School of Advanced Study events brochure April - August 2010

Contents Institutes of the School Events at the School Highlights: University of London Trust Fund events Highlights:Visiting Professorial Lecture Highlights: Dean’s Seminars Highlights: Fratricide and FraternitÊ seminar series Highlights: Conferences and symposia Summer Schools Events calendar Research training Calls for papers How to find us

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The School of Advanced Study The School of Advanced Study at the University of London is the only institution of its kind in the UK nationally funded to promote and facilitate research in the humanities and social sciences.

The School brings together the specialised scholarship and resources of ten prestigious postgraduate research institutes to offer academic opportunities, facilities and stimulation across a wide range of subjects for the benefit of the national and international scholarly community.

Member Institutes of the School: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Institute of Classical Studies Institute of Commonwealth Studies Institute of English Studies Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Institute of Historical Research Institute of Musical Research Institute of Philosophy Institute for the Study of the Americas Warburg Institute The School also hosts a cross-disciplinary centre. The Human Rights Consortium, founded in 2009, brings together the multidisciplinary expertise in human rights found in several Institutes of the School, as well as collaborating with individuals and organisations with an interest in the subject. The main aim of the Consortium is to facilitate, promote and disseminate academic and policy work on human rights by holding conferences and seminars, hosting visiting fellows, coordinating the publication of high quality work in the field, and establishing a network of human rights researchers, policy-makers and practitioners across the UK and internationally, with a view to collaborating on a range of activities.

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Institutes of the School

Institutes of the School INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED LEGAL STUDIES The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) was founded in 1947 as a national academic institution serving all universities through its national legal research library. Its function is to promote, facilitate and disseminate the results of advanced study and research in the discipline of law, for the benefit of persons and institutions in the UK and abroad. Its areas of speciality include arbitration and dispute settlement, company law, comparative law, economic crime, financial services law and legislative studies and law reform. www.ials.sas.ac.uk INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES The Institute of Classical Studies (IClS) is a national and international research centre for the study of the languages, literature, history, art, archaeology and philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds.

Founded in 1953, it provides an internationally renowned research library available to scholars from universities throughout the world, in association with the Hellenic and Roman Societies. IClS also serves as the meeting place of the main Classics organisations in the UK. www.icls.sas.ac.uk INSTITUTE OF COMMONWEALTH STUDIES The Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICwS) is the only postgraduate academic institution in the UK devoted to the study of the Commonwealth. Founded in 1949, its purpose is to promote interdisciplinary and inter-regional research on the Commonwealth and its member nations in the fields of history, politics and other social sciences. Its areas of specialism include international development, governance, human rights, north-south relations and conflict and security. www.commonwealth.sas.ac.uk INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES The Institute of English Studies (IES), founded in 1999, exists to facilitate advanced study and research in English studies within the University of London and in the wider academic community, national and international. Its Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies covers such fields of study as palaeography, history of printing, manuscript and print relations, history of publishing and the book trade, textual criticism and theory and the electronic book. www.ies.sas.ac.uk INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC & ROMANCE STUDIES The Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS) was established in 2004 with the merger of the Institute of Germanic Studies and the Institute of Romance Studies, founded in 1950 and 1989 respectively. Its purpose is to promote and facilitate the study of the cultures of regions speaking the Germanic and Romance languages across a range of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields in the humanities. www.igrs.sas.ac.uk

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Institutes of the School

INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH Founded in 1921, the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) is an important resource and meeting place for researchers from all over the world. It provides a stimulating research environment supported by the IHR’s three research centres: the Centre for Local History; the Centre for Metropolitan History; and the Centre for Contemporary British History. www.history.ac.uk

INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL RESEARCH Established in 2006, the Institute of Musical Research (IMR) was set up as a university-wide and national resource with a commitment to foster musical research in all its diversity. The IMR offers a unique meeting point for researchers and postgraduate students across the UK and acts as a hub for collaborative work on a national and international scale. www.music.sas.ac.uk

INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY The Institute of Philosophy (IP) was founded in 2005, building upon and developing the work of the Philosophy Programme from 1995–2005. The Institute’s mission is to promote and support philosophy of the highest quality in all its forms, both inside and outside the University, and across the UK. Its activities divide into three kinds: events, fellowships and research facilitation. www.philosophy.sas.ac.uk

INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAS The Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA) was founded in 2004 through the merger of the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Institute of United States Studies, both of which were established in 1965. ISA promotes, coordinates and provides a focus for research and postgraduate teaching in history and the social sciences on the Americas – Canada, the US, Latin America and the Caribbean – and plays a national and international role as a coordinating and information centre for all parts of the hemisphere at the postgraduate level in the universities of the UK. www.americas.sas.ac.uk WARBURG INSTITUTE The Warburg Institute (WI), incorporated in the University in 1944, exists principally to further the study of the classical tradition – those elements of European thought, literature, art and institutions which derive from the ancient world. The classical tradition is conceived as the theme which unifies the history of Western civilisation. The bias is not towards ‘classical’ values in art and literature: students and scholars will find represented all the strands that link medieval and modern civilisation with its origins in the ancient cultures of the Near East and the Mediterranean. www.warburg.sas.ac.uk www.sas.ac.uk/events.html

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Events at the School

Events at the School

The Institutes of the School collectively offer a wide range of seminars, workshops, lectures, conferences and other academic events. The events programme of the School is unrivalled in its scale, focus and quality. Each year around 1,400 events are organised in the School on humanities and social science topics, attracting over 30,000 audience members drawn from around the UK and internationally as well as the London area.

The School brings together scholars, representatives from academic, public, and private organInstitute for the Study of the Americastions, policy-makers, professional experts, and the interested public from the local community, the UK and beyond to participate in its varied programme of events. Over 3,000 speakers, around one-third of whom are from outside the UK, are welcomed annually to contribute to the intellectual culture of the School.

The majority of our events are free and open to the public. All are welcome and encouraged to take advantage of the access to current research and interdisciplinary cross-fertilisation these events afford.

The full list of forthcoming and past events held by the School can be found at www.sas.ac.uk/events/list/ sas_events.

How to use this guide Events are listed in date and time order. On the left we list the time, the Institute responsible for organising the event, the type of event or series and the venue. On the right we list the event title and speaker where appropriate. There is further information about the highlighted events at the start of the guide, and about the School’s research training events at the end. Please check our website (www.sas.ac.uk) for full information.

Booking The majority of our events are free and open to the public, unless stated otherwise. The event information in this brochure was correct at the time of going to press, but may be subject to change. Please check our website for the latest information, www.sas.ac.uk/events.html, or email sas.events@sas.ac.uk.

Event videos online Selected School events are recorded and available to view or listen to online at www.sas.ac.uk/video.html.

Mailing list Sign up to our mailing list to receive information on events of interest to you by emailing sas.events@sas.ac.uk or via the School’s website at www.sas.ac.uk.

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Highlights: University of London Trust Fund events

Highlights University of London Trust Fund events

The School organises an annual University Trust Fund programme of prestigious public lectures, recitals and readings. These events are free to attend. All welcome.

16 April 2010 18.00–19.00

Erik Satie: his music, the visual arts, his legacy.

Recital of music by Erik Satie

Institute of Musical Research

Fully booked. Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

John Coffin Memorial Trust Recital Gresham College 25 May 2010

Old Hispanic chant

18.00–20.00 Institute of Musical Research

Emma Hornby (Bristol) and Rebecca Maloy (Colorado) with the Schola Cantorum of the University of Bristol

John Coffin Memorial Trust lecturerecital

In association with the University of Bristol and the University of Colorado.

Goodenough College

Advance booking essential. Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

24 June 2010

Performing Haydn’s piano music

18.00–20.00

Tom Beghin (McGill) in conversation with John Irving (Director, Institute of Musical Research)

Institute of Musical Research John Coffin Memorial Trust lecturerecital

Advance booking essential. Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Goodenough College 30 June 2010

Presence and absence in Keats’s letters

18.00–19.00

John Barnard

Institute of English Studies

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk/tel. +44 (0)20 7664 4859

John Coffin Memorial Lecture in the History of the Book Room G22/24 7 July 2010

Dickens and Shakespeare (title tbc)

18.00–19.00 Institute of English Studies

Michael Slater (Institute of English Studies Senior Research Fellow; Birkbeck)

Hilda Hulme Memorial Lecture

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk/tel. +44 (0)20 7664 4859

Beveridge Hall

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Events calendar Highlights: Visiting Professorial Lecture/Dean’s Seminars

April–August 2010

Visiting Professorial Lecture All welcome. Free to attend.

School of Advanced Study

Checkered careers: from Samuel Johnson and Edgar Allan Poe to the Bronx Comet and a computer named Chinook

Visiting Professorial Lecture

Pat Rogers (School Fellow; South Florida)

Chancellor’s Hall

Professor Rogers is Distinguished University Professor and holder of the DeBartolo Chair in the Liberal Arts at the University of South Florida.

He is the School Visiting Professorial Fellow.

21 April 2010 17.30–19.00

Contact: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

The Dean’s Seminars

The Dean’s Seminars, chaired by the Dean of the School, are a series of lunchtime research seminars, which aim to promote cross-disciplinary debate in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. Seminars are free to attend and open to all – advance booking is not required. Participants may bring their lunch.

21 April 2010

Skepticism and the space of reasons

12.30–14.00

Michael Williams (School Fellow; Johns Hopkins) Professor Williams is Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the School ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellow.

Room G37

12.30–14.00

Mothers, wives and welfare politics in Latin America (tbc)

Room G37

Maxine Molyneux (Director, Institute for the Study of the Americas)

9 June 2010

How do you solve a problem like Edmund Curll?

12.30–14.00

Pat Rogers (School Fellow; South Florida)

Room G37

Professor Rogers is Distinguished University Professor and holder of the DeBartolo Chair in the Liberal Arts at the University of South Florida.

He is the School Visiting Professorial Fellow.

19 May 2010

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Highlights: Fratricide and Fraternité

Fratricide and Fraternité: Understanding and Repairing Neighbourly Atrocity John E. Sawyer Seminar Series 2009–10 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation This prestigious seminar series brings together the ten Institutes of the School, with their formidable, international research networks, as well as a range of distinguished British and international scholars, to investigate neighbourly atrocities from an extensive range of thematic, disciplinary, methodological, geographic, and temporal perspectives. The series seeks to answer two overarching and inter-related questions: What turns neighbour against neighbour?

How do neighbours live together again after atrocity?

All events are free and open to the public. Advance registration is required.

M. Chagall, 'Cain and Abel' (1956), published by Verve, Revue artistique et litteraire (1960), printed by Fernand Mourlot, Paris

Please email hrc@sas.ac.uk to register or if you would like to be added to the mailing list for updates on Fratricide and Fraternité events. www.sas.ac.uk/human_rights.html

Fratricide and Fraternité events April–August 2010: Violence 23 April 2010

Seminar 2: intimate atrocities

14.00–16.30

“Truth in Lies”: the performativity of rape and domestic violence in Rwanda

Room G35

Ananda Breed (East London) Bush wives and girl soldiers in Sierra Leone Chris Coulter (Uppsala) Title tba Jason Hart (Bath) Chair: Gill Rye (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies)

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Highlights: Fratricide and Fraternité 14 May 2010

Seminar 3: perpetrators/bystanders/rescuers

14.00–17.00

What do we know about violence between neighbours?

Room ST273

Stathis N. Kalyvas (Yale) Explaining divergent paths of genocidal violence Scott Straus (Wisconsin-Madison) A cultural history approach to perpetrators Dan Stone (Royal Holloway) A different kind of ‘perpetrator’? Functionaries, facilitators and beneficiaries of Nazi policies of persecution Mary Fulbrook (UCL) Sons of the soil: autochthony, indigeniety and violent politics in Kenya’s Rift Valley David M. Anderson (Oxford) Chair: Lars Waldorf (York) and Damien Short (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

Aftermaths 28 May 2010

Seminar 4: drawing lines

14.00–16.30

Aftermaths of partition: Bengal and Bosnia compared

Room G35

Sumantra Bose (LSE) Live and let die: an analysis of separatist factions Kirstin Bakke (UCL) Parading, territoriality and the protestant bands in Northern Ireland Suzel Ana Reily (Queen’s, Belfast) Chair: James Manor (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

25 June 2010

Seminar 5: truth, justice and reparations

14.00–17.00

Anger, pragmatism and ambivalence: views on ‘Victor’s Justice’ from within the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

The Court Room

Nigel Eltringham (Sussex) In the village where youth ruled their fathers: justice and generation in a postwar Sierra Leonean community Rosalind Shaw (Tufts) Reconciliation Australian-style: some truth, little justice and no reparations Damien Short (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) Chair: Avrom Sherr (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) The politics of Aparición in contemporary Argentina Vikki Bell (Goldsmiths) Through the land of pale hands: femincide, social cleansing and impunity in Guatemala Victoria Sanford (City, New York) Chair: Par Engstrom (Human Rights Consortium)

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Highlights: Conferences and symposia

Conferences and symposia 16 April 2010

Erik Satie: his music, the visual arts, his legacy

Institute of Musical Research

Convenor: Caroline Potter (Kingston). Speakers include Robert Orledge (Liverpool), Simon Shaw-Miller (Birkbeck), Grace Cheung (Kingston), and composers Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons

Gresham College

Full booked. For further information on future and related events contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk A study day in association with Kingston University and Gresham College 19–20 April 2010

Hanns Eisler

Institute of Musical Research

Convenors: Erik Levi (Royal Holloway), Albrecht Dümling (International Hanns Eisler Society, Berlin) and Michael Haas (Jewish Museum,Vienna).

Keynote speaker: David Blake (York)

Room ST274/ST275

Booking form available at www.music.sas.ac.uk Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk 26 April 2010

Musicology in the digital age

10.00–16.00 Institute of Musical Research

Alan Marsden (Lancaster), Tim Crawford (Goldsmiths), David Bretherton (Southampton),Vanessa Hawes (UEA), Polina Proutskova (Goldsmiths)

Room G37

Free to attend. Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk A study day in association with the Society for Music Analysis

28 April 2010 10.00–19.00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Chancellor’s Hall

Our national character, our national purpose: American presidents, democracy promotion and global order Speakers include: Nicolas Bouchet (Institute for the Study of the Americas), David Clinton (Baylor), Marshall De Rosa (Florida Atlantic), Ruth Deyermond (King’s College London), Oz Hassan (Warwick), Scott Lucas (Birmingham), Tony McCulloch (Canterbury Christ Church), Inderjeet Parmar (Manchester), Adam Quinn (Birmingham), Jon Roper (Swansea), Maria Ryan (Nottingham), Rob Singh (Birkbeck), Tony Smith (Tufts) The conference aims to deepen our understanding of how different presidents have interpreted the democracy promotion tradition and used it to further their own ends – or have tried to escape it. £30 (concessionary rate: £10). Contact: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk Conference convened by the United States Presidency Centre at the Institute for the Study of the Americas.

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Highlights: Conferences and symposia 29–30 April 2010

Policing and the policed in the postcolonial state

9.00–18.00

Speakers include: David Anderson (Oxford), Graham Ellison (Queen’s, Belfast) and Alice Hills (Leeds)

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Room G37

This conference seeks to examine policing practice across the Commonwealth from a variety of perspectives, including that of the ‘policed’, a constituency whose voices are under-represented in the existing literature. A key aim of this conference is to bring together academic specialists from the fields of history, criminology and the social sciences, as well as those responsible for devising and implementing policing policy. Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk Organised in conjunction with the Colonial and Postcolonial Policing Group (COPP) hosted by the Open University’s International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research

1 May 2010 Institute of Historical Research Wolfson and Pollard Rooms

County Record, Local History and Archaeology Societies Symposium The symposium provides a forum for County Societies to meet together to discuss matters of mutual interest and to share best practice.

Contact: carlos.galvis@sas.ac.uk

6–7 May 2010 10.00–18.00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Beveridge Hall

The traditions of liberty in the Transatlantic world Speakers include: Ronald Beiner (Toronto), Adrian Pearce (Institute for the Study of the Americas; King’s College), Rebecca Kingston (Toronto), Susan Hodgett (Ulster), Kevin Morrell (Birmingham), Michel Ducharme (British Columbia), José María Hernández Losada (Spanish National University of Distance Learning), Ambrosio Velasco (UNAM, México), Francisco Colom (Spanish National Research Council), Ángel Rivero (Madrid), Rubem Barboza Filho (Juiz de Fora, Brazil) The workshop is an attempt to clarify the classical discussion on the origins and development of liberal democracy through a spatial and temporal orientation: what we here call the traditions of liberty.

Contact: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk Co-organised with the British Association for Canadian Studies, the International Council for Canadian Studies, and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas

13–15 May Institute of Commonwealth Studies Conference/Symposium Venue tbc

London Debates 2010: how does Europe in the 21st century address the legacy of colonialism?

London Debates are discussion workshops at which a subject of broad concern in the humanities and social sciences is debated by a small group of invited senior academics and a selection of early-career researchers. The resulting report will be published by the School.

Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk

18 May 2010

Study day: performativity, poetry and creation

9.30–19.00

Speakers include: Kathryn Whitney (Institute of Musical Research; Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama), Amanda Glauert (Kingston), Fiona Sampson (Kingston), Norbert Meyn (Guildhall School of Music & Drama; Royal College of Music)

Institute of Musical Research Chancellor’s Hall

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Highlights: Conferences and symposia 21 May 2010

Polemical Austria

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies

Co-ordinators: Antony Bushell (Bangor) and Martin Liebscher (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies)

Room ST274/ST275

This conference will explore how the concept of ‘Austria’ has evolved and been treated by Austrians. Speakers will contrast the way in which the state has presented itself, how it has been perceived by various social groups, how communists and socialists have used the term, and how the concept fits into the Catholic tradition. Amongst the eminent speakers will be Robert Evans, Regius Professor of History at Oxford University, who will set the historical context on which subsequent discussions will be based. Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

21 May 2010

Experience and phenomenal qualities

9.30–18.30

Speakers include: Susanna Siegel, Howard Robinson, Alan Thomas

Institute of Philosophy

Contact: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Room G22/24

In conjunction with the University of Hertfordshire AHRC Phenomenal Qualities project

21 May 2010

Women and US foreign policy

10.00–18.00

Keynote speaker: Ambassador Nancy Soderberg, President Clinton’s NSC Staff Director (1993–97), US Ambassador to the United Nations (1995–2001), and author of The Superpower Myth:The Use and Misuse of American Might (2005).

Institute for the Study of the Americas Chancellor’s Hall

Tickets: £30 (concessionary rate £10) From Jeane Kirkpatrick in the 1980s and Madeleine Albright in the 1990s to Condoleezza Rice in the 2000s and Hillary Clinton today, women have achieved significant foreign policy power in the United States. And yet our appreciation of how their gender may or may not impact on their statecraft is the focus of surprisingly little scholarly attention. This conference will bring together over 20 speakers (including former and current US diplomats and internationally recognised scholars) to assess the place of women in US foreign policy since the end of the cold war. Contact: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk In partnership with the Eccles Centre for American Studies, the British Library and with support from the Warwick Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) and the BISA Gendering International Relations working group

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Held to account: political and military leaders should be subject to trial in England for alleged war crimes committed abroad

Conference/Symposium

Chair: Joshua Rozenberg.

27 May 2010 18.00–20.30

For the Motion: Philippe Sands QC; Joel Bennathan QC; Alex Bates.

Against the Motion: Iain Morley QC; Jonathan Kirk QC; Rodney Dixon.

Registration fees: £10 in advance (£5 students in advance) OR £15 at the door (£7.50 students at the door). Book by 20 May. Contact: belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk Organised in association with the British Friends of Neve Sahlom - Wahat al-Salam Lawyer’s Group

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Highlights: Conferences and symposia 28 May 2010

New insights into Gramsci’s life and work

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies

Speakers include: Derek Boothman (Bologna), Craig Brandist (Sheffield), Fabio Frosini (Urbino), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths), James Martin (Goldsmiths), Anne Showstack Sassoon (Birkbeck), and Peter Thomas (member of the editorial board of Historical Materialism).

Chancellor’s Hall

The main aim of this one-day conference is to disseminate the results of recent, specialised research on Gramsci. Significant novelties will be presented by leading experts with the aim of overcoming disciplinary boundaries and helping to reduce the gaps between: a) widespread, conventional understandings of Gramsci and up-to-date specialised research; and b) the work on Gramsci’s writings and biography and the use of Gramsci’s theories for understanding current social, political and cultural issues.

Free to attend. Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk Organised by Alessandro Carlucci (Royal Holloway) in association with the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies and sponsored by the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Regulating and deregulating lawyers in the 21st century

Charles Clore House

Contact: belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

3–4 June 2010

Jointly organised with the University of Westminster School of Law and the Cleveland State University College of Law 3–4 June 2010 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Room ST274/5

Seventh international postgraduate conference on current research in Austrian literature This annual conference, which consistently draws participants from both Europe and America, offers postgraduate students working in the field of Austrian literature an opportunity to present their work and discuss aspects of it with colleagues and other specialists.

Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

11–12 June 2010

Re-thinking 17th-century America

Institute of Historical Research

Institute of Historical Research/Warwick conference

11–12 June 2010

Humans and other animals: challenging the boundaries of humanity

10.00–18.00 Institute of Philosophy Room G22/24

Speakers include: Patrick Bateson, John Harris, Lisa Bortolotti, Matteo Mameli, Margot Brazier, Sir John Sulston, Sarah Cunningham Burley, Frans De Waal, David DeGrazia, Sir David Weatherall, Juan Carlos Gomez Two-day conference Contact: philosophy@sas.ac.uk In conjunction with the Manchester Institute for Science Ethics and Innovation

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Highlights: Conferences and symposia 14–15 June 2010 9.00–17.00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Room ST274/ST275

Cultural institutions and literary reception in Europe Keynote speakers: Bernhard Fabian (Münster), Marc Fumaroli (Académie française; Collège de France), Joseph Th. Leerssen (Amsterdam), Mihály Szegedy-Maszák (Budapest), Rosa Rabadán (León) Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk Organised by the Research Project on the Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe (RBAE) and supported by the British Academy

14–15 June 2010

Annual Byzantine colloquium

9.00–18.00

Contact: admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies Venue tbc

9.30–18.00

Comics and medicine: medical narrative in graphic novels

Institute of English Studies

Speakers include: Paul Gravett, Brian Fies, Marc Zaffran

17 June 2010

This one-day interdisciplinary conference aims to explore medical narrative in graphic novels and comics. Although the first comic book was invented in 1837 the long-format graphic narrative has only become a distinct and unique body of literary work relatively recently. Thanks in part to the growing Medical Humanities movement, many medical schools now encourage the reading of literature and the study of art to gain insights into the human condition. A serious content for comics is not new but representation of illness in graphic novels is an increasing trend. The melding of text and visuals in graphic fiction and non-fiction has much to offer medical professionals, students and, indeed, patients.

Among the growing number of graphic novels, a sub-genre exploring the patients’ and the carers’ experiences of illness or disability has emerged.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk 17–18 June 2010

Cities and nationalisms

9.00–18.30

Speakers include: Robert Bickers (Bristol), Iain Black (Cambridge), Bill Freund (Kwa-Zulu Natal), Tim Harper (Cambridge), Paul-André Linteau (Québec)

Institute of Historical Research Charles Clore House

This conference will explore the nature and rich variety of connections between nationalisms and cities in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. .

Register by 4 June 2010. Contact: olwen.myhill@sas.ac.uk Supported by The Leverhulme Trust

17–19 June 2010 10.00–18.00 Institute of Philosophy Beveridge Hall

The world as will and consciousness: celebrating the work of Brian O’Shaughnessy Speakers include: Thomas Baldwin (York), Tyler Burge (UCLA), Thomas Crowther (Heythrop), MGF Martin (UCL), Brian O’Shaughnessy (King’s College London), Christopher Peacocke (Columbia), Lucy O’Brien (UCL), Paul Snowdon (UCL), Hong Yu Wong (Birkbeck) Three-day conference. Contact: philosophy@sas.ac.uk In conjunction with Heythrop College

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Highlights: Conferences and symposia 18 June 2010 10.00–18.00 Warburg Institute Colloquium

18–19 June 2010 Institute of English Studies

Sense, affect and self-preservation in Bernardino Telesio (1509–1588) Speakers include: Michaela Boenke, Roberto Bondì, Andrew Campbell, Stephen Clucas, Jean-Paul De Lucca, Sabrina Ebbersmeyer, Guido Giglioni, Nuccio Ordine, Anna Laura Puliafito Bleuel

LOMERS annual conference: studies in Cotton Nero A.x (the Gawain-Manuscript) Speakers include: Alcuin Blamires, Helen Cooper, Tony Davenport, Rosalind Field, Susanna Fein, Julian Harrison, Derek Pearsall, Ad Putter Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

21–22 June 2010 10.00–17.00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Charles Clore House

From Duvalier to Préval l: Haiti yesterday, today and tomorrow Keynote speakers: Michael Dash (New York), Alex Dupuy (Wesleyan), Anthony Maingot (Florida International), Reginald Dumas (former Special Advisor on Haiti to the UN Secretary-General) Recent events in Haiti underscore more than ever the urgency of understanding the history, politics, development and future prospects of this Caribbean nation. This international conference will bring together academics, policy-makers and NGOs to discuss key themes in the history and development of Haiti in the last fifty years.

Contact: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk Supported by the David Nicholls Memorial Trust

23–25 June 2010

Patrick White: modernist impact/critical futures

Institute of English Studies

Speakers include: Tim Armstrong, Simon During, Elizabeth Schafer, David Marr (2010 Menzies Lecturer) This international conference will forge new perspectives on the work of Patrick White, winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature. Invited speakers from around the world will explore White’s impact in Australia, America, Britain, Europe, and Asia and speculate on critical futures for White and for literary modernism.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Institute for the Study of the Americas

The historical roots of social exclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean

Charles Clore House

Convenor: Ame Bergés (Institute for the Study of the Americas)

24–25 June 2010

This intensive two-day workshop takes a broad comparative and historical perspective on the roots of social exclusion and the formation of the social contract in Latin America and the Caribbean, from the nature of inherited institutions to the nature and consequences of the struggle for independence in the former New World colonies.

Contact: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk Sponsored by the Economic History Society Conferences and Initiatives Fund and the Society for Latin American Studies

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Highlights: Conferences and symposia 24–26 June 2010 9.30–16.00 Institute of Historical Research Wolfson and Pollard Rooms

The history of families and households: comparative European dimensions Following the June 2006 Regional Symposium on ‘Social Behaviour and Family Strategies in the Balkans (16th to 20th Centuries)’ held at the New Europe College in Bucharest, this conference aims to place Balkan family history in its wider European context. While research in family history in the Balkans is still in its infancy compared to that of many other parts of Europe, and scholars can learn much from the methodological groundwork of (for example) the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, it is equally true that scholars outside south-eastern Europe have a limited, indeed stereotyped, understanding of the situation in the region. Bringing these communities of scholars together will be an important step towards a deeper mutual understanding of the issues in family history, and lay better groundwork for a comparative methodology.

Contact: silvia.sovic@sas.ac.uk

28–29 June 2010

Women writers of the fin de siècle

Institute of English Studies

Speakers include: Linda Peterson (Yale), Lyn Pykett (Aberystwyth) Exploring women’s writing across a wide range of genres and from a variety of aspects, the Women Writers of the Fin de Siècle International Conference focuses on British women’s writing in the period 1880 to 1900. Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

28 June 2010 Institute of Historical Research Victoria County History international symposium and Marc Fitch Lecture Wolfson and Pollard Rooms

29 June–1 July 2010 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies W G Hart Legal Workshop

The economic worlds of Sir Richard Newdigate: tenants, servants, labourers and craftsmen in a Warwickshire parish, c.1670–1710 Steve Hindle (Warwick) Contact: carlos.galvis@sas.ac.uk

Comparative perspectives on constitutions: theory and practice Academic directors: Martin Loughlin (LSE); Dawn Oliver (UCL), Constantin Stefanou and Helen Xanthaki (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies).

Speakers and participants to include: Lord Hope of Craighead (Vice President of the UK Supreme Court), Cheryl Saunders (Melbourne), Jeffrey Jowell (UCL and the Council of Europe’s Commission for Democracy Through Law), Stephen Laws (First Parliamentary Counsel) Contact: belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

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Environments

9.30–18.00

79th Anglo-American conference of historians

Institute of Historical Research

Keynote speakers include: William Beinart, Alfred Crosby, John McNeill, Harriet Ritvo, and Donald Worster

Beveridge Hall

Over the last two decades environmental history has developed at an amazing pace, broadening and deepening our understanding of human interaction with nature, climate, landscape and resources across two millennia of historical time. The conference will explore where environmental history has been and where it is going, its relationship to other scholarly disciplines, and the ways in which historians of the environment can inform global green awareness today.

Contact: environments@lon.ac.uk 1–3 July 2010

The symphony orchestra as cultural phenomenon

Institute of Musical Research

Key speakers include: James Dillon (Minnesota), Tina K Ramnarine (Royal Holloway), David Wright (Royal College of Music), Emile Wennekes (Utrecht)

Senate House

Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk 7–9 July 2010 Institute of English Studies

Literary London 2010: representations of London in literature Speakers include: Michael Slater (Birkbeck), Susan Alice Fischer (City University, New York), Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck) Literary London 2010 aims to: • Read literary and dramatic texts in their historical and social context and in relation to theoretical approaches to the study of the metropolis • Investigate the changing cultural and historical geography of London • Consider the social, political, and spiritual fears, hopes, and perceptions that have inspired representations of London • Trace different traditions of representing London and examine how the pluralism of London society is reflected in London literature • Celebrate the contribution London and Londoners have made to English literature and drama Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

7–9 July 2010 Institute of Historical Research Senate House

Reassessing the Seventies Centre for Contemporary British History annual conference The 1970s marked a watershed in post-war British history with economic crises and profound political and social discord precipitating major social, cultural, political and economic changes with enduring consequences. Three decades after the ‘winter of discontent’ and the election of Margaret Thatcher, and with the papers now fully open, this major interdisciplinary conference will reassess developments in this crucial decade, placing them in the context of post-war British history as a whole. The conference will include keynote addresses from notable academics and contemporary figures.

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Highlights: Conferences and symposia 10 July 2010

John Buchan and the idea of modernity

Institute of English Studies

Plenary speakers: Douglas Gifford (Glasgow), Douglas Kerr (Hong Kong) The conference seeks to build on recent efforts to re-establish Buchan as more than a writer of thrillers, by considering his views and influence on 20th-century politics, culture, and aesthetics. An increased level of attention to the comparatively neglected areas of his output has demonstrated his significance within early 20th century popular culture, and laid the groundwork for considerations of his contributions to debates about the nature of modernity.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

13–14 July 2010

Emergence in physics

10.00–18.00

Speakers include: Robert Batterman (Western Ontario), Jeremy Butterfield (Cambridge), Roman Frigg (LSE), Stephan Hartmann (Tilburg), Eleanor Knox (Institute of Philosophy), David Wallace (Oxford)

Institute of Philosophy Beveridge Hall

Two-day conference. Contact: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

15–17 July 2010

Boundaries

Institute of Musical Research

Keynote speakers: Sara Cohen (Liverpool), Jim Sansom (Royal Holloway), Martin Clayton (Open University)

Senate House

Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk Royal Musical Association Annual Conference.

16–17 July 2010 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Venue STB3–6

Poetic practice and the practice of poetics in French since 1945 The conference will be the starting point of an international collaborative network working on recent and emerging poetic practice.

The July event will include papers by UK-based and international scholars of poetry and poetic practice and will aim at defining ‘poetic’ in the contemporary context, focusing on new trends in poetic writing and the interrelation of poetry and other genres and art forms.

Contact: np222@bath.ac.uk

10.00–16.00

Language policy/practice seminar series: summary of the series

Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Contact: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk

17 July 2010

Room G16

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Reading conflict

Institute of English Studies

Open University postgraduate conference Keynote Lecture by Sarah Brouillette (MIT) This one day-conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate students. As a critical discipline postcolonial studies has challenged traditional ways of reading and engaging with the canon, but has also often been in conflict with other literary disciplines. This conference examines the role of postcolonial studies in relation to other critical disciplines, and asks what is the role of the creative voice in conflict zones? How do we read during conflict? And what is the role of publishing during conflict? Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

22–24 July 2010

Victorian popular culture: prose, stage & screen

9.30–17.30

Speakers include: Kate Newey (Birmingham), Nickianne Moody (Liverpool John Moores)

Institute of English Studies

Adapting the Victorian popular novel develops our contemporary interest in nineteenth century print culture, and our understanding of the different ways in which a single text might be consumed, to acknowledge the role of theatrical, and later film, adaptations of popular fiction in maintaining the popularity of particular novels, and particular genres. Theatrical adaptations were an important means by which the Victorian popular novel found new audiences, and because of the lack of theatrical copyright such adaptations abounded.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

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Summer Schools

Summer Schools 21–25 June 2010

London Palaeography Summer School

Institute of English Studies

Speakers include: David D’Avray, Debby Banham, Charles Burnett, Carol Farr, David Ganz, Peter Kidd, Patricia Lovett, Dorothea McEwan, Marigold Norbye, Nigel Ramsay, Jane Roberts, Anna Somfai, Jenny Stratford, Hanna Vorholt, Rowan Watson A series of intensive courses in Palaeography and Diplomatic. Courses range in duration from a half to two days duration and are given by experts in their respective fields from a wide range of institutions.

Subject areas include: Latin palaeography, Medieaval music notation, pigments, German palaeography, Papal diplomatic, illuminated manuscripts and Books of Hours. www.ies.sas.ac.uk/cmps/events/courses/SummerSchool/School10/index. htm Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

28 June–2 July 2010 Institute of English Studies

London Rare Books School Week 1 Speakers include: Michelle Brown, Alan Cole, Catherine Delano-Smith, Anthony Edwards, John Feather, Irving Finkel, Arnold Hunt, Giles Mandelbrote, Matthew Nicholls, Marigold Norbye, Kathryn E. Piquette, Jill Shefrin, Sarah Tyacke

5–9 July 2010

Week II

Institute of English Studies

Speakers include: Martin Davies, Catherine Delano-Smith, Jane Everson, Paul Goldman, James Mosley, Douglas Muir, Nicholas Pickwoad, Denis Reidy, Iain Stevenson, Peter Stokes, Simone Testa, Sarah Tyacke, Rowan Watson, Laurence Worms A series of five-day, intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects to be taught in and around Senate House. The courses will be taught by internationally renowned scholars associated with the Institute’s Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, using the unrivalled library and museum resources of London, including the British Library, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the University of London Research Library Services, and many more. All courses will stress the materiality of the book so you can expect to have close encounters with remarkable books and other artefacts from some of the world’s greatest collections. Each class will be restricted to a maximum of 12 students in order to ensure that everyone has plenty of opportunity to talk to the teachers and to get very close to the books. www.ies.sas.ac.uk/cmps/events/courses/LRBS/index.htm Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

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Summer schools 29 June–3 July 2010

Memory, empire and technology

School of Advanced Study

Plenary speaker: Patrick Keiller

Venue: various

This summer school explores the relationship between memory and technology through a series of seminars, lectures and workshops on a broad range of subjects. The sessions will be taught by a team of internationally renowned scholars and will range from experimental early flying to colonial memories in film, from vinyl and swinging London to photography and workshops on digital archives. These sessions will be complemented by afternoon activities centred round London understood as technological city: the Greenwich History Project, visits to the Stanley Kubrick Archives and the Warburg Library, and an architectural tour on a historic Routemaster bus. The summer school welcomes researchers, students, artists, archivists, conservation and heritage professionals and any others interested in memory, technology and the industrial legacy of London.

Deadline for applications: 30 April 2010 £300 (early bird registration before 31 May 2010: £250) For more details and to register visit: www.igrs.sas.ac.uk/research/ CMsummerschool.html or email cmss@sas.ac.uk The summer school is organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies on behalf of the School of Advanced Study

10–17 July 2010

The T. S. Eliot International Summer School

Institute of English Studies

The T.S. Eliot International Summer School will be opened by Sir Tom Stoppard and will bring together some of the most distinguished scholars of T.S. Eliot and modern literature, including Massimo Bacigalupo (Genoa), Jewel Spears Brooker (Eckerd College), Ron Bush (St. John’s College, Oxford), David Chinitz (Loyola University Chicago), Professor Nancy Duvall Hargrove (Mississippi State), Mark Ford (UCL), Iman Javadi (Institute of English Studies), Hermione Lee (Oxford), Jim McCue (London), Gail McDonald (Southampton), Marjorie Perloff (Stanford), Stephen Romer (Tours), Ronald Schuchard (Emory) and Wim Van-Mierlo (Institute of English Studies).

The T.S. Eliot International Summer School welcomes to Bloomsbury all with an interest in the life and work of this Bloomsbury-based poet, dramatist, and man of letters. www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/TSE/index.htm Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar Friday 2 April 2010 Institute of Musical Research

Composing for percussion and live electronics workshop I

Research Training

For more information see p.61

10.00–17.00

University of Birmingham

Thursday 8 April 2010 9.00–17.00 Institute for the Study of the Americas JISLAC Seminar

Old rebellions to serve the present : construction of collective memories on slave rebellions in the Caribbean

University of Bordeaux

Friday 9 April 2010 18.00–20.00

The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar

Institute of English Studies Seminar Room G37

Monday 12 April 2010 12–16 April 2010

Methods and sources for historical research

Institute of Historical Research

For more information see p.61

Research Training Venue tbc 16.00–18.00

Ernst Bloch: ‘Spuren’ (1930, 1959; selection): I

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies

Convenor: Johan Siebers (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies)

German Philosophy Reading Group Room ST276 18.00–20.00

Postgraduate Feminist Reading Group

Institute of English Studies

Drucilla Cornell: At the Heart of Freedom: Feminism, Sex & Equality (1998)

Postgraduate Feminist Reading Group

Helene Cixous: Excerpt from Coming to Writing (1977)

Room ST276

H.D.: Excerpt from HERmione (1981)

Tuesday 13 April 2010 17.00–18.30 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Seminar Room 102 www.sas.ac.uk/events.html

Postgraduate Forum at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Open to all postgraduate researchers engaged with any aspect of cultural studies in those parts of the world where French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish is spoken.

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Wednesday 14 April 2010 12.30–14.30

Kinship and abandonment in the Andes

Institute for the Study of the Americas

Jessaca Leinaweaver (Brown)

Seminar Room G34

Thursday 15 April 2010 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Collecting & Display (100BC to AD1700) Room G35

“Un lusso splendido, e virtuoso inspiro gli uomini facoltosi a formare collezioni”: the “Quadrerie” and Florentine private collectors in the 18th century Anna Maria Poma Swank (NYU, Polo Museale Fiorentino)

Warburg Institute

Cosmography and cartography in the Renaissance: their relationship revisited

Maps and Society Seminar

Adam Mosley (Swansea):

17.00–19.00

History of communication: seminar 6

17.00–18.00

Institute of English Studies Seminar series: History of communication Room 104

Friday 16 April 2010 Institute of Musical Research

Erik Satie: his music, the visual arts, his legacy

Conference/Symposium

All places taken

Gresham College

For more information see p.9

11.00–18.00

CenSes Workshop

Institute of Philosophy

Mohan Matthen and Charles Spence

Workshop Room G22/26 14.00–16.00

Canto 41

Institute of English Studies

David Moody (York)

Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group Room G35 18.00–19.00

Recital of music by Erik Satie

Institute of Musical Research

All places taken. For more information see p.5

John Coffin Memorial Trust Recital Gresham College

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Monday 19 April 2010 19 –20 April 2010

Hanns Eisler

Institute of Musical Research

For more information see p.9

Conference/Symposium Room ST274/ST275

Research Training

Freedom of information: a practical guide for historians

Venue tbc

For more information see p.61

17.00–19.00

Englishness, Europeanness, and travel to the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Institute of Historical Research

Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: European history 1500–1800 Low Countries Room

Eva Johanna Holmberg

Tuesday 20 April 2010 17.30–19.30

Textual Scholarship Seminar

Institute of English Studies Textual Criticism, Bibliography, Textual Scholarship Seminar Room G21a

Postgraduate Seminar

Managing the ‘Royal Road’: the development and failings of managerial structure on the London and South Western Railway 1836–1900

Low Countries Room

David Turner (York)

17.30–19.30 Institute of Historical Research

Wednesday 21 April 2010 12.30–14.00

Skepticism and the space of reasons

School of Advanced Study

Michael Williams (School Fellow; Johns Hopkins)

Dean’s Seminar

For more information see p.6

Room G37

16.00–18.00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Seminar Room ST275

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Measuring the world. 20th-century Austrian writers abroad The English years Norbert Gstrein Convenors: David McNair and Martin Liebscher (London)

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April–August 2010 Hinglish in the Indian media – linguistic hegemony or hybridization?

Daya Thussu (Westminster)

Room G37 17.30–19.30

London Old and Middle English Research Seminar

Institute of English Studies

Jennifer Jahner (Pennsylvania; King’s College London)

Seminar

Second speaker tbc

Room G34

Visiting Professorial Lecture

Checkered careers: from Samuel Johnson and Edgar Allan Poe to the Bronx Comet and a computer named Chinook

Chancellor’s Hall

For more information see p.6

17.30–19.00 School of Advanced Study

Thursday 22 April 2010 Research Training

Explanatory paradigms: an introduction to historical theory

Venue tbc

For more information see p.61

17.15–19.30

English Goethe Society Semiotizing the body: corporeality and emotion in Goethe’s ‘Die Wahlverwandtschaften’

Institute of Historical Research

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Lecture Room ST273 17.30–19.30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Comparative histories of Asia

Claudia Nitschke (Oxford)

Tropical furniture and bodily comportment in Colonial Asia Jordan Sand (Georgetown)

Room G37

Friday 23 April 2010 Institute of Musical Research

Workshop on the orchestra in global perspective

Colloquium

Convenor: Tina K Ramnarine (Royal Holloway)

Room G22/24

By invitation only. Contact: tina.ramnarine@rhul.ac.uk

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April–August 2010 14.00–16.30 Human Rights Consortium Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series: Fratricide and Fraternité

Events calendar Understanding and repairing neighbourly atrocity: intimate atrocities For more information see p.7

Room G35 14.00–17.00 Institute of Musical Research Research Training

Composing for percussion and live electronics workshop II For more information see p.62

University of Birmingham 17.30–19.30

Is there such a thing as a gothic garden?

Institute of Historical Research

Michael Symes (Birkbeck)

Seminar series: History of gardens and landscapes Wolfson Room 18.00–20.00 Institute of English Studies

University of London Finnegans Wake Research Seminar

Seminar Room G37

Saturday 24 April 2010 Institute of Classical Studies

Night attacks: Iliad X and Aeneid IX through Dryden, Pope and Byron

The Virgil Society Lecture

Robin Sowerby

15.00–17.00

Room G22/24

Monday 26 April 2010 10.00–16.00

Musicology in the digital age

Institute of Musical Research

For more information see p.9

Conference/Symposium Room G37 12.00–13.30 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Seminar series: Work in progress Room ST274

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Embodied voices: female performers in narrative fiction Barbara Straumann

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17.00–19.00

Annual Globalisation Lecture

Institute for the Study of the Americas

Eduardo Stein

Lecture Chancellor’s Hall 17.30–19.30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Modern French history

Physical culture, manly ideals and social hygiene in inter-war France Joan Tumblety (Southampton)

Pollard Room 17.30–19.30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series:Voluntary action history Low Countries Room 18.00–20.00

Returned Volunteer Action from 1996 to 2006: an assessment of the life cycle of the fly in the ointment of the British Returner Volunteer Programme Steve Butter

Late poetry

Institute of English Studies Djuna Barnes Research Seminar Room G21a 18.00–20.00

A Costa dos Murmúrios/The murmuring coast

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies

Lídia Jorge

Tertúlia Seminar Series Room ST274

Tuesday 27 April 2010 17.00–19.00

The performance of Athenian law

Institute of Classical Studies

Michael Gargarin (Austin Texas)

Lecture Room G22/24 17.15–19.15

Death and the underworld in prehistoric Sardinia

Institute of Classical Studies

Robin Skeates (Durham)

Accordia Seminar Room ST273 17.30–19.30 Institute of Historical Research Institute of English Studies History of Libraries Research Seminar

The history and archaeology of a 17th century library: Peterhouse, Cambridge, from Andrew Perne (d. 1589) to John Cosin (d. 1672) Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge)

Room G37 26

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Institute of Historical Research

Advertising America: the United States Information Service in Italy, 1945–1956

Seminar series: International history

Simona Tobia (Reading)

18.00–20.00

Low Countries Room

Wednesday 28 April 2010

Conference/Symposium

Our national character, our national purpose: American presidents, democracy promotion and global order

Chancellor’s Hall

For more information see p.9

14.30–14.30

The Goldsmiths’ Company

10.00–19.00 Institute for the Study of the Americas

Institute of English Studies Senate House Library Friends Visit The Goldsmiths’ Company 17.00–19.00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Contemporary British history

The tide of democracy: shipyard workers and social relations in Britain Alastair Reid (Cambridge)

Wolfson Room 17.15–19.15 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: British history in the long 18th century

Agency and reform: the regulation of chimney sweep apprentices, 1770–1840 Niels van Manen (York, Institute of Historical Research)

G22/26 17.30–19.30

Human Rights Seminar

Human Rights Consortium

Pilar Domingo (Overseas Development Institute)

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar Series Room ST273

Thursday 29 April 2010 Research Training

Explanatory paradigms: an introduction to historical theory

Venue tbc

For more information see p.61

Institute of Historical Research

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9.00 –18.00

Policing and the policed in the postcolonial state

Institute of Commonwealth Studies

For more information see p.10

Conference/Symposium Room G37

School of Advanced Study

EndNote: basic training in electronic bibiographic techniques

Research Training

For more information see p.62

14.00–17.00

Room 254 17.00–18.00 Warburg Institute Maps and Society Seminar

Settling Disputes through Cartography in Fourteenth-Century Palma de Mallorca: The Map of the Siquia Aqueduct Chet Van Duzer

17.00–18.30 Institute of Musical Research Seminar series: Directions in musical research Room G35 17.30–21.00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies 2010 Keigh Spalding Lecture Room ST273

Sounding the gallery: video installation and the rise of Art-Music Holly Rogers (Liverpool) Chair: Anahid Kassabian (Liverpool)

Deutsche und europäische Sprachenpolitik.

Bestandsaufnahme – Meinungen – Konsequenzen für die Praxis Rudolf Hoberg (Darmstadt/Berlin)

Institute of Historical Research

Basil Dean and The Constant Nymph (1933): adaptation and British cinema

Seminar series: Film history

Vicky Lowe (Manchester)

17.30–19.30

Germany Room 17.30–19.30

T. S. Eliot Research seminar

Institute of English Studies

Anne Stillman (Cambridge)

Seminar Series Room G34

Friday 30 April 2010 17.30–19.00 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Issues in legal history (tbc) Sally Hadden (Florida State)

Lecture Charles Clore House

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Saturday 1 May 2010 Institute of Historical Research

County Record, Local History and Archaeology Societies Symposium

Conference/Symposium

For more information see p.10

10:30–16.30

Wolfson and Pollard Rooms 17.15–19.15

The insecurity of property in Britain, 1688–1835

Institute of Historical Research

Julian Hoppit

Seminar series: Economic and Social History of the Premodern World, 1500–1800 Germany Room

Monday 3 May 2010 10.00–17.00 Institute of Musical Research Research Training University of Birmingham

Composing for percussion and live electronics workshop III For more information see p.62

Tuesday 4 May 2010 17.00–19.00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Religious history of Britain 1500–1800

The pulpit at Paul’s Cross and Tudor origins of the early-modern public sphere Torrance Kirby (McGill)

Germany Room

Seminar series: Locality & region

The Exmoor planned farmstead: a multidisciplinary approach to understanding postenclosure hill farms

Ecclesiastical History Room

Matthew Bristow (VCH, Institute of Historical Research)

17.30–19.30

Libraries of the National Trust: some houses in Kent and Sussex – Shakespeare, landscape and the in-laws

17.15–19.15 Institute of Historical Research

Institute of English Studies Institute of Historical Research History of Libraries Research Seminar

Stephen Massil (National Trust)

Room G37 17.30–19.30

Cubrar Matrer: goddess of the Picenes?

Institute of Classical Studies

Eleanor Betts

Accordia Lecture Institute of Archaeology

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Wednesday 5 May 2010 16.00–18.00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Annual Meeting Lecture Room ST274/ST275

The 19th century writer as mentor and soulmate: readers’ responses to Karl Gutzkow Martina Lauster (Exeter) Friends of Germanic Studies at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies By invitation only.

Institute for the Study of the Americas

How enemies become friends: the sources of stable peace

Lecture

Charles Kupchan (Georgetown)

17.00–18.00

Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS 17.00–19.00

Seminar series: classical archaeology

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar Room G22/24 17.30–19.30

History and time

Institute of Historical Research

Eva Hoffman (writer), Bill Schwarz (Queen Mary), Susannah Radstone (East London), Esther Leslie (Birkbeck)

Seminar series: Psychoanalysis and History Low Countries Room

Thursday 6 May 2010 Research Training

Explanatory paradigms: an introduction to historical theory

Venue tbc

For more information see p.61

10.00–18.00

The traditions of liberty in the transatlantic world

Institute for the Study of the Americas

For more information see p.10

Institute of Historical Research

Conference/Symposium Beveridge Hall

School of Advanced Study

EndNote: intermediate training in electronic bibiographic techniques

Research Training

For more information see p.62

14.00–17.00

Room 254

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April–August 2010 17.00–18.30 Institute of Musical Research Seminar series: Directions in musical research Room G35

Events calendar Performing editions of the Leipzig School, 1850–1900 and their testimony to 19th century performing practices George Kennaway and David Milsom (Leeds/LUCHIP) Chair: John Irving (Institute of Musical Research)

Institute for the Study of the Americas

The problem of emancipation: ideology and the fate of land redistribution during the Civil War and reconstruction

Seminar series: American history

Nichola Clayton (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid)

17.30–19.30 Institute of Historical Research

Pollard Room 17.30–19.30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Comparative histories of Asia

Sinophiles and sinophobes: politics, classicism and medicine Ben Elman (Princeton)

Room G37 17.30–19.30

Vernacular and verse in English pastoral care

Institute of Historical Research

Carol Sibson (Queen Mary)

Seminar series: European history 1150–1550 Low Countries Room

Institute of Historical Research

History in schools – a century of debate, 1900– 2010

Seminar series: History of education

Jenny Keating and Nicola Sheldon (Institute of Historical Research)

17.30–19.30

Germany Room 17.30–19.30

The Tudor monarchy and the Somerset gentry

Institute of Historical Research

Simon Lambe (St Mary’s University College)

Postgraduate Seminar Low Countries Room

Seminar series: United States

The presidency impeached – Hollywood style: Oliver Stone’s Nixon (1995) and M-G-M’s Tennessee Johnson (1943)

Room G21a

Iwan Morgan (Institute for the Study of the Americas)

18.00–20.00 Institute for the Study of the Americas

In collaboration with the American Popular Culture Group, London Metropolitan University

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Friday 7 May 2010 9.30–19.00

Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum

Institute of Musical Research

Seth Ayyaz (City), Raimond Mirza (Independent composer), Rachel Harris (SOAS), Marina de Giorgi (SOAS), Claire Launchbury (Royal Holloway), Saida Daukeyeva (SOAS), Convenor: Laudan Nooshin (City University)

Forum Room G22/24 10.00–17.00

Joint postgraduate training programme in Italian

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies

For more information see p.62

Research Training Room ST274 16.30–18.30

Classical Art panel

Institute of Classical Studies

Diana Rodríguez Pérez and Christine Gardner

Postgraduate Work In Progress Seminar Room G34 17.00–19.00

The Calvinist Republic in Antwerp 1577–1585

Institute of Historical Research

Guido Marnef (Antwerp)

Seminar series: Low countries Low Countries Room 17.30–19.30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: History of gardens and landscapes

Parks and gardens in the art of Paul Sandby, 1760– 1800 Stephen Daniels (Nottingham)

Wolfson Room

Saturday 8 May 2010 10.30–16.15 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Research Training Room ST273 10.30–18.00

Workshop on: organising a conference, giving a paper, writing an article, editing books and journals For more information see p.62

South American Archaeology Seminar

Institute for the Study of the Americas Workshop Institute of Archaeology 11.00–13.00 Institute of English Studies Seminar series: London 19th century studies

Cockney cosmopolitan: the match factory girl and Nellie Dowell in east London and the world Seth Koven (Rutgers)

Room G22/24 32

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April–August 2010

Events calendar

11.00–13.00

Modernism and the seashell

Institute of English Studies

Sam Halliday (Queen Mary)

Seminar series: Modernism research

Death by modernity: sound, identity, and interruption in William Faulkner

Room G35

John Michael Gomez-Connor (Cambridge) Chair: Gail McDonald (Southampton)

Monday 10 May 2010 10–14 May 2010 Warburg Institute

Resources and techniques for the study of Renaissance and early modern culture

Warburg-Warwick Research Training For more information see p.63 Programme Institute of Historical Research

Interviewing for researchers

Research Training

For more information see p.63

Venue tbc 14.00–19.00

Extended Summer Seminar

Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Music in Britain Wolfson Room 16.00–18.00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies

Ernst Bloch: ‘Spuren’ (1930, 1959; selection): II Convenor: Johan Siebers (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies)

German Philosophy Reading Group Room ST276 17.30–19.30

Militarised environments in Cold War France

Institute of Historical Research

Chris Pearson (Sussex)

Seminar series: Modern French history Pollard Room

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Rights-consistent interpretation of statutes under section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998

Lecture

The Hon Mr Justice Sales

18.00–19.00

Charles Clore House

Tuesday 11 May 2010 School of Advanced Study

Careers workshop: Interview skills for academic jobs

Research Training

For more information see p.63

14.00–16.00

Room ST275 www.sas.ac.uk/events.html

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April–August 2010

Institute of Classical Studies

Giving voice: social change seen through mortuary remains in early Iron Age Basilicata

Accordia Seminar

Giulia Saltini Semarari (UCL)

17.15–19.15

Room ST273

Institute of Historical Research

Anglo-Italian relations in the Middle East in the interwar period

Seminar series: International history

Massimiliano Fiori (King’s College London)

18.00–20.00

Low Countries Room 19.00–21.00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: London Society for Medieval Studies

A medieval Reformation? The delivery of pastoral care in the central Middle Ages Sarah Hamilton (University of Exeter)

Wolfson Room

Wednesday 12 May 2010 Institute of Musical Research

Creative practice as research: research as creative practice

Research Training

For more information see p63.

10.30–17.30:

Newcastle University 15.30–19.30

Recent excavations at Lefkandi

Institute of Classical Studies

Irene Lemos (Oxford)

Mycenaean Series Lecture Room G22/24 17.00–19.00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Contemporary British history

‘Doing God’: religious conventions and political values in British politics c.1979-present.

Liza Filby (Warwick)

Wolfson Room 17.15–19.15 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: British history in the long 18th century

The hustling panic of 1821: street robbery in the early 19th century metropolis Heather Shore (Leeds Metropolitan)

Wolfson Room

Institute of English Studies

The UK Research Reserve (UKRR) – securing knowledge for research

Senate House Library Friends Talk

Frances Boyle (UKRR)

17.30–19.30

Room 102

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April–August 2010 18.00–20.00 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Black Britain Seminar Series

Events calendar White women and black history – the case of Catherine Impey Caroline Bressey

Room G35

Thursday 13 May 2010 Institute of Commonwealth Studies

London Debates 2010: how does Europe in the 21st century address the legacy of colonialism?

Conference/Symposium

For more information see p.10

13–15 May

Venue tbc Research Training

Explanatory paradigms: an introduction to historical theory

Venue tbc

For more information see p.61

15.00–17.00

The Ullstein paper Tempo and the generational problem in the Weimar Republic

Institute of Historical Research

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Denkanstöße Seminars

Jochen Hung (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies)

Room ST276 16.30–19.30

Archaic Greece

Institute of Classical Studies

Enrietta Bissa (Lampeter) and Thomas Brisart (Oxford, Brussels)

Joint Ancient History & Classical Archaeology Seminar Room G22/24 17.00–18.30 Institute of Musical Research Seminar series: Directions in musical research Room G35 17.30–19.30 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Lecture

Opera in the British provinces in late Victorian England Paul Rodmell (Birmingham) Chair: David Wright (Royal College of Music)

Types and stereotypes: Sigmund Freud’s portrayal of Jews in Greater Austria Siegbert Prawer (Oxford)

Room ST273 17.30–19.30

Abstraction and embodiment in the war film

Institute of Historical Research

Robert Burgoyne (St Andrews)

Seminar series: Film history Germany Room

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Money laundering: where are the authorities going now?

Lecture

Andrew Haynes (Wolverhampton)

18.00–19.00

Charles Clore House www.sas.ac.uk/events.html

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April–August 2010 London Theatre seminar

Institute of English Studies Seminar series Room 102

Friday 14 May 2010 14.00–16.30 Human Rights Consortium Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series: Fratricide and Fraternité

Understanding and repairing neighbourly atrocity: perpetrators/bystanders/rescuers For more information see p.7

Room ST273 14.00–17.00

Issues in the legal history of family law

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Rebecca Probert (Warwick), Joanne Bailey (Oxford Brookes), Mary Sokol (UCL)

Seminar series: Legal history, family and child law Charles Clore House 16.30–18.30

Greek martial arts and the professional hoplite

Institute of Classical Studies

Jarryd Hoy

Postgraduate Work In Progress Seminar Room G34 18.00–20.00

Canto 84

Institute of English Studies

Martin Stoddard

Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group Room G35 18.00–20.00

The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar

Institute of English Studies Seminar Room G37

Saturday 15 May 2010 10.00–18.00

Latin American Music Seminar

Institute for the Study of the Americas Institute of Musical Research Workshop Macmillan Hall 14.00–16.00 Institute of English Studies Seminar series: EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination)

Historians of error: the Protestant attack on Platonic orientalism Wouter Hanegraaff (Amsterdam)

Room G34 36

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April–August 2010

Events calendar

Monday 17 May 2010 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Collecting & Display (100BC to AD1700) Room G35 17.00–19.00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: European history 1500–1800

Horace Walpole and the collections at Strawberry Hill Bet McLeod (independent scholar)

Almost a separate race: race theory and the idea of Europe, 1771–1830 Paul Stock (LSE)

Low Countries Room

Tuesday 18 May 2010 9.30–19.00

Study day: performativity, poetry and creation

Institute of Musical Research

For more information see p.10

Conference/Symposium Chancellor’s Hall 17.00–19.00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Religious history of Britain 1500–1800

Religious practice and scientific benefaction: the case of Thomas Hollis the 3rd (1659–1731) Ric Whaite (King’s College London)

Germany Room 17.15–19.15

Small towns and economic change

Institute of Historical Research

Robert Peberdy (Oxfordshire Victoria County History)

Seminar series: Locality & region Ecclesiastical History Room 18.00–19.30

Rationality and instrumental reasoning

Institute of Philosophy

John Broome (Oxford)

Jacobsen Lecture Beveridge Hall 18.00–20.00 Institute of Classical Studies Institute of English Studies Lecture

Looking at the Acropolis in the age of Enlightenment William St Clair (Institute of English Studies)

Room G22/24

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April–August 2010

Wednesday 19 May 2010 School of Advanced Study

Mothers, wives and welfare politics in Latin America (title tbc)

Dean’s Seminar

For more information see p.6

12.30–14.00

Room G37 17.00–19.00

Classical archaeology seminar

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series Room G22/24

Institute for the Study of the Americas

Alineamientos politicos de los gobiernos y politicas laborales en América Latina en la década del 2000

Room G21a

Graciela Bensusan (UNAM, Mexico)

17.30–19.30

English in diaspora: Canada/Australia/New Zealand

17.00–19.30 Seminar

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Language Policy/Practice Seminar Series

John Harris (UCL)

Room G16 18.00–20.00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar

German ‘Gastarbeiter’: female work and life experiences in post-war Britain Inge Weber-Newth (London)

Room ST273

Thursday 20 May 2010 Research Training

Explanatory paradigms: an introduction to historical theory

Venue tbc

For more information see p.61

16.30–19.30

Classical Greece

Institute of Classical Studies

Robin Osborne (Cambridge) and Alan Johnson (UCL; Institute of Classical Studies)

Institute of Historical Research

Joint Ancient History & Classical Archaeology Seminar Room G22/24

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April–August 2010 17.30–19.30 PM Institute of Historical Research Institute for the Study of the Americas Seminar series: American history Pollard Room

Events calendar Roundtable discussion of Daniel Walker Howe, What hath God wrought: the transformation of America, 1815–1848 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007)

17.30–19.30

Notes from the Imperial underground

Institute of Historical Research

Tim Harper (Cambridge)

Seminar series: Comparative histories of Asia Room G37 17.30–19.30

Exiled English convents and the French Revolution

Institute of Historical Research

Caroline Watkinson (Queen Mary)

Postgraduate Seminar Low Countries Room

Friday 21 May 2010 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Conference/Symposium

Polemical Austria For more information see p.11

Room ST274/ST275 9.30–18.30

Experience and phenomenal qualities

Institute of Philosophy

For more information see p.11

Conference/Symposium Room G22/24 10.00–18.00

Women and US foreign policy

Institute for the Study of the Americas

For more information see p.11

Conference/Symposium Chancellor’s Hall 16.30–18.30 Institute of Classical Studies Postgraduate Work In Progress Seminar

The role of Cupid in Claudian’s Epithalamium de Nuptiis Honorii Clare Coombe

Room G34 17.30–19.00

Issues in legal history (tbc)

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

John Tribe (Kingston)

Lecture Charles Clore House

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April–August 2010

Institute of Historical Research

Low Countries divines and England’s Second Reformation 1636–62

Seminar series: Low countries

Anthony Milton (Sheffield)

17.00–19.00

Low Countries Room 17.30–19.30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: History of gardens and landscapes

The new spring gardens: a patriot Elysium at Vauxhall 1732–1751 Suzannah Fleming (The Temple Trust)

Wolfson Room

Saturday 22 May 2010 11.30–17.00 Institute of Classical Studies The Virgil Society Room G22/24

Reading of Virgil’s Muse, a play by Oliver Chadwick (d.2009) Annual General Meeting Virgil and Horace – Friendship with Differences Harry Eyres

Monday 24 May 2010 14.30–18.00

European criminal law and human rights

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

John Spencer, William Robinson, William Dale (Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies), Me Bertrand Favreau (Europena Bar Human Rights Institute), Jodie Blackstock (JUSTICE), Simone White (European Anti-Fraud Office; Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)

Seminar Charles Clore House

17.30–19.30 Institute of Historical Research

Postgraduates working on modern France present their research

Seminar series: Modern French history Pollard Room 17.30–19.30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series:Voluntary action history

Making the English patient (consumer): patient groups and health consumerism, 1960s–2000s Alex Mold (School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

Low Countries Room

Tuesday 25 May 2010 17.30–17.30

MMSDA public lecture

Institute of English Studies

Simon Tanner (King’s College London)

Lecture Room G35

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April–August 2010

Events calendar

17.30–19.30

Visit to Dulwich College Library

Institute of English Studies

Keith A Manley (Institute of Historical Research)

Institute of Historical Research History of Libraries Research Seminar Dulwich College Library Institute of Historical Research

Notes from the rotten West: Soviet correspondents in the United States, 1950–1985

Seminar series: International history

Dina Fainberg (Rutgers)

18.00–20.00

Low Countries Room 18.00–20.00

Old Hispanic chant

Institute of Musical Research

For more information see p.5

John Coffin Trust lecture-recital Goodenough College 19.00–21.00

The Normans and empire

Institute of Historical Research

David Bates (East Anglia)

Seminar series: London Society for Medieval Studies Wolfson Room

Wednesday 26 May 2010 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Seminar Room ST274

Seminar in visual culture 2010: the art of murder Never afraid – murder at crimes town Sarah Sparkes

Monochrome mirror: representing Dennis Nilsen Lisa Downing

11.00–17.00

Migration and health rights

Institute for the Study of the Americas Human Rights Consortium Workshop Chancellor’s Hall 12.00–13.30

Gentrification and art

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies

Ricarda Vidal (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies)

Seminar series: Work in progress Room ST274 17.00–19.00

Black political activism in Britain, 1900–1965

Institute of Historical Research

Marika Sherwood (Black and Asian Studies Association)

Seminar series: Contemporary British history Wolfson Room www.sas.ac.uk/events.html

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April–August 2010 The origins of a coming ideal: meritocracy in Britain 1750–1850 Penelope J Corfield

Wolfson Room Institute of Classical Studies

The Antikythera Mechanism: a Hellenistic planetarium

ICLS-FBSA Lecture

Michael Wright (Science Museum)

18.00–20.00

Room G22/24 18.00–20.00

TBA

Institute for the Study of the Americas

Martin Halliwell, University of Leicester

Seminar series: United States

In collaboration with the American Popular Culture Group, London Metropolitan University

G21a

Thursday 27 May 2010 Research Training

Explanatory paradigms: an introduction to historical theory

Venue tbc

For more information see p.61

16.00–19.30

The central Mediterranean 600–300

Institute of Classical Studies

Tim Cornell (Manchester) and Gabriele Cifani (Rome)

Institute of Historical Research

Joint Ancient History & Classical Archaeology Seminar Room G22/24

Warburg Institute

European encounters with ‘the Other’ in 16thcentury cartography

Maps and Society Seminar

Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Madrid):

17.00–19.00

History of communication: seminar 7

17.00–18.00

Institute of English Studies Seminar series: History of communication Room 104 17.15–19.30

Jewish Names in Thomas Mann

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies

Yahya Elsaghe (Berne)

English Goethe Society: Ida Herz Lecture Room ST273

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April–August 2010

Events calendar

Institute of Historical Research

Leni Riefenstahl, Charlie Chan,Tarzan and the 1936 Olympics

Seminar series: Film history

Jeffrey Richards (Lancaster)

17.30–19.30

Germany Room 17.30–19.30

T. S. Eliot Research Seminar

Institute of English Studies

Stefan Collini, Alexis Kirschbaum, George Simmers

Seminar Series Room G34

Conference/Symposium

Held to account: political and military leaders should be subject to trial in England for alleged war crimes committed abroad

Charles Clore House

For more information see p.11

18.00–20.30 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Friday 28 May 2010 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Conference/Symposium

New insight into Gramsci’s life and work For more information see p.12

Chancellor’s Hall 10.00–16.00

Understanding South India

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Workshop Court Room 14.00–16.30 Human Rights Consortium Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series: Fratricide and Fraternité

Understanding and repairing neighbourly atrocity: drawing lines For more information see p.7

Room G35 16.30–18.30

Roman non-elite urban housing

Institute of Classical Studies

Colin Runeckles

Postgraduate Work In Progress Seminar Room G34 18.00–20.00 Institute of English Studies

University of London Finnegans Wake Research Seminar

Seminar Room G37

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April–August 2010

Tuesday 1 June 2010 17.00–19.00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Religious history of Britain 1500–1800 Germany Room

Between radicalism and rationalism: the strange case of English antitrinitarianism between 1640 and 1660 Paul Lim (Vanderbilt)

Seminar series: Locality & region

Myths beside the seaside – the influence of myths on how history of the City of Brighton and Hove is perceived

Ecclesiastical History Room

Sue Berry

17.30–19.30

An ‘unglamorous’ profession? The public librarian in late-Victorian London

17.15–19.15 Institute of Historical Research

Institute of English Studies History of Libraries Research Seminar

Michelle Johansen (East London; Bishopsgate Institute; Birkbeck)

Room G37 18.00–20.00

Garbo, Nabokov and the revenge for love

Institute of English Studies

Anthony Paraskeva (Dundee)

Wyndham Lewis Reading Group Room G35

Wednesday 2 June 2010 Fellows’ Annual Lecture

The gilded stage and beyond: why history and the arts should get together more often

Venue tbc

Daniel Snowman

13:30–18.30

New research in Indian music

Institute of Musical Research

Speakers include: Martin Clayton (Open University) and Laura Leante (Open University)

Institute of Historical Research

South Asia Music and Dance Forum Room G34

Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Black West Indians in Britain and the politics of empire, c.1931–48

Black Britain Seminar Series

Daniel Whittall

18.00–20.00

Room G35 18.30–20.00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Seminar British Library

Revolutions! US and Spanish-American independence compared Sir John Elliott (Oxford), James Dunkerley (Queen Mary), Simon Newman (Glasgow), Anthony McFarlane (Warwick) In collaboration with the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library

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April–August 2010

Events calendar

Thursday 3 June 2010 Research Training

Explanatory paradigms: an introduction to historical theory

Venue tbc

For more information see p.61

3–4 June Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Regulating and deregulating lawyers in the 21st century

Conference/Symposium

For more information see p.12

Institute of Historical Research

Charles Clore House 3–4 June Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Conference/Symposium

Seventh international postgraduate conference on current research in Austrian literature For more information see p.12

Room ST274/5 9.00–18.00

India and China in comparative perspective

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Workshop Court Room 16.30–19.30

Imperial Rome

Institute of Classical Studies

Neville Morley (Bristol) and Kris Lockyear (UCL)

Joint Ancient History & Classical Archaeology Seminar Room G22/24 17.00–18.30 Institute of Musical Research Seminar series: Directions in musical research Room G35

Politics, music and the idea of sovereignty in the early modern world David RM Irving (Cambridge) Chair: Katherine Butler Brown (King’s College London)

Institute of Historical Research

The growth of mass literacy in Britain during the 18th century

Seminar series: History of education

Steven Cowan (Institute of Education)

17.30–19.30

Germany Room 19.00–21.00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies

Lydia Mischkulnig reading

Reading Austrian Cultural Forum

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April–August 2010

Friday 4 June 2010 16.30–18.30

Digital classicists seminar

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series STB9 17.30–19.30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: History of gardens and landscapes

Fit for a queen: creating and maintaining the London gardens of Catherine of Braganza David Marsh (Birkbeck)

Wolfson Room

Saturday 5 June 2010 11.00–13.00

London 19th century studies seminar

Institute of English Studies

Isobel Armstrong (Birkbeck)

Seminar series: Room G34 14.00–18.00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Research Training

Workshop on: the PhD viva, applying for a job, getting your PhD published For more information see p.63

Room ST275 14.00–16.00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Education in the long 18th century Germany Room

What DID 18th-century women know? Clues about girls’ education to be found in textile objects Bridget Long (Hertfordshire)

14.00–16.00

Early modern heterodoxies

Institute of English Studies

William Poole, Richard Serjeantson and Rhodri Lewis,

Seminar series: EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination) Room G34

Monday 7 June 2010 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Collecting & Display (100BC to AD1700) Room G35

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Odoardo Farnese’s collection of exotica, curiosities, ‘mirabilia’ and ‘naturalia’ Antonio Denunzio (Bank of San Paolo, Naples)

www.sas.ac.uk/events.html

April–August 2010 9.00–18.00 Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Events calendar Sri Lanka (title tba)

Workshop Room G37 16.00–18.00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies German Philosophy Reading Group Room ST273

‘Minima Moralia’ – Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben (1951; selection): I Theodor W.Adorno Convenor: Johan Siebers (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies)

18.00–19.00

Legislative form and the European Union

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Neville March Hunnings

Lecture Charles Clore House

Tuesday 8 June 2010 Institute of Historical Research

Internet sources for historical research

Research Training

For more information see p.64

Venue tbc 17.00–19.00 Institute of Philosophy

IP logic and metaphysics forum Arif Ahmed (Cambridge)

Seminar Room G21a 18.00–19.30

The best interests of the child: current issues?

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Helen Codd (Lancashire Law School, UCLAN; Institute of Advanced Legal Studies), Jonathan Herring (Oxford) and Helen Reece (LSE)

Seminar Charles Clore House 18.00–20.00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: International history Low Countries Room

Statesmen, smugglers and sideshows: British policy towards international efforts to control private armaments manufacture and the Arms Trade, 1917–35 Ed Packard (LSE)

Wednesday 9 June 2010 9–14 June

Giordano Bruno

Warburg Institute

Miguel Angel Granada (Barcelona) and Jürgen Renn (Max Planck)

June Bruno Seminar

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April–August 2010

12.30–14.00

How do you solve a problem like Edmund Curll?

School of Advanced Study

Pat Rogers (School Fellow; South Florida)

Dean’s Seminar

For more information see p.6

Room G37 14.00–18.00

Popular Music Colloquium

Institute of Musical Research

Convenors: Allan Moore (Surrey) and Tim Hughes (Surrey)

Colloquium Room ST274/ST275 15.00–17.00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies

Lydia Mischkulnig – meet the author Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk

Seminar Room ST276

Institute of Historical Research

New questions in the history of the early modern clerical profession: a prolegomenon for research

Seminar series: British history in the long 18th century

Arthur Burns (King’s College London), Kenneth Fincham (Kent) and Stephen Taylor (Reading)

17.00–19.00

Wolfson Room

Lecture

Serving the next generation – the Commonwealth in the 21st century: movement for colonial freedom

Beveridge Hall

Tony Benn

17.30–18.30 Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Thursday 10 June 2010 Research Training

Explanatory paradigms: an introduction to historical theory

Venue tbc

For more information see p.61

10.00–16.00

Careers workshop

School of Advanced Study

For more information see p.64

Institute of Historical Research

Research Training Room G32 13.00–16.00

Byzantine workshop

Institute of Classical Studies Workshop Room G22/24

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April–August 2010 15.00–17.00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Denkanstöße Seminars

Events calendar The interrelationship between British and Austrian youth culture 1960–90 Bianca Zaininger (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies)

Room ST276 16.30–19.30

Indo-Roman trade

Institute of Classical Studies

Dominic Rathbone (King’s College London) and Roberta Tomber (British Museum)

Joint Ancient History & Classical Archaeology Seminar Room G22/24

Institute of Musical Research

Computational thinking in music composition: a personal perspective

Seminar

Michael Edwards (Edinburgh)

Room G35

Chair: Michael Vaughan (Keele)

17.30–20:00

US immigration reform

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Stephen Legomsky (Washington, St Louis)

17.00–18.30

Lecture Charles Clore House 17.30–19.30 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Corresponding Fellow’s Lecture Room ST273

Deutsch-jüdische Literatur und Kulturgeschichte: Zur Entwicklung eines Forschungsfelds in den letzten 30 Jahren Hans-Otto Horch (Aachen)

Warburg Institute

What was historia Sacra? Using Christian pasts in an age of Reformations

Lecture

Simon Ditchfield (York)

17.30–18.30

Friday 11 June 2010 11–12 June

Re-thinking 17th-century America

Institute of Historical Research

For more details see p.12

IHR/Warwick conference Venue tbc

Institute of Philosophy

Humans and other animals: challenging the boundaries of humanity

Conference/Symposium

For more details see p.12

11–12 June

Room G22/24

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April–August 2010

12.00–13.30

Odour and media

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies

Hyunseon Lee

Seminar series: Work in progress Room ST273 16.30–18.30

Seminar series: digital classicists

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar STB9 18.00–20.00

Canto 32

Institute of English Studies

Eric White (Oxford Brookes)

Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group Room G35 18.00–20.00

The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar

Institute of English Studies Seminar Room G37

Saturday 12 June 2010 11.00–13.00 Institute of English Studies Djuna Barnes Research Seminar Room G21a

Presenting from ‘Improper Modernism: Djuna Barnes’ Bewildering Corpus’ Daniela Caselli (Manchester) Followed by (weather permitting) picnic in Russell Square Gardens.

Monday 14 June 2010 14–15 June Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Conference/Symposium

Cultural institutions and literary reception in Europe For more information see p.13

Room ST274/ST275 14–15 June

Annual Byzantine Colloquium

Institute of Classical Studies

For more information see p.13

Colloquium Venue tbc 17.00–19.00

Debauchery in 18th-century France (title tbc)

Institute of Historical Research

Lisa Jane Graham (Haverford College)

Seminar series: European history 1500–1800 Low Countries Room

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April–August 2010

Events calendar

Tuesday 15 June 2010 Institute of Historical Research

Databases for historians

Research Training

For more information see p.64

Venue tbc 17.00–19.00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Religious history of Britain 1500–1800

Clerical pluralism and incomes in Canterbury Diocese, 1600–1715 Tom Reid (Kent)

Germany Room 17.15–19.15

The other Londons: North America

Institute of Historical Research

Christopher Currie (Institute of Historical Research)

Seminar series: Locality & region Ecclesiastical History Room

Wednesday 16 June 2010 16.00–18.00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Seminar Room ST275

Measuring the world. 20th-century Austrian writers abroad Slow Homecoming Peter Handke

Institute for the Study of the Americas

Seminar and book launch Post-Colonial Trinidad: An Ethnographic Journal

Caribbean Seminar Series

Colin and Gillian Clarke

17.00–19.30

Room ST273 17.00–19.00

JP Barron Memorial Lecture

Institute of Classical Studies

Christopher Pelling (Oxford)

Lecture Room G22/24 17.30–19.30

South Africa: a creole society and its literature

Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Christopher Heywood (Sheffield)

Language Policy/Practice Seminar Series Room G16

www.sas.ac.uk/events.html

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April–August 2010

Thursday 17 June 2010 17–18 June

Cities and nationalisms

Institute of Historical Research

For more information see p.13

Conference/Symposium Charles Clore House

Research Training

Explanatory paradigms: an introduction to historical theory

Venue tbc

John Tosh, John Seed and Sally Alexander

9.30–18.00 Institute of English Studies

Comics and medicine: medical narrative in graphic novels

Conference/Symposium

For more information see p.13

17–19 June Institute of Philosophy

The world as will and consciousness: celebrating the work of Brian O’Shaughnessy

Conference

For more information see p.13

Institute of Historical Research

Beveridge Hall

Institute of English Studies

Libraries across cultures: developing a new academic library in Egypt

Senate House Library Friends Talk

Bill Simpson

17.30–19.30

Room 102 18.00–19.00

Formalism, contract law and the market

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

John Gava (Adelaide; Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)

Lecture Charles Clore House

Friday 18 June 2010 Institute of English Studies

Studies in Cotton Nero A.x (the GawainManuscript)

LOMERS annual conference

For more information see p.14

10.00–18.00 Warburg Institute

Sense, affect and self-preservation in Bernardino Telesio (1509–88)

Colloquium

For more information see p.14

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April–August 2010 16.30–18.30

Events calendar Digital classicists seminar

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series STB9 17.30–19.30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: History of gardens and landscapes

Medicinal apothecaries and gardens in Venice and London in the 16th century Valentina Pugliano (Oxford)

Wolfson Room

Monday 21 June 2010 Institute for the Study of the Americas

From Duvalier to Préval : Haiti yesterday, today and tomorrow

Conference/Symposium

For more information see p.14

21–22 June

Charles Clore House

22–25 June

London Palaeography Summer School

Institute of English Studies

For more information see p.19

Summer School 17.30–19.30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series:Voluntary action history

To create community: some contrasting inter-war initiatives in the UK Lesley Hall (Wellcome Library)

Low Countries Room

Wednesday 23 June 2010 23–25 June

Patrick White: modernist impact/critical futures

Institute of English Studies

For more information see p.14

Conference/Symposium

Institute of Historical Research

Britain’s lost revolution: remembering the Gordon Riots on their 230th anniversary

Seminar series: British history in the long 18th century

Ian Haywood and John Seed (Roehampton), Tim Hitchcock and Matthew White (Hertfordshire)

17.15–19.15

Wolfson Room

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Sir Owen Dixon’s strict and complete legalism in the 21st century

Lecture

John Gava (Adelaide; Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)

18.00–19.00

Charles Clore House

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April–August 2010

Thursday 24 June 2010 Institute for the Study of the Americas

The historical roots of social exclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean

Conference/Symposium

For more information see p.14

24–25 June

Charles Clore House

Institute of Historical Research

The history of families & households: comparative European dimensions

Conference/Symposium

For more information see p.15

24–26 June

Wolfson and Pollard Rooms

Research Training

Explanatory paradigms: an introduction to historical theory

Venue tbc

For more information see p.61

17.00–19.30 Institute for the Study of the Americas

Beyond the fur trade: the French in Michigan before 1837

Seminar

Guillaume Teasdale (York, Toronto)

Institute of Historical Research

STB9 17.00–19.00

Seminar 8

Institute of English Studies Seminar series: History of communication Room 104 18.00–19.00

Credit rating agencies and global governance

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Harry McVea (Bristol; Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)

Lecture Charles Clore House 18.00–20.00

Performing Haydn’s piano music

Institute of Musical Research

Tom Beghin (McGill) in conversation with John Irving (Institute of Musical Research)

John Coffin Trust lecture-recital Goodenough College

Friday 25 June 2010 14.00–17:00 Human Rights Consortium Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series: Fratricide and Fraternité

Understanding and repairing neighbourly atrocity: truth, justice and reparations For more information see p.7

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April–August 2010 16.30–18.30

Events calendar Digital classicists seminar

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series STB9 18.00–20.00 Institute of English Studies

University of London Finnegans Wake Research Seminar

Seminar Room G37

Monday 28 June 2010 28 June–2 July

London Rare Books School: week 1

Institute of English Studies

For more information see p.19

Summer School 28–29 June

Women writers of the fin de siècle

Institute of English Studies

For more information see p.15

Conference/Symposium

Institute of Historical Research

VCH international symposium and Marc Fitch lecture

Conference/Symposium

For more information see p.15

10.00–19.00

Wolfson and Pollard Rooms

Tuesday 29 June 2010 29–30 June

History Lab annual conference

Institute of Historical Research Conference/Symposium Wolfson and Pollard rooms

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Comparative perspectives on constitutions: theory and practice

W G Hart Legal Workshop

For more information see p.15

29 June–1 July

Charles Clore House 29 June–3 July

Memory, empire and technology

School of Advanced Study

For more information see p.20

Summer School

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Events calendar 17.00–19.00 Institute of Historical Research Seminar series: Religious history of Britain 1500–1800 Germany Room

April–August 2010 Free will and enclosure: recruitment and motivation in the English convents in exile 1600– 1700 Caroline Bowden (Queen Mary), Katharine Keats-Rohan and Katrien Daemen DeGelder (Ghent)

Wednesday 30 June 2010 18.00–19.00

Presence and absence in Keats’s letters

Institute of English Studies

For more information see p.5

John Coffin Memorial Lecture in the History of the Book Room G22/24

Thursday 1 July 2010 1–2 July

Environments

Institute of Historical Research

79th Anglo-American conference of historians

Conference/Symposium

For more information see p.16

Beveridge Hall 1–3 July 2010

The symphony orchestra as cultural phenomenon

Institute of Musical Research

For more information see p.16

Conference/Symposium Senate House

Lecture

To make democracy safe for the world: the Southern US sources of the global push for privatisation

Sussex University

Nancy MacLean (Northwestern)

17.30–19.30 Institute for the Study of the Americas

The James Bryce Lecture on the American Commonwealth and plenary address for the 2010 Historians of the Twentieth Century United States conference.

Friday 2 July 2010 16.30–18.30

Digital classicists seminar

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series STB9

Saturday 3 July 2010 11.00–13.00

Close-reading Victorian poetry

Institute of English Studies

Catherine Maxwell (Queen Mary)

London 19th century seminar series Room G16

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Events calendar

Monday 5 July 2010 5–9 July

London Rare Books School: Week 2

Institute of English Studies

For more information see p.19

Summer School Institute of Historical Research

Methods and sources for historical research

Research Training

For more information see p.61

Venue tbc 16.00–18.00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies German Philosophy Seminar Room ST276

‘Minima Moralia’ – Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben (1951; selection): II Theodor W Adorno Convenor: Johan Siebers (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies)

Tuesday 6 July 2010 15.00 Institute of Musical Research Lecture-recital Goodenough College

Practising research in performance: Beethoven’s chamber music John Irving (Institute of Musical Research), fortepiano; Jane Booth, clarinet; Jennifer Morsches, cello

Wednesday 7 July 2010 Institute of English Studies

Literary London 2010: representations of London in literature

Conference/Symposium

For more information see p.16

7–9 July

Reassessing the seventies

Institute of Historical Research

For more information see p.16

7–9 July

Centre for Contemporary British History annual conference Senate House 18.00–19.00

Dickens and Shakespeare

Institute of English Studies

For more information see p.5

Hilda Hulme Memorial Lecture Beveridge Hall

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April–August 2010

Thursday 8 July 2010 Institute of Historical Research

London and the making of the permissive society

Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture

Frank Mort (Manchester University)

Beveridge Hall

Friday 9 July 2010 16.30–18.30

Digital classicists seminar

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series STB9

Saturday 10 July 2010 10–17 July

The T. S. Eliot International Summer School

Institute of English Studies

For more information see p20.

Summer School Institute of English Studies

John Buchan and the idea of modernity

Conference/Symposium

For more information see p.17

15.00–16.30

Practising research in performance: Beethoven’s chamber music

Institute of Musical Research Lecture-recital Morden College Chapel, Blackheath

John Irving (Institute of Musical Research), fortepiano; Jane Booth, clarinet and Jennifer Morsches, cello

Tuesday 13 July 2010 13–14 July

Emergence in physics

Institute of Philosophy

For more information see p.17

Conference/Symposium Beveridge Hall

Wednesday 14 July 2010 Research Training

Databases for historians II: practical database tools

Venue tbc

For more information see p.64

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Thursday 15 July 2010 15–17 July

Boundaries

Institute of Musical Research

For more information see p.17

Conference/Symposium Senate House

Friday 16 July 2010 16–17 July Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Conference/Symposium

Poetic practice and the practice of poetics in French since 1945 For more information see p.17

STB3–6 16.30–18.30

Digital classicists seminar

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series STB9

Saturday 17 July 2010 Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Language Policy/Practice Seminar Series: summary of the series

Conference/Symposium

For more information see p.17

10.00–16.00

Room G16

Monday 19 July 2010 Institute of English Studies Conference/Symposium

Reading conflict: Open University postgraduate conference For more information see p.18

Wednesday 21 July 2010 9.00–18.00

Commerce and migration

Institute of Commonwealth Studies

John Villiers (Royal Asiatic Society), Marie-Claude Machon (Sorbonne),

Workshop

Rogerio Puga (Nova de Lisboa), Shihan de Silva (Institute of Commonwealth Studies), Rolf Killius (Horniman Museum, London)

Room ST274/ST275

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Events calendar Thursday 22 July 2010 22–24 July

Victorian popular culture: prose, stage & screen

Institute of English Studies

For more information see p.18

Conference/Symposium

Friday 23 July 2010 Institute of Classical Studies

Digital classicists seminar

Seminar series STB9

Friday 30 July 2010 16.30–18.30

Digital classicists seminar

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series STB9

Friday 6 August 2010 16.30–18.30

Digital classicists seminar

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series STB9

Friday 13 August 2010 16.30–18.30

Digital classicists seminar

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series STB9

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Research training

Research training

The School draw on the research and teaching expertise of the Institutes to provide a programme of disciplinespecific and generic research training to support scholarly development. The following research training events are also listed in the events calendar. For further information visit www.sas.ac.uk/researchtraining.html or contact rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk unless otherwise stated.

2 April 2010 10.00–17.00 Institute of Musical Research University of Birmingham

Composing for percussion and live electronics workshop I Convenor: Scott Wilson (Birmingham), with Joby Burgess and Eric Bumstead (Birmingham) This workshop will offer a maximum of 6 student composers the opportunity to gain experience in composing for percussion with live electroacoustics. Held at the Elgar Concert Room, Arts Building, University of Birmingham.

12–16 April 2010

Methods and sources for historical research

Institute of Historical Research

This long-standing course is an introduction to finding and using primary sources for research in modern British, Irish and colonial history. The course will include visits to the British Library, the National Archives, the Wellcome Institute and the House of Lords Record Office, amongst others.

Fee £185. Contact: simon.trafford@sas.ac.uk

19 April 2010 Institute of Historical Research

Freedom of information: a practical guide for historians A practical guide to using the Freedom of Information Act to find and obtain historical source material.

Fee £70. Contact: simon.trafford@sas.ac.uk

(Thursdays)

Explanatory paradigms: an introduction to historical theory

Institute of Historical Research

Speakers: Sally Alexander, John Seed, John Tosh

22 April–24 June 2010

A critical introduction to current approaches to historical explanation.

The contrasting explanatory frameworks offered by Marxism, psychoanalysis, gender analysis and Paul Ricoeur’s work on narrative form the central discussion points of the course, equipping students to form their own judgements on the schools of thought most influential in the modern discipline.

Fee £200. Contact: simon.trafford@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar Research training 23 April 2010 14.00–17.00 Institute of Musical Research University of Birmingham

April–August 2010 Composing for percussion and live electronics workshop II Convenor: Scott Wilson (Birmingham), with Joby Burgess and Eric Bumstead (Birmingham) Second of three workshops offering 6 student composers the opportunity to gain experience in composing for percussion with live electronics. Held at the Elgar Concert Room, Arts Building

29 April 2010

Teaching skills for the PhD student

14.00–17.00

Open to research students in the humanities and social sciences to attend.

School of Advanced Study Room ST273 14.00–17.00

EndNote: basic training in electronic bibliographic techniques

School of Advanced Study

Numbers are strictly limited.

29 April 2010

Room 254 3 May 2010 10.00–17.00 Institute of Musical Research University of Birmingham

Composing for percussion and live electronics workshop III Convenor: Scott Wilson (Birmingham), with Joby Burgess and Eric Bumstead (Birmingham) Third of three workshops offering 6 student composers the opportunity to gain experience in composing for percussion with live electronics.

Held at the Elgar Concert Room, Arts Building

6 May 2010

Getting research published

14.00–17.00

Open to research students in the humanities and social sciences to attend.

School of Advanced Study Room ST275

14.00–17.00

EndNote: intermediary training in electronic bibliographic techniques

School of Advanced Study

Numbers are strictly limited.

6 May 2010

Room 254 7 May 2010

Joint postgraduate training programme in Italian

10.00–17.00

This programme is a partnership of the Departments of Italian at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Reading, and Royal Holloway and UCL. It provides training in Italian Studies for research students and is also an opportunity for meeting and networking between both students and staff. Contact: italian@reading.ac.uk

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Room ST274 8 May 2010 10.30–16.15 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Room ST273 62

Workshop on: organising a conference, giving a paper, writing an article, editing books and journals Course convenor: Katia Pizzi

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Research training 10 May 2010

Interviewing for researchers

Institute of Historical Research

Speaker: Michael Kandiah (Institute of Historical Research) For those who wish to investigate the recent past, collecting the testimony of relevant individuals is a vital resource. This course offers practical information and training on how to interview and how to use interviews for the purposes of research. Led by Dr Michael Kandiah, Director of the Oral History Programme, CCBH, Institute of Historical Research, this course will examine: (1) how to interview public officials (politicians and civil servants), security and intelligence personnel, scientists and technicians, and medical professionals; (2) what are the best practices for recording, preserving and transcription of interviews; (3) how to ensure interviewing techniques are ethical; (4) copyright and data protection issues; (5) alternative techniques such as group interviewing; and (6) the advantages and limitations of interviews. Fee £70.

Contact: simon.trafford@sas.ac.uk

10–11 May 2010 Warburg Institute Warburg- Warwick Research Training Programme

Resources and techniques for the study of Renaissance and early modern culture The teachers come from the Warburg Institute and the Warwick’s Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. The course covers electronic resources, archival sources, manuscripts, books and images.

Fee £40. Contact: j.d.davies@warwick.ac.uk

11 May 2010 14;00–16.00 School of Advanced Study Room ST275

Careers workshop: interview skills for academic jobs Open to research students in the humanities and social sciences to attend.

10:30–17.30

Creative practice as research: research as creative practice

Institute of Musical Research

Convenor: Agustin Fernandez (Newcastle)

Newcastle University

Speakers include Richard Wistreich (Royal Northern College of Music) with participation from academic staff and recently-completed PhD students from the International Centre for Music Studies (ICMuS). To be held at the ICMus, CETL Seminar Room, Armstrong Building, Newcastle University.

5 June 2010

The PhD viva, applying for a job, getting your PhD published

12 May 2010

14.00–18.00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Room ST275

Free to graduate students in departments subscribing either under the Institute’s membership scheme or in departments which have registered as participants in the Research Training Network.

Contact: flo.austin@sas.ac.uk

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Internet sources for historical research

Institute of Historical Research

This course provides an intensive introduction to use of the internet as a tool for serious historical research. It includes sessions on academic mailing lists, usage of gateways, search engines and other finding aids, and on effective searching using Boolean operators and compound search terms, together with advice on winnowing the useful matter from the vast mass of unsorted data available, and on the proper caution to be applied in making use of online information.

Fee £70. Contact: simon.trafford@sas.ac.uk

10 June 2010

Careers workshop

10.00–16.00

Career planning beyond academia; CVs and application forms; personality profiling; interview skills and interview skills specifically for academic jobs.

School of Advanced Study Room G32 15–18 June 2010

Databases for historians

Institute of Historical Research

Speaker: Mark Merry This four-day course introduces the theory and practice of constructing and using databases. Through a mixture of lectures and practical, hands-on, sessions, students will be taught both how to use and adapt existing databases, and how to design and build their own. No previous specialist knowledge apart from an understanding of historical analysis is needed. The software used is MS Access, but the techniques demonstrated can easily be adapted to any package. This course is open to postgraduate students, lecturers and all who are interested in using databases in their historical research.

Fee £185. Contact: simon.trafford@sas.ac.uk

5–9 July 2010

Methods and sources for historical research

Institute of Historical Research

This long-standing course is an introduction to finding and using primary sources for research in modern British, Irish and colonial history. The course will include visits to the British Library, the National Archives, the Wellcome Institute and the House of Lords Record Office, amongst others.

Fee £185. Contact: simon.trafford@sas.ac.uk

14–16 July 2010 Institute of Historical Research

Databases for historians II: practical database tools The aim of this course is to develop the practical skills necessary for constructing and fully exploiting a database for use in historical research. Assuming a basic understanding of the conceptual issues in digitally managing information from historical sources, the course aims to introduce the specific tools and techniques required for improving the utility of the database from the data entry stage, through to the generation and presentation of analysis. The course consists of ‘handson’ practical sessions in which students are provided with practical guidance on employing these techniques through the use of Microsoft Access. Familiarity with the basic concepts of database use is required.

Fee £160. Contact: simon.trafford@sas.ac.uk

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Calls for papers

Calls for papers Art musics of Israel: identities, ideologies, influences 28 –31 March 2011 Institute of Musical Research CFP deadline: Monday 5 July 2010, at 12 noon GMT Israel has become the home of a range of art musics that are not widely familiar, and represents a fascinating crucible for the study of creativity in a young nation state. This conference intends to explore the ways in which Israeli music and musical life throw light on aesthetic issues of wide relevance. These include the balance of regional and international musical elements, the interfaces between art and popular styles and the integration of a variety of musical sources, such as liturgical, folk, pop and local idioms. Discussion about repertories that challenge conventional notions of genre and style will also be welcome.

Papers of 30 minutes based on new research and to include musical examples, will be welcomed – as will live or recorded musical presentations of one hour about specific composers by composers or performers that include some scholarly introduction to the material. The official language of the conference is English. It is envisaged that selected papers will be published in a volume of proceedings. There will be an award for the best paper by a postgraduate student. Please send an abstract of 250 to 300 words together with your biography of up to 150 words, and with your contact details to the Conference Director, Malcolm Miller.

Jewish Music Institute Forum for Israeli Music at SOAS in association with the Institute of Musical Research Web: www.music.sas.ac.uk/imr-events/imr-conferences-colloquia-performance-events/art-musics-of-israelidentities-ideologies-influences.html#c1429 Contact: m.miller@jmi.org.uk

Reading conflict: Open University postgraduate conference 19 July 2010 Institute of English Studies CFP deadline: 19 April 2010 Keynote lecture by Sarah Brouillette (MIT) This conference examines the role of postcolonial studies in relation to other critical disciplines, and asks what is the role of the creative voice in conflict zones? How do we read during conflict? And what is the role of publishing during conflict? We invite 20–minute papers, as well as 60–minute panel proposals, from postgraduate students and early career researchers that engage with, but are not limited to, the following topics: • Conflict and the Creative Voice • Reading during Conflict • Conflict and Publishing • Conflict and the History of the Book • Conflict and Travel Writing • Conflict and the Canon • Conflict between Literary Disciplines • Conflict between Literary Genres • Conflict within Postcolonial Studies • Conflict, Empire and Postcolonialism Website: www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2010/Conflict/index.htm Contact: o.b.laursen@open.ac.uk Organised by the Open University Postcolonial Literatures Research Group

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How to find us

How to find us Venue Unless otherwise stated, all events are held at the School of Advanced Study which is located within the central University of London precinct in Bloomsbury, central London. Most events take place in Senate House or Stewart House which are adjacent.

Rooms listed in the events brochure are located as follows: Beveridge Hall

Senate House, ground floor

Chancellor’s Hall

Senate House, first floor

Court Room

Senate House, first floor

Room STB2

Stewart House, basement

Room STB3

Stewart House, basement

Room STB6

Stewart House, basement

Room G22/24

Senate House, ground floor

Room G34

Senate House, ground floor

Room G35

Senate House, ground floor

Room G37

Senate House, ground floor

Macmillan Hall

Senate House, ground floor

Room 102

Senate House, first floor

Room 103

Senate House, first floor

Room 254, Library Training Suite Senate House Library Room 273

Stewart House, second floor

Room 274

Stewart House, second floor

Room 275

Stewart House, second floor

Room 276

Stewart House, second floor

The School Common Room

Senate House, third floor

Ecclesiastical History Room

Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block

Germany Room

Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block

Low Countries Room

Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block

Wolfson Room

Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block

Charles Clore House

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square

Warburg Institute

Woburn Square

External venues listed in this events brochure (see event listings for details) Austrian Cultural Forum

Modern College Chapel, Blackheath

British Library

Newcastle University

Goodenough College

Sussex University

Gresham College

The Goldsmith’s Company

Institute of Archaeology, UCL

University of Bordeaux

Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS

University of Birmingham

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How to find us By tube Nearest underground stations: Russell Square (Piccadilly line) Goodge Street (Northern line) Tottenham Court Road (Central and Northern lines) Euston Square (Circle and Metropolitan lines) Euston Station (Victoria and Northern lines) By rail Euston, King’s Cross and St Pancras International mainline stations are within walking distance. The other London mainline stations are a short tube or taxi journey away.

By air From Heathrow, the Piccadilly tube line provides a service to Russell Square (approximately 45 minutes).

From Gatwick, there is a mainline train service to Victoria station (30 minutes) where tube trains and taxis are available.

Car parking facilities Public car parking is not available at Senate House.

NCP at Woburn Place & Bloomsbury Place.

Contacts Please check the website for the contact details relating to each event or email SAS.events@sas.ac.uk.

If you would like to find out more about the Institutes of the School contact the following: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) Website: www.ials.sas.ac.uk Email: ials@sas.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 5800 Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) Website: www.icls.sas.ac.uk Email: admin.icls@sas.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 8700 Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) Website: www.commonwealth.sas.ac.uk Email: ics@sas.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 8844 Institute of English Studies (IES) Website: www.ies.sas.ac.uk Email: ies@sas.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 8675 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS) Website: www.igrs.sas.ac.uk Email: igrs@sas.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 8677 Institute of Historical Research (IHR) Website: www.history.ac.uk Email: ihr@sas.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 8740 Institute of Musical Research (IMR) Website: www.music.sas.ac.uk Email: music@sas.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)20 7664 4865 Institute of Philosophy (IP) Website: www.philosophy.sas.ac.uk Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 8683 Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA) Website: www.americas.sas.ac.uk Email: americas@sas.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 8870 Warburg Institute (WI) Website: www.warburg.sas.ac.uk Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 8949

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