EASTER / SUMMER 2018
WHAT’S ON & WHO’S HERE
CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN THE ARTS, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
WHO'S NEW / FELLOWS Dr Julie Barrau (Cambridge) is a CRASSH Early Career Fellow. Her project is titled A Paradoxical Creativity: Circulation of Knowledge and Manuscript Culture in the Twelfth Century Renaissance.
Professor David Berry (Sussex) is a CRASSH Visiting Fellow. His project is titled Reassembling the University: The Idea of a University in a Digital Age.
Dr Christopher Bickerton (Cambridge) is a CRASSH Early Career Fellow. His project is titled Populism, Technocracy and the Crisis of Party Democracy.
Dr Patrick French (Ahmedabad) is a CRASSH Visiting Fellow. He will be engaged in primary research for the authorised biography of Doris Lessing.
Professor Narve Fulsås (Tromsø) is a CRASSH Visiting Fellow. His project is titled Ibsen: From National Literature to World Heritage.
Dr Alexander Görlach (Harvard) is a CRASSH Visiting Fellow. His project is titled An Inclusive Concept of Abendland. (Photo © David Elmes, Harvard University)
Dr Alessandro Launaro (Cambridge) is a CRASSH Early Career Fellow. His project is titled The Impact of Empire: Challenges and Opportunities in Roman Italy, 1st to 4th C. CE.
Dr Avi Lifschitz (Oxford) is the Quentin Skinner Fellow 2017–18. His project is titled Philosophy and Political Agency in the Writings of Frederick II of Prussia.
Dr Jeffrey Murer (St Andrews) is a CRASSH Visiting Fellow. His project is tentatively titled Economy of Anger: Capitalism’s Violent Superego.
Dr Ananya Vajpeyi (New Delhi) is the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow 2017–18. Her project is titled A Political Biography of Sanskrit.
Our Impact speaker this term will be Reni EddoLodge, whose Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race recently won the 2018 Jhalak Prize for the best book by a British BAME writer. There will be two conversations and a specific event for early career scholars and activists. This is part of our long-term, and still much needed, series on Race, Gender and Law. The winner of the Nine Dots Prize, James Williams, will also be presenting his book Stand out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy. It would be hard to imagine a more timely and important topic than the relation between the large tech companies, society and regulation, and it will be fascinating to see how this young writer has responded to the challenge of his $100,000 prize. James used to work for Google before he saw the light and came to write a PhD: this is his first book, the result of winning the prize over more than 700 other entrants. A conference I am particularly looking forward to is Subversive Intent and Beyond: Surrealism, Politics, Sexuality – another event in what is shaping up to be a fine term at CRASSH for the discussion of activism and change. We are particularly proud to announce our new and sixth ERC project. This major, externally funded project, entitled The Global as ARTEFACT, is about the construction of knowledge systems as global systems, specifically through the formulation and dissemination of understanding about agriculture. It has a huge scope from the deepest antiquity to modernity, and will tie in well with our interests in technology and democracy and even localised work on global seed banks underway at CRASSH. The project is led by Inanna Hamati-Ataya, who is a wonderful addition to our intellectual community. It is worth recalling, in this age of petty nationalism and self-interest, both that knowledge has a global reach and impact, and that the movement of ideas and scholars around the world has been essential for the development of culture in the best sense. This is my last editorial as Director of CRASSH – and, as well as welcoming Steve Connor into the position of director, I want to thank all of you who have made CRASSH events so satisfying and so exciting over the last seven years. Professor Simon Goldhill, FBA Director, CRASSH
WELCOME TO CRASSH
We have a spectacular Easter term to take our minds off examining.
WHAT’S ON APRIL / MAY 2018
5 APR – Exhibition 29 JUN Renee Spierdijk and Adam King Alison Richard Building (ARB) • Art at the ARB www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27757
27 APR Lecture and Symposium Philosophy and Political Agency in the Writings of Frederick II of Prussia 11am – 5.30pm • Rooms SG1/SG2, ARB Avi Lifschitz (Oxford) • Annual Quentin Skinner Lecture and Symposium www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27606 Registration required
16 – 17 Conference APR Crosscurrents of Commensuration Room SG1, ARB • Limits of the Numerical project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27630 Registration required
19 – 20 Conference APR New Spaces of Resistance in Latin America: Beyond the Pink Tide
30 APR Seminar A Paradoxical Creativity: Circulation of Knowledge and Manuscript Culture in the Twelfth Century Renaissance
Rooms SG1/SG2, ARB • CRASSH Conference Programme www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27374 Registration required
19 APR Lecture Latin American Debates: Political Regimes, Extractivism and Social Movements
12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB Early Career Fellow Julie Barrau presents her work in progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27672 Register via email
1 MAY
4.30pm – 6pm • Rooms SG1/SG2, ARB Maristella Svampa (UNLP/CONICET, Argentina) • New Spaces of Resistance in Latin America conference www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27756
25 APR Reading Group Towards a Research Agenda for the Impact of Open IP in Emerging Technologies 12pm – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB • Open Intellectual Property Models research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27743
Seminar Remaking Economic Systems: The Role of Economists in Russia and China's Transitions 12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Isabella Weber (Goldsmiths), Tobias Rupprecht (Exeter) • Politics of Economics research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27731
1 MAY
Seminar Reading and the Law 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB (Note change of day) Jan-Melissa Schramm (Cambridge), Rachel Holmes (Cambridge) • Theologies of Reading research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27706 Register for readings
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Seminar Girls, Girls, Girls
8 MAY
5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB Peter Yeandle (Loughborough) • Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27728
5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Sarah Turner (Kent) • Alchemical Landscape research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27758
9 MAY 2 MAY
Reading Group The Politics of Documentary and Art Imagery
9 MAY Reading Group Reconfiguring Human Perception
Seminar Electricity Market Reform and Development in China 12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Guy Liu (Peking) • In Search of 'Good' Energy Policy research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27749
8 MAY
Seminar Translation and Gender (Panel) 5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB Caroline Summers (Leeds), Pauline Henry-Tierney (Newcastle), Jen Calleja (Translator) • Cambridge Conversations in Translation research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27530
Seminar Populism, Technocracy and the Crisis of Party Democracy 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB Early Career Fellow Christopher Bickerton presents his work in progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27673 Register via email
5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB • Digital Art research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27739 Register for readings
8 MAY
Seminar The Political Economy of Open IP 12pm – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB • Open Intellectual Property Models research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27744
12pm – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB • Power and Vision research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27753
3 MAY
Seminar Polyphonic Cinema
9 MAY
Seminar Reading and the Media 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Jonathan Dovey (West England), Zeena Feldman (KCL) • Theologies of Reading research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27707 Register for readings
12 MAY Exhibition Take Me There 6.30pm – 8.30pm • Heong Gallery, Downing College, Regent St (Note change of venue and time) • Power and Vision research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27755
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WHAT’S ON MAY 2018
1 MAY
FESTIVAL OF IDEAS WHAT’S ON MAY 2018
14 MAY Seminar Medieval Practices of Weeping: Penitential Function of Late Medieval Italian Poetry 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB CRASSH/British School at Rome Fellow Helena Phillips-Robins presents her work in progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27674 Register via email
15 MAY Seminar Politics of the Green Economy 12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB John O'Neill (Manchester), James Vause (UNEP-WCMC), Bhaskar Vira (Cambridge) • Politics of Economics research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27732
15 MAY Seminar Bach and Bodies (Panel) 5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB Jamie Hawkey (Cambridge), Margaret Faultless (Cambridge), Bettina Varwig (KCL) • Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27555
15 & 16 Conversation Series MAY Reni Eddo-Lodge in Conversation 5.15pm – 7pm • Venues TBA Reni Eddo-Lodge (Author and Journalist) • CRASSH Impact Lecture and Conversation Series www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27769 & www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27770
16 MAY Seminar Reflections on Art Images of Violence and Death 12pm – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB Prerona Prasad (Heong Gallery, Downing College) • Power and Vision research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27754
16 MAY Seminar Colours and Texture 12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Judith Clark (UAL), Regina Lee Blaszczyk (Leeds) • Things research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27736
17 MAY Seminar Affective Powers of Performance: Masks, Face, Roles 5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB Femi Oyebode (Birmingham), Jan Parker (Cambridge), Emma Barnard (Artist) • Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27729
21 MAY Seminar The Emotional Effects of Music Between Medicine and Aesthetics (1740–1880) 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB CRASSH/Clare Hall/EURIAS Fellow Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild presents her work in progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27675 Register via email
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5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB Serena Bassi (Cardiff ) • Cambridge Conversations in Translation research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27531
22 MAY Seminar Fukushima and the Law 12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Julius Weitzdörfer (Cambridge) • In Search of 'Good' Energy Policy research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27750
22 MAY Seminar Working Site-Responsively in Crystallised Time (Artist's Talk) 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Rosanna Greaves (Cambridge School of Art, ARU) • Alchemical Landscape research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27759
23 MAY Seminar Public Versus Private Perspectives on Open IP 12pm – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB • Open Intellectual Property Models research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27745
24 – 25 Workshop MAY Artistic Representations Room S1, ARB (1st Floor) • Religious Diversity and the Secular University project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27698 Register interest via email
24 MAY Seminar Crowdsourcing National Security: Gamification Practices in the US-Mexico Border 5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB (Note change of date and room) Joana Moll (Artist) • Digital Art research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27740
24 MAY Seminar Therapeutic Reading 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB (Note change of day) Andrea Brady (Queen Mary), John Wilkinson (Chicago) • Theologies of Reading research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27708 Register for readings
25 – 26 Conference MAY India's Political Lexicon in Its Vernaculars Rooms SG1/SG2, ARB • CRASSH Conference Programme www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27485 Registration required
29 MAY Seminar The Politics of IMF Economic Ideas in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis 12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Ben Clift (Warwick) • Politics of Economics research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27733
29 MAY Seminar Made in the Image of Man: Refracted Bodies 5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB Ola Sigurdson (Gothenburg) • Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27730
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FESTIVAL OF IDEAS WHAT’S ON MAY 2018
21 MAY Seminar Translation and Gender (Workshop)
4 JUN
5.15pm – 6.45pm • Room SG2, ARB Mischa Gabowitsch (Einstein Forum) • Beyond the Cold War: Toward a Community of Asia project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27762 Registration required
30 MAY Seminar Objects of Knowledge
12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB Early Career Fellow Alessandro Launaro presents his work in progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27676 Register via email
4 JUN
12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Neil Kenny (Oxford), Edwin Rose (Cambridge) • Things research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27737
31 MAY Seminar Working Memory
5 JUN
Symposium Subversive Intent and Beyond: Surrealism, Politics, Sexuality Rooms SG1/SG2, ARB • CRASSH Conference Programme www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27448 Registration required
Seminar WEF – Water Energy Food Energy Policy: Supporting the Diffusion of Anaerobic Digestion 12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Liz Varga (Cranfield) • In Search of 'Good' Energy Policy research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27752
5 JUN
5.15pm – 7pm • Rooms SG1/SG2, ARB James Williams (Oxford) • Nine Dots Prize www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27761
1 – 2 JUN
Seminar Translation in Practice (Translation Hub) 5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB • Cambridge Conversations in Translation research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27727
5pm – 7pm • Room S1, ARB (1st Floor) (Note change of room) Ben Thorpe Brown (Artist) • Digital Art research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27742
31 MAY Book Launch Stand out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy
Seminar The Impact of Empire: Challenges and Opportunities in Roman Italy, 1st to 4th C. CE
Seminar Topographia and Topothesia: Memory and Testimony in a Croatian Landscape 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Jessie Fyfe (Cambridge) • Alchemical Landscape research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27760
6 JUN
Seminar Exploring the Intersection of Economics, Law and Open IP 12pm – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB • Open Intellectual Property Models research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27746
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FESTIVAL OF IDEAS WHAT’S ON MAY / JUNE 2018
29 MAY Lecture Soviet War Memorials and the Men Who Made Them
WHAT’S ON JUNE 2018 FESTIVAL OF IDEAS
6 JUN
Seminar Distant Reading, or Computational Reading 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Pete de Bolla (Cambridge) • Theologies of Reading research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27709 Register for readings
11 JUN Seminar Ibsen: From National Literature to World Heritage 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB Visiting Fellow Narve Fulsås presents his work in progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27767 Register via email
11 JUN Seminar Translation and Diversity (Workshop) 5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB Paul Howard (Cambridge) • Cambridge Conversations in Translation research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27528
12 JUN Seminar How Should We Approach Evidence for Policy? 12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Nancy Cartwright (Durham), Eleonora Montuschi (LSE) • Politics of Economics research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27734
13 JUN Seminar Re-Examining the Renaissance Object 12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Dai Rees (UAL), Irene Galandra Cooper (Cambridge) • Things research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27738
14 JUN Workshop Machine Reading the Archive: End-of-Programme Workshop 2018 11.30am – 3.30pm • Room S1, ARB (1st Floor) • Cambridge Digital Humanities www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27764 Registration required
14 JUN Seminar Extending Perceptual Capacities: Software or Hardware Update? 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Maarten Steenhagen (Cambridge) • Digital Art research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27741
15 – 16 Symposium JUN Sensing the Sonic: Histories of Hearing Differently (1800–Now) Rooms SG1/SG2, ARB • CRASSH Conference Programme www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27449 Registration required
18 JUN Seminar Law's Sovereignty 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB Visiting Fellow Richard Sherwin presents his work in progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27677 Register via email
20 – 21 Workshop JUN Reimagining the Cooperative: An Interdisciplinary Conversation Rooms SG1/SG2, ARB • CRASSH Conference Programme www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27375 Registration required
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3 JUL
10am – 5pm • Venue TBA • Critical University Studies www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27763 Registration required
25 JUN Seminar CRASSH Director Work in Progress 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB CRASSH Director Simon Goldhill presents his work in progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27768 Register via email
26 – 27 Conference JUN Mapping Morality in Global Health Rooms SG1/SG2, ARB • CRASSH Conference Programme www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27450 Registration required
2 – 8 JUL
Exhibition Visible Science: Images from the Early Royal Society The Royal Society, 6–9 Carlton House Terrace, London • Making Visible project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27747
2 – 4 JUL
Conference Law and Poetics in Early Modern England and Beyond Leslie Stephen Room/Chetwode Room, Trinity Hall • Crossroads of Knowledge project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27722 Registration required
Performance Law and the Arts: Staging Law, Performing Trials 3.30pm – 5.30pm • Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John's College • Crossroads of Knowledge project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27723 Registration required
5 – 6 JUL
Conference Beyond Words: Multimodal Encounters in Translation Rooms SG1/SG2, ARB • CRASSH Conference Programme/ Cambridge Conversations in Translation research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27373 Registration required
16 – 17 Conference JUL The Visual Worlds of the Royal Society Rooms SG1/SG2, ARB • Making Visible project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27697 Registration required
20 – 21 Workshop SEP Theology Room S1, ARB (1st Floor) • Religious Diversity and the Secular University project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27718 Register interest via email
29 SEP Conference Reinventing, Rethinking and Representing Menopause: Beyond the Interdisciplinary Paradigm Rooms SG1/SG2, ARB • Art at the ARB www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27716 Registration required
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FESTIVAL OF IDEAS WHAT’S ON JUNE / JULY / SEPTEMBER 2018
22 JUN Symposium Academic Citizenship: Why, How, Now?
CONFERENCES Photo by Matt Howard, via Unsplash
Graffiti Ninja by Teresempere, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Crosscurrents of Commensuration 16 – 17 April 2018
New Spaces of Resistance in Latin America: Beyond the Pink Tide 19 – 20 April 2018
Sponsored by the Limits of the Numerical research project at CRASSH, this two-day event will bring together researchers from across the social sciences and humanities to consider commensuration from different disciplinary and theoretical perspectives with the aim of broadening and deepening the critical scope of commensuration as an optic of social analysis.
2018 marks a unique opportunity to reflect on new spaces of resistance in Latin America – those opened up during years of 'post-neoliberal' development, and those even newer spaces created in response to recent transformations in state-based politics. Bringing together leading scholars working on Latin America and resistance, the conference will draw out emerging research agendas and discuss a range of related questions.
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27630
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27374
CONFERENCES
König Friedrichs II. Tafelrunde in Sanssouci by Adolph von Menzel, via Wikimedia Commons
Rigveda (Padapatha) Manuscript in Devanagari, Early 19th Century, via Wikimedia Commons
Quentin Skinner Lecture and Symposium 2018 27 April 2018
India's Political Lexicon in Its Vernaculars 25 – 26 May 2018
How should readers approach the philosophical writings of an author who was not only a political thinker – but also, and primarily, a major political agent? Are written works in this case merely tools for public self-fashioning or self-justification? These issues will stand at the centre of this year's Quentin Skinner Lecture by Dr Avi Lifschitz, entitled 'Philosophy and Political Agency in the Writings of Frederick II of Prussia'.
To make sense of how people think about politics, we need to know the language they use to describe, appraise and operate within it. This conference brings together students of Indian history, politics, languages and society to examine India's political ideas through a close ethnographic and historical scrutiny of the languages used by its people to speak about and act within their political lives.
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27606
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27485
CONFERENCES Poster created May 1968, via Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Poster by Holger Schulze, Melissa Van Drie and Wenqian Wong
Subversive Intent and Beyond: Surrealism, Politics, Sexuality 1 – 2 June 2018
Sensing the Sonic: Histories of Hearing Differently (1800–now) 15 – 16 June 2018
This symposium aims to address the subversive intents and contestatory acts, the legacies and lessons, of Surrealism, especially as they bear on politically charged questions of sexuality, gender, race and nationality. It takes as a critical focal point Susan Rubin Suleiman's Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics and the Avant-Garde (1990), in arguing for a 'feminist poetics' that subverted a longstanding masculinist tradition.
What happens when hearing doesn't do what it purportedly should? Often hearing and sound are predominately considered from an ear-centric perspective. Putting forward an exploratory format, we will explore alternatives to this singular ear, engaging various historical, theoretical and methodological positions, while also challenging notions of embodied presence.
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27448
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27449
CONFERENCES
Photo by CRASSH
Photo by Lorrie Graham, AusAID (CC BY 2.0)
Academic Citizenship: Why, How, Now? 22 June 2018
Mapping Morality in Global Health 26 – 27 June 2018
This symposium considers the extent to which academic citizenship is a valid concept for thinking about life and work in modern universities: specifically, the idea of a body politic; the rights and responsibilities of universities to individuals within them; the rights and responsibilities of individuals to each other and to institutions; and the relationship of each to the societies that sustain them.
This two-day conference will provide a forum to vocalise, exorcise and ignite ideas of morality in global health. By bringing together scholars from disciplines such as anthropology, history, economics, epidemiology, political science, literature and theology, we hope to chart the forms and places of morality in global health.
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27763
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27450
CONFERENCES Justitia from Stanza della Segnatura, Raphael, 1508–11, Vatican City, courtesy of Vatican City
Poster by Artist Gurpran Rau
Law and Poetics in Early Modern England and Beyond 2 – 4 July 2018
Beyond Words: Multimodal Encounters in Translation 5 – 6 July 2018
Law and Literature has evolved from the vexations of the early 1990s into a thriving field across periods, with the English Renaissance still a major locus. Our three-day conference will address the trends and urgencies in the field now, with a view to teasing out their implications for the methods and motives of knowing, and considerations of knowability. It will raise new questions about the remit of legal, poetic or artistic knowledge.
During the past decade, the rise of digital media has ensured that interconnections between different visual, aural and oral modalities have acquired much greater cultural prominence. This conference aims to bring together both those who produce multimodal 'translations' as well as those who theorise about them. By encouraging truly inter- and trans-disciplinary dialogue, the event aspires to impact on research directions in the area of translation and multimodality.
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27722
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27373
CONFERENCES
A ruined temple with some pillars, as observed in a grain of sand under the microscope by an unknown artist from a letter by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1703), Royal Society Archives EL/L3/56 © Royal Society
Tomb by Jane Woollatt
The Visual Worlds of the Royal Society 16 – 17 July 2018
Reinventing, Rethinking and Representing Menopause 29 September 2018
The aim of this workshop is to explore the connections and networks within the wider visual worlds of the members of the early Royal Society (c. 1660–c. 1710). How did first-hand experience and appreciation of art, artistic skills and collections affect the way members of the Society approached and judged images and objects of knowledge? How did their engagement with the visual worlds around them compare with their Continental counterparts?
This conference will draw together scholars with knowledge of menopause, with unprecedented interdisciplinary scope. The aim of the conference is to extend existing understandings of menopause through the collective convergence of experts throughout the creative and scholarly worlds, from across the globe and from various scientific, humanistic, anthropological, psychological, cultural, experiential and creative perspectives.
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27697
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27716
WORKSHOPS Cambridge Digital Humanities Logo
Photo by Margaret Ferguson Burns of stone relief on premises once belonging to the Leith Provident Co-operative Society in Dalmeny Street, Edinburgh from 1890, via Wikimedia Commons
Machine Reading the Archive: End-of-Programme Workshop 2018 14 June 2018
Reimagining the Cooperative: An Interdisciplinary Conversation​ 20 – 21 June 2018
This public workshop will mark the end of the 2018 programme of Machine Reading the Archive, a digital methods development programme organised by Cambridge Digital Humanities with the support of the Isaac Newton Trust and the Researcher Development Fund. It will showcase the digital archive projects created by our cohort of project participants as well as invited contributions from leading experts in the field.
There has been considerable and sustained interest in cooperatives across the humanities and social sciences. Yet these approaches, which centre upon their status as economic organisations, political projects, and sites of meaning and value-making, remain largely siloed within specific disciplines. This workshop seeks a more sustained and coherent interdisciplinary theorising of contemporary and historic cooperative practice.
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27764
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27375
Networks
Beyond the Cold War: Toward a Community of Asia
Cambridge Digital Humanities
The Concept Lab Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: The Place of Literature
Critical University Studies
Graduate and Faculty Research Groups Ageing and the City
Early Modern Conversions
The Alchemical Landscape
Genius Before Romanticism: Ingenuity in Early Modern Art and Science
Cambridge Conversations in Translation
The Global as ARTEFACT
Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network
Limits of the Numerical
Digital Art
Making Visible: The Visual and Graphic Practices of the Early Royal Society
Imaginative Things: Curious Objects 1400–2000
Managing Extreme Technological Risks Qualitative and Quantitative Social Science: Unifying the Logic of Causal Inference? Religious Diversity and the Secular University
In Search of 'Good' Energy Policy Open Intellectual Property Models of Emerging Technologies and Implications for the Equitable Society The Politics of Economics
Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic
Power and Vision: The Camera as Political Technology
Centres within the Centre
Theologies of Reading
Centre for Global Knowledge Studies Centre for the Humanities and Social Change, Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Details on our website: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk
CRASSH AT A GLANCE
Research Projects
EASTER / SUMMER 2018 CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN THE ARTS, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
Front and Back Cover Image: Summer: The Harvesters (1623) by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, via Wikimedia Commons. The Global as ARTEFACT is the latest ERC-funded research project at CRASSH.