What’s on July | August | September 2019 A selection of events highlighting the latest research across the humanities sas.ac.uk Welcome to the School of Advanced Study and to Senate House Library, University of London. The School of Advanced Study is the UK’s national centre for the support and promotion of academic research in the humanities. Its nine institutes off er an extensive programme of seminars, workshops, lectures, and conferences. Each year around 1,800 events are organised on humanities topics, attracting more than 68,000 participants from around the world. Institute of Advanced Legal Studies / ials.sas.ac.uk Institute of Classical Studies / ics.sas.ac.uk Institute of Commonwealth Studies / commonwealth.sas.ac.uk Institute of English Studies / ies.sas.ac.uk Institute of Historical Research / history.ac.uk Institute of Latin American Studies / ilas.sas.ac.uk Institute of Modern Languages Research / modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk Institute of Philosophy / philosophy.sas.ac.uk The Warburg Institute / warburg.sas.ac.uk Senate House Library is the central library of the University of London. With more than two million books and 1,200 archival collections, it is one of the UK’s largest academic libraries focused on the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The Library organises a number of exhibitions and related events throughout the year. The events included in this guide are just a few of the many taking place from 1 July through 30 September 2019. For a complete list, please visit sas.ac.uk/events and senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/exhibitions-and-events. Book your place Listen or watch again Most events at the School of Advanced Study and Many of our events are recorded and available to Senate House Library are free and open to the view or download at sas.ac.uk/events, on iTunes public but some do require advance booking and/ U (Research at the School of Advanced Study), and or purchase of a ticket. Booking links are provided on YouTube (SchAdvStudy). with each description in this guide. You can confi rm event details on our websites Be part of the conversation (sas.ac.uk/events and senatehouselibrary. Facebook: facebook.com/schoolofadvancedstudy ac.uk/exhibitions-and-events) or by contacting and facebook.com/senatehouselibrary the events team at [email protected]. For more information on attending our events, read Twitter: @SASNews and @SenateHouseLib the University of London’s visitor regulations at bit.ly/uolvisitors. The School’s fl agship blog, Talking Humanities, written by humanities scholars throughout the UK, provides a range of thought-provoking articles on Join our mailing lists subjects that matter to humanities researchers. You can request to be added to our weekly events Visit talkinghumanities.blogs.sas.ac.uk. email list or add/amend/remove your details from our postal mailing list by writing to [email protected]. 2 sas.ac.uk/events | senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/events Our venues Access Unless otherwise stated, events are held within The University prides itself on making its events the University of London precinct in Bloomsbury, accessible to all who wish to participate. To that central London. Most events take place in or end, it will endeavour to make all reasonable around Senate House (north and south blocks) on adjustments to facilities to accommodate Malet Street, WC1. accessibility needs. If you have a particular requirement, please discuss it with the event How to get here organiser ahead of the event date, or contact our events team at [email protected]. Euston, King’s Cross, St Pancras Assistance dogs are most welcome. Russell Square, Tottenham Court Road, Goodge Street, Warren Street, Euston Square A large-print version of this guide can be viewed or downloaded at sas.ac.uk/events. Bus routes 7, 10, 14, 24, 29, 59, 68, 73, 91, 98, 134, 168, 188, and 390 all have stops within walking distance of Senate House. Attending an event To plan your journey within London, visit t .gov.uk. Events are subject to change; please check the Kingsevent’s Cross webpage for the latest information. To Bicycles: Bicycle racks are located throughout the ensureStation everyone’s safety and security, bags and University’s central precinct. Please note that we St Pancrasrucksacks may be searched before entry and cannot be held responsible for theft or damage toStation security personnel may ask to see photograph ID. bicycles. The For more information, visit sas.ac.uk/events/ Parking: Public car parking is not availableBritish at Senate Library attending-event. House. The closest car parks are NCP at London Brunswick Square andEuston London Station Shaftesbury. Senate House Woburn Place University of London Euston Road Malet Street London WC1E 7HU Tavistock Euston Square Square Tavistock Place Station Gordon Charles Clore House Institute of Advanced Warren Street Gower Street Square Station Warburg Legal Studies Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Institute 17 Russell Square London WC1B 5DR Russell Square Malet Street Station Russell Torrington Place The Warburg Institute Square Southampton Row Woburn Square Goodge Street London WC1H 0AB Station Senate Tottenham Court Road House The British Museum Mortimer Street Holborn Station Tottenham Court Road Oxford Street Station sas.ac.uk/events | senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/events 3 Sun, Sea and Science – Trinidad After Oil 1 July, 17:30–19:30 | Room G12, Senate House Event highlights Event Free | Book in advance ilas.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19697 The recent fi lm Sun, Sea and Science – Trinidad After Oil looks at the possibilities for Caribbean development outside the traditional areas of tourism, Carnival, and primary agriculture. The fi lm centres on Trinidad and Tobago, but its message applies across the English-speaking The Trial of Warren Hastings: Caribbean. The fi lm, which premiered at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival in 2018, was Classical Oratory and Reception produced by the Anthony N Sabga Caribbean in Eighteenth-Century England Awards for Excellence. This scheme has 1 July, 17:00–18:30 | Room G35, Senate presented awards to 39 laureates throughout House the region since 2006, underscoring the importance of science and entrepreneurship in Free economic development. The screening will be ics.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19434 followed by a discussion. Between 1788 and 1795, the fi rst Governor- Organised by the Institute of Latin American General of Bengal, Warren Hastings, was Studies. impeached before the House of Lords on twenty charges of ‘high crimes and misdemeanours’ in his administration of East India Company operations. The prosecution was brought by a cast of star orators, including philosopher and politician Edmund Burke and celebrated playwright and theatre manager Richard Brinsley Sheridan. The trial of Hastings became a national sensation and the public’s appetite for this extraordinary spectacle was insatiable. Hastings’ alleged crimes of plunder, brutality, and corruption were compared to those perpetrated eighteen centuries before by the famous villain- governor of Sicily, Caius Verres. Not only did contemporaries juxtapose Hastings and Verres, but also their accusers, Burke and Cicero. Drawing on eighteenth-century sources, including diaries and letters, newspaper reports, engravings, and collected ephemera, Chiara Rolli (Parma) will explore the histrionic atmosphere of the trial at Westminster Hall and consider it in the light of classical reception studies. Organised by the Institute of Classical Studies and The Open University, in conjunction with the Classical Reception Studies Network. 4 sas.ac.uk/events | senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/events Mozambique and the Cyclones Idai and Kenneth: Challenges of highlights Event Reconstruction Luis Covane 8 July, 12:30–14:00 | Room G37, Senate House Free | Book in advance commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19791 In March and April 2019, the Commonwealth country of Mozambique was hit by two cyclones of unprecedented ferocity, Cyclone Idai and Cyclone Kenneth. Speaker Luis Covane (Rector, Universidade Nachingwea, Mozambique, and former Deputy Education Minister) will discuss the multiple challenges of reconstruction facing Mozambicans after these two natural catastrophes, and the Mozambique government IES Annual Lecture in the and people’s response. History of the Book Organised by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. David McKitterick 3 July, 18:00–20:00 | Woburn Suite, Senate House Free | Book in advance bit.ly/invention2019 In this lecture David McKitterick will begin with a group of bibliophiles who came together in the 1850s to form a society that had much in parallel with the Roxburghe Club. In their meetings and discussions emerges a clearer picture of how changes in taste and practice aff ected attitudes to old books in the mid-Victorian period. The lecture expands on research presented in his latest book, The Invention of Rare Books (2018), which covers the development of the idea of rare books and why they matter. It explores how this idea took shape in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and how collectors, the book trade, and libraries gradually came together to identify canons that often remain the same today. Organised by the Institute of English Studies. sas.ac.uk/events | senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/events 5 Literary London Society Annual Conference 2019 11–12 July, 9:00–18:00 | University of Notre Dame, London £90 standard | £70 concessions | Book in Event highlights Event advance ies.sas.ac.uk/litlon19 This year’s conference will explore the neighbourliness or otherwise of our cities, both within and beyond the UK. How are our communities resisting, surviving, adapting, and developing in times of international turbulence and national division? How are places of safety, creativity, meeting, and exchange established Transnational Families, and maintained? How do representations in print, on stage, and screen, as well as reading Transnational Novels and digital communities, develop possibilities 12–13 July, 9:00–20:00 | Room 243, Senate for neighbourliness? We will consider how urban House networks operate and how these can transform Fee applicable | Book in advance spaces and human experience.