CRASSH What's On, Lent 2020

LENT 2020

& WHO’S HERE

WHAT’S ON

CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN THE ARTS, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

Photo by Imke van Heerden

Professor Steven Connor Director of CRASSH

With the lengthening of the days in early 2020, CRASSH will be aiming to stretch our visitors’ legs as well as their minds, with events taking place not just on home ground in the Alison Richard Building, but also in the Engineering Department, the Botanic Gardens and the Institute of Public Health.

Our year begins with a Fact-Checking Hackathon, mounted by our Giving Voice to Digital Democracies project, which will run for three days in the Dyson Building at the beginning of January. Participants with a background in coding skills, linguistics and language-based computing will come together to develop new approaches to automated systems that can detect, extract and classify incorrect information in real time. Meanwhile the rich programme of training and workshops of Cambridge Digital Humanities will culminate, from 16 – 20 March, with the Cambridge Cultural Heritage Data School, which will bring together participants from the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector and academia to explore the methods used to create, visualise and analyse digital archives and collections.

On 20 – 21 February we serve up a toothsome and eagerly awaited conference on Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte, the centrepiece of the Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe, 1500-1800, which runs until April 2020.

The exhibition and conference, both curated by Victoria Avery and Melissa Calaresu, and which bring art and material culture together with plant sciences, will explore contemporary concerns about the production and distribution of food through images and objects.

From 5 – 6 March, a conference on Cambridge: City of Scholars, City of Refuge (1933-1945) will examine the role of Cambridge, and especially its Academic Assistance Council (AAC), in helping 2,600 academic refugees escape Nazi-Germany, 16 of whom went on to win Nobel prizes and 110 to become Fellows of the Royal Society or British Academy.

Meanwhile, the Centre for Global Knowledge Studies (gloknos) continues its reading groups, exploring topics such as animal acclimatisation, the history of genetic thought, hybridisation and emerging biotechnologies.

The gloknos annual lecture, From Epistemicide to Global Knowledge: Reconstructing a Decolonised Academy on 7 February, will be given by Dag Herbjørnsrud, founder of the Centre for Global and Comparative History of Ideas (SGOKI) in Oslo.

There will also be plenty to look at and reflect on in the Alison Richard Building. In the New Year we have Beating Time, a new exhibition that forges conversations between painting and poetry, with an evening of related artist talks scheduled for 22 February. In early March, two more exhibitions will appear in the ARB’s accommodating and ever-changing space: Helen Birnbaum’s Significant – A Bunch of Viruses will offer an artistic celebration of microbes, and Travelling Companions, an exhibition

by Judy Goldhill and Fay Ballard will explore personal belongings as fellow-travellers.

For further details, please visit our website: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk

DIRECTOR’S WELCOME

Our nine Research Networks continue as busy as ever, with open events through the term. You might want to cock an ear to Avian Listening on 22 January, part of the Auralities Network. On 25 February, the Health, Medicine and Agency Network present a round-table discussion of stigma, especially with regard to mental health and ‘fat-shaming’. The theme of the Re- Interdisciplinary Network this term is ‘Reprinting’, with sessions on Classic Reprints, Re-thinking the Book and the Reprinting of Rembrandt’s Dr Tulp. Byzantine Worlds also has a full programme of talks, culminating on 11 March in a visit from Macquarie University by Bronwen Neil, speaking about seventh-century Byzantine visions of heaven and hell. Among the events offered by Risk and Renewal in the Pacific will be a discussion on 10 February of the complex relationships between environmental risk, economic resilience, conservation, and academic research on the island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island).

WHO’S NEW / FELLOWS

Idit Alphandary Visiting Fellow Idit is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Literature and the Interdisciplinary Program of the Arts at Tel Aviv University.

Bryan Cameron Early Career Fellow Bryan is a University Lecturer in Modern Spanish Literature and Culture at the Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages at Cambridge University, and a Fellow and Director of Studies at Selwyn College.

Caroline Egan Early Career Fellow Caroline is a Lecturer in Colonial Literary and Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Emmanuel College.

Louise Joy Crausaz Wordsworth Fellow Louise is a Fellow and Director of Studies at the Faculty of English at Cambridge University, and a Senior College Lecturer as well as the current Vice-Principal at Homerton College.

Kyoo Lee (CUNY) Visiting Fellow Q aka Kyoo Lee, is a Professor of Philosophy and Gender Studies at the City University of New York.

Thomas Lee University of Technology, Sydney Visiting Fellow Thomas is a Senior Lecturer in Design Studies in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Karen Pinkus (Cornell University) Visiting Fellow Karen is Professor of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell University.

Helen Thaventhiran Early Career Fellow Helen Thaventhiran is a University Lecturer in the Faculty of English at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Robinson College.

WHAT’S ON JANUARY 2020

7 JAN Workshop

Digital Research Design and Data Ethics

11.30am – 1pm • IT Training Room,

Cambridge University Library

• Cambridge Digital Humanities www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28906

Register online

10 – 12 Hands-On Workshop JAN Fact-Checking Hackathon

10am – 4pm • James Dyson Building,

Cambridge University Engineering Department

• Giving Voice to Digital Democracies Project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28814

Register online

13 JAN

Reading Group Economic Globalisation in the Late First Millennium

3 – 5pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB

• gloknos (Centre for Global Knowledge Studies) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28586

Register via email

16 JAN – Exhibition 21 FEB Beating Time – A Conversation

Between Painting and Poetry

Sandra Becarelli, Miranda Boulton,

Alison Critchlow, Una D'Aragona

• Art at the ARB www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28877

17 JAN

6 – 8pm • Alison Richard Building

• Art at the ARB www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28878

20 JAN Workshop Participatory Research with the McPin Foundation 12 – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB • Critical Approaches to 'Vulnerability' in Empirical Research (CAVER) Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28853

20 JAN

14 JAN Workshop

Digital Data Collection and

Wrangling

11.30am – 1pm • IT Training Room,

Cambridge University Library

• Cambridge Digital Humanities www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28907

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15 JAN Seminar

Pachymeres on the Acropolis at Sardis

Benjamin Anderson (Cornell)

5 – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB

Exhibition Private View Beating Time – A Conversation Between Painting and Poetry Sandra Becarelli, Miranda Boulton, Alison Critchlow, Una D'Aragona

Seminar Refraction Across the Disciplines Leslie Santee Siskin (Visiting Fellow)

12.30 – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB • Fellows Work-in-Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28805

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20 JAN Reading Group Empires of Acclimatisation 3 – 5pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB • gloknos (Centre for Global Knowledge Studies) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28594

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• Byzantine Worlds Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28839

11.30am – 1pm • IT Training Room, Cambridge University Library • Cambridge Digital Humanities www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28908 Register online

22 JAN Reading Group

Avian Listening

2 – 3.30pm • Room SG1, ARB

• Auralities Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28864

24 JAN Seminar Neoliberalism's Literary Rhythms: Engaging with Canonical Texts to Vanquish the Market Myth 4 – 6pm • Room S2, ARB

Ian Bruff (Manchester)

27 JAN Seminar Amerindian Iberia Caroline Egan (Early Career Fellow)

22 JAN Reading Group

Solidarity: Theory Session 3 5 – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB • Solidarity across Difference – Theory and Practice Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28874

23 JAN Reading Group

Archives and Indigeneity 2.30 – 4.30pm (please note alternative date) • Venue TBC • Archives of the Disappeared Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28904

24 – 25 Conference JAN Climate Fictions / Indigenous Studies

• Rooms SG1 & SG2, ARB

• CRASSH Conference Programme www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28580

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• gloknos (Centre for Global Knowledge Studies) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28740 Register via email

12.30 – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB • Fellows Work-in-Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28807 Register via email

27 JAN Workshop

Network Analysis for Humanities Scholars

12.30 – 2.30pm • IT Training Room,

Cambridge University Library • Cambridge Digital Humanities www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28909 Register online

27 JAN Reading Group Imperial Imaginaries and the Making of Modernity

3 – 5pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB • gloknos (Centre for Global Knowledge Studies) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28587 Register via email

WHAT’S ON JANUARY 2020

21 JAN Workshop Qualitative Research in Online Environments

WHAT’S ON JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2020

27 JAN Book Launch and Reception Translation and Multimodality Ángeles Carreres (Cambridge) Monica Boria (Cambridge) María Noriega-Sánchez (Cambridge) Marcus Tomalin (CRASSH) Helena Sanson (Cambridge) 5 – 6pm • Room SG1, ARB • Conversations in Translation Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28889

27 JAN

Lecture Digital Landscapes: Archival Representation with Computational Methods Ruth Ahnert (Queen Mary) 5 – 6.30pm • Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John's College • Cambridge Digital Humanities www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28910 Register online

30 JAN Seminar Archives and Translation: The Maktoob Collective 2.30 – 4.30pm (please note alternative date) • Venue TBC

• Archives of the Disappeared Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28836

31 JAN Talk and Book Launch The Impossible Clinic: A Critical Sociology of Evidence-based Medicine 5 – 7pm • Room SG2 and Atrium, ARB

Ariane Hanemaayer (CRASSH Visiting Fellow) • Visiting Fellows Events www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28820

3 FEB

Seminar Messy Interviewing: Putting Ethics into Practice 12 – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB

28 JAN Seminar Data Presentation and Preservation

11.30am – 1pm • IT Training Room, Cambridge University Library • Cambridge Digital Humanities www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28911 Register online

Sumantha Roy (Imkaan) • Critical Approaches to 'Vulnerability' in Empirical Research (CAVER) Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28854

3 FEB

29 JAN Seminar Writing Social Dance

12.30 – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB

Helen Thaventhiran (Early Career Fellow)

12.30 – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB

Deborah Bowman (Cambridge), Clair Wills (Cambridge) • Writing Dance Workshop Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28680

Seminar Micrologies: Writing in the Margins of Philosophy

• Fellows Work-in-Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28809 Register via email

• gloknos (Centre for Global Knowledge Studies) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28595

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4 FEB

4 FEB

Hands-on Workshop Social Network Analysis with Digital Data 1 11am – 1pm • IT Training Room, Cambridge University Library • Cambridge Digital Humanities www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28912 Register online

Seminar Re-printing: From the Paperback to Virago Modern Classics 12 – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB

Peter Mandler (Cambridge) D-M Withers (Sussex) Lucy Delap (Cambridge) Sarah Cain (Cambridge) • Re-Interdisciplinary Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28869

5 FEB

Seminar Round-table: Music and Memory in East Africa 2 – 4pm • Room SG1, ARB

Andrea Grant (Cambridge) Kenedid Hassan (University du Quebec à Montreal) David Mwambari (Ghent, KCL) Christina Woolner (Cambridge) • Auralities Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28865

5 FEB

6 – 7 FEB

7 FEB

Reading Group Solidarity: Practice Session 3 5 – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB • Solidarity across Difference – Theory and Practice Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28873

Workshop Journalism and News Media • Venue TBC • Religious Diversity and the Secular University Project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28669 Register via email

Seminar Manus Island and Indefinite Detention: Displacement, Exile, Narrative and Knowing 10am – 12pm • Venue TBC

Behrouz Boochani (Journalist) Omid Tofighian (Sidney)

• Risk and Renewal in the Pacific Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk events/28827

7 FEB

Seminar Re-Thinking the Book

• Re-Interdisciplinary Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28870

7 FEB

Lecture From Epistemicide to Global Knowledge: Reconstructing a Decolonised Academy

Dag Herbjørnsrud (SGOKI, Oslo)

2 – 5pm • Room SG2, ARB

Juliet Fleming (New York) Alexandra Gillespie (Toronto) Deidre Lynch (Harvard) Jason Scott-Warren (Cambridge/CMT)

5.30 – 7.30pm • Room SG1, ARB • gloknos (Centre for Global Knowledge Studies) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28632 Register via email

WHAT’S ON FEBRUARY 2020

3 FEB Reading Group

The Mendelian Gene Goes Global

3 – 5pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB

WHAT’S ON FEBRUARY 2020

10 FEB

Seminar Iconic Heritage and Resilience: Past and Now on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

Sue Hamilton (UCL)

12 – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB

• Risk and Renewal in the Pacific Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28828

10 FEB Seminar

Fund, Divide and Rule: Aid,

Conflict and Racial Hierarchies

within the Moroccan Migration Industry

12.30 – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB

Lorena Gazzotti (Lucy Cavendish

Alice Tong Sze Fellow)

• Fellows Work-in-Progress

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28894 Register via email

10 FEB Reading Group

Towards the Modern Subject

3 – 5pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB • gloknos (Centre for Global Knowledge Studies) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28588

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11 FEB

Workshop Disaster Response: Knowledge Domains and Information Flows • Cripps Court, Magdalene College

Amy Donovan (Cambridge)

Robert Evans (Cardiff )

Dorothea Hilhorst (Erasmus

University Rotterdam)

Elizabeth Surkovic (The Royal Society)

Benjamin Taylor (Evidence Aid)

• Expertise Under Pressure Project

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28890

11 FEB Hands-On Workshop Social Network Analysis with Digital Data 2 11am – 1pm • IT Training Room, Cambridge University Library • Cambridge Digital Humanities www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28913 Register online

11 FEB Seminar Round-table: Beyond the Medical Management of Pregnancy Loss 12 – 2pm • Institute of Public Health

Sheelagh McGuinness (Bristol) Aimee Middlemiss (Exeter) • Health, Medicine and Agency Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28834

11 FEB Seminar Incentivising an Ethical Economics 4 – 5.30pm • Room S2, ARB

Simon Szreter (Cambridge) • Expertise Under Pressure Project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28918

12 FEB Reading Group Archive and Enslavement II: Flesh and Embodiment 2.30 – 4.30pm • Room SG2, ARB • Archives of the Disappeared Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28837

12 FEB Seminar The Anonymous Cosmographer Maps the Mediterranean – from Ravenna to the Black Sea in the Early Middle Ages 5 – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB

Judith Herrin (KCL) • Byzantine Worlds Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28858

• Phoenix Teaching Room 2, New Museums Site • Cambridge Digital Humanities www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28916 Register online

17 FEB Seminar The Enigmas of Pain 12.30am – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB

18 FEB Hands-On Workshop Social Network Analysis with Digital Data 3 11am – 1pm • IT Training Room, Cambridge University Library • Cambridge Digital Humanities www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28914 Register online

19 FEB Seminar Sound Art: A Conversation

Ariane Hanemaayer (Visiting Fellow)

2 – 4pm • Seminar Room SG1, ARB

Co-organised with Harriet Loffler (Curator, New Hall Art Collection)

• Fellows Work-in-Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28841 Register via email

17 FEB Seminar Contesting 'Vulnerability' 12 – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB • Critical Approaches to 'Vulnerability' in Empirical Research (CAVER) Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28856

17 FEB

• Auralities Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28866

19 FEB Seminar Anatomies of Re-printing: The Case of Rembrandt's Dr Tulp 2.30 – 4.30pm • Room SG2, ARB

Dániel Margócsy (Cambridge) Annja Neumann (Cambridge) Andrew J. Webber (Cambridge)

Reading Group Politics of Hybridisation

3 – 5pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB • gloknos (Centre for Global Knowledge Studies)

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28596

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• Re-Interdisciplinary Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28872

19 FEB Reading Group Solidarity: Theory Session 4 5 – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB • Solidarity across Difference – Theory and Practice Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28875

18 FEB Hands-On Workshop Film-making for Beginners 2

• Phoenix Teaching Room 2, New Museums Site • Cambridge Digital Humanities www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28917 Register online

20 – 21 FEB

Conference Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte • Botanic Gardens & Gonville and Caius College • Conference Programme www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28582 Register online

WHAT’S ON FEBRUARY 2020

17 FEB Hands-On Workshop Film-making for Beginners 1

CONFERENCES CONFERENCES

Climate Fictions / Indigenous Studies 24 – 25 January 2020 This conference seeks to initiate a multidisciplinary conversation on climate change, as conceived by, and re-inscribed within, Indigenous literatures. So far within the small domain of English Humanities, contemporary climate fiction by Indigenous authors have presented an urgent need to converse with scientific and social-scientific approaches to climate change. Centring these literatures, especially at a university such as Cambridge that is itself implicated in climate capitalism, is vital to confront the racial nature of climate change discourse which overlooks those who are leading the resistance in theory and praxis. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28580

Detail from Tommy McRae and Mickey of Ulladulla, 'Sketch of Squatters', (1864), State Library of New South Wales (CC BY 4.0)

Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte 20 – 21 February 2020 This interdisciplinary conference brings together academics from the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences as well as museum professionals and artist-practitioners. It investigates the understudied tensions between the representational power of the pineapple and the political contexts of its production around the globe, thereby making connections between the global and local which are at the heart of contemporary debates about the nature and origins of the food that we eat.

Theodorus Netscher, 'Pineapple grown in Sir Matthew Decker's garden at Richmond, Surrey', (1720), The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Cambridge: City of Scholars, City of Refuge (1933-1945) 5 – 6 March 2020 This conference will examine the role of Cambridge, and especially its Academic Assistance Council (AAC), in helping 2,600 academic refugees escape Nazi-Germany, 16 of whom went on to win Nobel prizes and 110 to become Fellows of the Royal Society or British Academy. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28656

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28582

CONFERENCES CONFERENCES

Queer Migrations: Transnational Sexualities in Theory and Practice 13 March 2020 The objectives of this conference are firstly, to restore visibility to the queer migrant in cultural, sociological, political, theoretical and methodological debates on globality and migration; and secondly, to challenge the socio-political and racialised narrativisation of the queer migrant experience as a journey from the ‘backward’ global South to the ‘progressive’ global North. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28576 Rainbow Rush; Villiers Street during Pride in London 2017, Flickr user Ryan Prince (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Social Power and Mental Health: Evolving Research Through Lived Experience 25 – 26 March 2020 This conference seeks to explore the many intersections between mental health and social power by creating a dialogue between people with lived experience of mental health challenges, as well as researchers. We also recognise that many people belong in both groups. How can we challenge power inequalities in, and through, research? And how can we evolve research by valuing lived experience? www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28578 Paul Gosch, 'o.T. (Generalarzt)', (1928), Moeller Fine Art, New York - Berlin, via WikiMedia Commons

Late Antiquity’s Library: Re-assessing the Classical Canon in the Age of Synesius 16 April 2020 - 17 April 2020 This two-day interdisciplinary conference aims to re-assess the shape and make-up of classical culture in the context of the fourth-century transformation of the literary, philosophical, and theological past of Greece and Rome, via the life and writings of one of the most complex, heterodox, and polyvalent figures of the time: Synesius of Cyrene. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28577 Detail from Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 'Appian Way', (1756), Le antichità Romane, via WikiMedia Commons

NETWORKS

Van Leo / Angelo Studio, 1945, 0081va – Van Leo Collection, courtesy of the Arab Image Foundation, Beirut

Archives of the Disappeared: Discipline and Method Amidst Ruin Archives of the Disappeared is an interdisciplinary research initiative for the study and documentation of communities, social movements, spaces, lifeworlds, literatures and cultures that have been destroyed through acts of political repression and mass violence. Through a reading group, seminars and master classes, as well as lectures by scholars, artists, archivists, and community activists, the initiative will explore the question of ‘archive’ in the context of annihilation. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/archives-of-thedisappeared-discipline-and-method-amidst-ruin

Shell ear trumpet, Europe, Science Museum, London Wellcome Images via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-4.0)

Auralities The Auralities research network is concerned with investigating, debating and understanding practices of audition, broadly conceived. Our heading is necessarily in the plural: practices of audition are shaped by wider cultural practices that shift across different times and places; differences between ‘hearing’ and listening’ have preoccupied philosophers and scientists alike; and even definitions of sound itself presume a normalised baseline of human sound perception, averaged across large populations.

Our seminar will explore these plural facets of sound, hearing and listening by bringing together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines across the humanities, social and natural sciences. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/auralities

Photo by Heather Mount via Unsplash

‘Re-’ Interdisciplinary Network

Health, Medicine and Agency

‘Re-’ Interdisciplinary Network

The Health, Medicine and Agency research network posits that patient agency has been a central factor in shaping processes of medicalisation across a broad range of geographical and cultural contexts. In recent history, patient 'expertise' has been the driving force behind a wide range of social movements in the health sphere, from natural childbirth and euthanasia reques to the rejection of compulsory vaccinations and unregulated use of antibiotics. The associated risks to health, fiercely polarized public opinion, and emergent subjectivities that have accompanied such social movements invite critical exploration.

The 'Re-' Interdisciplinary Network asks how and why we repeat, revive, re-enact, restage, reframe, remember, represent, and refer – to whom, when, where and why -- and why this a topical question in a digital era. It gathers researchers, teachers, writers and artists whose interest in topics related to cultural reproduction, repetition and reference extends beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries and the university/public divide.

Its interdisciplinary discussions and workshops explore how cultural repetition offers an identity, frames a particular worldview, implies a consensus, and performs a persuasive past.

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/health-medicine-andagency

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/re-interdisciplinarynetwork

Byzantine Worlds The Byzantine Worlds Seminar provides a venue for exploring the material and intellectual entanglements between the medieval worlds of the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. It builds on the existing work of the Cambridge Byzantine Seminar and the Cambridge Late Antique Network Seminar, and invites the involvements of historians, archaeologists, classicists, theologians and specialists in the languages and cultures of Afro-Eurasia. This expanded research community seeks to contribute to wider discussions across the University about global connections and cultural diversity before the era of European colonialism. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/byzantine-worlds

Boar's tusk (2005.685), reproduced by permission of the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology (2005.685)

Image © maudis60 via www.123rf.com

Critical Approaches to ‘Vulnerability’ in Empirical Research (CAVER) The CAVER Network seeks to reflect on the dynamics of power that play out between researchers and research participants labelled as “vulnerable”, critiquing this dynamic without attempting to absolve researchers from their responsibility to address it, and exploring ways in which we can challenge this dynamic.

It brings together academic researchers and people with lived experiences of multiple and complex disadvantages, who might be labelled as “vulnerable”, to collaboratively discuss and reflect on these issues. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/critical-approaches-tovulnerability-in-empirical-research-caver

Image produced in support of the dispute (USS) in 2018.

Jonathan Saha via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Risk and Renewal in the Pacific

Solidarity Across Difference Network – Theory and Practice

The Risk and Renewal in the Pacific Network will bring together researchers from a range of disciplines to explore the topic of risk in the Pacific. This may include topics such as ecological change, gender relations, indigenous knowledges, religious change, shifts in human settlement patterns, cosmology and ritual life, food security, inter-ethnic relations, extractive industries, colonial histories, development and infrastructure, global health and epidemiology, tourism, and museum collection, exhibition and repatriation. Understanding risk and renewal in the Pacific, and the social and environmental transformations they engender, highlights broader global challenges and allows us to formulate new ideas and responses.

The Solidarity Across Difference Network asks as to whether, and how, solidarity across difference might still be possible.

Can we take seriously the critique of universalism advanced by post-colonial theorists and feminists, and yet attempt a theorization of solidarity that evades the danger of homogenisation? What would solidarity projects that bridge difference without undermining it look like? Are there existing examples of such projects from which we can learn? In seeking answers to these questions, the network will facilitate a dialogue, not only between proponents and critics of solidarity, but also between scholars from a range of disciplines, who share an interest in understanding the basis of progressive social and political movements.

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/risk-and-renewal-in-thepacific

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/solidarity-acrossdifference-theory-and-practice

NETWORKS

Qusayr Amra – Bathhouse – Main Hall – West aisle, image ourtesy of Otto Nieminen/Manar al-Athar website

WHAT’S ON FEBRUARY 2020

22 FEB

Artist Talks Beating Time – A Conversation Between Painting and Poetry 2 – 4pm • Room SG1, ARB

11am – 1pm • IT Training Room,

Sandra Becarelli Miranda Boulton Alison Critchlow Una D'Aragona

Cambridge University Library • Cambridge Digital Humanities www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28915 Register online

• ART at the ARB www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28879

24 FEB Seminar

Technology as a Vernacular Category 12 – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB

Ludovic Coupaye (UCL) • Risk and Renewal in the Pacific Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28829

24 FEB Seminar Enlightenment Progressivism: Literature, Education and Freedom

25 FEB Hands-On Workshop Social Network Analysis with Digital Data 4

25 FEB Seminar Round-table: The Relationship between Health and Stigma 12 – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB

Tanisha Spratt (Oxford) Brigit McWade (Lancaster) • Health, Medicine and Agency Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28833

26 FEB Seminar

Staged Dance and the Culture

of the Theatre 12.30 – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB

12.30 – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB

Grace Bockington (Bristol) Claudia Tobin (Cambridge)

Louise Joy (Crausaz Wordsworth Fellow)

• Writing Dance Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk events/28681

• Fellows Work-in-Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28821 Register via email

24 FEB Reading Group

The Imaginaries We Were Born Into

3 – 5pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB

• gloknos (Centre for Global Knowledge Studies)

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28589

Register via email

26 FEB Reading Group

Disappearance and Documentation

2.30 – 4.30pm • Room SG2, ARB

• Archives of the Disappeared Research Network

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28838

26 FEB Seminar A Christian Insurgency in Islamic Syria: New Thoughts about the Jarājima/Mardaites 5 – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB

Christian Sahner (Oxford) • Byzantine Worlds Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28859

4 MAR

• Art at the ARB www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28826

2 MAR

Seminar Beyond Dystopia: Reclaiming the Future in Crisis and PostCrisis Cinema from Spain, 2008 – 2018

5 – 6 MAR

12.30 – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB

Bryan Cameron (Early Career Fellow)

2 MAR

• Fellows Work-in-Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28813 Register via email

3 – 5pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB • gloknos (Centre for Global Knowledge Studies) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28597 Register via email

2 MAR Seminar

Open Forum

12 – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB

Woolf Institute, Westminster College • Auralities Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28867

• Trinity College • Conference Programme www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28656

• Art at the ARB www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28880

5 MAR – Exhibition 10 APR Significant – A Bunch of Viruses

• Alison Richard Building

Helen Birnbaum • Art at the ARB www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28881

5 MAR

Exhibition Private View Significant – A Bunch of Viruses 6 – 8pm • Alison Richard Building

Helen Birnbaum • Art at the ARB www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28882

6 MAR

Conference Cambridge: City of Scholars, City of Refuge (1933 –1945)

5 MAR – Exhibition Private View

Travelling Companions

6 – 8pm • Alison Richard Building

Judy Goldhill and Fay Ballard

• Critical Approaches to 'Vulnerability'

in Empirical Research (CAVER) Research Network

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28857

4 MAR Seminar

Round-table: Deafness and Religion

2 – 4pm • KC Shasha Conference Suite,

5 – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB • Solidarity across Difference – Theory and Practice Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28876

Reading Group Alternate Twentieth-Century Biotechnologies

Reading Group Solidarity: Practice Session 4

Reading Group Maternal Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa 12 – 2pm • (please note alternative date) • Venue TBC • Health, Medicine and Agency Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28832

WHAT’S ON MARCH 2020

2 MAR – Exhibition 10 APR Travelling Companions

• Alison Richard Building

Judy Goldhill, Fay Ballard

WHAT’S ON MARCH 2020

7 MAR

9 MAR

Exhibition Seminar What or Who is Your Travelling Companion?

11 MAR Seminar Archive and Extinction 2.30 – 4.30pm • Room SG2, ARB

Christos Lynteris (St Andrews)

3 – 5pm • Seminar Room SG1, ARB • Art at the ARB www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28804 Register online

Seminar Pacific Art Traditions: Risk and Revival 12 – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB

Helen Alderson (Cambridge), Delyna Baxter (Charles Darwin) • Risk and Renewal in the Pacific Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28830

• Archives of the Disappeared Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28835

11 MAR

Seminar Visions of Heaven and Hell: Byzantine Apocalyptic in the Seventh Century

Bronwen Neil (Macquarie University)

9 MAR

Seminar Design and Literary Writing 12.30 – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB

Thomas Lee (Visiting Fellow)

9 MAR

• Fellows Work-in-Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28822 Register via email

Reading Group Hyper Globalism and the Retreat to the Local

3 – 5pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB

• gloknos (Centre for Global Knowledge Studies)

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28590

Register via email

10 MAR Seminar

Resilient Capital: How the Core

of Mainstream Macroeconom

ics Coped with the Great Reces sion 4 – 5.30pm • Room S2, ARB

Cornel Ban (Copenhagen Business School)

• Expertise Under Pressure Project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28920

5 – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB

• Byzantine Worlds Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28860

12 MAR Workshop

Practice as Theory, Theory as Practice

12.30 – 2pm (please note alternative

date) • Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English

• Writing Dance Workshop Research Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28682

13 MAR Conference Queer Migrations: Transnational Sexualities in Theory and Practice • Rooms SG1 & SG1, ARB • Conference Programme www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28576 Register online

16 MAR Reading Group

Engaging Modern Genetic Practices

3 – 5pm • CRASSH Meeting Room, ARB

• gloknos (Centre for Global Knowledge Studies)

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28598

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Workshop Cambridge Cultural Heritage Data School • IT Training Room, Cambridge University Library • Cambridge Digital Humanities www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28883 Register online

15 APR Lecture Heavens and Earth: An Empirical Approach to Knowledge Across Cultures

25 – 26 MAR

Conference Social Power and Mental Health: Evolving Research Through Lived Experience • Rooms SG1 & SG2, ARB • Conference Programme www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28578 Register online

26 – 27 Workshop MAR Film

• Room S1, ARB

16 – 17 Conference APR Late Antiquity's Library: Re-assessing the Classical Canon in the Age of Synesius • Rooms SG1 & SG2, ARB • Conference Programme www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28577 Register online

• Religious Diversity and the Secular University Project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28670 Register via email

6–7 Workshop APR Understanding Gendered

Violence: The Value of

Testimonial and Qualitative Evidence

• Kaetsu Centre Conference Room, Murray Edwards College • Quantitative and Qualitative Social Science Project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28893 Register via email

5 – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB • gloknos (Centre for Global Knowledge Studies) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28630 Register via email

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WHAT’S ON MARCH / APRIL 2020

16 – 20 MAR

LENT 2020 For details of the 'Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte' conference please visit: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk.events/28582

CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN THE ARTS, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

Front and back cover image: Pineapple grown in Sir Matthew Decker's garden at Richmond, Surrey.

Netscher, Theodorus (Dutch, 1661-1732). Oil on canvas, 1720. © Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge