SAS Events Brochure October 17 - January 2018

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October | November | December January | 2017–2018 Readings and talks by J M Coetzee, Ali Smith, Monica Ali, David Olusoga, Tom Holland Being Human festival: ‘Lost and Found’ Senate House Library exhibition: ‘Queer Between the Covers’ IALS 70th anniversary celebration Plus hundreds of other events highlighting the latest research across the humanities

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The School of Advanced Study, University of London (SAS) is the UK’s national centre for the support and promotion of research in the humanities. Its nine institutes offer an extensive programme of seminars, workshops, lectures and conferences. Each year around 1,800 events are organised on humanities topics, attracting more than 68,000 participants from around the world.

Senate House Library is the central library of the University of London. With more than two million books and 1,200 archival collections, it is one of the UK’s largest academic libraries focused on the arts, humanities and social sciences. Several of SAS’s collections are housed within the Library, which holds a wealth of primary source material from the medieval period to the modern age. The Library organises a number of events and exhibitions throughout the year.

The majority of SAS and Senate House Library events and exhibitions are free and open to the public. All are welcome and encouraged to take advantage of the unique access to current research in the humanities and social sciences that these events provide.

For a complete list of upcoming events and exhibitions, please visit sas.ac.uk and senatehouselibrary.ac.uk.

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Cover image: Detail of ceiling in Crush Hall, Senate House.

Photo by Matt Crossick.

How to use this guide Events are listed in date and time order. On the left we list the department responsible for organising the event, the time, type of event or series and the venue. On the right we list the event title, speaker(s) and a short description if available. There is further information about highlighted events at the start of the guide, and about research training events and calls for papers at the end.

Booking Most of our events are free and open to the public. Some events have limited capacity and advance booking is advised. The event information in this guide was correct at the time of going to press, but may be subject to change. Please check our websites for the latest information or email SAS at sas.events@sas.ac.uk or Senate House Library at senatehouselibrary@london.ac.uk.

Mailing lists Sign up to our mailing lists to receive information on events of interest to you by emailing SAS at sas.events@sas.ac.uk or Senate House Library at senatehouselibrary@london.ac.uk.

Event podcasts Selected events are recorded and available to view, listen to, or download online at sas.ac.uk/ events, on iTunes U, and on YouTube.

Blog The School’s flagship blog, Talking Humanities, is written by academics from around the world and provides a range of thought-provoking articles on subjects that matter to humanities researchers. Talking Humanities can be found at talkinghumanities.blogs.sas.ac.uk. We invite short articles from humanities researchers.

Contact us at sas.info@sas.ac.uk with your proposal.

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Coetzee and the Archive: A Reading by J M Coetzee 6 October

J M Coetzee. Photo credit: Bert-Nienhaus

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As part of an international conference on his literary archive, the Nobel Prize-winning author J M Coetzee will give a public reading at Senate House. One of the most distinguished novelists in the world, Coetzee is also an eminent critic and reviewer. His work has been recognized through numerous literary prizes, including the Jerusalem Prize, the CAN Prize, the Prix Femina Étranger, and the Booker Prize (twice). Coetzee’s best-known novels include Dusklands (1974), Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), Foe (1986), Disgrace (1999), and The Schooldays of Jesus (2016). Coetzee has also written fictionalised autobiographies, criticism and letters, translations, poetry, and film and television adaptations. The reading will feature a performance of Bach by Kathryn Mosley (Goldsmiths). This event is generously supported by CHASE and The John Coffin Memorial Trust.

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Indenture Abolition Centenary Conference 6–7 October

Antique postcard from the Caribbean depicting an Indian woman in front of harvested sugar cane (‘cane trash’), Trinidad, c. 1900–15

In collaboration with the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick, the Centre for Postcolonial Studies will host this two-day conference to mark the centenary of the abolition of indenture in the British Empire. The conference will include presentations from new and established scholars and feature the latest research on indentureship and its legacies. It will incorporate two significant evening events: the University of Warwick’s inaugural Gafoor Lecture in Indentureship Studies on Friday, 6 October, delivered by Brinsley Samaroo of the University of the West Indies, and an outstanding panel of writers from across the indentured labour diaspora co-curated with Commonwealth Writers on Saturday, 7 October, that will feature readings by Gaiutra Bahadu (Guyana), Ananda Devi (Mauritius), Lakshmi Persuad (Trinidad), Mary Rokanadravu (Fiji,) and Agnes Sam (South Africa). This exciting literary evening is made possible with the support of Commonwealth Writers and The John Coffin Memorial Trust .

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London Library Walk 8 October

Samuel Beckett. Roger Pic [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Spend an early autumn evening exploring some of London’s early eighteenth-century libraries. This walk, led by Alice Ford-Smith of Bernard Quaritch Ltd, will follow in the footsteps of bookseller and antiquary John Bagford, whose An Account of Several Libraries in and about London, for the Satisfaction of the Curious, both Natives and Foreigners was published in 1708. Bagford was at the centre of London’s book trade, selling collections and helping form new ones. In the process he created a unique record of the libraries that operated in the city he loved. This walk features the streets and alleyways of Bagford’s London, introducing this book history pioneer and the libraries he knew so well.

Jouer Beckett / Performing Beckett

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The walk meets at Stationers’ Hall (pictured: interior).

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To what extent is the interpretation of a playwright’s works determined by the performance conditions in the country where they are performed? These two study days address this question in relation to Samuel Beckett, whose plays reveal different qualities depending on whether they are staged in France or in the UK. Participants will explore the influence of cultural intermediaries on the reception of Beckett’s bilingual oeuvre through analysis of directorial customs, actor training and acting practices, theatre management, institutional financial and material resources, touring networks, and audience demographics. This event is generously supported by the Cassal Trust Fund.

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Dickens Day 2017 14 October This one-day conference will explore all aspects of Dickens and fantasy. Fantasy pervades Dickens’s writing. His deeply held commitment to ‘fancy’, a word from the same root as ‘fantasy’, and the influence of the One Thousand and One Nights on his work is well known. Dickens also loved theatrical fantasies.

He often linked scientific and technological developments to fancy and fantasy and delighted in juxtaposing the fantastic and the mundane. Dickens peopled his work with fantasists of all sorts, from Mr Dick, Josiah Bounderby and Harold Skimpole to Pleasant Riderhood’s fantasies of sailors and breadfruit and Louisa Gradgrind’s visions in the fire.

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on Sigmund Freud confirm the fertility of his work for conceptions of the unconscious and associated mental states. G H Lewes claimed that Dickens hallucinated his characters and Robert Buss’s painting Dickens’s Dream (above) implies he dreamt them. How does Dickens’s creative process relate to fantasy in both the imaginative and psychological sense? In what way do Dickens’s ‘Christmas’ books fit within the fantasy tradition and what is their relationship to his other works? What was Dickens’s influence on contemporary and subsequent fantasy authors? How does Dickens use fantasy motifs? How does fantasy use Dickensian motifs?

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Writing Prize-Winning History

Why Do We Need Monsters?

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Margot Finn, president of the Royal Historical Society, talks to the winners of the 2017 RHS Whitfield and Gladstone Prizes for first books: William Cavert (St Thomas), author of The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City (Cambridge University Press, 2016); Alice Taylor (KCL), author of The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124–1290 (Oxford University Press, 2016); and Claire Eldridge (Leeds), author of From Empire to Exile: History and Memory within the Pied-Noir and Harki Communities, 1962–2012 (Manchester University Press, 2016).

Almost every society has imagined monsters, often hybrids of humans and beast. Today we worry about chimaeras, organisms created by combining genes from more than one species, and science fiction writers imagine bizarre aliens on other planets just as nineteenthcentury novelists placed them in the Centre of the Earth, on Lost Worlds, or in Lands That Time Forgot. This event organised by the Institute of Classical Studies brings together some of the most interesting research on ancient monsters and invites us to reflect on what purpose these nearly humans serve in societies ancient and modern. This event is supported by The John Coffin Memorial Trust.

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William Blake’s image of the Minotaur to illustrate Inferno XII, [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons

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2017 Bithell Memorial Lecture: What is Europe? Georg Lukács’s and Roy Pascal’s European Realism Helmut Peitsch 19 October Roy Pascal, the 1977 Bithell Memorial Lecturer, was one of the most influential Germanists in Britain. In 1950, at the height of the Cold War, he wrote the foreword to Studies in European Realism, the first of Georg Lukács’s books to be published in English translation. This year’s Bithell lecturer, Helmut Peitsch, will trace the influence of Lukács in Pascal’s own work on German history, in particular The Growth of Modern Germany (1946), and discuss Lukács’s ‘European realism’ in Pascal’s later writing, such as The German Novel (1956) and From Naturalism to Expressionism (1973). Peitsch is emeritus professor of German at the University of Potsdam and an expert on the history of German Studies in the UK.

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What’s Happening in Black British History? VII David Olusoga 26 October David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, broadcaster, and film-maker whose most recent television series include Black and British: A Forgotten History (BBC2), The World’s War (BBC2), and the BAFTA-winning Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners (BBC2). He is also the author of Black and British: A Forgotten History, which was awarded both the Longman-History Today Trustees Award and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. His other books include The World’s War, which won First World War Book of the Year in 2015, and The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism (2011). Mr Olusoga was also a contributor to the Oxford Companion to Black British History and writes for The Guardian, The Observer, and BBC History Magazine. He is one of three presenters (with Mary Beard and Simon Schama) of the BBC’s new series of Kenneth Clark’s 1969 landmark programme Civilisations. This talk is the keynote address of the ‘What’s Happening in Black British History? VII’ conference sponsored by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.

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Highlights Telling Stories about Law and Development Diamond Ashiagbor 26 October Diamond Ashiagbor, professor of law and director of research at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, will deliver her inaugural lecture, examining regions, market building, and labour law in the European Union and the African Union.

Before joining the School of Advanced Study in 2016, she was professor of labour law at SOAS and reader in law at UCL. She has been a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School, New York; a senior fellow at Melbourne Law School; and the recipient of a US–EU Fulbright Research Award and a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship. She researches and publishes in the areas of labour/employment law; regional integration (the European Union and the African Union); labour law, trade, and development; human rights, equality, and multiculturalism; and economic sociology of law.

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History Day 2017 31 October History Day is an information-packed event that provides attendees with the opportunity to talk with representatives of more than 30 research libraries and archives and to attend subject-specific research clinics and pop-up sessions on libraries, archives, digital research and public history.

Participating organisations include Archives Hub, Jisc; Black Cultural Archives; British Library; British Records Association; Brunel University Special Collections; Business Archives Council; CILIP Library and Information History Group; Caird Library and Archive, National Maritime Museum; Conway Hall; Dana Research Centre and Library, Science Museum; Geological Society Library; German Historical Institute Library; Gladstone’s Library; Guildhall Library; Historic England Archive and Library; History of Parliament; Institute of Historical Research Library; King’s College London Library Services; The King’s Fund, Information and Knowledge Services; Lambeth Palace Library; Library of the Society of Friends; Lindley Library, Royal Horticultural Society; The Linnean Society of London; London Metropolitan Archives; LSE Library; The National Archives; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Royal College of Physicians Library and Archives; Royal Holloway, University of London; The Royal Society, Collections; Senate House Library; SOAS Library; Society of Antiquaries Library and Collections; St Peter’s House Library, University of Brighton; Trades Union Congress Library Collections at London Metropolitan University; UCL Library Services; UCL School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies Library; University of Cambridge Museums, Archive Collections; University of Westminster Archives; The Warburg Institute Library; The Wiener Library; and Wellcome Library.

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31 October Wordsworth and Byron fell out in a not very dignified way over politics, and there was heavy collateral damage in their opinion of each other’s poetry. But there was a fundamental intellectual difference, too.

Despite his flirtation with Wordsworthean pantheism at Shelley’s behest in 1816, Byron came to believe that moral and existential value could only be human constructs, whereas Wordsworth of course saw these very constructs as the barrier to an existential value inherent in Nature, the perception of which was the necessary ground of moral behaviour.

Sir Drummond Bone (Oxford University) will use this contrast as a way into reading their poetry and spend some time specifically on their differing attitudes to city life and the nature of art.

1 November Staging Canada at Expo67 celebrates the 50th anniversary of the most successful world’s fair of the twentieth century with a four-day event across London featuring films, live performance, and the latest research on Expo, Montreal, Quebec, and Canada during that magic year of 1967. Highlights include the UK premiere of the ‘documentary-thriller’ Expo67: Mission Impossible with director Guylaine Maroist; screenings of classic Quebec films from the late 1960s; a two-day international academic symposium on Expo67 and world exhibitions at Senate House and King’s College London; and a newly commissioned performance of the forgotten multimedia masterpiece Miracles of Modern Medicine, originally produced for Expo’s ‘Meditheatre’. The event will conclude with a special programme of innovative Expo films, most never before shown in the UK, at the BFI Southbank. This event is generously supported by the Canada-UK Foundation, the Government of Quebec, and the Cassal Trust Fund.

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The French pavilion from Expo67, Montreal, Canada

Byron’s visit to San Lazzaro as depicted by Ivan Aivazovsky (1899), [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons

The 2017 Wordsworth Trust London Lecture: Byron and Wordsworth, Art and Nature Sir Drummond Bone

Staging Canada at Expo67: Nationalism in the Crucible of Globalization

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Wellcome Library, London. Cartoon: the nervous system. (Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Women in Punch, 1841–1920 2 November Punch, or the London Charivari first appeared in 1841, published as a weekly magazine with a strong political agenda. Although some work has been done on the social reform agenda of Punch, very little is known about women in the magazine. Were there any women contributors? What representations of women appeared in the magazine, both in images and text? Women were certainly a subject for humour and caricature in Punch, but what were the political implications of those comic illustrations? What was the role played by verse in the depiction of women? Did representations of women change significantly 10

between 1841 and 1910, and if so, how and why? How do the caricatures and/or depictions of women in Punch differ or resemble those in other illustrated papers, such as the Comic Almanack (1835–1853), The Illustrated London News (1842–1989), The Man in the Moon (1847–1849), and Fun (1861–1901)? Queen Victoria subscribed to Punch; did it have many women subscribers and/or readers? How was the ‘New Woman’ reported in the pages of the magazine? Was Punch interested in female education or the entry of women into the professions? These are some of the questions to be explored during this one-day conference.

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Anglophone Travel Writing on Portugal: Anglo-Portuguese Literary Dialogues 2 November This conference will explore literary and cultural AngloPortuguese dialogues throughout the centuries, paying special attention to the way English-speaking authors have portrayed Portuguese culture, the country, and its colonies. The conference is organised by the Centre for English, Translation, and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (NOVA, University of Lisbon), the KCL Camões Centre, and the Anglo-Portuguese Society.

Speakers include Carlos Ceia, David Evans, Isabel Oliveira Martins, João Paulo Silva, António Lopes, and Rogério Miguel Puga.

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L.O.V.E. and Other Disaffections What’s love got to do with it? The field of love studies has enjoyed a reinvigoration in recent years, while love has been increasingly emphasized as a political necessity. Campaigns surrounding the migrant crisis, as well as attempts to halt the rise of fascism in the Western world—for example, Hillary Clinton’s ultimately defeated #LoveTrumpsHate campaign— propose love as political healing, advocating open borders, tolerance, and equality. Scholars from diverse disciplines are again approaching the question of how to define love and how to engage with it from a critical perspective. This conference will consider the following questions: What is the psychology of love? Are some people incapable of love, and is the inability to feel love a definable pathology? What is the neurology of love: can love be reduced to a finite set of chemical and synaptic impulses in response to a suitable object? What would an effective politics of love look like? What are -philias and are they constructed or are they essential? What does the erotic have to do with love? What does it mean to love in a digital age, or in an age of pornography and disaffection? Is there a cure for love?

How is love gendered? How is love colonized, reappropriated, and even weaponized in socio-political economies? What would a post-love world look like—has it already been imagined, or is it already here?

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Robert Indiana’s LOVE sculpture, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Inaugural Liberty Lecture: Ali Smith 6 November Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. She is the author of Autumn, How to be both, There but for the, Artful, Free Love, Like, Hotel World, Other Stories and Other Stories, The Whole Story and Other Stories, The Accidental, Girl Meets Boy and The First Person and Other Stories. Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. The Accidental was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Orange Prize. How to be both won the Bailey’s Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014. Autumn was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017.   See page 73 for event information

Ali Smith. Photo credit: Sarah Wood

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Recent Discoveries and New Directions in the R.E. Hart Collections of the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery 9–10 November In 2015, the Institute of English Studies and the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery established an academic partnership in which the Institute has led research on the manuscript and rare book collections donated by R. E. Hart to the museum in 1946. This two-day conference marks the progress of that research and celebrates the opening of the R. E. Hart Reading Room at the museum.

Anticipation 2017 8–10 November

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The Blackburn Psalter, made in Oxford around 1260–80.

The aim of the emerging field of Anticipation Studies is to create new understandings of how individuals, groups, institutions, systems, and cultures use ideas of the future to act in the present. This conference will provide an interdisciplinary meeting ground where researchers, scholars, and practitioners interested in this field can deepen their understanding and create productive new connections. It aims to put into dialogue the empirical, practical, and theoretical insights that are emerging in highly diverse fields ranging from biology to psychology, cultural geography to critical theory, physics to design, history to mathematics, urban theory to engineering.

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Penning Their Personal Narratives: The Letters, Diaries, and Logbooks of British Prisoners of War Held in Europe in the Second World War Clare Makepeace 14 November For scholars researching what life was like in wartime captivity, the personal narratives of prisoners of war are a vital and enlightening read, upon which a multitude of histories have been based. Too often, however, historians have treated those narratives as straightforward records of experience. This talk by Clare Makepeace (Birkbeck) explores the different types of personal narratives composed by POWs: diaries, letters, logbooks and memoirs. It shows how experiences are written up differently in each of these types, and will argue that to assume diaries or letters form single and separate genres, as historians often do, is arbitrary and unhelpful. This talk will be of interest to historians researching experiences in warfare as well as anyone interested in accounts of everyday life.

in over 200 missions. The Jesuits pioneered interest in indigenous languages and cultures, compiling dictionaries and writing some of the earliest ethnographies of the region. They also explored the region’s natural history and made significant contributions to the development of science and medicine. On their estates and in the missions they introduced new plants, livestock, and agricultural techniques, such as irrigation. In addition, they left a lasting legacy on the region’s architecture, art, and music. This conference will explore these and related themes from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and assess the Jesuits’ legacy today.

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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912

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The Cultural Legacy of the Jesuits 17 November 2017 marks the 250-year anniversary of the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spanish territories.

The Jesuits had a profound effect on the cultural and intellectual life of Latin America.

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Information Law and Policy Centre Annual Conference 2017: Children and Digital Rights – Regulating Freedoms and Safeguards 17 November The Internet provides children with more freedom to communicate, learn, create, share, and engage with society than ever before.

Interacting within this connected digital world, however, also presents a number of challenges to ensuring the adequate protection of a child’s rights to privacy, freedom of expression, and safety, both online and offline. At this conference, regulators, practitioners, civil society, and leading academic experts will address the key legal frameworks and policies being used and developed to safeguard these freedoms and rights. Key speakers, chairs, and discussants will provide a range of national and international legal insights and perspectives School of Advanced Study

from the UK, Israel, Australia, and Europe, and will include Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE (filmmaker, member of the Royal Foundation Taskforce on the Prevention of Cyberbullying, and founder of 5Rights), Anna Morgan (Head of Legal, Deputy Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland), Lisa Atkinson (Group Manager on Policy Engagement, Information Commissioner’s Office), Renate Samson (Chief Executive of Big Brother Watch), Graham Smith (Bird & Bird LLP solicitor and leading expert in UK Internet law), John Carr OBE, Member of the Executive Board of the UK Council on Child Internet Safety and Ian Walden, Head of the Institute of Computer and Communication Law, Queen Mary University of London.

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The UK’s national festival of the humanities – more than 300 events in 54 cities and towns across the country!

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NOVEMBER Produced in partnership with

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Lost and Found: Twenty Years of Treasure Discoveries in England, Northern Ireland and Wales

The School of Advanced Study’s flagship public engagement initiative—the national Being Human festival of the humanities— returns for a fourth year.

This year’s festival theme is ‘Lost and Found’.

More than 300 events responding to this theme and celebrating the very best humanities research will be taking place in 50 towns and cities across the UK. A programme of related international activities will take place in Melbourne, Rome, Paris, and Singapore.

The School of Advanced Study, based in the University of London’s iconic Senate House in the heart of Bloomsbury, serves as the coordinating hub for the festival and will host a number of events, including:

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residency by Queerseum – a grassA roots initiative campaigning for a permanent home for queer voices lost and found to history pop-up programme including visits A from The Migration Museum and travelling exhibition From Syria with Love T alks from historian Tom Holland and from Ruth Barnett, one of the original passengers on the Kindertransport

The London programme will also feature lunchtime talks, workshops, performances, and drop-in sessions from some of the School of Advanced Study researchers working in Senate House—from philosophical sensory experiments to 3D printing of lost classical temples.

20 October Ever dreamt of finding lost treasure?

This Being Human festival preview event, organised in collaboration with the British Museum and chaired by festival director Professor Sarah Churchwell, marks the twentieth anniversary of the Treasures Act. Join a panel of experts and curators from the British Museum as they dig deep into two decades of ‘lost and found’ treasures and debate which have been the best discoveries.

Who owns these treasures, how do we care for them, and what do they tell us about the histories of different regions? Participants include Michael Lewis, Sam Moorhead, and Ian Richardson from the Museum’s Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure, as well as Julia Farley, curator of European Iron Age Collections, and Neil Wilkin, curator of British and European Bronze Age collections.

This free event introduces the Being Human 2017 ‘Lost and Found’ theme and is part of the British Museum’s year-long ‘Treasure 20’ series of events.

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Please visit www.beinghumanfestival.org for festival details. Related events are marked with the Being Human festival logo in the listings section of this publication, beginning on page 53.

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Displaying ‘German Greatness’ in Nazi Germany: The Exhibition Deutsche Größe (1940–42) and its Legacy William J Diebold 19 November Although it is not well known to scholars, the cultural-historical exhibition Deutsche Größe (‘German Greatness’ or ‘Grandeur’) was probably the most important museum display of the Nazi era. The show’s subject was the history of Germany from the early Middle Ages to the assumption of power by Adolf Hitler.

Deutsche Größe was supported at the highest levels of the Nazi Party and its presentation of history was frankly ideological, but the show expressed that ideology through a series of ambitious and innovative display techniques.

This talk, by William J Diebold (Reed College), presents Deutsche Größe and describes how it came about and how it worked to shape an understanding of history that would serve Nazi goals. Special attention is paid to Deutsche Größe as a piece of museology and to the display of the art and culture of the high Middle Ages, an area of history that was especially fraught for the National Socialists because it came from the First Reich that they saw revived in their Third Reich. The talk concludes with a consideration of the legacy of Deutsche Größe in two later exhibitions, one that took place in Cold War West Germany and the other in the German Federal Republic after unification.

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Roman vase. Collection of the dukes of Portland; purchased with the aid of a bequest from James Rose Vallentin, 1945. British Museum.

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Classics and History in 3D: Lunchtime Workshop 22 November Take a tour of the Temple of Isis in Pompeii without leaving London. The new Classics and History 3D Lab at Senate House is exploring how 3D imaging, modelling, printing, and Virtual Reality (VR) can inform modern research. In this interactive workshop, you can see what is going on in the lab, play with scanned and 3D printed artefacts, and take a stroll through the Temple of Isis on a VR headset (without fear of incurring the goddess’s wrath).

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Addressing and Undressing the Female Body in the Magdalene Chapel at San Francesco, Assisi Penny Howell Jolly

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Myths and Origins: Piltdown Man’s Cricket Bat Tom Holland 22 November In 1912, in the midst of a wet cricketing season, a surprising find was unearthed in a Sussex gravel pit. ‘Piltdown Man’ seemed to be the palaeontological find of the century: a Darwinian missing link. Dubbed the ‘first Englishman’, he was even found buried with an elephant bone tool that looked suspiciously like a cricket bat. In this lecture, historian and keen cricketer Tom Holland explores the case of Piltdown Man. One of history’s greatest hoaxes, what can this case tell us about myths of national identity, our desire to explore our origins, and the mythic power of cricket itself?

Penny Howell Jolly, professor of art history at Skidmore College, will give the keynote lecture for the Warburg Institute’s conference ‘The Body Politics of Mary Magdalene’. Her research focuses largely on the fifteenth century and involves topics such as hair and dress, imagery involving gender, and the iconography of Mary Magdalene in both northern Europe and Italy in the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries. She is currently working on narrative cycles of Mary Magdalene in late Gothic and Renaissance Italy. Her publications include Picturing the ‘Pregnant’ Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430–1550: Addressing and Undressing the Sinner-Saint (2014); Made in God’s Image? Eve and Adam in the Genesis Mosaics at San Marco, Venice (1997); and Hair: Untangling a Social History (2004).

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Kindertransport monument at Liverpool Street Station. Photo credit: Wjh31 (Own work - http://lifeinmegapixels.com) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

The Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Debate: ‘Cultural Appropriation’ Melvyn Bragg, Sarah Churchwell, Monica Ali, James Young 23 November This year’s debate will address the following motion: ‘In 2017 cultural appropriation is an inappropriate method for writers.’ In recent years, writers and critics have become more aware of the extent to which literature has involved authors from one culture using themes and scenarios from cultures other than their own. This is seen by some as illegitimate, involving as it does a sense that people from one cultural background are entitled to represent other cultures and backgrounds without actually belonging to them. At a time when people are generally more aware of sensitivities arising from cultural differences and the extent to which racist assumptions lie beneath the surface of much of modern life, we need to explore the extent to which cultural appropriation in works of literature is desirable or appropriate.

A Home Lost, a New Life Found? Kindertransport: Experience and Fiction Ruth Barnett, Ursula Krechel 24 November

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The Kindertransport enabled nearly 10,000 child refugees to flee from Nazi-occupied territories to the UK in 1938–39. It is remembered as a life-shaping experience of the loss of a homeland, of parents, of family and friends—and also of the finding of refuge and eventually a new life in the UK. This event brings together Kindertransportee Ruth Barnett and Ursula Krechel, the German author whose novel Landgericht is based on documents detailing Barnett’s family story (it won the German Book Prize in 2012). The evening includes the showing of extracts of the TV adaptation of the novel (in German, School of Advanced Study

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with English subtitles). Short introductory talks provide background on the history and memory of the Kindertransport and on the treatment of the Kindertransport in fiction.

The event concludes with an opportunity to discuss issues of loss and belonging in fiction, film, history, and life with Ursula Krechel

and Ruth Barnett. This event is generously supported by The John Coffin Memorial Trust and is part of the 2017 Being Human festival.

The Lost Film Shows: Screening Films on the Home Front

including Townswomen’s Guilds, Working Men’s Clubs, the Home Guard, and Women’s Institutes. In the accompanying talk, Hollie Price, a postdoctoral fellow with the Ministry of Information Project based at the School of Advanced Study, will discuss her research on the organisation of these shows and their role in local communities.

1940s dress is encouraged and the films will be followed by tea and cake.

25 November In 1940, the Ministry of Information launched a mobile film show scheme that ran for the rest of the war. The mobile film units were vans containing projectors and screens that were driven around the country by a driverprojectionist, who put on free film shows in village halls, schools and factories. This event will recreate a film show in the former home of the Ministry with a selection of information films and documentaries on the war effort and the home front. It will celebrate the many shows given for voluntary groups and societies, School of Advanced Study

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Self and World, Twenty Years On 28–29 November In 1997, Quassim Cassam published Self and World, which explores the connections between self-consciousness, spatial representations, and bodily awareness. It is a seminal work in the Kantian-Strawsonian tradition, which fell out of fashion at the beginning of this century. However, it cannot be denied that there is much to be learned and reconsidered in this work, and the twentieth anniversary of its publication seems an apt time to take stock and pursue the relevant issues. This event brings together perspectives from different traditions, including the Kantian, the phenomenological, the analytic, and the empirical. It is an attempt to understand the contemporary relevance of Cassam’s work and to explore the future of the Kantian-Strawsonian tradition in general.

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Gemini News Service/Guardian News & Media Archive

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News on a Knife-Edge: Gemini and Development Journalism Today 29 November In 1967, following decolonisation and in the midst of the Cold War, a pioneering news feature service began in London, called Gemini. It covered news from around the developing world and the Commonwealth and lasted until 2002. This symposium will look at what Gemini was and did, and the state of development journalism today. Set up by Derek Ingram, former deputy editor of the Daily Mail, Gemini survived at least two crises, was owned by The Guardian for a while, and was revived with Canadian funding and an educational purpose in 1983. This event will be opened by Sir Trevor McDonald, a contributor and one-time chair of Gemini’s governors; convenors include Richard Bourne, Keith Somerville and Derek Ingram.

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IHR Creighton Lecture 2017: Strangers in Medieval Cities Miri Rubin 30 November This talk by Miri Rubin, professor of medieval and early modern history at Queen Mary’s University of London, explores Europe’s remarkable growth after the year 1000—which encouraged migration, the creation of new towns, and the growth of existing urban centres. Buoyant commerce and manufacture encouraged cities to accommodate newcomers and to reflect through their institutions of government on how best to turn strangers into neighbours. In some parts of Europe, dynastic rulers developed policies regarding migration and the settlement of useful foreigners. Urban centres large and small became extremely diverse places, made even more so by conquest and settlement at Europe’s borders. This diversity came under new scrutiny in the decades of change in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: religion, occupation, ethnicity, and language could each form the basis for restrictive laws, exclusion, and even expulsion. By the eve of its most dramatic global extension, Europe’s cities had become sites of intense competition and discipline. Rubin studies the social and religious history of Europe between 1100 and 1600, concentrating on the interactions between public rituals, power, and community life. Her latest publications include The Middle Ages: A Very Short Introduction (2014) and a translation of The Life and Passion of William of Norwich by Thomas of Monmouth (2014).

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The Country House Library: Some Reflections Mark Purcell 5 December Mark Purcell (Cambridge University Library) will reflect on his own evolving understanding of libraries in country houses, following fifteen years as Libraries Curator to the National Trust and his work on the recently published The Country House Library (Yale, 2017). The seminar is jointly organised by the Institute of Historical Research, the Institute of English Studies, and the Warburg Institute.

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Reformation London: A Symposium 6 December This symposium will focus on London through the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the impact of the Reformation on culture and

society, the role played by the city’s burgeoning communications industry in driving change, and the consequences of the emergence of a new world order through this time period.

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Out of Place: Vagrancy and Settlement 6–7 December This two-day conference explores the shifting experiences, representations, and status of vagrancy in relation to the history of British settlement. How can exploring the images and realities of vagrancy sharpen our understanding of the histories of ‘settled’ communities, cities, and parishes? Speakers include Patricia Fumerton (University of California, Santa Barbara), Nicholas Crowson (Birmingham), and Tim Hitchcock (Sussex).

Mihály Munkácsy, ‘Un Vagabond de Nuit’, Wikimedia Commons

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Chandaria Lecture Series Cecilia Heyes 8, 12, 15 December Cecilia Heyes, senior research fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford, explores the evolution of cognition, including the ways in which natural selection, learning, developmental, and cultural processes combine to produce the mature cognitive abilities found in adult humans. She is especially interested in social cognition. Most of her current projects examine the possibility that the neurocognitive mechanisms enabling cultural inheritance—social learning, imitation, mirror neurons, mind reading—are themselves products of cultural evolution.

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The Human Mind Project: Intelligence and the Mind 11 December Every living being interacts with its surroundings, sensing and responding to signals from the environment. Now the technology we use every day does this, too.

How is the way we process information being transformed by new forms of intelligence, artificial and social? What can we learn about the nature and functioning of human intelligence? The last public event of The Human Mind Project will bring together experts from computer science and neuroeconomics, science and technology studies, and the philosophy of information to discuss how humans have become so good at processing information quickly, extracting meaning from raw data, and building powerful narratives of who we are.

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Aby Warburg, Drawing of Martin Luther’s nativity chart after Johann Carion’s calculation, 1917, Warburg Institute Archive

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Warburg and Luther: Word | Image in Times of Crisis, 1517, 1917, 2017 13–16 December The Warburg Institute is holding a series of events to mark both the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and the 100th anniversary of Aby Warburg’s seminal lecture on Martin Luther and the role of propaganda in the process of public opinion making. Warburg’s lecture, delivered in November 1917 and published in 1920 under the title ‘PaganAntique Prophecy in Words and Images in the Age of Martin Luther’ is now considered one of the founding documents of Bildwissenschaft (the science of images) and of media studies. The series includes a keynote lecture titled ‘”Luther’s Words are Everywhere”: Protestantism and Politics, 1517-2017’ by Jane O. Newman (University of California at Irvine) on 13 December; a roundtable discussion on 14 December with James Curran (Goldsmiths), Jo Fox (University of Durham and incoming 26

director of the Institute of Historical Research), Jost Philipp Klenner (Berlin), Jane O. Newman and Petra Roettig (Hamburger Kunsthalle); and an open day on 16 December, when the Warburg Institute’s Library and Archive will display and offer introductions to materials that relate to Warburg’s Reformation study.

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Dorothy Tarrant Lecture: Earthquakes, Etruscan Priests, and Roman Politics in the Age of Cicero Anthony Corbeill 24 January Anthony Corbeill, a Dorothy Tarrant Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies, is a scholar of Roman literature and cultural history who has published books on the meaning of humorous political invective and the meaning of gesture in Ancient Rome and most recently on Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome, in which he explored relationships between grammatical gender and Latin poetry, archaic gods, and hermaphrodites and for which he won the Charles A. Goodwin Award of Merit, 2016, from the Society of Classical Studies. He has held fellowships at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich, the American Academy in Rome, the Institute for Research in the Humanities (Madison, Wisconsin), and All Souls College, Oxford. In 2018 he moves from the University of Kansas to take up the post of Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia.

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Refugee and Migrant Rights – an exhibition with photo competition and workshop 18–25 November, 09:00–19:00 Second floor lobby, south block, Senate House

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Launch: 17 November, 16:30 (reception and guided commentary) Workshop: 18 November, 14:00–16:00, Room 243 (Senate House) This unique photography exhibition aims to increase public understanding of the rights and situation of refugees, migrants, and those seeking asylum through creative visual and legal tools. It includes photographs selected by a panel of photojournalists following a public call for submissions. The launch will feature a guided commentary with human rights experts. The workshop on 18 November will be led by documentary photographer Kevin McElvaney, who has worked with refugees in Izmir, Lesbos, Athens, and Idomeni.

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Queer Between the Covers: Literature, Queerness, and the Library

passionate and often problematic struggles for acceptance, liberation, and repression that have been waged between the covers of books.

Exhibition and events season

Senate House Library is working with a variety of partners to host a range of events throughout the season that further engage with the exhibition themes. Specific details of the events calendar are forthcoming but will include a literary salon, a guided walk of Bloomsbury, a Polari workshop, films from the BFI archive, poetry, a live choral performance, a Wikipedia Editathon, a conference on Queer publishing, a community discussion, and the work of a book artist. We’ll also be recording and celebrating audience responses to questions posed by the season, and together we’re looking forward to amplifying the gloriously diverse queer voices amongst our collections, our staff and our users.

15 January – 16 June 2018 Senate House Library This exhibition will examine the diverse ways in which literature has been central to the culture’s handling and understanding of what queerness might mean. Whether queer sexualities are being celebrated, pitied, mocked, or denounced, books have not only been the preeminent means of debate, but have also been repeatedly taken as primary data on the nature of homosexuality and thus the focus of prosecution. Embracing forms from the pornographic to the melodramatic, the season will unveil and question the many 28

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Coetzee and the Archive 5–6 October Senate House, Malet Street Nobel Laureate and double Booker Prize-winning author J M Coetzee will give a reading from The Schooldays of Jesus at the Institute of English Studies on Friday, 6 October, at 17:00 in Chancellor’s Hall as part of the Coetzee and the Archive conference. Joining Mr Coetzee will be pianist Kathryn Mosley performing selections from Bach.

The event is open to the public but advance registration is required

£10

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Anniversary Celebration Please join us for an exciting season of special events as the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies celebrates its 70th anniversary.

The Institute, founded in 1947, is an international crossroads for legal research. Its mission is to promote legal studies nationally and internationally, to support the law schools of the University of London, and to bring together academic and practising lawyers. The Institute maintains one of the world’s great comparative legal research libraries, houses specialist research centres and innovative partnerships, and is home to a community of scholars, fellows, and postgraduate students. A major refurbishment of its iconic building at 17 Russell Square is underway, which will create exciting new spaces for the thousands of students and researchers who visit each year.

This year’s events will examine the Institute’s contribution to legal scholarship, showcase its research activities, and welcome the new Director of Research at her inaugural lecture. A highlight will be the formal launch of IALS Digital, with its portfolio of services to digital legal scholarship, drawing on the exceptional skills and services of the IALS Library.

26 October Inaugural Lecture: Diamond Ashiagbor, Director of Research 16 November Launch of IALS Digital 17 November Information Law and Policy Centre Conference: Children and Digital Rights 21 November The IALS Contribution to Legal Scholarship 30 November The Past and Future of IALS and Anniversary Reception (by invitation) 1 December Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies Conference: Legislative Aspects of Brexit Learn more about these events and discover a range of other lectures, seminars, workshops, and skills training events at ials.sas.ac.uk Follow us on: @Legalxl8Hub

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Reconsidering the Raj 1947 marked the end of British rule in India, two hundred years in which the British replaced the Mughals as controlling power and laid the foundations for modern India. In collaboration with the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, the Institute of Historical Research will reconsider this remarkable period in a series of lectures by leading scholars.

11 December The Chaos of Empire: Rethinking British Rule in India Jon Wilson (KCL) 9 January Myth and History: India and the British Raj Charles Allen (author of Plain Tales from the Raj) 6 February With Havelock at Lucknow, 1857: City, Siege and Resistance Rosie Llewellyn-Jones (author of The Great Uprising in India 1857–58) and Sir Mark Havelock-Allan QC, 5th Baronet of Lucknow 6 March Afghanistan: Britain’s Imperial Misadventures Jules Stewart (author of On Afghanistan’s Plains) 10 April Independence and Partition Panel discussion All sessions run from 18:00 to 19:30 in the Wolfson Conference Suite, Senate House, Malet Street.

General Admission: £7.50 per session IHR Friends/BACSA members: £5 per session Register in advance: history.ac.uk/events/event/14561

IHR Winter Conference 2018

Home:

new histories of living 8–9 February Wolfson Conference Suite I Senate House I Malet Street

New histories of living will host path-breaking research that explores the manifold ways the home has been thought about, utilized and lived within throughout history. These perspectives open the shutters on domesticity by showing how patterns of homemaking can reshape our conceptions of kinship, consumption and the everyday.

The conference will take place over two days and is separated into four interrelated avenues of enquiry: • Reconstructions: imagining domestic experience • Dream homes: Envisioning alternative futures for residential experience • Rooms: Furnishing the idiosyncrasies of private life • Home-work: Re-imagining gendered domesticity Confirmed plenary speakers: • Jane Hamlett (Royal Holloway) • Dan Cruickshank (art historian and BBC presenter) • Owen Hatherley (architectural historian and journalist) • Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck)

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Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series Now in its fourth year, the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar invites you to a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry, and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, and Peter Singer among many other regular and occasional contributors.

The seminar meets on Thursdays from 17:30 to 19:30 in Classroom 1 of the Warburg Institute. All are welcome.

For more information, please contact the convener Georgios Tsagdis at georgiostsagdis@outlook.com.

Free and open to the public warburg@sas.ac.uk

2017–18 Programme Damascius, On Phaedo 5 October 12 October 19 October 26 October 2 November 9 November 16 November 23 November 30 November 7 December 14 December

i. 1N–25N ii. 26N–99N iii. 100N–175N iv. 176N–206N v. 207N–252N vi. 253N–310N vii. 311N–360N viii. 361N–406N ix. 407N–465N x. 466N–511N xi. 511N–562N

Olympiodorus, On Phaedo 11 January 18 January 25 January 1 February

1. 1N–17N 2. 18N–44N 3. 45N–64N 4. 65N–83N

Porphyry, The Cave of the Nymphs 8 February

i. §§ 1–18

Porphyry, How Embryos are Ensouled 15 February 22 February

i. 33,1K–45,4K ii. 45,5K–61,13K

(and anonymous Christianus and Michael Psellus)

Proclus, On Alcibiades I (Page numbers refer to the 1954 Westernink edition)

1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 5 April 12 April 19 April 26 April 3 May 10 May 17 May 24 May 31 May 7 June

i. 1–24 ii. 25–47 iii. 48–67 iv. 68–92 v. 93–114 vi. 115–137 vii. 138–160 viii. 161–178 ix. 179–201 x. 202–234 xi. 235–260 xii. 261–282 xiii. 283–311 xiv. 312–339

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Monday 02 Institute of Historical Research

History of Liturgy

Seminar

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:00 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

‘Kenya Cowboys’: The Making and Re-Making of a Postcolonial White African Identity Joshua Doble (Leeds) This event is part of the Imperial and World History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 03 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 14:30–17:30 IALS

People Trafficking

Speakers include Pam Bowen CBE, Crown Prosecution Service (lead operational policy adviser and specialist in people trafficking and slavery issues); Brian Donald, Head of Cabinet of the Europol Director; and Klara Skrivankova, Programme Manager for UK and Europe at Anti- Slavery International.

This event is part of the European Criminal Law Seminar Series and organised with the European Criminal Law Association (UK).

Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Convict Life-Cycles: Survival, Fertility and Venereal Disease

Seminar

Janet McCalman (Melbourne) This event is part of the Social History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:15 Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies (Senate House Library) Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:30–19:30 Room 349 (Senate House)

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Graphical Reverence and Script Hierarchy in the Manuscript of the N-town Plays Mary Wellesley (British Library) This event is part of the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Accordia Lecture The Golden Smile: Etruscan innovation and the Women Behind It Jean Turfa (Pennsylvania Museum) Free advance registration required valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research / Institute of English Studies / Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Britain’s First Talking Book Library for Blind People Matthew Rubery (QMUL) Britain’s first Talking Book Library for blind people was established in 1935 to provide reading material for war-blinded soldiers who could not read braille. Its talking books consisted of specially modified gramophone records containing recitations of the Bible, Shakespeare, popular fiction, and more. Drawing on archives held by the Royal National Institute of Blind People and Blind Veterans UK, this presentation traces the library’s development from the initial experiments after the War to its reception among blind civilians, and, soon after, a series of controversies over taste, obscenity, and censorship.

This event is part of the History of Libraries Seminar Series and is jointly sponsored by the Institute of Historical Research, the Institute of English Studies, and The Warburg Institute.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

New Research in Archives and Records Management

Seminar

MA students (UCL) This event is part of the Archives and Society Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:45–19:45 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Wednesday 04 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 13:00–14:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Creating and Exploring Semantic Annotations of Historical Documents Valeria Vitale (ICS) This event is part of the ICS Fellows Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Aristotle on Political Activity

Seminar

Giuseppe Cumella (Northwestern) This event is part of the History of Political Ideas/Early Career Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30

Contested Memories of the Peruvian Internal Armed Conflict Paulo Drinot (UCL) This event is part of the London Andean Studies Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

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Thursday 05 Institute of English Studies

Coetzee and the Archive

Two-day conference

‘… I have been through the letters and diaries. What Coetzee writes there cannot be trusted, not as a factual record—not because he was a liar but because he was a fictioneer’ (Coetzee, Summertime). What does it mean to be a ‘fictioneer’?

And what precisely is the relationship between the truth of J M Coetzee’s works, especially with regard to the life-story of the fictionalised memoirs, and the factual record that lies behind them? How might such a self-reflexive body of work impact on our reading of archival materials, including manuscripts, drafts, letters and diaries? The recent consolidation in 2012 of the Coetzee Collection at the world-famous Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas – Austin (HRC), offers an exciting opportunity for scholars to address anew such fascinating, enthralling, and intractable questions. Speakers at this inaugural conference on Coetzee’s archive will engage with both the general topic of the archive in Coetzee studies and with the specific and voluminous materials that have travelled to the HRC to date. What might be considered their ‘origins’, their ‘original homes’? Where were they written, drafted, published, otherwise housed? Where, in other words, do archives ‘begin’ and where might they take us? Can we pinpoint such formations, and what are the implications of such geographies and materialities, theoretically and/or empirically, for the story of a writing life? Touching on disciplines as varied as the life sciences, theology and philosophy, South African history and politics, canonical literary intertexts, translation, and engagements with other artistic forms, Coetzee’s richly curated archive serves as a springboard for further investigations into his published writing and collaborative work.

Speakers include Derek Attridge (York, in absentia), David Attwell (York, in absentia), Richard A. Barney (SUNY–Albany), Michael Cawood Green (Northumbria), Michele Chinitz (CUNY), Andrew Dean (Oxford), Kai Easton (SOAS), Alessandra Effe (Giessen), Marc Farrant (Goldsmiths), Ian Glenn (UCT), Lucy Graham (UWC), Shaun Irlam (SUNY–Buffalo), David Isaacs (UCL), Peter Johnston (Cambridge), Polona Jonik (Sussex), Peter McDonald (Oxford), Valeria Mosca (Genoa), Dominic O’Key (Leeds), Cristóbal Pérez Barra (Oxford), Rebecca Roach (KCL), Paul Stewart (Nicosia), Pojanut Suthipinittharm (Silpakorn), Charlotte Terrell (Sussex), Jan Wilm (Goethe, in absentia), Hermann Wittenberg (UWC), and Jarad Zimbler (Birmingham).

The conference will close on Friday with a reading by J M Coetzee with guest pianist Kathryn Mosley and Richard Mosse. £65 | £45 (conference and J M Coetzee reading on Friday, 6 October) £10 (J M Coetzee reading only) This event is free for all CHASE students and scholars. Please email iesevents@sas.ac.uk to register, providing details of your institution and studentship.

Advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

09:00–19:00 Senate House

Institute of Philosophy

Perception and the Arts

Conference / Symposium

Speakers include Barry Smith (Institute of Philosophy), Corine Beson (Sussex), Manos Tsikaris (Warburg Institute), Matt Nudds (Warwick), Tim Crane (Cambridge), and Stacie Friend (Birkbeck).

09:30–18:00 The Court Room (Senate House)

This event is part of The Practical, the Political and the Ethical Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 12:45–14:00

Dora Vargha (Exeter) This event is part of the History and Public Health Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

LG9, Keppel Street Building, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Institute of Classical Studies

Law and Financing Trade

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Jean-Jacques Aubert (Neuchâtel) This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

16:30–18:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Internet Intermediaries – From Defamation to Directive to Data Protection

Seminar

Speaker: Daithí Mac Síthigh, (Queen's Belfast) Panelists: Lorna Woods (Essex, Senior Associate Research Fellow, IALS), James Michael, Chair of Information Law and Policy Centre Advisory Board and Senior Associate Research Fellow, IALS) Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IALS

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Learning from Catherine Hall: Race, Gender, and Class in the Writing of History Esme Cleall (Sheffield), Simone Borgstede (Leuphana University Lüneburg) This event is part of the Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600–2000 Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Pretenders and Returners: Dynastic Imposters in the Middle Ages

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Robert Bartlett (St Andrews) This event is part of the European History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

The Secret History of Brian Simon

Seminar

Gary McCulloch (UCL Institute of Education) This event is part of the History of Education Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Room 642, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL The Warburg Institute

Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 33.

This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

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The Medieval Hortus Concluses: A Gendered Garden?

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Liz McAvoy (Swansea) This event is part of the History of Gardens and Landscapes Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:30–20:00 Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House)

Postgraduate Panel: Sarah Kane, Psychiatry and Dramaturgies of Dislocation; Collaborating with Ghosts to Inhabit the Body: Adapting Women’s Literary Modernism to the Stage Leah Sidi (Birkbeck) and Nina Marie Gardner (Royal Holloway) This event is part of the London Theatre Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Friday 06 SAS Central

Indenture Abolition Centenary Conference

Conference / Symposium

In collaboration with the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick, the Centre for Postcolonial Studies hosts this two-day international conference to mark the centenary of the abolition of indenture in the British Empire. The conference will include presentations from both new and established scholars and feature the latest research on indentureship and its legacies. It will incorporate two significant evening events: the University of Warwick’s inaugural Gafoor Lecture in Indentureship Studies on Friday, 6 October, delivered by Brinsley Samaroo of the University of the West Indies, and a literary panel, co-curated with the Commonwealth Writers organisation, on Saturday, 7 October, that will feature readings by Ananda Devi (Mauritius), Gaiutra Bahadur (Guyana), Lakshmi Persuad (Trinidad), Mary Rokanadravu (Fiji) and Agnes Sam (South Africa).

09:30–20:00 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House)

£40 | £20 fee includes the Gafoor Lecture and the literary panel as well as lunch and dinner on both days. Advance registration required sas.events@sas.ac.uk Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House)

Eighteenth-Century Restoration of Ancient Marbles: Questions of Authenticity in the Collections of Charles Townley and the Marquis of Lansdowne Maree Clegg (Auckland) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series.

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Institute of English Studies

J M Coetzee Reading

Reading

Nobel Laureate and double Booker Prize-winning author J M Coetzee will give a reading from The Schooldays of Jesus as part of the Coetzee and the Archive conference. Joining Mr Coetzee will be pianist Kathryn Mosley performing selections from Bach. ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/coetzee-archive £10 advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:00–18:00 Chancellor's Hall, Senate House

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Seminar Room N304 (Senate House)

Rights, Education, and Empowerment: Fashioning ‘feminist technologies’ and a New Dalit Womanhood in Colonial Western India, 1848–1947 Shailaja Paik (Cincinnati) Dalit (‘untouchable’) women in colonial Western India shaped and were in turn transformed by the interlocking technologies of education, caste, community, gender, sexuality, family, and nation. Two radical men, Jotirao Phule and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, and Dalit women engaged with the ‘woman question’, produced arguments for the empowerment of women, and emphasised their indispensable role in the political organization of the community. In so doing, Phule, Ambedkar, and Dalit women themselves reimagined the generative power of gender and the political realm and practiced feminist technologies that sought not only to restructure women’s roles and establish an egalitarian relationship between women and men, but also to explicate how political projects of constructing the nation and community were entangled with Dalits’ sense of self, rights, selfrespect, affect, anxiety, desire, and everyday life.

This event is part of the Women's History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The State We Are In: Reflections on Recent Studies of Britain’s Political Economies, 1660–1815 Julian Hoppit (UCL) This event is part of the Economic and Social History of the Early Modern World Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Jan van Eyck's Materiality

Seminar

Andy Murray This event is part of the Marxism in Culture Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) SAS Central Lecture 18:00–20:30 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study

Inaugural Gafoor Lecture on Indentureship Studies Changing Caribbean Geographies: Connections in Flora, Fauna and Patterns of Indian Inheritances Brinsley Samaroo (University of the West Indies) Brinsley Samaroo is one of the pioneers of indentureship studies and the author of numerous books and articles on the Indian presence in the Caribbean. This lecture, introduced by David Dabydeen, will include a Q&A session. An informal dinner, included in the ticket price, will be served after the lecture. £15 | £7.50 advance registration required sas.events@sas.ac.uk

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Saturday 07 Institute of Historical Research

Experiencing the Middle Ages in the Post-Medieval World

Conference / Symposium

The Middle Ages live on in the post-medieval world, creatively re-imagined and restored in the art, architecture, literature, culture, and ideologies of individual and collective imaginations. London—a city whose medieval history clashes evocatively with its modern cityscapes—is a fitting backdrop for the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Medievalism, a new seminar series that will explore the manifold methods and motivations for transporting ‘the medieval’ across temporal boundaries. Sarah Salih (KCL) is the keynote speaker.

Fee applicable advance registration required ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

09:00–17:00 IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, NB01/NB02 (Malet Street)

Institute of English Studies Seminar 11:00–13:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Seminar 14:00–16:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar

War and Post-War: Ian Watt's Prison Camp Conrad; Mountain Heather and Blunt Trauma: Demob Aftermath, Violent Nature and the Post-War Sublime Marina McKay (Oxford) and Leo Mellor (Cambridge) This event is part of the London Modernism Seminar.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

The Secret Lives of an Alchemical Text: Manuscripts of the Speculum Sapientiae (1st ed. 1705) and Their Stories Mike Zuber (Oxford) This event is part of the Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination (EMPHASIS) Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Composition Good as Apple Tart: School Magazine Production as a Form of Education, 1826–75

IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Catherine Sloan This event is part of the Education in the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar Series Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

SAS Central

Writing the Literature of Indenture and its Legacies

Lecture

A highlight of the School of Advanced Study’s two-day conference on the centenary of the abolition of indenture in the British Empire is an evening with an outstanding panel of writers from across the indentured labour diaspora. Join co-hosts Commonwealth Writers to listen to readings by award-winning writers Ananda Devi (Mauritius), Gaiutra Bahadur (Guyana), Lakshmi Persaud (Trinidad), Mary Rokanadravu (Fiji), and Agnes Sam (South Africa). An informal dinner, included in the ticket price, will follow the lecture. This event is supported by Commonwealth Writers and The John Coffin Memorial Trust. £15 | £7.50 advance registration required sas.events@sas.ac.uk

14:00–16:00

18:00–21:00 Beveridge Hall (Senate House)

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London Library Walk

Seminar

Alice Ford-Smith (Bernard Quaritch Ltd) Spend an early autumn evening exploring some of London’s early eighteenthcentury libraries. This walk will follow in the footsteps of bookseller and antiquary John Bagford, whose An Account of Several Libraries in and about London, for the Satisfaction of the Curious, both Natives and Foreigners was published in 1708.

Bagford was at the centre of London’s book trade, selling collections and helping form new ones. In the process he created a unique record of the libraries that operated in the city he loved. Alice Ford-Smith will guide you through the streets and alleyways of Bagford’s London, introducing this book history pioneer and the libraries he knew so well. The walk will start in the courtyard of Stationers’ Hall and finish approximately 90 minutes later near Barbican underground station.

This event is part of the History of Libraries Seminar Series. £10 (non-refundable). Places are limited. To book, please visit https://goo.gl/LlXOrN.

15:00–16:30 Stationers Hall, Ave Maria Lane, London EC4M 7DD

Monday 09 Institute of Classical Studies

Plutarch’s Quaestiones Naturales

Seminar

Michiel Meeusen (KCL) This event is part of the Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

16:30–18:30 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies

Notifications On: Petronian Realism in the Age of Distraction

Seminar

Tom Geue (St. Andrews) This event is part of the Ancient Literature Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

17:00–19:00 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 The Senate Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30 IIHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study

"Jupiter Descends": Divinity and Spectacle in Cymbeline; [un]Fair Verona [Beach] 20+ years after: Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet and Mexican film Jesse Lander (Notre Dame) and Alfredo Michel Modenessi (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) This event is part of the London Shakespeare Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

‘Entirely Normal Man – The World’s Greatest Living Freak’: Displays of ‘Half-Men, Half-Women’ at British Seaside Resorts in the Twentieth Century Emma Purce (Kent) This event is part of the Sport and Leisure History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Book launch for Ludivine Broch, Ordinary Workers: French Railwaymen, Vichy and the Holocaust (Cambridge University Press, 2016) Commentators: Robert Gildea (Oxford), Jackie Clarke (Glasgow) This event is part of the Modern French History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Tuesday 10 Institute of Historical Research Seminar

‘This Devil of a Man’: The Wartime Career of General Charles Mangin

IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Tim Gale This event is part of the Military History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Harold Wilson at the Public Accounts Committee, 1959–63

Seminar

Henry Midgley (independent scholar) This event is part of the Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15

17:15–19:15 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15

The Lonely Fieldworker Qualified: Observations on the Emergence of Different Forms of Collaborative Projects in Ethnographic Research

IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

George Marcus (California, Irvine) This event is part of the London Group of Historical Geographers Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

The Mythical Sexuality of La Goulue and La Casati

Seminar

Will Visconti (Sydney) This event is part of the History of Sexuality Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:15 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 18:00–20:00 Room 349 (Senate House)

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Constructing Cost of Living Indices: Ideas and Individuals, Argentina, 1918–35 Cecilia T. Lanata Briones (Sussex) This talk will illustrate the construction and use of statistics through two estimates of the Argentine cost of living index (CLI) as a case study: the foundational indicator, released privately in 1918 and publicly in 1924, and the index published officially in 1935. How and why were these two estimates produced and how did they differ? In what economic and social context and by who were they elaborated? What does the history of the Argentine index suggest about the history of CLIs in general?

This event is part of the Latin American History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

ICS and Friends of the British School at Athens Indigenous Cattle, Bristly Pigs, Wild Goats and Immortal Sheep: Traditional and Ancient Animal Husbandry in Greece Paul Halstead (Sheffield) Free advance registration required valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

School of Advanced Study

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Institute of English Studies

Literary London Reading Group

Reading group

Since 2012, the Literary London Reading Group, an offshoot of the Literary London Society (literarylondon.org) has offered a seminar series that fosters interdisciplinary and wide-ranging research into London literature in its historical, social, and cultural contexts. It aims to include all periods and genres of writing and representation about, set in, inspired by, or alluding to central and suburban London and its environs, from the city’s roots in pre-Roman times to its imagined futures. All are welcome.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

Wednesday 11 Institute of Classical Studies

Hades: Cake or Death?

Seminar

Diana Burton (Victoria University, Wellington) This event is part of the ICS Fellows Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

13:00–14:00 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15 IHR Professor Olga Crisp Room, N102 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Common Cup, Common Fear? Trust, Fear and Communion in the Church of England during the AIDS Epidemic George Severs (Cambridge) This event is part of the Modern Religious History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

A Crusade Which Lacks a Cross? Crusader Medievalism and the Second World War

IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Mike Horswell (Royal Holloway) This event is part of the War, Society and Culture Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Okin, Rawls and the Politics of Political Theory

Seminar

Sophie Smith (Oxford) This event is part of the History of Political Ideas Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15

17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Lecture 18:00–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study

Goodbye London: Will Brexit be the End of the Love Affair between Italians and England?

Enrico Franceschini (La Repubblica) London is the city with the highest number of Italian immigrants in the world: 300,000 officially, perhaps two times as many. It is not a ‘Little Italy’ but a ‘Big Italy’—wherever you go, you meet an Italian or something that is Italian. But Brexit threatens to change this. The number of Italians coming to London has already declined. Many who are here have doubts: they could obtain the legal right to stay but do not feel welcome anymore. A great love story might become, at best, a marriage of convenience or end, at worst, with a painful break-up.

This event is part of the Rethinking Modern Europe and Modern Italian History Seminar Series.

Sponsored by Lord Tugendhat Free advance registration required ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of English Studies

Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group: Canto 86

Reading group

The Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group was formed in 2006. At each meeting, a speaker introduces a canto, followed by discussion. Speakers and members range from internationally established Pound critics to poets, postgraduates, independent scholars and Pound enthusiasts. All are welcome.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Thursday 12 Institute of Modern Languages Research Two-day conference 09:00–18:00 Senate House

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 13:00–16:00 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

Jouer Beckett / Performing Beckett To what extent is the interpretation of a playwright’s works determined by the performance conditions in the country where they are performed? Two study days already held in Bordeaux, and these two study days in London (12 and 13 October, address this question in relation to Samuel Beckett, whose plays reveal different qualities depending on whether they are staged in France or in the UK. Participants will evaluate the influence of cultural intermediaries on the reception of Beckett’s bilingual oeuvre through analysis of the following elements: directorial customs, actor training and acting practices, theatre management, institutional financial and material resources, touring networks, and audience demographics.

This event is generously supported by the Cassal Trust Fund.

Free advance registration required cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk

Translating ‘Development’ This seminar provides a forum for translators working in the area of development to talk about their work and to discuss the challenges that it involves. It will bring key translation studies specialists and trainers into dialogue with practitioners, and it will inform broader translation networks about translation in the field of development. Translation is an area that has been generally overlooked and underfunded in NGOs. Previous workshops highlighted the challenges the sector faces in using foreign languages in its work and the need for research and collaboration in this area. Aiming to raise the profile and importance of translation in development, this seminar will for the first time bring together the different interest groups involved to think about what practical steps would support translation in and for NGOs, how practitioners might be networked together, and what implications their work has for future research and postgraduate translator training.

This seminar is organised as part of the AHRC-research project The Listening Zones of NGOs: Languages and Cultural Knowledge in Development Programmes.

It is open to professional translators, NGO staff, academics, translator trainers, and postgraduate students in translation studies.

Free advance registration required w.tesseur@reading.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Special Event to Mark the Retirement of Professor Justin Champion

Seminar

Mark Goldie (Cambridge), Michael Braddick (Sheffield), Robert Iliffe (Oxford), Charlotte Young (Royal Holloway) This event is part of the British History in the Seventeenth Century Seminar Series.

Sponsored by the Conrad and Elizabeth Russell Fund Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

16:00 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

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Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar

The Brazilian Amazon, Its People and the Circulation of Knowledge Mark Harris (St Andrews) This event is part of the Latin America and the Global History of Knowledge (LAGLOBAL) Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Military Finance during the Peloponnesian War: State vs Household Manuela Dal Borgo (Cambridge) This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

After the Fall: the Genoese Diaspora in the Black Sea in the Fifteenth Century

IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Serena Ferente (KCL) This event is part of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

How to ‘Read’ Acknowledgements of Debt to Jews

Seminar

Dean Irwin (Canterbury Christ Church) This event is part of the History Lab Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15

17:30 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

Traditions of Extreme Violence in British Colonial Warfare

Seminar

Michelle Gordon (Royal Holloway) This event is part of the Modern British History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

Ale, Beer and Brewing in Sixteenth-Century Ireland

Seminar

Susan Flavin O’Connor (Anglia Ruskin) This event is part of the Food History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR North American History Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 UCL Institute of the Americas, 51 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PN UK

School of Advanced Study

Charting Contested Caribbean Space: Mapping and Colonization in the British Ceded Islands, 1763–83 Max Edelson (Virginia) This event is part of the North American History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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The Warburg Institute

Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 33.

This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Friday 13 Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference / Symposium 10:00–17:00

The Sacred in the Secular in European Literature Modern Humanities Research Association Postgraduate and Early Career Conference Free advance registration required jenny.stubbs@sas.ac.uk

Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies

The Athenian Bank: Between Anthropology and Law

Seminar

Giacinto Falco (SNS Pisa) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series.

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

Praemunire: The History of a Reformation Statute

Seminar

Dan Gosling (Gray’s Inn) This event is part of the Late Medieval Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies

Reading

Seminar

Steven Morrison (Nottingham), Helen Saunders (KCL) This event is part of the Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

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Saturday 14 Institute of English Studies

Dickens Day 2017

Conference

Jointly run by Birkbeck, Cardiff University, the Dickens Fellowship, and the Institute of English Studies, this one-day conference will explore all aspects of Dickens and fantasy. Fantasy pervades Dickens’s writing. His deeply held commitment to ‘fancy’, a word from the same root as ‘fantasy’, and the influence of the One Thousand and One Nights on his work is well known. Dickens also loved theatrical fantasies.

He often linked scientific and technological developments to fancy and fantasy and delighted in juxtaposing the fantastic and the mundane. Dickens peopled his work with fantasists of all sorts, from Mr Dick, Josiah Bounderby and Harold Skimpole to Pleasant Riderhood’s fantasies of sailors and breadfruit and Louisa Gradgrind’s visions in the fire. Oliver Twist’s hallucinatory dream, Fagin in the condemned cell, and Dickens’s influence on Sigmund Freud confirm the fertility of his work for conceptions of the unconscious and associated mental states. G H Lewes claimed that Dickens hallucinated his characters and Robert Buss’s painting Dickens’ Dream implies he dreamt them. How does Dickens’s creative process relate to fantasy in both the imaginative and psychological sense? In what way do Dickens’s ‘Christmas’ books fit within the fantasy tradition and what is their relationship to his other works? What was Dickens’s influence on contemporary and subsequent fantasy authors? How does Dickens use fantasy motifs? How does fantasy use Dickensian motifs? £35 | £30 | £25 advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

09:00–18:00 Senate House

Institute of English Studies Seminar 14:00–16:00 The Court Room (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Lecture 14:00–18:00 The Court Room (Senate House)

The Secret Lives of an Alchemical Text: Manuscripts of the Speculum Sapientiae (1st ed. 1705) and Their Stories Mike Zuber (Oxford) This event is part of the Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination (EMPHASIS) Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Katherine Mansfield Society Annual Birthday Lecture The Yellow Mackintosh: Sights, Sounds, and Smells in the Fiction of Katherine Mansfield David Trotter (Cambridge) The lecture will be followed by a cake and wine reception. Copies of the lecture booklet will be available to purchase for a small fee on the day. £18 | £13 advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Monday 16 Institute of Classical Studies

Everyday Identities: Poetics and Imagery of Rome's Other 99%

Seminar

Peter Kruschwitz (Reading) This event is part of the ICS Ancient Literature Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

17:00–19:00 Room 349 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Post-Imperial Demographic Unmixing: The Asian Minority and the Question of Citizenship in Transitional East Africa; (Un-)Making Connections: East Africa, the Uganda Railway and the Question of Globalization, c. 1890–1914 Julia B. Held (Konstanz), Norman Aselmeyer (European University Institute) This event is part of the Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

The Leveller Revolution

Seminar

John Rees This event is part of the Socialist History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Tuesday 17 Institute of Historical Research

The History of Learning Digital History, c. 1980–2017

Seminar

Adam Crymble (Hertfordshire) This event is part of the Digtal History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Transnational Architectural Encounters: Construction of Schools and (Post)colonialism across Continents, 1945–75

IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

Ning de Coninck Smith (Aarhus) This event is part of the Life-Cycles Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

The Craft of Creative Writing

Seminar

Jeremy Scott (Kent), Monique Roffey (Trinidadian-born British writer and memoirist) This seminar will look at creative writing from the perspective of language studies, considering the creative possibilities of playing with genres and media.

This event is part of the Contemporary Cultures of Writing Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15

17:30–19:30 Room 234 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00 IHR Pollard Room, N301 (Senate House) 50

Mentoring Mandela’s Generation: Challenges for a Methodist Mission School in Segregationist South Africa Deborah Gaitskell (SOAS) This event is part of the Christian Missions and Global History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

'A Sheepdog to the Western Diplomatic Flock': Britain and the Search for a Solution to the West Siberian Pipeline Sanctions Row of 1982 Richard Smith (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) This event is part of the International History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.events@sas.ac.uk School of Advanced Study

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Institute of Historical Research

Writing Prize-Winning History

Lecture

Margot Finn, president of the Royal Historical Society, talks to the winners of the 2017 RHS Gladstone and Whitfield Prizes for first books; with William Cavert (St Thomas), Claire Eldridge (Leeds) and Alice Taylor (King’s London).

Free advance registration required ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

18:00–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies

Why Do We Need Monsters?

Evening event

This event is supported by The John Coffin Memorial Trust.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Beveridge Hall (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

‘Paying our Way in the World’: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Trade with Iran in the 1970s Richard Smith (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) This event is part of the International History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 18 Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Cultural Citizenship and Nation-building in India: Media, Identity, and Belonging

IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Lion Koening (Oxford) This event is part of the Comparative Histories of Asia Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies

Reconstructing the Architectural Sequence of the Palace at Malia

Seminar

Maud Devolder (Louvain-la-Neuve) This event is part of the ICS Mycenaean Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

12:30

15:30–17:30 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00

Keith Lehrer (Arizona) This event is part of the London Aesthetics Forum Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk

Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study

From Hegel to Italy: Defence and Revision of the Ethical State in Bertrando and Silvio Spaventa Alessandro de Arcangelis (UCL) This event is part of the History of Political Ideas/Early Career Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:15–20:00 UCL Institute of Archaeology

Men Performing Masculinity Badly: Or, Fighting in Cheshire during the Long Eighteenth Century James Sharpe (York) This event is part of the British History in the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Alastair Bennett (Royal Holloway), Catherine Nall (Royal Holloway) This event is part of the London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS).

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Historic Present, Past Tense: Making Public History and DeCentering the ‘Civilising’ Curriculum Kate Donington (Nottingham), Jason Todd (London) This event is part of the Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600–2000 Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wrong Side of the Tracks: The Separating Effects of London’s Railway Terminals Tom Bolton (UCL) This event is part of the Metropolitan History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Sir David Wilson Lecture in Medieval Studies The Galloway (2014) Hoard: Vikings (and Anglo-Saxons) in SouthWest Scotland James Graham-Campbell (UCL) This is a joint meeting with the Institute of Archaeology/British Museum Medieval Seminar, followed by a launch party for the seminar series in the Staff Common Room.

This event is part of the Earlier Middle Ages Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 19 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 12:45–14:00 LG9, Keppel Street Building, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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Fighting Fire with Fire: The Danysz Virus, Plague Prevention and Early Twentieth-Century Epidemiology Lukas Engelmann (Cambridge) This event is part of the History and Public Health Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

School of Advanced Study

October

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Senate House Library Exhibition tour 14:00–15:00 Senate House Library

Revealing the Reformation: Curator’s Tour of the ‘Reformation: Shattered World, New Beginnings’ Exhibition Karen Attar (Senate House Library) Explore the English Reformation and its communication from its roots to its impact on culture and society at home and abroad in an intellectual trip that ranges from a lost son, lost stories and lost manuscripts to newly found relationships and technology. Lose yourself in the rarely displayed books and manuscripts and find connections with today’s world as you are guided through this Senate House Library exhibition by its curator. Part of the 2017 Being Human festival.

Free advance registration required senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies

Loans in Kind and Loans in Cash in Roman Egypt

Seminar

François Lerouxel (Paris-Sorbonne) This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

16:30–18:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

Hunting at the Court of King John of England

Seminar

Hugh Thomas (Miami College of Arts and Sciences) This event is part of the European History 1150–1550 Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30

Stephanie McCurry (Columbia) This event is part of the North American History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

QMUL Institute of Historical Research

Objects, Emotions and an Early Modern Bed-Sheet

Seminar

Sasha Handley (Manchester) This event is part of the Society, Culture and Belief, 1500–1800 Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) The Warburg Institute

Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 33.

This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

School of Advanced Study

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 18:00–19:30 The Court Room (Senate House)

2017 Bithell Memorial Lecture What is Europe? Georg Lukács’s and Roy Pascal’s European Realism Helmut Peitsch (Potsdam) Roy Pascal, the 1977 Bithell Memorial Lecturer, was one of the most influential Germanists in Britain. At the height of the Cold War, in 1950, he wrote the foreword to Studies in European Realism (1950), the first of Georg Lukács’s books to be published in English translation, and challenged the view that ‘the East’ did not belong to a Europe conceived as ‘the West’. This year’s lecturer will trace the influence of Lukács in Pascal’s own work on German history and discuss Lukács’s ‘European realism’ in Pascal’s later writing, such as The German Novel (1956) and From Naturalism to Expressionism (1973).

Free advance registration required jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

The House that Never Blew Up: Maeve Brennan’s Dublin Home

Seminar

Angela Bourke (UCD) This event is part of the Irish Studies Seminar.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 The Senate Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

‘Now Let Me Tell You about That Wonderful Plant’: Maud Grieve, Early Twentieth-Century Herbalist Claire de Carle This event is part of the History of Gardens and Landscapes Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Friday 20 Institute of Philosophy

The Philosophy of David Papineau

Two-day conference

This two-day conference (20 and 21 October) celebrates the work of King’s College London philosopher David Papineau. Talks will cover a range of themes, including philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and naturalism.

The conference will feature a number of panels composed of Professor Papineau’s former students and a panel of distinguished colleagues discussing London philosophy through the years. The first day of the conference will take place in Senate House; the second day of the conference will take place at King’s College London.

Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk

09:30–19:00 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House)

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Human Rights Consortium One-day conference 09:00–17:45 Room 349 (Senate House)

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Conference / Symposium 10:00–17:00 IALS

Tenth Anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Conference to Review Progress and Challenges A decade on from the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in September 2007, this conference asks what progress has been made in securing indigenous peoples’ rights and about the challenges remaining. It will bring together an international group of scholars and activists to share original research and reflections on practice drawing from inter-disciplinary expertise in law, political science, anthropology and sociology. The keynote panel includes Sheryl Lightfoot (Canada Research Chair in Global Indigenous Rights and Politics at the University of British Colombia), Federico Lenzerini (Rapporteur of the International Law Association Committee on the Implementation of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, University of Siena), and Albert Barume (Chair of the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples). The conference is jointly organised and funded by the Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study, University of London; The City Law School, City, University of London; Queen Mary, University of London’s Centre for European and International Legal Affairs; and the University of Lapland.

Additional funding was provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland and the Academy of Finland.

For registration details, including fees, please visit the conference website at hrc.sas.ac.uk/events/event/13845

The Future of the Commercial Contract in Scholarship and Law Reform: The Interface between Public International Law and Substantive Contract Law Recent years have seen new European EU and academic proposals and legislation in the area of contract law (for example, CESL, PECL, the DCFR, and the UK Consumer Rights Act 2015). These are either based on a universal notion of contract or deal predominantly with consumer contracts. Is there therefore a need to focus on commercial contracts in research and legislation? Is the current identity-based system of merchant and consumer law sustainable? How can commercial contracts be defined? Are they a separate contract type? What should be the role of cross-border dealings in this process? Should this outlook be universal or sector specific? This conference presents recent research focusing on the interface between public and private international law. Its keynote speaker is Juergen Basedow, director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg. £75 | £50 | £35 advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies

Linked Open Data Applications for the Study on the Ancient World

Seminar

Paula Granados (Open University), Sarah Middle (Open University) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series.

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 17:00–19:00

Music and Marxism: ‘Natural History’ and Music History Jeremy Coleman and Johan Siebers This event is part of the German Philosophy Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

Room 234 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–20:30 The Court Room (Senate House)

Domestic Subversions: Resistance and Affective Labour in the Settler Colonial Nation Victoria Haskins (Newcastle, Australia) In 1934, a remarkable petition from a group of women calling themselves ‘Halfcastes of Broome’ was submitted for the consideration of a Royal Commission into Aboriginal Status and Conditions in Western Australia. ‘[M]ost of us work for white people for a living’, the petitioners stated, and ‘by doing so get used to their kind of living.’ The petitioners asked the Commissioner to ‘give us our Freedom and release us from the stigma of a native and make us happy Subjects of this our country.’ Such protests provide an insight into the crucial relationship between domestic service and Indigenous civil rights in Australian history. This talk will explore the connections between Indigenous domestic employment and the curtailing and asserting of Indigenous civil rights more generally.

This event is part of the Women's History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Revolts in Andalusia (1647–52): The Little Ice Age, the Spanish Monarchy and the General Crisis Fred Carnegy-Arbuthnott (UCL) This event is part of the Economic and Social History of the Early Modern World, 1500–1800 Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Cross-Channel Stage: Transnational Theatre in the Age of Romanticism Professor Diego Saglia (Parma) This event is part of the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

The Army of 1417

Seminar

Anne Curry (Southampton), David Cleverly (Chichester) This event is part of the Late Medieval Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Gustaw Rosenberg: Polish-Jewish Lawyer and his Textbook of English Law

Seminar

Łukasz Jan Korporowicz (Lodz) This event is part of the Legal History Seminar Series and organised in association with the London Legal History Seminar.

Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

18:00–19:30 IALS

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Being Human Festival Special event 18:30–20:00 BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum

Being Human festival preview event!

Lost and Found: Twenty Years of Treasure Discoveries in England, Northern Ireland and Wales Ever dreamt of finding lost treasure?

This Being Human festival preview event, organised in collaboration with the British Museum and chaired by festival director Professor Sarah Churchwell, marks the twentieth anniversary of the Treasures Act. Join a panel of experts and curators from the British Museum as they dig deep into two decades of ‘lost and found’ treasures and debate which have been the best discoveries. Who owns these treasures, how do we care for them, and what do they tell us about the histories of different regions? Participants include Michael Lewis, Sam Moorhead, and Ian Richardson from the Museum’s Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure, as well as Julia Farley, curator of European Iron Age Collections, and Neil Wilkin, curator of British and European Bronze Age collections.

This free event introduces the Being Human 2017 ‘Lost and Found’ theme and is part of the British Museum’s year-long ‘Treasure 20’ series of events.

Fee applicable advance registration required beinghuman@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 21 Institute of English Studies

Russian Evolution Conference

Conference / Symposium

This conference features the presentation of a new translation into English of Yuri Rozhdestvensky’s work on philology, narratology, and poetics. A talk by Mary Coghill will analyze his unique contribution to the theory of communication.

09:00–17:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Monday 23 Institute of Classical Studies

Modals and Copulae in Aristotle

Seminar

Simona Aimar (UCL) This event is part of the Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

16:30–18:30 Room 243, (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies

Mental Health and the Everyday in Hippocratic Medicine

Seminar

Chiara Thumiger (Warwick) This event is part of the ICS Ancient Literature Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

17:00–19:00 Woburn Room, G22 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 The Senate Room (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study

"Pace, Amble, Trot, Hand-gallop, Wild-gallop, Fals-gallop": Motion and Conversion in John Taylor's Rebellious Roundhead; Reading Metatheatre Abigail Shinn (Goldsmiths), Harry Newman (Royal Holloway) This event is part of the London Shakespeare Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research

La Bella Principessa: A History of Her Collections

Seminar

Kasia Wozniak La Bella Principessa, a coloured drawing on vellum, is the newly discovered female portrait attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. This talk will attempt to reconstruct the portrait’s history from the late eighteenth century to its re-emergence in Florence in the late twentieth century. The unusual, richly decorated frame that was added some time after the portrait was laid onto a wooden panel will also be discussed.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Lecture 18:00–20:30 Stationers Hall, Ave Maria Lane, London

Jackie Onassis (Working Woman) and the Writing of a Woman’s Work Life Oline Eaton (KCL) This event is part of the Gender and History in the Americas Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The 1924 Pageant of Empire: Modernity, Spectacle and Re-imagining Space Deborah Sugg-Ryan (Portsmouth) This event is part of the Sport and Leisure History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Richard Titmuss and Voluntary Action: From Problems of Social Policy to the Gift Relationship John Stewart (Glasgow Caledonian) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Letters, Leaflets, and Lectures: Before and Beyond the Book, 1840–1945 Simon Eliot (IES) Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 24 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

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The 1904 British Army Manoeuvres: Amphibious Warfare Eleven Years Before Gallipoli Simon Batten (Bloxham School) This event is part of the Military History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Privilege versus Prerogative: Conflicts of Interest between the House of Lords and the Crown, c.1603–30 Paul Hunneyball (History of Parliament Trust) This event is part of the Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

School of Advanced Study

October

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:15 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:30–19:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Refugee Law Initiative Seminar 18:00–20:00 IALS

Assembling ‘Negroana’: Black History and the Limits of Universal Knowledge Jake Hodder (Nottingham) This event is part of the London Group of Historical Geographers Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Recreating ‘Reconquista’ in Family Histories in SeventeenthCentury New Spain Karoline Cook (Royal Holloway) During the mid-seventeenth century, some prominent families in New Spain crafted detailed genealogies that traced their ancestors’ deeds to Christian battles against Muslim forces in Iberia during the tenth and eleventh centuries.

Their family histories also incorporated accounts of the conquest of Mexico, placing medieval Iberian conflicts alongside New World conquests. These sources suggest that seventeenth-century Spaniards born in the Americas actively created and maintained connections to peninsular pasts through the production of genealogies and histories. Growing preoccupation with lineage across the Spanish world perpetuated memories of the Reconquest, and informed subsequent interactions between Christians and Muslims, and Spaniards and indigenous peoples. This talk will explore how memory and local interpretations of ‘conquista’ and ‘Reconquista’ transformed relationships in Spanish America as local competitions over status placed increasing importance on lineages, despite the challenges of tracing these in a transatlantic setting.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Accordia Lecture At the Heart of Mare Nostrum: Small Islands and connectivity in the Later Prehistory of Sicily Helen Dawson (Free University of Berlin).

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Refugee Protection in the United Kingdom beyond Brexit: The Perils of Australian Exceptionalism Linda Kirk (ANU) This event is part of the RLI International Refugee Law Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 25 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 13:00–14:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Institute of Commonwealth Studies

The ERC Project: Judaism and Rome: Rome’s Political and Religious Challenge to Israel and its Impact on Judaism, the Epigraphic Evidence Caroline Barron (ICS) This event is part of the ICS Fellows Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Refugee Studies Reading Group (1) Free advance registration required sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Reading group 15:00–17:00 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House) School of Advanced Study

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

Konstantin Chugunov (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg) This event is part of the ICS Classical Archaeology Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research

Veladas con Diferencia: Las Escritoras de Posguerra del Pacifico en la Esfera Publica Peru, 1883–95

Seminar

Francesca Denegri (Pontificia, Lima) Free advance registration required cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk

17:00–19:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Marco Duranti (Sydney) This event is part of the Rethinking Modern Europe Seminar Series.

Sponsored by Lord Tugendhat Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Violent Fraternity: Global Political Thought in the Indian Age

Seminar

Shruti Kapila (Cambridge) This event is part of the History of Political Ideas Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 243 (Senate House)

Controlling the Body: Decency in Argentina, 1850–1945 Camila Gatica Mizala (ILAS) This event is part of the Latin America and the Global History of Knowledge (LAGLOBAL) Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Reading for Queer Openings. Moving. Archives of the Self. Fred Wah

Seminar

Susan Rudy (QMUL) This event is part of the Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 349 (Senate House)

Thursday 26 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Workshop 10:00–19:00

What’s Happening in Black British History? VII Convenors: Miranda Kaufmann and Michael Ohajuru Keynote Speaker: David Olusoga, Anglo-Nigerian historian and television producer £20 | £10 advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

The Senate Room (Senate House)

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15 IHR Pollard Room Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Loyalty is ‘in this Age Called High Treason’: The Politics of Propaganda and the Law in Interregnum England Katherine Gail Lazo (Vanderbilt) This event is part of the British History in the Seventeenth Century Seminar Series.

Sponsored by the Conrad and Elizabeth Russell Fund Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Per cupidigia alle rapine ed ai ladronecci? Brigandage by Balkan Émigrés in the Italian South (15th–18th c) Nada Zečević (Royal Holloway) This event is part of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Natural Laws, Magic Lantern: Scientific Knowledge and the Roots of Magic Lantern Technology in Tokugawa Japan

IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Lewis Bremner (Oxford) This event is part of the History Lab Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Modern British History Reading Group: Emotions

Reading group

Rhodri Hayward This event is part of the Modern British History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30

17:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture 17:30–19:00 IALS

IALS 70th Anniversary Inaugural Lecture: Telling Stories about Law and Development Diamond Ashiagbor (IALS) Chair: Rick Rylance, Dean, School of Advanced Study In this inaugural lecture, Diamond Ashiagbor will examine regions, market building and labour law in the European Union and the African Union. She will explore the role of labour law and labour market institutions as part of an array of adjustment mechanisms responding to the liberalisation of trade and the opening of national borders. To what extent can social rights mediate the operation of markets, and what does this mean viewed from the perspective of developing countries as well as industrialised ones?

Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Food, Drink and the Bishop in Medieval England, c. 1100–1400

Seminar

Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck) This event is part of the Food History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR North American History Room (Senate House) Institute of Latin American Studies

Schooling, Mobility and Belonging in Socialist Cuba and its Diaspora

Seminar

Mette Louse Berg (UCL) This event is part of the Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Room 246 (Senate House) School of Advanced Study

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The Warburg Institute Lecture 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

‘Divine Proportion’ in Renaissance Venice: Bellini, Carpaccio and Luca Pacioli Paul Hills (Courtauld Institute of Art) Venetian painting around 1500 is marked by a distinctive geometry. The speaker will explore the synergy between the artistic and Euclidian culture of the Venetian Republic, broadly from the arrival of Giorgio Valla in 1481 through to the publication of Luca Pacioli’s Divina proportione in 1509. Examining a number of works by Bellini and Carpaccio, he will suggest how the emphasis on geometry and ‘divine proportion’ confirms the arrival of what Belting has termed ‘the era of art’.

This is the first in a series of lectures on New Work on Venice.

Free advance registration required warburg@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 33.

This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Institute of Modern Languages Research Book launch 19:00–21:00 Freud Museum, London

Motherhood in Literature and Culture This event will celebrate the launch of Motherhood in Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe, a volume of essays from Routledge that raises urgent and fascinating questions about the experience and construction of maternity in contemporary Europe. Dealing with a range of topics including maternal ambivalence, mothering and disability, pregnancy and childbirth, and the formation of families, this book, edited by Gill Rye, Victoria Browne, Adalgisa Giorgio, Emily Jeremiah, and Abigail Lee Six, aims to provoke discussion and debate about that most crucial of human activities, mothering. Co-editor Emily Jeremiah (Royal Holloway) will be joined by Carolyn Jess-Cooke (Glasgow), who founded the ‘Writing Motherhood’ project, and by Lisa Baraitser (Birkbeck), a key thinker in contemporary motherhood studies. The discussion will be chaired by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and will be followed by drinks and networking.

Advance registration required jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Friday 27 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House)

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Understanding ‘Ancient Videogame’ Play as a Reception Experience Ross Clare (Liverpool) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

School of Advanced Study

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Institute of Modern Languages Research

Sketching/Scripting Women: Dominique Goblet on her Graphic Novels

Seminar

Speaker: Dominique Goblet Since the mid-1990s, female artists have become an increasingly visible presence in the bande dessinée (the French-language graphic novel), an art form with which women were previously rarely associated. Belgian artist Dominique Goblet began her career during this industry evolution and in this seminar will discuss her oeuvre, including the recent translation of her graphic novel Faire semblant, c’est mentir into English. A wine reception will follow.

This event is generously supported by the Cassal Trust Fund.

Free advance registration required cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk

17:00–20:00 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Mobility, Migration and Social Marginality in Late Medieval London

IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Charlotte Berry (IHR) This event is part of the Late Medieval Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Finnegans Wake Reading Group

Reading group

This reading group has been running regularly since 2007. It studies James Joyce’s final work, Finnegans Wake, at a close level of detail. Discussion is focused on the text and attention is also paid to Joyce’s manuscripts (copies of which are displayed on a screen). The group hosts a blog to record its discussions.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:15

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Institute of Latin American Studies

100 years of Exploration in the Llanos de Moxos: Reflections on Past, Present and Future of the Archeology of Eastern Bolivia

Seminar

Eduardo Machicado-Rivera (CAU) Kindly organised by the Anglo-Bolivian Society Free advance registration required anglobolivian@gmail.com

18:00–20:00 Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House)

Saturday 28 Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 14:30–17:00 Room 349 (Senate House)

Virgil Society Lecture Virgil's Disciple: Hector Berlioz's Lifelong Passion for the Aeneid David Cairns (writer and music critic) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Monday 30 Institute of Classical Studies

Leigh Hunt and the Quotidian Catullus

Seminar

Henry Stead (Open University) This event is part of the ICS Ancient Literature Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

17:00–19:00 Room 349 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Lepanto, the Event: Decentering the History of the Battle of Lepanto (1571) Stefan Hanss (Cambridge) This event is part of the European History 1500–1800 Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Putting Down Roots: Afro-Caribbean Place-Making in Post-War Brixton, 1959–98; The Forging of a Discourse: Caribbean AntiImperialism Activists Analyse 1930s Great Power Politics Naomi Oppenheim (KCL), Kesewa John (Chichester) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 31 Institute of Historical Research

History Day 2017

Other Events

History Day is an information-packed event that provides attendees with the opportunity to talk with representatives of more than 30 research libraries and archives and to attend subject-specific research clinics and pop-up sessions on libraries, archives, digital research and public history.

Participating organisations include Archives Hub, Jisc; Black Cultural Archives; British Library; British Records Association; Brunel University Special Collections; Business Archives Council; CILIP Library and Information History Group; Caird Library and Archive, National Maritime Museum; Conway Hall; Dana Research Centre and Library, Science Museum; Geological Society Library; German Historical Institute Library; Gladstone’s Library; Guildhall Library; Historic England Archive and Library; History of Parliament; Institute of Historical Research Library; King’s College London Library Services; The King’s Fund, Information and Knowledge Services; Lambeth Palace Library; Library of the Society of Friends; Lindley Library, Royal Horticultural Society; The Linnean Society of London; London Metropolitan Archives; LSE Library; The National Archives; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Royal College of Physicians Library and Archives; Royal Holloway, University of London; The Royal Society, Collections; Senate House Library; SOAS Library; Society of Antiquaries Library and Collections; St Peter’s House Library, University of Brighton; Trades Union Congress Library Collections at London Metropolitan University; UCL Library Services; UCL School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies Library; University of Cambridge Museums, Archive Collections; University of Westminster Archives; The Warburg Institute Library; The Wiener Library; and Wellcome Library.

For complete details, visit the History Day website at historycollections.blogs.sas.ac.uk/history-day-2017/.

Free; advance registration: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

10:00–16:00 Beveridge Hall (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:00–19:00 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research 17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

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ICS/British School at Athens Lecture Pella: The Great Capital of the Macedonian Kingdom Elisavet Bettina Tsigarida (Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of the County of Pella) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

John Gerard, the Archpriest Affair, and the Construction of Memory in the English Reformation Michael Questier This event is part of the Religious History of Britain 1500–1800 Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

School of Advanced Study

October

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:15 Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies (Senate House Library)

The Streets Swarm with Children: Children and Urban Space in Chicago, 1890–1910 Oenone Kubie (Oxford) This event is part of the Life-Cycles Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Shaping of the Latin Classics in Fourteenth-Century Italy: Some Case Studies from the Canonici Collection, Bodleian Library Irene Ceccherini (Oxford) This event is part of the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

The Transnational Crime of Human Trafficking: Taking the Canadian Human Security Approach

Seminar IALS

Maria O'Neill (Dundee Business School, IALS, Visiting Fellow) This event is part of the IALS Fellows Seminar Series.

Free advance booking required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Space and Time

Seminar 17:45–19:45 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Jone Garmendia (The National Archives), Mark Bell (The National Archives), Matthew Hillyard (The National Archives) This event is part of the Archives and Society Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

The 2017 Wordsworth Trust London Lecture Byron and Wordsworth: Art and Nature

17:30–19:30

Lecture 18:00–20:00 Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)

Sir Drummond Bone (Oxford) Wordsworth and Byron fell out in a not very dignified way over politics, and there was heavy collateral damage in their opinion of each other’s poetry. But there was a fundamental intellectual difference, too. Despite his flirtation with Wordsworthean pantheism at Shelley’s behest in 1816, Byron came to believe that moral and existential value could only be human constructs, whereas Wordsworth of course saw these very constructs as the barrier to an existential value inherent in Nature, the perception of which was the necessary ground of moral behaviour.

Sir Drummond Bone will use this contrast as a way into reading their poetry and spend some time specifically on their differing attitudes to city life and the nature of art.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

London, Washington and the Rhodesian Crisis

Seminar

Todd Carter (Oxford) This event is part of the International History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

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Events calendar November Wednesday 01 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Workshop

Law Reform Project Workshop Convenors: Dr Enrico Albanesi and Jonathan Teasdale Fee applicable advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

13:30–17:30 IALS Institute of Historical Research Seminar 12:30 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference / Symposium 14:30–22:00 Multiple London venues

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00

The Queen Was Not There: Rights, Violence, and Middlemen in Britain’s Imperial ‘Coolie Labour’ System Sascha Auerbach (Nottingham) This event is part of the Comparative Histories of Asia Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Staging Canada at Expo67: Nationalism in the Crucible of Globalization Staging Canada at Expo67 celebrates the 50th anniversary of the most successful world’s fair of the twentieth century with a four-day event across London featuring films, live performance, and the latest research on Expo, Montreal, Quebec, and Canada during that magic year of 1967. Highlights include the UK premiere of the ‘documentary-thriller’ Expo67: Mission Impossible with director Guylaine Maroist; screenings of classic Quebec films from the late 1960s; a two-day international academic symposium on Expo67 and world exhibitions at Senate House and King’s College London; and a newly commissioned performance of the forgotten multimedia masterpiece Miracles of Modern Medicine, originally produced for Expo’s ‘Meditheatre’. The event will conclude with a special programme of innovative Expo films, most never before shown in the UK, at the BFI Southbank.

This event is generously supported by the Canada-UK Foundation, the Government of Quebec, and the Cassal Trust Fund.

Advance registration required cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk Errol Lord (Pennsylvania) This event is part of the London Aesthetics Forum Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required: ip@sas.ac.uk

Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Justifying Public Funding for Science: From Vannevar Bush to John Rawls

IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Zeynep Pamuk (Oxford) This event is part of the History of Political Ideas/Early Career Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Arthur Onslow, 1691–1768: The Great Speaker

Seminar

Mary Clayton (Durham) This event marks the launch of A Portrait of Influence: Life and Letters of Arthur Onslow, the Great Speaker (Parliamentary History: Texts and Studies, 14, 2017) and is organised in association with Parliamentary History Trust.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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17:15–19:15 Speaker’s House, Palace of Westminster

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How and Why Was Domesday Made?

Seminar

Stephen Baxter Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar

'With Honour yet Frugality': The Rebuilding of London's Livery Halls after the Great Fire

IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

Anya Matthews (Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich) This event is part of the Metropolitan History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Latin American Studies

Revolutionary Elections in Colombia: The Presidential Contest of 1836–37

Seminar

Eduardo Posada-Carbo (Oxford) This event is part of the London Andean Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30

17:30–19:30 Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Foreign Parts Richard Dove (London) This event is part of Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 02 Institute of English Studies

Women in Punch, 1841–1920

Conference

Punch, or the London Charivari first appeared in 1841, published as a weekly magazine with a strong political agenda. Although some work has been done on the social reform agenda of Punch, very little is known about women in the magazine. Were there any women contributors? What representations of women appeared in the magazine, both in images and text? Women were certainly a subject for humour and caricature in Punch, but what were the political implications of those comic illustrations? What was the role played by verse in the depiction of women? Did representations of women change significantly between 1841 and 1910, and if so, how and why? How do the caricatures and/or depictions of women in Punch differ or resemble those in other illustrated papers, such as the Comic Almanack (1835–53), The Illustrated London News (1842–1989), The Man in the Moon (1847–49), and Fun (1861–1901)? Queen Victoria subscribed to Punch; did it have many women subscribers and/or readers? How was the ‘New Woman’ reported in the pages of the magazine? Was Punch interested in female education or the entry of women into the professions? These are some of the questions to be explored during this one-day conference.

Fee applicable advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

09:00–18:00 Room 349 (Senate House)

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Classics and Poetry Now

Workshop

This event is organised in association with the Classical Studies Reception Network.

Free advance registration required valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

09:30–17:30 Woburn Room, G22 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research

Anglophone Travel Writing on Portugal: Anglo-Portuguese Literary Dialogues

Conference / Symposium Room G7 (Senate House)

This conference, organised by the Centre for English, Translation and AngloPortuguese Studies (NOVA, Lisbon) and the Anglo-Portuguese Society, will range widely over literature in English that takes Portugal as its subject. Rogerio Puga (NOVA) will chair; speakers include Carlos Ceia (NOVA), David Evans (NOVA), Isabel Oliveira Martins (NOVA), João Paulo Silva (NOVA), António Lopes (University of Algarve), and Rogério Miguel Puga (NOVA). Supported by the Camões Centre, KCL. Free advance registration required jenny.stubbs@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

The Digital Revolution of the Israeli Judiciary: Historical and Organisational Analysis

Seminar

Yair Sagy (Haifa, IALS Visiting Fellow) This event is part of the IALS Lunchtime Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

10:00–18:00

12:30–13:30 IALS Institute of Historical Research Seminar 12:45–14:00 LG9, Keppel Street Building, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 17:15–19:00

How is Australia Responding to Calls to Allow Medical Uses of Cannabis?

Wayne Hall (Queensland) This event is part of the History of Public Health Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

English Goethe Society Lecture Satanic Reflections in Eighteenth-Century German Drama John Guthrie (Cambridge) Free advance registration required jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

European History 1150–1550: two paper event

Seminar

Daisy Livingston (SOAS), Martin Hall (Royal Holloway) This event is part of the European History 1150–1550 Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

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From Architectural Planning to Organic Change: Mrs Thatcher and the Abolition of the Colleges of Education Revisited Robin Simmons (Huddersfield) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar

‘We Have Not a Government’: The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution

IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

George William van Cleve (Seattle) This event is part of the North American History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 33.

This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 IALS

The Mathematical Philosophy of Law and Finance, A Categorification of Financial Instruments for the Socio-Economic Good Joe Tanega (University of Westminster School of Law) Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Queen Mary’s Exotics

Seminar

Terry Gough (Head Gardener, Hampton Court Palace) This event is part of the History of Gardens and Landscapes Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Friday 03 Institute of Modern Languages Research

62nd National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies Fee applicable advance registration required jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Colloquium 10:00–18:00 Somerville College, Oxford Institute of Classical Studies

To the Bone: The Male Body in Athletic Art and Society

Seminar

Caitlan Smith (St Andrews) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

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Crisis and Austerity in Qing Government Finances in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century China Elisabeth Kaske (Leipzig) This event is part of the Economic and Social History of the Early Modern World, 1500–1800 Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Nicolaes Witsen, Shipbuilding and the Problem of Technology Transfer in Early Modern Europe Dániel Margócsy (Cambridge) This event is part of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Subject to Negotiation? The Security of Aristocratic Women's Property Rights in Thirteenth-Century England

IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Harriet Kersey (Canterbury) This event is part of the Late Medieval Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

October 1917 and its Afterlives

Seminar

Warren Carter, Antigoni Mamou, Gail Day This event is part of the Marxism in Culture Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30

17:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Saturday 04 Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference / Symposium 09:00–19:00 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

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L.O.V.E. and Other Disaffections What’s love got to do with it? The field of love studies has enjoyed a reinvigoration in recent years, while love has been increasingly emphasized as a political necessity. Campaigns surrounding the migrant crisis, as well as attempts to halt the rise of fascism in the Western world—for example, Hillary Clinton’s ultimately defeated #LoveTrumpsHate campaign—propose love as political healing, advocating open borders, tolerance, and equality. Scholars from diverse disciplines are again approaching the question of how to define love and how to engage with it from a critical perspective. What is the psychology of love? Are some people incapable of love, and is the inability to feel love a definable pathology?

What is the neurology of love: can love be reduced to a finite set of chemical and synaptic impulses in response to a suitable object? What would an effective politics of love look like? What are -philias and are they constructed or are they essential? What does the erotic have to do with love? What does it mean to love in a digital age, or in an age of pornography and disaffection? Is there a cure for love? How is love gendered? How is love colonized, reappropriated, and even weaponized in socio-political economies? What would a post-love world look like—has it already been imagined, or is it already here?

Amaleena Damlé (Cambridge) will deliver the keynote lecture.

Advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Workshop 10:00–19:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Seminar 14:00–16:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

Ethnography and Modern Languages: Critical Reflections This workshop provides a forum to reflect on the position of ethnographic approaches and methods within modern languages research and teaching. Ethnography is a growing area of interest among modern languages scholars, particularly among early career researchers and those working across the AHRC’s Open World Research Initiative and the Translating Cultures theme. At the same time, ethnographic approaches often lack visibility within modern languages disciplinary discussions and institutional structures. This workshop invites early career and experienced researchers and lecturers in modern languages to reflect on how they have engaged with ethnography in their research and/or teaching practices. Discussions will focus on how these approaches can be more effectively supported and developed, and how they complement and enter into productive dialogue with more established areas of modern languages research, such as literary and cultural studies. This event is part of the Open World Research Initiative Cross-Language Dynamics translingual strand.

Advance registration required sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Nicolaes Witsen, Shipbuilding and the Problem of Technology Transfer in Early Modern Europe Dániel Margócsy (Cambridge) This event is part of the Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination (EMPHASIS) Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required IESEvents@sas.ac.uk

Monday 06 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Thinking Makes the World Go Round: Intellection and Astronomy in Plato’s Timaeus Barbara Sattler (St Andrews) This event is part of the ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Yelling at the Television: How Viewer Feedback Helped to Shape Sport on ITV

IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Gareth Edwards (De Montfort) This event is part of the Sport and Leisure History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Inaugural Liberty Lecture

Lecture

Ali Smith CBE FRSL, the award-winning Scottish author, playwright, journalist, and academic, will deliver the first annual Liberty Lecture in association with Liberty. Described by Sebastian Barry as ‘Scotland’s Nobel laureate-in-waiting’, Smith is a prolific writer whose work includes fiction and short story collections, autobiographical short stories, and plays. She is the author of Free Love and Other Stories (1995), Hotel World (2001), The Accidental (2005), The First Person and Other Stories (2008), and How to be Both (2014), among others. Smith has received great critical acclaim for her work: she won the 2005 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award (for The Accidental), the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize and the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction (for How to be Both), and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Man Booker Prize, and the Folio Prize. Smith’s latest work Autumn was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017. £10 | £5 advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:15

18:00–20:00 Beveridge Hall (Senate House)

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 IHR Seminar Room N304 (Senate House)

The First World War: Reflections on Scholarship and Commemoration 100 Years On A roundtable discussion featuring Franziska Heimburger (Paris-Sorbonne), Marjorie Gehrhardt (Reading), and Alison Fell (Leeds) This event is part of the Modern French History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Witness Seminar: Working with Voluntary Organisations since 1975 Shirley Otto (independent scholar) This event is part of the Voluntary Action History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 07 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15

New Work in Italian Studies Presentation of two recently published books in Italian studies: Annie Chartres Vivanti: Transnational Politics, Identity and Culture (ed. by Sharon Wood and Erica Moretti, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016) and Women and the Public Sphere in Modern and Contemporary Italy: Essays for Sharon Wood (ed. by Simona Storchi, Marina Spunta, and Maria Morelli, Troubador, 2017). This event will feature the editors in conversation with a panel of respondents.

Free advance registration required jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Strategy, National Decline and Greater Britain in the Late Nineteenth Century James Fargher (KCL) This event is part of the Military History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Challenges of Designing the House of Lords’ NineteenthCentury Ventilation System: A Study of a Political Design Process, 1840–47

IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Henrik Schoenefeldt (Kent) This event is part of the Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

A Million Black Anthropocenes or None

Seminar

Kathryn Yusoff (Queen Mary University of London) This event is part of the London Group of Historical Geographers Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

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Redefining “Normal” Child Sexuality: Encounters between Sexologists and Psychoanalysts at the Fin de Siècle Katie Sutton (Australian National University) This event is part of the History of Sexuality Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:15 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

Importing the War on Drugs? U.S. Pressure and Mexican AntiDrugs Efforts from 1940 to 1980 Carlos A. Pérez Ricart (Freie Universität, Berlin) The talk looks at the relationship between the United States and Mexico and the ‘war on drugs’ from 1940 to 1980. During this period, the U.S. deployed a series of pressuring mechanisms that shaped drug policy in Mexico, which was remarkable for its strong prohibitionist and punitive dimension. However, this would not have been possible without the combination of two endogenous factors: the existence of a tradition of low tolerance regarding the use of psychoactive substances and the assimilation of the ‘war on drugs’ rhetoric by Mexican state officials for the purpose of reaping political and bureaucratic benefits.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

The Imperial War Museum Library

Seminar

Sarah Paterson (Imperial War Museum Library) This event is part of the History of Libraries Seminar Series and is co-sponsored by the Institute of English Studies and The Warburg Institute.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Wednesday 08 SAS Central

Anticipation 2017

Three-day conference

The aim of the emerging field of Anticipation Studies is to create new understandings of how individuals, groups, institutions, systems, and cultures use ideas of the future to act in the present. This conference will provide an interdisciplinary meeting ground where researchers, scholars, and practitioners interested in this field can deepen their understanding and create productive new connections. It aims to put into dialogue the empirical, practical and theoretical insights that are emerging in highly diverse fields ranging from biology to psychology, cultural geography to critical theory, physics to design, history to mathematics, urban theory to engineering. It will build on the first international conference on Anticipation Studies, held in Trento in 2015, which saw 350 delegates gather to explore topics ranging from design futures to anticipatory economics and the philosophy of the present.

For registration details, including fees, please visit the conference website at www.anticipation2017.org. kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

09:00–18:00 Senate House

Institute of Classical Studies

Aristotelian Natural Problems in the Roman Empire

Seminar

Michiel Meeusen (KCL) This event is part of the ICS Fellows Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

13:00–14:00 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Latin American Studies

Caribbean Studies Collection Opening Event Free advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Workshop 15:00–20:00 The Court Room (Senate House)

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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 King's College London Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Irina Shramko (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University) and Stas Zadnikov (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University) This event is part of the ICS Classical Archaeology Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

The Spoils of War: British Exploitation of German Science and the Start of the Cold War, 1944-49

IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Charlie Hall (Kent) This event is part of the War, Society and Culture Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Rousseau and Federal Government

Seminar

Michael Sonenscher (Cambridge) This event is part of the History of Political Ideas Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15

17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

The William Wilberforce Diaries Project

Seminar

John Coffey (Leicester), Mark Smith (Oxford), John Wolffe (Open University) This event is part of the Modern Religious History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 Olga Crisp Room, N102 (Senate House) Institute of Latin American Studies

Shelf Marks and Subject Classifications in the Jesuit Libraries of Colonial Spanish America

Seminar

Desiree Arbo (Warwick) This event is part of the Latin America and the Global History of Knowledge (LAGLOBAL) Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies

Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group: Canto 35

Reading group

Guy Stevenson (Goldsmiths) The Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group was formed in 2006. At each meeting, a speaker introduces a canto, followed by discussion. Speakers and members range from internationally established Pound critics to poets, postgraduates, independent scholars and Pound enthusiasts. All are welcome.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Thursday 09 Human Rights Consortium

Human Rights Research Students’ Conference

Conference / Symposium

This conference is aimed at postgraduate students working within the broad interdisciplinary field of human rights and social justice. It aims to stimulate research on contemporary human rights issues and policies, and to facilitate the dissemination of such research. The conference is co-organised by the Glasgow Human Rights Network at the University of Glasgow, the Human Rights Consortium at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. £15 | £10 (registration fee includes lunch) advance registration required hrc@sas.ac.uk or visit hrc.sas.ac.uk/events/event/14104

09:00–18:00 Senate Room, University of Glasgow

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Institute of English Studies Two-day conference 9 November,16:00 – 10 November, 17:00 Blackburn

‘Something for my Native Town’: Recent Discoveries and New Directions in the R. E. Hart Collections of the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery In 2015, the Institute of English Studies and the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery established an academic partnership in which the Institute has led research on the manuscript and rare book collections donated by R. E. Hart to the museum in 1946. This two-day conference (9 and 10 November) marks the progress of that research and celebrates the opening of the R. E. Hart Reading Room at the museum. Funded by an Arts Council England Resilience Grant, research on the manuscript and book collections has yielded extraordinary discoveries. The opening of the Reading Room will enable both academics and the public to access Hart’s collections in a secure and comfortable environment. The conference is co-sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, and the University Centre at Blackburn College. The plenary lecture will be delivered by David McKitterick (Cambridge). £15 | £10 advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies

‘Money’ and the Supply of Slaves in Archaic Greece

Seminar

David Lewis (Nottingham) This seminar is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

16:30–18:30 The Court Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30

Principles, Patronage and Impropriety: Dorset Politics in the Age of Anne Kevin Tuffnell (UCL) This event is part of the History Lab Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Words, Images, and … Action: Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) as a Device for Learning and the Changing Attitude Toward Gender Roles within the Home

IHR North American History Room, (Senate House)

Lorna Sheppard (Falmouth) This event is part of the Food History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Latin American Studies

Philanthrocapitalism in the Brazilian Context: Corporate Elite Engagement in a Localised Development Agenda

Seminar Room 234 (Senate House)

Jessica Sklair (ILAS) This event is part of the Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 33.

This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:30–20:00

Special Event: FML Thompson as a Historian of English Landed Society: A Tribute Friends of the IHR/MBH This event is part of the Modern British History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Stephen Greer (Glasgow) This event is part of the London Theatre Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House)

Friday 10 Institute of Modern Languages Research Two-day symposium 09:00–19:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

French Studies and the Medical Humanities This two-day symposium explores the affinities between French studies and the medical humanities, a broad area of interdisciplinary study concerned with the interaction between medicine, cultural expression and critical inquiry. It exploits the privileged access enjoyed by French studies scholars to the wealth of archival material and cultural production charting France’s crucial role in the history of medicine, and to the French intellectual tradition’s distinctive critical engagement with medical discourse and practice as they affect, shape, and indeed produce the human subject. The symposium, which seeks common ground for the creation of international research networks, aims also to evaluate the status of the medical humanities in French-speaking academic contexts.

Fee applicable advance registration required jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies

‘Paradeigmata’ and Interstate Politics in Greek Oratory

Seminar

William Coles (Royal Holloway), Giulia Maltagliati (Royal Holloway) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

Proof of Procreation: Qualifying for Curtesy in Medieval England

Seminar

Gwen Seabourne (Bristol) This event is part of the Late Medieval Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00

Helen Saunders (KCL), Steven Morrison (Nottingham) This event is part of the Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies

Beckett and Political Activism

Seminar

Emilie Morin (York) This event is part of the London Beckett Seminar.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

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Events calendar November Saturday 11 Institute of Classical Studies

British Epigraphy Society Autumn Colloquium

Colloquium

This event is supported by the Institute of Classical Studies.

Free advance registration required valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

09:00–18:00 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House)

Monday 13 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 349 (Senate House)

Athenaeus Remembering Machon Remembering Athens: The Everyday in Retrospect Pavlos Avlamis (KCL) This event is part of the ICS Ancient Literature Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Matins Responsories and Narratives of Divine Encounter

Seminar

Henry Parkes (Yale) This event is part of the History of Liturgy Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:00 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

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

‘If the Bachelor Cannot Manage His Own Household, How Can He Manage a Mess or Club?’ Homebuilding, Imperial Masculinity and the Armies in India, 1799–1900; ‘The Honour of the Nation has been Vindicated’: The Abyssinia Expedition of 1867–68; ‘Mutiny’ Veterans and Retribution in Empire Holly Winter (Warwick), Jacob Smith (Queen Mary University of London) Free advance registration required; ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Adrianna Catena (Warwick) This event is part of the European History 1500–1800 Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

‘Every Cook Can Govern’: CLR James and the Russian Revolution

Seminar

Christian Hogsbjerg Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture 18:00–19:00 IALS

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Annual Lord Renton Lecture Sir John Laws (Cambridge) Sir John Laws was a Lord Justice of Appeal from 1999 to 2016. He is the Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science at the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge. This event is organised in association with the Statute Law Society.

Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar November Tuesday 14 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 14:30–18:00 IALS

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

The Victims Directive: Practice makes Perfect?

Chair: John Spencer (Cambridge) Speakers: Andrea Ryan (Limerick), Maria Mousmouti (IALS), Rhiannon Evans (Supporting Justice), Sara Chrzanowska (DG Justice, Procedural Criminal Law Unit, Victims Team) The Victims Directive was adopted in 2012, to be implemented in all Member States by November 2015. This seminar will discuss the findings to date of a project headed by Maria Mousmouti on compatible practices for the identification, assessment, and referral of victims. The Supporting Justice initiative Victims Choice Quality Mark, which assesses victim care services, will also be discussed. This event is part of the European Criminal Law Seminar Series and is organised with the European Criminal Law Association (UK).

Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

‘The Idol of State Innovators and Republicans’: Robert Persons’s Conference about the Next Succession (1594–5) in Stuart Britain Paulina Kewes Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Penning Their Personal Narratives: The Letters, Diaries and Logbooks of British Prisoners of War Held in Europe in the Second World War Clare Makepeace (Birkbeck) For scholars researching what life was like in wartime captivity, the personal narratives of prisoners of war are a vital and enlightening read, upon which a multitude of histories have been based. Too often, however, historians have treated those narratives as straightforward records of experience. This talk explores the different types of personal narratives composed by POWs: diaries, letters, logbooks and memoirs. It shows how experiences are written up differently in each of these types, and will argue that to assume diaries or letters form single and separate genres, as historians often do, is arbitrary and unhelpful. This talk will be of interest to historians researching experiences in warfare as well as anyone interested in accounts of everyday life.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

The Lives and Criminal Careers of Juvenile Offenders

Seminar

Emma Watkins (Liverpool) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30

Towards Establishing a Global Industries Ombudsman Justin Malbon (Monash) This event is part of the IALS Fellows Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

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Seminar 2: The Visuality of Creative Writing

Seminar

Myrrh Domingo (UCL Institute of Education), Nye Wright (graphic artist, author of Things to Do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park) This seminar will look at the art and dynamics of storytelling in words and pictures, with a focus on graphic novels.

This event is part of the Contemporary Cultures of Writing Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Room 234 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Latin American Studies Panel and Book Launch

George Sarawia’s ‘Iona of the South:’ British Celtic Methods in Melanesian Islands, 1868–1901 Jane Samson (Alberta) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Chile and the Inter-American Human Rights System Edited by Karinna Fernández, Sebastián Smart, and Cristián Peña Free advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

17:30–20:00 The Senate Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:45–19:45 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies

Innovative Spaces: The South Bank Archive Studio and Wellcome Reading Room Clare Wood (South Bank Centre), Loesja Vigour (Wellcome Library), Nicola Cook (Wellcome Library) This event is part of the Archives and Society Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

Kayleigh Betterton (University of London Society of Bibliophiles), Leo Cadogan (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association Educational Trust) The focus of this year’s series is widening access in book collecting. This event is part of the Book Collecting Seminar Series and is jointly organised with the University of London Society of Bibliophiles.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Literary London Reading Group

Reading group

Since 2012, the Literary London Reading Group, an offshoot of the Literary London Society (literarylondon.org) has offered a seminar series that fosters interdisciplinary and wide-ranging research into London literature in its historical, social, and cultural contexts. It aims to include all periods and genres of writing and representation about, set in, inspired by, or alluding to central and suburban London and its environs, from the city’s roots in pre-Roman times to its imagined futures. All are welcome.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Seminar 18:00–20:00

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

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

Alexander McKenna (KCL) This event is part of the International History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

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Events calendar November Wednesday 15 Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Maliwun: The Great Colonial Tin Mine in Southern Burma that Never Was

IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Li Yi (SOAS) This event is part of the Comparative Histories of Asia Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Chaos on the Ground: Schistosomiasis Control in China, 1950–64

Seminar

Xun Zhou (Essex) This event is part of the History and Public Health Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

12:30

12:45–14:00 LG9, Keppel Street Building, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Institute of Classical Studies

Bones, Isotopes and Life Histories

Seminar

Argyro Nafplioti (Cambridge) This event is part of the ICS Mycenaean Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

15:30–17:30 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research

Music and Marxism: Form and Production in Bloch’s Philosophy of Music

Seminar Room 234 (Senate House)

Jeremy Coleman and Johan Siebers This event is part of the German Philosophy Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Francis Bacon on Peace

Seminar

Sam Zeitlin (California, Berkeley) This event is part of the History of Political Ideas/Early Career Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

16:00–18:00

17:15 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

Methodists and Markets, c.1740–1800

Seminar

Clive Norris (Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History) This event is part of the British History in the Long Eighteenth-Century Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30

Clare Copley (Central Lancashire) This event is part of the Modern German History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N30 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Debating the Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity: Critics, Defenders, and Theorists in the Greek and Latin Traditions Efthymios Rizos This event is part of the Earlier Middle Ages Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Projecting Metropolitan Worlds: Cinema Architecture in Buenos Aires and Santiago, 1915–45

IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

Camila Gatica Mizala (Warwick) This event is part of the Earlier Middle Ages Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Hamlyn Lecture How Might One Improve the Quality of our Legislation?

17:30–19:30

Lecture 18:00–19:00

Andrew Burrows QC (Oxford) Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

IALS

Thursday 16 The Warburg Institute Conference / Symposium

Singular Acts: The Role of the Individual in the Transformation of Collective Culture

Warburg Institute

This is a multidisciplinary conference for postgraduate students and early-career researchers who work in different fields of the humanities. For details, please visit https://warburgpostgrad.wordpress.com.

Free warburg.postgrad@gmail.com

Institute of Philosophy

Mental Action and the Ontology of Mind

Conference / Symposium

Participants will explore new ways of understanding mental action and the relations between mental action and the metaphysics of mind, with a particular focus on the question of whether mental action should be included among the fundamental ontological categories required for making sense of consciousness and intentionality.

This event is part of The Practical, the Political and the Ethical Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk

10:00–17:00

10:00–18:00 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

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Trust and Authority: Pragmatic Literacy and Communication in the Royal Towns of Medieval Hungary This event is part of European History 1150–1550 Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Calling Home to Oneself: Empire and the Politics of Belonging; Did the Metropole Make Any Difference ‘At Home’? Rogue Settlers and Colonial Belonging on an Imperial Margin Onni Gust (Nottingham), Laura Ishiguro (British Columbia) This event is part of the Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600–2000 Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Modern Languages Research

The Silence of the Intellectuals: Some Ideas of Europe from Kant to Brexit

Lecture

Jeremy Adler (KCL) The speaker will argue that one cause for the plebiscitary decision to leave the EU lies in the failure of British intellectuals to engage positively with Europe.

Active engagement might have contributed to a more favourable climate among politicians and the public. Europeans are able to look back on a deep cultural memory of a union. This reaches into the Middle Ages: although rarely invoked, Charlemagne’s empire can nonetheless be seen as the antecedent of a united Europe. The British had no part in this and cannot incorporate its memory into their self-understanding. With the advent of the Enlightenment, German and French intellectuals created the ideal of a republican Europe. From Kant to Habermas, from Rousseau and Saint Simon to Derrida, Foucault and Piketty, the federation of Europe has been a major issue, and intellectuals have sought to create, improve and perfect such a body. By contrast, the British have been guided mainly by their perceived national interest, as defined in the foreign policy pursued by Castlereagh and Lord Derby in the nineteenth century, which tragically turned into Britain’s ‘splendid isolation’.

Free advance registration required jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:00 Room G21A (Senate House)

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Other Events 17:30–19:30 IALS

Institute of Historical Research Seminar

IALS 70th Anniversary Launch of IALS Digital This evening is a celebration of the contribution of the IALS Library to legal scholarship and will include an appreciation of the Library’s renowned foreign and international law collections; its development of legal information skills training and services, including LawPORT; and several digitisation and collaborative information initiatives. The event will also mark the launch of IALS Digital, the extension of open access publishing for law, and the inauguration of the IALS PhD Thesis Book Prize. The evening will close with a wine reception.

Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Continental Shelf Expansion: The U.S. Interior Department’s Quest for Territory, Minerals, and Environmental Management, 1945–69

IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

Megan Black (LSE) This event is part of the North American History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

The Invention of Calligraphy in Early Modern Europe

Seminar

Hannah Murphy (KCL) This event is part of the Society, Culture and Belief, 1500–1800 Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30

17:30–19:30 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) The Warburg Institute

Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 33.

This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

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

Ashley Marshall (University of Nevada, Reno) This event is part of the Irish Studies Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

The Senate Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Beyond the Pale (Park): Gender and Landscape in Georgian England Bryony McDonough (Hull) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Friday 17 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Conference / Symposium 09:30–17:30 IALS

IALS 70th Anniversary Information Law and Policy Centre’s Annual Conference 2017 Children and Digital Rights: Regulating Freedoms and Safeguards The Internet provides children with more freedom to communicate, learn, create, share, and engage with society than ever before. Interacting within this connected digital world, however, also presents a number of challenges to ensuring the adequate protection of a child’s rights to privacy, freedom of expression, and safety, both online and offline. At this conference, regulators, practitioners, civil society, and leading academic experts will address the key legal frameworks and policies being used and developed to safeguard these freedoms and rights. Key speakers, chairs, and discussants will provide a range of national and international legal insights and perspectives from the UK, Israel, Australia, and Europe, and will include Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE (filmmaker, member of the Royal Foundation Taskforce on the Prevention of Cyberbullying, and founder of 5Rights), Anna Morgan (Head of Legal, Deputy Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland), Lisa Atkinson (Group Manager on Policy Engagement, Information Commissioner’s Office), Renate Samson (Chief Executive of Big Brother Watch), Graham Smith (Bird & Bird LLP solicitor and leading expert in UK Internet law), John Carr OBE (Member of the Executive Board of the UK Council on Child Internet Safety) and Ian Walden (Head of the Institute of Computer and Communication Law, Queen Mary University of London). The Information Law and Policy Centre, which is part of IALS, produces, promotes, and facilitates research about the law and policy of information and data, and the ways in which law both restricts and enables the sharing, and dissemination, of different types of information.

The event is one of a series of events celebrating the 70th Anniversary of IALS in November.

Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Modern Languages Research

Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies (SFPS) Annual Conference

Two-day conference

£100 /£55; £50/£30 advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

09:30–17:30 The Court Room (Senate House)

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Institute of Latin American Studies Conference / Symposium 10:00–19:00 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House)

The Cultural Legacy of the Jesuits 2017 marks the 250-year anniversary of the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spanish territories. The Jesuits had a profound effect on the cultural and intellectual life of Latin America. When they were expelled in 1767, they were administering more than 250,000 Indians in over 200 missions. The Jesuits pioneered interest in indigenous languages and cultures, compiling dictionaries and writing some of the earliest ethnographies of the region. They also explored the region’s natural history and made significant contributions to the development of science and medicine. On their estates and in the missions they introduced new plants, livestock, and agricultural techniques, such as irrigation. In addition, they left a lasting legacy on the region’s architecture, art, and music. This conference will explore these and related themes from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and assess the Jesuits’ legacy today. Keynote speakers will include Gauvin Alexander Bailey (Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada) and Valerie Fraser (Essex). £20 | £10 advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Human Rights Consortium

Lost Rights, Found Justice? Refugee and Migrant Rights

Exhibition launch

Exhibition: 18–25 November, 09:00–19:00 This unique photography competition and exhibition aims to increase public understanding of the rights and situation of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers through creative visual and legal tools. The launch will feature a guided commentary with human rights experts; a workshop by documentary photographer Kevin McElvaney of #RefugeeCameras will take place on Saturday, 18 November. The themes of the conference include human rights during a time of rising nationalism and backlash against multilateralism; human rights in conflict and post-conflict settings; international human rights instruments and social movements; and epistemological, ethical, and methodological challenges in conducting human rights research in the global South(s).

This event is co-organised by the Human Rights Consortium and the Refugee Law Initiative.

Free advance registration required hrc@sas.ac.uk

16:00–18:00 Second Floor Lobby, South Block (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

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The Little Finger Problem: Scars and Other Distinguishing Features in Roman Egypt Paul Kelly (KCL) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series.

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Institutions and Colonial Trade Expansion: Quaker Contract Enforcement in Philadelphia, 1682–1722 Esther Sahle (Bremen) This event is part of the Economic and Social History of the Early Modern World, 1500–1800 Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies / Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar

Two Bodies or One? Conceptualisations of Women in English ProLife Discourse, 1967–92 Livi De (Royal Holloway) This talk focuses on conceptualisations of embodiment within the English Pro-Life movement from 1967 to 1992, a period that saw the greatest concentration of Pro-Life activity during the twentieth century and one marked by divisive debate.

Drawing on oral history interviews and archival research, it reveals the ways in which understandings of embodiment—both of the pregnant woman and the foetus—were variously imagined, articulated and contested among Pro-Life advocates, establishing a ‘spectrum’ of representation.

This event is part of the Women's History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Coleridge and Myriad-Mindedness Laurent Folliot (Paris-Sorbonne) This event is part of the London–Paris Romanticism Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Pregnancy Diagnosis in the Later Middle Ages: Medical Methods and Courtroom Procedures Zosia Edwards (Royal Holloway) This event is part of the Late Medieval Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Regarding Contemporary Events in USA From a Queer/Feminist Perspective

IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Holly Lewis This event is part of the Marxism in Culture Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Finding Mr Hart

Performance

Cynthia Johnston (IES) At the dawn of the twentieth century, Robert Edward Hart lived a quiet life in Blackburn, managing the family rope-making business. Few people realised he was spending his family’s wealth to create one of Britain’s most impressive book and coin collections. Using interviews, letters, business records, and Hart’s personal notes, this creative theatre show takes audiences into the quiet but imaginative world of one of the Britain’s most important collectors. The performance will be repeated at the historic Blackburn Cotton Exchange on Friday, 24 November.

Part of the 2017 Being Human festival. £5 advance registration required IESEvents@sas.ac.uk

17:30

18:30–20:30 The Senate Room (Senate House)

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Memory and Oblivion in the Library’s Mind

Lecture

A series of talks by Claudia Daniotti (Bath Spa) and Cornelia Linde (German Historical Institute), Warburg staff Jill Kraye and Charles Burnett, and Warburg PhD students Lorenza Gay, James Christie, Juan Acevedo, and Antonia von Karais.

Part of the 2017 Being Human festival.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

14:00-16:00 Warburg Institute

Institute of Latin American Studies Workshop 10:15–17:00 G7, Senate House Institute of English Studies Seminar 11:00–13:00 Room 349 (Senate House)

Latin American Music Seminar Convenor: Henry Stobart (Royal Holloway) In collaboration with the Institute of Musical Research.

This event is part of the Latin American Music Seminar Series. £8 advance registration required h.stobart@rhul.ac.uk

Aesthetics: Getting It: Art and Attunement; Aesthetically Dead?

The Encounter with Abstraction Rita Felski (Virginia), Jeff Wallace (Cardiff Metropolitan) This event is part of the London Modernism Seminar.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Philosophy

Being Human: Coming to Our Senses

Exhibition

The experience of daily life is shaped by our senses and yet there is still so much we don’t know about them. Discover senses you didn’t know you had and learn what they do. Find out what it’s like to live with sensory loss and what can be done to overcome it. The team from the Centre for the Study of the Senses will guide you through the world of sensory experience with hand-on demonstrations of sensory substitution and sensory extension. You’ll also discover what the arts and industry are doing to enhance your sensory landscape.

Part of the 2017 Being Human festival.

Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk

12:00–18:00 Macmillan Hall (Senate House)

Human Rights Consortium Workshop 14:00–16:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

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Lost Rights, Found Justice? Photography Workshop with Kevin McElvaney The Lost Rights, Found Justice? photography competition and exhibition aims to increase public understanding of the rights and situation of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers through creative visual and legal tools. Related programing includes this workshop with leading documentary photographer Kevin McElvaney of #RefugeeCameras, suitable for all levels of expertise.

Exhibition: 18–25 November.

This event is co-organised by the Human Rights Consortium and the Refugee Law Initiative.

Free advance registration required hrc@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Workshop 14:00–18:00 British Library

Who Tells Your Story? Latin America at the British Library How will our stories be found and our lives remembered in the future? And how might our stories connect with those who have gone before? This workshop invites Latin Americans in the UK to explore these questions through the physical and online collections of the British Library. Participants will also share their own objects and materials such as songs, websites and books as we explore what we would like to be remembered and what we may want to be lost or forgotten. Together we will ask how we can shape archives and collections and use them to discover and tell our own individual and collective histories.

This event has been organised by the Open World Research Initiative Cross Language Dynamics Consortium in collaboration with the British Library.

Part of the 2017 Being Human festival.

Free advance registration required sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Monday 20 SAS Central

Doing Day: Body / Brain / Archive

Workshop

This workshop, presented jointly by Siobhan Davies Dance and the Warburg’s BIAS Project, is part of the 2017 Being Human festival. It will take place at Siobhan Davies Studios, 85 St George’s Road, London.

Fee applicable advance registration required warburg@sas.ac.uk

11:00–16:00 Siobhan Davies Studios, 85 St George’s Road, London

Institute of Classical Studies

No New Pleasures under the Sun: From Lucretius to Montaigne

Seminar

Nathan Gilbert (Durham) This event is part of the ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

16:30–18:30 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

Sir Michael Howard Lecture

Seminar

Seminar members are invited to attend the annual Sir Michael Howard Lecture.

This event is part of the Military History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:00 King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00

Joanna Paul (Open University).

This event is part of the ICS Ancient Literature Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Woburn Room, G22 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies

Shakespeare and Beckett; Circumstantial Shakespeare

Seminar

Claudia Olk (Freie Universität Berlin), Lorna Hutson (Oxford) This event is part of the London Shakespeare Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:00–19:00 The Senate Room (Senate House)

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Film and discussion panel 17:30–19:30 IALS

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:30–19:30

Bringing Spectatorship Home: The Spectacle of Television Viewing in Postwar Britain Emily Rees (Nottingham) This event is part of the Sport and Leisure History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

From Clubs to Committees: The Politics of Respectability and Race in African American Women’s Social Services, St Louis, 1900–17 Katie Myerscough (Manchester) This event is part of the Gender and History in the Americas Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Co-existing with HAL 9000: Being Human in a World with AI As part of the University of London’s Being Human festival, the Information Law and Policy Centre will host a film and discussion panel to engage young adults (15–18 years) in a conversation on the implications for democracy, civil liberties, and human rights posed by the increasing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in society. A limited number of places will be available to the general public. The event will focus on the increasingly significant role of AI and the possible ways in which humans will co-exist with AI in future, particularly the impact that this interaction will have on our liberty, privacy, and agency. Will the benefits of AI only be achieved at the expense of these human rights and values? Do current laws, ethics, or technologies offer any guidance with respect to how we should navigate this future society? Confirmed speakers include Nora Ni Loideain (director of the IALS Information Law and Policy Centre), Hamed Haddadi (Imperial College London and lead researcher of The Human-Data Interaction Project), Hal Hodson (technology journalist at The Economist), John Naughton (project leader of the Technology and Democracy Project, Cambridge, and columnist for The Observer), and Renate Samson (chief executive of Big Brother Watch).

Free advance registration required sas.events@sas.ac.uk Josefa Toribio (Barcelona) This event is part of the Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk

Room 234 (Senate House)

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Displaying ‘German Greatness’ in Nazi Germany: The Exhibition Deutsche Größe (1940–2) and its Legacy William J. Diebold (Reed College) Although it is not well known to scholars, the cultural-historical exhibition Deutsche Größe (‘German Greatness’ or ‘Grandeur’) was probably the most important museum display of the Nazi era. The show’s subject was the history of Germany from the early Middle Ages to the assumption of power by Adolf Hitler. Deutsche Größe was supported at the highest levels of the Nazi Party and its presentation of history was frankly ideological, but the show expressed that ideology through a series of ambitious and innovative display techniques. This talk presents Deutsche Größe and describes how it came about and how it worked to shape an understanding of history that would serve Nazi goals. Special attention is paid to Deutsche Größe as a piece of museology and to the display of the art and culture of the high Middle Ages, an area of history that was especially fraught for the National Socialists because it came from the First Reich that they saw revived in their Third Reich. The talk concludes with a consideration of the legacy of Deutsche Größe in two later exhibitions, one that took place in Cold War West Germany and the other in the German Federal Republic after unification.

This event is part of the Collecting and Display Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Salvage Stewards: Promoting Recycling in the Second World War

Seminar

Henry Irving (Leeds Beckett) This event Is part of the Voluntary Action History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Tuesday 21 Senate House Library Exhibition tour 11:00–12:00 Senate House Library

Revealing the Reformation: Curator’s Tour of the ‘Reformation: Shattered World, New Beginnings’ Exhibition Karen Attar (Senate House Library) Explore the English Reformation and its communication from its roots to its impact on culture and society at home and abroad in an intellectual trip that ranges from a lost son, lost stories and lost manuscripts to newly found relationships and technology. Lose yourself in the rarely displayed books and manuscripts and find connections with today’s world as you are guided through this Senate House Library exhibition by its curator. Part of the 2017 Being Human festival.

Free advance registration required senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Just Giving: British Charities, Decolonisation and Development

Seminar

Matthew Hilton (QMUL) This event is part of the London Group of Historical Geographers Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 Venue: see online for details Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 IALS

School of Advanced Study

IALS 70th Anniversary The IALS Contribution to Legal Scholarship Chair: Diamond Ashiagbor (IALS).

Speakers: Fiona Cownie (Keele), Valsamis Mitsilegas (QMUL), Hilary Sommerlad (Leeds) Fee applicable advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar November Wednesday 22 Refugee Law Initiative

Refugee Studies Reading Group (2)

Reading group

Free advance registration required sas.events@sas.ac.uk

15:00–17:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies

Classics and History in 3D: Lunchtime Workshop

Workshop

Take a tour of the Temple of Isis in Pompeii without leaving London. The new Classics and History 3D Lab at Senate House is exploring how 3D imaging, modelling, printing, and Virtual Reality (VR) can inform modern research. In this interactive workshop, you can see what is going on in the lab, play with scanned and 3D printed artefacts, and take a stroll through the Temple of Isis on a VR headset (without fear of incurring Isis’ wrath). Part of the 2017 Being Human festival.

Free advance registration required valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

13:00–14:00 Montague Room, G26 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 13:00–14:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Being a Dissenter: Ancient Forms and Motivations for Dissent in Greek and Roman Political Thought Alia Rodrigues (Coimbra/ICS) This event is part of the ICS Fellows Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Senate House Library

Cromwell and Communication

Workshop

The legacy of the Reformation was not simply a transformation of the religious landscape of England—it also presented an opportunity for change and progression in other areas, such as government and the development of the printing industry. This workshop will explore new interpretations of key documents relating to Thomas Cromwell, communications, and the Reformation period. Participants will consider key themes, such as what was lost from medieval culture with the changes in government and communications, and what was gained moving forward.

Part of the 2017 Being Human festival.

Nick Barratt (Senate House Library) and Marianne Whitworth (National Archives) Free advance registration required senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

14:00–16:00 The National Archives, Kew

Institute of Historical Research

What is Social History of Political Ideas the Name Of?

Seminar

Arnault Skornicki (Nanterre), Thibaut Rioufreyt (Lyon) This event is part of the History of Political Ideas Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

Anglicans and Social Reconstruction in World War Two

Seminar

Matthew Grimley (Oxford) This event is part of the Modern Religious History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 Olga Crisp Room, N102 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 234 (Senate House) 92

Alastair Bennett (Royal Holloway), Catherine Nall (Royal Holloway) This event is part of the London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS).

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

School of Advanced Study

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Institute of Historical Research

Buried Treasure: The Wreck of ‘The London’

Lecture

In 1665, The London exploded and sank off Southend, concealing herself for centuries on the estuary bed. Her wreck was found in 2005, revealing a hidden history of early modern life. Join an immersive evening exploring food, drink and ballads from the time of The London. Plunge beneath the waves in a virtual dive of the wreck and see her glow in digitally mapped projection. Fill a pipe, knot rope and interact with artefacts. Meet the archaeologists bringing The London to the surface and life back to the warship that carried Charles II to England during the Restoration.

This event is part of the Being Human festival of the humanities and organised in collaboration with Historic England.

Free advance registration required ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:30 IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, NB01/NB02 (Senate House)

SAS Central

Myths and Origins: Piltdown Man’s Cricket Bat

Lecture

In 1912, in the midst of a wet cricketing season, a surprising find was unearthed in a Sussex gravel pit. ‘Piltdown Man’ seemed to be the palaeontological find of the century: a Darwinian missing link. Dubbed the ‘first Englishman’, he was even found buried with an elephant bone tool that looked suspiciously like a cricket bat. In this lecture, part of the Being Human festival of the humanities, historian and keen cricketer Tom Holland explores the case of Piltdown Man. One of history’s greatest hoaxes, what can this case tell us about myths of national identity, our desire to explore our origins, and the mythic power of cricket itself?

Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

18:30–20:00 Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)

Thursday 23 Senate House Library Exhibition tour 15:00–16:00 Senate House Library

Revealing the Reformation: Curator’s Tour of the ‘Reformation: Shattered World, New Beginnings’ Exhibition Karen Attar (Senate House Library) Explore the English Reformation and its communication from its roots to its impact on culture and society at home and abroad in an intellectual trip that ranges from a lost son, lost stories and lost manuscripts to newly found relationships and technology. Lose yourself in the rarely displayed books and manuscripts and find connections with today’s world as you are guided through this Senate House Library exhibition by its curator.

Part of the 2017 Being Human festival.

Free advance registration required senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies

Currency Exchange in the Greek and Hellenistic World

Seminar

Sitta von Reden (Freiburg im Breisgau) This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

16:30–18:30 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15 IHR Pollard Room Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study

From Common to Courtroom: Contested Ideas of Justice, Sovereignty and Violence in Fen Drainage Disputes, 1626–60 Elly Robson (Cambridge) This event is part of the British History in the Seventeenth Century Seminar Series.

Sponsored by the Conrad and Elizabeth Russell Fund Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Research Clinic

Seminar

Bring a research problem, big or small, for the seminar to discuss (and solve?)

Nada Zečević (Royal Holloway) This event is part of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Reading group

Liable to Spontaneous Ignition: The Planning and Performing of Public Protest in the Anti-Alien Movement (1887–1905) Alexandra Esche (QMUL) This event is part of the History Lab Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Modern British History Reading Group: Social Democracy and the Psyche

IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Sally Alexander (Goldsmiths) This event is part of the Modern British History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

The Early English Bread Project: Meanings and Materiality

Seminar

Debby Banham (Cambridge) This event is part of the Food History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30

17:30–19:30 IHR North American History Room (Senate House) Institute of Latin American Studies

The Pine Nuts are Waiting for You: Pine Nut Gathering and Time Travel in the Pehuenche Veranadas

Seminar Room 234 (Senate House)

Gabriela Piña Ahumada (LSE) This event is part of the Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar Warburg Institute

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 33.

This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

The Body Politics of Mary Magdalene

Two-day Conference

Keynote lecture on 23 November: Penny Jolly (Skidmore College)—Addressing and Undressing the Female Body in the Magdalene Chapel at San Francesco, Assisi Conference and recital on 24 November: speakers include Joanne Anderson (Warburg), Diane Apostolos-Cappadona (Georgetown), Lucy Bolton (QMUL), Henrietta Simpson (Slade School of Art, UCL), Joan Taylor (KCL), Francesco Ventrella (Sussex) Free advance registration required warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30

17:30–19:30

17:30–20:00 Warburg Institute

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The Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Debate

Debate

Chaired by Melvyn Bragg Speakers: Sarah Churchwell (SAS), Monica Ali (novelist), and James Young (University of Victoria, Wellington) This year’s debate will address the following motion: ‘In 2017 cultural appropriation is an inappropriate method for writers.’ In recent years, writers and critics have become more aware of the extent to which literature has involved authors from one culture using themes and scenarios from cultures other than their own. This is seen by some as illegitimate, involving as it does a sense that people from one cultural background are entitled to represent other cultures and backgrounds without actually belonging to them. At a time when people are generally more aware of sensitivities arising from cultural differences and the extent to which racist assumptions lie beneath the surface of much of modern life, we need to explore the extent to which cultural appropriation in works of literature is desirable or appropriate.

Free advance registration required at www.royalinstitutephilosophy.org

18:00–20:00 Beveridge Hall (Senate House)

Friday 24 Institute of Classical Studies

Cursing Poetry: Tabellae defixionum as Literary Production

Seminar

Carmine Canfora (Siena) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series.

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester: Family Identity and the Forging of Reputation

IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Sophie Ambler (Lancaster) This event is part of the Late Medieval Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

The Rise and Fall of the Reputed Ownership Clause in Bankruptcy Law

Seminar

Fleur Stolker (Oxford) Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

17:30

18:00–19:30 IALS Institute of English Studies

Finnegans Wake Reading Group

Reading group

This reading group has been running regularly since 2007. It studies James Joyce’s final work, Finnegans Wake, at a close level of detail. Discussion is focused on the text and attention is also paid to Joyce’s manuscripts (copies of which are displayed on a screen). The group hosts a blog to record its discussions.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study

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Institute of Modern Languages Research

A Home Lost, a New Life Found? Kindertransport: Experience and Fiction

Evening event

Ruth Barnett, Ursula Krechel, Andrea Hammel (Aberystwyth), Stephanie Homer (IMLR) The Kindertransport enabled nearly 10,000 child refugees to flee from Nazioccupied territories to the UK in 1938–39. It is remembered as a life-shaping experience of the loss of a homeland, of parents, of family and friends—and also of the finding of refuge and eventually a new life in the UK. This event brings together Kindertransportee Ruth Barnett and Ursula Krechel, the German author whose novel Landgericht is based on documents detailing Barnett’s family story (it won the German Book Prize in 2012). The evening includes the showing of extracts of the TV adaptation of the novel (in German, with English subtitles). Short introductory talks provide background on the history and memory of the Kindertransport and on the treatment of the Kindertransport in fiction. The event concludes with an opportunity to discuss issues of loss and belonging in fiction, film, history, and life with Ursula Krechel and Ruth Barnett. This event is generously supported by The John Coffin Memorial Trust and is part of the 2017 Being Human festival.

Free advance registration required cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

Saturday 25 Senate House Library Exhibition tour 11:00–12:00 Senate House Library

Revealing the Reformation: Curator’s Tour of the ‘Reformation: Shattered World, New Beginnings’ Exhibition Karen Attar (Senate House Library) Explore the English Reformation and its communication from its roots to its impact on culture and society at home and abroad in an intellectual trip that ranges from a lost son, lost stories and lost manuscripts to newly found relationships and technology. Lose yourself in the rarely displayed books and manuscripts and find connections with today’s world as you are guided through this Senate House Library exhibition by its curator.

Part of the 2017 Being Human festival.

Free advance registration required senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

Memory and Oblivion in the Library’s Mind

Lecture

A series of talks by Claudia Daniotti (Bath Spa) and Cornelia Linde (German Historical Institute), Warburg staff Jill Kraye and Charles Burnett, and Warburg PhD students Lorenza Gay, James Christie, Juan Acevedo, and Antonia von Karais.

Part of the 2017 Being Human festival.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

14:00–16:00 Warburg Institute

Institute of English Studies

The Lost Film Shows: Screening Films on the Home Front

Screening

In 1940, the Ministry of Information launched a mobile film show scheme that ran for the rest of the war. The mobile film units were vans containing projectors and screens that were driven around the country by a driver-projectionist, who put on free film shows in village halls, schools and factories. This event will recreate a film show in the former home of the Ministry with a selection of information films and documentaries on the war effort and the home front. It will celebrate the many shows given for voluntary groups and societies, including Townswomen’s Guilds, Working Men’s Clubs, the Home Guard, and Women’s Institutes. In the accompanying talk, Hollie Price, a postdoctoral fellow with the Ministry of Information Project based at the School of Advanced Study, will discuss her research on the organisation of these shows and their role in local communities.

1940s dress is encouraged and the films will be followed by tea and cake.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

15:00–17:00 Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)

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Events calendar November Monday 27 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room (Senate House)

'Sicut meus est mos': Habit, Habitus, Habitat. Reflections on the Quotidian, with Help from Horace and Media Theory Duncan Kennedy (Bristol) This event is part of the ICS Ancient Literature Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Consuming the Law? The Social Function of Colonial Law Courts in Dutch Ceylon 1750–75; Italian Colonialism in Africa as a Connected System: Institutions, Men and Colonial Troops Dries Lyna (Radboud), Massimo Zaccaria (Pavia) This event is part of the Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

The Image Question in Reformation Württemberg

Seminar

Roisin Watson (KCL) This event is part of the European History 1500–1800 Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

From Revolution to Labourism?: Orwell and the Left

Seminar

John Newsinger This event is part of the Socialist History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) The Warburg Institute

Introducing Dante

Lecture

Alessandro Scafi (Warburg) and John Took (UCL) Free advance registration required warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Recognition and Mobility of UK Incorporated Companies after Brexit

Seminar

Peter Kindler (Munich) On 23 June 2016, the people of the United Kingdom voted in a referendum to leave the European Union. A withdrawal agreement under Article 50 will probably cover immediate issues such as the rights of EU citizens living in the UK and of UK citizens living in the EU, but it will not address the issues of recognition and mobility of UK incorporated companies. Withdrawal from the EU will have severe consequences for these companies, especially for those who have their central administration in Germany or another EU country. No longer protected by freedom of establishment within the EU, these so-called pseudo-foreign corporations will be subjected to the company law of the country of their central administration. They will be considered simple partnerships and lose from one day to the next their limited liability status. As far as mobility is concerned, UK incorporated companies will no longer be addressed by the Directive 2005/56 on cross-border mergers of limited liability companies. This talk illustrates these problems and suggests how parties can resolve (at least some of ) them.

Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 IALS

School of Advanced Study

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Exploring the Digital Humanities Landscape in the UK

Workshop

Fee applicable advance registration required sas.events@sas.ac.uk

09:00–16:00 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy

Self and World, Twenty Years On

Conference / Symposium

In 1997, Quassim Cassam published Self and World, which explores the connections between self-consciousness, spatial representations, and bodily awareness. It is a seminal work in the Kantian-Strawsonian tradition, which fell out of fashion at the beginning of this century. However, it cannot be denied that there is much to be learned and reconsidered in this work, and the twentieth anniversary of its publication seems an apt time to take stock and pursue the relevant issues. This event brings together perspectives from different traditions, including the Kantian, the phenomenological, the analytic, and the empirical. It is an attempt to understand the contemporary relevance of Cassam’s seminal work and to explore the future of the Kantian-Strawsonian tradition in general.

Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk

09:30–18:20 Room 349 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 18:00–20:00 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies / Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00

Confessional Politics, Biblical Criticism, and Hugh Broughton’s Campaign for a New English Bible, 1588–1612 Kirsten Macfarlane This event is part of the Religious History of Britain 1500–1800 Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Ages of Man and the Time of Memory: Structuring Lives in Early Modern Autobiographical Narrative.

Kate Hodgkin (East London) This event is part of the Life-Cycles Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

ICS and Friends of the British School at Athens Cyclops: A Portrait of an Ogre from Antiquity until Today Richard Buxton (Bristol) Free advance registration required valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Media Theory before Media Theory David Trotter (Cambridge) This event is part of the Media History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Universal Rights in a Divided World? The Protestant Human Rights Engagement of the World Council of Churches, 1948–75 Bastiaan A. Bouwman (LSE) This event is part of the International History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 29 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Conference / Symposium 09:30–18:00 The Senate Room (Senate House)

News on a Knife-Edge: Gemini and Development Journalism Today In 1967, following decolonisation and in the midst of the Cold War, a pioneering news feature service began in London, called Gemini. It covered news from around the developing world and the Commonwealth and lasted until 2002. This symposium will look at what Gemini was and did, and the state of development journalism today. Set up by Derek Ingram, former deputy editor of the Daily Mail, Gemini survived at least two crises, was owned by The Guardian for a while, and was revived with Canadian funding and an educational purpose in 1983. This event will be opened by Sir Trevor McDonald, a contributor and one-time chair of Gemini’s governors; convenors include Richard Bourne, Keith Somerville and Derek Ingram. £20 | £15 advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Lightning Talks by Postgraduates

Seminar

Joseph Cozens (Essex), Miranda Reading (KCL) This event is part of the British History in the Long Eighteenth-Century Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR John S Cohen Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) School of Advanced Study

Saving Coolies: The Creation of Chinese Diplomatic Missions in Latin America Rudolph Ng (Birkbeck) This event is part of the Comparative Histories of Asia Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

What Should Political Representation Do? The Evolution of the Idea of Representation in Mill’s Thought Ludmilla Lorrain (Paris-Sorbonne) This event is part of the History of Political Ideas/Early Career Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Metropolitan Ghosts: Second World War-London as SpectroEnvironment Oli Parken (Kent) This event is part of the Metropolitan History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Norman Conquest and the English Peasantry: Four Points of View and a Footnote Ros Faith This event is part of the Earlier Middle Ages Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research

Turing in Context: Sexual Offences in Cheshire in the 1950s

Seminar Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck

Chris Waters (Williams College) This event is part of the one-day conference Queer Lives Past and Present: Interrogating the Legal; for details, please visit www.raphael-samuel.org.uk/ interrogating-the-legal.

This event is part of the History of Sexuality Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required

Institute of English Studies

Reading Movement: Sonic Utterances and Embodied Poetics

Seminar

Camilla Nelson (Cardiff Metropolitan) This event is part of the Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–19:30

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Thursday 30 Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference 09:00–18:00 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 12:45–14:00 LG9, Keppel Street Building, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Institute of Historical Research Seminar 14:00–15:30 Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck

Memory and Space The conference for PhD students and ECRs from any department within the arts and humanities or social sciences seeks to widen the traditional understanding of memory through the exploration of literal and figurative spaces. Keynote speakers include Slawomir Kapralski (Pedagogical University of Cracow) and Patrizia Violi (Bologna). This event is supported by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership.

Advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Negotiating Immunity: Mass Vaccination in Modern China and East Asia, 1945–75 Mary Brazelton (Cambridge) This event is part of the History of Public Health Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Prairies—Coming Out Strong: Western Canadian Queer Communities, 1969–85 Valerie Korinek (Saskatchewan) This event is part of the one-day conference Queer Lives Past and Present: Interrogating the Legal; for details, please visit www.raphael-samuel.org.uk/ interrogating-the-legal.

This event is part of the History of Sexuality Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies

Debt Relief in the Late Republic and Early Empire

Seminar

David Hollander (Iowa State) This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

16:30–18:30 Room 349 (Senate House)

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The Warburg Institute

Fred W Rose and His Serio-Comic Maps, 1877–1900

Lecture

Roderick Baron (independent scholar and map dealer) Part of a regular series of lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (IHR), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, KCL) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg).

Free tony@tonycampbell.info

17:00–19:00 Warburg Institute

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30 German Historical Institute, 17 Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2NJ

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30

The Secret Cooperation between Associated Press (AP) and Nazi Germany 1942–45 Norman Domeier (Vienna) This event is part of the Modern German History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Gender Matters: Historicising Patriarchy; New Zealand, Boots the Chemists, and Challenges to Overseas Expansion, 1935–38 Fae Dussart (Sussex), Hilary Ingram (Durham) This event is part of the Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600–2000 Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.events@sas.ac.uk Susan Carruthers (Warwick) This event is part of the North American History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR North American History Room (Senate House) The Warburg Institute

Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 33.

This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Institute of Historical Research Lecture 18:00–19:30 IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, NB01/NB02 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study

IHR Creighton Lecture 2017 Strangers in Medieval Cities Miri Rubin (QMUL) Europe’s remarkable growth after the year 1000 encouraged migration, the creation of new towns, and the growth of existing urban centres. Buoyant commerce and manufacture encouraged cities to accommodate newcomers and to reflect through their institutions of government on how best to turn strangers into neighbours. In some parts of Europe, dynastic rulers developed policies regarding migration and the settlement of useful foreigners. Urban centres large and small became extremely diverse places, made even more so by conquest and settlement at Europe’s borders. This diversity came under new scrutiny in the decades of change in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: religion, occupation, ethnicity, and language could each form the basis for restrictive laws, exclusion, and even expulsion. By the eve of its most dramatic global extension, Europe’s cities had become sites of intense competition and discipline.

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

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Women Are Like Flowers: A Review of Representations of Women in Garden Literature and Art, Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century Christine Lalumia (Sotheby’s and UCL) This event is part of the History of Gardens and Landscapes Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar December Friday 01 The Warburg Institute

Latin and the Vernacular in Fifteenth-Century Italy

Conference

A one-day conference organized by the Leonardo da Vinci Society. Speakers include Amos Edelheit (Maynooth), Simon Gilson (Warwick), David A. Lines (Warwick), Letizia Panizza (Royal Holloway), Ben Thomson (Birkbeck), and David Zagoury (Cambridge).

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

10:00–17:30 Warburg Institute

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Conference / Symposium 10:00–19:00 IALS

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 12:30–16:30 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

IALS 70th Anniversary Conference and Annual Lecture Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies Annual Lecture: Legislative Aspects of Brexit, Elizabeth Gardiner (UK Parliamentary Counsel on Legislative Aspects of Brexit) Conference speakers include Helen Xanthaki (IALS), Constantin Stefanou (IALS), Stephen Laws (IALS), and Richard Nzerem (IALS).

Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Disorderly Eating A cross-cultural seminar on contemporary women’s writing that aims to reach beyond the much-covered topics of eating disorders as clinically defined and to discuss other ways in which food is used to signify disorder. This event is generously supported by the Cassal Trust Fund.

This event is part of the Centre for Contemporary Women Writers Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies

The Narrative Role of the Male Prophet in Greek Epic Literature

Seminar

Anactoria Clarke (KCL) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series.

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

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Fans and Fanny Burney: Hidden Manufacturing in EighteenthCentury London Amy Erickson (Cambridge) The Burneys are one of the most-studied families in eighteenth-century England at a level below the gentry. The musician Charles, his daughter the writer Frances, and her many artistically talented siblings, step-siblings and half-siblings are wellknown in the literature. Charles’ wife and Frances’ mother, Esther Sleepe Burney, features almost not at all. This talk introduces her, her sisters and her mother as part of a London fan-making enterprise that was highly lucrative and femaledominated, although by no means exclusively female. The family trade is set in the context of women’s involvement in the luxury trades of eighteenth-century London, as both owners and employees.

This event is part of the Women's History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Spread of Improvement: Why Innovation Accelerated in Britain, 1547–1851 Anton Howes (Brown) This event is part of the Economic and Social History of the Early Modern World, 1500–1800 Seminar Series.

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Institute of Historical Research

The Earls of Edward III in the Localities

Seminar

Matt Raven (Hull/IHR) This event is part of the Late Medieval Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

Karl Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism

Seminar

Christian Fuchs This event is part of the Marxism in Culture Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00

Helen Saunders (KCL), Steven Morrison (Nottingham) This event is part of the Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Room 243 (Senate House)

Saturday 02 Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar

South American Archaeology Seminar Bill Sillar (UCL) £10 advance registration required b.sillar@ucl.ac.uk

10:00–17:00 UCL Institute of Archaeology Institute of Historical Research Seminar 14:00–16:00 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 14:30–17:00 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House)

‘What Good I May Do in the World Will Have Been in Consequence of Their Teaching’: Leam House Girls’ Boarding School, Warwickshire, in the 1830s–40s and Its Influence on Bessie Rayner Parkes, Women’s Rights Campaigner and Author of Remarks on the Education of Girls (1854) Debbie Parker-Kinch This event is part of the Education in the Long Eighteenth-Century Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Virgil Society Lecture Virgil and William Gager's Dido (1583) Emma Buckley (St Andrews) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Monday 04 Institute of Classical Studies

Good–Noble/Humble = Tragic–Heroic/Quotidian ? On Eur. El. 1-431

Seminar

Marco Fantuzzi (Macerata) This event is part of the Ancient Literature Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

17:00–19:00 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House) School of Advanced Study

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15

Katie Myerscough (Manchester) This event is part of the Gender and History in the Americas Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

Mapping Ireland: Irish Villages in the US in the 1890s

Seminar

Shahmima Akhtar (Birmingham) This event is part of the Sport and Leisure History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

Orientalism, Empire, and Jews in France's Nineteenth Century

Seminar

Julie Kalman (Monash University) This event is part of the Modern French History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

Cloudesley: Five Hundred Years of Charity in Islington

Seminar

Cathy Ross This event is part of the Voluntary Action History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Tuesday 05 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

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‘La Revanche’: French and German Operations in Alsace and the Vosges, August 1914 Simon House This event is part of the Military History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Quantifying the Crisis: Home Rule, the Caucus and Popular Politics in 1886 Naomi Lloyd-Jones (KCL) This event is part of the Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Ab Uno Sanguine: Indigenous Rights and the Aborigines’ Protection Society in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Zoe Laidlaw This event is part of the London Group of Historical Geographers Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Rethinking Homology and Analogy of the Sexes in the Historiography of Sexuality

IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Alison Moore (Western Sydney) This event is part of the History of Sexuality Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Early Career Researcher Seminar

Seminar

Margaret Joachim (IES), Manuel Munoz (KCL) This event is part of the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15

17:30–19:15 Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies (Senate House Library) Institute of English Studies

Experiments in Constrained Creativity

Seminar

Dennis Duncan (Oxford), Emily Critchley (Greenwich), Eric Langley (UCL) This seminar will consider the importance of formal constraints for creativity, looking at the work of the Oulipo group as well as modern experimental writing.

This event is part of the Contemporary Cultures of Writing Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:15 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

The Visibility of Rural Brazil: The Itaipu Dam and the Experience of Dictatorship in the Countryside Jacob Blanc (Edinburgh) This talk uses the history of the Itaipu hydroelectric dam and the struggle of displaced farmers, peasants, and indigenous groups to understand how Brazil’s dictatorship was experienced and contested in the countryside. By focusing on rural rather than urban spaces, we invert the conceptual and geographic narrative commonly used to study dictatorship in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America.

This event is part of the Latin American History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required; ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

The Country House Library: Some Reflections

Seminar

Mark Purcell (Cambridge University Library) The speaker will reflect on his own evolving understanding of libraries in country houses, following fifteen years as Libraries Curator to the National Trust and his work on the recently published The Country House Library (Yale, 2017). The seminar is jointly organised by the Institute of Historical Research, the Institute of English Studies, and the Warburg Institute.

This event is part of the History of Libraries Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:30–19:30

Owen Griffiths (Cambridge) This event is part of the Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk

Room 243 (Senate House)

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Wednesday 06 Senate House Library

Reformation London

Symposium

A one-day symposium exploring the impact of the Reformation on London and its growing influence as a global city.

Free advance registration required senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

09:30–17:00 The National Archives Institute of Historical Research

Out of Place: Vagrancy and Settlement

Two-day conference

This two-day conference (6–7 December) explores the shifting experiences, representations, and status of vagrancy in relation to the history of British settlement. How can exploring the images and realities of vagrancy sharpen our understanding of the histories of ‘settled’ communities, cities, and parishes? Plenary speakers include Patricia Fumerton (California, Santa Barbara), ‘Crossing the Limits of the Shakespearean Stage: Roguery, Mobility, and Balladry in The Winter’s Tale’; and Nicholas Crowson (Birmingham), ‘Vagrant Life Stories: Rediscovering the Tramp between the 1880s and 1930s’. £55 | £45 | £30 | £25 advance registration required olwen.myhill@sas.ac.uk

09:30–18:00 IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, NB01/NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Workshop 14:00–17:00 Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 15:30–17:30 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00

Media and the 2017 Elections across the Commonwealth Media freedom is under pressure in multiple and complex ways across the Commonwealth. These pressures assume particular importance at election times, when access to information or restrictions on the news environment assume even greater importance. This workshop will review the assessments and recommendations of Commonwealth election monitoring teams on this crucial aspect of democracy and governance. The particular focus of the workshop will be the 2017 elections, including the contentious Kenyan poll.

Free advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

A Locational Analysis of Writing and Sealing Practices at Ayia Triada in the Late Minoan I period (ca. 1700/1675–1470/1460 BC) Ilse Schoep (Leuven) This event is part of the ICS Mycenaean Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk Lisa Jones (St Andrews) This event is part of the London Aesthetics Forum.

Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk

Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00

Caspar Meyer (Birkbeck) This event is part of the ICS Classical Archaeology Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

The Campaign to Control Warfare: 1853–1914

Seminar

James Crosland (Liverpool John Moores) This event is part of the War, Society and Culture Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

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Institute of Historical Research

The University Settlement Movement, 1884–1920

Seminar

Lucinda Matthews-Jones (Liverpool John Moores) This event is part of the Modern Religious History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Professor Olga Crisp Room (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research

Internment, Repatriation and the Fate of Some German ‘Economic Migrants’ after 1915

Seminar

Jennifer Taylor (London) This event is part of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Thursday 07 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 12:45–14:00 LG9, Keppel Street Building, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

An Authoritarian History of International Health: Public Health and International Expertise in Franco’s Spain David Brydan (Birkbeck) This event is part of the History of Public Health Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies

Law and Commercial Life of Rome

Seminar

David Johnston (Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh) This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series, jointly organised with Tony Thomas seminar in Roman Law Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

16:30–18:30 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15 IHR Pollard Room Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

A Tragicomedy of Peace: Barclay’s Satyricon and European Politics in the Early Seventeenth Century Matthew Growhoski (Vanderbilt) This event is part of the British History in the Seventeenth Century Seminar Series.

Sponsored by the Conrad and Elizabeth Russell Fund Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Did Cardinal Riario Reject Michelangelo’s Bacchus?

Seminar

Kathleen Christian (Open University) This event is part of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

The Intellectual Culture of Conservatism After 1945

Seminar

Gary Love This event is part of the Modern British History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

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Institute of Historical Research

Food History Workshop

Seminar

This event is part of the Food History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR North American History Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Narratives of Crisis – 1980s Education Policy and the Ideas Behind the CTCs

IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

Elizabeth Bailey (Birmingham) This event is part of the History of Education Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Latin American Studies

Darkroom Revolutions: Photography and Political Life in Nicaragua

Seminar Room 234 (Senate House)

Ileana L. Selejan (UCL) This event is part of the Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar Warburg Institute

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 33.

This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Yeats, Satan and Smut

Seminar

Warwick Gould (Institute of English Studies) This event is part of the Irish Studies Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30

17:30–19:30

17:30–19:30

18:00–20:00 The Senate Room (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:30–20:00

Caoimhe Mader McGuinness (Kingston) This event is part of the London Theatre Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

Friday 08 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243 (Senate House)

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Gender Contest and Women’s Appeal to Familial Concord: Plautus’ Casina Sophie Chavarria (Kent) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series.

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

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Institute of Historical Research

The Daughters of Edward IV and the Early Tudor Regime

Seminar

Imogene Dudley (Exeter) This event is part of the Late Medieval Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G3 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G7 (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy Lecture 18:00–19:00 Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)

Byron and Romantic Realism: Novelistic Realism in the English Cantos of Don Juan; Byron and the Borders of Fiction Richard Lansdown (Groningen), Rosa Mucignat (KCL) This event is part of the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Illustration on London's 'Artists Street' 1800–1820; Reading Victorian Illustration: Word, Image, Digital Mary Shannon (Roehampton), Julia Thomas (Cardiff ) This event is part of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar Series.

Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

The Chandaria Lectures 2017 Cognitive Gadgets Cecilia Heyes (Oxford) Evolutionary psychology casts the human mind as a collection of cognitive instincts - organs of thought shaped by genetic evolution and constrained by the needs of our Stone Age ancestors. This picture was plausible 25 years ago but, I argue, it no longer fits the facts. Research involving infants and nonhuman animals now suggests that genetic evolution has merely tweaked the human mind, making us more friendly than our pre-human ancestors, more attentive to other agents, and giving us souped-up, general-purpose mechanisms of learning, memory and control. Using these resources, our special-purpose organs of thought are built in the course of development through social interaction. They are products of cultural rather than genetic evolution; cognitive gadgets rather than cognitive instincts.

Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Comédie (1966): Performing Film and Adapting Play

Seminar

Jonathan Bignell (Reading) This event is part of the London Beckett Seminar.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Saturday 09 Institute of English Studies Seminar 14:00–16:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

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Who’s got the Power? Natural Philosophers and Mystics as Magicians in Medieval Islam; Astral Magic as an Alternative Soteriology in Twelfth-Century Islamic Thought Liana Saif (Oxford), Michael Noble (Warburg) This event is part of the Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar Series (EMPHASIS).

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Intelligence and the Mind

Symposium

Every living being interacts with its surroundings, sensing and responding to signals from the environment. Now the technology we use every day does this, too. How is the way we process information being transformed by new forms of intelligence, artificial and social? What can we learn about the nature and functioning of human intelligence? The last public event of The Human Mind Project will bring together experts from computer science and neuro-economics, science and technology studies, and the philosophy of information to discuss how humans have become so good at processing information quickly, extracting meaning from raw data, and building powerful narratives of who we are.

Free advance registration required anna.hopkins@sas.ac.uk

10:00–17:30 The Court Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30

The Fashioning of American Indians in Local Settings: A Postcolonial Perspective on the German and British Circus, 1900–45 Sabine Hanke (Sheffield) This event is part of the Imperial and World History Seminar Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Settlement of Islamic Migrants in the Spanish Empire during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Cecilia Tarruell (Oxford) This event is part of the European History 1500–1800 Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk John Newsinger This event is part of the Social History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Lecture 18:00–20:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

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Reconsidering the Raj The Chaos of Empire: Rethinking British Rule in India Jon Wilson (KCL) 1947 marked the end of British rule in India, two hundred years in which the British replaced the Mughals as controlling power and laid the foundations for modern India. In collaboration with the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, the Institute of Historical Research will reconsider this remarkable period in a series of lectures by leading scholars. In the first, Jon Wilson argues that the growth of British rule was from the earliest days often chaotic and accidental, serving British interests rather than any wider good. In the second, on 9 January, Charles Allen responds that the British offered elements of undoubted value to India, not least the exploration and recording of its culture. Later lectures focus on pivotal events: the Indian Mutiny, the Afghan Wars, and Independence and Partition. See page 31 for details of related events. £7.50 | £5 advance registration required ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar December Tuesday 12 Institute of Classical Studies

Language of Religion

Conference

A one-day conference followed by a workshop on 13 December.

Free advance registration required valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

09:30–17:00 Room G7 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:30–19:30 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

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Chance Encounters with the Past: Crowdsourcing Early Modern Recipes Lisa Smith (Essex) This event is part of the Digital History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Long Reformation in the Far North: Kirk and Culture in Early Modern Orkney Peter Marshall Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Seditious Memories across Generations: Remembering the British Revolutions, 1660–88 Ed Legon (Historic Royal Palaces/KCL) This event is part of the Life-Cycles Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Accordia Anniversary Lecture Frontiers of Etruria Simon Stoddart (Cambridge) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Mission En Route: African American Christian Activity in Britain, 1750–1950 David Killingray (School of Advanced Study) This event is part of the Christian Missions in Global History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Philosophy Lecture 18:00–19:00 Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)

The Chandaria Lectures 2017 Gadgets for Mindreading and Imitation Cecilia Heyes (Oxford) Compared with chimpanzees, most adult humans are strikingly good at reading the minds of others, inferring their thoughts and feelings, and at copying the fine details of what others are doing. Mindreading and imitation enable humans to cooperate on grand scales, and to accumulate wisdom over many generations.

Given their importance in making human lives so different from those of other animals, it’s tempting to think that mindreading and imitation are ‘in our genes’.

However, Heyes argues, using evidence from developmental psychology and social cognitive neuroscience, that mindreading, like print reading, is taught by experts to novices. Similarly, the capacity to imitate is built from ‘old parts’ in the course of childhood, and the construction process is powered by culture-specific patterns of social interaction.

Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 13 Institute of Classical Studies

Language of Religion

Workshop

A workshop following the related conference held on 12 December.

Free advance registration required valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

09:30–17:00 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00

Music and Marxism: Commodity Production and Musical Idealism Jeremy Coleman and Johan Siebers This event is part of the German Philosophy Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Imaginary Antiquities and the French Revolution: Modelling on Greek Lawgivers

IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Ariane Fichtl (Lille-Augsburg) This event is part of the History of Political Ideas/Early Career Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

The Re-Invention of Samuel Richardson

Seminar

Bonnie Latimer (Plymouth), Karen Lipsedge (Kingston) This event is part of the British History in the Long Eighteenth-Century Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15

17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

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Demarcating or Blurring the Lines after National Socialism: A Comparison between West Germany and Austria (1945–65) Robert Knight (Loughborough) This event is part of the Modern German History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research

Notions of Totalitarianism in Post-1945 Italy

Seminar

Carl Levy (Goldsmiths), Nicola Pizzolato This event is part of the Modern Italian History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) The Warburg Institute Lecture 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

The Middle-Class Mansion Block as a Model for Metropolitan Improvements at Victoria Street, Westminster, 1845–1905 Karin Templin (Cambridge) This event is part of the Metropolitan History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Warburg and Luther: Word | Image in Times of Crisis, 1517, 1917, 2017 – ‘Luther’s words are everywhere’: Protestantism and Politics, 1517–2017 Jane O. Norman (California, Irvine) The Warburg Institute is holding a series of events to mark both the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and the 100th anniversary of Aby Warburg’s seminal lecture on Martin Luther and the role of propaganda in the process of public opinion making. Warburg’s lecture, delivered in November 1917 and published in 1920 under the title ‘Pagan-Antique Prophecy in Words and Images in the Age of Martin Luther’ is now considered one of the founding documents of Bildwissenschaft (the science of images) and of media studies.

This talk by Jane O. Norman is the series keynote. It will be followed by a roundtable discussion on 14 December and an open day on 16 December, when the Warburg Institute’s Library and Archive will display and offer introductions to materials that relate to Warburg’s Reformation study. See page 26 for details of related events.

Free advance registration required warburg@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group: Canto 87

Reading group

The Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group was formed in 2006. At each meeting, a speaker introduces a canto, followed by discussion. Speakers and members range from internationally established Pound critics to poets, postgraduates, independent scholars and Pound enthusiasts. All are welcome.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Thursday 14 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 16:30–18:00 IALS

School of Advanced Study

Forfeiture and Confiscation Speakers will include Mike Kennedy (former president of Eurojust), Brian Donald (Head of Cabinet of the Europol Director), and Klara Skrivankova (Anti Slavery International).

This event is part of the European Criminal Law Seminar Series and organised with the European Criminal Law Association (UK).

Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

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Metal and Coinage

Seminar

Michael Crawford (UCL) This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

16:30–18:30 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 17:15–19:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

English Goethe Society Lecture Life and (Love) Letters: Looking in on Winckelmann’s Correspondence Katherine Harloe (Reading) and Lucy Russell (Oxford) Over the 250 years since his death, Johann Winckelmann’s posthumously published ‘private’ correspondence has shaped understandings of his life and work just as much as his aesthetic and antiquarian writings. While editions appeared as early as the 1770s, the publication of Goethe’s Winkelmann und sein Jahrhundert and the inclusion of two volumes of ‘freundschaftliche Briefe’ within Josef Eiselein’s Sämtliche Werke (1825–) marked a new role for the correspondence in the nineteenth-century monumentalising of Winckelmann as a German ‘classic’. It is suggested that this tradition has generated a distanced, even voyeuristic, perspective on the letters, treating them as windows onto biographical scenes of emotional, and sometimes erotic, intimacy and expression. The speakers at this symposium will criticise some examples of this tendency in recent Winckelmann scholarship, explore the often-adventitious steps by which it arose, and, using examples of particular letters, suggest some alternative interpretations.

Free advance registration required jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Britain and Slavery: The Legacies of LBS

Seminar

Nick Draper (UCL) This event is part of the Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600–2000 Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Both Free and Ancient Foreigners: The Politics of the Society of Porters in Early Modern London Claire Benson (York) This event is part of the Society, Culture and Belief, 1500–1800 Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Rise of Administrative Lordship in Medieval Flanders: New Perspectives

IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Jean-François Nieus (Namur) This event is part of the European History 1150–1550 Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 33.

This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

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Roundtable: Women in the Garden

Seminar

The roundtable is an opportunity to assess the extent and impact of women in garden history.

This event is part of the History of Gardens and Landscapes Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) The Warburg Institute Seminar 18:15–20:30 Warburg Institute

Warburg and Luther: Word | Image in Times of Crisis, 1517, 1917, 2017 Roundtable Discussion The Warburg Institute is holding a series of events to mark both the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and the 100th anniversary of Aby Warburg’s seminal lecture on Martin Luther and the role of propaganda in the process of public opinion making. Warburg’s lecture, delivered in November 1917 and published in 1920 under the title ‘Pagan-Antique Prophecy in Words and Images in the Age of Martin Luther’ is now considered one of the founding documents of Bildwissenschaft (the science of images) and of media studies.

This roundtable discussion is the second in a series of three events on this theme.

Participants will include James Curran (Goldsmiths), Jost Philipp Klenner (Berlin), Jane O. Newman (California, Irvine) and Petra Roettig (Hamburger Kunsthalle); the chair will be Johannes von Müller of the Bilderfahrzeuge Project, Warburg Institute.

This event will be followed by an open day on 16 December, when the Warburg Institute’s Library and Archive will display and offer introductions to materials that relate to Warburg’s Reformation study. See page 26 for details of related events.

Free advance registration required warburg@sas.ac.uk

Friday 15 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Contemporary Issues in Financial Markets Law and Company Law: National, International, European and Comparative Perspectives

Conference / Symposium

This event is convened by Maren Heidemann (IALS) and Gudula Deipenbrock (HTW Berlin); the keynote speaker will be Joanna Gray (Birmingham).

Fee applicable advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

10:00–18:00 IALS Institute of English Studies

London Modernism Seminar Postgraduate Conference

Conference

The London Modernism Seminar, the Northern Modernism Seminar, the Modernist Network Cymru and the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies, in association with the British Association for Modernist Studies, will hold a one-day postgraduate conference in December.

This event is part of the London Modernism Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required postgradwip@gmail.com

11:00–13:00 Leeds

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study

Shaping a Space? Reappraising Peisistratid Development of the Athenian Agora in the Sixth Century BC Kate Caraway (Liverpool) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series.

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

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Institute of Philosophy Lecture 18:00–19:00 Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar

The Chandaria Lectures 2017 Cultural Evolutionary Psychology Cecilia Heyes (Oxford) Evolutionary psychology was an important advance in understanding human origins. Previously, bodies, brains and behaviour had been subjected to evolutionary analysis while the mind sat on a shelf. Now, in the light of new evidence, evolutionary psychology needs to be extended to embrace cultural as well as genetic inheritance; the profound effects of social interaction in shaping the mind. What are the priorities for this new approach? Is it really ‘evolutionary’ in the Darwinian sense? What does it imply about human nature, and our capacity to meet radically new social and technological challenges? In this final lecture, Heyes will consider the prospects for ‘cultural evolutionary psychology’.

Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk Jeffrey Thomson (City) This event is part of the Legal History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

18:00–19:30 IALS

Saturday 16 The Warburg Institute Exhibition 14:00–16:00 Warburg Institute

Warburg and Luther: Word | Image in Times of Crisis, 1517, 1917, 2017 Library and Archive Open Day The Warburg Institute is holding a series of events to mark both the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and the 100th anniversary of Aby Warburg’s seminal lecture on Martin Luther and the role of propaganda in the process of public opinion making. Warburg’s lecture, delivered in November 1917 and published in 1920 under the title ‘Pagan-Antique Prophecy in Words and Images in the Age of Martin Luther’ is now considered one of the founding documents of Bildwissenschaft (the science of images) and of media studies.

For this open day, the Warburg Institute’s Library and Archive will display and offer introductions to materials that relate to Warburg’s Reformation study. See page 26 for details of related events.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Friday 22 Institute of English Studies

Finnegans Wake Reading Group

Reading group

This reading group has been running regularly since 2007. It studies James Joyce’s final work, Finnegans Wake, at a close level of detail. Discussion is focused on the text and attention is also paid to Joyce’s manuscripts (copies of which are displayed on a screen). The group hosts a blog to record its discussions.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

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Events calendar January Friday 05 Institute of English Studies

Joyce's Ulysses

Seminar

Helen Saunders (KCL), Steven Morrison (Nottingham) This event is part of the Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Monday 08 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

What is a Colonial Archive? Government, Authority and the Making of Archives in French West Africa and Indochina in the Twentieth Century This event is part of the Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop Seminar Series.

Fabienne Chamelot (Portsmouth) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 09 Institute of Historical Research

Childbirth and Religious Ritual in Early Modern London

Seminar

Emily Vine (QMUL) This talk considers the religious rituals of childbirth and lying-in as practised

by Catholic, Jewish and Protestant nonconformist households in early modern London. Childbirth was a time of significance for all of these religious minority communities, who were also united by the shared experience of living in the urban environment of the city and the fact that childbirth generally took place at home during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Making use of religious prescriptive literature, printed funeral sermons, and personal writings, the speaker considers the significance of the home at times of childbirth for those whose ability to openly practise their faith was often restricted. Making use of Van Gennep’s ideas relating to ‘rites of passage’, it demonstrates how the concept of ‘crossing the threshold’ can be just as meaningfully applied to the boundaries of domestic space as it can to the transition points of the life cycle.

This event is part of the Life-Cycles Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

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Identifying Responses to Revolution: The Monks in Motion Prosopography and the English Benedictines in Revolutionary France, 1789–94 Cormac Begadon (Durham) This event is part of the Digital History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Kayleigh Betterton (University of London Society of Bibliophiles), Leo Cadogan (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association Educational Trust) The focus of this year’s series is widening access in book collecting.

This event is part of the Book Collecting Seminar Series and is jointly organised with the University of London Society of Bibliophiles.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of English Studies

Literary London Reading Group

Reading group

Since 2012, the Literary London Reading Group, an offshoot of the Literary London Society (literarylondon.org) has offered a seminar series that fosters interdisciplinary and wide-ranging research into London literature in its historical, social, and cultural contexts. It aims to include all periods and genres of writing and representation about, set in, inspired by, or alluding to central and suburban London and its environs, from the city’s roots in pre-Roman times to its imagined futures. All are welcome.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Lecture 18:00–20:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Reconsidering the Raj Myth and History: India and the British Raj Charles Allen (author and editor) 1947 marked the end of British rule in India, two hundred years in which the British replaced the Mughals as controlling power and laid the foundations for modern India. In collaboration with the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, the Institute of Historical Research will reconsider this remarkable period in a series of lectures by leading scholars. In this talk, Charles Allen argues that the British offered elements of undoubted value to India, not least the exploration and recording of its culture. Later lectures focus on pivotal events: the Indian Mutiny, the Afghan Wars, and Independence and Partition. See page 31 for details of related events. £7.50 | £5 advance registration required ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 10 Institute of Historical Research

Bolingbroke and Poetry

Seminar

Joseph Hone (University of Cambridge) This event is part of the History of Political Ideas/Early Career Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:15 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies

Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group: Canto 22

Reading group

Roxana Preda (Edinburgh) The Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group was formed in 2006. At each meeting, a speaker introduces a canto, followed by discussion. Speakers and members range from internationally established Pound critics to poets, postgraduates, independent scholars and Pound enthusiasts. All are welcome.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Thursday 11 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30

Franco Basso (Cambridge) This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Room 349 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR North American History Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction Ira Katznelson (Columbia) This event is part of the North American History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Trustworthy Men: How Inequality and Faith Made the Medieval Church Ian Forrest (Oxford) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 33.

This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:30–20:00 Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House)

Joint Seminar with European Theatre Research Network: Performance Activism in Athens This event is part of the London Theatre Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Friday 12 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House)

Τίς πόθεν εἰς ἀνδρῶν ; πόθι τοι πόλις ἠδὲ τοκῆες: A Close-Up Look at the Members of Private Associations Annamària-Izabella Pàzsint (Babes-Bolyai) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series.

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Institute of English Studies

The Disjunctive Event: Reading Festivals with Beckett

Seminar

Trish McTighe (Birmingham) This event is part of the London Beckett Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required postgradwip@gmail.com

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Saturday 13 Institute of English Studies

Art, Science, and Power in the Early French Scientific Academy

Seminar

Katherine Reinhart (Cambridge) This event is part of the Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar Series (EMPHASIS).

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

14:00–16:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

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Marcus Aurelius on Phantasia

Seminar

John Sellars (Royal Holloway) This event is part of the Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

16:30–18:30 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Forgetting to Remember, Remembering to Forget: The Pied-Noir Community and the French State Claire Eldridge (Leeds) This event is part of the Modern French History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Invisibility and Infamy: Exploring the History of Fundraising in the UK

IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Beth Breeze (Kent) This event is part of the History Lab Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light

Seminar

Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) This event is part of a series of weekly readings of works by Dante.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00

18:30–19:50 Warburg Institute

Tuesday 16 Institute of Historical Research

Wet-Nurses, Sexual Restrictions and Wage Labour in Roman Egypt

Seminar

April Pudsey (Manchester Metropolitan University) This event is part of the Colonial / Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N30 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:15 Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies (Senate House Library)

School of Advanced Study

Greek Medical Manuscripts (10th–15th c.): Texts, Contexts, and Readers Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (KCL) This event is part of the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Natural History Values and Meanings in Nineteenth-Century Chile

Seminar

Patience Schell (Aberdeen) Nineteenth-century natural history flourished in Chile thanks to a collaboration between foreign immigrants and Chileans in a context of Chilean state support for natural history s and training, but also in a context in which the natural sciences, and natural history specifically, came to have multiple meanings. In this talk, the speaker argues that natural history flourished, in part, because it offered its practitioners, both professional and amateur, a physical and intellectual pursuit that was seen to improve the individual while being of benefit to society at large.

Analysis of this discourse in Chile contributes to our growing understanding of the specific contexts of natural history practice, the ways in which natural history (and the sciences more broadly) became national concerns, and the transnational circulation of ideas.

This event is part of the Latin American History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:15 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

Wednesday 17 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 15:30–17:30 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15

Proto-Urbanisation, Rising Elites and the Role of Metallurgy in the Early Bronze Age Aegean-Anatolian World(s) Barbara Horejs (Austrian Academy of Sciences) This event is part of the ICS Mycenaean Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Ego-Documents and Official History: Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria's Diary and the Battle for Memory between the Wars Jonathan Boff (Birmingham) This event is part of the War, Society and Culture Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Paul Nolte (Berlin) This event is part of the History of Political Ideas Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Thursday 18 The Warburg Institute Lecture 17:00–19:00 Warburg Institute

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Maps, and Miasma: Henry Acland’s Maps of Cholera in Oxford in the 1850s

Giles Darkes (British Historic Town Atlas) Part of a regular series of lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (IHR), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, KCL) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg).

Free tony@tonycampbell.info

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The Warburg Institute

Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 33.

This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Little Pavilion on the Prairie. Britain and the Untied States at the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893

IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

David Tiedemann (UCL) This event is part of the History Lab Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Seamus Heaney and Harvard’

Seminar

Rosie Lavan (TCD) This event is part of the Irish Studies Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:30

18:00–20:00 The Senate Room (Senate House)

Friday 19 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar

The Good, the Bad and the ‘Haruspex’: Representations of Etruscan Diviners in Republican Rome

Room 246 (Senate House)

Chiara Strazzulla (Cardiff ) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series.

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Institute of English Studies

Blake’s Newton and Romantic Geometry

Seminar

Sarah Haggarty (Cambridge) This event is part of the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar Series and is cosponsored by the Institute of Modern Languages Research.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

16:30–18:30

17:30–19:30 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

Saturday 20 Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 14:30–17:00 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House)

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Virgil Society Lecture Tegit rem inhonestam: Sophocles' Tecmessa and Virgil's Dido Patrick Finglass (Bristol) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar January Monday 22 Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 The Senate Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Henry’s 'Bruised Helmet': Armour and Weaponry in Henry V; SysEd vs Ardenspace: The Evolution and Aims of the Imaginarium Learning Modules on the Shakespeare Reloaded Website Line Cottegnies (Paris III), Liam Semler (Sydney) This event is part of the London Shakespeare Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

An Unknown Early Modern New World Epic: Girolamo Vecchietti’s Delle prodezze di Ferrante Cortese (1587–88) Virginia Cox (New York University) This event is part of the European History 1500–1800 Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Making of Imperial New Delhi, or: How I Learnt to Understand the Politics Behind Colonial Architecture and Urbanism Smriti Pant (Brandenburg University of Technology) This event is part of the Imperial and World History Seminar Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light

Seminar

Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) This event is part of a series of weekly readings of works by Dante.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

18:30–19:50 Warburg Institute

Tuesday 23 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

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‘You Wouldn’t Want Your Daughter Marrying One’: Parental Intervention in Mixed Race Relationships in Post-War Britain Emma Watkins (Liverpool) Mixed race relationships and ‘miscegenation’, particularly between men of colour and white women, became the central issue for white perceptions of race in postwar and post-Windrush Britain. While ‘race-relations’ discourse described the ‘dark strangers in our midst’, concerns about the ‘new’ presence of black, predominantly West Indian, men manifested most sharply when it threatened to move from the streets into the familial home. Preconceptions about ‘aggressive’ black masculinity, criminality and lack of family values clashed with suggestions of white women’s sexual deviancy and disrepute in the rhetoric around these relationships, making them a challenge to the white, patriarchal family system. This paper explores the role of parental intervention in both the prevention and occurrence of mixedrace relationships in this period. Were white families tasked with a new parental responsibility in the protection of this intimate, interior boundary? How did parents, both black and white, respond to mixed-race relationships? What were the consequences for family life?

This event is part of the Life-Cycles Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

School of Advanced Study

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Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:30–19:30 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Accordia Lecture From Maiolica to Terracotta: An Industrial Reconversion in the Arno Valley in the Early Modern Period Hugo Blake (Royal Holloway) Free advance registration required valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Ententes Cordiales? Vichy France and the British Commonwealth during the Second World War Luc-Andre Brunet (Open University) This event is part of the International History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 24 Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Refugee Studies Reading Group (3) Free advance registration required sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Reading group 15:00–17:00 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:00–19:00 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00

Dorothy Tarrant Lecture Earthquakes, Etruscan Priests, and Roman Politics in the Age of Cicero Anthony Corbeill (Virginia) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk Amy Evans (Kent), Robert Hampson (Royal Holloway) This event is part of the Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Room 246 (Senate House)

Thursday 25 Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Allocation of Competence in Asylum Matters under International and EU Law

Seminar

Marcello Di Filippo (Pisa) This event is part of the RLI International Refugee Law Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required sas.events@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 IALS Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30

Rosalind Thomas (Oxford) This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Room 349 (Senate House)

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

English Goethe Society Lecture Hölderlin and the First World War Nick Martin (Birmingham) Free advance registration required jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

German Historical Institute Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Government and Inquests from Philip Augustus to the Last Capetians Marie Dejoux (Pantheon-Sorbonne University Paris 1) This event is part of the European History 1150–1550 Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

New World Marvels and European Craft Cultures: Featherwork and Cultural Contacts in the Sixteenth Century Stefan Hanss (Cambridge) This event is part of the European History 1500–1800 Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

‘We Came Here To Take the Bastille’: The Watergate Babies, Congress, and the Democratic Party, 1974–92

IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

Patrick Andelic (Northumbria) This event is part of the North American History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 33.

This event is part of the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Friday 26 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House)

From ‘Panegyricus’ to the ‘Philippus’: Isocrates’ Apology of Panhellenism Massimiliano Carloni (SNS Pisa) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series.

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Institute of English Studies

1868: A Roundtable

Seminar

This event is part of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House)

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Institute of English Studies

Finnegans Wake Reading Group

Reading group

This reading group has been running regularly since 2007. It studies James Joyce’s final work, Finnegans Wake, at a close level of detail. Discussion is focused on the text and attention is also paid to Joyce’s manuscripts (copies of which are displayed on a screen). The group hosts a blog to record its discussions.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Monday 29 Institute of Classical Studies

Metameleia

Seminar

James Warren (Cambridge) This event is part of the ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

16:30–18:30 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Building Bridges of Trust: Child Transports from Finland to Sweden during WWII Ann Nehlin (Stockholm) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light

Seminar

Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) This event is part of a series of weekly readings of works by Dante.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

18:30–19:50 Warburg Institute

Tuesday 30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:15 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

Liberals, Peasants and Jacobins: The Mexican Revolution (1910–40) in Global Perspective Alan Knight (Oxford) This talk starts from the premise that the Mexican Revolution (1910–40) is a major, social revolution, worthy of comparison with the other ‘great’ revolutions of history. It begins with a brief conceptual discussion of what can and cannot be said about revolutions in general. It then focuses on the Mexican case, breaking it down into collective actors (and leaders); it then compares and contrasts the Mexican story and its actors with those that can be teased out of other revolutionary conjunctures (for example, the French, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Bolivian, and Cuban).

This event is part of the Latin American History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Economic Evidence in Utilities Regulation: Delineating the Boundaries of Administrative Discretion

Seminar

Despoina Mantzari (Reading, IALS Visiting Fellow) Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IALS

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Institute of Classical Studies

ICS and Friends of the British School at Athens Lecture

Lecture

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House)

Wednesday 31 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15

Melissa Lane (Princeton) This event is part of the History of Political Ideas Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

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Changing Countries and Cultural Identities Revisited Eva Maria Thüne (Bologna/IMLR) This event is part of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

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Seminar series A broad range of seminar series are organised in the School and Senate House Library. Many of our series are supported by and organised in collaboration with other institutions and organisations. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated. Dates and times are given below where known and were correct at the time of going to print. These seminars are listed in the calendar where further details are known. Due to the nature of series events, these may be subject to change.

Institute of English Studies

Institute of Classical Studies

Dates: 14 Nov; 9 Jan

Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk Ancient History Thursdays at 16.30–18.30 Dates: 5, 12, 19 Oct; 9, 23, 30 Nov; 7, 14 Dec; 11, 18, 25 Jan

Ancient Literature Mondays at 17.00–19.00 Dates: 9, 16, 23, 30 Oct; 13, 20, 27 Nov; 4 Dec; 15, 22, 29 Jan

Ancient Philosophy Thursdays at 16.30–18.30

Contact: ies@sas.ac.uk London Beckett Seminar Once a month on Fridays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 10 Nov; 8 Dec

Book Collecting Seminar Tuesdays at 18:00–20:00

Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar Fridays from 18:00–20:00 Dates: 22 Sep; 13 Oct; 10 Nov; 1 Dec; 5 Jan

Contemporary Cultures of Writing Tuesdays at 17:30–19:30 Dates: 17 Oct; 14; 5 Dec

Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Wednesdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 27 Sep; 25 Oct; 29 Nov; 24 Jan

Dates: 9, 23 Oct; 6, 20 Nov; 15, 29 Jan

Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar (EMPHASIS)

Classical Archaeology

Once a month on Saturdays at 14:00–16:00

Wednesdays at 17.00–19.00

Dates: 14 Oct; 4 Nov; 9 Dec; 13 Jan

Dates: 25 Oct; 8 Nov; 6 Dec; 17, 31 Jan

Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group

Fellows' Seminar

Second Wednesday of the month at 18:00–20:00

Wednesdays at 13.00–14.00

Dates: 11 Oct, 8 Nov; 13 Dec; 10 Jan

Dates: 4, 11, 25 Oct; 8, 22 Nov

Finnegans Wake Research Seminar

Mycenaean

The last Friday of the month at 18:00–20:00

Wednesdays at 15.30–17.30

Dates: 29 Sep; 27 Oct; 24 Nov; 22 Dec; 26 Jan

Dates: 18 Oct; 15 Nov; 6 Dec; 17 Jan

History of Libraries Seminar

Postgraduate Work-in-Progress

Times: 17:30–20:00

Fridays at 16.30–18.30

Dates: 3, 8 Oct; 7 Nov; 5 Dec

Dates: 6, 13, 20, 27 Oct; 3, 10, 17, 24 Nov; 1, 8, 15 Dec; 12, 19, 26 Jan

Irish Studies Seminar Thursdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 19 Oct; 16 Nov; 7 Dec; 18 Jan

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London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS) Once a month on Wednesdays at 17:30–19:30

Institute of Historical Research Contact: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Dates: 18 Oct; 22 Nov

American History

London Shakespeare Seminar

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30

Tuesdays at 17:00–19:00

Dates: 5, 19 Oct; 2, 16, 30 Nov; 14 Dec

Dates: 9, 23 Oct; 20 Nov; 22 Jan

Archives and Society

Media History Seminar

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:45

Tuesdays at 18:00–20:00

Dates: 3, 17, 31 Oct; 14, 28 Nov; 12 Dec

Date: 28 Nov

British History in the Seventeenth Century

Medieval Manuscripts Seminar

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15

Tuesdays at 17:30–19:15

Dates: 28 Sep; 12, 26 Oct; 9, 23 Nov; 7 Dec

Dates: 3, 31 Oct; 5 Dec; 16 Jan

British History in the Long Eighteenth Century

Modernism Seminar

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15

Saturdays at 11:00–13:00

Dates: 4, 18 Oct; 1, 15, 29 Nov; 13 Dec

Dates: 7 Oct; 18 Nov

British Maritime History

Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar

Once a month on a Tuesday at 17:15

Fridays at 17:30–19:30

Dates: 26 Oct; 14 Nov; 12 Dec

Dates: 3 Nov; 8 Dec; 26 Jan

Christian Missions in Global History

London Theatre Seminar

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30

The first Thursday of the month at 18:30–20:00

Dates: 3, 17, 31 Oct; 14, 28 Nov; 12 Dec

Dates: 5 Oct; 9 Nov; 7 Dec; 11 Jan

Collecting and Display

Open University Book History and Bibliography Research Seminar

Fortnightly on Mondays at 18:00

Occasional Mondays at 17:30–19:00

Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop

Dates: 15, 29 Jan

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15

London–Paris Romanticism Seminar

Dates: 2, 16, 30 Oct; 13, 27 Nov; 11 Dec

Once a month on Fridays at 17:30–19:30

Comparative Histories of Asia

Dates: 20 Oct; 17 Nov; 8 Dec; 19 Jan

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 12:30

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

Dates: 4, 18 Oct; 1, 15, 29 Nov; 13 Dec

Contemporary British History Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:00 Dates: 27 Sep; 11, 25 Oct; 8, 22 Nov; 6 Dec

Conversations and Disputations Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:30 Dates: 29 Sep; 13, 27 Oct; 10, 24 Nov; 8 Dec

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Seminar series Crusades and the Latin East

History of Education

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15

First Thursday of every month at 17:30

Dates: 2, 16, 30 Oct; 13, 27 Nov; 11 Dec

Dates: 2 Nov; 7 Dec

Digital History

History of Gardens and Landscapes

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Thursdays 18:00

Dates: 3, 17, 31 Oct; 14, 28 Nov; 12 Dec

Dates: 5, 19 Oct; 2, 16, 30 Nov; 14 Dec

Disability History Seminar

History of Liturgy

First Monday of every month at 17:15

Once a month on Mondays at 17:15

Dates: 25 Sep; 23 Oct; 20 Nov; 4 Dec

Dates: 2 Oct; 13 Nov; 11 Dec

Earlier Middle Ages

History of Political Ideas

Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:30

Fortnightly on Wednesdays 17:15

Dates: 4 Oct; 1, 15, 29 Nov; 13 Dec

Dates: 27 Sep; 11, 25 Oct; 8, 22 Nov; 6 Dec

Economic and Social History of the Early Modern World

History of Political Ideas / Early Career Seminar

Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15

Dates: 4, 18 Oct; 1, 15, 29 Nov; 13 Dec

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

Education in the Long Eighteenth Century Once a month on a Saturday 14:00–16:00 Dates: 7 Oct; 4 Nov; 2 Dec

European History 1150–1550 Fortnightly on Thursdays 17:30 Dates: 5, 19 Oct; 2, 16, 30 Nov; 14 Dec

European History 1500–1800 Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 2, 16, 30 Oct; 13, 27 Nov; 11 Dec

Film History Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 28 Sep; 12, 26 Oct; 9, 23 Nov; 7 Dec

Food History Seminar Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 28 Sep, 12, 26 Oct; 9, 23 Nov; 7 Dec

Gender and History in the Americas First Monday of the month at 17:15 Dates: 25 Sep; 9, 23 Oct; 6, 20 Nov; 4 Dec

History Lab Seminar Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30

Fortnightly on Wednesdays 17:15

History of Sexuality Seminar Once a month on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 10 Oct; 11 Nov; 5 Dec

Imperial and World History Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 25 Sep; 9, 23 Oct; 6, 20 Nov; 4 Dec

International History Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 18:00 Dates: 3, 17, 31 Oct; 14, 28 Nov; 12 Dec

Interdisciplinary Seminar on Medievalism Once a month on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 4 Oct; 15 Nov; 13 Dec

Jewish History Once a month on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 2, 16, 30 Oct; 13, 27 Nov; 11 Dec

Late Medieval Seminar Weekly on Fridays at 17:30 Dates: 29 Sep; 6, 13, 20, 27 Oct; 3, 10, 17, 24 Nov; 1, 8, 15 Dec

Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15 Dates: 28 Sep; 12, 26 Oct; 9, 23 Nov; 7 Dec

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Latin American History

Modern Italian History

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30

Dates: 26 Sep; 10, 24 Oct; 7 Nov; 5 Dec

Dates: 4, 18 Oct; 1, 15, 29 Nov; 13 Dec

Life–Cycles

Modern Religious History

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15

Dates: 3, 17, 31 Oct; 14, 28 Nov; 12 Dec

Dates: 27 Sep; 11, 25 Oct; 8, 22 Nov; 6 Dec

Locality & Region

North American History

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Thursday at 17:30

Dates: 26 Sep; 10, 24 Oct; 7 Nov; 5 Dec

Dates: 5, 19 Oct; 2, 16, 30 Nov; 14 Dec

London Group of Historical Geographers

Oral History

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

First Thursday of every month at 18:00

Dates: 10, 24 Oct; 7 Nov; 5 Dec

Dates: 12 Oct; 9 Nov; 7 Dec

London Society for Medieval Studies

Parliaments, Politics and People

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 19:00

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

Dates: 26 Sep; 10, 24 Oct; 7 Nov; 5 Dec

Dates: 26 Sep; 10, 24 Oct; 7 Nov; 5 Dec

Low Countries History

Philosophy of History

Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Thursday at 17:30

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

Dates: 5, 19 Oct; 2, 16, 30 Nov; 14 Dec

Marxism in Culture

Psychoanalysis and History

Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:30

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30

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

Dates: 27 Sep; 11, 25 Oct; 8, 22 Nov; 6 Dec

Metropolitan History

Public History Seminar

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30

Dates: 4, 18 Oct; 1, 15, 29 Nov; 13 Dec

Dates: 27 Sep; 11, 25 Oct; 8, 22 Nov; 6 Dec

Military History

Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600–1900

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 26 Sep; 10, 24 Oct; 7 Nov; 5 Dec

Modern British History Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15 Dates: 28 Sep; 12, 26 Oct; 9, 23 Nov; 7 Dec

Modern French History Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30 Dates: 25 Sep; 9, 23 Oct; 6, 20 Nov; 4 Dec

Modern German History Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 4, 18 Oct; 1, 15, 29 Nov; 13 Dec

Seminar series

Seminar series

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 5, 19 Oct; 2, 16, 30 Nov; 14 Dec

Religious History of Britain 1500–1800 Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 3, 17, 31 Oct; 14, 28 Nov; 12 Dec

Rethinking Modern Europe Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 27 Sep; 11, 25 Oct; 8, 22 Nov; 6 Dec

Socialist History Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30 Dates: 2, 16, 30 Oct; 13, 27 Nov; 11 Dec

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Seminar series Society, Culture and Belief, 1500–1800 Once a month on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 5, 19 Oct; 2, 16, 30 Nov; 14 Dec

Sport and Leisure History Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15

Institute of Modern Languages Research Contact: johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk German Philosophy: Music and Marxism

Dates: 25 Sep; 9, 23 Oct; 6 20 Nov; 4 Dec

Wednesdays at 16:00–19:00 (unless marked)

Studies of Home

Dates: 20 Oct (Friday, 17:00–19:00); 15 Nov; 13 Dec

First Wednesday of every month at 17:30

Institute of Philosophy

Dates: 11 Oct; 8 Nov; 6 Dec

Contact: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Transport and Mobility History

Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics

Once a month on a Thursday at 17:30

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30–19:30

Dates: 19 Oct; 16 Nov; 14 Dec

12 Sep; 24 Oct; 7, 20 Nov; 5 Dec

Tudor & Stuart History

London Aesthetics Forum

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 16:00 – 18:00

Dates: 2, 16, 30 Oct; 13, 27 Nov; 11 Dec

11, 18 Oct; 1, 22 Nov; 6 Dec

Voluntary Action History

The Warburg Institute

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30 Dates: 25 Sep; 9, 23 Oct; 6, 20 Nov; 4 Dec

Contact: warburg@sas.ac.uk

War, Society and Culture

Maps and Society

Once a month on Wednesdays at 17:15

Occasional Thursdays, 17:30–19:30

Dates: 11 Oct; 8 Nov; 6 Dec

Dates: 30 Nov; 18 Jan

Women's History

Neoplatonic Studies Group

Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15

Thursdays at 17:30–19:30

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

Dates: 5, 12, 19, 26 Oct; 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Nov; 7, 14 Dec; 11, 18, 25 Jan

Institute of Latin American Studies Contact: ilas@sas.ac.uk London Andean Studies Seminars Wednesdays at 17:30–19:30 Dates: 4, 18 Oct; 1 Nov

Latin American Anthropology Seminars All from 17:30–19:30 Dates: 25, 26 Oct; 9, 23 Nov; 7 Dec

LAGLOBAL Seminars

On the Peak of Darkness: from the Abyss to the Light – Dante readings Mondays at 18:30–19:50 Dates: 15, 22, 29 Jan

Senate House Library Contact: senatehouselibrary@london.ac.uk Senate House Library Friends events For membership information, visit senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/about-us/friends

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The School of Advanced Study draws on its research and teaching expertise to provide a programme of discipline-specific, generic and online research training to support the development of the scholars of tomorrow.

The School’s programme of personal development and transferable skills training is available in the form of weekly workshops commencing in the autumn.

This general training is complemented by a set of research methodologies courses and specific training in the software and management information tools required to enable students to complete their research effectively.

Face-to-face training Making the most of the expertise available in the School and the University of London, the institutes between them also provide well-established discipline-specific research training in core humanities disciplines.

Training in aspects of history, for instance, is extensive, notably in the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), which offers a comprehensive programme of short courses in research skills for historians. Taking advantage of the unparalleled availability of historical expertise in the University of London and the wealth of archival materials in and around the capital, the Institute’s long-established and highly successful courses are widely recognised as the best means of developing and extending both essential and more specialised research skills. The IHR training programme is primarily aimed at postgraduate historians, but also welcomes established historians and independent researchers and writers.

Further historical skills courses run by the Warburg Institute include classes in medieval and Renaissance Latin for historians and a programme of training in resources and techniques (jointly with the University of Warwick), which provides specialist research training for doctoral students working on Renaissance and early modern subjects in a range of disciplines.

The London Palaeography Summer School run by the Institute of English Studies provides training in that key skill.

Extensive training for students of cultures and literatures is offered by the Institute of Modern Languages Research, whose well-established and popular programme, comprising a series of Saturday workshops, is offered to any postgraduate student working in modern languages or a related discipline (for instance, film or art history).

Most of the School’s training is available to postgraduate students across the UK, much of it free of charge. Details of all the research training courses provided are available at our website: sas.ac.uk/supportresearch/research-training.

Online research training In addition to the face-to-face training we offer, the School’s Postgraduate Online Research Training (PORT) website provides free online resources including tutorials, handbooks and multimedia. PORT complements postgraduate study, providing training packages that can be accessed anywhere, at any time, and undertaken at any pace. It provides the building blocks for humanities research generally, as well as for particular humanities disciplines and specific topics. Designed to meet the needs of twenty-first-century researchers, PORT offers specific skills-based programmes as well as more general guidance. For further information, please visit port.sas.ac.uk.

For a printed copy of our research training handbook or for further information, please contact us: E: sas.info@sas.ac.uk P: +44 (0)20 7862 8823

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Tuesday 03 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research training 14:30–15:30 IALS Library

Introduction to IALS Library and Its Resources Hester Swift (IALS) Find out everything you need to know to use the IALS Library and its resources effectively. The session includes an introduction to the extensive law collections in the Library; how to search the Library Catalogue; finding what you need in the Library; how to access the wide range of law databases for legal research (including remote access); how to print, copy, scan, borrow books and connect to the WiFi; how to find journal articles using print and electronic resources; and where to get help and further legal research training. Any postgraduate student, researcher or academic who is eligible to use the IALS Library is welcome to attend this event.

Free advance registration required ials@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 04 Institute of Historical Research

Medieval and Renaissance Latin

Languages

This course is a comprehensive introduction to post-classical Latin. Aimed at complete beginners or those with a rusty smattering of school Latin, it will cover the fundamentals of grammar and provide a grounding in general vocabulary and the specialised language frequently encountered in historical source materials.

• Beginner (Term 1 – 04/10/17 – 06/12/17) • Intermediate (Term 2 – 10/01/18 – 14/03/18) • Further (Term 3 – 04/06/18 – 04/06/18) Each unit can be taken individually or together. The course is open to all who are interested in using Latin for their research; no previous experience is required.

Sessions will take place at the IHR on Wednesday afternoons between 2.30 and 4.00.

The fee for each course is £250, but students booking for all three may subscribe for the reduced price of £500. SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR research training courses. Advance registration required ihr.training@sas.ac.uk.

14:30–16:00 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research training 15:00–16:00 IALS Library

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Introduction to IALS Library and Its Resources Hester Swift (IALS) Find out everything you need to know to use the IALS Library and its resources effectively. The session includes an introduction to the extensive law collections in the Library; how to search the Library Catalogue; finding what you need in the Library; how to access the wide range of law databases for legal research (including remote access); how to print, copy, scan, borrow books and connect to the WiFi; how to find journal articles using print and electronic resources; and where to get help and further legal research training. Any postgraduate student, researcher or academic who is eligible to use the IALS Library is welcome to attend this event.

Free advance registration required ials@sas.ac.uk

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Thursday 05 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research training 15:00–16:00 IALS Library

Introduction to IALS Library and Its Resources Katherine Read (IALS) Find out everything you need to know to use the IALS Library and its resources effectively. The session includes an introduction to the extensive law collections in the Library; how to search the Library Catalogue; finding what you need in the Library; how to access the wide range of law databases for legal research (including remote access); how to print, copy, scan, borrow books and connect to the WiFi; how to find journal articles using print and electronic resources; and where to get help and further legal research training. Any postgraduate student, researcher or academic who is eligible to use the IALS Library is welcome to attend this event.

Free advance registration required ials@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

Classical Arabic Reading Class

Languages

Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) The Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qa-sim Ibn H. awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing.

Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. The group will meet at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 2 between 15:00 and 16:30 on selected Thursdays in the autumn and spring terms. The first meeting will be on 5 October and then every Thursday except 2 and 9 November until 14 December. In 2018 the first meeting will be on 11 January then every Thursday except 15 February and 8 March. The last meeting will be on 22 March.

Free no prior registration required for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at hk1@soas.ac.uk.

15:00–16:30 Warburg

Friday 06 The Warburg Institute

Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group

Research training

Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Translations will be provided. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk for further details before joining the group.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

13:00–14:30 Warburg

Monday 09 The Warburg Institute

Arabic Philosophy Reading Class

Languages

Charles Burnett (Warburg) Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:00–18:30 Warburg

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Wednesday 11 The Warburg Institute

Classical Greek Reading Class

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Charles Burnett (Warburg) The class will be held at the Warburg Institute in Room 308 on alternate Wednesdays starting on 11 October 2017 and continuing on the following dates in the autumn term: 25 October, 15 November, and 29 November. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

15:00–16:30 Warburg

Thursday 12 The Warburg Institute Languages 15:00–16:30 Warburg

Institute of Modern Languages Research

Classical Arabic Reading Class

The Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qa-sim Ibn H. awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing.

Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. The group will meet at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 2 between 15:00 and 16:30 on selected Thursdays in the autumn and spring terms. The first meeting will be on 5 October and then every Thursday except 2 and 9 November until 14 December. In 2018 the first meeting will be on 11 January then every Thursday except 15 February and 8 March. The last meeting will be on 22 March.

Free no prior registration required; for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at hk1@soas.acc.uk.

IMLR Graduate Forum Advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Research training 18:00–19:30 Room 234 (Senate House)

Friday 13 The Warburg Institute

Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group

Research training

Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Translations will be provided. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk for further details before joining the group.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

13:00–14:30 Warburg

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Monday 16 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Westlaw and Lexis Library Introduction: Hands-on Session

IALS Library

Katherine Read (IALS) Lexis Library and Westlaw are key databases for legal research. At this session you will learn how to find UK legislation and cases, find legal journal articles, find foreign/international law, search and browse effectively, and download and save your results. This training session is for postgraduate students, PhD researchers, and academics with a current IALS Library card or SAScard. It is essential that you have a current card before booking a place for this event.

Free advance registration required ials@sas.ac.uk

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Arabic Philosophy Reading Class

Languages

Charles Burnett (Warburg) Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Research training 10:15–12:00

17:00–18:30 Warburg

Tuesday 17 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research training 10:15–12:00 IALS Library

Westlaw and Lexis Library Introduction: Hands-on Session Narayana Harave (IALS) Lexis Library and Westlaw are key databases for legal research. At this session you will learn how to find UK legislation and cases, find legal journal articles, find foreign/international law, search and browse effectively, and download and save your results. This training session is for postgraduate students, PhD researchers, and academics with a current IALS Library card or SAScard. It is essential that you have a current card before booking a place for this event.

Free advance registration required ials@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 18 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research training 10:15–12:00 IALS Library

Westlaw and Lexis Library Introduction: Hands-on Session Hester Swift (IALS) Lexis Library and Westlaw are key databases for legal research. At this session you will learn how to find UK legislation and cases, find legal journal articles, find foreign/international law, search and browse effectively, and download and save your results. This training session is for postgraduate students, PhD researchers, and academics with a current IALS Library card or SAScard. It is essential that you have a current card before booking a place for this event.

Free advance registration required ials@sas.ac.uk

For further details on the training sessions listed here, or to register, please visit URL.

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Thursday 19 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Westlaw and Lexis Library Introduction: Hands-on Session

IALS Library

Lindsey Caffin (IALS) Lexis Library and Westlaw are key databases for legal research. At this session you will learn how to find UK legislation and cases, find legal journal articles, find foreign/international law, search and browse effectively, and download and save your results. This training session is for postgraduate students, PhD researchers, and academics with a current IALS Library card or SAScard. It is essential that you have a current card before booking a place for this event.

Free advance registration required ials@sas.ac.uk

SAS Central

EndNote I

Research training

Workshop Leader: Simon Trafford (SAS) This two-part workshop is ‘hands-on’; aimed principally at complete beginners, it covers the basics and some more advanced features. The first session introduces the software package and gives practice in sorting, searching, and entering and editing references.

More advanced features covered include the use of accents, predefined styles, customising the program, downloading references from internet sources, importing images, and linking with other files. In the second session (26 October, see below), students create and manipulate their own bibliographical database and learn how EndNote integrates with MS Word.

Familiarity with basic word-processing will be assumed. The session is suitable both for beginners and those already familiar with EndNote.

Advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Research training 10:15–12:00

14:00–16:00 IHR Research Training Room, N318 (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute

Classical Arabic Reading Class

Languages

Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) The Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qa-sim Ibn H. awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing.

Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. The group will meet at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 2 between 15:00 and 16:30 on selected Thursdays in the autumn and spring terms. The first meeting will be on 5 October and then every Thursday except 2 and 9 November until 14 December. In 2018 the first meeting will be on 11 January then every Thursday except 15 February and 8 March. The last meeting will be on 22 March.

Free no prior registration required; for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at hk1@soas.acc.uk.

15:00–16:30 Warburg

Friday 20 The Warburg Institute

Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group

Research training

Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Translations will be provided. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk for further details before joining the group.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

13:00–14:30 Warburg

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Saturday 21 Institute of Modern Languages Research Research training 11:00–17:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

Research Projects in Modern Languages An overview of some of the key issues and opportunities related to research in the modern languages. Topics include: Introduction (Katia Pizzi, IMLR) Online research training (Matt Phillpott, SAS Digital): an introduction to MOOCs, training guides, and online resources that can be useful for researchers. This session also looks at offerings from SAS and IMLR on the PORT website and offers help for making the best use of these.

Research projects in modern languages (Katia Pizzi, IMLR): this session will help you choose, define, and structure a research project. The focus will be on identifying and delimiting your material and research questions, as well as structuring content. The session includes ‘top tips’ to help you navigate through the initial stages of your research.

Nuts and bolts of doing postgraduate research in Modern Languages (Tessa Morrison and Daniela Zanini, IMLR) Free advance registration required katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk

Monday 23 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Westlaw and Lexis Library Introduction: Hands-on Session

IALS Library

Laura Griffiths (IALS) Lexis Library and Westlaw are key databases for legal research. At this session you will learn how to find UK legislation and cases, find legal journal articles, find foreign/international law, search and browse effectively, and download and save your results. This training session is for postgraduate students, PhD researchers, and academics with a current IALS Library card or SAScard. It is essential that you have a current card before booking a place for this event.

Free advance registration required ials@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

Arabic Philosophy Reading Class

Languages

Charles Burnett (Warburg) Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Research training 10:15–12:00

17:00–18:30 Warburg

Wednesday 25 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research training 10:15–12:00 IALS Library

Westlaw and Lexis Library Introduction: Hands-on Session Heather Swift (IALS) Lexis Library and Westlaw are key databases for legal research. At this session you will learn how to find UK legislation and cases, find legal journal articles, find foreign/international law, search and browse effectively, and download and save your results. This training session is for postgraduate students, PhD researchers, and academics with a current IALS Library card or SAScard. It is essential that you have a current card before booking a place for this event.

Free advance registration required ials@sas.ac.uk

For further details on the training sessions listed here, or to register, please visit URL.

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Classical Greek Reading Class

Languages

Charles Burnett (Warburg) The class will be held at the Warburg Institute in Room 308 on alternate Wednesdays starting on 11 October 2017 and continuing on the following dates in the autumn term: 25 October, 15 November, and 29 November. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

12:00–13:30 Warburg

Thursday 26 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research training 10:15–12:00 IALS Library

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research training 14:00–15:00 IALS

Westlaw and Lexis Library Introduction: Hands-on Session Lindsey Caffin (IALS) Lexis Library and Westlaw are key databases for legal research. At this session you will learn how to find UK legislation and cases, find legal journal articles, find foreign/international law, search and browse effectively, and download and save your results. This training session is for postgraduate students, PhD researchers, and academics with a current IALS Library card or SAScard. It is essential that you have a current card before booking a place for this event.

Free advance registration required ials@sas.ac.uk

IALS PhD Masterclass PhD masterclasses at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies provide an opportunity for current PhD students to discuss research with colleagues, with expert input from senior academics experienced in supervising PhD research.

They do not replace the advice and instruction provided by your own supervisor, but complement them.

Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

SAS Central

EndNote II

Research training

Workshop Leader: Simon Trafford This two-part workshop is ‘hands-on’; aimed principally at complete beginners, it covers the basics and some more advanced features. The first session (on 19 October, see above) introduces the software package and gives practice in sorting, searching, and entering and editing references. More advanced features covered include the use of accents, predefined styles, customising the program, downloading references from internet sources, importing images, and linking with other files. In this second session, students create and manipulate their own bibliographical database and learn how EndNote integrates with MS Word. Familiarity with basic word-processing will be assumed. The session is suitable both for beginners and those already familiar with EndNote.

Advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

14:00–16:00 IHR Research Training Room, N318 (Senate House)

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The Warburg Institute

Classical Arabic Reading Class

Languages

Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) The Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qa-sim Ibn H. awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing.

Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. The group will meet at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 2 between 15:00 and 16:30 on selected Thursdays in the autumn and spring terms. The first meeting will be on 5 October and then every Thursday except 2 and 9 November until 14 December. In 2018 the first meeting will be on 11 January then every Thursday except 15 February and 8 March. The last meeting will be on 22 March.

Free no prior registration required; for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at hk1@soas.acc.uk.

15:00–16:30 Warburg

Friday 27 The Warburg Institute

Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group

Research training

Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Translations will be provided. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk for further details before joining the group.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

13:00–14:30 Warburg

Monday 30 The Warburg Institute

Arabic Philosophy Reading Class

Research training

Charles Burnett (Warburg) Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:00–18:30 Warburg

Tuesday 31 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research training 10:15–12:00 IALS Library

Westlaw and Lexis Library Introduction: Hands-on Session Narayana Harave (IALS) Lexis Library and Westlaw are key databases for legal research. At this session you will learn how to find UK legislation and cases, find legal journal articles, find foreign/international law, search and browse effectively, and download and save your results. This training session is for postgraduate students, PhD researchers, and academics with a current IALS Library card or SAScard. It is essential that you have a current card before booking a place for this event.

Free advance registration required ials@sas.ac.uk

For further details on the training sessions listed here, or to register, please visit URL.

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Institute of Historical Research

Databases for Historians (1)

Research training

The aim of this course is to provide participants with an introduction to database techniques appropriate for historical research, with a focus on the concepts of good database design and the creation of high-quality historical data. The course is taught through a mixture of formal lectures and ‘hands-on’ practical classes that provide practical guidance on the use of commercially available database software packages. The module covers a broad range of skills and techniques, including data manipulation (searching, sorting, and editing records), modelling historical data for computer-based analysis, methods of data collection and data entry, and principles of coding. The remainder of the course considers the general presentation and publication of historical research findings in terms of the design and production of tables, charts, basic figures, and associated graphics. The module does not require any previous specialist knowledge of computing or training in mathematics, though a working familiarity with Microsoft Windows is necessary and it would be advantageous for participants to take the IHR’s free online course Designing Databases for Historical Research in advance of the start.

The course is open to postgraduates, academics, and all who are interested in using databases to organise or analyse historical data. Places are strictly limited and early application is strongly recommended. £265 SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR research training courses.

Advance registration required ihr.training@sas.ac.uk.

10:30–17:00 IHR Research Training Room, N318 (Senate House)

November Wednesday 01 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Westlaw and Lexis Library Introduction: Hands-on Session

IALS Library

Heather Swift (IALS) Lexis Library and Westlaw are key databases for legal research. At this session you will learn how to find UK legislation and cases, find legal journal articles, find foreign/international law, search and browse effectively, and download and save your results. This training session is for postgraduate students, PhD researchers, and academics with a current IALS Library card or SAScard. It is essential that you have a current card before booking a place for this event.

Free advance registration required ials@sas.ac.uk

SAS Central

Project Organisation and Management

Research training

Laura Brown (University of London Human Resources) This workshop is designed to help students complete their PhD successfully by planning and organising their research and time, using project management techniques to take them from research idea to delivery of the thesis. This session will look at defining the project and its goals, timetabling, milestones, resources, responsibilities, risks and how to review the plan when the project changes. Basic use of the software MS Project will be touched on. The session will allow students the opportunity to start putting together their own project plan, consider the structure and processes that are essential for a successful project, and discuss issues such as estimating inputs, quality management, working with others, and identifying the critical path to delivering the PhD within schedule.

Advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Research training 10:15–12:00

14:00–16:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

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November Friday 03

The Warburg Institute

Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group

Research training

Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Translations will be provided. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk for further details before joining the group.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

13:00–14:30 Warburg

Monday 06 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research training 10:15–12:00 IALS Library

Westlaw and Lexis Library Introduction: Hands-on Session Katherine Read (IALS) Lexis Library and Westlaw are key databases for legal research. At this session you will learn how to find UK legislation and cases, find legal journal articles, find foreign/international law, search and browse effectively, and download and save your results. This training session is for postgraduate students, PhD researchers, and academics with a current IALS Library card or SAScard. It is essential that you have a current card before booking a place for this event.

Free advance registration required ials@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 07 Institute of Historical Research

Historical Citation

Research training

This half-day workshop explains the theory and practice of correct referencing by historians. It explores the different citation systems historians use and explains when, where, and how to cite sources and authorities both manually and using citation management software, such as Zotero. £25 SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR research training courses.

Advance registration required ihr.training@sas.ac.uk.

14:00–17:00 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Thursday 09 SAS Central

Working in Archives

Research training

Matthew Battey (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London) This session is for those who have recently begun, or are about to begin, to use archives in their research. Its aim is to help researchers develop effective strategies for exploring their subjects. Archives are not simply passive repositories of information but bear the imprint of historical process and accident. Thinking about the nature of the archive itself can throw light on the cultural and historical context of the topic being investigated. A number of questions can be explored.

What is an ‘archive’? How does it differ from ‘records’ or ‘documents’? Is there a wider view of materials from the past that might be comprehended by the term ‘archive’? Why were certain archives created? How have they survived? How do you formulate a strategy for finding the information that you think you need?

What role can random exploration play? Participants are encouraged to come to the session prepared to talk and raise questions about their own experiences.

Fee applicable advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

14:00–16:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

For further details on the training sessions listed here, or to register, please visit URL.

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Institute of Modern Languages Research

Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide Archive: Tour and Archive Skills Training

Research training

A tour of the Wiener Library beginning with the current exhibition led by Education and Outreach Manager Barbara Warnock will be followed by an archive skills training session with the Wiener Library’s archivist, Howard Falksohn.

Participants will acquire the skills to locate and make use of archival material related to the Holocaust, twentieth-century German history, and European Jewish culture.

Free advance registration required katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk

10:00–13:00 Wiener Library, 29 Russell Square, London

Monday 13 Institute of Historical Research

Methods and Sources for Historical Research (1)

Research training

Original research on primary sources lies at the heart of the historian’s enterprise, yet the techniques necessary to locate and obtain archival materials are rarely taught and can be hard to acquire. This course aims to equip historical researchers with the skills they will need to find and gain access to all the primary source materials they require for their projects. The course is primarily aimed at those engaged in research degrees in history or related disciplines, but is open to all researchers wishing to expand their skills and knowledge in original source materials. Over the course of a week (Monday-Friday), participants will learn, through an intensive programme of lectures and visits to repositories in and around London, how to combine online tools and traditional archival search techniques to locate and obtain evidence. Institutions visited will include the British Library, the National Archives, a number of other major national repositories, and a wide range of smaller and more specialised archives. £265 SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR research training courses.

Advance registration required ihr.training@sas.ac.uk.

10:30–16:30 IHR Research Training Room, N318 (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute

Arabic Philosophy Reading Class

Languages

Charles Burnett (Warburg) Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:00–18:30 Warburg

Tuesday 14 Senate House Library

Commonwealth Studies Research Day

Training

This research day will focus on the collections of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies held at Senate House Library, which comprise the personal archives of individuals linked to the Commonwealth, records of organisations, and an abundance of scarce material, including pamphlets and ephemera. A great deal of this primary source material relates to political activism, anti-apartheid, civil rights and liberties, the struggle for political independence, journalism and communications, education, workers’ rights and trade unions, as well as the business of government across the Commonwealth. These collections offer a unique opportunity to study the development and continuing history of this group of nations.

Free advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

09:30–12:00 Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library

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November Senate House Library

Latin American Studies Research Day

Training

The Library is home to an extraordinary collection of printed sources on Latin America and the Caribbean, envisaged from its inception as a national resource for study of the area and linked to the Institute of Latin American Studies. The Latin American Studies day will provide an opportunity to explore this rich and comprehensive record of the history of the region, with a particular focus on Caribbean resources, the Latin American Pamphlets Collection, and a collaborative AHRC project in partnership with the University of Surrey, the British Library, and Cambridge University Library that will involve the creation of a ‘Cartonera’ Publishers collection at Senate House Library.

Free advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

13:30–16:00 Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library

Wednesday 15 The Warburg Institute

Classical Greek Reading Class

Languages

Charles Burnett (Warburg) The class will be held at the Warburg Institute in Room 308 on alternate Wednesdays starting on 11 October 2017 and continuing on the following dates in the autumn term: 25 October, 15 November, and 29 November. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk.

12:00–13:30 Warburg

Thursday 16 Senate House Library

Social, Economic and Cultural History Research Day

Training Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library

This research day will focus on Senate House Library’s extensive collections relating to social, economic, and cultural history in Britain and other parts of the world, with a particular focus on hidden and underused material. These resources can support research on a wide range of topics including transatlantic history, welfare and social reform, the temperance movement, the history of education, the evolution and development of the city of London, enslavement, and the origins and development of industrial societies.

Free advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Senate House Library

Political Activism Research Day

Training

Workshop Leader: Kit Good Many archive and special collections at Senate House Library chart the history of left-wing, alternative, and radical political movements in Britain and beyond.

This research day will provide an opportunity to explore and interrogate these resources. Of particular interest are the personal papers of Trotskyist activists.

Diverse aspects of the history and development of the working class movement and trade unionism throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries can be studied through these collections, which in some cases include both archive and rare printed material. Gender activism can also be explored through periodicals and pamphlets held at the Library.

Free advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

09:30–12:00

13:30–16:00 Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library

SAS Central

Data Protection and Research Data

Research training

Workshop Leader: Kit Good This session will examine UK and EU data protection law, UK Freedom of Information law, and how both intersect with research data management.

Recommended particularly for researchers who will be collecting the personal data of living individuals as part of their research.

Free advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

14:00–16:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

For further details on the training sessions listed here, or to register, please visit URL.

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The Warburg Institute

Classical Arabic Reading Class

Languages

Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) The Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qa-sim Ibn H. awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing.

Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. The group will meet at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 2 between 15:00 and 16:30 on selected Thursdays in the autumn and spring terms. The first meeting will be on 5 October and then every Thursday except 2 and 9 November until 14 December. In 2018 the first meeting will be on 11 January then every Thursday except 15 February and 8 March. The last meeting will be on 22 March.

Free no prior registration required; for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at hk1@soas.acc.uk.

15:00–16:30 Warburg

Institute of Modern Languages Research

IMLR Graduate Forum Advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Research training 18:00–19:30 Room 234 (Senate House)

Friday 17 The Warburg Institute

Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group

Research training

Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Translations will be provided. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk for further details before joining the group.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

13:00–14:30 Warburg

Saturday 18 Institute of Modern Languages Research Research training 11:00–16:00 Room 243 and Senate House Library (Senate House)

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Modern Languages Archives and Libraries This training session introduces students to a range of archives and libraries with significant holdings of material relevant to the study of modern languages.

Participants will learn about the Western European Languages collections at Senate House Library, how to build a bibliography and select digital tools, and about the exile collections in the University of London’s Germanic Studies Archives. They will also meet with a specialist librarian from the British Library to learn about electronic resources, digitisation projects, exhibitions and events, and practical matters, such as obtaining a reader’s pass and catalogue search strategies. A close-up view of some special items in the British Library collections will follow.

Free advance registration required katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk

School of Advanced Study

Research training

Research training

November Monday 20

The Warburg Institute

Arabic Philosophy Reading Class

Research training

Charles Burnett (Warburg) Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:00–18:30 Warburg

Tuesday 21 Senate House Library

Migration and Cultural Memory Research Day

Training

Senate House Library holds a wealth of primary source material relating to the experience of migration across different times and places, with a particular focus on forced migration, displaced persons, and exiles as a result of war or political persecution. This research day will focus on some of these collections and how they can be explored from an interdisciplinary angle. The rarity and scarcity of this material, some of which is linked to the Institute of Modern Languages Research, renders it particularly useful for research, not only to explore the experience of forced migration, but more widely to understand issues of identity and belonging, the concept of mobility in the context of forced migration, the cultural impact of forced migration and exile, and personal interactions and their legacy.

Free advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

09:30–12:00 Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library

Senate House Library

The Mind and Magic Research Day

Training

The collections at Senate House Library are particularly rich and comprehensive in parapsychology and the paranormal. These collections show how human fascination with the occult and the magical can be found in most cultures from antiquity to modern times, and how the division into the distinct fields of psychology and parapsychology is a very recent phenomenon. These holdings enable researchers to investigate and study deeper spiritual realities and experiences that extend beyond the pure reason and science depicted in our nationally significant collections on the history and development of the field of psychology. Together, these collections help trace the history of a search for the meaning of humanity and reach out to many other areas of knowledge such as literature, anthropology and ethnography, philosophy, religion, and the history of ideas.

Free advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

13:30–16:00 Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library

Thursday 23 Senate House Library

Literary Studies Research Day

Training

This research day will explore Senate House Library’s outstanding collections of manuscript, archive, and printed material relating to English literature. The combined literary holdings within United States and English Studies offer one of the largest and most diverse such collections in a non-copyright library. The Library also holds a considerable body of less easily obtained material in all formats, with specific strengths in periodicals and pamphlets. The day will be an opportunity to discover these resources from a broad range of perspectives, ranging from hidden literary collections to twentieth-century middlebrow literature and the intersections between fantasy as a literary genre and the virtual world of computer games and digital publishing.

Free advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

09:30–12:00 Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library

For further details on the training sessions listed here, or to register, please visit URL.

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Research training

November Senate House Library

Manuscript and Book Studies Research Day

Training

History of the book and manuscript studies is a well-established subject strength at Senate House Library. The collections illustrate varied and diverse aspects of both disciplines, including the development of handwriting/scripts; manuscript/ codicology and book production; the transmission, circulation, and dissemination of texts; sigillography; the history of ideas; bibliography; annotations; illuminations illustration; and the formation of collections and libraries and the individuals behind them. This research day will provide an opportunity to learn about recent projects based on some of these sources and how these collections can support and advance further research in the field.

Free advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

13:30–16:00 Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library

SAS Central

Giving a Seminar or Conference Paper

Research training

Workshop leader: Julian Burger This session will cover the preparation and delivery of a paper for a seminar or specialist conference audience. It will include hints on how to engage an audience, the use of visual aids, and different presentation styles.

Advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

14:00–16:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute

Classical Arabic Reading Class

Languages

Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) The Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qa-sim Ibn H. awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing.

Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. The group will meet at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 2 between 15:00 and 16:30 on selected Thursdays in the autumn and spring terms. The first meeting will be on 5 October and then every Thursday except 2 and 9 November until 14 December. In 2018 the first meeting will be on 11 January then every Thursday except 15 February and 8 March. The last meeting will be on 22 March.

Free no prior registration required; for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at hk1@soas.acc.uk.

15:00–16:30 Warburg

Friday 24 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research training 09:30–17:00 IALS

Socio-Legal Sources and Methods in Family and Social Welfare Law This day is aimed at postgraduate researchers, early career academics, and policy researchers. Organised in collaboration with the British Library and the Socio-Legal Studies Association.

Fees applicable advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Philosophy

London Intercollegiate Philosophy Graduate Conference

Research training

Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk

10:00–17:00 See online for venue

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November

The Warburg Institute

Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group

Research training

Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Translations will be provided. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk for further details before joining the group.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

13:00–14:30 Warburg

Saturday 25 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research training 10:00–16:00 IALS

How to Get a PhD in Law: The PhD in Law and Research Methods The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies welcomes postgraduate research students from across the UK to this specially tailored day of presentations, library tours, and networking opportunities. Sessions will include: Becoming a legal researcher: what is a PhD in law? (Diamond Ashiagbor, IALS) Literature reviews (Lisa Webley, University of Westminster) Comparative legal research (Constantin Stefanou, IALS) Qualitative and quantitative research (Lisa Webley, University of Westminster) IALS Library: using electronic resources (Hester Swift, IALS Library) An optional tour of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Library led by senior library staff Two further training days are planned: Friday, 2 March 2018: ‘How to Get a PhD in Law’ and ‘The PhD Journey: Supervision, Research Ethics and Preparing Yourself for Upgrade and the Vivas’, and Friday, 11 May 2018: ‘How to get a PhD in Law: Researching, Disseminating, and Publishing in the Digital World’. £100 | £75 advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Monday 27 The Warburg Institute

Arabic Philosophy Reading Class

Languages

Charles Burnett (Warburg) Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:00–18:30 Warburg

Wednesday 29 The Warburg Institute

Classical Greek Reading Class

Languages

Charles Burnett (Warburg) The class will be held at the Warburg Institute in Room 308 on alternate Wednesdays starting on 11 October 2017 and continuing on the following dates in the autumn term: 25 October, 15 November, and 29 November. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk.

12:00–13:30 Warburg

For further details on the training sessions listed here, or to register, please visit URL.

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Institute of Historical Research

Historical Research on the Internet (1)

Research training

This intensive one-day workshop introduces the principal online resources available to historical researchers and shows how to make best use of them in pursuit of primary sources and secondary literature. The tools available online to the historical researcher are immensely diverse and constantly expanding.

Internet resources have become an integral feature of many parts of the process of research for most historians: online bibliographies and library catalogues have made the gathering of secondary literature far easier, and the growing mass of digitised primary source material has not only greatly increased ease of access, but opened up the evidence to new and very powerful types of computer-assisted analysis. Topics covered will include: search techniques (Booleans, wildcards, and choosing search terms); search engines (making the best use of Google and non-specialist tools); reference tools; secondary sources (bibliographies, library catalogues, and accessing full text online); primary sources (locating traditional archival sources and digital/digitised sources); debate, discussion and publication online; and database deposition and data archives. The course covers British, European, and world history from the Romans to the present, but with an emphasis on resources in English. Computers will be provided and there is no need to bring your own laptop. £100 SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR research training courses.

Advance registration required ihr.training@sas.ac.uk.

10:30–17:00 IHR Research Training Room, N318 (Senate House)

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research training 14:00–15:00 IALS

IALS PhD Masterclass PhD masterclasses at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies provide an opportunity for current PhD students to discuss research with colleagues, with expert input from senior academics experienced in supervising PhD research.

They do not replace the advice and instruction provided by your supervisor, but complement them.

Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

SAS Central

Using Social Media

Research training

Workshop Leader: Matt Phillpott Social media (from blogs, Twitter, YouTube, and Vimeo to Facebook, Google+, Flickr, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Academia.edu) can be a powerful tool supporting a PhD student’s research and career. This workshop will provide an overview of social media platforms, why you use them, what you share, and which tool you use for what purpose. We will discuss the benefits as well as the challenges of using social media when developing a professional online profile and communicating research as a PhD student.

Free advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

14:00–16:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

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The Warburg Institute

Classical Arabic Reading Class

Languages

Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) The Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qa-sim Ibn H. awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing.

Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. The group will meet at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 2 between 15:00 and 16:30 on selected Thursdays in the autumn and spring terms. The first meeting will be on 5 October and then every Thursday except 2 and 9 November until 14 December. In 2018 the first meeting will be on 11 January then every Thursday except 15 February and 8 March. The last meeting will be on 22 March.

Free no prior registration required; for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at hk1@soas.acc.uk.

15:00–16:30 Warburg

December Friday 01 The Warburg Institute

Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group

Research training

Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Translations will be provided. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk for further details before joining the group.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

13:00–14:30 Warburg

Monday 04 Institute of English Studies

Selling Rights Short Course

Two-day course

This course is being run conjointly by the Centre for Publishing at University College London and the Institute of English Studies in the School of Advanced Study. It is one of the first initiatives of the Bloomsbury Chapter, which is being developed by the two institutions to encourage cooperation in research and teaching. £399 advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

10:00–17:00 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute

Arabic Philosophy Reading Class

Languages

Charles Burnett (Warburg) Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:00–18:30 Warburg

For further details on the training sessions listed here, or to register, please visit URL.

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December Tuesday 05

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research training 15:00–16:00 IALS

Introduction to OSCOLA Laura Griffiths (IALS) Learn the basics of citing your references using OSCOLA. All postgraduate law students, researchers, and academics who are eligible to use IALS Library are welcome to attend.

Free advance registration required ials@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 07 SAS Central

Zotero

Research training

Workshop Leader: Simon Trafford Zotero is a widely used free and open-source tool for compiling and managing bibliographies. This training session provides a basic introduction to the software and explains how to input references, create reading lists, and add citations to written work.

Advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

14:00–16:00 IHR Research Training Room, N318 (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute

Classical Arabic Reading Class

Languages

Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) The Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qa-sim Ibn H. awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing.

Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. The group will meet at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 2 between 15:00 and 16:30 on selected Thursdays in the autumn and spring terms. The first meeting will be on 5 October and then every Thursday except 2 and 9 November until 14 December. In 2018 the first meeting will be on 11 January then every Thursday except 15 February and 8 March. The last meeting will be on 22 March.

Free no prior registration required; for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at hk1@soas.acc.uk.

15:00–16:30 Warburg

Institute of Modern Languages Research Research training

IMLR Graduate Forum Advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

18:00–19:30 Room G21A (Senate House)

Friday 08 The Warburg Institute

Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group

Research training

Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Translations will be provided. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk for further details before joining the group.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

13:00–14:30 Warburg

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December Saturday 09

Institute of Modern Languages Research Research training 11:00–17:00 IHR Research Training Room, N318 (Senate House)

Digital Languages Learn about the latest software tools available to enhance Modern Language presentations for class, conference, and YouTube. Explore the potential of PowerPoint, Prezi, Presentations, RSS feeds, Google Alerts, social bookmarking, and Zotero databases. The room is equipped with PCs; participants may bring their own laptops/tablets if preferred.

Free advance registration required katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 13 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research training 15:00–16:00 IALS

Introduction to OSCOLA Katherine Read (IALS Library) Learn the basics of citing your references using OSCOLA. All postgraduate law students, researchers, and academics who are eligible to use IALS Library are welcome to attend.

Free advance registration required ials@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 14 The Warburg Institute

Classical Arabic Reading Class

Languages

Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) The Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qa-sim Ibn H. awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing.

Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. The group will meet at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 2 between 15:00 and 16:30 on selected Thursdays in the autumn and spring terms. The first meeting will be on 5 October and then every Thursday except 2 and 9 November until 14 December. In 2018 the first meeting will be on 11 January then every Thursday except 15 February and 8 March. The last meeting will be on 22 March.

Free no prior registration required; for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at hk1@soas.acc.uk.

15:00–16:30 Warburg

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Monday 08 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research training 10:30–16:30 IALS

Introduction to MPhil/PhD Legal Research Methods Start date: 8 January End date: 19 January This short course aims to introduce a range of research methodologies relevant to MPhil/PhD research in law and law-related fields. Classes run from 8 January to 17 January 2018 and will consist of 16 two-and-a-half-hour sessions. Among the topics to be considered are research methods; legal writing; policy analysis; literature reviews; electronic legal research; and note-taking, organisation, and data management. In addition, participants can choose from parallel sessions on the English legal system in England and Wales for those who have a non-common law background or who are not lawyers; digital methods in legal research; quantitative methods; and qualitative methods. Participants will receive feedback but no formal course mark.

For general enquiries contact Belinda Crothers at belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk.

SAS MPhil/PhD students interested in attending should also contact Belinda Crothers at belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk. QMUL MPhil/PhD students interested in attending should contact the QMUL PhD administrator about attending.

Fee applicable advance registration required.

Tuesday 09 Institute of Historical Research

An Introduction to Oral History

14:30–16:30

This short course is organised as a term of 11 weekly sessions of two hours to be held in the IHR on Tuesday afternoons (2:30- 4.30) from 9 January to 20 March. It addresses theoretical and practical issues in oral history through workshop sessions and participants’ own interviewing work. It deals with the historiographical emergence and uses of oral history, with particular reference to voices and stories not always accessible to other historical approaches. As well as addressing theoretical and methodological issues, the course will help students to develop practical skills in interviewing, recording, and the organisation and preservation of oral material. Unlike other, shorter, courses available in oral history, this course, being run over a term, gives students time to conduct their own interviews and discuss them later in a workshop environment. The course is open to postgraduates, academics, and all who are interested in exploring the methods of oral history or interviewing for research purposes. £225 SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR research training courses.

Advance registration required ihr.training@sas.ac.uk.

IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

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Thursday 11 Institute of Historical Research

Historical Mapping and GIS

Research training

The ‘spatial turn’ is now well established in history and scholars, publishers, and readers frequently expect to see space used as a category of analysis, maps used as sources, and research illustrated with custom maps. However, without training in geographical techniques, tools, and terminology, it can be challenging for historians to begin to work with this material. This two-day course is designed to introduce the history and concepts of mapping, along with the most basic ways of producing your own maps, before moving (on the second day) to the use of Quantum GIS (QGIS), a cross-platform open source mapping package that is rapidly growing in popularity.

There are no prerequisites per se, but participants should ensure they have a Google (including Gmail) account available and are familiar with Microsoft Excel.

Day One is not a prerequisite for Day Two, but participants should be familiar with concepts such as projection, coordinate systems, and layers. Confidence with spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel is essential and familiarity with relational databases such as Microsoft Access would be beneficial. No previous experience of using GIS software is necessary. £120 two days | £70 one day; SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR research training courses. Advance registration required ihr.training@sas.ac.uk.

10:00–17:00 IHR Research Training Room, N318 (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute

Classical Arabic Reading Class

Languages

Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) The Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qa-sim Ibn H. awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing.

Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. The group will meet at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 2 between 15:00 and 16:30 on selected Thursdays in the autumn and spring terms. The first meeting will be on 5 October and then every Thursday except 2 and 9 November until 14 December. In 2018 the first meeting will be on 11 January then every Thursday except 15 February and 8 March. The last meeting will be on 22 March.

Free no prior registration required; for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at hk1@soas.acc.uk.

15:00–16:30 Warburg

Institute of Modern Languages Research

IMLR Graduate Forum Fee applicable advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

18:00–19:30 Room 234 (Senate House)

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January Monday 15

Institute of Historical Research

Methods and Sources for Historical Research (2)

Research training

Original research on primary sources lies at the heart of the historian’s enterprise, yet the techniques necessary to locate and obtain archival materials are rarely taught and can be hard to acquire. This course aims to equip historical researchers with the skills they will need to find and gain access to all the primary source materials they require for their projects. The course is primarily aimed at those engaged in research degrees in history or related disciplines, but is open to all researchers wishing to expand their skills and knowledge in original source materials. Over the course of a week (Monday-Friday), participants will learn, through an intensive programme of lectures and visits to repositories in and around London, how to combine online tools and traditional archival search techniques to locate and obtain evidence. Institutions visited will include the British Library, the National Archives, a number of other major national repositories, and a wide range of smaller and more specialised archives. £265 SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR research training courses.

Advance registration required ihr.training@sas.ac.uk.

10:30–16:30 IHR, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

The Warburg Institute

Arabic Philosophy Reading Class

Languages

Charles Burnett (Warburg) Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:00–18:30 Warburg

Wednesday 17 The Warburg Institute

Classical Greek Reading Class

Languages

Charles Burnett (Warburg) The class will be held at the Warburg Institute in Room 308 on alternate Wednesdays starting on 11 October 2017 and continuing on the following dates in the autumn term: 25 October, 15 November, and 29 November. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk.

12:00–13:30 Warburg

Thursday 18 The Warburg Institute

Classical Arabic Reading Class

Languages

Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) The Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qa-sim Ibn H. awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing.

Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. The group will meet at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 2 between 15:00 and 16:30 on selected Thursdays in the autumn and spring terms. The first meeting will be on 5 October and then every Thursday except 2 and 9 November until 14 December. In 2018 the first meeting will be on 11 January then every Thursday except 15 February and 8 March. The last meeting will be on 22 March.

Free no prior registration required; for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at hk1@soas.acc.uk.

15:00–16:30 Warburg

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January Friday 19

The Warburg Institute

Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group

Research training

Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Translations will be provided. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk for further details before joining the group.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

13:00–14:30 Warburg

Saturday 20 Institute of English Studies

Palaeography Study Day

Research training

Fee applicable advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

10:00–17:00 Senate House

Monday 22 The Warburg Institute

Arabic Philosophy Reading Class

Languages

Charles Burnett (Warburg) Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:00–18:30 Warburg

Thursday 25 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research training 14:00–15:00 IALS

IALS PhD Masterclass PhD masterclasses at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies provide an opportunity for current PhD students to discuss research with colleagues, with expert input from senior academics experienced in supervising PhD research.

They do not replace the advice and instruction provided by your own supervisor, but complement them.

Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

Classical Arabic Reading Class

Languages

Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) TThe Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qa-sim Ibn H. awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing.

Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. The group will meet at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 2 between 15:00 and 16:30 on selected Thursdays in the autumn and spring terms. The first meeting will be on 5 October and then every Thursday except 2 and 9 November until 14 December. In 2018 the first meeting will be on 11 January then every Thursday except 15 February and 8 March. The last meeting will be on 22 March.

Free no prior registration required; for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at hk1@soas.acc.uk.

15:00–16:30 Warburg

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January Friday 26

The Warburg Institute

Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group

Research training

Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Translations will be provided. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk for further details before joining the group.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

13:00–14:30 Warburg

Saturday 27 Institute of Modern Languages Research Research training 11:00–17:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Theories and Methodologies for Languages Research This training day will introduce participants to different theories and methodologies for conducting research in modern languages, including postcolonial theory, Enlightenment critique, and gender studies. An overview of the research model used by the AHRC-funded Transnationalizing Modern Languages project, which moves beyond separate national traditions to focus instead on how languages and cultures operate and interact across distinct historical and geographic contexts, will also be provided.

Advance registration required katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk

Monday 29 The Warburg Institute

Arabic Philosophy Reading Class

Languages

Charles Burnett (Warburg) Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:00–18:30 Warburg

Wednesday 31 The Warburg Institute

Classical Greek Reading Class

Languages

Charles Burnett (Warburg) The class will be held at the Warburg Institute in Room 308 on alternate Wednesdays starting on 11 October 2017 and continuing on the following dates in the autumn term: 25 October, 15 November, and 29 November. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class: charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk.

12:00–13:15 Warburg

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Legal Discourse: Context, Media and Social Power 24–26 May 2018 CFP deadline: 15 November 2017 Organised by the Centre for Research in Language and Law in partnership with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and the Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London Conference venue: National School of Public Administration (Royal Palace of Caserta), Italy See the complete CFP: www.crill.unina2.it/ conference-2018 The influence of web-based technologies and social media has entered the mainstream and become so pervasive in human communication today that it is difficult to imagine any aspect of academic or professional life that has not been invaded by recent developments in new media. As a conservative discipline, law has always been relatively slow to accept any change in its traditions, processes, and practices. However, even in law, particularly in the last few years, there has been an enthusiastic acceptance of the role of new media sites and services in the way law enforcement operates in investigative activities, introducing substantial changes to communication between organizations, institutions, communities, and individuals and developing comprehensive integration strategies to improve access to justice.

The growing influence of media usage is also making its way into novel forms of legal discourse and into specific issues arising from the use of legal discourse in its various traditional and newly emerging (social-) media contexts. Alongside this, potential is mounting for the role of (social-) media as an instrument of interdiscursive and interdisciplinary procedure, exploitation, and management of public and private discursive space and practice and is already visible in current socio-legal media contexts. Today, Internet and social media platforms dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing, and collaboration are becoming one of the most prevalent means of communication in a variety of academic, professional, and organizational contexts, School of Advanced Study

highlighting greater opportunities for social media knowledge and development in an expanding global reality and modern society.

It is primarily for these reasons that the 5th international conference Legal Discourse: Context, Media and Social Power invites paper, panel, and poster proposals that explore language through the broad areas alluded to, Including:

• Legal discourse in contexts • Law in broadcast media (film, radio, television), digital media (internet/web-based and mobile technologies), and print media (magazines, newspapers, books, comics)

• Media in the construction, storing, and dissemination of legal knowledge

• Web-based media for the construction of interdiscursive/interdisciplinary issues affecting law and other fields (politics, economics, criminology, sociology, psychology, healthcare, and medicine)

• Social media in criminal and forensic investigations

• Social media in the process of conflict resolution • Issues of harassment, defamation, privacy/ publicity/government surveillance, freedom of speech, cyberbullying, trolling, and intellectual property in social media environments

• Disciplining and regulating social media activities • Legal and ethical challenges on social media • Role, power, identity, and ideology on social media

• Multilingualism/multiculturalism, migration, race, and ethnicity on social media

• Web-based media resources for higher legal education (formal and informal learning, collaborative work) By providing a forum that presents research from all forms of discourse theory, data, and methods, the conference brings together academics, researchers, 163

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Calls for papers

Calls for papers

Calls for papers practitioners, government officials, and consultants from different backgrounds to exchange new ideas as well as discuss the challenges encountered and solutions adopted.

Contributors are invited to send an abstract of their proposed paper, panel or poster in MS Word (12pt) of not more than 300 words (excluding references) no later than 15 November 2017 to crill@unicampania. it. Additional details can be found on the conference website: www.crill.unina2.it/conference-2018.

W G Hart Legal Workshop 2019: Call for Workshop Proposals and the Nomination of Academic Directors in collaboration with the University of London Law Schools Conference date in 2019 to be announced CFP deadline: 20 November 2017 Organised and hosted by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London See the complete CFP: www.sas.ac.uk/events/ event/13926 The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies is seeking proposals and Academic Directors for the 2019 W G Hart Legal Workshop from law schools across the UK. Background: In 1966, with funds donated by the Ford Foundation, the Institute of Advance Legal Studies organised the first-ever legal workshop held in the United Kingdom based on a concept pioneered a few years earlier by the Law School of New York University.

These workshops, which address a different theme each year, have been held annually ever since. The Ford Foundation grant terminated in 1978, but in 1981 the Institute secured alternative funding under the terms of the bequest of the residuary estate of Dr Walter Gray Hart to the University of London to be used ‘for the advancement of legal education’.

Consequently, since 1981 the Workshop has been named the W G Hart Legal Workshop.

Workshop proposals: In selecting the topic to be covered in any given year, regard will be had to the following factors, which should be addressed in proposals: the existence of a new or developing academic literature, which might involve either 164

an innovative approach to an existing topic or the emergence of a new research area (this may include interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary topics with legal dimensions); the relevance of the topic to an audience extending beyond the strictly specialist; the opportunities provided for early career scholars to participate in the Workshop; financial circumstances (that is, the particular value of Hart funding for a workshop on this topic; and plans for subsequent publication. Workshop organisers will receive a grant of ÂŁ5,000 plus in-kind support. The Institute covers the cost of venue hire, publicity, and administrative support.

Registration fees for the organisers and keynote speakers are usually waived and other speakers and panel chairpersons pay a concessionary registration fee.

The Workshop structure follows the pattern of a twoday event with plenary and parallel sessions to permit participation by a wide range of scholars.

Academic Director(s): The Institute welcomes the nomination of Academic Directors from across the UK and especially encourages early career scholars with a record of successful conference organisation to apply. There are generally no fewer than two directors of the Workshop. The W G Hart Bequest requires that the lead director, or co-lead, come from one of the University of London Law Schools (Birkbeck, City, KCL, LSE, QMUL, Royal Holloway, SOAS, UCL). Therefore, where nominees are from outside the University of London, they will need to identify and recruit a member from one of the London Law Schools to co-direct the Workshop. The role of the Academic Director(s) is to design a detailed programme around the proposal approved by the Advisory Council of the Institute. This will involve drawing up an outline programme and call for papers, for circulation by the Institute; selecting and inviting speakers and drawing up the final programme, liaising as appropriate with the Institute concerning its financial implications, particularly with regard to the participation of (Workshop-funded) overseas speakers; liaison with speakers concerning the submission of papers, and for ensuring their timely delivery to the Institute in advance of the Workshop; acting as editor(s) of the proceedings of the Workshop papers; and, where appropriate, securing outside sponsorship for parts of the programme, such as an evening reception/ dinner. No remuneration is payable to the Academic Director(s) in respect of this work.

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Submission of subject proposals and nominations for Academic Director(s): Please provide the names and CVs of all agreed Academic Director(s); an abstract and rationale of the topic proposed; a list of potential themes for parallel sessions; a list of potential keynote speakers and their institutional affiliations; an indication of whether (and if so which) other sources of financial support are being sought.

Proposals must reach IALS by 20 November 2017 and should be sent to: Belinda Crothers, IALS Events and Conference Office Manager, belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk.

If you would like to discuss a possible proposal, please contact Diamond Ashiagbor, Professor of Law and Director of Research, diamond.ashiagbor@sas.ac.uk.

Language and Identity in Francophone Canada 5–6 July 2018 CFP deadline: 1 December 2017 Organised by Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Conference venue: Senate House, Malet Street, London See the complete CFP: modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/ events/event/13933 When Justin Trudeau told the New York Times that ‘there is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada’, this caused little commotion among Canadians.

With all of its cultural, ethnic, and linguistic diversity, Canada may well be the ‘first post-national state’ (Foran, 2017). Being Canadian can thus mean many things—and Canadians construct, express, and perceive their various identities in a multitude of different ways.

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Calls for papers studies, and social sciences—and it is of particular interest where Francophones in Canada are concerned. A linguistic majority in Quebec but a minority in all other provinces and in the country as a whole, Francophone communities across Canada are highly heterogeneous. From British Columbia to Newfoundland, these communities have different histories and traditions, they vary in size and in ethnolinguistic vitality, and they differ in their composition of native-born Canadians and newcomers to the country. This heterogeneity of the Francophone communities is reflected in their identities.

For this interdisciplinary conference, we invite contributions from researchers of all levels and from all disciplines, whose work focuses on any aspect of language and identity in any part of Francophone Canada.

Please send abstracts (250–300 words) in either English or French to cqfcs2018conference@gmail.com by 1 December 2017, specifying a title, your name, and institutional affiliation. Along with your abstract, please send a one-page CV.

W G Hart Legal Workshop 2018: Building a Twenty-First Century Bill of Rights 11–12 June 2018 CFP deadline: 31 December 2017 Papers are invited for next year’s W G Hart Legal Workshop, Building a Twenty-First Century Bill of Rights, to be held at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, on 11 and 12 June 2018.

Almost all States have some form of a bill of rights in their national legal system. While their specific content varies, most cover many of the same issues, such as the procedure for amendment, links with international law and institutions, and the status of the bill of rights in relation to other laws. The purpose of this workshop is to fill a significant gap in practice and scholarship and to make an original contribution to current debates by bringing together scholars to discuss the construction of an effective twenty-first century bill of rights.

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Calls for papers Confirmed speakers include:

• Harriet Harman MP, Chair, Joint Committee on Human Rights

• Professor Conor Gearty, LSE • Judge Tim Eicke, European Court of Human Rights

• Martha Spurrier, Director, Liberty • Professor Colm O’Cinneide, UCL Alongside keynote addresses, the following nine sessions will address a number of the most important questions any State concluding, or revising, a bill of rights should address. These questions encompass issues relating to the process of adoption, content, and institutional position of a bill of rights, as well as the relationships between the various governmental, non-governmental and international actors conditioned by the bill of rights.

Establishing the bases of a bill of rights. What are the purposes of a bill of rights? Can a bill of rights embed in the absence of a human rights ‘culture’?

Design and implementation. How can popular ‘ownership’ be secured? What role can be played by social media and other methods of public engagement? Is it possible to ‘crowdsource’ a bill of rights?

Linkages with international and comparative laws and institutions. Do bills of rights have a common, universal, core? To what extent might (or should) constitutional ‘borrowing’ influence the development of a bill of rights? Can international coordination enhance the effectiveness of a bill of rights?

The protected rights. What challenges are presented by the inclusion in the bill of rights of economic, social, and cultural rights? Should bills of rights protect third generation or group rights? Is the list of civil and political rights most commonly protected by national bills of rights unsuited to combatting new threats to human interests in the twentieth century?

Claimants and respondents. What are the benefits and drawbacks of an actio popularis? Should national human rights commissions have special status to bring claims under the bill of rights? What is the role of interveners? Should the bill of rights reach into the private sector or beyond the territorial jurisdiction?

Remedies. Does a bill of rights offering less than a strike down power for courts really provide effective protection? Are damages an effective and appropriate remedy? What alternatives to damages are possible?

Should judges be able to direct respondents to make changes to law, policy, or practice in response to a finding of violation?

Rights and civil society. How important is access to justice when seeking to put in place an effective bill of rights? How can the abilities of legislatures to prevent violations, and secure broader rightscompliance, be enhanced? How important is it for the executive to have a strong human rights policy and procedures in place to check for violations of the bill of rights?

Addressing the populist backlash. Is there a backlash against courts and national human rights law or is this only the experience in a handful of states? Are current criticisms of national human rights law justified? Is it possible to successfully combat a backlash? Can human rights only gain acceptance in tandem with societal responsibilities?

Papers are welcome on any of these themes.

Abstracts of approximately 300 words and a short speaker biography should be submitted to the Academic Directors: Merris Amos, m.e.amos@qmul.ac.uk; Roger Masterman, r.m.w.masterman@durham.ac.uk; and Hélène Tyrrell, helene.tyrrell@ncl.ac.uk by 31 December 2017. Full versions of the accepted papers are due by 30 April 2018. Contributions from early career researchers are particularly welcomed and will be integrated into the workshop sessions. A selection of the presented papers may be published as an edited collection following the workshop.

The bill of rights in the national constitutional order. Should the bill of rights be considered as apart from ordinary law? How might questions of interpretation and (dis)application be resolved? How could a bill of rights allocate complementary roles to the branches of government?

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