What’s on July | August | September 2019

A selection of events highlighting the latest research across the humanities

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The School of Advanced Study is the UK’s national centre for the support and promotion of academic research in the humanities. Its nine institutes off er 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. Institute of Advanced Legal Studies / ials.sas.ac.uk Institute of Classical Studies / ics.sas.ac.uk Institute of Commonwealth Studies / commonwealth.sas.ac.uk Institute of English Studies / ies.sas.ac.uk Institute of Historical Research / history.ac.uk Institute of Latin American Studies / ilas.sas.ac.uk Institute of Modern Languages Research / modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk Institute of Philosophy / philosophy.sas.ac.uk The Warburg Institute / warburg.sas.ac.uk 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. The Library organises a number of exhibitions and related events throughout the year. The events included in this guide are just a few of the many taking place from 1 July through 30 September 2019. For a complete list, please visit sas.ac.uk/events and senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/exhibitions-and-events. Book your place Listen or watch again Most events at the School of Advanced Study and Many of our events are recorded and available to Senate House Library are free and open to the view or download at sas.ac.uk/events, on iTunes public but some do require advance booking and/ U (Research at the School of Advanced Study), and or purchase of a ticket. Booking links are provided on YouTube (SchAdvStudy). with each description in this guide. You can confi rm event details on our websites Be part of the conversation (sas.ac.uk/events and senatehouselibrary. Facebook: facebook.com/schoolofadvancedstudy ac.uk/exhibitions-and-events) or by contacting and facebook.com/senatehouselibrary the events team at [email protected]. For more information on attending our events, read Twitter: @SASNews and @SenateHouseLib the University of London’s visitor regulations at bit.ly/uolvisitors. The School’s fl agship blog, Talking Humanities, written by humanities scholars throughout the UK, provides a range of thought-provoking articles on Join our mailing lists subjects that matter to humanities researchers. You can request to be added to our weekly events Visit talkinghumanities.blogs.sas.ac.uk. email list or add/amend/remove your details from our postal mailing list by writing to [email protected].

2 sas.ac.uk/events | senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/events Our venues Access Unless otherwise stated, events are held within The University prides itself on making its events the University of London precinct in , accessible to all who wish to participate. To that central London. Most events take place in or end, it will endeavour to make all reasonable around Senate House (north and south blocks) on adjustments to facilities to accommodate , WC1. accessibility needs. If you have a particular requirement, please discuss it with the event How to get here organiser ahead of the event date, or contact our events team at [email protected]. Euston, King’s Cross, St Pancras Assistance dogs are most welcome. , Tottenham Court Road, Goodge Street, Warren Street, Euston Square A large-print version of this guide can be viewed or downloaded at sas.ac.uk/events. Bus routes 7, 10, 14, 24, 29, 59, 68, 73, 91, 98, 134, 168, 188, and 390 all have stops within walking distance of Senate House. Attending an event To plan your journey within London, visit t .gov.uk. Events are subject to change; please check the Kingsevent’s Cross webpage for the latest information. To Bicycles: Bicycle racks are located throughout the ensureStation everyone’s safety and security, bags and University’s central precinct. Please note that we St Pancrasrucksacks may be searched before entry and cannot be held responsible for theft or damage toStation security personnel may ask to see photograph ID. bicycles. The For more information, visit sas.ac.uk/events/ Parking: Public car parking is not availableBritish at Senate Library attending-event. House. The closest car parks are NCP at London Brunswick Square andEuston London Station Shaftesbury.

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Tottenham Court Road Oxford Street Station sas.ac.uk/events | senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/events 3 Sun, Sea and Science – Trinidad After Oil 1 July, 17:30–19:30 | Room G12, Senate House

Event highlights Event Free | Book in advance ilas.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19697 The recent fi lm Sun, Sea and Science – Trinidad After Oil looks at the possibilities for Caribbean development outside the traditional areas of tourism, Carnival, and primary agriculture. The fi lm centres on Trinidad and Tobago, but its message applies across the English-speaking The Trial of Warren Hastings: Caribbean. The fi lm, which premiered at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival in 2018, was Classical Oratory and Reception produced by the Anthony N Sabga Caribbean in Eighteenth-Century England Awards for Excellence. This scheme has 1 July, 17:00–18:30 | Room G35, Senate presented awards to 39 laureates throughout House the region since 2006, underscoring the importance of science and entrepreneurship in Free economic development. The screening will be ics.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19434 followed by a discussion. Between 1788 and 1795, the fi rst Governor- Organised by the Institute of Latin American General of Bengal, Warren Hastings, was Studies. impeached before the House of Lords on twenty charges of ‘high crimes and misdemeanours’ in his administration of East India Company operations. The prosecution was brought by a cast of star orators, including philosopher and politician Edmund Burke and celebrated playwright and theatre manager Richard Brinsley Sheridan. The trial of Hastings became a national sensation and the public’s appetite for this extraordinary spectacle was insatiable. Hastings’ alleged crimes of plunder, brutality, and corruption were compared to those perpetrated eighteen centuries before by the famous villain- governor of Sicily, Caius Verres. Not only did contemporaries juxtapose Hastings and Verres, but also their accusers, Burke and Cicero. Drawing on eighteenth-century sources, including diaries and letters, newspaper reports, engravings, and collected ephemera, Chiara Rolli (Parma) will explore the histrionic atmosphere of the trial at Westminster Hall and consider it in the light of classical reception studies. Organised by the Institute of Classical Studies and The Open University, in conjunction with the Classical Reception Studies Network. 4 sas.ac.uk/events | senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/events Mozambique and the Cyclones

Idai and Kenneth: Challenges of highlights Event Reconstruction Luis Covane 8 July, 12:30–14:00 | Room G37, Senate House Free | Book in advance commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19791 In March and April 2019, the Commonwealth country of Mozambique was hit by two cyclones of unprecedented ferocity, Cyclone Idai and Cyclone Kenneth. Speaker Luis Covane (Rector, Universidade Nachingwea, Mozambique, and former Deputy Education Minister) will discuss the multiple challenges of reconstruction facing Mozambicans after these two natural catastrophes, and the Mozambique government IES Annual Lecture in the and people’s response. History of the Book Organised by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. David McKitterick 3 July, 18:00–20:00 | Woburn Suite, Senate House Free | Book in advance bit.ly/invention2019 In this lecture David McKitterick will begin with a group of bibliophiles who came together in the 1850s to form a society that had much in parallel with the Roxburghe Club. In their meetings and discussions emerges a clearer picture of how changes in taste and practice aff ected attitudes to old books in the mid-Victorian period. The lecture expands on research presented in his latest book, The Invention of Rare Books (2018), which covers the development of the idea of rare books and why they matter. It explores how this idea took shape in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and how collectors, the book trade, and libraries gradually came together to identify canons that often remain the same today. Organised by the Institute of English Studies. sas.ac.uk/events | senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/events 5 Literary London Society Annual Conference 2019 11–12 July, 9:00–18:00 | University of Notre Dame, London £90 standard | £70 concessions | Book in Event highlights Event advance ies.sas.ac.uk/litlon19 This year’s conference will explore the neighbourliness or otherwise of our cities, both within and beyond the UK. How are our communities resisting, surviving, adapting, and developing in times of international turbulence and national division? How are places of safety, creativity, meeting, and exchange established Transnational Families, and maintained? How do representations in print, on stage, and screen, as well as reading Transnational Novels and digital communities, develop possibilities 12–13 July, 9:00–20:00 | Room 243, Senate for neighbourliness? We will consider how urban House networks operate and how these can transform Fee applicable | Book in advance spaces and human experience. modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/ Organised by the Institute of English Studies. event/19431 This two-day conference will examine novels that depict transnational families. From Ian Watt to Joseph Slaughter, scholars of literature have understood the novel as a genre that emphasises the formation of the individual in relation to a nation-state. However, in recent decades, the interconnectedness of the global market has provoked increased interest in literature that crosses national borders. The literary celebrity of Jhumpa Lahiri, Yaa Gyasi, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie denotes a widespread need for narratives that refl ect our transnational reality, examining how, when, and why we cross borders. This examination of transnational family novels will raise questions about the novel form: What can the novel genre tell us about how families are transformed by border crossings? How does a focus on transnational families aff ect novel structure? How do novels that focus on transnational families challenge the conventional wisdom that the novel genre privileges individual subjectivity? Organised by the Institute of Modern Languages Research.

6 sas.ac.uk/events | senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/events Homes Fit for Heroes Centenary Conference: Learning from 1919 18 July, 10:00–17:45 | IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, Senate House £50 standard | £35 students | Book in advance Event highlights Event history.ac.uk/events/event/16727 This conference commemorates the centenary of the passage of the 1919 Housing Act and the Homes Fit for Heroes programme that it Exploring the Transnational inaugurated. The conference will explore new Neighbourhood: Integration, historical perspectives on the 1919 Housing Act and the housing that was built under its Community, and Co-Habitation provisions (and those of subsequent Acts in 25–27 September | University College 1923 and 1924), which established the principle Dublin of state-subsidised social housing for the next Fee applicable | Book in advance 60 years. The conference will be followed by an modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/ evening panel-led discussion that will consider the future of housing. event/17598 Organised by The Learning from 1919 Steering Global mass migration on an unprecedented Group in partnership with the Institute of scale, dangerous journeys across the Historical Research. Mediterranean by refugees fl eeing persecution and warfare, the loss of family and friends, the loss of home, the challenge of integrating the arrivants/arrivantes, and confl icting notions of identity and belonging – these are some of the transcultural predicaments of the globalisation processes of the twenty-fi rst century coming to a head in the local encounters of urban (and rural) neighbourhoods. Transnational neighbourhoods are frequently depicted as the ‘other’ and a ‘deviant terrain’. However, voices from within often emphasise diff erent perceptions and have the potential to challenge and counter discourses emerging in the context of the rapid rise of populist right-wing parties across Europe. The current political debate is highly polarised and often dominated by quantitative arguments concerning the number of refugees and the social, economic, and political impact of their integration. This conference seeks to shift focus by exploring transcultural encounters in the urban neighbourhood, seeing the urban neighbourhood as a social microcosm that allows for a more nuanced discussion of transculturality as lived practice. Organised by the Institute of Modern Languages Research and UCD Humanities Institute. sas.ac.uk/events | senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/events 7 Short courses and summer schools

Our institutes off er a range of summer schools and short courses taught by distinguished scholars. For further details about courses and fees, please visit sas.ac.uk/summer.

Short courses and summer schools The Modern Commonwealth Short Course Study online at any time The modern Commonwealth was formed in 1949 with the London Declaration, which changed the basis of membership from common allegiance to the British Crown to a free and equal association of independent states. Yet this organisation often remains misunderstood Professional Legislative or underappreciated. This short course, which can be undertaken entirely online, provides Drafting Course an insight into the history that has shaped the 24 June – 19 July modern Commonwealth of Nations as well as The aim of this course is to encourage modern the key events, fi gures, and formal agreements drafting techniques with an emphasis on that have made it the organisation it is today. eff ective and user-friendly legislation, and to Organised by the Institute of Commonwealth expose drafters to a variety of drafting styles, thus Studies. allowing participants to select elements that best suit their national laws and their own tradition, London Rare Books School culture, and jurisprudence. Suitable for both experienced and inexperienced drafters. Week 1 (17–21 June) | Week 2 (24–28 June) | Week 3 (1–5 July) Organised by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. The London Rare Books School (LRBS) is a series of fi ve-day, intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects taught in and around T. S. Eliot International Summer Senate House, University of London. We off er a School range of fascinating specialist courses ranging 6–14 July from Medieval Women and the Book, the History of Book Illustration, and the Digital Book, The T.S. Eliot International Summer School covering over two thousand years of book welcomes to Bloomsbury all with an interest history and investigating the world’s diverse in the life and work of this Bloomsbury-based cultures and traditions in book production. poet, dramatist, and man of letters. The Summer School brings together some of the most Organised by the Institute of English Studies. distinguished scholars of T.S. Eliot and modern literature. Organised by the Institute of English Studies.

8 sas.ac.uk/events | senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/events Normativity and Reality of Public Humanities Short Course Human Rights 11–12 July 7–12 July This two-day short course will explore how This second edition of the human rights summer public engagement can be strategically school addresses the interplay between norms embedded in humanities research careers. The and facts about human rights, with a focus on course will cover key areas such as working with the media, navigating ‘impact’ and the the impact of new technologies on human Short courses and summer schools rights. Jointly organised by the Human Rights REF, and looking at how engagement can be Consortium and the University of Padova, its done through research. Participants will attend aim is to refl ect on the challenges for human plenaries and talks by leading scholars as well as rights normative systems stemming from the workshops led by the SAS Public Engagement variety of situations in which human rights are team. This course is suitable for those with a operationalised. The normative/factual fault humanities-focused research career, especially lines, the chasm between law and reality, are ECRS. investigated not only in terms of compliance gaps, but also as opportunities for expanding International Taxation Law and attuning the legal, ethical, and philosophical Summer Course articulations of current human rights narratives. Organised by the Human Rights Consortium. 2–6 September The International Taxation Summer Course developed by IALS will focus on various Aby Warburg, the Picture Atlas international taxation issues such as residence; and the Making of Visual permanent establishment; business profi ts, Culture dividends, interest, royalties, under tax treaties; triangular cases; double taxation relief and non- 8–12 July discrimination; benefi cial ownership and anti- The inaugural Warburg Institute Summer School avoidance provisions; transparency; exchange is dedicated to the work of Aby Warburg and of information; protection of taxpayers’ rights; his picture atlas Mnemosyne. Over the course and transfer pricing. The course will be taught of fi ve days, participants will fi rst be introduced by distinguished academics and is open to to exemplary panels from the Atlas; they will university students and tax professionals. examine original material, familiarise themselves Organised by the Institute of Advanced Legal with the collections of the Warburg Institute, Studies. and discuss relevant texts by Warburg and other scholars that unlock this inspirational and complex body of work. This course will focus particularly on material and popular culture, on art and science, and on intercultural relations. It includes site visits (for example, to the Victoria and Albert Museum, Wellcome Collection, British Library, and National Gallery) to work through the diff erent ways in which we can examine artworks and artefacts. Organised by The Warburg Institute and The Bilderfahrzeuge Research Group. sas.ac.uk/events | senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/events 9 Exhibitions 10 @SenateHouseLib |#WritingforPeace senatehouselibrary.ac.uk Free |OpenMonday–Saturday Library 16 July–15December |Senate House Writing in Times ofConflict Exhibition –Senate House Library My Country: AWork in Progress. Country: provoking play My first editionofCarol AnnDuff y’s thought- bombersflWWII ying overhead, anda a letter from the describing rare Hemingway, Timeby copy Ernest ofInOur Economic Consequences ofthePeace, asigned Maynardeditions ofJohn Keynes’ The ondisplay includeoneofthefiItems rst economic inequality, andclimate change. up until2019,includingBrexit, socialand economic confl thathave icts ensuedright most prominent military, environmental, and peace movements. explores someofthe It the establishmentofmany contemporary to theFirst World War, aconfl thatledto ict signing ofthe Treaty of Versailles putanend the in1919just after The exhibitionstarts to confl overicts thelast100years. achieve peaceandreconciliation inresponse explores thepower ofwords asameansto latest exhibition Senate HouseLibrary’s sas.ac.uk/events |senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/events sas.ac.uk/events |senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/events peace? be world sword? Isallfairinlove andwar?Can there ever questions… Isthepenmightierthan and considersomeoftheworld’s biggest eyes andthewords ofpeoplewhowere there world’s mostnotableconfl throughicts the collections, visitors canexplore someofthe Told through global Senate HouseLibrary’s and Europe. voices LatinAmerica, inAfrica, local community are thenarratives ofjournalists, politicians, and theSecond during World War. Alsoincluded whichwasbasedatSenate House Information, of in1945by theMinistry given to theLibrary politicians targeted by andwas theGestapo Black Book’. and This listed peaceactivists copiesofthe surviving one ofonlytwo ‘Nazi items that give to theworks, context suchas Alongside theseare uniquephotographs and 11 11

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