CRASSH, University of Cambridge: What’s On, Michaelmas Term 2017

MICHAELMAS 2017

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CRASSH will shortly be announcing a new international centre for the Humanities and Social Change with exciting funding opportunities for humanities-led research on technology and its social impact.

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Professor Simon Goldhill Director of CRASSH

WELCOME TO CRASSH

Welcome to a new year at CRASSH – and especially to JanMelissa Schramm, our new deputy director! This term starts things off in style. We have two new major projects starting.

Christopher Clarke’s ERC project is looking at what happens when qualitative and quantitative measures disagree. Can we find a way to deal with such differences without simply privileging one approach? This is a project that goes to the heart of so much social policy and government regulation.

The second major project is on Religious Diversity and University Responses. A modern university is committed to secular values in its research and teaching. What then should be its response to strongly held and expressed religious views? Look out for the summer school attached to this project. We are also welcoming some fascinating visitors. Michael Puett, the great Sinologist from Harvard, will be giving the CRASSH Impact lecture on China and policy. James Williams, winner of the new $100,000 Nine Dots Prize, will be here too, working on his book, Freedom and Persuasion in the Attention Economy: this should open some stirring and difficult debates, especially at the Festival of Ideas. And of course there is our usual programme of seminars and workshops, from Ageing and the City to Theologies of Reading to The Politics of Economics. See you there.

FESTIVAL OF IDEAS WHAT’S ON SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2017

25 SEPT Workshop Populists and Technocrats: Open Antagonisms, Hidden Affinities (Philomathia Forum)

3 OCT

9am – 6.30pm • Crausaz Wordsworth Building, Robinson College • Conspiracy and Democracy research project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27452 Register via email

12pm – 2pm • Room S1, ARB (Note change of venue) Bina Agarwal (Manchester) • In Search of 'Good' Energy Policy research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27398

3 OCT 25 SEPT Lecture Whither Technocracy? Experts between Policy and the Public Sphere

4 OCT 25 SEPT Lecture Nukes of Hazard

9 OCT

28 SEPT Lecture Climate, Africa and Governance at the Multilateral Development Banks 5.45pm – 7pm • Rooms SG1/SG2, ARB Nancy Birdsall (Center for Global Development, Washington DC) • Transformations in Global Economic Governance conference www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27366

Seminar Hermeneutics 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Andrew Bowie (Royal Holloway), Alison Scott-Baumann (SOAS) • Theologies of Reading research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27376

5.15pm – 6.45pm • Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College Heather Roff (Oxford) • Centre for the Study of Existential Risk www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27418

Rooms SG1/SG2, ARB • CRASSH Conference Programme www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27337

Seminar Artist’s Talk 5pm – 7pm • Room S1, ARB (Note change of venue) Robin the Fog (Sound Artist; Howlround) • Alchemical Landscape research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27432

5pm – 6.30pm • Room SG1, ARB Sebastian Mallaby (Journalist; Author) • Populists and Technocrats workshop www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27461

28 – 29 Conference SEPT Transformations in Global Economic Governance

Seminar What’s under the Pot? Rural Women and Cooking Energy in South Asia

Seminar The Strength of Social Ties and Cooperation 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB CRASSH Early Career Fellow Edoardo Gallo presents his work in progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27312 Register via email

10 OCT Seminar Living Apart Together: an Almshouse for the 21st Century 12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Stephen Witherford (Witherford Watson Mann Architects) • Ageing and the City research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27381

12pm – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB Dan Hausmann (Wisconsin-Madison) • Politics of Economics research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27419

10 OCT Seminar Art and Money Online in Retrospect 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Julian Stallabrass (Courtauld) • Digital Art research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27393

10 OCT Seminar Is God a Guy and Are Angels Girls?

5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB Andrew Hammond (Cambridge), Peterson Feital (KCL) • Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27389

11 OCT Seminar Paper Marbling 12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Hayrettin Kozanoglu (Artist), Mary Newbould (Cambridge) • Things research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27369

11 OCT Reading Group From Analogue to Aerial Surveillance: Reading the History of Political Imaging 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB • Power and Vision research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27423

16 OCT Seminar Circulations of Law: Trace, Translation, Trajectory 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB CRASSH Early Career Fellow Iza Hussin presents her work in progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27351 Register via email

16 OCT Seminar Translation and Poetry (Panel) 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB (Note change of venue) Peter Robinson (Poet; Translator), María Mencía (Kingston), Olivia McCannon (Poet; Translator) • Cambridge Conversations in Translation research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27385

17 OCT Seminar Comparison of Air Pollution Trends and Policies in London and Beijing 12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Jacqueline Lam (Cambridge; Hong Kong) • In Search of 'Good' Energy Policy research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27399

18 OCT Reading Group How Open Is Open Intellectual Property?

12pm – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB • Open Intellectual Property Models research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27427 Register for readings

FESTIVAL OF IDEAS WHAT’S ON OCTOBER 2017

10 OCT Seminar Why Do Rich People Love Austerity?

FESTIVAL OF OFIDEAS IDEAS / OCTOBER 2017

16 OCT Seminar Populism and Truth 6pm – 7.30pm • Fisher Building, St John’s College Tanya Filer (CRASSH), Hugo Drochon (CRASSH), Ayça Çubukçu (LSE), Nayanika Mathur (Oxford), Madeline Reeves (Manchester) • Conspiracy and Democracy research project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27456

18 OCT Seminar 'I Don’t Know It for a Fact, I Just Know It’s True': How Conspiracy Theories Stake Claims to Truth 6pm – 7.30pm • Fisher Building, St John’s College Andrew McKenzie-McHarg, Rachel Hofmann, Hugo Drochon, Hugo Leal, Alfred Moore (All CRASSH) • Conspiracy and Democracy research project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27407

21 OCT Workshop True to Nature: Seeing, Knowing and Drawing Fossils 11am – 12.30pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB Sachiko Kusukawa, Sietske Fransen, Katherine Reinhart, Judith Weik (All CRASSH) • Making Visible research project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27406

21 OCT Seminar Who to Trust about Your Health?

11am – 12.30pm • Room S1, ARB Anna Alexandrova (CRASSH), Gabriele Badano (CRASSH), Stephen John (CRASSH), Trenholme Junghans (CRASSH), Jacob Stegenga (HPS) • Limits of the Numerical research project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27410

21 OCT Seminar Who Believes in Conspiracy Theories?

1.30pm – 2.30pm • LG17, Faculty of Law Hugo Drochon (CRASSH) • Conspiracy and Democracy research project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27408

21 OCT Lecture Freedom and Persuasion in the Attention Economy 3.30pm – 4.30pm • LG17, Faculty of Law James Williams (CRASSH; Oxford) • Nine Dots Prize www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27409

21 OCT Seminar Policing Islam: What a Murder in Scotland Might Tell Us about the Boundaries of a Religion 5pm – 6pm • Rooms SG1/SG2, ARB Nicholas Evans (CRASSH) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27411

5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB David Foster (Benedictine Monk), Richard Irvine (Open University) • Theologies of Reading research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27377

23 OCT Seminar A Political Biography of Sanskrit 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow Ananya Vajpeyi presents her work in progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27350 Register via email

24 OCT Seminar Creating 'Age-Friendly Cities': Developing a New Urban Policy Agenda 12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Chris Phillipson (Manchester) • Ageing and the City research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27382

24 OCT Seminar Philosophy and Public Policy after Piketty 12pm – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB Martin O’Neil (York) • Politics of Economics research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27420

24 OCT Seminar Eastern Harmonies and Western Spaces 5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB Odissi Ensemble (Indian Classical Dance Troupe) • Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27390

24 OCT Reading Group Theorising Digital Art as Financial Technology 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Chris Phillipson (Manchester) • Digital Art research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27395

25 OCT Seminar Leather 12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Thomas Rusbridge (Birmingham), Philip Warner (National Leather Collection) • Things research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27372

25 OCT Film Screening Waltz with Bashir (2008) 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Ari Folman (Director) • Power and Vision research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27424

27 – 28 Workshop OCT Agriculture in the Anthropocene Rooms SG1/SG2, ARB • CRASSH Conference Programme www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27438

29 OCT Lecture Life 3.0 5pm – 7pm • Babbage Lecture Theatre Max Tegmark (MIT) • Centre for the Study of Existential Risk www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27416

30 OCT Seminar War beyond the Human 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB CRASSH Early Career Fellow Lauren Wilcox presents her work in progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27352 Register via email

FESTIVAL OF IDEAS WHAT’S ON OCTOBER 2017

18 OCT Seminar Lectio Divina

WHAT’S ON OCTOBER / NOVEMBER 2017 FESTIVAL OF IDEAS

31 OCT Seminar Derek Jarman, Alchemy and the Landscape of Dorset

7 NOV

5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Judith Noble (Plymouth College of Art) • Alchemical Landscape research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27434

31 OCT Lecture When the Elders of Zion Relocated in Eurabia

12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Stephen Hills (Housing, South Cambridgeshire District Council) • Ageing and the City research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27383

7 NOV

5pm – 6.30pm • Room SG1, ARB Reza Zia-Ebrahimi (KCL) • Conspiracy and Democracy research project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27453

1 NOV

1 NOV

Seminar Recitation and Memory

7 NOV

Seminar Matter and Similitude in Italian Painting and the Transatlantic Renaissance 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB ACLS Visiting Fellow Christopher Nygren presents his work in progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27313 Register via email

Reading Group Digital Art as Critical Medium of Exchange 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB • Digital Art research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27396

7 NOV

5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Mirina Paananen (Oxford), Tariq Moqbel (Cambridge) • Theologies of Reading research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27378

6 NOV

Seminar Bach and Bodies 5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB Jamie Hawkey (Cambridge), Margaret Faultles (Cambridge), Bettina Varwige (KCL) • Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27391

Reading Group Framing Open IP: Ownership, Economics, Governance and Equity 12pm – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB • Open Intellectual Property Models research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27429 Register for readings

Seminar Developing an Older People’s Housing Strategy in Cambridgeshire

Lecture Compositions in the Crossfire in Cities of the Near-South 5.15pm – 7pm • Large Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Downing Site AbdouMaliq Simone (Max Planck) • Smuts Memorial Lecture Series: Afterlives of the South www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27469

8 NOV

Seminar Feathers 12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Stefan Hans (Cambridge) • Things research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27371

Seminar The Production of Journalism and Fact-Making 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Alexia Singh (Save the Children; Reuters; Magnum), Eliot Higgins (Bellingcat; Brown Moses Blog) • Power and Vision research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27425

9 NOV

Lecture Compression and Inoperable Relations 5.15pm – 7pm • Large Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Downing Site AbdouMaliq Simone (Max Planck) • Smuts Memorial Lecture Series: Afterlives of the South www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27470

13 NOV Seminar Social Deference and British Political Thought in the Twentieth Century 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB CRASSH Early Career Fellow Samuel James presents his work in progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27356 Register via email

13 NOV Workshop Translation and Poetry 5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação (Cambridge), Jennifer Harris (Cambridge) • Cambridge Conversations in Translation research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27387

13 NOV Lecture Crossings and Corridors 5.15pm – 7pm • Large Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Downing Site AbdouMaliq Simone (Max Planck) • Smuts Memorial Lecture Series: Afterlives of the South www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27471

14 NOV Seminar Politics and Political Ecology of Charcoal in Uganda 12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Adam Branch (Cambridge) • In Search of 'Good' Energy Policy research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27402

14 NOV Seminar Merlin’s Isle: What If 'the Matter of Britain' Were the 'Matter' of Britain?

5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Malcolm Guite (Cambridge) • Alchemical Landscape research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27435

15 NOV Reading Group Open IP and Freedom to Operate, Innovate and Appropriate 12pm – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB • Open Intellectual Property Models research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27430 Register for readings

15 NOV Seminar Reading as Commentary 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Daniel Boyarin (California), Andrea Schatz (KCL) • Theologies of Reading research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27379

FESTIVAL OF IDEAS WHAT’S ON NOVEMBER 2017

8 NOV

WHAT’S ON NOVEMBER 2017 FESTIVAL OF IDEAS

17 – 18 Conference NOV The Afterlives of Cybernetics: Tracing the Information Revolution from the 1960s to Big Data Rooms SG1/SG2, ARB • CRASSH Conference Programme www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27439

20 NOV Seminar Ignaz Goldziher and the Rise of Islamwissenschaft 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB CRASSH Visiting Fellow David Moshfegh presents his work in progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27314 Register via email

21 NOV Seminar Planning for an Ageing Society in an Era of Austerity 12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Malcolm Tait (Sheffield) • Ageing and the City research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27384

21 NOV Seminar The Two Puzzles of Social Democracy: How It Confutes Market Doctrines 12pm – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB Avner Offer (Oxford) • Politics of Economics research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27422

21 NOV Seminar The Artist Leaving the Googleplex 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Andrew Norman Wilson (Artist) • Digital Art research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27397

21 NOV Seminar Performing Authority: The Gendered Lectern 5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB Sarah Coakley (Cambridge), Carmen-Helena Telltez (Notre Dame) • Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27392

21 NOV Lecture CRASSH Impact Lecture

by Michael Puett 5.15pm – 7pm • TBC Michael Puett (Harvard) • CRASSH Impact Lecture Series www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27472

22 NOV Seminar Precious Stones 12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Tom Blaen (Exeter), Silvia Weidenbach (V&A Gilbert Collection Resident; Independent Artist) • Things research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27370

22 NOV Film Screening Reconstructing the Effects of a Drone Strike 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Christina Varvia (Forensic Architecture) • Power and Vision research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27426

22 NOV In Conversation CRASSH Impact Conversation with Michael Puett 5.15pm – 7pm • TBC Michael Puett (Harvard) • CRASSH Impact Lecture Series www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27473

29 NOV Reading Group Responsible Governance of Open and Democratised Emerging Technologies

12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB CRASSH Visiting Fellow Gal Levy presents his work in progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27367 Register via email

27 NOV Translation Hub Translation and Poetry

12pm – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB • Open Intellectual Property Models research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27431 Register for readings

29 NOV Seminar Prosody 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Clive Scott (East Anglia), David Nowell-Smith (East Anglia) • Theologies of Reading research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27380

5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB • Cambridge Conversations in Translation research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27388

28 NOV Seminar Solar Energy, Skills Development and Employment Opportunities in India

29 NOV Lecture Meat, Monkeys and Mosquitoes 5.15pm – 7pm • Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College Laura H. Kahn (Princeton) • Centre for the Study of Existential Risk www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27413

12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Shailaja Fennell (Cambridge) • In Search of 'Good' Energy Policy research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27401

4 DEC 28 NOV Seminar Afterwords: Language, Cinema and Wandering 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Brian Baker (Lancaster) • Alchemical Landscape research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27436

28 NOV Lecture Political Institutions and Conspiracy Belief: Evidence from Surveys in Georgia and Kazakhstan 5pm – 6.30pm • Room SG1, ARB Scott Radnitz (Washington) • Conspiracy and Democracy research project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27467

Conference Ukraine and the Challenges of International Law Rooms SG1/SG2, ARB • CRASSH Conference Programme www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27437

7 DEC

Conference Elites and Democracy in Modern Political Thought Rooms SG1/SG2, ARB • CRASSH Conference Programme www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27394

11 – 12 Conference JAN Predictive Processing Rooms SG1/SG2, ARB • CRASSH Conference Programme www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27368

FESTIVAL OF IDEAS WHAT’S ON NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2017

27 NOV Seminar Striving for Citizenship: Struggles for Representation beyond Rights

CONFERENCES / WORKSHOPS Placard of Technocracy Inc. via Wikiwand.

Trip Higher by Thomas Hawk via Flickr.

25 SEPT Populists and Technocrats: Open Antagonisms, Hidden Affinities (Philomathia Forum Workshop)

28 – 29 SEPT Transformations in Global Economic Governance

This workshop aims to refine our understanding of both technocracy and populism by considering the relationship between them. An obvious tension often dominates our portrayal: populists speak to the heart while technocrats appeal to the mind by reframing political conflicts as technical problems. Our workshop will encourage a more nuanced assessment of this relationship.

This conference brings together leading scholars from various disciplines, including development economics, political science, geography and sociology, and encompasses various themes of relevance to global economic governance, including trade, finance and development. The conference will take a broad look at the shifting ground in the global economic governance architecture, and highlight the most promising avenues of inquiry for future research. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27337

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27452

CONFERENCES / WORKSHOPS

Farmer carrying out daily rainfall measurement, Indramayu, West Java, Indonesia. Photo by Rhino Ariefiansyah (Universitas Indonesia).

Cambridge Conversations in Translation research group. Image by artist Gurpran Rau.

27 – 28 OCT Agriculture in the Anthropocene

13 NOV Translation and Poetry (Cambridge Conversations in Translation Workshop)

The objective of this workshop is to address the question of 'adaptive capacity' in a much broader framework across a wide range of scales and empirical contexts. The workshop will bring together anthropologically-minded researchers in diverse areas of research, such as in the sciences, environmental economics, global studies, food and resource studies and human geography.

The notion of translatability frequently seems to defy the very essence of poetry since it is a literary medium in which meaning and structural form seem to be inextricably linked.

This workshop will focus on practical aspects of poetry translation in the 20th century, especially the role of the avant-garde, concrete poetry and French poetry.

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27438

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27387

CONFERENCES Research Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics, St. Petersburg, Russia. Photo by Richard Anderson via Architectuul.

Train station in Lviv, Ukraine. Photo by conference convenor Bohdan Tokarskyi (Cambridge).

17 – 18 NOV The Afterlives of Cybernetics: Tracing the Information Revolution from the 1960s to Big Data

4 DEC Ukraine and the Challenges of International Law: Annexation, Aggression, Cyber Warfare

This conference will contribute to a more thorough history of the present by providing insights into the enduring impact of mid-century techno-science on our contemporary information landscape. It aims to help us understand the antagonisms and synergies that animate the multiple offshoots of cybernetic thought, including operations research, AI, rational choice theory, predictive analysis, design thinking, behavioural economics and risk management. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27439

This conference seeks to address the complex set of pressing issues that international law and the international community have faced in view of a series of crises that have taken place on the territory of Ukraine since February 2014.

The conference will gather leading experts in international law, political science, information policy and cyber security.

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27437

CONFERENCES

Detail from Cicero Denounces Catiline (1889) by Cesare Maccari via Wikimedia Commons.

Cultured Rat Hippocampal Neuron. ZEISS Microscopy via Flickr.

7 DEC Elites and Democracy in Modern Political Thought

11 – 12 JAN 2018 Predictive Processing: Reconstructing the Mind?

The aim of this conference is to explore the issue of elites in democratic thought from the founding figures of 'elite theory' to the present.

Bringing together intellectual historians and political theorists, this will be the first conference devoted to charting the trajectory of this most pressing of political dilemmas from its modern inception in the late-nineteenth/early-twentieth century through today’s crises.

This conference will bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers to evaluate the theoretical and practical implications – and importance – of predictive processing and related ideas (such as the Bayesian brain hypothesis, the free-energy principle and the importance of 'top-down' influences on cognition more generally).

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27394

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27368

WHO’S HERE / FELLOWS

Angela Breitenbach (Philosophy/King’s, Cambridge) is a CRASSH/SCAS ProFutura Fellow. Her project is titled The Ideal of Unity: Regulative Principles in Science and Beyond.

CRASSH/SCAS ProFutura Fellow Helen Anne Curry (HPS/Churchill, Cambridge) is working on Endangered Maize: How a Ubiquitous Crop Plant Became a Global Conservation Concern.

Renaud Gagné (Classics/Pembroke, Cambridge) is a CRASSH/SCAS ProFutura Fellow. The main focus of his writing is the monograph Hyperborea: Excursions through the Overnorth.

CRASSH Early Career Fellow Edoardo Gallo (Faculty of Economics, Cambridge) examines how the structure of social networks causally affects individual behaviour and economic outcomes.

CRASSH Visiting Fellow Kyung Koo Han (Seoul National University) works on Beyond the Cold War: toward a Community of Asia, a CRASSH Research Project led by Heonik Kwon.

CRASSH/Clare Hall/ EURIAS Fellow Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild (Cologne) studies the intersections of music and philosophy as well as the history of science, knowledge and the emotions.

Iza Hussin (POLIS/ Pembroke, Cambridge) is a CRASSH Early Career Fellow. Her project Circulations of Law: Trace, Translation, Trajectory asks: How does law travel?

Samuel James (Christ’s College, Cambridge) is a CRASSH Early Career Fellow. His project is titled Social Deference and British Political Thought in the Twentieth Century.

CRASSH/SCAS ProFutura Fellow Hazem Kandil (Sociology/St Catharine’s, Cambridge) studies the military origins of freedom and oppression.

CRASSH Visiting Fellow Gal Levy (Open University, Israel) investigates the emergence, post 2011, of activists’ groups that challenge the neoliberal order.

David Moshfegh (IE University, Madrid) is a CRASSH/IE University Visiting Fellow. His manuscript project is titled Ignaz Goldziher and the Rise of Islamwissenschaft as a 'Science of Religion'.

CRASSH/ACLS Visiting Fellow Christopher Nygren (Pittsburgh) studies Renaissance paintings on stone, revealing new aspects of Renaissance picturemaking.

CRASSH/Charles Wallace India Trust Visiting Fellow Ananya Vajpeyi (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi) intends to write a political biography of Sanskrit.

CRASSH Early Career Fellow Lauren Wilcox (Gender Studies/POLIS, Cambridge) works on her second monograph tentatively entitled War beyond the Human.

Challenged to answer the question 'Are digital technologies making politics impossible?', James Williams (Oxford) won the inaugural Nine Dots Prize, a book deal with CUP and a Fellowship at CRASSH.

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES 2018-19 Applications Now Open

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FESTIVAL OF IDEAS WHO’S HERE / FELLOWS

CRASSH/British School at Rome Research Fellow Helena Phillips-Robins (MML, Cambridge) begins a new project on the use of tears in 13th and 14th-century Italian poetry.

The Alchemical Landscape

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On the front cover, the Egyptian Chameleon grasps a branch in leaf with fore-claws and tail. The branch bears an inscription in Latin: Hanc chamaeleonsis AEgyptiaci Iconem Delineabat R.Waller ad vivum quem possidebat Not. R.Boyl. Nov: 1686. We are grateful to the Royal Society and the CRASSH Research Project Making Visible: the Visual and Graphic Practices of the Early Royal Society for providing the following images: MS/131/003, Copyright © The Royal Society (Front Cover) and MS/131/038, Copyright © The Royal Society (Back Cover).

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