CRASSH
WHAT’S ON & WHO’S HERE
EASTER TERM 2016
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From intensive small-group seminars to international conferences and major research projects, CRASSH’s programmes provide for the exchange and development of ideas at every level - www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes
9.30am - 5.30pm • CRASSH (SG1&2) A keynote address will be delivered by Christena Nippert-Eng, author of ‘Islands of Privacy’, ahead of panel discussions with Barbara Taylor, Josh Cohen, Mary Aiken and David Vincent. Technology and Democracy project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26590 Register online
18 APR
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Bible and Antiquity in 19th-Century Culture Centre for Digital Knowledge: Concept Lab, Anxiety in and about Africa, 15 June (c) Edward Echwalu (echwaluphotography.wordpress.com) and Technology and Democracy Centre for the Study of Existential Risk Conspiracy and Democracy 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 Science Limits of the Numerical Making Visible: The Visual and Graphic Practices of the Early Royal Society Postdoctoral Research Forum Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic
ART / MONEY / CRISIS • 29-30 April Change and Exchange • 29-30 April Hierarchy, Egalitarianism and Responsibility • 13-14 May Anxiety in and about Africa • 15-16 June Taxonomy, Translatability and Intelligibility of Scientific Images • 17-18 June Malthus: Food, Land, People • 20-21 June China Goes Global: New Perspectives on Chinese Migration in China and Abroad • 27-28 June Biopolitics and Psychosomatics: Participating Bodies • 8 July Women - Violence - 1968 • 14-16 July Techniques, Technologies and Materialities of Epidemic Control • 16-17 July
RESEARCH GROUPS • • • • •
Cambridge Conversations in Translation Climate Histories / Paris 2015 Ethics of Big Data Food: Field to Table? In Search of ‘Good’ Energy Policy
12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Fernando Chavarria-Múgica (Lisbon/Eurias and Clare Hall College Fellow) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26637 Register online
19 APR
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Performance Network Rethinking Work Science Non-Fiction and the Bottom Billion The Subversive Good: Disrupting Power, Transcending Inequalities Things: (Re)constructing the Material World
SEMINAR
Energy Mega-Projects
12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Atif Ansar (Oxford) • In Search of ‘Good’ Energy Policy research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26699
19 APR
CONFERENCES • • • • • • • • • •
WORK IN PROGRESS SEMINAR
Borderland Entanglements: Civil-Military Relations in the First Global Age
RESEARCH PROJECTS • •
SEMINAR
PUBLIC LECTURE
Conspiracy and Terror in the French Revolution
5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1) Conspiracies, both real and imagined, played a central role in the shifting dynamics of French revolutionary politics. This talk will look at how fear of conspiracy influenced decisions taken by revolutionary leaders during the most traumatic period of the Revolution. Marisa Linton (Kingston University) • Conspiracy and Democracy project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26653
19 APR
SEMINAR
The Modern Hunter Gatherer: Access to Food in Urban Environments 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Anastasia Orfanidou (Cambridge) • Food: Field to Table? Research Group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26694 Register online
20 APR
SEMINAR
Climate Histories Seminar
2.30pm - 4.30pm • CRASSH (SG2) Speaker to be confirmed Climate Histories research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26677
21 APR
SEMINAR
Becoming an Expert Consultant
12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (Meeting room) Postdoctoral Researcher Forum seminar www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26731 Register online
22 APR
CONFERENCE
Acknowledging Equality 11am - 5.30pm • CRASSH (SG1&2) The seventh Balzan-Skinner lecture and symposium with Balzan-Skinner Fellow Teresa Bejan exploring ideas of equality as a political principle, a religious commitment, and a social practice in seventeenth-century England. Other speakers are Ross Carroll (Exeter), Justin Champion (Royal Holloway), Martin Dzelzainis (Leicester) and Jon Parkin (Oxford) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26651 Register online
25 APR
WORK IN PROGRESS SEMINAR
Land, Water and Settlement and the Indus Civilisation 12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Cameron Petrie (Cambridge) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26625 Register online
25 APR
SEMINAR
On Detachment and Relations
5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1) Hallvard Lillehammer (Birkbeck), Matei Candea (Cambridge) • Performance Network research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26683
26 APR
SEMINAR / CONCERT
Humanising and Democratising Social Spaces and Institutions
12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Caroline Lanskey, Bethany Schmidt (Cambridge) Paul Tyler (HMP Frankland); includes a performance of ‘The Reformed’ • The Subversive Good research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26651
EVENTS APRIL 2016
CRASSH AT A GLANCE
18 APR
Why Privacy?
12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (S3) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26707
29-30 APR
CONFERENCE
Change and Exchange
2.30pm - 4.30pm • CRASSH (SG2) Daniel Hahn (Writer, Editor and Translator), Gillian Lathey (Roehampton), Maria Nikolajeva (Cambridge) • Cambridge Conversations in Translation research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26391
Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall This two-day colloquium will explore ideas of change and exchange - and their implicit interrelation - across various early modern domains engaged with ways of knowing. It will put pressure on the wider notion of ‘economy’ itself and how it inflects our knowledge, management and articulations of the world. • Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26483 Register online
27 APR
29-30 APR
27 APR
SEMINAR
Translation and Children’s Literature Panel Discussion
Paint
SEMINAR
12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Christine Slottved Kimbriel (Cambridge), Jose Ramon Marcaida (CRASSH, Cambridge) • Things: (Re)constructing the Material Work research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26690
29 APR
PUBLIC LECTURE
Blavatnik Public Lecture Series: Professor Hilary Greaves
5pm - 6pm • Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site Title and abstract to be confirmed. Hilary Greaves is based at the Future of Humanity Institute and Oxford University • Centre for the Study of Existential Risk project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26706 Register online
CONFERENCE
ART / MONEY / CRISIS
CRASSH (SG1 & 2) The conference will be structured around presentations given by leading critics and artists working in the fields of literature, sociology, visual arts, film, music, and theatre. How does art respond to financial crisis? What can art teach us about the economy? Can art predict, intuit, or explain the global market? www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26186 Register online
3 MAY
SEMINAR
In Search of Good Energy Policy
12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Speaker and title to be confirmed• In Search of ‘Good’ Energy Policy research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26700
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26488
3 MAY
READING GROUP
Cambridge Psychoanalysis Reading Group 12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (S3) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26707
3 MAY
PUBLIC LECTURE
Internet Jurisdiction, Extraterritoriality and Law Enforcement
2pm - 4pm • CRASSH (SG2) A talk by Julia Hörnle (Queen Mary University of London)• Technology and Democracy project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26741
3 MAY
SEMINAR
You Are What You Eat: Nutrition and Health Policy
5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Bhavani Shankar (SOAS, University of London) and Theresa Marteau (Cambridge) • Food: Field to Table? research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26696 Register online
4 MAY
PUBLIC LECTURE
On Keys and Music: an Illustrated Lecture by Mitsuko Uchida
7.30pm - 10pm • West Road Concert Hall Renowned pianist Mitsuko Uchida and Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chamber Music returns to Cambridge for this very special event. This lecture explores the continuing relevance of diatonic tonality and offers a new perspective on the oft-made comparison of Mozart and Beethoven’s Piano Concerti. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26357
4 MAY
SEMINAR
Climate Histories Seminar
2.30pm - 4.30pm • CRASSH (SG2) Paul Warde (Cambridge) • Climate Histories research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26678
6 MAY
PUBLIC LECTURE
Refurbishing the Rijksmuseum: a lecture by Wim Pijbes
Change and Exchange, 29-30 April Image: ‘The Moneylender and his Wife’, Quentin Matsys (1514)
5pm - 6.30pm • LG18 Law Faculty, Sidgwick Site Wim Pijbes is director of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and is the Humanitas Visiting Professor in Art History. In his first public lecture in a series on ‘Old Masters Fit For the Future’, he talks about how the Rijksmuseum was refurbished.
9 MAY
WORK IN PROGRESS SEMINAR
Plague in Castile, c.1600
12.30pm - 2pms • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Ruth MacKay is an independent scholar and is the ACLS Fellow at CRASSH www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26626 Register online
9 MAY
SEMINAR
Science Non-Fiction and the Bottom Billion 2pm - 4pm • CRASSH (SG1) Speaker to be confirmed • Science Non-fiction research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26713
9 MAY
SEMINAR
Blavatnik Public Lecture Series: Paul R Ehrlich
4pm - 6pm • Babbage Lecture Theatre, David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site Title and abstract to be confirmed. • Centre for the Study of Existential Risk project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26711 Register online
9 MAY
SEMINAR
Politics, Memory and Performance 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1) Paul Connerton (Cambridge), Mischa Twitchin (Queen Mary University of London) • Performance Network research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26684
9 MAY
PUBLIC LECTURE
Wim Pijbes and Nicholas Cullinan in Conversation: When is Art National? 5pm - 6.30pm • Fitzwilliam Museum Wim Pijbes, director of the Rijksmuseum and Humanitas Visiting Professor in Art History, discusses art and nationality with Nicholas Cullinan, director of the National Portrait Gallery, London. The discussion is chaired by Tim Knox, director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26491
10 MAY
PUBLIC LECTURE
Suspicious Minds: the Social and Cognitive Psychology of Conspiracy Theories
5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1) Why do people believe conspiracy theories? What’s the harm if they do? And just what is a conspiracy theory, anyway? Conspiracy theories
EVENTS MAY 2016
READING GROUP
Cambridge Psychoanalysis Reading Group
EVENTS APRIL/MAY 2016
27 APR
PUBLIC LECTURE
Wim Pijbes and Emilie Gordenker in Conversation: Old Masters Fit for the Future 5pm - 6.30pm • LG19, Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site Humanitas Visiting Professor and director of the Rijksmuseum Wim Pijbes in conversation with Emilie Gordenker, Director of the Mauritshuis, The Hague, on making Old Masters museums relevant for today and tomorrow. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26492
10 MAY
READING GROUP
Cambridge Psychoanalysis Reading Group
Suspicious Minds, 10 May 2016 (c)Bloomsbury.
12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (S3) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26709
11 MAY
SEMINAR
Art and Science
12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Stella Panayotova (Fitzwilliam Museum) and Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (Cambridge) • Things: (Re)constructing the Material World research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26691
11 MAY
WORKSHOP
Translation and Children’s Literature
2.30pm - 4.30pm • CRASSH (SG2) Anthea Bell(Translator) • Cambridge Conversations in Translation research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26390
12-13 MAY
CONFERENCE
Learning Together: Prison and University Partnership
HMP Grendon Conference Centre and Old Divinity School, St John’s College The Subversive Good research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26726 Register online
13-14 MAY
CONFERENCE
Hierarchy, Egalitarianism and Responsibility
CRASSH (SG1&2) This conference explores the deep social roots of crisis through a comparative investigation of different cultural orders of responsibility. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26184 Register online
16 MAY
17 MAY
SEMINAR
Wind Power in Mongolia and the Chinese/ Russia Border Regions
12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Richard Fraser (Cambridge) • In Search of ‘Good’ Energy Policy research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26701
17 MAY
READING GROUP
Cambridge Psychoanalysis Reading Group 12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (S3) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26710
17 MAY
17 MAY
2pm - 3pm • Fitzwilliam Museum The first in a series of events looking at Bible and Antiquity in the Victorian age. Brian Murray (King’s College London) and Janet Soskice (Cambridge) • Bible and Antiquity in the 19th-Century project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26735 PUBLIC LECTURE
The Continuing Attraction of Conspiracy Theory: from Dan Brown to Donald Trump
5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1) While conspiracy theories constituted legitimate knowledge in the United States in the past, they have lost this status in the present. Yet, they still possess commonsensical appeal. The continuing attraction of conspiracy theories is explored in this talk by Michael Butter (Tübingen)
SEMINAR
Waste Not: Overcoming the Food Waste Problem
5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Erasmus zu Ermgassen (Cambridge) • Food: Field to Table? research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26697 Register online
18 MAY PUBLIC LECTURE
A Passion for Travel: Victorian Collectors, Travellers and Tourists
17 MAY
Conspiracy and Democracy www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26672
SEMINAR
Why Should I Care About the Arctic?
2.30pm - 4.30pm • CRASSH (SG2) Subhkankar Banerjee (Cambridge) • Climate Histories research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26679
23 MAY
EVENTS MAY 2016
10 MAY
EVENTS MAY 2016
captured the attention of philosophers and historians decades ago, but it is only within the last few years that psychologists have begun gathering data on these kinds of questions. In this talk, Rob Brotherton provides a psychological perspective on conspiracism, drawing on his own research as well as other insights explored in his new book Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories. • Conspiracy and Democracy project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26671
WORK IN PROGRESS SEMINAR
Waiting for the Barbarians: Constructions of ‘Rising Powers’ in World Politics 12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Ayse Zarakol is a CRASSH Early Career Fellow www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26638 Register online
23 MAY
SEMINAR
Science Non-Fiction Seminar
2pm - 4pm • CRASSH (SG1) Speaker and title to be confirmed • Science Non-Fiction research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26714
WORKSHOP
Filming Revolution: A Digital Methods Development Workshop
11.30am - 3.30pm • CRASSH (S3) Alisa Lebow (filmmaker) • Digital Humanities Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26734
16 MAY
WORK IN PROGRESS SEMINAR
Towards a Theory of Biography
12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Patrick French is a CRASSH Visiting Fellow. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26652 Register online Wim Pijbes: Old Masters Fit for the Future, 6-10 May Image: Vincent Mentzel
5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1) Tom Cornford (Central School of Speech and Drama), David Winters (Cambridge) • Performance Network research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26686
24 MAY
PUBLIC LECTURE
Smart Cars, Employment Displacement and Encryption 2pm - 4pm • CRASSH (SG1) A public lecture by Florent Frederix (European Committee, DG Innovation) • Technology and Democracy project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26739
25 MAY Slaves
SEMINAR
12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1) James Poskett (Cambridge), Stefan Hanß (Berlin)• Things: (Re)constructing the Material World research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26692
25 MAY
SEMINAR
Translation and Music (Panel)
2.30pm - 4.30pm • CRASSH (SG2) Lucile Desblaches (Roehampton), Andrew Jones (Cambridge), Judi Palmer (Royal Opera House) • Cambridge Conversations in Translation www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26392
31 MAY
SEMINAR
Energy and Climate Governance
12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli (Cambridge)• In Search of ‘Good’ Energy Policy research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26702
31 MAY
PUBLIC LECTURE
A Passion for Manuscripts
2pm - 3pm • Fitzwilliam Museum Alison Knight and Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge) Bible and Antiquity in 19th-Century Culture project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26736
31 MAY
PUBLIC LECTURE
Paranoid Narrative: Mexican History through Conspiracy Theories 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1) Louise Walker (Northeastern)
Conspiracy and Democracy project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26673
31 MAY
SEMINAR
Ethical Consumerism: Good for the Food System?
5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Sushil Mohan (Brighton), Bev Sedley (Cambridge Sustainable Food) • Food: Field to Table? research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26698 Register online
1 JUNE
SEMINAR
Ecology, Experience and Transformational Festivals 2.30pm - 4.30pm • CRASSH (SG2) Graham St John (Fribourg) • Climate Histories www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26680
6 JUNE
CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP
Staging Radical Disobedience: Antigone’s Revolt, from Brecht to the 1960s and beyond 1pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1&2) Speakers: Simon Goldhill (Cambridge), Alan Read (King’s College London), Katie Fleming (King’s College London) and Rosa Andujar (University College London) • Performance Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26687 Register online
6 JUNE
WORK IN PROGRESS SEMINAR
Bread and Roses: Law, Labour and Development in the Context of the ‘Gujarat Model’ 12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Antara Haldat is a CRASSH Early Career Fellow www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26639 Register online
6 JUNE
PUBLIC LECTURE
Blavatnik Lecture Series: Professor Dana Scott 4pm - 6pm • Venue tbc Title to be confirmed. Dana Scott (Carnegie Mellon) • Centre for the Study of Existential Risk project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26712 Register online
7 JUNE
PUBLIC LECTURE
A Passion for Things: the Bible and Antiquity on the Victorian Mantelpiece
2pm - 3pm • Fitzwilliam Museum Gareth Atkins (Cambridge), Kate Nichols (Birming-
ham) • Bible and Antiquity in 19th-Century Culture project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26737
8 JUNE
SEMINAR
Bronze 12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Victoria Avery (Fitzwilliam Museum), Andrew Lacey (Artist and independent scholar) • Things: (Re) constructing the Material World research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26693
8 JUNE
SEMINAR
Translation and Music (Workshop)
2.30pm - 4.30pm • CRASSH (SG1) Helen Julia Minors (Kingston University), Lucy Taylor (Cambridge) • Cambridge Conversations in Translation research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26393
8 JUNE
PUBLIC LECTURE
An Evening in the Victorian Parlour: Bible and Antiquity at Home
Times to be confirmed • Fitzwilliam Museum The Victorians were passionate about the Bible and Antiquity. Find out more at this evening event, presented by Simon Goldhill (Cambridge) with its evocative programme of music, poetry, and ghost stories • Bible and Antiquity in 19thCentury Culture project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26738 Register online
10 JUNE
WORKSHOP
Ethics of Big Data Workshop
9am - 6.30pm • CRASSH (SG2) Speakers, title and abstracts to be confirmed Ethics of Big Data research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26723
10 JUNE
WORKSHOP
Science Non-Fiction Workshop
9am - 6.30pm • CRASSH (SG1) Speakers, title and abstracts to be confirmed • Science Non Fiction and the Bottom Billion research group www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26715
13 JUNE
WORK IN PROGRESS SEMINAR
Natural Philosophy in the Islamic World 15001800 12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Khaled El-Rouayheb is a CRASSH/Leverhulme Visiting Fellow www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26642 Register online
15-16 JUNE
CONFERENCE Anxiety in and about Africa 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1&2) This two-day interdisciplinary conference examines the uses and meanings of the term ‘anxiety’ as it relates to Africa and African Studies. This conference will explore common themes and ideas about anxiety across disciplinary boundaries, considering anxiety not only as political and biomedical discourse, but as lived experience. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26188 Register online
17-18 JUNE
CONFERENCE
Taxonomy, Translatability and Intelligibility of Scientific Images 2 days • CRASSH (SG1&2) The focus of this first workshop is the range of images (e.g. is there such a thing as a ‘scientific’ image?) used by the Royal Society, with a comparative angle (e.g. are there ‘national’ styles of scientific imagery?), and to examine more generally and critically the role of images as vehicles of knowledge transmissions in early modern scientific institutions. Making Visible: the Visual and Graphic Practices of the Early Royal Society project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26682 Register online
20-21 JUNE
CONFERENCE
Malthus: Food, Land, People
2 days • CRASSH (SG1&2) and Jesus College 2016 is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834), author of the most famous book on population ever written. This conference will be the most substantial reassessment of Malthus, his ideas, and his global significance for several generations. Historians, economists, literary scholars, political theorists, geographers, demographers, and philosophers will share their views on Malthus and Malthusianism. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26187 Register online
EVENTS JUNE 2016
SEMINAR
Training in Theory
EVENTS MAY/JUNE 2016
23 MAY
CONFERENCE
China Goes Global: New Perspectives on Chinese Migration in China and Abroad
2 days • St Catherine’s College This event explore our current knowledge of Chinese migration by taking a global view of the topic, and by linking it closely to the movement of people within and outside China. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26190 Register online
8 JULY
CONFERENCE
Biopolitics and Psychosomatics: Participating Bodies 1 day • CRASSH (SG1&2) This conference aims to unpack the multiple contemporary connotations of the term ‘psychosomatic’ and to render them available for discussion in relation to problems of agency, responsibility, motivation, choice and self-management. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26189 Register online
14-16 JULY
CONFERENCE
Women - Violence - 1968
3 days • CRASSH (SG1&2) This international conference brings together scholars from literary and cultural studies, politics, history, law, and peace and security studies to explore the relationship of women, violence, and 1968. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26191
16-17 SEPT
CONFERENCE
Techniques, Technologies and Materialities of Epidemic Control
2 days • CRASSH (tbc) Epidemic diseases emerge, unfold and are contained and controlled within infrastructural and technological formations. And at the same time, such technologies are employed and portrayed as crucial to the overall rehabilitation of civic order, often seen as being compromised or disturbed by unfolding epidemics. This conference seeks to explore technologies and techniques of epidemic containment and control. • Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26602 Register online
EVENTS JUNE/JULY/SEPTEMBER 2016
27-28 JUNE
WHO’S NEW EASTER 2016 EASTER TERM VISITING FELLOWS Patrick French (Independent Scholar and Writer) CRASSH Visiting Fellow While at CRASSH, Patrick will be working on the authorised biography of Doris Lessing.
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford University) CRASSH Mellon CDI Visiting Fellow During Easter Term, Professor Gumbrecht will participate in a series of closed seminars and will give an open lecture, with further details to follow online.
Antara Haldar (University of Cambridge) CRASSH Early Career Fellow Antara is working on a project entitled Bread and Roses: Law, Labour and Development in the Context of the “Gujarat Model”.
Cameron Petrie (University of Cambridge) CRASSH Early Career Fellow While at CRASSH, Cameron will be preparing the results of the Land, Water and Settlement and the Indus Civilisation project for publication.
Louise Walker (Northeastern University) Conspiracy & Democracy Project Visiting Fellow Louise is a visiting fellow of the Leverhulme funded project Conspiracy and Democracy.
Ayse Zarakol (University of Cambridge) CRASSH Early Career Fellow Ayse is working on a book project provisionally titled Waiting for the Barbarians: Great Powers and Future Visions.
HUMANITAS VISITING PROFESSORS China Goes Global, 27-28 June Chinese American Certificate of Residence, 1892 (c) Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley
Techniques, Technologies and Materialities of Epidemic Control, 16-17 September Clayton Disinfecting Machine, c.1905
Mitsuko Uchida - Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chamber Music 2015-16 On Keys and Music, 4 May 2016 Wim Pijbes - Humanitas Visiting Professor in the History of Art 2015-16 Old Masters Fit for the Future, 6-10 May 2016
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