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Hope and Fear: Being Human 2016 Senate House Library exhibition: ‘Utopia and Dystopia’ 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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Event highlights – timeline 2 How to use this guide Event highlights 4 Events are listed in date and time order. On the left Speaker highlights 10 we list the department responsible for organising the event, the time, type of event or series and the Exhibitions 14 venue. On the right we list the event title, speaker(s) and a short description if available. There is further Events calendar – listings 19 information about highlighted events at the start Seminar series 77 of the guide, and about research training events and calls for papers at the end. Please check our Calls for papers 86 websites for the latest information or email SAS at [email protected] or Senate House Library at Research training 91 [email protected]. How to find us 92 Booking Key The majority of our events are free and open to the public. Some events have limited capacity Subject area and advance booking is advisable. The event Classics information in this brochure was correct at the time of going to press, but may be subject to History change. Please check our websites for the latest Philosophy information or email SAS at [email protected] or Senate House Library at senatehouselibrary@london. Culture, language and literature ac.uk. Human rights Mailing list Politics Sign up to our mailing lists to receive information Law on events of interest to you by emailing SAS at [email protected] or Senate House Library at Highlights [email protected]. Highlights Event podcasts Member institutes of the School Selected events are recorded and available to view, listen to, or download online at www.sas.ac.uk/ Institute of Advanced Legal Studies events, on iTunes U, and on YouTube. Institute of Classical Studies Blog Institute of Commonwealth Studies The School’s flagship blog, Talking Humanities, Institute of English Studies is written by academics from around the world and provides a range of thought-provoking Institute of Historical Research articles on subjects that matter to humanities Institute of Latin American Studies researchers. Talking Humanities can be found at talkinghumanities.blogs.sas.ac.uk. We invite short Institute of Modern Languages Research articles from humanities researchers. Contact us at Institute of Philosophy [email protected] with your proposal. The Warburg Institute Event highlights October Event highlights 11, 12, 13 October Date: 11,12,13October ascents andtheirreception. and thethird willconsiderMiltonic from Neoplatonism to Romanticism, poetic ascentsandflightsofthemind ceilings; thesecondwilladdress onpainted of apotheosisandglory The firstlecturewill focus onvisions Painting, andtheClassical Tradition’. and Poetry British Eighteenth-Century Aspirations: Seventeenth- and at the Warburg on Institute ‘Celestial Cambridge, presents three lectures Latin, Trinity College, of University professorfellow of andhonorary Philip Hardie, senior research classical tradition seriesonthe lecture E HGombrich
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E H Gombrich Katherine Mansfield Doing women’s lecture series on the Society annual legal history classical tradition birthday lecture 26 October2016 11–13 October 2016 15 October 2016 As we approach the centenary in 2019 of women’s admission to Philip Hardie, senior research Katherine Mansfield was an the legal profession in the UK and fellow and honorary professor of impassioned student of the cello Ireland, lawyers and legal scholars Latin, Trinity College, University before moving towards literary have initiated several projects to of Cambridge, will present three creation. But what music did she mark this achievement that aim to lectures at the Warburg Institute on enjoy, and what impact might uncover and recover the history ‘Celestial Aspirations: Seventeenth- this have had on her literary of women’s experiences of law. and Eighteenth-Century British apprenticeship? Could the pulse These include the Women’s Legal Poetry and Painting, and the and rhythm of the music around Landmarks project, the First 100 Classical Tradition’. His first lecture her have influenced her early prose Years project and the First Women will focus on visions of apotheosis poems or provided the themes Lawyers in Great Britain and the and glory on painted ceilings, for later stories? What are we to Empire symposium series. This is from Rubens’ Banqueting House, make of the decidedly fin de siècle a golden age for legal scholars Whitehall, to Thornhill’s Painted musical tastes reflected in her early undertaking historical work on Hall, Greenwich. The second will diaries and notebooks? This year’s women and law and for historians address poetic ascents and flights Katherine Mansfield Society annual working on legal issues. This of the mind from Neoplatonism birthday lecture, hosted by the conference, organised by the to Romanticism, and the third Institute of English Studies, will Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, will consider Miltonic ascents be in the form of a dialogue brings together scholars working and their reception. Hardie’s most between words and music as in the field to share experiences recent books are The Last Trojan Professor Claire Davison and of doing women’s legal history Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil’s cellist Joseph Spooner explore the and to build and develop the Aeneid and Rumour and Renown: musical setting and imagination discipline of feminist legal history. Representations of Fama in Western of Katherine Mansfield during her Speakers will include June Purvis, Literature. literary apprenticeship years. feminist historian, editor Women’s History Review and convenor of the See pages 23, 24, 25 See page 26 Women’s History Network, and for event information for event information Gillian Murphy of the Women’s Library at the London School of Economics.
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4 Events October 2016 – January 2017 Imagining the Guyanas highlights Event Rose Hall Estate panel and a reading by Fred D’Aguiar 27 October 2016 Journalist Gaiutra Bahadur and authors Cyril Dabydeen and Jan Lowe Shinebourne were born in the Canje District in Berbice, Guyana. They all grew up on, or close to, the Rose Hall Estate and have maintained a strong bond with Guyana through their writing, scholarship and commitment to human rights. ‘Imagining the Guyanas’ provides a rare opportunity for these leading Guyanese intellectuals to discuss the autobiographical narrative, the diasporic existence, the Rose Hall Estate and Guyana as a source of creativity, and the epistemology of belonging. The panel will be followed by a reading and Q&A with Guyanese poet, playwright and novelist Fred D’Aguiar, Ecologies of memory and whose first collection of poetry, Mama Dot (1985), movement conference established his reputation as one of the finest British poets of his generation. His first novel, The Longest 27 – 29 October 2016 Memory (1994), won both the David Higham Prize for Commemorating the Republic of Suriname’s Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award; his latest, 40 years of independence, Guyana’s 50 years of Children of Paradise (2014), tells the story of a utopian society and explores oppression of both mind and independence, and the 70th anniversary of the body. His plays include A Jamaican Airman Foresees His declaration of la Guyane as a French Département Death, performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, d’Outre-Mer, this three-day conference is sponsored in 1991. His poetry collection Continental Shelf (2009) by the 3-G Network’s ‘Celebration of the Guyanas’, was shortlisted for the 2009 T. S. Eliot Prize. He teaches a gathering of scholars, authors and activists. It at UCLA. will engage the landscapes of memory as they are intertwined with the politics and ecologies of place See page 33 and movement. These areas have been scarred by for event information colonization and ethnic violence, their resources plundered at enormous political and ecological costs. How have these changes been articulated A celebration of Guyana in within the communities that have moved (voluntarily poetry and music and involuntarily) to and from these countries? What strategies of resilience and agency are being 28 October 2016 implemented? How are these histories remembered, Join four of the best-known Guyanese artists for an represented, imagined, and re-imagined in the evening celebrating the country’s colourful past and memories and present realities of the peoples present. Three award-winning poets – John Agard, and communities living in these countries and Malika Booker and Grace Nichols – will be joined by the diaspora? noted flautist Keith Waithe playing his distinctive fusion of jazz, classical, African, Caribbean, Asian and See page 33 Western music. It promises to be an unforgettable for event information 50th birthday party.
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What’s happening in ‘Overstepping History Libraries and Black British history? the boundaries / Research Open Day (V) Transgresser les 15 November 2016 27 October 2016 limites’: 21st-century Need some advice on finding resources for your history research This workshop, organised by women’s writing in project? This day-long event the Institute of Commonwealth French organised by the Institute of Studies, is the fifth in a biannual Historical Research Library and series held in London and 28–29 October 2016 Senate House Library is an open elsewhere in the UK. It seeks history fair featuring more than to reveal a Black British history This conference, organised by the Centre for the Study of 30 libraries, archives and other beyond slavery, colonialisation and Contemporary Women’s Writing research organisations, many immigration, one in which people within the Institute of Modern of whom are members of the of African heritage are seen not as Languages Research, will chart Committee of London Research victims but as active contributors recent trends in contemporary Libraries in History. Choose from to British history. It fosters dialogue women’s writing in French, several panel presentations on between researchers, teachers, focusing in particular on leading libraries, archives, digital research artists, writers, archivists, curators, developments since the turn of and public history and hear from policy makers, and the public. the 21st century. Keynote speakers Lawrence Goldman of the Institute Topics of discussion will include Dr Siobhán McIlvanney and Prof of Historical Research, Suzannah Shirley Jordan will contextualise Black women writers, recovering Lipscomb of the New College and engaging the public with Black contemporary fictional transgressions in women’s writing of the Humanities, London, and British histories and identities, and librarians and archivists from the teaching of Black British history and consider how the experimental life-writing of two contemporary the British Library, the National in schools. The keynote speaker Archives, and Senate House Library. will be Kehinde Andrews of the French practitioners, Annie Ernaux University of Birmingham. and Christine Angot, repeatedly jostles, oversteps and re-sets See page 45 See page 33 boundaries. A reading and Q&A for event information with the innovative French author for event information of graphic novels Aurélia Aurita will focus on the overstepping of boundaries of textual and visual media in contemporary women’s writing in a genre that, despite its growing popularity, has received less attention in women’s writing studies.
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6 Events October 2016 – January 2017 holding our first international event this year at the University of London Institute in Paris. highlights Event The 2016 programme features everything from magic lantern shows to a ‘Martian autopsy’, mermaids HUMAN on the Mersey to the lost cities of Egypt. From Orkney to Dartmoor researchers will be exploring some of the most pressing ‘hopes and fears’ affecting humanity today—including climate change, forced migration, terrorism, and visions of utopia and dystopia—in ways that inspire and fire peoples’ imaginations. Some highlights from the varied programme include: • an H G Wells inspired ‘Martian autopsy’ at the University of Dundee, conducted by the UK’s leading forensic anthropologist Professor Sue Black • a vertigo-inducing installation in the North Tower HOPE of Newcastle’s Tyne Bridge • stories of child refugee journeys told through music, dance and drama at the V&A Museum of Childhood (London) FEAR17 - 25 NOVEMBER 2016 & • an evening with the much-loved children’s author beinghumanfestival.org Michael Morpurgo in Swansea The full national programme can be viewed at Being Human festival www.beinghumanfestival.org. 17–25 November 2016 Being Human returns for its third year in 2017, with hundreds of events across the country making humanities research engaging and fun for non- academic audiences. Led by SAS in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy, the festival is back with a new director, Professor Sarah Churchwell, and a new theme: ‘Hope & Fear’. Right across the country humanities researchers have responded to the theme with fantastic imagination and creativity. The nine-day festival will bring together activities from more than 70 universities and research organisations, including designated festival hubs in Dundee, Swansea, Leeds, Liverpool, Nottingham, Exeter and of course our own Senate House hub in London. We are thrilled to be working in partnership with BBC Radio 3 this year on a special festival preview event, and thrilled too to be taking over Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum for a huge ‘FRIGHTFriday’ closing event. As if that wasn’t enough, we are also
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Warburg Institute By the seaside: the The Archaic Open House beach, 1700–2000 necropolis in Faliron 18 November 2016 21 November 2016 Delta The Warburg Institute’s ‘Opening As part of the Being Human festival, 25 November 2016 Doors | Moving Pictures’ event the Institute of Historical Research, captures the dynamism and in collaboration with Historic Dr Stella Chrysoulaki presents a openness of the Institute under England and the Institute of Modern British School at Athens/Institute its new director, David Freedberg. Languages Research, presents an of Classical Studies public lecture It will feature engaging seminars evening lecture on the history of the on the rescue excavations at by Guido Giglioni (head of the MA British seaside from 1700 to 2000. Faliron, which have been carried in Cultural and Intellectual History Drawing on a survey conducted out since 2012 by the Ephorate of 1300 – 1650) and Joanne Anderson about the English beach, speakers Antiquities of West Attica, Piraeus (head of the MA in Art History, Allan Brodie and John Cattell and Islands on the site of the Curatorship and Renaissance (Historic England) will describe the new Stavros Niarchos Foundation Culture offered in partnership with fascinating elements of change in Cultural Centre. The site was used the National Gallery). There will relation to class, leisure, trade and as a cemetery from the late eighth be tours of the famous Warburg economy, architecture and even century BC to the fourth century geography of the British beach. The library, including an introduction BC, and finds of vessels and other lecture will be accompanied by an to its unique classification and offerings are contributing to a exhibition and display exploring arrangement of material on human new understanding of the archaic the sights, sounds and smells of the pottery of Attica. In March 2016, culture and expression, and tours English beach. of the Aby Warburg archive and a group of 80 skeletons with photographic collection. The day iron bonds on their wrists were See page 50 discovered and subsequently also features a showing of Judith for event information Wechsler’s film on the life of Aby dated to the seventh century BC. Warburg and an informational Anthropological study of this group session on studying at the Warburg. will throw light on a turbulent time in Athens’ history. See page 48 for event information See page 54 for event information
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Institute of Historical Research winter conference: civil wars 20 January 2017 The Syrian Civil War is now in its sixth year, prompting a consideration of the nature of civil wars in general and the term ‘civil war’ itself. Is it a helpful label when considering events as different as the English and French Revolutions (both of which have been called civil wars), the American Civil War of the 1860s, the Russian Civil War after the 1917 Revolution, and the events in Spain in the 1930s? Do civil wars share certain features or is this a term of art that obscures the uniqueness of each separate historical situation? This conference will question the conceptualisation and language of civil discord.
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Events October 2016 – January 2017 9 Speaker highlights Speaker highlights Speaker
Chandaria Lecture ‘The Humanities Human rights and Series Now’ – literature and the news media: 18, 21 and 25 October 2016 the public good an ethic of care? Andy Clark 19 October 2016 20 October 2016 Chair in Logic and Metaphysics, The University of Edinburgh Rick Rylance Judy MacGregor Director of the Institute of English Professor of human rights and This year’s Chandaria Lecture Studies head of the School of Social series, hosted by the Institute of Sciences and Public Policy, Philosophy, will feature Andy Clark, To celebrate the launch of Professor Auckland University of Technology chair in logic and metaphysics at Rylance’s new book, Literature and A human rights expert, Professor the University of Edinburgh, who the Public Good, Oxford University McGregor was the first equal will present three talks—‘Prediction Press and the School of Advanced employment opportunities Machines’, ‘Busting Out: Two Takes Study will host a discussion on ‘The commissioner with the on the Predictive Brain’, and ‘The Humanities Now’. Leading figures New Zealand Human Rights Future of Prediction’—that explore from the humanities, policy and Commission and is a renowned the fundamental nature of our publishing sectors will ponder why expert on women’s economic perceptual contact with the world. the humanities, so strong in Britain and employment rights. She has Clark’s research interests include in reality, are perceived to be in worked internationally for the Asia philosophy of mind and artificial retreat. Chaired by Sir Adrian Smith, Pacific Forum—with emerging intelligence, robotics, artificial life, the event will include audience human rights institutions in the embodied cognition, and mind, discussion followed by a reception. Maldives, Nepal, Palestine and technology and culture. Professor Rylance was previously CEO of the Arts and Humanities Malaysia—and has led media See pages 27, 30, 32 Research Council and chair of monitoring missions in Timor-Leste for event information Research Councils UK. His research and new Pacific states. Professor interests include the history of McGregor has recently completed psychology and reading and the four research projects on human brain. He is currently writing the rights in New Zealand. They Oxford English Literary History showed the country was regressing volume covering the period in areas like child poverty, pay 1930-1970. equity and social and economic disadvantages for women. In June See page 28 she won top prize in the New for event information Zealand Women in Governance Awards.
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10 Events October 2016 – January 2017 Speaker highlights Speaker
What is lived ancient The Latin American Hamlyn Lecture Series religion? communities in 17 November 2016 1 November 2016 Britain Dame Sian Elias Chief Justice of New Zealand Joerg Ruepke 2 November 2016 Deputy Director of the Max Weber The Rt Hon Dame Sian Elias is Kolleg for Advanced Cultural and Cathy McIlwaine the 12th Chief Justice of New Social Studies, University of Erfurt Professor of geography, Zealand and the first woman to be Queen Mary University of London appointed to that office. In 2003 Professor Ruepke is an With a background in development she became head of the newly internationally renowned authority created New Zealand Supreme on comparative religion who geography—mainly in Latin America—Costa Rica, El Salvador, Court. She started her career has pioneered the application of working first as a solicitor and social studies perspectives to the Colombia and Guatemala - then as a barrister in Auckland. study of the Roman world. He is Professor McIlwaine focuses on From 1984 to 1989 she was a the author of more than a dozen issues of gender, poverty and civil books and numerous articles member of Law Commission. In society as well as everyday urban 1988 she was appointed a Queen’s and has led a series of major and gender-based violence. For collaborative projects. He has held Counsel, appearing in a number of more than a decade she has also significant cases, including several visiting positions at the Institute of addressed low-paid migrant labour Advanced Study at Princeton, at concerning the Treaty of Waitangi. the Collège de France, at Aarhus and transnational relationships In 1995, Dame Sian was appointed University and at the University of in London, which has resulted in Judge of the High Court in Chicago. In 2008 he was awarded the influential reports No Longer Auckland. On 17 May 1999, she was the Gay-Lussac Prize for Franco- Invisible and Towards Visibility. appointed Chief Justice of New German Research collaboration She is currently working on an Zealand and made a Dame Grand and in 2012 was appointed to ESRC-funded project that explores Companion of the New Zealand the Federal Science Council violence against migrant women Order of Merit. She was appointed (Wissenschaftsrat) of Germany. In his in the Brazilian diaspora. She has a Privy Councillor in 1999 and first talk he will discuss the work of his published and edited ten books sat on the Privy Council in 2001. ERC-funded project ‘Lived ancient including Cities, Slums and Gender The lecture will be chaired by The religion: questioning ‘cults’ and in the Global South and Cross-Border Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC. ‘polis religion’’, which has brought Migration Among Latin Americans. together classicists, Egyptologists, See page 48 sociologists and researchers in religious studies. After his talk See page 39 for event information there will be responses by Gesine for event information Manuwald (UCL) and Hugh Bowden (KCL), followed by a reception.
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Lachmann today: 4th Miller Memorial How modernism the debate on the Lecture: the personal became our method of textual impact of Nazi classicism: from criticism and its persecution Mallarmé to Kafka consequences for the 1 December 2016 12 December 2016 history of ancient art Mary Fulbrook, FBA Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of German history, Professor of English and 25 November 2016 University College London comparative literature, Luca Giuliani University of Pennsylvania Mary Fulbrook is professor of Professor of classical archaeology, German history and dean of the Co-founder and senior curator Humboldt University of Berlin Faculty of Social and Historical of the Slought Foundation in Luca Giuliani’s research focuses Sciences at University College Philadelphia, Jean-Michel Rabaté on forms and functions of ancient London, and serves on the is also a managing editor of the pictorial narrative, portrait art Academic Advisory Board of Journal of Modern Literature and a in the field of tension between the Foundation of the former fellow of the American Academy depiction and statement, and the Nazi concentration camps at of Arts and Sciences since 2008. history of classical archaeology Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora. Professor Rabaté has authored or and of archaeological collections. She is the author or editor of edited 38 books on modernism, He taught at the universities of more than 20 books, including psychoanalysis, contemporary Freiburg, Heidelberg and Munich the Fraenkel Prize-winning A Small art, philosophy, and authors such before joining the Humboldt Town near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis as Beckett, Joyce and Pound. University Berlin in 2007. He is also and the Holocaust and Dissonant His recent publications include Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg Lives: Generations and Violence Crimes of the Future, The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Berlin. His books include Image and through the German Dictatorships. Psychoanalysis and Les Guerres Myth: A History of Pictorial Narrative Her new book, Reckonings: de Derrida. The symposium will in Greek Art. Legacies of Nazi Persecution, will be published in 2017. Sponsored examine the history of modernism and the avant-gardes as well as See page 54 by the Martin Miller and Hannah pertinent philosophies of time, for event information Norbert-Miller Trust. historiographical practices and representations of local and world See page 58 history events. This event is part for event information of the Historical Modernisms symposium organised by the Institute of English Studies.
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Humans and other beings in our classical past Inaugural lecture 14 December 2016 Greg Woolf, FSA Scot, FSA Director of the Institute of Classical Studies Professor Greg Woolf’s research focuses on the history and archaeology of the ancient world at the very large scale. His current projects include books on urbanism and on mobility, and ongoing collaborations on ancient library culture with former colleagues at St Andrews, where he was professor of ancient history. He is an associated fellow at the Max Weber Kolleg in Erfurt, where he leads a Humboldt Foundation- funded research project into the role of sanctuaries in forming religious experience. Professor Woolf chairs the Council of University Classical Departments and is a member of the British Museum Trustees’ Research Committee. In June 2016 he was elected a member of the Academia The Apotheosis of James I, the central Europea. panel of the ceiling by Peter Paul Rubens, Banqueting House, Whitehall, London See page 64 for event information See page 48 for event information
Events October 2016 – January 2017 13 Exhibition highlights
Utopia and Dystopia: DREAMING
Exhibition highlights Exhibition Dreaming the Future 3 October – 17 December 2016 THE Senate House Library FUTURE Malet Street, London
‘though no man has anything, AND yet they are all rich; UTOPIADYSTOPIA for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene
and cheerful life, free from Free Exhibition anxieties; neither 3.10.16 ~ 17.12.16 utopia-and-dystopia/senatehouselibrary.ac.uk apprehending want himself’ To mark the 500th anniversary of the publication Thomas More, Utopia of Thomas More’s Utopia in December 1516, the University of London will mount a thought- provoking and exciting exhibition and programme of events in Senate House Library this autumn. More’s work was hugely influential in Western philosophical and political thought. It coined a new word in the English language—Utopia (nowhere land)—and challenged the foundations of early modern English society by advocating an imaginary republic in which all social conflict and distress have been overcome. Based primarily in Room 101 and the fourth floor of Senate House, the exhibition draws on the Library’s rich and wide-ranging collections to explore how humankind has dreamed and experimented with the concept of the perfect society. Taking early modern English utopias as a starting point (gallery 1), we trace utopian political movements that emerged in Latin America and Africa in the second half of the 20th century (gallery 2), the philanthropic spirit behind many social and urban reform initiatives in Britain, France and the USA (gallery 3), concepts of utopia in literature (gallery 4) and more recent utopian and dystopian visions in popular culture (gallery 5). The exhibition is free to enter on a library day pass. For complete details, please visit the Senate House Library website at senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/ exhibitions-and-events.
14 Events October 2016 – January 2017 Related events significance and examining its with the superior social and ideological afterlives in our physical conditions that can be A programme of related events will own times. provided in a planned community. Exhibition highlights Exhibition take place throughout October, The film was the idea of Catherine November and December. These See page 25 Bauer, an urban planner and public are free but require booking. Please for event information housing advocate. It was directed contact [email protected] and photographed by Ralph to register your interest in attending Steiner and Willard Van Dyke. Aaron Copland wrote the musical score any of the following events. Game on: vintage computer and Morris Carnovsky provided games of the 1980s and 1990s the narration. Maria Castrillo, Utopia London (2010), film from the Internet Archive, head of Special Collections and screening interactive workshop Engagement at Senate House Saturday, 8 October, 14:00–17:00 Thursday, 27 October, 11:00–16:00 Library, will introduce the film and lead the discussion afterwards. Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library Senate House Library See page 43 for event information Join film director Tom Cordell in a In this hands-on interactive journey through the city he grew workshop, participants will be up in; meet the architects who able to play vintage computer designed it and the buildings they games from the 1980s and 1990s ‘Hope and Fear in London’, created. This acclaimed film tells inspired by the concepts of utopia street arts workshop the story of a group of idealists who and dystopia. ‘Sinistar’, ‘Fallout’, ‘Syndicate’, ‘Utopia: the Creation of Friday-Saturday, 18–19 November, combined science and art to build a Nation’ and many other classic 9:00–17:00 a city of equal citizens at a time titles depict post-apocalyptic when London was united around Senate House worlds full of action and adventure the vision of a better future. Cordell where the player is in control of This arts workshop will bring will introduce the film and lead the the future. Many of these games a group of young people into discussion afterwards, which will be have been preserved by the London’s central educational hub, followed by a drinks reception. Internet Archive. The workshop encouraging them to engage with will be facilitated by Jane Winters, humanities researchers in Senate See page 22 professor of digital humanities at House Library and the Centre for for event information the School of Advanced Studies, Metropolitan History at the School University of London. of Advanced Study. The aim of the two-day workshop is to create ‘Looking Backward/Looking See page 33 a canvas mural with guidance Forward: Utopian Literature’, for event information from James Titchnert (AeroArts), a lecture London-based street artist, which visualises their hopes and fears Thursday, 13 October, 18:00–19:00 about living in London. The City (1939), film screening Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, See page 48 Senate House Library Thursday, 10 November, 18:00–19:30 for event information Matthew Beaumont, professor Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, of English at University College Senate House Library London, will sketch the history of utopian and dystopian fiction, The City is a pioneering short especially since the height of its documentary film from 1939 that popularity in the late 19th century, contrasts the problems of the exploring its literary and political contemporary urban environment
Events October 2016 – January 2017 15 ‘Latin American Utopias’, ‘The End of Utopia?’, symposium become identified as the classic in-conversation event precursor of the modern argument Tuesday, 6 December, for communism as the solution to Exhibition highlights Exhibition Wednesday, 23 November, 10:00–17:00 mankind’s most essential woes. This 18:00–20:00 talk will sketch the main themes and Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, context of Utopia, suggesting that Senate House Library Senate House Library to modern readers More presents a Join us for an evening of activities This one-day symposium will bring highly ambiguous, even ‘dystopian’ portrait of an ‘ideal society’. It then evoking Latin American utopias together a panel of scholars and traces the development of the from the 1970s. Featuring ‘Utopia academics from a wide range of utopian idea across the centuries and Dystopia: Dreaming the Future’, disciplines to explore whether to the present. It will ask what an exhibition displaying ephemera utopian visions of society are still relevance, if any, More’s central related to Latin American political possible in our time. Cathy Shrank, themes have to the modern reader, and socioeconomic utopian ideas professor of Tudor and Renaissance and suggest that in its warnings and dystopian developments, literature at the University of about the effects of machinery upon the event will also include Sheffield, will deliver the keynote humanity and in its varied visions of screenings of digitised images lecture on the reception and global environmental catastrophe, and video clips, food tastings and interpretation of Utopia in the the dystopian tradition offers later music. Participants will be able to 16th and early 17th centuries. modern readers a stark warning meet members of UK solidarity Other confirmed speakers include about our possible future. The event movements working with Latin Professor Keith Somerville (Institute will be followed by a drinks reception. American countries—including of Commonwealth Studies and Chile, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Kent University), Dr Johan Siebers See page 63 Venezuela—and learn about the (Institute of Modern Languages for event information political utopias that have emerged Research), Dr Clare Launchbury from these countries since the 1970s (Institute of Modern Languages and which have inspired many Research/Institute of Historical abroad. For this event, please book Research), and Alessandro Scafi online at beinghumanfestival.org. (Warburg Institute).
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The Friends of Senate House ‘Utopia at 500: A Final Reckoning?’, Library book club: Coming Up closing keynote lecture for Air by George Orwell Thursday, 8 December, Wednesday, 30 November, 18:00–19:30 18:30–20:00 Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Durning-Lawrence Library, Senate House Library Senate House Gregory Claeys, professor of the Join us for an exploration of George history of political thought at Royal Orwell’s novel Coming Up for Air (1938) Holloway, will deliver the closing with D J Taylor, author of Orwell: The keynote lecture of the Library’s Life. Coming Up for Air is the story of Utopia season. Published in 1516, one man’s attempt to recapture the Thomas More’s Utopia has come to innocence of his childhood as war signify attempts to reform society in looms on the horizon. a dramatic, radical and substantial manner. Thanks to the influence of See page 55 Karl Marx in the 20th century, it has for event information 16 Events October 2016 – January 2017 Radical Voices January-March 2017 Exhibition highlights Exhibition Senate House Library Senate House Library boasts one of the country’s most comprehensive collections of material related to radical movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. This exhibition features highlights from the collection, shedding light not only on enormously influential but subsequently neglected figures, campaigns and organisations, but also on the University of London’s own institutional history. It focuses on the means of expressing ideas for change and reform, celebrating the actual radical voices that advocated for societal improvement. Items in the exhibition will include suffragette badges, exam papers, school lessons, lectures, ephemera, legislation, poetry, posters, songs and music. Dates to be confirmed for an evening with Ron Heisler A series of related events accompanies the exhibition: sponsored by the Friends of Senate House Library; sound installations; a screening of Spirit of ’45 (2013), 19 January – Film: Storm Centre (1956), Bette Davis as Ken Loach’s passionate portrayal of the Labour Party’s a censorship-fighting librarian historical electoral victory in 1945; and Radical Voices Aloud: a concert of socialist and radical music. 17 February – Radical Walking: protest, dissent, and crossing urban boundaries conference For complete details, please visit senatehouselibrary.ac.uk. 3 March – Radical Collections: radicalism and libraries and archives conference
Events October 2016 – January 2017 17 The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London Art, history and neuroscience: the work of art in the age of digital reproducibility An encore presentation of the 2016–17 Cambridge University Slade Lectures David Freedberg, director of the Warburg Institute 14 October The painter without hands: phantom limbs and the history of art 20 October Compassion and canonicity: humanism and the fear of science 27 October The work of art in the age of digital reproducibility: Walter Benjamin and Aby Warburg 3 November Real and banal empathy: movement and feeling 18 November The bear and the marionettes: automaticity and innocence 24 November Lip-synch lessons: sight, sound and touch 1 December Inhibition and judgement: the paradox of disinterest (16:30 start) Natural piety: sensation and reflection(18:00 start) All lectures begin at 17:30 at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, unless otherwise noted. All are free and open to the public. Please book a place at http://bit.ly/2bFiKS1.
The Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London History Now and Then Six public discussions of current issues related to the study of the past, chaired by Daniel Snowman 5 October The Rhodes statue and beyond Panel: Martin Daunton, Margot Finn, Jinty Nelson, David Starkey 2 November History and change Panel: Margaret MacMillan, Rana Mitter, Andrew Roberts, Gareth Stedman Jones 7 December The focus of history Panel: Maxine Berg, Jerry Brotton, Richard Drayton, Chris Wickham 11 January Lessons from the past Panel: Jeremy Black, Taylor Downing, Ian Mortimer, Lucy Riall 8 February History and religion(s) Panel: Felicity Heal, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Miri Rubin, Brian Young 8 March The future of the past Panel: Caroline Barron, Anne Curry, Charlotte Roueché, Jane Winters All talks begin at 6pm in the Wolfson Conference Suite, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street. Each will last for approximately 90 minutes, followed by refreshments. Advance registration is required. Tickets are £5 per session or £25 for all six sessions and can be purchased online at bit.ly/historynowandthen.
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Events calendar Events Monday 03 Warburg Institute Arabic philosophy reading class Free [email protected] Class 14:15 - 15:30 Warburg
Institute of Advanced Legal European criminal law seminar: a measure of last resort? Studies Pre-trial detention decision-making in the EU Seminar Fair Trials has for the last two years been coordinating research across ten EU Member States examining the practice of judicial decision-making on 14:30 - 18:00 pre-trial detention. IALS Free [email protected]
Institute of English Studies London Shakespeare seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 17:15 - 19:00 The Court Room (Senate House)
Warburg Institute Neoplatonism study group - Proclus, In Parmenidem Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Seminar Free [email protected] 17:30 - 19:30 Warburg
Tuesday 04 Warburg Institute Latin palaeography Class Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) Free [email protected] 16:15 - 17:30 Warburg
Institute of English Studies History of libraries walking tour Alice Ford-Smith (Bernard Quaritch Ltd.) will lead a repeat of last term’s library Walking tour walk for the History of Libraries seminar: ’London 1708: a walk into library history’. 17:30 - 19:00 £10 www.eventbrite.co.uk | [email protected]
Institute of Advanced Legal Open access online to ‘The Global History of the Common Law’: Studies prototype demonstration and discussion Lecture Jules Winterton, director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, and Graham Greenleaf AM, professor of law and information systems, University of 18:00 - 19:00 New South Wales; co-director, Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII); IALS Asia-Pacific editor, Privacy Laws and Business International Report. Free [email protected]
Institute of Classical Studies ICS and Friends of the British School at Athens ‘Tyrants and temples: an introduction to Greek Sicily’ Lecture Peter Higgs (British Museum) 18:00 - 20:00 Free [email protected] Room G22/26 (Senate House)
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Wednesday 05 calendar Events Warburg Institute Classical Greek reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 12:00 - 13:30 Warburg
Institute of Historical Research History Now and Then: the Rhodes statue and beyond How far can or should history be rewritten to accommodate contemporary Lecture values? The panel will consider the pros and cons of ‘apology’. Have some aspects 18:00 - 19:30 of history become unacceptable even to discuss? Wolfson Room NB01 Chair: Daniel Snowman; panel: Martin Daunton, Margot Finn, Jinty Nelson, (Senate House) David Starkey £5 per session or £25 for all six sessions | Free for Friends of the IHR [email protected]
Institute of English Studies Ezra Pound Cantos reading group Free [email protected] Seminar 18:00 - 20:00 Room 246 (Senate House)
Thursday 06 Institute of Classical Studies ICS ancient history seminar ‘Volcanically-induced Nile flood failure, social unrest and suppression of Seminar interstate conflict in Ptolemaic Egypt’ 16:30 - 18:30 Joseph Manning (Yale) and Francis Ludlow (Dublin) Room 349 (Senate House) Free [email protected]
Institute of Advanced Legal How well does plain language work? A legislative perspective Studies Speaker: Jeffrey Barnes, senior lecturer in law, La Trobe University, Australia Seminar Free [email protected] 18:00 - 19:00 IALS
Friday 07 Warburg Institute Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) Reading Group Free [email protected] 13:00 - 14:30 Warburg
Institute of Classical Studies ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar Welcome event in second floor lift lobby, Senate House Seminar Free [email protected] 16:30 - 18:30 Senate House
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Events calendar Events Institute of Advanced Legal IALS legal history seminar: ‘The new historical jurisprudence’ Studies Organised in association with the London legal history seminar Seminar Markus Dubber (University of Toronto) Free [email protected] 18:00 - 20:00 IALS
Institute of English Studies London Beckett seminar Dr Mark Byron (University of Sydney) Seminar Free [email protected] 18:00 - 20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
Saturday 08 Institute of English Studies Dickens’s days: heritage, celebrations and anniversaries £35 standard | £30 speakers and retired | £25 students [email protected] Conference / Symposium 09:30 - 17:30 Room G22/26 (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies London Modernism seminar Alex Davis Seminar Free [email protected] 11:00 - 13:00 Room 349 (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies Early modern philosophy and the scientific imagination seminar (EMPHASIS) Seminar ‘Francis Bacon in Poland: reading the New Organon in Protestant Europe’ 14:00 - 16:00 Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge) Room 246 (Senate House) Free [email protected]
Senate House Library Utopia London (2010) Film screening Tom Cordell, film director, will introduce the film and lead a discussion afterwards. 14:00 - 17:00 Free [email protected] Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library
Monday 10 Institute of Modern Languages Cross-language dynamics: reshaping communities Research Launch of the OWRI research project Project launch Venue: University of Manchester; times and details to be confirmed Free [email protected] 14:00 - 18:00 University of Manchester
Warburg Institute Arabic philosophy reading class Free [email protected] Class 14:15 - 15:30 Warburg
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Institute of Modern Languages Process philosophy calendar Events Research Johan Siebers (IMLR) Seminar Registration required Free [email protected] 16:00 - 18:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
Institute of Classical Studies ICS ancient philosophy seminar ‘The real Euthyphro dilemma, solved’ Seminar Nick Denyer (Cambridge) 16:30 - 18:30 Free [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)
Institute of Classical Studies ICS ancient literature seminar ‘Genealogies of knowledge: new digital approaches to the study of translations Seminar into Latin and Arabic’ 17:15 - 19:00 Peter Pormann (Manchester) Room 349 (Senate House) Free [email protected]
Institute of Latin American Latin American anthropology seminar series Studies ‘A politics of indiscipline: anthropology from and of Latin America’ Seminar Inaugural lecture by Sian Lazar (University of Cambridge) Free [email protected] 17:30 - 19:30 Room G26 (Senate House)
Warburg Institute Neoplatonism study group - Proclus, In Parmenidem Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Seminar Free [email protected] 17:30 - 19:30 Warburg
Tuesday 11 Warburg Institute Latin palaeography Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 16:15 - 17:30 Warburg
Warburg Institute Visions of apotheosis and glory on painted ceilings: from Rubens’ Banqueting House, Whitehall, to Thornhill’s Painted Lecture Hall, Greenwich 17:30 - 19:30 E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series 2016—Celestial aspirations: seventeenth- and Warburg eighteenth-century British poetry and painting, and the classical tradition Philip Hardie (Cambridge) Free [email protected]
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Events calendar Events Institute of English Studies Medieval manuscripts seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 17:30 - 19:15 Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies Wednesday 12 Warburg Institute Hebrew reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 12:00 - 13:30 Warburg
Warburg Institute Poetic ascents and flights of the mind: Neoplatonism to Romanticism Lecture E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series 2016—Celestial aspirations: seventeenth- and 17:30 - 19:30 eighteenth-century British poetry and painting, and the classical tradition Warburg Philip Hardie (Cambridge) Free [email protected]
Institute of Modern Languages The Belgian exile press in Britain during the First World War: Research transnational, cross-cultural and yet unique Seminar Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Christophe Declercq (London/Antwerp) 18:00 - 20:00 Free [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)
Institute of Latin American Andean Studies seminar Studies Convenor: Mark Thurner Seminar Free [email protected] 18:00 - 20:00 Information andeanstudiesseminarilas.blogs.ac.uk Room 104 (Senate House)
Institute of Commonwealth Memorial 2007 inaugural lecture Studies ‘Revitalising the African hinterland’ Lecture by Lord Boateng Free [email protected] 18:30 - 20:00 The Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)
Thursday 13 Institute of Classical Studies ICS ancient history seminar ‘From ecology to economy: ancient forests and Rome’ Seminar Robyn Veal (Cambridge) 16:30 - 18:30 Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)
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Institute of Philosophy CenSes seminar calendar Events Part of the Rethinking the Sense project funded by the AHRC Seminar Free [email protected] 17:00 - 19:00 Room 246 (Senate House)
Warburg Institute ‘No middle flight’: Miltonic ascents and their reception E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series 2016—Celestial aspirations: seventeenth- and Lecture eighteenth-century British poetry and painting, and the classical tradition 17:30 - 19:30 Philip Hardie (Cambridge) Warburg Free [email protected]
Senate House Library Looking backward/looking forward: utopian literature Matthew Beaumont (University College London) Lecture Free [email protected] 18:00 - 19:00 Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library
Institute of Latin American LAGLOBAL seminar Studies Convenor: Mark Thurner Seminar Free [email protected] 18:00 - 20:00 Information laglobal.blogs.sas.ac.uk Room 243 (Senate House)
Friday 14 Institute of Modern Languages ‘Have you heard?’ Navigating the interstices between public Research and private knowledge Conference 2016 MHRA PG / ECR conference Registration fee [email protected] 10:00 - 18:00 Room G34 (Senate House)
Warburg Institute Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) Reading Group Free [email protected] 13:00 - 14:30 Warburg
Institute of Classical Studies ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar ‘The theory of the two equalities and its application to politics in Isocrates’ Seminar Maria Gisella Giannone (Exeter) 16:30 - 18:30 Free [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)
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Events calendar Events Warburg Institute The painter without hands: phantom limbs and the history of art Lecture Art, history and neuroscience: the work of art in the age of digital reproducibility— 17:30 an encore presentation of the 2016–17 Cambridge University Slade Lectures Warburg David Freedberg (Warburg Institute) Free; registration required http://bit.ly/2bFiKS1
Institute of Latin American Seminar on Cuban art and culture Studies Organised by Cuba Solidarity Campaign Seminar Free [email protected] 18:00 - 20:30 The Senate Room (Senate House)
Saturday 15 Institute of English Studies Annual Katherine Mansfield society birthday lecture: the musical world of Katherine Mansfield Seminar Claire Davison (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), Joseph Spooner (cellist) 14:00 - 18:00 £20 non-members | £15 KM Society and IES members | £15 concessions and The Court Room (Senate House) students [email protected]
Monday 17 Warburg Institute Arabic philosophy reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 14:15 - 15:30 Warburg
Institute of Classical Studies ICS ancient literature seminar ‘St Jerome on the best way of translating’ Seminar Daniel Hadas (KCL) 17:15 - 19:00 Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)
Warburg Institute Neoplatonism study group - Proclus, In Parmenidem Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Seminar Free [email protected] 17:30 - 19:30 Warburg
Institute of English Studies Comparative Modernisms seminar ‘Ghostmodernism’ Seminar Stephen Ross (University of Victoria) 18:00 - 20:00 Free [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)
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Tuesday 18 calendar Events Warburg Institute Latin palaeography Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 16:15 - 17:30 Warburg
Institute of English Studies Contemporary cultures of writing seminar ‘Negotiated truths’ Seminar Anna Derrig (Goldsmiths), Sarah Law 17:30 - 19:30 Free [email protected] Room G34 (Senate House)
Institute of Classical Studies Accordia Lecture ‘The past for the people: presenting the archaeology of Italy to the general public’ Lecture Lucy Shipley (National University of Ireland, Galway) 17:30 - 20:00 Free [email protected] Room G22/26 (Senate House)
Institute of Philosophy The Chandaria Lectures 2016 | Lecture 1 This year’s Chandaria Lecture Series will feature Andy Clark, chair in logic Lecture and metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh. First of three lectures: 18:00 - 19:30 ‘Prediction Machines’ The Senate Room (Senate House) Free [email protected]
Institute of English Studies Literary London reading group Free [email protected] Seminar 18:00 - 19:30 Room 243 (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies Media history seminar ‘Psychotechnographies: why all machines are writing machines’ Seminar Steve Connor (Cambridge) 18:00 - 20:00 Free [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)
Wednesday 19 Warburg Institute Classical Greek reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 12:00 - 13:30 Warburg
Institute of Advanced Legal Artificial intelligence: oh, really? And why judges and lawyers Studies are central to the way we live now Seminar Stephen Mason (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) 12:00 - 14:00 Free [email protected] IALS
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Events calendar Events Institute of Classical Studies ICS Mycenaean seminar ‘Nuances of metal vessel usage in the Mycenaean political world’ Seminar Stephanie Aulsebrook (Cambridge) 15:30 - 18:00 Free [email protected] Room G22/26 (Senate House)
Institute of Philosophy London aesthetics forum The London Aesthetics Forum is generously sponsored by the British Society of Seminar Aesthetics 16:00 - 18:00 Free [email protected] Room 234 (Senate House)
Institute of Modern Languages Ana Luisa Amaral and Margaret Jull Costa (II) Research Part of the ‘Encounters: Writers and Translators in Conversation’ Discussion This event is sponsored by the Camões Centre for Portuguese Language and Culture at King’s College London 17:00 - 19:00 Free [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)
Warburg Institute Warburg-UCL Scholasticism reading group Free [email protected] Reading Group 17:30 - 18:30 Warburg
Institute of Classical Studies ICS classical archaeology seminar ‘Revisiting Taxila: a new approach to the archaeological record of Gandhara’ Seminar Marike van Aerde (Leiden) 17:30 - 19:30 Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies London Old and Middle English research seminar (LOMERS) Free [email protected] Seminar 17:30 - 19:30 Room G35 (Senate House)
Institute of Latin American The business relationship Studies Kindly organised by Canning House Seminar Dr Rory Miller Free [email protected] 18:00 - 20:00 Room G34 (Senate House)
School of Advanced Study The Humanities Now – Literature and the Public Good To celebrate the launch of Literature and the Public Good by Rick Rylance, director of Discussion, book launch the Institute of English Studies, Oxford University Press and the School of Advanced 18:30 - 20:00 Study will host a discussion on ‘The Humanities Now’. Leading figures from the Beveridge Hall (Senate House) humanities, policy and publishing sectors will discuss why the humanities, so strong in Britain in reality, are perceived to be in retreat. Chaired by Sir Adrian Smith, the event will include audience discussion followed by a reception. Free [email protected]
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Thursday 20 calendar Events Institute of Modern Languages Jüdin und Moderne Research Recent research: Auguste Auschner, Elsa Bernstein, Mascha Kaléko, Workshop Gertrud Kolmar, Alice Rühle-Gerstel, Else Lasker-Schüler and Grete Meisel-Hess An OWRI ‘Translingual Communities’ research project workshop 13:00 - 19:00 Registration fee [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)
Institute of Classical Studies ICS ancient history seminar ‘Hares, hounds and snares: tracking the hunt in Rome’s north-west provinces’ Seminar John Pearce (KCL) 16:30 - 18:30 Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)
Institute of Modern Languages Cities in theory reading group Research A regular informal reading group organised as part of Cities@SAS Workshop Free [email protected] 17:00 - 19:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
Warburg Institute Compassion and canonicity: humanism and the fear of science Art, history and neuroscience: the work of art in the age of digital reproducibility— Lecture an encore presentation of the 2016–17 Cambridge University Slade Lectures 17:30 David Freedberg (Warburg Institute) Warburg Free; registration required http://bit.ly/2bFiKS1
Institute of Modern Languages The breasts of Tiresias Research This event on the prose writings of the French poet Apollinaire features Professor Lecture Peter Read from Canterbury University. Free [email protected] 17:30 - 20:00 Room G22/26 (Senate House)
Institute of Latin American Ruben Dario Studies In collaboration with the Embassy of Nicaragua and Canning House Seminar Free [email protected] 18:00 The Senate Room (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies Ministry of Information project seminar ‘Biff Bang Pow! The Commercial Artists Group, war artists and illustrators and Seminar the Ministry of Information’ 18:00 - 19:00 This seminar is part of the Ministry of Information project. Tony Rich (independent researcher) Room 246 (Senate House) Free [email protected]
Institute of English Studies Irish studies seminar ‘Ireland’s criminal conversation: a legal suit and its reform’ Seminar Diane Urquhart (Liverpool) 18:00 - 20:00 Free [email protected] Room 104 (Senate House)
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Events calendar Events Institute of Commonwealth Human rights and the news media: an ethic of care? Studies Organised by the NZ-UK Link Foundation in collaboration with SAS and the Lecture Human Rights Consortium Judy MacGregor is professor of human rights and head of the School of Social 18:30 - 20:30 Sciences and Public Policy at Auckland University of Technology. She was the first The Chancellor’s Hall equal employment opportunities commissioner with the New Zealand Human (Senate House) Rights Commission and is a widely respected expert on women’s economic and employment rights. Free; registration requested nzuk_hrc_media_201016.eventbrite.co.uk
Institute of English Studies London theatre studies seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 18:30 - 20:30 Room 103 (Senate House)
School of Advanced Study Silent cinema: scoring and screening F. Scott Fitzgerald An evening of jazz, literature and the ‘language’ of silent cinema. Join two Special event F. Scott Fitzgerald experts in the magnificent setting of Charles Holden’s Art Deco 19:00 - 20:30 masterpiece Senate House for an introduction to the jazz age. The Senate Room (Senate House) Free [email protected]
Friday 21 Warburg Institute Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) Reading group Free [email protected] 13:00 - 14:30 Warburg
Institute of Classical Studies ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar ‘Two twentieth-century adaptations of Sophocles’ Antigone: between politics Seminar and war’ 16:30 - 18:30 Rossana Zetti (Edinburgh) Room 246 (Senate House) Free [email protected]
Institute of English Studies London-Paris Romanticism seminar—launch event ‘De l’Allemagne with love: English bards and European theorists’ Seminar Christoph Bode (LMU Munich) 17:30 - 20:30 Opening reception with special guest Marc Porée (Paris) Room G35 (Senate House) This seminar series is hosted jointly by the Institute of English Studies and the Institute of Modern Languages Research. Free [email protected]
Institute of Philosophy The Chandaria Lectures 2016 | Lecture 2 This year’s Chandaria Lecture Series will feature Andy Clark, chair in logic Lecture and metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh. Second of three lectures: 18:00 - 19:30 ‘Busting Out: Two Takes on the Predictive Brain’ Room 349 (Senate House) Free [email protected]
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Institute of English Studies Charles Peake Ulysses seminar calendar Events Free [email protected] Seminar 18:00 - 20:00 Room G34 (Senate House)
School of Advanced Study Salon Voltaire at Senate House Join us for an evening soirée at the Senate House Salon Voltaire! Inspired by Special event the Cabaret Voltaire that launched the Dadaist movement in 1916, this evening 18:00 - 20:00 of performances, talks, readings, food and drink will feature everything from The Chancellor’s Hall Hungarian poetry to musique concrète. (Senate House) Free [email protected]
Saturday 22 Institute of English Studies Poetics and metonymy conference: poetics of the metonym with reference to city poetry Conference / Symposium Speakers: Mary Coghill (IES, SAS): ‘Formalist poetics: towards a theory of a city poetic 10:30 - 17:00 with special reference to the definition and use of the metonym’; Gareth Farmer Room 243 (Senate House) (Bedfordshire): ‘Metonymy and post-mimesis’; Dominic Lash (Bristol) : ‘Constraining truths: JH Prynne on metonymy and metonymy in JH Prynne’; Jeannette Littlemore (Birmingham): ‘The communicative effects of metonymy in real-world settings’; Sebastian Matzner (KCL): ‘Metonymia at Aulis’; Qiauyun Peng (Glasgow): ‘The “Paris” imagery in Mayakovsky’s poetry–metropolis, love and revolution’; Sarah Wardle (Middlesex, Morley College, WEA): ‘Poetry and metonymy: writing the city’ Free [email protected]
Monday 24 Warburg Institute Arabic philosophy reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 14:15 - 15:30 Warburg
Institute of Modern Languages Process philosophy Research Johan Siebers (IMLR) Seminar Free; registration required [email protected] 16:00 - 18:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
Institute of Classical Studies ICS ancient philosophy seminar ‘Socrates’ myth and Odysseus’ tales: on the allusion to the Odyssey at “Republic” X, Seminar 614b2-4’ 16:30 - 18:30 Nicolo Benzi (UCL) Room 246 (Senate House) Free [email protected]
Institute of Classical Studies ICS ancient literature seminar Seminar ‘The limits of translation in Cicero’ Gina White (Princeton/CEU Budapest) 17:15 - 19:00 Free [email protected] Room G22 (Senate House)
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Events calendar Events Warburg Institute Neoplatonism study group - Proclus, In Parmenidem Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Seminar Free [email protected] 17:30 - 19:30 Warburg
Refugee Law Initiative ‘One protocol yet to be drafted’? What treaty law can and cannot do to advance refugee protection Seminar Jean-Francois Durieux (Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study) 18:00 Part of the 7th International Refugee Law Seminar Series addressing the theme of To be confirmed ‘Protection in the context of large-scale movements of refugees and migrants’. The International Refugee Law Seminar Series provides a public space for discussion, promotion and dissemination of research between academics, practitioners, students and others with an interest in the refugee and forced migration field. Free [email protected]
Tuesday 25 Warburg Institute Latin palaeography Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 16:15 - 17:30 Warburg
Institute of Philosophy Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar The Centre for Logic and Language hosts this regular seminar series, which Seminar generally meets fortnightly in term time. 17:30 - 19:30 Free [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)
Institute of Philosophy The Chandaria Lectures 2016 | Lecture 3 This year’s Chandaria Lecture Series will feature Andy Clark, chair in logic Lecture and metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh. Third of three lectures: 18:00 - 19:30 ‘The Future of Prediction’ Room 349 (Senate House) Free [email protected]
Wednesday 26 Institute of Advanced Legal Doing women’s legal history Studies Registration fee [email protected] Conference / Symposium 10:00 - 17:00 IALS
Warburg Institute Hebrew reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 12:00 - 13:30 Warburg
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School of Advanced Study Imagining the Guyanas / ecologies of memory and movement calendar Events This three-day conference engages the landscapes of memory as they are Conference / Symposium intertwined with the politics and ecologies of place and movement. Senate House Free [email protected]
Thursday 27 Institute of Commonwealth What’s happening in Black British history? (V) Studies Registration fee £10 | £20 [email protected]
Workshop Information blackbritishhistory.co.uk/2016/whbbh5-agenda 10:00 - 18:15 Wolfson Conference Suite
Senate House Library Game on: vintage computer games of the 1980s and 1990s from the Internet Archive Workshop The event will be facilitated by Jane Winters, School of Advanced Study. 11:00 - 16:00 Free [email protected] Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library
Institute of Classical Studies ICS ancient history seminar ‘“Pagan animism” and its ecological impact’ Seminar Ailsa Hunt (Cambridge) 16:30 - 18:30 Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)
Institute of Philosophy CenSes seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 17:00 - 19:00 Room G34 (Senate House)
School of Advanced Study Rose Hall Estate panel and a reading by Fred D’Aguiar Journalist Gaiutra Bahadur and authors Cyril Dabydeen and Jan Lowe Shinebourne Panel discussion, reading were born in the Canje District in Berbice, Guyana. They all grew up on, or close 17:00 to, the Rose Hall Estate and have maintained a strong bond with Guyana through The Chancellor’s Hall their writing, scholarship and commitment to human rights. ‘Imagining the (Senate House) Guyanas’ provides a rare opportunity for these leading Guyanese intellectuals to discuss the autobiographical narrative, the diasporic existence, the Rose Hall Estate and Guyana as a source of creativity, and the epistemology of belonging. The panel will be followed by a reading and Q&A with Guyanese poet, playwright and novelist Fred D’Aguiar. Free [email protected]
Institute of Modern Languages Politische Klassik: zur Literatur-und Ideengeschichte des Research politischen Denkens in Weimar um 1800 Lecture English Goethe Society lecture Gerhard Lauer (Göttingen) 17:15 - 19:00 Free [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)
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Events calendar Events Warburg Institute The work of art in the age of digital reproducibility: Walter Benjamin and Aby Warburg Lecture Art, history and neuroscience: the work of art in the age of digital reproducibility— 17:30 an encore presentation of the 2016–17 Cambridge University Slade Lectures Warburg David Freedberg (Warburg Institute) Free; registration required http://bit.ly/2bFiKS1
Institute of Latin American Latin American anthropology seminar series Studies ‘Off/on the map and beyond: recalibrating Lima’s art scene and the networking of Seminar Latin America’ Giuliana Borea (ILAS) 17:30 - 19:30 Free [email protected] Room 234 (Senate House)
Institute of Commonwealth History on Film series 2016 Studies In collaboration with SOAS Film screening Free [email protected] 17:30 - 20:30 Room G22/26 (Senate House)
Institute of Latin American LAGLOBAL seminar Studies Convenor: Mark Thurner Seminar Free [email protected] 18:00 - 20:00 Information laglobal.blogs.sas.ac.uk Room 104 (Senate House)
Friday 28 Institute of Modern Languages Overstepping the boundaries: 21st-century women’s writing in Research French Conference / Symposium 2016 CCWWF Conference Organisers: Kate Averis (ULIP) and Eglė Kačkutė (Vilnius) 09:30 - 18:00 Registration fee [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)
Warburg Institute Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) Reading group Free [email protected] 13:00 - 14:30 Warburg
Institute of Advanced Legal Codification: a civil law solution to a common law conundrum? Studies IALS Law Reform Project workshop Workshop Free [email protected] 14:00 - 17:15 IALS
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Institute of Classical Studies ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar calendar Events Foreign gods in local coinage: religious convergence in Greek Sicily Seminar José Miguel Puebla Morón (Madrid) 16:30 - 18:30 Free [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies London nineteenth-century studies seminar Lecture ‘Oscar Wilde and liberal politics: the Eighty Club and the trials of 1895’ Joseph Bristow (UCLA) 17:00 – 18:30 Free [email protected] Room G35 (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies Book launch: Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), edited by Joseph Bristow and Josephine McDonagh Book launch Free [email protected] 18:30 - 21:30 Room G34 (Senate House)
Institute of Commonwealth History on Film series 2016 Studies In collaboration with SOAS Film screening Free [email protected] 17:30 Room G22/26 (Senate House)
School of Advanced Study A celebration of Guyana in poetry and music Come and listen to three award-winning poets – John Agard, Malika Booker and Special event Grace Nichols – whose lively work moves from a newly independent Guyana to 18:00 a postcolonial Britain. Alongside them is noted flautist Keith Waithe, playing his The Chancellor’s’ Hall distinctive fusion of jazz, classical, African, Caribbean, Asian and Western music. (Senate House) £7 | £5 for conference delegates [email protected]
Institute of English Studies Finnegans Wake Seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 18:00 - 20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
Institute of Modern Languages Catalan flavours: Ramon Llull, landscapes and medieval cooking Research Immerse yourself in the medieval world through the eyes of one of the foremost Conference / Symposium writers and philosophers of the Middle Ages, Ramon Llull. This public event will celebrate Llull’s legacy by studying his journeys across the Mediterranean, giving 18:00 - 21:00 us a taste of the history of Catalan medieval cooking. The Macmillan Hall (Senate House) Free [email protected] Saturday 29 Institute of Classical Studie ICS Virgil Society lecture Free [email protected] Lecture 11:00 - 17:00 Room 349 (Senate House)
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Events calendar Events Monday 31 Institute of Philosophy Language and law conference Free [email protected] Conference / Symposium 09:30 - 18:00 The Senate Room (Senate House)
Warburg Institute Arabic philosophy reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 14:15 - 15:30 Warburg
Institute of Classical Studies ICS ancient literature seminar ‘Did the Greeks of the imperial period ever acknowledge the existence of a Seminar “Roman translation project”?’ 17:15 - 19:00 Daniel Jolowicz (Cambridge) Room 349 (Senate House) Free [email protected]
Warburg Institute Neoplatonism study group - Proclus, In Parmenidem Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Short course Free [email protected] 17:30 - 19:30 Warburg
Institute of Historical Research ‘Keep the damned women out’ : the struggle for coeducation Nancy W. Malkiel (Princeton University) Lecture Free [email protected] 18:00 Wolfson Room NB01 (Senate House)
Institute of Commonwealth History on Film series 2016 Studies In collaboration with SOAS Other events Film director Markus Rediker Free [email protected] 19:00 - 20:30 SOAS, Khalili Lecture Theatre
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Events calendar Events Tuesday 01 Warburg Institute Latin palaeography Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 16:15 - 17:30 Warburg
Institute of Classical Studies ICS lecture ‘What is lived ancient religion?’ Lecture Joerg Ruepke (Erfurt) 17:00 - 19:00 Free [email protected] Room 104 (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies History of libraries ’The private diaries of Robert Proctor’ Seminar The bibliographer Robert Proctor kept a private diary for the last four years of his 17:30 - 19:00 life. From it we gain a picture of his work at the British Museum, his private life with Room 103 (Senate House) Mother in Oxshott, and his obsession with anything related to William Morris. John Bowman (formerly UCL) Free [email protected]
Institute of English Studies Book collecting seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 18:00 - 20:00 Room G35 (Senate House)
Wednesday 02 Institute of Classical Studies Workshop on ancient sanctuaries Free [email protected] Workshop 02/11/2016 Room 243 (Senate House)
Warburg Institute Classical Greek reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 12:00 - 13:30 Warburg
Institute of Classical Studies Teaching and learning about ancient religion seminar (TLAR) ‘Teaching history of religion by comparing different religions: initiation rituals as a Seminar case study’ 17:00 - 19:00 Elena Franchi (Trento) Room 246 (Senate House) Free [email protected]
Institute of Historical Research IHR modern religious history seminar ‘Gladstone and the Roman Catholic converts’ Seminar Roland Quinault (IHR) 17:15 Free [email protected] Room N102, Olga Crisp Room (Senate House)
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Institute of Classical Studies ICS classical archaeology seminar calendar Events ‘Gandharan sculpture and Roman sarcophagi’ Seminar Peter Stewart (Oxford) 17:30 - 19:30 Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)
Institute of Historical Research History Now and Then: history and change Is history necessarily the story of change? Who or what creates change? The panel Lecture will reflect on the role of ‘great men’ and ‘great women’ in driving historical change. 18:00 Chair: Daniel Snowman; panel: Margaret MacMillan, Rana Mitter, Andrew Roberts, Wolfson Room NB01 Gareth Stedman Jones (Senate House) £5 per session or £25 for all six sessions | Free for Friends of the IHR [email protected]
Institute of Modern Languages Italian academies and their networks, 1525–1700 Research Book launch of monograph by Simone Testa: Italian Academies and Their Networks Book launch 1525-1700, from Local to Global (New York: Palgrave, 2015) Free [email protected] 18:00 - 20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
Institute of Latin American The Latin American communities in Britain Studies Organised by Canning House Seminar Cathy McIlwaine, professor of geography at Queen Mary University of London, will discuss her research on Britain’s Latin American communities. 18:00 - 20:00 Free [email protected] The Senate Room (Senate House)
Institute of Latin American Andean Studies seminar Studies Convenor: Mark Thurner Seminar Free [email protected] 18:00 - 20:00 Information andeanstudiesseminarilas.blogs.sas.ac.uk Room 234 (Senate House)
Thursday 03 Institute of Historical Research Cities and disasters: urban adaptability and resilience in history The Centre for Metropolitan History, in association with the National Institutes Two-day conference for the Humanities in Japan (NIHU) will be holding a major conference on 3-4 09:00 - 17:00 November 2016 that seeks to explore the ways in which cities across time and Wolfson Conference Suite geographical regions have experienced, and been shaped by, natural disasters (Senate House) and other ‘shocks’. Registration fee [email protected]
Institute of Modern Languages Poesía y crisis / Poetry and crisis Research Poesía y crisis will gather eight poets at different stages in their literary careers Workshop who will read their poetry and share their thoughts on the role of poetry in periods of crisis. 10:00 - 20:00 Speakers: Mercedes Cebrián, Fruela Fernández, Luisa Futoranski, Ana Merino, Luis The Court Room (Senate House) Muñiz, Carlos Pardo, Jenaro Talens and Pablo Valdivia Free [email protected]
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Events calendar Events Institute of Advanced Legal IALS lunchtime seminar Studies ‘Modern drafting and the criminal law – does codification work?’ Seminar The Hon Justice Mark Weinberg, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia; IALS Inns of Court Fellow 12:30 - 13:30 Free [email protected] IALS
Institute of Classical Studies ICS ancient history seminar ‘Writing the history of disease in the ancient Mediterranean’ Seminar Peregrine Horden (RHUL) 16:30 - 18:30 Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)
Warburg Institute Real and banal empathy: movement and feeling Art, history and neuroscience: the work of art in the age of digital reproducibility— Lecture an encore presentation of the 2016–17 Cambridge University Slade Lectures 17:30 David Freedberg (Warburg Institute) Warburg Free; registration required http://bit.ly/2bFiKS1
Friday 04 Institute of Modern Languages French postgraduate conference Research The London French Postgraduate Conference invites postgraduate researchers Two-day conference from all areas of French Studies to come together in a lively and informal setting, ideal for productive scholarly exchange. 09:00 - 18:00 Free [email protected] Room G35 (Senate House)
Warburg Institute Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) Reading Group Free [email protected] 13:00 - 14:30 Warburg
Institute of Classical Studies ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar ‘Ekphrasis between Greek and Jewish traditions: Ptolemy’s gifts to the Jerusalem Seminar Temple in the Letter of Aristeas’ 16:30 - 18:30 Max Levanthal (Cambridge) Room 246 (Senate House) Free [email protected]
Institute of Advanced Legal IALS legal history seminar Studies ‘Banking and society in 19th-century Britain: contemporary perspectives on Seminar “socially useless” and “socially useful” banking’ Sarah Wilson (University of York) and Gary Wilson (Nottingham Law School) 18:00 - 20:00 Free [email protected] IALS
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Saturday 05 calendar Events Institute of Modern Languages Reconfiguring black Europe Research Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory Workshop Workshop Registration fee [email protected] 09:00 – 18:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies London Modernism seminar Nick Gaskill Seminar 11:00 - 13:00 Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies Early modern philosophy and the scientific imagination seminar (EMPHASIS) Seminar Grantley McDonald (University of Vienna): ‘Newton as Nicodemite: the origins 14:00 - 16:00 and multiple failures of his Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Room 246 (Senate House) the Scripture’ Free [email protected]
Monday 07 Institute of Advanced Legal European criminal law seminar: issues in security and money Studies laundering laws Seminar This seminar is organised with the European Criminal Law Association UK. Free [email protected] 14:00 - 18:30 IALS
Warburg Institute Arabic philosophy reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 14:15 - 15:30 Warburg
Institute of Modern Languages Process philosophy Research Johan Siebers (IMLR) Seminar Free [email protected] 16:00 - 18:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
Institute of Classical Studies ICS ancient philosophy seminar ‘Alexander of Aphrodisias on seeing as a relative’ Seminar Katerina Ierodiakonou (Geneva) 16:30 - 18:30 Free [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)
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Events calendar Events Institute of English Studies London Shakespeare seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 17:15 - 19:00 The Senate Room (Senate House)
Tuesday 08 Institute of Philosophy Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 17:30 - 19:30 Room 246 (Senate House)
Institute of Historical Research London journal lecture Jerry White (Birkbeck College, University of London) Lecture Free [email protected] 18:00 Wolfson Room NB01 (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies Media history seminar Amanda Wrigley (Westminster), John Wyver (Westminster) Seminar Free [email protected] 18:00 - 20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
Wednesday 09 Institute of Classical Studies ICS Mycenaean seminar ‘The early neopalatial palace of Knossos: development and domain’ Seminar Colin Macdonald (Athens) 15:30 - 18:00 Free [email protected] Room G22/26 (Senate House)
School of Advanced Study Postcolonial seas research seminar The Centre for Postcolonial Studies continues its Postcolonial Seas research Seminar seminar series with a focus on the Caribbean. Peter Hulme (professor emeritus 17:00 - 19:00 at the University of Essex) will speak on ‘Our womb of history: the Caribbean as Room 243 (Senate House) postcolonial sea’ Free [email protected]
Institute of Advanced Legal Annual lecture of the Information Law and Policy Centre Studies Speaker: Rosemary Jay, senior consultant attorney at Hunton & Williams and Lecture former head of the Legal Office of the Data Protection Registrar (now the Information Commissioner), and author of Sweet & Maxwell’s Data Protection 18:00 - 19:00 Law & Practice. IALS Free [email protected]
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Institute of English Studies Ezra Pound Cantos reading group calendar Events Free [email protected] Seminar 18:00 - 20:00 Room 246 (Senate House)
Thursday 10 Institute of Historical Research City Beaches—Cities @ SAS A one-day workshop on the urban beach Workshop Keynote: Lalah Khalili 09:00 - 17:00 Registration fee [email protected] Wolfson Room NB01 (Senate House)
Institute of Advanced Legal IALS lunchtime seminar Studies Free [email protected] Seminar 12:30 - 13:30 IALS
Institute of Philosophy CenSes seminar Part of the Rethinking the Sense project funded by the AHRC Seminar Free [email protected] 17:00 - 19:00 Room 246 (Senate House)
Institute of Modern Languages ‘The pursuit of the whole’: sociogenesis of the male Research homosexual in German fiction 1890-1921 Lecture Peter Morgan (Sydney) Free [email protected] 17:30 - 19:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
Institute of Latin American Latin American anthropology seminar series Studies ‘Is a non-Bororo man a Mr. Wrong? Exploring gender and kinship through the Seminar generation of filmic knowledge’ Flavia Kremer (University of Manchester) 17:30 - 19:30 Free [email protected] Room 234 (Senate House)
Senate House Library The City (1939) Maria Castrillo, head of special collections and engagement at Senate House Film screening Library, will introduce the film and lead the discussion afterwards. 18:00 - 19:30 Free [email protected] Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library
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Events calendar Events Friday 11 Institute of Latin American Gender and materiality in Latin American history Studies Keynote speaker: James Córdova (University of Colorado at Boulder) Conference / Symposium Registration fee £10 | £20 [email protected] 10:00 - 17:30 The Court Room (Senate House)
Institute of Modern Languages Bridges between: intercultural exchange and the modern Research Nordic world Conference Nordic Research Network Conference Registration fee [email protected] 10:00 – 18:00 Rooms 243/246 (Senate House)
Institute of Modern Languages Emotion and ethics in contemporary women’s travel writing Research One of the continuing series of cross-cultural seminars from the Centre for the Seminar Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing. Free [email protected] 14:00 - 18:00 Room 103 (Senate House)
Institute of Latin American The impact of gold mining in Chocó, Colombia Studies Organised by ABColombia Conference / Symposium £30 standard | £20 concession [email protected] 14:00 - 20:00 The Senate Room (Senate House)
Institute of Classical Studies ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar ‘Back to the past, for a change: Varro, doctor of Roman Salus’ Seminar Irene Leonardis (Università Roma Tre/Université Paris 8) 16:30 - 18:30 Free [email protected] Room 234 (Senate House)
Institute of Commonwealth Amnesty International book launch, Combating Torture: Studies a Manual for Action Book launch Organised by Amnesty International with the support of the Human Rights Consortium 17:30 - 19:30 Free [email protected] The Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies London-Paris Romanticism seminar ‘Re-collection’s intranquility: romanticism, self-canonization and the business Seminar of poetry’ 17:30 - 19:30 Michael Gamer (Pennsylvania) Room G35 (Senate House) This seminar series is hosted jointly by the Institute of English Studies and the Institute of Modern Languages Research. Free [email protected]
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Institute of English Studies Charles Peake Ulysses seminar calendar Events Free [email protected] Seminar 18:00 - 20:00 Room 104 (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies London Beckett seminar Conor Carville (University of Reading) Seminar Free [email protected] 18:00 - 20:00 Room G22 (Senate House)
Saturday 12 Institute of Classical Studies ICS/British Epigraphy Society workshop Eleanor Robson, Andrew Burnett and others Workshop Free [email protected] 09:00 - 20:00 Room G22/26 (Senate House)
Monday 14 Warburg Institute Arabic philosophy reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) Class Free [email protected] 14:15 - 15:30 Warburg
Institute of Classical Studies ICS ancient literature seminar ’Empire without end: Virgil, translation, nationalism and transnationalism’ Seminar Susanna Braund (British Columbia) 17:15 - 19:00 Free [email protected] The Court Room (Senate House)
Warburg Institute Neoplatonism study group - Proclus, In Parmenidem Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Seminar Free [email protected] 17:30 - 19:30 Warburg
Tuesday 15 Institute of Historical Research History Libraries and Research Open Day A one-day programme ideal for postgraduate students and early career Open Day researchers. 10:00 Free [email protected] Senate House
Warburg Institute Latin palaeography Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 16:15 - 17:30 Warburg
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Events calendar Events Institute of English Studies Contemporary cultures of writing seminar ‘Bodies politic’ Seminar Matthew Green (author) 17:30 - 19:30 Janet Wolff (University of Manchester) Room 243 (Senate House) Free [email protected]
Institute of Historical Research Inaugural Kehoe Lecture in Irish history ‘Never so simple and clear again: memory, disillusionment and the aftermath of Lecture the Irish Revolution’ 18:00 Professor Roy Foster (University of Oxford) The Beveridge Hall Free [email protected] (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies Wordsworth Trust annual lecture ‘Romantic poetry and the existing state of things’ Lecture Michael Rossington (Newcastle University) 18:00 - 19:00 Free; registration required [email protected] Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)
Institute of Advanced Legal The future of the jury in criminal trials: the problem of jury Studies directions Seminar The Hon Justice Mark Weinberg, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia; IALS Inns of Court Fellow 18:00 - 19:30 Free [email protected] IALS
Institute of Classical Studies ICS and the Friends of the British School at Athens ‘The Minoan distance: Knossos, the Minoans and Sir Arthur Evans in the 20th and Lecture 21st centuries AD’ 18:00 - 20:00 Gerald Cadogan Room G22/26 (Senate House) Free [email protected]
Wednesday 16 Warburg Institute Hebrew reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 12:00 - 13:30 Warburg
Institute of Historical Research IHR modern religious history seminar ‘The United Kingdom as an Ulster-Scottish project: Presbyterianism, literature, Seminar and politics in the nineteenth century’ 17:15 Andrew Holmes (Queen’s, Belfast) Room N102, Olga Crisp Room Free [email protected] (Senate House)
Warburg Institute Warburg-UCL Scholasticism reading group The group explores scholastic texts and themes on occasional Wednesdays from Reading group 5:30 to 6:30 pm at the Warburg Institute (Droz Library). This year readings will be 17:30 - 18:30 on ‘heaven and earth’. Warburg Free [email protected]
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Institute of Modern Languages ‘The enemy must be annihilated’: typography and calendar Events Research anti-semitism in the new ‘Mein Kampf’ Lecture JD Adler (King’s College London) 17:30 - 19:00 Free [email protected] Room G35 (Senate House)
Institute of Classical Studies ICS classical archaeology seminar ‘Roman art in Eurasian context’ Seminar Jas Elsner (Oxford) 17:30 - 19:30 Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)
Thursday 17 Institute of Historical Research Pieter Geyl symposium A one-day symposium on Ghent’s most famous historian on the fiftieth Conference / Symposium anniversary of his death. 09:00 - 17:00 Free [email protected] Wolfson Conference Suite (Senate House)
School of Advanced Study Being Human festival 2016: hope and fear The UK’s only national festival of the humanities is back, celebrating its third Festival year with hundreds of events, including exhibitions, film screenings, tours, 09:00 - 20:00 performances and big debates. This year, Senate House is home to more than Senate House 20 events exploring our brightest hopes and darkest fears. Drop in and explore the building in one of our Orwell-inspired ‘Ministry of hope and fear’ tours, go scavenging in the IHR’s library at night, explore the archival collections of Senate House library, and have your taste buds tickled in an event on gastronomics and astrophysics. Free [email protected]
Warburg Institute Cultural encounters: tensions and polarities of transmission from the late middle ages to the Enlightenment Conference / Symposium The Warburg Institute’s first postgraduate symposium will explore the concept of 10:15 - 18:00 cultural encounters and focus particularly on their productive outcomes. Warburg Free [email protected]
Institute of Advanced Legal IALS lunchtime seminar Studies Free [email protected] Seminar 12:30 - 13:30 IALS
Institute of Classical Studies ICS ancient history seminar ‘Trees and people in the ancient Mediterranean environment’ Seminar William Harris (Columbia) 16:30 - 18:30 Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)
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Events calendar Events Institute of English Studies Ministry of Information project seminar Katherine Howells (KCL) Seminar Free [email protected] 17:30 - 19:30 Room 243 (Senate House)
Institute of Advanced Legal Hamlyn Lecture: ‘The most important of all judicial functions’ Studies Speaker: Dame Sian Elias, Chief Justice of New Zealand Lecture This lecture is the third in a series titled ‘Golden threads and pragmatic patches: fairness in criminal justice’. The first lecture is on 8 November in Cardiff, the second 18:00 - 19:00 is on 14 November in Exeter. Sponsored by the Hamlyn Trust. Old Hall, The Honourable Society Free [email protected] of Lincoln’s Inn, London WC2A 3TL
Institute of Latin American LAGLOBAL seminar Studies Convenor: Mark Thurner Seminar Free [email protected] 18:00 - 20:00 Information laglobal.blogs.sas.ac.uk Room 234 (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies London theatre studies seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 18:30 - 20:30 Room 104 (Senate House)
Friday 18 Senate House Library ‘Hope and Fear in London’ Over two days a group of young people will work with library staff, academic Two-day workshop researchers and a graffiti artist to create a canvas mural reflecting their hopes and 9:00 - 17:00 fears about living in London. Visitors to the building will have the opportunity Senate House to see the creative process. This event runs on Friday, 18 November, from 9:00 to 17:00 and on Saturday, 19 November, from 11:00 to 17:00. Free [email protected]
SAS Central Francophone postcolonial studies in the 21st century Two-day conference Conference £100 (one-day rate: £55) | £50 (one-day rate: £30) 09:00 - 19:00 [email protected] Court Room
Warburg Institute Opening Doors | Moving Pictures This Open Day event captures the dynamism of the Warburg Institute under its Open day new director, David Freedberg. It will feature seminars by Guido Giglioni (head 10:30-16:30 of the MA in Cultural and Intellectual History 1300 – 1650) and Joanne Anderson Warburg Institute (head of the MA in Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture offered in partnership with the National Gallery). There will be tours of the famous Warburg library, including an introduction to its unique classification system, and tours of the Aby Warburg archive and photographic collection. The day also features a showing of Judith Wechsler’s film on the life of Aby Warburg and an information session on studying at the Warburg. Refreshments and lunch will be provided. Free; registration required http://bit.ly/2ctlUJo
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Institute of Modern Languages ‘Cinema and memory’: engaging with memories of cinema- calendar Events Research going in post-war Italy Workshop Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory Workshop Exploring the central theme of ‘cinema and memory’, this workshop features a 11:00 - 17:30 presentation of the findings from the Italian Cinema Audiences project (AHRC Room G35 (Senate House) 2013–2016) followed by two panel discussions that will bring together the expertise of researchers from academia, the arts and cultural heritage sectors. Free [email protected]
Warburg Institute Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) Reading Group Free [email protected] 13:00 - 14:30 Warburg
Institute of Classical Studies ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar ‘War reports and Caesar’s Commentarii: a medium inside a medium and its Seminar (hidden) audience’ 16:30 - 18:30 Francesco Strocchi (UCL) Room 246 (Senate House) Free [email protected]
Warburg Institute The bear and the marionettes: automaticity and innocence Art, history and neuroscience: the work of art in the age of digital reproducibility— Lecture an encore presentation of the 2016–17 Cambridge University Slade Lectures 17:30 David Freedberg (Warburg Institute) Warburg Free; registration required http://bit.ly/2bFiKS1
Institute of English Studies Contemporary cultures of writing seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 17:30 - 19:30 Room 243 (Senate House)
Institute of Historical Research Night in the Library As part of our contribution to Being Human, SAS’s festival of the humanities, we Special event will give visitors the chance to explore our building and collection as they learn 18:00 more about ‘hope and fear’ during the Great Fire of London. IHR (Senate House) Free [email protected]
Saturday 19 Institute of Latin American Latin American music seminar Studies In collaboration with the IMLR, the Horniman Museum and the Royal Workshop Anthropological Institute £8 [email protected] 10:30 - 17:30 The Horniman Museum 100 London Road SE23 3PQ
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Events calendar Events Monday 21 Warburg Institute Arabic philosophy reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 14:15 - 15:30 Warburg
Institute of Modern Languages Process philosophy Research Johan Siebers (IMLR) Seminar Free [email protected] 16:00 - 18:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
Institute of Classical Studies ICS ancient philosophy seminar ‘Why geometry is better than draughts: the role of diagrams in Plato’ Seminar Tamsin de Waal (KCL) 16:30 - 18:30 Free [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)
Institute of Classical Studies ICS ancient literature seminar ‘Greek Critics on Latin’ Seminar Casper de Jonge (Leiden) 17:15 - 19:00 Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)
Institute of Historical Research By the seaside: the beach 1700-2000 As part of the Being Human festival, the Institute of Historical Research, in Lecture collaboration with Historic England and the Institute of Modern Languages Research, 18:00 presents an evening lecture on the history of the British Seaside (1700-2000). Wolfson Conference Suite Allan Brodie (Historic England), John Cattell (Historic England) (Senate House) Free [email protected]
Institute of English Studies Comparative Modernisms seminar ‘From avant-garde to architecture (and back)’ Seminar Tyrus Miller (University of California Santa-Cruz) 18:00-20:00 Free [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)
Tuesday 22 Warburg Institute Latin palaeography Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) Class Free [email protected] 16:15 - 17:30 Warburg
Institute of Modern Languages Cities in Theory reading group Research Free [email protected] Workshop 17:00 - 19:00 Classroom 1, Warburg institute
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Institute of English Studies Medieval manuscripts seminar calendar Events Free [email protected] Seminar 17:30 - 19:15 Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies
Institute of Philosophy Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 17:30 - 19:30 Room 246 (Senate House)
Refugee Law Initiative Developing a global compact for safe, regular, and orderly migration Seminar Michele Klein-Solomon (International Organisation for Migration) 18:00 Part of the 7th International Refugee Law Seminar Series addressing the theme of To be confirmed ‘Protection in the context of large-scale movements of refugees and migrants’. The International Refugee Law Seminar Series provides a public space for discussion, promotion and dissemination of research between academics, practitioners, students and others with an interest in the refugee and forced migration field. Free [email protected]
Wednesday 23 The Human Mind Project Creativity and the mind Is creativity the product of mental power, the endpoint of a creative process of Workshop discovery? Or, perhaps, a feature of our attitude towards things, attentive and 10:00–18:00 open? Is creative agency and intelligence a prerogative of the individual? What Senate House is the creative mind? Get inspired by leading experts from the arts, humanities and sciences at this one-day event produced for the Being Human festival by The Human Mind Project and Guerilla Science. Hear from creative practitioners and scholars and flex your own creative muscles through a series of creative challenges and discussions that aim to turn new ideas into reality. Free [email protected]
Warburg Institute Classical Greek reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 12:00 - 13:30 Warburg
Institute of Classical Studies Thinking the impossible: symbolic representations of the tsunami in the ancient world Lecture Manuel Álvarez Martí-Aguilar (Malaga/ICS) 17:00 - 19:00 Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies London Old and Middle English research seminar (LOMERS) Free [email protected] Seminar 17:30 - 19:30 Room G35 (Senate House)
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Events calendar Events Institute of Latin American Andean studies seminar Studies Convenor: Mark Thurner Seminar Free [email protected] 18:00 - 20:00 Information andeanstudiesseminarilas.blogs.sas.ac.uk Room 234 (Senate House)
Institute of Latin American Latin American utopias Studies Free [email protected] Seminar Infomation eventbrite.co.uk/e/latin-american-utopias-tickets-21266308100 18:00 - 20:00 Senate House Library
Thursday 24 Institute of Advanced Legal IALS lunchtime seminar Studies Free [email protected] Seminar 12:30 - 13:30 IALS
ICS ancient history seminar Institute of Classical Studies ‘Coastal lagoons and the Roman fishing “industry”’ Seminar Annalise Marzano (Reading) 16:30 - 18:30 Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)
Institute of Philosophy CenSes seminar Part of the Rethinking the Sense project funded by the AHRC Seminar Free [email protected] 17:00 - 19:00 Room 246 (Senate House)
Warburg Institute Plotting London’s buildings, c.1450–1720 Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith Lecture (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British 17:00 - 19:00 Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, Woburn Room (Senate House) British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Dorian Gerhold (Independent Scholar) Free [email protected]
Warburg Institute Lip-synch lessons: sight, sound and touch Art, history and neuroscience: the work of art in the age of digital reproducibility— Lecture an encore presentation of the 2016–17 Cambridge University Slade Lectures 17:30 David Freedberg (Warburg Institute) Warburg Free; registration required http://bit.ly/2bFiKS1
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Institute of Modern Languages The reception of Goethean morphology in 19th-century Britain calendar Events Research Angus Nicholls (Queen Mary, University of London) Lecture Free [email protected] 17:30 - 19:30 Room 243 (Senate House)
Institute of Historical Research Marc Fitch lecture and launch of Victoria County History Oxfordshire 18 Lecture Free [email protected] 18:00 The Court Room (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies Irish studies seminar ‘Unmasking the confessional unmasked’ Seminar Katherine Mullin (Leeds) 18:00 - 20:00 Free [email protected] Room 104 (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies Postgraduate feminist reading group Free [email protected] Seminar 18:30 - 20:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
Friday 25 Institute of Modern Languages What is modern languages research (2)? Research ‘Teaching and research in strategically important languages: a comparative Workshop perspective between France and the United Kingdom’ Organisers: Christine Lorre-Johnston (Paris), Catherine Davies (IMLR), 10:00 - 18:00 Charles Forsdick (Liverpool) University Sorbonne Nouvelle Free [email protected] (Paris)
Warburg Institute Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) Reading Group Free [email protected] 13:00 - 14:30 Warburg
Institute of Classical Studies ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar ‘Epicurus and Lucretius on the end of worlds’ Seminar Jonathan Griffiths (Heidelberg) 16:30 - 18:30 Free [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)
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Events calendar Events Institute of Classical Studies British School at Athens/ICS lecture ‘The Archaic necropolis in Faliron Delta’ Lecture Stella Chrysoulaki 17:00 - 19:00 Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies London nineteenth-century studies seminar Seminar ‘Refugees, renegades and misrepresentation: British responses to the Paris Commune during the 1870s’ 17:00 – 19:00 Owen Holland (Oxford) Room 104 (Senate House) ‘Between Mudie’s and the British Museum: 1890s Bloomsbury and the imagination of literary production’ Matthew Ingleby (QMUL) Free [email protected]
Warburg Institute Lachmann today: the debate on the method of textual criticism and its consequences for the history of ancient art Lecture Luca Giuliani (Humboldt Berlin) 17:30 - 19:30 Free [email protected] Warburg
Institute of English Studies Finnegans Wake seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 18:00 - 20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
Monday 28 Warburg Institute Arabic philosophy reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 14:15 - 15:30 Warburg
Institute of Classical Studies ICS ancient literature seminar ‘Marie Darrieussecq’s Tristes Pontiques’ Seminar Fiona Cox (Exeter) 17:15 - 19:00 Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies London Shakespeare seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 17:15 - 19:00 The Senate Room (Senate House)
Warburg Institute Neoplatonism study group - Proclus, In Parmenidem Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Seminar Free [email protected] 17:30 - 19:30 Warburg
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Tuesday 29 calendar Events Warburg Institute Latin palaeography Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) Class Free [email protected] 16:15 - 17:30 Warburg
Wednesday 30 Warburg Institute Hebrew reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 12:00 - 13:30 Warburg
Institute of Historical Research IHR modern religious history seminar ‘Faith and scholarship in Victorian England: Henry Wace and the Dictionary of Seminar Christian Biography (1877-87)’ 17:15 Michael Ledger-Lomas (KCL) Room N102, Olga Crisp Room Free [email protected] (Senate House)
Senate House Library The Friends of Senate House Library book club: Coming Up for Air by George Orwell Other events Join us for an exploration of George Orwell’s novel Coming Up for Air with 18:30 - 20:00 DJ Taylor, author of the acclaimed biography Orwell: The Life. Durning-Lawrence Library, Free [email protected] Senate House
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Events calendar December Events calendar Events Key Subject area Classics History Philosophy Culture, language and literature Human rights Politics Law Highlights Highlights
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Events calendar Events Thursday 01 Institute of Advanced Legal IALS lunchtime seminar Studies Free [email protected] Seminar 12:30 - 13:30 IALS
Institute of Classical Studies ICS ancient history seminar ‘Animals and Romano-British society: a zooarchaeological approach’ Seminar Mark Maltby (Bournemouth) 16:30 - 18:30 Free [email protected] Room 349 (Senate House)
Warburg Institute Inhibition and judgement: the paradox of disinterest (16:30) Tea break (17:30) Lecture Natural piety: sensation and reflection (18:00) 16:30 and 18:00 Art, history and neuroscience: the work of art in the age of digital reproducibility— Warburg an encore presentation of the 2016–17 Cambridge University Slade Lectures David Freedberg (Warburg Institute) Free; registration required http://bit.ly/2bFiKS1
Institute of Latin American Latin American anthropology seminar series Studies ‘Taxing the indigenous: a history of barriers to fiscal inclusion in the Bolivian Seminar highlands’ Miranda Shield Johansson (UCL) 17:30 - 19:30 Free [email protected] Room 234 (Senate House)
Refugee Law Initiative Refugee protection in mixed migration – a UNHCR perspective pre- and post-summit Seminar Sarah Elliott (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) 18:00 Part of the 7th International Refugee Law Seminar Series addressing the theme of To be confirmed ‘Protection in the context of large-scale movements of refugees and migrants’. The International Refugee Law Seminar Series provides a public space for discussion, promotion and dissemination of research between academics, practitioners, students and others with an interest in the refugee and forced migration field. Free [email protected]
Institute of Modern Languages The personal impact of Nazi persecution: experiences and Research life stories Lecture 4th Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Memorial Lecture Mary Fulbrook (Professor of German History, UCL) 18:00 - 19:30 Free [email protected] The Court Room (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies London theatre studies seminar Seminar Free [email protected] 18:30 - 20:30 Room 104 (Senate House)
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Friday 02 calendar Events Warburg Institute Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) Reading Group Free [email protected] 13:00 - 14:30 Warburg
Institute of Classical Studies ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar ‘Plato’s Timaeus on the younger gods’ Seminar Vilius Bartninkas (Cambridge) 16:30 - 18:30 Free [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 18:00 - 20:00 Room G35 (Senate House)
Institute of Advanced Legal IALS legal history seminar—Nervous shock and the chameleon Studies nature of English judicial decisions in Australian legislation: Seminar Section 4 of the ‘Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1944’ (NSW) 18:00 - 20:00 Mark Lunney (University of New England) IALS Free [email protected]
Saturday 03 Institute of Latin American South American archaeology seminar Studies Registration required [email protected] Workshop 10:00 - 17:00 Institute of Archaeology, UCL
Institute of English Studies Early modern philosophy and the scientific imagination seminar (EMPHASIS) Seminar ‘Painting, poetry and philosophy: the potential of allegory in Giordano Bruno’s 14:00 - 16:00 visual memory’ Hanna Gentili (Warburg Institute) Room 246 (Senate House) Free [email protected]
Institute of Classical Studies ICS Virgil Society lecture Free [email protected] Lecture 14:30 - 17:00 Room 349 (Senate House)
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Events calendar Events Monday 05 Warburg Institute Arabic philosophy reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 14:15 - 15:30 Warburg
Institute of Advanced Legal European criminal law seminar: Legal responses to third Studies country migration in Europe Seminar Free [email protected] 14:30 - 18:00 IALS
Institute of Modern Languages Visual documents of Italian cultural heritage Research Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory seminar Seminar Free [email protected] 15:00 - 19:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
Institute of Modern Languages Process philosophy Research Johan Siebers (IMLR) Seminar Free [email protected] 16:00 - 18:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
ICS ancient literature seminar Institute of Classical Studies ’Colourful like a pyrrhic dance: interweaving languages in Roman epistolography’ Seminar Alex Mullen (Nottingham) 17:15 - 19:00 Free [email protected] Room G22 (Senate House)
Warburg Institute Neoplatonism study group - Proclus, In Parmenidem Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Seminar Free [email protected] 17:30 - 19:30 Warburg
Tuesday 06 Senate House Library The End of Utopia? This symposium will explore to what extent the idea of the perfect society is still Symposium relevant and possible in our world. Confirmed speakers include Cathy Shrank 10:00 - 17:00 (University of Sheffield), Keith Somerville (ICWS), Johan Siebers (IMLR), Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Clare Launchbury (IMLR/IHR), Alessandro Scafi (Warburg) Senate House Library Free [email protected]
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Institute of Commonwealth Diplomatic Spaces calendar Events Studies The Oral History of the Commonwealth Project in collaboration with the Institute Workshop of Classical Studies Organisers: Hannah Cornwell (Institute of Classical Studies) and Sue Onslow 10:00 - 17:00 (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) Room G34 (Senate House) Free [email protected].
Institute of Modern Languages Translating less-common languages and cultures Research This workshop series will focus on some of the most widely spoken languages Workshop of the world in cultural contexts in which they are less common. In 2016-17, the sessions will cover Chinese, Arabic and Portuguese. 16:00 - 17:30 Organiser: João Paulo Silvestre (KCL) Room 243 (Senate House) Speakers: Daniel Hahn (translator from Portuguese, Spanish and French); Lisa Lixiang Shao (UK China Association of Linguists) Free [email protected]
Warburg Institute Latin palaeography Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 16:15 - 17:30 Warburg
Institute of English Studies History of libraries seminar ‘Winchester College Fellows’ Library (1600–1670)’ Seminar Richard Foster (Fellows’ Librarian, Winchester College) 17:30 - 19:00 Free [email protected] Room 104 (Senate House)
Institute of Philosophy Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 17:30 - 19:30 Room 246 (Senate House)
Institute of Classical Studies Accordia Anniversary Lecture ‘Sicily in transition: a new archaeological study of the island in the 6th to 13th Lecture centuries AD’ 17:30 - 20:00 Martin Carver (York) and Alessandra Molinari (University of Rome 2, Tor Vergata) Room G22/26 (Senate House) Free [email protected]
Wednesday 07 Warburg Institute Classical Greek reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 12:00 - 13:30 Warburg
Institute of Classical Studies ICS Mycenaean seminar ‘The use and abuse of Ahhiyawa texts’ Seminar Oliver Dickinson (Durham) 15:30 - 18:00 Free [email protected] Room G22/26 (Senate House)
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Events calendar Events Institute of Philosophy London aesthetics forum Free [email protected] Seminar 16:00 - 18:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
Institute of Classical Studies ICS classical archaeology seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 17:30 - 19:30 Room 349 (Senate House)
Institute of Historical Research History Now and Then: the focus of history Should history focus on the nation? A locality? The wider world? Or should it focus Lecture on ‘things’ instead? Should it have a short, precisely defined temporal focus or a 18:00 longer durée? Wolfson Room NB01 Chair: Daniel Snowman; panel: Maxine Berg, Jerry Brotton, Richard Drayton, (Senate House) Chris Wickham £5 per session or £25 of all 6 sessions | Free for the Friends of the IHR [email protected]
Thursday 08 Institute of Advanced Legal IALS lunchtime seminar Studies Free [email protected] Seminar 12:30 - 13:30 IALS
Institute of Philosophy CenSes seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 17:00 - 19:00 Room G34 (Senate House)
Institute of Modern Languages From political ideal to political idyll: re-readings of Fénelon’s Research ‘Télémaque’ by Haller and Wieland Lecture English Goethe Society lecture Christoph Schmitt-Maaß (Potsdam/Oxford) 17:15 - 19:00 Free [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)
Institute of Historical Research IHR Creighton Lecture Lecture ‘The globe, the sea and the city: port cities and globalisation in the long 19th century’ 18:00 John Darwin (University of Oxford) Wolfson Conference Suite Free [email protected] (Senate House)
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Senate House Library ‘Utopia at 500: A Final Reckoning?’ closing keynote lecture calendar Events Professor Gregory Claeys from Royal Holloway will deliver the closing keynote Lecture lecture of the ‘Utopia and Dystopia’ season. This talk will sketch the main themes 18:00 - 19:30 and context of Thomas More’s Utopia, suggesting that to modern readers More Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, presents a highly ambiguous even dystopian portrait of an ideal society. Senate House Library Free [email protected]
Institute of English Studies Book Collecting seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 18:00 - 20:00 Room G35 (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies Irish Studies seminar Peter Shirlow (Liverpool) Seminar Free [email protected] 18:00 - 20:00 Room 104 (Senate House)
Institute of Classical Studies Cognitive approaches to ancient religious experience (CAARE) workshop Workshop Free [email protected] T.b.c. Room 349 (Senate House)
Friday 09 Institute of Latin American ‘Global commodity frontiers in comparative historical context’ Studies international workshop Two-day conference The transformation of the global countryside has been one of the key processes in the emergence and consolidation of global capitalism over the past 500 10:00 - 16:00 years. Providing raw and intermediate materials to satisfy the voracious appetite of machines and city dwellers, the flatlands, valleys, forests, marine spaces and mountains of the world have been transformed at astonishing and accelerating speed. This process of appropriation of the world’s ecological surpluses has come to be understood as that of shifting ‘commodity frontiers’. Free [email protected]
Institute of English Studies London Beckett seminar Screening of film Castro with paper by Garin Dowd (University of West London) Seminar and interview with Argentinian film director Alejo Moguillansky. 16:00 - 20:00 Free IALS Council Chamber
Institute of Classical Studies ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar ‘Music in ancient Sparta’ Seminar James Lloyd (Reading) 16:30 - 18:30 Free [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)
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Events calendar Events Institute of English Studies London-Paris Romanticism seminar ‘The poetics of the letter’ Seminar Pamela Clemit (QMUL/Wolfson, Oxford University): ‘Difficult to make and difficult 17:30 - 19:30 to fake: signalling in Romantic-period letters’ Room 243 (Senate House) Jeremy Elprin (Caen): ‘Qui me néglige me désolé: the neglected countenance of Keats’s letters’ Free [email protected]
Monday 12 Institute of English Studies Historical Modernisms symposium Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania), Laura Marcus (University of Oxford) Conference / Symposium Registration fee [email protected] 09:00 - 19:30 Senate House
Warburg Institute Neoplatonism study group - Proclus, In Parmenidem Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Seminar Free [email protected] 17:30 - 19:30 Warburg
Wednesday 14 School of Advanced Study Postcolonial seas research seminar The Centre for Postcolonial Studies continues its Postcolonial Seas research Seminar seminar series with a talk by Jamal Bahmad (University of Leeds) on the 17:00 - 19:00 Mediterranean in North African Francophone cinema. Room 234 (Senate House) Free [email protected]
Institute of Historical Research IHR modern religious history seminar ‘“Praying for Billy”: religious practice and the shaping of a transnational evangelical Seminar community during the Billy Graham Crusades, 1950-1960’ 17:15 Uta Balbier (KCL) Room N102, Olga Crisp Room Free [email protected] (Senate House)
School of Advanced Study Humans and other beings in our classical past Professor Greg Woolf, director of the Institute of Classical Studies, delivers his Lecture inaugural lecture. 17:30 - 19:00 Free [email protected] The Beveridge Hall (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies Ezra Pound Cantos reading group Free [email protected] Seminar 18:00 - 20:00 Room 246 (Senate House)
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Thursday 15 calendar Events Institute of Advanced Legal IALS lunchtime seminar Studies Free [email protected] Seminar 12:30 - 13:30 IALS
Institute of Advanced Legal The competence of the European Union in copyright Studies lawmaking Seminar Ana Ramalho (Maastricht University) Free [email protected] 18:00 - 20:00 IALS
Friday 16 Institute of English Studies Finnegans Wake seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 18:00 - 20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
Monday 19 Warburg Institute Neoplatonism study group - Proclus, In Parmenidem Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Seminar Free [email protected] 17:30 - 19:30 Warburg
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Events calendar Events Tuesday 03 Institute of English Studies Book collecting seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 18:00 - 20:00 Room G35 (Senate House)
Friday 06 Institute of English Studies Charles Peake Ulysses seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 18:00 - 20:00 Room G35 (Senate House)
Saturday 07 Institute of English Studies Early modern philosophy and the scientific imagination seminar (EMPHASIS) Seminar ‘Sebastian Castellio and the legacy of the sibyl: the impact of non-Christian prophecies 14:00 - 16:00 on his theology and the sixteenth-century debate about religious toleration’ Finn-Schülze-Feldmann (Warburg Institute) Room 246 (Senate House) Free [email protected]
Monday 09 Warburg Institute Neoplatonism study group - Proclus, In Parmenidem Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Seminar Free [email protected] 17:30 - 19:30 Warburg
Tuesday 10 Institute of Philosophy The practical, the political and the ethical seminar series Free [email protected] Seminar 17:30 - 19:30 Room 246 (Senate House)
Wednesday 11 Institute of Philosophy London aesthetics forum Free [email protected] Seminar 16:00 - 18:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
Institute of Classical Studies ICS classical archaeology seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 17:00 - 19:00 Room 349 (Senate House)
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Warburg Institute Warburg-UCL Scholasticism reading group calendar Events The group explores scholastic texts and themes on occasional Wednesdays from Reading Group 5:30 to 6:30 pm at the Warburg Institute (Droz Library). This year readings will be on 17:30 - 18:30 ‘heaven and earth’. Warburg John Sabapathy and Sophie Page (UCL) Free [email protected]
Institute of Historical Research History Now and Then: lessons from the past Does history repeat itself? What kind of ‘lessons’ can we learn from history? Lecture The panel will explore the idea of counterfactual history: could the past have 18:00–19:30 been different? Wolfson Room NB01 Chair: Daniel Snowman; panel: Jeremy Black, Taylor Downing, Ian Mortimer, (Senate House) Lucy Riall £5 per session or £25 for all six sessions | Free for Friends of the IHR [email protected]
Institute of English Studies Ezra Pound Cantos reading group Free [email protected] Seminar 18:00 - 20:00 Room G35 (Senate House)
Thursday 12 Institute of English Studies London theatre studies seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 18:30 - 20:30 Room 104 (Senate House)
Friday 13 Institute of Historical Research Urban belonging: history and the power of place A conference organised by the Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of 2-day conference Historical Research and the Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester 09:00 - 17:00 Registration fee [email protected] Wolfson Conference Suite (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies London-Paris Romanticism seminar ‘The phantasmal imagination: Biographia Literaria and continental philosophy’ Seminar Martin Procházka (Prague) 17:30 - 19:30 This seminar series is hosted jointly by the Institute of English Studies and the Room G37 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research. Free [email protected]
Monday 16 Warburg Institute Arabic philosophy reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 14:15 - 15:30 Warburg
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Events calendar Events Institute of Modern Languages Process philosophy Research Johan Siebers (IMLR) Seminar Free [email protected] 16:00 - 18:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
ICS ancient philosophy seminar Institute of Classical Studies ‘Plato on illness’ Seminar Gabor Betegh (Cambridge) 16:30 - 18:30 Free [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)
ICS ancient literature seminar Institute of Classical Studies Free [email protected] Seminar 17:00 - 19:00 Room 349 (Senate House)
ICS Roman art seminar Institute of Classical Studies Free [email protected] Seminar 17:00 - 19:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
Tuesday 17 Warburg Institute Latin palaeography Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 16:15 - 17:30 Warburg
Refugee Law Initiative Between conflict and survival: Unravelling the drivers of migration across the Mediterranean in 2015 Seminar Heaven Crawley (Coventry University) 18:00 Part of the 7th International Refugee Law Seminar Series addressing the theme of To be confirmed ‘Protection in the context of large-scale movements of refugees and migrants’. The International Refugee Law Seminar Series provides a public space for discussion, promotion and dissemination of research between academics, practitioners, students and others with an interest in the refugee and forced migration field. Free [email protected]
Institute of English Studies Literary London reading group Free [email protected] Reading group 18:00 - 19:30 Room 243 (Senate House)
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Wednesday 18 calendar Events Warburg Institute Hebrew reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 12:00 - 13:30 Warburg
Institute of Classical Studies ICS Mycenaean seminar ‘The origins of writing in the Aegean’ Seminar Silvia Ferrara (Rome and Oxford) 15:30 - 18:00 Free [email protected] Room G22/26 (Senate House)
Institute of Modern Languages A Viennese cabarettist at the BBC: the Robert Lucas Archive Research reveals the life and work of this assimilated emigré Seminar Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies seminar Jennifer Taylor (London) and Clare George (IMLR) 18:00 - 20:00 Free [email protected] Room 243 (Senate House)
Thursday 19 ICS ancient history Institute of Classical Studies Free [email protected] Seminar 16:30-18:30 Room G37 (Senate House)
Warburg Institute Travel, Maps and Inns in Eighteenth-Century Britain Daniel Maudlin (Plymouth) Lecture Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith 17:00 - 19:00 (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Warburg Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Free [email protected]
Institute of Modern Languages Cities in Theory reading group Research A regular informal reading group organised as part of Cities@SAS Workshop Free [email protected] 17:00 - 19:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
Friday 20 Institute of Historical Research IHR winter conference 2017: civil wars The Syrian Civil War is now in its sixth year, prompting a consideration of the Conference nature of civil wars in general and the term ‘civil war’ itself. Is it a helpful label 09:00 - 17:00 when considering events as different as the English and French Revolutions (both of which have been called civil wars), the American Civil War of the 1860s, Wolfson Conference Suite the Russian Civil War after the 1917 Revolution, and the events in Spain in the (Senate House) 1930s? Do civil wars share certain features or is this a term of art that obscures the uniqueness of each separate historical situation? This conference will question the conceptualisation and language of civil discord. Registration fee [email protected] Events October 2016 – January 2017 71 Events calendar January
Events calendar Events Warburg Institute Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) Reading group Free [email protected] 13:00 - 14:30 Warburg
Institute of Classical Studies ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar ‘Tragic anagnorisis versus comic unmasking: the problem of recognising identity Seminar on the fifth-century Greek stage’ 16:30 - 18:30 Antonia Marie Schrader (Cambridge) Room 246 (Senate House) Free [email protected]
Institute of English Studies London Beckett seminar Rodney Sharkey (Weill-Cornell University) Seminar Free [email protected] 18:00 - 20:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
Saturday 21 Institute of Classical Studies ICS Virgil Society lecture Free [email protected] Lecture 14:30 - 17:00 Room G22/26 (Senate House)
Monday 23 Warburg Institute Arabic philosophy reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 14:15 - 15:30 Warburg
ICS ancient literature seminar Institute of Classical Studies Free [email protected] Seminar 17:00 - 19:00 Room 349 (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies London Shakespeare seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 17:15 - 19:00 The Senate Room (Senate House)
Warburg Institute Neoplatonism study group - Proclus, In Parmenidem Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Seminar Free [email protected] 17:30 - 19:30 Warburg
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Tuesday 24 calendar Events Warburg Institute Latin palaeography Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 16:16 - 17:30 Warburg
Institute of Philosophy The practical, the political and the ethical seminar Seminar Free [email protected] 17:30 - 19:30 Room 246 (Senate House)
Institute of Classical Studies Accordia Lecture ‘Landscape as political negotiation, 6000 BC–AD2016: a longue durée history of Lecture Southern Calabria’ 17:30 - 20:00 John Robb (Cambridge) Room G22/26 (Senate House) Free [email protected]
Institute of English Studies Media studies seminar Jane Chapman (Lincoln) Seminar Free [email protected] 18:00 – 20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
Wednesday 25 Warburg Institute Classical Greek reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 12:00 - 13:30 Warburg
Institute of Modern Languages Lisbon as a translation zone Research An initial network event for the AHRC network ‘Lisbon as a Translation Zone’ Workshop Free [email protected] 14:00 - 18:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
Institute of Philosophy London aesthetics forum Free [email protected] Seminar 16:00 - 18:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
ICS classical archaeology seminar Institute of Classical Studies Free [email protected] Seminar 17:00 - 19:00 Room 349 (Senate House)
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Events calendar Events Institute of Latin American The British communities in Latin America Studies Organised by Canning House Seminar David Rock [email protected] 18:00 - 20:00 The Senate Room (Senate House)
Thursday 26 ICS ancient history seminar Institute of Classical Studies Free [email protected] Seminar 16:30 - 18:30 Room 349 (Senate House)
Institute of Philosophy CenSes seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 17:00 - 19:00 Room 246 (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies Postgraduate feminist reading group Seminar Free [email protected] 18:30 - 20:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
Friday 27 Warburg Institute Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) Reading Group Free [email protected] 13:00 - 14:30 Warburg
Institute of Classical Studies ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar ‘Foreign soldiers and mercenaries in late-period Egypt (664–332BC)’ Seminar Justin Yoo (KCL) 16:30 - 18:30 Free [email protected] Room 246 (Senate House)
Institute of Advanced Legal IALS legal history seminar Studies Free [email protected] Seminar 18:00 IALS
Institute of English Studies Finnegans Wake seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 18:00 - 20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
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Saturday 28 calendar Events Institute of English Studies 18th Annual Virginia Woolf Society Birthday Lecture Lecture Susan Sellers (St Andrews) 14:00 - 16:00 Fee £20 standard | £15 concessions [email protected] Woburn Suite (Senate House)
Monday 30 Warburg Institute Arabic philosophy reading class Class Charles Burnett (Warburg) 14:15 - 15:30 Free [email protected] Warburg
Institute of Modern Languages Process philosophy Research Johan Siebers (IMLR) Seminar Free [email protected] 16:00 - 18:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
Institute of Classical Studies ICS ancient philosophy seminar Sarah Broadie (St Andrews) Seminar Free [email protected] 16:30 - 18:30 Room 246 (Senate House)
Institute of Classical Studies ICS ancient literature seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 17:00 - 19:00 Room 349 (Senate House)
ICS Roman art seminar Institute of Classical Studies Free [email protected] Seminar 17:00 - 19:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
Warburg Institute From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia Public reading Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) 18:00 - 19:30 Free [email protected] Warburg
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Events calendar Events Tuesday 31 Warburg Institute Latin palaeography Charles Burnett (Warburg) Class Free [email protected] 16:15 - 17:30 Warburg
Institute of Philosophy Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 17:30 - 19:30 Room 246 (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies Medieval manuscripts seminar Free [email protected] Seminar 17:30 - 19:15 Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies
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A broad range of seminar series are organised in the Postgraduate work-in-progress series Seminar School and Senate House Library. Many of our series are supported by and organised in collaboration with Fridays at 16:30-18:30 other institutions and organisations. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated. Dates Dates: 7, 14, 21, 28 October; 4, 11, 18, 25 November; and times are given below where known and were 2, 9 December; 20, 27 January correct at the time of going to print. These seminars are listed in the calendar where further details are Roman art known. Due to the nature of series events, these may be subject to change. Mondays at 17:00-19:00 Dates: 16, 30 January Institute of Classical Studies Contact: [email protected] Institute of English Studies Ancient history Contact: [email protected] Thursdays at 16:30-18:30 Comparative modernisms seminar Dates: 6, 13, 20, 27 October; 3, 17, 24 November; Mondays at 18:00–20:00 1 December; 19, 26 January Dates: 7 October; 21 November
Ancient literature Book collecting seminar Mondays at 17:15-19:00 Tuesdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 10, 17, 24, 31 October; 14, 21, 28 November; Dates: 1 November; 10 January 5 December; 16, 23, 30 January
The Charles Peake Ulysses seminar Ancient philosophy Fridays at 18:00–20:00 Mondays at 16:30-18:30 Dates: 23 September; 21 October; 11 November; Dates: 10, 24 October; 7, 21 November; 16, 30 January 2 December; 6 January
Classical archaeology Contemporary cultures of writing seminar Wednesdays at 17:30-19:30 Tuesdays at 17:30–19:30 Dates: 19 October; 2, 16 November; 7 December Dates: 20 September; 18 October; 15 November
Classical archaeology Contemporary innovative poetry research seminar Wednesdays at 17:00-19:00 Wednesdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 11, 25 January Dates: 26 October; 23 November; 7 December; 25 January Mycenaean Wednesdays at 15:30-18:00 Dates: 19 October; 9 November; 7 December; 18 January
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Seminar series Seminar Early modern philosophy and the scientific London nineteenth-century studies seminar imagination (EMPHASIS) seminar 17:00–19:00 Saturdays at 14:00–16:00 Dates: 28 October; 25 November; 13 January Dates: 8 October; 5 November; 3 December; 7 January London Old and Middle English research seminar (LOMERS) Ezra Pound Cantos reading group Wednesdays at 17:30–19:30 Wednesdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 19 October; 23 November Dates: 5 October; 9 November; 14 December; 11 January London-Paris Romanticism seminar
Finnegans Wake research seminar Fridays at 17:30–20:30 Fridays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 21 October; 11 November; 9 December; 13 January Dates: 30 September; 28 October; 25 November; 16 December; 27 January London Shakespeare seminar
History of libraries seminar Mondays at 17:15–19:00 Tuesdays at 17:30 – 19:30 Dates: 3 October; 7 November; 28 November; 23 January Dates: 4 October; 1 November; 6 December London theatre studies seminar Irish studies seminar Thursdays at 18:30–20:30 Thursdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 20 October; 17 November; 1 December; Dates: 20 October; 24 November; 8 December; 12 January 26 January Media history seminar Literary London reading group Tuesdays at 18:00–20:00 Tuesdays at 18:00–19:30 Dates: 4, 11 October; 8 November Dates: 18 October; 29 November; 17 January Medieval manuscripts seminar London Beckett seminar Tuesdays at 17:30–19:00 Fridays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 11 October; 25 October; 8 November; Dates: 11 November; 9 December; 20 January 22 November; 31 January
London Modernism seminar Postgraduate feminist reading group Saturdays at 11:00–13:00 Thursdays at 18:30–20:00 Dates: 8 October; 5 November Dates: 22 September; 24 November; 26 January
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Institute of Historical Research Colonial/postcolonial new researchers’ workshop series Seminar Contact: [email protected] Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 American history Dates: 26 September; 10, 24 October; 7, 21 November; 5 December; 16, 30 January Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30
Dates: 13, 27 October; 10, 24 November; Comparative histories of Asia 8 December; 19 January Fortnightly on Thursdays at 12:30 Archives and society Dates: 28 September; 12, 26 October; Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:45 9, 23 November; 7 December; 18 January
Dates: 11, 25 October; 8, 22 November; Contemporary British history seminar 6 December; 17, 31 January Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:00 British history in the 17th century Dates: TBA Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15 Conversations and disputations Dates: 6, 20 October; 3, 17 November; 1, 15 December; 12, 26 January Once a month on Fridays at 17:30 Dates: 7 October; 4 November; 2 December; British history in the long 18th century 13 January Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15 Crusades and the Latin East Dates: 12, 26 October; 9, 23 November; 7 December; 18 January Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 26 September; 10, 24 October; British maritime history 7, 21 November; 5 December; 16, 30 January Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Digital history Dates: 27 September; 11, 25 October; 8, 22 November; 6 December; 17, 31 January Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 27 September; 11, 25 October; Christian missions in global history 8, 22 November; 6 December; 17, 31 January Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30 Disability history seminar Dates: 27 September; 11, 25 October; 8, 22 November; 6 December; 17, 31 January 1st Monday of every month at 17:15 Dates: 3 October; 7 November; 5 December; Collecting and display 9 January Fortnightly on Mondays at 18:00 Earlier Middle Ages Dates: 3 October; 14 November; 12 December; 9 January Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 19, 26 October; 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 November; 7 December; 18, 25 January
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Seminar series Seminar Economic and social history of the early modern History Lab seminar world Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15 Dates: 6, 20 October; 3, 17 November; Date: 30 September; 14, 28 October; 11, 25 November; 1, 15 December; 12, 26 January 9 December; 20 January History of education Education in the long 18th century 1st Thursday of every month at 17:30 Once a month on Saturdays at 14:00-16:00 Dates: 6 October; 3 November; 1 December Dates: 1, 8 October; 3 December; 14 January History of gardens and landscapes European history 1150-1550 Fortnightly on Thursdays at 18:00 Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: Dates: 29 September; 13, 27 October; Dates: 29 September; 13, 27 October; 10, 24 November; 8 December; 19 January 10, 24 November; 8 December; 19 January History of libraries European history 1500-1800 Once a month on Tuesdays at 17:30 Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 4 October; 1 November; 6 December Dates: 26 September; 10, 24 October; 7, 21 November; 5 December; 16, 30 January History of liturgy
Film history Once a month on Mondays at 17:15 Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 10 October; 5 December; 30 January Dates: 6, 20 October; 3, 17 November; 1, 15 December; 12, 26 January History of political ideas Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15 Gender and history in the Americas Dates: 5, 19 October; 2, 16, 30 November; 1st Monday of the month at 17:15 14 December; 11, 25 January Dates: 3 October; 7 November; 5 December; 9 January History of political ideas / early career seminar Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15 Global history Dates: 28 September; 12, 26 October; Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 9, 23 November; 7 December; 18 January Dates: TBA History of sexuality seminar
History and public health Once a month on Tuesdays at 17:15 Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 12:45 Dates: 4 October; 1 November; 6 December; 10 January Dates: 6, 19 October; 2, 16, 30 November; 7 December
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Imperial and world history Locality and region series Seminar Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 3, 17, 31 October; 14, 28 November; 12 Dates: 4, 18 October; 1, 15, 29 November; December; 9, 23 January 13 December; 10, 24 January
International history London Group of Historical Geographers Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 18:00 Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 27 September; 11, 25 October; Dates: 4, 18 October; 1, 15, 29 November; 8, 22 November; 6 December; 17, 31 January 13 December; 10, 24 January
Jewish history London Society for Medieval Studies Once a month on Mondays at 17:15 Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 19:00 Dates: 31 October; 28 November; 12 December; Dates: 4, 18 October; 1, 15, 29 November; 23 January 13 December; 10, 24 January
Late medieval and early modern Italy Low countries history Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15 Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15 Dates: 6, 20 October; 3, 17 November; Dates: 7, 21 October; 4, 18 November; 1, 15 December; 12, 26 January 2, 16 December; 13, 27 January
Late medieval seminar Marxism in culture Weekly on Fridays at 17:30 Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:30 Dates: 30 September; 7, 14, 21, 28 October; Date: 30 September; 14, 28 October; 4, 11, 25 November; 2, 9, 16 December; 11, 25 November; 9 December; 20 January 13, 20, 27 January Metropolitan history Latin American history Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30 Dates: 28 September; 12, 26 October; Dates: 4, 18 October; 1, 15, 29 November; 9, 23 November; 7 December; 18 January 13 December; 10, 24 January Military history Life-cycles Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 4, 18 October; 1, 15, 29 November; Dates: 27 September; 11, 25 October; 13 December; 10, 24 January 8, 22 November; 6 December; 17, 31 January
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Seminar series Seminar Modern British history Philosophy of history Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15 Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 29 September; 13, 27 October; Dates: 29 September; 13, 27 October; 10, 24 November; 8 December; 19 January 10, 24 November; 8 December; 19 January
Modern French history Psychoanalysis and history Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30 Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 3, 17, 31 October; 14, 28 November; Dates: 5, 19 October; 2, 16, 30 November; 12 December; 9, 23 January 14 December; 11, 25 January
Modern German history Public history seminar Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 28 September; 12, 26 October; Dates: 5, 19 October; 2, 16, 30 November; 9, 23 November; 7 December; 18 January 14 December; 11, 25 January
Modern Italian history Reconfiguring the British: nation, empire, world 1600-1900 Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30 Dates: 28 September; 12, 26 October; 9, 23 November; 7 December; 18 January Dates: 6, 20 October; 3, 17 November; 1, 15 December; 12, 26 January Modern religious history Religious history of Britain 1500-1800 Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15 Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 5, 19 October; 2, 16, 30 November; 4 December; 11, 25 January Dates: 27 September; 11, 25 October; 8, 22 November; 6 December; 17, 31 January Oral history Rethinking modern Europe 1st Thursday of every month at 18:00 Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 6 October; 3 November; 1 December; 12 January Dates: 5, 19 October; 2, 16, 30 November; 14 December; 11, 25 January Parliaments, politics and people Socialist history Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30 Dates: 4, 18 October; 1, 15, 29 November; 13 December; 10, 24 January Dates: 26 September; 10, 24 October; 7, 21 November; 5 December; 16, 30 January
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Society, culture and belief, 1500-1800 Women’s history series Seminar Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15 Dates: 29 September; 13, 27 October; Dates: 30 September; 14, 28 October; 10, 24 November; 8 December; 19 January 11, 25 November; 9 December; 20 January
Society for Court Studies Institute of Latin American Once a month on Mondays at 18:00 Studies Dates: TBA Contact: [email protected] Latin American anthropology seminar series Sport and leisure history 17:30 - 19:30 Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 10, 27 October; 10 November; 1 December Dates: 3, 17, 31 October; 14, 28 November; 12 December; 9, 23 January Andean studies seminar 18:00 – 20:00 Studies of home 12 October; 2, 23 November 1st Wednesday of every month at 17:30
Dates: 5 October; 2 November; 7 December; LAGLOBAL seminar 11 January 18:00 - 20:00 Tudor and Stuart history 13, 27 October; 17 November Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Institute of Modern Languages Dates: 26 September; 10, 24 October; 7, 21 November; 5 December; 16, 30 January Research Contact: [email protected] Voluntary action history IMLR graduate forum Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30 Once a month on Thursdays at 18:00 Dates: 3, 17, 31 October; 14, 28 November; Date: 6 October; 17 November; 8 December; 12 December; 9, 23 January 19 January
War, society and culture Process philosophy Once a month on Wednesdays at 17:15 Fortnightly on Mondays at 16:00 Dates: 19 October; 16 November; 14 December; Dates: 10, 24 October; 7, 21 November; 11 January 5 December; 16, 30 January
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Seminar series Seminar Institute of Philosophy Classical Greek Contact: [email protected] Alternate Wednesdays, 12:00 – 13:30 CenSes seminars Dates: 5, 19 October; 2, 23 November; 7 December; Thursdays, 17:00 – 19:00 15 January Dates: 29 September; 13, 27 October; 10, 24 November; 8 December; 2 January Esoteric traditions and occult thought Fridays, 13:00 - 14:15 pm London aesthetics forum Dates: 7, 14, 21, 28 October; 4, 18, 25 November; Wednesdays 16:00 – 18:00 2, 9 December; 20, 27 January Dates: 5, 19 October; 7 November; 7 December; 11, 25 January Hebrew Alternate Wednesdays, 12:00 – 13:30 Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminars Dates: 12, 26 October; 16, 30 November; 18 January Thursdays 17:30 – 19:30 Dates: 8, 15, 29 November; 6 December; 31 January Latin palaeography Tuesdays, 16:15 – 17:30 The practical, the political and the ethical Dates: 4, 11, 18, 25 October; 1, 15, 22, 29 November; Thursdays 17:30 – 19:30 6 December; 17, 23, 30 January Series reconvenes Jan 2017 Maps and society
The place of metaphysics in philosophy Occasional Thursdays, 17:00 – 18:00 Dates: occasional Wednesdays 4:30pm – 6:30pm Dates: 24 November; 19 January Dates: 5, 12 October; 2, 16 November Neoplatonism study group
BodyTalk seminars Mondays, 17:30 – 19:30 Dates announced on BodyTalk website: Dates: 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 October; 7, 14, 21, 28 bodytalk2016.wordpress.com November; 5, 12, 19 December; 16, 23, 30 January
The Warburg Institute Warburg-UCL Scholasticism reading group Contact: [email protected] Occasional Wednesdays, 17:30 – 18:30 Arabic philosophy* Dates: 19 October; 16 November; 11 January Mondays at 14:15 – 15:15 pm Senate House Library Dates: 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 October; 14, 21, 28 November; Contact: [email protected] 5 December; 16, 23, 30 January Senate House Library Friends events *Basic knowledge of Arabic required For details and membership visit www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/about-us/friends
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Calls for papers
Calls for papers Radical walking: protest, dissent, and crossing the definition of ‘radical’ has specifically referred to urban boundaries the late 18th- and early 19th-century British sense. But this one-day symposium, part of Senate House 17 February 2017 Library’s Radical Voices season, seeks to examine CFP deadline: 14 October 2016 radicalism more widely, embracing all those who more generally advocated for societal improvements For centuries people have taken steps to effect through reform. This conference, therefore, welcomes change, moving through urban spaces supporting proposals for papers about diverse periods, locations rights, opportunities and societal innovation, and and topics by exploring the following: Who works walking has allowed these advocates to express in libraries and archives? Who uses them? What is in radical goals and argue for social, political and collections and how are collections being developed? religious change. Radicalism, most commonly How are books, manuscripts and information being understood in reference to the British Liberal Party’s organised, and what is the impact of information 18th-century stance on the reform of society and professionals’ decisions? What is happening now, and parliament, is now applied more widely by scholars what are the current events in libraries, archives and to take in causes from peasant protests in medieval the information professions? Japan to modern quests for civil rights. This one-day conference will explore the relationship between Send 200-word abstracts for 20-minute presentations walking and radicalism, from a range of perspectives, to [email protected] by 21 November 2016. places and periods. Questions may include: How has walking informed radical thinking or politics? How Radical Voices is an ongoing celebration and has radical walking been written about? Can the act promotion of Senate House Library’s radical voices of walking itself be radical? Was it radical in the past? collections dating from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Is there a difference between urban and rural walking Revealing this strand in the library’s collections sheds through the lens of radicalism? Was there a difference light on enormously influential but subsequently historically? How has walking allowed social actors to neglected figures, campaigns and organisations. transgress spatial boundaries? What was the role of the physical landscape in the act of radical walking? Pocahontas and after: historical culture and The £10 conference fee covers refreshments and transatlantic encounters, 1617-2017 lunch. 16-18 March 2017 Send 200-word abstracts for 20-minute presentations CFP deadline: 13 November 2016 to [email protected], by 14 October 2016. In 2017 the Anglo-American world will mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Pocahontas. Radical collections: radicalism and libraries Numerous commemorative activities, from walking and archives tours to talking monuments, have been planned 3 March 2017 on both sides of the Atlantic. Intense, closely focused interest in her life is, of course, not a new CFP deadline: 21 November 2016 phenomenon. Her story has been romanticised As centres of published and unpublished at many points over the centuries, and multiple information, libraries and archives have an representations of Pocahontas (as Noble Savage, impact on the dissemination of knowledge. From Mother of a Nation, propaganda icon, seductive selection, accession and collection development to temptress) have materialised in historical accounts, in cataloguing, classification and arrangement, librarians literature, and in visual, material, and performance art. and archivists can widen or limit access to materials. From a range of historical and literary perspectives, Additionally, there are consequences on materials, and for a variety of social and political purposes, users and the perception of the field as a result of the tale of this Native American ‘princess’ has left an who enters the information professions. These issues enduring legacy among Indigenous, local, national, are all set within current decisions regarding funding, and international communities. closures and technological change. Traditionally, Using Pocahontas’ visit to England and her death and burial in Kent as an entry point, this conference
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will explore the continued interest in Pocahontas Researchers, practitioners and the archived web Calls for papers as a subject of study. It will explore the academic challenges posed by the multiple versions and the 14–15 June 2017 contemporary appropriations of this Powhatan/ Pamunkey woman variously known as Amonute, CFP deadline: 9 December 2016 Matoaka, Pocahontas, and Rebecca. In exploring the Organised by the School of Advanced Study, life and afterlives of Pocahontas, it aims to open new University of London; the British Library; The National interdisciplinary discussions. Archives of the UK; the Oxford Internet Institute; Papers are thus welcomed from all disciplinary Aarhus University; L’Institut des sciences de la perspectives, including (but not limited to) communication (CNRS, Paris-Sorbonne; UPMC); L3S transatlantic and early modern studies; visual, literary Research Center – Leibniz University Hannover; the and cultural studies; and, particularly, from Native Royal Library, Denmark; the Bibliothèque nationale American perspectives. Comparative work is also de France; L’Institut national de l’audiovisuel and Aix- encouraged, as are contributions from early career Marseille University. researchers. We additionally encourage contributions Call for contributions that shed new light on the British Library and the Institute of Historical Research’s collections related to Work to archive the web began in 1996, with the Pocahontas. ground-breaking initiative of the Internet Archive. Other organisations and institutions have followed, Suggested themes include: from national and state libraries and archives to museums and NGOs. Even individual researchers • Cultural encounters and research teams are beginning to create archives • The Atlantic World for personal use, as new tools make web archiving • Indigenous feminism possible from a desktop PC. We now have access to • Pocahontas and political resistance two decades of web archives, collected in different • Cultural mediation and negotiators ways and at different times, constituting an invaluable • Native knowledge and natural environments resource for the study of the late 20th and early • Transatlantic deathways 21st centuries. • Pocahontas’ legacies in the UK • Commemorations and celebrations Researchers are still just beginning to explore the • Comparative approaches to Pocahontas (eg. La potential of these vast archives, and to develop the Malinche) theoretical and methodological frameworks within • Representations of Pocahontas in literature and which to study them, but recognition of that potential culture is becoming ever more widespread. This conference • Pocahontas and Bloomsbury seeks to explore the value of web archives for scholarly • Teaching Pocahontas, and Pocahontas as subject of use, to highlight innovative research, to investigate the academic enquiry challenges and benefits of working with the archived web, to identify opportunities for incorporating web Confirmed speakers: archives in learning and teaching, and to discuss and • Mishuana Goeman (UCLA) inform archival provision in all senses. • Karen Kupperman (NYU) • Camilla Townsend (Rutgers) In conjunction with the overall topic of web archives, • Karenne Wood (Virginia Indian Heritage general areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Programme) • the history(ies) of the web • the changing structure of the web Send 250-word abstracts together with a short • material culture and display in a digital context biography to [email protected] (please include • political and literary reputation online subject line: Pocahontas and After conference) by • public engagement online Sunday 13 November 2016. • patterns of culture online • networks of social communication • the evolution of language on the web • the history of institutions and organisations online
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Calls for papers • the history of social and political movements on Biennial London Chaucer Conference: Chaucer the web and the Law • the relationship between image, sound and text online 30 June – 1 July 2017 • the web as a forum for commemoration • health and education online CFP deadline: 30 September 2016 • using web archives in the classroom This two-day conference will consider ideas about • national/international boundaries online the law in the age of Chaucer and in relation to the • approaches to web archiving works of Chaucer and his contemporaries, probing • research methods for studying the archived web questions about legal practices and culture, justice, • providing access to the archived web regulation and instruction, and the consequences Submissions of making and breaking laws. Interdisciplinary topics and approaches are most welcome. The conference The call will close at the beginning of December. hopes to bring together scholars and postgraduate Submissions are welcomed from all sectors and students working in a range of disciplines and disciplines, and we would particularly encourage departments. Proposals are invited for 20-minute postgraduate students and early career researchers papers on topics related to fourteenth- and fifteenth- to apply. century literature, culture and law. • Short papers – individual papers of 15 minutes’ Topics may include (but are not limited to): canon length (short abstract, of no more than 500 words, law, common law, crime and punishment, outlaws, and a one-page CV) legal bureaucracy and scribal culture, laws of nature, • Long papers – individual papers of 30 minutes’ laws of love, gender, sexuality and the law, literary length (short abstract, of no more than 500 words, ‘laws’ (genre, decorum, metre), rules for living/ and a one-page CV) religious rules, the Old Law and the New Law, divine justice, Chaucer as Justice of the Peace, the Man of • Panel sessions – consisting of three short papers, Law and the Manciple, cross-cultural encounters introduced by a chair (short abstract for each paper, and the law, breaking laws, evidence, authority and of no more than 500 words, a brief description of proof, eyewitness testimony, languages of the law, the purpose of the session, and a one-page CV for iconographies of the law. all speakers) • Posters and demonstrations (short abstract, of no Send proposals of 250 words to Alastair Bennett, more than 300 words, and a one-page CV) Natalie Jones and Jaclyn Rajsic at londonchaucer@ outlook.com by 30 September 2016. • Workshops (a 350-word rationale for the workshop, including discussion of why the topic lends itself to a workshop format, and a two-page CV for the Britain, Canada, and the Arts: Cultural Exchange workshop organiser(s)). as Post-war Renewal Acceptance will be on the basis of double-blind peer 15-17 June 2017 review. CFP deadline: 1 November 2016 For more information or to submit, please contact Coinciding with and celebrating the 150th [email protected]. anniversary of Canadian Confederation, this conference will focus on the strong culture of artistic exchange, influence, and dialogue between Canada and Britain, with a particular but not exclusive emphasis on the decades after World War II. The immediate post-war decades saw both countries look to the arts and cultural institutions as a means to address and redress contemporary post-war
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realities. Central to the concerns of the moment Calls for papers was the increasing emergence of the United States as a dominant cultural as well as political power. In 1951, the Massey Commission gave formal voice in Canada to a growing instinct, amongst both artists and politicians, simultaneously to recognize a national tradition of cultural excellence and to encourage its development and perpetuation through national institutions. This moment complemented a similar post-war engagement with social and cultural renewal in Britain that was in many respects formalized through the establishment of the Arts Supporting and promoting Council of Great Britain. It was further developed in world-class research in the the founding of such cultural institutions as the Royal Opera, Sadler’s Wells Ballet, the Design Council and Supportinghumanities and promoting later the National Theatre, and in the diversity and expansion of television and film. world-class research in the While these various initiatives were often instigated humanities by a strong national if not nationalist instinct, they were also informed by an established dynamic of social, political, and cultural dialogue. In the years before the war, that dynamic had been marked Institute of Advanced Legal Studies primarily by the prominent, indisputably anglophile Institute of Classical Studies voices of such influential Canadians in Britain as Institute of Commonwealth Studies Beverly Baxter and Lord Beaverbrook. In English- Institute of EnglishAdvanced Studies Legal Studies speaking Canada, an established recognition of Institute of HistoricalClassical Studies Research Britain as a dominant, if not originating, influence Institute of Commonwealth Studies on definitions of cultural excellence continued to Institute of Latin American Studies predominate. In the years following the war, however, Institute of ModernEnglish Studies Languages Research that dynamic was to change, and an increased Institute of PhilosophyHistorical Research movement of artists, intellectuals, and artistic policy- TheInstitute Warburg of Latin Institute American Studies makers between the two countries saw the reciprocal Institute of Modern Languages Research development of an emphatically modern, confident, InstituteResearch | ofFellowships Philosophy | Events | Research training and progressive definition of contemporary cultural ThePublications Warburg |Institute Libraries and digital resources activity. Networks and collaborations | Postgraduate study This conference aims to expose and explore the Research | Fellowships | Events | Research training breadth of this exchange of social and cultural Publications | Libraries and digital resources ideals, artistic talent, intellectual traditions, and Networks andwww.sas.ac.uk collaborations | Postgraduate study aesthetic formulations. We invite papers from a variety of critical and disciplinary perspectives—and schoolofadvancedstudy @SASNews particularly encourage contributions from scholars www.sas.ac.uk and practitioners working in theatre, history, literature, talkinghumanities.blogs.sas.ac.uk politics, music, film and television, cultural studies, schoolofadvancedstudy @SASNews design, and visual art. talkinghumanities.blogs.sas.ac.uk Send proposals (max. 250 words) for papers of 20 minutes to the organizers, Irene Morra and John Wyver, at [email protected] by 1 November 2016.
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The School of Advanced Study at the University of London brings together nine internationally renowned research institutes to form the UK’s national centre for the support and promotion of research in the humanities. The School offers full- and part-time master’s and research degrees in its specialist areas: LLM in Advanced Legislative Studies LLM in Advanced Legislative Studies via distance learning LLM in International Corporate Governance, Financial Regulation and Economic Law MA in Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture MA in Cultural and Intellectual History 1300–1650 MA in Garden and Landscape History MA/MRes in Historical Research MA/MRes in The History of the Book MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies via distance learning MA in The Making of the Modern World Master’s by Research in Modern Languages
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The School of Advanced Face-to-face training Extensive training for students Study draws on its Making the most of the expertise of cultures and literatures is Research training offered by the Institute of Modern available in the School and the research and teaching Languages Research, whose University of London, the institutes expertise to provide a well-established and popular between them also provide well- programme of discipline- programme, comprising a series of established discipline-specific Saturday workshops, is offered to specific, generic research training in core humanities and online research any postgraduate student working disciplines. in modern languages or a related training to support the discipline (for instance, film or art development of the Training in aspects of history, for instance, is extensive, notably in history). scholars of tomorrow. the Institute of Historical Research Most of the School’s training is The School’s programme (IHR), which offers a comprehensive available to postgraduate students programme of short courses in of personal development across the UK, much of it free of research skills for historians. Taking charge. Details of all the research and transferable skills advantage of the unparalleled training is available in the training courses provided are availability of historical expertise available at our website: form of weekly workshops in the University of London and www.sas.ac.uk/support-research/ commencing in the the wealth of archival materials research-training autumn. in and around the capital, the Institute’s long-established and Online research training This general training is highly successful courses are widely In addition to the face-to-face complemented by a set of recognised as the best means training we offer, the School’s research methodologies of developing and extending both Postgraduate Online Research essential and more specialised Training (PORT) website provides courses and specific research skills. The IHR training training in the software free online resources including programme is primarily aimed at tutorials, handbooks and and management postgraduate historians, but also multimedia. PORT complements information tools required welcomes established historians postgraduate study, providing to enable students to and independent researchers training packages that can be complete their research and writers. accessed anywhere, at any time, effectively. Further historical skills courses and undertaken at any pace. It run by the Warburg Institute provides the building blocks for include classes in medieval and humanities research generally, as Renaissance Latin for historians, well as for particular humanities and a programme of training in disciplines and specific topics. resources and techniques (jointly Designed to meet the needs with the University of Warwick), of 21st-century researchers, which provides specialist research PORT offers specific skills-based training for doctoral students programmes as well as more working on Renaissance and early general guidance. For further modern subjects in a range of information, please visit disciplines. port.sas.ac.uk. The London Palaeography Summer For a printed copy of our research School run by the Institute of training handbook or for further English Studies provides training in information, please contact us: that key skill. E: [email protected] P: +44 (0)20 7862 8823
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