Research Seminars Autumn Term 2019
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Institute of Classical Studies Institute of Commonwealth Studies Institute of English Studies Institute of Historical Research Institute of Latin American Studies Institute of Modern Languages Research Institute of Philosophy The Warburg Institute
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Downloadable copies of the programmes for the Institute of Classical Studies regular seminar and lecture series are available from the Institute's website.
The Institute of English Studies runs an active programme of research seminars and reading groups. All seminars and reading groups are free and open to the public.
ics.sas.ac.uk/events/seminar-lecture-series Ancient History The autumn 2019 series of the ICS Ancient History seminar will take 'Gender and Sexuality from Livia to Theodora' as its theme. Thursdays at 16:30–18:30 (except 5 Dec, 17:30–19:30) Dates: 10, 17, 24 Oct; 14, 21, 28 Nov; 5, 12 Dec
Ancient Literature This series of the ICS Ancient Literature seminar brings together different approaches and a range of speakers to explore anthropology and Classical literature. Mondays at 17:00–19:00
ies.sas.ac.uk/events/research-seminars Book Collecting Seminar The focus of these lectures and seminars is on bibliophilia and the book trade. Book collectors, dealers, and auctioneers are invited to give a lecture on a subject of their choosing that relates to the practice of bibliophilia. Lectures may be anecdotal, academic, or purely for entertainment, with a special focus this year on widening access in book collecting. With this in mind, the programme is jointly coordinated and run by the University of London’s new Society of Bibliophiles. Tuesdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 8 Oct; 10 Dec
Dates: 7, 14, 21 Oct; 4, 11, 18 Nov; 2, 9 Dec
Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar
Ancient Philosophy
The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar is devoted to the line-byline reading and analysis of James Joyce’s Ulysses. It has acted as a focal point for academic researchers and postgraduate students with research interests in Joyce across London and the southeast and beyond for thirty years. Over that time it has built up a dedicated following while also drawing in new participants year on year. It keeps in touch with seminarians past and present by way of a blog that disseminates the seminar’s findings each month.
The ICS Ancient Philosophy seminar series brings together papers on philosophical texts and authors from the Greek and Roman world. Mondays at 16:30–18:30 Dates: 14, 28 Oct; 11, 25 Nov; 9 Dec
Classical Archaeology ‘Adriatic Connections’ will be the theme of the papers given at the ICS Classical Archaeology seminar during the autumn term. Wednesdays at 17:00–19:00 (except 6 Nov, 17:30–19:30) Dates: 2, 9 Oct; 6, 20 Nov; 11 Dec
Fellows' Seminar The ICS Fellows’ seminar is an informal lunchtime meeting at which visiting fellows and researchers working in the ICS present their work to each other and to anyone else who is interested. Coffee and tea will be provided. Attendees are welcome to bring their lunches.
Fridays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 11 Oct; 1 Nov; 6 Dec
Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar (EMPHASIS) The EMPHASIS seminar focuses on the history of early modern philosophy (broadly construed), and the history of early modern science (including the occult sciences). It is one of the only seminars in London that addresses these themes together. Once a month on Saturdays at 14:00–16:00 Dates: 12 Oct; 2 Nov; 7 Dec
Wednesdays at 13:00–14:00
History of Books and Reading
Dates: 9, 23 Oct; 13, 20 Nov
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Mycenaean The ICS Mycenaean seminar series presents papers on topics in Aegean prehistory and attracts an international audience of scholars. Wednesdays at 15:30–17:30 Dates: 16 Oct; 13 Nov; 4 Dec
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Irish Studies The Institute of English Studies holds monthly Irish Studies seminars to support the discussion of Irish literature, culture, and history. Thursdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 17 Oct; 14 Nov; 12 Dec
London–Paris Romanticism Launched in 2016, the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar is an international research forum devoted to British Romantic literature, its European connections, and the broader culture of the Romantic period, 1760–1830. The forum is a collaboration between four colleges of the University of London and a number of Parisian institutions including Université Paris-Sorbonne and the École Normale Supérieure, which hosts a two-day symposium in Paris each spring. Fridays at 17:30–19:30 Dates: 18 Oct; 15 Nov; 13 Dec
Contact: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk The Institute of Historical Research continues to run the largest programme of seminars dedicated to history in the UK, with over 70 offered throughout the year, covering a wide variety of historical periods, places, and topics. Its seminars are open to everyone and are attended by more than 10,000 people each year. Many of the IHR’s seminars are also broadcast live and archived online at history.ac.uk/podcasts. All venues are subject to change. Please check online for latest details. history.ac.uk/search-events-seminar
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Architectural History
London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS)
Once a month on Thursdays at 17:30
This seminar aims to include contributions both from leading medievalists and new members of the London medievalist community, to encourage participation from graduate students, and to range as widely as possible within the fields of Old English and Middle English studies. The selection of topics offers a balance of detailed analysis and more general theoretical / methodological or historical discussion. The seminar fosters a friendly spirit of collaboration among London medievalists and is an essential and vital forum where London medievalists can meet, exchange ideas, and keep abreast of current trends in medieval studies.
Black British History
Once a month on Wednesdays at 17:30–19:30 | Room 243 (Senate House) Date: 16 Oct; 27 Nov
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Britain at Home and Abroad Since 1800 The seminar covers all aspects of modern British history – social, cultural, political, and economic papers address domestic history as well as histories of empire and decolonisation, and transnational and comparative histories involving Britain. Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15 Dates: please check the website
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British History in the Seventeenth Century
Comparative Histories of Asia
The seminar is one of the UK’s leading centres for the dissemination and discussion of the latest research on seventeenth century British and Irish history. It covers all aspects of British and Irish political history, including print and manuscript circulation, British and transnational communication networks, parliament and political institutions, political and religious ideas, urban political culture, politics and memory, migrant communities in Britain, and British migrant and exile communities overseas.
Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15
Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15 Dates: please check the website
British History in the Long Eighteenth Century This seminar provides an important forum for debate on all aspects of research into the history of Britain over the long eighteenth century. Papers cross thematic, methodological, and disciplinary boundaries, and the series often hosts panels on particular themes and outreach events across London. Following seminars, all are warmly invited to dinner at a local restaurant, with a pegged charge of ÂŁ15 for postgrads and recent postdocs. Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15 Dates: please check the website
Christian Missions in Global History Once a month on Tuesdays at 17:30 Dates: 15 Oct; 12 Nov; 10 Dec
Collecting and Display
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Contemporary British History Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:00 Dates: please check the website
Conversations and Disputations Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:30 Dates: please check the website
Crusades and the Latin East Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: please check the website
Digital History The Digital History Seminar has been running since 2012 and focuses on the discussion of historical research that has been made possible by the use of electronic tools and resources. The seminar is offered in association with the IHR's Digital History team and welcomes anyone with an interest in digital history, including academics, students, cultural heritage and digital humanities practitioners, and other researchers. Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 (with simultaneous live broadcast) Dates: please check the website ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk
Once a month on Mondays at 18:00 Dates: please check the website
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Disability History
History and Public Health
Once a month on Mondays at 17:15
The History and Public Health IHR Seminar Series is organised by the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Previous themes have included the history of emotions in public health. As well as historians, the seminars draw an audience of anthropologists, epidemiologists, and clinicians.
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Earlier Middle Ages Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: please check the website
Economic and Social History of the Early Modern World Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15 Dates: please check the website
Education in the Long Eighteenth Century Once a month on a Saturday at 14:00–16:00 Dates: please check the website
European History 1150–1550 Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: please check the website
Wednesdays at 12:45–14:00 | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, WC1E 7HT and 15–17 Tavistock Place, WC1H 9SH Dates: please check the website
History Lab Seminar History Lab is the national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines. It is an intellectual and social forum designed to meet the needs of the postgraduate history community. In this seminar series, PhD students at any level in their studies present their current research, thus covering a diverse range of topics and time periods of historical research and exploring the most recent trends in historiography. Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: please check the website
European History 1500–1800
History of Education
Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30
This seminar is convened by ICHRE (International Centre for Historical Research in Education) members. The seminar attracts speakers from around the world, providing a forum for established historians as well as early-career researchers to present their work.
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Film History Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: please check the website
Food History Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: please check the website
Gender and History in the Americas Once a month on Mondays at 17:30 Dates: please check the website
History Acts HISTORY ACTS is a radical history forum, affiliated to the Raphael Samuel Centre, and based at the Institute of Historical Research. Its goal is to bring together radical and left-wing historians and contemporary activists. HISTORY ACTS workshops are led by activists, who give a short talk or presentation about their work. A historian or historians working on a relevant topic will then respond, before opening it up to group discussion. Monthly on Thursdays Dates: please check the website
Once a month on a Thursday at 17:30 Dates: please check the website
History of Gardens and Landscapes The seminar provides a forum for historians and researchers, artists, practitioners, and interested members of the public to explore and discuss issues related to the history, use, and meaning of gardens and the designed landscape and their importance in the public realm today. Fortnightly on Thursdays at 18:00 Dates: please check the website
History of Libraries These seminars are jointly sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, the Institute of Historical Research, the Warburg Institute, and the Library and Information History Group of CILIP. Once a month on Tuesdays at 17:30 Dates: please check the website
History of Liturgy Once a month on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: please check the website
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History of Political Ideas Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15 Dates: please check the website
History of Political Ideas / Early Career Seminar Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15 Dates: please check the website
History of Sexuality The history of sexuality is a diverse area of study that focuses broadly on men and women as sexual beings in the past, on the categories of heterosexuality and homosexuality through which sexual selfhood has been experienced, and, moving beyond this binary, on other historical expressions of gender identity, queerness, and sexual experience. Once a month on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: please check the website
Imperial and World History The Imperial and World History Seminar has been an international hub for researchers in global, transnational, and imperial history for decades. Its fortnightly meetings welcome senior and early career scholars, and graduate students from across the universities of London.
Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop The workshop is an informal forum for postgraduates and new researchers to meet and present finished pieces or works in progress on any aspect of colonial or postcolonial history. The workshop features papers that address specific methodological, interdisciplinary, or theoretical concerns as well as colonial/postcolonial case studies from throughout the world. The workshop draws an audience from scholars at different stages of their research. Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30 Dates: please check the website
Institutions of British Government – in partnership with The Strand Group Focusing on seminal moments in the contemporary history of British government and fusing academic papers with expert respondents, this seminar series examines how British government really works in practice as well as in theory. It highlights and assists government in understanding its own institutional history, providing a forum where current and previous government officials can learn from and help academics' research. Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30 Dates: please check the website
Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: please check the website
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Interdisciplinary Seminar on Medievalism
London POTUS Group
Medievalism is the study of responses to the Middle Ages at all periods since a sense of the medieval began to develop. The seminar discusses such responses, ranging from the robustly academic to the overtly political, to the whimsical, frivolous, and downright silly. What is significant is the way in which the idea of the Middle Ages functions as a consensually understood tool of reference and legitimation, and as a part of the modern cultural imaginary.
The London POTUS Group is dedicated to the study of modern US politics with a particular emphasis on the role played by the White House. Its seminar series will present cutting-edge research on the presidency. There will also be distinguished speakers from the Fourth Estate and Government in order to generate a fruitful dialogue with those groups.
Once a month on Wednesdays at 17:30
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International History Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 18:00 Dates: please check the website
Jewish History Seminars consist of a 40–50 minute presentation followed by a question-and-answer session. Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 14 Oct; 28 Oct; 11 Nov; 25 Nov; 9 Dec
Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy Thursdays at 17:15 Dates: please check the website
Late Medieval Fridays at 17:30 Dates: please check the website
Latin American History Tuesdays at 17:30 Dates: please check the website
Life-Cycles This thematic seminar series addresses issues relating to the life-cycle including age and ageing, intergenerational relationships, parenthood, rites of passage, childhood, and youth. We are captive neither to chronology nor particular country, welcoming instead topics pertaining to any historical era or setting, and interdisciplinary perspectives. The seminars offer a friendly and welcoming space for discussion for all, including postgraduates and early career scholars. Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30 Dates: 1, 15, 29 Oct; 12 Nov; 10 Dec
London Group of Historical Geographers
Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 18:00
London Society for Medieval Studies Founded in 1970, the London Society for Medieval Studies fosters knowledge of, and dialogue about, the Middle Ages (c.500–c.1500 CE) among both scholars and the wider public in London. Organised by postgraduates and early career academics, these fortnightly seminars showcase the latest advances in all areas of medieval studies, including history, art, politics, economics, literature, and archaeology. Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 19:00 Dates: please check the website
Low Countries History The Low Countries Seminar is an interdisciplinary group with wide-ranging interests in the history of the Netherlands and Belgium. The topics of the papers range chronologically from the Middle Ages to the present, with a majority focusing on the Golden Ages of Flanders and Holland in the early modern era. Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15 Dates: please check the website
Maritime History and Culture Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: please check the website
Marxism in Culture This seminar series was conceived to provide a forum for those committed to the continuing relevance of Marxism for cultural analysis, with both 'Marxism' and 'culture' broadly conceived. We understand Marxism as an ongoing self-critical tradition, and correspondingly the critique of Marxism's own history and premises is part of the agenda. From this perspective, conventional distinctions between the avantgarde and the popular, the elite and the mass, the critical and the commercial are very much open for scrutiny. All historical inquiry is theoretically grounded and theoretical work in the Marxist tradition demands empirical verification. Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:30 Dates: please check the website
The London Group of Historical Geographers was originally established in 1981 and since 1989, it has organised fortnightly themed seminars across the academic year. Interdisciplinary in focus, the seminar brings together scholars and practitioners from the arts, humanities, and social sciences to examine geographical themes across a range of historical periods.
Media History Seminar
Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15
Tuesdays at 18:00
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Jointly hosted by the Institute of English Studies and Institute of Historical Research, this series aims to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars working on a range of media including print, radio, film, and digital communications technologies from various time periods.
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Military History
Parliaments, Politics and People
The Military History seminar considers wars and warfare in the modern era, since the 1780s. Papers address the themes of the history of armed forces (land, naval, and air); strategy and operations; military theory and practice; commanders and campaigns; and the social and cultural impact of warfare.
This seminar provides a national forum for new research on all aspects of parliamentary and electoral politics, from the people and processes to the records and physical settings. Most papers concern the United Kingdom and Ireland from the sixteenth century onwards, but it also welcomes presentations on the medieval period and the wider world. Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15
Forthnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: please check the website
Modern British History Postgrad Reading Group Once a month on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: please check the website
Modern French History Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30 Dates: please check the website
Modern German History The Modern German History seminar draws scholars from all around the UK, Europe, and the wider world. We focus on the history of the German-speaking lands and Germans overseas since the nineteenth century, exploring themes in political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural history. Wednesdays at 17:30 or Thursdays at 17:30 | German Historical Institute, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2NJ Dates: please check the website
Modern Italian History The Modern Italian History Seminar brings together scholars working on nineteenth- and twentieth-century history of Italy and acts as a focal point of academic debate in that area. It features a mix of established and junior scholars from the UK, Italy, and elsewhere. When there are links with other fields and seminar series, the seminar organises joint sessions. Once a month on Thursdays at 17:30
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People, Place and Community The Centre for the History of People, Place and Community (CHPPC) seminar series builds on IHR strengths in both local history and in urban and metropolitan history, bringing together academics, heritage professionals, creative practitioners, and others to present new work and forge new approaches to making histories of place and people. It seeks to bridge disciplinary silos and foster comparative, connected conversations, and to identify opportunities to make both theoretical and practice-led interventions in contemporary debates around space and place. Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 25 Sep; 9 Oct; 6, 20 Nov; 4 Dec
Philosophy of History The Philosophy of History seminar series offers a forum for reflection on the nature of historicity as such, both in sociocultural formations and in individual human existence. It explores the nature of historical understanding, interpretation, and explanation, thereby fostering reflective and critical reappraisal of the enterprise of historical research and writing in all its forms. Founded in 2000, it has always welcomed all those with an interest in the philosophy of history, broadly and diversely construed. Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: please check the website
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Modern Religious History Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15 Dates: please check the website
North American History Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: please check the website
Oral History Fortnightly on Thursdays at 18:00 Dates: please check the website
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Psychoanalysis and History
Sport and Leisure History
The relationship between psychoanalysis and history is longstanding, productive, and controversial. This seminar series has a dual focus: on the impact of psychoanalytic ideas and practices on historical writing, and on the history of psychoanalysis as a body of theory, an international movement, and a clinical tradition. Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30
The Sport and Leisure History Seminar is organised by the British Society of Sports Historians. Further details of the Society’s activities and its journal, Sport in History, can be found at sportinhistory.org.
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Studies of Home
Public History Seminar
Once a month on Wednesdays at 17:30
Once a month on Wednesdays at 17:30
Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30 Dates: please check the website
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Transport and Mobility History
Religious History of Britain 1500–1800
Once a month on Thursdays at 17:30
Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15
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Tudor and Stuart History
Rethinking Modern Europe
Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15
This seminar hosts discussions about cutting-edge research on modern and contemporary European history. Speakers ‘rethink’ Europe through comparative, global, transnational, local, national, and regional perspectives. ‘Brexit’—and, more generally, the rise of populist, right-wing, and anti-immigration political options in Europe and globally—mean that there is a need for historically grounded, intellectually innovative and socially engaged discussions on Europe, perhaps more than ever in recent history. Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: please check the website
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Voluntary Action History Fortnightly on Mondays at 18:00 Dates: please check the website
War, Society and Culture Once a month on Wednesdays at 17:15 Dates: please check the website
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Women's History
Socialist History
Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15
The seminar's core remit is to promote new research in the area of socialist history broadly defined. This can range through labour struggles to women's history and anti-racism both in the UK and elsewhere in the world. The focus is on work either in progress or recently published either in a journal or as a book. Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30
Dates: 4, 18 Oct; 1, 15, 29 Nov
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Society for Court Studies An annual programme of seminars, run by the Society for Court Studies, in which new work in the field is presented and discussed. The seminars are free (except the guest lecture) and open to everyone. Mondays at 18:00 | NYU London, Bedford Square Dates: please check the website
Society, Culture and Belief, 1500–1800 Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: please check the website Sponsored by Mark Storey
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Latin American Music (LAMS)
Contact: ilas@sas.ac.uk The Institute of Latin American Studies hosts a broad range of seminar series throughout the academic year. These events are usually free and open to the public. ilas.sas.ac.uk/events Latin America and the Global History of Knowledge (LAGLOBAL) This seminar is a global academic forum for advanced interdisciplinary research on the contributions of Latin America to the global history of knowledge. LAGLOBAL aims to facilitate knowledge exchange by providing a metropolitan venue for the dissemination of new work in such fields as the history of natural history, expeditions, cartography, medicine, historiography, anthropology, archaeology, statecraft, theory or philosophy, and related practices. Wednesdays at 17:30 For further details and meeting dates, please visit: laglobal.blogs.sas.ac.uk
Latin American Anthropology
LAMS is a UK-based interdisciplinary forum and network for Latin American music research that brings together scholars, students, musicians, and the public to share interest, knowledge, and critical perspectives. Since 2000, LAMS has met twice each year on a Saturday for a day of presentations, discussion, and live music. Presenters include a mix of scholars, research students, and musicians, alongside international visitors and members of the UK Latin American community. Two Saturdays per year (usually May and November) plus occasional small-scale events For further details and dates, please visit: ilas.sas.ac.uk/events/ seminar-series/latin-american-music-seminar
Contact: philosophy@sas.ac.uk philosophy.sas.ac.uk/events Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics Usually at 17:30–19:30 unless specified otherwise Dates: 17 Sep (16:00–18:00); 8, 21 Oct (16:30–18:00); 27 Nov; 10 Dec
This seminar offers a forum in which anthropologists in the early phase of their careers working on Latin America can present their work and get feedback in a supportive and collaborative environment, as well as build connections between researchers and departments. It is jointly run by the Institute of Latin American Studies and several London-based anthropology departments, including LSE, Goldsmiths, and UCL.
London Aesthetics Forum
Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30
The Practical, the Political and the Ethical
For further details and meeting dates, please visit: anthropologyseminarilas.blogs.sas.ac.uk
London Andean Studies A global academic forum for advanced interdisciplinary research on the past, present, and future of the Andean region of South America, broadly defined to include Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile. The seminar seeks to promote interdisciplinary research and debate that connects cutting-edge, transnational Andean and area studies scholarship with global issues and theoretical questions of significance to the wider academic community and public.
With lectures on topics in aesthetics and philosophy of art, the Forum aims to stimulate philosophical reflection on art. Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 16:00–18:00 | Room 246 (Senate House) Dates: 2, 23 Oct; 4 Dec
Established in 2015, the PPE series was created to discuss work in progress from visiting speakers. Talks are usually 50 minutes, followed by discussion. Usually on Fridays at 16:30–17:45 Dates: 25 Oct; 15 Nov; 6 Dec
Wednesdays at 17:30 For further details and meeting dates, please visit: andeanstudiesseminarilas.blogs.sas.ac.uk
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History of Libraries Seminar
Contact: warburg@sas.ac.uk The Warburg Institute hosts research seminars on ideas, images, and society across time and space. They are open to the public and (unless otherwise noted) take place at the Warburg Institute in Woburn Square. warburg.sas.ac.uk/whats-on Bilderfahrzeuge Lecture Series This annual lecture series is organised by the international research project ‘Bilderfahrzeuge: Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology’. Reflecting the broad scope of its research associates, the series brings together speakers from diverse academic and disciplinary backgrounds and invites them to consider their work in relation to the migration of images, ideas, and objects encapsulated in Aby Warburg’s metaphor of the Bilderfahrzeug. For further details and meeting dates, please visit: iconology.hypotheses.org
Curatorial Conversations Curatorial Conversations bring the museum directors and makers of recent exhibitions at world-leading museums and galleries to the Warburg to discuss their work. The conversations, led by academics at the Warburg Institute, discuss the issues of setting the directorial or curatorial agenda and staging meaningful encounters with objects. The series is designed to draw out discussion of the discoveries made, challenges tackled, and the lessons learned in heading a collection and putting together internationally renowned exhibitions. For dates and details, please check the Institute website
Director’s Seminar The Director’s Seminar brings leading scholars and writers to the Institute to share new work and fresh perspectives on key issues in their fields. For dates and details, please check the Institute website
From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Commedia This series aims to introduce the beauty, complexity, and continuing significance of Dante’s Divina Commedia through readings of the text, in the original and in translation, and through commentary on it. The readings are accompanied by a rich visual display of medieval illuminations, while the commentary explores and invites discussion of some of the leading ideas of the poem.
This seminar series examines all aspects of the provision of libraries during all periods of history and in all countries. Talks are based on substantial original research and are usually by established researchers, but students are encouraged to present their research, as well. In collaboration with Lambeth Palace Library, National Trust, and Queen Mary University of London. First Tuesday of every month at 17.30–18:30 Dates: 1 Oct (Warburg Institute); 5 Nov (Room 243, Senate House); 3 Dec (Room 246, Senate House);
Maps and Society These lectures focus on the history of maps and mapping worldwide, from earliest times to the twentieth century, with an emphasis on the social and cultural factors of the maps’ context, production, and use. Many speakers are internationally well-known scholars in the subject, but early-career speakers are also encouraged. The meetings advance understanding of non-current maps both through formal proceedings and informal encounters with established practitioners, who include academics, librarians, map collectors, and dealers. The style of the well-illustrated lectures is scholarly but accessible to an audience whose own interests and expertise range widely. Occasional Thursdays at 17:30–19:30 Dates: 17 Oct; 5 Dec
Neoplatonic Studies In collaboration with University of Westminster and UCL. Occasional Thursdays at 17:00 For dates and details, please check the Institute website
Work-in-Progress The Work-in-Progress seminar series explores the variety of subjects studied at the Institute. Papers are given by third-year PhD students, research fellows studying at the Institute, visiting fellows, and occasionally invited international scholars. Occasional Wednesdays at 14:00–16:00 For dates and details, please check the Institute website
Research Training and Reading Groups The reading groups cover a range of topics in the fields covered by the Warburg Institute, including Classical Greek, Latin palaeography, Arabic philosophy, and occult sciences and esoteric traditions. These groups are typically open to students, research fellows, and interested scholars. For a full list of reading groups and upcoming dates, please please check the Institute website
Usually Mondays at 18:00–19:30 Date: 26 Nov
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Contact: rli@sas.ac.uk The Refugee Law Initiative hosts a broad range of events throughout the academic year, addressing issues of both refugee law and refugee protection. These events are usually free and open to the public. rli.sas.ac.uk/events RLI International Refugee Law The series provides a public space for discussion, promotion, and dissemination of research between academics, practitioners, students, and others with an interest in the refugee and forced migration field. The 10th International Refugee Law Seminar Series is run in conjunction with UNHCR UK with the overarching topic of ‘shaping the future of refugee protection in a global community’. Dates: please check the website
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