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
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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