What's On at CRASSH, University of Cambridge, Easter Term 2016

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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