& WHO’S HERE
LENT 2017
WHAT’S ON
CRASSH AT A GLANCE
CRASSH Research Projects • • • • • • • • • • • •
Bible and Antiquity in 19th-Century Culture China in a Global World War II 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
CRASSH Graduate and Faculty Research Groups • • • • • • • • • • •
Cambridge Conversations in Translation Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network Cybernetics and Society Decolonising the Curriculum in Theory and Practice Embodied Things: Histories of Cognition, Practices, & Theories Ethics of Big Data Images of Care and Dying In Search of 'Good' Energy Policy Photography between Invisibility and the Unseen The Alchemical Landscape The Politics and Paradoxes of Transparency
cover image: www.offlimitsphotos.com
You’ll see in the pages that follow that CRASSH starts 2017 with a rich menu of topical and thought-provoking events, along with the occasional welcome distraction from current anxieties. There’s sure to be something to appeal to all tastes and we hope to see you here this term. As ever, much will be recorded so if you can’t show up in person, check the website for films or podcasts of favourite speakers. As is fitting at the start of a new year, we’re very pleased to welcome three new major research collaborations beginning at CRASSH in the next few months. In a project led by Professor Heonik Kwon (Trinity College/CRASSH) entitled Beyond the Cold War: Towards a Community of Asia, a team of international investigators from Korea, Singapore and Europe will examine the evolution of East Asia’s political modernity during the Cold War. Professor Simon Goldhill heads up a new Andrew W Mellon funded project on Religion, Diversity and University Responses which will be a multidisciplinary examination of the interplay between religion, secularism, and the role of the university. Dr Christopher Clarke has been awarded an ERC starter grant to look at the role of quantitative and qualitative social science and the development of good public policy. We look forward to the activities of these projects appearing in future editions of our What’s On guide. Our busiest conference term sees ten conferences ranging across disciplines, time periods and topics, from investigations of the intersection of natural philosophy and literature in the early modern period to questions of how ‘power’ is changing in a networked world. (A reminder that the deadline for this year’s conference support competition is at the end of January.) The weekly seminars run by our eleven research groups keep the conversations flowing throughout the term. Finally, if you’ve been ruminating about the question posed by the inaugural Nine Dots Prize, Are Digital Technologies Making Politics Impossible?, there’s still a bit of time to polish up submissions. The $100,000 prize is sponsored by the Kadas Prize Foundation with support from CRASSH and Cambridge University Press. The deadline for submitting is midnight on Tuesday 31 January and the winner will be announced in May 2017. Simon Goldhill, Director
FESTIVAL OF IDEAS WHAT'S ON JANUARY 2017
23 JAN Seminar Freedom of Expression and the Future of European Data Protection
The Politics and Paradoxes of Transparency Image by Kit (The World’s Greatest Detective)
10 JAN Symposium Philology in the 19th Century: Ideals, Traditions, Methods
9.30am – 5.00pm • St John’s College Bible and Antiquity research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27088
17 JAN Seminar The Landscape as Oracle- Astrology and the Enchanted Cosmos
5pm – 7pm • Room SG2 Prudence Jones (Author) • Alchemical Landscape research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27076
17 JAN
Seminar The New Institutional Economics of Chinese Power Sector Reform
12.30pm – 2pm • Room SG1 Michael Pollitt (JBS Cambridge) • In Search of ‘Good’ Energy Policy research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26959
18 JAN Seminar Portraits, Characters and Persons 2.30pm – 4.30pm • Room SG2 Marilyn Strathern (Cambridge) • Photography between Invisibility and the Unseen research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27090
23 JAN Seminar Translation and Technology 2.00pm – 4.00pm • Room SG1
Adrià de Gispert and Marcus Tomalin (Cambridge) • Conversations in Translation research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26901
12.30pm – 2.00pm • CRASSH Meeting Room Early Career Fellow David Erdos presents his work in progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27038 23 JAN Seminar Identities in Popular Performance 5.00pm – 7.00pm • Seminar Room SG1 Ross Cole (Cambridge), Broderick Chow (Brunel, London) • Performance Network research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27063
24 JAN Seminar Seminar 3: Images of Care and Dying
5.00pm – 7.00pm • Rooms SG1/SG2 Stephen Barclay (Cambridge), Steven Eastwood (QMUL) • Images of Care and Dying research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26911
25 JAN Seminar Collecting
12.00pm – 2.00pm • Seminar Room SG1 Sean Silver (Michigan), Ruth Scurr (Cambridge) • Embodied Things: Histories of Cognition, Practices, and Theories research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27067
30 JAN Seminar Understanding Empire in the Nineteenth Century
12.30pm – 2.00pm • CRASSH Meeting Room Early Career Fellow Nicholas Guyatt presents his work in progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27039 Register via email
30 JAN Seminar Locating the Cloud in Sweden’s North
2.00pm – 4.00pm • Seminar Room SG1 Asta Vonderau (Stockholm) • Ethics of Big Data research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27071
8 FEB Seminar Crowdsourcing Corporate Transparency
5.00pm – 7.00pm • Seminar Room SG2 Martin Zebracki (Leeds) • Alchemical Landscape research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27077
12.00pm – 2.00pm • Seminar Room SG2 Richard Mills (Cambridge), Milena Marin (Amnesty) • Politics and Paradoxes of Transparency research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27084
31 JAN Seminar Ethics and Energy
8 FEB Seminar Curiosities
12.30pm – 2.00pm • Seminar Room SG1 Simon Caney (Oxford) • In Search of ‘Good’ Energy Policy research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26960
1 FEB Seminar Racism and Emotions in Knowledge-Encounters 12.00pm – 2.00pm • Seminar RoomSG1
Mónica Moreno Figueroa (Cambridge) • Decolonising the Curriculum in Theory and Practice research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27098
6 FEB
12.00pm – 2.00pm • Site visit to UL Jill Whitelock (UL) • Embodied Things: Histories of Cognition, Practices, and Theories research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27068
13 FEB
Seminar The Growth of Internet Services and Energy Demand – Is There a Limit?
2.00pm – 4.00pm • Seminar Room SG1 Mike Hazas (Lancaster) • Ethics of Big Data research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27072
Workshop Translation and Technology
2.00pm – 4.00pm • Seminar Room SG1 Andrew Rothwell (Swansea) • Conversations in Translation research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26902
6 FEB Seminar Performing the Passion: Women’s Religious and Creative Acts of Prayer 5.00pm – 7.00pm • Seminar Room SG1 Ayla Lepine (Essex), Heather Webb (Cambridge) • Performance Network research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27064
6 FEB
Seminar Language and Riverscape in Indigenous Brazil
12.30pm – 2.00pm • CRASSH Meeting Room ACLS Visiting Fellow Christopher Ball presents his work in progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27040 Register via email
Conspiracy and Democracy project
FESTIVAL OF IDEAS WHAT'S ON JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2017
31 JAN Seminar Online Mediated Geographies of Public Art: The Case of Paul McCarthy’s Tree Installation
FESTIVAL OF IDEAS WHAT'S ON FEBRUARY 2017
13 FEB Seminar Troubling Enlightenment
12.30pm – 2.00pm • CRASSH Meeting Room Visiting Fellow Alexander Regier presents his work in progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27042
14 FEB
Lecture The Great Fear: Intelligence and Threat Perception under Lenin and Stalin
5.00pm – 6.30pm • Seminar Room SG1 James Harris (Leeds) • Conspiracy and Democracy project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27078
14 FEB Seminar Inherent Inconsistency of EU Energy Policymaking
12.30pm – 2.00pm • Seminar Room SG1 Oliver Geden (German Institute for International and Security Affairs) • In Search of ‘Good’ Energy Policy research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26961
15 FEB
Seminar From Makerere 1962 to Cape Town 2015: Decolonising African Higher Education
15 FEB
Seminar 9% of the Lunar Surface between Visibility and Invisibility, and Stereoscopic Lunar Photography
12.00pm – 2.00pm • Seminar Room SG1 Adam Cooper (Cape Town), Michael Eze and Njoki Wamai (Cambridge) • Decolonising the curriculum in Theory and Practice www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27099
2.30pm – 4.30pm • Seminar Room SG2 Carmen Pérez González (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) • Photography Between Invisibility and the Unseen research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27092
20 FEB Seminar Translation and Censorship 2.00pm – 4.00pm • Seminar Room SG1
Francesca Billiani (Manchester), Federico Federici (UCL), Rory Finnin (Cambridge) • Conversations in Translation research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26903
20 FEB Seminar The Late Walter Benjamin
5.00pm – 7.00pm • Drama Studio, Faculty of English Fred Dalmasso (L’borough), John Schad (Lancaster) • Performance Network research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27065
20 FEB Seminar The Danube in Late Antiquity
12.30pm – 2.00pm • CRASSH Meeting Room Early Career Fellow Susanne Hakenbeck presents her work in progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27041
Cybernetics and Society Image: CC: Zeiss Microscopy
10.30am – 4.00pm • Beves Room, King’s College • Bible and Antiquity research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27105 27 FEB Seminar
What’s in My Stuff?
27 FEB
Seminar Religious Polemics and the History of Religions: The Case of Toledoth Yeshu
Mutant Cinema, Alchemy and Dreams: The Visionary Films of D. Fawcett & C. Pais
28 FEB
Seminar The Family as Machine: Film, Infrastructure and Cybernetic Kinship in Suburban America
2.00pm – 4.00pm • Seminar Room SG1 Maria Hanson, Karen Vernon-Parry (Sheffield Hallam University) • Ethics of Big Data research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27095
The Bible and Antiquity in 19th-Century Culture Image: 'Prayer', George Frederic Watts, Manchester Art Gallery, CC BY-NC-ND licence
21 FEB Lecture The Dirty War in History and Memory Federico Finchelstein (New York)
5.00pm – 6.30pm • Seminar Room SG1 Conspiracy and Democracy project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27079
22 FEB
Seminar Politics of Personalised Insurance Pricing in the Age of Wearable Devices: Big Data, Transparency and Solidarity
12.00pm – 2.00pm • Seminar Room SG2 Liz McFall (Open University), Dan Wilson (Cambridge) • Politics and Paradoxes of Transparency research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27085
22 FEB Seminar Dress
12.00pm – 2.00pm • Seminar Room SG1 Rebecca Unsworth (QMUL/V&A), Elizabeth Currie (Central Saint Martins) • Embodied Things: Histories of Cognition, Practices and Theories research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27069
12.30pm – 2.00pm • CRASSH Meeting Room Visiting Fellow Daniel Barbu presents his work in progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27043 28 FEB Seminar
5.00pm – 7.00pm • Seminar Room SG2 Daniel Fawcett and Clara Pais • Alchemical Landscape research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27080
12.00pm – 1.30pm • Seminar Room SG2 Bernard Geoghagen (Coventry) • Cybernetics and Society research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27104
28 FEB Seminar Energy Transitions in the 20th Century 12.30pm – 2.00pm • Seminar Room SG1
Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck, London) • In Search of ‘Good’ Energy Policy research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26962
FESTIVAL OF IDEAS WHAT'S ON FEBRUARY 2017
23 FEB Symposium Theologies of Reading in the Nineteenth Century
WHAT'S ON MARCH 2017 FESTIVAL OF IDEAS
1 MAR
Seminar Decolonising the Disciplines
12.00pm – 2.00pm • Seminar Room SG1 Meera Sabaratnam (SOAS), Ipek Demir (Leicester) • Decolonising the Curriculum in Theory and Practice research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27101
1 MAR
Seminar Realisms and Indexicalities of Photographic Propositions
2.30pm – 4.30pm • Seminar Room SG2 Chris Ball (Notre Dame/CRASSH) • Photography Between Invisibility and the Unseen research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27093
3 – 4 Conference MAR Crossroads of Knowledge: Early Modern Literature and Natural Philosophy
Times TBC • Seminar Room SG1 Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England research project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27058 6 MAR Workshop
Translation and Censorship
2.00pm – 4.00pm • Seminar Room SG1 Youssef Taha (BBC journalist and translator) • Conversations in Translation research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26904
6 MAR Seminar Doing Justice: Trials, Performance, Law 5.00pm – 7.00pm • Seminar Room SG1 Başak Ertür (Birbeck College), Mayur Suresh (SOAS) • Performance Network research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27066
6 MAR
Seminar Transparency: The Cultural History of an Idea
12.30pm – 2.00pm • CRASSH Meeting Room Eurias Visiting Fellow Daniel Jütte presents his work in progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27044
7 MAR Seminar Seminar 4: Images of Care and Dying
5.00pm – 7.00pm • Rooms SG1/SG2 Clare Henry (National Council for Palliative Care), Sarah Cooper (KCL) • Images of Care and Dying research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26912
8 MAR Seminar Technology, Transparency and Policing
12.00pm – 2.00pm • Seminar Room SG2 Barak Ariel (Cambridge), Adam Edwards (University of Cardiff ) • Politics and Paradoxes of Transparency research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27086
10 MAR
Lecture ‘Transparency’ from Transgression to Common Sense – With Notes on the Role of Technology
10.00am – 12.00pm • Seminar Room SG1 Public Lecture, Michael Schudson (Columbia) • Politics and Paradoxes of Transparency research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27087
13 MAR Seminar Ethics of Big Data
2.00pm – 4.00pm • Seminar Room SG2 Ethics of Big Data research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27096
13 MAR
Seminar Visual Tools in Medical Education in 17th Century England and the Netherlands
12.30pm – 2.00pm • CRASSH Meeting Room Making Visible Project Research Associate Sietske Fransen presents her work in progress • Making Visible research project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27059
Seminar André Breton, Paul Gauguin and Charles Filiger: Magic, Folklore and Rural Tales in Le Pouldu
5.00pm – 7.00pm • Seminar Room SG2 March Gavin Parkinson (Courtauld Institute of Art) • Alchemical Landscape research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27081
14 MAR Seminar Cybernetics and Society
12.00pm – 1.30pm • Seminar Room SG2 Marcia Holmes (Birkbeck), Sarah Holmes (UCL) • Cybernetics and Society research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27073 Register via email
14 MAR
Seminar The Role of Law in Energy Transitions: Lessons from Community Renewables
12.30pm – 2.00pm • Seminar Room SG1 Annalisa Savaresi (Stirling) • In Search of ‘Good’ Energy Policy research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26963
15 MAR Seminar Death
12.00pm – 2.00pm • Seminar Room SG1 Emily Rose (Harvard), John Robb (Cambridge) • Embodied Things: Histories of Cognition, Practices, and Theories research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27070
17 – 18 Conference MAR After Idealism: Sound as Matter and Medium in the 19th Century
9.00am – 6.00pm • Rooms SG1/SG2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26935
24 – 25 Conference MAR Biodiversity and its Histories Times TBC • Seminar Rooms SG1/SG2
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26937
31 MAR Conference – 1 APR Biocircularities: Lives, Times and Technologies
Times TBC • Seminar Rooms SG1/SG2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26938
15 MAR Workshop Transforming the Tripos? Reading Lists, Essays, Exams
15 MAR
12.00pm – 2.00pm • Seminar Room SG1 Adam Branch (Cambridge) • Decolonising the Curriculum in Theory and Practice research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27102
Seminar More than Corpses, less than Ghosts: The Hidden and the Invisible in early Ethnographic Photography
2.30pm – 4.30pm • Seminar Room SG2 Gregory Delaplace (Université Paris- Ouest) • Photography Between Invisibility and the Unseen research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27094
The Bible and Antiquity in 19th-Century Culture Image: Theodor Mommsen by Ludwig Knaus - Nationalgalerie Berlin, via Wikimedia
FESTIVAL OF IDEAS WHAT'S ON MARCH / APRIL 2017
14 MAR
WHAT'S ON MARCH / APRIL 2017
31 MAR – 1 APR
Conference The Power Switch: How Power is Changing in a Networked World
Times TBC • Cripps Court, Magdalene College Technology and Democracy project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27100 3 – 4 Conference / Workshop
APR
3 – 5 APR
Researching South-South Development Cooperation
Times TBC • Seminar Rooms SG1/SG2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26939
Conference Bible and Antiquity
9.30am – 5.00pm • Room G.21, Faculty of Classics • Bible and Antiquity research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26896
6 APR Seminar Agency as Information Processing
6 – 7 APR
Conference Literary Littorals: Slavery, Emancipation, Africa and the Spanish Empire
Times TBC • Seminar Rooms SG1/SG2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26940
11 – 12 APR
Symposium Legacies of Conquest: Transnational Perspectives on the Conquest and Colonisation of Latin America
Times TBC• Seminar Rooms SG1/SG2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26941
21 – 22 Conference APR Labour Politics in an Age of Precarity
4.30am – 6.00pm • Room SG2 Cybernetics and Society research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events
“Who stepped on Edmund de Waal @CRASSHlive?" Image: Sir Cam via Twitter
Times TBC• Seminar Rooms SG1/SG2 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26942
CONFERENCES
Image: Detail from Celestial map from the 17th century, by the Dutch cartographer Frederik de Wit via Wikicommons
3 – 4 MAR Crossroads of Knowledge: Early Modern Literature and Natural Philosophy This conference explores the intersections between natural philosophy and literature.
Convenors: Subha Mukherji, Rachel E. Holmes, Elizabeth L. Swann, Tim Stuart-Buttle, Rebecca Tomlin Speakers: Lorraine Daston (MPI History of Science), Mary Floyd-Wilson (UNC Chapel Hill), Cassie Gorman (ARU), Torrance Kirby (McGill University), Sachiko Kusukawa (Cambridge), Rhodri Lewis (Oxford), Kathryn Murphy (Oxford), Jane Partner (Cambridge), Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge), Felix Sprang (Siegen), Elizabeth L. Swann (Cambridge), Michael Witmore (Folger Library) Featuring a host of international scholars this two day conference explores the epistemic intersections between natural philosophy and literature Organised by Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of Literature, a five-year ERC-funded project based at the Faculty of English and CRASSH, University of Cambridge. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27058
CONFERENCES Image: Superposition of Two Wave-Systems, Lockyer, J.N. (1878) 'Water-Waves and Sound-Waves', Popular Science Monthly, Volume 13
Image: The Hall of Biodiversity - American Museum of Natural History, Ryan Somma via Flickr
17 – 18 MAR After Idealism: Sound as Matter and Medium in the 19th Century
24 – 25 MAR Biodiversity and its Histories
This conference aims to enlarge substantially our understanding of the dialogue between 19thcentury music and natural science, examining in particular how a scientific-materialist conception of sound was formed alongside a dominant culture of romantic idealism. It takes as its subject sound as matter and medium, focusing on the domains of natural science, emergent technologies, sentient communication and acoustics. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26935
This conference will bring together scholars and researchers in ecology, politics, geography, anthropology, cultural history, and history and philosophy of science to explore how aesthetic, economic, and moral value came to be attached to the diversity of life on earth. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26937
Convenor: David Trippett (Cambridge)
Convenors: Deborah Coen (Columbia), Helen Anne Curry (Cambridge), Paul White (Cambridge)
CONFERENCES
Image: Hula Hoops In The Dark by Flickr user Davidlind
31 MAR – 1 APR Biocircularities: Lives, Times and Technologies
Convenors: Branwyn Poleykett (Cambridge), Karen Jent (Cambridge) This conference will explore the diverse ways in which technoscientific innovations in epigenetics, bio-banking and regenerative medicine challenge and redefine traditional life course models. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26938
Image: Control Desk, www.offlimitsphotos.com
31 MAR – 1 APR The Power Switch: How Power is Changing in a Networked World Convenors: David Runciman (Cambridge), John Naughton (Cambridge), Nora Ni Loideain (Cambridge), Daniel Wilson (Cambridge), David Vincent (Open University)
This conference will bring together international scholars to discuss the changing face of power in the networked world. Panels will discuss aspects of platform power, information power, corporate power and state power. Organised by the Technology and Democracy project at CRASSH. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27100
CONFERENCES Image: Members of a Saemaul Undong (Korean for 'New Village Movement') development project in Gihogwe, Rwanda, Wiebe Nauta
3 – 4 APR Researching South-South Development Cooperation
Convenors: Elsje Fourie (Maastricht), Emma Mawdsley (Cambridge), Wiebe Nauta (Maastricht) This conference is the first of its kind in its specific focus on the epistemological and related methodological challenges associated with researching South-South development cooperation. The conference will invite researchers on SSDC – from graduates and early career scholars to leading figures in the field – to reflect critically on the changing politics of knowledge and knowledge production that these actors and trends present. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26939
CONFERENCES
Image: William Blake, Death on a Pale Horse c.1800, The Fitzwilliam Museum
Image: J.M.W. Turner, The Slave Ship (1840) via Wikimedia Commons
3 – 5 APR Bible and Antiquity
6 – 7 APR Literary Littorals: Slavery, Emancipation, Africa and the Spanish Empire
Convenors: Simon Goldhill (Cambridge), James Secord (Cambridge), Janet Soskice (Cambridge), Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge), Michael Ledger- Lomas (KCL), Jeremy Morris (Cambridge), Gareth Atkins (Cambridge), Jocelyn Paul Betts (Cambridge), Shinjini Das (Cambridge), Theodor Dunkelgrün (Cambridge), Ruth Jackson (Cambridge), Alison Knight (Cambridge) This conference will bring together scholars from diverse fields, including classics, cultural history, english literature, art history, and theology, in order to investigate the interface between the study of the bible and the study of antiquity in the Victorian era. Organised by the Bible and Antiquity in 19th-Century Culture project at CRASSH. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26896
Convenors: Bryan Cameron (Cambridge), Brad Epps (Cambridge)
This conference aims to bring into dialogue scholars working in a variety of fields—Latin American studies, Asian studies, African studies, economic history, historical anthropology, visual and cultural studies, Critical Race Theory, gender studies—in order to grapple with the discursive, visual, and material realities of slavery, the slave trade, and enslavement by other names and legal categories in the Spanish colonial sphere. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26940
CONFERENCES Image: Detail from 'New Discoveries of Modern Times, Joan Collaert I after Jan van der Straet, published by Philips Galle, ca. 1600
11 – 12 APR Legacies of Conquest: Transnational Perspectives on the Conquest and Colonisation of Latin America
Convenors: Jenny Mander (Cambridge), David Midgley (Cambridge), Maya Feile Tomes (Cambridge) This symposium will provide the opportunity for a comparative inquiry into the ways in which key aspects of the conquest and colonisation of Latin America by Europeans have been represented and transmitted in writing, in visual culture, and in performance culture down the centuries and across a range of national cultures. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26941
Image: Members of the Federation of Street Vendors in El Alto, Bolivia, on a demonstration in 2003, Sian Lazar
21 – 22 APR Labour Politics in an Age of Precarity Convenor: Sian Lazar (Cambridge)
The workshop will discuss how labour is organized in different contexts across Africa, Latin America, North America, Asia and Europe, and what effects such organization has on labour relations under conditions of economic precarity. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26942
CRASSH DEADLINES
CRASSH Conference Support Competition Deadline: 27 January 2017 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/conference-funding Nine Dots Prize Are Digital Technologies Making Politics Impossible? Deadline: 31 January 2017 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/fellowships/the-nine-dots-prize CRASSH Graduate and Faculty Research Groups Deadline: 28 April 2017 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/apply-for-funding Research Positions www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research groups Calls for Papers www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/call-for-papers
For all funding opportunities at CRASSH, visit: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/about/core-programmes
WHO'S HERE OF IDEAS FESTIVAL
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Christopher Ball, ACLS Visiting Fellow, is investigating the relationships between language practices and the meanings of riverscape among indigenous peoples of Amazonia.
Daniel Barbu, CRASSH Visiting Fellow, is working on a project entitled ‘Religious Polemics and the History of Religions: the Case of Toledoth Yeshu’.
David Erdos, CRASSH Early Career Fellow, is exploring the potential impact of developments on the interface between freedom of expression and data protection.
Sarah Haggarty, Crausaz Wordsworth Interdisciplinary Fellow, is researching ‘Religious writing, pre-modernity and the temporality of action’.
Susanne Hakenbeck, CRASSH Early Career Fellow, is researching the history of the Danube in Late Antiquity, focussing on the lived experiences and material world of the local people.
Nicholas Guyatt, CRASSH Early Career Fellow, will be starting a new project on how Americans came to understand empire in the nineteenth century.
Daniel Jütte, CRASSH/ Clare Hall/Eurias Fellow, is working on a project ‘Transparency: The Cultural History of an Idea’.
Alexander Regier, CRASSH Visiting Fellow, will research the Anglo-German network of thought and writing between 1730 and 1790, and the connections between the British artist and poet William Blake and the German writer Johann Georg Hamann
For information on fellowships, visit: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/fellowships
FESTIVAL OF IDEAS VISITING FELLOWS
Nour Adel, CRASSH Visiting Fellow, is researching models of financial ratios which will help to forecast the financial failure of UK cross-border acquisitions.
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