in particular, this decreasing family size has been accompanied by concomitant, and substantial, increases in women’s educational and professional achievements: Colombian women now outperform men at every level of education, and female labour-force participation has also expanded markedly. This broadening of non-reproductive roles and opportunities has transformed society, particularly in urban areas, by opening space for new choices like voluntary childlessness, albeit unequally across class, racial, and regional boundaries. While ‘childlessness’ unrelated to infertility has received increasing attention in Europe and North America, Latin American perspectives remain relatively uncharted. The research described in this talk seeks to address this gap by exploring childlessness (in all its forms) against the backdrop of the socio-demographic transformations described above. Drawing on a year of ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth life history interviews with women living in Bogotá, Colombia, it will engage with demographic transition theories from a gender-sensitive, anthropological perspective. The research represents part of an interdisciplinary study that integrates anthropological fieldwork with the analysis of large-scale demographic survey data to address childlessness as both a micro- and macro-level phenomenon. This event is part of the Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series, which is jointly run by the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Anthropology departments of LSE, Goldsmiths, and UCL. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research With Care in the Community Everything Goes: Oral Histories of Seminar People Giving and Receiving Care in Nottingham Mental Hospitals 18:00–19:30 Verusca Calabria (Nottingham) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Beyond Metaphor: Memory and the Witnessing Body in Post- Seminar Agreement Northern Ireland 18:00–20:00 Alex Coupe (Goldsmiths) ‘The air is rent with a wild huzzah for the stars and stripes and Erin- The Senate Room (Senate House) go-bragh!’: The Sentiments of Irish American Civil War Songs This event is part of the Irish Studies Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 85 Events calendar March March Friday 16 Senate House Library Publishing Queer/Queer Publishing: A Senate House Library Conference Conference 09:30–17:30 The presence of queer works on publishers’ lists has tended to represent complex processes of equivocation, marked by streams of open titillation and multi-layered camouflage. Novels of queer love could be presented by mainstream firms as examining ‘social problems,’ released by pulp presses with lurid covers promising erotic excitement, printed in severely limited and expensive editions to avoid censure, or offered to the public by imprints more accustomed to gambling against censorship with works pornographic in their intent and content. This fragmented world, driven by simultaneous repression of and prurient interest in queer lifestyles, means that it is difficult to delineate a broad history of queer publishing. This conference seeks to engender as broad a discussion as possible of the area in an English language context. £17 | £10 (includes lunch and refreshments) advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Latin American Revolutions in Bolivia Studies This conference organised by the Institute of Latin American Studies and the One-day conference Anglo-Bolivian Society celebrates the Society’s 25th anniversary and marks 10:00–18:00 twelve years since the inauguration of Evo Morales, leader of the Movimiento Bloomsbury Room, G35 al Socialismo (MAS), as President of Bolivia and the start of one of the longest (Senate House) continuous periods of government in the country’s history. The twelve years of MAS rule is not, however, unique, and finds precedent in the twelve years of Movimiento Nationalista Revolucionario (MNR) rule, 1952--1964. This conference will place Bolivia’s current processes of change in historical context. Speakers will reflect on the similarities and differences between these two periods of revolution, as well as the long view of MAS policies and the striking period of economic, political, and social change that Bolivia has experienced since 2006. The conference will explore the shifting meanings of revolution, nation, social class, ethnicity and transformation in Bolivian history, and the elements of continuity and change. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Modern Languages Embodied Encounters and the Senses in Modern Languages Research This half-day workshop will explore research across languages as an embodied, Workshop sensory process. Scholars working across a range of contexts such as film, food, performance, and photography will focus on questions of positionality and the 14:00–18:00 role the senses play in our experience of languages and cultures. Participants will Room 234 (Senate House) discuss the opportunities and challenges of carrying out projects and sharing findings with an ethnographically informed attention to the self and the senses. This event is part of the Open World Research Initiative ‘Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community’ strand. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies Regional Diversity in Roman Cults of Mithras Seminar Kevin Stoba (Liverpool) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)

86 School of Advanced Study Events calendar March March Institute of Historical Research Trading Books in the Age of Rembrandt Seminar Andrew Pettegree (St Andrews), Arthur der Weduwen (St Andrews) 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Theatrical Improvisation and Periodical Culture: London and Paris, Seminar 1824 17:30–19:30 Angela Esterhammer (Toronto) This event is part of the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar Series. Bloomsbury Room, G35 Free advance registration required [email protected] (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Rethinking Modern Europe ‘Roving Seminar’: Roundtable— Seminar Empire, Race, and Humanitarianism in the Twentieth Century 17:30–19:30 Eleanor Davey (Manchester), Claire Eldridge (Leeds), Sarah Frank (University of the Free State), Nina Wardleworth (Leeds) University of Birmingham This event is produced in partnership with the Humanitarian Working Histories Network and hosted by the Center for Modern and Contemporary History, University of Birmingham. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Regulation of Religious Communities in the Late Middle Ages: Seminar A Comparative Approach to Pre-Reformation England and Ming China 17:30–19:30 Teng Li (Shanghai Normal University) IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 Free [email protected] (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 87 Events calendar March March Saturday 17 Institute of Modern Languages Hans Blumenberg and the Theory of Political Myth Research Felix Heidenreich (Stuttgart), Jean-Claude Monod (ENS, Paris), Herbert De Vriese Workshop (Antwerp), Geert Van Eekert (Antwerp), Angus Nicholls (QMUL) 10:00–17:00 In recent years, the phenomenon of political myth has attracted increasing scholarly attention. In its wake, the concept of political myth has begun to Room 246 (Senate House) establish itself as a relevant concept of political theory. The increasing interest in political myth seems to be related to the rapidly changing landscape of contemporary politics. Especially in the context of political rhetoric, identity politics, and collective action, the theory of political myth has often proved to be a vital source of fresh and illuminating insights. Since Chiara Bottici’s A Philosophy of Political Myth (2007), the theoretical framework of political myth has been successfully enriched by integrating seminal concepts from Hans Blumenberg’s theory of myth. Under the influence of Bottici’s work, recent theorists of political myth tend to underline, for instance, that one of the most important functions of political myths is to create ‘significance’. But what does it mean to create significance, as a specific dimension of political communication or political action? How do political myths construct collective identities and thereby affect political agency? Are political myths always nefarious and related to propaganda and misinformation, or might they have a legitimate use under some circumstances? The workshop will focus on the importance of the work of Hans Blumenberg in relation to these questions and will offer close readings and interpretations of two recently published texts from the Blumenberg Nachlass: ‘Präfiguration’ (which deals with political myth and its relation to National Socialism) and ‘Moses der Ägypter’ (which examines the use of political myth in relation to the trial of Adolf Eichmann), and include lectures on Blumenberg’s most fruitful and challenging contributions to developing a more refined theory of political myth. Free advance registration required [email protected] This event is produced with the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations at QMUL and the Centre for European Philosophy, University of Antwerp.

Institute of Historical Research Education and the Idea of Development in Rousseau and Seminar Thomas Day 14:00–18:00 Gavin Budge (Hertfordshire) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

88 School of Advanced Study Events calendar March March Monday 19 Institute of Classical Studies Houses in Herculaneum: Reconstructing Architecture and Seminar Decoration Using 3D Digitization 17:00–19:00 Alexandra Dardenay (Université de Toulouse II) Having disappeared during the eruption of Vesuvius of 79 AD which also buried Room 349 (Senate House) Pompeii, the ancient city of Herculaneum has had fewer archaeological and historical studies in comparison to its famous neighbour. To date, most of its buildings remain unpublished and there is no recent general synthesis proposing a global approach to the habitat and way of life of the society of this Roman city. However, the exceptional conditions of conservation of the archaeological site and the abundance of archival documentation make it possible to carry out a systematic analysis of the buildings, furniture and the painted and sculpted decoration, which can be restored in their original context. The VESUVIA project is innovative in that it transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries by integrating all available sources on an ancient site. The objective is to produce a global, sociological, and anthropological analysis centred on an ancient urban society. It also uses the most up-to-date technologies in analyzing ancient decorative techniques and 3D reconstructions, in order to offer the public a new and living vision of the ancient city of Herculaneum. Free [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Humour, Propaganda, and Print Culture: American Satirical Seminar Magazines during the First World War 17:30–19:00 Vincent Trott (Open University/Oxford Brookes) This event is part of the Open University History of Books and Reading (HOBAR) Room 243 (Senate House) Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Tuesday 20 Institute of Historical Research Colonizing Commons in the Spanish Empire Seminar Vera S. Candiani (Princeton) 17:30–19:00 The Spanish overseas expansion has often been described as having built an ‘empire of towns’, wherein municipalities acted as ‘instruments of colonization.’ This IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 paper delves deeper into the meaning of these descriptions by examining the role (Senate House) of commons in the colonization process of the Spanish Atlantic. Historically rooted as part of the urban fabric of Castilian towns since the Middle Ages, as it was elsewhere in Europe, the institution of commons was systematically transplanted to Spanish America by plebeians and the crown. Two central hypotheses are presented here. First, that it was crown intervention and the confluence between royal priorities and commoner desires and needs that ensured the creation, transmission, and persistence of the institution of commons throughout the Hispanic realm. Second, that commons came to lie at the heart of a plebeian form of early modern colonization that was distinct and in tension with that of other classes and that differed from analogous processes in French, English and Portuguese America. Free advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 89 Events calendar March March Institute of Advanced Legal Reading Human Rights Morally: (Un)Certainty and Restlessness at Studies the European Court of Human Rights Seminar Natasa Mavronicola, Special Adviser to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture; 17:30–19:30 Birmingham Law School; IALS Visiting Fellow Free advance registration required [email protected] IALS, Charles Clore House

Institute of English Studies Innovations in Contemporary Poetic Practice Seminar This event is part of the Contemporary Cultures of Writing Seminar Series. 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

Institute of Philosophy No Provisos: A Critique of Habermas and of Rawls on Religion and Seminar Public Reason 17:30–19:30 Gordon Finlayson (Sussex) This event is part of The Practical, the Political and the Ethical Seminar Series. Room 246 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies Accordia Lecture: The Nuragic Statuary of Monte Prama in Iron Age Lecture Sardinia 17:30–20:00 Carlo Tronchetti (National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari) Free [email protected] Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House)

Wednesday 21 Institute of Latin American Global Latin American Studies: Past, Present and Future Studies Free [email protected] Workshop 10:00–17:00 The Senate Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Relief and Regret: Fifty Years of Women’s Voices in British Abortion Seminar Activism 12:45–14:00 Clare Parker (Kent) Free advance registration required [email protected] LG24, Keppel Street Building, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Institute of Classical Studies On the Side of Rhadamanthus: Phaistos and Its Region at the Seminar Beginning of the Neopalatial Period 15:30–17:30 Luca Girella (Università Telematica Internazionale Uninettuno, Rome) This event is part of the ICS Mycenaean Seminar Series. Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

The Warburg Institute The Socialisation and Specialisation of Workshop Labour at the Lecture Charterhouse of Champmol 17:30–19:30 Andy Murray (Open University) This event is part of the Re-opening the Workshop: Medieval to Early Modern Warburg Institute Lecture Series. For details, see page 19. Free advance registration required [email protected] 90 School of Advanced Study Events calendar March March Thursday 22 Institute of Classical Studies ICS Public Engagement Workshop Workshop Free advance registration required [email protected] 10:30–17:00 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Pausanias and the Gauls: Thermopylae Refought and Rewritten Seminar Chris Carey (UCL) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the ICS Ancient History Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)

Institute of Modern Languages ‘Lust und Last’: Thomas Manns Idee der Rechtfertigung Research (2018 Ida Herz Lecture) Lecture Tim Lörke (Berlin) 17:15–19:00 From a religious perspective, the German author Thomas Mann is an interesting figure. Raised in the Protestant faith, he contemplated Catholic ideas as well as Room 243 (Senate House) those of the American Unitarian Church. Thomas Mann’s religious belief can be described as eclectic and centred around mankind’s moral duties. Therefore, a strong thread of Mann’s reflections is formed by his productive adoption of the idea of justification. As a figure of thought, theodicy is nearly always present in Mann’s works. Thomas Mann is, however, more interested in mankind’s justification than God’s. This talk explores Mann’s specific take on concepts like theodicy and anthropodicy and emphasizes his postulate of adopting political responsibilities as a means of justification. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Walled Garden/Glasshouse Technology in the Repton Era Seminar Susan Campbell (author and garden consultant) 18:00–20:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Friday 23 Institute of Historical Research Postgraduate and Early Career Conference in Early American One-day conference History 2018 09:00–17:00 This day-long event, organized by the British Group in Early American History Postgraduate and Early Career Conference with the British American Nineteenth IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, Century Historians’ postgraduate community, will be a key forum for the NB01/NB02 (Senate House) discussion of individual research as well as themes and issues emerging in the field of American research in the UK. Fee applicable advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 91 Events calendar March March Institute of Modern Languages Mediating Literature Research What has happened to French literature over the last 40 years? The first study day Workshop of the AHRC ‘Literature under Constraint’ project looks at shifts in the creative and publishing landscapes in France and francophone countries from 1980 to the 09:00–18:00 present day. With talks by Gisèle Sapiro, Alexandre Gefen, Erika Fülop, Subha Xavier, The Court Room (Senate House) Alain Farah, and Claire Ducournau, we will be studying the role of intermediaries (agents, publishers, distributors, journalists) on the production of literature. We’ll examine how the emergence of digital landscapes has been a game-changer and think about what literature means in the twenty-first century. This event is part of the AHRC research network ‘Literature under Constraint’. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies On Displaying Interior Décor and Identity(ies): A Contextual Seminar Approach to Hispano-Roman Mosaics 16:30–18:30 Rubèn Montoya (Leicester), Lucy Elkerton (Bristol) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar Series. Room 246 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

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

Saturday 24 Institute of Classical Studies A Celebration of the Life of Alan Cameron Colloquium Everyone is invited to celebrate the life and work of Professor Alan Cameron FBA (1938–2017), with friends, former colleagues, and family. Alan Cameron read 14:30–18:00 Classics at New College, Oxford, and then went on to teach Latin at the University Room 349 (Senate House) of Glasgow before coming to London in 1971, first as a Reader at Bedford College and then as Professor of Latin at Kings. In 1977 he moved to Columbia University in New York, where he was Anthon Professor of Latin Literature and Language until his retirement in 2008. His books included studies of Hellenistic poetry, circus factions in Byzantium, Greek mythography, and the magisterial Last Pagans of Rome that appeared in 2011. A number of friends and colleagues will offer reminiscences of Alan and appreciations of his work. Among the confirmed speakers are Arianna Gullo, Gavin Kelly, Oswyn Murray, John North, Peter Wiseman and members of his family. Free [email protected]

Monday 26 Institute of Classical Studies Plato on Ruling and Being Ruled Seminar Amanda Greene (UCL) 16:30–18:30 This event is part of the ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series. Free [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

92 School of Advanced Study Events calendar March March Institute of English Studies ‘Don’t know what upset Sylvia’: Book Club Judges, Editing and Seminar Censorship 17:30–19:00 Nicola Wilson (Reading) This event is part of the Open University History of Books and Reading (HOBAR) Room 243 (Senate House) Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Tuesday 27 Institute of Classical Studies Burning in Hell: Representations of Hell and Its Inhabitants on Lecture Venetian Crete (1211–1669) 18:00–20:00 Angeliki Lymberopoulou (Open University) Organised by ICS and Friends of the British School at Athens. Room 349 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Wednesday 28 Institute of English Studies Australian Poetry of the 1970s Seminar Laurie Duggan (Kent) 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

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School of Advanced Study Events calendar April April Tuesday 03 Senate House Library Tour with Queer Tours of London Tour From Gay socialists breaking the ice and forming legendary community spaces, 18:30–20:30 to mincing down the same streets as Bloomsbury group queers, author Virginia Woolf, and economist John Maynard Keynes, Queer Tours of London will be Queer Bloomsbury: A Walking strutting through the streets of Bloomsbury, shining a light on the flung-open closets of this notorious neighbourhood’s queer and theatrical history. Add a dash of Polari, a little Ivor Novello, and lots of Lesbian and Gays supporting the Miners— we will be uncovering our queer past and examining what can be learnt for our queer cultural futures. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Wednesday 04 The Warburg Institute Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship Seminar Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry, 17:30–19:30 and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For Warburg Institute details, see page 21. Free [email protected]

Thursday 05 Senate House Library Queer Creative Writing and Polari Workshop Workshop Have you ever wanted to share your queer story, inspirations, desires, 18:30–20:30 vulnerabilities, hopes and dreams? Have you been inspired by queer literary writers and maybe one day inspire others? Have you ever wanted to explore what Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room it means to queer up culture, literature, and storytelling? Do you want to create a (Senate House Library) queer community that can support you in your journey as a queer writer? In this interactive workshop, participants will explore the legacy of London’s queer writers, develop their own stories, and share them amongst the group. This workshop is open to anyone who wants to not only develop their craft but also learn how to perform in front of an audience. Participants will also learn about Polari, the gay slang that faded away with the decriminalisation of male homosexuality and the advent of gay liberation but which is now making a comeback. Polari flourished in the difficult years between the trial of Oscar Wilde and the 1967 Sexual Offences Act and continues to protect against rising LGBT homophobia as a vocabulary for talking about sexuality and a way of asserting identity. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Friday 06 Institute of English Studies Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar Seminar The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar is devoted to the line-by-line reading and 18:00–20:00 analysis of James Joyce’s Ulysses and it has acted as a focal point for academic researchers and postgraduate students with research interests in Joyce across Room 246 (Senate House) London and the southeast and beyond for thirty years. Over that time it has built up a dedicated following while also drawing in new participants year on year. It keeps in touch with seminarians past and present by way of a blog that disseminates the seminar’s findings each month. Free advance registration required [email protected]

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Institute of English Studies Beckett – Artaud – Namelessness in More than One Language Seminar Sam Slote (Trinity College Dublin) 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the London Beckett Seminar Series. Room 243 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Saturday 07 Institute of English Studies Imagining Perspective in Reformation Nuremberg Seminar Hannah Murphy (KCL) 16:00–20:00 This event is part of the Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar (EMPHASIS) Series. Room 246 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Monday 09 Institute of Modern Languages Musical Reproduction in Modernity Research Organised by Jeremy Coleman (IMLR/Aberdeen) and Johan Siebers (IMLR/ Seminar Middlesex). 16:00–18:00 This event is part of the Music and Marxism Seminar Series. Room 234 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Penguin Parade! Penguin Books and the Venture into Periodical Seminar Publishing 17:30–19:00 Samantha Rayner (UCL) This event is part of the Open University History of Books and Reading (HOBAR) Room 243 (Senate House) Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Tuesday 10 Institute of English Studies Printing Colour 1700–1830 Three-day conference Following on from last year’s Printing Colour 1400–1700 conference, this 09:00–18:00 three-day event organised by the Institute of English Studies represents the first interdisciplinary assessment of Western colour printmaking in the long eighteenth Macmillan Hall (Senate House) century, 1700–1830. It will bring together researchers, curators, special collections librarians, printers, printmakers, cataloguers, conservators, art historians, book historians, digital humanities practitioners, scientists, and others who care for colour-printed material, seek to understand them, or use them in research. The discussion will encompass all media, techniques, and functions, from fashion to fine art, wallpaper to scientific communication. Fee applicable advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 97 Events calendar April April Institute of Historical Research Reconsidering the Raj Lecture Independence and Partition 18:00–19:30 Panel discussion: Joya Chatterji (focusing on India), Farzana Shaikh (focusing on Pakistan) and Ian Talbot (focusing on Britain). Victoria Schofield will act as IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) moderator. Joya Chatterji is author of The Spoils of Partition, The Bengal Diaspora and Bengal Divided. She is professor of South Asian History and director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at Cambridge. Farzana Shaikh is author of Making Sense of Pakistan and Community and Consensus in Islam: Muslim Representation in Colonial India, 1860-1947. She is a specialist in the regional politics of South Asia. She is an associate fellow, Asia Programme, Chatham House. Ian Talbot is author of Pakistan: A New History, The Independence of India and Pakistan, The Partition of India, and many others. He is professor of Modern British History at Southampton. Victoria Schofield is author of Kashmir in Conflict, Afghan Frontier, Wavell: Soldier and Statesman and Bhutto: Trial and Execution. £7.50 | £5 advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Literary London Reading Group Seminar Free advance registration required [email protected] 18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Wednesday 11 Institute of English Studies Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group: Canto 89 Seminar The Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group was formed in 2006. At each meeting, 18:00–20:00 a speaker introduces a canto, followed by discussion. Speakers and members range from internationally established Pound critics to poets, postgraduates, Room 243 (Senate House) independent scholars, and Pound enthusiasts. All are welcome. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Thursday 12 Institute of Modern Languages 63rd National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies Research Free advance registration required [email protected] Two-day colloquium 10:00–18:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

98 School of Advanced Study Events calendar April April Institute of Latin American The Spirits’ Power: Poetics and Crisis of a Pastoral Society in the Studies Colombian Eastern Plains Seminar Johanna Pérez Gómez (UCL) 17:30–19:30 The speaker will discuss the first findings of her fieldwork on occult forces and Room 234 (Senate House) conflict in the Colombia Eastern Plains: she finds there was little that was ‘occult’ about forces intervening in all sort of magical happenings there. The forces scaring people in the wilderness, moving furniture in houses, causing illness and misfortune, or providing protection for paramilitary groups are well defined ‘spirits,’ generally humanized ones. Based on one year of ethnographic observations in the oldest town of the Colombian Plains, San Martin, the paper explores these spirits’ ‘humanity’ and its relation with the ‘civilizing’ landscapes of stockbreeding. This mode of production has been naturalised over the last three centuries, initially in violent opposition to the sociocultural orders of the indigenous communities in the region. This seminar series is jointly run by the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Anthropology departments of LSE, Goldsmiths, and UCL. Free advance registration required [email protected]

The Warburg Institute Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship Seminar Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry, 17:30–19:30 and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For Warburg Institute details, see page 21. Free [email protected]

Institute of Modern Languages 2018 Sylvia Naish Lecture Research Free advance registration required [email protected] Lecture 18:00–19:30 Room 243 (Senate House)

Friday 13 Institute of Modern Languages Music History and Historical Materialism: Reflections and Research Possibilities One-day conference Marxist thought and music historiography have only occasionally combined 09:30–18:00 in critical writing or scholarly research, and from the perspective of the present most examples of such approaches appear as so many moribund historical Bloomsbury Room, G35 curiosities. This one-day international conference, organised by the Ernst Bloch (Senate House) Centre, believes that genuinely fruitful interaction between music history writing and historical materialism has yet to be carried out and, at the same time, that signs towards such a mode of criticism are discernible in the very agents and materials of music history and of the history of philosophy. Beyond Marxist cultural theory or critical theory, the conference seeks to ask what musicology could still learn from the central insights of Marx and Marxism and to what extent music history and historical materialism can even be ‘thought together’. The aim of the conference is not merely to excavate cases of officially Marxist historiography of music, nor to consider music in relation to Marxist individuals and political regimes, but—taking a more speculative approach—to evaluate the potential of Marxist thought for historical musicology and for philosophy of music today. Keynote speaker: Benjamin Korstvedt (Clark University) Conference organisers: Jeremy Coleman (IMLR/Aberdeen) and Johan Siebers (IMLR/Middlesex) Fee applicable advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 99 Events calendar April April Institute of Classical Studies Across the Ocean: Coin Hoarding throughout the Eastern Atlantic Seminar Coast from the Second Century BC to the First Century AD 16:30–18:30 David Swan (Warwick) Room 246 (Senate House) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

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Institute of English Studies Virginia Woolf Society Conference and AGM 2018: One-day conference Virginia Woolf and Her Relatives 10:00–16:00 Confirmed speakers: Room 349 (Senate House) Marion Dell on ‘Fabulous Forebears: Virginia Woolf’s Ancestors’ Philip Carter, IHR, on ‘The Stephens in St Ives: Leslie and Virginia, At Work and At Play’ Maggie Humm: ‘Relational Aesthetics: Virginia Woolf’s Artistic Family and Friends’ £30 | £25 advance registration required [email protected]

Monday 16 Institute of Historical Research ‘Not the only shells he encountered’: War Disabled Poultry Farmers Seminar after the First World War 17:15–19:15 Emily Bartlett (Kent) After the First World War, servicemen returned home physically altered, with IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 permanently scarred senses, bodies, and minds. In the public sphere, charities and (Senate House) government ministries dealt with their economic and medical needs with varying degrees of success; in the privacy of homes, families and friends endured their loved one’s pain, disorientation, and distress. The Disability History Seminar Series will commemorate these living memorials to the aftermath of war in 2018. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Authors and the Value of Serial Publication at the End of the Seminar Nineteenth Century 17:30–19:00 Andrew Nash (IES) This talk will discuss the market for serial fiction in newspapers and periodicals in Room 243 (Senate House) the late nineteenth century in the context of the economics of authorship. The expansion of the serial market in 1870s and 1880s coincided with the emergence of the professional literary agent, and, in 1883, the founding of the Society of Authors. By assessing the careers of a representative sample of writers, this talk will explore the value of the serial market to authors of the period and sketch out some of the contractual arrangements under which they worked. This event is part of the Open University History of Books and Reading (HOBAR) Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

100 School of Advanced Study Events calendar April April Institute of Historical Research ‘Les derniers venus sont aujourd’hui les premiers’: English Prints Seminar Collections in Eighteenth-Century Paris 18:00–20:00 Alice Otazzi (Università degli Studi di Torino) This talk aims to investigate the (re)discovery of English art in eighteenth-century IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 Paris. In a comparative approach that will involve both literature and philosophy, (Senate House) the principal promoters of Anglomania will be discussed, highlighting the interaction between general culture and artistic outcomes. She will examine the presence of English works of art, predominantly prints, that dominated the Parisian scene during the 70s and 80s. Undertaking this investigation allows the outlining of English artists who were collected in France, bringing to light names nowadays almost unknown. Studying collections both private (Marquis de Beringhen, Marquis de Paulmy, Duc de Richelieu, Princesse de Lamballe) and royal (Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette), it is possible to understand the reasons behind this practice of collecting and its evolution during the eighteenth century. At the beginning of the century, English prints were collected because of their specific technique, mezzotint, or, later, crayon manner, and in the second half of the eighteenth century for the name of the artist or the subject represented. Finally, some post-mortem inventories hold information on the display of these prints, enabling a deeper analysis of the collection of English prints in Paris. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Tuesday 17 Institute of Historical Research The Royal Anglo-Saxon Burials of Winchester Seminar Barbara Yorke (Winchester) 19:00–20:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Wednesday 18 Institute of Historical Research Itching to Serve: Entomology, Infection, and the Experimental Seminar Citizen in Wartime Britain, 1939–45 12:45–14:00 Dave Saunders (QMUL) Free advance registration required [email protected] LG24, Keppel Street Building, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Institute of Historical Research Freedom’s Silence Seminar Mónica Brito Vieira (York) 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Neutrality and Resistance: British Propaganda in Spain in the Two Seminar World Wars 17:15–19:15 Marta Garcia-Cabrera (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 101 Events calendar April April Institute of Historical Research Obscene Publications in Early Twentieth-Century England: Or Why Seminar was Freud’s Work Never Censored? 17:30–19:30 Philip Kuhn This event is part of the Psychoanalysis and History Seminar Series. IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Rights of the Roma: The Struggle for Citizenship in Postwar Seminar / Book launch Czechoslovakia 17:30–19:30 Book Launch: The Rights of the Roma: The Struggle for Citizenship in Postwar Czechoslovakia by Celia Donert (Liverpool) IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 Discussant: Michael Stewart (UCL, Anthropology) (Senate House) The Rights of the Roma writes Romani struggles for citizenship into the history of human rights in socialist and post-socialist Eastern Europe. If Roma have typically appeared in human rights narratives as victims, Celia Donert here draws on extensive original research in Czech and Slovak archives, sociological and ethnographic studies, and oral histories to foreground Romani activists as subjects and actors. Through a vivid social and political history of Roma in Czechoslovakia, she provides a new interpretation of the history of human rights by highlighting the role of Socialist regimes in constructing social citizenship in postwar Eastern Europe. The post-socialist human rights movement did not spring from the dissident movements of the 1970s, but rather emerged in response to the collapse of socialist citizenship after 1989. A timely study as Europe faces a major refugee crisis, which raises questions about the historical roots of nationalist and xenophobic attitudes towards non-citizens. This event is part of the Rethinking Modern Europe Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Modern Languages From Vienna to London: Pictures in the Post by Gerti Deutsch Research Amanda Hopkinson (London) Seminar Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

Thursday 19 Institute of Historical Research Travel and Memory in the Early Modern Anabaptist Diaspora Seminar Kat Hill (Birkbeck) 17:30–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

102 School of Advanced Study Events calendar April April Institute of Commonwealth British Association for Canadian Studies Annual Conference Studies 2018 – A Century Later: Memory, Remembrance, and Change Opening lecture (19 April) Professor Margaret MacMillan will give the keynote address at the British 18:00 Association for Canadian Studies annual conference hosted by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Professor MacMillan is Professor of History at the Canada House University of Toronto, the Xerox Foundation Distinguished Scholar at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Munk School of Global Three-day conference continues Affairs. Her research interests include the British Empire in the late nineteenth and 20 April: 09:30–17:30 early twentieth centuries and international relations of the twentieth century. Her 21 April: 09:30–16:30 most recent book is The Uses and Abuses of History (2008). Other books include Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House) Women of the Raj; Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World (2002); Nixon in China: The Week that Changed the World (2006); and three edited volumes, Canada and NATO: Uneasy Past, Uncertain Future; The Uneasy Century: International Relations 1900–1990; and Parties Long Estranged: Canada and Australia in the Twentieth Century. Fee applicable advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research Social History without People: Capturing the Voices of Welsh Jewry Seminar Cai Parry-Jones (Royal Horticultural Society) 18:00–19:30 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

Friday 20 The Warburg Institute The Book as World and the World as Book Workshop Alberto Manguel (Director, National Library of Argentina), José Emilio Burucúa (Universidad de San Martín), Roberto Casazza (National Library of Argentina), Bill 10:00–18:00 Sherman (Director, Warburg Institute). Warburg Institute This event is co-sponsored by the Cervantes Institute. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies The Observation of Skin in the Ancient World: The Case of Seminar Mesopotamian Medicine 16:30–18:30 Francesca Minen (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar Series. Room 246 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Saturday 21 Institute of Historical Research The Extracurricular Economy in Early Modern England Seminar John Gallagher (Leeds) 14:00–16:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 103 Events calendar April April Monday 23 Institute of Historical Research Academic Duty and Communal Obligation Revisited Seminar Geoffrey Alderman (IHR) 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

Tuesday 24 Institute of Historical Research Bram Vannieuwenhuyze (Amsterdam) Seminar This event is part of the Digital History Seminar Series. 17:15–19:15 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research From Sailors’ Chests to Sailors’ Homes: Finnish Seamen and Seminar Domesticity in the Early Twentieth Century 17:15–19:15 Laika Nevalainen (European University Institute) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Gender, Class, Religion and Life-Cycle: Early Medieval Connections Seminar Jinty Nelson (KCL) 17:30–19:30 Religious lives in the early medieval period, whether in Francia, Anglo-Saxon England, or the Holy Land, were strongly conditioned by gender and social status IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 and the effects of both on life-cycle. By bringing to bear comparative perspectives, (Senate House) geographical and institutional, and looking at case studies of individual men and women, the speaker will highlight the importance of life-cycle(s). Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Philosophy What is Wrong with Implicit Race Bias and How to Fix It Seminar Magali Bessone (Rennes 1) 17:30–19:30 This event is part of The Practical, the Political and the Ethical Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)

Institute of Modern Languages Burlesque and Cabaret in Theory and Practice Research Clare George (IMLR/London), Ben Walters, Luke Meredith, Sarah-Louise Young Seminar This seminar, comprising performers, academics, and archivists, will examine ideas 17:30–20:00 around memory, representation, and performance in contemporary burlesque and cabaret. This extends from French cabaret and chanson to German-language Room 243 (Senate House) material (be it Berlin or Austria), music-hall and British vaudeville, and the influence of American performers. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research The Place of Archives in the South London Gallery Project Seminar Lucy Inglis (South London Gallery) 17:45–19:45 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

104 School of Advanced Study Events calendar April April Institute of Historical Research UK/USJapanese Relations in the Middle East during the 1970s Seminar Erika Tominaga (KCL) 18:00–20:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Wednesday 25 Institute of Philosophy Aaron Meskin (Leeds) Seminar This event is part of the London Aesthetics Forum. 16:00–18:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Institute of Classical Studies T.B.L. Webster Lecture Lecture Caeciliopolis: A Greeker Rome? 17:00–19:00 Niall Slater (Emory) Every poet of comoedia palliata fabricated a Greek world for a Roman audience— Room 349 (Senate House) but it was not always the same Greek world. Caecilius Statius, rated by some in antiquity a finer comic poet than Plautus, seems to have used a few more Greek titles and loanwords than other Roman comedians; but did these elements build a significantly different fictional space? Our brief tour of Caeciliopolis will examine if and how the characters and stories of his city differ from those of his better preserved comrades. Niall Slater is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Latin and Greek at Emory University, where he won the Emory Williams Award for Distinguished Teaching. His research interests include the ancient theatre and its archaeology, the ancient novel, gender studies, and recently warfare and its cultural impacts. His books include Euripides: Alcestis (in the Bloomsbury Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy series); Spectator Politics: Metatheatre and Performance in Aristophanes (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002); Reading Petronius (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990); and Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind (Princeton University Press, 1985). His translations of various Middle and New Comedy poets are included in The Birth of Comedy: Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486–280, edited by Jeffrey Rusten (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011). He is currently editing and translating the fragments of Caecilius Statius as part of the new Loeb Library edition of Fragmentary Republican Latin. ProfessorSlater is T.B.L. Webster Fellow at the Institute of Classical Research from mid-March to early June and has previously held fellowships at the University of Konstanz; the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University; Clare Hall, Cambridge; Magdalen College, Oxford; the American Academy in Rome, Ohio State University, and the University of St. Andrews and was Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellow 2015–16. Free [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Old English and Contemporary Poetic Archives Seminar Karl Kears (KCL) 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 105 Events calendar April April Thursday 26 Institute of Advanced Legal The More Things Change? Labour Protection and Labour Migration Studies under Trade Agreements in a Post-Brexit and Trump Era Seminar Joo-Cheong Tham (Melbourne Law School; IALS Visiting Fellow) 12:30–13:30 Professor Joo-Cheong Tham, professor at Melbourne Law School and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, studies labour law and public IALS, Charles Clore House law with a focus on the regulation of precarious work and political finance law. He has also undertaken considerable research into counter-terrorism laws. His publications include Money and Politics: The Democracy We Can’t Afford (University of New South Wales Press, 2010) and more than 30 book chapters and articles. He has given evidence to parliamentary inquiries into labour migration, terrorism laws, and political finance laws, and has written key reports for the New South Wales Electoral Commission on the regulation of political finance and lobbying. Free advance registration required [email protected]

The Warburg Institute Alberto Manguel (Director, National Library of Argentina) Workshop Free advance registration required [email protected] 14:00–18:00 Warburg Institute

Institute of Classical Studies Series: Epigraphy, Archaeology and Community in the Roman Seminar Empire 16:30–18:30 Wim de Clercq (Ghent) Room 349 (Senate House) This event is part of the ICS Ancient History Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

The Warburg Institute Early Modern Town Plans and Views of Vienna and Their Lecture Importance in an International Context 17:00–19:00 Ferdinand Opll (Vienna) Free [email protected] Warburg Institute

Institute of Modern Languages English Goethe Society Lecture: Research Wilhelm Müller’s ‘Die Winterreise’ and its Literary Afterlife Lecture Joanna Neilly (Oxford) 17:15–19:00 Free advance registration required [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Luke Blaxill (Cambridge) Seminar Free advance registration required [email protected] 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

106 School of Advanced Study Events calendar April April Institute of Modern Languages Translating Rights: Indigenous Language Policy as Practice in Research Hispanicised Latin America Lecture Rosaleen Howard (Newcastle) 17:30–19:30 Professor Rosaleen Howard is Chair of Hispanic Studies at Newcastle University. She joined the School of Modern Languages there from the Institute of Latin Room G21A (Senate House) American Studies at the University of Liverpool in July 2005 and works on the anthropology and sociolinguistics of the Andes. Her research is based on field work in areas where both Spanish and Quechua are spoken (Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia). She has published widely on Quechua oral history; anthropological approaches to the study of language contact, especially translation issues; language politics and cultural identity in the Andes; and intercultural education policy for indigenous peoples. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of English Studies ‘You’re sure you saw me?’: How Irish Theatre Remembers Seminar Emilie Pine (UCD) 18:00–20:00 This event is part of the Irish Studies Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected] The Senate Room (Senate House)

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

Senate House Library BFI Britain on Film: LGBT Britain Film screening Britain’s LGBT history is the inspiring subject of this Britain on Film on Tour programme. With films spanning 1909 to 1994, it documents a century in which 19:00–21:00 homosexuality went from crime to Pride via decades of profoundly courageous Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room activism and the shifting attitudes to LGBT people and their rights across the (Senate House Library) board throughout a time of explosive social change. Including some of the earliest known representations of LGBT people on screen, the collection includes a 1925 film on ‘Cutie Cattaro’, a boxer more interested in flirting than fighting, and a drag queen, ‘Percy’, competing for a prize in 1909. Exploring the struggles and identity politics of the ‘80s and ‘90s, the films cover early AIDS victims recounting their painful experiences; the formation of the Gay Black Group, an early instance of intersectional thinking; and the 1980 fight for transgender rights in the European Court. This is a moving and fascinating collection, a social document encompassing both the collective public fight for basic rights and equality and more personal, intimate, and psychological ones: the shedding of shame and the ability to be open about one’s most private self; the claiming of the right to love and to say publicly, proudly: this is who I am. The film will be introduced by BFI curator Simon McCallum. Free advance registration required [email protected]

School of Advanced Study Register for events online: www.sas.ac.uk/events 107 Events calendar April April Friday 27 Institute of Modern Languages Contemporary Jewish Women’s Writing in Germany and Austria – Research A ‘Minor’ Literature? Workshop This one-day workshop aims to probe whether the label and concept of a ‘minor 10:00–20:00 literature’ (Deleuze/Guattari, 1975) can be usefully applied to contemporary writing by female Jewish authors in Germany and Austria. The workshop will Room 243 (Senate House) explore what the term ‘minor’ could mean and contribute when discussing a broad range of contemporary authors and their aesthetics and writing practices, images of the self/the other inside and outside of their works, forms of community building, and their relationship with the broader literary field (i.e. the literary market). This event is organised by the Open World Research Initiative Cross- Language Dynamics translingual strand. It is generously supported by the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing (CCWW). Free advance registration required [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies Epicurus on the truth of all perceptions: a ‘phenomenal’ Seminar interpretation 16:30–18:30 Cristòbal Zarzar (Cambridge) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar Series. Room 246 (Senate House) Free [email protected]

Institute of English Studies Finnegans Wake Reading Group Seminar This reading group has been running regularly since 2007. It studies James Joyce’s final work, Finnegans Wake, at a close level of detail. Discussion is focused on 18:00–20:00 the text and attention is also paid to Joyce’s manuscripts (copies of which are Room 234 (Senate House) displayed on a screen). The group hosts a blog to record its discussions. Free advance registration required [email protected]

Monday 30 Institute of Historical Research Ethan Katz (Cincinnati) Seminar Free advance registration required [email protected] 17:15–19:15 IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research The Language Question under Napoleon Seminar Roundtable discussion 17:30–19:30 Stewart McCain (St Mary's, Twickenham) Free advance registration required [email protected] IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

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A broad range of seminar series are organised in the Book Collecting Seminar Seminar series Seminar School and Senate House Library. Many of our series Tuesdays at 18:00–20:00 are supported by and organised in collaboration with other institutions and organisations. All events are free Dates: 9 Feb; 13 Mar; 8 Apr and open to the public unless otherwise stated. Dates Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar and times are given below where known and were correct at the time of going to print. These seminars Fridays at 18:00–20:00 are listed in the calendar where further details are Dates: 2 Feb; 2 Mar; 6 Apr known. Due to the nature of series events, these may be subject to change. Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Wednesdays at 18:00–20:00 Institute of Classical Studies Dates: 28 Feb; 28 Mar; 25 Apr Contact: [email protected] Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar (EMPHASIS) Ancient History Once a month on Saturdays at 14:00–16:00 Thursdays at 16.30–18.30 Dates: 3 Feb; 7 Apr Dates: 1, 8, 22 Feb; 1, 8, 15, 22 Mar; 26 Apr Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group Ancient Literature Second Wednesday of the month at 18:00–20:00 Mondays at 17.00–19.00 Dates: 14 Feb; 7 Mar; 11 Apr Dates: 5, 19, 26 Feb; 5, 12 Mar Finnegans Wake Research Seminar Ancient Philosophy The last Friday of the month at 18:00–20:00 Mondays at 16.30–18.30 Dates: 23 Feb; 23 Mar; 27 Apr Dates: 12, 26 Feb; 12, 26 Mar Irish Studies Seminar Classical Archaeology Thursdays at 18:00–20:00 Wednesdays at 16.30–18.30 Dates: 15 Feb; 15 Mar; 26 Apr Dates: 28 Feb; 7, 14 Mar Literary London Reading Group Fellows' Seminar The second Tuesday of the month at 18:00–20:00 Wednesdays at 13.00–14.00 Dates: 14, 21, 28 Feb; 14 Mar Dates: 13 Mar; 10 Apr Mycenaean London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS) Wednesdays at 15.30–17.30 Once a month on Wednesdays at 17:30–19:30 Dates: 21 Feb; 21 Mar Dates: 7 Feb; 14 Mar Postgraduate Work-in-Progress London Shakespeare Seminar Fridays at 16.30–18.30 Tuesdays at 17:00–19:00 Dates: 2, 9, 16, 23 Feb; 2, 9, 16, 23 Mar; 13, 20, 27 Apr Dates: 12 Feb; 5 Mar Institute of English Studies Media History Seminar Contact: [email protected] 18:00–20:00 London Beckett Seminar Dates: 8 Feb; 12 Mar Once a month on Fridays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 9 Mar; 6 Apr

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Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Collecting and Display Seminar series Seminar Tuesdays at 17:30–19:15 Fortnightly on Mondays at 18:00 Dates: 6 Feb; 13 Mar Dates: 12 Feb; 5 Mar; 16 Apr Modernism Seminar Colonial/Postcolonial New researchers’ Workshop Saturdays at 11:00–13:00 Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 3 Feb; 3 Mar Dates: 5, 19 Feb; 5 Mar Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar Comparative Histories of Asia Fridays at 17:30–19:30 Fortnightly on Thursdays at 12:30 Date: 23 Feb Dates: 7, 21 Feb; 7 Mar London Theatre Seminar Contemporary British History The first Thursday of the month at 18:30–20:00 Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:00 Dates: 1 Feb; 1 Mar Dates: 14, 28 Feb; 14 Mar; 18 Apr London–Paris Romanticism Seminar Conversations and Disputations Once a month on Fridays at 17:30–19:30 Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:30 Dates: 16 Feb; 16 Mar Dates: 2, 16 Feb; 2, 16 Mar Open University History of Books and Reading Crusades and the Latin East (HOBAR) Seminar Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Mondays at 17:30–19:00 Dates: 19 Feb; 5 Mar Dates: 12 Feb; 19, 26 Mar; 9, 16 Apr Digital History Institute of Historical Research Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Contact: [email protected] Dates: 6, 20 Feb; 6 Mar; 24 Apr Disability History Seminar Archives and Society First Monday of every month at 17:15 Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:45 Dates: 12 Mar; 16 Apr Dates: 6 Feb; 6 Mar; 24 Apr Earlier Middle Ages British History in the Seventeenth Century Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:30 Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15 Dates: 7, 21 Feb; 7, 14 Mar Dates: 1, 15 Feb; 1, 15 Mar Early Modern Material Cultures British History in the Long Eighteenth Century Weekly on Wednesdays at 17:15 Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15 Dates: 18, 25 Apr Dates: 7, 21 Feb; 7 Mar Economic and Social History of the Early Modern British Maritime History World Once a month on a Tuesday at 17:15 Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15 Dates: 20 Feb; 24 Apr Dates: 9, 23 Feb; 9 Mar Christian Missions in Global History Education in the Long Eighteenth Century Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30 Once a month on a Saturday at 14:00–16:00 Dates: 20 Feb; 6 Mar Dates: 17 Feb; 17 Mar; 21 Apr

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European History 1150–1550 History of Sexuality Seminar

Seminar series Seminar Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Once a month on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 8, 22 Feb; 8 Mar Dates: 13 Feb; 13 Mar European History 1500–1800 Imperial and World History Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 5, 19 Feb; 5 Mar Dates: 12, 26 Feb; 12 Mar Film History International History Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 18:00 Dates: 1, 15 Feb; 1, 15 Mar Dates: 6, 15, 20 Feb; 6 Mar; 24 Apr Food History Seminar Interdisciplinary Seminar on Medievalism Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Once a month on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 1, 15 Feb; 1, 15 Mar Dates: 7 Feb; 7 Mar Gender and History in the Americas Jewish History First Monday of the month at 17:15 Once a month on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 12 Feb; 12 Mar; 16 Apr Dates: 5 Feb; 5 Mar; 23, 30 Apr History Lab Seminar Late Medieval Seminar Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Weekly on Fridays at 17:30 Dates: 1, 15 Feb; 1, 15 Mar Dates: 2, 9, 16, 23 Feb; 2, 9, 16 Mar History of Education Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy First Thursday of every month at 17:30 Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15 Dates: 1 Feb; 1 Mar Dates: 1, 15 Feb; 1, 15 Mar History of Gardens and Landscapes Latin American History Fortnightly on Thursdays at 18:00 Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30 Dates: 8, 22 Feb; 8, 22 Mar Dates: 13, 27 Feb; 13, 20 Mar History of Libraries Life–Cycles Once a month on Tuesdays at 17:30 Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 6 Feb; 6 Mar Dates: 6, 20 Feb; 6 Mar; 24 Apr History of Liturgy Locality and Region Once a month on Mondays at 17:15 Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 5 Feb; 5 Mar Dates: 13, 27 Feb; 13 Mar; 17 Apr History of Political Ideas London Group of Historical Geographers Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15 Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 14, 28 Feb; 14 Mar; 18 Apr Dates: 13, 27 Feb; 13 Mar History of Political Ideas / Early Career Seminar London Society for Medieval Studies Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15 Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 19:00 Dates: 7, 21 Feb; 7, 21 Mar Dates: 13, 27 Feb; 13 Mar; 17 Apr

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Low Countries History Oral History

Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15 First Thursday of every month at 18:00 series Seminar Dates: 2, 16 Feb; 2, 16 Mar Dates: 15 Feb; 15 Mar; 19 Apr Marxism in Culture Parliaments, Politics and People Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:30 Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 9, 23 Feb; 9 Mar Dates: 13, 27 Feb; 13 Mar Media History Philosophy of History Once a month on Thursdays at 18:00 Fortnightly on Thursday at 17:30 Dates: 8 Feb; 12 Mar Dates: 8, 22 Feb; 8 Mar Medieval and Tudor London Psychoanalysis and History Weekly on Thursdays at 17:15 Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 26 Apr Dates: 14 Feb; 14 Mar; 18 Apr Metropolitan History Public History Seminar Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 7, 21 Feb; 7 Mar Dates: 28 Feb; 15 Mar Military History Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600–1900 Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 13, 27 Feb; 13 Mar Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 1, 15 Feb; 1, 15 Mar Modern British History Religious History of Britain 1500–1800 Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15 Dates: 8, 22 Feb; 8 Mar; 26 Apr Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 6, 20 Feb; 6 Mar Modern French History Rethinking Modern Europe Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30 Dates: 12 Feb; 12 Mar; 30 Apr Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 14, 28 Feb; 7, 16 Mar; 18 Apr Modern German History Socialist History Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 7 Feb; 7, 15 Mar Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30 Dates: 5, 19 Feb; 5 Mar Modern Italian History Society, Culture and Belief, 1500–1800 Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 7, 12 Feb; 7 Mar Once a month on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 22 Feb; 8 Mar; 19 Apr Modern Religious History Sport and Leisure History Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15 Dates: 28 Feb; 14 Mar Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 12, 26 Feb; 12 Mar North American History Studies of Home Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 8, 22 Feb; 8 Mar First Wednesday of every month at 17:30 Dates: 7 Feb; 7 Mar

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Transport and Mobility History Institute of Philosophy Seminar series Seminar Once a month on a Thursday at 17:30 Contact: [email protected] Dates: 8 Feb; 8 Mar Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics Tudor and Stuart History Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30–19:30 Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 13, 27 Feb; 13 Mar Dates: 5, 19 Feb; 5 Mar London Aesthetics Forum Voluntary Action History Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 16:00–18:00 Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30 Dates: 21 Feb; 7 Mar; 25 Apr Dates: 12, 26 Feb; 12 Mar The Practical, the Political and the Ethical War, Society and Culture Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17.30–19.30 Once a month on Wednesdays at 17:15 Dates: 6, 20 Feb; 6, 20 Mar; 24 Apr Dates: 14 Feb; 14 Mar; 18 Apr Women's History The Warburg Institute Contact: [email protected] Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15 Dates: 9, 23 Feb; 9 Mar Director’s Seminar Institute of Latin American Occasional Thursdays at 17:30–19:30 Studies Dates: 1 Feb; 8 Mar; 12 Apr Contact: [email protected] Editing Byzantine Texts Occasional Fridays at 15.45–17.45 Latin American Anthropology Dates: 2, 9, 16, 23 Feb; 2, 9, 16, 23 Mar All from 17:30–19:30 From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Dates: 1, 15 Feb; 1, 15 Mar; 12, 26 Apr Commedia London Andean Studies Mondays at 18:30–19:50 Wednesdays at 17:30–19:30 Dates: 5, 12 Feb; 5, 12, 19, 26 Mar Date: 21 Feb Maps and Society LAGLOBAL Occasional Thursdays at 17:30–19:30 Wednesdays at 17:30–19:30 Dates: 15 Feb; 15 Mar; 26 Apr Date: 7 Feb; 7 Mar Iamblichus Seminar Institute of Modern Languages Tuesdays at 17.45–19.20 Research Dates: 6, 13 Feb Neoplatonic Studies Group Contact: [email protected] Thursdays at 17:30–19:30 German Philosophy: Music and Marxism Dates: 1, 8, 15, 22 Feb; 1, 8, 15, 22 Mar; 5, 12, 19, 26 Apr Mondays at 16:00–18:00 New Dialogues in Art History Dates: 5 Feb; 5 Mar; 9 Apr Occasional Wednesdays at 16.00–17.00 Date: 28 Feb

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The School of Advanced Face-to-face training

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

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School of Advanced Study Getting Research Published Research training Contact: [email protected] 14:00–16:00 | Room 246 (Senate House) Date: 9 Mar Conducting Interviews: Oral History Session Leader: Jonathan Newbury (Institute of Historical 14:00–16:00 | Room 243 (Senate House) Research, SAS) Date: 1 Mar This session will address the process of publication in a variety of academic/professional outlets including digital Session Leader: Sue Onslow (Institute of Commonwealth publication, preparing articles for submission to academic Studies, SAS) journals, the process of editing, writing book proposals and This session offers guidance and practical advice on how to (from the perspective of the publisher) turning a thesis into conduct and transcribe interviews. The starting point will a non-academic book. be group interviewing and witness seminars. The session Free advance registration required will consider issues around objectivity and subjectivity; [email protected] how to determine the usefulness of information gathered, and to make the most effective use of the information for Introduction to Fieldwork the research project; how to distinguish between fact and opinion; and the place of secondary sources. The session 14:00–16:00 | Room 243 (Senate House) will look at sensitivity and cultural awareness, and address Date: 12 Apr issues of ethical interviewing. Free advance registration required Session Leader: Naomi Wells (Institute of Modern [email protected] Languages Research, SAS) Fieldwork involves a variety of well-defined methods, Research Software: EndNote I and II depending on the discipline: archival research, informal interviews, surveys, participant observation and so on. The 14:00–16:00 | IHR Research Training Room, N318 (Senate quality of results obtained from fieldwork depends on the House) data gathered, and preparation for a period of fieldwork is Dates: 15 and 22 Feb essential. This session concentrates not on issues of safety or risk, but on the importance of researchers’ openness to Workshop Leader: Simon Trafford (Institute of Historical new ideas and unfamiliar customs, and how to understand Research, SAS) the forces of culture operating and the ways they modify This two-part workshop is ‘hands-on’; aimed principally at the lives of the people and things under study. complete beginners, it covers the basics and some more Free advance registration required advanced features. The first session introduces the software [email protected] package and gives practice in sorting, searching, and entering and editing references. Introduction to Public Engagement More advanced features covered include the use of accents, predefined styles, customising the program, downloading 14:00–16:00 | Room 243 (Senate House) references from internet sources, importing images, and Date: 22 Mar linking with other files. In the second session (26 October, see below), students create and manipulate their own Session Leader: Michael Eades (SAS) bibliographical database and learn how EndNote integrates Public engagement describes the many ways in which with MS Word. research can be shared with non-academic audiences. Familiarity with basic word-processing will be assumed. This session will provide an overview of some of the The session is suitable both for beginners and those already pathways through which you can start to take part in public familiar with EndNote. engagement activity, and the benefits that can be derived from doing so. Increasingly a part of the portfolio expected Free advance registration required from an academic, engagement activity can be both [email protected] challenging and fun. This session will offer an introduction to the key skills involved and how they can feed into everything from teaching to funding applications. It will also outline some opportunities to get involved in public engagement activity within the School of Advanced Study. Free advance registration required [email protected]

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Organising Successful Academic Events Teaching Skills for the PhD Student

14:00–16:00 | Room 234 (Senate House) 14:00–16:00 | Room 243 (Senate House) Research training Date: 2 Feb Date: 15 Mar Session Leaders: Dominic Glynn (Institute of Modern Session Leader: Richard Freeman (Institute of Education, Languages Research, SAS) and James Hadley (Trinity University College London) College Dublin) This session will explore the issues for the doctoral student Organising an academic event can offer students career- engaged in teaching seminars or classes in their own changing opportunities and be rewarding and enjoyable. department or external institution. It will examine the skills This session runs through the key steps to organising a that are necessary and identify strategies for the researcher successful academic event. We will discuss the different as teacher: how to manage research alongside teaching, event types, public engagement, impact, timing, venues, planning a class, managing assessment, identifying and audiences, speakers, finance, collaborations, technical dealing with student needs, organising material and issues, hospitality, programming, the night before, the day keeping records, team-teaching and moving to the first itself, post-event issues and potential pitfalls. academic position. Free advance registration required Free advance registration required [email protected] [email protected]

Public Speaking The PhD Viva 14:00–16:00 | Room 246 (Senate House) 14:30–16:30 | Room 243 (Senate House) Date: 29 Mar Date: 1 Feb Session Leader: Naomi Paxton (Vote 100 Exhibition Project) Session Leader: Philip Murphy (Institute of Commonwealth The importance of presenting your research clearly, Studies, SAS) and Catherine Davies (Institute of Modern coherently and cogently in public – whether quickly to a Languages, SAS) small group or in depth to a large conference – cannot be The session is intended to help PhD students prepare overstated, and the way you present is a key component. for the viva examination. It will look at a range of issues This session will help you consider how to improve all including choosing the external examiners and the roles aspects of the public delivery of your research message to and strategies of the student, the supervisors and the ensure maximum impact. Please wear or bring clothing and examiners. It will review the regulations and guidelines footwear that does not restrict easy movement. for examiners and candidates. It will also discuss practical Free advance registration required questions surrounding the examination. [email protected] Free advance registration required [email protected] SAS PhD Research Seminar Working with Images in Your Research 14:30–16:30 | Room 246 (Senate House) Date: 6 Mar 14:30–15:30 | Room 243 (Senate House) Tessa Morrison (Institute of Modern Languages Research, Date: 7 Mar SAS), Daniela Zanini Session leaders: Nessa Malone and Rembrandt Duits A regular, interdisciplinary seminar for PhD research (Warburg Institute, SAS) students at the School of Advanced Study to encourage This session will explore practical ways of accessing and student contact and academic debate. All SAS PhD students using images in your research and publications, exploring are strongly encouraged to attend. tools for finding images, print and electronic resources, Free advance registration required and copyright, licensing and reproduction. The workshop [email protected] will include use of the Warburg Institute’s photographic collections, library collections and digital and electronic resource collections. Free advance registration required [email protected]

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Zotero IALS PhD Masterclass: 'Research Presentation'

Research training 14:00–16:00 | IHR Research Training Room, N318 14:00–15:15 | IALS, Charles Clore House (Senate House) Dates: 1 Mar; 26 Apr Date: 5 Apr A PhD student will give a presentation on their research Session Leader: Simon Trafford (Institute of Historical question, approach/methodology, and some preliminary Research, SAS) findings. Zotero is a widely used free and open-source tool for The IALS PhD Masterclass is an opportunity to discuss PhD compiling and managing bibliographies. This training research with colleagues, with expert input from senior session provides a basic introduction to the software and academics experienced in PhD research. explains how to input references, create reading lists and Free advance registration required add citations to written work. It will be offered once in the [email protected] autumn and once in the spring term. Free advance registration required Institute of Historical Research [email protected] Contact: [email protected] Institute of Advanced Legal Creating and Maintaining an Online Academic Studies Profile Contact: [email protected] 14:00–17:00 | IHR Research Training Room, N318 (Senate House) How to Get a PhD in Law: The PhD Journey: Date: 6 Feb Supervision, Research Ethics and Preparing This workshop provides an overview and step-by- Yourself for Upgrade and Vivas step guide to creating an online research profile using 10:00–16:30 | IALS, Charles Clore House Wordpress. The workshop is designed for postgraduates with little or Date: 2 Mar no knowledge of Wordpress, but it is also suitable for those The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies welcomes with some knowledge who would like advice on writing postgraduate research students from across the UK to this blog posts and developing an online presence. specially tailored day of presentations, library tours, and Free advance registration required [email protected] networking opportunities. Sessions will include: [email protected] The PhD journey: The staging posts of your PhD and support for research students (Diamond Ashiagbor, IALS) Databases for Historians (2) Handling the supervision relationship (Avrom Sherr, IALS) 10:30–17:00 | IHR Research Training Room, N318 Preparing for the Ethics Committee (Avrom Sherr, IALS) (Senate House) Preparing for upgrade viva and the PhD viva (Natasa Mavronicola, Birmingham) Dates: 10–13 Apr The foreign, international and comparative law research The aim of this course is to provide participants with collections at IALS Library (Hester Swift, IALS Library) an introduction to database techniques appropriate for A panel of research students who have completed or nearly historical research, with a focus on the concepts of good completed their PhDs will discuss how they approached database design and the creation of high-quality historical researching their theses and the PhD journey. data. The course is taught through a mixture of formal lectures and ‘hands-on’ practical classes that provide An optional tour of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies practical guidance on the use of commercially available Library led by senior library staff database software packages. The module covers a broad A further training day will take place on 11 May 2018: range of skills and techniques, including data manipulation ‘How to get a PhD in Law: Researching, Disseminating, and (searching, sorting, and editing records), modelling Publishing in the Digital World’. historical data for computer-based analysis, methods of £100 | £75 advance registration required data collection and data entry, and principles of coding. The [email protected] remainder of the course considers the general presentation and publication of historical research findings in terms of the design and production of tables, charts, basic figures, and associated graphics. The module does not require any previous specialist knowledge of computing or training in mathematics, though a working familiarity with Microsoft Windows is necessary and it would be advantageous for

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participants to take the IHR’s free online course Designing Databases for Historical Research in advance of the start. Historical Research on the Internet (2) The course is open to postgraduates, academics, and 10:30–17:00 | IHR Research Training Room, N318 Research training all who are interested in using databases to organise or (Senate House) analyse historical data. Places are strictly limited and early application is strongly recommended. Date: 1 Mar £265 SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR This intensive one-day workshop introduces the principal research training courses. Advance registration required online resources available to historical researchers and [email protected]. shows how to make best use of them in pursuit of primary sources and secondary literature. The tools available online Explanatory Paradigms to the historical researcher are immensely diverse and constantly expanding. Internet resources have become an 17:30–19:00 | IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) integral feature of many parts of the process of research Dates: 25 Apr – 27 Jun for most historians: online bibliographies and library catalogues have made the gathering of secondary literature The aim of this course is to provide an outline of some of far easier, and the growing mass of digitised primary source the main debates around historical usage of key concepts material has not only greatly increased ease of access, but such as class, gender, race, power, space, memory, narrative, opened up the evidence to new and very powerful types and archive since the 1960s. It will, in other words, provide a of computer-assisted analysis. Topics covered will include: kind of pre-history of our contemporary uses of such terms search techniques (Booleans, wildcards, and choosing and enable students to see how they developed out of search terms); search engines (making the best use of arguments and historical interpretation. At the same time, Google and non-specialist tools); reference tools; secondary it will introduce students to a series of seminal texts. So this sources (bibliographies, library catalogues, and accessing course will be a mapping of a conceptual terrain and an full text online); primary sources (locating traditional intellectual journey. archival sources and digital/digitised sources); debate, In Explanatory Paradigms, three historians examine specific discussion and publication online; and database deposition paradigms. John Seed considers the continuing importance and data archives. The course covers British, European, and of Marxism; Sally Alexander evaluates the growing salience world history from the Romans to the present, but with of psychoanalysis in historical enquiry; and John Tosh an emphasis on resources in English. Computers will be assesses the claims of gender not only to uncover new provided and there is no need to bring your own laptop. subject matter, but to provide a powerful explanatory tool. £100 SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR John Seed returns to consider some of the theoretical research training courses. Advance registration required implications of narrative, through the work of Paul Ricoeur. [email protected]. A concluding session will discuss how these theoretical positions have influenced our own scholarly work. Methods and Sources for Historical Research (2) The course is open to postgraduates and all who are interested in exploring historical theory. 10:30–16:30 | IHR £180 SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR Date: 16–20 Apr research training courses. Advance registration required Original research on primary sources lies at the heart of [email protected]. the historian’s enterprise, yet the techniques necessary to locate and obtain archival materials are rarely taught and can be hard to acquire. This course aims to equip historical researchers with the skills they will need to find and gain access to all the primary source materials they require for their projects. The course is primarily aimed at those engaged in research degrees in history or related disciplines, but is open to all researchers wishing to expand their skills and knowledge in original source materials. Over the course of a week (Monday-Friday), participants will learn, through an intensive programme of lectures and visits to repositories in and around London, how to combine online tools and traditional archival search techniques to locate and obtain evidence. Institutions visited will include the British Library, the National Archives, a number of other major national repositories, and a wide range of smaller and more specialised archives. £265 SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR research training courses. Advance registration required [email protected].

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Oral History Spring School Institute of Latin American Research training 09:00–17:00 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 Studies (Senate House) Contact: [email protected] Date: 19–21 Apr The Oral History Spring School covers the theory and Conducting Fieldwork in Latin America practice of oral history in depth, with the help of leading UK oral historians. To be able to take advantage of the course 10:00–17:00 | Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House) students should have some prior experience in recording Date: 16 Feb and writing, and will be asked to complete readings in advance, available through a dedicated online website. This one-day training event is for postgraduate students Anyone new to oral history should consider enrolling on embarking on fieldwork in Latin America and the either the IHR's An Introduction to Oral History or the Oral Caribbean. Hosted by the Institute of Latin American History Society's basic training course. Studies, the event features experienced researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. The event will introduce The three day course will also include a visit to a central students to a range of strategies and techniques to design London museum where oral history is incorporated into and execute their future research trips effectively, prepare exhibitions. students for challenges they may encounter in the field, Tutors on the 2018 course may include: Joanna Bornat and provide them with the opportunity to discuss their (Open University), Jenny Harding (London Metropolitan), plans with experienced researchers. A small charge of £10 Graham Smith (RHUL), Paul Thompson (Essex), Shelley will cover the cost of catering. Trower (Roehampton) £10 advance registration required [email protected] Fee applicable advance registration required [email protected]. Institute of Modern Languages Visual Sources for Historians Research 10:30–17:00 | IHR and various Contact: [email protected] Date: 27 Feb – 26 Mar This course considers visual sources as evidence in historical History, Ethnography and Memory practice and provides an introduction to understanding and researching material and visual culture. Drawing on 11:00–17:00 | Room 243 (Senate House) diverse media from cartoons to political portraits, in still Date: 17 Mar and moving images, in print and online, it suggests ways in Sessions will include: which understanding visual sources can enhance the study of history by posing new questions and suggesting new Historical methods and archives (Carlos Lopez Galviz, answers to thorny research issues with material unavailable Lancaster) elsewhere. Introduction to oral history, fieldwork and collections An Introduction to Visual Sources for Historians takes the (Michael Kandiah, KCL) form of full-day sessions held over the course of five weeks Ethnography and fieldwork (Chandra Morrison, LSE) (but please note the different days of the week on which Search for Memory Traces and Markers: A ‘Memory Hunt’ sessions will be held). The sessions will normally start with a in Tavistock Square (Katia Pizzi, IMLR). Guest speaker: Philip lecture, followed by a seminar discussion. After lunch each Nelson (Tavistock Square Memorial Trust) week, the group will visit a gallery or institution of relevance Free [email protected] to the week's topic. Fee applicable SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IMLR Graduate Forum IHR research training courses. Advance registration required [email protected]. Monthly on a Thursday at 18:00–19:30 | Room 243 (Senate House) unless marked Dates: 8 Feb; 8 Mar; 12 Apr (Room 246, Senate House) Advance registration required [email protected]

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Visual and Performing Arts The Warburg Institute 11:00–17:00 | Room 243 (Senate House) Contact: [email protected] Research training Date: 24 Feb Sessions will include: Arabic Philosophy Reading Class Working with images in theory and practice (Ben Thomas, Mondays at 17:00–18:30 | The Warburg Institute Kent) Working on photography (Theresa Mikuriya, West London) Dates: 5, 12, 26 Feb; 5, 12, 19, 26 Mar Working on Performance (Dominic Glynn, IMLR) Charles Burnett (Warburg) Film theory and its applications (Michael Witt, Roehampton) Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Free [email protected] Charles Burnett before attending your first class. Free advance registration required Refugee Law Initiative [email protected] Contact: [email protected] Classical Arabic Reading Class Selected Thursdays at 15:00–16:30 | Classroom 2, The Refugee Studies Reading Group Warburg Institute Monthly on a Wednesday at 15:00–17:00 | Senate House Dates: 1, 8, 22 Feb; 1, 15, 22 Mar (location varies) Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) Dates: 21 Feb, Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House); The Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qa-sim Ibn H.awqal is 21 Mar, Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House) one of the most important texts in the canon of classical The RLI hosts a monthly Refugee Studies Reading Group in Arabic geographical and historical writing. Composed in London during the academic year. The group is for students around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim interested in refugee law and forced migration studies to world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century discuss important and interesting texts and to build lasting of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate networks and links between them. had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in Free advance registration required East. In this reading group, we shall look at the text and the [email protected] way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. A moderate reading knowledge of Arabic (for example, one year at University) is necessary, but the emphasis will be on encouraging reading skills and understanding. Photocopied texts will be provided. Free no prior registration required; for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at [email protected].

Classical Greek Reading Class Alternate Wednesdays at 12:00–13:30 | Room 308, The Warburg Institute Dates: 14, 28 Feb; 14, 28 Mar Charles Burnett (Warburg) Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class. Free advance registration required [email protected]

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Editing Byzantine Texts Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading

Research training Group Fridays at 15:45–17:45 | The Warburg Institute Dates: 2, 9, 16, 23 Feb; 2, 9, 16, 23 Mar Fridays at 13:00–14:15 | The Warburg Institute The University of London seminar Editing Byzantine Texts Dates: 2, 9, 16 Feb; 2, 9, 16, 23 Mar was established in 1985 through the cooperation of Dr Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) Joseph A. Munitiz, SJ, the Late Julian Chrysostomides, and This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the Dr Athanasios Angelou, initially with the aim of studying early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Translations will be Byzantine literary works, the first of which was Nicephorus provided. Please email [email protected] for further Blemmydes’ Autobiography. It later developed into a details before joining the group. working seminar on editing Byzantine texts, joined by Free advance registration required graduate students and visiting scholars. The seminar, [email protected] the only one of its kind in London, has been the focus of Byzantinists specialising in various areas, such as textual criticism, language and literature, palaeography, New Dialogues in Art History history and historiography, theology, and art history. The Monthly during term-time on a Wednesday at 16:00–17:00 | seminar always tries to reach its decisions by common Classroom 1, The Warburg Institute consent, in a spirit of friendly cooperation and discussion, each member contributing his/her own expertise and Date: 28 Feb experience. More importantly, graduate students have the New Dialogues in Art History is a seminar group exclusively opportunity to learn and practise the editorial process, for postgraduate students. The group was established from the transcription of manuscripts to the final stages of with the goal of fostering a stronger sense of community publication of critical editions and annotated translations among art history PhD students who use the Warburg of Byzantine texts. The seminar has produced an annotated Library for their research. Run by Warburg research students, critical edition and translation of The Letter of the Three sessions take place in an informal atmosphere. There Patriarchs to Emperor Theophilos and Related Texts (eds. are two 20-minute papers per session with a further 20 J.A. Munitiz, J. Chrysostomides, E. Harvalia-Crook, and Ch. minutes for questions and roundtable discussion. This Dendrinos [Porphyrogenitus: Camberley, 1997]) and has format allows speakers to receive constructive feedback edited a number of texts, including two unpublished from their peers. Sessions conclude with refreshments and religious works by the fifteenth-century scholar Manuel further discussion. Research students are invited to present Calecas. At present, an annotated critical edition and papers that focus on any art historical aspect, time period, translation of the extensive Correspondence of George of or topic. The two papers presented at each session are Cyprus (Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory II, 1283-89) is under selected in order to draw out complementary themes and preparation. Members are asked to prepare a transcription thus provoke interesting discussion. Each session’s theme is of a letter or a group of letters from the principal advertised once the invited speakers have confirmed their manuscripts (Mutinensis graecus 82 and Vaticanus graecus participation. 1085), followed by an edition with an apparatus criticus and The group meets monthly during term-time at The Warburg an apparatus fontium, together with a translation and notes Institute. Meetings take place on the following Wednesdays to the text. Their work is then presented and discussed at during term-time at the Warburg Institute at 16.00 in the seminar. So far more than 50 letters have been edited, Classroom 1: 24 January, 28 February, 23 May, 27 June 2018 translated and annotated. In order to allow time for the selection process, applicants Scholars and graduate students who are interested in wishing to present at a specific session should submit their Byzantine texts are welcome to participate. For further proposals a month in advance. As the group is ongoing, information, please contact the co-convenors, Dr successful applicants may be offered a presentation date a Charalambos Dendrinos ([email protected]) and Dr few months in advance or be placed on a waitlist. Proposals Christopher Wright. may also be considered for a conference at the end of the Free advance registration required academic year. Applicants are therefore asked to indicate [email protected] their general availability when submitting a proposal. Research students enrolled at any institution are welcome to submit a proposal. Please note, however, that invited speakers are expected to be able to readily travel to the Warburg as there is no funding for travel expenses. Please send proposals (max. 250 words) and a short bio to: [email protected]. Free advance registration required [email protected]

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Please submit a 200-word abstract, paper title, and Global Decolonisation Workshop: Calls for papers The Invention and Reinvention of one-page biographical note copied jointly to Professor Decolonization Philip Murphy ([email protected]) and Professor Mark Thurner ([email protected]) by Friday, 16 21–22 June 2018, School of Advanced Study, February 2018. Senate House, London CFP deadline: 16 February 2018 Corresponding with Beckett The Global Decolonization Workshop is a new collaboration between the School of Advanced 1–2 June 2018, School of Advanced Study, Study and New York University that seeks to forge Senate House, London a global forum for knowledge exchange in the CFP deadline: 1 March 2018 interdisciplinary field of decolonization studies. What does it mean to correspond with Beckett? The series was launched this series at the University How does Beckett’s correspondence give us insight of London in Paris in July 2017 with a workshop into the work? In what ways are critical reading and exploring the ‘Concepts and Connections’ associated writing a form of correspondence with an author? with the fields of decolonization and postcolonial What would it mean to ‘perform the epistolary’? studies. It will continue with a second workshop, this The publication of the fourth and final volume of time in London, which will take as its theme ‘The The Letters of Samuel Beckett marks an appropriate Invention and Reinvention of Decolonization’. moment to take stock of the role of autobiography in research and the importance of the epistolary Was ‘decolonization’ a European invention designed in literary studies. A recent review by Cal Revely- to ease the ‘White Man’s Burden’ and pave the way for Calder cautions that letters ‘are not propositions, a neo-colonial system of extraction and dependency? manifestos, or statements of intent’, but rather ‘rough Was it a Latin American invention intended to undo forays, conducted in private’. This conference will ‘the colonial system?’ Or was it an Indian, French raise issues around the development of the ‘grey Algerian, or Caribbean invention? Or all the above? Is canon’ (S.E. Gontarski), the use of digital resources, the received ‘wave’ narrative (first, second, third, fourth translation, visual metadata, and the role of corollary waves) currently used to tell the global history of correspondence. Given Beckett’s hesitation to render decolonization still adequate? Or would notions such the personal public, the conference will address as ‘invention’ and ‘reinvention’ be more useful? how we negotiate issues of privacy, permissions, We seek papers that address any of the following: and copyright. It will generate new thinking on the letter as artefact and the textual and stylistic • When, where, and how was the concept and aspects of the epistolary, as well as explore the act of ‘decolonization’ invented or reinvented? legacy of a correspondence project and how the • The circulation and deployment of concepts research that underpins it can be deployed for or cognate concepts of decolonization and further research. Using literary correspondence and related materials raises older questions on authorial independence across linguistic and imperial intention and reading methodologies that continue spheres to inform literary analysis. In the age of Snapchat • The invention and reinvention of the concepts and WhatsApp, correspondence is primarily digital: or cognate concepts of ‘colonialism’ and ‘anti- the conference will question the longevity of colonialism’ contemporary digital correspondence and explore strategies for future engagement with the epistolary Assessments and critiques of the ‘waves’ • in literary research. narrative of decolonization Topics to be addressed include, but are not limited to: • Case studies that clearly engage with any of the above School of Advanced Study 125 Calls for papers

Calls for papers • The epistolary • The legacy of the archive • Digital correspondence • Privacy and copyright • Translation • The ‘grey canon’ • Corollary correspondences • Visual metadata • Location registers • Ethics and the epistolary • Authorial intentionality • Literary criticism as correspondence • Performing letters The conference is organised by Stefano Rosignoli (Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin) and Derval Tubridy (Goldsmiths University of London). The keynote address will be given by Lois More Overbeck (Emory University), director of the Letters of Samuel Beckett Project.

Proposals for 20-minute papers should be sent to [email protected] by 1 March 2018 and should include: • Title of the presentation • Abstract of approximately 300 words • Biographical statement of approximately 100 words • Details of audio-visual requirements • Indication of any enhanced access requirements

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