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Events School of Advanced Study School of Advanced Events Senate House LibrarySenate October | November | December January 2016–17 October | November | DecemberOctober | January | November 2016–2017 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. Follow the School of Advanced Study: Follow Senate House Library: facebook.com/ facebook.com/ schoolofadvancedstudy SenateHouseLibrary twitter.com/ twitter.com/ @SASNews @SenateHouseLib blogs/ blogs/ talkinghumanities.blogs.sas.ac.uk senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/blogs sas.ac.uk Contents Contents 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 November E H Gombrich lecture series on the The Latin American communities By the seaside: the beach Event highlights Event classical tradition in Britain 1700-2000 Philip Hardie, senior research Cathy McIlwaine, professor Drawing on new research about the fellow and honorary professor of of geography at Queen Mary English beach, Allan Brodie and John Latin, Trinity College, University of University of London, will discuss Cattell (Historic England) will present Cambridge, presents three lectures her research on Britain’s Latin an evening lecture on the history at the Warburg Institute on ‘Celestial American communities. For more of the British seaside from 1700 to Aspirations: Seventeenth- and than a decade, McIlwaine has 2000. They will describe fascinating Eighteenth-Century British Poetry and researched low-paid migrant labour elements of change in relation to Painting, and the Classical Tradition’. and transnational relationships in class, leisure, trade and economy, The first lecture will focus on visions London, which has resulted in the architecture and even the geography of apotheosis and glory on painted influential reports No Longer Invisible of the British beach. ceilings; the second will address and Towards Visibility. She is currently poetic ascents and flights of the mind working on an ESRC-funded project Date: 21 November from Neoplatonism to Romanticism, that explores violence against and the third will consider Miltonic migrant women in the Brazilian See page 50 ascents and their reception. diaspora. for event information Date: 11, 12, 13 October Date: 2 November See pages 23, 24, 25 See page 39 for event information for event information Katherine Mansfield Society Being Human festival annual birthday lecture 2016 Being Human returns for its third Katherine Mansfield was an year in 2017, with hundreds of impassioned student of the cello events across the country making before moving towards literary humanities research engaging and creation. Could the pulse and rhythm fun for non-academic audiences. Led of music have influenced her early by SAS in partnership with the Arts prose poems? This year’s Katherine and Humanities Research Council Mansfield Society annual birthday and the British Academy, the festival lecture, hosted by the Institute of is back with a new director, Professor English Studies, will be in the form Sarah Churchwell, and a new theme: of a dialogue between words and ‘Hope & Fear’. music, as Professor Claire Davison and cellist Joseph Spooner explore Date: 17-25 Novermber the musical setting and imagination of Katherine Mansfield during her See page 47 literary apprenticeship years. for event information Date: 15 October See page 26 for event information January Urban belonging: history and the power of place This two-day conference, organised by the Centre for Metropolitan History at the Institute of Historical Research and the Centre for Urban History at December the University of Leicester, will address the forms of belonging that cities The personal impact of Nazi have made possible, and how have highlights Event persecution these changed across time and place; Mary Fulbrook, professor of German how belonging has been articulated history and dean of the Faculty of in political discourse, cultural ritual Social and Historical Sciences at and spatial practice; the ways in University College London, will discuss which ‘modern’ manifestations of her recent research as part of the Miller urban belonging and identity differ Memorial Lecture series sponsored by from ‘pre’ and ‘early modern’ forms; the Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert- the extent to which forms of urban Miller Trust. She is the author or editor belonging reflect the workings of of more than 20 books, including the categories such as gender, class, Fraenkel Prize-winning A Small Town nationality, race, and sexuality; how near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and ideologues or organisations have the Holocaust and Dissonant Lives: negotiated or rejected the challenges Generations and Violence through the of integrating new communities or German Dictatorships. Her new book, ‘outsiders’; and how those deemed Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution, to be ‘outsiders’ have responded to will be published in 2017. attempts to keep them out of the city. Date: 1 December Date: 13–14 January See page 58 See page 69 for event information for event information ‘The End of Utopia?’ symposium Institute of Historical Research This one-day symposium will bring winter conference: civil wars together a panel of scholars and The Syrian Civil War is now in its sixth academics from a wide range of year, prompting a consideration of disciplines to explore whether the nature of civil wars in general and utopian visions of society are still the term ‘civil war’ itself. Do civil wars possible in our time. Cathy Shrank, share certain features or is this a term professor of Tudor and Renaissance of art that obscures the uniqueness literature at the University of of each separate historical situation? Sheffield, will deliver the keynote This conference will question the lecture on the reception and conceptualisation and language of interpretation of Utopia in the civil discord. 16th and early 17th centuries. This event is part of a programme Date: 20 January accompanying the Senate House Library exhibition