LENT TERM 2014 CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN THE ARTS, SOCIAL SCIENCIES & HUMANITIES
CRASS
’
WELCOME TO CRASSH “War is not an accident. It is an outcome. One cannot look back too far to ask, of what?” (Elizabeth Bowen, Bowen’s Court)
Renowned historian Margaret MacMillan prefaces her recent book, The War That Ended Peace, with this quotation. In February she will take a long look back at the changing nature of war from 1815 to 1914, as Humanitas Visiting Professor of War Studies in this centenary year of the outbreak of World War One. We will also welcome to Cambridge the world-leading concert pianist and interpretor of Bach, Angela Hewitt, to lecture, teach and perform; and Mona Siddiqui, who will explore feminism, religion and women’s rights. From well-known experts to those whose names you might not know (yet), CRASSH people will host100 events this term. They include lectures, conferences, seminars, workshops, masterclasses and film screenings. We have a growing and important body of videos and podcasts, and a new Blog dedicated to publishing serious writing on subjects that matter (by people who know). We have more postdoc appointments to be made, annual funding competition deadlines looming, and some major new interdisciplinary research projects in the planning. In short, it’s just another average term at CRASSH! We hope you’ll be part of it. Simon Goldhill, CRASSH
CONTENTS • • • • • • • • •
Research Projects News Conference Programme: summary Graduate and Faculty Research Groups: summary Humanitas Visiting Professorships CRASSH video and blog Events Listings Pages: 8 January–29 April, including: Art exhibitions at the Alison Richard Building Who’s New at CRASSH Contact us (back cover)
Front cover: from ‘On White installation 1’, yourself, you, Edmund de Waal © Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. ‘T’: Quayside, © Cambridge University), ‘S’: ‘Digital Trauman 2’ © Ryan Trauman, Flickr, ‘O’: Wheel Cage, © Agron Istrefi, Flickr; ‘N’: Edmund de Waal installation outside ARB.
CRASSH hosts the following major interdisciplinary research projects, staffed by 21 postdocs. Further research positions will be advertised this term. In addition, we are delighted to have secured funding for four new research projects starting next year. See the listings at the back of this leaflet for details of all events. The projects’ website addresses can be found at crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/projects. Centre for Digital Knowledge This new project will focus on two research strands: Politics and the Digital, and the Epistemology of the Digital. Conspiracy and Democracy Major events this term include Visiting Fellow Stef Aupers of Erasmus University Rotterdam lecturing on ‘Rational enchantments: conspiracy theories between secular scepticism and religious salvation’ on 21 January.
Mellon Centre for Disciplinary Innovation We look forward to welcoming new Visiting and Teaching Fellows. This term, the weekly Mellon Interdisciplinary Teaching Seminar series examines ‘The Sensory Renaissance’. Postdoctoral Researchers Forum Two new coordinators will be running special events for postdocs including research discussions with CRASSH visitors Margaret MacMillan, Mary Poovey and Mark Mazower. The Bible and Antiquity in 19th-century Culture A conference on 13 February, ‘Collecting Greece in the 19th Century’ will explore collectors of Greek classical and biblical manuscripts, icons, sculpture, art and intelligence. Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic Two postdocs have just been appointed. Applications for a third close on 23 January. CRASSH has secured grant and philanthropic funding of £4 million over the past eight months to support four major new interdisciplinary research initiatives, for which recruitment will begin in 2014/15. Further announcements are imminent. ‘The Tax Collectors’ by an unknown Flemish or Dutch painter (own work by Ad Meskens), via Wikimedia Commons. We’ve used it to illustrate our ‘Inventories of Things’ seminar.
RESEARCH PROJECTS NEWS
Digital Humanities Strategic Network Events include Kenneth Cukier, The Economist‘s Data Editor, on big data and understanding (22 January); a ‘World Factory Data Expedition’ (6 February); a seminar on use of social media analytics to investigate visitor experience at cultural events (27 February).
It is through CRASSH’s international conferences and its small-group research seminars that intensive, hard thinking takes place, and takes root. The results ignite exciting new collaborations with practitioners, policy-makers and scholars, and advance disciplinary boundaries.
Here are this term’s Conferences and Research Group seminars. For details of dates, times and locations, see the listings at the back of this leaflet. For abstracts, programmes, lists of speakers, Calls For Papers and Funding Competitions, visit crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes – or sign up to receive regular information. See the back cover for ways to do so.
Graduate and Faculty Research Groups Supported by The Andrew W Mellon Foundation and The Isaac Newton Trust: • City Seminar • Civic Matter: Infrastructure as Politics • Climate Histories • Field Notes: Histories of Archaeology and Anthropology • Global Science • GreenBRIDGE • Late Antiquity Network (CLANS) • Locating Religion: Modern Era • Performance Network • Reproduction Forum (CIRF) • Screen Media • Taking Place • Things: Material Cultures 1500-1900 • Trivium: The Early Modern Language Arts in LIterary and Intellectual History The 2014/15 Conference Competition closes on 28 February 2014. The 2014/15 Research Group competitions close on 24 April 2014. Chronique des Empereurs by David Aubert (1462) reproduced in ‘Genghis Khan et l’Empire Mongol’, Jean-Paul Roux, Wikimedia Commons. It illustrates ‘Speaking Ethically’ web page.
CONFERENCES & RESEARCH GROUPS
Conferences • Speaking Ethically Across Borders: Interdisciplinary Approaches (8–10 January) • Institutions & their Discontents: Rethinking Economic Development in South Asia (17–18 March) • Creativity, Circulation and Copyright: Sonic and Visual Media in the Digital Age (28–29 March) • Visual Anthropology and Contemporary South Asian History (4–5 April) • Transforming Information: Record-keeping in the Early Modern World (9–10 April)
The Humanitas programme invites a series of Visiting Professorships to Cambridge and Oxford. Run in association with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, it enables world-leading practitioners and scholars to address major issues in the arts, social sciences and humanities through keynote public lectures, discussion groups and masterclasses. This term, we look forward to welcoming Humanitas Professors in War Studies, Women’s Rights and Chamber Music.
Margaret MacMillan is Warden of St Antony’s College and Professor of International History at Oxford. Her most recent book about World War I, The War That Ended Peace, was described as ‘vivid, gripping and scholarly’ by the Independent. From 3–7 Feburary she will give three public lectures, then participate in a Symposium. Mona Siddiqui: Humanitas Visiting Professor in Women’s Rights Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies at Edinburgh, Mona Siddiqui’s active public engagement on issues of faith and society extends to regular contributions to print and broadcasting media, and books including How to read the Qur’an (Granta). From 10–13 March she will lecture on Feminism, Religion and Women’s Rights, and participate in a Symposium. Angela Hewitt Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chamber Music One of the world’s leading concert pianists, Angela Hewitt’s performances of Bach, in particular, have distinguished her as one of the composer’s foremost interpreters of our time. So we are thrilled that her residency from 24–29 April will demonstrate this particular speciality through a Lecture, a Masterclass with Cambridge students, a Symposium, then a concert performance by Ms Hewitt of The Art of Fugue. These Humanitas series are supported by, respectively, Sir Ronald Grierson, Mrs Carol Saper and Mr Lawrence Saper.
HUMANITAS VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS 2014/15
Margaret MacMillan: Humanitas Visiting Professor in War Studies
CRASSH reaches an important global audience by recording many conferences and major public events. We’re delighted, in addition, to host the PhdCasts. Our new Blog also speaks to this wide community with weekly reports, retorts, reviews and argument.
“When he came to speak,
the phrases cutting through the Boston drawl were those of a man who understood the emotive power of words, and knew an elegant sentence when he read one.
”
Recent videos: Last term’s most watched videos include Alastair Campbell’s widely reported lectures on journalism and politics, and Gretchen Daily’s Inaugural lectures on sustainability (both Humanitas), and PhdCasters ranging from Barbara Cooke on her research into Puppies In Prison (you heard it here first – probably) to Graham Riach’s lucid discussion of the post-apartheid South African short story. And if you are not one of the 101,667 people who have watched 2013 Humanitas Professor Robert Levin improvising Mozart, you are missing something wonderful.
Kind of Blue: La Vie d’Adele: Emma Wilson on Blue is the Warmest Colour. What Was Lost In Dallas: John Naughton on the sense of possibilty that died with Jack Kennedy (the quotation above is from his post). The Circle: Totally Transparent: Alfred Moore on Dave Eggers’ big data dystopia. The Frogs and the Bean Counters: Simon Goldhill in praise of an institution that defies instrumentalism in the arts: the Cambridge Greek Play. See back inside cover for photo credits.
VIDEO & BLOG
Blog posts:
8 JAN
CONFERENCE
20 JAN
SEMINAR
Speaking Ethically Across Borders: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Physics, Anthropology and the Cultural History of Mechanics, 1970–1930
Three days • CRASSH Michael Lempert, Jan Lorenz, Michael Lambek, Hallvard Lillehammer, Simon Coleman. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25021
5pm–7pm • CRASSH Richard Staley, Simon Schaffer (Cambridge) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25384
14 JAN
SEMINAR
Penal Enslavement 5pm–7pm • CRASSH Alice Rio (KCL) • CLANS Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25143
14 JAN
SEMINAR
Music, Place and the Poetics of Encounter in North American Charismatic Worship 1.30pm–3.30pm • CRASSH Monique Ingalls (Music) • Locating Religion Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25388
15 JAN
SEMINAR
21 JAN
LECTURE
Conspiracy theories between secular scepticism and religious salvation Times and location TBC: see website link Stef Aupers , University of Rotterdam www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25485
21 JAN
SEMINAR
Night Life: Derek Jarman and the 80s New Underground Film Scene 5pm–7pm • CRASSH William Fowler (BFI Curator of artists’ moving image) Screen Media Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25401
Grammar as Social Symbol
21 JAN
5pm–7pm • CRASSH Sylvia Adamson (Sheffield) • Trivium Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25414
Quarantine: Local and Global HIstories
SEMINAR
The Political Performance of Transport in Contemporary Mumbai 2.30pm–4.30pm • CRASSH Andrew Harris (UCL) • Civic Matter Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25423
15 JAN
SEMINAR
12pm–2pm • CRASSH Alison Bashford and Richard McKay (Cambridge) Global Science Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25419
22 JAN
SEMINAR
Big Data: Questions, Challenges & Possibilities 12pm–2.30pm • CRASSH Kenneth Cukier, Data Editor of The Economist www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25475
Inventories of Things
22 JAN
12pm–2pm • CRASSH Jason Scott-Warren (English), Nancy Cox (Wolverhampton) • Things Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25439
Atmospheric Things
20 JAN
22 JAN
WORK-IN-PROGRESS SEMINAR
Grassroots participation in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage 12.30pm–2pm • CRASSH Chiara Bortolotto (CRASSH) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25332
SEMINAR
5pm–7pm • CRASSH Derek McCormack (Oxford) • Taking Place Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25396 SEMINAR
Power of the People? Community Energy Initiatives 12pm–2pm • CRASSH Sarah Inge Parker, Malek Al Chalabi (Oxford) GreenBRIDGE Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25435
EVENTS JANUARY 2014
15 JAN
SEMINAR
27 JAN WORK-IN-PROGRESS SEMINAR
29 JAN SEMINAR
The Rhetoric of Graphic Satire, 1750–1830
Polite Things (to Talk About): Conversation Pieces
12.30–2pm • CRASSH David Francis Taylor (CRASSH) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/24917
27 JAN SEMINAR
12pm–2pm • CRASSH Lawrence Klein (Cambridge), Kate Retford (Birkbeck) Things Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/CHANGE
One-sex, two-sex, them and us? Changing sex and challenging ‘Making Sex’
3 FEB LECTURE
5pm–6.30pm • Faculty of Classics Helen King (Open University) CIRF Group with Faculty of Classics www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25428
27 JAN SEMINAR
Humanitas War Studies (1 of 4): European Society and War 5pm–6.30pm • Law Faculty LG19 Margaret MacMillan (Oxford) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25376
3 FEB SEMINAR
5pm–6.30pm • CRASSH Sophie Nield (RHUL), Mehrdad Seyf and 30 Bird, Helen Stratford (Cambridge) Performance Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25443
Egyptian Field Sites and the World’s Museums, 1880–1930
28 JAN SEMINAR
5pm–7pm • CRASSH Alice Stevenson (UCL), Ruth Horry (Cambridge) Field Notes Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25385
Globalisation along the Back Roads
3 FEB WORK-IN-PROGRESS SEMINAR
5.30pm–7.30pm • CRASSH Caroline Knowles (Goldsmiths) • City Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25453
Means to an end: Hesiod’s Apocalytpic Legacies
28 JAN SEMINAR
12.30pm–2pm • CRASSH Helen Van Noorden (CRASSH) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/CHECK
Money and Religious Territory in Federal Ethiopia
3 FEB FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
1.30pm–3.30pm • CRASSH Tom Boylston (LSE) • Locating Religion Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25389
29 JAN SEMINAR
Alfie (1966) 13.30pm–3.30pm • CRASSH Fran Bigman (Cambridge) • CIRF Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25080
Rhetoric of Philosophy & Natural Philosophy
4 FEB LECTURE
5pm–7pm • CRASSH Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge) • Trivium Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25415
Humanitas War Studies (2 of 4): Thinking about war before 1914
29 JAN SEMINAR
5pm–6.30pm • Law Faculty LG19 Margaret MacMillan (Oxford) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26377
Infrastructures of Resource Economy in the Arctic
4 FEB SEMINAR
2.30pm–4.30pm • CRASSH Tatiana Safonova, Istvan Santha, Remy Rouilard (Cambridge) • Civic Matter Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25424
5pm–7pm • CRASSH Mark Goodall (Bradford) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25402
Screen Media, TBC
EVENTS JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014
Performing Cities: ‘Occupy’ and Playgrounds
4 FEB SEMINAR
7 FEB SYMPOSIUM
Sex Changed China: Science, Medicine and Visions of Transformation
Humanitas War Studies (4 of 4) The Changing Nature of European War
12pm–2pm • CRASSH Howard Chiang (Warwick), Rachel Leow (Cambridge) • Global Science Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25420
2pm–6pm • CRASSH Margaret MacMillan, Dominic Lieven (Cambridge), Annika Mombauer (Open University), Thomas Otte (UEA), David Stevenson (LSE). www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/35379
5 FEB SEMINAR Border Crossings amongst Mexican Indigenous People 5pm–7pm • CRASSH Aida Hernandez (Latin American Studies) Taking Place Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25397
5 FEB SEMINAR Understanding and Encouraging EnergyEfficient Home Renovations 12pm–2pm • CRASSH Charlie Wilson (UEA), Candice Howath (Anglia Ruskin) • GreenBRIDGE Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25436
5 FEB SEMINAR Health and Security
6 FEB LECTURE Humanitas War Studies (3 of 4) Planning War Before 1914 5pm–6:30pm • Law Faculty LG19 Margaret MacMillan (Oxford) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25378
7 FEB WORKSHOP World Factory Data Expedition 10:30am–5:30pm • History Faculty, Room 7 Zoe Svendsen (English), Anne Alexander (CRASSH). Digital Methods workshop. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25481
Locating Christianity and Humanity in Amazonia 12:30pm–2pm • CRASSH Aparecida Vilaça (CRASSH) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/24922
10 FEB FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION Tutto Parla di te (2012) 5pm–7pm • Venue tbc Includes a Q&A with Director Alina Marazzi Screen Media Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25403
10 FEB PANEL DISCUSSION PRAXIS: Clinical Experience and Academic Research 5pm–6:30pm • Centre for Family Research Rm 606 A dialogue with local reproductive health clinicians • CIRF Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25429
10 FEB SEMINAR Dance as Ethnography 5pm–6:30pm • CRASSH Kate Elswit (Bristol), Lucia Ruprecht (Cambridge) Performance Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25444
11 FEB SEMINAR Church Cannons, 400–900 AD 5pm–7pm • CRASSH Rachel Stone (KCL) • CLANS Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25144
EVENTS FEBRUARY 2014
2:30pm–4:30pm • CRASSH Charles Kennel (California), Chris Gilligan (Cambridge) • Climate Histories Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25472
10 FEB WORK-IN-PROGRESS SEMINAR
11 FEB SEMINAR
17 FEB WORK-IN-PROGRESS SEMINAR
Dividualism and Individalism in Amazonian Christianity
How System Attributes Influence System Function
1:30pm–3:30pm • CRASSH Aparecida Vilaça (Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25390
12:30m–2pm • CRASSH Nathan Crilly (CRASSH) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/24944
11 FEB SEMINAR
17 FEB
City Seminar
The Aesthetics (and Ethics) of the Egyptian Mummy
5:30pm–7:30pm • CRASSH Tatiana Thieme (Cambridge) • City Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25454
11 FEB
READING GROUP
Cambridge Psychoanalysis Reading Group 12:45pm–2pm • CRASSH www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25467
12 FEB SEMINAR Thinking with Anaphora 5pm–7pm • CRASSH Raphael Lyne (Cambridge) • Trivium Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25416
12 FEB SEMINAR
5pm–7pm • CRASSH Christina Riggs (UEA), Chris Wingfield (Cambridge) Field Notes Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25386
17 FEB
WORKSHOP
Methods in Historical Research of Reproduction 1:30pm–3:30pm • CRASSH CIRF Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25433
18 FEB SEMINAR Screen Media 5pm–7pm • CRASSH Anna Backman Rogers (Stockholm) Screen Media Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25404
2:30pm–4:30pm • CRASSH Alex Vasudevan (Nottingham) • Civic MatterGroup www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25425
18 FEB SEMINAR
12 FEB SEMINAR
12pm–2pm • CRASSH Antonia Walford (Manchester), Jon Agar (UCL) Global Science Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25421
Romantic Things 12pm–2pm • CRASSH Sarah Ann Robin (Lancaster), Sally Holloway (RHUL) • Things Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25441
Scientific Knowledge, Observational Data, and ‘Dead Heads’
18 FEB READING GROUP Cambrige Psychoanalysis Reading Group
13 FEB CONFERENCE
12:45pm–2:15pm • CRASSH www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25468
Collecting Greece in the 19th Century: text, image, object, knowledge
19 FEB SEMINAR
9:30am–5pm • CRASSH Natalie Tchernetska, Robin Cormack, Gareth Atkins, Kate Nichols and others. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25479
Nothing Dead Anywhere: The Sentient Settlement and What It May Portend 5pm–7pm • CRASSH Nigel Thrift (Warwick) • Taking Place Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25398
EVENTS FEBRUARY 2014
The Makeshift City: Radical Infrastructure and the Politics of Squatting in Berlin
SEMINAR
19 FEB SEMINAR
25 FEB SEMINAR
Estimating Energy Savings and Models of Energy Consumption
Bible Translation and the Politics of Place in Uganda and Congo, 1900-1930s
12pm–2pm • CRASSH Mary Gregory (Department of Energy and Climate Change) • GreenBRIDGE Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25437
1.30pm–3.30pm • CRASSH Emma Wildwood (Henry Martin Centre) • Locating Religion Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25391
19 FEB SEMINAR
25 FEB SEMINAR
Sustainability and Development
informal Urban Citizenship in Buenos Airies: Informality and Visions for a Just City
2:30pm–4:30pm • CRASSH Catherine Alexander (Durham), Richard Fraser (Cambridge) • Climate Histories Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25473
5.30pm–7.30pm • CRASSH Tanja Bastia (Manchester) • City Seminar Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25455
26 FEB SEMINAR
Searching for Donor Half Siblings: Relations & Relatedness/Changing Technologies
Rhetoric, Literature and the History of Political Thought
12:30pm–2pm • CRASSH Lucy Frith (CRASSH) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/24934
5pm–7pm • CRASSH David Norbrook (Oxford)• Trivium Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25417
24 FEB SEMINAR/READING
26 FEB SEMINAR
IVF in Poetry and Childbirth in Literature
Civic Matter
5pm–6:30pm • Centre for Family Research Rm 606 Joanna Kavenna (Orange Prize Winner for New Writing), Julia Copus (Arts Council Writers Award) CIRF Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25430
2.30pm–4.30pm • CRASSH Caroline Humphrey (Anthropology) • Civic Matter www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25426
24 FEB SEMINAR Improvisation: Live versus Record 5pm–6:30pm • CRASSH Luke Skrebowski (History of Art), Simon Jones (Bristol), Floris Schuiling (Cambridge) Performance Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25445
25 FEB SEMINAR Changing Perceptions of Romanitas in Early Anglo-Saxon England 5pm–7pm • CRASSH Leslie Webster (BM. UCL) • CLANS Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25145
26 FEB SEMINAR Domestic Things 12pm–2pm • CRASSH Tara Hamling (Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham), CDatherine Riochardson (Kent) • Things Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25442
27 FEB SYMPOSIUM Eugenics Symposium 1.30pm–6.30pm • CRASSH Check website for further details • CIRF Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25393
27 FEB SEMINAR New technologies and evaluating visitor experience at events 1:30pm–3pm • CRASSH Eric Jensen (Warwick) Digital Humanities Strategic Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25482
EVENTS FEBRUARY/MARCH 2014
24 FEB WORK-IN-PROGRESS SEMINAR
3 MAR WORK IN PROGRESS SEMINAR
5 MAR SEMINAR
In Search of a Good Life: Therapeutic Culture in a Comparative Perspective
Emotional Repsonses to the Gallipoli Peninsula in Ireland and Australia
12.30pm–2pm • CRASSH Suvi Salmenniemi www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/24935
5pm–7pm • CRASSH Stuart Ward (Copenhagen) • Taking Place Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25399
3 MAR SEMINAR
5 MAR SEMINAR
Egyptian Archaeology under British Military Occupation (1882–1956)
Probabilistic graphical models in assessing socio-economic and environmental impacts
5pm–7pm • CRASSH Stephen Quirke (ULC), Kate Nichols (Cambridge) Field Notes Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25387
12pm–2pm • CRASSH Philip Leicester (Loughborough) • GreenBRIDGE Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25483
3 MAR WORKSHOPS
5 MAR SEMINAR
Reproduction and Media
Forum Discussion: A Question of Prioritising
1.30pm–3.30pm • CRASSH Research Workshop • CIRF Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25434
2.30pm–4.30pm • CRASSH Peter Schweitzer (Vienna), Paul Warde (UEA) Climate Histories Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25474
4 MAR SEMINAR Theorising Cities Now 5.30pm–7.30pm • CRASSH Jennifer Robinson (UCL) • City Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25104
4 MAR SEMINAR Rod Mengham and Marc Atkins
4 MAR SEMINAR Kew, T N Mukharji, and the 19th-century Exhibitionary Complex 12pm–2pm • CRASSH Caroline Cornish (Royal Holloway/Kew) • Global Science Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25422.
4 MAR READING GROUP Cambridge Psychoanalysis Reading Group 12:45pm–2pm • CRASSH www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25469
A Literary Historian Takes On Mathematical Economics 5pm–6.30pm • CRASSH Mary Poovey (CRASSH) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25220
10 MAR LECTURE Humanitas Women’s Rights (1 of 4): Can You Text A Divorce? 5pm–6.30pm • Mill Lane Lecture Room 3 Mona Siddiqui (Edinburgh) on negotiating women’s rights in law and society www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25380
10 MAR SEMINAR The Psycho-Social Implications of Communicating Reproduction 5pm–6.30pm • Centre for Family Research, Rm 606 Eric Blyth (Huddersfield) • CIRF Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25431
EVENTS MARCH 2014
5pm–7pm • CRASSH The two speakers above discuss their film-making. Screen Media Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25405
6 MAR LECTURE
10 MAR SEMINAR
12 MAR LECTURE
Praxis and Practice: Science as Art
Humanitas Women’s Rights (3 of 4): Women in Islamic Thought and LIterature
5pm–6.30pm • CRASSH Charlotte Tulinius (Copenhagen), Paul McIntosh (QMUL), Olivia Winteringham (Kindle Theatre), Claire Summerfield (Producer) Performance Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25446
10 MAR WORK-IN-PGORESS SEMINAR Gandhi’s Realism: Means and Ends in Politics 12.30pm–2pm • CRASSH Karuna Mantena (CRASSH) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25480
11 MAR SEMINAR Imperial Relics in Gaul 5pm–7pm • CRASSH Stefan Esders (Berlin) • CLANS Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25146
11 MAR LECTURE Humanitas Women’s Rights (2 of 4): Does Mary Matter in Christian-Muslim Relations?
5pm–6.30pm • Mill Lane Lecture Room 3 Mona Siddiqui (Edinburgh). www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25382
12 MAR SEMINAR Trivium 5pm–7pm • CRASSH Kathy Eden (Columbia) • Trivium Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25418
12 MAR SEMINAR Looping Time and Thick Data in a Cholera Research Field Site in Bangladesh 2.30pm–4.30pm • CRASSH Michelle Murphy (Toronto) • Civic Matter Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25427
13 MAR SYMPOSIUM Humanitas Women’s Rights (4 of 4): Feminism, Religion and Women’s Rights 2.30pm–6pm • Keynes Room, King’s College Mona Siddiqui (Edinburgh), with other speakers to be announced. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25383
11 MAR SEMINAR
17 MAR CONFERENCE
Displacement and Disaster: Sudan’s Civil War and Religious Change Among the Dinka
Institutions and their Discontents: Rethinking Economic Development in South Asia
1.30pm–3.30pm • CRASSH Jesse Zink (Divinity) • Locating Religion Group. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25394
Two days • CRASSH Akhil Gupta (UCLA), Ha-joon Chang, Christopher Bayly, Jaideep Prabhu, Kamal Munir, Tomas Larsson, David Washbrook (Cambridge), Stuart Corbridge, Jean Paul Faguet (LSE), Barbara Harriss-White (Oxford). www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25022
11 MAR SEMINAR Mapping Urban Spatial Practices and Cultures of Dissent in Lahore and London 5.30pm–7.30pm • CRASSH Nishwat Awan (Sheffield) • City Group. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25451
18 MAR LECTURE
11 MAR SEMINAR
5pm–6.30 • Faculty of English, Room GR06/07 Mark Mazower (CRASSH) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25371
Cambridge Psychoanalysis Reading Group 12:45pm–2pm • CRASSH www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25470
Fascism & Democracy Today: What Use is the Study of History in the Current Crisis?
EVENTS MARCH 2014
5pm–6.30pm • Mill Lane Lecture Room 3 Mona Siddiqui (Edinburgh). www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25381
28 MAR CONFERENCE Creativity, Circulation and Copyright: Sonic and Visual Media in the Digital Age
A PREVIEW OF WHAT’S TO COME IN EASTER TERM
Two days • CRASSH Martin Scherzinger (NYU), John Richardson (Turku), Kiri Miller (Brown University), Anahid Kassabian (Liverpool), Lionel Bently and Ananay Aguilar (Cambridge). www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25023
9 APR CONFERENCE
4 APR CONFERENCE
10 APR WORKSHOP
Visual Anthropology and Contemporary South Asian History
Sound in the Early Modern City
Two days • CRASSH Sujit Sivasundaram, Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes, Remo Reginold (Cambridge). www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25024
Transforming Information: Record-keeping in the Early Modern World Two days • British Academy, London www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25025
Two days • King’s College Simon Goldhill (CRASSH). www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25025
24 APR LECTURE Humanitas Music (1 of 4): Interpreting Bach on the Piano
EXHIBITIONS ALISION RICHARD BUILDING ATRIUM JANUARY TO APRIL 2014
15 JAN–28 MAR EXHIBITION I, the Photograph
Artist: Roeland Verhallen (Experimental Psychology). www.roelandverhallen.com
15 JAN–28 MAR EXHIBITION Artist: Ash Summers. www.ashsummers.co.uk
3 FEB–14 MAR EXHIBITION Secrets and Lies
A juried photographic exhibition exploring issues of anonymity, surveillance and privacy. Submissions close 12 January. http://bit.ly/J1Zqgx
25 APR MASTERCLASS Humanitas Music (2 of 4): Masterclass with Angela Hewitt 2pm–5.30pm • West Road Concert Hall Piano trios performed by University Instrumental Award Holders. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25461
28 APR SYMPOSIUM Humanitas Music (3 of 4): Symposium on the Art of Fugue 6pm–6.30pm • West Road Concert Hall Angela Hewitt in conversation with John Butt (Glasgow). www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25462
29 APR CONCERT Humanitas Music (4 of 4): Performance: The Art of Fugue 8pm • West Road Concert Hall In the final concert of this Humanitas Series, Angela Hewitt wil interpret Bach’s complete The Art of Fugue. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25463
EVENTS APRIL 2014
Photography
5pm–6.30pm • West Road Concert Hall Angela Hewitt. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25460
We are pleased to introduce the following new CRASSH researchers. You can read more about them, and about all CRASSH’s researchers, at www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/people.
VISITING FELLOWS Stef Aupers (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Rational enchantments: conspiracy theories between secular scepticism and religious salvation. Lucy Frith (Liverpool University), Searching for Donor Half Siblings: Relations and Relatedness in an Age of Changing Technologies. Suvi Salmenniemi (University of Turku, Finland), In Search of a Good Life: Therapeutic Culture in a Comparative Perspective. David Taylor (Toronoto University), The Rhetoric of Graphic Satire 1750-1830: Political Literacy in Georgian Britain. Aparecida Vilaca (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Locating Christianity and Humanity in Amazonia. Karuna Mantena (Balzan Skinner Fellow), Gandhi’s Realism: Means and Ends in Politics.
EARLY CAREER FELLOWS Nathan Crilly, Crausaz Wordsworth Fellow (Engineering, Clare College), How System Attributes Influence System Function. Helen Van Noorden (Faculty of Classics, Girton College), Means to an End: Hesiod’s Apocalyptic Legacies. MELLON TEACHING FELLOWS Mary Laven, (History, Jesus College) Alexander Marr (History of Art, Trinity Hall) The Sensory Renaissance. Video/Blog page: JFK in Dublin © Robert Knudsen, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum. Detail from Dave Eggers’ The Circle © CRASSH. Kermit: a scene from ‘The Frogs’, October 2013, © Cambridge Arts Theatre. Still from Blue Is the Warmest Colour © 2013 Wildbunch, Quat-Sous Films, France 2 Cinema, Scop Pictures, Vertigo Films..
WHO’S NEW LENT 2014
MELLON RESEARCH FELLOWS Mark Mazower (Columbia University) will lecture on 18 March on Facism and Democracy Today: What Use is the Study of History in the Current Crisis? Mary Poovey (New York University) will lecture on 6 March: Outside my Disciplinary Comfort Zone: A Literary Historian Takes on Mathematical Economics.
Twitter: @CRASSHlive Newsletter: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/about/mailing-list Research positions: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/applications Conference competition: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/conference-funding Research Group competitions: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/research-groups Calls for papers: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/call-for-papers CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT