CRASSH Easter 2013 What's on

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and humanities

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Alison Richard Building CRASSH • LENT 2011

EASTER 2013 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk

Image © Jo Underhill

WELCOME

RESEARCH CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Simon Goldhill (DIRECTOR) We’ve got a wonderfully varied mix for you this Easter: conferences on performance, epidemics, gender, intellectual history, and modernism rub shoulders with our regular seminars, and we’re hosting some rather exciting visitors. In particular, we’ve invited Judith Butler to bring our year-long Understanding Society lecture series to a close from her unique perspective of feminism, philosophy and language. Humanitas visiting professors Chen Yung-fa and Gareth Evans consider, respectively, the Chinese Communist Revolution and optimism in spite of conflict, while Gabriel Paquette delivers our annual Balzan Skinner lecture.

As if that wasn’t enough for one term, we thought it would be fun to host Cornel West – one of America’s most celebrated and provocative public intellectuals – in three public conversations; on politics with Paul Gilroy, philosophy with Mary Margaret McCabe, and literature with Ben Okri.

And we have yet more things at CRASSH with the start of a new collaborative programme on EarlyModern Visual and Material Culture jointly hosted here and at the University of Southern California / Huntington.

Do also keep an eye on our YouTube channel where – amongst videos of our major lectures – we’ll be featuring six PhD researchers working on commuting, longitude, Richard II, C17th medical ads, modern French cinema – and pirates.

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Connecting the Dots Post-democracies Performance as paradigm, past and present Latin American Utopian Visions Remembering JB Trend Epidemic Crisis Applied Urban Modelling (AUM2013) Classifying Sex Knowledge, Exchange, Encounter Infertility and Sacred Space The Futures of Atlantic Intellectual History Language Endangerment Making love, making gender, making babies Reimagining Modernism, Mapping the Contemporary

RESEARCH GROUPS • Active Citizenship, Public Engagement and the Humanities • Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproduction Forum (CIRF) • Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar • Cambridge Screen Media Group • City Seminar • Climate Histories Interdisciplinary Seminar • East European Memory Studies • Field Notes: Histories of Archaeology and Anthropology • GreenBRIDGE (Buildings, Research, Innovation, Development, Governance, Energy) • History and Anthropology • Market Square: The Policy, Economy and Society Cambridge Research Group • Seeing Things • Taking Place • The Guild: Experiencing the World in C19th • Things: Early Modern Material Cultures

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APRIL 12 C/W Connecting the Dots: movement, space and the digital image All day • CRASSH How we might understand and theorise space in relation to the digital image. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2069

15 C/W Post-democracies: interdisciplinary engagements after the democratic ideal Four days • Social Anthropology Scholars in political science, geography and sociology have explained ‘post-democracy’ in terms of the increasing power that global corporations hold over nation-states and the technical complexity of current policy issues.

This leaves several questions unanswered. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2068

16 C/W Beyond the authority of the ‘text’: performance as paradigm, past and present All day • CRASSH Performance as a paradigm repositions the intelligibility of works of art as a function of their mixed and multiple audiences: simultaneously implied and actual; individual and collective; past and present - audiences which precede, as well as follow, acts of creation. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2071

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Paper Cinema’s Odyssey

7.30pm – 9.30pm • The Junction The Odyssey told by The Paper Cinema through theatre, cinema, visual art and music - but without words. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2464

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Unfinished Spaces

7pm – 9pm • CRASSH Introduction to ‘Latin American Visions’. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2459

19 C/W Latin American Utopian Visions: A Critical Look for the 21st Century Two days • CRASSH A re-examination of the role of idealist visions in Latin America’s political programs and cultural production can reveal underlying multiple entanglements and implicit assumptions. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2072

22 L John Brande Trend: The Life of a Scholar Gypsy 5pm – 6.30pm • Clare College The annual MacColl lecture of the department of Spanish and Portuguese by Dame Margaret Anstee. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2465

23 C/W Remembering JB Trend: the quiet internationalist One day • Clare College This symposium celebrates the life and work of J B Trend, the first Professor of Spanish in Cambridge, and a central figure in the history of Hispanism. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2073

22 S Mentoring: myths, assumptions & solutions 12 noon – 2.30pm • Peterhouse First workshop of Mentoring Programme 2013: organised by the Postdoc Forum, Careers Service and PPD. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2435

23 S A Tale of Four Cities: Does Ethnic Diversity Lead to Urban Conflicts?

5pm – 7pm • CRASSH Subrata Mitra (Heidelberg) & Sherrill Stroschein (UCL) at City Seminar and Taking Place. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2452

24 S Anxiety, Profusion and C19th Natural History Object 12 noon – 2pm • CRASSH Alison Wood (English/ Divinity) at the Postdoc Seminar. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2441

APRIL 24 RG Anatomy of Power 12 noon – 2pm • CRASSH Market Square reading group. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2442

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A Sustainable Built Enviroment?

2.30pm – 4.30pm • CRASSH Roundtable discussion on Engineering and Anthropology at Climate Histories. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2446

24 S Reconceptualizing ‘Memorial Landscape’ 5pm – 7pm • CRASSH Zuzanna Dziuban (Konstanz) at East European Memory. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2423

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PhilPapers: Behind the Scenes

12 noon – 2pm • CRASSH David Bourget offers an overview of the PhilPapers platform. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2418

25 S Concepts of Democracy in MidC20th Africa 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Early Career Fellow Emma Hunter (History) presents her work in progress. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1957

25 S Objects: From the Excavation Site to Storage. Archaeological Objects in Transit 1.30pm – 3.30pm • CRASSH Mirjam Brusius (Max Planck) with discussant Christina Riggs (UEA) at Field Notes. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2187

25 S Energy Efficiency Retrofits: Heritage and Planning 1.30pm – 3.30pm • CRASSH Kayla Friedman (Engineering) at GreenBRIDGE. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2437

26 C/W Romantic Liberalism in Southern Europe, c. 1820-1850 All day • CRASSH Balzan Skinner Lecture and Symposium with Gabriel Paquette (John Hopkins). www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2083

29 S Questions of Value: A Humanities Perspective 1.30pm – 3.30pm • CRASSH Eleonora Belfiore (Warwick) at Active Citizenship. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2427

29 S Personal Life and Genetic Relatedness 5pm – 7pm • CRASSH Carol Smart (Manchester) at CIRF. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2266

29 L Guesswork: System, Science, and the Advancement of Knowledge 5pm – 6.30pm • CRASSH Leverhulme Re:Enlightenment lecture by Clifford Siskin (NYU/ Leverhulme Visiting Professor at CRASSH). www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2407

30 S The Cult of Saints: History, Anthropology & Anthropological History 5pm – 7pm • King’s College, Wine Room Robert Bartlett (St Andrew’s) at History & Anthropology. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2261

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Printed Things

12.30pm – 2.30pm • CRASSH Sean Roberts (USC) & Elizabeth Upper (UL) at Things. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2419

30 RG Psychoanalysis Reading Group 12.45pm – 2pm • CRASSH www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2414

30 S The Beast with Two Backs: Mutuality, Exchange and Transfiguration between Animals 5pm – 7pm • CRASSH Phillip Warnell (Filmaker) at Screen Media. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2253

MAY 1 S Bilingualism and Biliteracy in Oscan South Italy?

12 noon – 2pm • CRASSH Nicholas Zair (Classics) at the Postdoc Seminar. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2433

1 S Imperial Collegiality and its Implications (161-582) 5pm – 7pm • CRASSH Timothy Barnes (Edinburgh) at Late Antiquity. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2107

2 S Border-Crossing Beliefs: African Witchcraft in the Trans-Regional Arena of Asylum 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Visiting Fellow Katherine Luongo (Northeastern) presents her work in progress. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1976

3 L Speaking Ethically Across Borders: Anthropological, Philosophical and Historical Approaches 12 noon – 2pm • CRASSH An interdisciplinary reading group dedicated to understanding ethical deliberation that takes place in the light of regional, temporal and cultural difference. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2466

12 RG Anatomy of Power 12 noon – 2pm • CRASSH Market Square reading group. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2442

7 RG Psychoanalysis Reading Group 12.45pm – 2pm • CRASSH www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2415

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Philosophy in the Public Sphere

5pm – 6.30pm • Room LG17 Faculty of Law Cornel West in conversation with Mary Margaret McCabe and respondent Constanze Guthenke. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2412

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Theme: Cities for People

5pm – 7pm • CRASSH Film screening and discussion at City Seminar. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2453

8 C/W Interdisciplinarity and Innovation: Some Questions All day • Girton College ISRF-CRASSH workshop on interdisciplinarity. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2410

8 S The Articulation of Bureaucratic Everydayness in the Indian Himalaya 12 noon – 2pm • CRASSH Nayanika Mathur (CRASSH) at Postdoc Seminar. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2431

8 RG The Law of Power 12 noon – 2pm • CRASSH Market Square reading group. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2443

8 S Sustainable Energy in a Bail-out Enviroment 2.30pm – 4.30pm • CRASSH Marta Magalhães (Social Anthropology) at Climate Histories. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2447

8 L Ending Deadly Conflict: A Naïve Dream?

5pm – 6.30pm • Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 Humanitas Visiting Professor in Statecraft and Diplomacy 2013: Gareth Evans (Chancellor and Honorary Professorial Fellow, Australian National University; President Emeritus, International Crisis Group; former Foreign Minister of Australia) gives a series of three lectures and concluding symposium. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2378

8 S Socialist Women on the Gallows.

Gender and Capital Punishment in Late Socialism 5pm – 7pm • CRASSH Pavel Kolar (European University Institute) at East European Memory. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2424

MAY 9 S Literature’s Children: On ReReading Childhood Classics 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Early Career Fellow Louise Joy (English) presents her work in progress. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1973

9 S Cultural Evolution: Interpreting the Art of the Old Stone Age and the Origins of Human Nature, 1870-1940 1.30pm – 3.30pm • CRASSH Chris Manias (Manchester) with discussant Peter Mandler (History) at Field Notes. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2188

9 S Energy Efficiency Retrofits: Green Building Technologies 1.30pm – 3.30pm • CRASSH Peter Armitage (Architecture) at GreenBRIDGE. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2438

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Literature and the Nation

5pm – 6.30pm • Room LG17 Faculty of Law Cornel West in conversation with Ben Okri and respondent Malachi McIntosh. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2413

10 L Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes: A Hopeless Dream?

5pm – 6.30pm • Mill Lane Lecture Room 1 Humanitas Visiting Professor in Statecraft and Diplomacy 2013: Gareth Evans. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2389

13 S Cross-channel Devotions: The Writings of Elizabethan Puritans in England and the Netherlands 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Early Career Fellow Christopher Burlinson (English) presents his work in progress. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1963

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Will this be the Plutocratic Century?

1.30pm – 3.30pm • CRASSH Henry B.Tam (Birkbeck) at Active Citizenship. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2428

13 S Conditional embryo donation: legal, moral and social spaces 5pm – 6.30pm • CRASSH Lucy Frith (Liverpool) at CIRF. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2161

13 L Eliminating Nuclear Weapons: An Impossible Dream?

5pm – 5.30pm • CRASSH Humanitas Visiting Professor in Statecraft and Diplomacy 2013: Gareth Evans. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2401

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Paper, Making, Things

12.30pm – 2.30pm • CRASSH Elaine Leong (Max Planck) and Helen Smith (York) at Things. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2420

14 RG Psychoanalysis Reading Group 12.45pm – 2pm • CRASSH www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2416

14 C/W The Future of Deadly Conflict: Is Optimism Defensible?

2pm – 6pm • Pitt Building Humanitas Visiting Professor in Statecraft and Diplomacy 2013 concluding symposium with Gareth Evans. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2402

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Performance

5pm – 7pm • CRASSH Panel discussion with Clare Foster (Classics) Andrew Webber (German and Dutch), Michael Hrebeniak (English) at Screen Media. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2254

15 S Memory, Cosmology and Materiality in Prehistoric Malta 12 noon – 2pm • CRASSH Isabelle Vella Gregory (Archaeology) at the Postdoc Seminar. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2432

MAY 16 S Buddhism and Science: Somatizing the Mind, Contemplating the Body 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH CRASSH Visiting Fellow Urmila Nair (John Hopkins) presents her work in progress. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1953

16 S Gender: In the Field: Relations and Relationships in the History of Archaeology 1.30pm – 3.30pm • CRASSH Amara Thornton (UCL) at Field Notes. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2470

20 S The Rose of Demeter, Springing in her Cleft of Rock: Ruskin, Darwin and Female Sexuality 2pm – 4pm • CRASSH Clive Wilmer (Poet; English) at The Guild. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2450

20 S Development and the African Disapora: Place and Politics of Home 5pm – 7pm • CRASSH Claire Mercer (LSE) at Taking Place. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2455

21 RG Speaking Ethically Across Borders: Anthropological, Philosophical and Historical Approaches

12 noon – 2pm • CRASSH An interdisciplinary reading group dedicated to understanding ethical deliberation that takes place in the light of regional, temporal and cultural difference. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2467

21 RG Psychoanalysis Reading Group 12.45pm – 2pm • CRASSH www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2417

21 S Shooting the President: Conspiracy and the Killing of President McKinley and the Kennedys 4pm – 6pm • Wolfson College Michael Newton (Leiden) at the Leverhulme project Conspiracy and Democracy. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2462

21 L Maoist Rectification during Wartime 5pm – 7pm • CRASSH Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chinese Studies 2013 Chen Yung-fa (National Taiwan University; former Director of the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica) will give a series of three public lectures and a concluding symposium. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2237

21 S On the Culture of Material Value and the Cosmography of Riches 5pm – 7pm • King’s College, Wine Room Marshall Sahlins (Chicago) at History and Anthropology. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2259

22 S Jaroslav and the Taste for Folkloric Performances in Socialist Mongolia: an Idea-Type Inspired from Fictional Literature 12 noon – 2pm • CRASSH Laurent Legrain (Social Anthropology) at the Postdoc Seminar. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2342

22 RG Escape from Empire: The Developing World’s Journey Through Heaven and Hell 12 noon – 2pm • CRASSH Market Square reading group. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2444

22 S Hot Air: Translating the Debate for Children 2.30pm – 4.30pm • CRASSH Sandrine Dumas Roy (Author), Emma Langley and Sarah Ardizzone at Climate Histories. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2448

MAY 22 S Was the Qu’ran codified under ‘Abd al-Malik?

3.30pm – 5pm • CRASSH Nicolai Sinai (Oxford) at Late Antiquity. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2194

22 L Judith Butler: Understanding Society 5pm – 6.30pm • West Road Concert Hall Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley) gives the final lecture in CRASSH’s series on Understanding Society. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2364

22 L The Roman de Troie and the Medieval Historiography of Troy 5pm – 6.30pm • CRASSH Leverhulme lecture by Marilynn Desmond (Binghamton). www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2375

22 S Unorthodox Memories: Baptist Accounts of the Soviet Past 5pm – 7pm • CRASSH Miriam Dobson (Sheffield) at East European Memory. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2425

23 S Natural Resources and their Impact on Economic and Political Institutions 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Early Career Fellow Gabriel Leon (Economics) presents his work in progress. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1948

23 S Excavation: Living with the Ancient Romans: Past and Present in C18th Encounters with Herculaneum and Pompeii 1.30pm – 3.30pm • CRASSH Charlotte Roberts (English) with discussant Melissa Calaresu (History) at Field Notes. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2189

23 S Energy Efficiency Retrofits: Feasibility and Costing 1.30pm – 3.30pm • CRASSH Eleni Soulti (Engineering) at GreenBRIDGE. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2439

23 L Chiang Kaishek’s Experience with Britain and his Private Thoughts, 19171949 5pm – 7pm • CRASSH Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chinese Studies 2013 Chen Yung-fa. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2238

24 C/W Ephemerality and Durability in Early-Modern Visual and Material Culture Two days • CRASSH Two colloquia at CRASSH (24-25 May 2013) and the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute (27-28 September 2013). www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2408

27 L Lecture on the University’s Entanglement with Surrounding Society 5.30pm – 7.30pm • Divinity Ron Barnett (Institute of Education, London) at Active Citizenship. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2429

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Handling Things

12.30pm – 2.30pm • CRASSH Melanie Vandenbrouck (National Maritime Museum), Felicity Powell (Artist), and Ben Carpenter (Wolverhampton) at Things. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2421

28 S Where are all the Infertile Men? A Sociological Look at Male Infertility and Masculinity 5pm – 6.30pm • CRASSH Liberty Barnes (Sociology) at CIRF. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2230

MAY/JUNE 29 S Personhood, the State, and the International Community in the Thought of Charles Malik 12 noon – 2pm • CRASSH Andrew Arsan (History) at the Postdoc Seminar. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2434

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Late Antiquity and World History

5pm – 7pm • CRASSH Mark Humphries (Swansea) at Late Antiquity. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2195

29 L Chiang Kaishek and the Japanese Ichigo Offensive of 1944 5pm – 7pm • English Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chinese Studies 2013 Chen Yung-fa. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2239

30 S ‘Frail Skiffs Tossed on the Ocean of Life’: Gender and Romance in Nineteenth Century Zanzibar 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Visiting Fellow Gaurav Desai (Tulane) presents his work in progress. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1942

30 C/W The Meaning of the Chinese Communist Revolution 2pm – 6pm • CRASSH Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chinese Studies concluding symposium with Chen Yung-fa. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2409

31 C/W Exploring Traditions: Sources for a Global History of Science All day • CRASSH This workshop asks fundamental questions about what science has meant on the global stage and how sciences have come to take form through global confrontations, connections and politics. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2458

3 S A Hospital which shall Compare Favourably with any other: The Environmental Design of the Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, 1870-1890 2pm – 4pm • CRASSH Alastair Fair (Architecture) at The Guild. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2451

3 S Colonel Blimp and the ‘Posturing Progressives’: The Battle for George Square 5pm – 7pm • CRASSH Ray McKenzie (Glasgow School of Arts) at Taking Place. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2456

4 RG Speaking Ethically Across Borders: Anthropological, Philosophical and Historical Approaches

12 noon – 2pm • CRASSH An interdisciplinary reading group dedicated to understanding ethical deliberation that takes place in the light of regional, temporal and cultural difference. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2468

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History and Anthropology

5pm – 7pm • King’s College Thomas Trautmann (Michigan). www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2260

5 S The Artist and the Museum: a Clash of Disciplinary Cultures?

12 noon – 2pm • CRASSH Alana Jelinek (Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology) at the Postdoc Seminar. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2343

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Market Square

12 noon – 2pm • CRASSH www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2445

5 S 3rd Ring Out: The Politics and Aesthetics of ‘Practicing’ the Future 2.30pm – 4.30pm • CRASSH Zoe Svendsen (Birkbeck) at Climate Histories. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2449

JUNE 5 S Holocaust Anxiety in Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint 5pm – 7pm • CRASSH Brett Ashley Kaplan (Illinois) at East European Memory. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2426

6 S A British Moralist on French Soil: The Early French Reception of John Stuart Mill’s Ethical Thought 12.30pm – 2am • CRASSH Visiting Fellow Vincent Guillin (Québec à Montréal) presents his work in progress. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1954

6 S Empire: Displayed Peoples, Empire and Anthropology in the Metropole 1.30pm – 3.30pm • CRASSH Sadiah Qureshi (Birmingham) at Field Notes. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2190

6 S Energy Efficiency Retrofits: Behaviour, Management, and Controls 1.30pm – 3.30pm • CRASSH Aaron Gillich (Architecture) at GreenBRIDGE. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2440

7 C/W Cultures and Politics of the Transregional: Sovereignty between Empires and States Two days • CRASSH A workshop with EURIAS Fellow Wilson Jacob (Concordia). www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2457

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Impact in Historical Perspective

1.30pm – 3.30pm CRASSH Peter Mandler (History) at Active Citizenship. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2430

10 S Revisiting Interspecies Reproduction: Xenogenic Desire and the Feminist Implications of Hybrids 5pm – 6.30pm • CRASSH Susan Squier (Pennsylvania State) at CIRF. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2162

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Painted Things

12.30pm – 2.30pm • CRASSH Matthew Hunter (University) and Mark Hallett (Paul Mellon Centre) at Things. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2422

12 S Panel discussion: perspectives & future actions 12 noon – 2pm • CRASSH Second workshop of Mentoring Programme 2013 organised by the Postdoc Forum, Careers Service and PPD. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2436

12 S ‘Rights and Sacraments’: The Ius Romanum and the Ius Ecclesiasticum in Late Antiquity 5pm – 7pm • CRASSH Caroline Humfress (Birkbeck) at Late Antiquity. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2108

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Chaucer and the Textualities of Troy

5pm – 6.30pm • CRASSH Leverhulme lecture by Marilynn Desmond. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2376

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Visualising the Bible in C19th

All day • CRASSH An event of the ERC-funded project Bible and Antiquity in the Nineteenth Century. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2460

13 S Transatlantic Blackness in the Era of Jim Crow: Race and Gender in the Life of an African American Expatriate 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Visiting Fellow Jane Rhodes (Macalester College) presents her work in progress. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1950

18 RG Speaking Ethically Across Borders: Anthropological, Philosophical and Historical Approaches

12 noon – 2pm • CRASSH A reading group dedicated to understanding ethical deliberation that takes place in the light of regional, temporal and cultural difference. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2469

JUNE/JULY/SEPTEMBER 21 C/W Epidemic Crisis: The Dialectics of Event and Process Two days • CRASSH The conference brings anthropological, historical and public health perspectives on ‘event’ and ‘process’ as two aspects of infectious disease outbreaks in interdisciplinary dialogue. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2074

25 S Conspiracy Theory, Secrecy, Transparency 5pm – 7pm • CRASSH Clare Birchall at the Leverhulme project Conspiracy and Democracy. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2461

26 C/W Applied Urban Modelling (AUM2013): Productive, liveable and sustainable city regions Three days • CRASSH An interdisciplinary approach to understanding and planning productive, liveable and sustainable city regions. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2075

2 C/W Social Media Knowledge Exchange Two days • CRASSH Final conference of a collaborative skills development project for early career researchers funded by the AHRC. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2463

4 C/W Classifying Sex: Debating DSM-5 Two days • CRASSH This conference will critically explore the sexual classifications produced by the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental Disorders (DSM), published in May 2013. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2076

8 C/W Knowledge, Exchange, Encounter: Europe & Ottoman Empire, 1453-1718 Two days • CRASSH This conference challenges the assumption that the European and Ottoman societies in the early modern period developed along separate, and largely isolated, intellectual trajectories. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2077

15 C/W Infertility and Sacred Space: From Antiquity to the Early Modern Two days • CRASSH Concerns about fertility and children have been (and still are) common reasons for visiting, and more generally engaging with, the sacred spaces - sanctuaries and shrines, groves and grottoes - of many religions and cultures. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2078

19 C/W The Futures of Atlantic Intellectual History: Themes, Methods, Disciplines Two days • CRASSH This conference explores the changing contours and future trajectory of intellectual history on both sides of the Atlantic. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2079

26 C/W Language Endangerment: Language Policy and Planning All day • CRASSH Third Cambridge Conference. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2163

6 C/W Making love, making gender, making babies in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s Two days • CRASSH This conference will allow a comparison of the contemporaneous political and ethical debates over medical innovations in ‘sex’, ‘gender’ and assisted conception. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2080

14 C/W Ethics and Aesthetics of Epidemiological Photography All day • CRASSH Convened by Christos Lynteris (CRASSH). www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2395

23 C/W Reimagining Modernism, Mapping the Contemporary: Critical Perspectives on Transnationality in Art Two days • Churchill College A conference reconceptualising modernist artistic practices from a transnational, interdisciplinary perspective. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2063

MacColl Symposium 2013

Monday 22 April - Tuesday 23 April 2013 at Clare College, Cambridge

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APPLIED URBAN MODELLI

Camille Henrot,”Nous autres”, Ievgueni Zamiatine, 2012 © Camille Henrot Photo. Alexandra Serrano. Courtesy the artist and Kamel Mennour, Paris

Spanish and Portuguese

The Balzan-Skinner Lecture and Colloquium 2013

Romantic Liberalism in Southern Europe, c. 1 Friday 26 April 2013 2012-13 Balzan-Skinner Fellow

convened by Dr Ying Jin (Architecture) Dr Tony Hargreaves (Architecture) scientific committee Professor Marcial Echenique (Architecture)

Professor Mike Batty

(Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL)

Professor Michael Wegener

(Spiekermann & Wegener Urban & Regional Research, Dortmund)

Wednesday 26 Friday 28 June 2013 call for papers

Please send abstracts of between 500-1000 words, with a working title and 50-100 words of headline summary to Dr Ying Jin (yj242@cam.ac.uk) by 2 April 2013.

supported by

EPSRC Energy Efficient Cities Project and

more info: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2075

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

More information and online registration:

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2083 One of America’s most celebrated and provocative public intellectuals in conversation with:

Paul Gilroy Politics and Race

MacColl Lecture 2013:

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on respondent: Stephen Tuck

JB TREND Dame Margaret Anstee

Gregorio Alonso (University of Leeds) Javier Fernández Sebastián (Universidad del País Vasco (Bilbao) Brian Hamnett (University of Essex) Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro (Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidad

CORNEL WEST

E QUIET INTERNATIONALIST 5pm Monday 22 April 2013 at Clare College

Participants include:

AUM2013 is the third in a series at CRASSH of annual symposia for discussing 7 West Road applied urban simulation models. Cambridge

REMEMBERING

John Brande Trend: the Life of a Scholar Gypsy

CRASSH · Alison Richard Building · 7 West Road ·

11 A.M.-5.30 P.M. with lecture at 11.30 A.M.

Gabriel Paquette (The Johns Hopkins University)

5pm Friday 3 May 2013

REIMAGINING MODERNISM MAPPING THE CONTEMPORARY critical perspectives on transnationality in art 23-24 September 2013 at Churchill College

Mary Margaret McCabe on Philosophy in the Public Sphere

respondent: Constanze Guthenke

5pm Tuesday 7 May 2013

Ben Okri on Literature and the Nation

respondent: Malachi McIntosh

Convened by Luke Skrebowski (Department of History of Art) and More information and registration:

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Hu

5pm Thursday 9 May 2013 Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Devika Singh (Centre of South Asian Studies) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2073 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2072

Beyond the authority of the ‘text’: performance as paradigm, past and present

ed by Alison Sinclair (Spanish and Portugese) and Karen Arrandale (Clare Hall) with the support of H and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (Cambridge) and the Residencia de Estudiantes.

uesday 16 April 2013

Paper Cinema’s The Odyssey

ASSH · Alison Richard Building · 7 West Road · Cambridge CB3 9DT

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2071

ed by

istos Lynteris (CRASSH)

formation and online registration:

w.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2074

movement, space and the digital image Convened by Jenna Ng (CRASSH) Speakers include:

Alan Blackwell

Markos Hadjioaonnou

The Futures of Atlantic Intellectual History:

William Brown

Monique Ingalls

Themes, Methods, Disciplines

Sean Cubitt

Trond Lundemo

(Goldsmiths)

Participants include:

Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (Music, KCL) Andrew Webber (German, Cambridge) Sophie Seita (Drama & English, QMUL) Daniel Brine (Artistic Director, The Junction) Catherine Belsey (English, OU) Robin Kirkpatrick (Italian, Cambridge) Felix Budelmann (Classics, Oxford) Jonas Tinius (Anthropology, Cambridge) Richard Wentworth CBE (sculptor, Goldsmiths, RCA) Caroline Bergvall (performance artist) Lee Campbell (artist/lecturer, CSM/Loughborough) Henry Stead (poet; Classics, KCL) Helen Slaney (director; Classics, Oxford) Nic Rawling Paper Cinema Dialectics ofand Event and Process Hunt and Darton Performance Cafe CRASSH · Alison Richard Building · 7 West Road · Cambridge CB3 9DT

(Cambridge)

(Roehampton)

(Stockholm)

Seth Giddings

Lisa Purse

Asbjørn Grønstad

Aylish Wood

(Reading)

(West of England)

Friday 19 - Saturday 20 July 2013 at CRASSH Alison Richard Building · 7 West Road · Cambridge CB3 9DT

(Bergen)

(Kent)

More information and registration:

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2069 Joel Isaac (History) · Michael O’Brien (History) James T Kloppenberg (Harvard) · Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (Wisconsin-Madison) More information:

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2079

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2076

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Convened by

Convened and chaired by:

Clare Foster (Classics) Michael Hrebeniak (English) Simon Ryle (English, University of Split / Playwright)

(Duke)

(Cambridge)

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pidemic Crisis: The

day 21 - Saturday 22 June 2013

Connecting the Dots

The Junction · Cambridge

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ine registration:

Friday 12 April 2013 at CRASSH

Alison Richard Building · 7 West Road · Cambridge

Featuring a performance of

CLASSIFYING SEX DEBATING DSM-5

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Thursday 4 - Friday 5 July 2013 at CRASS

Alison Richard Building · 7 West Road · Cambridge · CB3 9D

Speakers includ

Jeffrey Weeks, Cynthia Graham, Eric Fassin, Ken Zucker, Zowie Davy, Simon Goldhill, Lisa Downing & Patricia Crittende

Sexual Divisions Study Group

@CRASSHlive #crassh

CRASSH

CRASSHpublicity

Convened b

Robbie Duschinsky (Social Work, Northumbria University) & Véronique Mottier (Sociology, Jesus Colleg

CRASSHlive