What's On at CRASSH: Michaelmas 2016

MICHAELMAS 2016

WHAT’S ON & WHO’S HERE

CONTENTS

CRASSH at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas Seminars Reading Groups Conferences Public Lectures Visiting Fellows

3 4 11 12 17 18 In Waking Hours Still from 'In Waking Hours' © Katrien and Sarah Vanagt

CRASSH hosts the following major research projects. Full information can be found on our website: • • • • • • • • • • •

ible and Antiquity in 19th-Century Culture B Conspiracy and Democracy: History, Political Theory, Internet Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of Literature Early Modern Conversions: Religions, Cultures, Cognitive Ecologies Genius Before Romanticism: Ingenuity in Early Modern Art and Sciences Limits of the Numerical Making Visible: The Visual and Graphic Practices of the Early Royal Society Technology and Democracy The Centre for Study of Existential Risk The Concept Lab Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic

22 OCT LANGUAGE, MOVEMENT AND MIGRATION Translator and literary critic Ángel Gurría-Quintana talks about the challenges of translating into English Dulce Maria Cardoso’s The Return, an award-winning novel about the white colonists forced to flee Angola after its independence from Portugal.

11am–12pm, Alison Richard Building www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27004

22 OCT BLOOD DATA: THE ETHICS OF

OUR BIG DATA SOCIETY This panel raises questions about the costs of the big data society in which we live. From the manufacturing of the devices that collect this data, the environmental consequences of e-waste and to the ubiquitisation of surveillance, the panel encourages critical questions about our society’s increasing entanglement with big data.

3:30pm–4:30pm, Alison Richard Building www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27016

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On the cover: 'View from the Window at Le Gras', Nicéphore Niépce 1826/7, the oldest surviving camera photograph

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22 OCT IN WAKING HOURS In this evocative film historian Katrien Vanagt and filmmaker Sarah Vanagt follow the experiment of the seventeenth-century physician Plempius to create a perfect image of the world through a cow’s eye.

11am–12pm, Seminar Room SG1/2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26931

22 OCT WHO OWNS MY BODY? Ruth Jackson discusses the individual right to act, move and work as one pleases from a theological perspective.

4pm–5pm, Alison Richard Building www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27000

FESTIVAL IDEAS CRASSH ATOFTHE CAMBRIDGE FESTIVAL OF IDEAS

FESTIVAL OF IDEAS WHAT'S ON

Convened by Yvonne Salmon and James Riley

4 OCT

Nigel Pennick (Author) 5pm–7pm, Seminar Room S2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26973

18 OCT Jarman and Cocteau: A Shared Vision James Mackay (Film producer)

This year's groups are: • Alchemical Landscape • Conversations in Translation • Cybernetics and Society • Decolonising the Curriculum in Theory and Practice • Embodied Things • Ethics of Big Data • Images of Care and Dying • In Search of 'Good' Energy Policy • Performance Network • Photography Between Invisibility and Unseen • Politics and Paradoxes of Transparency

5pm–7pm, Seminar Room SG2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26974

1 NOV

Witch Hunt Delaine Le Bas (Artist) 5pm–7pm, Seminar Room SG2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26975

15 NOV Breathing Spaces: The Smell of

Britain’s National Parks Rosemary Shirley (Manchester) 5pm–7pm, Seminar Room SG2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26976

21 NOV Landscape, Dwelling and Site-

Specific Practice

For more information on the Graduate/Faculty programme, the 2017-18 funding competition, contact gradfac@crassh.cam.ac.uk 4

The Other Cambridge: Ley Hunting, Local Identity, The Land of Cokaygne and The Institute of Geomantic Research, 1966-1986

Stephen Bottoms (Manchester), Yvonne Salmon (Cambridge) 5pm–7pm, Seminar Room SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26969 The Alchemical Landscape image: Yvonne Salmon

FESTIVAL SEMINARS OF IDEAS

SEMINARS

The CRASSH Graduate/Faculty seminars programme supports groups of graduate students and faculty members working together with a common interdisciplinary research interest. Since its inception in 2006, we have hosted 50 groups with an annual competition to apply for funding (opening in January 2017 for the 2017-18 academic year)

ALCHEMICAL LANDSCAPE

looks at the artistic representation of the British landscape as an uncanny/haunted space, and the use of comparable ‘spectral’ language to speak about matters of environment, property and value.

Alfredo Modenessi (UNAM, Mexico) 12pm–2pm, Seminar Room SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26900

CRASSH FELLOWS WORK-INPROGRESS seminars are presented by CRASSH visiting fellows and early career fellows, discussing recent work.

Conversations in Translation Image: Gurpran Rau

CONVERSATIONS IN TRANSLATION is a forum in which anyone and everyone with an active interest in translation can meet to exchange ideas about this rich and complex subject.

Delia Chiaro (Bologna), Graeme Ritchie (Aberdeen)

12:30pm–2pm, CRASSH www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26813

Early Career Fellow Sarah Haggarty presents her work in progress.

12:30pm—2pm, CRASSH www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26840

TMP DATE

Catherine Boyle (KC London), Cristina Marinetti (Cardiff), Carole- Anne Upton (Middlesex)

12:30pm–2pm, CRASSH Meeting Room www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26921

21 NOV From Across the Genkai Sea ACLS Visiting Fellow Samuel Perry presents his work in progress 12:30pm–2pm, CRASSH www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26808

28 NOV Hierarchy as Hope Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Anastasia Piliavsky presents her work in progress

19 OCT Research Group Launch Kehinde Andrews (Birmingham), Kerem Nisancioglu (SOAS), Sarah Radcliffe (Cambridge) 12pm–2pm, Seminar Room SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26978

2 NOV Experiences from Latin America Antonio Sergio Guimaraes (São Paulo), Rosaleen Howard (Newcastle), David Lehmann (Cambridge) 12–2pm, Seminar Room SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26979

16 NOV Pedagogy Workshop.

Decolonising Pedagogies or

Decolonising the Mind?

Debbie Epstein (Roehampton), Sharon Walker (Cambridge) 12pm–2pm, Seminar Room SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26980

30 NOV Lessons from South Asia Subir Sinha (SOAS) 12pm–2pm, Seminar Room SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26983

12:30pm–2pm, CRASSH www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27001

Conversions Fellow Jennifer Rampling presents her work in progress.

DECOLONISING THE CURRICULUM IN THEORY AND PRACTICE focuses on one particular aspect of today’s demand to decolonise the university: the curriculum.

12:30pm–2pm, CRASSH Meeting Room www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26965

1 NOV

The Ottoman Translation Movement: Language and Legitimacy in Early Modern Ottoman Lands Early Career Fellow Helen Pfeifer presents her work in progress.

24 OCT The Conversion of Matter:

Alchemical Image-Making in

England, 1450-1650

Carol O'Sullivan (Bristol)

Translation and Drama (Panel)

14 NOV

17 OCT Religious Writing, Pre-

modernity and the Temporality

of Action

24 OCT Translation and Humour (Workshop)

7 NOV

12:30pm—2pm, CRASSH www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26803

Early Career Fellow Asif Hameed presents his work in progress.

2pm–4pm, Seminar Room SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26897

2pm–4pm, Seminar Room SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26898

CRASSH Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow, Bina Gandhi Deori, presents her work in progress

10 OCT Parliament and Human Rights

Convened by Angeles Carreres, Monica Boria, Maria NoriegaSánchez and Marcus Tomalin.

10 OCT Translation and Humour (Panel)

7 NOV Activating the North-East Indian

Ethnography Collections in

Cambridge Archives and Museums

The Antiquities Trade in 19th- century Greece Early Career Fellow Yannis Galanakis presents his work in progress.

Convened by Adam Branch, Manali Desai, Monica Moreno Figuero and Arathi Sriprakash.

12:30pm—2pm, CRASSH www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26816

2–4pm, Seminar Room SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26899

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Decolonising the Curriculum Image: www.clker.com

FESTIVAL OF IDEAS SEMINARS

FESTIVAL TMP SEMINARS TITLE OF IDEAS

21 NOV Translation and Drama (Workshop)

IN SEARCH OF ‘GOOD’ ENERGY POLICY focuses on energy policy from an interdisciplinary perspective and examines which might constitute ‘good’ energy policy.

Jacqueline Nichols (Independent artist), Daniel Jütte (CRASSH/NYU) 12pm–2pm, Seminar Room SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26880

23 NOV Knowledge

Convened by Isabelle de Wounters, Robert Doubleday, Michael Pollitt, Shafiq Ahmed, Raheela Rehman.

Michael Wheeler (Stirling), Gunther Rolf Kress MBE (UCL) 12pm–2pm, Seminar Room SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26881

4 OCT

ETHICS OF BIG DATA examines the ethical issues raised by a datadriven society.

Paul Warde (Cambridge) 12:30pm–2pm, Seminar Room S1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26954

Images of Care and Dying Still from 'The Time to Die' by Nicola Stockley

Embodied Things Image: Heidi Coburn

Convened by Anne Alexander, Clare Dyer-Smith, Ella McPherson, Richard Milne, Julia Powles and Jatinder Singh.

EMBODIED THINGS is a comprehensive examination of how studying material culture through the lens of embodiment facilitates a deeper understanding of objects and their use, and of humanity’s historical interactions with ‘things’.

17 OCT Surveillance and Employment

Relations in a Data-Saturated Society

Convened by Stephanie Azzarello, Abigail Gomulkiewicz and Annie Thwaite.

31 OCT Managed by an Algorithm? The

Rise of 'On-Demand Working'

and the 'Gig Economy'

5 OCT Encounters Marta Ajmar (V&A Museum), Roger Kneebone (London)

TMP DATE

12pm–2pm, Seminar Room SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26878

26 OCT Armour Victoria Bartels (Cambridge)

IMAGES OF CARE & DYING offers a genuinely innovative interdisciplinary conversation focused around the themes of desire, responsiveness and representation – each of which is needed and difficult in a palliative care context.

David Renton (Garden Court Chambers)

Convened by Emma Wilson, Stephan Barclay, Robbie Duschinsky and Lauren Milden.

2pm–4pm, Seminar Room SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26927

26 OCT Images of Care and Dying

seminar one

18 OCT The Highway Boom: Politics,

Energy demand and Emissions

in China Kun-Chin Lin (Cambridge) 12:30pm–2pm, Seminar Room SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26955

1 NOV

Sino-Russian Oil and Gas Cooperation: Where it stands and how far can it go?

Keun-Wook Paik (Oxford) 12:30pm–2pm, Seminar Room SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26956

15 NOV Investigating Cultures of

Community Energy

Ala'a Shehabi (The Work Foundation), Valerio De Stefano (ILO)

Nicola Stockley (Filmmaker), Derek Fraser (Chaplain)

Rebecca Willis (Independent researcher)

2pm–4pm, Seminar Room SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26928

5pm–7pm, McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26909

12:30pm–2pm, Seminar Room SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26957

14 NOV The Quantified Self at Work Phoebe Moore (Middlesex) 2pm–4pm, Seminar Room SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26929

9 NOV

Images of Care and Dying seminar two Bee Wee (End of Life Care), Anna Elsner (Zurich) 5pm–7pm, McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26910

12pm–2pm, Seminar Room SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26879

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The History of Prediction and Energy Systems of the Future

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29 NOV Europe's Energy Security in

the Wake of TTIP and Brexit: A

Legal Perspective Anna Marhold (Tilburg, Netherlands) 12:30pm–2pm, Seminar Room SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26958

FESTIVAL SEMINARS OF IDEAS

FESTIVAL TMP TITLE OF IDEAS SEMINARS

9 NOV Passageways

Convened by Neylan Bagcioglu, Jack Belloli, Rozelle Bosch, Yesim Yildiz and Rachel Stroud.

10 OCT Shakespeare: Translating,

Adapting, Inhabiting Simon Palfrey (Oxford), Enza Francisci (UCL) 5pm–7pm, Seminar Room SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26966

24 OCT Performance and Wellbeing Amanda Kelleher (Professional Clown), Jane Rich (Cambridge Community Arts), John Harper (Founder of Rize) 5pm–7pm, Seminar Room SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26967

7 NOV

Performing Cities Lizzie Richardson (Durham), Michael Hrebeniak (Cambridge) 5pm–7pm, Seminar Room SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26968

PHOTOGRAPHY BETWEEN INVISIBILITY AND THE UNSEEN is focussed on aesthetic, affective, semantic, evidential, and political aspects of photography studies and their entanglements.

Convened by Christos Lynteris, Francois Penz, Branwyn Poleykett and Rupert Stasch.

19 OCT Unlocking Le Corbusier's

Photographic Eye Tim Benton (Open University)

18 OCT Cybernetics and Society

Andrew Pickering (Exeter) 12pm–2pm, Seminar Room SG2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26993

26 OCT The Politics and Paradoxes of Transparency Fact-checking and the Production of Political Knowledge 12pm–2pm, Seminar Room SG2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26892

1 NOV

Cybernetics and Society

The Liberal Effect: System-Cybernetic Governmentality during the Cold War

Egle Rindzeviciute (Kingston University)

4pm–6pm, Seminar Room SG2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26985

2 NOV Anthropology, Fieldwork and Photography Anita Herle (Cambridge) 2:30pm–4:30pm, Seminar Room SG2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26986

9 NOV Unseen therefore Untold: Notes

from the Architectural Press Archive Marco Iuliano (Liverpool) 2:30pm–4:30pm, Seminar Room SG2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26987

12pm–2pm, Seminar Room SG2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26994

15 NOV Cybernetics and Society Design for a Brain and the Humanity of the Non-Human 12pm–2pm, Seminar Room SG2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26995

23 NOV The Politics and Paradoxes of Transparency Democratising Expertise? Open Source Knowledge Production by Civil Society 2:30pm–4:30pm, Seminar Room S2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26992

16 NOV Intimacy and the participatory

'plongée': Henri Gaden, West

Africa, 1894-1939 Roy Dilley (St Andrews) 2:30pm–4:30pm, Seminar Room SG2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26988

29 NOV Cybernetics and Society Modelling the Complex Dynamics

of Modern Economies

12pm–2pm, Seminar Room SG2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26996

30 NOV Photographs, Monuments and

Making of 'Public Histories':

Britain 1850-1930 Elizabeth Edwards FBA 2:30pm–4:30pm, Seminar Room SG2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26989

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FESTIVAL GROUPS OF IDEAS READING

FESTIVAL SEMINARS OF IDEAS

PERFORMANCE NETWORK brings together people from a wide variety of disciplines in Cambridge and beyond who are engaging with performance as a concept, from music and literary studies to anthropology, architecture and medicine.

FESTIVAL OF IDEAS CONFERENCES

CONFERENCES

CRASSH runs numerous conferences annually which showcase arts, social sciences and humanities research in action.

Image: 'Traumgesict' (1525) Albrecht DĂźrer

Image: 'The Astronomer' (1668) Johannes Vermeer

10 NOV Epistemic Images in Early

Modern Germany

and its Neighbours

25 NOV Matter at the Crossroads:

Literature and Natural

Philosophy in Early Modern England

This workshop is part of the Epistemic Images in Early Modernity Research Project, funded by the Cambridge-DAAD Research Hub and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. The project examines how and why images came to play such a decisive role in the production of new knowledge in early modernity.

We will issue a call for applications for CRASSH conference funding for events in 2017-18 in November 2016 For information on any of our conferences or the conference funding scheme, contact conferences@crassh.cam.ac.uk 12

Two day conference Leslie Stephens Room, Trinity Hall College www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26883

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This conference explores the intersections between Natural Philosophy and Literature. Part of Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of Literature, a five-year ERC-funded project.

One day conference Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall College www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26984

FESTIVAL OF IDEAS CONFERENCES

FESTIVAL OF IDEAS CONFERENCES Image: Fernanda B. Viégas (via Flickr)

28 NOV

The Ethics of Using Machine Learning in Professional Practice: Perspectives from Journalism, Law and Medicines Exploring ethical questions raised by the growing use of machine learning in processes of information discovery, analysis and decisionmaking.

12pm–5pm, Seminar Room SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26930

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Image: Optical diagram of the eye © Wellcome Library

2 DEC Diagrammatic: Beyond Inscription?

This conference explores the interdisciplinary, shared traits of diagrammatic thinking to go beyond the notion of simplification, of drawing information together; which forms the usual analytical ground for understanding syntactic visualizations in the sciences and humanities.

Image: Visitors at the mausoleum of the poet Hafez, Shiraz, Iran Simon Wolfgang Fuchs

9 DEC

Global Muslim Encounters: Homogenisation and Diversity across Time and Space This conference analyses how Muslim travellers, scholars, state officials and migrant workers made sense of radically different forms of practical piety and religious thought they encountered while being on the move.

Two day conference Alison Richard Building www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26819

Two day conference Alison Richard Building www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26782

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Image: Patterned Door at the Mosque of Sultan Hassan Ahmed Al Badawy (via Flickr)

13 DEC New Directions in the

Evolutionary Social Sciences Gathering together researchers at the cutting edge of the evolutionary social sciences field to open dialogues on the as-yet unanswered issues at the heart of the fields of social sciences and cultural evolution.

Two day conference Alison Richard Building www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26934

André Krischer (Münster) 5pm–6:30pm, SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26895

3 NOV Will End-to-End Encryption Be Outlawed?

Speaker TBC 5pm–7pm, SG1/SG2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26997

9 NOV The Politics and Paradoxes of Transparency Speaker TBC 12pm–2pm, SG2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26893

15 NOV Conspiracy in the Kremlin: Who

(or what) killed Felix Dzerzhinsky?

Iain Lauchlan (Edinburgh) 5pm–6:30pm, SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26895

22 NOV The Conspiratorial World of

European Politics in the 1820s 5pm–6:30pm, SG1 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26894 Image: 'Busker at the Berlin Wall' Cathy Griffiths (cathygphotography.co.uk)

24 NOV Rise of the Machines - potential

or peril?

Speaker TBC

12 JAN After the Soviet Collapse:

Transformations in the music

and culture of the new post-

Soviet states and Eastern Europe Focusing on music and the arts, this conference brings together unique stories of transformation from these vastly different regions, to draw out emerging patterns and trends.

5pm–7pm, SG1/SG2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26998

1 DEC

Speaker TBC 5pm–7pm, SG1/SG2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26999

Two day conference Alison Richard Building www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26933

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Artificial Intelligence and the Rule of Law - disruption or end of the legal profession?

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FESTIVAL OF IDEAS PUBLIC LECTURES

FESTIVAL OF IDEAS CONFERENCES

11 OCT Between Diabolical Instigations

and Criminal Combinations

• CRASSH/SCAS/Profutura Fellowship 2018 – 21 (deadline: 31 October 2016) • Quentin Skinner Fellowship in Modern Intellectual History 2017 – 18 (deadline: 31 October 2016) • CRASSH Early Career Fellowship 2017 – 18 (deadline: 11 November 2016) • Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship 2017 – 18 (deadline: 11 November 2016) • Conversions in the Early Modern Period 2017 – 18 (deadline: 11 November 2016) • Crausaz Wordsworth Interdisciplinary Fellowship in Philosophy 2017 – 18 (deadline: 11 November 2016)

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Sarah Haggarty, CRASSH Early Career Fellow, is researching ‘Religious writing, pre-modernity and the temporality of action’.

Asif Hameed, CRASSH Early Career Fellow, is working on a political philosophy and political science project about Parliament, Law and Legislation.

Nour Adel, CRASSH Visiting Fellow, is researching how to set up a model of several financial ratios which will help to forecast the financial failure of UK cross-border acquisitions.

Ananay Aguilar, Mellon Teaching Fellow, is convening a series of seminars entitled ‘Academia meets industry: creating long-term collaborations’.

Daniel Jütte, CRASSH/ Clare Hall/Eurias Fellow, is working on a project ‘Transparency: The Cultural History of an Idea’.

Samuel Perry, ACLS Visiting Fellow, is writing a new monograph about Japanese culture during the Korean war entitled ‘From Across the Genkai Sea’.

Daniel Barbu CRASSH Visiting Fellow, is working on a project entitled ‘Religious Polemics and the History of Religions: the Case of Toledoth Yeshu’.

Lionel Bently, Mellon Teaching Fellow, is convening a series of seminars entitled ‘Academia meets industry: creating long-term collaborations’.

Helen Pfeifer, CRASSH Early Career Fellow, is working on ‘The Ottoman Translation Movement: Language and Legitimacy in Early Modern Ottoman Lands’.Catherine Pickstock, Mellon Teaching Fellow

Catherine Pickstock, Mellon Teaching Fellow, is convening a series of seminars entitled ‘Gesture, Perception and Event’.

Bina Gandhi Deori, Charles Wallace India Fellow, is conducting research on ‘Activating the North-East Indian ethnography collections in Cambridge archives and museums’.

Yannis Galanakis, CRASSH Early Career Fellow, is researching the antiquities trade in 19th century Greece.

Jennifer Rampling, Conversions Visiting Fellow, is working on ‘The Conversion of Matter: Alchemical Image-Making in England, 1450-1650’.

Heather Webb, Mellon Teaching Fellow, is convening a series of seminars entitled ‘Gesture, Perception and Event’.

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FESTIVAL OF IDEAS VISITING FELLOWS

FESTIVAL OF IDEAS VISITING FELLOWS

CRASSH has many visiting and teaching fellows each term. Currently, we are taking applications for the following fellowships; visit www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/applications for full information:

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities University of Cambridge Alison Richard Building 7 West Road Cambridge CB3 9DT +44(0) 1223 766886 enquiries@crassh.cam.ac.uk www.crassh.cam.ac.uk @CRASSHlive facebook.com/CRASSHcambridge