School of Advanced Study Events - Oct 2015 to Jan 2016 by School of Advanced Study

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER/ DECEMBER/JANUARY 2015–16

over 250 events led by more than 60 universities

being human

the uk’s national humanities festival returns for A second year 12–22 November 2015

The School of Advanced Study, University of London (SAS) is the UKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national humanities research hub, dedicated to the promotion and support of research. The institutes of SAS collectively offer a rich programme of seminars, workshops, lectures, conferences and other academic events. Each year around 1,800 events are organised on humanities topics, attracting over 68,000 participants from around the world, including scholars, representatives from academic, public and private organisations, policymakers, professional experts, and the interested public. Senate House Library is the central library of the University of London. With more than two million books and over 1,200 archival collections, it is one of the UKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest academic libraries focused on the arts, humanities and social sciences. A number of the Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collections are housed within the Library, which holds a wealth of primary source materials from medieval times to the modern age. The Library organises a number of events and exhibitions throughout the year, which are open to all to attend. The majority of these events and exhibitions are free and open to the public. All are welcome and encouraged to take advantage of the access to current research and the interdisciplinary cross-fertilisation these events afford. The full list of events held by the School can be found at www.sas.ac.uk/events and by Senate House Library at senatehouselibrary.ac.uk.

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Contents

Event highlights – timeline

Event highlights

Speaker highlights

Exhibitions

Events calendar – listings

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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 where appropriate. There is further information about the highlighted events at the start of the guide, and about research training events and calls for papers at the end. 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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The majority of our events are free and open to the public, unless stated otherwise. Some events have limited capacity and advance booking is advisable. The event information in this brochure 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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Selected events are recorded and available to view, listen to, or download online at www.sas.ac.uk/events, on iTunes U, and on YouTube.

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The School’s Talking Humanities blog is a hub for comment and analysis of research, events, training and policy in the UK humanities and beyond. Written by academics from around the world, it provides a range of thought-provoking articles on the things that interest the humanities researcher. Talking Humanities can be found at talkinghumanities.blogs.sas.ac.uk, and we would be very pleased to consider short articles from humanities researchers. Just contact us at sas.info@sas.ac.uk with your proposal. 03

Event highlights timeline October

November

Bloomsbury Festival Under the festival’s theme of ‘light’, SAS events will transform Senate House into a ‘Ministry of bright ideas’ – lighting up its façade with digital artwork, inviting visitors to tour the building, take part in workshops, and play vintage computer games.

A good death? Modern medicine focuses on extending life and on postponing death as long as possible. Perhaps attention should be on the quality of life rather than its quantity, on accepting death rather than struggling to prevent it. This event will compare these views.

Voices in the dark: an evening séance Join stage magician Michael Coffey for a unique evening recreating the experience of a séance. Drawing inspiration from the Library’s paranormal holdings, the event will explore some of the techniques of fraudulent mediums.

Time: All day Date: 22–25 October

Time: 18:00–19:30 Date: 28 October

Time: 18:30 Date: 30 October

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The Counter-Terrorism and Security Act on campus This conference will explore the ideas underpinning the Act, the debates surrounding academic freedom and freedom of expression, and the practical questions universities will need to address in the light of their duty to prevent radicalisation. Time: 09:30–17:00 Date: 27 October See page 10 for event information

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What we need from the humanities This event kicks off the 2015 Being Human festival and brings together a panel of experts to discuss what those working in other fields need from the humanities. Panellists include experimental physicist Dame Athene Donald and clergyman and journalist Reverend Giles Fraser. The discussion will be chaired by Professor Sarah Churchwell, SAS’s first chair in public understanding of the humanities. Time: 18:30–20:00 Date: 12 November See page 14 for event information

January

Sounds that move us Music, and sounds in general, are used in connection to the other senses beyond hearing. This exploration of the ‘sounds that move us’ blends multisensory science and philosophy, featuring talks by musicians and researchers, demonstrations of sonic illusions, digital mapping, and even ‘sonic shoes’.

CICR workshop - the Dutch Caribbean: historical, economic, political and cultural counterpoints Rosemarijn Hoefte (senior researcher at KITLV/ Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, Leiden), brings a focus on the history of post-abolition Suriname, migration and unfree labour, and contemporary Caribbean history to this workshop.

Time: 18:00 Date: 19 November

Time: 10:00–18:00 Date: 11 December

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Reading the world: challenging the dynamics of canon formations Known for her many non-fiction works relating to feminism and to myth, Dame Marina Warner will keynote this conference to talk about her profound engagement with literary shifts in our own complex, troubled time.

Public crying: the reappearance of public mourning on the streets of European cities Sigrid Weigel, professor of German Literature and Director of the Centre for Literature Research in Berlin and permanent visiting professor at Princeton University, will deliver this lecture on public mourning. Time: 17:30–19:30 Date: 21 January See page 85 for event information

Time: 09:00–17:00 Date: 3 December See page 18 for event information

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Time: 10:00–16:00 Date: 27 November

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History libraries and research open day Once again postgraduates, early-career and private researchers will be offered advice on history collections and practical research skills from a room full of professionals whose knowledge covers a range of historical and interdisciplinary subjects.

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December

Event highlights Bloomsbury Festival 22–25 October 2015 The Bloomsbury Festival is back! After taking a year off in 2014, the festival returns from 22–25 October with a programme of performance, arts, music and heritage events exploring the theme of Light. As ever, the festival draws together events taking place across the parks, museums, galleries, laboratories and public buildings of one of London’s most vibrant cultural quarters. Events at SAS will transform Senate House into a ‘Ministry of Bright Ideas’ over the course of the festival. On Friday 23 October, we’ll be lighting up the façade of the building with our ‘Hacking the archives’ projections of digital artwork created in collaboration with SAS academics, while on Saturday 24 October, we will be offering talks, debates and workshops on everything from human rights to the philosophy of your senses. Take a tour of Senate House, join a speakers’ corner debate, revisit your childhood with an arcade of vintage computer games and shine a light on the 06

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• ‘Hacking the archives’ projections onto the façade of Senate House • A ‘speakers’ corner’ exploring some of the most pressing issues of the day. • A walk-through arcade of retro computer games • Translation workshops

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archives in Senate House Library. All afternoon our roving luminaries (poets, storytellers and digital artists) want to hear from you and will be making new artwork based on your own ‘bright ideas’. We’ll be projecting these around Senate House throughout the day.

• A roving team of poets and visual artists creating new work.

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Event highlights Being Human festival 12–22 November 2015

Being Human: a festival of the humanities 12–22 November 2015 The Being Human festival is back for a second year! Between 12–22 November, the UK’s only national festival of the humanities returns for 11 days of big ideas, big debates and festival fun. Led by SAS, in partnership with the Arts & Humanities Research Council, the British Academy and the Wellcome Trust, this year’s programme features more than 250 events organised by over 60 universities in 30 towns and cities across the country. Being Human 2015 builds on last year’s success with an even broader and more diverse programme of events. From 08

talks, walks and debates to innovative events bringing whole cities to life, there’s an incredible amount on offer. This year we are proud to have five festival hubs around the country (not to mention our own coordinating hub in London), providing insights into everything from heritage, health and wellbeing in Swansea to the history of intoxication in Sheffield and witch trials in Northumbria. The 2015 programme features everything from talks and lectures to film screenings, exhibitions, performances, craft workshops and events in pubs, galleries museums and even castles across the UK. Some highlights include: • Novelist Sarah Waters and broadcaster Kate Adie uncovering the role of women during the First World War at the

Glasgow Women’s Library. • Zombie walks, ghost stories and theatre in Dundee in events exploring Mary Shelley’s legacy in the city. • An ‘augmented reality’ tour of Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter. • A Liverpool ‘shanty mob’ pub crawl uncovering the city’s maritime heritage. • Dame Marina Warner and George Szirtes on ‘writing human rights’ in Norwich. • A tour of digital Dartmoor led by the University of Exeter. We’re thrilled with the scale and diversity of the programme this year! Check it out online at www.beinghumanfestival.org.

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While many Londoners know the imposing form of Senate House, fewer realise that beneath the building lies a network of switch rooms, utility tunnels, and

What we need from the humanities, p54 We believe that the humanities matter. But what do those working in other fields think? To kick off the 2015 Being Human festival we are bringing together a panel of experts to tell us. From religion to experimental physics, the arts to economics, we will hear from those who need the humanities to inform their work. Panellists include

experimental physicist Dame Athene Donald and clergyman and journalist Reverend Giles Fraser. The discussion is chaired by Professor Sarah Churchwell. The humanity of lawyers, p60 A barrister is a performer on a public stage, clearly identifiable in wig and gown, yet certain aspects remain hidden from view. Lawyers – and particularly barristers – are sometimes characterised as moneygrabbing and ruthless; this event will reveal another side of life at the Bar: the ethical dilemmas they face and their views on anachronistic court etiquette and dress.

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hidden spaces. What can these spaces tell us, and why is there a growing urge to explore them? Throughout Being Human 2015 watch out for talks, tours and other interventions that will delve into some of the darkest corners of the building.

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As is the national coordinating hub for the Being Human festival, SAS will be promoting and facilitating events right across the UK, while also unveiling a special series of events responding to the theme ‘hidden and revealed’. From the mysteries of the occult, to the human side of lawyers, to the thrill of urban exploration, this programme promises to underline the revelatory side of humanities research. Programme highlights include:

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Event highlights Being Human festival Senate House events

Event highlights A symposium on writing about walking in London, 1500– 1900 27 October 2015

The CounterTerrorism and Security Act on campus 27 October 2015 The 2015 Counter-Terrorism and Security Act, which aims to combat the underlying ideologies which support and sanction terrorism, has placed new statutory obligations on a range of authorities and institutions – including universities. Organised by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, this conference will explore the ideas underpinning the Act, the debates surrounding academic freedom and freedom of expression, and the practical questions universities will need to address in the light of their duty to prevent radicalisation. Speakers include former business secretary, Vince Cable. For more information and to register for this free event, please visit bit.ly/ CounterterrorismSecurity. See page 40 for event information

Senate House Library (SHL) is hosting a symposium in connection with the Passage project, a joint initiative involving the Centre for Metropolitan History (Institute of Historical Research) and SAS, designed to address a number of research questions arising from historical texts that describe or

are structured around walking around London. It will provide scholars and students from various backgrounds and disciplines an opportunity to define the landscape. Speakers include Nick Barratt (SHL), Sarah Dustagheer (University of Kent), Richard Dennis (University College London), Alice Ford-Smith (Bernard Quaritch Ltd, antique booksellers) and Karen Attar (SHL’s rare books librarian).

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A good death?

29–30 October 2015 In the past three decades there has been a surge of interest in writing by, and about, minority communities across Europe. While studies have championed the work of often neglected authors and opened up new areas

of enquiry, this has rarely been done systematically. By uniting researchers focused on literary texts produced by minority writers throughout the continent, this conference aims to redress this by offering the opportunity for a systematic, comparative study of the content, status and reception of minority writings in European letters in the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Interpreting communities: minority writing in European literary fields

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28 October 2015 Modern medicine focuses on extending life and on postponing death as long as possible. Perhaps attention should be on the quality of life rather than its quantity, on accepting death rather than struggling to prevent it. Although ancient thinkers lived in very different demographic conditions, they too were preoccupied with the nature of the ‘good death’. Their ideas intersect and contrast with those of specialists in end of life care. Two experts on ancient thought and two on modern practice, will compare views at this event organised by the Institute of Classical Studies and London‘s Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

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Gabriela Mistral: celebrating the life and work of the first Latin American Nobel Prize winner 5 November 2015

Voices in the dark: an evening séance 30 October 2015 After Senate House Library closes, join stage magician Michael Coffey (The London Magician) in the hushed Edwardian atmosphere of the Durning-Lawrence Library for a unique evening recreating the experience of a séance. Drawing 12

inspiration from, and using some of, the Library’s paranormal holdings, Michael Coffey will explore some of the techniques of fraudulent mediums. With the deserted halls of the Library in darkness, visitors are invited to explore their own scepticism or belief, pitting the evidence of their senses against a master magician. See page 44 for event information

Jointly organised with the Embassy of Chile, the Institute of Modern Languages Research and the Gabriela Mistral Foundation, this celebratory event marks the 70th anniversary of Gabriela Mistral’s Nobel Prize for literature. The programme, which centres on the life and work of the poet, humanitarian, diplomat, 20th-century intellectual and the only Latin American woman writer to receive such a prize, includes poetry readings, a discussion with Marjorie Agosin (Wellesley College), Catherine Boyle (King’s College London), Jo Crow (University of Bristol), Karen Benavente (University of Glasgow) and Gloria GarafulicGrabois (Gabriela Mistral Foundation, Inc. [US]), and the presentation of From Chile to the World—celebrating the 70th anniversary of Mistral’s Nobel. See page 48 for event information

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Languages Research (IMLR) and Royal Holloway University of London colloquium on the SAS’s MA in Understanding European reception of Joseph and Securing Human Rights Conrad’s works, acts as an was established in 1995 in opening to a larger research collaboration with Amnesty International. It uniquely combines project. Speakers will include: Balázs Csizmadia (Royal an interdisciplinary critical study Holloway), Evelyn Fishburn of human rights with a focus on (UCL), Mark Fitzpatrick the skills for securing human (Sorbonne Nouvelle), Anthony rights in practice by drawing Fothergill (University of on the insights of practitioners Exeter), Esther Gómez Sierra in the field. This celebratory (University of Manchester), conference, organised by the Alexis Grohmann (University of Human Rights Consortium at Edinburgh), Robert Hampson SAS, will reinvigorate the MA programme, bring together alumni (RHUL), Véronique Pauly and former faculty members and (Université de Versailles), Marta Puxan-Oliva (Harvard University/ provide prospective students University of Barcelona), with insights about human Daniel Schümann (Universität rights. The programme features Bamberg) and Elinor Shaffer alumni and faculty panels, (IMLR/UCL). The event is and a complimentary copy of supported by the StauntonContemporary Challenges for Cassal Trust and the Ingeborg Understanding and Securing Bachmann Centre for Austrian Human Rights in Practice for all Literature at IMLR. attendees. 6 November 2015

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5–7 November 2015 Organised by David Juste, Benno van Dalen and Dag Nikolaus Hasse (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich), and Charles Burnett (The Warburg Institute), the first international conference of the project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus will explore the Arabic and Latin traditions of Ptolemy’s astronomical and astrological works from late Antiquity to the 17th century. The aim of the project is to provide a full treatment of the Corpus Ptolemaicum, including a catalogue of manuscripts, editions of the texts and various tools and studies towards a better understanding of Ptolemy’s reception in the Arabic/Islamic world and Latin/ Christian Europe up to 1700 A.D.

20th anniversary The European conference for the reception of Joseph MA in Understanding Conrad and Securing Human 6 November 2015 This one-day Institute of Modern Rights

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Ptolemy’s Science of the Stars in the middle ages

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What we need from the humanities 12 November 2015 This event kicks off the 2015 Being Human festival and brings together a panel of experts to discuss what those working in other fields need from the humanities. From religion to experimental physics and the arts to economics, the panel will include perspectives from those who need the humanities to inform their work. Panellists include experimental physicist Dame Athene Donald and clergyman and journalist Reverend Giles Fraser. The discussion will be chaired by Professor Sarah Churchwell, one of the UK’s most prominent academics and SAS’s first chair in public understanding of the humanities.

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The arcane and the archive 13 November 2015 This one-day symposium explores facets of the world of the occult by bringing together speakers and physical materials from the Warburg and Senate House libraries. The occult, by its very nature, is other-worldly and mysterious, but human beings are innately curious and in this symposium we hope to reveal and unravel its secrets. As we begin to understand the mysteries of the occult we might understand a bit more about ourselves, our history, beliefs and common humanity. The symposium will be a rare opportunity to see ‘occult’ artefacts from Senate House Library and The Warburg Institute collections which are not often displayed to the general public. See page 55 for event information

Sounds that move us 19 November 2015 Music is essential – and perhaps unique – to human beings. In the humanities, it is often thought of as a purely auditory experience, generating emotions and carrying meanings. Going back to the roots of music, however, it is clear that music, and sounds in general, are used in connection to the other senses. This exploration of the ‘sounds that move us’ blends multisensory science and philosophy, featuring talks by musicians and researchers, demonstrations of sonic illusions, digital mapping, and even ‘sonic shoes’. It is an invitation to discover how music and sounds speak to more than just our ear. See page 60 for event information

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A barrister is a performer on a public stage, clearly identifiable in wig and gown, yet certain aspects remain hidden from view. Lawyers – and particularly barristers – are sometimes characterised as moneygrabbing and ruthless; the ‘humanity of lawyers’ will reveal another side of life at the Bar: the ethical dilemmas faced by practitioners and their views on anachronistic court etiquette and dress. See page 60 for event information

27 November 2015 Last year’s event was described by one PhD student as ‘the most useful training event I will attend this year’. Once again postgraduates, early-career and private researchers will be offered advice on history collections and practical research skills from a room full of professionals whose knowledge covers a range of historical and interdisciplinary subjects. The day also includes panel sessions on libraries, archives and digital research, and an ‘American trail’, allowing participants to engage with specialist library collections and staff in North American studies. For more information, please visit historycollections.blogs.sas.ac.uk. See page 65 for event information

Since its launch in 2005, the School’s Institute of Philosophy (IP), has become a unique place where philosophical ideas and conversation can be started, shared and nurtured. It has hosted numerous philosophy events, visiting students and researchers, launched and supported many externally funded projects, including one of the largest grants ever awarded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council. As part of its 10th anniversary celebration, IP will invite five philosophers of different backgrounds and expertise to reflect on the changing – and unchanging – aspects of their philosophical territories. Speakers will include: Helen Beebee (University of Manchester), Ophelia Deroy (IP), Steven Neale (CUNY Graduate Centre and IP), Tim Williamson (University of Oxford) and Jonathan Wolff (University College London). See page 71 for event information

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History libraries and Ten years of the IP research open day 4 December 2015

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The humanity of lawyers

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The role and experiences of expatriate women in the last phase of empire and after 7 October 2015 Joanna Lewis Assistant professor in Imperial and African History, London School of Economics (LSE) Dr Joanna Lewis, whose doctoral research was on colonial governance and development in Kenya, joined LSE in 2004, having previously held lectureships at the universities of Cambridge, Durham and SOAS. Her main research interests are British colonial rule in Africa, the empire in British culture, society and politics and media history. These roughly translate into: race and white settlers; memorialisations and great deaths; David Livingstone; Mau Mau in Kenya; Robert Mugabe and postcolonial Britain; gender and women’s history; liberalism and humanitarianism. Her latest publication is White Man in a Wood Pile: Race and the Limits of Macmillan’s great ‘Wind of Change in Africa. See page 26 for event information

English and German cultural encounters: A.S. Byatt in conversation 15 October 2015 Dame Antonia Byatt Novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner World renowned English novelist Dame Antonia Byatt, will be joined by Martin Swales (University College London) and Godela Weiss-Sussex (Institute of Modern Languages Research) to explore the connections between English and German culture in her recent work. The conversation will focus on her novel The Children’s Book, and its rich interplay of social experience, the psychological currents and counter-currents of family life, and the role of ideas and cultural values in human affairs. In its depiction of the early 20th-century, the novel conjures up a world of artistic and social possibilities, interweaving English and German cultural life. See page 32 for event information

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Brian Copenhaver Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Brian Copenhaver is a specialist in philosophy and science, mainly between 1400 and 1700, and holds the Udvar-Hazy Chair of Philosophy and History in UCLA’s department of philosophy. He is the author of several books, the most recent of which are about modern Italian philosophy, Lorenzo Valla’s Dialectical Disputations, Peter of Spain’s Summaries of Logic and Western notions of magic from antiquity to the Enlightenment, with other pieces on Ficino, Averroes and Aquinas; Egidio da Viterbo; Benedetto Croce and John Dewey; philosophy as Descartes found it; and the ideas of dignity and humanism. He now directs UCLA’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

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7 November 2015 Gwyneth Lewis with Elena Theodorakopoulos (University of Birmingham), Fiona Cox (University of Exeter) and Ruth MacDonald (Royal Holloway University of London) Gwyneth Lewis, the first National Poet of Wales (2005–06), has published eight books of poetry in both English and Welsh, including the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize-winning Parables and Faxes and Sparrow Tree, which won the Roland Mathias Poetry Award. She has written two works of nonfiction, Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book on Depression and Two in a Boat: A Marital Voyage, and has also adapted work for the stage, including Clytemnestra, a play influenced by Aeschylus’ Oresteia series. She was most recently the Bain-Swiggett Visiting Lecturer of Poetry and English at Princeton University. See page 50 for event information

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‘My safety lies with other poets / who’ve shown the way they took through shadows’: Gwyneth Lewis and the Classics

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The scholastic origins of a Renaissance humanist: the Isagoge of Symphorien Champier

Speaker highlights Reading the world: challenging the dynamics of canon formations 3 December 2015

2015 Creighton Lecture 30 November 2015 Margaret Macmillan Warden of St Antony’s College and a professor of international history at the University of Oxford Professor Macmillan, holds fellowships at a number of prestigious institutions including the Royal Society of Literature, Massey College (University of Toronto), Trinity College (University of Toronto) and St Hilda’s College (University of Oxford). Her books include Women of the Raj; Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World for which she was the first woman to win the Samuel Johnson Prize. Her most recent publication is The War that Ended Peace. She sits on the boards of the Mosaic Institute and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, and the editorial boards of International History and First World War Studies. See page 66 for event information

Dame Marina Warner Novelist, short story writer, cultural historian and mythographer Known for her many non-fiction works relating to feminism and to myth, Dame Marina Warner, will keynote the Institute of English Studies conference, ‘Reading the world: challenging the dynamics

of canon formations’, to talk about her profound engagement with literary shifts in our own complex, troubled time. She is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books and her publications include Alone of All Her Sex, Monuments and Maidens and Stranger Magic, for which she won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. She is also chair of the judges for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. For more details on the conference, please visit www.ies.sas.ac.uk/ReadingWorld. See page 70 for event information

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CICR workshop â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the Dutch Caribbean: historical, economic, political and cultural counterpoints 11 December 2015

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From Hogarth to Hellboy: the transformation of the visual reader 16 December 2015 Paul Gravett London-based freelance journalist, curator, lecturer, writer and broadcaster Paul Gravett has worked in comics publishing and promotion since 1981. He is the founder of Escape Magazine, and writes a monthly article on comics appearing in the UK

magazine Comics International, together with a monthly column for ArtReview. He has written for various periodicals including The Guardian, The Comics Journal, Comic Art, Comics International, Time Out, Blueprint, Neo, The Bookseller, The Daily Telegraph and Dazed & Confused. This event will explore issues of aesthetics, politics, the boundary of the genre and media as well as the changing nature for the spectator. See page 76 for event information

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Rosemarijn Hoefte is a historian specialising in the Caribbean, particularly the history of postabolition Suriname, migration and unfree labour and contemporary Caribbean history. In 2006, she received a four-year grant to study the history of 20th-century Suriname, which resulted in the publication of Suriname in the long twentieth century. In 2010, she coordinated a three-country oral history project on the cultural heritage of Surinamese Javanese. In addition to monographs and edited volumes, she has published more than 50 articles on the Caribbean and Latin America in scholarly books and journals as well as the popular press, and is the managing editor of the New West Indian Guide.

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Rosemarijn Hoefte Senior researcher at KITLV/ Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands

Tractatus De Homine et De Formatione Foetus (1668), RenĂŠ Descartes, image copyright Senate House Library, University of London.

Illumination: how the visual captures the imagination

Exhibition of mural painting by Honduran artist Javier Espinal

28 September–19 December 2015

15 October–4 November 2015

Senate House Library, Convocation Hall

Room 234 and second floor lobby, School of Advanced Study, Senate House

The exhibition is free and no registration is required. Please contact Colin J.P. Homiski with enquiries at colin.homiski@london.ac.uk.

This exhibition will showcase photographs depicting Javier Espinal’s work throughout his tour around Europe from October 2014 to September 2015. Espinal is a Honduran artist who since 1987 has developed muralismo colectivo (collective mural painting) and easel painting, and has acted in both theatre and cinema productions. He regards muralismo colectivo as a process that shows the potential of art to engage participants in a critical reflection about current political, cultural and economic issues concerning Central America and beyond. His work is rich in symbolism related to his Lenca origin and has reflected on political events that have greatly marked his life, such as the enforced disappearance of close friends during the 1980s or the repression that followed the 2009 coup in Honduras, and later the opposition by many Hondurans to several hydroelectric and mining projects. His more than 60 murals have decorated and covered walls of various Central American capitals as well as, more recently, cities in Italy and the UK. They have been painted with people from very different backgrounds, from artists and students to peasants and indigenous populations. The opening of the exhibition will take place on Thursday 15 October 2015, 6pm, in Room 234, Senate House. The exhibition is free and no registration is required. Please contact Olga Jimenez with enquiries at olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk.

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How do ideas move from the mental into the physical world? This exhibition explores how technological developments generated new visual forms from the earliest printed books, sketches and objects. Drawing inspiration from universal themes of the natural and the divine, they then transformed people’s perceptions of art. This helped to develop our understanding of visual culture — allowing us to see the visual as we have never seen it before. The exhibition is accompanied by the Illumination Series, almost two dozen lectures, symposia and performances to provide various perspectives from art history and archaeology to philosophy and psychology, demonstrating how the visual traverses disciplinary boundaries.

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Exhibitions

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Events calendar October Subject area key Classics History Philosophy culture, language & literature Human rights Politics Law Music Highlights

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Events calendar October Thursday 1 Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 246

CenSes seminar

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Past & Present Room, 202, North Block

Just another war: the historical significance of the First World War

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–19:30 Wolfson Room I, North Block

Classical culture: a constant force amid changing taste 1600–1800

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–19:30 John S Cohen Room, 203, North Block

She used to get lost in a book

TBC Free info.rts@sas.ac.uk

Alan Sked (LSE) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Judy Tarling (independent scholar) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Shelley Trower (Roehampton) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Friday 2 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00–19:30 IALS

Legal history seminar: Political libel in the First World War: Australians fighting at home

Alexandra Harmer (UCL) Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Mark Lunney (New England) | Registration required Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 3 Institute of English Studies Seminar 11:00–13:00 Room 349

London modernism seminar

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 14:00–20:55 John S Cohen Room, 203, IHR

A necessary part of a woman’s duty?: learning to sew and the place of needlework in working class lives

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Bridget Long (independent scholar) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar October Monday 5 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 10:00–12:00 Room 246

Thinking being

Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute

Arabic philosophy reading class

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 16:00–18:00 IALS

European investigation orders: progress report

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 349

Cultural transmission, intermediality and Greek poetics

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Peter Marshall Room, 204, North Block

Magazines, gender and hospitality in Canada and the US

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Wolfson Room II, North Block

Nation, state and citizenship in contemporary France

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:30–20:00 King’s College London, WC2B 6NR

CCWW Spanish reading group

Johan Siebers (IMLR/UCLAN) | Registration required Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Arabic | Registration required Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk Organised with the European Criminal Law Association (UK) | Registration required Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

L,O,R

U,C

ICS ancient literature seminar | Pantelis Michelakis (Bristol) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Faye Hammill (Strathclyde) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

TBC Free maria-jose.blanco@King’s, London.ac.uk

Tuesday 6 From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia

Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute), John Took (UCL) £80 standard | £50 concessions | free for Warburg/UCL warburg@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute Seminar 13:00–14:15 Warburg Institute

www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

Emile Chabal (Edinburgh)| Responses from Julian Jackson, James McDougall, Claire Eldridge, David Priestland Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar October Warburg Institute Seminar 16:00–17:15 Warburg Institute

Latin paleography

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:00 Wolfson Room I, North Block

Map-work: John Britton and the topographical imagination in 19th-century Britain

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Title TBC

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:15 Peter Marshall Room, 204, North Block

Lost in Translation?: Brazil, AIDS, antiretrovirals and global health

Warburg Institute Lecture 17:30–18:30 Warburg Institute

Private collections and public libraries in ancient book culture

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G35

Women writing the classics: Classics in contemporary women’s poetry

Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Stephen Daniels (Nottingham) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Greg Woolf (ICS) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

C,H

Marcos Cueto (Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Brazil) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

C,U,H

Greg Woolf (ICS) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Tiffany Atkinson (UEA), Erica McAlpine (Oxford) | Chaired by: Maria Wyke (UCL) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 7 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Conference / symposium 11:00–19:00 Chancellor’s Hall

The role and experiences of expatriate women in the last phase of empire and after

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–20:00 Room 234

Resisting Writers: narratives of identity and ‘impegno’ in contemporary Italy

S R,C

Keynote address by Joanna Lewis (LSE) In collaboration with OSPA | Registration required £20 standard | £10 OSPA members, students, unwaged olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Pierpaolo Antonello (Cambridge), Claudia Boscolo (Levico Terme), Matteo Di Ges (Palermo), Stefano Jossa (Royal Holloway), Daniela La Penna (Reading), Marco Mancassola, Florian Mussgnug (UCL)| Chair: Katia Pizzi (IMLR) | This event will be in Italian Free katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 243

London aesthetics forum

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:00–19:00 King’s College London, WC2R 2LS

The career of Irene Ward, MP

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 304

Limits to growth in Soviet perspective: critical discourses on modernity in the USSR in the 1960s and 1970s

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Plotinus study group

Institute of Historical Research Lecture 18:00–19:30 Wolfson Conference Suite, North Block

The Deana & Jack Eisenberg lecture in public history 2015

TBC Free ip@sas.ac.uk

Helen Langley (SH Library) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar October P

Malte Rolf (Bamberg), Stephen Lovell Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, Guido Giglioni Free georgiostsagdis@outlook.com

Dame Helen Ghosh | Registration required Free ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 8 Mortal coils: kin, clan & cash in colonial Madras, c. 1800

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Past & Present Room, 202, North Block

Forlorn and bedraggled spectacles: cinemagoing in Britain during the blitz

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:00–19:30 Room 246

IMLR graduate forum

Margot Finn (UCL) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Richard Farmer (East Anglia) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

TBC Free ip@sas.ac.uk

www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Wolfson Room II, North Block

Events calendar October Friday 9 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Conference / symposium 10:00–17:30 The Court Room

Back to the Future?: interrogating the contemporary use of imperial terms in the academy

Human Rights Consortium Conference / symposium 10:30–18:00 The Senate Room

Paradoxes of capitalism and human rights

Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute

Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 14:30–16:00 Room 243

Character and motivation in Aeschylus’s Persae

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Lecture 18:00–20:00 The Court Room

Finding ourselves: writers exploring legacies of indenture

U,C

Natalia Bremner (IMLR), Maria del Pilar Kaladeen (ICS), Ashutosh Kumar (Leeds), Andrea Major (Leeds), Jeremy Poynting, Tina K. Ramnarine (RHUL), Clem Seecharan, Khal Torabully | In partnership with Andrea Major (Leeds), Crispin Bates, (Edinburgh) & Ashutosh Kumar (Leeds)| By invitation only Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk Craig Calhoun, Rhoda Howard Hassmann, Wilfred Laurier, Naila Kabeer, David Kinley (LSE), Kate Nash, Gay Seidman & Ronen Shamir (Tel Aviv) | Registration required Free hrc@sas.ac.uk

R,C

P,U

Registration required Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk ICS early career seminar | Jan Haywood Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Steven Cosnett (King’s, London) Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Chair: Tina K. Ramnarine, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen | Speakers: Gaiutra Bahadur, Clem Seecharan, Jan Lowe Shinebourne, Khal Torabully | Registration required, all welcome Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 10 Institute of English Studies Conference / symposium 09:00–17:00 Chancellor’s Hall

Dickens Day: Dickens, readers and reading

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 14:30–16:30 Room G34

CCWN French seminar: Marie Nimier

Registration required | Jointly run by Birkbeck, the University of Leicester, the Dickens Fellowship, the Institute of English Studies £30 standard rate | £25 unwaged/IES members and friends | £20 students ies@sas.ac.uk

Adina Stroia (Kent) Free gill.rye@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar October Monday 12 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 10:00–12:00 Room 246

Thinking being

Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute

Arabic philosophy reading class

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243

Emotion and rationality in the foundation of Aristotle’s ethics

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 349

Homer and the ekphrasists: text and image in the Elder Philostratus Scamander (Imagines I.I)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 304

Generations: the impact of the personal and political on children born in Britain to refugees from nazism

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00–19:00 IALS

What Yemshaw could have said

Registration required Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Arabic | Registration required Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk

P,C

ICS ancient philosophy seminar | C.C.W. Taylor (Oxford) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

ICS ancient literature seminar | Jas Elsner (Oxford) & Mike Squire (King’s, London) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Merilyn Moos Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 13 Warburg Institute Seminar 13:00–14:15 Warburg Institute

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia

Warburg Institute Seminar 16:00–17:15 Warburg Institute

Latin paleography

Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) John Took (UCL) | In partnership with UCL and the Italian Cultural Institute in London £80 standard | £50 concessions | free for Warburg/UCL warburg@sas.ac.uk

www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

Donald L. Drakeman (Notre Dame) |Registration required Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar October Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Peter Marshall Room, 204, North Block

Shameful secrets: men’s sexual health in the long 17th century

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:00 Warburg Institute

Marsilio Ficino’s De amore

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G22

The making of the modern world: surveillance and the press

Senate House Library Seminar 18:00–19:00 Senate House Library

Drawing large amounts of information into a manageable form

Jennifer Evans (Hertfordshire) | Chair: Tim Reinke-Williams | Co-hosted with the history of sexuality seminar Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Dilwyn Knox (UCL), Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

U,H

Steven Farthing, RA (the Arts) | Registration required Free colin.homiski@london.ac.uk

Wednesday 14 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 12:45–14:00 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Venereological education among medical undergraduates in England, 1890–1914

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 15:30–18:00 Room G22/26

Beyond those sherds, ‘Aegean’ interaction and central Mediterranean societies in the middle and late bronze age

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 246

The transformation of the lives of others: space, sensuality, and spectator complicity in Franz Kafka’s Die Verwandlung and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Das Leben der Anderen

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G37

Trust the people: the English approach to arming and training the ‘mob’ for home defence, 1779–1805

Anne Hanley (Cambridge) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

ICS Mycenaean seminar | Francesco Lacono (Cambridge) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Sylvia Naish Fellows seminar | Erica Wickerson (IMLR/Cambridge) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Margaret Bird (Royal Holloway) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute Lecture 17:30–18:30 Warburg Institute

Emendation and science: Aristotle’s physics in the Renaissance

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Plotinus study group

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–19:30 Wolfson Conference Suite, North Block

History now and then – history, history, everywhere

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243

Lion Feuchtwanger: the British connection

Events calendar

Events calendar October U,P,C

Daniel Andersson (Oxford) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, Guido Giglioni Free georgiostsagdis@outlook.com

Chair: Daniel Snowman, Ronald Hutton, Paul Lay, David Reynolds, Pat Thane | Registration required Tickets are £5 per session or £25 for all 6 sessions ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies seminar | Ian Wallace (Bath) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 15 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 349

POP go the Christians? Constantine, the christogram and the picture-poems of Publilius Optatianus Porphyrius

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 246

Segregation of tactile input features in the cuneate nucleus

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 304

Do we need analytic philosophy of history?

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 North Block

Isolationism as an urban legend

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Past & Present Room, 202, North Block

The settlement of the poor and the rise of the form

ICS ancient history seminar | Michael Squire (King’s, London) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen (Oulu) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Kristin Hoganson (Illinois/Oxford) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

P,H

U,H

Naomi Tadmor (Lancaster) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

Vincent Hayward Free info.rts@sas.ac.uk

www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

Events calendar October Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G35

Islands in Asian history: an opening roundtable event

Human Rights Consortium Seminar 18:00–19:30 Room G34

The sustainable development goals: wither human rights?

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–19:30 Wolfson Room I, North Block

Aspects of the designed landscapes of 18thcentury industrialists

Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 18:00–19:00 The Court Room

English and German cultural encounters. A.S. Byatt in Conversation with Martin Swales and Godela Weiss-Sussex

Institute of Latin American Studies Exhibition launch 18:00–20:00 Room 234

Exhibition of mural painting by Honduran artist Javier Espinal

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:30–20:30 Room G37

London theatre seminar

Zoltan Biedermann (UCL), Paul Kreitman (IHR), Jeppe Mulich (LSE), Jan Rueger (Birkbeck) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Priya Nath, Iain Byrne, Phil Vernon Free hrc@sas.ac.uk

Dianne Long (Exeter) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

A.S. Byatt, Martin Swales, Godela Weiss-Sussex | Bithell Memorial Lecture | Registration required Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Exhibition launch event | Exhibiton: 15 October–4 November, second floor lobby, School of Advanced Study, Senate House Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk TBC Free ies@sas.ac.uk

Friday 16 Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference / symposium 10:00–17:30 Room G35

Rewriting(s). MHRA postgraduate and early career conference

Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute

Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group

Martin Mclaughlin (Oxford), Megha Argawal (Goldsmiths), Laura Banella (Duke), Pardaad Chamsaz (Bristol), Sophie Corser (Goldsmiths), Anum Dada (Durham), Rachel Darling (King’s, London), Ed Dodson (Oxford), Magdalena Kampert (Glasgow), Grace Kelly (Liverpool), Edward Lee-Six (Paris), Shuangyi Li (Edinburgh), Beatrice Montedoro (Oxford), Alexandra Nowosiad (King’s, London), Jocelyn Page (Goldsmiths), Jill Warren (Nottingham), David Winters (Cambridge) |Registration required, closing date: 2 October 2015 Fee applicable jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Registration required Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk

U,P

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Lecture 17:00–19:00 Chancellor’s Hall

Journal of Southern African studies – annual lecture

Anna Trostnikova (RHUL) Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Events calendar

Events calendar October C

Deborah Posel (Cape Town) | Organised by the JSAS Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 17 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 11:00–17:00 Room 243

IMLR research training: projects in modern languages

Sharon Baker (IMLR), Natalia Bremner (IMLR), Jana Buresova (IMLR), Katia Pizzi (IMLR) Free katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk

Monday 19

Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute

Arabic philosophy reading class

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 349

The flawed art of Pliny the Elder

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Olga Crisp Room, 102, North Block

Salomon Dubno (1738–1813), scholar and poet

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Wolfson Room II, North Block

What did Robespierre really want

German philosophy seminar | Registration required Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Arabic | Registration required Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk ICS ancient literature seminar | Carrie Vout (Cambridge) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Zuzanna Krzemen (UCL) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Colin Jones (Queen Mary’s) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

P,U

www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

Thinking being

www.sas.ac.uk

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 10:00–12:00 Room 246

Events calendar October Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:30–19:00 Reed Smith LLP, EC2A 2RS

Whose investigatory power is it anyway? security, source protection and surveillance

Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC MP, Rachel Logan (Amnesty International UK), Ewen MacAskill (The Guardian), Jessica Simor QC (Matrix Chambers) | Registration required | In partnership with The Media Society £15 standard | £10 media society members rate | £5 students ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 20 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Conference / symposium 10:00–18:00 Room G37

Democracy, governance and media reform in Sri Lanka and the commonwealth

Warburg Institute Seminar 13:00–14:15 Warburg Institute

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia

Warburg Institute Seminar 16:00–17:15 Warburg Institute

Latin paleography

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 246

The child as catalyst for change – free upbringing, free sex and socialism in early 20th century

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I, North Block

And he walked from country to country: Vasilij Grigorovich Barskij’s pious topographies, 1723–47

Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:30–20:00 Room G22/26

Places, bodies and emotions: understanding the Italian resistance during World War Two through storytelling and material culture

U,O

Registration required £10 fee olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) John Took (UCL) | In partnership with UCL and the Italian Cultural Institute in London £80 standard | £50 concessions | free for Warburg/UCL warburg@sas.ac.uk Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Camila Paldam (Aarhus) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Veronica Della Dora (Royal Holloway) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Accordia lecture | Sarah de Nardi (Hull) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar October Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Peter Marshall Room, 204, North Block

Corruption, anti-corruption and the formation of Venezuela’s neo-patrimonial state, 1908–48

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:00 Warburg Institute

Marsilio Ficino’s De amore

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G35

Women writing the classics: Women translating the classics

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243

Outrage: offensive and offended sentiments, from libertinage and colonial Calcutta to 21stcentury France

Senate House Library Seminar 18:00–19:00 Senate House Library

From Cossa to Kepler: Aby Warburg’s cosmology

H,U

Doug Yarrington (Colorado State) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Organized by Dilwyn Knox (UCL), Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute) | The seminar can be followed using the original Latin text, Ficino’s Italian translation or an English translation Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Josephine Balmer, Clare Pollard | Chair: Lorna Hardwick (OU) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Links comparative studies seminar | Will McMorran (QMUL), Carole Sweeney (Goldsmiths) | Chair: David Lunn (SOAS) | Organised together with Birkbeck College, Goldsmiths, King’s College London, Queen Mary, Royal Holloway, SOAS, UCL Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Claudia Wedepohl (Warburg Institute) | Booking required Free colin.homiski@london.ac.uk

Legacies of empire workshop

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Workshop 12:00–16:30 IALS

Legal Education Research Network workshop: the effective use of questionnaires II

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 243

London aesthetics forum

Registration required £40 standard | £25 concessions olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

U,O

Registration required | Organised with the Legal Education and Research Network Free belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk TBC Free ip@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

Institute of Commonwealth Studies 2-day conference / symposium 09:30–18:00 (day 1) | 10:00– 18:00 (day 2) Chancellor’s Hall

www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

Wednesday 21

Events calendar October Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:00–19:00 King’s College London, WC2R 2LS

British policy in Northern Ireland

Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

Construction of the modern Caribbean: integration/disintegration of regional and national identities

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Plotinus study group

Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 18:00–20:00 Room 104

Two poets in conversation: Antonella Anedda meets Jamie mcKendrick

Tim Hurley (ICBH) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Convenor: Luis Perez-Simon (ILAS) | CICR seminar Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, Guido Giglioni Free georgiostsagdis@outlook.com

L,U

Friends of Italian Studies lecture | Antonella Anedda (Lugano) | Organised in collaboration with the British Italian Society Free katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 22 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 12:30–13:30 IALS

IALS lunchtime seminar: A hybrid methodology for the EU legal duty of conforming interpretation

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 349

Evidence for the absence of a Sasanian maritime policy

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Wolfson Room II, North Block

Representing the past: the drama of the zong

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Past & Present Room, 202, North Block

Hollywood, piracy and constructing the shadow history of film

Martin Brenncke (Zurich/IALS visiting fellow) Free belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

ICS ancient history seminar | Rebecca Darley (Birkbeck) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk Jeremy Krikler (Essex) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Paul McDonald (King’s, London) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar October Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 234

Inaugural lecture: ‘Revolutionary personhood in contemporary Cuba’

Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 17:30–19:30 Room 243

Schopenhauer’s unwritten translations

Institute of Historical Research Lecture 18:00–20:30 Beveridge Hall

The making of Wolf Hall

Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G37

Public seminar and book launch: Cuba’s cultural policy

Senate House Library Lecture 18:00–20:00 Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library

Voices in the dark: Geraldine Beskin on Helen Duncan

Martin Holbraad (UCL) Registration required Free ainhoa.montoya@sas.ac.uk

Research group for German, Austrian and Swiss literature seminar | Duncan Large (UEA) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Peter Kosminsky, Lawrence Goldman (IHR), George Bernard (Southampton) | Registration required £10 standard | £5 concessions ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Organised in association with The International Institute for the Study of Cuba (IISC) Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Geraldine Beskin Free shl.officeadmin@london.ac.uk

Friday 23

Warburg Institute Colloquium 10:00–15:30 Warburg Institute

Symphorien Champier and Lyon: dynamics of cultural assimilation and dissemination

Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute

Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group

Mary Coghill, Keith Green, Gareth Farmer, Helen Palmer, Charles Denroche, Anna Robinson, Alex Hills | Registration required Fee applicable mary.coghill@sas.ac.uk

Brian Copenhaver (UCLA), Richard A. Cooper (Oxford), Martine Furno (Institut d’Histoire de la Pensée Classique, Lyon), Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute), Raphaële Mouren (Warburg Institute), Hélène Lannier (Lumière Lyon 2), Ian Maclean (Oxford) | Registration required Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

U,P

Registration required Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk

www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

Form and poetry: an exploration of Russian formalism – ostranenie, city poetics, poles of poetic art – metaphor, metonymy

www.sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies Colloquium 10:00–17:30 Room 243

Events calendar October Institute of Latin American Studies Book launch 15:00–19:30 Room G22/26

Authentic recipes from around the world: book launch

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar

School of Advanced Study Bloomsbury Festival 2015 17:00–18:00 Senate House Library

Illumination: how the visual captures the imagination – curatorial tour

Warburg Institute Lecture 17:30–18:30 Warburg Institute

The scholastic origins of a Renaissance humanist: the isagoge of Symphorien Champier

Human Rights Consortium Seminar 18:00–19:30 IALS

Access to protection in the EU

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243

The London beckett seminar

School of Advanced Study Bloomsbury Festival 2015 18:30–20:00 Bloomsbury, WC1N 3QW

Hacking the archives projections

Deborah Toner (Leicester), Anna Charalambidou (Middlesex), Emma-Jayne Abbots (Wales Trinity Saint David), Ana Martins (Exeter) Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk Giulia Arpino (Trento) Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Speaker: Colin Homiski Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

S U,P

Brian Copenhaver (UCLA) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk Brian Copenhaver (UCLA) Free hrc@sas.ac.uk

Catherine Laws (York) Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Part of bloomsburyfestival.org.uk in collaboration with the Institute of English Studies Free michael.eades@sas.ac.uk

R,L

Saturday 24 Institute of Historical Research Conference / symposium 09:30–16:30 Wolfson Conference Suite, North Block

IHR colloquium: water in Anglo-Saxon England

Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 11:00–17:00 Room G22/26

ICS Virgil Society Lecture

TBC Free ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Speaker TBC Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

School of Advanced Study Bloomsbury Festival 2015 12:00–18:30 Bloomsbury, WC1N 3QW

Ministry of bright ideas

School of Advanced Study Bloomsbury Festival 2015 13:00–18:00 Bloomsbury, WC1N 3QW

Shining a light on the ministry – tour

School of Advanced Study Workshop 13:00–15:30 Senate House Library

Illumination workshop

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 14:00–16:00 John S Cohen Room, 203, North Block

Total eclipse of the lamp: familiar astronomy in the long 18th century

Part of bloomsburyfestival.org.uk | Registration required Free michael.eades@sas.ac.uk

Part of bloomsburyfestival.org.uk | Registration required Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Part of bloomsburyfestival.org.uk | Sarah Turner Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

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Melanie Keene (Cambridge) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Monday 26 Institute of Latin American Studies Conference / symposium 09:00–18:30 Room G22/26

Beyond good business: advocating for women’s rights in the context of natural resource extraction

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 10:00–12:00 Room 246

Thinking being

Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute

Arabic philosophy reading class

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 349

Walter Pater and ancient sculpture

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Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Arabic | Registration required Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk ICS ancient literature seminar | Liz Prettejohn (York) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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German philosophy seminar | Convenor: Johan Siebers (IMLR/UCLAN) | Registration required Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

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Confirmed Speakers: Rumana Hashem, Monica Feria Tinta, Jane Lingbawan Yap-Eo, Nancy Lipson | Registration required | Organised by The Latin American Mining Monitoring Programme £25 standard | £10 students camilla.capasso@lammp.org

Events calendar October Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 304

British counter insurgency: a history John Newsinger Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 27 School of Advanced Study Conference / symposium 09:30–17:00 IALS

The Counter-Terrorism and Security Act on campus

School of Advanced Study Conference / symposium 10:00–16:30 Senate House Library

Passage: a symposium on writing about walking in London, 1500–1900

Warburg Institute Seminar 13:00–14:15 Warburg Institute

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia

Warburg Institute Seminar 16:00–17:15 Warburg Institute

Latin paleography

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 John S Cohen Room, 203, North Block

Boutique big data reintegrating the case study into big data analysis or alternative more disciplinary title boutique big data: reintegrating close and distant reading of 19th-century newspapers

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Peter Marshall Room, 204, North Block

Domestic service in the late 18th and early 19th centuries: why would anyone employ a child in their household?

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 243

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar

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Registration required Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

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Registration required Free matt.phillpott@sas.ac.uk

Melodee Beals Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Jenny Dyer (Oxford Brookes) | Chair: Tim Reinke-Williams Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

TBC Free ip@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar October Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:00 Warburg Institute

Marsilio Ficino’s De amore

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–19:30 Room 103

Literary London Reading Group

Organized by Dilwyn Knox (UCL), Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

TBC Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 28 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 12:45–14:00 Tavistock Place, WC1N1BN

Developing health – the health of development: health and the making of the millennium development goals

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 243

London aesthetics forum

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Seminar 17:00–19:00 IALS

Hamlyn seminar: UK, EU and global administrative law: foundations and challenges

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:00–19:00 King’s College London, WC2R 2LS

Between America and Europe: Britain, the UN and the Middle East, 1973

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I, North Block

Defining the ‘underworld’ over time: space, place and constructions of criminality

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:15–19:00 Warburg Institute

A very dangerous thing: the transmission of knowledge in Naples at the turn of the 17th century

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–18:30 Warburg Institute

Scholasticism reading group

Iris Borowy (Aachen) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk TBC Free ip@sas.ac.uk

Paul Craig | Registration required Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Heather Shore (Leeds Metropolitan) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Lorenza Gianfrancesco (Goldsmiths), Andrew Campbell (UCL) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk Basic reading knowledge of Medieval Latin is recommended | Registration required Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Alistair Noble (Air Historical Branch) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar October Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Plotinus study group

Institute of Classical Studies University Trust Fund Event 18:00–19:30 The Beveridge Hall

A good death?

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 246

The maroon creoles: managing multilingualism in French Guiana

Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, Guido Giglioni Free georgiostsagdis@outlook.com

Andrew Cooper, Mary Bradbury, Mike Trapp (King’s, London), Eleanor Robson (UCL) | Chaired by: Paul Jenkins OBE | This event is supported by the John Coffin Memorial Fund and is open to the public Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Minor translingualisms seminar | Bettina Migge (University College Dublin) Free natalia.bremner@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 29 Institute of Modern Languages Research 2-day conference 09:15–18:00 Room G22/26

Interpreting communities: minority writing in European literary fields

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Workshop 11:00–18:00 Chancellor’s Hall

What’s happening in black British history III

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 12:30–13:30 IALS

IALS lunchtime seminar: The impact of parallel legal systems on fundamental liberties in multireligious societies: an inquiry into jurisdictional conflict in Malaysia and other jurisdictions

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 246

Linking it together: from the temporal dynamics of multisensory integration to conscious perception and creative thinking

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 304

The excluded middle?: Levinasian ethics as a middle ground between historical representation and historical experience

Simone Brioni (Stony Brook), Margaret Littler (Manchester), Mari Jose Olaziregi (Vitoria-Gasteiz), James Proctor (Newcastle)|(Closing date: 16 October 2015) Fee applicable jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk Convenors: Miranda Kaufmann, Michael Ohajuru | Registration required £20 standard | £5 students/unwaged olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Justice Azahar Mohamed (Federal Court, Malaysia; IALS Inns of Court Fellow) Free belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

Sharon Zmigrod-Shafir Free info.rts@sas.ac.uk

Anton Froeyman (Ghent) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 North Block

Trajectories of black internationalism in the cold war

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

Comparative Histories of Asia doctoral session I

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Past and Present Room, 202, North Block

Railways and diplomats: the failure of the League of Nations to settle the Manchurian Crisis, 1931–33

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–19:30 Wolfson Room I, North Block

Preparing Capability Brown for his 300th birthday

Senate House Library Seminar 18:00–19:00 Senate House Library

Henry Crabb Robinson’s Bildungsreise

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:30–20:30 Room G37

London theatre seminar

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Nicholas Grant (UEA), Anne-Marie Angelo (Sussex) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

TBC Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Miklos Lojko (Central European, Budapest) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Oliver Cox (Oxford) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Friday 30 Warburg Institute Colloquium 10:00–15:45 Warburg Institute

Rethinking allegory

Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute

Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 14:30–16:00 Room 243

Collecting and trading antiquities in early modern Italy

Brenda Machosky (Hawai’i-West O’ahu), Christiania Whitehead (Warwick), Anthony Ossa-Richardson (Queen Mary) | Registration required £15 standard | £8 concession | £5 students warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk

ICS early career seminar | Jonathan Griffiths (Oxford) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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TBC Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

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James Vigus (Queen Mary) | Booking required Free colin.homiski@london.ac.uk

Events calendar October Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar

Senate House Library Performance 18:30–21:00 Durning-Lawrence Library, Senate House Library

Voices in the dark: an evening séance

Jonathan Griffiths (Oxford) Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Michael Coffey (The London Magician) | Booking required £25 shl.officeadmin@london.ac.uk

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Events calendar October November Subject area key Classics History Philosophy culture, language & literature Human rights Politics Law Music Highlights

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Events calendar November Monday 2 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 10:00–12:00 Room 246

Thinking being

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 14:30–18:00 IALS

Criminal law and the European environment: EU protected species regulations in practice

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Olga Crisp Room, North Block

Judische Rundschau sell-off

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Peter Marshall Room, North Block

Gender, identity and itinerancy in the transatlantic quaker community: the travels and trials of Mary Weston, quaker preacher and missionary, 1712–66

Senate House Library Seminar 18:00–19:00 Senate House Library

Following rivers: discovering ways of seeing

German philosophy seminars | Johan Siebers (IMLR/UCLAN) | Registration required Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

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Organised with the European Criminal Law Association (UK) | Registration required Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk Olivier Baisez (Paris) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Naomi Pullin (Warwick) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Jules Davidoff (Goldsmiths) | Registration required Free colin.homiski@london.ac.uk

Tuesday 3 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 349

ICS classical archaeology seminar

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I, North Block

‘Mountains run mad’: shared topographies and conflicting memories in the Dolomites

Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 The Senate Room

History of libraries research seminar

TBC Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

William Bainbridge (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

K. A. Manley (National Trust) Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Peter Marshall Room, 204, North Block

The national cadaver: wars to the death across Spanish American independence

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture 18:00–19:00 IALS

As if... the wonderland of statutory hypotheses

Senate House Library Lecture 18:00–20:00 Durning-Lawrence Library, Senate House Library

Voices in the dark: artistic responses to the Harry Price Library

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:30–19:30 Senate House

Blurred lines in the history of domestic libraries in the age of Dibdin’s Bibliomania

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Events calendar November U,H

Karen Racine (Guelph) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Rt Hon. the Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe | The annual Lord Renton lecture of the Statute Law Society (www.statutelawsociety.org) | Registration required Free statutelaw@aol.com

Sarah Sparkes Free shl.officeadmin@london.ac.uk

K. A. Manley (National Trust) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 4 London aesthetics forum

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Plotinus study group

Institute of Historical Research Lecture 18:00–19:30 Wolfson Conference Suite, North Block

Albert Gallatin, Jeffersonian finance and the War of 1812

TBC Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, Guido Giglioni Free georgiostsagdis@outlook.com

John Coffin Memorial Lecture 2015 | Max Edling (King’s, London) | Wine reception to follow | Registration required Free ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 5 Memosur: trauma and memory Jointly organised with the University of Nottingham Fee may be applicable kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference 09:30–18:30 Room G34

www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 243

Events calendar November Warburg Institute 3-day colloquium 10:00–13:45 Warburg Institute

Ptolemy’s science of the stars in the middle ages

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 12:30–13:30 IALS

IALS lunchtime seminar: The role and importance of the UN Convention on transparency for investor-state dispute settlement

Institute of Latin American Studies | Institute of Modern Languages Research Colloquium 14:30–18:30 The Senate Room

Gabriela Mistral: celebrating the life and work of the first Latin American Nobel Prize winner

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 349

The stuff of the gods: the material aspects of religion in Ancient Greece

Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 17:15–19:00 Room 243

The bankrupt of love: Schiller’s early ethics

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Past and Present Room, 202, North Block

The ironic continental and the courageous Brit: competing female identities in Hollywood from 1935–9

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Wolfson Room II, North Block

Threatening letters: E. P. Thompson and the service relationship in historical research

First international conference of the project Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus (http://ptolemaeus.badw.de/) | Jean-Patrice Boudet (Orleans), Josep Casulleras (Barcelona), Bojidar Dimitrov (BAdW, Munich), Dirk Grupe (BAdW, Munich), Alexander Jones (New York) , David Juste (BAdW, Munich), Richard Kremer (Dartmouth College), Tzvi Langermann (Bar-Ilan), Maria Mavroudi (California, Berkeley), María José Parra Pérez (BAdW, Munich), Darrel Rutkin (Sydney), George Saliba (Columbia), Michael Shank (Wisconsin, Madison), Nathan Sidoli (Waseda, Tokyo), Carlos Steel (Leuven), Johannes Thomann (Zurich), Flora Vafea (Cairo), Henry Zepeda (BAdW, Munich) | Registration required £35 standard | £15 concessions warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Nikolaos Theodorakis (Oxford/IALS Visiting Fellow) Free belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

Jointly organised with the Embassy of Chile in the UK, the Institute of Modern Languages Research and the Gabriela Mistral Foundation, US Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

ICS ancient history seminar | Robin Osborne (Cambridge) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk English Goethe Society Lecture | Laura Anna Macor (Oxford) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

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Rachel Kapelke-Dale (UCL) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Carolyn Steedman (Warwick) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 234

Mobilising work and identity in the Mayan Yucatan

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Claudia Giannetto (Goldsmiths) Free ainhoa.montoya@sas.ac.uk

Friday 6 Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference 09:30–17:00 The Court Room

The European Reception of Joseph Conrad

Human Rights Consortium Conference 11:30–17:30 The Court Room

20th anniversary conference for the MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights

Registration required Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Registration required Free ics@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00–19:30 IALS

Legal history seminar

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 234

Remediating Beckett and the graven image

Roberta Berardi (Bari) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Emily Haslam (Kent) Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

David Houston Jones (Exeter) | The London Beckett seminar Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 7 Institute of English Studies Conference 09:00–17:00 The Court Room

The annual George Eliot conference: Daniel Deronda

Institute of Latin American Studies Workshop 10:30–17:00 Room G37

Latin American music seminar

William Baker, Carolyn Burdett, Louise Lee, John Rignall, Royce Mahawatte, Nadia Valman | Supported by the George Eliot Fellowship Fee may be applicable ies@sas.ac.uk Convenor: Henry Stobart (RHUL) I In collaboration with the Institute of Musical Research £8 olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

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ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar

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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Events calendar November Institute of English Studies Seminar 11:00–13:00 Room 349

London Modernism seminar

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 11:00–15:30 Room 243

Italian violence: victims, witnesses and their narratives in contemporary Italy

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 14:00–18:00 Room 104

Women writing the classics: ‘My safety lies with other poets / who’ve shown the way they took through shadows’: Gwyneth Lewis and the classics

TBC Free ies.events@sas.ac.uk

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Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory seminar | Registration required Free katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk

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Gwyneth Lewis, Elena Theodorakopoulos (Birmingham), Fiona Cox (Exeter), Ruth MacDonald (Royal Holloway) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Monday 9 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 10:00–12:00 Room 246

Thinking being

Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute

Arabic philosophy reading class

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243

Intentionality and the transparency of cognitive activities in Damascius

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 349

Rewriting Greek myths on Roman sarcophagi

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 304, North Block

Politics, theatre and history

Johan Siebers (IMLR/UCLAN) | Registration required Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Arabic | Registration required Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk

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ICS ancient philosophy seminar | Péter Lautner (Pázmány Péter U, Budapest) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk ICS ancient literature seminar | Zahra Newby (Warwick) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Chris Jury Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 10 Warburg Institute Seminar 13:00–14:15 Warburg Institute

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia

Weekly public readings in partnership with UCL, the Italian Cultural Institute London | Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute), John Took (UCL) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute Seminar 16:00–17:15 Warburg Institute

Latin paleography

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 17:00–20:00 Room 234

The end of secular sanctuary: tourism, sniping, and the wartime hotel

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 John S Cohen Room, 203, North Block

The Victorian meme machine

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Peter Marshall Room, North Block

Life-stories from the blue funnel line

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:00 Warburg Institute

Marsilio Ficino’s De amore

Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 18:00–20:00 Room G22/26

Ceramic production in the Northeast Peloponnese: a view from the Berbati Valley, Greece

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G34

The making of the modern world: surveillance, advocacy, the role/rule of law

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:30–20:30 King’s College London

The Dockrill lecture: managing multi-polarity the first time round: the concert of europe, 1814–30

Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Centre For Study of Cultural Memory seminar | Robert Davidson (Toronto) Free katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk

FBSA Lecture | Organised by ICS and Friends of the British School at Athens | Ian Whitbread | Chaired by: Ian Freestone Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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Sara Ogilvie (policy officer, Liberty) Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

TBC Free ip@sas.ac.uk

Richard Langhorne (Buckingham) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Mary Clare Martin, Kitrina Douglas (independent scholar) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Bob Nicholson Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar November Wednesday 11 Insitute of Historical Research Workshop 10:00–16:00 IHR Training Room, North Block

Web archiving workshop for historians

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 12:45–14:00 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Did the government lack ‘common sense’? Coventry’s 1957 polio epidemic

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:00–19:00 King’s College London

British armed forces in Germany after WWII

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 349

Northern lights and Welsh peasants: new perspectives on the late Hanoverian clergy

Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 17:30–19:30 Room G35

The revolt of the masses? Some thoughts on a modern myth

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Plotinus study group

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–19:30 Wolfson Conference Suite, North Block

History as heritage: the preservation, distortion and commercialisation of the past

Registration required Fee applicable ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Gareth Millward (Centre for History in Public Health, LSHTM) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Alistair Noble (Air Historical Branch) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Sara Slinn (Lincoln) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Jeremy Adler (London) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, Guido Giglioni Free georgiostsagdis@outlook.com

Daniel Snowman, Jonathan Glancy, Robert Hewison, Anna-Maria Misra, Simon Thurley | History now and then seminar series | Registration required £5 per session | £25 for all 6 sessions ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 12 Institute of Latin American Studies Conference 10:00–18:00 The Court Room

Managing global migration: new perspectives from Latin America and Europe

School of Advanced Study Being Human Festival 2015 10:00–18:00 Senate House

Revealed: a big idea a day

Organised by Ana Margheritis (Southampton), Mark Thurner (ILAS) Fee may be applicable olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

beinghumanfestival.org Free beinghuman@sas.ac.uk

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School of Advanced Study Being Human Festival 2015 12:30–20:00 Senate House

Being Human festival launch day

School of Advanced Study Being Human Festival 2015 12:30–13:00 & 17:00–18:00 Senate House

Senate House revealed: tours

School of Advanced Study Being Human Festival 2015 13:15–14:00 British Museum

The journeys of Maya art

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 103

Ancient texts and objects in the Late Renaissance: questions of chronology

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 246

Ideophones and sound-symbolism

School of Advanced Study Being Human Festival 2015 17:00–18:00 Senate House Library

On the path to illumination: a curatorial tour

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 North American History Room, North Block

The gentle, orderly hedge fund: Alfred Jonas and the new history of Capitalism

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 304

On disobedient histories

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

Forging India’s democratic citizenship: the preparation of the first elections 1947–52

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Past and Present Room, 202, North Block

Men’s sociability in London alehouses, c. 1660–1750

Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy and the Wellcome Trust | Visit beinghumanfestival.org for full programme Free beinghuman@sas.ac.uk Led by IMLR with support by ICWS | Access restrictions apply | Registration required | beinghumanfestival.org Free beinghuman@sas.ac.uk In partnership with the British Museum | Registration required | beinghumanfestival.org Free sophie.brockmann@sas.ac.uk

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ICS ancient history seminar | William Stenhouse (Yeshiva, NY) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

David Huyssen (York) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Keith Jenkins (Chichester) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Ornit Shani (Haifa) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Tim Reinke-Williams (Northampton) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Colin Homiski (Senate House Library) | Booking required Free colin.homiski@london.ac.uk

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Mark Dingemanse Free info.rts@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar November Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–19:30 Bedford Room, G37, North Block

Oriental narratives at the papal court: circulating knowledge about the East in Avignon and beyond

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:00–19:30 Room 243

IMLR graduate forum

School of Advanced Study Being Human Festival 2015 18:00–19:00 Senate House Library

Talking bodies: human animals in Renaissance physiognomics

Senate House Library Lecture 18:00–20:00 Durning-Lawrence Library, Senate House Library

Voices in the dark: materialisation mediumship

School of Advanced Study Being Human Festival 2015 18:30–20:00 The Beveridge Hall

What we need from the humanities

Irene Bueno (Bologna) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

This forum is run by and for graduate students from the colleges and institutes in and around London, working on any cultural aspect of those parts of the world where Germanic or Romance languages are spoken Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Cecilia Muratori (Warwick) | Registration required Free colin.homiski@london.ac.uk Paul Adams Free shl.officeadmin@london.ac.uk

Sarah Churchwell | Panellists: Giles Fraser, John Kay, Athene Donald, Claudia Hammond | Registration required | beinghumanfestival.org Free beinghuman@sas.ac.uk

Friday 13 School of Advanced Study Being Human Festival 2015 TBC Curzon Bloomsbury, The Brunswick London

Participatory documentary filmmaking for human rights

Institute of Modern Languages Research Workshop 09:30–19:00 Room 243

Migrating texts: subtitling, translation, adaptation

Institute of Philosophy 2-day conference 09:30–18:00 Room 349

Lying and deceiving

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Nancy Nicol, Richard Lusimbo | Led by the Human Rights Consortium, in partnership with Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights and Bertha DocHouse | Registration required | beinghumanfestival.org Free hrc@sas.ac.uk

Pablo Romero Fresco (Roehampton), Sam Holmes (Stephen Spender Trust/ Arsenal Double Club/King’s, London), Bradley Stephens (Bristol), Sophie Stevens (King’s, London), Charlie Swinbourne (British Sign Languages Broadcasting Trust), Mark O’Thomas (Lincoln), Soledad Zarate (UCL) Free katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk TBC Free ip@sas.ac.uk

School of Advanced Study Being Human Festival 2015 12:00–18:00 Senate House Library

The arcane and the archive

Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute

Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 14:30–16:00 Room 234

Narrative time in three epistles of Sidonius Apollinaris

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar

School of Advanced Study Being Human Festival 2015 18:30–20:30 Senate House Boiler Rooms

Senate House revealed: talking underground

Senate House Library Walk 19:00–20:30 Malet Street entrance to Senate House

Voices in the dark: a guided walk around spiritualist Bloomsbury

Led by Senate House Library and The Warburg Institute | Registration required Free senatehouselibrary@london.ac.uk

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Translations will be provided Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk

ICS early career seminar | Michael Hanaghan Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk Janja Soldo (Birkbeck/LMU Munich) Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Led by the IMLR with support by ICWS | Registration required | beinghumanfestival.org Free beinghuman@sas.ac.uk

Scott Wood Free shl.officeadmin@london.ac.uk

BES autumn colloquium

School of Advanced Study Being Human Festival 2015 TBC Curzon Bloomsbury, The Brunswick London

LGBTI human rights activism film: No Easy Walk to Freedom

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 14:00–16:00 Past and Present Room, 202, North Block

Morals or piety? French and English educational board games in the long 18th century

The British Epigraphy Society in association with the Institute of Classical Studies Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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Nancy Nicol, Arvind Narrain | Led by the Human Rights Consortium, in partnership with Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights and Bertha DocHouse | Registration required | beinghumanfestival.org Free hrc@sas.ac.uk

Adrian Seville (City) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Classical Studies Colloquium 09:00–20:00 Room G22/26

www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

Saturday 14

Events calendar November Institute of Modern Languages Research Being Human Festival 2015 14:00–15:30 Room G37

Aliens and agents: the house at 3 Regent Square Charmian Brinson, Clare George, Marian Malet (London) | Registration required | beinghumanfestival.org Free clare.george@sas.ac.uk

U,H

Monday 16 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 10:00–12:00 Room 246

Thinking being

Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute

Arabic philosophy reading class

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 349

Elegiac perspectives on the visual arts, from antiquity to the Renaissance

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Olga Crisp Room, North Block

Jewish self-governing assemblies in early modern Central Europe

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Wolfson Room II, North Block

The revolution is over, long live revolution

Warburg Institute Lecture 17:30–18:30 Warburg Institute

The mosaic decoration of chapels in the Basilica of San Marco in Venice

Institute of Commonwealth Studies | Institute of Historical Research Being Human Festival 2015 18:00–20:00 Beveridge Hall

Remembering Gallipoli in New Zealand and beyond

German philosophy seminars | Johan Siebers (IMLR/UCLAN) | Registration required Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Arabic | Registration required Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk

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ICS ancient literature seminar | Luke Houghton (Reading) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Henry Cohn (Warwick) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Julia Nichols (Queen Mary) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Stefania Gerevini (British School in Rome) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

NZ-UK Link Foundation Annual Lecture 2015 | Jenny R Macleod (Hull), Sir Graeme Davies (NZ-UK Link Foundation), Lawrence Goldman (IHR) | Registration required | beinghumanfestival.org Free ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar November Tuesday 17 School of Advanced Study Being Human Festival 2015 12:00–13:00 Senate House Library

On the path to illumination: a curatorial tour

School of Advanced Study Being Human Festival 2015 13:00–14:00 Senate House Library

Male body terrors

Warburg Institute Seminar 13:00–14:15 Warburg Institute

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia

Warburg Institute Seminar 16:00–17:15 Warburg Institute

Latin paleography

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I, North Block

Making places, knowing lives: Joseph Banks learns Australia, 1770–1810

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Peter Marshall Room, North Block

Unthinking the canon: Latin America and the history of historiography

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:00 Warburg Institute

Marsilio Ficino’s De amore

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–19:30 Room G37

Literary London reading group

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243

Creating ‘creative criticism’ with Stephen Benson and Clare Connors

Colin Homiski (Senate House Library) | Booking required | beinghumanfestival.org Free colin.homiski@london.ac.uk Gabriel Koureas (Birkbeck) | Registration required | beinghumanfestival.org Free colin.homiski@london.ac.uk

Weekly public readings in partnership with UCL and the Italian Cultural Institute London | Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute), John Took (UCL) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Jordan Goodman (UCL) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

TBC Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

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Mark Thurner (ILAS) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Links comparative studies seminar | Clare Connors, Stephen Benson (UEA) | LINKS comparative studies seminar | Organised together with Birkbeck, Goldsmiths, King’s, London, Queen Mary, Royal Holloway, SOAS, UCL Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar November School of Advanced Study Being Human Festival 2015 18:00–19:15 Woburn Suite

Being (digital) humans

School of Advanced Study Being Human Festival 2015 19:30–20:30 Woburn Suite

@NeinQuarterly: being human on Twitter

Sally-Jane Norman (Sussex), Patrik Svensson, Lorna Hughes (SAS), Todd Presner (University of California, Los Angeles) | Registration required | beinghumanfestival.org Free annett.seifert@sas.ac.uk Eric Jarosinski (@NeinQuarterly), Lorna Hughes (SAS), Matt Phillpott (SAS) | Part of the Social Scholar seminar series | Registration required | beinghumanfestival.org Free annett.seifert@sas.ac.uk

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Wednesday 18 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 12:45–14:00 Jerry Morris B, Tavistock Place

Screening the National Health Service: approaching a cultural history through moving pictures

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 243

London aesthetics forum

Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:00–19:00 Room G22/26

New discoveries in Mycenaean Thebes

Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

London Old and Middle English research seminar (LOMERS)

Institute of Latin American Studies Book launch 17:30–19:30 The Court Room

Book launch: The new war on the poor: the production of insecurity in Latin America tomorrow

Warburg Institute Lecture 17:30–18:30 Warburg Institute

Prophetic products: the Prophet Muhammed in contemporary Iranian visual culture

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Plotinus study group

Jane Hand (Warwick) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

TBC Free ip@sas.ac.uk

ICLS autumn lecture in association with the British School at Athens | Vassilis Aravantinos (Thebes) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Megan Leitch (Cardiff) Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

John Gledhill, FBA, FAcSS (Manchester) | Please RSVP to Olga Jimenez Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

U,H

Christiane Gruber (Michigan) | Bilderfahrzeuge project lecture Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, Guido Giglioni Free georgiostsagdis@outlook.com

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Events calendar November Institute of Commonwealth Studies Film screening 18:00–20:30 Room 349

Documentary screening: Watchers of the sky

Institute of Historical Research Being Human Festival 2015 18:00–20:00 Wolfson Conference Suite, North Block

The World at War: revealing a hidden history

Institute of Modern Languages Research 2-day conference 10:00–17:00 Room G22/26

Thomas Bernhard’s reception in the Anglophone world

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 243

Connecting memories: how translation shapes city life

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 349

Aspect and agency in epigraphic signatures

School of Advanced Study Being Human Festival 2015 17:00–18:00 Senate House Library

On the path to illumination: a curatorial tour

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:00–18:00 Warburg Institute

Ordinary radicals: archiving English Renaissance pocket maps

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Wolfson Room II, North Block

Gender, property and absentee slave ownership

Convenor: Genna Naccache (ICWS MA student) Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Taylor Downing (Series Director, ‘The World at War’) | beinghumanfestival.org Free ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

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Thursday 19 Ingeborg Bachmann Centre conference | Hanno Biber (Vienna), Evelyn Breiteneder (Vienna), Ryan Crawford (Vienna), Stephen Dowden (Brandeis), ‘Rüdiger Görner’ (QMUL), Martin Huber (Salzburg), Heide Kunzelmann (IMLR/ Kent), Robert Leucht (Zurich), Jonathan J. Long (Durham), Agnes Müller (South Carolina), Ramón Soto Gámez (Madrid), Shane Weller (Kent), Tom Wilks (London) | Registration required Fee may be applicable jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

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Centre for Study of the Cultural Memory seminar | Sherry Simon (Concordia) Free katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk

Kat Lecky (Pennsylvania) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Hannah Young (UCL) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Colin Homiski (Senate House Library) | Booking required | beinghumanfestival.org Free colin.homiski@london.ac.uk

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ICS ancient history seminar | Stephen Colvin (UCL) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar November Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 234

Race, youth movements and policing in Rio de Janeiro

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Being Human Festival 2015 18:00–20:00 Parliament Chamber, Inner Temple

The humanity of lawyers

Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G37

The market as master or servant? Cuba’s attempt at a new ‘middle way’

School of Advanced Study Being Human Festival 2015 18:00–20:00 Chancellor’s Hall

Sounds that move us

School of Advanced Study Being Human Festival 2015 18:00–19:00 Senate House Library

Visualising data: aesthetics and analysis

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:30–20:30 Room 104

London theatre seminar

Charli Livingstone (Goldsmiths) Free ainhoa.montoya@sas.ac.uk

Registration required | beinghumanfestival.org Free judith.townend@sas.ac.uk

U,H

Stephen Wilkinson (IISC) | Organised in association with the International Institute for the Study of Cuba (IISC) Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk Led by the Institute of Philosophy, in partnership with Acajou Blind Dance Company, Tate Learning, UCLIC (Human-Computer Interaction Centre), UCL | Registration required | beinghumanfestival.org Free beinghuman@sas.ac.uk Martin Zaltz Austwick (UCL) | Registration required | beinghumanfestival.org Free colin.homiski@london.ac.uk

TBC Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

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Friday 20 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 09:30–16:00 Wiener Library

IMLR research training: Wiener Library seminar

School of Advanced Study Being Human Festival 2015 12:30–13:30 Senate House Library

On the path to illumination: a curatorial tour

Senate House Library Seminar 13:00–14:00 Senate House Library

Visionary building

Howard Falksohn (Wiener Library), Clare George (Miller Archivist, IMLR), Toby Simpson (Research Fellow, Wiener Library) Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Colin Homiski (Senate House Library) | Booking required | beinghumanfestival.org Free colin.homiski@london.ac.uk Richard Simpson, FSA (ICS) | Registration required Free colin.homiski@london.ac.uk

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 14:00–18:00 Room 246

Women writing rape: problematic depictions and critical challenges

Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute

Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 TBC

Blood for bread: reconsidering World War II in South eastern Europe

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CCWW cross-cultural seminar | Nicole Fayard (Leicester), Poonkulaly Gunaseelan (SOAS), Anna Kingsley (Royal Holloway), Katie Stone (Maynooth) | A CCWW cross-cultural seminar, organised by Katie Stone (Maynooth) | Registration required Free gill.rye@sas.ac.uk

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Translations will be provided Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk Robert J. Sing (Cambridge) Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Dejan Djokic, Xavier Bougarel (Paris) | In collaboration with the Chair Group for Southeast European History, Humboldt Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 21 Institute of Modern Languages Research Colloquium 10:00–18:00 University of Kent, Canterbury

58th national postgraduate colloquium in German Studies

School of Advanced Study Being Human Festival 2015 10:00–16:00 Senate House Library

Revealing local history: Wikipedia edit-a-thon

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 11:00–18:00 Room 243 and British Library

IMLR research training: modern languages archives and libraries

TBC Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Adrian Armstrong (QMUL), Catherine Davies (IMLR), Mura Ghosh (Senate House Library), Marja Kingma (British Library), Andrea Meyer Ludowisy (Senate House Library), Katia Pizzi (IMLR), Joao Paulo Silvestre (King’s, London/IMLR), Godela Weiss (Sussex/IMLR) | Registration required Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Monday 23 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 10:00–12:00 Room 246

Thinking being German philosophy seminar | Johan Siebers (IMLR/UCLAN) | Registration required Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

U,P

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Registration required | beinghumanfestival.org Free info@victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk

Events calendar November Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute

Arabic philosophy reading class

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243

Plato on poetry and truth

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 349

Sympathy and Sophoclean tragedy in Lessing’s Laocoön

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Colloquium 17:30–20:00 IALS

Human Rights Defenders special issue launch

Warburg Institute Seminar 13:00–14:15 Warburg Institute

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 14:00–17:00 IALS

Law reform workshop

Warburg Institute Seminar 16:00–17:15 Warburg Institute

Latin paleography

Institute of Modern Languages Research Book launch 17:00–20:00 Room 243

Cultural discourses on lesbianism in Italy

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Peter Marshall Room, North Block

Thinking with the Bible: childlessness in Carolingian Europe

Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Arabic | Registration required Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk ICS ancient philosophy seminar | Christopher Rowe (Durham) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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ICS ancient literature seminar | Katherine Harloe (Reading) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

In collaboration with the Human Rights Consortium and Amnesty International UK Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 24

Weekly public readings in partnership with UCL and the Italian Cultural Institute London | Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute), John Took (UCL) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk Michael Sayers (CALSRAs), Ronan Cormacain (consultant legislative drafter, Northern Ireland Executive), Elaine Lorimer (Law Commission for England Wales), William Robinson (IALS), Enrico Albanesi (Genoa) £35 standard | £25 students ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Friends of Italian book launch | Chiara Beccalossi (Oxford Brookes), Anne Hallmore Caesar (Warwick), Charlotte Ross (Birmingham) | Friends of Italian book launch Free katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk

Catherine Rose, Zubin Mistry (Edinburgh) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar November Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 243

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:00 Warburg Institute

Marsilio Ficino’s De amore

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:45–19:45 Room 304

The micro-museums archives project

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G35

Women writing the classics: classics in contemporary drama

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:30–20:30 North American History Room, North Block

Paper title: TBC

TBC Free ip@sas.ac.uk

Organized by Dilwyn Knox (UCL) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute) | The seminar can be followed using the original Latin text, Ficino’s Italian translation or an English translation Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Fiona Candlin (Birkbeck) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

C,U

Phyllis Brighouse (Liverpool/‘By Jove’ theatre company) | Chaired by: Nick Lowe (RHUL) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk Charles Esdaile (Liverpool) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 25 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 12:45–14:00 LG8, Keppel Street Building

Limpsy’s Ladies’ Pub: unmasking secret drinking in Victorian England

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:00–19:00 King’s College London

The BBC Charter renewal of 1947: religious liberty, diversity and experiments with ‘controversy’

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IALS

Showcasing new postgraduate talent: lightning talks

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Plotinus study group

Hannah Elias (McMaster) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, Guido Giglioni Free georgiostsagdis@outlook.com

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Jennifer Wallis (St Anne’s College, Oxford) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar November Thursday 26 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 12:30–13:30 IALS

IALS lunchtime seminar

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 349

Concealment and revelation: the Pola Casket and the visuality of early Christian relics

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 246

CenSes seminar

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 304

Enlightenment or modernity: the question of historical continuity

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 North American History Room, North Block

Paper title: TBC

Human Rights Consortium Book launch 18:00–20:30 TBC

Book launch: Exploring the boundaries of refugee law

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–19:30 Wolfson Room I, North Block

Homo Ludens in the landscape: English forests and other hunting grounds

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 19:15–20:30 SOAS

Japan in the Western imagination: a voyage of ideas into the past

TBC Free belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

C,H

ICS ancient history seminar | Jas Elsner (Oxford) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk TBC Free info.rts@sas.ac.uk

Martin Davies (Leicester) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Richard King (Nottingham) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Jean-Pierre Gauci (The People for Change Foundation), Mariaguiulia Giuffré (Edge Hill), Evangelia Tsourdi (ULB) Free hrc@sas.ac.uk

John Langton (Oxford) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Naoko Shimazu (Birkbeck) | 2015 W.G. Beasley Memorial Lecture Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Friday 27 Institute of Philosophy Conference / symposium 09:30–18:00 Room G37

London graduate conference: autumn 2015 TBC Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 10:00–16:00 Senate House

History libraries and research open day

Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute

Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 243

Mobilising hidden community languages in Tasmania

Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference / symposium 18:00–20:00 Chancellor’s Hall

Literature and wine: the global reach of La Rioja

Co-hosted with Senate House Library | Registration required Free ihr.library@sas.ac.uk

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Registration required Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk Roderick White (UCL) Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Minor translingualisms seminar | Marco Santello (Warwick) Free natalia.bremner@sas.ac.uk

Gonzalo Capellán (La Rioja), Andrés Pascual (novelist from La Rio) | Sponsored by Bodega Classica (Vintae Rioja) Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 28 South American archaeology seminar Convenor: Bill Sillar (UCL) | Organised by UCL Institute of Archaelogy | Registration required £7.50 ucl.saas@gmail.com

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Monday 30 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 10:00–12:00 Room 246

Thinking being

Senate House Library Symposium 13:00–18:00 Senate House Library

Putting the graphic in music: notation, analysis and performance

German philosophy seminar | Johan Siebers (IMLR/UCLAN) | Registration required Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

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Registration required Free colin.homiski@london.ac.uk

www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

Institute of Latin American Studies Workshop 10:00–17:30 Institute of Archaeology, UCL

Events calendar November Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute

Arabic philosophy reading class

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Workshop 15:00–17:30 IALS

Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies: workshop on bilingualism

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 349

ICS ancient literature seminar

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar 17:00–18:30 Room 246

International responses to mass atrocities in Africa

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:15 Olga Crisp Room, 102

Moses Mendelssohn on Hebrew as a language of action

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Wolfson Room II, North Block

Reading, writing, and religion in 19th-century France

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture 18:00–19:00 IALS

Sir William Dale Annual Memorial Lecture

Institute of Historical Research Lecture 18:00–20:00 Wolfson Conference Suite, North Block

Creighton lecture 2015

Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Arabic | Registration required Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk

U,P

TBC Free belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

Ruth Webb (Lille) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Kurt Mills (Glasgow Human Rights Network, University of Glasgow) | Chair: Sue Onslow (ICWS) Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Avi Lifschitz (UCL) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Rob Priest (Royal Holloway) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Theodore Huckle QC/CF (Welsh Government) | Registration required Free belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

Margaret MacMillan (Oxford) | Registration required Free ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar December Subject area key Classics History Philosophy culture, language & literature Human rights Politics Law Music Highlights

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Events calendar December Tuesday 1 Warburg Institute Seminar 13:00–14:15 Warburg Institute

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia

Warburg Institute Seminar 16:00–17:15 Warburg Institute

Latin paleography

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 349

ICS classical archaeology seminar

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Wolfson Room I, North Block

Re-evaluating topography: the case of Captain Thomas Davies’ An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara (1762)

Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:30–20:00 Room G22/26

Sanctuaries and states in the archaic Mediterranean and beyond

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

On books for soldiers in WWI

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Peter Marshall Room, 204, North Block

West African warfare in Bahia and Cuba: soldier slaves in the Atlantic world, 1807–44

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:00 Warburg Institute

Marsilio Ficino’s De amore

Warburg Institute Lecture 17:30–18:30 Warburg Institute

Libraries for soldiers during the First World War

TBC Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Felicity Myrone (British Library) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Accordia lecture | Greg Woolf (ICS) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk Edmund G. C. King (Open) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Manuel Barci (Leeds) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Edmund King (Open) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

U,H

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243

Getting other voices heard: literary translations and publishing challenges

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Links comparative studies seminar | Ellen Jones (QMUL) | LINKS Comparative Studies Seminar | Organised together with Birkbeck College, Goldsmiths, King’s College London, Queen Mary, Royal Holloway, SOAS, UCL Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 2 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 15:30–18:00 Room G22/26

Mycenaean iconography and agency

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 246

London Aesthetics Forum

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Colloquium 17:00–21:00 Room 349

Human Rights Defenders, special issue launch

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Plotinus study group

Human Rights Consortium Seminar 18:00–19:30 IALS

Running sideways: has Europe overdone distancing itself from the Geneva Refugee Convention?

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243

Encounters with Albion: literary representations of the arrival in Britain of the Jewish refugees from Nazism

Senate House Library Seminar 18:00–19:00 Senate House Library

The origins of monsters: image and cognition in the first age of mechanical reproduction

ICS Mycenaean seminar | James Wright (Athens) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

TBC Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

In collaboration with the Human Rights Consortium Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Organised by Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston)

Free georgiostsagdis@outlook.com

Julian Lehman (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) | Refugee Law Initiative’s 6th International Refugee Law Seminar Series Free hrc@sas.ac.uk

Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies seminar | Anthony Grenville (London) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

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David Wengrow (UCL) | Registration required Free colin.homiski@london.ac.uk

Events calendar December Thursday 3 Institute of English Studies Conference / symposium 09:00–17:00 The Court Room

Reading the world: challenging the dynamics of Canon formations

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 12:30–13:30 IALS

IALS lunchtime seminar: Specialized adjudication in EU administrative law: the boards of appeal of EU agencies

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 349

Zela, acclamations, Caracalla – and Parthia?

Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 17:15–19:00 Room 243

‘Winterabende’: a motif in German art, literature and thought

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Wolfson Room II, North Block

Gender and war in the 20th century

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Past and Present Room, 202, North Block

The events leading up to his death: the last years of Preston Sturges, 1950–9

Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 234

Catholic secularity and politics of social inclusion in Brazil: moral pedagogies of exemplarity and gratuity

Senate House Library Seminar 18:00–19:00 Senate House Library

‘The animal that does not exist’: unicorns in Rilke, myths and art

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:30–20:30 Room G37

London theatre seminar

Marina Warner Free ies@sas.ac.uk

Paola Chirulli (Rome/IALS Visiting Fellow) Free belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk ICS ancient history seminar | Andrew Burnett (BM) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

English Goethe Society Lecture | Ian Cooper (Kent) Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Clare Makepeace (UCL) Sonya Rose (Michigan/Birkbeck) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Nick Smedley (Author of ‘The Roots of Modern Hollywood’ and ‘A Divided World: Hollywood Cinema and Emigré Directors in the Era of Roosevelt and Hitler’) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Eduardo Dullo (São Paulo/CEBRAP) Free ainhoa.montoya@sas.ac.uk

Naomi Segal (Birkbeck) | Booking required Free colin.homiski@london.ac.uk TBC Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar December Friday 4 Institute of Philosophy Conference / symposium 10:00–18:00 Chancellor’s Hall

Ten years of the IP

Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute

Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 14:30–16:00 Room 243

Dynasts in action: art and society in the eastern Mediterranean under Persian rule

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00–19:30 IALS

Legal history seminar

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243

‘A tangle of tatters’: Beckett, methodology and entanglement

TBC Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Registration required Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk

ICS early career seminar | Alessandro Poggio Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Lea Niccolai (Pisa) Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Organised in association with The London Legal History Seminar | Registration required Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference / symposium 09:00–18:00 Room 243

Trash cultures in the Francophone world

Institute of English Studies Seminar 11:00–13:00 Room 349

London modernism seminar

Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 14:30–17:00 Room 349

ICS Virgil Society lecture

Kenneth W. Harrow (Michigan) Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

TBC Free ies@sas.ac.uk

TBC Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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Saturday 5

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Jonathan Heron (Warwick) | The London Beckett Seminar Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar December Monday 7 Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute

Arabic philosophy reading class

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 16:30–18:00 IALS

Mutual recognition of judicial decisions and confiscation orders in Europe

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243

Aristotle and the poets on the ethics of wealth

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 349

Does opsis do justice to the visual in tragedy?

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Peter Marshall Room, 204, North Block

Migration, motherhood, and mortality: Yellow Fever and gender construction in the deep South, 1800–30

Senate House Library Seminar 18:00–19:00 Senate House Library

Translation and image

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:30–20:00 King’s College London

CCWW Spanish reading group

Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Arabic | Registration required Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk

U,P

Organised with the European Criminal Law Association (U) | Registration required Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk ICS ancient philosophy seminar | Kleanthis Mantzouranis (St Andrews) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

ICS ancient literature seminar | Oliver Taplin (Oxford) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

C,P

Kathryn Olivarius (Oxford) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

John London (Goldsmiths) | Booking required Free colin.homiski@london.ac.uk

Registration required Free maria-jose.blanco@kcl.ac.uk

Tuesday 8 Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 17:00–19:00 Room 243

Cómo escribir un bestseller

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Peter Marshall Room, 204, North Block

‘Revolting Crime ... Shocking Details!’ Introducing children who kill to the histories of childhood and crime

Andre Pascua (Vocento Cultural Centre) | Talk given in Spanish Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Eleanor Betts (QMUL) | Chair: Simon Sleight (King’s) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 234

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:45–19:45 Room 304

Collections-based research and knowledge institutions: shifting landscapes and case studies

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 IALS

IALS lunchtime seminar

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G35

Women writing the classics: classics in contemporary women’s prose

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G34

The making of the modern world: surveillance and the internet: ‘Netizens’ and cyber spying

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:30–20:30 North Block

Of morals and money: IG Farben and GAF, ideology and pragmatism in the Kennedy administration’s settlement with the Union Bank of Switzerland 1963–5

TBC Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar December P

Martha Fleming (Reading) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Martin Brenncke (Zurich) Free belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

C,U

Speakers: Elizabeth Cook, Salley Vickers | Chaired by: Efi Spentzou (Royal Holloway) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

R,O

Richard Aldrich (Warwick), Thomas Rid (King’s, London), Luke Harding (The Guardian) Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Declan O’Reilly (UEA) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 9 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Workshop 12:00–16:30 IALS

Annual showcasing of the work of the LERN research grantees

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:00–19:00 King’s College London

On politicians working with other politicians

Organised with the Legal Education and Research Network | LERN workshop Fee applicable belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

H,O

www.sas.ac.uk

Lord Radice (House of Lords) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

Events calendar December Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 243

Entertainment and edification: changes in childhood pastimes in Georgian England

Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G35

London old and middle English research seminar

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–18:30 Warburg Institute

Scholasticism reading group

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Plotinus study group

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–19:30 Wolfson Conference Suite, North Block

History now and then: does the ‘real’ past matter?

Mary-Clare Martin (Greenwich), Alan Powers (New York University, London), Adrian Seville (City, London) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Josh Davies (King’s, London) Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Basic reading knowledge of Medieval Latin is recommended | Registration required Free warburg@sas.ac.uk Organiser: Georgios Tsagdi (Kingston) | Other speakers: Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, Guido Giglioni Free georgiostsagdis@outlook.com

Chair: Daniel Snowman Other speakers: Peter Burke, David Cesarani, Justin Champion, Roy Foster | Registration required £5 per session | £25 for all 6 sessions ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 10 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 12:30–13:30 IALS

IALS lunchtime seminar: Revisiting Hurst’s legitimacy of corporations: utility-responsibility dichotomy in company law

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 349

Monarchies and republics in Etruria: myths, objects and political theory

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 246

CenSes seminar

Adaeze Okoye (Canterbury Christchurch/IALS Visiting Fellow) Free belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

ICS ancient history seminar | Corinna Riva (UCL) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk TBC Free info.rts@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:20–19:30 North American History Room, IHR, North Block

Music in Antebellum American electoral politics

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Past & Present Room, 202, North Block

Making a record of the self

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 304

History between story and argument: reviving narratological analyses of professional historical writing

Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference / symposium 17:30–20:00 Room G35

Encounters: writers and translators in conversation: Annett Gröschner and Katy Derbyshire

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–19:30 Wolfson Room I, North Block

Releasing the spirit of the place: landscape, the National Trust and the enduring legacy of the picturesque

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Senate House Library

Illuminations: Pinocchio revealed: a global puppet in the age of the machine

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:00–19:30 Room 243

IMLR graduate forum

Billy Coleman (UCL) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Jennifer Bishop (Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar December H

P,H

Wulf Kansteiner (Aarhus) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Chair: Godela Weiss-Sussex (IMLR) | Speakers: Annett Gröschner, Katy Derbyshire | Sponsored by the Keith Spalding Bequest | Organised in conjunction with the University of Nottingham | Registration required Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Katia Pizzi (IMLR) | Friends of Italian event | Registration required Free katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk

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TBC Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

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Ben Cowell (National Trust) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar December Friday 11 Institute of Latin American Studies Workshop 10:00–18:00 Room 243

The Dutch Caribbean: historical, economic, political and cultural counterpoints

Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute

Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar

SUH

Convenor: Luis Perez-Simon (ILAS) | CICR Seminar Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Charles Burnett (Warburg) | Registration required Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk Spencer Klavan (Oxford) Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Monday 14 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Olga Crisp Room, 102, North Block

Restricting aliens in mid 20th-century Britain

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Wolfson Room II, North Block

Paris and its liberation

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Wolfson Room I, North Block

Celebrate the third edition of Oral History Reader

Senate House Library Seminar 18:00–19:00 Senate House Library

The life and death of a composer through images from birth to Auschwitz

M,U

Louise London (London) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Hannah Diamond (Cardiff) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Rob Perks (British Library), Al Thomson (Monash) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Agnes Kory (Bela Bartok Centre for Musicianship) | Registration required Free colin.homiski@london.ac.uk

Wednesday 16 Senate House Library Symposium 11:00–18:00 Senate House Library

From Hogarth to Hellboy: the transformation of the visual reader Paul Gravett | Registration required Free colin.homiski@london.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 304, North Block

European time for the world? The global transformation of time, 1870–1950

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Plotinus study group

Events calendar

Events calendar December H

Chair: Simon Jackson Speaker: Vanessa Ogle (Philadelphia) | Joint event with the seminar on imperial and global history Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Organiser: Georgios Tsagdi (Kingston) | Other speakers: Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, Guido Giglioni Free georgiostsagdis@outlook.com

Thursday 17 Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 234

Embodied ghosts of phantom lynchings: an anatomy of El Alto’s hanged puppets

Senate House Library Seminar 18:00–19:00 Senate House Library

Transformations of Scrooge

Martyn Wemyss (UEL) Free ainhoa.montoya@sas.ac.uk

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Michael Slater (Birkbeck) | Booking required Free colin.homiski@london.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar January Subject area key Classics History Philosophy culture, language & literature Human rights Politics Law Music Highlights

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Highlights

Events calendar January Monday 4 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Olga Crisp Room, 102, North Block

German Jewish refugees and their relationship to postwar Germany

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Peter Marshall Room, 204, North Block

The gender of the solitary vice: racialized gender, feminism, and sexual regulation in the 19th-century US

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Wolfson Room II, North Block

Rewriting the French resistance

Anna Schenderlien (German Historical Institute, Washington, DC) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

April Haynes (Wisconsin, Madison) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Robert Gildea (Oxford) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 6 Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Plotinus study group Organiser: Georgios Tsagdi (Kingston) | Other speakers: Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, Guido Giglioni Free georgiostsagdis@outlook.com

Thursday 7 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–19:30 John S Cohen Room, 203, North Block

Commemorative communities and community scripts

Carmen Mangion (Birkbeck) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Monday 11 Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute

Arabic philosophy reading class

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 243

British Museum Celts exhibition (working title)

Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Arabic | Registration required Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk Roman art seminar | Julia Farley Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar January Tuesday 12 Warburg Institute Seminar 13:00–14:15 Warburg Institute

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia

Warburg Institute Seminar 16:00–17:15 Warburg Institute

Latin paleography

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 349

ICS classical archaeology seminar

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:00 Warburg Institute

Marsilio Ficino’s De amore

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–19:30 Room 243

Literary London reading group

Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) John Took (UCL) | In partnership with UCL and the Italian Cultural Institute in London £80 standard | £50 concessions | free for Warburg/UCL warburg@ sas.ac.uk Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

TBC Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

TBC Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 13

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:00–19:00 King’s College London

The career of George N Barnes, Labour politician

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Plotinus study group

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–19:30 Wolfson Conference Suite, North Block

History now and then: rewriting the past

TBC Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Rebecca Wootton (King’s, London) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Organiser: Georgios Tsagdi (Kingston) | Other speakers: Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, Guido Giglioni Free georgiostsagdis@outlook.com

Chair: Daniel Snowman | Speakers: Penelope Corfield, Felipe FernandezArmesto, Ian Kershaw, Jonathan Steinberg Free ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

H,O

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London Aesthetics Forum seminar

www.sas.ac.uk

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 243

Events calendar January Thursday 14 Warburg Institute Seminar 17:00–18:00 Warburg Institute

Experiencing lunar maps: collections in England, France and Spain, 1638–c.1700

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:00–19:30 Room 246

IMLR graduate forum

Conveners: Catherine Delano-Smith (IHR), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) | Speaker: Nydia Pineda De Avila (QMUL) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk TBC Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Friday 15 Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute

Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 14:30–16:00 Room 234

Why is Aristotle’s ‘political friendship’ friendship?

Charles Burnett (Warburg) | Registration required Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk

ICS early career seminar | Myrthe Bartels Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Monday 18 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 10:00–12:00 Room 246

Thinking being

Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute

Arabic philosophy reading class

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243

Neoplatonists on Platonic drama: the pedagogical function of mimēsis and enargeia

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room G22

The politics of Athenian tragedy

German philosophy seminar | Convenor: Johan Siebers (IMLR/UCLAN) | Registration required Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Arabic | Registration required Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk

U,P

C,P

ICS ancient philosophy seminar | R.M. van den Berg (Leiden) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

ICS ancient literature seminar | Richard Seaford (Exeter) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Wolfson Room II, North Block

Paper title: TBC Itay Lotem (QMUL) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar January H

Tuesday 19 Warburg Institute Seminar 13:00–14:15 Warburg Institute

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia

Warburg Institute Seminar 16:00–17:15 Warburg Institute

Latin paleography

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Peter Marshall Room, 204, North Block

I wanted to give a cultural face to older women: Jane Fonda, ageing and the Older Women’s League

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 John S Cohen Room, 203, North Block

European or imperial metropolis? Depictions of London in British newspapers, 1870–1900

Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:30–20:00 Room G22/26

Hungry humans eating thirsty elephants: human proboscidean interactions in the Italian Lower Palaeolithic

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 243

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:00 Warburg Institute

Marsilio Ficino’s De amore

Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) John Took (UCL) | In partnership with UCL and the Italian Cultural Institute in London £80 standard | £50 concessions | free for Warburg/UCL warburg@ sas.ac.uk Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Chair: Tim Reinke-Willias | Speaker: Rachel Ritchie (Brunel) | Co-hosted with the women’s history seminar Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Giovanni Boschian (Pisa) | Accordia lecture Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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TBC Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

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Tessa Hauswedell Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar January Human Rights Consortium Seminar 18:00–19:30 IALS

Human trafficking and slavery reconsidered

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243

Round table discussion: world literature

Vladislava Stoyanova (Lund University) | This Seminar is part of the Refugee Law Initiative’s 6th International Refugee Law Seminar Series. Free hrc@sas.ac.uk Francesca Orsini (SOAS) | Organised with Birkbeck, Goldsmiths, King’s College London, QMUL, Royal Holloway, SOAS, UCL | LINKS Comparative Studies seminar Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

R,L

Wednesday 20 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 15:30–18:00 Room G22/26

ICS Mycenaean series

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:15–19:00 Warburg Institute

Theurgical trends in the Early Modern period

Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 246

Race and migration: black, Chinese and Indian migrations to the post-slavery Caribbean

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Plotinus study group

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243

POW re-education after WWII

Peter Tomkins (Leuven) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Cecilia Muratori (Warwick), Anna Corrias (UCL) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Luis Perez-Simon (ILAS) | CICR seminar Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Organiser: Georgios Tsagdi (Kingston) | Other speakers: Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, Guido Giglioni Free georgiostsagdis@outlook.com Jennifer Taylor (London) | The lecture programme Beyond a grass-roots perspective Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 21 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 349

ICS ancient history seminar

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 North American History Room, North Block

The politics of African American celebrity in the age of Jim Crow

TBC Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Stephen Robinson (York St. John) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Past & Present Room, 202, North Block

The water-drinker and `the ingenuity of his knavery’

Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 17:30–19:30 Room 104

Public crying: the reappearance of public mourning on the streets of European cities

Events calendar

Events calendar January U

Tom Colville (King’s, London) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Sigrid Weigel (Berlin) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Friday 22 Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute

Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 234

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243

Staging Beckett in Ireland: scenographic remains

Charles Burnett (Warburg) | Registration required Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk Elena Chepel (Reading) Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Anna McMullan (Reading) | The London Beckett seminar Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 23 ICS Virgil Society Lecture TBC Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Monday 25 Thinking being

Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute

Arabic philosophy reading class

German philosophy seminars | Convenor: Johan Siebers (IMLR/UCLAN) | Registration required Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Arabic | Registration required Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 10:00–12:00 Room 246

www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 14:30–17:00 Room G22/26

Events calendar January Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 349

Oratorial fragments and the history of the Roman Republic oratory

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 243

Roman votice plaques and the Ashwell Treasure

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture 18:00–19:00 IALS

Drafting of criminal justice legislation

ICS ancient literature seminar | Catherine Steel (Glasgow) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk Roman art seminar | Ralph Jackson Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

John Spencer QC (Cambridge) | Organised in association with the Statute Law Society | Registration required Free belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 26 Warburg Institute Seminar 13:00–14:15 Warburg Institute

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia

Warburg Institute Seminar 16:00–17:15 Warburg Institute

Latin paleography

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:00 Warburg Institute

Marsilio Ficino’s De amore

Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 18:00–20:00 Room G22/26

ICS and friends of the British School at Athens

Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) John Took (UCL) | In partnership with UCL and the Italian Cultural Institute in London £80 standard | £50 concessions | Warburg/UCL free warburg@sas.ac.uk Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Malcolm Wagstaff | FBSA Lecture Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 27 Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 243

London Aesthetics Forum

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:00–19:00 King’s College London

Marital violence in post-independence Ireland

TBC Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Cara Diver (King’s, London) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Plotinus study group Organiser: Georgios Tsagdi (Kingston) | Other speakers: Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, Guido Giglioni Free georgiostsagdis@outlook.com

Events calendar

Events calendar January U

Thursday 28 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 349

ICS ancient history seminar

Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 17:15–19:00 Room 243

Goethe, Hoffmann, Scott: reciprocal processes of cultural transfer between Britain and Germany

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 202, North Block

Gingering up: media interpretations of Henry VIII

TBC Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

C,H

Barry Murnane (Oxford) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Llewella Burton (East Anglia) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Friday 29 Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:30 Warburg Institute

Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00–19:30 IALS

Legal history seminar

Charles Burnett (Warburg) | Registration required Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk

Organised in association with The London Legal History Seminar | Registration required Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

L,H

Saturday 30 Pinnock’s Catechisms, 1812–40: schoolbooks for ‘the meanest capacity’

Margaret Lock (independent scholar) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 14:00–16:00 North Block

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Sam Fernes (Manchester) Free postgradwip@gmail.com

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 collaborators and supporters are listed on our website. All are welcome to attend 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. Please check our websites for further information.

Mycenaean Wednesdays at 15:30–18:00 Dates: 14 Oct, 2 Dec, 20 Jan Postgraduate work-in-progress Fridays at 16:30–18:30 Dates: 9, 16, 23, 30 Oct, 6, 13, 20, 27 Nov, 4, 11 Dec, 22, 29 Jan (Open to postgraduate students only) Roman art

Institute of Classical Studies

Mondays at 17:00–19:00 Dates: 11, 25 Jan

Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk Ancient history

Women writing the Classics

Thursdays at 16:30–18:30

Tuesdays at 18:00–20:00 and Saturday event

Dates: 15, 29 Oct, 5, 12, 19, 26 Nov, 3, 10 Dec, 21, 28 Jan

Dates: 6, 20 Oct, 7, 24 Nov, 8 Dec

Ancient literature Mondays at 17:00–19:00 Dates: 5, 12, 19, 26 Oct, 9, 16, 23, 30 Nov, 7 Dec, 18, 25 Jan

Institute of English Studies Contact: ies@sas.ac.uk. Dates and times are not yet confirmed for the following seminars. Please see events.sas.ac.uk/ies/seminars for up-to-date listings. Book collecting

Ancient philosophy

Book history and bibliography research seminar

Mondays at 16:30 –18:30

Contemporary cultures of writing

Date: 12 Oct, 9, 23 Nov, 7 Dec, 18 Jan Classical archaeology

Contemporary fiction research Contemporary innovative poetry research

Tuesdays at 17:00–19:00

Early modern philosophy and the scientific imagination (EMPHASIS)

Dates: 3 Nov, 1 Dec, 12 Jan

Ezra Pound Cantos reading group

Early career Fridays at 14:15–16:15 Dates: 9, 30 Oct, 13 Nov, 4 Dec, 15 Jan

History of libraries research seminar Irish studies Literary London reading group London nineteenth-century studies London Old and Middle English research seminar (LOMERS)

Seminar series

London screenwriting research seminar

British maritime history

London Shakespeare seminar

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

London theatre

Dates: 13, 27 Oct, 10, 24 Nov, 8 Dec, 5, 19 Jan

Media history Medieval manuscripts Modernism Modernist magazines research seminar

Christian missions in global history Usually Tuesdays at 17:30 Dates: 13, 27 Oct, 10, 24 Nov, 8 Dec, 12, 26 Jan

Pedagogic criticism 2: workshops

Collecting and display (100BC to AD1700)

Postgraduate feminist reading group

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30

Psychoanalysis, literature and practice

Dates: 19 Oct, 2, 16, 7, 14 Dec 11, 25 Jan

Roman Jakobson: poetry of self, city, sign and form The Charles Peake Ulysses seminar The London Beckett Seminar (new seminar series)

Colonial/postcolonial new researchersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; workshop Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 12, 26 Oct, 9, 23 Nov, 7 Dec, 11, 25 Jan

Theory now

Institute of Historical Research Contact: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk American history Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 1, 15, 29 Oct, 12, 26 Nov, 10 Dec, 7, 21 Jan Archives and society Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:45 Dates: 13, 27 Oct 10, 24 Nov, 8 Dec, 5, 19 Jan

Comparative histories of Asia Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 1, 15, 29 Oct, 12, 26 Nov, 10 Dec 7, 21 Jan Conversations and disputations Once a month on Fridays at 17:30 Dates: 9 Oct, 6 Nov, 4 Dec, 15 Jan www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

University of London Finnegans Wake research seminar

Crusades and the Latin East Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 12, 26 Oct, 9, 23 Nov, 7 Dec, 11, 25 Jan Digital history

British history in the 17th century

Usually Tuesdays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30

Dates: 13, 27 Oct, 10, 24 Nov, 8 Dec, 5, 19 Jan

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Dates: 8, 22 Oct, 5, 19 Nov, 3, 17 Dec, 14, 28 Jan Disability history British history in the long 18th century

1st Monday of every month at 17:15

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15

Dates: 5 Oct, 2 Nov, 7 Dec, 4 Jan

Dates: 14, 28 Oct, 11, 25 Nov, 9 Dec, 6, 20 Jan 89

Seminar series

Earlier middle ages

History of education

Wednesdays at 17:30

1st Thursday of every month at 17:30

Dates: 7, 14, 21, 28 Oct, 4, 11, 18, 25 Nov, 2, 9 Dec, 6, 13, 20, 27 Jan

Dates: 1 Oct, 5 Nov, 3 Dec, 7 Jan History of gardens and landscapes

Economic and social history of the early modern world Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15 Dates: 9, 23 Oct, 6, 20 Nov, 15, 29 Jan Education in the long 18th century Once a month on a Saturday 14:00–16:00 Date: 3, 24 Oct, 14 Nov, 30 Jan European history 1150–1550 Fortnightly on Thursdays 17:30 Dates: 15, 29 Oct, 12, 26 Nov, 10 Dec, 14, 28 Jan European history 1500–1800 Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 12, 26 Oct, 9, 23 Nov, 7 Dec, 11, 25 Jan Film history Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 8, 22 Oct, 5, 19 Nov, 3, 17 Dec, 14, 28 Jan Gender and history in the Americas 1st Monday of the month at 17:30 Dates: 5 Oct, 2 Nov, 7 Dec, 4 Jan History and public health Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 12:45 Dates: 14, 28 Oct, 11, 25 Nov, 20 Jan History lab Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 8, 22 Oct, 5, 19 Nov, 3, 17 Dec, 14, 28 Jan 90

Fortnightly on Thursdays 18:00 Dates: 1, 15, 29 Oct, 12, 26 Nov, 10 Dec, 7, 21 Jan History of libraries Once a month on a Tuesday at 17:30 Dates: 6 Oct, 4 Nov, 1 Dec History of political ideas Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15 Dates: 7, 21 Oct, 4, 18 Nov, 2 Dec, 13, 27 Jan History of political ideas / early career Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15 Dates: 14, 28 Oct, 11, 25 Nov, 9 Dec, 6, 20 Jan History of sexuality Once a month on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 20 Oct, 10 Nov, 1 Dec, 19 Jan Imperial and world history Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 5, 19 Oct, 2, 16, 30 Nov, 14 Dec, 4, 18 Jan International history Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 18:00 Dates: 1, 13, 27 Oct, 10, 24 Nov, 8 Dec, 5, 19 Jan Jewish history Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 5, 19 Oct, 2, 16, 30 Nov, 14 Dec, 4, 18 Jan

Seminar series

Late medieval and early modern Italy

Metropolitan history

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30

Dates: 8, 22 Oct 5, 19 Nov 3, 17 Dec 7, 21 Jan

Dates: 14, 28 Oct, 11, 25 Nov, 9 Dec, 6, 20 Jan

Late medieval

Military history

Fridays at 17:30

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

Dates: 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Oct, 6, 13, 20, 27 Nov, 4, 11, Dec 8, 15, 22, 29 Jan

Dates: 6, 20 Oct, 3, 17 Nov, 1 Dec, 5, 19 Jan Modern British history

Latin American history

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30

Dates: 1, 15, 29 Oct 12, 26 Nov 10 Dec 7, 21 Jan

Dates: 6, 20 Oct, 3, 17 Nov, 1 Dec, 12, 26 Jan Modern French history Life窶田ycles

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

Dates: 5, 19 Oct, 2, 16, 30 Nov, 14 Dec, 4, 18 Jan

Dates: 13, 27 Oct, 10, 24 Nov, 8 Dec, 5, 19 Jan Modern German history Locality and region

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

Dates: 14, 28 Oct, 11, 25 Nov, 9 Dec, 6, 20 Jan

Dates: 6, 20 Oct, 3, 17 Nov, 1 Dec, 12, 26 Jan Modern Italian history London Group of Historical Geographers

Fortnightly on Wednesdays 17:30

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

Dates: 14, 28 Oct, 11, 25 Nov, 9 Dec, 13, 27 Jan www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

Dates: 6, 20 Oct, 3, 17 Nov, 1 Dec, 12, 26 Jan Modern religious history London Society for Medieval Studies

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 19:00

Dates: 7, 21 Oct, 4, 18 Nov, 2 Dec, 13, 27 Jan

Dates: 6, 20 Oct, 3, 17, Nov, 1 Dec, 12, 26 Jan Oral history Low countries history

First Thursday of every month at 18:00

Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15

Date: 1 Oct, 5 Nov, 3 Dec, 7 Jan

Dates: 9, 23 Oct, 6, 20 Nov, 4 Dec, 15, 29 Jan

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:30

Dates: 6, 20 Oct, 3, 17 Nov, 1 Dec, 5, 19 Jan

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Parliaments, politics and people Marxism in culture Dates: 2, 16, 30 Oct, 13, 27 Nov, 11 Dec, 8, 22 Jan 91

Seminar series

Philosophy of history

Studies of home

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30

First Wednesday of every month at 17:30

Dates: 1, 15, 29 Oct, 12, 26 Nov, 10 Dec 7, 21 Jan

Dates: 7 Oct, 4 Nov, 2 Dec, 6 Jan

Psychoanalysis and history

Tudor and Stuart history

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15

Dates: 7, 21 Oct, 4, 18 Nov, 2 Dec, 13, 27 Jan

Dates: 12, 26 Oct, 9, 23 Nov, 7 Dec, 11, 25 Jan

Public history

Voluntary action history

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30

Dates: 7, 21 Oct, 4, 18 Nov, 2 Dec, 6, 20 Jan

Dates: 5, 19 Oct, 2, 16, 30 Nov, 14 Dec, 4, 18 Jan

Reconfiguring the British: nation, empire, world 1600–1900

War, society and culture

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30

Dates: 7, 21 Oct, 4, 18 Nov, 2 Dec, 13, 27 Jan

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15

Dates: 8, 22 Oct, 5, 19 Nov, 3, 17 Dec, 14, 28 Jan Women’s history Religious history of Britain 1500–1800

Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

Dates: 2, 16, 30 Oct, 13, 27 Nov, 11 Dec, 8, 22 Jan

Dates: 13, 27 Oct, 10, 24 Nov, 8 Dec 12, 26 Jan Rethinking modern Europe Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 7, 21 Oct, 4, 18 Nov, 2 Dec, 13, 27 Jan

Institute of Modern Languages Research Contact: modernlanguages@sas.ac.uk Thinking being

Socialist history

Usually Mondays at 10:00–12:00

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30

Dates: 5, 12, 19, 26 Oct, 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Nov, 18, 25 Jan

Dates: 12, 26 Oct, 9, 23 Nov, 7 Dec, 11, 25 Jan Society, culture and belief, 1500–1800

Institute of Philosophy

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30

Contact: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Dates: 8, 22 Oct, 5, 19 Nov, 3, 17 Dec, 14, 28 Jan

Aesthetics forum Usually Wednesdays at 16:00–18:00

Sport and leisure history Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 5, 19 Oct, 2, 16, 30 Nov, 14 Dec 4, 18 Jan 92

Dates: 7, 21 Oct, 4, 18 Nov, 2 Dec, 13, 27 Jan

Seminar series

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics forum

Literature, ideas and society

Usually Tuesdays at 17:30–19:30

One meeting per term, 17.15–19.15

Dates: 27 Oct, 10, 24 Nov, 8 Dec, 19 Jan

Dates: 28 Oct, 20 Jan Marsilio Ficino’s De amore

Rethinking the senses: multisensory perception and action Usually Thursdays at 17:00–19:00

Tuesdays at 17.30–19.00 Dates: 6, 13, 20, 27 Oct, 10, 17, 24 Nov, 1 Dec, 12, 19, 26 Jan

Dates: 1, 15, 29 Oct, 12, 26 Nov, 10 Dec Maps and society www.thesenses.ac.uk

Occasional Thursdays at 17.00–18.00 Dates: 19 Nov, 14 Jan

The Warburg Institute Contact: warburg@sas.ac.uk Arabic philosophy

Plotinus study group Wednesdays at 17.30–19.30

Mondays at 14.15–15.15

Dates: 7, 14, 21, 28 Oct, 11, 18, 25 Nov, 2, 9, 16 Dec, 6, 13, 20, 27 Jan

Dates: 5, 12, 19, 26 Oct, 9, 16, 23, 30 Nov, 7 Dec, 11, 18, 25 Jan

Warburg–UCL scholasticism reading group

Basic knowledge of Arabic required

Occasional Wednesdays at 17.30–18.30 Dates: 28 Oct, 9 Dec

Esoteric traditions and occult thought Dates: 9, 16, 23, 30 Oct, 13, 20, 27 Nov, 11 Dec, 15, 22, 29 Jan From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia Tuesdays at 13.00–14.15 Dates: 6, 13, 20, 27 Oct, 10, 17, 24 Nov, 1 Dec, 12, 19, 26 Jan

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Latin palaeography Tuesdays at 16.15–17.15

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Dates: 6, 13, 20, 27 Oct, 10, 17, 24 Nov, 1 Dec, 12, 19, 26 Jan

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Fridays at 13.00–14.15

POSTGR ADUATE STUDY in the humanities at the University of London Visit the School of Advanced Study stand at the Careers Group open day on Tuesday 27 October, 11.30am–5pm pgmba.gradsintocareers.co.uk

The School of Advanced Study at the University of London brings together 9 internationally-renowned research institutes to form the UK’s national centre for the support of researchers and the promotion of research in the humanities. The School offers full- and part-time Master’s and research degrees in its specialist areas, including: LLM in Advanced Legislative Studies LLM in Advanced Legislative Studies via distance learning LLM in International Corporate Governance, Financial Regulation and Economic Law MA in Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture MA in Cultural and Intellectual History 1300–1650 MA in Garden and Landscape History MA/MRes in Historical Research MA/MRes in the History of the Book MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies via distance learning

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This general training is complemented by a set of research methodologies courses for students in social science disciplines, and in the software and management information tools required to enable students to complete their research effectively.

‘The School’s extensive and varied range of training programmes are designed to meet the needs of 21st-century researchers, offering programmes which enable scholars in the humanities to develop their skills and pursue their studies to maximum effect.’ Rachel Sutton, Registrar

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 of all sorts. 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

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The School’s programme of personal development and transferable skills training is available in the form of weekly workshops, commencing in the autumn.

Making the most of the expertise available in the School and the University of London, the institutes between them also provide well-established disciplinespecific research training in core humanities disciplines.

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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.

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Calls for papers

Deep decolonisation: Latin America and the connected histories of the postcolonial world

Anniversary Joyce: XXV International James Joyce Symposium

17 March 2016

13 June 2016

ILAS intends to publish a concise edited volume of selected conference papers with an eye to the classroom. Please submit a title and 100-word abstract of your proposed paper plus a one-page CV to the convenor: Dr Mark Thurner, mark.thurner@sas.ac.uk.

CFP deadline: 31 May 2015 The XXV International James Joyce Symposium in London welcomes papers and proposals for panels on any aspect of Joyce. We especially welcome papers that examine the symposium theme of anniversaries, celebrations and commemorations that link with 1916 and the significant historical events that took place that year: the Easter Rising, the Battle of the Somme and the Battle of Verdun, the invention of the light switch, the founding of Dadaism, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, the death of Henry James, Enrico Caruso’s recording of ‘O Sole Mio’, and the publications of Ferdinand de Saussure’s Cours de linguistique générale and (naturally) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The aim is to encourage historical, literaryhistorical, cultural, geographical and geo-political explorations of James Joyce’s life and work. The conference will be hosted by the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. All events will take in Senate House and environs. For all inquiries please email anniversaryjoyce@outlook.com. You can also follow us on Twitter @AnniversaryJJ. Proposals for both individual papers and panels of no more than four speakers are welcome. Papers: please send an abstract of no more than 250 words, including title of paper, name and academic affiliation. Panels: please send an abstract of no more than 500 words, including titles of papers, names and academic affiliations. In principle, participants are limited to one paper (20 minutes in length). All panellists must be paid-up members of the International James Joyce Foundation: joycefoundation.osu.edu/foundation/membership/renew. Submissions may be emailed to anniversaryjoyce@ outlook.com.

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The School of Advanced Study is delighted to make a clarion call to scholars everywhere to gather in London to consider the key place of Latin America in the connected making of the postcolonial world. Although Latin America clearly was a vanguard of global decolonisation in the modern age, this deep historical fact is largely ignored or downplayed in the Anglophone world, where decolonisation is provincially understood to be a post-war, 20th-century phenomenon. Our collective conference task is to map not only the ways and means by which Latin American and Caribbean decolonisation was critical to the making of the contemporary world, but also to ask why the region’s key place in global history has been denied or ignored. Besides putting Latin America and the Iberian world back on the global map of decolonisation, we also seek to go beyond the academic and ideological trenches dug in recent years by the bearers of ‘postcolonial,’ ‘anti-colonial,’ and ‘decolonial’ banners and critical positions. We believe that a retrospective and ecumenical encounter with the connected histories of decolonisation enables such a ‘going beyond,’ in part because its vicissitudes anticipated the contours of current debates. The conference is hosted by the Institute of Latin American Studies, the Institute of Modern Languages Research and the Centre for Postcolonial Studies. Keynote speeches are expected by Benedict Anderson (Cornell University), Frederick Cooper (New York University) and Barbara Weinstein (New York University).

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CFP deadline: 1 December 2015

How to find us Venue Unless otherwise stated, all events are held within the central University of London precinct in Bloomsbury, central London. Most events take place in or around Senate House South and North Blocks (North Block rooms are named accordingly) or Stewart House (Stewart House room numbers are preceded with ST) which are adjacent. The University of London takes its responsibility to visitors with special needs very seriously and will endeavour to make reasonable adjustments to facilities to accommodate such needs. If you have a particular requirement, please discuss it confidentially with the event organiser ahead of theÂ event taking place. Rooms listed in the events brochure are located as follows: Senate House University of London Malet Street London WC1E 7HU Stewart House University of London 32 Russell Square London WC1B 5DN Charles Clore House Institute of Advanced Legal Studies 17 Russell Square London WC1B 5DR The Warburg Institute Woburn Square London WC1H 0AB

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