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Archives in the Digital Age Latin American Women’s Filmmaking Living Proust and the Belle Époque Senate House Library exhibition: ‘Reformation’ Plus hundreds of other events highlighting the latest research across the humanities
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The School of Advanced Study, University of London (SAS) is the UK’s national centre for the support and promotion of research in the humanities. Its nine institutes offer an extensive programme of seminars, workshops, lectures and conferences. Each year around 1,800 events are organised on humanities topics, attracting more than 68,000 participants from around the world. Senate House Library is the central library of the University of London. With more than two million books and 1,200 archival collections, it is one of the UK’s largest academic libraries focused on the arts, humanities and social sciences. Several of SAS’s collections are housed within the Library, which holds a wealth of primary source material from the medieval period to the modern age. The Library organises a number of events and exhibitions throughout the year. The majority of SAS and Senate House Library events and exhibitions are free and open to the public. All are welcome and encouraged to take advantage of the unique access to current research in the humanities and social sciences that these events provide. For a complete list of upcoming events and exhibitions, please visit sas.ac.uk and senatehouselibrary.ac.uk.
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How to use this guide Events are listed in date and time order. On the left we list the department responsible for organising the event, the time, type of event or series and the venue. On the right we list the event title, speaker(s) and a short description if available. There is further information about highlighted events at the start of the guide, and about research training events and calls for papers at the end.
Booking Most of our events are free and open to the public. Some events have limited capacity and advance booking is advised. The event information in this guide was correct at the time of going to press, but may be subject to change. Please check our websites for the latest information or email SAS at sas.events@sas.ac.uk or Senate House Library at senatehouselibrary@london.ac.uk.
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Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present 5 May
Witness Seminar: The Role and Functions of the British High Commissions in the Caribbean 4 May This group interview of leading British diplomats will assess the role and functions of British High Commissions in the Caribbean from the 1980s to the present, from the perspective of those who have worked at them. It uses oral history to identify the priorities of British policymakers and how they have approached the countries in the Caribbean as important regional players, as well as to identify how British diplomats have dealt with the legacy of the country’s imperial past and how they have utilised past and present connections to further British international interests. Organised by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and King’s College London.
This symposium hosted by the Institute of Modern Languages Research explores transcultural exchanges across the Mediterranean with a focus on the visual, textual and material representation of port cities. Beyond geography, what binds these cities together? What do representations reveal in relation to shared Mediterranean identities? What were the effects of colonisation? How did the British, Ottoman, French and Italian empires—which all, at various times, ruled over these cities— change their cultural and memorial fabric? A distinguished group of international scholars will discuss these issues and more. The programme includes a poetry reading by Stephanos Stephanides and a performance by Alev Adil, ‘Offshore Dreaming: Aphrodite’s Gas Field’ (2015). A wine reception follows. This event is generously supported by the Cassal Trust and Birkbeck, University of London. See page 33 for event information ‘View of the Mediterranean from the rooftop of MuCEM (Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisation), Marseille’. Photo credit: Gabriel Koureas
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Lay Down Your Arms! On Peace in Europe 8 May Acclaimed Austrian actress Maxi Blaha will perform her one-woman show Soul of Fire, described by the Sydney Morning Herald as ‘an elegant little play that gently and economically recreates the life and spirit of Bertha von Suttner, peace activist, writer and, in 1905, the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Austrian actress Maxi Blaha brings a restless intelligence to the role.’ The performance will be followed by a short talk by Daniel Laqua (Northumbria), a specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century history and European peace movements.
Living Literature 11 May
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This year, Living Literature invites you to explore Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
Maxi Blaha as Berta von Suttner (photo: Peter Rigaud)
Learn how taste, smell and memory are linked through sensory experiments with the Centre for the Study of the Senses, immerse yourself in a labyrinthine universe where erotic desire and scientific method combine. Surrounded by the scents, fashions and music of the Belle Époque, you can feast on food inspired by In Search of Lost Time and sip linden tea cocktails while learning about Paris at the turn of the century.
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Listen to readings and pop-up talks; learn about love, jealousy, queer identity, art, society and politics during the French fin-desiècle; view our literary exhibition and enjoy a magic lantern show. There will also be an intimate performance of Proust’s fictional Vinteuil sonata, as well as works by other classical composers from the era. Plus a few surprises on the night… See page 40 for event information 3
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World Literature and the New Totalitarianism 15–16 May At the beginning of 2017 we are faced with the spectre of a new totalitarianism. It blossoms from the victories of Trump, the Brexit camp, and far right candidates in Scandinavia and Poland. It comes in the wake of the Russian plutocracy’s concentration of power and the recrudescence of neoNazi movements in Greece and the Balkans. The teleological narrative many have been telling ourselves—of progressive cosmopolitanism, tolerance, relatively open borders, of urbanity in every sense of the word—has been challenged by the return of anti-Semitism, racism, ethno-nationalism, and anti-intellectualism. But the new totalitarianism is amplified by technologies once understood as democratizing: the internet, social media, and the proliferation of popular news sources. The symposium will address this development. This event is supported by the Open World Research Initiative, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It is organised as part of the OWRI Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Communities consortium, led by the University of Manchester in collaboration with Durham University and the Institute of Modern Languages Research at the School of Advanced Study. See page 42 for event information
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Histories of Race, Popular Culture, and Identity in the Andes 15 May This conference organised by the Institute of Latin American Studies on the cultural politics of race and indigeneity in the Andes builds on Marisol de la Cadena’s observation that racial categories in the Andes are constructed through culture and cultural difference. It will bring together scholars of anthropology, history, and literature in the Andes to explore such questions as: How have Andean peoples used the tools of culture (music, dance, clothing, theatre, architecture, literature) to fashion national or regional identities, forms of resistance, and political movements? How have Afro-Andean, indigenous, mestizo and creole communities differently navigated cultural integration and autonomy historically and in the present? How have cultural practices been used in the past or present to mock, denigrate, or punish communities and individuals in the Andes? How have certain cultural practices travelled across or subverted spatial and temporal boundaries, including rural/urban, highland/lowland, colonial/national, indigenous/modern? How have cultural manifestations of race been used to perform or transcend class, gender, or sexual identities? How have struggles over patrimony and heritage defined or expanded definitions of Andean culture? And how have Andean communities incorporated social and economic concerns through cultural practices?   See page 42 for event information
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Future Past: Researching Archives in the Digital Age 18 May This Institute of Historical Research and British Records Association conference aims to promote understanding and collaboration between archivists and researchers, explore challenges posed by digital access to collections, and improve methodologies. Speakers will include Nick Barrett (Nottingham), Geoff Browell (KCL), Maria Castrillo (Senate House Library), Kathleen Chater, Sophie Clapp (Boots), Clare Cowling (IALS), Jo Pugh (The National Archives and York), Tom Scott (Wellcome Collection), Tamara Thornhill (TfL), and Jane Winters (SAS).   See page 47 for event information
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The Distributed Cognitive Ecologies of Collaborative Embodied Skill 26 May This Institute of Philosophy workshop addresses relations between individuals, groups, and environments across performance forms and contexts. What do individuals bring to and do in collaborative embodied performance? How do group members with distinct capacities complement each other in skilled action? Are cues to collaborative embodied skill distributed across larger cognitive ecologies, and how are they reliably accessed? What forms of breakdown and repair reveal the fragility and the resilience of collaborative skills? See page 56 for event information
The Refugee Law Initiative Second Annual Conference: Mass Influx? Law, Policy and Large-Scale Movements of Refugees and Migrants 5–7 June This conference provides a dedicated annual international forum to share and debate the latest research and cuttingedge developments in refugee law. This year’s special theme reflects a need to re-examine complex issues surrounding large-scale sudden movements of persons across borders as we build towards the Global Compacts in 2018. Keynote speakers will include Volker Turk (Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, UNHCR), François Crépeau (UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Migrants), Alexander Betts (Director, Refugee Studies Centre), Loren Landau (African Centre for Migration and Society), and Alexandra Bilak (Director, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre). See page 64 for event information
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Researchers, Practitioners and Their Use of the Archived Web 12–16 Jun The School of Advanced Study and the British Library will host a series of events spotlighting the archived web. Web Archiving Week (12–16 June) will consist of workshops, panels, lightning talks and more than 60 presentations. A three-day conference (14–16 June) focusing on researchers’ and practitioners’ use of the archived web will be preceded by a two-day Archives Unleashed ‘datathon’. A public debate will be held on the evening of 14 June as part of the British Library’s series of Digital Conversations. Organised by the School of Advanced Study; the British Library; The National Archives of the UK; the Oxford Internet Institute; Aarhus University; L’Institut des sciences de la communication (CNRS, Paris-Sorbonne, UPMC); L3S Research Center–Leibniz University Hannover; the Royal Library, Denmark; the Bibliothèque nationale de France; L’Institut national de l’audiovisuel and Aix-Marseille University; International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) and Archives Unleashed. Please visit the Archived Web conference website for details: archivedweb.blogs.sas.ac.uk/programme.
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Britain, Canada, and the Arts 15–17 June Coinciding with and celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation, this conference will focus on the strong culture of artistic exchange, influence, and dialogue between Canada and Britain, with a particular but not exclusive emphasis on the decades after World War II. It aims to expose the breadth of this exchange of social and cultural ideals, artistic talent, intellectual traditions, and aesthetic formulations. A variety of critical and disciplinary perspectives will be explored, with scholars and practitioners working in theatre, history, literature, politics, music, film and television, cultural studies, design, and visual art. The conference is organised by the Institute of English Studies in collaboration with the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University and the University of Westminster. School of Advanced Study
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Climates and Elements: Man and his Environment in Western Culture 22 June
Under the Greek Sky: Imitation and Geographies of Art after Winckelmann 15–16 June This year marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of the German classicist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann, commonly regarded as the founding father of both archaeology and art history. This conference will re-evaluate Winckelmann’s legacy and his influence on art theory since the eighteenth century. The concept of imitation, central to Winckelmann’s theories and writings, is a linchpin for modern ideas about the diffusion, appropriation, and musealization of art. The first day of the conference, held at King’s College London, will focus on the ‘culture’ of imitation. The second day, held at the Warburg Institute, will discuss the ‘nature’ of imitation and the consequences of the ecological boundaries set for it by Winckelmann. It will explore the implications of Winckelmann’s climate theory for neoclassical geographies of art and contemporary debates on aesthetic relativism in the age of nationalism.
The concern of man’s relationship with his natural environment is not new. The elements from which the human body is made are the same as the elements in his surroundings, and events in the sky (whether of the stars or of meteorological phenomena) affect human health, character and well-being. Ever since Hippocrates’ Airs, Waters and Places, a strong medical tradition has related human regimen and diet to the seasons of the year and geographical and topographical conditions. Astrological traditions relate different regions and different latitudinal bands (climes) to different human characteristics. There was even the idea that an individual or a society could improve the bad effects of the environment through good conduct. This Warburg Institute workshop will take up some of the issues surrounding elements, climates and regions as they are found in philosophical, medical, astrological and alchemical literature in Greek, Syriac, Arabic and Latin in late Antique and medieval Western culture. See page 79 for event information
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26–27 June Latin America is frequently associated in the popular imaginary with endemic violence. The conception is, of course, not without foundation. If colonisation ensured a violent birth for the modern era, revolutionary independence movements necessarily continued the trend, and politics have frequently been associated with turbulent periods of violence disrupting national consolidation and democratic development. Moreover, structural violence and the repression of marginalised groups have perpetuated inequalities that have periodically begotten further political uprisings. Populations strive to reconcile memories of this recent history with fledgling democratic institutions, all the while grappling with severe economic difficulties and inequalities. The situation is further complicated by the emergence of organised crime and street gangs that have gravely affected politics from the most southerly point in the region to the northern Mexican border and beyond. Featuring a panel of international scholars, this one-day symposium organised by the Institute of Latin American Studies will address these issues. Representing diverse disciplinary approaches and regional interests, the panel will draw on their vast experience researching violence within the region in order to stimulate debate over the key terms in the study of violence in contemporary Latin American scholarship.
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Political Violence or Violent Politics? Contemporary Approaches to Violence in Latin American Studies
John Coffin Memorial Annual Irish Studies Lecture Eavan Boland: ‘Shifting Ground: Irish Poetry in a Time of Change’ 28 June In the last hundred years, Ireland has seen seismic changes in its social and political worlds. How did these changes come to be reflected or resisted in Irish poetry? Did the identity of the Irish poet shift with the society? Or did Irish poetry remain merely at the edge of change? Eavan Boland, Melvin and Bill Lane Professor in Humanities at Stanford University, has published several volumes of poetry, including New Collected Poems (2008), Domestic Violence (2007) and An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967–1987 (1996), as well as the prose memoir Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time, among many other works. Her A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet won the 2012 PEN Award for creative nonfiction. She has been the recipient of the Lannan Award for Poetry and the American Ireland Fund Literary Award. See page 83 for event information
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Global Decolonization Workshop: Concepts and Connections 6–7 July
Biennial London Chaucer Conference 30 June–1 July This two-day conference hosted by the Institute of English Studies will consider ideas about the law in the age of Chaucer and in relation to the works of Chaucer and his contemporaries, probing questions about legal practices and culture, justice, regulation and instruction, and the consequences of making and breaking laws. It will bring together scholars and postgraduate students working in a range of disciplines and departments. Keynote addresses will be given by Sebastian Sobecki (University of Groningen) and Emily Steiner (University of Pennsylvania). See page 84 for event information
This two-day event, which will take place at the University of London in Paris, is the first in a series of workshops on global decolonisation, a new collaboration between the School of Advanced Study and New York University. The series seeks to forge a global forum for knowledge exchange in the interdisciplinary field of decolonisation studies. The July workshop will explore the concepts and connections associated with decolonisation and postcolonial studies. The keynote speaker will be Todd Shepard (Johns Hopkins University). See page 88 for event information
T. S. Eliot International Summer School 8–16 July The ninth edition of this annual summer school led by the Institute of English Studies will celebrate the life and writing of T. S. Eliot with a series of lectures, seminars, receptions and coach trips as well as poetry readings, discussion groups, and late-afternoon walking tours of Eliot’s London and literary Bloomsbury. The programme aims to maximize opportunities for social interaction and intellectual exchange within a convivial and scholarly environment. The opening lecture will be delivered by Alan Jenkins, award-winning poet and deputy editor of The Times Literary Supplement, and will be followed by a drinks reception. See page 89 for event information
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Ancient ‘Holism’ in GraecoRoman Medicine and Its Cultural Context 11–12 September The Institute of Classical Studies hosts this conference bringing together scholars from the fields of ancient science, philosophy, and Greek and Roman literature and culture to explore how modern concepts such as holism, psychosomatic unity and systemic approaches to human health can throw light on ancient medical discussions and poetic representations of diseases and disorders both physiological and mental. As part of the conference, Vivian Nutton will give a public lecture on humoralism and the environment.
The Postcolonial Studies Association Convention is the biennial gathering of members of one of the largest scholarly associations in the field. Papers are drawn from many disciplines, including literary studies, history, law, media studies, development studies, sociology, area studies, philosophy, and economics and speak to a wide range of topics related to colonial and postcolonial cultures, histories and experiences. The special keynote theme for this convention, ‘Globalisation’, will investigate the crucial role of postcolonial studies in furthering newer understandings of economic, political and cultural globalisation in light of the current international climate: the complex sociopolitical ramifications of the Brexit verdict, Trump’s electoral victory, and the European refugee crisis, which have come to be regarded as a reactionary ‘whitelash’ against globalisation. See page 100 for event information
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The 2017 Malcolm Bowie Memorial Lecture ‘Re-reading Proust in 2017’ 9 May Antoine Compagnon, Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Professor of Modern and Contemporary French Literature at the Collège de France, will discuss Marcel Proust’s place in contemporary world literature, asking whether À la recherche du temps perdu is as alive and relevant today as when it was first published in 1913. Compagnon is the author of major books on Proust (Proust entre deux siècles), Montaigne (Nous, Michel de Montaigne and Chat en poche: Montaigne et l’allégorie), and Baudelaire (Baudelaire devant l’innombrable). His studies La Troisème République des Lettres and Les Antimodernes, de Joseph de Maistre à Roland Barthes have had a profound impact on the study of French literature. His book Un été avec Montaigne was a bestseller in 2013. This event is sponsored by the Cassal Trust. The lecture precedes the School of Advanced Study’s ‘Living Proust and the Belle Époque’ immersive experience on Thursday, 11 May. For information and tickets, please visit livingliterature.org.uk. See page 37 for event information
Indenture to Windrush: David Dabydeen 12 May Indenture to Windrush is part of a series of events taking place at Senate House in 2017 to commemorate the centenary of the abolition of the system of indenture in the British Empire. Join us for a night of live oral history, literature and music as we explore the experiences of Indian-Caribbean and Chinese-Caribbean migrants of the Windrush era. Speakers include David Dabydeen, a leading writer of the Indian indentured experience in the Caribbean. An award-winning poet and novelist, Dr Dabydeen has written extensively on migration, belonging and identity. He was a contributor to the BBC Radio Four series ‘Neither Here Nor There’. He has served as Guyana’s Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO and from 2010 to 2015 was Guyana’s Ambassador to China. See page 41 for event information 12
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The Jacobsen Lecture 2017 ‘Gestalt Shifts in the Liar’ 15 May Susanne Bobzien, professor of philosophy and a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, is this year’s Institute of Philosophy Jacobsen Lecturer. Professor Bobzien studies contemporary philosophy of logic and language with an emphasis on vagueness, truth and paradoxes. She is also interested in ancient philosophy, primarily the history of logic from Aristotle to Boethius and theories of determinism, freedom and moral responsibility. Among her published books are Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1998) and a monograph on Stoic modal logic. She is a Fellow of the British Academy. See page 43 for event information
Eric Hobsbawm Memorial Lecture 2017 ‘Russia’s Revolution and the Destruction of the Past’ 22 May Catherine Merridale is the author of numerous award-winning books on Russian history. Her latest work, Lenin on the Train (Penguin Books), tells the story of Lenin’s famous journey to Russia in April 1917. Her talk will be followed by a reception.
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Loving and Leaving the New Jamaica: Reckoning with the 1960s 23 May Matthew J. Smith, professor of history and chair of the Department of History and Archaeology, University of the West Indies, will keynote the Institute of Latin American Studies’ conference ‘Memory, Migration and Decolonistation in the Caribbean and Beyond, 1804 to the Present’. His areas of research include Haitian politics, society and migration as well as Jamaican history. Professor Smith is the author of Liberty, Fraternity, Exile: Haiti and Jamaica After Emancipation (University of North Carolina Press, 2014), which won the 2015 Haiti Illumination Book Prize of the Haitian Studies Association, and Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934-1957 (University of North Carolina Press, 2009), which won the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Prize for best book in Caribbean history from the Caribbean Studies Association. He was recently an Andrew Mellon Visiting Professor at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Duke University. He has served as president of the Haitian Studies Association and director of the UWI Haiti Initiative. See page 52 for event information
‘Fake News in a Post-Truth World’ 24 May Fake news is nothing new. It has been part of our history since we started to live in groups. What is new, however, is the pervasive nature and immediacy with which fake news spreads through social media. We are relentlessly bombarded with contradicting information, opposing claims and attacks on the very idea that there are such things as truth and expertise. Linda Risso, an expert on the history of European defence and security in the twentieth century in the Institute of Historical Research, will discuss what we, as citizens caught in the middle of the fight for our hearts and minds, can do to navigate the new information environment without getting caught in the maelstrom. See page 54 for event information
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2017 John Coffin Memorial Annual Palaeography Lecture ‘Crossing Palaeographical Borders: Bi-alphabetical Hebrew Scribes and Manuscripts in Egypt, Spain and Northern France (11th to 15th centuries)’ 24 May Judith Olszowy-Schlanger will discuss Hebrew palaeography in Latin manuscripts. She is the director of studies, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Section des Sciences Historiques et Philogogiques, Sorbonne University, Paris, and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. She is a highly distinguished scholar, funded by the Rothschild Foundation to research uncatalogued material, and her subject is fundamental to current work on medieval Europe. She heads the pan-European project ‘Books within Books’, which seeks to locate, photograph and describe every Hebrew manuscript to be found in the bindings of books (these are mostly books written in Latin) now in libraries across Europe. She is a leading specialist in the study of Hebrew manuscripts, palaeography and diplomatic, the history of medieval linguistic thought and Christian Hebrew scholars in the Middle Ages.
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‘Fleming, Ian Fleming: The Author as Collector’ 31 May Jon Gilbert, author of the award-winning Ian Fleming Bibliography, antiquarian book dealer and collector, will share his knowledge of the James Bond creator. Not only did Fleming set up The Book Collector 65 years ago, he also managed to create one of the most inspiring book collections. The theme? Books that changed the world. The collection is now part of the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana. Mr Gilbert will talk about some of its highlights, reveal Fleming’s collecting secrets, and touch on Fleming’s reading habits, including his love of poetry, thrillers and adventure stories. Ian’s nephew James Fleming will introduce Jon, who will be joined by Fergus Fleming for a short Q&A afterwards. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception sponsored by The Book Collector. See page 59 for event information
‘What’s in a Name? The Afterlife of Elzevier’ 2 June David McKitterick is Emeritus Honorary Professor of Historical Bibliography at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Vice-Master there. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Society of Antiquaries and the British Academy, and was awarded the Gold Medal of the Bibliographical Society in 2005. Among many other publications, he is the author of the definitive three-volume History of Cambridge University Press. Professor McKitterick’s talk is part of the Institute of English Studies conference ‘The Elzeviers and their Contemporaries: Reading, Writing and Selling Scholarship’, which explores material evidence of the production and consumption of academic books in the early modern period. This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of Louis Elzevier, bookseller and founder of the publishing house that dominated Dutch printing in the seventeenth century. See page 63 for event information 16
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The JP Barron Memorial Lecture ‘Classicist Foremothers and Why They Matter’ 7 June Since being awarded the Hellenic Foundation Prize for her Oxford doctoral thesis (1988), Edith Hall has held posts at Cambridge, Oxford, Durham and King’s College London, where she is professor of classics. The author of twenty books, she is co-founder and consultant to productions of ancient drama at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, Northern Broadsides, Theaterkombinat and other professional companies. See page 68 for event information
The Deana & Jack Eisenberg Lecture in Public History 2017 ‘The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Changed the American Constitution’ 19 June Eric Foner is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, where he specialises in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and nineteenth-century America. He has been the curator of several museum exhibitions, including the prize-winning ‘A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln’ at the Chicago Historical Society. His book The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes in 2011. His latest book is Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad. He is one of only two persons to serve as president of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Society of American Historians. See page 77 for event information
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‘Concepts of “Nachleben”: Aby Warburg, Friedrich Gundolf and Julius von Schlosser as Book Collectors’ 29 June Michael Thimann, professor of history of art at Georg-August University Göttingen, specialises in art historical image research, religious and profane images around 1800, and Classical and Romantic painting and sculpture. His research focuses on the tradition of mythographical concepts and the ‘Nachleben’ of Ovid in Early Modern times. He leads two research projects on art as an academic practice: one on Carl Oesterley (1805-91) and the founding of the academic study of art in the nineteenth century, the other on artistic knowledge and the use of art in nineteenthcentury Rome. His recent publications include Sterbliche Götter: Raffael und Dürer in der Kunst der deutschen Romantik, ed. with Christine Hübner (2015), and Friedrich Overbeck und die Bildkonzepte des 19 Jahrhunderts (2014). This lecture, hosted by the Warburg Institute, is supported by the University of London Coffin Trust. See page 84 for event information
Latin American Women’s Filmmaking: A Conversation with Marita Barea 18 September Marita Barea is a distinguished film director, producer and actor who began her cinematic career in 1971. She has worked on many important films, including Luis Figueroa’s Yawar Fiesta (1979). In 1982 she co-founded the film group Chaski, with whom she has made Gregorio and Miss Universo en el Perú [Miss Universe in Peru]. In 1989, she co-founded the women’s film group WARMI Cine y Video and with them produces and directs documentaries. Her films include Mujeres del Planeta [Women of the Planet] (1982), Andahuaylas – suenen las campanas, Andahuaylas – cuidad hermana [Andahuaylas – The Bells Ring, Andahuaylas – Sister City] (1987), Juliana (1989), Porcón (1989/92), Porque quería estudiar [Why I Wanted to Study] (1990), Barro y Bambú [Mud and Bamboo] (1991), and Antuca (1992). See page 99 for event information 18
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Film: Man with a Movie Camera (1929) 4 May
Extended through 12 May Senate House Library, Malet Street, London The Oxford English Dictionary defines radical as ‘advocating thorough and far-reaching political or social reform…characterised by independence of or departure from what is usual or traditional’. In Great Britain, the word has the further association with the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century’s Liberal Party’s stance on reform of society and Parliament. The collections of Senate House Library include material from those who defined themselves as radical in the specific late eighteenth- and early nineteenthcentury British sense, as well as those who more generally advocated for societal improvements through reform. In fact, Senate House Library has organically developed into a hub for collections of radical voices of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Revealing this strand in our collections not only sheds light on enormously influential but subsequently neglected figures, campaigns and organizations, but also on the University’s own institutional history and potential futures. Items on display include suffragette badges; tickets to a Great Socialist Demonstration in Watford; a petition signed by British and European women doctors, including Elizabeth Blackwell and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson; and one hundred years’ worth of handbooks providing legal advice to protesters. School of Advanced Study
Join us for a unique film screening exploring early twentieth-century Russian filmmaking. This avant-garde silent documentary was directed by Dziga Vertov and edited by his wife, Elizaveta Svilova. The film will be introduced by Philip Cavendish, reader in Russian and Soviet film studies at UCL’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES). Wojciech Janik, area specialist for the former Soviet Union and Poland at UCL SSEES Library, will talk about the availability of Soviet and Russian movies on the Internet. See page 33 for event information
Talk: ‘The Madness of Collecting; the Sanity of Pamphlets’ 9 May Ron Heisler has been a dedicated collector of political printed materials for nearly six decades. In an extraordinary expression of philanthropy that perfectly echoes its subject matter, he has donated his meticulously assembled books, pamphlets and journals—some 60,000 items—to Senate House Library. Unified by its focus on radical political movements, the collection is unique in the wealth of items reflecting the influence of these ideas on all spheres of human endeavour, including art, literature and drama. As the movements the collection record recede further into history, the cultural value of this astoundingly rich collection will doubtless be ever more fully appreciated. Mr Heisler will give a lecture on his own motivations for collecting. See page 37 for event information 19
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Reformation: Shattered World, New Beginnings 26 June – 15 December Senate House, University of London, Malet Street Martin Luther was a monk and professor of moral theology at the University of HalleWittenberg. On 31 October 1517, he sent 95 theses disputing the power of indulgences to the archbishop of Mainz and, in line with university custom, probably posted them on the door of All Saints Church, Wittenberg. In doing so he sparked a movement that was to shatter the unity of the Catholic Church in Europe, as his criticisms of ecclesiastical corruption—in particular the sale of ‘indulgences’ to save one’s soul from purgatory—were reproduced in pamphlet form and disseminated widely, thanks to the revolutionary mechanisation of print technology. A network of theologians such as Calvin and Zwingli could now not only communicate or argue with each other more easily, but for the first time share their thoughts quickly with a wider public. The result was the Protestant Reformation. 20
At first, England was largely sheltered from the ensuing turmoil of doctrinal reformation and counter-reformation that swept across the continent; indeed, Henry VIII had authored In Defence of the Seven Sacraments in 1521, rejecting Luther’s ideas and earning him the title ‘Defender of the Faith’ from the Pope. However, the crisis facing the Pope in Rome provided Henry with a politically expedient solution to an affair of the heart—his desire to wed Anne Boleyn and father a son to succeed him, even though he was already married to Catherine of Aragon. The Pope’s reluctance to grant an annulment led to a radical solution: Henry overthrew the authority of Rome and established himself as the Head of the Church of England with the Act of Supremacy in 1534 so that he could obtain his divorce and marry Anne. The consequences of taking England outside the family of Catholic states—arguably the first ‘Brexit’—were profound and had a major impact on London throughout the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries as it grew into one of the world’s largest cities. This exhibition traces the impact of the Reformation on London’s culture and society; the way its communications industry drove change; and the consequences of the emergence of a new world order. School of Advanced Study
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Music in the Age of Reformation
In Conversation with Philippa Gregory
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28 September
Beveridge Hall, Senate House
Beveridge Hall, Senate House
Star vocal ensemble I Fagiolini performs a unique, specially selected arrangement to mark the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation in Europe.
Bestselling author Philippa Gregory will join Senate House Library for a unique and exciting in-conversation event that will range widely over her interests in the period of the Reformation. She was an established historian and writer when she discovered her interest in the Tudors and wrote the internationally bestselling novel The Other Boleyn Girl. Her Cousin’s War novels, reaching their dramatic conclusion with The King’s Curse, were the basis for the highly successful BBC series The White Queen. In 2016, she was presented with the Outstanding Contribution to Historical Fiction Award by the Historical Writers’ Association.
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Keynote Address: Suzannah Lipscomb 24 August Beveridge Hall, Senate House Historian, author and broadcaster Suzannah Lipscomb is senior lecturer in early modern history and fellow of the New College of the Humanities, London. Her research focuses on sixteenth-century English and French history. She works on Henry VIII and the early Tudor court, and is especially interested in the intersection of religious, gender, political, social and psychological history. This has led her to write about Henry VIII’s annus horribilis, 1536; Anne Boleyn’s fall; and the creation of Henry VIII’s last will and testament. She is also interested in religion, gender, and sexuality in sixteenth-century France. She writes a regular column for History Today that explores the role of history outside the academy.
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See page 96 for event information Additional programming will be announced; please check the exhibition website for up-to-date details: senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/exhibitions-and-events/exhibitions/reformation. School of Advanced Study
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Senate House, University of London Thursday 11 May - 6.30–10pm Join the School of Advanced Study, University of London for an immersive recreation of Proust’s classic novel ‘In Search of Lost Time’. • • • • • • •
Proust-inspired cocktails and canapés Magic lantern show Pop-up talks and readings by Proust experts A salon performance of classical French composers Bespoke perfumes inspired by the novel Taste, smell and memory experiments And much more…
All in a setting that invokes Belle Époque France in the heart of London Tickets: £40 | £20
To book visit: livingliterature.org.uk/proust
Produced with support from the Hilda Hulme Fund Image © Chevnenko / Shutterstock
The Russian Revolution – Centenary Lecture Series 21 February: The February Revolution: Eight Days in Petrograd Peter Waldron (East Anglia) 21 March: Children of Revolution: Armageddon Experienced? Catriona Kelly (Oxford) 25 April: Lenin and Leninism: A Centenary Perspective James Ryan (Cardiff ) 23 May: Kaleidoscopes of Revolution: Regional Approaches to Russia’s Revolutionary Period Sarah Badcock (Nottingham) 20 June: Kerensky and His Cult Boris Kolonitskii (European University, St Petersburg) 26 September: Living the Revolution: Inventing a Socialist Lifestyle Andy Willimott (Reading) 24 October: The Meaning of October 1917 a Hundred Years On Steve Smith (Oxford) 21 November: 1917–A Centenary Perspective Panel discussion: Simon Dixon (UCL), Dan Healey (Oxford), Peter Waldron (East Anglia) and others £5 per session advanced registration required All discussions begin at 6pm and last for approximately 90 minutes, followed by refreshments. Location: Wolfson Room I, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London. Information: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk
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Literature and Copyright A series of free talks exploring the relationship between medieval and early modern writing and the law organised by the Institute of English Studies and The Open University Book History Research Group.
The Sign of Pinkhurst, the Mark of Kane: Owning Middle English Poetry 8 May, 17:30–19:00 Room 246 (Senate House) Lawrence Warner (KCL) This paper considers three interrelated episodes in the history of pre-copyright-era literature’s engagements with the concept of ownership: the use of decorative motifs as supposed signatures by the celebrity scribe Adam Pynkhurst; the production of the brief poem to “Adam Scriveyn,” whose narrator attempts to wrest control from the hapless scribe; and the modern use of diacritical brackets to signal emendation—and in effect to secure copyright— by George Kane. Taken together these episodes expose a fault line in modern approaches to Medieval English literary production, so foreign and similar, both, to our own treatment of literary ownership in the digital age. See page 35 for event information
© Shakespeare 22 May, 17:30–19:00 Room 246 (Senate House) Ian Gadd (Bath Spa) In February 1594, John Danter had his claim to the publishing rights to Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus approved by two of the officers of the London’s Stationers’ Company—and with this, the story of Shakespeare’s copyright begins. This talk explores exactly what rights were being granted to Danter and those who followed him in securing the publishing rights to Shakespeare’s other works, and how those rights fundamentally shaped Shakespeare’s subsequent publishing history. By tracing the ownership of these rights from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries through to the late eighteenth century, Professor Gadd will demonstrate how any history of the emergence of modern AngloAmerican copyright needs to understand the changing commercial realities of the London book trade as much as the more well-known legislative and legal landmarks. See page 51 for event information
Textual Ownership, Elizabethan Miscellanies and the ‘Stigma of Print’ 15 May, 17:30–19:00 Room 243 (Senate House) Jonathan Gibson (The Open University) See page 43 for event information 24
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Compassion and the Law Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Law and Compassion Research Network
Law, Compassion and Healthcare 18 May, 14:00–17:30 IALS A symposium exploring compassion in relation to law and healthcare, through presentations and discussion, with speakers from academia, practice, and the judiciary. See page 47 for event information
Compassion: Immigration and Asylum Law 15 June, 14:00–17:30 IALS A symposium exploring compassion in relation to immigration and asylum law through presentations and discussion, including speakers from academia, practice, and the judiciary, plus the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration. See page 74 for event information
Compassion: Child and Family Law 13 July, 14:00–17:30 IALS A symposium exploring compassion in relation to child and family law through presentations and discussion, including speakers from academia, practice, the charitable sector, and the judiciary. See page 91 for event information School of Advanced Study
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The Idea of Compassion Compassion, Children and History Institute of Historical Research
Building Bridges of Trust: Child Transports from Finland to Sweden during WWII 15 May, 17:30–19:30 Seminar Room N304, IHR (Senate House) Ann Nehlin (University of Stockholm) More than 70,000 children were moved to Sweden from Finland during WWII with the purpose of giving them a break from the calamities of war. Moving children for this reason was common practice in the West for much of the twentieth century. Officially the motives were humanitarian, but political motives have often played an important role—commonly to foster suitable citizens within planned societies. Political goals were important in the moving of Finnish children, but in a different way. In this talk, Professor Nehlin will argue that children were used as ‘commodities of compassion’ in a Swedish politics of indemnification. See page 43 for event information
Children in the Cause of Humanity 1 June, 17:30–19:30 Peter Marshall Room, IHR (Senate House) Tehila Sasson (IHR, Past & Present Fellow) ‘We are the world’, a famous charity group told us in the late twentieth century. The phrase signals a revolutionary shift in how a new generation came to feel about its place in the global community. In the second half of the twentieth century, a global ethics has transformed the lives of ordinary people in Britain, the United States and Europe. With the unravelling of European empires, the rise of Western consumer society and growing economic disparities between the global North and South, the period saw a radical transformation in the ways in which a broad spectrum of people and institutions joined a new political constituency —‘humanity’— that stretched beyond any particular national border. This talk focuses on one aspect of this story: how children and youth have joined a global humanitarian community. See page 62 for event information 25
On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light A weekly series of free public readings of Dante’s works hosted by the Warburg Institute and led by Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL) and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL). Readings begin at 18:30 and end by 20:00. Location: Warburg Institute, Woburn Square
Schedule Monday, 8 May Purgatorio, Canto X.1-45. Canto XI.1-117. The First Cornice: The Proud. The Lord’s Prayer. Omberto Aldobrandeschi. Oderisi da Gubbio. Monday, 15 May Purgatorio, Canto XXX. Appearance of Beatrice on the Chariot of the Church. Monday, 22 May Purgatorio, Canto XXXIII. Beatrice’s Prophesies. The Final Ritual of Dante’s Spiritual Cleansing. Monday, 5 June Paradiso, Canto I. Ascent to the Heaven of Fire. Monday, 12 June Paradiso, Canto III. Heaven of the Moon. Piccarda Donati. Monday, 19 June Paradiso, Canto XI. Thomas Aquinas. Francis of Assisi. Monday, 26 June Paradiso, Canto XVII. Heaven of Mars. Cacciaguida. Monday, 3 July Paradiso, Canto XXXIII. The Empyrean. The Vision of the Trinity. For more information, email warburg@sas.ac.uk.
Register today for one of our summer short courses and seminars London International Palaeography Summer School 12–16 June | Institute of English Studies The London International Palaeography Summer School is a series of intensive courses in palaeography and manuscript studies. Courses last from one half to two days and are given by experts in their fields. Subject areas include Latin, Middle English, early modern English, German, Greek, medieval Spanish, and Merovingian palaeography, as well as calligraphy, illuminated manuscripts, codicology, manuscript editing and liturgical and devotional manuscripts. Knowledge of the course language is useful but not required. Fees for a one-day course are £100 (£75 student), with discounts for bookings of more than two days. Apply online at ies.sas.ac.uk/lpss
London Rare Books School 26–30 June, 3–7 July, 10–14 July | Institute of English Studies The London Rare Books School (LRBS) is a series of five-day, intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects taught in and around Senate House, University of London. We offer a range of fascinating specialist courses ranging from Medieval Women and the Book, the History of Book Illustration, and The Digital Book, covering over two thousand years of book history and investigating the world’s diverse cultures and traditions in book production. LRBS 2017 will take place from 26-30 June (week one), 3-7 July (week two), and 10-14 July (week three). Fees for a one-week course are £650 (£500 student), with discounts offered for booking multiple weeks. Bursaries are available. Apply online at ies.sas.ac.uk/lrbs
T. S. Eliot International Summer School 8–16 July | Institute of English Studies The T.S. Eliot International Summer School invites all those with an interest in the life and work of this Bloomsbury-based poet, dramatist, and man of letters. The School draws visitors from across the world, bringing together some of the most distinguished scholars of T. S. Eliot and modern literature. Visits to the sites of The Four Quartets, poetry readings, and a unique seminar series have made this worldrenowned gathering of Eliot scholars and enthusiasts an annual highlight, launching the academic careers of a number of its former students. Fees for the full course are £600 with a number of full and partial bursaries available. Apply online at ies.sas.ac.uk/tseliot
Legislative Drafting 26 June-21 July | Institute of Advanced Legal Studies The aim of this course is to encourage modern drafting techniques with an emphasis on effective and user-friendly legislation, and to expose drafters to a variety of drafting styles, thus allowing participants to select elements that best suit their national laws and their own tradition, culture, and jurisprudence. The course is suitable for both experienced and inexperienced drafters. Course fees: £5,250 (includes tuition, two textbooks and course materials) OR £6,703 (includes all the above plus a single room with shared facilities, buffet breakfast, and dinner from 25 June to 22 July [inclusive] at a University of London hall of residence. For complete details, please visit ials.sas.ac.uk/study/courses/legislativedrafting-course
Day School in London History 20 July | Institute of Historical Research The Institute of Historical Research is delighted to announce the return of its training programme for local historians, now in its sixth year. The Day School in London History will blend exciting and inspirational lectures on recent and ongoing local history projects with practical instruction and workshops. It is presented in association with the Centre for Metropolitan History (CMH) and will feature tutors from the principal archives and research units concerned with London. It will cover the incredibly rich and abundant history of London and its surrounding area, exploring both its identity as a capital city and the special qualities of its many constituent towns, villages and suburbs. For complete details, please visit history.ac.uk/research-training/courses/dayschool-london-history-summer-2017
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Tuesday 02 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Pollard Seminar Room IHR (Senate House)
Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House)
A Permissive Society? Opinion Polls and Social Change in Postwar Britain Marcus Collins (Loughborough) When (if ever) did Britain become a ‘permissive society’? Was the ‘cultural revolution’ confined to the young, the middle class and the metropolitan? These questions have been a matter of debate within academic and popular circles since the 1960s but remain fundamentally unresolved. This talk uses opinion polls conducted between 1945 and 1960 to argue that public attitudes towards permissiveness (broadly defined as a libertarian stance towards social and cultural norms) varied widely from issue to issue and across different sections of the population. Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Charles Mountford Goes to America: The Genesis of the National Geographic Expedition to Northern Australia in 1948 Martin Thomas (Australian National University) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Historical Research
House of Commons Governance: A Suitable Case for Treatment?
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Priscilla Baines (History of Parliament Trust) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:15–19:15 Past and Present Room IHR (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104 (Senate House)
Public Library Architecture in Britain in the Long 1960s: Style, Siting, Space and Light Alistair Black (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Between the mid-1950s and the mid-1970s, the built form of the public library in Britain underwent a renaissance. Contrary to what one might expect, however, librarians’ support for large-scale building programmes, their adoption of light-rich architectural modernism and the new internal spaces they fashioned were less a reflection of a progressive turn in librarianship than an embodiment of certain of its traditional and conservative traits. This event is part of the History of Libraries Seminar Series and is jointly sponsored by the Institute of English Studies and the Institute of Historical Research Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
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Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics Seminar
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Hosted by the Centre for Logic and Language
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Free corine.besson@sas.ac.uk
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Wednesday 03 Institute of Modern Languages Research Meeting 16:00–18:00 Room 104, Torrington Room (Senate House)
Friends of Germanic Studies at the IMLR: Annual Meeting ‘Identities in Transit: (Re)connections and (Re)brandings of Berlin’s Municipal Railway after 1989’ Samuel Merrill (Umeå) Book Launch: Glanz und Abglanz: Two Centuries of German Studies in the University of London by John L. Flood and Anne Simon By invitation only jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
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Teaching and Learning Ancient Religions Seminar
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Ailsa Hunt (Cambridge) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:00
Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research
Writing International Jewish History
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Jaclyn Granick (Oxford), Abigail Green (Oxford), Nathan Kurz (Birkbeck/Pears Institute) A roundtable discussion organised with The Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism Chair: David Feldman (Birkbeck/Pears Institute) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Wolfson Room II IHR (Senate House)
Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 North American History Room IHR (Senate House)
Homing: A Conceptual and Research Agenda on Migrants’ Home Experience Paolo Boccagni (University of Trento) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
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The Rhythmic Subject in Psychology and Psychoanalysis
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Laura Marcus (Oxford) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Past and Present Room IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Pollard Seminar Room IHR (Senate House)
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Episcopal Profiles: A Normative Perspective on the Career of Bishops in Narrative, Diplomatic and Epistolary Sources in the Church Province of Rheims (888-1049) Jelle Lisson Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
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Thursday 04 Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Witness Seminar: The Role and Functions of the British High Commissions in the Caribbean
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Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, and King’s College, London This group interview of leading British diplomats will assess the role and functions of British High Commissions in the Caribbean from the 1980s to the present, from the perspective of those who have worked at them. It uses oral history to identify the priorities of British policymakers and how they have approached the countries in the Caribbean as important regional players, as well as to identify how British diplomats have dealt with the legacy of the country’s imperial past and how they have utilised past and present connections to further British international interests. Free advance registration required matthew.glencross@kcl.ac.uk
14:00–17:00 King’s College London
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Persian Disappearances: Architectural Erasure at Persepolis
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S Downes (KCL) This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series. Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
16:30–18:30 Woburn Suite (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House)
Crowds and ‘Crisis’: Revisiting the Problem(s) of London in the 1590s John Walter (Essex) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
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The Mad Hatter’s Adventures in Education
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Amy Palmer (Roehampton) Joseph King (1860-1943), known as the ‘Mad Hatter’ partly because of his appearance but also because he was perceived to be something of an eccentric, was a man who cared very much about education in a wide range of arenas. He was a founder of Mansfield House University Settlement and of the Peasant Arts Society, both philanthropic organisations that aimed to improve the lot of the poor, in part through increased educational opportunities. This paper examines his work and builds a picture of how one man sought to influence the world around him. It concludes that King’s connections, his money, and the privileges of his class and gender were significant factors in his successes. Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Peter Marshall Room IHR (Senate House)
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Restoring HMS Victory: Gender, Imperialism and Commemoration
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Sarah Westbury (Southampton) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Seminar Room N304 IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research
A Fraction of a Man: Feeding the Female Prisoner, 1843–1913
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Nadja Durbach (University of Utah) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Wolfson Room II IHR (Senate House)
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Blurring the Line Between Grassroots Activism and Green Imperialism: New Forms of Activism in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula
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Clate Korsant (Goldsmiths) This talk explores environmental activism in the Osa Peninsula, which is varied and changing, as revealed by the language used by activists and by their efforts to empower communities through outreach. Many activists have demonstrated a passion for their work that has translated into better trust and communication between themselves and their communities than previously acknowledged. This event is part of the Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series. Free ainhoa.montoya@london.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Room 234 (Senate House)
Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 John S Cohen Room IHR (Senate House)
‘We All Had to Do Our Bit’: Women’s Memories of the Second World War in Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight Daniel Swan (Portsmouth) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
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Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
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Join us for a unique film screening exploring early twentieth-century Russian filmmaking. This avant-garde silent documentary was directed by Dziga Vertov and edited by his wife, Elizaveta Svilova. The film will be introduced by Philip Cavendish, reader in Russian and Soviet film studies at UCL’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Wojciech Janik, area specialist for the former Soviet Union and Poland at UCL SSEES Library, will talk about the availability of Soviet and Russian movies on the Internet. Free emily.stidston@london.ac.uk
18:00 Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room (Senate House)
Friday 05 Institute of Modern Languages Research
Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the Present
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Speakers include Stephanos Stephanides (Cyprus): ‘Translation, Memory and the Mediterranean’; Gabriel Koureas (Birkbeck): ‘Bridging the Mediterranean: Transcultural Memories in the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MuCEM), Marseille’; Claire Launchbury (IMLR/IHR): ‘Ports of Call: Beirut, Algiers and the Trans-Mediterranean Passerelle’; Will Visconti (Sydney): ‘Memory and the Marchesa, from Venice to Capri’; Glenn Bowman (Kent): ‘Viewing the Holy City: An Anthropological Perspectivalism’; Carmen Fracchia (Birkbeck): ‘Visualising the Slave-Ports of Barcelona and Valencia in Imperial Spain’; Colette Wilson: ‘Smyrna through the Lens of Edmond-Edouard Boissonnas (1919)’; Charles Forsdick (Liverpool): ‘Transcultural Memories of the Bagne: The Mediterranean in Global Penal Heritage’;
09:30–19:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
The programme includes a poetry reading by Stephanos Stephanides and a performance by Alev Adil: ‘Offshore Dreaming: Aphrodite’s Gas Field’ (2015). A wine reception follows. The event is generously supported by the Cassal Trust and Birkbeck, University of London. £10 standard | £5 students, Friends of Germanic Studies/Italian at the IMLR advance registration required cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk
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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House)
‘What You See is What You Get’: Ancient Physiognomy between Rome and India Karsten Johanning (University of Copenhagen) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series. Free postgradwip@gmail.com
Combating Brutality and Excess in War: Lessons from the Dutch Revolt of the 1570s and 1580s Jan Willem Honig (London) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Institute of English Studies
Finnegans Wake Seminar
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This session was rescheduled from Friday 28 April. Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
18:00–20:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
Saturday 06 Institute of English Studies
Modernist Institutions and/as Modernist Forms
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Peter Howarth (Queen Mary University of London), Michael Paraskos This event is part of the London Modernism Seminar Series. Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
11:00–13:00 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies
Text and Pretext: Strabo and the Science of Religion around 1700
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Sundar Henny (Cambridge) This event is part of the IES Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination (EMPHASIS) Seminar Series. Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk
14:00–16:00 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research
Aspects of the Mozart Family’s Education in 1760s London
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Hannah Templeton (KCL) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
14:00–16:00 Seminar Room N304 IHR (Senate House
Monday 08 Institute of Modern Languages Research Performance 14:00–17:00 Torrington Room (Senate House)
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Lay Down Your Arms! On Peace in Europe Acclaimed Austrian actress Maxi Blaha will perform her one-woman show Soul of Fire, described by the Sydney Morning Herald as ‘an elegant little play that gently and economically recreates the life and spirit of Bertha von Suttner, peace activist, writer and, in 1905, the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Austrian actress Maxi Blaha brings a restless intelligence to the role.’ The performance will be followed by a short talk by Daniel Laqua (Northumbria), a specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century history and European peace movements. Both events in English. Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk School of Advanced Study
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Process Philosophy Johan Siebers (IMLR) Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk
16:00–18:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies
The Soul, the Cosmos, and Eternity in Heraclitus
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Victoria Wohl (University of Toronto) This event is part of the Ancient Literature Seminar Series. Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
17:00–19:00 Bloomsbury Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:30–19:00 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar
Dark Holes or Public Spaces: The Politics of Northern Catholic Gentry in the Reign of Elizabeth I Wilfred Hammond (Lancaster) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Wives of ‘Crisis’? Portraits of Women and Their Husbands in the 3rd Century AD Helen Ackers (Duke University) This event is part of the Roman Art Seminar Series. Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
The Sign of Pinkhurst, the Mark of Kane: Owning Middle English Poetry
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Lawrence Warner This event is part of the Open University Book History Research Group Seminar: Literature and Copyright. Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk
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Negotiation as Feminist Activism in Chicana Literature and Culture
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Eilidh Hall (East Anglia) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:00
17:30–19:30 Peter Marshall Room IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research
The French Revolution Revisited
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Marisa Linton Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Seminar Room N304 IHR (Senate House) The Warburg Institute
Neoplatonism Study Group: Proclus, In Parmenidem
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Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston), Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute
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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture 18:00–19:00
Legislation and Brexit Sionaidh Douglas-Scott (QMUL) Organised in collaboration with the Statute Law Society Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk
IALS The Warburg Institute
On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light
Seminar
A weekly series of public readings of Dante’s works hosted by the Warburg Institute Purgatorio, Canto X.1-45. Canto XI.1-117. The First Cornice: The Proud. The Lord’s Prayer. Omberto Aldobrandeschi. Oderisi da Gubbio. Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) Remaining dates: 15 May: Purgatorio, Canto XXX. Appearance of Beatrice on the Chariot of the Church. 22 May: Purgatorio, Canto XXXIII. Beatrice’s Prophesies. The Final Ritual of Dante’s Spiritual Cleansing. 5 June: Paradiso, Canto I. Ascent to the Heaven of Fire. 12 June: Paradiso, Canto III. Heaven of the Moon. Piccarda Donati. 19 June: Paradiso, Canto XI. Thomas Aquinas. Francis of Assisi. 26 June: Paradiso, Canto XVII. Heaven of Mars. Cacciaguida. 3 July: Paradiso, Canto XXXIII. The Empyrean. The Vision of the Trinity. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
18:30–19:50 Warburg Institute
Tuesday 09 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Peter Marshall Room IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar
Australia’s Prison Islands: The Impact of the Sea on Convict Life and Labour Katy Roscoe (Leicester) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Inter-Generational Memories of Boys’ Toys: Fathers and Sons at Work and Play, 1945-1970 Richard Hall (Cambridge) Chair: Simon Sleight Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Rebecca Warren (Kent) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room II IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Past and Present Room IHR (Senate House)
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Protestant Missions and Writing New Zealand History: Reflections on a Journey Hugh Morrison (University of Otago) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
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Institute of Philosophy
The Practical, the Political and the Ethical Seminar Series
Seminar
Free ip@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies
Student Collectors: Catching Them Early
Seminar
Robert Weaver (Dulwich College) and students This event is part of the IES Book Collecting Seminar Series. Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
18:00–20:00 Bloomsbury Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research
The Feminist Foundations of the Global Economic Order
Seminar
Marc-William Palen (Exeter) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
18:00–20:00 Pollard Seminar Room IHR (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research
The 2017 Malcolm Bowie Memorial Lecture Re-reading Proust in 2017
Lecture
Antoine Compagnon (Columbia/Collège de France) Sponsored by the Cassal Trust Professor Compagnon, one of the world’s leading experts on modern and contemporary French literature, will discuss how Marcel Proust’s writings are as alive and relevant today as when they were first published. He previews his talk: ‘Since 1913, several generations of readers of Proust have succeeded each other: the sect of Proustians who discovered his novel in the Gallimard’s Collection Blanche; the enlightened who read it in the first Pléiade of 1954, alongside Jean Santeuil and Contre Sainte-Beuve; the baby boomers who were offered the Livre de Poche in the 1960s, with Deleuze, Barthes or Genette as their guides. Translations proliferated. And now? Is the Recherche still read? Has it reached the limit of its appeal? Proust has become a sign of distinction, and all reading is re-reading, as Nabokov famously said’. A drinks reception will follow the lecture, which precedes the School of Advanced Study’s ‘Living Proust and the Belle Époque’ immersive experience on Thursday, 11 May. For information and tickets, please visit livingliterature.org.uk. Free advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk
18:00–20:00 The Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)
Senate House Library
‘The Madness of Collecting; the Sanity of Pamphlets’
Talk
Ron Heisler has been a dedicated collector of political printed materials for nearly six decades. In an extraordinary expression of philanthropy that perfectly echoes its subject matter, he has donated his meticulously assembled books, pamphlets and journals—some 60,000 items—to Senate House Library. Unified by its focus on radical political movements, the collection is unique in the wealth of items reflecting the influence of these ideas on all spheres of human endeavour, including art, literature and drama. As the movements the collection record recede further into history, the cultural value of this astoundingly rich collection will doubtless be ever more fully appreciated. Mr Heisler will give a lecture on his own motivations for collecting. Free emily.stidston@london.ac.uk
18:00 Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House
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Wednesday 10 Institute of Historical Research
Doctoral Presentations Prize Competition
Seminar
Prerna Agarwal (KCL), Sarah Gandee (Leeds), Smitana Saikia (KCL) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
12:30–14:30 Past and Present Room IHR (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies
Globalising the Mediterranean’s Iron Age
Seminar
Tamar Hodos (Bristol) This event is part of the Classical Archaeology Seminar Series. Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
17:00–18:30 Torrington Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Seminar Room N304 IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House)
Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Pollard Seminar Room IHR (Senate House)
This Damnable Doctrine: Liberties and Loyalties in SeventeenthCentury Maryland Michael Breidenbach (Ave Maria University) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Pen over Plough: Rethinking Agricultural Books, Knowledge and Labour, 1660-1800 James Fisher (KCL) This talk will explore the relationship between books, knowledge and labour in the context of early modern agriculture. This event is a joint session with the Economic and Social History in the Early Modern World 1500-1800 Seminar Series. Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Bobbio, Benevento…Barking? Interpreting Papal Privileges for Monasteries in the Age of Bede Ben Savill Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
The Warburg Institute
Return of Images: Chance Encounters in the Afterlives of Antiquity
Lecture
Zainab Bahrani (Columbia University) The chance encounter with images from the past can be understood as an aspect of the Nachleben der Antike, one of Aby Warburg’s scholarly preoccupations. In the ancient Near East, such encounters with images from a distant past had profound effects, both visual and theoretical. Artworks transmitted historically specific forms and iconographies across time, but they were also forms of infinite presence without duration. This talk addresses the status and influence of such rediscovered images beyond the traditional disciplinary boundaries, and brings ancient art into the current theoretical debates surrounding art and time. Free moss@bilderfahrzeuge.org
17:30–18:30 Warburg Institute
Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
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Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group Ur-Canto 2 Helen Carr (Goldsmiths) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
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Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
Marseille: Capital of the Mediterranean Nicholas Hewitt (Nottingham) In the recent television series Marseille, the maire, played by Gerard Depardieu, expresses his ambition to make Marseille ‘la capitale de l’Europe du Sud’. In fact, Marseille’s cultural ambitions have always been far broader and have encompassed the entire Mediterranean basin, including North Africa, the Levant and its southern European neighbours. This talk will explore the development of Marseille’s role in the Mediterranean from the nineteenth century onwards, with particular attention to Albert Londres’ 1927 reportage on the city, the career and Mediterranean project of the journal Les Cahiers du Sud and the work of JeanClaude Izzo in the 1980s and 1990s. Free advance registration required cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 11 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Economic Regulation and the Limits of Judicial Review: Comparative Perspectives
Seminar
Adriana Topo and Despoina Mantzari (Reading; IALS Visiting Fellow) Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk
12:30–13:30 IALS The Warburg Institute
Ways of Seeing Across Disciplines
Conference / Symposium
Free advance registration required
17:00–19:00 Warburg Institute Institute of Classical Studies
‘Falls’ of Rome
Seminar
Michele Salzman (University of California Riverside) This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series. Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
16:30–18:30 Bloomsbury Room (Senate Room) Institute of Philosophy
CenSes Seminar
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This event is part of the Rethinking the Senses project funded by the AHRC. Free info.rts@sas.ac.uk
17:00–19:00 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Pollard Seminar Room IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 John S Cohen Room IHR (Senate House)
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Feminism in Ordinary Women’s Lives in the Post-War Period: Caitriona Beaumont on the Nature of Female Activism in England and Wales in the 1950s Natalie Thomlinson (Reading) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Shamefully Disordered with Excessive Drinking: Clerical Intoxication in Early Modern England Tim Wales (East Anglia), James Brown (East Anglia) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
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Institute of Modern Languages
Encounters: Writers and Translators in Conversation
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Clemens Meyer and Katy Derbyshire Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
18:30–20:00 Room G34 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies
London Theatre Studies Seminar: Postgraduate Panel
Seminar
Jessica Worden (Brunel) and Yaron Shyldkrot (Surrey) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
18:30–20:00 Torrington Room (Senate House) SAS Central
Living Literature 2017: Living Proust and the Belle Époque
18:30–22:00
This year, Living Literature invites you to explore Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
Senate House
Join Sarah Churchwell (School of Advanced Study, University of London), Erika Fulop (University of Lancaster) and Anna-Louise Milne (University of London Institute in Paris) for an immersive encounter with Proust’s classic novel. Learn how taste, smell and memory are linked through sensory experiments with the Centre for the Study of the Senses, immerse yourself in a labyrinthine universe where erotic desire and scientific method combine. Surrounded by the scents, fashions and music of the Belle Époque, you can feast on food inspired by In Search of Lost Time and sip linden tea cocktails while learning about Paris at the turn of the century. Listen to readings and pop-up talks; learn about love, jealousy, queer identity, art, society and politics during the French fin de siècle; view our literary exhibition and enjoy a magic lantern show. There will also be an intimate performance of Proust’s fictional Vinteuil sonata, as well as works by other classical composers from the era. £40 standard | £20 concession Living Literature is an annual series of events from the School of Advanced Study, University of London, that brings an iconic literary work to life by using research expertise to create an immersive and theatrical world for audiences to explore. For more information: livingliterature.org.uk
Friday 12 Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 15:00–17:00 University of Newcastle
After the Thaw: Cultural Approaches to Research on Cuba Michael Chanan (Roehampton), Dunja Fehimovic (Newcastle) This seminar series, with the support of the ILAS Regional Seminar Grant Series, follows the recent détente between the USA and Cuba to discuss the implications of the thaw to Cuba. Speakers will address the complex dynamics of Cuban cultural production in a globalised context. Jointly organised by the University of Edinburgh and the University of Newcastle. Free advance registration required jorge.catala-carrasco@newcastle.ac.uk
Institute of Classical Studies
Contextualising the Gods
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Jane Ainsworth (Leicester), Carla Brain (Leicester) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series. Free postgradwip@gmail.com
16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House)
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London-Paris Romanticism Seminar
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This seminar series is hosted jointly by the Institute of English Studies and the Institute of Modern Languages Research. Free
17:30–19:30 Bloomsbury Room (Senate House) Institute of English Studies
Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar
Seminar
Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies
London Beckett Seminar
Seminar
Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
18:00–20:00 Room 234 (Senate House) SAS Central
Indenture to Windrush
18:30–20:30
David Dabydeen, Lainy Malkani, Lakshmi Persaud, Sr. Monica Tywang, Rod Westmass This talk is part of a series of events taking place at Senate House in 2017 to commemorate the centenary of the abolition of the system of indenture in the British Empire. Join us for a night of live oral history, literature and music as we explore the experiences of Indian-Caribbean and Chinese-Caribbean migrants of the Windrush era. Conveners: Maria del Pilar Kaladeen (SAS Centre for Postcolonial Studies), Tina K Ramnarine (RHUL), Jack Daniel Webb £7.50 standard | £5 senior citizens, students, unwaged maria.kaladeen@sas.ac.uk
The Beveridge Hall (Senate House)
Saturday 13 Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 10:00–17:00 UCL (Institute of Archaeology)
Latin American Archaeology Seminar Priscilla Ulguim (Teesside), J Marla Toyne (University of Central Florida), Magdalena Setlak (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Anna Kubicka (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology), Jacek Kosciuk (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology), Bartlomiej Cmielewski (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology), Stella Nair (University of California, Los Angeles), María Teresa Plaza (UCL), Esther Breithoff (UCL) Organised by Bill Sillar (UCL) £9.62 | £5.37 students advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Classical Studies
ICS Virgil Society Lecture
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‘Reading the Poet: Aeneid 12’ John Hazel (Virgil Society) ‘From deus absconditus to Soter: Octavian in Virgil and Early Augustan Poetry’ Niklas Holzberg (University of Munich) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
11:30–17:00 Woburn Suite (Senate House)
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Monday 15 Institute of Latin American Studies Conference / Symposium 10:00–17:00 Woburn Suite (Senate House)
Histories of Race, Popular Culture, and Identity in the Andes This conference on the cultural politics of race and indigeneity in the Andes builds on Marisol de la Cadena’s observation that racial categories in the Andes are constructed through culture and cultural difference. It will bring together scholars of anthropology, history, and literature in the Andes to explore such questions as: How have Andean peoples used the tools of culture (music, dance, clothing, theatre, architecture, literature) to fashion national or regional identities, forms of resistance, and political movements? How have Afro-Andean, indigenous, mestizo and creole communities differently navigated cultural integration and autonomy historically and in the present? How have cultural practices been used in the past or present to mock, denigrate, or punish communities and individuals in the Andes? How have certain cultural practices travelled across or subverted spatial and temporal boundaries, including rural/urban, highland/lowland, colonial/national, indigenous/modern? How have cultural manifestations of race been used to perform or transcend class, gender, or sexual identities? How have struggles over patrimony and heritage defined or expanded definitions of Andean culture? And how have Andean communities incorporated social and economic concerns through cultural practices? £20 | £10 concessions Advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Classical Studies
Open Epigraphic Data Unconference
Workshop
Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
11:00–17:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference / Symposium 13:00–19:00 Senate House
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World Literature and the New Totalitarianism Max Silverman (Leeds), Debarati Sanyal (University of California, Berkeley), Michael Rothberg (University of Illinois), Zoë Roth (Durham), Lisa Silverman (University of Wisconsin), Jonathan Freedman (University of Michigan), Bryan Cheyette (Reading), Sasha Senderovich (University of Colorado), Nan Z. Da (Notre Dame), Dora Osborne (Durham), Laura Marcus (Oxford), Benjamin Schreier (Pennsylvania State University) At the beginning of 2017 we are faced with the spectre of a new totalitarianism. It blossoms from the victories of Trump, the Brexit camp, and far right candidates in Scandinavia and Poland. It anticipates strong performances by Marine Le Pen. It comes in the wake of the Russian plutocracy’s concentration of power and the recrudescence of neo-Nazi movements in Greece and the Balkans. The teleological narrative many have been telling ourselves—of progressive cosmopolitanism, tolerance, relatively open borders, of urbanity in every sense of the word—has been challenged by the return of anti-Semitism, racism, ethno-nationalism, and anti-intellectualism. This new totalitarianism is very much like its predecessor: global in scope yet nationalist in articulation, populist in orientation yet elitist in practice, local in its appeals yet power-consolidating in practice, and profoundly hostile to the cultural and social milieu that have nurtured art, literature, and critique since the end of the Second World War. But the new totalitarianism is amplified by technologies once understood as democratizing: the internet, social media, and the proliferation of popular news sources. And it is bolstered by the rise of authoritarian neoliberalism. The symposium will address these urgent issues. This event is supported by the Open World Research Initiative, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It is organised as part of the OWRI CrossLanguage Dynamics: Reshaping Communities consortium, led by the University of Manchester in collaboration with Durham University and the Institute of Modern Languages Research at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk School of Advanced Study
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Institute of Classical Studies
Plato’s Colours of the Afterlife
Seminar
Elizabeth Pender (Leeds) This event is part of the Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series. Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies
Homer in Egypt: Epic Allusions in the Memnon Inscriptions
Seminar
Patricia Rosenmeyer (University of Wisconsin) This event is part of the Ancient Literature Seminar Series. Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
17:00–19:00 Gordon Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room IHR (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Seminar Room N304 IHR (Senate House)
Revisionism, Nationalism and Decolonization: The Teleology of Anti-Colonialism in the French Empire Michael Goebel (Free University of Berlin) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Textual Ownership, Elizabethan Miscellanies and the ‘Stigma of Print’ Jonathan Gibson (The Open University) This event is part of the Open University Book History Research Group Seminar: Literature and Copyright. Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
Building Bridges of Trust: Child Transports from Finland to Sweden during WWII Ann Nehlin (University of Stockholm) More than 70,000 children were moved to Sweden from Finland during WWII with the purpose of giving them a break from the calamities of war. Moving children for this reason was common practice in the West for much of the twentieth century. Officially the motives were humanitarian, but political motives have often played an important role—commonly to foster suitable citizens within planned societies. Political goals were important in the moving of Finnish children, but in a different way. In this talk, the speaker will argue that children were used as ‘commodities of compassion’ in a Swedish politics of indemnification. Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Historical Research
Roundtable on French Elections
Seminar
Sonia Delesalle-Stolper (UK correspondent, Liberation), Sue Collard (Sussex), Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford), Imen Neffati (Sheffield), Simon Jackson (Birmingham), Daniel Lee (Sheffield), Mayanthi Fernando (University of California, Santa Cruz) Joint session with the Modern French History Seminar Series. Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy Lecture 17:30–19:30 The Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)
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The Jacobsen Lecture 2017 Gestalt Shifts in the Liar Susanne Bobzien (Oxford) Free ip@sas.ac.uk
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The Warburg Institute
Neoplatonism Study Group: Proclus, In Parmenidem
Seminar
Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston), Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Pollard Seminar Room IHR (Senate House)
Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00
La fissisima volontà: John V of Portugal and His Model Collection in the Royal Palace of Lisbon Pilar Diez del Corra Corredoira (Institut für Kunstwissenschaft ) From the second half of the eighteenth century, the use and collection of architectural models as mementos of the Grand Tour and as study pieces was widespread. This talk will focus on an almost unknown collection that once belonged to the King of Portugal, John V, which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1755. Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Joint event with the IHR Tudor and Stuart Seminar Series. Venue: NYU London, 6 Bedford Square, Room 102, London WC1B 3RA Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
NYU London (6 Bedford Square) The Warburg Institute
On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light
Seminar
A weekly series of public readings of Dante’s works hosted by the Warburg Institute. Purgatorio, Canto XXX. Appearance of Beatrice on the Chariot of the Church. Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) Remaining dates: 22 May: P urgatorio, Canto XXXIII. Beatrice’s Prophesies. The Final Ritual of Dante’s Spiritual Cleansing. 5 June: Paradiso, Canto I. Ascent to the Heaven of Fire. 12 June: Paradiso, Canto III. Heaven of the Moon. Piccarda Donati. 19 June: Paradiso, Canto XI. Thomas Aquinas. Francis of Assisi. 26 June: Paradiso, Canto XVII. Heaven of Mars. Cacciaguida. 3 July: Paradiso, Canto XXXIII. The Empyrean. The Vision of the Trinity. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
18:30–19:50 Warburg Institute
Tuesday 16 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
EU Criminal Law Roundup Special: What Will BREXIT Do for Us—or Not, as the Case May Be
Seminar
John Spencer (Cambridge), Marjorie Bonn, Steve Peers (Essex) The February White Paper suggests that the Government hopes that after Brexit the UK’s involvement with EU criminal law will continue as before. Is this desirable? And if desirable, is it possible? Organised in collaboration with the European Criminal Law Association (UK) Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk
16:00–18:00 IALS
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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room II IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Past and Present Room IHR (Senate House)
Animal Life and the Death of a Colonial Metropolis: Yangon, 1938-1948 Jonathan Saha (Leeds) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
John Bradshaw’s Forgotten Role: The Committee for Sequestration’s Legal Advisers in the 1640s Charlotte Young (RHUL) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Philosophy
Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics Seminar
Seminar
Hosted by the Centre for Logic and Language. Free corine.besson@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
A More Fundamental Distinction for the Contemporary Economy between Employee and Independent Contractor Status
Seminar
Michael Harper (Boston University, IALS Visiting Fellow) Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk
18:00–20:00 IALS Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 The Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)
Institute of Modern Languages Research Reading 19:00–20:00 Austrian Cultural Forum (28 Rutland Gate)
School of Advanced Study
Resurrecting the e-Book: A Media Archaeological Excavation of the Kindle’s Development, 1930–2007 Simon Rowberry (Stirling), Verity Hunt (Southampton) Amazon’s launch of the Kindle in 2007 was lauded as the moment when e-books finally became economically viable for publishers. This success was facilitated by Amazon’s careful analysis of previous failed attempts to commercialize e-books since the early 1990s and earlier theoretical models developed since the 1930s. This talk will explore how the Kindle’s reputation stems from a mixture of adapting pre-existing technology and the right social-technological context rather than a complete revolution in e-book design. The seminar will be followed by a book launch to celebrate the publication of Joanne Shattock’s Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2017). The book will be introduced by Michael Slater, author of Charles Dickens (2009), Douglas Jerrold (2002) and editor of the Dent Uniform Edition of Dickens’ Journalism (1994-2000). This event is part of the IES Media History Seminar Series. Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
A Reading by Robert Seethaler Seethaler will read from his work, including his novel Der Trafikant (The Tobacconist), in which a young boy from the Austrian provinces strikes up an odd friendship with Sigmund Freud in 1937 Vienna. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2016, Seethaler writes ‘with a dry wit that enhances, rather than disguises, the sadness of [his stories]’ (Sunday Times) This bilingual reading will take place at the Austrian Cultural Forum, 28 Rutland Gate, London SW1 1PQ. Free advance registration required office@acflondon.org
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Wednesday 17 Institute of Classical Studies
ICS Director’s Seminar
Seminar
Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
13:00–14:00 Room 243 (Senate House) SAS Central
Social Scholar: Taking Research into Schools
Lecture
Peter TA Jones This talk draws on the speaker’s experience of working with The Brilliant Club in placements in low-participation secondary schools. He will suggest that current models of impact and engagement have tended to place too much emphasis on the social worth that academics can generate by ‘reaching out’ of their intellectual comfort zone into some abstract space populated with ‘intractable’ young minds. His experience teaching pupils at Key Stages 3-5 (12 to 18-year-olds) has meant reaching inward and re-evaluating the shortcomings of his own research and the higher education sector more broadly. Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk
13:00–14:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
Institute of Classical Studies Lecture
Michael Ventris Memorial Lecture Tiryns: From the Rise of Its Palace to the Post-Palatial Resurgence
Woburn Suite (Senate House)
Joseph Maran (University of Heidelberg) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Historical Research
The Emotional History of the Munich Crisis
Seminar
Julie Gottlieb (Sheffield) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:00–19:00
17:00–19:00 Wolfson Room II IHR (Senate House) Institute of English Studies
London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS)
Seminar
Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Bloomsbury Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Pollard Seminar Room IHR (Senate House)
The Graphic Representation of an (Un)welcomed Change: Revising the Introduction of the Roman Rite in the Iberian Peninsula Ainoa Castro Correa Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Modern Languages Research
‘With Love from Vienna’: Contextualising the Daily Life of Elderly Viennese Jews after 1938
Seminar
Bettina Brandt (Pennsylvania State University/IMLR) This event is part of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar Series. Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
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Thursday 18 Institute of Historical Research
Future Past: Researching Archives in the Digital Age
Conference / Symposium
A one-day conference sponsored by the Institute of Historical Research and the British Records Association. Nick Barrett (Nottingham), Geoff Browell (KCL), Maria Castrillo (Senate House Library), Kathleen Chater, Sophie Clapp (Boots), Clare Cowling (IALS), Jo Pugh (The National Archives and York), Tom Scott (Wellcome Collection), Tamara Thornhill (TfL), Jane Winters (SAS) This conference aims to promote understanding and collaboration between archivists and researchers; explore challenges posed by digital access to collections, and improve methodologies (for example, training researchers in the types of information available from online catalogues, how archivists can improve catalogue descriptions so researchers can find relevant records more easily, and understanding the context of online search results). £35 | £25 student/retired/IHR Friend/BRA member; fees include refreshments and lunch Advance registration required ihr.events@sas.ac.uk
10:00–17:00 Wolfson Conference Suite IHR (Senate House)
Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 13:00–14:00 Gordon Room (Senate House)
On the Encyclopaedic Impulse in Seventeenth-Century Mexico Christopher Johnson (Warburg) This talk will trace the circulation of European encyclopaedic texts and how they informed poetic and artistic invention in the early colonial period. It will consider instances in which the encyclopaedic material has indigenous origins only to be transformed and published in Europe and then shipped back to Mexico. But it will also argue that various encyclopaedic compendia with European origins served an essential role in distilling and transporting knowledge from the Old to the New World in a manner that shaped epistemologies, spurred invention and addressed the intellectual and cultural desires of a Creole readership. Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Decolonial Women: Hidden Histories in Latin America and the Caribbean
Workshop
The aim of this interactive session is to address the gap in the comparative exploration of the decolonising role of female figures in Caribbean and Latin American history. The discussion will explore the reasons why narratives that articulate the relationship between gender history and memory are still underrepresented in academic literature. The session will include five short papers and will culminate in an informal workshop, with breakout groups discussing emerging themes and exploring the way forward in relation to further research in this area. At the centre of this workshop is a presentation by Clara Rachel Eybalin Casseus, ‘Faces of Female Warriors in Haitian Revolutionary War and Beyond’, which will explore the role of women in the 13-year revolutionary war that led to the nation-state of Haiti in 1804. Free cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk
14:00–16:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Conference / Symposium 14:00–17:30 IALS
School of Advanced Study
Law, Compassion and Healthcare Dermot Feenan (IALS), Hazel Biggs (Southampton), Paquita de Zulueta (Nuffield Council on Bioethics), Sir Mark Hedley, Paul Bowen (Brick Court Chambers), Kate Rohde (Kingsley Napley), Phil Bielby (Hull), Glenys Williams (Aberystwyth), Katy Peters (Surrey) A symposium exploring compassion in relation to law and healthcare through presentations and discussion, with speakers from academia, practice, and the judiciary. Organised in association with the Law and Compassion Research Network. £59 | £20 student ials.events@sas.ac.uk
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Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 17:00–19:00 Holden Room (Senate House) The Warburg Institute Lecture 17:00–19:00 Warburg Institute
Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture
The Hydraulics of Freud: Flows, Blocks and Translation Knots Naomi Segal (Birkbeck) Naomi Segal discusses Sigmund Freud’s impact on the way we see ourselves and the world. Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Glasgow and Its Maps : How Cartography Has Reflected the Highs and Lows of the Second City of the Empire John Moore (Glasgow) This event is part of a lecture series in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (IHR), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (KCL, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg). Free tony@tonycampbell.info
English Goethe Society Lecture The German Beast Unleashed: Kleist’s Hermannsschlacht and the Suspension of Human Rights in the Era of Nationalistic Terror
Room 243 (Senate House)
Claudia Nitschke (Durham) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Historical Research
London Litigants in the Elizabethan Court of Star Chamber
Seminar
Helen Good (Elizabethan Star Chamber Project) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:15–19:00
17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar
Andreas Wirsching (Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich-Berlin) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 German Historical Institute (17 Bloomsbury Square) Institute of Historical Research
Slavery and Jamaican Appeals to the Privy Council, c. 1760-1790
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Kennedy Sanderson (Cambridge) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Seminar Room N304 IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Wolfson Room II IHR (Senate House)
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Symbols of Sovereignty: Food, Pageantry and Propaganda in Lancastrian England and France Vanessa King (Goldsmiths) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
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Connecting Sentiments, Separating Worlds: New Media and Transnational Families in the Colombian Context
Seminar
Maria Angel (UCL) The speaker will describe her project to establish an account of the digital practices between transnational parents and the children they leave behind and how these practices alter the ways they express emotions and communicate at distance. This event is part of the Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series. Free ainhoa.montoya@london.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Room 234 (Senate House)
Friday 19 Institute of Modern Languages Research
Brazil beyond the Hard News: Journalism, Literature, Film and Visual Arts
Conference / Symposium
This conference will explore the various forms of journalism that transcend the common structures of newsrooms and how they have contributed to alternative views of Brazilian affairs from the early twentieth century to the contemporary world. The discussions will be centred on the analysis of narratives, case studies and journalistic experiences that make use of hybrid literary genres, such as crônica, reportage, and the nonfiction novel, as well as other forms of creative/investigative journalism, including interviews, comics, documentaries, radio dramas, the work of international correspondents (world service) and the visual arts. Sponsored by King’s College London. Free cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk
10:30–19:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House)
Training for War, Skill, and Specialisation in Early Classical Greece: Perspectives from the Sea Vincent Fourcade (UCL) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series. Free postgradwip@gmail.com
The Freedom of the Streets: Gender and Urban Space in Early Modern Holland Danielle van den Heuvel (University of Amsterdam) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 20 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 14:00–16:00 Seminar Room N304 IHR (Senate House)
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Familiar Learning: Siblings Educating Siblings in the Long Eighteenth Century Catherine Dille (Richmond, The American International University in London) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
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Process Philosophy Johan Siebers (IMLR) Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk
16:00–18:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Past and Present Room IHR (Senate House)
From Privy to Statistical Archive: Information, Science and the Enlightenment Territorial State Barbara Naddeo (City University of New York) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Historical Research
Entangled Memories: German and Italian Jews
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Anna Koch (Southampton) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:15–19:15 North American History Room IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House)
‘One that was no furtherer of this devise’: A Propaganda Campaign against the ‘Monarchical Republic of Elizabeth I’? Catherine Chou (Villanova University) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Historical Research
The Middle Eastern Causes of the First Crusade
Seminar
Alex Mallett (Exeter) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room II IHR (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:30–19:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
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How Rome Was Rebuilt: Approaches to Architectural Restoration in Antiquity Christopher Siwicki (Exeter) This event is part of the Roman Art Seminar Series. Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
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© Shakespeare
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Ian Gadd (Bath Spa) In February 1594, John Danter had his claim to the publishing rights to Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus approved by two of the officers of the London’s Stationers’ Company—and with this, the story of Shakespeare’s copyright begins. This talk explores exactly what rights were being granted to Danter and those who followed him in securing the publishing rights to Shakespeare’s other works, and how those rights fundamentally shaped Shakespeare’s subsequent publishing history. By tracing the ownership of these rights from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries through to the late eighteenth century, Professor Gadd will demonstrate how any history of the emergence of modern Anglo-American copyright needs to understand the changing commercial realities of the London book trade as much as the more well-known legislative and legal landmarks. This event is part of the Open University Book History Research Group Seminar: Literature and Copyright. Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:00 Room 246 (Senate House)
Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Seminar Room N304 IHR (Senate House)
The Making of the Russian Revolution (Why Lenin Should Have Said ‘I’m Not a Leninist’) Neil Faulkner Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
The Warburg Institute
Neoplatonism Study Group: Proclus, In Parmenidem
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Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston), Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute Institute of Historical Research Lecture
Eric Hobsbawm Memorial Lecture 2017 Russia’s Revolution and the Destruction of the Past
The Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)
Catherine Merridale Catherine Merridale is the author of numerous award-winning books on Russian history. Her latest work, Lenin on the Train (Penguin Books), tells the story of Lenin’s famous journey to Russia in April 1917. Her talk will be followed by a reception. Free advance registration required ihr.events@sas.ac.uk
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On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light
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A weekly series of public readings of Dante’s works hosted by the Warburg Institute. Purgatorio, Canto XXXIII. Beatrice’s Prophesies. The Final Ritual of Dante’s Spiritual Cleansing. Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) Remaining dates: 5 June: Paradiso, Canto I. Ascent to the Heaven of Fire. 12 June: Paradiso, Canto III. Heaven of the Moon. Piccarda Donati. 19 June: Paradiso, Canto XI. Thomas Aquinas. Francis of Assisi. 26 June: Paradiso, Canto XVII. Heaven of Mars. Cacciaguida. 3 July: Paradiso, Canto XXXIII. The Empyrean. The Vision of the Trinity. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
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Memory, Migration, and Decolonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond, 1804 to the Present
Two-Day Conference /Symposium
Keynote Speaker: Matthew Smith (University of the West Indies, Mona) Speakers: Tina K Ramnarine (RHUL), William ‘Lez’ Henry (West London) Convenors: Jack Webb, William Tantam (ILAS), Maria del Pilar Kaladeen (SAS Centre for Postcolonial Studies) This event is produced in association with the AHRC Translating Cultures Theme. £45 | £10 olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk
10:00–15:00 Woburn Suite (Senate House)
Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00-20:00 The Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)
Sovereignty, Law and Geography Roundtable: A Panel Discussion of Lauren Benton’s A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400–1900 Lauren Benton (Vanderbilt University), Simon Layton (QMUL), Steve Legg (Nottingham), Kimberley Peters (Liverpool), Mira Siegelberg (QMUL) The discussion will be followed by a drinks reception. This is a joint seminar with the London Group of Historical Geographers and the IHR British Maritime History Seminar Series. Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Historical Research
The Bush, the Suburbs and the Long Great War: A Family History
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Michael Roper (Essex) Chair: Tim Reinke-Williams Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:15–19:15 Peter Marshall Room IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room II IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Past and Present Room IHR (Senate House)
Gypsies, Religion, Idleness, and ‘Trade of Life’ in Early Modern England David Cressy (Ohio State University) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Shining Lights: Magic Lanterns in the Hands of LMS Missionaries, 1839-1890 Mary Borgo (Indiana University) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Philosophy
The Practical, the Political and the Ethical Seminar Series
Seminar
Jay Wallace (University of California Berkeley) Free ip@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Globalization, Fair Taxation and Tax Multilateralism: The BEPS Approach
Seminar
Philip Baker (IALS), Marcus Livio (IALS), Marcelo Ilarraz (IALS) Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk
18:00–20:00 IALS
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Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 18:00–19:30 Woburn Suite (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Pollard Seminar Room IHR (Senate House)
Friends of the British School at Athens Lecture: Greece in the Life and Work of Giorgio De Chirico Robin Barber valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
Preferring to Dismember It: Margaret Thatcher and the Demise of the British National Oil Company Jonathan Kuiken (Wilkes University) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 24 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 12:30–14:30 Past and Present Room IHR (Senate House)
The History of Chinese Migration to Latin America in the Nineteenth Century Rudolph Ng (Birkbeck) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Classical Studies
The Dispersed Monument: Global Site-Mapping
Seminar
Lindsay Allen (KCL) This event is part of the Classical Archaeology Seminar Series. Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
17:00–19:00 Woburn Suite (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research
Dublin’s Great War, 1912–23
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Richard Grayson (Goldsmiths) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:15–19:15 Past and Present Room IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research
Taxation and Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment
Seminar
Shane Horwell (UCL) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:15–19:15 Seminar Room N304 IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House)
School of Advanced Study
Aristocratic Amateur Drama in the Long Eighteenth Century: Private Theatricals and Public Personae Judith Hawley (RHUL) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Pollard Seminar Room IHR (Senate House)
Child Kingship and Notions of Maturity in England, Scotland, France, and Germany, c.1050-c.1250 Emily Ward Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
SAS Central
Fake News in a Post-Truth World
Lecture
Linda Risso (IHR) Fake news is nothing new. It has been part of our history since we started to live in groups. What is new, however, is the pervasive nature and immediacy with which fake news spreads through social media. We are relentlessly bombarded with contradicting information, opposing claims and attacks on the very idea that there are such things as truth and expertise. Linda Risso will discuss what we, as citizens caught in the middle of the fight for our hearts and minds, can do to navigate the new information environment without getting caught in the maelstrom. Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk
18:00–19:30 The Senate Room (Senate House)
Institute of English Studies Lecture 18:00–20:00 The Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)
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2017 John Coffin Memorial Annual Palaeography Lecture Crossing Palaeographical Borders: Bi-Alphabetical Hebrew Scribes and Manuscripts in Egypt, Spain and Northern France (11th to 15th centuries) Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (École Pratique des Hautes Études) Professor Oszlowy-Schlanger’s lecture will centre on an aspect of Hebrew palaeography in Latin manuscripts. Her subject is relevant to current studies in a variety of areas: it is about the interaction of minority and dominant cultures, inter-faith relations and the multilingualism and polyglot nature of urban communities in medieval Europe, as well as medieval literacy and the practices of reading, writing and the creation of libraries and archives. She is the director of studies, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Section des Sciences Historiques et Philogogiques, Sorbonne University, Paris, and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. She is a highly distinguished scholar, funded by the Rothschild Foundation to research uncatalogued material. She heads the pan-European project ‘Books within Books’ (http://hebrewmanuscript.com), that seeks to locate, photograph and describe every Hebrew manuscript to be found in the bindings of books (these are mostly books written in Latin) now in libraries across Europe. She is a leading specialist in the study of Hebrew manuscripts, palaeography and diplomatic, the history of medieval linguistic thought and Christian Hebrew scholars in the Middle Ages. Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk
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Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 246 (Senate House)
Turning a Work of Literature into a Movie: Some Puzzles about Adaptation James Harold (Mt. Holyoke College) The adaptation of stories from one medium to another has been almost completely neglected as a philosophical topic. This neglect is surprising for two reasons: first, adaptation is everywhere. Short stories get adapted into plays; plays into movies; movies into operas; songs into poems; and on and on, backwards and forwards. The second reason is that adaptation poses a number of complex and thorny philosophical puzzles. This talk will focus on one particular kind of adaptation, from the medium of literature to the medium of movies. What do we mean when we say that a movie is faithful to its source? Is being faithful to its source a merit in a movie adaptation? And how do we decide when a movie should be counted as being an adaptation of some particular pre-existing work of literature, such as a novel or play? This event is part of the London Aesthetics Forum, which is generously sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics. Free ip@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 25 Institute of Modern Languages Research
Sites of Memory, Sites of Border cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk
Two–Day Conference 09:00–17:00 Primorska University (Koper, Slovenia) Institute of Classical Studies
The End of the Roman Republic in Athens
Seminar
Muriel Moser (University of Frankfurt) This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series. Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
16:30–18:30 Holden Room (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy
CenSes Seminar
Seminar
This event is part of the Rethinking the Senses project funded by the AHRC. Free info.rts@sas.ac.uk
17:00–19:00 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research
Women and Work
Seminar
Helen McCarthy Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:15–19:15 Pollard Seminar Room IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House)
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Mapping New Historical Patterns among London’s Legal Inns, 1292-c. 1500 Malcolm Richardson (Louisiana State University), Gabriele Richardson (Louisiana State University) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Seminar Room N304 IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Wolfson Room II IHR (Senate House)
Who Shall Guard the Guards? London Transport Governance 1905–33 James Fowler (York) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
The Industrial Picturesque at Quarry Bank: Serendipity or Designed Landscape Jonathan Price (IHR) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Institute of English Studies
Postgraduate Feminist Reading Group
Seminar
Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
18:30–20:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
Friday 26 Institute of Philosophy Conference / Symposium 09:30–18:30 Bloomsbury Room (Senate House)
The Distributed Cognitive Ecologies of Collaborative Embodied Skill Erik Rietveld (Amsterdam), Wayne Christensen (Warwick), Ellen Fridland (KCL), Emily Cross (Bangor), Michael Kimmel (University of Vienna), Daniel Richardson (UCL), Joel Krueger (Exeter), David Papineau (King’s College London) Organised by John Sutton (Macquarie) This workshop addresses relations between individuals, groups and environments across performance forms and contexts. What do individuals bring to and do in collaborative embodied performance? How do group members with distinct capacities complement each other in skilled action? Are cues to collaborative embodied skill distributed across larger cognitive ecologies, and how are they reliably accessed? What forms of breakdown and repair reveal the fragility and the resilience of collaborative skills? Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Philosophy
Lewis Carroll: Logic and Philosophy
Conference / Symposium
Francine F. Abeles (Kean University), Corine Besson (Sussex/IP), Melanie Keene (Cambridge), Amirouche Moktefi (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia), Mark Richards (independent scholar), James Trafford (University for the Creative Arts, Epsom) Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk
11:00–17:00 Room 246 (Senate House)
Institute of Classical Studies
Spatial Dynamics in Horace’s Epistles
Seminar
Edoardo Galfré (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series. Free postgradwip@gmail.com
16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House)
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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Seminar Room N304 IHR (Senate House)
Tobacco Retail, Early Modern Economic Practice and State Formation in Early Modern England Alex Taylor (Sheffield) This talk examines England’s first attempt to centrally license tobacco retailers between 1632 and 1640. Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Institute of English Studies
Finnegans Wake Seminar
Seminar
Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
Saturday 27 Institute of Latin American Studies
Latin American Music Seminar £8 advance registration required h.stobart@rhul.ac.uk
Seminar 10:00–17:00 Woburn Suite (Senate House)
Tuesday 30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Pollard Seminar Room IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Past and Present Room IHR (Senate House)
Que(e)rying Social Purity: Sexology, Theology and Sexual Modernity Joy Dixon (University of British Columbia) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
The Professionalization of Electoral Politics: The Liberal and Conservative Party Agents, 1880-1910 Kathryn Rix (History of Parliament Trust) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Philosophy
Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics Seminar
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Hosted by the Centre for Logic and Language. Free corine.besson@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Room 246 (Senate House)
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Wednesday 31 Institute of Latin American Studies
Producing Knowledges, Producing Pachamama: Andean Indigenous Politics in Post-Neoliberal Ecuador
Seminar
Sarah Radcliffe (Cambridge) With the 2008 Constitution declaring the rights of indigenous peoples and of nature, Ecuador positioned itself at odds with mainstream politics. Yet in the decade since the election of Alianza Pais, the dynamics between indigeneity, Pachamama/nature and politics remain troubled and antagonistic. This talk explores how we might begin to frame and understand the ways by which central Andean kichwa speakers demarcate the forms of knowledge and agency through which they engage in contesting marginalization. Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Room 234 (Senate House)
Institute of Historical Research
Fideles Dei et Regis: A Zeugma in Carolingian Political Discourse
Seminar
Stefan Esders Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Pollard Seminar Room IHR (Senate House) The Warburg Institute
Opening Doors | Moving Ideas
Short Course
This open house event features engaging talks by the two scholars who head our MA programmes: Guido Giglioni, for the MA in Cultural and Intellectual History 1300 – 1650, and Joanne Anderson, for the MA in Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture, which is offered in conjunction with London’s National Gallery. The day will include tours of the Warburg’s famous library, including an introduction to its unique classification and arrangement of human culture and expression, and tours of the Aby Warburg archive and photographic collection, which is increasingly of great interest to contemporary artists and scholars of art. There will be a showing of Judith Wechsler’s film on the life of Aby Warburg and an information session on studying at the Warburg and the funding opportunities available. Refreshments and lunch will be provided. Free advance registration required bit.ly/warbopen
10:00–16:30 Warburg Institute
Institute of Classical Studies
ICS Director’s Seminar
Seminar
Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
13:00–14:00 Room 243 (Senate House) SAS Central
Impact and Public Engagement Workshop for PhD/ECRs
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Maria Castrillo (Senate House Library), Dan Pett (British Museum), Stijn Van Rossem (IHR) This workshop will cover a skill that has become essential in academia, particularly when applying for funding: explaining the public impact of academic work. Issues covered will include aspects of impact and public engagement (broadly conceived), both within different research environments and when engaging with multiple audiences. Working as part of a group, you will have a chance to pitch an impact and engagement idea you have collectively developed. The workshop is open to PhD students and early career researchers. Lunch will be provided. Free advance registration required sas.events@sas.ac.uk
13:00–16:50 Room 246 (Senate House)
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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–18:30 The Court Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:00–19:00 Wolfson Room IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar
From Terra Sigillata to China: Globalisations, Moving Objects and Cultural Imaginations in NW Europe Martin Pitts (Exeter) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
Women Hotel Staff and the Negotiation of Class, Gender, and National Identity in Britain, 1918-1950 Eloise Moss (Manchester) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Dana Villa (University of Notre Dame) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House) Institute of English Studies
Fleming, Ian Fleming: The Author as Collector
Lecture
Jon Gilbert Jon Gilbert, author of the award-winning Ian Fleming Bibliography, antiquarian book dealer and collector, will enlighten the audience with his knowledge of the James Bond author. Not only did Fleming set up The Book Collector 65 years ago, he also managed to create one of the most inspiring book collections. The theme? Books that changed the world. The collection is now part of the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana. Mr Gilbert will talk about some of its highlights, reveal Fleming’s collecting secrets, and touch on Fleming’s reading habits, including his love of poetry, thrillers and adventure stories. Ian’s nephew James Fleming will introduce Jon, who will be joined by Fergus Fleming for a short Q&A afterwards. The lecture will be preceded by a drinks reception sponsored by The Book Collector. Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
18:30–20:30 The Senate Room (Senate House)
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Book Launch: The Portuguese in the East: A Cultural History of a Maritime Trading Empire by Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya
18:00–20:00
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Thursday 01 The Warburg Institute
Creation and Artifice in Medieval Theories of Causality
Three-Day Conference/Symposium
The Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group meeting will be held at the Warburg Institute on 1 and 2 June with the theme ‘Creation and Artifice in Medieval Theories of Causality’. Keynote lectures will be given by Jon McGuinness and Amos Bertolacci. Other speakers will include Charles Burnett (Warburg), Dragos Calma (Cambridge), Michael Chase (Paris), Therese Cory (Notre Dame), Ann Giletti (Cambridge), R. E. Rolen Houser (Houston), Luís López-Farjeat (Mexico), Jon McGinnis (St. Louis), Nicola Polloni (Durham), David Twetten (Milwaukee), Philippe Vallat (Vienna) A plenary lecture will be given by Richard Taylor at the Ismaili Institute on 31 May. Free advance registration required bit.ly/aquinas1
10:30–17:00 Warburg Institute
Institute of Classical Studies
The Private End of Empires
Seminar
Gabriele Puschnigg (UCL Institute of Archaeology) This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
16:30–18:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research
Medieval and Tudor London Seminar
Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House)
Gary Gibbs (Roanoke College), Valerie Hitchman (Kent), Nikolas Georgacarakos (University of Colorado) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Historical Research
Children in the Cause of Humanity
Seminar
Tehila Sasson (IHR, Past and Present Fellow) ‘We are the world’, a famous charity group told us in the late twentieth century. The phrase signals a revolutionary shift in how a new generation came to feel about its place in the global community. In the second half of the twentieth century, a global ethics has transformed the lives of ordinary people in Britain, the United States and Europe. From television programs to sponsored walkathons, fair trade shops to rock concerts, a burgeoning humanitarian culture began ushering global suffering into our daily lives with such scale and frequency that many people now empathise more with distant strangers than with their own fellow citizens. With the unravelling of European empires, the rise of Western consumer society and growing economic disparities between the global North and South, the period saw a radical transformation in the ways in which a broad spectrum of people and institutions joined a new political constituency —‘humanity’— that stretched beyond any particular national border. This talk focuses on one aspect of this story: how children and youth have joined a global humanitarian community. It will explore how between the 1940s and the 1980s a new aid industry mobilized children in the cause of humanity. The object of aid programs as far back as the nineteenth century, children had always been the focus for humanitarian empathy and compassion in the modern age. But in the late 1960s, when humanitarian and international organizations realised the potential of children as a new market for campaigning, children also became agents of humanitarian care. Through television shows, sponsored walkathons, educational programs and public festivals children were mobilized to become—as some have put it— citizens of the world. ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Peter Marshall Room IHR (Senate House)
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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Seminar Room N304 IHR (Senate House)
A Chronology of Some Memorable Accidents: The Representation of the Recent Past in Printed Almanacs, 1648-1660 Imogen Peck (Bristol) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Historical Research
Legitimising Food: Mughal Imperial Ideology and Food Practices
Seminar
Neha Vermani (RHUL) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Wolfson Room II IHR (Senate House) Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 234 (Senate House)
Screening and Discussion of the Ethnographic Film Cuéntame Claudia Gianetto (Goldsmiths) Based on fourteen months of fieldwork in an indigenous community of the Eastern Yucatan, Cuéntame explores the role and status of Mayan women within particular configurations of kinship and community. Through the protagonists’ personal narratives, the film looks in particular at women’s labour conditions in relation to male work migration, and at their contribution to the household economy as producers of embroidery for the tourist market. Free ainhoa.montoya@london.ac.uk
Friday 02 Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference / Symposium 09:00–19:00 Room 104, Torrington Room (Senate House)
Marie Nimier, Text and Context: Histoire, Politics, Erotics This Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing conference develops the work of the successful international conference on Nimier’s work held in Paris in 2014. It will provide opportunities for exploring the author’s work as a reflection on and interaction with contemporary culture (literary and otherwise) and its evolving narratives, anxieties and sensitivities. The author will attend the event, read from her work and take part in a Q & A. This event is sponsored by the Thyra Alleyne Fund. Free advance registration required cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk
Institute of English Studies
The Elzeviers and their Contemporaries
Conference / Symposium
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of Louis Elzevier, bookseller and founder of the publishing house that dominated Dutch printing in the seventeenth century. Elzevier books spread across the known world, through their own vast international trade network and via the many foreign students who read them while studying at Dutch universities. They thus helped shape how the topics represented were understood, learned, taught, read, collected and pirated. The renowned dynasty lives on today through the long collectability of its output and through its namesake, the Elsevier publishing house. This conference explores material evidence of the production and consumption of academic books in the early modern period, based around publications by the Elzeviers and their contemporaries. David McKitterick (Cambridge), James Mosley (Reading), Andrew Pettegree (St Andrews), Arthur der Weduwen (St Andrews) The conference will coincide with a display of Senate House Library’s Elzevier collection, one of the largest worldwide. Free advance registration required IESEvents@sas.ac.uk
10:00–18:00 Torrington Room (Senate House)
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Institute of Classical Studies
Aristotle on the Good Life
Seminar
Pedro Ferrão da Costa (Universidade de Lisboa) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series. Free postgradwip@gmail.com
16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar
Linked Data and Ancient World Research: Studying Past Projects from a User Perspective
Room 234 (Senate House)
Sarah Middle (Open University) This event is part of the ICS Digital Classics Seminar Series. Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
Institute of English Studies
Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar
Seminar
Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
16:30–18:00
18:00–20:00 Bloomsbury Room (Senate House)
Saturday 03 Institute of English Studies
The Divided Psyche and the Law in Fifteenth-Century Europe
Seminar
Alex Russell (Warwick) This event is part of the IES Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination (EMPHASIS) Seminar Series. Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
14:00–16:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
Monday 05 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Conference / Symposium 08:30–13:00 The Beveridge Hall (Senate House)
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The Refugee Law Initiative Second Annual Conference: Mass Influx? Law, Policy and Large-Scale Movements of Refugees and Migrants This conference provides a dedicated annual international forum to share and debate the latest research and cutting-edge developments in refugee law. This conference builds on the success of the 2016 RLI inaugural annual conference, which united academics, practitioners, policy-makers and students to consider the future of refugee law. This year’s special theme reflects a need to re-examine complex issues surrounding large-scale sudden movements of persons across borders as we build towards the Global Compacts in 2018. With the current political focus on such large-scale movements, there is renewed interest in better understanding and developing humanitarian responses. Even if key normative and legal protection gaps in this area have been evident for some time, little has changed on the ground for refugees, migrants and IDPs. The September 2016 adoption of the UN New York Declaration provides a timely opportunity to reflect on the ideas and proposals expressed therein and to feed into the development of Global Compacts in 2018. Alongside presentations from keynote speakers, several panel sessions will be devoted to this theme. Keynote speakers will include Volker Turk (Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, UNHCR), François Crépeau (UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Migrants), Alexander Betts (Director, Refugee Studies Centre), Loren Landau (African Centre for Migration and Society), Alexandra Bilak (Director, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre) £150 standard | £125 students, unwaged | £95 RLI affiliates Participants are responsible for making their own visa, travel and accommodation arrangements, which are not included in the registration fee. Attendance at the dinner in Senate House on 6 June is optional and charged separately at £45. rliconference2017@sas.ac.uk School of Advanced Study
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Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar
Process Philosophy Johan Siebers (IMLR) Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk
16:00–18:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies
Refractions of the Byzantine: The Empire of Trebizond (1204–1461)
Two-Day Colloquium
Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
17:00 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research
Mini-Colloquium on the ‘Intoxicants and Early Modernity’ Project
Seminar
Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar
Camilla Cowling (Warwick) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Peter Marshall Room IHR (Senate House) The Warburg Institute
Neoplatonism Study Group: Proclus, In Parmenidem
Seminar
Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston), Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture 18:00–19:00
The New Sentencing Code David Ormerod QC (Law Commission for England and Wales) Organised in collaboration with the Statute Law Society. Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk
IALS The Warburg Institute
On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light
Seminar
A weekly series of public readings of Dante’s works hosted by the Warburg Institute. Paradiso, Canto I. Ascent to the Heaven of Fire. Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) Remaining dates: 12 June: Paradiso, Canto III. Heaven of the Moon. Piccarda Donati. 19 June: Paradiso, Canto XI. Thomas Aquinas. Francis of Assisi. 26 June: Paradiso, Canto XVII. Heaven of Mars. Cacciaguida. 3 July: Paradiso, Canto XXXIII. The Empyrean. The Vision of the Trinity. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
18:30–19:50 Warburg Institute
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Tuesday 06 Institute of Modern Languages Research
Showcasing Research Excellence: The Journal of Romance Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium
Conference / Symposium
Judith Still (Nottingham): ‘Slavery in Enlightenment America: Crèvecoeur’s Bilingual Approach’ Abigail Lee Six (RHUL): ‘The Vamp Rehabilitated: Carmen de Burgos’s mujer fría in the Light of Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent’s Señorita Vampiro’ Bernard McGuirk (Nottingham): ‘A Meditation on Fernando Pessoa’ Adalgisa Giorgio (Bath): ‘Matrixial Creativity and the Wit(h)nessing of Trauma: Reconnecting Mothers and Daughters in Marosia Castaldi’s Novel Dentro le mie mani le tue: Tetralogia di Nightwater’ Simon Gaunt (KCL): ‘The Values of French Literature and Language in the European Middle Ages’ Keynote — Jo Labanyi (New York University): ‘Beyond Modern Languages?’ Presentation by Liverpool University Press, followed by a reception. Free advance registration required cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk
14:00–19:00 Bloomsbury Room (Senate House)
Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Peter Marshall Room IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room II IHR (Senate House)
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Cook’s New Clothes: Redressing the Legacy of Captain Cook’s First Voyage in the Pacific Simon Layton (QMUL), Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Female Creditors and Money Agents in Late Seventeenth-Century East London Caroline Nielsen (Northampton) Chair: Tim Reinke-Williams Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Memory Making and Community Building in Post-Reformation English Catholic Musical Culture Emilie Murphy (York) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
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Institute of English Studies
Liturgical Books and the Medieval Library
Seminar
Tessa Webber (Cambridge) It has long been conventional in the history of books and book collections of the Middle Ages to draw a distinction between liturgical books and library books. In practice, however, the use made of the books and the arrangements for their storage and custody suggest that the distinction was sometimes less clear cut. This talk will examine such evidence together with that provided by liturgical commentaries and medieval booklists to question how far the conventional bipartite categorisation of books as ‘liturgical’ and ‘library’ reflects the way in which books were conceived during the Middle Ages. Note on the venue: This meeting will take place in the Great Hall of Lambeth Palace and is a joint meeting with the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library. Those wishing to attend should send their names to juliette.boyd@churchofengland. org not later than Monday, 5 June. Admittance will be via the main gatehouse of Lambeth Palace not before 17:15. This event is part of the IES History of Libraries Seminar Series and is cosponsored by the Institute of Historical Research. Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Lambeth Palace
Institute of Philosophy
Depending on the Thick
Seminar
Debbie Roberts (Edinburgh) This event is part of The Practical, the Political and the Ethical Seminar Series. Free ip@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Pollard Seminar Room IHR (Senate House)
Conscription, Empire, and the Crisis of the British Constitution in the First World War Jesse Tumblin (Boston College) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 07 Institute of English Studies
Selling Rights
Short Course
This two-day course aimed at staff handling rights for literary agencies and publishing houses will cover the rationale for selling rights as well as the practicalities. £399 advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk
10:00–17:00 Room G21A (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies
ICS Director’s Seminar
Seminar
Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
13:00–14:00 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy
London Aesthetics Forum
Seminar
Sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics. Free ip@sas.ac.uk
16:00–18:00 Room 246 (Senate House)
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Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:00–19:00 The Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:00–19:00 Peter Marshall Room IHR (Senate House)
J P Barron Memorial Lecture Classicist Foremothers and Why They Matter Edith Hall (KCL) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
The Conservatives and the First Elected European Parliament 1979-84 Khurram Jowiya (KCL) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Historical Research
Edmund Burke and Adam Müller, Between Clergy and Commerce
Seminar
Jonathan Green (Cambridge) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:15–19:15 Seminar Room N304 IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar
‘Everlastingly joining friends together on the canvace’: Kinship and Eighteenth-Century Portraiture
Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House)
Kate Retford (Birkbeck) To be followed by an end-of-year seminar party (venue to be announced) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Historical Research
The Habsburg Empire: A New History
Seminar
Pieter Judson (European University Institute, Florence), Lucy Riall (European University Institute, Florence) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:15–19:15
17:30–19:30 Wolfson Room II IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 North American History Room IHR (Senate House)
Household Work: Connecting the Domestic with the Investigative in Eighteenth-Century England and Ireland Leonie Hannan (Queen’s University Belfast) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 08 Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference 10:00–17:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
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Antal Szerb Hungarian writer Antal Szerb’s novels have been known to an English readership for a number of years, but his work as a literary historian is only now becoming available in English. This event celebrates the publication of his essays, Reflections in the Library: Selected Literary Essays 1926-1944, in Peter Sherwood’s translation (Legenda, 2017). Speakers include translators, literary historians and the editors of the volume. Organiser: Zsuzsanna Varga (Glasgow) £10 advance registration required jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk School of Advanced Study
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Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 14:00–16:00
Populism in Small States The Ingeborg Bachmann Centre: a panel discussion on the current public discourse on the ‘New Right’ in Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands. jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Holden Room (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies
Splittings, Falls and Restorations of the Later Roman Empire
Seminar
Dominic Moreau (University of Lille III) This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series. Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
16:30–18:30 Woburn Suite (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Pollard Seminar Room IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House)
Gender, Folklore, and ‘National’ History, with Response from Kate Hill Laura Carter Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Roundtable Discussion to Mark the Publication of Caroline Barron’s Collected Essays Joel Rosenthal (Stony Brook University), Martha Carlin, Matthew Davies (Birkbeck) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Historical Research
Iwan Morgan Lecture
Seminar
Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 North American History Room IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 John S Cohen Room IHR (Senate House)
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Cold War Frontier: Oral Histories of British Military Families in Germany, c. 1945-1991 Grace Huxford (Bristol) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
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Friday 09 Institute of Historical Research
Thomas Frederick Tout: Refashioning History in the 20th Century
Conference / Symposium
Thomas Frederick Tout (1855-1929) was a remarkable medieval historian who forged the distinctive and distinguished history school at Manchester University in the early years of the twentieth century. His own research made extensive use of the national archives (as opposed to the customary use of chronicle sources) and his major contributions were in the field of administrative history. He was, himself, a tireless administrator of many historical enterprises (including the Dictionary of National Biography) and his historical output was extraordinary. He spent the last four years of his life in London and is buried in Hampstead Parish churchyard. The time is ripe to reconsider his historical legacy. Organised by Caroline Barron (RHUL) and Joel Rosenthal (Stony Brook University) Speakers include: Ralph A. Griffiths (Swansea), William Gibson (Oxford Brookes), Stuart Jones (Manchester), Peter Slee (Leeds Becket), Christopher Godden (Manchester), Henry Summerson (ODNB), Ian d’Alton (Trinity College Dublin), Seymour Phillips (University College Dublin), Paul Dryburgh (The National Archives), Matthew Raven (Hull), Jeff Hamilton (Baylor University), Vance Smith (Princeton University), DeLloyd Guth (University of Manitoba), John McEwan (St. Louis University), Elizabeth Biggs (York), Nick Barratt (Nottingham), Mark Ormrod (York), Joel Rosenthal (Stony Brook University), Tom Sharp Registrations fees apply; advance registration required by Monday 5 June 2017 £60 two days | £40 two days, student/unwaged/retired/IHR Friend £35 one day | £25 one day, student/unwaged/retired/IHR Friend The conference fee includes refreshments and lunches. ihr.events@sas.ac.uk
10:30–17:00 Wolfson Conference Suite IHR (Senate House)
Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House)
A Figurative Translation: The Battle of Cannae in ‘Ad Astra’ of Mihachi Kagano, a Case Study Carlo Lualdi This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series. Free postgradwip@gmail.com
Institute of Classical Studies
Crowdsourcing a Digital Library of Pre-Modern Chinese
Seminar
Donald Sturgeon (Harvard University) This event is part of the ICS Digital Classics Seminar Series. Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
16:30–18:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research
Urban Growth in Early Modern England
Seminar
Tony Wrigley (Cambridge) Between the mid-sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, the population of England increased five-fold. The populations of leading continental countries— France, Germany, Italy, and Spain—all roughly doubled in the same period. Nonurban growth was very similar in England and the continent; the difference in overall growth rates was almost entirely due to the very rapid urban growth taking place in England. This seminar talk describes this difference and explores its significance. An end-of-year party will follow. For details, please email j.hoppit@ucl.ac.uk. Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:15–19:15 Seminar Room N304 IHR (Senate House)
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Monday 12 Institute of Historical Research
South Asia in 1947: Broadening Perspectives
Conference / Symposium
This year marks the 70th anniversary of perhaps the most important year of South Asia’s twentieth century, a year that saw the end of British rule in India and the creation of the independent dominions of India and Pakistan. The passing of nearly two centuries of colonial rule was accompanied by mass violence, the movement of populations, the establishment of new institutions and the reconfiguration of South Asian polities oriented towards new centralising nationalisms. The partition of British India between India and Pakistan has come to mark a watershed in histories of the period due to its immense scale and its often tragic consequences for millions of people in both of the newly independent states. It was also significant for a number of other reasons, such as the transformation of colonial subjects into citizens, the integration of the princely states, the consolidation of constituent assemblies, the militarisation of South Asia and the entry onto the world stage of two states representing nearly a quarter of humanity. Seven decades give us sufficient distance to consider the consequential year of 1947 from a broader, extra-Partition perspective. Keynote: Yasmin Khan (Oxford) Organisers: Aashique Iqbal (Oxford) and Radha Kapuria (KCL) Free advance registration required; participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs ihr.events@sas.ac.uk
09:00–17:00 Wolfson Conference Suite IHR (Senate House)
SAS Central Conference / Symposium 09:00–17:45 British Library
Researchers, Practitioners and Their Use of the Archived Web 12–16 June A week of web archiving events and activities whose centrepiece is a major international conference combining the second RESAW Conference and the rescheduled IIPC Web Archiving Conference. The week will begin with a two-day Archives Unleashed hackathon. A public debate will be held on the evening of 14 June as part of the British Library’s series Digital Conversations. Organised by the School of Advanced Study; the British Library; The National Archives of the UK; the Oxford Internet Institute; Aarhus University; L’Institut des sciences de la communication (CNRS, Paris-Sorbonne, UPMC); L3S Research Center–Leibniz University Hannover; the Royal Library, Denmark; the Bibliothèque nationale de France; L’Institut national de l’audiovisuel and Aix-Marseille University; International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) and Archives Unleashed. Please visit the Archived Web conference website for complete programme details: https://archivedweb.blogs.sas.ac.uk/programme £20 advance registration required sas.events@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Historical Research
The Civil War in Aden and the Imperialism of Decolonization
Seminar
William Roger Louis (University of Texas/Oxford) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Wolfson Room II IHR (Senate House)
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A Writer and Her Daughters: The Afterlife of Irene Nemirovsky’s Suite Française Susan Suleiman (Harvard University) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Seminar Room N304 IHR (Senate House)
Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Pollard Seminar Room IHR (Senate House)
Citizens of the World: Birmingham Quaker Women, Transnational Voluntary Service, and the Meaning of Citizenship Sian Roberts (Birmingham) This talk will focus on the voluntary action of a group of Quaker women based in the city of Birmingham in the first half of the twentieth century. In addition to their participation in the activities of the Religious Society of Friends at a local and national level, they engaged in a broad range of voluntary activities at home and abroad, motivated by a faith-inspired witness for peace. Locally their activism encompassed penal reform, housing, education and youth work, and was performed through women’s organisations including the Birmingham Women’s Settlement and the Women’s Citizens Club. Transnationally, they were particularly active in humanitarian relief, beginning in the First World War and continuing through the interwar period to the Spanish Civil War and their work in support of refugees from Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. The talk will explore the intersection of the local and the global in the voluntary action of this group of women. It will consider how mapping their activism across a spectrum of transnational issues and contexts illuminates our understanding of their particular model of citizenship. Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Embedded Collections: The Cappella dei Principi and its Forerunners Lindsay Alberts (Framingham State University ) The Cappella dei Principi at San Lorenzo in Florence, a massive space covered from floor to dome with variegated hardstones, remains the most spectacular chapel decorated in the difficult and highly expensive technique known as commesso or Florentine mosaic. Commissioned by Ferdinando I de’ Medici in 1604 as the funerary chapel for the Medici grand dukes, the cappella asserts the political, financial, and spiritual authority of the dynasty through the display of an impressive collection of rare and difficult-to-work natural specimens, literally embedded into the structure of the space itself. This talk examines the communicative strategies at play in early modern forerunners of the Cappella dei Principi, chapels and altars in which collections of rare stones were incorporated into larger religious structures. Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
The Warburg Institute
On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light
Seminar
A weekly series of public readings of Dante’s works hosted by the Warburg Institute. Paradiso, Canto III. Heaven of the Moon. Piccarda Donati. Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) Remaining dates: 19 June: Paradiso, Canto XI. Thomas Aquinas. Francis of Assisi. 26 June: Paradiso, Canto XVII. Heaven of Mars. Cacciaguida. 3 July: Paradiso, Canto XXXIII. The Empyrean. The Vision of the Trinity. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
18:30–19:50 Warburg Institute
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Neoplatonism Study Group: Proclus, In Parmenidem
Seminar
Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston), Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute
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Tuesday 13 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 16:00–18:00 IALS
Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:00–19:00 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Past and Present Room IHR (Senate House)
IALS New Book Forum: Re-Valuing Care in Theory, Law and Policy: Cycles and Connections, edited by Rosie Harding, Ruth Fletcher, and Chris Beasley Diamond Ashiagbor (IALS), Rosie Harding (Birmingham), Ruth Fletcher (QMUL), Chris Beasley (University of Adelaide), Yasmin Gunaratnam (Goldsmiths), Lucy Series, Ambreena Manji (Cardiff ), Maria Drakopoulou (Kent), Marie Fox (Liverpool) This event is co-hosted by QMUL School of Law and Birmingham Law School and will be followed by a reception. Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk
T. B. L. Webster Lecture Tragedy: The Art of Facing Death Karen Bassi (University of California, Santa Cruz) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
Religious Policy and Faction in the Second Protectorate Parliament, 1656-58 Elliot Vernon Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Institute of English Studies
Literary London Reading Group
Seminar
Lauren Elkin (Liverpool) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
18:00–19:30 Room 243 (Senate House)
Wednesday 14 Institute of Classical Studies
ICS Director’s Seminar
Seminar
Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
13:00–13:55 Torrington Room (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–20:00 Paul Hurst Room (Birkbeck College)
In Praise of Depth; or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Hidden Rodrigo Duarte (Federal University of Minas Gerais), Joshua Landy (Stanford) This event is part of the London Aesthetics Forum, which is sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics. Free ip@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Historical Research
The Supermarine Spitfire: A History of a Totem
Seminar
Tony Pratley (Kent) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:15–19:15 Past and Present Room IHR (Senate House)
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Institute of Historical Research
Fathers and Sons in Cold War Australia: A Family Memoir
Seminar
Mike Roper (Essex) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Past and Present Room IHR (Senate House) The Warburg Institute Lecture 17:30–18:30 Warburg Institute
Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 246 (Senate House)
The Relic as Image: Prophetic Aura in an Age of Technological Reproducibility Finbarr Barry Flood (New York University) Among the most celebrated relics of the Prophet Muhammad was his sandal. Tracings made from the most famous sandal relic, kept in Damascus, were believed to circulate the blessings (baraka) of the Prophet. These indexes of the relic as outline were often copied in their turn, generating an enchained series that enabled the sandal and its blessings to travel well beyond the site of the relic’s enshrinement. This tradition continued into modernity, when new print technologies were applied to the reproduction of the sandal image. Such images raise significant questions about mediation and the ontology of the devotional image in modernity. Free advance registration required bit.ly/relic14
Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group Canto 35 Guy Stevenson (Goldsmiths) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 15 Institute of English Studies
Britain, Canada, and the Arts
Conference / Symposium
Coinciding with and celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation, this conference will focus on the strong culture of artistic exchange, influence, and dialogue between Canada and Britain, with a particular but not exclusive emphasis on the decades after World War II. It aims to expose the breadth of this exchange of social and cultural ideals, artistic talent, intellectual traditions, and aesthetic formulations. A variety of critical and disciplinary perspectives will be explored, with scholars and practitioners working in theatre, history, literature, politics, music, film and television, cultural studies, design, and visual art. The conference is organised in collaboration with the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University and the University of Westminster. Free advance registration required IESEvents@sas.ac.uk
10:00–18:00 Senate House
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Conference / Symposium 14:00–17:30 IALS
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Compassion: Immigration and Asylum Law A symposium exploring compassion in relation to immigration and asylum law through presentations and discussion, including speakers from academia, practice, and the judiciary, plus the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration. Dermot Feenan (IALS), James Sweeney (Lancaster University), David Bolt (Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration), Hugo Storey (Upper Tribunal Judge, Immigration and Asylum Chamber), Mark Symes (Garden Court Chambers), Lisa Doyle (Refugee Council), Sue Conlon (Fountain Solicitors), David Cantor (Refugee Law Initiative, SAS), Peter Grady (UNHCR) Organised in association with the Law and Compassion Research Network. £59 standard | £20 student ials.events@sas.ac.uk School of Advanced Study
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Institute of Historical Research
Medieval and Tudor London Seminar
Seminar
Merridee Bailey (University of Adelaide/Oxford), Anna Boeles Rowland (Oxford) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research
History Lab Seminar
Seminar
Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Seminar Room N304 IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Wolfson Room II IHR (Senate House)
The Top of the Food Chain: A Transnational Food Company’s Involvement in Public Health and Humanitarian Relief in Europe and West Africa, 1930-1970 Lola Wilhelm (The Graduate Institute, Geneva) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Historical Research
Site Visit to the Padoga Restoration at Kew Gardens
Seminar
For details contact the History of Landscape and Garden convenors at ihrgardenhistory@gmail.com
18:00–20:00 Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew Gardens)
Friday 16 Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Researching Southern Africa Free eh17@soas.ac.uk
Seminar 10:00–18:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
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The Warburg Institute Conference / Symposium 10:00–19:00 Warburg Institute
Under the Greek Sky: Imitation and Geographies of Art after Winckelmann This year marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of the German classicist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann, commonly regarded as the founding father of both archaeology and art history. Winckelmann’s writings heralded a revolution in approaches to the history of ancient art and culture, as well as contributing to the spread of neoclassical taste throughout Enlightenment Europe. This conference will re-evaluate Winckelmann’s legacy and his influence on art theory since the eighteenth century. The concept of imitation, central to Winckelmann’s theories and writings, proves to be a linchpin for modern ideas about the diffusion, appropriation, and musealization of art. The first day of the conference will focus on the ‘culture’ of imitation. Winckelmann famously claimed, paradoxically, that one has to imitate Greece in order to become inimitable. From a range of historical and artistic perspectives, papers map the consequences this claim had for art’s theory, practice, and body politics since the eighteenth century. The second day will discuss the ‘nature’ of imitation and the consequences of the ecological boundaries set for it by Winckelmann. It will explore the implications of Winckelmann’s climate theory for neoclassical geographies of art and contemporary debates on aesthetic relativism in the age of nationalism. The conference is organised by Katherine Harloe (Reading), Hans Christian Hönes (Warburg/Bilderfahrzeuge Research Group), Daniel Orrells (KCL) and Sadie Pickup (Christie’s). Additional support has been provided by the British Museum, the Institute of Classical Studies and Christie’s Education. Conference venues include King’s College London, the Warburg Institute, and the British Museum. Please visit the conference website for complete programme details: .sas.ac.uk/ events/event/8010 Free advance registration required warburg@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Classical Studies
Recogito 2: Linked Data without the Pointy Brackets
Seminar 16:30–18:00 Gordon Room (Senate House)
Valeria Vitale (Institute of Classical Studies) This event is part of the ICS Digital Classics Seminar Series. Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Romanticism and the Culture of Non-Publication
Seminar 17:30–19:30 Bloomsbury Room (Senate House)
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Lynda Pratt (Nottingham) This event is part of the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar Series hosted jointly by the Institute of English Studies and the Institute of Modern Languages Research. Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
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Saturday 17 SAS Central Conference / Symposium 09:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
Fieldwork in the Postcolonial Research Site: A Question of Language? While fieldwork in the postcolonial research site is almost invariably multilingual, the impact of language use in accessing and negotiating legitimacy in the research site has only occasionally come to the fore of academic discussions on postcolonial perspectives and methodologies. Does the use of an ex-colonial language actually matter in the globalised world of scholarship? If it does, to what extent are we ignoring the impact of non-indigenous language use in research in postcolonial contexts? And if, for pragmatic reasons, scholarship will persist in the foreseeable future in mediating ‘subaltern’ experiences through imperial codes, how can this be mitigated (if at all) in new developments in fieldwork methodology and post-fieldwork analysis? Have significant changes in the modes of engagement employed by observers, commentators, scholars and practitioners using the medium of European languages taken place in the postcolonial research site in recent years? Or has there been a failure to engage with the language question rendering fieldwork absent from the transformations that have shaped Europe’s critical engagement with its former colonies? Indeed, how does a researcher’s language identity impact on scholarship in a transnational space and what role does language play here in the negotiation of legitimacy and reciprocity between researcher and researched? These are some of the questions to be explored in the complex network of structures, relations, codes, constraints and choices scholars encounter in the postcolonial research site. The symposium will provide a forum to exchange experiences, knowledges and interpretations of the questions at stake. Organised by Claire Griffiths (Chester), Kaya Davies-Hayon (Bristol), Catherine Gilbert (KCL) sas.events@sas.ac.uk
Monday 19 The Warburg Institute
On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light
Seminar
A weekly series of public readings of Dante’s works hosted by the Warburg Institute. Paradiso, Canto XI. Thomas Aquinas. Francis of Assisi. Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) Remaining dates: 26 June: Paradiso, Canto XVII. Heaven of Mars. Cacciaguida. 3 July: Paradiso, Canto XXXIII. The Empyrean. The Vision of the Trinity. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
18:30–19:45 Woburn Suite (Senate House)
Institute of Historical Research
The Deana & Jack Eisenberg Lecture in Public History 2017
Lecture
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Changed the American Constitution Eric Foner (Columbia) The preservation of the American nation and the destruction of slavery, the two most profound consequences of the Civil War, raised questions about the definition of American citizenship, the rights of the former slaves, and relations between the states and federal government. Three constitutional amendments were adopted during the Reconstruction period following the war that fundamentally changed the rights of citizens and the powers of the federal government. This lecture will consider the legal, political, and social consequences of amending the Constitution in the 1860s. A reception will follow the lecture at approximately 19:30. Free advance registration required ihr.events@sas.ac.uk
18:00–20:30 The Beveridge Hall (Senate House)
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Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar
Process Philosophy Johan Siebers (IMLR) Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk
16:00–18:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar
Yulia Egorova (Durham) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:15–19:15 North American History Room IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House)
Being Catholic in Protestant England: The Archpriest Affair and Post-Reformation Religion Peter Lake (Vanderbilt University) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Historical Research
An English Proposal for a Crusade against the Irish, c.1329–31
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Norman Housley (Leicester) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room II IHR (Senate House) Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Conference / Symposium IALS
2017 Summit on Commercial Dispute Resolution in China This well-established and prestigious annual event brings together experts from China and the UK to present and discuss reports on developments in a wide range of fields of commercial arbitration in China. This is an opportunity for scholars and practitioners to meet, gain insights into those developments, and hear advice from long-term industry observers. The Summit is co-organised by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London; the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London; the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; and the Beijing Arbitration Commission / Beijing International Arbitration Center. Conference venue: Double Tree by Hilton Tower of London Hotel, 7 Pepys Street, London EC3N 4AF. Advance registration required at annualreport.bjac.org.cn/Britain sas.events@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 20 Institute of Historical Research
Sleeping with the Victorians
Seminar
Vicky Holmes (British Association for Victorian Studies) Chair: Mary Clare Martin Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:15–19:15 Peter Marshall Room IHR (Senate House)
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Institute of Historical Research Seminar
Kendra Packham (Visiting Fellow, Lewis Walpole Library) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room II IHR (Senate House) Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar
Personal Control of Employees Adriana Topo (Università degli Studi di Padova; IALS Visiting Fellow) Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk
18:00–20:00 IALS
Wednesday 21 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Seminar Room N304 IHR (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
Technoindustrial Capitalism and the Politics of Catastrophic Velocity from Sorel to Land Vincent Garton (Cambridge) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Writing the Emigré Experience into British Art, 1915-75 Rachel Dickson (Ben Uri Gallery, London), Sarah MacDougall (Ben Uri Gallery, London) This event is part of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar Series. Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 22 The Warburg Institute Conference / Symposium 14:00–17:30 Warburg Institute
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Climates and Elements: Man and His Environment in Western Culture The concern of man’s relationship with his natural environment is not new. The elements from which the human body is made are the same as the elements in his surroundings, and events in the sky (whether of the stars or of meteorological phenomena) affect human health, character and well-being. Ever since Hippocrates’ Airs, Waters and Places, a strong medical tradition has related human regimen and diet to the seasons of the year and geographical and topographical conditions. Astrological traditions relate different regions and different latitudinal bands (climes) to different human characteristics. There was even the idea that an individual or a society could improve the bad effects of the environment through good conduct. This workshop will take up some of the issues surrounding elements, climates and regions as they are found in philosophical, medical, astrological, and alchemical literature in Greek, Syriac, Arabic and Latin in late Antique and medieval Western culture. Speakers will include Godefroid de Callatay (Louvain and 2017 Cassal Lecturer), Juan- Pedro Mantas España (Cordoba), Remke Kruk (Leidon), Pedro Monferrer-Sela (Cordoba), and Sébastien Moureau (Warburg). This event is supported by the Cassal Fund. Free advance registration required bit.ly/climates22
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Institute of Historical Research
Men and Feminism in the Later Twentieth Century
Seminar
Lucy Delap Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:15–19:15 Pollard Seminar Room IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research
Medieval and Tudor London Seminar
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Claire Martin, Claire Benson (University of York) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:15–19:15 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research
Meet the Transport Archivist
Seminar
Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Seminar Room N304 IHR (Senate House)
Friday 23 Institute of Modern Languages Research
Translating Queer Historicities c.e.ross@bham.ac.uk
Two-Day Conference/Symposium 10:00–18:00 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy
On the Social-Aesthetic Construct
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Rodrigo Duarte (Federal University of Minas Gerais) This event is part of the London Aesthetics Forum, which is sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics. Free ip@sas.ac.uk
16:00–18:00 Bloomsbury Room (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies
Historical GIS of South-Eastern Europe
Seminar
Dimitar Iliev (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”) This event is part of the ICS Digital Classics Seminar Series. Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
16:30–18:00 Gordon Room (Senate House)
Saturday 24 Institute of Modern Languages Research Workshop 13:00–17:00
Launch of the British Association of Teachers and Researchers of Portuguese Language (TROPO), with CPD Workshops for Researchers and Practitioners Free cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk
Bloomsbury Room (Senate House)
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Monday 26 Institute of Latin American Studies
Political Violence or Violent Politics? Contemporary Approaches to Violence in Latin American Studies
Two-Day Conference/Symposium
£15 | £10 niall.geraghty@sas.ac.uk
10:00–16:00 The Court Room (Senate Room) Institute of English Studies
London Rare Books School
Summer School
The London Rare Books School (LRBS) is a series of five-day, intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects taught in and around Senate House, University of London. A range of fascinating specialist courses is offered, ranging from Medieval Women and the Book, The History of Book Illustration, and The Digital Book, covering over two thousand years of book history and investigating the world’s diverse cultures and traditions in book production. LRBS 2017 will take place from 26-30 June (week one), 3-7 July (week two), and 10-14 July (week three). Fees for a oneweek course are £650 standard (£500 student), with discounts offered for booking multiple weeks. Bursaries are available. Apply online at www.ies.sas.ac.uk/lrbs. iesevents@sas.ac.uk
12:00–17:00 Senate House
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Metropolis 2017
Woburn Suite (Senate House)
In addition to conference panels, this four-day summer school will include a number of other stimulating events, including a screening of Fritz Lang’s 1927 expressionist epic Metropolis, walking tours exploring the ‘hidden’ sides of London’s history and infrastructure, and an opportunity to respond creatively to the ‘metropolis’ theme. Keynote speakers: Erica Carter (KCL), Ruth Dawson (University of Hawaii/IMLR); Matthew Gandy (Cambridge), Esther Leslie (Birkbeck), and Martin Swales (UCL) £40 advance registration required jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Institute of English Studies
Comparative Modernisms Seminar
Seminar
Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
Summer School 13:00
16:00–18:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House)
Becoming Race Women Internationalists: Black ActivistIntellectuals, Travel and Freedom Struggles, 1920s–1960s Imaobong Umoren (Oxford/LSE) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
The Warburg Institute
On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light
Seminar
A weekly series of public readings of Dante’s works hosted by the Warburg Institute. Paradiso, Canto XVII. Heaven of Mars. Cacciaguida. Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) Remaining date: 3 July: Paradiso, Canto XXXIII. The Empyrean. The Vision of the Trinity. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
18:30–19:50 Warburg Institute
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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Summer School IALS
Course in Legislative Drafting 2017 The aim of this course is to encourage modern drafting techniques with an emphasis on effective and user-friendly legislation, and to expose drafters to a variety of drafting styles, thus allowing participants to select elements that best suit their national laws and their own tradition, culture, and jurisprudence. The course is suitable for both experienced and inexperienced drafters. Helen Xanthaki (UCL), Constantin Stefanou (IALS), Maria Mousmouti (IALS) Course fees: £5,250 (includes tuition, two textbooks and course materials) OR £6,703 (includes all the above plus a single room with shared facilities, buffet breakfast, and dinner from 25 June to 22 July inclusive at a University of London hall of residence Places on this course are by application only. For details, visit ials.sas.ac.uk/study/ courses/legislative-drafting-course.
Tuesday 27 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Pollard Seminar Room IHR (Senate House)
Liberalism, Politics, Identity and Reform of British Sodomy Laws in the Early Nineteenth Century Charles Upchurch (Florida State University) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 28 Human Rights Consortium
Activist Scholarship in Human Rights: New Challenges
Conference / Symposium Senate House
This conference aims to facilitate a productive exchange between scholars and activists working within the broad interdisciplinary field of human rights on the epistemological, methodological and ethical challenges in activist scholarship. hrc@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Historical Research
Roundtable on the Anglo-German Relationship
Seminar
A roundtable discussion to mark the publication of Jan Rüger’s Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea (Oxford University Press, 2017). David Blackbourn (Vanderbilt University), Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck), Celia Applegate (Vanderbilt University) Chair: Lucy Riall, European University Institute, Florence Organised by the Modern German History Seminar Series, the Rethinking Modern Europe Seminar Series, and the German Historical Institute, London. Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
09:00–18:00
17:30–19:30 Wolfson Room II IHR (Senate House)
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Institute of English Studies Lecture 18:00–20:00 Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)
2017 John Coffin Memorial Annual Irish Studies Lecture Shifting Ground: Irish Poetry in a Time of Change Eavan Boland In the last hundred years, Ireland has seen seismic changes in its social and political worlds. How did these changes come to be reflected or resisted in Irish poetry? Did the identity of the Irish poet shift with the society? Or did Irish poetry remain merely at the edge of change? Eavan Boland, Melvin and Bill Lane Professor in Humanities at Stanford University, has published several volumes of poetry, including New Collected Poems (2008), Domestic Violence (2007) and An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967–1987 (1996), as well as the prose memoir Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time, among many other works. Her A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet won the 2012 PEN Award for creative nonfiction. She has been the recipient of the Lannan Award for Poetry and the American Ireland Fund Literary Award. Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 29 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 10:00–17:00 Bloomsbury Room (Senate House)
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Language, Communities and Moving Borders Increasingly volatile global political and economic contexts call the issues of mobility and globalisation in question. Consequently, terms such as ‘communities’ and ‘moving borders’ recur in modern languages and applied linguistics research. This one-day seminar aims at creating a space where colleagues from modern languages and applied linguistics exchange their latest research findings about language, communities and moving borders, learn from each other’s theoretical and methodological perspectives, and explore new and further areas of collaboration. Three principle investigators leading AHRC-funded projects from the Translating Cultures programme and the Open World Research Initiative will give their responses to the key themes, drawing insights from their research, career trajectories, and disciplinary affinity. Participants will have opportunities to talk about their work and to take part in the discussion. The seminar will finish with a panel discussion that considers the key issues and challenges for modern languages and applied linguistics research. Speakers: Angela Creese (Birmingham, PI for Translation and Translanguaging: Investigating Linguistic and Cultural Transformations in Superdiverse Wards in Four UK Cities project), Alison Phipps (Glasgow, PI for Borders of Language: The Body, Law and the State project), Catherine Boyle (KCL, PI for the Language Acts and Worldmaking project) Panel discussants: Charles Forsdick (Liverpool, AHRC Theme Leadership Fellow, Translating Cultures), Janice Carruthers (Queen’s University Belfast, AHRC Theme Leadership Fellow, Modern Languages), Li Wei (UCL), Bernard McGuirk (Nottingham) Organisers: Zhu Hua (Birkbeck), Catherine Davies (IMLR) This event is produced with funding support from the AHRC Translating Cultures and Open World Research Initiative projects. £10 advance registration blogs.sas.ac.uk jo.bradley@sas.ac.uk
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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House)
The Warburg Institute Lecture 17:30–18:30 Warburg Institute
Town Planning in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century London: How to Build an Urban Monastery Nick Holder (Exeter) The event will be combined with the launch of Jim Bolton’s festschrift, Medieval Merchants and Money, and followed by the annual party for members of the seminar in the IHR Common Room, for which a small charge will be made. Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Concepts of ‘Nachleben’: Aby Warburg, Friedrich Gundolf and Julius von Schlosser as Book Collectors Michael Thimann (Georg-August University Göttingen) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
Institute of Historical Research
History Lab Seminar
Seminar
Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 Seminar Room N304 IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Wolfson Room II IHR (Senate House)
‘Well-Tested, Written with Greatest Effort and Care’: The Various Functions of Austrian Manuscript Recipe Books Helga Mullneritsch (Liverpool) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Institute of English Studies
Postgraduate Feminist Reading Group
Seminar
Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
18:30–20:00 Room 246 (Senate House)
Friday 30 Institute of English Studies
Biennial London Chaucer Conference
Conference / Symposium
This two-day conference will consider ideas about the law in the age of Chaucer and in relation to the works of Chaucer and his contemporaries, probing questions about legal practices and culture, justice, regulation and instruction, and the consequences of making and breaking laws. It will bring together scholars and postgraduate students working in a range of disciplines and departments. Keynote addresses will be given by Sebastian Sobecki (University of Groningen) and Emily Steiner (University of Pennsylvania). £65 standard | £45 students, unwaged, retired iesevents@sas.ac.uk
09:30–17:00 Senate House
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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
The Role of Digital Humanities in Papyrology: Practices and User Needs in Papyrological Research Lucia Vannini (Institute of Classical Studies)
Cultural Contact in Early Roman Spain through LOD Resources Paula Granados García (Open University) This event is part of the ICS Digital Classics Seminar Series. Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
Institute of English Studies
Finnegans Wake Seminar
Seminar
Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
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Monday 03 Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference / Symposium 09:00–19:00 University of St Andrews, Scotland
Medicine, Literature and Culture in the Early Modern Hispanic World / Medicina, cultura, y literatura en el mundo hispánico de los siglos XV-XVIII 3–5 July This conference will bring together experts in medicine, literature, history, and related or connected disciplines, including the visual arts, to share research and ideas with a focus on medicine and its role in the Spanish-speaking world in the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries. Speakers include Alexander Samson (UCL), María Luz López-Terrada, I (NGENIO, CSIC–Universitat Politècnica de València), M. Pierre Civil (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle–Paris 3) and Christoph Strosetzki (Universität Münster). The conference is organised by Ted L L Bergman and María Luisa Lobato and sponsored by the University of St Andrews, Grupo PROTEO (Universidad de Burgos), CRES (Centre de Recherche sur l’Espagne des XVIe et XVIIe Siècles, Sorbonne Nouvelle–Paris 3), and the Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Venue: The conference will be held at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Registration fee advance registration required tb59@st-andrews.ac.uk
The Warburg Institute
On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light
Seminar
A weekly series of public readings of Dante’s works hosted by the Warburg Institute. Paradiso, Canto XXXIII. The Empyrean. The Vision of the Trinity. Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
18:30–19:50 Warburg Institute
Thursday 06 Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Institute of Latin American Studies Two-Day Workshop 10:00–17:00
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Global Decolonization Workshop The Global Decolonization Workshop (GDW) is a new collaboration between the School of Advanced Study and New York University. It seeks to forge a global forum for knowledge exchange in the interdisciplinary field of decolonization studies. The series launch will take place at the University of London in Paris on 6-7 July with a workshop exploring the ‘Concepts and Connections’ associated with the fields of decolonization and postcolonial studies. These have hitherto largely been defined by a focus on the post-war dissolution of the modern empires of France and Britain. Consequently, the Cold War ‘last wave’ in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean has been privileged. Meanwhile, the earlier, ‘first and second waves’ of decolonization in the Americas, Eastern and Southern Europe, Russia, and parts of the Middle East play little if any role in most ‘global’ accounts of the history of decolonization. A symposium held at the University of London in March 2015, however, sought to revise and expand the scope of the field. The London symposium confirmed Latin America’s vanguard role in the global history of decolonization. This Paris meeting of the GDW will explore and debate the connections among and key concepts animating the three waves of decolonization in various locales and linguistic spheres. Free advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk
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Institute of Modern Languages Research
Telling Stories: Changing Narratives in Low Countries History, Culture and Society
Conference / Symposium
Second Biennial Colloquium in Low Countries Studies Organisers: Jenny Watson (Swansea) and Cyd Sturgess (Sheffield) jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
10:00–17:00 Gordon Room, Room G34 (Senate House)
Friday 07 Institute of Historical Research Workshop 09:30–18:00 Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
Collectors and Collections: Display and Taste in the Modern and Contemporary Periods This event is part of the Collecting and Display Seminar Series. Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Collation Visualization: Helping Users to Explore Collated Manuscripts Elisa Nury (KCL) This event is part of the ICS Digital Classics Seminar Series. Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
Saturday 08 Institute of English Studies Summer School 09:00–17:00 Senate House
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T. S. Eliot International Summer School 8–16 July The T.S. Eliot International Summer School invites all those with an interest in the life and work of this Bloomsbury-based poet, dramatist, and man of letters to enrol in its one-week programme. The School draws visitors from across the world, bringing together some of the most distinguished scholars of T. S. Eliot and modern literature. Visits to the sites of The Four Quartets, poetry readings, and a unique seminar series have made this world-renowned gathering of Eliot scholars and enthusiasts an annual highlight, launching the academic careers of a number of its former students. Fees for the full course are £600 with a number of full and partial bursaries available. Apply online at www.ies.sas.ac.uk/tseliot.
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Monday 10 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Workshop 08:30–17:00 IALS
WG Hart Legal Workshop 2017: Law, Society and Administration in a Changing World 10–11 July The 2017 W G Hart Legal Workshop will explore political, institutional, economic and cultural factors that influence (or have in the past influenced) the emergence and development of legal regimes for controlling administrative power. For the purposes of the workshop, a regime for controlling administrative power encompasses legal rules and principles (‘administrative law’), and also institutions and practices relating to control of administrative power. Administrative power is understood broadly in terms of any and all of the multifarious functions and activities associated with modern ‘governance’. Speakers and discussants will include Sophie Boyron (Birmingham Law School); Robert Thomas (Manchester Law School), Joe Tomlinson (Sheffield Law School), Guillermo Jiminez Salas (UCL), Richard Kirkham (Sheffield Law School), Michael Stolleis (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt); Peter Collin (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt), Carol Harlow (LSE), Richard Rawlings (UCL), Robert Siucinski (University of Lodz); Yseult Marique (Essex); Catherine Warin (University of Luxembourg), Swati Jhaveri (National University of Singapore), James Fisher (University of Tokyo), Paul Craig (Oxford), Filipe Brito Bastos (European University Institute), Veronika Fikfak (Cambridge), Gianluca Sgueo (New York University, Florence), Jerry Mashaw (Yale University), Peter Strauss (Columbia University), Aileen McHarg (Strathclyde); Tom Mullen, Colin Scott and Rebecca Schmidt (University College, Dublin). Concluding reflections will be provided by Peter Cane (Cambridge and Australian National University). £120 for two days | £75 per day (standard) | £75 for two days | £50 per day (students and SALS members) Advance registration required Please visit the conference website for complete programme details: bit.ly/2p9xtc6.
Tuesday 11 Institute of English Studies
Two Nineteenth-Century Collectors of Fine Bindings
Seminar
Mirjam Foot (UCL) This event is part of the IES Book Collecting Seminar Series. Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk
18:00–20:00 Bloomsbury Room (Senate House)
Thursday 13 Institute of English Studies
Literary London Society Annual Conference
Conference / Symposium
The conference will focus on periods and genres of literature about, set in, inspired by, or alluding to central and suburban London and its environs, from the city’s roots in pre-Roman times to its imagined futures. While the main focus of the conference will be on literary texts, speakers will also address film, architecture, visual arts, topography and theories of urban space. Registration fee advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk
10:00–18:00 Senate House
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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Conference / Symposium 14:00–17:30 IALS
Compassion: Child and Family Law A symposium exploring compassion in relation to child and family law through presentations and discussion, including speakers from academia, practice, the charitable sector, and the judiciary. Speakers and chairs include Dermot Feenan (IALS), Jonathan Herring (Oxford), Noel Arnold (Coram Children’s Legal Centre), Mark Baer (attorney, California), Anthony Douglas (Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service), Samia Bano (SOAS), Alison Diduck (UCL), Daniel Monk (Birkbeck), Sir Alan Ward (former Lord Justice of Appeal). Organised in association with the Law and Compassion Research Network. £59 standard | £20 student ials.events@sas.ac.uk
Senate House Library
Music in the Age of Reformation
Beveridge Hall (Senate House)
Star vocal ensemble I Fagiolini performs a unique, specially selected arrangement to mark the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation in Europe. Details: senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/exhibitions-and-events/exhibitions/reformation
Friday 14 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Conference / Symposium 10:00–17:00 Senate House
Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
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Photographs beyond Ruins: Women and Photography in Africa This symposium marks the opening of ‘Usakos–Photographs beyond Ruins: The Old Location Albums, 1920s-1960s’, an exhibition at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, that runs from 13 July through 23 September. The exhibition centres on three private collections of historic photographs preserved and curated by four women residents of the former ‘Old Location’ in Usakos, an urban railway hub in central Namibia. With a view to reflecting the resonances of these personal archives, Paul Grendon’s contemporary photographs enter a visual dialogue with the women’s collections, thereby providing a particular opening into the present and future. This conference will focus on new research on African women and photography and reflect on how far female photographic practices constituted a domain in which women represented, commented on, responded to and made sense of their experiences of the transformations brought about by colonialism and apartheid. Sponsored by the Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, with support from the Centre of African Studies at SOAS, University of London; the College of Arts and Humanities, University of Brighton; and the Hutchins Center, Harvard University. £20 | £10 olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk
Re-Imagining Nineteenth Century Nile Travel and Excavation for a Digital Age: The Emma B. Andrews Diary Project Sarah Ketchley (University of Washington) This event is part of the ICS Digital Classics Seminar Series. Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
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Monday 17 Institute of English Studies
The London Free School of Applied Critical and Feminist Theory
Summer School
The London Free School of Applied Critical and Feminist Theory will bring together postgraduates and academics to discuss questions and insights that arise from critical and feminist theories. The aim of the week is to foster an intimate and supportive environment where students and academics learn from and with one another. Subjects will include queer temporalities and transnational feminism and scholarship; the limits of sexualities legislation; sex/gender, the body and puberty; gender, sexuality and nationalism and critical legal theory; and drag and feminist cinema. Free advance registration required at ies.sas.ac.uk/study-training/summer-schools/ london-free-school-applied-critical-and-feminist-theory iesevents@sas.ac.uk
09:30–16:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
Wednesday 19 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium 10:00–18:00 Senate House
Victorian Popular Fiction Association Conference: Travel, Translation and Communication The Victorian Popular Fiction Association is dedicated to fostering interest in understudied popular writers, literary genres and other cultural forms, and to facilitating the production of publishable research and academic collaborations amongst scholars of the popular. This conference will bring together academics with interests in Victorian popular writing, culture and contexts. It has a reputation for offering a friendly and invigorating opportunity for academics at all levels of their careers, including postgraduate students, to meet, connect, and share their current research. This year the programme will feature talks on textual travel, genre crossings, forms of communication, translation, migration, tourism, trade and commerce, crossing boundaries, transport, travel plans, religious movements, communication between the classes, communication between genders, education and the transmission of knowledge, movement and performance, life stages, and digital humanities. Keynote speakers include Anne-Marie Beller (Loughborough), Mary Hammond (Southampton), and Catherine Wynne (Hull). Fee advance registration required at http://victorianpopularfiction.org/ iesevents@sas.ac.uk
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Belief and the Individual in Greek Religion
Two-Day Conference/Symposium
valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
11:00–18:00 Woburn Suite (Senate House)
Friday 21 Institute of Philosophy
Video Games and Virtual Ethics
Conference / Symposium
Free ip@sas.ac.uk
09:30–18:30 Bloomsbury Room (Senate House)
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Events calendar July Seminar 16:30–18:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
Issues in the Development of Digital Projects Based on User Requirements: the Case of Beta Maşāh. ft e
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Dorothea Reule and Pietro Liuzzo (University of Hamburg) This event is part of the ICS Digital Classics Seminar Series. Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
Tuesday 25 Institute of English Studies
Information and Its Communication in Wartime
Conference / Symposium
As part of the AHRC-funded project ‘A Publishing and Communications History of the Ministry of Information, 1939-45’, the Institute of English Studies will hold an international conference on the subject of information and its communication in wartime. Although the project has a particular interest in the Second World War, the conference will set the subject in a larger context and explore the theme throughout several periods and areas. £30 standard | £20 student iesevents@sas.ac.uk
09:30–19:30 Senate House
Friday 28 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:00 Room 234 (Senate House)
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Romans 1 by 1: Transferring Information from Ancient People to Modern Users Rada Varga (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) This event is part of the ICS Digital Classics Series. Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
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Thursday 24 Senate House Library Beveridge Hall (Senate House)
Reformation: Shattered World, New Beginnings Keynote address: Suzannah Lipscomb Historian, author and broadcaster Suzannah Lipscomb is senior lecturer in early modern history and fellow of the New College of the Humanities, London. Her research focuses on sixteenth-century English and French history. She works on Henry VIII and the early Tudor court, and is especially interested in the intersection of religious, gender, political, social and psychological history. This has led her to write about Henry VIII’s annus horribilis, 1536; Anne Boleyn’s fall; and the creation of Henry VIII’s last will and testament. She is also interested in religion, gender, and sexuality in sixteenth-century France. She writes a regular column for History Today that explores the role of history outside the academy. senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/exhibitions-and-events/exhibitions/reformation
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Events calendar September Tuesday 05 Institute of Historical Research Workshop 09:00–18:00 Wolfson Conference Suite IHR (Senate House)
Ordering the Margins of Society: Space, Authority and Control in Early Modern Britain Since the spatial turn, historians have conceptualised space not as a passive backdrop against which social interactions and everyday life took place, but as a social construct that shaped identity, societal development, human behaviour and experience. Historians of early modern Britain have long been concerned with questions of social order and control. Debates continue about the relationship between the coercive and participatory facets of governance and the capacity for social discipline. Yet while these subjects remain fertile areas of research, relatively little work has examined the interaction between space, authority and social control of the people on the margins of society. This one-day workshop aims to address these historiographical lacunae by considering the attempts of those in charge to order society within particular places, spaces and locales. It asks how marginal populations (that is, the economic or socially vulnerable) were organised in spaces such as workhouses, taverns, households, prisons, asylums, hospitals, streets, marketplaces and churches. It seeks to explore how authorities attempted to exert social control and discipline within these spaces and how these efforts might be resisted. What were the extents and limits of negotiation, participation and defiance within the systems of regulation, and how did this shape social order? Keynote speaker: Andy Wood (Durham) This event is funded by the IHR’s Power and Postan Fund and by Past & Present. ihr.events@sas.ac.uk
Monday 11 Institute of Classical Studies Two-Day Conference/Symposium 09:30–19:00
Ancient ‘Holism’ in Graeco-Roman Medicine and its Cultural Context Free advance registration required valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
Room 349 (Senate House)
Wednesday 13 Institute of Modern Languages Research
Emigration from Nazi-Occupied Europe to British Overseas Territories after 1933
Three-Day Conference/Symposium
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Triennial International Conference Registration fee jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
13:00–16:00 Woburn Room (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies
TLAR Network Workshop: Teaching Students with Anxiety
Workshop 10:00–17:30 Room 349 (Senate House)
Jane Ainsworth (Leicester), Carla Brain (Leicester) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
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Teaching History in Higher Education
Conference / Symposium
How can we move towards excellence in teaching history in higher education? How can we support both students and staff using research-informed teaching? In what ways can we use pedagogic theory and research in order to engage learners at all levels? What opportunities are there to teach across and into other disciplines? How do we support students through critical transition points and intellectual thresholds? What innovative practice can inform our teaching? This conference seeks to address these questions and, in doing so, explore theory and practices in teaching, learning and assessment in critical areas such as public history education; the use of digital and other new technologies; the relationship between school and university history; pedagogic theory, practice and the student experience; ethical dimensions and the teaching of ‘controversial’ subjects; learning outside the classroom; employability and work-based learning; policy, policy-makers and strategy. Papers, workshops and panel discussions will provide opportunities to showcase evidence-informed practice from the higher education sector, facilitate discussion and debate and, importantly, provide networking opportunities for participants. £150 standard, two days | £80 standard, one day | Reduced rates for postgraduate students and early career researchers | Optional conference dinner: £50 Advance registration required ihr.events@sas.ac.uk
09:00–17:00 Wolfson Conference Suite IHR (Senate House)
Monday 18 Institute of Latin American Studies Conference / Symposium 09:00–19:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
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Latin American Women’s Filmmaking This conference aims to contribute to the ongoing project of reviewing and rewriting Latin American film history and theory with women directors placed centre stage. Latin American filmic production has rightly held a celebrated place in the global cinematic canon with many key filmmakers and theorists receiving significant scholarly and public attention. Traditionally, however, the vast majority of these acclaimed practitioners have been men. While recent years have witnessed an increase in the international popularity of notable directors such as Lucrecia Martel, Anna Muylaert, and Claudia Llosa, and in studies of women’s filmmaking in Latin America, much work remains to be done. Women have played a crucial role in the region’s rich cinematic history, yet many female artists have yet to be included in the overarching narrative of Latin American cinema history. Moreover, their contribution to the politics and aesthetics of the region’s filmic landscape has not been fully recognised or analysed. Indeed, the new critical methodologies required to examine these contributions are still under construction. The conference will bring together researchers interested in the filmic narratives and cinematic processes created and conducted by women in Latin America in order to analyse the contributions they have made to the region’s cinematic history. Keynote speakers include Deborah Shaw (Portsmouth) and Deborah Martin (UCL), editors of the forthcoming volume Latin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics to be published with I. B. Tauris and launched during the conference, and Lucia Nagib (Reading), author of The New Brazilian Cinema (2003) and Brazil on Screen: Cinema Novo, New Cinema, Utopia (2007). The conference is part of a series of events sponsored by the Centro de Estudios La Mujer en la Historia de América Latina and hosted by the Institute of Modern Languages Research and the Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, with the participation of the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies, Birkbeck, University of London. cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk
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Postcolonial Studies Association Convention 2017
Conference / Symposium
The Postcolonial Studies Association (PSA) Convention is the biennial gathering of members of one of the largest scholarly associations in the field. Papers are drawn from many disciplines, including literary studies, history, law, media studies, development studies, sociology, area studies, philosophy, and economics and speak to a wide range of topics related to colonial and postcolonial cultures, histories and experiences. The special keynote theme for this convention, ‘Globalisation’, will investigate the crucial role of postcolonial studies in furthering newer understandings of economic, political and cultural globalisation in the light of the current international climate: the complex socio-political ramifications of the Brexit verdict, Trump’s electoral victory, and the European refugee crisis, which have come to be regarded as a reactionary ‘whitelash’ against globalisation. Keynote speakers include Aamir Mufti (UCLA), Nandini Gooptu (Oxford) and Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin). sas.events@sas.ac.uk
09:00–19:00 Senate House
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Latin American Women’s Filmmaking: A Conversation with Marita Barea
The Court Room (Senate House)
Marita Barea is a distinguished film director, producer and actor who began her cinematic career in 1971. She has worked on many important films, including Luis Figueroa’s Yawar Fiesta (1979). In 1982 she co-founded the film group Chaski, with whom she has made Gregorio and Miss Universo en el Perú [Miss Universe in Peru]. In 1989, she co-founded the women’s film group WARMI Cine y Video and with them produces and directs documentaries. Her films include Mujeres del Planeta [Women of the Planet] (1982), Andahuaylas – suenen las campanas, Andahuaylas – cuidad hermana [Andahuaylas – The Bells Ring, Andahuaylas – Sister City] (1987), Juliana (1989), Porcón (1989/92), Porque quería estudiar [Why I Wanted to Study] (1990), Barro y Bambú [Mud and Bamboo] (1991), and Antuca (1992). jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Thursday 21 Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference / Symposium 09:00–18:00 The Court Room (Senate House)
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Herta Müller and the Currents of European History It has been 30 years since Herta Müller fled Romania, yet her work on the damaging effects of exploitative regimes and the dehumanisation of man by man sadly remains as relevant as ever. This conference will bring together leading Müller scholars as well as new voices in an effort to facilitate a collective reassessment of her work and its significance in the light of recent history and her long career. Keynote speakers: Karin Bauer (McGill University), Norbert Otto Eke (Paderborn University) jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
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In Conversation with Philippa Gregory
Beveridge Hall (Senate House)
Bestselling author Philippa Gregory will join Senate House Library for a unique and exciting in-conversation event that will range widely over her interests in the period of the Reformation. She was an established historian and writer when she discovered her interest in the Tudors and wrote the internationally bestselling novel The Other Boleyn Girl. Her Cousin’s War novels, reaching their dramatic conclusion with The King’s Curse, were the basis for the highly successful BBC series The White Queen. In 2016, she was presented with the Outstanding Contribution to Historical Fiction Award by the Historical Writers’ Association. senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/exhibitions-and-events/exhibitions/reformation.
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Seminar series A broad range of seminar series are organised in the School and Senate House Library. Many of our series are supported by and organised in collaboration with other institutions and organisations. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated. Dates and times are given below where known and were correct at the time of going to print. These seminars are listed in the calendar where further details are known. Due to the nature of series events, these may be subject to change.
Institute of Classical Studies Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk
Roman art Mondays at 17.00–19.00 Dates: 8, 22 May
Institute of English Studies Contact: ies@sas.ac.uk London Beckett seminar Times: 18:00–20:00 Date: 12 May
Ancient history
Book collecting seminar
Thursdays at 16.30–18.30
Times: 18:00–20:00
Dates: 4, 11, 18, 25 May; 1, 8 June
Dates: 9 May; 11 July
Ancient philosophy
Charles Peake Ulysses seminar
Mondays at 16.30–18.30
Times: 18:00–20:00
Dates: 15 May
Dates: 12 May; 2 June
Classical archaeology
Comparative modernisms seminar
Wednesdays at 17.00–19.00
Times: 16:00–18:00
Dates: 10, 24, 31 May
Date: 26 June
Classical literature
Early modern philosophy and the scientific imagination seminar (EMPHASIS)
Mondays at 17.00–19.00 Dates: 8, 15 May Digital classics Fridays at 16.30–18.30 Dates: 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 June; 7, 14, 21, 28 July Director’s seminar Wednesdays at 13.00–14.00 Dates: 17, 24, 31 May; 7, 14 June Postgraduate work-in-progress Fridays at 16.30–18.30 Dates: 5, 12, 19, 26 May; 2, 9 June
Times: 14:00–16:00 Dates: 6 May; 3 June Ezra Pound Cantos reading group Times: 18:00–20:00 Dates: 10 May; 14 June Finnegans Wake research seminar Times: 18:00–20:00 Dates: 5 May; 26 May; 30 June History of libraries seminar Times: 17:30–19:30 Date: 2 May
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Literary London reading group
Institute of Historical Research
Times: 18:00–19:30
Contact: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
Date: 13 June London Old and Middle English research seminar (LOMERS)
American history Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 8 June
Times: 17:30–19:30
British history in the seventeenth century
Date: 17 May
Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15
London modernism seminar
Dates: 4, 18 May; 1, 15, 29 June
Times: 11:00–13:00
British History in the long eighteenth century
Dates: 6 May
Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15
London nineteenth century studies seminar
Dates: 10, 24 May; 7 June
Times: 17:00–19:00
British maritime history
Dates: 9 June
Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15
London theatre seminar
Dates: 9, 23 May; 6, 20 June
Times: 18:30–20:30
Christian missions in global history
Date: 11 May
Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30
London-Paris romanticism seminar
Dates: 9, 23 May
Times: 17:30–19:30
Collecting and display
Dates: 12 May; 16 June
Fortnightly on Mondays at 18:00
Media history seminar
Dates: 15 May; 12 June
Times: 18:00–20:00
Colonial/postcolonial new researchers’ workshop
Date: 16 May
Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15
Open University book history seminar
Dates: 8, 22 May; 5, 19 June
Times: 17:00–19:00
Comparative histories of Asia
Dates: 8 May; 15 May; 22 May
Fortnightly on Thursdays at 12:30
Postgraduate feminist reading group
Dates: 10, 24 May
Times: 18:30–20:00
Conversations and disputations
Dates: 25 May; 29 June
Twice a month on Fridays at 17:30 Dates: 5, 19 May; 2, 16, 30 June
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Seminar series Crusades and the Latin East
History Lab seminar
Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15
Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30
Dates: 22 May; 19 June
Dates: 4, 18 May; 1, 15, 29 June
Disability history seminar
History of education
1st Monday of every month at 17:15
1st Thursday of every month at 17:30
Dates: 8 May; 12 June
Dates: 4 May; 1 June
Earlier middle ages
History of gardens and landscapes
Weekly on Wednesdays at 17:30
Fortnightly on Thursdays 18:00
Dates: 3, 10, 17, 34, 31 May
Date: 22 May
Early modern material cultures
History of political ideas
Weekly on Wednesdays at 17:15
Fortnightly on Wednesdays 17:15
Dates: 3, 10, 17, 34, 31 May; 7, 14, 21, 28 June
Date: 31 May
Economic and social history of the early modern world
History of political ideas/early career seminar
Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15
Fortnightly on Wednesdays 17:15
Dates: 26 May; 9 June
Dates: 10, 24 May; 7, 21 June
Education in the long eighteenth century
History of sexuality seminar
Once a month on a Saturday 14:00–16:00
Once a month on Tuesdays at 17:15
Dates: 6, 20 May
Dates: 2, 30 May; 27 June
European history 1500–1800
Imperial and world history
Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15
Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15
Date: 22 May
Dates: 15 May; 12, 26 June
Film history
International history
Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30
Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 18:00
Dates: 4, 18 May; 1, 15, 29 June
Dates: 9, 23 May; 6, 20 June
Food history seminar
Jewish history
Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30
Once a month on Mondays at 17:15
Dates: 4, 18 May; 1, 15, 29 June
Dates: 22 May; 19 June
Gender and history in the Americas
Life-cycles
1st Monday of the month at 17:15
Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15
Dates: 8 May; 5 June
Dates: 9, 23 May; 6, 20 June
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Locality and region
Oral history
Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15
1st Thursday of every month at 18:00
Dates: 2, 16, 30 May; 13, 27 June
Dates: 4 May; 8 June
London group of historical geographers
Parliaments, politics and people
Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15
Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15
Dates: 2, 16, 30 May
Dates: 2, 16, 30 May; 13, 27 June
London Society for Medieval Studies
Psychoanalysis and history
Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 19:00
Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30
Dates: 2, 16, 30 May; 13, 27 June
Dates: 3 May; 14 June
Low countries history
Public history seminar
Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15
Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30
Dates: 5, 19 May
Dates: 3, 17, 31 May; 14, 28 June
Marxism in culture
Religious history of Britain 1500–1800
Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:30
Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15
Dates: 12, 26 May; 9, 23 June
Dates: 9, 23 May; 6, 20 June
Medieval and Tudor London
Rethinking modern Europe
Weekly on Thursdays at 17:15
Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30
Dates: 4, 11, 18, 25 May; 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 June
Dates: 3 May; 28 June
Military history
Socialist history
Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15
Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30
Dates: 2, 16, 30 May; 13, 27 June
Dates: 8, 22 May; 5, 19 June
Modern British history
Society, culture and belief, 1500–1800
Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15
Once a month on Thursdays at 17:30
Dates: 11, 25 May; 8, 22 June
Dates: 11 May
Modern French history
Sport and leisure history
Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30
Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15
Dates: 15 May; 12 June
Dates: 8, 22 May; 5, 19 June
Modern religious history
Studies of home
Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15
1st Wednesday of every month at 17:30
Dates: 3, 17, 31 May; 14, 28 June
Dates: 3 May; 7 June
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Seminar series Tudor and Stuart history
Process philosophy
Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15
Fortnightly on Mondays at 16:00
Dates: 25 May; 22 June
Dates: 8, 22 May; 5, 19 June
Voluntary action history Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30
Institute of Philosophy Contact: philosophy@sas.ac.uk
Dates: 15 May; 12 June
Censes seminars
War, society and culture
17:00–19:00
Once a month on Wednesdays at 17:15
11, 25 May
Dates: 24 May; 14 June
Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminars
Women’s history
17:30–19:30
Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15
2, 16, 30 May
Dates: 12, 26 May; 9, 23 June
The practical, the political and the ethical
Institute of Latin American Studies Contact: ilas@sas.ac.uk
17:30–19:30 23 May; 6 June London aesthetics forum
Andean seminar series
16:00–18:00
17:30–19:30
10, 24 May; 7, 14, 23 June
Dates: 10, 31 May
The Warburg Institute
LAGLOBAL seminar
Contact: warburg@sas.ac.uk
13:00–14:00 Date: 18 May Anthropology seminar series 17:30–19:30 Dates: 4, 18 May; 1 June
Institute of Modern Languages Research Contact: modernlanguages@sas.ac.uk IMLR graduate forum Once a month on Thursdays at 18:00 Date: 18 May
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On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light Mondays, 18:30–19.50 Dates: 8, 15, 22 May; 5, 12, 19, 26 June; 3 July Neoplatonism study group Mondays, 17.30–19.30 Dates: 8, 15, 22 May; 5, 12 June
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The School of Advanced Study draws on its research and teaching expertise to provide a programme of discipline-specific, generic and online research training to support the development of the scholars of tomorrow. The School’s programme of personal development and transferable skills training is available in the form of weekly workshops commencing in the autumn. This general training is complemented by a set of research methodologies courses and specific training in the software and management information tools required to enable students to complete their research effectively.
Face-to-face training Making the most of the expertise available in the School and the University of London, the institutes between them also provide well-established discipline-specific research training in core humanities disciplines. Training in aspects of history, for instance, is extensive, notably in the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), which offers a comprehensive programme of short courses in research skills for historians. Taking advantage of the unparalleled availability of historical expertise in the University of London and the wealth of archival materials in and around the capital, the Institute’s long-established and highly successful courses are widely recognised as the best means of developing and extending both essential and more specialised research skills. The IHR training programme is primarily aimed at postgraduate historians, but also welcomes established historians and independent researchers and writers. Further historical skills courses run by the Warburg Institute include classes in medieval and Renaissance Latin for historians and a programme of training in resources and techniques (jointly with the University of Warwick), which provides specialist research training for doctoral students working on Renaissance and early modern subjects in a range of disciplines. The London Palaeography Summer School run by the Institute of English Studies provides training in that key skill. Extensive training for students of cultures and literatures is offered by the Institute of Modern Languages Research, whose well-established and popular programme, comprising a series of Saturday workshops, is offered to any postgraduate student working in modern languages or a related discipline (for instance, film or art history). Most of the School’s training is available to postgraduate students across the UK, much of it free of charge. Details of all the research training courses provided are available at our website: sas.ac.uk/supportresearch/research-training.
Online research training In addition to the face-to-face training we offer, the School’s Postgraduate Online Research Training (PORT) website provides free online resources including tutorials, handbooks and multimedia. PORT complements postgraduate study, providing training packages that can be accessed anywhere, at any time, and undertaken at any pace. It provides the building blocks for humanities research generally, as well as for particular humanities disciplines and specific topics. Designed to meet the needs of twenty-first-century researchers, PORT offers specific skills-based programmes as well as more general guidance. For further information, please visit port.sas.ac.uk. For a printed copy of our research training handbook or for further information, please contact us: E: sas.info@sas.ac.uk P: +44 (0)20 7862 8823
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Tuesday 02 The Warburg Institute
Warburg-UCL Scholasticism Reading Group
Research Training
Group leaders: John Sabapathy and Sophie Page (UCL) This group explores scholastic texts and themes on occasional Tuesdays from 17:30 to 18:30 at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 1. Summer term meetings will be on 2 May and 16 May. This year readings will be on the subject ‘heaven and earth’. A basic reading knowledge of Medieval Latin is sometimes needed. For details, please contact j.sabapathy@ucl.ac.uk. Free j.sabathy@ucl.ac.uk
17:30–18:30 Warburg Institute
Wednesday 03 The Warburg Institute
Hebrew Reading Class
Research Training Warburg Institute
Charles Burnett (Warburg) The Hebrew reading class takes place in the Droz Library on alternative Wednesdays starting on 3 May (classes will be on 3, 17, 31 May and 14, 28 June). A basic reading knowledge of Hebrew is required. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk before attending your first class. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
SAS Central
Collaborative Publishing
Workshop
Bex Lyons (Bristol), Alice White (Wellcome Library), Pip Willcox (Bodleian Libraries and Oxford e-Research Centre) This workshop will address questions such as interdisciplinary co-authorship and writing; collaborative and distributed writing tools; working with citizen-scholars on collaborative projects; how to find publishing outlets for interdisciplinary research; and the kinds of research ‘publications’ that can arise from humanities interdisciplinary digital research. The workshop is open to PhD students and early career researchers. Lunch will be provided. sas.events@sas.ac.uk
12:00–13:15
13:00–16:50 Room 246 (Senate House)
Thursday 04 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research Training 14:00–15:00 IALS
IALS PhD Masterclass Diamond Ashiagbor (IALS head of research) will chair a mock viva session, Bahar Hatami (GSM London) will speak about the experience of her successful formal viva, and Sirajo Yakubu will discuss the experience of his successful mini viva. PhD Masterclasses at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies provide an opportunity for current PhD students to discuss research with colleagues, with expert input from senior academics experienced in PhD research. Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk
Friday 05 Institute of Philosophy
14th Annual London/Berkeley Philosophy Graduate Conference
Research Training
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The Warburg Institute
Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group
Research Training
Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk for further details before joining the group. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
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Saturday 06 Institute of Modern Languages Research Research Training 11:00–18:00 Room 243 (Senate House)
Before, During, After the Modern Languages PhD Jane Everson, RHUL; Benedict Schofield, KCL; Emily Morrell, SAS Publications; Lucila Granada, policy worker/campaigner working in the voluntary sector Topics covered: overcoming the fear of writing; the PhD viva; applying for academic jobs, writing a CV and preparing for the job interview; publishing your work and careers in publishing; careers for modern language graduates in NGOs and public policy Free katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk
Monday 08 The Warburg Institute
Arabic Philosophy Reading Class
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Charles Burnett (Warburg) Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
14:15–15:15 Warburg Institute Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research Training 10:00–16:30 IALS
How to Get a PhD in Law: Practical Skills for Students Avrom Sherr (IALS) Lisa Webley (Westminster), Constantin Stefanou (IALS) Topics covered: legal writing, preparing for the ethics committee, preparing for the mini viva and the viva, presenting skills, legal publishing (books and journals) and how to stay up-to-date following completion of the degree. An optional tour of the IALS Library will be led by senior library staff. Although this training session is tailored specifically for those pursuing a PhD in law, research students in other disciplines may find it beneficial and are welcome to enrol. £100 | £75 students ials.events@sas.ac.uk
Friday 12 The Warburg Institute
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Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk for further details before joining the group. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
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Arabic Philosophy Reading Class
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Charles Burnett (Warburg) Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
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Tuesday 16 The Warburg Institute
Warburg-UCL Scholasticism Reading Group
Research Training
Group leaders: John Sabapathy and Sophie Page (UCL) This group explores scholastic texts and themes on occasional Tuesdays from 17:30 to 18:30 at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 1. Summer term meetings will be on 2 May and 16 May. This year readings will be on the subject ‘heaven and earth’. A basic reading knowledge of Medieval Latin is sometimes needed. For details, please contact j.sabapathy@ucl.ac.uk. Free j.sabathy@ucl.ac.uk
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Hebrew Reading Class
Research Training
Charles Burnett (Warburg) The Hebrew reading class takes place in the Droz Library on alternative Wednesdays starting on 3 May (classes will be on 3, 17, 31 May and 14, 28 June). A basic reading knowledge of Hebrew is required. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk before attending your first class. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
12:00–13:15 Warburg Institute
Thursday 18 Institute of Modern Languages Research Research Training 18:00–19:30 Room 246 (Senate House)
IMLR Graduate Forum Anthony Mitzel (UCL/Bologna): ‘Ephemerality, Ethnogenesis, and the Transformation of Culture’ Jonathan Tyrens (Bristol): ‘French for the British: Teaching Grammars for French in the Seventeenth Century: The Significance of Prefaces’ Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk
Friday 19 The Warburg Institute
Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group
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Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning from the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk for further details before joining the group. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
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Monday 22 The Warburg Institute
Arabic Philosophy Reading Class
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Charles Burnett (Warburg) Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
14:15–15:15 Warburg Institute The Warburg Institute Short Course 10:00–17:00 Warburg Institute
PhD Training Programme: Resources and Techniques for the Study of Renaissance and Early Modern Culture This short course provides specialist research training to doctoral students working on Renaissance and Early Modern subjects in a range of disciplines at universities across the UK and the rest of the world. The programme draws on the combined skills of the staff of the Warburg Institute and the University of Warwick, two of the major centres in Britain for the study of the Renaissance and Early Modern periods. The programme consists of a series of strands held over four days at the Warburg Institute in London. It features sessions on working with documents, working with images, the digital renaissance, interdisciplinarity, professional skills and career development. Participants will visit the National Gallery and have an opportunity to present their own projects. The programme is open to all PhD researchers. Pre-registration via bit.ly/warbwarwick £99 standard | £50 Warburg and Warwick students
Thursday 25 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research Training 14:00–15:00 IALS
IALS PhD Masterclass: Jurisprudential Methodologies Helen Xanthaki (UCL), Ahmet Mustafa Osam PhD Masterclasses at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies provide an opportunity for current PhD students to discuss research with colleagues, with expert input from senior academics experienced in PhD research. Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk
Friday 26 The Warburg Institute
Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group
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Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk for further details before joining the group. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
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Wednesday 31 The Warburg Institute
Hebrew Reading Class
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Charles Burnett (Warburg) The Hebrew reading class takes place in the Droz Library on alternative Wednesdays starting on 3 May (classes will be on 3, 17, 31 May and 14, 28 June). A basic reading knowledge of Hebrew is required. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk before attending your first class. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
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Warburg-UCL Scholasticism Reading Group
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Group leaders: John Sabapathy and Sophie Page (UCL) This group explores scholastic texts and themes on occasional Tuesdays from 17:30 to 18:30 at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 1. Summer term meetings will be on 2 May and 16 May. This year readings will be on the subject ‘heaven and earth’. A basic reading knowledge of Medieval Latin is sometimes needed. For details, please contact j.sabapathy@ucl.ac.uk. Free j.sabathy@ucl.ac.uk
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Monday 05 The Warburg Institute
Arabic Philosophy Reading Class
Research Training
Charles Burnett (Warburg) Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
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Friday 09 The Warburg Institute
Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group
Research Training
Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk for further details before joining the group. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
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Monday 12 The Warburg Institute
Arabic Philosophy Reading Class
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Charles Burnett (Warburg) Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
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Wednesday 14 The Warburg Institute
Hebrew Reading Class
Research Training
Charles Burnett (Warburg) The Hebrew reading class takes place in the Droz Library on alternative Wednesdays starting on 3 May (classes will be on 3, 17, 31 May and 14, 28 June). A basic reading knowledge of Hebrew is required. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk before attending your first class. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
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Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group
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Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk for further details before joining the group. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
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Monday 19 The Warburg Institute
Arabic Philosophy Reading Class
Research Training
Charles Burnett (Warburg) Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
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Friday 23 The Warburg Institute
Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group
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Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning from the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk for further details before joining the group. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
13:00–14:15 Warburg Institute
Monday 26 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
IALS PhD Masterclass: Editing and Publishing While Completing a PhD
Research Training
Helen Xanthaki (University College London), Susan Edwards (Buckingham) PhD Masterclasses at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies provide an opportunity for current PhD students to discuss research with colleagues, with expert input from senior academics experienced in PhD research. Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk
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The Warburg Institute
Arabic Philosophy Reading Class
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Charles Burnett (Warburg) Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
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Wednesday 28 The Warburg Institute
Hebrew Reading Class
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Charles Burnett (Warburg) The Hebrew reading class takes place in the Droz Library on alternative Wednesdays starting on 3 May (classes will be on 3, 17, 31 May and 14, 28 June). A basic reading knowledge of Hebrew is required. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk before attending your first class. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
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Friday 30 The Warburg Institute
Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group
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Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk for further details before joining the group. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
13:00–14:15 Warburg Institute
July Monday 03 The Warburg Institute
Arabic Philosophy Reading Class
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Charles Burnett (Warburg) Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
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Friday 07 The Warburg Institute
Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group
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Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk for further details before joining the group. Free warburg@sas.ac.uk
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September Monday 11 The Warburg Institute
Renaissance Latin Course
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This Latin course is for beginners and is taught by Guido Giglioni, Cassamarca Senior Lecturer in Neo-Latin Cultural and Intellectual History at the Warburg Institute, for two weeks, 11–22 September, from 11:00 to 13:00 and from 14:00 to 15:00, Monday to Friday. The course focuses on Latin texts from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, drawing on a wide range of sources: the sophisticated Latin of the humanists, various forms of technical Latin (medical, philosophical, theological), and macaronic jumbles of Latin and the vernacular. One of the principal aims of the course is to help students develop the ability to read primary sources in the original Latin. Students who wish to brush up their Latin are welcome to register, but they should be aware that the course content will be at beginner level. Please contact Dr Giglioni if you have questions about the content of the course: guido. giglioni@sas.ac.uk. £175 standard | Free for current Warburg Institute students and those attending a course during the 2017/18 academic year at the Warburg Institute. Advance registration required bit.ly/renlatin
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Calls for papers Teaching History in Higher Education 13-14 September 2017 CFP deadline: 6 May 2017 How can we move towards excellence in teaching history in higher education? How can we support both students and staff using research-informed teaching? In what ways can we use pedagogic theory and research in order to engage learners at all levels? What opportunities are there to teach across and into other disciplines? How do we support students through critical transition points and intellectual thresholds? What innovative practice can inform our teaching? This conference seeks to address these questions and, in doing so, explore theory and practices in teaching, learning and assessment in critical areas such as public history education; the use of digital and other new technologies; the relationship between school and university history; pedagogic theory, practice and the student experience; ethical dimensions and the teaching of ‘controversial’ subjects; learning outside the classroom; employability and workbased learning; policy, policy-makers and strategy. Papers, workshops and panel discussions will provide opportunities to showcase evidence-informed practice from the higher education sector, facilitate discussion and debate and, importantly, provide networking opportunities for participants. Contributions are invited on, but not limited to, the following range of topics related to teaching, learning and assessment in history and history-related disciplines: • ‘Teaching Excellence’ • Public history and community engagement • Curriculum development • Assessment and feedback • Retention and success • Work-based learning • The interface between school and university pedagogies • New technologies • Enhancement strategies • Student engagement 116
• Pedagogic theory • Research-based practise • Case studies • Conceptual understandings • International dimensions • Policy • Institutional strategy Proposals may be made for one-hour panel discussion sessions, one-hour workshops, or 30-minute papers. For complete details on how to submit a proposal, please visit history.ac.uk/events/event/7795. The submission deadline is 6 May by 23.00.
Ordering the Margins of Society: Space, Authority and Control in Early Modern Britain 5 September 2017 CFP deadline: 21 May 2017 Since the spatial turn, historians have conceptualised space not as a passive backdrop against which social interactions and everyday life took place, but as a social construct that shaped identity, societal development, human behaviour and experience. Historians of early modern Britain have long been concerned with questions of social order and control. Debates continue about the relationship between the coercive and participatory facets of governance and the capacity for social discipline. Yet while these subjects remain fertile areas of research, relatively little work has examined the interaction between space, authority and social control of the people on the margins of society. This one-day workshop hosted by the Institute of Historical Research aims to address these historiographical lacunae by considering the attempts of those in charge to order society within particular places, spaces and locales. It asks how marginal populations (that is, the economic or socially vulnerable) were organised in spaces such as workhouses, taverns, households, prisons, asylums, hospitals, streets, marketplaces and churches. It seeks School of Advanced Study
to explore how authorities attempted to exert social control and discipline within these spaces and how these efforts might be resisted. What were the extents and limits of negotiation, participation and defiance within the systems of regulation, and how did this shape social order? Proposals for 20-minute papers are invited from both new and established researchers to contribute to this discussion. Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to: • Regulation and control of marginal people in institutional spaces • Social deviancy, agency and spatial disorder • Discipline, authority and domestic space • Digital Humanities and analyses of space (GIS, network analysis, etc) • Mobility, migration and geographies of social control • Physical and conceptual boundaries of authority • Gender and power in public and private spaces • Tensions between agency and subordination in early modern spaces Proposals should include a 200-word abstract and a brief biography. Please email proposals to Charmian Mansell, Joe Harley and Richard Bell at orderingthemargins@gmail.com by 21 May. Some travel grants will be available for postgraduate and early career researchers and will be announced closer to the conference.
Singular Acts: The Role of the Individual in the Transformation of Collective Culture 16 November 2017 CFP deadline: 31 May 2017 The Warburg Institute’s second Postgraduate Symposium focuses on particular personalities who acted for or against historical and cultural change. The Early Modern period saw seismic shifts across all aspects of society, ranging from technological developments to new artistic techniques; innovations in philosophical thought, religious doctrine and scientific discoveries; and social and political School of Advanced Study
movements. This interdisciplinary conference will appraise the extent to which such transformations were triggered or repressed by the acts of individuals such as innovators, pioneers, reformers and censors. Questions pertaining to specific individuals might include: What was the relationship of the individual to their societal context, and how did this affect their actions? What was the short- and long-term reception of their activities? Did their contribution come from a position of authority, or subvert it? More critical lines of enquiry might encompass: What factors determine a positive or negative perception of innovation? What are the methodological and historiographical implications of focusing on the individual in history? Did the notion of ‘individuality’ change in the period and does this differ to how it is perceived in the present day? The Symposium will bring together speakers from different backgrounds in the humanities and draw on a variety of disciplinary tools and methodologies. We hope to engage with a wide range of topics represented by the global cultural interests of the Warburg Institute, within the chronological frame of the Late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. The symposium will be multidisciplinary and will cover topics that fall into the unique classification system of the Warburg Library: image, word, orientation and action. We invite submissions on individuals including but not limited to: • Artists, craftsmen, patrons • Writers, publishers, translators • (Counter-)Reformers, heretics, mystics • Philosophers, scientists, doctors • Social and political theorists, explorers The symposium is intended for postgraduate students and early career researchers. It is free to attend. Limited funding to help cover travel expenses is available. Send a 300-word abstract, in English, for a 20-minute paper, as well as a one-page CV that includes full name, affiliation and contact details (in PDF or Word format). Proposals should be sent to warburg.postgrad@gmail. com by 31 May. All those submitting will be notified by 31 July. For more information about the symposium, please visit warburgpostgrad.wordpress.com. 117
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Calls for papers Reformation London 6 December 2017 CFP deadline: 30 June 2017 Senate House Library invites papers on the English Reformation and its effect on society, culture, communication, and the new world order through the spectrum of London and the wider British Isles for presentation at a one-day symposium on 6 December. The symposium will close the events programme for the exhibition ‘Reformation: Shattered World, New Beginnings’, which will be held at the Library from 26 June through 15 December.
• Communication: development and rise of print and printing technology; propaganda, pamphlets and satire; sermons, public preaching and public religious debate; contemporary parallels and explorations • New world order: impact on trade, politics, economic relationships, the age of exploration; London’s place within the new world order; impact of religious changes in Ireland and Scotland; the Spanish Armada, naval warfare and politics spilling into oceanic battle grounds Send proposals for 20-minute papers to shl.whatson@ london.ac.uk with relevant personal details by 30 June.
This year marks the 500th anniversary of the publication of Martin Luther’s theses, documents that sparked a new religious movement that was to shatter the unity of the Catholic Church in Europe. King Henry VIII cemented England’s role in this period when he overthrew the authority of Rome and established himself as Head of the Church of England with the Act of Supremacy in 1534. The consequences of taking England outside the family of Catholic states were profound, and had a major impact on London throughout the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries as it grew into a global city. We welcome papers that trace the impact of the Reformation on society and culture during this period, the way that communication drove change, and the consequences of the emergence of a new world order. Topics might include, but are not limited to, the four themes of the exhibition: • Society: changes in devotional and religious practices; tension, division and persecution; social upheaval and change; iconoclasm; migrant and refugee communities and their impact on London’s demographics; transformation of urban layout and architecture • Culture: impact on cultural life in London and/ or England; effects on the arts, including theatre, music, literature and fine art; development and rise in the use of vernacular and English in print; impact on literacy; cultural impact of religious changes more broadly
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