Events at the School of Advanced Study (October 2014–January 2015) by School of Advanced Study

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER/ DECEMBER/JANUARY 2014–15 OVER 100 EVENTS LED BY MORE THAN 60 UNIVERSITIES

BEING HUMAN

THE UK’S FIRST NATIONAL HUMANITIES FESTIVAL 15–23 NOVEMBER 2014

The institutes of the School collectively offer a rich programme of seminars, workshops, lectures, conferences and other academic events. Each year around 1,600 events are organised on humanities topics, attracting almost 50,000 audience members drawn from around the UK and internationally as well as the London area including scholars, representatives from academic, public and private organisations, policy-makers, professional experts, and the interested public. Almost 6,000 speakers, over one-third of whom are from outside the UK, are welcomed annually to contribute to the intellectual culture of the School. The majority of our events 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 forthcoming and past events held by the School can be found at www.sas.ac.uk/events

Contents

Event highlights – Timeline

Event highlights – Being Human festival

Event highlights

Speaker highlights

Events calendar – Listings

Seminar series

Research training

Calls for papers

How to find us

About the School

The School of Advanced Study (SAS), University of London is the UK’s national centre for the promotion and facilitation of research in the humanities. SAS brings together the specialised scholarship and resources of 10 prestigious research institutes in Bloomsbury, to provide an unrivalled scholarly environment dedicated to the support, evaluation and pursuit of research which is accessible to all higher education institutions in the UK and the rest of the world. Member Institutes of the School Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Institute of Classical Studies Institute of Commonwealth Studies Institute of English Studies Institute of Historical Research Institute of Latin American Studies Institute of Modern Languages Research

How to use this guide

Events are listed in date and time order. On the left we list the institute 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. The event information in this brochure was correct at the time of going to press, but may be subject to change. Please check our website for the latest information or email sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Booking

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. We reserve the right to refuse admittance to any disruptive individual.

Event podcasts

Selected School 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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Human rights

Institute of Philosophy

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Law

Culture, language & literature

Music

Institute of Musical Research

SAS also hosts a cross-disciplinary centre. The Human Rights Consortium brings together the multidisciplinary expertise found in the institutes, as well as collaborating with individuals and organisations worldwide, to support, promote and disseminate academic and policy work on human rights.

Highlights Highlights

Event highlights Timeline October

November

Utopian universities: a 50-year retrospective Devoted to the new universities of the 1960s, this conference explores the aspirations and achievements around curricular development, campus design, philanthropy, the student experience and local participation.

Bridging the gap: academia and the media This one-day workshop, led by experienced broadcasters Sue Branford and Nick Caistor, aims to bridge the gap between academic researchers and the media world.

Time: 09:00–18:00 Date: 23–24 October

Time: 11:00–17:00 Date: 28 October

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Mozart and the power of music Musicologists, scientists, medical professionals and performers debate whether performing and listening to music affects the brain in this one-day conference organised in collaboration with The Musical Brain. Time: 09:30–20:30 Date: 24 October See page 30 for event information

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What’s happening in black British history? This workshop, the first in a series, brings together researchers, educationalists, archivists and curators, and policy makers to identify and promote innovative new research into black British history. Time: 10:45–17:30 Date: 30 October See page 33 for event information

Is legislation literature? Sir Geoffrey Bowman KCB QC, formerly First Parliamentary Counsel, will give the Sir William Dale Annual Memorial Lecture on the skilful writing of law. Time: 18:00–19:00 Date: 3 November See page 37 for event information

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December

January

Forbidden access: censoring books and archives This multidisciplinary conference explores how published works and archival materials, and the ideas contained in them, are affected, obscured or distorted by censorship.

Sticky citizenship: imputing citizenship to asylum seekers Professor Audrey Macklin from the University of Toronto gives the first seminar of the 5th International Refugee Law Seminar Series on the enduring problem of statelessness and the plight of irregular migrants.

Competing foundations? Symposium on the foundations of mathematics Leading scholars showcase contemporary philosophical research on different approaches to the foundations of mathematics.

Time: 10:00–18:00 Date: 6–7 November

Time: 20:00–21:30 Date: 1 December

Time: 09:30–18:00 Date: 12–13 January

Being Human: a festival of the humanities The UK’s first national festival of the humanities will demonstrate the vitality and relevance of contemporary humanities research through more than 100 events staged by more than 60 universities. Date: 15–23 November See pages 41–46 for event information

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Henry More (1614–87) This conference takes advantage of the 4th centenary of one of the most important thinkers in 17thcentury British philosophy to engage in a one-day reappraisal of his legacy. Time: 10:00–18:00 Date: 5 December See page 54 for event information

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Event highlights Being Human festival 15–23 November

Being Human: a festival of the humanities 15–23 November 2014 Being Human is the UK’s first national festival of the humanities. Led by SAS in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy, it aims to demonstrate the vitality and relevance of contemporary humanities research. 08

Events will be staged by more than 60 universities—from Orkney to Cornwall, Northern Ireland to Wales. Programme highlights include: • researchers from the Royal College of Art engaging the public over cups of hot chocolate on London’s South Bank • a coordinated ‘hack’ into the Mass-Observation archives at the University of Sussex • the communal creation of a ‘Wilder Being’ costume on the Orkney islands

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a ‘memory banquet’ at the University of Roehampton Simon Armitage—one of the UK’s foremost poets— reading at the Library of Birmingham. See pages 41–46 for event information

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Event highlights Being Human festival Senate House events The School of Advanced Study will launch Being Human on Saturday, 15 November, with a day of activities exploring our status as ‘digital humans’. Too Much Information: Being Human in a Digital Age, includes talks on digital humanities and big data’ a Ministry of Information exhibition and tours of Senate House, digital art displays, a research ‘Ignite’ event, and speakers including Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt. This will be followed by a week of activities from across the School. Events include an exhibition of images from the Warburg collection, a Human Library in which academics become living books, and Bee-ing Human – a cross-institute day of talks on the role of bees in human culture. Over this time you will be able to visit a Being Human hub in Senate House. Follow @BeingHumanFest on Twitter for further updates. Full details are available online at www.beinghumanfestival.org

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Event highlights

Adapting the canon 10 October 2014 The emergence of ‘adaptation’ as a distinct and dynamic field of research in recent years, is amply evidenced by the rapidly increasing number of monographs, journals and websites dedicated to the area. At the interface between a range of disciplines, the study of adaptation foregrounds a range of key methodological questions, regarding the status of the ‘text’, the ‘author’ and the ‘consumer’ of literary and cultural artefacts. In the move away from ‘fidelity studies’, broadly conceived, new approaches to adaptation have emphasised its creative and subversive potential. This Legenda conference, organised in association with the Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, will bring together a range of perspectives on adaptation – representing the most recent work in the field in different national and critical contexts and covering a range of periods from the medieval and early-modern to the 21st century. See page 24 for event information

Wordsworth and the meaning of trees Annual Wordsworth Lecture 16 October 2014 From the ‘Sylvan Wye’ by Tintern Abbey to the ‘leafy glen’ in ‘Airey Force Valley’, Wordsworth’s poetry abounds in trees. Are these bosky backgrounds any more than picturesque scene-painting? Does it matter whether Wordsworth refers to an ash, an oak, a holly or a yew-tree? Professor Fiona Stafford’s lecture – organised in collaboration with the Wordsworth Trust – explores the literary, cultural and local associations of Wordsworth’s trees, in order to reveal fuller meanings in familiar poems and to shed fresh light on his larger creative endeavour.

Fiona is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Somerville College. She is the editor of a new edition of Lyrical Ballads for Oxford World’s Classics. Her recent books include Local Attachments: The Province of Poetry, Reading Romantic Poetry and Brief Lives: Jane Austen. She has written and delivered two series for the Radio 3 Essay, called ‘The Meaning of Trees’. See page 27 for event information

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Institute of Historical Research Winter Conference 23–24 October 2014 This conference, devoted to the new universities of the 1960s, will examine comparatively the aspirations and achievements around curricular development, campus design, philanthropy, the student experience and local participation. It will also look back to the pioneers, such as Keele; to the successors, such as Stirling and Ulster; and also consider the legacy of the utopian universities in the modern world today. Speakers include Laurie Taylor, Hanna Gray, Geoffrey Crossick, Lisa Jardine and Krishan Kumar. See page 29 for event information

Memory, myth and magic 24 October 2014 Musicologists, scientists, medical professionals and performers will debate the questions: how does performing and listening to music affect the brain? Does it increase your capacity to retain information? Is there a ‘Mozart effect’? Does music have the power to heal? A concert illustrating the themes of the conference will close the event. James Gilchrist (tenor), Ian Brown and Anna Tilbrook (pianos) will perform a programme including a movement from Bach’s Concerto for two keyboards in C, songs by Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Bernstein, Finzi and Ravel and Mozart’s Sonata in D for Two Pianos K448. This event is organised in collaboration with The Musical Brain, a registered charity which aims to bring together artists, scientists, teachers, therapists and the public, in original and stimulating environments, to examine the effects of music and other art forms upon the human mind, brain and body.

Bridging the gap Academia and the media 28 October 2014 This one-day workshop aims to bridge the gap between academic researchers and the media world. What are the most effective ways to disseminate the ideas and scope of academic research to a wider public? How can researchers take advantage of the opportunities of the new social media to help create a greater impact beyond the university? The event will be led by experienced broadcasters Sue Branford and Nick Caistor (Latin America Bureau). They will be joined by experts from the media and NGOs to provide an intensive, practical workshop that will help researchers broaden and improve their links with written and broadcast outlets. See page 31 for event information

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Utopian universities: a Mozart and the 50-year retrospective power of music

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Event highlights

Recent excavations in the western Peloponnese, Greece New insights into the settlements and cemeteries of Mycenaean Elis 29 October 2014 Olimpia Vikatou, director of the 36th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities in Greece, will give this lecture, in association with the British School at Athens. Mycenaean Elis, a district best known for the famous archaic and classical site of Olympia, was considered thinly-populated and backward in the Mycenaean period, overshadowed by larger palatial centres. Recent excavations have revealed substantial settlement evidence north of the Alpheios River, while extensive cemeteries with rich warrior graves provide insights into the area’s socio-economic and military organisation. The wealth of finds serves to emphasise widespread overseas contacts from the Ionian islands and Adriatic, ranging as far afield as Crete and Cyprus. See page 32 for event information

What’s happening in black British history? A conversation workshop 30 October 2014 Thirty years after the publication of Peter Fryer’s Staying Power, immigration is still a hotly contested topic, while slavery continues to dominate popular perceptions of black British history. New research is revealing different stories, but how is this being presented in Britain’s classrooms and museums?

This is the first in a series of workshops that aim to foster a creative dialogue between researchers, educationists (mainstream and supplementary), archivists and curators, and policy makers. It will seek to identify and promote innovative new research into the history of people of African origin, or descent, in the UK and discuss the latest developments in the dissemination of black British history. See page 33 for event information

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Censoring books and archives 6–7 November 2014 This multidisciplinary conference explores how published works and archival materials, and the ideas contained in them, are affected, obscured or distorted by censorship. It will explore the proliferating and divisive causes, symptoms and effects of the censoring impulse – from overt interference with a text to the subtler, intangible effects of caution and fear in the face of anticipated control – and will do so in relation to a variety of angles and contexts: aesthetic, cultural, socio-economic, ideological, legal, and political. It will include sessions on literary censorship; public controversies and censorship campaigns; censorship, church and state; censorship and institutions; censorship in libraries and archives; censorship and popular media. Rachel Potter, Professor of Modern Literature at the University of East Anglia, will give the keynote lecture. See page 37 for event information

Our island’s printed heritage: special collections in the British Isles today Senate House Library Friends Annual Lecture 25 November 2014 In an increasingly electronic age, the rare, the special and the unique in our libraries become all the more important and distinctive. Dr Karen Attar, Rare Books Librarian at the Senate House Library and Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, will give this lecture looking at printed special collections, their trends and challenges posed in Great Britain and Ireland today. Karen has published widely on book collectors and library history, among other things editing Senate House Library’s recent treasures volume (2012); teaches for the London Rare Books School; and is the reviews editor for the journal, Library & Information History.

Sticky citizenship Imputing citizenship to asylum-seekers 1 December 2014 Professor Audrey Macklin (University of Toronto) will deliver a workshop on the enduring problem of statelessness, and the plight of irregular migrants. ‘Sticky citizenship’ focuses on the anomalous case where states seek to impute citizenship against the will of the individual. Professor Macklin’s research addresses the scenario of refugee status determination in scenarios where the asylum state is obviated from providing ‘surrogate protection’ on the basis that the claimant possesses nationality of a second country from which he/ she does not fear persecution. See page 52 for event information

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Henry More The foundations of EU administrative law (1614–87) London Hamlyn Lecture 2 December 2014 In his final Hamlyn Lecture, Professor Paul Craig will begin with a consideration of the formal treaty foundations on which the subject has been built, and explore the origins of general principles of law crafted by the Community courts and the rule of law in this development. He will also focus on the regulatory foundations of EU administrative law and the challenges that this has posed. Paul Craig is Professor of English Law at St John’s College, Oxford. He is the alternate UK member of the Venice Commission on Law and Democracy, an institution within the Council of Europe. See page 52 for event information

A conference to mark the fourth centenary of his birth 5 December 2014 Despite being one of the most important thinkers in 17thcentury British philosophy, Henry More has been denied the status of proper philosopher that his contemporaries Hobbes and Locke have long enjoyed. However, More’s work deserves to be recognised as a significant contribution to early modern philosophy. This conference will take advantage of More’s fourth centenary to engage in a oneday reappraisal of his legacy. See page 54 for event information

Competing foundations? Symposium on the foundations of mathematics 12–13 January 2015 The focus of this conference is on different approaches to the foundations of mathematics. The interaction between settheoretic and category-theoretic foundations has had significant philosophical impact, and represents a shift in attitudes towards the philosophy of mathematics. This conference will bring together leading scholars in these areas to showcase contemporary philosophical research on different approaches to the foundations of mathematics. Keynote speakers will include Sy David Friedman (Kurt Gödel Research Center, Vienna), Victoria Gitman (City University of New York), James Ladyman (Bristol), and Toby Meadows (Aberdeen). See page 60 for event information

Speaker highlights

‘Would you like to sin Democracy or empire? Weeping for Dido Reflections on the – the classics in the with Elinor Glyn?’ British imperial medieval classroom Romance, fantasy and consumption in popular experience of WW1 E.H. Gombrich Lectures on women’s fiction and film of 15 October 2014 Lise Shapiro Sanders Associate Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies, Hampshire College, Amherst Elinor Glyn is perhaps best known for her sensational novel Three Weeks (1907), which tells the story of a young Englishman who has a three-week affair with a mysterious queen of an unspecified Balkan realm. A particularly scandalous scene inspired the doggerel verse of the event title and led to a censorship controversy over the film version. It was eventually released under the title The Romance of a Queen. Glyn moved to Hollywood in 1920, and over nine years took part in 11 productions, as screenwriter and consultant. Lise Sanders will discuss two films from this period, Beyond The Rocks (1922) and It (1927), both of which offer narratives invoking fantasies of romantic fulfilment. See page 26 for event information

NZ-Link Foundation Inaugural Annual Lecture 16 October 2014 Sir Hew Strachan Chichele Professor of the History of War, All Souls College, University of Oxford When Britain entered the First World War a century ago, was it fighting for British values and the rights of small nations? Or its right to run an empire? These are two of the questions eminent historian Sir Hew Strachan will address in this lecture, part of the Imperial War Museum’s Centenary Programme Partnership. He will examine the imperial dynamics of a war that went beyond the Western Front and also explore the fact that, although before the Great War Britain possessed vast colonies with millions of subjects, it was not a democracy. See page 27 for event information

the Classical Tradition 20–23 October 2014

Marjorie Curry Woods Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor of English, Professor of Comparative Literature, and University Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Texas at Austin In 2010, Marjorie Curry Woods published her decades-long study of the teachers’ notes in margins of the manuscripts of a medieval rhetorical treatise: Classroom Commentaries: Teaching the Poetria nova across Medieval and Renaissance Europe. The lectures will be published by Princeton University Press. 20 October: Memory, emotion and the queen: teaching The Aeneid 22 October: Troy books for boys: glosses on The Achilleid and The Ilias Latina 23 October: Boys performing women: the classics and after

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the 1920s

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Speaker highlights Performance: A celebratory dirge for Chinua Achebe Celebrating Chinua Achebe’s legacy: Arrow of God at 50 24 October 2014 Akachi Ezeigbo Writer and Professor of English, University of Lagos Akachi Ezeigbo is an awardwinning author. Some of her literary awards are The Nigeria Prize for Literature (2007), Flora Nwapa Prize for Women’s Writing (2003) and Cadbury/ ANA Poetry Prize (2010). She has also won several academic awards including the Commonwealth Fellowship in 1989/1990 which she spent at SOAS, University of London, and Best Researcher Award in the Arts and Humanities at the University of Lagos in 2005. She was Vice President of Nigeria PEN Centre between 2002 and 2011. Professor Ezeigbo is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letter and Literary Society of Nigeria. See page 30 for event information

‘This is a performance of a dirge celebrating Chinua Achebe’s achievements and legacy; the dirge also underscores the inevitability and universal nature of death, in the tradition of Igbo funeral artists who celebrate the transition of notable personalities, especially men and women of integrity. I come from a family of traditional funeral artists and chanters though the practice is fading away in the face of modernity.’ Akachi Ezeigbo

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Institute of Philosophy/ Forum for European Philosophy Dialogue 29 October 2014 Philip Pettit Laurence Rockefeller University, Professor of Politics and Human Values, Princeton University

The rise of the Spanish Empire Demographic impacts in Spain and the Americas 29 October 2014 Linda Newson Director, Institute of Latin American Studies

The development of the Spanish empire had demographic impacts in both Spain and the Americas. The opening of the New World offered new opportunities for Philip Pettit is a philosopher and impoverished Spaniards to political theorist. He has worked improve their economic and social on moral and political theory position. Emigration from Spain, and on background issues in controlled by the Crown, was the philosophy of mind and essential for the establishment of metaphysics. Pettitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s corpus as a the empire, but where Spaniards whole was the subject of a series came from and where they settled of critical essays published in varied regionally. Their arrival Common Minds: Themes from brought with it significant losses the Philosophy of Philip Pettit to the Native American population (OUP 2007). In this lecture, through conquest, overwork, Pettit will discuss the notion of ill-treatment, and disease, to freedom as a republican ideal in the extent that African slaves dialogue with Gabriel Wollner. In sometimes had to be imported June 2015, Professor Pettit will to solve labour shortages. This be coming to the School as ST lecture will examine geographical Lee Visiting Professorial Fellow. variations in demographic change during this period that were to See page 33 for event information have significant implications for the ethnic composition of Latin American countries today.

Academic libraries in the early 21st century: metamorphosis or dissolution? The Charles Holden Lecture 30 October 2014 David McKitterick Vice-Master, Trinity College, University of Cambridge As they face ever more complicated demands from readers, publishers, financial challenges and skills shortages, libraries are meeting change in many different ways. How far do headline-grabbing stories of achievements and disasters reflect the nature of change, and its cumulative effects for the future? In his lecture, David McKitterick will re-examine some recent news stories, and suggest how both classical mythology and the great changes among English libraries in the 16th century may help us to understand what is happening. See page 33 for event information

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Philip Pettit on freedom and republicanism

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Is legislation literature? Sir William Dale Annual Memorial Lecture 3 November 2014 Sir Geoffrey Bowman KCB QC

‘Legislation has the limited object of changing the law. So it consists of abstract rules of general application which appeal to the intellect... Techniques available to other writers (like repetition and exuberance) are generally denied to the drafter. So drafting is unlikely to produce literature. The fascination lies in producing something precise and clear while operating within the inherent restraints.’ Sir Geoffrey Bowman KCB QC

Geoffrey Bowman read law at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1971 he joined the Parliamentary Counsel Office, which is responsible for drafting government Bills, and served two secondments as a draftsman at the Law Commission, where he drafted the consolidation Bills that became the Sale of Goods Act 1979 and the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980. In 2002 he became First Parliamentary Counsel and, as Permanent Secretary of the Office, he was the main point of contact between the Office and Ministers and responsible for turning the wishes of Parliament into coherent law. He was knighted in 2004 and in 2006, when he retired, he was made an honorary Queen’s Counsel. He holds an honorary doctorate in law from the University of London. See page 37 for event information

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Innovative approaches Celebrating the 60th to ancient Greek birthday of John pottery Woolrich

Conspiracies: past and present, real and imagined

Annual T.B.L. Webster Lecture

Re-writing the past

2014 Creighton Lecture

5 November 2014

20 November 2014

2 December 2014

John Woolrich, Composer

Sir Richard Evans Regius Professor of History and Professor of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge

A specialist on archaic and classical Greece, Athena Tsingarida’s research lies chiefly in the fields of ancient Greek pottery and the reception of classical art. Her work on vases combines traditional stylistic and iconographical analyses with broader historical and economic issues, elucidating the production, distribution and consumption of pottery using statistical and archaeometric methods. She is also an active field archaeologist and is currently co-directing the excavations and restoration works at Itanos in Eastern Crete. See page 37 for event information

John Woolrich has a practical approach to music making — he founded a group (the Composers Ensemble), a festival (Hoxton New Music Days) and has been composer in association with both the Orchestra of St Johns’ and the Britten Sinfonia. A number of preoccupations thread through his music: the art of creative transcription — Ulysses Awakes, for instance, is a re-composition of a Monteverdi aria, and The Theatre Represents a Garden: Night is based on fragments of Mozart — and a fascination with machinery and mechanical processes, heard in many pieces including The Ghost in the Machine and The Barber’s Timepiece. Recent works include the Violin Concerto, which will receive its London première by Thomas Gould and the Britten Sinfonia conducted by Duncan Ward at Milton Court Concert Hall, Barbican on 20 November.

Richard J. Evans’s general area of research interest is modern German and European history, especially social and cultural history, since the mid19th century. Since acting as principal expert witness in the David Irving libel trial before the High Court in London in 2000, his work has dealt with Holocaust denial and the clash of epistemologies when history enters the courtroom. He has published a large-scale history of the Third Reich in three volumes, published by Penguin, and has been editor of the Journal of Contemporary History since 1998 and a judge of the Wolfson Literary Award for History since 1993. See page 53 for event information

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Athena Tsingarida Professor of Classical Archaeology, Université Libre; 2014–15 T.B.L. Webster Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies

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When refugee status ends: repatriation or integration? International Refugee Law Seminar Series 4 December 2014 Maarten den Heijer Assistant Professor of International Law, Amsterdam Centre for Refugee Law

Maarten den Heijer will present his research on the cessation of refugee status in the context of the European Union, focusing on how cessation is constructed under the EUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s qualification directive and its implementation in member states. He is vicechairman of the Standing Committee of Experts on International Immigration, Refugee and Criminal law, a member of the editorial board of the case law journal European Human Rights Cases and contributor to the Dutch Journal for Human Rights NJCM-Bulletin. He is also a member of the board of the Foundation for Refugee Students UAF. His research themes include

international and European asylum and immigration law, human rights and state responsibility. See page 54 for event information

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

Events calendar October Wednesday 1 Institute of Philosophy Seminar 18:30–20:30 Beveridge Hall

London gastronomy seminar: Harold McGee In association with the London Gastronomy Series Registration required Free philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 2 Institute of Classical Studies Ancient History seminar 16:30–19:30 Room 349

Libraries and archives in cuneiform culture

Institute of Historical Research European History seminar 17:30–19:30 North Block

Why publicise Magna Carta, then and now?

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 North Block

Curiosity, commerce and conversation: nursery gardens in 18th-century London

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

Postgraduate work in progress seminar

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

Charles Peake Ulysses seminar

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Chair: David Carpenter Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Richard Coulton (Queen Mary College) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Friday 3 Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 4 Institute of English Studies Seminar 11:00–13:00 Room 349

Modernism research seminar

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Monday 6 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 15:00–18:30 North Block

Roundtable discussion on the work of Kevin Sharpe

Followed by a reception at Yale University Press, 47 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar October Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room G21A

On the west-eastern couch: Empedocles and Lao-Tzu as vanishing mediators

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 349

Greek literature seminar

Institute of English Studies Shakespeare seminar 17:15–19:00 Senate Room

Shakespeare seminar: James I and drama

The episcopal body and sexuality in late medieval England

Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium 10:00–19:00 Room G22/26

Music and capitalism in historical and cross-cultural perspective

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 349

Aesthetics forum

Institute of Musical Research Conference 2-day conference Chancellor’s Hall

Johannes Tinctoris and music theory in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance

Institute of Classical Studies Ancient History seminar 16:30–19:30 Room G22/26

Record management in the Hittite empire

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

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Speakers: David Bergeron (Kansas) and Eric Rasmussen (Nevada) Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 7 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 103

Wednesday 8

Chair: Jane Mackelworth (Queen Mary) Speaker: Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Convenor: Anna Morcom (Royal Holloway) | Registration required £45 standard | £25 unwaged music@sas.ac.uk Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics Speaker: Fiona Leigh (UCL) Free philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 9 Speaker: Stefano Mengozzi (Michigan) | Registration required Fee applicable music@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Willemijin Waal Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar October Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:30–20:30 Room 349

London theatre seminar

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Friday 10 Institute of Modern Languages Research 2-day conference 09:00–18:00 The Court Room

Adapting the canon

Warburg Institute Colloquium 10:00–18:00 Warburg Institute

The afterlife of classical Latin satire

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room G21A

Greek literature seminar

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 102

Ezra Pound Cantos reading group

Keynote speakers: Dudley Andrew (Yale), Kamilla Elliott (Lancaster) and Clive Scott (East Anglia) Fee chris.barenberg@sas.ac.uk

Convenors: Fiachra Mac Gorain (UCL) and Peter Mack (Warburg Institute) Fee applicable warburg@sas.ac.uk

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 11 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium 09:00–17:00

Dickens Day 2014: Dickens and conviviality

Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium 10:30–13:30 Fountain Room, Barbican Centre, London EC2Y 8DS

Nielsen study day

£30 standard | £25 concession | £20 student iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Morning symposium and study afternoon | Open free of charge to ticket-holders for any BBC SO Nielsen concert Speakers: Nanette Nielsen (Nottingham), Christopher Tarrant (Newcastle) , David Fanning (Manchester) and Sakari Oram Free music@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar October Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 09:00–18:00 University of Leicester

Me, myself, and others: a cinematic approach to Latin American encounters

Institute of English Studies Seminar 14:00–16:00 Room G35

Contemporary fiction research seminar

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 14:00–16:00 North Block

Boy actors at the English College of St Omer

In collaboration with the University of Leicester and the University of Lincoln Fee applicable cg226@le.ac.uk

Speakers: John Miers, John Riordan, Woodrow Phoenix, Gary Northfield and Kripa Joshi Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Monday 13 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 16:30 –18:30 Charles Clore House

The Court of Justice of the European Union

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 243

Ancient philosophy seminar

Institute of Musical Research Seminar 17:00–18:30 Chancellor’s Hall

Off the page c. 1700 / c. 2014

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 349

Greek literature seminar

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Court Room

Creating le gout Rothschild: the English Rothschild family in the 19th century

Speaker: Eleanor Sharpston (CJEU) | Registration required Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Stevie Wishart | In association with the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice Free music@sas.ac.uk

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Nicola Pickerin Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar October Tuesday 14 Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 243

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 North Block

Agricultural modernisation and the conservation of genetic diversity in crop plants, 1935–70

Institute of English Studies Book Collecting seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G35

A history of the 20th century in 100 maps

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 North Block

Imperialism in the age of decolonisation: British policy in the Persian Gulf during the 1960s

Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 15:30–19:30 Room G22/26

The sweet smell of success: Cypriot and Mycenaean speciality oils and mid-second millennium trading enterprises in the eastern Mediterranean

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room G34

‘Would you like to sin with Elinor Glyn?’: romance, fantasy, and consumption in popular women’s fiction and film of the 1920s

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 North Block

‘This shall control the female pow’r/And fix the British crown secure’: Women, politics and the 1723 oaths to George I

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

‘Mit ihm beginnt und endet der Roman’: Rudolph Said-Ruete, character and collector, and the politics of popular literature

Speaker: Daniel Rothschild (UCL) Free philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Helen Anne Curry (Cambridge) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Speaker: Tim Bryars and Tom Harper Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Helene von Bismarck Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 15

Speaker: Lesley Bushnell | Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Lisa Shapiro Sanders (Hampshire College, Amherst) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Kate Roy (IMLR/Lugano) | Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies seminar | Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar October Thursday 16 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 12:30–13:30 Charles Clore House

Maintenance of rules

Institute of Classical Studies Ancient History seminar 16:30–19:30 Room 349

Laws interred: personal collections of legal texts discovered in early Chinese tombs

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 243

CenSes seminar: multisensory perception and action |Part of the AHRC-funded www.thesenses.ac.uk project

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Lecture 17:00–20:00 Beveridge Hall

Democracy or empire? Reflections on the British imperial experience of the First World War

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:15–18:30 Warburg Institute

Recent trends in research on early modern fiction

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

Information in wartime: American bookmen and open source intelligence in World War II

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

Victim-blaming: the changing relationship of consent and culpability for rape in 17th- and 18th-century England and Wales

Institute of English Studies Lecture 18:00–19:00 Chancellor’s Hall

Wordsworth and the meaning of trees (Annual Wordsworth Lecture)

Speaker: Maria De Benedetto (Roma Tre, Italy) | Registration required Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Ernest Caldwell (SOAS) Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Yann Coello Free philosophy@sas.ac.uk

NZ-UK Link Foundation Annual Lecture | Speaker: SIr Hew Strachan (Oxford) | Registration required Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Convenors: Jacqueline Glomski (King’s, London) and Isabelle Moreau (UCL) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Kathy Peiss (UPenn/UCL) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Speaker: Fiona Stafford (Oxford) | Followed by a reception | Registration required Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar October Friday 17 Institute of Philosophy Conference / Symposium 13:00–18:00 Chancellor’s Hall

Philosophy and psychoanalysis in dialogue

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

Postgraduate work in progress seminar

Co-sponsored by Heythrop College, Institute of Psychoanalysis and Institute of Philosophy £120 standard | £60 member | £30 student philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 18 Institute of English Studies EMPHASIS seminar 14:00–16:00 Room G35

Political economy and the making of experimental science in 17th-century England

Speaker: Koji Yamamoto (King’s College London) Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Monday 20 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 243

On the west-eastern couch: Empedocles and Lao-Tzu as vanishing mediators

Warburg Institute Weeping for Dido lecture 17:00–18:15 Warburg Institute

Memory, emotion and the queen: teaching The Aeneid

Institute of Musical Research Seminar 17:00–18:30 Chancellor’s Hall

Early recordings and the de(con)struction of Brahmsian performance norms

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 349

Greek literature seminar

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 North Block

Did Henry VIII write ‘Greensleeves’? Music at the early Tudor court

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00–19:00 Charles Clore House

Comparative law

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

Speaker: Marjorie Curry Woods (Texas at Austin) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Anna Scott (Orpheus Institute) | In association with the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice | Free music@sas.ac.uk

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Julia Webb (National Portrait Gallery) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Mathias Siems (Durham) and discussants | Registration required Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar October Tuesday 21 Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:15–19:00 Room 243

Propensities and statistical models

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

Accordia lecture

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G34

Launch of the London intercollegiate network for comparative studies (LINKS) research seminar

Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 18:30–20:30 Chancellor’s Hall

Brazil votes 2014: analysing the result

Speaker: Paul Humphreys (Virginia) Free philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Speakers: Lucia Boldrini (Goldsmiths), Ruth Cruickshank (Royal Holloway), Rosa Hucignat (King’s) and Florian Mussgnug (UCL) | Registration required Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk In collaboration with Canning House and the King’s Brazil Institute Fee applicable enquiries@canninghouse.org

Wednesday 22 Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 102

Artistic experiments and our issues with them: implication art and the definition of art

Warburg Institute Weeping for Dido lecture 17:00–18:15 Warburg Institute

Troy books for boys: glosses on The Achilleid and The Ilias Latina

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 North Block

Hall Caine’s ‘Mahomet’: religion, empire and dramatic censorship in late-Victorian Britain

Utopian universities: a 50-year retrospective

Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics Free philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Marjorie Curry Woods (Texas at Austin) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Kristan Tetens (Leicester) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research Conference 09:00–18:00 North Block

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

www.sas.ac.uk

Thursday 23

Events calendar October Warburg Institute Colloquium 10:00–15:45 Warburg Institute

Rethinking allegory with Angus Fletcher: a symposium in celebration of the 50th anniversary of ‘Allegory, The Theory of a Symbolic Mode’

Convenors: Karen Lang, Vladimir Brljak (Warwick) and Peter Mack (Warburg) Fee applicable warburg@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 12:30–13:30 Charles Clore House

Contemporary challenges to legal aid in Brazil and England: comparative perspectives on access to justice

Warburg Institute Weeping for Dido lecture 17:00–18:15 Warburg Institute

Boys performing women: the classics and after

Institute of Classical Studies Ancient History seminar 16:30–19:30 Room G22/26

On the papyri of Old Kingdom Gebelein

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

Monticello legacies: slavery, race and liberty and the American mind

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G35

Re-visiting modernist culture

Speaker: Cleber Alves | Registration required | Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Marjorie Curry Woods (Texas at Austin) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Hratch Papazian (Cambridge) Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard/Oxford) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Speakers: Marie Kolkenbrock (IMLR/Berlin) and Ann-Christin Bolay (IMLR/ Freiburg) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Friday 24 Institute of English Studies 2-day conference Senate House

Celebrating Chinua Achebe’s legacy: Arrow of God at 50

£75 standard | £45 concession iesevents@sas.ac.uk Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium 09:30–20:30 Chancellor’s Hall

Mozart and the power of music: memory, myth and magic In partnership with The Musical Brain | Registration required Fee applicable music@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute Colloquium 10:00–18:00 Warburg Institute

French Renaissance court culture: the legacy of Frances Yates

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

Postgraduate work in progress seminar

Events calendar

Events calendar October HU

Convenor: Eva Kociszewska (Warburg Institute) Fee applicable warburg@sas.ac.uk

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Monday 27 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 243

Ancient philosophy seminar

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room G34

Practical reasoning seminar: judgment, internalism and self-knowledge

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 349

Greek literature seminar

Institute of Musical Research Seminar 17:00–20:00 Chancellor’s Hall

The sonata

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 North Block

The South Asian monsoon: a history for the Anthropocene

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Jussi Suikkanen (Birmingham) Free philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Michael Finnissy (Southampton) | New Music Insight in reflection and in performance seminar Free music@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Sunil Amrith (Birkbeck) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 28 Bridging the gap: academia and the media In collaboration with the Latin American Bureau (LAB) Fee applicable olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

Institute of Latin American Studies Workshop 11:00–17:00 Room G34

Events calendar October Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 243

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar

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

Literary London reading group

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 North Block

The last country in Europe where you can still get wine: Hollywood depictions of Portugal during World War II

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 103

Echoes and nods: recognition, genealogy and writing the queer archive

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Conference / Symposium 09:30–18:00 Room 349

Across the Indian Ocean

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

I am my language: mothering a foreign child

Warburg Institute Lecture 16:30–18:00 Warburg Institute

Seeing the Sultan: on some difficulties concerning the image of the other

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

Recent excavations in the western Peloponnese, Greece

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 North Block

Metropolitan London elections 1700–1832: proto-democracy in action

Speaker: Paolo Santorio (Leeds) Free philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Speakers: Lars Fischer (UCL) and Claire Hayward (Kingston) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 29

Fee applicable olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Eglė Kačkutė (IMLR/Vilnius) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Victor Stoichita (Freiburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

In association with the British School at Athens Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Speakers: Penelope Corfield (Royal Holloway) and Edmund Green (Newcastle) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar October Institute of Philosophy Lecture 18:00–20:00 Senate Room

IP/FEP Dialogue: Philip Pettit on freedom and republicanism

Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 18:30–20:00 Instituto Cervantes

The rise of the Spanish empire: demographic impacts in Spain and the Americas

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Workshop 10:45–19:30 Chancellor’s Hall

What’s happening in Black British history? A conversation workshop

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 12:30–13:30 Charles Clore House

The banning of political parties: the Spanish case

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 243

Multisensory perception and action

Senate House Library Lecture 17:00–20:00 Chancellor’s Hall

Academic libraries in the early 21st century: metamorphosis or dissolution?

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:15–18:30 Warburg Institute

Early modern fiction keynote lecture

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

What can we learn from 14th-century inquisition manuals?

In association with Forum for European Philosophy Free philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Linda Newsom (ILAS) | In collaboration with Canning House and Instituto Cervantes Fee applicable enquiries@canninghouse.org

Thursday 30

Fee applicable olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Speakers: Eduardo Virgala Foruria (Pais Vasco/Basque Country, Spain) | Registration required Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Part of the AHRC-funded www.thesenses.ac.uk project Free philosophy@sas.ac.uk

The Charles Holden Lecture | Speaker: David McKitterick Free shl.officeadmin@london.ac.uk

Convenors: Jacqueline Glomski (King’s, London) and Isabelle Moreau (UCL) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Chair: John Arnold Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar October Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 North Block

The garden as a scientific space in the 18th century

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:30–20:30 Room 349

London theatre seminar

Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Friday 31 Institute of English Studies 2-day conference Senate House

100 Dubliners

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

Postgraduate work in progress seminar

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00–19:30 Charles Clore House

Unlawful law printing in the reign of Charles I: the erosion of the monopoly on printing the common law

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 102

Finnegans Wake research seminar

£55 standard | £35 concession iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Ian Williams (UCL) | Registration required Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

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

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Events calendar November Saturday 1 Institute of Latin American Studies | Institute of Musical Research Seminar 10:00–17:30 Chancellor’s Hall

Latin American music seminar

Institute of Modern Languages Research Workshop 10:00–18:00 Room G34

Mobility, process, dynamic shifts: Nancy Huston’s oeuvre

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

Modernism research seminar

£8 olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Sponsored by Cassal Trust, University of London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing | Registration required Free gill.rye@sas.ac.uk

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Monday 3 Institute of Latin American Studies Conference / Symposium 11:30–19:30 Beveridge Hall

Remembrance and bereavement and the Mexican Day of the Dead

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 14:30–17:30 Charles Clore House

Plain language and law

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

On the west-eastern couch: Empedocles and Lao-Tzu as vanishing mediators

Institute of Musical Research Seminar 17:00–18:30 Room G35

Who wrote Ockeghem’s requiem?

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 349

Greek literature seminar

In collaboration with the National Council for Palliative Care £50 k.mcnaboe@ncpc.org.uk

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

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

Speaker: Margaret Bent (Oxford) Free music@sas.ac.uk

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 North Block

On the 1641 protestation

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture 18:00–19:00 Charles Clore House

Is legislation literature? (Sir William Dale Annual Memorial Lecture)

Speaker: John Walter (Essex) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar November H

Speaker: Sir Geoffrey Bowman | Registration required Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 4 25 years of French Cultural Studies

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Workshop 12:00–16:30 Charles Clore House

What’s the point if no-one knows about your research findings? Embedding dissemination in your research design

Institute of Modern Languages Research Book launch 14:00–16:00 Room 243

Queering acts of mourning in the aftermath of Argentina’s dictatorship: the performances of blood

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

Innovative approaches to ancient Greek pottery (Annual T.B.L. Webster Lecture)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 North Block

Come to pray on referendum day: the Church and the European referendum, 1975

Forbidden access: censoring books and archives

Institute of Modern Languages Research Other events 17:30–19:00 Room G35

By invitation only Free christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 5

Fee applicable ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Cecilia Sosa (UEL) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Robert Saunders (Queen Mary) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies | Institute of Advanced Legal Studies | Senate House Library 2-day conference 10:00–18:00 Senate House

A collaboration between IES, IALS and Senate House Library £60 standard | £35 concession iesevents@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

Thursday 6

Events calendar November Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 17:15–19:45 Room G35

Torquato Tasso in the Romantic imagination: Goethe and Leopardi

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 North Block

Scientists’ stories of their childhoods

Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 10:00–13:30 Room G34

The Dominican Republic’s economy

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

Postgraduate work in progress seminar

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

Charles Peake Ulysses seminar

Speaker: Rosa Mucignat (King’s, London) | English Goethe Society lecture Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Paul Merchan Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Friday 7 Convenor: José Sánchez-Fung (Kingston) Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Monday 10 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 243

Ancient philosophy seminar

Institute of Musical Research Seminar 17:00–18:30 Chancellor’s Hall

Questions in Bartók’s biography

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room G34

Practical reasoning seminar

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 349

Greek literature seminar

Speaker: Alison Hills (Oxford) Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Malcolm Gillies (London Metropolitan University) Free music@sas.ac.uk

Free philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar November The Annual Lord Renton Lecture

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 243

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 North Block

The publication bomb: publishing Malthus and the birth of modern environmentalism

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

Book collecting seminar

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 North Block

Britain and the economic containment of imperial Germany (1906–14): the case of the Constantinople Quays Company

Institute of Modern Languages Research Other events 18:00–20:00 Room G34

Reading Dante

Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 15:30–19:30 Room G22/26

Foodscapes, plants and ecofacts in Bronze Age Greece

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

Dwelling memories, shifting Italianness: images of domestic culture and ideas of belonging in the transnational trajectories of the Jews from Libya

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture 18:00–19:00 Charles Clore House

Speaker: Sir Christopher Greenwood (ICJ) | Organised with the Statute Law Society | Registration required Free statutelaw@aol.com

Tuesday 11 Speaker: Emma Borg (Reading) Free philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Robert Mayhem (Bristol) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Speaker: Stephen Foster Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Lino Pertile (Harvard/Villa/Tatti) | In collaboration with Friends of Italian | Registration required Free katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 12 Speaker: Alexandra Livard Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

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Speaker: Barbara Spadaro (IMLR/Bristol) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar November Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 North Blcok

Lightning talks: three-minute presentations by early PhD students

Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:00 Room G35

Poetry of self, city, sign and form: Roman Jakobson research seminar

Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 13 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 14:30 –17:30 Charles Clore House

Extradition in the EU

Warburg Institute 2-day colloquium 10:00–18:00 Warburg Institute

Local antiquities, local identities: art, literature and antiquarianism in Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries

Institute of Commonwealth Studies 2-day conference 11:00–17:00 Senate Room

Connected histories of decolonisation

Institute of Classical Studies Ancient History seminar 16:30–19:30 Room G22/26

The hollow archives of the Seleucid Empire

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:15–18:30 Warburg Institute

Early modern fiction and women

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

American history seminar

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

John Henderson (1757-1788): religion, reputation and responses to the occult in the late 18th century

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

Fee applicable warburg@sas.ac.uk

In collaboration with King’s College London and the University of Portsmouth Fee applicable olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Jennifer Hick (UCL) Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Convenors: Jacqueline Glomski (King’s, London) and Isabelle Moreau (UCL) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

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

The Persian sofi at the Medici court: magi, merchants and ‘cavalieri’

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 North Block

History of gardens and landscapes

Chair: Serena Ferente Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Friday 14 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243

Postgraduate work in progress seminar

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 102

Ezra Pound Cantos reading group

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 15 Ministry of Information walking tours

School of Advanced Study Day of events 10:00–20:00 Senate House

Too much information: being human in a digital age

School of Advanced Study Workshop 12:00–17:00 Senate House

Being mass observed

School of Advanced Study 1-day exhibition 12:00–18:00 Senate House

Hacking the archives

Institute of English Studies Week-long exhibition 12:00–18:00 Senate House Mezzanine

Ministry of Information showcase: communication and the public in WWII

In partnership with the Ministry of Information Project | A Being Human festival event Free michael.eades@sas.ac.uk

A Being Human festival event Free michael.eades@sas.ac.uk

In partnership with Adam Matthew Digital, Orangeleaf Systems, the Ministry of Information Project, Salt Road | A Being Human festival event Free michael.eades@sas.ac.uk

In partnership with The Mass Observation Archive, Adam Matthew Digital, Salt Road, Jaime Jackson, Orangeleaf Systems, D-Fuse | A Being Human festival event | Free michael.eades@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of English Studies Walking tour 12:30, 13:30 & 15:00 Senate House

In partnership with the Ministry of Information Project | A Being Human festival event | Free michael.eades@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar November Institute of English Studies Lecture 13:00–13:30 Senate House

Publishing and propaganda in WWII

School of Advanced Study Lecture 13:00–14:00 Senate House

Being Booth: digital rambling

Institute of Historical Research Workshop 13:00–16:00 Senate House

The historic web: uncover your traces

School of Advanced Study Panel discussion 14:00–15:15 Beveridge Hall

Digital humans / digital research

Institute of English Studies EMPHASIS seminar 14:00–16:00 Room G35

Authors, editors and newsmongers: form, genre and editorship in the early philosophical transactions (1665–1714)

Institute of English Studies Lecture 14:30–15:00 Senate House

Mass observation and morale

Institute of English Studies Lecture 16:00–16:30 Senate House

Plotting morale in WWII

School of Advanced Study Colloquium 16:00–17:30 Senate House

Too much information: Ignite!

School of Advanced Study Lecture 18:30–20:00 Beveridge Hall

Openness, secrets and lies

In partnership with the Ministry of Information Project | A Being Human festival event Free michael.eades@sas.ac.uk

This event is led by The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London | A Being Human festival event Free michael.eades@sas.ac.uk

In partnership with The British Library, Oxford Internet Institute | A Being Human festival event Free michael.eades@sas.ac.uk

In partnership with Palgrave MacMillan | A Being Human festival event Free michael.eades@sas.ac.uk

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

In partnership with The Mass Observation Archive, Adam Matthew Digital | A Being Human festival event Free michael.eades@sas.ac.uk

In partnership with the Ministry of Information Project | A Being Human festival event Free michael.eades@sas.ac.uk

A Being Human festival event Free michael.eades@sas.ac.uk

Speakers: Nigel Shadbolt (Southampton), Ben Hammersley, Heather Brooke (City), Sebastian Groes (Roehampton) and Doc Rocket | A Being Human festival event | Free michael.eades@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar November Monday 17 Warburg Institute Week-long exhibition 10:00–18:00 Warburg Institute

Experiencing images at the Warburg Institute

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room G21A

On the west-eastern couch: Empedocles and Lao-Tzu as vanishing mediators

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 243

Ancient philosophy seminar

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:30 Room G37

Greek literature seminar

Institute of Musical Research Seminar 17:00–20:00 Chancellor’s Hall

Contemporary music in Taiwan

Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:15–19:00 Senate Room

London Shakespeare seminar

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 North Block

The Parker Society and church history

Institute of English Studies Lecture 18:00–21:00 Court Room

Sean O’Brien: a poet and his manuscripts

Led by The Warburg Institute in partnership with Bilderfahrzeuge and the German Ministry | A Being Human festival event Free michael.eades@sas.ac.uk

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

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Tsung-Hsien Yang (Taipei National University of the Arts) | New Music Insight in reflection and in performance seminar Free music@sas.ac.uk

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Lori Anne Ferrell (Claremont) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Public reading by Sean O’Brien (Newcastle) | A Being Human festival event Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 18 The principal principle implies the principle of indifference

Free philosophy@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:15–19:00 Room 243

Events calendar November School of Advanced Study Lecture 18:00–19:30 Chancellor’s Hall

The news and being human: a lesson from Waterloo

Human Rights Consortium | Refugee Law Initiative Seminar 18:00–19:30 Chancellor’s Hall

The extraterritorial application of the non-refoulement obligation in international human rights law

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–19:30 Room 104

Literary London reading group

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Charles Clore House

Corruption and controls

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 103

Attitudes to ejaculation in early modern England

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G34

From comparatism to comparativity: comparative reasoning reconsidered

Institute of Musical Research 1-day conference Chancellor’s Hall

Re-thinking analysis and music performance

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room G34

The dual character of art concepts

Warburg Institute Lecture 16:30–18:00 Warburg Institute

Warburg, Benjamin and the presence of Dürer

Speaker: Brian Cathcart (Kingston) | In collaboration with the IF Project | A Being Human festival event Free michael.eades@sas.ac.uk

Free rli@sas.ac.uk

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Maria De Benedetto (Roma Tre, Italy) | Registration required Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Chair: Jane Mackelworth (Queen Mary) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Svend Erik Larsen (Aarhus) | In association with Birkbeck, Goldsmiths, King’s, London, Queen Mary, SOAS and UCL | Registration required Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 19

Collaborators: Institute of Musical Research, Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, and AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP) | Fee applicable music@sas.ac.uk

Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics Free philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Andrew Benjamin (Kingston) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar November Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 North Block

An ‘anticipation of heaven’? Black and white Christian relations in England during the 1970s

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

'A liberal with international sympathies’: Veit Valentin, Britain, and the blessing of exile

London Arts and Humanities Partnership Evening of talks 18:00–20:00 Enitharmon Press Bookshop

Being e-readers: humanities and the experience of reading

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Discussion / Walking tour 19:00–20:15 UK Supreme Court, Parliament Square, London SW1P 3BD

The humanity of judging: an evening at the UK Supreme Court

Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium 10:00–13:00 Barbican Centre, London EC2Y 8DS

Re-writing the past: John Woolrich study day

Institute of Classical Studies Ancient History seminar 16:30–19:30 Room 349

Roman libraries

School of Advanced Study Evening of talks 18:00–20:00 Goldsmiths Reading Room, Senate House Library

The Human Library

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:30–20:30 Room G22/26

London theatre seminar

Speaker: John Maiden (Open) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Klaus Seidl (IMLR/Munich) | Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies seminar Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

In partnership with London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP) | A Being Human festival event | Free michael.eades@sas.ac.uk

In partnership with the UK Supreme Court | A Being Human festival event Free michael.eades@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 20 In partnership with Britten Sinfonia | A Being Human festival event Free music@sas.ac.uk

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

A Being Human festival event Free michael.eades@sas.ac.uk

U www.sas.ac.uk

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar November Friday 21 Institute of Modern Languages Research 2-day conference 09:30–17:00 Room 104

Conflict and commemoration in the postcolonial Francophone world

School of Advanced Study Day of events 11:30–16:30 Senate House

Bee-ing human

Institute of English Studies Seminar 14:00–17:00 Senate Room

Pedagogic criticism workshop

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

Postgraduate work in progress seminar

Institute of Philosophy Lecture 18:00–20:00 Senate House

Is religion a consolation worth having

SFPS Conference Fee applicable sfpsconference2014@gmail.com

A Being Human festival event Free michael.eades@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: John hardcastle (IOE) and Gary Snapper (NATE) Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Speakers: Simon Blackburn (Cambridge) and Roger Scruton (Oxford) | Led by The Royal Institute of Philosophy | A Being Human festival event Free michael.eades@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 22 Institute of English Studies 1-day conference 09:30–17:30 Senate house

Annual George Eliot Conference: Middlemarch Speakers: Isobel Armstrong, Marianne Burton, Beryl Gray, Peter Garratt, Barbara Hardy, Margaret Harris, Louise Lee, Royce Mahawatte, Kate Osborne and John Rignall £35 standard | £25 concession iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Monday 24 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 349

Greek literature seminar

Institute of Musical Research Seminar 17:00–20:00 Chancellor’s Hall

The relevance of Schnittke’s music

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Speakers: Mark Lubotsky, Dmitri Smirnov, Elena Firsova | New Music Insight in reflection and in performance seminar Free music@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 25 Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 243

Free philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar November Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G35

Philanthropic power: lessons from the agricultural strategies of the Rockefeller Foundation

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 North Block

Germany 1945–49: a case study in post-conflict reconstruction

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

Our island’s printed heritage: special collections in the British isles today

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Seng T Lee Room, Senate House Library

Women workers unfairly dismissed in cold-war Bologna: gendering memories of class conflict in 1950s’ Italy

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 North Block

Digital humanities project: mapping 18th-century tourism in the English lakes

Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Karen Attar | Senate House Library Friends Annual Lecture Free shl.officeadmin@london.ac.uk

Wednesday 26

Speaker: Eloisa Betti (IMLR/Bologna) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Speakers: Ian Gregory and Chris Donaldson (Lancaster) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 27 Institute of Modern Languages Research Workshop 10:00–16:30 Room 243

Moving memories: remembering and reviving conflict, protest and social unrest in connected times

Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference / Symposium 10:00–18:00 Room 349

'Es geht uns gut’: recent trends in (re-)writing the past in Austrian literature since 2000

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 12:30–13:30 Charles Clore House

DNA data exchanges between EU member states and fundamental rights protection

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

Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

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Speakers: Joaquin Sarrion Esteve | Registration required Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar November Institute of Classical Studies Ancient History seminar 16:30–19:30 Room G22/26

Public and private archives in late Roman legal sources

Institute of Modern Languages Research Other events 17:00–20:00 Room 243

The art of post-dictatorship: ethics and aesthetics in transitional Argentina

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:15–18:30 Warburg Institute

Early modern fiction and drama

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

Of principals and principles: confederate substitution, civic responsibility, and the issue of citizenship

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

The ten commandments in the Medieval schools: conformity or diversity?

Institute of English Studies Lecture 18:00–20:00 Beveridge Hall

Byron and the Romantic mundane (The Byron Society Lecture)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 North Block

The Scientific Gardens at Woburn Abbey: 1800–40

Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Deller Hall

Transatlantic Chilean Folk Ensemble

School of Advanced Study NZ-UK Link Lecture 18:00–20:00 Chancellor’s Hall

NZ developments that can contribute to the NHS

Speaker: Banet Salway (UCL) Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Round-table discussion and book launch: Vikki Bell (author) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Convenors: Jacqueline Glomski (King’s, London) and Isabelle Moreau (UCL) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Chair: Cornelia Linde Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Sir Drummond Bone (Oxford) | Chair: William St Clair | Registration required Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Paul Smith (UCL) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Registration required Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Robin Gauls (Otago; NZ-UK Link Foundation Visiting Professor) Registration required Free admin@nzuklinkfoundation.org.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar November Friday 28 Institute of English Studies 2-day conference Senate House

The marginalised mainstream 2014: disguise

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

Postgraduate work in progress seminar

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00–19:30 Charles Clore House

The legal historian as expert witness

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

Finnegans Wake research seminar

£70 standard | £50 concession iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Paul McHugh (Cambridge) | Registration required Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 29 Speeches suitable for tribes of females: gender and authority in Scottish intellectual culture

Speaker: Rosalind Car (East London) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 14:00–16:00 Room 208

Events calendar

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

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Events calendar December Monday 1 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 243

On the west-eastern couch: Empedocles and Lao-Tzu as vanishing mediators

Institute of Musical Research Seminar 17:00–18:30 Room G35

Music, identity, and the clever boy from Croydon

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 349

Greek literature seminar

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 North Block

Social change and the malleability of portraiture in post-Reformation England

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Charles Clore House

Referendum and secession in the Spanish constitution

Human Rights Consortium | Refugee Law Initiative Workshop 20:00–21:30 Room G22/26

Sticky citizenship: imputing citizenship to asylum-seekers

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

Speaker: Nicholas Cook (Cambridge) Free music@sas.ac.uk

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Eduardo Virgala Foruria | Registration required Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Registration required Free rli@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 2 Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:30–20:00 Room G22/26

Accordia lecture

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture 18:00–19:00 Gray’s Inn, London

The foundations of EU administrative law (London Hamlyn Lecture 2014)

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Paul Craig (Oxford) | Registration required Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar December Institute of Modern Languages Research LINKS Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G21A

Comparative perspectives on modernism

Institute of Historical Research Lecture 18:30 North Block, Room 208

Conspiracies: past and present, real and imagined (2014 Creighton Lecture)

Speaker: Maria Di Battista | Registration required Free katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Richard Evans (Cambridge) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 3 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Workshop 12:00–16:30 Charles Clore House

Legal Education Research Network workshop

Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 15:30–19:30 Room G22/26

Aegean and Cypriot script reforms: ruptures and continuities

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room G34

Aesthetics forum

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 North Block

Missionary millennialism and British antislavery, 1790–1840

From corporate social responsibility to corporate accountability: mapping the territory

Organised with the Legal Education and Research Network Fee applicable ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Philippa Steele Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics Free philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: John Coffey (Leicester) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 4 Speaker: Renginee Pillay (Surrey) | Registration required Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 12:30–13:30 Charles Clore House

Events calendar December Institute of Classical Studies Ancient History eminar 16:30–19:30 Room 349

On the Coptic White Monastery library and the reconstruction of its codices

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:15–18:30 Warburg Institute

Early modern fiction and the emotions

Institute of Modern Languages Research Other events 17:30–20:00 Room G35

Encounters: writers and translators in conversation: Sudabeh Mohafez and Kate Roy

Human Rights Consortium | Refugee Law Initiative Seminar 18:00–19:30 Room G22/26

When refugee status ends, repatriation or integration?

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Conference / Symposium 09:15–19:00 Chancellor’s Hall

Nelson Mandela: myth and reality

Warburg Institute Conference / Symposium 10:00–18:00 Warburg Institute

Henry More (1614–87): a conference to mark the fourth centenary of his birth

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

Postgraduate work in progress seminar

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

Charles Peake Ulysses seminar

Speaker: Alin Suciu (Hamburg) Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Convenors: Jacqueline Glomski (King’s, London) and Isabelle Moreau (UCL) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Speakers: Sudabeh Mohafez and Kate Roy | Sponsored by the Keith Spalding Bequest | Registration required | Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Maarten den Heijer Free rli@sas.ac.uk

Friday 5 Fee applicable olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Convenors: Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute) and Sarah Hutton (Aberystwyth) Fee applicable warburg@sas.ac.uk

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 6 Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 10:00–17:30 Institute of Archaeology

South American archaeology

In collaboration with the Institute of Archaeology, UCL £7.50 olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies EMPHASIS seminar 14:00–16:00 Room G35

Stubborn matter: ‘Lucretian atomism and the poetry of early-modern natural philosophy’, and ‘Feeling inside the atom in 17th-century literature’

Events calendar

Events calendar December PU

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Monday 8 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 14:30 –17:30 Charles Clore House

Victims and vulnerable witnesses in the EU

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 243

Ancient philosophy seminar

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 349

Greek literature seminar

Institute of Musical Research Seminar 17:00–20:00 Chancellor’s Hall

Robin Holloway in conversation with Paul Archbold

Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:15–19:00 Senate Room

London Shakespeare seminar

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

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

New Music Insight in reflection and in performance seminar Free music@sas.ac.uk

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 9 Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 243

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 North Block

By the bye, is it summer? It is raining as hard as it can pour: historical geographies and cultural memories of deluge, dearth and extraordinary weather in the UK

Book collecting seminar

Free philosophy@sas.ac.uk

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

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar December Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 North Block

The Anglo-American ‘special relationship’ and defence during World War II

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 103

Reproductive health, the Ford Foundation, and the Chinese sexual revolution

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 349

Visual and literary narratives of dissent: unframing women and representation

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room G26

Nature’s handmaiden, art

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 North Block

Rabbits, Whigs and hunters: rethinking Mary Toft’s monstrous births of 1726

Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:00 Room G34

Poetry of self, city, sign and form: Roman Jakobson research seminar

Speaker: Niall Barr (King’s College London) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Chair: Claire Hayward (Kingston) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 10 Speaker: Ana Gabriela Pereira Macedo (IMLR/Braga) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics Free philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Karen Harvey (Sheffield) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 11 Warburg Institute Colloquium 10:00–18:00 Warburg Institute

Bodies of ideas: science and classical reception

Institute of Modern Languages Research Workshop 13:00–14:30 Room 243

‘Die Biographie des Dings’: Seminar und Schreibwerkstatt zum Thema ‘Schreiben über Dinge’: reading and writing with author Annett Groeschner

Institute of Classical Studies Ancient History seminar 16:30–19:30 Room G22/26

On Roman legal material in early medieval Latin libraries

Convenors: Sam Galson (Princeton) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute) Fee applicable warburg@sas.ac.uk

Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Speakers: Bartlett (harvard and Simon Corcoran (UCL) Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar December Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 17:15–19:45 Room G34

Macht und Ohnmacht der Erziehung: Kleist im Kontext von Wieland und Schiller

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

The certainty of the world of spirits: Ralph Thoresby and the preternatural c.1680–1725

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

European history 1150–1550

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 North Block

A hotbed of genius?: botany and the commercial plant trade in 18th-century London and Paris

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:30–20:30 Room 349

London theatre seminar

Speaker: Ricarda Schmidt (Exeter) | English Goethe Society lecture Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Laura Sangha (Exeter) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Chair: Sophie Page Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Sarah Easterby-Smith (St Andrew’s) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Friday 12 Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 102

Ezra Pound Cantos reading group

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 19:00–21:00 British Museum

Germany: memories of a nation: the ‘Dinggedicht’

‘The whole system of learning, as it were in miniature’: scientific education and the liberal arts curriculum

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Speakers: Annett Groeschner, Neil MacGregor, Godela Weiss-Sussex and Martin Swales Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 13

Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 14:00–16:00 North Block, Room 208

Events calendar December Monday 15 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 243

Women and trade unions in Red Emilia: a memorial perspective

Institute of Musical Research Seminar 17:00–18:30 Chancellor’s Hall

Performing lost repertoires: 17th-century French keyboard music from the perspective of Mersenne’s 1636 clavichord

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 North Block

Robin Hood in the 16th century: one outlaw or several?

Propensities and conditional probabilities

Intellectual history

Speaker: Eloisa Betti (IMLR/Bologna) | A Friends of Italian and Centre for Cultural Memory seminar Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Terence Charlston (RAM/RCM) | In association with AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice | Free music@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Rochard Hoyle (VCH/IHR) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 16 Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:15–19:00 Room 243

Speaker: Isabelle Drouet (Sorbonne) Free philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 17 Warburg Institute Colloquium 10:00–18:00 Warburg Institute

Convenors: Paul Richard Blum (Loyola Maryland), Nancy Struever (Johns Hopkins) and Peter Mack (Warburg Institute) Fee applicable warburg@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

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

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Events calendar January Tuesday 6 The continuous thread of revelation: chrononormativity and the challenge of queer oral history

Biblical memories: seeing The Passion all around in England and Bohemia

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

Ezra Pound Cantos reading group

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

Charles Peake Ulysses seminar

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 103

Thursday 8 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 North Block

Speaker: Amy Tooth (Roehampton) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Chair: Eyal Poleg Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Friday 9 Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Monday 12 Institute of Philosophy 2-day cConference 09:30–18:00 Room 349

Competing foundations? Symposium on the foundations of mathematics

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room G21A

On the west-eastern couch: Empedocles and Lao-Tzu as vanishing mediators

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 243

Ancient philosophy seminar

Supported by Birkbeck and Mind Association | Registration required Fee applicable philosophy@sas.ac.uk

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

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 13 Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:30–20:00 Room G22/26

Accordia lecture Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar January Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–19:30 Room G34

Literary London reading group

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Charles Clore House

The nature of legal aid rights: civil or social/ welfare right? Possible implications under the ‘ratchet effect’ doctrine

Institute of English Studies Book Collecting seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G35

The Paris pornographers: a force for good

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 12:00–14:00 Charles Clore House

Harmful effects of protectionism in EU market for corporate control

Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 15:30–19:30 Room G22/26

Tracing diversities in eastern Mediterranean fresco painting

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

‘Very much a family affair’: the Kuczynski family and British intelligence

The holy maid of Wales: visions, imposture and Catholicism in early-modern Britain

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

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

Speaker: Neil Pearson Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 14 Speaker: Jonathan Mukwiri (Durham) | Registration required Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Constance von Rüden Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Charmian Brinson (IMLR/Imperial College London) | Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies seminar Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 15 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 North Block

Speaker: Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 17 ‘The fault of the fair sex’? The rehabilitation of women’s curiosity in the early modern period

Speaker: Line Cottegnies (Sourbonne Nouvelle) Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies EMPHASIS seminar 14:00–16:00 Room G35

Events calendar January Tuesday 20 Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:15–19:00 Room 243

Propensities and chances

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Charles Clore House

The Freedom of Information Act: ten years on

Testimony, archive and experiment: documentary form in contemporary Lebanese audio-visual cultures

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

Problems of modern democracy: Henry James and the genteel tradition

Warburg Institute Lecture 16:30–18:00 Warburg Institute

Nutrire il corpo, nutrire lo spirito: alcune cene rinascimentali tra cibo e parola

Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 17:30–19:00 Room G35

Visions of the abyss: Lowry, Bolaño and the ghost of Maximilian of Austria

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

Echoes of liminal space: late medieval ‘enclosed gardens’ of the Low Countries: material devotion and artistic expression

Human Rights Consortium | Refugee Law Initiative Seminar 18:00–19:30 Charles Clore House

Voting rights of refugees

Speaker: Hugh Mellor (Cambridge) Free philosophy@sas.ac.uk

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

Wednesday 21 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room G21A

Speaker: Claire Launchbury (IMLR/Sydney) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 22

Speaker: Emily Coit (Oxford) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Nucccio Ordine (Calabria) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Patricia Novillo-Corvalan (Kent) | Ingeborg Bachmann Centre lecture Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Chair: Miri Rubin | Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Speaker: Reuven Ziegler (Reading) Free rli@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar January Friday 23 Societas artistarum

Warburg Institute Lecture 16:30–18:00 Warburg Institute

Le grand roy François - a lecture to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the coronation of François 1er

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 243

Ancient philosophy seminar

Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:15–19:00 Senate Room

London Shakespeare seminar

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture 18:00–19:00 Charles Clore House

Legislative drafting and statute law series

Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 17:15–19:45 Room G34

E.T.A. Hoffmann and hairdressing

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Charles Clore House

EU surveillance on member-state legislative action in the areas of education and sports, as examples of complementary competence areas

Warburg Institute Colloquium 10:00–18:00 Warburg Institute

Convenor: Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) Fee applicable warburg@sas.ac.uk

Monday 26

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Organised with the Statute Law Society | Registration required Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 29 Speaker: Seán Williams (Berne) | English Goethe Society lecture Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

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Speaker: Metaxia Kouskouna (Athens) | Registration required Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar January Friday 30 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00–19:30 Charles Clore House

Legal history

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

Finnegans Wake research seminar

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

Free jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 31 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 14:00–16:00 North Block, Room 208

Education in the long 18th century Speaker: Sarah Goldsmith (York) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

A broad range of seminar series are organised in the School. 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 website for further information.

Seminar series

Classical archaeology Wednesdays monthly 17:00–19:30 Dates: 8, 22 Oct, 5, 19 Nov, 10 Dec, 21 Jan, 3, 10, 17, 24 Nov, 1, 8 Dec Postgraduate work-in-progress Fridays 16:30–18:30 Dates: 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 Oct, 7, 14, 21, 28 Nov, 5 Dec (Open to postgraduate students only)

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Institute of English Studies

Contact: ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Contact: ies@sas.ac.uk

European criminal law

Book collecting

Usually Mondays 16:30–19:30

Usually Tuesdays at 18:00–19:30

Dates: 13 Oct, 13 Nov, 8 Dec

Dates: 14 Oct, 11 Nov, 9 Dec, 13 Jan

Legal history

Book history and bibliography research

Usually Fridays 18:00–19:30

Usually Mondays at 17:30–19:00

Dates: 31 Oct, 28 Nov, 30 Jan Charles Peake Ulysses

Contact: admin.icls@sas.ac.uk Ancient history Thursdays 16:30–19:00 Dates: 2, 9, 16, 23 Oct, 13, 20, 27 Nov, 4, 11 Dec Ancient philosophy Alternate Mondays 16:30–19:00 Dates: 13, 27 Oct, 10, 17 Nov, 8 Dec, 12, 26 Jan Greek literature Mondays 17:00–19:30 Dates: 6, 13, 20 Oct, 3, 10, 17, 24 Nov, 1, 8 Dec

Usually Fridays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 3 Oct, 7 Nov, 5 Dec, 9 Jan Contemporary cultures of writing Usually Tuesdays at 17:30–19:30 Dates: 21 Oct, 18 Nov, 2 Dec Contemporary fiction research Usually Saturdays at 14:00–16:00 and Wednesdays at 18:00–20:00 Date: 11 Oct

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Institute of Classical Studies

Contemporary innovative poetry research Usually Wednesdays at 17:30–19:00 Dates: 15 Oct, 12 Nov, 3 Dec 65

Seminar series

Early modern philosophy and the scientific imagination (EMPHASIS)

Modernism

Mondays 17:00–19:30

Dates: 4 Oct, 1 Nov, 6 Dec

Usually Saturdays at 11.00–13:00

Dates: 6, 13, 20 Oct, 3, 10, 17, 24 Nov, 1, 8 Dec Modernist magazines research Ezra Pound Cantos reading group

Times and dates tbc

Usually Fridays at 14:00–17:00 Dates: 10 Oct, 14 Nov, 12 Dec, 9 Jan

Pedagogic criticism Usually Fridays at 14:00–17:00

Literary London reading group

Date: 21 Nov

Usually Tuesdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 28 Oct, 18 Nov, 13 Jan

Postgraduate feminist reading group Times and dates tbc

London 19th century studies Times and dates tbc

Psychoanalysis, literature and practice Usually Fridays 17:00–19:00

London Old and Middle English research seminar (LOMERS) Usually Wednesdays at 17:00-19:30 Dates: 22 Oct, 19 Nov London screenwriting research Usually Thursdays at 18:00–21:00 Dates: 30 Oct, 4 Dec London Shakespeare Usually Mondays at 17:15-19:00 Dates: 6 Oct, 17 Nov, 8 Dec, 26 Jan

Pedagogic criticism Usually Fridays at 14:00–17:00 Date: 21 Nov Research fellows 12:30-14:00 Usually two or three per term on midweek days Roman Jakobson: poetry of self, city, sign and form Usually Wednesdays at 17:30–19:00 Dates: 12 Nov, 10 Dec

London theatre Usually Thursdays at 18:30-20.30 Dates: 9 Oct, 13, 27 Nov, 2, 11 Dec Medieval manuscripts Usually Thursdays at 17:30–19:00 Dates: 14 Oct, 11 Nov, 2 Dec

Senate House Library Friends events Date: 25 Nov (Annual Lecture, see highlights) For details and membership visit www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/about-us/friends

Seminar series

Theory now

Education in the long 18th century

Date: 29 Oct

Usually Saturdays 14:00–16:00 Dates: 11 Oct, 29 Nov, 13 Dec

University of London Finnegans Wake research Usually Fridays at 18:00-20:00

European history 1150–1550

Dates: 26 Sep, 31 Oct, 28 Nov, 30 Jan

Usually Fridays at 14:00–17:00 Dates: 2, 16, 30 Oct, 13, 27 Nov, 11 Dec,

Contact: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk American history Usually Thursdays at 17:30–19:30 Date: 16, 23 Oct, 13, 27 Nov, 22 Jan British history in the long 18th century Usually Wednesdays at 17:15 Date: 15, 29 Oct, 12, 26 Nov, 10 Dec Collecting and display (100 BC to AD 1700) Usually Mondays at 18:00 Date: 13 Oct Digital history Usually Tuesdays at 17:15 Date: 7 Oct Earlier Middle Ages Usually Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 15, 22, 29 Oct, 5, 12, 19, 26 Nov, 3, 10 Dec Economic and social history of the early modern world Usually Fridays at 17:15 Dates: 10, 24, 7, 21 Nov, 5 Dec

8, 22 Jan History of gardens and landscapes Usually Thursdays at 18:00 Dates: 2, 16, 30 Oct, 13, 27 Nov, 11 Dec History of political ideas Usually Wednesdays at 17:15 Dates: 8, 22 Oct, 5, 19 Nov, 3 Dec, 14, 28 Jan History of sexuality Usually Tuesdays at 18:00 Dates: 7, 28 Oct, 18 Nov, 9 Dec Imperial and world history Usually Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 13, 27 Oct, 10, 24 Nov, 8 Dec International history Usually Tuesdays at 18:00 Dates: 14, 28 Oct, 11, 25 Nov, 9 Dec Late medieval Usually Fridays at 17:30 Dates: 10, 17, 24, 31 Oct, 7, 14, 21, 28 Nov, 5 Dec Life-cycles Usually Tuesdays at 17:15, except 18 Nov at 18:00 Dates: 14, 28 Oct, 18, 25 Nov, 9 Dec 67

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Institute of Historical Research

Seminar series

London Group of Historical Geographers

Philosophy of history

Usually Tuesdays at 17:15

Usually Thursdays at 17:30

Dates: 14, 27 Oct, 11, 25 Nov, 9 Dec

Dates: 9, 23 Oct, 6, 20 Nov, 4 Dec

London Society for Medieval Studies

Socialist history

Usually Tuesdays at 19:00

Usually Mondays at 17:30

Dates: 14, 28 Oct, 11, 25 Nov, 9 Dec

Dates: 13, 27 Oct, 10, 24, 29 Nov, 8 Dec

Low Countries history

Society, culture and belief, 1500–1800

Usually Fridays at 17:15

Usually Thursdays at 17:30

Dates: 10, 24 Oct, 21 Nov, 16, 30 Jan

Dates: 16 Oct, 13 Nov, 11 Dec, 15 Jan

Metropolitan history

Tudor and Stuart history

Usually Wednesdays at 17:30

Usually Mondays at 17:15

Dates: 1, 15, 29 Oct, 12, 26 Nov, 10 Dec

Dates: 6, 20 Oct, 3, 17 Nov, 1, 15 Dec

Military history

War, society and culture

Usually Tuesdays at 17:15

Usually Wednesdays at 17:15

Dates: 7, 21 Oct, 4, 18 Nov, 2, 16 Dec

Dates: 1, 15, 29 Oct, 12, 26 Nov, 10 Dec, 7, 21 Jan

Modern British history

Women’s history

Usually Thursdays at 17:15

Usually Fridays at 17:15

Dates: 9, 23 Oct, 6, 20 Nov, 4, 18 Dec

Dates: 3, 17, 31 Oct, 14, 28 Nov

Modern religious history Usually Wednesdays at 17:15 Dates: 22 Oct, 5, 19 Nov, 3 Dec Oral history Usually Thursdays at 18:00 Dates: 6 Nov, 6 Jan Parliaments, politics and people Usually Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 7, 21 Oct, 4, 18 Nov, 2, 16 Dec

Institute of Latin American Studies Latin American music 10:15–17:30 (Saturdays, twice-annually May/Nov) Date: 1 Nov

Institute of Modern Languages Research Registration in advance to johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk German philosophy | On the west-eastern Couch: Empedocles and Lao-Tzu as vanishing mediators

Seminar series

Practical reasoning Generally fortnightly Mondays at 17:30–19:30 Probabilities, propensities and conditionals Meeting monthly on Tuesdays at 17:15–19:00

Mondays at 16:00–18:00 Dates: 6, 20 Oct, 3, 17 Nov, 1 Dec, 12 Jan

Rethinking the Senses: multisensory perception and action Occasional Thursdays at 17:00–19:00

Institute of Musical Research Contact: music@sas.ac.uk

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Directions in musical research

The Warburg Institute

Usually Mondays at 17:00–18:30

Contact: warburg@sas.ac.uk

Dates: 3, 10 Nov, 1 Dec

Aljamiado manuscripts: Spanish translations: in the Late Muslim Iberian Peninsula

Performance/research seminars

Usually Mondays at 16:15–19:15 (autumn term)

Usually Mondays at 17:00–18:30 Dates: 13, 20 Oct, 15 Dec In collaboration with the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice New music insight – in reflection and in performance Usually Mondays at 17:00–20:00 Dates: 27 Oct, 17, 24 Nov, 8 Dec

Institute of Philosophy

Arabic philosophy Usually Mondays at 14.15–15.15 Basic knowledge of Arabic required Director’s work-in-progress Usually Wednesdays at 14.15–15.15 Date: 8, 15, 22, 29 Oct, 12, 19, 26 Nov, 3, 10 Dec Esoteric traditions and occult thought Usually Fridays at 13:00–14:15

Contact: philosophy@sas.ac.uk Generally fortnightly Wednesdays at 16:00–18:00 www.londonaestheticsforum.org Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics Forum

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia Usually Tuesdays 13:00–14.15 (autumn term only) Dates: 7, 14, 21, 28 Oct, 10, 11, 18, 25 Nov, 2 Dec Free to Warburg and UCL staff and students | £80 (£50 concessions) per term

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London Aesthetics Forum

Generally fortnightly Tuesdays at 17:00–19:00

Seminar series

Giordano Bruno’s philosophy

Irish studies

Usually Tuesdays, 17:30–19:00 (autumn term only)

Usually Fridays at 18:00–20:00

From 30 Sep History of art Occasional Mondays at 16:30–18:00 Latin palaeography Usually Tuesdays at 16.15–17:15 Literature, ideas and society Termly Date: 3 Dec at 17:15

Dates: 24 Oct, 21 Nov, 12 Dec, 30 Jan A collaboration between the Institutes of English Studies and Historical Research, the British Association for Irish Studies, Queen Mary, King’s College London, Goldsmith’s, and the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool. The series also supports an annual symposium and a lecture. Media history Usually Thursdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 23 Oct, 27 Nov A collaboration between the Institutes of English Studies and Historical Research, Queen Mary, Media History and Loughborough University.

Maps and society Occasional Thursdays at 17:00 Dates: 20 Nov, 15 Jan Medieval Philosophy Network Termly Warburg-UCL Scholasticism Reading Group Occasional Thursdays at 17:30–18:30 Basic reading knowledge of Medieval Latin recommended

Joint institute seminar series History of libraries research Usually Tuesdays at 17:00–19:00 Dates: 4 Nov, 2 Dec, 23 Jan A collaboration between the Institutes of English Studies and Historical Research and the Library & Information History Group of CILIP

International refugee law Dates: 7 Oct, 18 Nov, 4 Dec, 22 Jan A collaboration between the Refugee Law Initiative (Human Rights Consortium) and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies | Contact: RLI@sas.ac.uk

The School’s programme of personal development and transferable skills training is available in the form of weekly workshops. This general training is complemented by a set of courses for students in the software and management information tools required to enable them to complete their research effectively.

Making the most of the concentration of expertise available in the School and the University of London, the institutes between them also provide well-established discipline-specific research training in core humanities disciplines. Training in aspects of history, for instance, is comprehensive, notably in the Institute of Historical Research, which offers an extensive programme of short courses in research skills for historians. Taking advantage of both the unparalleled concentration of historical expertise available in the University of London, and the wealth of archival materials in and round 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. A programme of training in resources and techniques (jointly with the University of Warwick) provides specialist research training for doctoral students working on Renaissance and early modern subjects in a range of disciplines. The London Palaeography Summer School run by the Institute of English Studies provides training in that key skill.

Extensive training for students of cultures and literatures is offered by the Institute of Modern Languages Research, whose well-established and popular programme, comprising a series of Saturday workshops, is offered to any postgraduate student working in modern languages or a related discipline (for instance, film, or art history). And the Institute of Musical Research runs a successful national scheme of day schools, aimed at PhD students, but also open to those taking masters’ programmes in music. Specialist tutors from across the UK provide an insight into current research questions, debates and methodologies across a spectrum of musical research. Most of the School’s training is available to postgraduate students nationwide, much of it free of charge. Details of all our training courses are available on our website: www.sas.ac.uk/support-research/ research-training

If you would like to receive a copy of our research training and skills brochure, or would like any guidance, please contact us: School of Advanced Study Registry Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU United Kingdom Email sas.info@sas.ac.uk www.sas.ac.uk

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Research training

Phone +44 (0)20 7862 8663

Further details of all calls forÂ papers are available fromÂ our website at www.sas.ac.uk/events

2015 Anglo-American conference fashion in history July 2015 CFP deadline: 15 December 2014 In a major collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Institute of Historical Research is taking fashion as the theme for its annual conference in summer 2015. Fashion in history is a topic which has come of age in recent years, as scholars have turned to addressing what is chic and what is style over the ages and across different cultures. The history of fashion, and the role of fashion in history, is not just confined to the study of dress and costume, but encompasses design and innovation, taste and zeitgeist, treats as its subjects both people and objects, and crosses over into related disciplines such as the history of art and architecture, consumption, retailing and technology. And across the world, fashion brings together museums, graduate teaching programmes, learned societies and the fashion profession around a common set of interests and concerns. Proposals are invited for panels on the themes of dress, imitation and emulation, taste and style, body-art, the fashionindustry and its media, fashionability and trendsetting, catwalks, fairs and exhibitions, innovation in interior design, architecture and public space, fashion education and technology. Please send proposals of around 250 -300 words to ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

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Calls for papers

Time and place in T.S. Eliot and his contemporaries

Biological discourses: the language of science and literature around 1900

18–21 January 2015

10–11 April 2015 CFP deadline: 30 November 2014

Time and place have huge symbolic significance in Eliot’s work and that of his contemporaries. Space and time exist as symbolical, religious, philosophical, historical, political and personal ‘nodes’ in Eliot’s writings. This conference, promoted by the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation, will explore these ‘nodes’ in greater depth — where they exist, how they interact with other nodes and themes in Eliot’s writing, and how they intersect with the aesthetic and philosophical thinking of Eliot’s contemporaries. The symposium topic is focused on, but not limited to, T S Eliot and modernism. Papers that explore the connections between England and Florence or England and Italy in the context of Eliot and his contemporaries are also welcome.

The decades around 1900 are a crucial period for the impact of biological thought on the intellectual cultures of the western world. The impulses of Darwinism were taken up by intellectuals, writers and artists from the 1860s onwards, and both Darwinian and anti-Darwinian currents of thinking exercised a powerful influence on the intellectual climates of the early decades of the 20th century. This student-led conference, in collaboration with the Cambridge Department of German and Dutch, will investigate the interplay and the forms of mediation between literary and biological discourses in that period. Proposals are particularly encouraged on the processes and potentials of mediation between biological science and literature.

Please send proposals of 100 to 250 words or completed papers to Professor Temur Kobakhidze at temur.kobakhidze@cantab.net, Dr Wim Van Mierlo at wim.van-mierlo@sas.ac.uk or Dr Stefano Maria Casella at stefanomaria.casella@alice.it

Please send proposals of no more than 500 words to conference-ge@mml.cam.uk

Aestheticism and decadence in the age of modernism: 1895 to 1945 17–18 April 2015 CFP deadline: 30 November 2014 This interdisciplinary conference intends to open discussions about the meaning and significance of aestheticism and decadence as these movements evolved between 1895 and the mid-20th century. Aestheticism and decadence were not vanquished with Wilde’s imprisonment but, rather, continued as vital and diverse forms in 20th-century aesthetics and culture. Their influence was in some cases openly acknowledged by the authors in question, but often it was oblique and obscured as many later writers, most famously the high modernists, eschewed any admissions of such a debt. Proposals are encouraged that address the aestheticist and decadent afterlives in the context of their cultural, political and social moments, and which engage with the problematics of these terms.

The Power of the Word International Conference IV:Thresholds of wonder: poetry, philosophy and theology in conversation 17–20 June 2015 CFP deadline: 15 November 2014 Christian traditions of many kinds invoke a ‘theology of wonder’. But wonder is also part of aesthetic experience. The fourth Power of the Word conference, organised jointly with Heythrop College, University of London and the Pontifical University of St Anselm, Rome, will explore the theme of wonder in relation to theology, philosophy, poetry and the arts. Theoretical reflections as well as discussions of individual texts, authors and artists from different countries and traditions from established scholars and research students in the fields of literary studies, theology and philosophy are welcome. Please send a title and abstract of no more than 250 words for papers of 20 minutes duration, together with a brief curriculum vitae, all clearly labelled with your name to Francesca Bugliani-Knox at f.knox@heythrop. ac.uk, copying in Jean Ward at angjmw@univ.gda.pl and Bernard Sawicki at bernard@benedyktyni.pl

Please send abstracts of 250 words with a short bionote to Dr Kate Hext and Dr Alex Murray at decadence.modernism2015@gmail.com

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CFP deadline: 1 October 2014

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