CRASSH, University of Cambridge: What’s On, Michaelmas 2018

MICHAELMAS 2018

WHAT’S ON & WHO’S HERE

CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN THE ARTS, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

FESTIVAL TMP TITLE OF IDEAS This is my first introduction as Director of CRASSH to our termly What’s On. Simon Goldhill has been admirable Master of Ceremonies and I am both excited and daunted to be taking the stage after him. But the line-up of events we have in store this term is as exciting, provocative and enlarging as ever.

I know from my own experience of CRASSH-watching that, with everything we have going on, it is easy to find that the things you meant to sign up for have already been and gone. So here are a few things to get into your diary early for this term.

We are particularly looking forward to a visit this term, in our CRASSH Impact series, of Professor Homi Bhabha from Harvard, one of the foundational figures in postcolonial studies. He will be giving a public lecture in November. Keep an eye on www. tinyurl.com/crasshimpact for details.

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Don’t miss the fellowship opportunities, many of them with application deadlines in October, that are featured on our website. Look out during October too for the announcement of the new question to be posed by the Nine Dots Prize, which is sponsored by the Kadas Prize Foundation with support from CRASSH and Cambridge University Press.

The Centre for Global Knowledge Studies (gloknos), founded by Principal Research Associate Dr Inanna Hamati-Ataya, will be inaugurated on 19 October, with an open

Since its inception in 2006, the Graduate and Faculty Research Groups Programme has hosted 61 research groups, of graduate students and faculty working together to explore common interdisciplinary interests.

We have decided to give these a simpler and more straightforward name: Research Networks. 11 networks in total have been selected for the 2018–19 academic year, 5 of them new. The new networks are: Byzantine Worlds; Global Energy Nexus in Urban Settlements; Health, Medicine and Agency; International Black Radicalism; ‘Re-’ Interdisciplinary Network.

A noteworthy event from the new ‘Re-’ Research Network will be Replicas: Perspectives from the History of Art and Science on 21st November. Adam Lowe, the founder of Factum Arte, and Simon Schaffer will be among those helping us to ask: Can there be copying without loss? If so, what is the ontological difference between the ‘original’ and its ‘copy’?

This term, CRASSH is beginning an exploratory series of seminars entitled Biosensibilities: Living the Measured Life, organised in collaboration with the PHG Foundation, which will explore the implications of the new world of real-time biosensing and monitoring devices that are becoming available.

This September sees the end of the ERC-funded project Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic, which arrived at CRASSH in 2013, as well as the five-year Leverhulme-funded project Conspiracy and Democracy. We will be celebrating the latter at a final showcase on 23 November.

Professor Steven Connor Director of CRASSH

WELCOME TO CRASSH

reception in the Alison Richard Building and a lecture by Professor David Edgerton of King’s College London, a leading historian of technology and the author of many acclaimed monographs including The Shock of the Old. The gloknos Centre has initial funding from the ERC through Inanna’s project ARTEFACT and is developing a range of activities and collaborations in and beyond Cambridge (more information will soon be available at www.gloknos.ac.uk). CRASSH offers a perfect environment for gloknos’s ambitious cross-disciplinary agenda in Global Epistemics, and we are very excited by the prospect of hosting and contributing to its forthcoming activities and projects.

WHO’S HERE / FELLOWS

Dr Ronita Bardhan (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay) Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow

Dr Charis Boutieri (King’s College London) Visiting Fellow

Olivia Elder (Classics, University of Cambridge)

Dr Samuel Weiss Evans (Tufts University)

CRASSH/British School at Rome Fellow

Visiting Fellow

Dr Emma Hunter (University of Edinburgh)

Dr Sara Johnson (University of California, San Diego)

Quentin Skinner Fellow

ACLS Visiting Fellow

Dr Carlotta Santini (Technische Universität Berlin)

Dr Daniel Widener (University of California, San Diego)

EURIAS Fellow

Visiting Fellow

Photo courtesy of Collège de France

SCAS/ProFutura Fellow

Professor Philippe Descola (Collège de France/ École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris) Mellon Comparatism Visiting Fellow

Professor Paul Friedland (Cornell University)

Dr Renaud Gagné (Classics, University of Cambridge)

ACLS Visiting Fellow

SCAS/ProFutura Fellow

Dr Hazem Kandil (Sociology, University of Cambridge)

Dr Chana Morgenstern (English, University of Cambridge)

SCAS/ProFutura Fellow

Early Career Fellow

Early Career Fellow

Dr Nicholas Zair (Classics, University of Cambridge) SCAS/ProFutura Fellow

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Dr Martin Worthington (Archaeology, University of Cambridge)

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Dr Helen Anne Curry (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)

WHAT’S ON OCTOBER 2018

2 OCT

Seminar The Politics of Laughter

8 OCT

5pm – 7pm • Room S1, ARB • Note change of room Stuart Grant (Monash), Betsy Salkind (Actress/Comedian/Writer) • Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27930

3 OCT

Reading Group The Past and Present of Black Radicalism

12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room Chana Morgenstern (CRASSH Early Career Fellow) • Early Career Fellows Work-in-Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28030 Register via email

9 OCT

12pm – 2pm • Room S1, ARB • Note change of room • International Black Radicalism Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27935

3 OCT

Seminar Markets Without (Much) Money: Exchange of Everyday Items in Italy Before 1000 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Caroline Goodson (Cambridge) • Byzantine Worlds Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27915

5 – 6 OCT

Conference Forgotten Revolution: Visual and Material Culture of the Hungarian Diaspora in the Ottoman Empire Rooms SG1 & SG2, ARB • CRASSH Conference Programme www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28009

8 OCT

Reading Group Rethinking Economics and Open IP 1pm – 3pm • Room SG1, ARB • Open Intellectual Property Models Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27947

Seminar A Literature for All Its Citizens: Aesthetics of Coexistence in Israel/Palestine

Seminar The Political Vernaculars of Value Creation 5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB Fabian Muniesa (MINES ParisTech) • Politics of Economics Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27962

9 OCT

Seminar Resonant Landscapes 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Emily Richardson (Filmmaker) • Alchemical Landscape Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27966

10 OCT Reading Group Byzantine Greek Primary Text 12pm – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB • Byzantine Worlds Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27970

10 OCT Seminar Authenticities: Shakespeare’s Globe, Anatomical Drawings and Bach 3pm – 4.30pm • Room SG2, ARB Penelope Woods (QMUL), Dániel Margócsy (Cambridge), Rachel Stroud (Violinist/Academy of Ancient Music) • ‘Re-’ Interdisciplinary Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27975

4pm – 6pm • Room S2, ARB • gloknos’s Cambridge Connects www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28072

11 OCT Reading Group The Digital as Technology I: Coding 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB • Digital Art Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28003

11 OCT Exhibition Private View: Generation Z 5pm – 7pm • Centre of African Studies Kerstin Hacker (CUSP/Photographer) • Art at ARB www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28117

12 – 13 Conference OCT The Social Life of Work Rooms SG1 & SG2, ARB • CRASSH Conference Programme www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27823

15 OCT Seminar Romanus: A Conceptual History in Antiquity and Beyond 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room Olivia Elder (CRASSH/British School at Rome Fellow) • Visiting Fellows Work-in-Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28029 Register via email

16 OCT Seminar The Effects of Rent on Democratic Choice 12.30pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB George Joffe (Cambridge/KCL) • In Search of ‘Good’ Energy Policy Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27926

16 OCT Reading Group Knowledge and Digital Capitalism 4pm – 6pm • Mary Allan Building, Homerton College • gloknos’s Cambridge Connects CPGJ Research Cluster www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28067

17 OCT Seminar The Black Jacobins (C.L.R James) 12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Brian Alleyne (Goldsmiths) • International Black Radicalism Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27936

17 OCT Seminar Judicial Shaving in Middle Byzantium 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Mike Humphreys (Cambridge) • Byzantine Worlds Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27942

18 OCT Seminar The Medicalisation of the Female Body 5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB • Note change of day Emerita Helen King (Open University), Lucy van de Wiel (Cambridge), Zeynep Gürtin-Broadbent (Cambridge), Leah Astbury (Huntington Library) • Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27931

19 OCT Seminar The End of Universities?

1pm – 2pm • Room S1, ARB Alison Wood (Cambridge) • Cambridge Festival of Ideas www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28097

WHAT’S ON OCTOBER 2018

11 OCT Reading Group Ontopolitics of the Future

FESTIVAL IDEAS WHAT’SOFON OCTOBER 2018

19 OCT Lecture gloknos Annual Lecture Series: Inaugural Lecture 5pm – 7pm • Rooms SG1 & SG2, ARB • Nibbles from 4pm David Edgerton (KCL) • gloknos (Centre for Global Knowledge Studies) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28076

20 OCT Seminar The Automated Culture Lab 11am – 12pm • Room S1, ARB Anne Alexander (Cambridge) • Cambridge Festival of Ideas www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28093

20 OCT Seminar Exploring the Architecture of Political Concepts on Social Media 12.30pm – 1.30pm • Room S1, ARB Paul Nulty (Cambridge) • Cambridge Festival of Ideas www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28096

22 OCT Seminar Indigenous Corn, Industrial Agriculture and the Spectre of Extinction 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room Helen Anne Curry (ProFutura Fellow) • ProFutura Fellows Work-in-Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28001 Register via email

22 OCT Seminar Economics, Law and Intellectual Property 1pm – 3pm • Room SG1, ARB Ove Granstrand (Chalmers) • Open Intellectual Property Models Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27948

22 OCT Reading Group Patient Needs: Conceptualisation 5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB • Health, Medicine and Agency Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27953

23 OCT Reading Group Interdisciplinary Reading Group 12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB • Global Energy Nexus in Urban Settlements Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27959

23 OCT Seminar Landscapes of the Dead, c.1100 to c.1500 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Carl Watkins (Cambridge) • Alchemical Landscape Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27967

23 OCT Seminar The Power of Economists Within the State 5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB Johan Christensen (Leiden), Ellen Quigley (Cambridge) • Politics of Economics Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27963

24 OCT Reading Group Byzantine Greek Primary Text 12pm – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB • Byzantine Worlds Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27971

25 OCT Reading Group Ontopolitics of the Future 4pm – 6pm • Room S2, ARB • gloknos’s Cambridge Connects www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28073

30 OCT Seminar Heracles’ Body – An Unexpected Site of Gender Contest?

5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB • Digital Art Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28004

5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB Chiara Blanco (Cambridge), Broderick Chow (Brunel) • Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27932

29 OCT Seminar The History of Liberalism in Twentieth-Century Africa 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room Emma Hunter (Quentin Skinner Fellow) • Visiting Fellows Work-in-Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27996 Register via email

30 OCT Seminar Past and Prospective Transitions in the UK Gas Industry – Some Interdisciplinary Insights

31 OCT Reading Group The Caribbean, Feminist Roots of Black Radicalism 12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB • International Black Radicalism Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27937

31 OCT Seminar An Ekphrasis of the Hippodrome Scenes in Kyivan Sophia

12.30pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Peter Pearson (Imperial College London) • In Search of ‘Good’ Energy Policy Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27927

5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Robert Romanchuk (Florida State), Brad Hostetler (Kenyon College) • Byzantine Worlds Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27944

1 NOV 30 OCT Reading Group Knowledge and Digital Capitalism 4pm – 6pm • Mary Allan Building, Homerton College • gloknos’s Cambridge Connects CPGJ Research Cluster www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28068

30 OCT Seminar E-Humanome 4.30pm – 6pm • CRASSH Meeting Room Chris Lowe (Cambridge) • Biosensibilities: Living the Measured Life Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28127

CRASSH Impact Homi Bhabha 5.15pm – 7pm • Babbage Lecture Theatre Homi Bhabha (Harvard) • CRASSH Impact www.tinyurl.com/crasshimpact

2 NOV

Workshop The Old Slavic Digenis Akritis: Its Origin, ‘Formulaic Style’ and Problems of Its Edition 11am – 3pm • Pitt Building Robert Romanchuk (Florida State) • Byzantine Worlds Network & Cambridge Ukrainian Studies www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27946

FESTIVAL IDEASOCTOBER / NOVEMBER 2018 WHAT’SOFON

25 OCT Reading Group The Digital as Technology II: Visualisation

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5 NOV

Seminar ‘Well-Being’ and Domestic Energy Decision-Making in Slum Rehabilitation Housing in India 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room Ronita Bardhan (Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow) • Visiting Fellows Work-in-Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27997 Register via email

5 NOV

6 NOV

12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Idalina Baptista (Oxford), David Dodman (IIED) • Global Energy Nexus in Urban Settlements Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27960

6 NOV

Seminar Open Intellectual Property and Development Economics

Reading Group Patient Needs: An Example from History

6 NOV

5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB Dora Vargha (Exeter) • Health, Medicine and Agency Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27954

5 NOV

CRASSH Impact Homi Bhabha

Seminar Blessed Land: Legacy and Loss Within Lowestoft’s Narrative Landscape 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Mireille Fauchon (University of the Arts London/Royal College of Art) • Alchemical Landscape Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27968

1pm – 3pm • Room SG1, ARB • Open Intellectual Property Models Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27949

5 NOV

Seminar Informality, Energy Services, Risk and Resilience in African Cities

Seminar Measuring Poverty and Inequality in the Global South 5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB Poornima Paidipaty (Cambridge), Jason Hickel (Goldsmiths) • Politics of Economics Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27964

7 NOV

5.15pm – 7pm • Babbage Lecture Theatre Homi Bhabha (Harvard) • CRASSH Impact www.tinyurl.com/crasshimpact

Reading Group Byzantine Greek Primary Text 12pm – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB • Byzantine Worlds Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27972

7 NOV

Seminar The Concept of the ‘Original’: Japan, Africa and Indonesia 2.30pm – 4.30pm • Room SG2, ARB Doris Jedamski (Leiden), Ashley Thorpe (RHUL), Osita Okagbue (Goldsmiths) • ‘Re-’ Interdisciplinary Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28048

Homi Bhabha

Reading Group Ontopolitics of the Future 4pm – 6pm • Room S2, ARB • gloknos’s Cambridge Connects www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28074

8 NOV

Seminar Extending Perceptual Capacities: Software or Hardware Update?

5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Maarten Steenhagen (Cambridge) • Digital Art Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28005

12 NOV Seminar Interpreting the Minor Masterpieces of Babylonian and Assyrian Literature 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room Martin Worthington (CRASSH Early Career Fellow) • Early Career Fellows Work-in-Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27991 Register via email

13 NOV Seminar Contestation, Contingency and Justice in the Nordic Low-Carbon Energy Transition 12.30pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Benjamin Sovacool (Sussex) • In Search of ‘Good’ Energy Policy Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27928

13 NOV Reading Group Knowledge and Digital Capitalism 4pm – 6pm • Mary Allan Building, Homerton College • gloknos’s Cambridge Connects CPGJ Research Cluster www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28069

13 NOV Seminar Looking Again at the Gendered Self: From Performance to Representation 5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB Anne Duncan (Nebraska), Clare Foster (Cambridge) • Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27933

14 NOV Seminar Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism 12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Kehinde Andrews (Birmingham City) • International Black Radicalism Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27939

14 NOV Seminar The Experience of Mobility and Migration in Byzantium 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Claudia Rapp (Vienna) • Byzantine Worlds Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27945

19 NOV Seminar Questioning the Epistemology of Myth Between the XVIII and XX Centuries 12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room Carlotta Santini (EURIAS Fellow) • Visiting Fellows Work-in-Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28000 Register via email

19 NOV Seminar Synthesis: Rethinking Economics and Open IP 1pm – 3pm • Room SG1, ARB • Open Intellectual Property Models Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27950

FESTIVAL OFON IDEAS WHAT’S NOVEMBER 2018

8 NOV

FESTIVAL OFON IDEAS WHAT’S NOVEMBER 2018

19 NOV Seminar Patient Needs: Medical Technologies, (In)Equalities and New Imaginary Futures 5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB Cathy Herbrand (De Montfort), Manuela Perrotta (QMUL), Andrea Stockl (East Anglia), Elizabeth Toon (Manchester) • Health, Medicine and Agency Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27955

20 NOV Seminar Energy and Low-Income Urban Settlements in Global South (India and South Africa) 12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Minna Sunikka-Blank (Cambridge), Anika Haque (Cambridge), Ronita Bardhan (IIT Bombay), Charlotte Lemanski (Cambridge), Ruth Massey (Cambridge) • Global Energy Nexus in Urban Settlements Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27961

20 NOV Seminar Biosensibilities: Living the Measured Life 4.30pm – 6pm • CRASSH Meeting Room • Biosensibilities: Living the Measured Life Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28128

20 NOV Seminar Hidden Channels: Archives, Tapes and Traces of Cambridge’s Underground Sonic History 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Jo Brook (Event Producer/ Sound Artist) • Alchemical Landscape Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27969

20 NOV Seminar Women and Economics 5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB Erin Hengel (Liverpool), Anja Prummer (QMUL) • Politics of Economics Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27965

21 NOV Reading Group Byzantine Greek Primary Text 12pm – 2pm • Room SG2, ARB • Byzantine Worlds Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27973

21 NOV Seminar Replicas: Perspectives from the History of Art and Science 2.30pm – 4.30pm • Room SG2, ARB Adam Lowe (Artist/Factum Arte, Madrid), Simon Schaffer (Cambridge) • ‘Re-’ Interdisciplinary Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28049

22 NOV Reading Group Ontopolitics of the Future 4pm – 6pm • Room S2, ARB • gloknos’s Cambridge Connects www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28075

22 NOV Seminar Physical/Non Physical (Artist’s Talk) 5pm – 7pm • Room SG2, ARB Jeff Thompson (Cambridge) • Digital Art Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28006

23 NOV Project Showcase Conspiracy and Democracy: History, Political Theory and the Internet Rooms SG1 & SG2, ARB • Conspiracy and Democracy Project www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28122

30 NOV Workshop The Repeating Work: Adaptation and Appropriation 12pm – 3.45pm • Room S1, ARB Freddie Rokem (Chicago/Tel Aviv), Mischa Twitchin (Goldsmiths), Ross Cole (Cambridge), Martin Zellinger (ARU) • ‘Re-’ Interdisciplinary Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28051

12.30pm – 2pm • CRASSH Meeting Room Paul Friedland (ACLS Visiting Fellow) • Visiting Fellows Work-in-Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28043

27 NOV Seminar Energy Efficient Cities

4 DEC

12.30pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB Ruchi Choudhary (Cambridge) • In Search of ‘Good’ Energy Policy Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27929

27 NOV Reading Group Knowledge and Digital Capitalism 4pm – 6pm • Mary Allan Building, Homerton College • gloknos’s Cambridge Connects CPGJ Research Cluster www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28070

27 NOV Seminar Dressing the Self/Other in Greek Drama, Italian Opera and Rural Albania 5pm – 7pm • Room SG1, ARB Rosie Wyles (Kent), Matteo Augello (London College of Fashion), Ellen Robertson Martinez (Cambridge) • Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27934

28 NOV Film Screening The Black Panthers Documentary 12pm – 2pm • Room SG1, ARB • International Black Radicalism Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27940

Lecture gloknos Annual Lecture Series 5pm – 7pm • Rooms SG1 & SG2, ARB Eleanor Robson (UCL) • gloknos (Centre for Global Knowledge Studies) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28077

6 – 7 DEC

Conference Dynamic Maghrebi JewishMuslim Interaction Across the Performing Arts (1920–2020) Location TBC • CRASSH Conference Programme www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27895

14 – 15 Conference DEC The French Military in Africa Since Rwanda: Neocolonial Trustee to Legitimate Multilateral Partner?

Rooms SG1 & SG2, ARB • CRASSH Conference Programme www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27896

10 – 11 Conference JAN A Good Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Dying Well Rooms SG1 & SG2, ARB • CRASSH Conference Programme www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27897

FESTIVAL OFON IDEAS WHAT’S NOV / DEC 2018 / JAN 2019

26 NOV Seminar A World Without Race: The Dream of a Universal Republic in the Revolutionary French Caribbean

NETWORKS 2018–19 Image by network convenor Yvonne Salmon

Image modified from photo by Jordan Whitfield via Unsplash

The Alchemical Landscape

Biosensibilities: Living the Measured Life NEW

Working as an interdisciplinary, multiplatform research project, The Alchemical Landscape brings into collaboration the Faculty of English and the Department of Land Economy. It has two intersecting points of focus: the artistic representation of the British landscape as an uncanny if not haunted space, and the use of comparable ‘spectral’ language to speak about matters of environment, property and value. This year’s theme is ‘Dreamtime Politics’.

This new network explores the technology and experience of biosensing, and involves experts from the worlds of engineering, medical policy, social sciences and humanities. Bringing technical and human perspectives into communication, we seek to identify the most distinctive opportunities and new medical possibilities as well as the faultlines and pressure points in this emerging area, the most urgent, difficult or unexpected problems that demand investigation.

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/alchemicallandscape

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/ biosensibilities

NETWORKS 2018–19 CONFERENCES

Church of Saint George in Madaba, Jordan. Image courtesy of Sean Leatherbury and the Manar al-Athar website, Oxford

Writing Through the Essay: ‘On the Duty of Civil Disobedience’ (Installation by John Cage)

Byzantine Worlds NEW

Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network (CIPN)

Byzantine Worlds builds on the existing work of the Cambridge Byzantine Seminar and the Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar, and invites the involvements of historians, archaeologists, classicists, theologians and specialists in the languages and cultures of AfroEurasia. 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.

CIPN brings together people from a wide variety of different backgrounds in Cambridge and beyond to explore the idea of performance as a concept, from music and literary studies to history, anthropology, architecture and medicine. The network strives to foster exchange on the potential of performance to engender dialogue across conventionally separated cultural categories, practices and disciplines.

This year’s theme is ‘Performance and the Body’.

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/byzantineworlds

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/ performance-network

NETWORKS 2018–19 Untitled (Netting), detail, 2016 Image courtesy of the artist, Ben Thorp Brown

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Digital Art

Global Energy Nexus in Urban Settlements (GENUS) NEW

Digital Art’s central research questions for the year will be: If the digital is a complex interdisciplinary concept, what is at stake in calling art ‘digital’?

And how does a close analysis of the digital as a technological and cultural construction enable new discourses concerning art practices in a digital age? Our new programme of events frames this discussion around the three senses of digital that are crucial to art practice today, namely the digital as a technology, as a medium and as an aesthetic.

Global Energy Nexus in Urban Settlements spans four departments in Cambridge (Geography, Engineering, Architecture and the Judge Business School) and three Schools. It has two core aims: 1. Conducting research on sustainable and innovative forms of energy for urban dwellers. 2. Implementing an interdisciplinary approach to research that both values and critiques disciplinary difference.

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/digitalart

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/globalenergy-nexus-in-urban-settlements

NETWORKS CONFERENCES 2018–19

Image modified from photo by Heather Mount via Unsplash

Image by In Search of ‘Good’ Energy Policy

Health, Medicine and Agency NEW

In Search of ‘Good’ Energy Policy

In what ways do individuals influence the kinds of medical treatment options widely available?

This network posits that patient agency has been a central factor in shaping processes of medicalisation and biomedicalisation across a broad range of geographical and cultural contexts. By adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, it brings into focus the growing importance of, and controversies surrounding, individual and patient agency.

What constitutes a ‘good’ energy policy is conditioned not only by technology and financial factors but also by social norms and values, institutions, geopolitics, public trust and history. This network explores energy policy themes from different disciplinary perspectives – economics, history, philosophy, theology, politics, law, anthropology, psychology, engineering – with the aim of identifying principles and processes for ‘good’ energy policymaking.

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/healthmedicine-and-agency

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/in-searchof-good-energy-policy

NETWORKS 2018–19 Women’s Day, National University of Lesotho, 1993. Photo by K. Kendall via Flickr. CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)

Image created by network convenor Jenny Molloy, using icons from Noun Project

International Black Radicalism NEW

Open Intellectual Property Models of Emerging Technologies

This network will develop understandings of black radicalism in two ways. Firstly, we will highlight how black radicalism has transcended national and disciplinary borders. Secondly, we will focus on black radicalism’s historical development, questioning whether contemporary exponents of black radicalism are better or worse placed to perform its ‘internationalism’ in a digital age.

The guiding question of this network is the extent to which open technologies result in equitable sharing of knowledge and cognitive or technology justice. ‘Open’ IP describes a range of approaches to knowledge production, distribution and consumption that allow more or different actors to participate in producing and to benefit from technologies.

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/ international-black-radicalism

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/openintellectual-property-models-of-emergingtechnologies-and-implication

NETWORKS 2018–19

Money Makes the World Go Round by Adrian Clark via Flickr

Image by network convenor Michael Byrne

The Politics of Economics

‘Re-’ Interdisciplinary Network NEW

Economics affects politics, politics affects economics, and there is politics internal to economics. The Politics of Economics brings different disciplinary angles together for a discussion of these dynamics and their normative and epistemic consequences. It examines the ways in which politics and economics have been and are by necessity entwined in order to think about how we can and should structure economic advice.

This 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 is 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.

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/the-politicsof-economics

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/reinterdisciplinary-network

MICHAELMAS 2018

The image relates to ‘A Good Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Dying Well’ (10 – 11 January 2019). This conference is now open for registration: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27897.

CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN THE ARTS, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

Front and back cover image: 'Morphine Crystal' by Annie Cavanagh.

Credit: Annie Cavanagh. CC BY-NC 4.0 (creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc/4.0). Image courtesy of Wellcome Collection (wellcomecollection.org).