What’s on April | May | June 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 o 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 April through 30 June 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 con 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. 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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. To plan your journey within London, visit t .gov.uk. Kings Cross Bicycles: Bicycle racks are located throughout the Station University’s central precinct. Please note that we St Pancras cannot be held responsible for theft or damage toStation bicycles. The Parking: Public car parking is not availableBritish at Senate Library 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 Sanctuaries and Experience: Knowledge, Practice, and Space in the Ancient World 8 April, 10:30 – 10 April, 15:30 | Room 349, Event highlights Event Senate House Free | Book in advance ics.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19326 Sanctuaries—places that are permanently special, even when no rituals are taking place— are common, perhaps universal, products of human societies. The use of sanctuaries asserts and rea rms the interdependent senses of self and community generated by experiences South Africa’s Election and the shared in the present and over the ages. The Media Sanctuaries and Experience conference brings a diverse group of thinkers and practitioners 3 April, 18:00–20:00 | Room 349, Senate together to discuss the ways in which House sanctuaries, and the activities that took place Free | Book in advance around them, formed religious experience and commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19314 reproduced religious knowledge across the ancient world. It will be the last major event of South Africa has a robust media landscape, a ve-year project funded by the Alexander von which has been described as ‘the fourth pillar Humboldt Foundation through an Anneliese of democracy’. However, the ability of South Maier Research Prize held by Greg Woolf (ICS) African media and journalists to call the powerful and led by him and Jörg Rüpke (Erfurt). to account is being increasingly challenged: Reporters Without Borders recently noted that Organised by the Institute of Classical Studies. ‘coverage of certain subjects involving the ruling ANC and government nances is o limits, or provokes a hostile reaction from the authorities’. As the country approaches the May 2019 elections, freedom of the media, editorial bias, and manipulation of information have added importance given the mounting pressures on the ANC government. Three leading panellists will discuss the impact of the media and fake news on elections and the implications for democracy. The colloquium will be chaired by ICWS Senior Research Fellow and former BBC World Service Africa Programme Editor Martin Plaut and will feature as speakers Golden Neswiswi (South African Deputy High Commissioner), Justin Adams (UK Chairperson, Democratic Alliance), and Desne Masie (economist and journalist, Wits School of Governance Fellow, and Senior Associate at Global Counsel). Organised by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. 4 sas.ac.uk/events | senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/events The Queer Art of Feeling: Sensation, Emotion, and the Body in Queer Cultures 2–3 May, 10:00–17:00 | University of Cambridge highlights Event Fee applicable | Book in advance ilas.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19188 This conference explores the potential of the arts to represent, explore, challenge, and create modes of queer lived, felt, and embodied experience. Taking ‘feeling’ in all its meanings— touch, hapticity, sensation, emotion, a hunch or gut reaction, as well as tentativeness when ‘feeling one’s way’—the conference will explore the complex relationships to culture and society that are at stake in queer artworks and queer experience. The keynote lecture will be given by feminist writer and independent scholar Sara A Celebration of Mary Ahmed. Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) Organised by the Institute of Latin American 27 April, 9:30–17:00 | St Pancras Old Studies. Church, Pancras Road, NW1 1UL £28 standard | £18 concessions | Book in advance ies.sas.ac.uk/wollstonecraft On the 260th anniversary of Mary Wollstonecraft’s birth, activists, enthusiasts, students, and scholars are invited to take part in a celebration of her life, her writings, and her legacy. There will be discussion of the relevance of Wollstonecraft’s ideas today, new directions in research and gaps in the archive, and exciting plans for networks and societies. An exhibition and bookstall will accompany panel discussions Study #5 used with the kind Lavender permission of Philomène Laurence and free walking tours of Wollstonecraft’s Bloomsbury and Somers Town. Organised by the Institute of English Studies. sas.ac.uk/events | senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/events 5 Bodensee. Transnational Literatures of a Cultural Region Authors: Arno Camenisch, Verena Roßbacher, and Alissa Walser Event highlights Event 8 May, 19:00 – 10 May, 17:00 | Room G37, Senate House Fee applicable (check online) | Book in advance modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/ event/19275 The extended area around Lake Constance/ Bodensee, encompassing the Vierländereck of the surrounding parts of Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein, has long been perceived as a transnational cultural and economic space. It de nes itself as such in the International Bodensee Konferenz, and Children of the Windrush is promoted as an inter-regional area by the Generation European Union. The conference will focus on writers from the nineteenth century to the 8 May, 13:45–20:00 | Dr Seng T Lee Centre present who have either resided in the wider for Manuscript and Book Studies, Senate area, and/or have depicted it in their work.