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Archives in the Digital Age

Latin American Women’s Filmmaking

Living Proust and the Belle Époque

Senate House Library exhibition: ‘Reformation’

Plus hundreds of other events highlighting the latest research across the humanities

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

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

The majority of SAS and Senate House Library events and exhibitions are free and open to the public. All are welcome and encouraged to take advantage of the unique access to current research in the humanities and social sciences that these events provide. For a complete list of upcoming events and exhibitions, please visit sas.ac.uk and senatehouselibrary.ac.uk.

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

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

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

BlogThe School’s flagship blog, Talking Humanities, is written by academics from around the world and provides a range of thought-provoking articles on subjects that matter to humanities researchers. Talking Humanities can be found at talkinghumanities.blogs.sas.ac.uk. We invite short articles from humanities researchers. Contact us at [email protected] with your proposal.

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Witness Seminar: The Role and Functions of the British High Commissions in the Caribbean4 May

This group interview of leading British diplomats will assess the role and functions of British High Commissions in the Caribbean from the 1980s to the present, from the perspective of those who have worked at them. It uses oral history to identify the priorities of British policymakers and how they have approached the countries in the Caribbean as important regional players, as well as to identify how British diplomats have dealt with the legacy of the country’s imperial past and how they have utilised past and present connections to further British international interests. Organised by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and King’s College London.

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Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the present5 May

This symposium hosted by the Institute of Modern Languages Research explores transcultural exchanges across the Mediterranean with a focus on the visual, textual and material representation of port cities. Beyond geography, what binds these cities together? What do representations reveal in relation to shared Mediterranean identities? What were the effects of colonisation? How did the British, Ottoman, French and Italian empires—which all, at various times, ruled over these cities—change their cultural and memorial fabric? A distinguished group of international scholars will discuss these issues and more. The programme includes a poetry reading by Stephanos Stephanides and a performance by Alev Adil, ‘Offshore Dreaming: Aphrodite’s Gas Field’ (2015). A wine reception follows. This event is generously supported by the Cassal Trust and Birkbeck, University of London.


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Lay Down Your Arms! On Peace in Europe8 May

Acclaimed Austrian actress Maxi Blaha will perform her one-woman show Soul of Fire, described by the Sydney Morning Herald as ‘an elegant little play that gently and economically recreates the life and spirit of Bertha von Suttner, peace activist, writer and, in 1905, the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Austrian actress Maxi Blaha brings a restless intelligence to the role.’ The performance will be followed by a short talk by Daniel Laqua (Northumbria), a specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century history and European peace movements.


Living Literature11 May

This year, Living Literature invites you to explore Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.

Learn how taste, smell and memory are linked through sensory experiments with the Centre for the Study of the Senses, immerse yourself in a labyrinthine universe where erotic desire and scientific method combine. Surrounded by the scents, fashions and music of the Belle Époque, you can feast on food inspired by In Search of Lost Time and sip linden tea cocktails while learning about Paris at the turn of the century.

Listen to readings and pop-up talks; learn about love, jealousy, queer identity, art, society and politics during the French fin-de-siècle; view our literary exhibition and enjoy a magic lantern show. There will also be an intimate performance of Proust’s fictional Vinteuil sonata, as well as works by other classical composers from the era. Plus a few surprises on the night…


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World Literature and the New Totalitarianism15–16 May

At the beginning of 2017 we are faced with the spectre of a new totalitarianism. It blossoms from the victories of Trump, the Brexit camp, and far right candidates in Scandinavia and Poland. It comes in the wake of the Russian plutocracy’s concentration of power and the recrudescence of neo-Nazi movements in Greece and the Balkans. The teleological narrative many have been telling ourselves—of progressive cosmopolitanism, tolerance, relatively open borders, of urbanity in every sense of the word—has been challenged by the return of anti-Semitism, racism, ethno-nationalism, and anti-intellectualism. But the new totalitarianism is amplified by technologies once understood as democratizing: the internet, social media, and the proliferation of popular news sources. The symposium will address this development. This event is supported by the Open World Research Initiative, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It is organised as part of the OWRI Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Communities consortium, led by the University of Manchester in collaboration with Durham University and the Institute of Modern Languages Research at the School of Advanced Study.


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Histories of Race, Popular Culture, and Identity in the Andes15 May

This conference organised by the Institute of Latin American Studies on the cultural politics of race and indigeneity in the Andes builds on Marisol de la Cadena’s observation that racial categories in the Andes are constructed through culture and cultural difference. It will bring together scholars of anthropology, history, and literature in the Andes to explore such questions as: How have Andean peoples used the tools of culture (music, dance, clothing, theatre, architecture, literature) to fashion national or regional identities, forms of resistance, and political movements? How have Afro-Andean, indigenous, mestizo and creole communities differently navigated cultural integration and autonomy historically and in the present? How have cultural practices been used in the past or present to mock, denigrate, or punish communities and individuals in the Andes? How have certain cultural practices travelled across or subverted spatial and temporal boundaries, including rural/urban, highland/lowland, colonial/national, indigenous/modern? How have cultural manifestations of race been used to perform or transcend class, gender, or sexual identities? How have struggles over patrimony and heritage defined or expanded definitions of Andean culture? And how have Andean communities incorporated social and economic concerns through cultural practices?


Future Past: Researching Archives in the Digital Age18 May

This Institute of Historical Research and British Records Association conference aims to promote understanding and collaboration between archivists and researchers, explore challenges posed by digital access to collections, and improve methodologies. Speakers will include Nick Barrett (Nottingham), Geoff Browell (KCL), Maria Castrillo (Senate House Library), Kathleen Chater, Sophie Clapp (Boots), Clare Cowling (IALS), Jo Pugh (The National Archives and York), Tom Scott (Wellcome Collection), Tamara Thornhill (TfL), and Jane Winters (SAS).



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The Distributed Cognitive Ecologies of Collaborative Embodied Skill26 May

This Institute of Philosophy workshop addresses relations between individuals, groups, and environments across performance forms and contexts. What do individuals bring to and do in collaborative embodied performance? How do group members with distinct capacities complement each other in skilled action? Are cues to collaborative embodied skill distributed across larger cognitive ecologies, and how are they reliably accessed? What forms of breakdown and repair reveal the fragility and the resilience of collaborative skills?

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The Refugee Law Initiative Second Annual Conference: Mass Influx? Law, Policy and Large-Scale Movements of Refugees and Migrants5–7 June

This conference provides a dedicated annual international forum to share and debate the latest research and cutting-edge developments in refugee law. This year’s special theme reflects a need to re-examine complex issues surrounding large-scale sudden movements of persons across borders as we build towards the Global Compacts in 2018. Keynote speakers will include Volker Turk (Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, UNHCR), François Crépeau (UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Migrants), Alexander Betts (Director, Refugee Studies Centre), Loren Landau (African Centre for Migration and Society), and Alexandra Bilak (Director, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre).


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Researchers, Practitioners and Their Use of the Archived Web12–16 Jun

The School of Advanced Study and the British Library will host a series of events spotlighting the archived web. Web Archiving Week (12–16 June) will consist of workshops, panels, lightning talks and more than 60 presentations. A three-day conference (14–16 June) focusing on researchers’ and practitioners’ use of the archived web will be preceded by a two-day Archives Unleashed ‘datathon’. A public debate will be held on the evening of 14 June as part of the British Library’s series of Digital Conversations. Organised by the School of Advanced Study; the British Library; The National Archives of the UK; the Oxford Internet Institute; Aarhus University; L’Institut des sciences de la communication (CNRS, Paris-Sorbonne, UPMC); L3S Research Center–Leibniz University Hannover; the Royal Library, Denmark; the Bibliothèque nationale de France; L’Institut national de l’audiovisuel and Aix-Marseille University; International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) and Archives Unleashed. Please visit the Archived Web conference website for details: archivedweb.blogs.sas.ac.uk/programme.

Britain, Canada, and the Arts15–17 June

Coinciding with and celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation, this conference will focus on the strong culture of artistic exchange, influence, and dialogue between Canada and Britain, with a particular but not exclusive emphasis on the decades after World War II. It aims to expose the breadth of this exchange of social and cultural ideals, artistic talent, intellectual traditions, and aesthetic formulations. A variety of critical and disciplinary perspectives will be explored, with scholars and practitioners working in theatre, history, literature, politics, music, film and television, cultural studies, design, and visual art. The conference is organised by the Institute of English Studies in collaboration with the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University and the University of Westminster.



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Under the Greek Sky: Imitation and Geographies of Art after Winckelmann15–16 June

This year marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of the German classicist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann, commonly regarded as the founding father of both archaeology and art history. This conference will re-evaluate Winckelmann’s legacy and his influence on art theory since the eighteenth century. The concept of imitation, central to Winckelmann’s theories and writings, is a linchpin for modern ideas about the diffusion, appropriation, and musealization of art. The first day of the conference, held at King’s College London, will focus on the ‘culture’ of imitation. The second day, held at the Warburg Institute, will discuss the ‘nature’ of imitation and the consequences of the ecological boundaries set for it by Winckelmann. It will explore the implications of Winckelmann’s climate theory for neoclassical geographies of art and contemporary debates on aesthetic relativism in the age of nationalism.


Climates and Elements: Man and his Environment in Western Culture22 June

The concern of man’s relationship with his natural environment is not new. The elements from which the human body is made are the same as the elements in his surroundings, and events in the sky (whether of the stars or of meteorological phenomena) affect human health, character and well-being. Ever since Hippocrates’ Airs, Waters and Places, a strong medical tradition has related human regimen and diet to the seasons of the year and geographical and topographical conditions. Astrological traditions relate different regions and different latitudinal bands (climes) to different human characteristics. There was even the idea that an individual or a society could improve the bad effects of the environment through good conduct. This Warburg Institute workshop will take up some of the issues surrounding elements, climates and regions as they are found in philosophical, medical, astrological and alchemical literature in Greek, Syriac, Arabic and Latin in late Antique and medieval Western culture.


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Political Violence or Violent Politics? Contemporary Approaches to Violence in Latin American Studies26–27 June

Latin America is frequently associated in the popular imaginary with endemic violence. The conception is, of course, not without foundation. If colonisation ensured a violent birth for the modern era, revolutionary independence movements necessarily continued the trend, and politics have frequently been associated with turbulent periods of violence disrupting national consolidation and democratic development. Moreover, structural violence and the repression of marginalised groups have perpetuated inequalities that have periodically begotten further political uprisings. Populations strive to reconcile memories of this recent history with fledgling democratic institutions, all the while grappling with severe economic difficulties and inequalities. The situation is further complicated by the emergence of organised crime and street gangs that have gravely affected politics from the most southerly point in the region to the northern Mexican border and beyond. Featuring a panel of international scholars, this one-day symposium organised by the Institute of Latin American Studies will address these issues. Representing diverse disciplinary approaches and regional interests, the panel will draw on their vast experience researching violence within the region in order to stimulate debate over the key terms in the study of violence in contemporary Latin American scholarship.


John Coffin Memorial Annual Irish Studies LectureEavan Boland: ‘Shifting Ground: Irish Poetry in a Time of Change’28 June

In the last hundred years, Ireland has seen seismic changes in its social and political worlds. How did these changes come to be reflected or resisted in Irish poetry? Did the identity of the Irish poet shift with the society? Or did Irish poetry remain merely at the edge of change? Eavan Boland, Melvin and Bill Lane Professor in Humanities at Stanford University, has published several volumes of poetry, including New Collected Poems (2008), Domestic Violence (2007) and An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967–1987 (1996), as well as the prose memoir Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time, among many other works. Her A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet won the 2012 PEN Award for creative nonfiction. She has been the recipient of the Lannan Award for Poetry and the American Ireland Fund Literary Award.



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Biennial London Chaucer Conference30 June–1 July

This two-day conference hosted by the Institute of English Studies will consider ideas about the law in the age of Chaucer and in relation to the works of Chaucer and his contemporaries, probing questions about legal practices and culture, justice, regulation and instruction, and the consequences of making and breaking laws. It will bring together scholars and postgraduate students working in a range of disciplines and departments. Keynote addresses will be given by Sebastian Sobecki (University of Groningen) and Emily Steiner (University of Pennsylvania).


Global Decolonization Workshop: Concepts and Connections6–7 July

This two-day event, which will take place at the University of London in Paris, is the first in a series of workshops on global decolonisation, a new collaboration between the School of Advanced Study and New York University. The series seeks to forge a global forum for knowledge exchange in the interdisciplinary field of decolonisation studies. The July workshop will explore the concepts and connections associated with decolonisation and postcolonial studies. The keynote speaker will be Todd Shepard (Johns Hopkins University).


T. S. Eliot International Summer School8–16 July

The ninth edition of this annual summer school led by the Institute of English Studies will celebrate the life and writing of T. S. Eliot with a series of lectures, seminars, receptions and coach trips as well as poetry readings, discussion groups, and late-afternoon walking tours of Eliot’s London and literary Bloomsbury. The programme aims to maximize opportunities for social interaction and intellectual exchange within a convivial and scholarly environment. The opening lecture will be delivered by Alan Jenkins, award-winning poet and deputy editor of The Times Literary Supplement, and will be followed by a drinks reception.



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Ancient ‘Holism’ in Graeco-Roman Medicine and Its Cultural Context11–12 September

The Institute of Classical Studies hosts this conference bringing together scholars from the fields of ancient science, philosophy, and Greek and Roman literature and culture to explore how modern concepts such as holism, psychosomatic unity and systemic approaches to human health can throw light on ancient medical discussions and poetic representations of diseases and disorders both physiological and mental. As part of the conference, Vivian Nutton will give a public lecture on humoralism and the environment.


Postcolonial Studies Association Convention 201718–20 September

The Postcolonial Studies Association Convention is the biennial gathering of members of one of the largest scholarly associations in the field. Papers are drawn from many disciplines, including literary studies, history, law, media studies, development studies, sociology, area studies, philosophy, and economics and speak to a wide range of topics related to colonial and postcolonial cultures, histories and experiences. The special keynote theme for this convention, ‘Globalisation’, will investigate the crucial role of postcolonial studies in furthering newer understandings of economic, political and cultural globalisation in light of the current international climate: the complex socio-political ramifications of the Brexit verdict, Trump’s electoral victory, and the European refugee crisis, which have come to be regarded as a reactionary ‘whitelash’ against globalisation.


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The 2017 Malcolm Bowie Memorial Lecture‘Re-reading Proust in 2017’9 May

Antoine Compagnon, Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Professor of Modern and Contemporary French Literature at the Collège de France, will discuss Marcel Proust’s place in contemporary world literature, asking whether À la recherche du temps perdu is as alive and relevant today as when it was first published in 1913. Compagnon is the author of major books on Proust (Proust entre deux siècles), Montaigne (Nous, Michel de Montaigne and Chat en poche: Montaigne et l’allégorie), and Baudelaire (Baudelaire devant l’innombrable). His studies La Troisème République des Lettres and Les Antimodernes, de Joseph de Maistre à Roland Barthes have had a profound impact on the study of French literature. His book Un été avec Montaigne was a bestseller in 2013. This event is sponsored by the Cassal Trust.

The lecture precedes the School of Advanced Study’s ‘Living Proust and the Belle Époque’ immersive experience on Thursday, 11 May. For information and tickets, please visit livingliterature.org.uk.


Indenture to Windrush: David Dabydeen12 May

Indenture to Windrush is part of a series of events taking place at Senate House in 2017 to commemorate the centenary of the abolition of the system of indenture in the British Empire. Join us for a night of live oral history, literature and music as we explore the experiences of Indian-Caribbean and Chinese-Caribbean migrants of the Windrush era. Speakers include David Dabydeen, a leading writer of the Indian indentured experience in the Caribbean. An award-winning poet and novelist, Dr Dabydeen has written extensively on migration, belonging and identity. He was a contributor to the BBC Radio Four series ‘Neither Here Nor There’. He has served as Guyana’s Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO and from 2010 to 2015 was Guyana’s Ambassador to China.



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The Jacobsen Lecture 2017‘Gestalt Shifts in the Liar’15 May

Susanne Bobzien, professor of philosophy and a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, is this year’s Institute of Philosophy Jacobsen Lecturer. Professor Bobzien studies contemporary philosophy of logic and language with an emphasis on vagueness, truth and paradoxes. She is also interested in ancient philosophy, primarily the history of logic from Aristotle to Boethius and theories of determinism, freedom and moral responsibility. Among her published books are Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1998) and a monograph on Stoic modal logic. She is a Fellow of the British Academy.


Eric Hobsbawm Memorial Lecture 2017‘Russia’s Revolution and the Destruction of the Past’22 May

Catherine Merridale is the author of numerous award-winning books on Russian history. Her latest work, Lenin on the Train (Penguin Books), tells the story of Lenin’s famous journey to Russia in April 1917. Her talk will be followed by a reception.


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Loving and Leaving the New Jamaica: Reckoning with the 1960s23 May

Matthew J. Smith, professor of history and chair of the Department of History and Archaeology, University of the West Indies, will keynote the Institute of Latin American Studies’ conference ‘Memory, Migration and Decolonistation in the Caribbean and Beyond, 1804 to the Present’. His areas of research include Haitian politics, society and migration as well as Jamaican history. Professor Smith is the author of Liberty, Fraternity, Exile: Haiti and Jamaica After Emancipation (University of North Carolina Press, 2014), which won the 2015 Haiti Illumination Book Prize of the Haitian Studies Association, and Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934-1957 (University of North Carolina Press, 2009), which won the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Prize for best book in Caribbean history from the Caribbean Studies Association. He was recently an Andrew Mellon Visiting Professor at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Duke University. He has served as president of the Haitian Studies Association and director of the UWI Haiti Initiative.


‘Fake News in a Post-Truth World’24 May

Fake news is nothing new. It has been part of our history since we started to live in groups. What is new, however, is the pervasive nature and immediacy with which fake news spreads through social media. We are relentlessly bombarded with contradicting information, opposing claims and attacks on the very idea that there are such things as truth and expertise. Linda Risso, an expert on the history of European defence and security in the twentieth century in the Institute of Historical Research, will discuss what we, as citizens caught in the middle of the fight for our hearts and minds, can do to navigate the new information environment without getting caught in the maelstrom.



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2017 John Coffin Memorial Annual Palaeography Lecture ‘Crossing Palaeographical Borders: Bi-alphabetical Hebrew Scribes and Manuscripts in Egypt, Spain and Northern France (11th to 15th centuries)’24 May

Judith Olszowy-Schlanger will discuss Hebrew palaeography in Latin manuscripts. She is the director of studies, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Section des Sciences Historiques et Philogogiques, Sorbonne University, Paris, and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. She is a highly distinguished scholar, funded by the Rothschild Foundation to research uncatalogued material, and her subject is fundamental to current work on medieval Europe. She heads the pan-European project ‘Books within Books’, which seeks to locate, photograph and describe every Hebrew manuscript to be found in the bindings of books (these are mostly books written in Latin) now in libraries across Europe. She is a leading specialist in the study of Hebrew manuscripts, palaeography and diplomatic, the history of medieval linguistic thought and Christian Hebrew scholars in the Middle Ages.


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‘Fleming, Ian Fleming: The Author as Collector’31 May

Jon Gilbert, author of the award-winning Ian Fleming Bibliography, antiquarian book dealer and collector, will share his knowledge of the James Bond creator. Not only did Fleming set up The Book Collector 65 years ago, he also managed to create one of the most inspiring book collections. The theme? Books that changed the world. The collection is now part of the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana. Mr Gilbert will talk about some of its highlights, reveal Fleming’s collecting secrets, and touch on Fleming’s reading habits, including his love of poetry, thrillers and adventure stories. Ian’s nephew James Fleming will introduce Jon, who will be joined by Fergus Fleming for a short Q&A afterwards. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception sponsored by The Book Collector.


‘What’s in a Name? The Afterlife of Elzevier’2 June

David McKitterick is Emeritus Honorary Professor of Historical Bibliography at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Vice-Master there. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Society of Antiquaries and the British Academy, and was awarded the Gold Medal of the Bibliographical Society in 2005. Among many other publications, he is the author of the definitive three-volume History of Cambridge University Press. Professor McKitterick’s talk is part of the Institute of English Studies conference ‘The Elzeviers and their Contemporaries: Reading, Writing and Selling Scholarship’, which explores material evidence of the production and consumption of academic books in the early modern period. This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of Louis Elzevier, bookseller and founder of the publishing house that dominated Dutch printing in the seventeenth century.



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The JP Barron Memorial Lecture‘Classicist Foremothers and Why They Matter’7 June

Since being awarded the Hellenic Foundation Prize for her Oxford doctoral thesis (1988), Edith Hall has held posts at Cambridge, Oxford, Durham and King’s College London, where she is professor of classics. The author of twenty books, she is co-founder and consultant to productions of ancient drama at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, Northern Broadsides, Theaterkombinat and other professional companies.


The Deana & Jack Eisenberg Lecture in Public History 2017‘The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Changed the American Constitution’19 June

Eric Foner is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, where he specialises in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and nineteenth-century America. He has been the curator of several museum exhibitions, including the prize-winning ‘A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln’ at the Chicago Historical Society. His book The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes in 2011. His latest book is Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad. He is one of only two persons to serve as president of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Society of American Historians.



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‘Concepts of “Nachleben”: Aby Warburg, Friedrich Gundolf and Julius von Schlosser as Book Collectors’29 June

Michael Thimann, professor of history of art at Georg-August University Göttingen, specialises in art historical image research, religious and profane images around 1800, and Classical and Romantic painting and sculpture. His research focuses on the tradition of mythographical concepts and the ‘Nachleben’ of Ovid in Early Modern times. He leads two research projects on art as an academic practice: one on Carl Oesterley (1805-91) and the founding of the academic study of art in the nineteenth century, the other on artistic knowledge and the use of art in nineteenth-century Rome. His recent publications include Sterbliche Götter: Raffael und Dürer in der Kunst der deutschen Romantik, ed. with Christine Hübner (2015), and Friedrich Overbeck und die Bildkonzepte des 19 Jahrhunderts (2014). This lecture, hosted by the Warburg Institute, is supported by the University of London Coffin Trust.


Latin American Women’s Filmmaking: A Conversation with Marita Barea18 September

Marita Barea is a distinguished film director, producer and actor who began her cinematic career in 1971. She has worked on many important films, including Luis Figueroa’s Yawar Fiesta (1979). In 1982 she co-founded the film group Chaski, with whom she has made Gregorio and Miss Universo en el Perú [Miss Universe in Peru]. In 1989, she co-founded the women’s film group WARMI Cine y Video and with them produces and directs documentaries. Her films include Mujeres del Planeta [Women of the Planet] (1982), Andahuaylas – suenen las campanas, Andahuaylas – cuidad hermana [Andahuaylas – The Bells Ring, Andahuaylas – Sister City] (1987), Juliana (1989), Porcón (1989/92), Porque quería estudiar [Why I Wanted to Study] (1990), Barro y Bambú [Mud and Bamboo] (1991), and Antuca (1992).



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Film: Man with a Movie Camera (1929)4 May

Join us for a unique film screening exploring early twentieth-century Russian filmmaking. This avant-garde silent documentary was directed by Dziga Vertov and edited by his wife, Elizaveta Svilova. The film will be introduced by Philip Cavendish, reader in Russian and Soviet film studies at UCL’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES). Wojciech Janik, area specialist for the former Soviet Union and Poland at UCL SSEES Library, will talk about the availability of Soviet and Russian movies on the Internet.


Talk: ‘The Madness of Collecting; the Sanity of Pamphlets’9 May

Ron Heisler has been a dedicated collector of political printed materials for nearly six decades. In an extraordinary expression of philanthropy that perfectly echoes its subject matter, he has donated his meticulously assembled books, pamphlets and journals—some 60,000 items—to Senate House Library. Unified by its focus on radical political movements, the collection is unique in the wealth of items reflecting the influence of these ideas on all spheres of human endeavour, including art, literature and drama. As the movements the collection record recede further into history, the cultural value of this astoundingly rich collection will doubtless be ever more fully appreciated. Mr Heisler will give a lecture on his own motivations for collecting.


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Extended through 12 MaySenate House Library, Malet Street, London

The Oxford English Dictionary defines radical as ‘advocating thorough and far-reaching political or social reform…characterised by independence of or departure from what is usual or traditional’. In Great Britain, the word has the further association with the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century’s Liberal Party’s stance on reform of society and Parliament. The collections of Senate House Library include material from those who defined themselves as radical in the specific late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British sense, as well as those who more generally advocated for societal improvements through reform. In fact, Senate House Library has organically developed into a hub for collections of radical voices of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Revealing this strand in our collections not only sheds light on enormously influential but subsequently neglected figures, campaigns and organizations, but also on the University’s own institutional history and potential futures. Items on display include suffragette badges; tickets to a Great Socialist Demonstration in Watford; a petition signed by British and European women doctors, including Elizabeth Blackwell and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson; and one hundred years’ worth of handbooks providing legal advice to protesters.


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Reformation: Shattered World, New Beginnings26 June – 15 December

Senate House, University of London, Malet Street

Martin Luther was a monk and professor of moral theology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. On 31 October 1517, he sent 95 theses disputing the power of indulgences to the archbishop of Mainz and, in line with university custom, probably posted them on the door of All Saints Church, Wittenberg. In doing so he sparked a movement that was to shatter the unity of the Catholic Church in Europe, as his criticisms of ecclesiastical corruption—in particular the sale of ‘indulgences’ to save one’s soul from purgatory—were reproduced in pamphlet form and disseminated widely, thanks to the revolutionary mechanisation of print technology. A network of theologians such as Calvin and Zwingli could now not only communicate or argue with each other more easily, but for the first time share their thoughts quickly with a wider public. The result was the Protestant Reformation.

At first, England was largely sheltered from the ensuing turmoil of doctrinal reformation and counter-reformation that swept across the continent; indeed, Henry VIII had authored In Defence of the Seven Sacraments in 1521, rejecting Luther’s ideas and earning him the title ‘Defender of the Faith’ from the Pope. However, the crisis facing the Pope in Rome provided Henry with a politically expedient solution to an affair of the heart—his desire to wed Anne Boleyn and father a son to succeed him, even though he was already married to Catherine of Aragon. The Pope’s reluctance to grant an annulment led to a radical solution: Henry overthrew the authority of Rome and established himself as the Head of the Church of England with the Act of Supremacy in 1534 so that he could obtain his divorce and marry Anne.

The consequences of taking England outside the family of Catholic states—arguably the first ‘Brexit’—were profound and had a major impact on London throughout the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries as it grew into one of the world’s largest cities. This exhibition traces the impact of the Reformation on London’s culture and society; the way its communications industry drove change; and the consequences of the emergence of a new world order.


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Music in the Age of Reformation13 July

Beveridge Hall, Senate House

Star vocal ensemble I Fagiolini performs a unique, specially selected arrangement to mark the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation in Europe.


Keynote Address: Suzannah Lipscomb24 August


Historian, author and broadcaster Suzannah Lipscomb is senior lecturer in early modern history and fellow of the New College of the Humanities, London. Her research focuses on sixteenth-century English and French history. She works on Henry VIII and the early Tudor court, and is especially interested in the intersection of religious, gender, political, social and psychological history. This has led her to write about Henry VIII’s annus horribilis, 1536; Anne Boleyn’s fall; and the creation of Henry VIII’s last will and testament. She is also interested in religion, gender, and sexuality in sixteenth-century France. She writes a regular column for History Today that explores the role of history outside the academy.


In Conversation with Philippa Gregory28 September


Bestselling author Philippa Gregory will join Senate House Library for a unique and exciting in-conversation event that will range widely over her interests in the period of the Reformation. She was an established historian and writer when she discovered her interest in the Tudors and wrote the internationally bestselling novel The Other Boleyn Girl. Her Cousin’s War novels, reaching their dramatic conclusion with The King’s Curse, were the basis for the highly successful BBC series The White Queen. In 2016, she was presented with the Outstanding Contribution to Historical Fiction Award by the Historical Writers’ Association.


Additional programming will be announced; please check the exhibition website for up-to-date details: senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/exhibitions-and-events/exhibitions/reformation.

Senate House, University of London Thursday 11 May - 6.30–10pmJoin the School of Advanced Study, University of London for an immersive recreation of Proust’s classic novel ‘In Search of Lost Time’.

• Proust-inspired cocktails and canapés• Magic lantern show• Pop-up talks and readings by Proust experts• A salon performance of classical French composers• Bespoke perfumes inspired by the novel• Taste, smell and memory experiments• And much more…

All in a setting that invokes Belle Époque France in the heart of London

Tickets: £40 | £20

To book visit: livingliterature.org.uk/proust

Produced with support from the Hilda Hulme FundImage © Chevnenko / Shutterstock

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The Russian Revolution – Centenary Lecture Series21 February: The February Revolution: Eight Days in PetrogradPeter Waldron (East Anglia)

21 March: Children of Revolution: Armageddon Experienced?Catriona Kelly (Oxford)

25 April: Lenin and Leninism: A Centenary PerspectiveJames Ryan (Cardiff )

23 May: Kaleidoscopes of Revolution: Regional Approaches to Russia’s Revolutionary PeriodSarah Badcock (Nottingham)

20 June: Kerensky and His CultBoris Kolonitskii (European University, St Petersburg)

26 September: Living the Revolution: Inventing a Socialist Lifestyle Andy Willimott (Reading)

24 October: The Meaning of October 1917 a Hundred Years On Steve Smith (Oxford)

21 November: 1917–A Centenary Perspective Panel discussion: Simon Dixon (UCL), Dan Healey (Oxford), Peter Waldron (East Anglia) and others

£5 per session advanced registration required

All discussions begin at 6pm and last for approximately 90 minutes, followed by refreshments.

Location: Wolfson Room I, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London.

Information: [email protected]


The Sign of Pinkhurst, the Mark of Kane: Owning Middle English Poetry8 May, 17:30–19:00Room 246 (Senate House)Lawrence Warner (KCL)

This paper considers three interrelated episodes in the history of pre-copyright-era literature’s engagements with the concept of ownership: the use of decorative motifs as supposed signatures by the celebrity scribe Adam Pynkhurst; the production of the brief poem to “Adam Scriveyn,” whose narrator attempts to wrest control from the hapless scribe; and the modern use of diacritical brackets to signal emendation—and in effect to secure copyright— by George Kane. Taken together these episodes expose a fault line in modern approaches to Medieval English literary production, so foreign and similar, both, to our own treatment of literary ownership in the digital age.


Textual Ownership, Elizabethan Miscellanies and the ‘Stigma of Print’15 May, 17:30–19:00Room 243 (Senate House)Jonathan Gibson (The Open University)


© Shakespeare22 May, 17:30–19:00Room 246 (Senate House)Ian Gadd (Bath Spa)

In February 1594, John Danter had his claim to the publishing rights to Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus approved by two of the officers of the London’s Stationers’ Company—and with this, the story of Shakespeare’s copyright begins. This talk explores exactly what rights were being granted to Danter and those who followed him in securing the publishing rights to Shakespeare’s other works, and how those rights fundamentally shaped Shakespeare’s subsequent publishing history. By tracing the ownership of these rights from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries through to the late eighteenth century, Professor Gadd will demonstrate how any history of the emergence of modern Anglo-American copyright needs to understand the changing commercial realities of the London book trade as much as the more well-known legislative and legal landmarks.


For more information about the series, please email [email protected].

Literature and CopyrightA series of free talks exploring the relationship between medieval and early modern writing and the law organised by the Institute of English Studies and The Open University Book History Research Group.

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Compassion and the LawInstitute of Advanced Legal Studies, Law and Compassion Research Network

Law, Compassion and Healthcare18 May, 14:00–17:30IALS

A symposium exploring compassion in relation to law and healthcare, through presentations and discussion, with speakers from academia, practice, and the judiciary.


Compassion: Immigration and Asylum Law15 June, 14:00–17:30IALS

A symposium exploring compassion in relation to immigration and asylum law through presentations and discussion, including speakers from academia, practice, and the judiciary, plus the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration.


Compassion: Child and Family Law13 July, 14:00–17:30IALS

A symposium exploring compassion in relation to child and family law through presentations and discussion, including speakers from academia, practice, the charitable sector, and the judiciary.


Compassion, Children and History Institute of Historical Research

Building Bridges of Trust: Child Transports from Finland to Sweden during WWII15 May, 17:30–19:30Seminar Room N304, IHR (Senate House)Ann Nehlin (University of Stockholm)

More than 70,000 children were moved to Sweden from Finland during WWII with the purpose of giving them a break from the calamities of war. Moving children for this reason was common practice in the West for much of the twentieth century. Officially the motives were humanitarian, but political motives have often played an important role—commonly to foster suitable citizens within planned societies. Political goals were important in the moving of Finnish children, but in a different way. In this talk, Professor Nehlin will argue that children were used as ‘commodities of compassion’ in a Swedish politics of indemnification.


Children in the Cause of Humanity1 June, 17:30–19:30Peter Marshall Room, IHR (Senate House)Tehila Sasson (IHR, Past & Present Fellow)

‘We are the world’, a famous charity group told us in the late twentieth century. The phrase signals a revolutionary shift in how a new generation came to feel about its place in the global community. In the second half of the twentieth century, a global ethics has transformed the lives of ordinary people in Britain, the United States and Europe. With the unravelling of European empires, the rise of Western consumer society and growing economic disparities between the global North and South, the period saw a radical transformation in the ways in which a broad spectrum of people and institutions joined a new political constituency —‘humanity’— that stretched beyond any particular national border. This talk focuses on one aspect of this story: how children and youth have joined a global humanitarian community.


The Idea of Compassion

On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light A weekly series of free public readings of Dante’s works hosted by the Warburg Institute and led by Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL) and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL).

Readings begin at 18:30 and end by 20:00.

Location: Warburg Institute, Woburn Square

ScheduleMonday, 8 May Purgatorio, Canto X.1-45. Canto XI.1-117. The First Cornice: The Proud. The Lord’s Prayer. Omberto Aldobrandeschi. Oderisi da Gubbio.

Monday, 15 May Purgatorio, Canto XXX. Appearance of Beatrice on the Chariot of the Church.

Monday, 22 May Purgatorio, Canto XXXIII. Beatrice’s Prophesies. The Final Ritual of Dante’s Spiritual Cleansing.

Monday, 5 June Paradiso, Canto I. Ascent to the Heaven of Fire.

Monday, 12 June Paradiso, Canto III. Heaven of the Moon. Piccarda Donati.

Monday, 19 June Paradiso, Canto XI. Thomas Aquinas. Francis of Assisi.

Monday, 26 June Paradiso, Canto XVII. Heaven of Mars. Cacciaguida.

Monday, 3 July Paradiso, Canto XXXIII. The Empyrean. The Vision of the Trinity.

For more information, email [email protected].

Register today for one of our summer short courses and seminars

London International Palaeography Summer School

12–16 June | Institute of English StudiesThe London International Palaeography Summer School is a series of intensive courses in palaeography and manuscript studies. Courses last from one half to two days and are given by experts in their fields. Subject areas include Latin, Middle English, early modern English, German, Greek, medieval Spanish, and Merovingian palaeography, as well as calligraphy, illuminated manuscripts, codicology, manuscript editing and liturgical and devotional manuscripts. Knowledge of the course language is useful but not required. Fees for a one-day course are £100 (£75 student), with discounts for bookings of more than two days.

Apply online at ies.sas.ac.uk/lpss

London Rare Books School26–30 June, 3–7 July, 10–14 July | Institute of English StudiesThe London Rare Books School (LRBS) is a series of five-day, intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects taught in and around Senate House, University of London. We offer a range of fascinating specialist courses ranging from Medieval Women and the Book, the History of Book Illustration, and The Digital Book, covering over two thousand years of book history and investigating the world’s diverse cultures and traditions in book production. LRBS 2017 will take place from 26-30 June (week one), 3-7 July (week two), and 10-14 July (week three). Fees for a one-week course are £650 (£500 student), with discounts offered for booking multiple weeks. Bursaries are available.

Apply online at ies.sas.ac.uk/lrbs

T. S. Eliot International Summer School8–16 July | Institute of English Studies

The T.S. Eliot International Summer School invites all those with an interest in the life and work of this Bloomsbury-based poet, dramatist, and man of letters. The School draws visitors from across the world, bringing together some of the most distinguished scholars of T. S. Eliot and modern literature. Visits to the sites of The Four Quartets, poetry readings, and a unique seminar series have made this world-renowned gathering of Eliot scholars and enthusiasts an annual highlight, launching the academic careers of a number of its former students. Fees for the full course are £600 with a number of full and partial bursaries available.

Apply online at ies.sas.ac.uk/tseliot

Legislative Drafting 26 June-21 July | Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

The aim of this course is to encourage modern drafting techniques with an emphasis on effective and user-friendly legislation, and to expose drafters to a variety of drafting styles, thus allowing participants to select elements that best suit their national laws and their own tradition, culture, and jurisprudence. The course is suitable for both experienced and inexperienced drafters. Course fees: £5,250 (includes tuition, two textbooks and course materials) OR £6,703 (includes all the above plus a single room with shared facilities, buffet breakfast, and dinner from 25 June to 22 July [inclusive] at a University of London hall of residence.

For complete details, please visit ials.sas.ac.uk/study/courses/legislative- drafting-course

Day School in London History20 July | Institute of Historical Research

The Institute of Historical Research is delighted to announce the return of its training programme for local historians, now in its sixth year. The Day School in London History will blend exciting and inspirational lectures on recent and ongoing local history projects with practical instruction and workshops. It is presented in association with the Centre for Metropolitan History (CMH) and will feature tutors from the principal archives and research units concerned with London. It will cover the incredibly rich and abundant history of London and its surrounding area, exploring both its identity as a capital city and the special qualities of its many constituent towns, villages and suburbs.

For complete details, please visit history.ac.uk/research-training/courses/day-school-london-history-summer-2017

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Tuesday 02Institute of Historical Research

Seminar

17:15–19:15

Pollard Seminar Room IHR (Senate House)

A Permissive Society? Opinion Polls and Social Change in Postwar BritainMarcus Collins (Loughborough) When (if ever) did Britain become a ‘permissive society’? Was the ‘cultural revolution’ confined to the young, the middle class and the metropolitan? These questions have been a matter of debate within academic and popular circles since the 1960s but remain fundamentally unresolved. This talk uses opinion polls conducted between 1945 and 1960 to argue that public attitudes towards permissiveness (broadly defined as a libertarian stance towards social and cultural norms) varied widely from issue to issue and across different sections of the population. Free [email protected]

Institute of Historical Research

Seminar

17:15–19:15

Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House)

Charles Mountford Goes to America: The Genesis of the National Geographic Expedition to Northern Australia in 1948Martin Thomas (Australian National University) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15

Past and Present Room IHR (Senate House)

House of Commons Governance: A Suitable Case for Treatment?Priscilla Baines (History of Parliament Trust) Free [email protected]

Institute of English Studies

Seminar

17:30–19:30

Room 104 (Senate House)

Public Library Architecture in Britain in the Long 1960s: Style, Siting, Space and LightAlistair Black (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Between the mid-1950s and the mid-1970s, the built form of the public library in Britain underwent a renaissance. Contrary to what one might expect, however, librarians’ support for large-scale building programmes, their adoption of light-rich architectural modernism and the new internal spaces they fashioned were less a reflection of a progressive turn in librarianship than an embodiment of certain of its traditional and conservative traits.This event is part of the History of Libraries Seminar Series and is jointly sponsored by the Institute of English Studies and the Institute of Historical ResearchFree [email protected]

Institute of Philosophy

Seminar

17:30–19:30


Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics SeminarHosted by the Centre for Logic and Language

Free [email protected]

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May

Wednesday 03Institute of Modern Languages Research

Meeting

16:00–18:00

Room 104, Torrington Room (Senate House)

Friends of Germanic Studies at the IMLR: Annual Meeting‘Identities in Transit: (Re)connections and (Re)brandings of Berlin’s Municipal Railway after 1989’Samuel Merrill (Umeå)Book Launch: Glanz und Abglanz: Two Centuries of German Studies in the University of London by John L. Flood and Anne SimonBy invitation only [email protected]

Institute of Classical Studies

Seminar

17:30–19:00


Teaching and Learning Ancient Religions SeminarAilsa Hunt (Cambridge) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30

Wolfson Room II IHR (Senate House)

Writing International Jewish HistoryJaclyn Granick (Oxford), Abigail Green (Oxford), Nathan Kurz (Birkbeck/Pears Institute) A roundtable discussion organised with The Pears Institute for the Study of AntisemitismChair: David Feldman (Birkbeck/Pears Institute)Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30

North American History Room IHR (Senate House)

Homing: A Conceptual and Research Agenda on Migrants’ Home ExperiencePaolo Boccagni (University of Trento)



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17:30–19:30


The Rhythmic Subject in Psychology and PsychoanalysisLaura Marcus (Oxford) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Episcopal Profiles: A Normative Perspective on the Career of Bishops in Narrative, Diplomatic and Epistolary Sources in the Church Province of Rheims (888-1049)Jelle LissonFree [email protected]


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Thursday 04Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Seminar

14:00–17:00

King’s College London

Witness Seminar: The Role and Functions of the British High Commissions in the CaribbeanInstitute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, and King’s College, LondonThis group interview of leading British diplomats will assess the role and functions of British High Commissions in the Caribbean from the 1980s to the present, from the perspective of those who have worked at them. It uses oral history to identify the priorities of British policymakers and how they have approached the countries in the Caribbean as important regional players, as well as to identify how British diplomats have dealt with the legacy of the country’s imperial past and how they have utilised past and present connections to further British international interests.Free advance registration required [email protected]


Seminar

16:30–18:30

Woburn Suite (Senate House)

Persian Disappearances: Architectural Erasure at PersepolisS Downes (KCL) This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Crowds and ‘Crisis’: Revisiting the Problem(s) of London in the 1590sJohn Walter (Essex) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30

Peter Marshall Room IHR (Senate House)

The Mad Hatter’s Adventures in Education Amy Palmer (Roehampton) Joseph King (1860-1943), known as the ‘Mad Hatter’ partly because of his appearance but also because he was perceived to be something of an eccentric, was a man who cared very much about education in a wide range of arenas. He was a founder of Mansfield House University Settlement and of the Peasant Arts Society, both philanthropic organisations that aimed to improve the lot of the poor, in part through increased educational opportunities. This paper examines his work and builds a picture of how one man sought to influence the world around him. It concludes that King’s connections, his money, and the privileges of his class and gender were significant factors in his successes. Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30

Seminar Room N304 IHR (Senate House)

Restoring HMS Victory: Gender, Imperialism and CommemorationSarah Westbury (Southampton) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


A Fraction of a Man: Feeding the Female Prisoner, 1843–1913Nadja Durbach (University of Utah) Free [email protected]

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Institute of Latin American Studies

Seminar

17:30–19:30


Blurring the Line Between Grassroots Activism and Green Imperialism: New Forms of Activism in Costa Rica’s Osa PeninsulaClate Korsant (Goldsmiths)This talk explores environmental activism in the Osa Peninsula, which is varied and changing, as revealed by the language used by activists and by their efforts to empower communities through outreach. Many activists have demonstrated a passion for their work that has translated into better trust and communication between themselves and their communities than previously acknowledged. This event is part of the Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Seminar

18:00–20:00

John S Cohen Room IHR (Senate House)

‘We All Had to Do Our Bit’: Women’s Memories of the Second World War in Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight Daniel Swan (Portsmouth) Free [email protected]

Senate House Library

Film

18:00

Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room (Senate House)

Man with a Movie Camera (1929)Join us for a unique film screening exploring early twentieth-century Russian filmmaking. This avant-garde silent documentary was directed by Dziga Vertov and edited by his wife, Elizaveta Svilova. The film will be introduced by Philip Cavendish, reader in Russian and Soviet film studies at UCL’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Wojciech Janik, area specialist for the former Soviet Union and Poland at UCL SSEES Library, will talk about the availability of Soviet and Russian movies on the Internet.Free [email protected]

Friday 05Institute of Modern Languages Research

Conference / Symposium

09:30–19:00


Transcultural Memories of Mediterranean Port Cities: 1850 to the PresentSpeakers include Stephanos Stephanides (Cyprus): ‘Translation, Memory and the Mediterranean’; Gabriel Koureas (Birkbeck): ‘Bridging the Mediterranean: Transcultural Memories in the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MuCEM), Marseille’; Claire Launchbury (IMLR/IHR): ‘Ports of Call: Beirut, Algiers and the Trans-Mediterranean Passerelle’; Will Visconti (Sydney): ‘Memory and the Marchesa, from Venice to Capri’; Glenn Bowman (Kent): ‘Viewing the Holy City: An Anthropological Perspectivalism’; Carmen Fracchia (Birkbeck): ‘Visualising the Slave-Ports of Barcelona and Valencia in Imperial Spain’; Colette Wilson: ‘Smyrna through the Lens of Edmond-Edouard Boissonnas (1919)’; Charles Forsdick (Liverpool): ‘Transcultural Memories of the Bagne: The Mediterranean in Global Penal Heritage’;

The programme includes a poetry reading by Stephanos Stephanides and a performance by Alev Adil: ‘Offshore Dreaming: Aphrodite’s Gas Field’ (2015).

A wine reception follows.

The event is generously supported by the Cassal Trust and Birkbeck, University of London.

£10 standard | £5 students, Friends of Germanic Studies/Italian at the IMLR advance registration required [email protected]


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16:30–18:30


‘What You See is What You Get’: Ancient Physiognomy between Rome and IndiaKarsten Johanning (University of Copenhagen) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Combating Brutality and Excess in War: Lessons from the Dutch Revolt of the 1570s and 1580sJan Willem Honig (London) Free [email protected]


Seminar

18:00–20:00


Finnegans Wake SeminarThis session was rescheduled from Friday 28 April.Free [email protected]

Saturday 06Institute of English Studies

Seminar

11:00–13:00


Modernist Institutions and/as Modernist FormsPeter Howarth (Queen Mary University of London), Michael Paraskos This event is part of the London Modernism Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Seminar

14:00–16:00


Text and Pretext: Strabo and the Science of Religion around 1700Sundar Henny (Cambridge) This event is part of the IES Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination (EMPHASIS) Seminar Series. Free advance registration required [email protected]


Seminar

14:00–16:00

Seminar Room N304 IHR (Senate House

Aspects of the Mozart Family’s Education in 1760s LondonHannah Templeton (KCL) Free [email protected]

Monday 08Institute of Modern Languages Research

Performance

14:00–17:00

Torrington Room (Senate House)

Lay Down Your Arms! On Peace in EuropeAcclaimed Austrian actress Maxi Blaha will perform her one-woman show Soul of Fire, described by the Sydney Morning Herald as ‘an elegant little play that gently and economically recreates the life and spirit of Bertha von Suttner, peace activist, writer and, in 1905, the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Austrian actress Maxi Blaha brings a restless intelligence to the role.’ The performance will be followed by a short talk by Daniel Laqua (Northumbria), a specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century history and European peace movements. Both events in English.Free [email protected]

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Institute of Modern Languages Research

Seminar

16:00–18:00


Process PhilosophyJohan Siebers (IMLR) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:00–19:00

Bloomsbury Room (Senate House)

The Soul, the Cosmos, and Eternity in HeraclitusVictoria Wohl (University of Toronto) This event is part of the Ancient Literature Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Dark Holes or Public Spaces: The Politics of Northern Catholic Gentry in the Reign of Elizabeth I Wilfred Hammond (Lancaster) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:00


Wives of ‘Crisis’? Portraits of Women and Their Husbands in the 3rd Century ADHelen Ackers (Duke University) This event is part of the Roman Art Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:00


The Sign of Pinkhurst, the Mark of Kane: Owning Middle English PoetryLawrence Warner This event is part of the Open University Book History Research Group Seminar: Literature and Copyright.Free advance registration required [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Negotiation as Feminist Activism in Chicana Literature and CultureEilidh Hall (East Anglia) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


The French Revolution RevisitedMarisa LintonFree [email protected]

The Warburg Institute

Seminar

17:30–19:30

Warburg Institute

Neoplatonism Study Group: Proclus, In ParmenidemGeorgios Tsagdis (Kingston), Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Free [email protected]


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May

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Lecture

18:00–19:00

IALS

Legislation and BrexitSionaidh Douglas-Scott (QMUL) Organised in collaboration with the Statute Law SocietyFree advance registration required [email protected]


Seminar

18:30–19:50

Warburg Institute

On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the LightA weekly series of public readings of Dante’s works hosted by the Warburg InstitutePurgatorio, Canto X.1-45. Canto XI.1-117. The First Cornice: The Proud. The Lord’s Prayer. Omberto Aldobrandeschi. Oderisi da Gubbio.Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) Remaining dates: 15 May: Purgatorio, Canto XXX. Appearance of Beatrice on the Chariot of the Church.22 May: Purgatorio, Canto XXXIII. Beatrice’s Prophesies. The Final Ritual of Dante’s

Spiritual Cleansing. 5 June: Paradiso, Canto I. Ascent to the Heaven of Fire.12 June: Paradiso, Canto III. Heaven of the Moon. Piccarda Donati.19 June: Paradiso, Canto XI. Thomas Aquinas. Francis of Assisi.26 June: Paradiso, Canto XVII. Heaven of Mars. Cacciaguida.3 July: Paradiso, Canto XXXIII. The Empyrean. The Vision of the Trinity.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Australia’s Prison Islands: The Impact of the Sea on Convict Life and LabourKaty Roscoe (Leicester) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Inter-Generational Memories of Boys’ Toys: Fathers and Sons at Work and Play, 1945-1970Richard Hall (Cambridge) Chair: Simon SleightFree [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Rebecca Warren (Kent) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Protestant Missions and Writing New Zealand History: Reflections on a JourneyHugh Morrison (University of Otago) Free [email protected]

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May


Seminar

17:30–19:30


The Practical, the Political and the Ethical Seminar SeriesFree [email protected]


Seminar

18:00–20:00


Student Collectors: Catching Them EarlyRobert Weaver (Dulwich College) and studentsThis event is part of the IES Book Collecting Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Seminar

18:00–20:00


The Feminist Foundations of the Global Economic OrderMarc-William Palen (Exeter) Free [email protected]


Lecture

18:00–20:00

The Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)

The 2017 Malcolm Bowie Memorial Lecture Re-reading Proust in 2017Antoine Compagnon (Columbia/Collège de France)Sponsored by the Cassal TrustProfessor Compagnon, one of the world’s leading experts on modern and contemporary French literature, will discuss how Marcel Proust’s writings are as alive and relevant today as when they were first published. He previews his talk: ‘Since 1913, several generations of readers of Proust have succeeded each other: the sect of Proustians who discovered his novel in the Gallimard’s Collection Blanche; the enlightened who read it in the first Pléiade of 1954, alongside Jean Santeuil and Contre Sainte-Beuve; the baby boomers who were offered the Livre de Poche in the 1960s, with Deleuze, Barthes or Genette as their guides. Translations proliferated. And now? Is the Recherche still read? Has it reached the limit of its appeal? Proust has become a sign of distinction, and all reading is re-reading, as Nabokov famously said’.A drinks reception will follow the lecture, which precedes the School of Advanced Study’s ‘Living Proust and the Belle Époque’ immersive experience on Thursday, 11 May. For information and tickets, please visit livingliterature.org.uk.Free advance registration required [email protected]


Talk

18:00

Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House

‘The Madness of Collecting; the Sanity of Pamphlets’Ron Heisler has been a dedicated collector of political printed materials for nearly six decades. In an extraordinary expression of philanthropy that perfectly echoes its subject matter, he has donated his meticulously assembled books, pamphlets and journals—some 60,000 items—to Senate House Library. Unified by its focus on radical political movements, the collection is unique in the wealth of items reflecting the influence of these ideas on all spheres of human endeavour, including art, literature and drama. As the movements the collection record recede further into history, the cultural value of this astoundingly rich collection will doubtless be ever more fully appreciated. Mr Heisler will give a lecture on his own motivations for collecting. Free [email protected]


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May

Wednesday 10Institute of Historical Research

Seminar

12:30–14:30


Doctoral Presentations Prize CompetitionPrerna Agarwal (KCL), Sarah Gandee (Leeds), Smitana Saikia (KCL) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:00–18:30


Globalising the Mediterranean’s Iron AgeTamar Hodos (Bristol) This event is part of the Classical Archaeology Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


This Damnable Doctrine: Liberties and Loyalties in Seventeenth-Century Maryland Michael Breidenbach (Ave Maria University) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Pen over Plough: Rethinking Agricultural Books, Knowledge and Labour, 1660-1800 James Fisher (KCL) This talk will explore the relationship between books, knowledge and labour in the context of early modern agriculture. This event is a joint session with the Economic and Social History in the Early Modern World 1500-1800 Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Bobbio, Benevento…Barking? Interpreting Papal Privileges for Monasteries in the Age of BedeBen Savill Free [email protected]


Lecture

17:30–18:30

Warburg Institute

Return of Images: Chance Encounters in the Afterlives of AntiquityZainab Bahrani (Columbia University) The chance encounter with images from the past can be understood as an aspect of the Nachleben der Antike, one of Aby Warburg’s scholarly preoccupations. In the ancient Near East, such encounters with images from a distant past had profound effects, both visual and theoretical. Artworks transmitted historically specific forms and iconographies across time, but they were also forms of infinite presence without duration. This talk addresses the status and influence of such rediscovered images beyond the traditional disciplinary boundaries, and brings ancient art into the current theoretical debates surrounding art and time. Free [email protected]


Seminar

18:00–20:00


Ezra Pound Cantos Reading GroupUr-Canto 2Helen Carr (Goldsmiths) Free [email protected]

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May


Seminar

18:00–20:00


Marseille: Capital of the MediterraneanNicholas Hewitt (Nottingham) In the recent television series Marseille, the maire, played by Gerard Depardieu, expresses his ambition to make Marseille ‘la capitale de l’Europe du Sud’. In fact, Marseille’s cultural ambitions have always been far broader and have encompassed the entire Mediterranean basin, including North Africa, the Levant and its southern European neighbours. This talk will explore the development of Marseille’s role in the Mediterranean from the nineteenth century onwards, with particular attention to Albert Londres’ 1927 reportage on the city, the career and Mediterranean project of the journal Les Cahiers du Sud and the work of Jean-Claude Izzo in the 1980s and 1990s.Free advance registration required [email protected]

Thursday 11


Seminar

12:30–13:30

IALS

Economic Regulation and the Limits of Judicial Review: Comparative PerspectivesAdriana Topo and Despoina Mantzari (Reading; IALS Visiting Fellow)Free advance registration required [email protected]



17:00–19:00

Warburg Institute

Ways of Seeing Across DisciplinesFree advance registration required


Seminar

16:30–18:30

Bloomsbury Room (Senate Room)

‘Falls’ of RomeMichele Salzman (University of California Riverside) This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:00–19:00


CenSes SeminarThis event is part of the Rethinking the Senses project funded by the AHRC.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Feminism in Ordinary Women’s Lives in the Post-War Period: Caitriona Beaumont on the Nature of Female Activism in England and Wales in the 1950s Natalie Thomlinson (Reading)Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Shamefully Disordered with Excessive Drinking: Clerical Intoxication in Early Modern EnglandTim Wales (East Anglia), James Brown (East Anglia) Free [email protected]


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May

Institute of Modern Languages

Seminar

18:30–20:00

Room G34 (Senate House)

Encounters: Writers and Translators in ConversationClemens Meyer and Katy DerbyshireFree [email protected]


Seminar

18:30–20:00


London Theatre Studies Seminar: Postgraduate Panel Jessica Worden (Brunel) and Yaron Shyldkrot (Surrey)Free [email protected]

SAS Central

18:30–22:00

Senate House

Living Literature 2017: Living Proust and the Belle ÉpoqueThis year, Living Literature invites you to explore Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.

Join Sarah Churchwell (School of Advanced Study, University of London), Erika Fulop (University of Lancaster) and Anna-Louise Milne (University of London Institute in Paris) for an immersive encounter with Proust’s classic novel.

Learn how taste, smell and memory are linked through sensory experiments with the Centre for the Study of the Senses, immerse yourself in a labyrinthine universe where erotic desire and scientific method combine. Surrounded by the scents, fashions and music of the Belle Époque, you can feast on food inspired by In Search of Lost Time and sip linden tea cocktails while learning about Paris at the turn of the century.

Listen to readings and pop-up talks; learn about love, jealousy, queer identity, art, society and politics during the French fin de siècle; view our literary exhibition and enjoy a magic lantern show. There will also be an intimate performance of Proust’s fictional Vinteuil sonata, as well as works by other classical composers from the era.

£40 standard | £20 concession

Living Literature is an annual series of events from the School of Advanced Study, University of London, that brings an iconic literary work to life by using research expertise to create an immersive and theatrical world for audiences to explore.

For more information: livingliterature.org.uk

Friday 12Institute of Latin American Studies

Seminar

15:00–17:00

University of Newcastle

After the Thaw: Cultural Approaches to Research on CubaMichael Chanan (Roehampton), Dunja Fehimovic (Newcastle) This seminar series, with the support of the ILAS Regional Seminar Grant Series, follows the recent détente between the USA and Cuba to discuss the implications of the thaw to Cuba. Speakers will address the complex dynamics of Cuban cultural production in a globalised context. Jointly organised by the University of Edinburgh and the University of Newcastle.Free advance registration required [email protected]


Seminar

16:30–18:30


Contextualising the GodsJane Ainsworth (Leicester), Carla Brain (Leicester) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series.Free [email protected]

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May

Institute of English StudiesSeminar

17:30–19:30


London-Paris Romanticism SeminarThis seminar series is hosted jointly by the Institute of English Studies and the Institute of Modern Languages Research.Free


Seminar

18:00–20:00


Charles Peake Ulysses SeminarFree [email protected]


Seminar

18:00–20:00


London Beckett SeminarFree [email protected]

SAS Central

18:30–20:30

The Beveridge Hall (Senate House)

Indenture to WindrushDavid Dabydeen, Lainy Malkani, Lakshmi Persaud, Sr. Monica Tywang, Rod WestmassThis talk is part of a series of events taking place at Senate House in 2017 to commemorate the centenary of the abolition of the system of indenture in the British Empire. Join us for a night of live oral history, literature and music as we explore the experiences of Indian-Caribbean and Chinese-Caribbean migrants of the Windrush era. Conveners: Maria del Pilar Kaladeen (SAS Centre for Postcolonial Studies), Tina K Ramnarine (RHUL), Jack Daniel Webb£7.50 standard | £5 senior citizens, students, [email protected]

Saturday 13Institute of Latin American Studies

Seminar

10:00–17:00

UCL (Institute of Archaeology)

Latin American Archaeology Seminar Priscilla Ulguim (Teesside), J Marla Toyne (University of Central Florida), Magdalena Setlak (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Anna Kubicka (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology), Jacek Kosciuk (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology), Bartlomiej Cmielewski (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology), Stella Nair (University of California, Los Angeles), María Teresa Plaza (UCL), Esther Breithoff (UCL) Organised by Bill Sillar (UCL) £9.62 | £5.37 students advance registration [email protected]


Lecture

11:30–17:00


ICS Virgil Society Lecture‘Reading the Poet: Aeneid 12’ John Hazel (Virgil Society)‘From deus absconditus to Soter: Octavian in Virgil and Early Augustan Poetry’ Niklas Holzberg (University of Munich)Free [email protected]


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May

Monday 15Institute of Latin American Studies


10:00–17:00


Histories of Race, Popular Culture, and Identity in the AndesThis conference on the cultural politics of race and indigeneity in the Andes builds on Marisol de la Cadena’s observation that racial categories in the Andes are constructed through culture and cultural difference. It will bring together scholars of anthropology, history, and literature in the Andes to explore such questions as: How have Andean peoples used the tools of culture (music, dance, clothing, theatre, architecture, literature) to fashion national or regional identities, forms of resistance, and political movements? How have Afro-Andean, indigenous, mestizo and creole communities differently navigated cultural integration and autonomy historically and in the present? How have cultural practices been used in the past or present to mock, denigrate, or punish communities and individuals in the Andes? How have certain cultural practices travelled across or subverted spatial and temporal boundaries, including rural/urban, highland/lowland, colonial/national, indigenous/modern? How have cultural manifestations of race been used to perform or transcend class, gender, or sexual identities? How have struggles over patrimony and heritage defined or expanded definitions of Andean culture? And how have Andean communities incorporated social and economic concerns through cultural practices?£20 | £10 concessions Advance registration required [email protected]


Workshop

11:00–17:00


Open Epigraphic Data UnconferenceFree [email protected]



13:00–19:00

Senate House

World Literature and the New TotalitarianismMax Silverman (Leeds), Debarati Sanyal (University of California, Berkeley), Michael Rothberg (University of Illinois), Zoë Roth (Durham), Lisa Silverman (University of Wisconsin), Jonathan Freedman (University of Michigan), Bryan Cheyette (Reading), Sasha Senderovich (University of Colorado), Nan Z. Da (Notre Dame), Dora Osborne (Durham), Laura Marcus (Oxford), Benjamin Schreier (Pennsylvania State University)At the beginning of 2017 we are faced with the spectre of a new totalitarianism. It blossoms from the victories of Trump, the Brexit camp, and far right candidates in Scandinavia and Poland. It anticipates strong performances by Marine Le Pen. It comes in the wake of the Russian plutocracy’s concentration of power and the recrudescence of neo-Nazi movements in Greece and the Balkans. The teleological narrative many have been telling ourselves—of progressive cosmopolitanism, tolerance, relatively open borders, of urbanity in every sense of the word—has been challenged by the return of anti-Semitism, racism, ethno-nationalism, and anti-intellectualism. This new totalitarianism is very much like its predecessor: global in scope yet nationalist in articulation, populist in orientation yet elitist in practice, local in its appeals yet power-consolidating in practice, and profoundly hostile to the cultural and social milieu that have nurtured art, literature, and critique since the end of the Second World War. But the new totalitarianism is amplified by technologies once understood as democratizing: the internet, social media, and the proliferation of popular news sources. And it is bolstered by the rise of authoritarian neoliberalism. The symposium will address these urgent issues.This event is supported by the Open World Research Initiative, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It is organised as part of the OWRI Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Communities consortium, led by the University of Manchester in collaboration with Durham University and the Institute of Modern Languages Research at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.Free [email protected]

Events calendarMay


May


Seminar

16:30–18:30


Plato’s Colours of the AfterlifeElizabeth Pender (Leeds) This event is part of the Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:00–19:00

Gordon Room (Senate House)

Homer in Egypt: Epic Allusions in the Memnon InscriptionsPatricia Rosenmeyer (University of Wisconsin) This event is part of the Ancient Literature Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15

Wolfson Room IHR (Senate House)

Revisionism, Nationalism and Decolonization: The Teleology of Anti-Colonialism in the French EmpireMichael Goebel (Free University of Berlin) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:00


Textual Ownership, Elizabethan Miscellanies and the ‘Stigma of Print’Jonathan Gibson (The Open University) This event is part of the Open University Book History Research Group Seminar: Literature and Copyright.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Building Bridges of Trust: Child Transports from Finland to Sweden during WWIIAnn Nehlin (University of Stockholm) More than 70,000 children were moved to Sweden from Finland during WWII with the purpose of giving them a break from the calamities of war. Moving children for this reason was common practice in the West for much of the twentieth century. Officially the motives were humanitarian, but political motives have often played an important role—commonly to foster suitable citizens within planned societies. Political goals were important in the moving of Finnish children, but in a different way. In this talk, the speaker will argue that children were used as ‘commodities of compassion’ in a Swedish politics of indemnification.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Roundtable on French ElectionsSonia Delesalle-Stolper (UK correspondent, Liberation), Sue Collard (Sussex), Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford), Imen Neffati (Sheffield), Simon Jackson (Birmingham), Daniel Lee (Sheffield), Mayanthi Fernando (University of California, Santa Cruz) Joint session with the Modern French History Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Lecture

17:30–19:30


The Jacobsen Lecture 2017 Gestalt Shifts in the LiarSusanne Bobzien (Oxford)Free [email protected]


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May


Seminar

17:30–19:30

Warburg Institute



Seminar

18:00–20:00


La fissisima volontà: John V of Portugal and His Model Collection in the Royal Palace of LisbonPilar Diez del Corra Corredoira (Institut für Kunstwissenschaft ) From the second half of the eighteenth century, the use and collection of architectural models as mementos of the Grand Tour and as study pieces was widespread. This talk will focus on an almost unknown collection that once belonged to the King of Portugal, John V, which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1755. Free [email protected]


Seminar

18:00–20:00

NYU London (6 Bedford Square)

Joint event with the IHR Tudor and Stuart Seminar Series.Venue: NYU London, 6 Bedford Square, Room 102, London WC1B 3RA Free [email protected]


Seminar

18:30–19:50

Warburg Institute

On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the LightA weekly series of public readings of Dante’s works hosted by the Warburg Institute.Purgatorio, Canto XXX. Appearance of Beatrice on the Chariot of the Church.Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) Remaining dates: 22 May: Purgatorio, Canto XXXIII. Beatrice’s Prophesies. The Final Ritual of Dante’s

Spiritual Cleansing. 5 June: Paradiso, Canto I. Ascent to the Heaven of Fire.12 June: Paradiso, Canto III. Heaven of the Moon. Piccarda Donati.19 June: Paradiso, Canto XI. Thomas Aquinas. Francis of Assisi.26 June: Paradiso, Canto XVII. Heaven of Mars. Cacciaguida.3 July: Paradiso, Canto XXXIII. The Empyrean. The Vision of the Trinity.Free [email protected]

Tuesday 16Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Seminar

16:00–18:00

IALS

EU Criminal Law Roundup Special: What Will BREXIT Do for Us—or Not, as the Case May Be John Spencer (Cambridge), Marjorie Bonn, Steve Peers (Essex) The February White Paper suggests that the Government hopes that after Brexit the UK’s involvement with EU criminal law will continue as before. Is this desirable? And if desirable, is it possible? Organised in collaboration with the European Criminal Law Association (UK)Free advance registration required [email protected]

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May


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Animal Life and the Death of a Colonial Metropolis: Yangon, 1938-1948Jonathan Saha (Leeds) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


John Bradshaw’s Forgotten Role: The Committee for Sequestration’s Legal Advisers in the 1640sCharlotte Young (RHUL) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics SeminarHosted by the Centre for Logic and Language. Free [email protected]


Seminar

18:00–20:00

IALS

A More Fundamental Distinction for the Contemporary Economy between Employee and Independent Contractor StatusMichael Harper (Boston University, IALS Visiting Fellow) Free advance registration required [email protected]


Seminar

18:00–20:00


Resurrecting the e-Book: A Media Archaeological Excavation of the Kindle’s Development, 1930–2007Simon Rowberry (Stirling), Verity Hunt (Southampton) Amazon’s launch of the Kindle in 2007 was lauded as the moment when e-books finally became economically viable for publishers. This success was facilitated by Amazon’s careful analysis of previous failed attempts to commercialize e-books since the early 1990s and earlier theoretical models developed since the 1930s. This talk will explore how the Kindle’s reputation stems from a mixture of adapting pre-existing technology and the right social-technological context rather than a complete revolution in e-book design. The seminar will be followed by a book launch to celebrate the publication of Joanne Shattock’s Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2017). The book will be introduced by Michael Slater, author of Charles Dickens (2009), Douglas Jerrold (2002) and editor of the Dent Uniform Edition of Dickens’ Journalism (1994-2000). This event is part of the IES Media History Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Reading

19:00–20:00

Austrian Cultural Forum (28 Rutland Gate)

A Reading by Robert SeethalerSeethaler will read from his work, including his novel Der Trafikant (The Tobacconist), in which a young boy from the Austrian provinces strikes up an odd friendship with Sigmund Freud in 1937 Vienna. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2016, Seethaler writes ‘with a dry wit that enhances, rather than disguises, the sadness of [his stories]’ (Sunday Times) This bilingual reading will take place at the Austrian Cultural Forum, 28 Rutland Gate, London SW1 1PQ. Free advance registration required [email protected]


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May

Wednesday 17Institute of Classical Studies

Seminar

13:00–14:00


ICS Director’s SeminarFree [email protected]

SAS Central

Lecture

13:00–14:00


Social Scholar: Taking Research into SchoolsPeter TA JonesThis talk draws on the speaker’s experience of working with The Brilliant Club in placements in low-participation secondary schools. He will suggest that current models of impact and engagement have tended to place too much emphasis on the social worth that academics can generate by ‘reaching out’ of their intellectual comfort zone into some abstract space populated with ‘intractable’ young minds. His experience teaching pupils at Key Stages 3-5 (12 to 18-year-olds) has meant reaching inward and re-evaluating the shortcomings of his own research and the higher education sector more broadly. Free [email protected]


Lecture

17:00–19:00


Michael Ventris Memorial LectureTiryns: From the Rise of Its Palace to the Post-Palatial ResurgenceJoseph Maran (University of Heidelberg) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:00–19:00


The Emotional History of the Munich CrisisJulie Gottlieb (Sheffield) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS)Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


The Graphic Representation of an (Un)welcomed Change: Revising the Introduction of the Roman Rite in the Iberian PeninsulaAinoa Castro CorreaFree [email protected]


Seminar

18:00–20:00


‘With Love from Vienna’: Contextualising the Daily Life of Elderly Viennese Jews after 1938Bettina Brandt (Pennsylvania State University/IMLR) This event is part of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar Series.Free [email protected]

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May

Thursday 18Institute of Historical Research


10:00–17:00

Wolfson Conference Suite IHR (Senate House)

Future Past: Researching Archives in the Digital AgeA one-day conference sponsored by the Institute of Historical Research and the British Records Association. Nick Barrett (Nottingham), Geoff Browell (KCL), Maria Castrillo (Senate House Library), Kathleen Chater, Sophie Clapp (Boots), Clare Cowling (IALS), Jo Pugh (The National Archives and York), Tom Scott (Wellcome Collection), Tamara Thornhill (TfL), Jane Winters (SAS)This conference aims to promote understanding and collaboration between archivists and researchers; explore challenges posed by digital access to collections, and improve methodologies (for example, training researchers in the types of information available from online catalogues, how archivists can improve catalogue descriptions so researchers can find relevant records more easily, and understanding the context of online search results). £35 | £25 student/retired/IHR Friend/BRA member; fees include refreshments and lunch Advance registration required [email protected]


Seminar

13:00–14:00


On the Encyclopaedic Impulse in Seventeenth-Century MexicoChristopher Johnson (Warburg) This talk will trace the circulation of European encyclopaedic texts and how they informed poetic and artistic invention in the early colonial period. It will consider instances in which the encyclopaedic material has indigenous origins only to be transformed and published in Europe and then shipped back to Mexico. But it will also argue that various encyclopaedic compendia with European origins served an essential role in distilling and transporting knowledge from the Old to the New World in a manner that shaped epistemologies, spurred invention and addressed the intellectual and cultural desires of a Creole readership.Free [email protected]


Workshop

14:00–16:00


Decolonial Women: Hidden Histories in Latin America and the CaribbeanThe aim of this interactive session is to address the gap in the comparative exploration of the decolonising role of female figures in Caribbean and Latin American history. The discussion will explore the reasons why narratives that articulate the relationship between gender history and memory are still underrepresented in academic literature. The session will include five short papers and will culminate in an informal workshop, with breakout groups discussing emerging themes and exploring the way forward in relation to further research in this area. At the centre of this workshop is a presentation by Clara Rachel Eybalin Casseus, ‘Faces of Female Warriors in Haitian Revolutionary War and Beyond’, which will explore the role of women in the 13-year revolutionary war that led to the nation-state of Haiti in 1804. Free [email protected]



14:00–17:30

IALS

Law, Compassion and HealthcareDermot Feenan (IALS), Hazel Biggs (Southampton), Paquita de Zulueta (Nuffield Council on Bioethics), Sir Mark Hedley, Paul Bowen (Brick Court Chambers), Kate Rohde (Kingsley Napley), Phil Bielby (Hull), Glenys Williams (Aberystwyth), Katy Peters (Surrey) A symposium exploring compassion in relation to law and healthcare through presentations and discussion, with speakers from academia, practice, and the judiciary.Organised in association with the Law and Compassion Research Network.£59 | £20 student [email protected]


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May


Lecture

17:00–19:00

Holden Room (Senate House)

The Hydraulics of Freud: Flows, Blocks and Translation KnotsNaomi Segal (Birkbeck) Naomi Segal discusses Sigmund Freud’s impact on the way we see ourselves and the world.Free [email protected]


Lecture

17:00–19:00

Warburg Institute

Glasgow and Its Maps : How Cartography Has Reflected the Highs and Lows of the Second City of the EmpireJohn Moore (Glasgow) This event is part of a lecture series in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (IHR), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (KCL, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg). Free [email protected]


Lecture

17:15–19:00


English Goethe Society LectureThe German Beast Unleashed: Kleist’s Hermannsschlacht and the Suspension of Human Rights in the Era of Nationalistic TerrorClaudia Nitschke (Durham)Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


London Litigants in the Elizabethan Court of Star ChamberHelen Good (Elizabethan Star Chamber Project) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30

German Historical Institute (17 Bloomsbury Square)

Andreas Wirsching (Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich-Berlin) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Slavery and Jamaican Appeals to the Privy Council, c. 1760-1790Kennedy Sanderson (Cambridge) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Symbols of Sovereignty: Food, Pageantry and Propaganda in Lancastrian England and FranceVanessa King (Goldsmiths) Free [email protected]

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May


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Connecting Sentiments, Separating Worlds: New Media and Transnational Families in the Colombian ContextMaria Angel (UCL)The speaker will describe her project to establish an account of the digital practices between transnational parents and the children they leave behind and how these practices alter the ways they express emotions and communicate at distance. This event is part of the Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series.Free [email protected]



10:30–19:00


Brazil beyond the Hard News: Journalism, Literature, Film and Visual ArtsThis conference will explore the various forms of journalism that transcend the common structures of newsrooms and how they have contributed to alternative views of Brazilian affairs from the early twentieth century to the contemporary world. The discussions will be centred on the analysis of narratives, case studies and journalistic experiences that make use of hybrid literary genres, such as crônica, reportage, and the nonfiction novel, as well as other forms of creative/investigative journalism, including interviews, comics, documentaries, radio dramas, the work of international correspondents (world service) and the visual arts.Sponsored by King’s College London.Free [email protected]


Seminar

16:30–18:30


Training for War, Skill, and Specialisation in Early Classical Greece: Perspectives from the SeaVincent Fourcade (UCL) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


The Freedom of the Streets: Gender and Urban Space in Early Modern HollandDanielle van den Heuvel (University of Amsterdam) Free [email protected]

Saturday 20Institute of Historical Research

Seminar

14:00–16:00


Familiar Learning: Siblings Educating Siblings in the Long Eighteenth CenturyCatherine Dille (Richmond, The American International University in London)



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May


Seminar

16:00–18:00




Seminar

17:15–19:15


From Privy to Statistical Archive: Information, Science and the Enlightenment Territorial StateBarbara Naddeo (City University of New York) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Entangled Memories: German and Italian Jews Anna Koch (Southampton) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


‘One that was no furtherer of this devise’: A Propaganda Campaign against the ‘Monarchical Republic of Elizabeth I’?Catherine Chou (Villanova University) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


The Middle Eastern Causes of the First CrusadeAlex Mallett (Exeter) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:00


How Rome Was Rebuilt: Approaches to Architectural Restoration in AntiquityChristopher Siwicki (Exeter) This event is part of the Roman Art Seminar Series.Free [email protected]

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May


Seminar

17:30–19:00


© ShakespeareIan Gadd (Bath Spa) In February 1594, John Danter had his claim to the publishing rights to Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus approved by two of the officers of the London’s Stationers’ Company—and with this, the story of Shakespeare’s copyright begins. This talk explores exactly what rights were being granted to Danter and those who followed him in securing the publishing rights to Shakespeare’s other works, and how those rights fundamentally shaped Shakespeare’s subsequent publishing history. By tracing the ownership of these rights from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries through to the late eighteenth century, Professor Gadd will demonstrate how any history of the emergence of modern Anglo-American copyright needs to understand the changing commercial realities of the London book trade as much as the more well-known legislative and legal landmarks.This event is part of the Open University Book History Research Group Seminar: Literature and Copyright.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


The Making of the Russian Revolution (Why Lenin Should Have Said ‘I’m Not a Leninist’)Neil FaulknerFree [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30

Warburg Institute



Lecture

18:00


Eric Hobsbawm Memorial Lecture 2017Russia’s Revolution and the Destruction of the PastCatherine MerridaleCatherine Merridale is the author of numerous award-winning books on Russian history. Her latest work, Lenin on the Train (Penguin Books), tells the story of Lenin’s famous journey to Russia in April 1917. Her talk will be followed by a reception.Free advance registration required [email protected]


Seminar

18:30–19:50

Warburg Institute

On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the LightA weekly series of public readings of Dante’s works hosted by the Warburg Institute.Purgatorio, Canto XXXIII. Beatrice’s Prophesies. The Final Ritual of Dante’s Spiritual Cleansing.Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) Remaining dates: 5 June: Paradiso, Canto I. Ascent to the Heaven of Fire.12 June: Paradiso, Canto III. Heaven of the Moon. Piccarda Donati.19 June: Paradiso, Canto XI. Thomas Aquinas. Francis of Assisi.26 June: Paradiso, Canto XVII. Heaven of Mars. Cacciaguida.3 July: Paradiso, Canto XXXIII. The Empyrean. The Vision of the Trinity.Free [email protected]


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May

Tuesday 23Institute of Latin American Studies

Two-Day Conference /Symposium

10:00–15:00


Memory, Migration, and Decolonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond, 1804 to the PresentKeynote Speaker: Matthew Smith (University of the West Indies, Mona) Speakers: Tina K Ramnarine (RHUL), William ‘Lez’ Henry (West London)Convenors: Jack Webb, William Tantam (ILAS), Maria del Pilar Kaladeen (SAS Centre for Postcolonial Studies)This event is produced in association with the AHRC Translating Cultures Theme.£45 | £10 [email protected]


Seminar

18:00-20:00


Sovereignty, Law and Geography Roundtable: A Panel Discussion of Lauren Benton’s A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400–1900Lauren Benton (Vanderbilt University), Simon Layton (QMUL), Steve Legg (Nottingham), Kimberley Peters (Liverpool), Mira Siegelberg (QMUL) The discussion will be followed by a drinks reception.This is a joint seminar with the London Group of Historical Geographers and the IHR British Maritime History Seminar Series. Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


The Bush, the Suburbs and the Long Great War: A Family History Michael Roper (Essex) Chair: Tim Reinke-WilliamsFree [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Gypsies, Religion, Idleness, and ‘Trade of Life’ in Early Modern EnglandDavid Cressy (Ohio State University) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Shining Lights: Magic Lanterns in the Hands of LMS Missionaries, 1839-1890Mary Borgo (Indiana University) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


The Practical, the Political and the Ethical Seminar SeriesJay Wallace (University of California Berkeley)Free [email protected]


Seminar

18:00–20:00

IALS

Globalization, Fair Taxation and Tax Multilateralism: The BEPS Approach Philip Baker (IALS), Marcus Livio (IALS), Marcelo Ilarraz (IALS) Free advance registration required [email protected]

Events calendarMay


May


Lecture

18:00–19:30


Friends of the British School at Athens Lecture:Greece in the Life and Work of Giorgio De ChiricoRobin [email protected]


Seminar

18:00–20:00


Preferring to Dismember It: Margaret Thatcher and the Demise of the British National Oil CompanyJonathan Kuiken (Wilkes University)Free [email protected]


Seminar

12:30–14:30


The History of Chinese Migration to Latin America in the Nineteenth CenturyRudolph Ng (Birkbeck) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:00–19:00


The Dispersed Monument: Global Site-MappingLindsay Allen (KCL) This event is part of the Classical Archaeology Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Dublin’s Great War, 1912–23Richard Grayson (Goldsmiths) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Taxation and Commercial Society in the Scottish EnlightenmentShane Horwell (UCL) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Aristocratic Amateur Drama in the Long Eighteenth Century: Private Theatricals and Public PersonaeJudith Hawley (RHUL) Free [email protected]


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May


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Child Kingship and Notions of Maturity in England, Scotland, France, and Germany, c.1050-c.1250Emily WardFree [email protected]

SAS Central

Lecture

18:00–19:30

The Senate Room (Senate House)

Fake News in a Post-Truth WorldLinda Risso (IHR) Fake news is nothing new. It has been part of our history since we started to live in groups. What is new, however, is the pervasive nature and immediacy with which fake news spreads through social media. We are relentlessly bombarded with contradicting information, opposing claims and attacks on the very idea that there are such things as truth and expertise. Linda Risso will discuss what we, as citizens caught in the middle of the fight for our hearts and minds, can do to navigate the new information environment without getting caught in the maelstrom.Free [email protected]


Lecture

18:00–20:00


2017 John Coffin Memorial Annual Palaeography LectureCrossing Palaeographical Borders: Bi-Alphabetical Hebrew Scribes and Manuscripts in Egypt, Spain and Northern France (11th to 15th centuries) Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (École Pratique des Hautes Études) Professor Oszlowy-Schlanger’s lecture will centre on an aspect of Hebrew palaeography in Latin manuscripts. Her subject is relevant to current studies in a variety of areas: it is about the interaction of minority and dominant cultures, inter-faith relations and the multilingualism and polyglot nature of urban communities in medieval Europe, as well as medieval literacy and the practices of reading, writing and the creation of libraries and archives. She is the director of studies, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Section des Sciences Historiques et Philogogiques, Sorbonne University, Paris, and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. She is a highly distinguished scholar, funded by the Rothschild Foundation to research uncatalogued material. She heads the pan-European project ‘Books within Books’ (http://hebrewmanuscript.com), that seeks to locate, photograph and describe every Hebrew manuscript to be found in the bindings of books (these are mostly books written in Latin) now in libraries across Europe. She is a leading specialist in the study of Hebrew manuscripts, palaeography and diplomatic, the history of medieval linguistic thought and Christian Hebrew scholars in the Middle Ages.Free advance registration required [email protected]

Events calendarMay


May


Seminar

16:00–18:00


Turning a Work of Literature into a Movie: Some Puzzles about AdaptationJames Harold (Mt. Holyoke College)The adaptation of stories from one medium to another has been almost completely neglected as a philosophical topic. This neglect is surprising for two reasons: first, adaptation is everywhere. Short stories get adapted into plays; plays into movies; movies into operas; songs into poems; and on and on, backwards and forwards. The second reason is that adaptation poses a number of complex and thorny philosophical puzzles. This talk will focus on one particular kind of adaptation, from the medium of literature to the medium of movies. What do we mean when we say that a movie is faithful to its source? Is being faithful to its source a merit in a movie adaptation? And how do we decide when a movie should be counted as being an adaptation of some particular pre-existing work of literature, such as a novel or play?This event is part of the London Aesthetics Forum, which is generously sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics.Free [email protected]

Thursday 25Institute of Modern Languages Research

Two–Day Conference

09:00–17:00

Primorska University (Koper, Slovenia)

Sites of Memory, Sites of [email protected]


Seminar

16:30–18:30


The End of the Roman Republic in AthensMuriel Moser (University of Frankfurt) This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:00–19:00


CenSes SeminarThis event is part of the Rethinking the Senses project funded by the AHRC.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Women and Work Helen McCarthyFree [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Mapping New Historical Patterns among London’s Legal Inns, 1292-c. 1500Malcolm Richardson (Louisiana State University), Gabriele Richardson (Louisiana State University) Free [email protected]


Events calendarMay

May


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Who Shall Guard the Guards? London Transport Governance 1905–33James Fowler (York) Free [email protected]


Seminar

18:00–20:00


The Industrial Picturesque at Quarry Bank: Serendipity or Designed LandscapeJonathan Price (IHR) Free [email protected]


Seminar

18:30–20:00


Postgraduate Feminist Reading GroupFree [email protected]

Friday 26Institute of Philosophy


09:30–18:30


The Distributed Cognitive Ecologies of Collaborative Embodied Skill Erik Rietveld (Amsterdam), Wayne Christensen (Warwick), Ellen Fridland (KCL), Emily Cross (Bangor), Michael Kimmel (University of Vienna), Daniel Richardson (UCL), Joel Krueger (Exeter), David Papineau (King’s College London)Organised by John Sutton (Macquarie)This workshop addresses relations between individuals, groups and environments across performance forms and contexts. What do individuals bring to and do in collaborative embodied performance? How do group members with distinct capacities complement each other in skilled action? Are cues to collaborative embodied skill distributed across larger cognitive ecologies, and how are they reliably accessed? What forms of breakdown and repair reveal the fragility and the resilience of collaborative skills? Free advance registration required [email protected]



11:00–17:00


Lewis Carroll: Logic and PhilosophyFrancine F. Abeles (Kean University), Corine Besson (Sussex/IP), Melanie Keene (Cambridge), Amirouche Moktefi (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia), Mark Richards (independent scholar), James Trafford (University for the Creative Arts, Epsom)Free advance registration required [email protected]


Seminar

16:30–18:30


Spatial Dynamics in Horace’s EpistlesEdoardo Galfré (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series.Free [email protected]

Events calendarMay


May


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Tobacco Retail, Early Modern Economic Practice and State Formation in Early Modern EnglandAlex Taylor (Sheffield) This talk examines England’s first attempt to centrally license tobacco retailers between 1632 and 1640. Free [email protected]


Seminar

18:00–20:00


Finnegans Wake SeminarFree [email protected]

Saturday 27Institute of Latin American Studies

Seminar

10:00–17:00


Latin American Music Seminar£8 advance registration required [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Que(e)rying Social Purity: Sexology, Theology and Sexual ModernityJoy Dixon (University of British Columbia) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


The Professionalization of Electoral Politics: The Liberal and Conservative Party Agents, 1880-1910Kathryn Rix (History of Parliament Trust) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics SeminarHosted by the Centre for Logic and Language. Free [email protected]


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May

Wednesday 31Institute of Latin American Studies

Seminar

17:30–19:30


Producing Knowledges, Producing Pachamama: Andean Indigenous Politics in Post-Neoliberal EcuadorSarah Radcliffe (Cambridge) With the 2008 Constitution declaring the rights of indigenous peoples and of nature, Ecuador positioned itself at odds with mainstream politics. Yet in the decade since the election of Alianza Pais, the dynamics between indigeneity, Pachamama/nature and politics remain troubled and antagonistic. This talk explores how we might begin to frame and understand the ways by which central Andean kichwa speakers demarcate the forms of knowledge and agency through which they engage in contesting marginalization.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Fideles Dei et Regis: A Zeugma in Carolingian Political DiscourseStefan EsdersFree [email protected]


Short Course

10:00–16:30

Warburg Institute

Opening Doors | Moving IdeasThis open house event features engaging talks by the two scholars who head our MA programmes: Guido Giglioni, for the MA in Cultural and Intellectual History 1300 – 1650, and Joanne Anderson, for the MA in Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture, which is offered in conjunction with London’s National Gallery. The day will include tours of the Warburg’s famous library, including an introduction to its unique classification and arrangement of human culture and expression, and tours of the Aby Warburg archive and photographic collection, which is increasingly of great interest to contemporary artists and scholars of art. There will be a showing of Judith Wechsler’s film on the life of Aby Warburg and an information session on studying at the Warburg and the funding opportunities available. Refreshments and lunch will be provided. Free advance registration required bit.ly/warbopen


Seminar

13:00–14:00



SAS Central

Workshop

13:00–16:50


Impact and Public Engagement Workshop for PhD/ECRsMaria Castrillo (Senate House Library), Dan Pett (British Museum), Stijn Van Rossem (IHR)This workshop will cover a skill that has become essential in academia, particularly when applying for funding: explaining the public impact of academic work. Issues covered will include aspects of impact and public engagement (broadly conceived), both within different research environments and when engaging with multiple audiences. Working as part of a group, you will have a chance to pitch an impact and engagement idea you have collectively developed.The workshop is open to PhD students and early career researchers. Lunch will be provided.Free advance registration required [email protected]

Events calendarMay


May


Seminar

17:00–18:30

The Court Room (Senate House)

From Terra Sigillata to China: Globalisations, Moving Objects and Cultural Imaginations in NW EuropeMartin Pitts (Exeter) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:00–19:00


Women Hotel Staff and the Negotiation of Class, Gender, and National Identity in Britain, 1918-1950Eloise Moss (Manchester) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Dana Villa (University of Notre Dame) Free [email protected]


Lecture

18:30–20:30

The Senate Room (Senate House)

Fleming, Ian Fleming: The Author as CollectorJon GilbertJon Gilbert, author of the award-winning Ian Fleming Bibliography, antiquarian book dealer and collector, will enlighten the audience with his knowledge of the James Bond author. Not only did Fleming set up The Book Collector 65 years ago, he also managed to create one of the most inspiring book collections. The theme? Books that changed the world. The collection is now part of the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana. Mr Gilbert will talk about some of its highlights, reveal Fleming’s collecting secrets, and touch on Fleming’s reading habits, including his love of poetry, thrillers and adventure stories. Ian’s nephew James Fleming will introduce Jon, who will be joined by Fergus Fleming for a short Q&A afterwards.The lecture will be preceded by a drinks reception sponsored by The Book Collector.Free [email protected]

Institute of Commonwealth Studies

18:00–20:00

Woburn Room G22 (Senate House)

Book Launch: The Portuguese in the East: A Cultural History of a Maritime Trading Empire by Shihan de Silva [email protected]

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Events calendarJune

June

Thursday 01The Warburg Institute

Three-Day Conference/Symposium

10:30–17:00

Warburg Institute

Creation and Artifice in Medieval Theories of CausalityThe Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group meeting will be held at the Warburg Institute on 1 and 2 June with the theme ‘Creation and Artifice in Medieval Theories of Causality’. Keynote lectures will be given by Jon McGuinness and Amos Bertolacci. Other speakers will include Charles Burnett (Warburg), Dragos Calma (Cambridge), Michael Chase (Paris), Therese Cory (Notre Dame), Ann Giletti (Cambridge), R. E. Rolen Houser (Houston), Luís López-Farjeat (Mexico), Jon McGinnis (St. Louis), Nicola Polloni (Durham), David Twetten (Milwaukee), Philippe Vallat (Vienna)A plenary lecture will be given by Richard Taylor at the Ismaili Institute on 31 May.Free advance registration required bit.ly/aquinas1


Seminar

16:30–18:30


The Private End of EmpiresGabriele Puschnigg (UCL Institute of Archaeology) This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar SeriesFree [email protected]


Seminar17:15–19:15Wolfson Room I IHR (Senate House)

Medieval and Tudor London SeminarGary Gibbs (Roanoke College), Valerie Hitchman (Kent), Nikolas Georgacarakos (University of Colorado) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Children in the Cause of HumanityTehila Sasson (IHR, Past and Present Fellow)‘We are the world’, a famous charity group told us in the late twentieth century. The phrase signals a revolutionary shift in how a new generation came to feel about its place in the global community. In the second half of the twentieth century, a global ethics has transformed the lives of ordinary people in Britain, the United States and Europe. From television programs to sponsored walkathons, fair trade shops to rock concerts, a burgeoning humanitarian culture began ushering global suffering into our daily lives with such scale and frequency that many people now empathise more with distant strangers than with their own fellow citizens. With the unravelling of European empires, the rise of Western consumer society and growing economic disparities between the global North and South, the period saw a radical transformation in the ways in which a broad spectrum of people and institutions joined a new political constituency —‘humanity’— that stretched beyond any particular national border. This talk focuses on one aspect of this story: how children and youth have joined a global humanitarian community. It will explore how between the 1940s and the 1980s a new aid industry mobilized children in the cause of humanity. The object of aid programs as far back as the nineteenth century, children had always been the focus for humanitarian empathy and compassion in the modern age. But in the late 1960s, when humanitarian and international organizations realised the potential of children as a new market for campaigning, children also became agents of humanitarian care. Through television shows, sponsored walkathons, educational programs and public festivals children were mobilized to become—as some have put it— citizens of the [email protected]

Events calendarJune


June


Seminar

17:30–19:30


A Chronology of Some Memorable Accidents: The Representation of the Recent Past in Printed Almanacs, 1648-1660Imogen Peck (Bristol) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Legitimising Food: Mughal Imperial Ideology and Food PracticesNeha Vermani (RHUL) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Screening and Discussion of the Ethnographic Film CuéntameClaudia Gianetto (Goldsmiths)Based on fourteen months of fieldwork in an indigenous community of the Eastern Yucatan, Cuéntame explores the role and status of Mayan women within particular configurations of kinship and community. Through the protagonists’ personal narratives, the film looks in particular at women’s labour conditions in relation to male work migration, and at their contribution to the household economy as producers of embroidery for the tourist market.Free [email protected]



09:00–19:00

Room 104, Torrington Room (Senate House)

Marie Nimier, Text and Context: Histoire, Politics, EroticsThis Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing conference develops the work of the successful international conference on Nimier’s work held in Paris in 2014. It will provide opportunities for exploring the author’s work as a reflection on and interaction with contemporary culture (literary and otherwise) and its evolving narratives, anxieties and sensitivities. The author will attend the event, read from her work and take part in a Q & A. This event is sponsored by the Thyra Alleyne Fund.Free advance registration required [email protected]



10:00–18:00


The Elzeviers and their Contemporaries This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of Louis Elzevier, bookseller and founder of the publishing house that dominated Dutch printing in the seventeenth century. Elzevier books spread across the known world, through their own vast international trade network and via the many foreign students who read them while studying at Dutch universities. They thus helped shape how the topics represented were understood, learned, taught, read, collected and pirated. The renowned dynasty lives on today through the long collectability of its output and through its namesake, the Elsevier publishing house. This conference explores material evidence of the production and consumption of academic books in the early modern period, based around publications by the Elzeviers and their contemporaries.David McKitterick (Cambridge), James Mosley (Reading), Andrew Pettegree (St Andrews), Arthur der Weduwen (St Andrews)The conference will coincide with a display of Senate House Library’s Elzevier collection, one of the largest worldwide.Free advance registration required [email protected]


Events calendarJune

June


Seminar

16:30–18:30


Aristotle on the Good LifePedro Ferrão da Costa (Universidade de Lisboa) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Seminar

16:30–18:00


Linked Data and Ancient World Research: Studying Past Projects from a User PerspectiveSarah Middle (Open University)This event is part of the ICS Digital Classics Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Seminar

18:00–20:00


Charles Peake Ulysses SeminarFree [email protected]


Seminar

14:00–16:00


The Divided Psyche and the Law in Fifteenth-Century EuropeAlex Russell (Warwick) This event is part of the IES Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination (EMPHASIS) Seminar Series. Free [email protected]

Monday 05Institute of Commonwealth Studies


08:30–13:00


The Refugee Law Initiative Second Annual Conference: Mass Influx? Law, Policy and Large-Scale Movements of Refugees and MigrantsThis conference provides a dedicated annual international forum to share and debate the latest research and cutting-edge developments in refugee law. This conference builds on the success of the 2016 RLI inaugural annual conference, which united academics, practitioners, policy-makers and students to consider the future of refugee law. This year’s special theme reflects a need to re-examine complex issues surrounding large-scale sudden movements of persons across borders as we build towards the Global Compacts in 2018. With the current political focus on such large-scale movements, there is renewed interest in better understanding and developing humanitarian responses. Even if key normative and legal protection gaps in this area have been evident for some time, little has changed on the ground for refugees, migrants and IDPs. The September 2016 adoption of the UN New York Declaration provides a timely opportunity to reflect on the ideas and proposals expressed therein and to feed into the development of Global Compacts in 2018. Alongside presentations from keynote speakers, several panel sessions will be devoted to this theme. Keynote speakers will include Volker Turk (Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, UNHCR), François Crépeau (UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Migrants), Alexander Betts (Director, Refugee Studies Centre), Loren Landau (African Centre for Migration and Society), Alexandra Bilak (Director, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre)£150 standard | £125 students, unwaged | £95 RLI affiliates Participants are responsible for making their own visa, travel and accommodation arrangements, which are not included in the registration fee. Attendance at the dinner in Senate House on 6 June is optional and charged separately at £45. [email protected]

Events calendarJune


June


Seminar

16:00–18:00




Two-Day Colloquium

17:00


Refractions of the Byzantine: The Empire of Trebizond (1204–1461)Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Mini-Colloquium on the ‘Intoxicants and Early Modernity’ ProjectFree [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Camilla Cowling (Warwick) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30

Warburg Institute



Lecture

18:00–19:00

IALS

The New Sentencing CodeDavid Ormerod QC (Law Commission for England and Wales) Organised in collaboration with the Statute Law Society.Free advance registration required [email protected]


Seminar

18:30–19:50

Warburg Institute

On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the LightA weekly series of public readings of Dante’s works hosted by the Warburg Institute.Paradiso, Canto I. Ascent to the Heaven of Fire.Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) Remaining dates: 12 June: Paradiso, Canto III. Heaven of the Moon. Piccarda Donati.19 June: Paradiso, Canto XI. Thomas Aquinas. Francis of Assisi.26 June: Paradiso, Canto XVII. Heaven of Mars. Cacciaguida.3 July: Paradiso, Canto XXXIII. The Empyrean. The Vision of the Trinity.Free [email protected]


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June

Tuesday 06Institute of Modern Languages Research


14:00–19:00


Showcasing Research Excellence: The Journal of Romance Studies Inaugural Annual SymposiumJudith Still (Nottingham): ‘Slavery in Enlightenment America: Crèvecoeur’s Bilingual Approach’ Abigail Lee Six (RHUL): ‘The Vamp Rehabilitated: Carmen de Burgos’s mujer fría in the Light of Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent’s Señorita Vampiro’ Bernard McGuirk (Nottingham): ‘A Meditation on Fernando Pessoa’ Adalgisa Giorgio (Bath): ‘Matrixial Creativity and the Wit(h)nessing of Trauma: Reconnecting Mothers and Daughters in Marosia Castaldi’s Novel Dentro le mie mani le tue: Tetralogia di Nightwater’Simon Gaunt (KCL): ‘The Values of French Literature and Language in the European Middle Ages’ Keynote — Jo Labanyi (New York University): ‘Beyond Modern Languages?’ Presentation by Liverpool University Press, followed by a reception. Free advance registration required [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Cook’s New Clothes: Redressing the Legacy of Captain Cook’s First Voyage in the PacificSimon Layton (QMUL), Khadija von Zinnenburg CarrollFree [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Female Creditors and Money Agents in Late Seventeenth-Century East LondonCaroline Nielsen (Northampton) Chair: Tim Reinke-WilliamsFree [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Memory Making and Community Building in Post-Reformation English Catholic Musical CultureEmilie Murphy (York) Free [email protected]

Events calendarJune


June


Seminar

17:30–19:30

Lambeth Palace

Liturgical Books and the Medieval LibraryTessa Webber (Cambridge) It has long been conventional in the history of books and book collections of the Middle Ages to draw a distinction between liturgical books and library books. In practice, however, the use made of the books and the arrangements for their storage and custody suggest that the distinction was sometimes less clear cut. This talk will examine such evidence together with that provided by liturgical commentaries and medieval booklists to question how far the conventional bipartite categorisation of books as ‘liturgical’ and ‘library’ reflects the way in which books were conceived during the Middle Ages.Note on the venue: This meeting will take place in the Great Hall of Lambeth Palace and is a joint meeting with the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library. Those wishing to attend should send their names to [email protected] not later than Monday, 5 June. Admittance will be via the main gatehouse of Lambeth Palace not before 17:15. This event is part of the IES History of Libraries Seminar Series and is cosponsored by the Institute of Historical Research.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Depending on the Thick Debbie Roberts (Edinburgh)This event is part of The Practical, the Political and the Ethical Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Seminar

18:00–20:00


Conscription, Empire, and the Crisis of the British Constitution in the First World WarJesse Tumblin (Boston College) Free [email protected]

Wednesday 07Institute of English Studies

Short Course

10:00–17:00

Room G21A (Senate House)

Selling Rights This two-day course aimed at staff handling rights for literary agencies and publishing houses will cover the rationale for selling rights as well as the practicalities.£399 advance registration required [email protected]


Seminar

13:00–14:00




Seminar

16:00–18:00


London Aesthetics ForumSponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics.Free [email protected]


Events calendarJune

June


Lecture

17:00–19:00


J P Barron Memorial LectureClassicist Foremothers and Why They MatterEdith Hall (KCL) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:00–19:00


The Conservatives and the First Elected European Parliament 1979-84Khurram Jowiya (KCL) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Edmund Burke and Adam Müller, Between Clergy and CommerceJonathan Green (Cambridge) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


‘Everlastingly joining friends together on the canvace’: Kinship and Eighteenth-Century Portraiture Kate Retford (Birkbeck) To be followed by an end-of-year seminar party (venue to be announced)Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


The Habsburg Empire: A New HistoryPieter Judson (European University Institute, Florence), Lucy Riall (European University Institute, Florence) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Household Work: Connecting the Domestic with the Investigative in Eighteenth-Century England and IrelandLeonie Hannan (Queen’s University Belfast) Free [email protected]


Conference

10:00–17:00


Antal SzerbHungarian writer Antal Szerb’s novels have been known to an English readership for a number of years, but his work as a literary historian is only now becoming available in English. This event celebrates the publication of his essays, Reflections in the Library: Selected Literary Essays 1926-1944, in Peter Sherwood’s translation (Legenda, 2017). Speakers include translators, literary historians and the editors of the volume. Organiser: Zsuzsanna Varga (Glasgow)£10 advance registration required [email protected]

Events calendarJune


June


Seminar

14:00–16:00


Populism in Small StatesThe Ingeborg Bachmann Centre: a panel discussion on the current public discourse on the ‘New Right’ in Austria, Belgium and the [email protected]


Seminar

16:30–18:30


Splittings, Falls and Restorations of the Later Roman EmpireDominic Moreau (University of Lille III) This event is part of the Ancient History Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Gender, Folklore, and ‘National’ History, with Response from Kate HillLaura CarterFree [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Roundtable Discussion to Mark the Publication of Caroline Barron’s Collected EssaysJoel Rosenthal (Stony Brook University), Martha Carlin, Matthew Davies (Birkbeck) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Iwan Morgan LectureFree [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Cold War Frontier: Oral Histories of British Military Families in Germany, c. 1945-1991Grace Huxford (Bristol) Free [email protected]


Events calendarJune

June

Friday 09Institute of Historical Research


10:30–17:00


Thomas Frederick Tout: Refashioning History in the 20th CenturyThomas Frederick Tout (1855-1929) was a remarkable medieval historian who forged the distinctive and distinguished history school at Manchester University in the early years of the twentieth century. His own research made extensive use of the national archives (as opposed to the customary use of chronicle sources) and his major contributions were in the field of administrative history. He was, himself, a tireless administrator of many historical enterprises (including the Dictionary of National Biography) and his historical output was extraordinary. He spent the last four years of his life in London and is buried in Hampstead Parish churchyard. The time is ripe to reconsider his historical legacy.Organised by Caroline Barron (RHUL) and Joel Rosenthal (Stony Brook University)Speakers include: Ralph A. Griffiths (Swansea), William Gibson (Oxford Brookes), Stuart Jones (Manchester), Peter Slee (Leeds Becket), Christopher Godden (Manchester), Henry Summerson (ODNB), Ian d’Alton (Trinity College Dublin), Seymour Phillips (University College Dublin), Paul Dryburgh (The National Archives), Matthew Raven (Hull), Jeff Hamilton (Baylor University), Vance Smith (Princeton University), DeLloyd Guth (University of Manitoba), John McEwan (St. Louis University), Elizabeth Biggs (York), Nick Barratt (Nottingham), Mark Ormrod (York), Joel Rosenthal (Stony Brook University), Tom SharpRegistrations fees apply; advance registration required by Monday 5 June 2017£60 two days | £40 two days, student/unwaged/retired/IHR Friend£35 one day | £25 one day, student/unwaged/retired/IHR FriendThe conference fee includes refreshments and lunches. [email protected]


Seminar

16:30–18:30


A Figurative Translation: The Battle of Cannae in ‘Ad Astra’ of Mihachi Kagano, a Case StudyCarlo Lualdi This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Seminar

16:30–18:00


Crowdsourcing a Digital Library of Pre-Modern ChineseDonald Sturgeon (Harvard University)This event is part of the ICS Digital Classics Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Urban Growth in Early Modern EnglandTony Wrigley (Cambridge) Between the mid-sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, the population of England increased five-fold. The populations of leading continental countries—France, Germany, Italy, and Spain—all roughly doubled in the same period. Non-urban growth was very similar in England and the continent; the difference in overall growth rates was almost entirely due to the very rapid urban growth taking place in England. This seminar talk describes this difference and explores its significance.An end-of-year party will follow. For details, please email [email protected] [email protected]

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June

Monday 12Institute of Historical Research


09:00–17:00


South Asia in 1947: Broadening PerspectivesThis year marks the 70th anniversary of perhaps the most important year of South Asia’s twentieth century, a year that saw the end of British rule in India and the creation of the independent dominions of India and Pakistan. The passing of nearly two centuries of colonial rule was accompanied by mass violence, the movement of populations, the establishment of new institutions and the reconfiguration of South Asian polities oriented towards new centralising nationalisms.The partition of British India between India and Pakistan has come to mark a watershed in histories of the period due to its immense scale and its often tragic consequences for millions of people in both of the newly independent states. It was also significant for a number of other reasons, such as the transformation of colonial subjects into citizens, the integration of the princely states, the consolidation of constituent assemblies, the militarisation of South Asia and the entry onto the world stage of two states representing nearly a quarter of humanity. Seven decades give us sufficient distance to consider the consequential year of 1947 from a broader, extra-Partition perspective.Keynote: Yasmin Khan (Oxford)Organisers: Aashique Iqbal (Oxford) and Radha Kapuria (KCL) Free advance registration required; participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs [email protected]

SAS Central


09:00–17:45

British Library

Researchers, Practitioners and Their Use of the Archived Web12–16 JuneA week of web archiving events and activities whose centrepiece is a major international conference combining the second RESAW Conference and the rescheduled IIPC Web Archiving Conference. The week will begin with a two-day Archives Unleashed hackathon. A public debate will be held on the evening of 14 June as part of the British Library’s series Digital Conversations.Organised by the School of Advanced Study; the British Library; The National Archives of the UK; the Oxford Internet Institute; Aarhus University; L’Institut des sciences de la communication (CNRS, Paris-Sorbonne, UPMC); L3S Research Center–Leibniz University Hannover; the Royal Library, Denmark; the Bibliothèque nationale de France; L’Institut national de l’audiovisuel and Aix-Marseille University; International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) and Archives Unleashed.Please visit the Archived Web conference website for complete programme details: https://archivedweb.blogs.sas.ac.uk/programme £20 advance registration required [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


The Civil War in Aden and the Imperialism of DecolonizationWilliam Roger Louis (University of Texas/Oxford) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


A Writer and Her Daughters: The Afterlife of Irene Nemirovsky’s Suite Française Susan Suleiman (Harvard University) Free [email protected]


Events calendarJune

June


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Citizens of the World: Birmingham Quaker Women, Transnational Voluntary Service, and the Meaning of CitizenshipSian Roberts (Birmingham) This talk will focus on the voluntary action of a group of Quaker women based in the city of Birmingham in the first half of the twentieth century. In addition to their participation in the activities of the Religious Society of Friends at a local and national level, they engaged in a broad range of voluntary activities at home and abroad, motivated by a faith-inspired witness for peace. Locally their activism encompassed penal reform, housing, education and youth work, and was performed through women’s organisations including the Birmingham Women’s Settlement and the Women’s Citizens Club. Transnationally, they were particularly active in humanitarian relief, beginning in the First World War and continuing through the interwar period to the Spanish Civil War and their work in support of refugees from Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. The talk will explore the intersection of the local and the global in the voluntary action of this group of women. It will consider how mapping their activism across a spectrum of transnational issues and contexts illuminates our understanding of their particular model of citizenship. Free [email protected]


Seminar

18:00–20:00


Embedded Collections: The Cappella dei Principi and its ForerunnersLindsay Alberts (Framingham State University ) The Cappella dei Principi at San Lorenzo in Florence, a massive space covered from floor to dome with variegated hardstones, remains the most spectacular chapel decorated in the difficult and highly expensive technique known as commesso or Florentine mosaic. Commissioned by Ferdinando I de’ Medici in 1604 as the funerary chapel for the Medici grand dukes, the cappella asserts the political, financial, and spiritual authority of the dynasty through the display of an impressive collection of rare and difficult-to-work natural specimens, literally embedded into the structure of the space itself. This talk examines the communicative strategies at play in early modern forerunners of the Cappella dei Principi, chapels and altars in which collections of rare stones were incorporated into larger religious structures. Free [email protected]


Seminar

18:30–19:50

Warburg Institute

On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the LightA weekly series of public readings of Dante’s works hosted by the Warburg Institute.Paradiso, Canto III. Heaven of the Moon. Piccarda Donati.Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) Remaining dates: 19 June: Paradiso, Canto XI. Thomas Aquinas. Francis of Assisi.26 June: Paradiso, Canto XVII. Heaven of Mars. Cacciaguida.3 July: Paradiso, Canto XXXIII. The Empyrean. The Vision of the Trinity.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30

Warburg Institute


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June

Tuesday 13Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Seminar

16:00–18:00

IALS

IALS New Book Forum: Re-Valuing Care in Theory, Law and Policy: Cycles and Connections, edited by Rosie Harding, Ruth Fletcher, and Chris Beasley Diamond Ashiagbor (IALS), Rosie Harding (Birmingham), Ruth Fletcher (QMUL), Chris Beasley (University of Adelaide), Yasmin Gunaratnam (Goldsmiths), Lucy Series, Ambreena Manji (Cardiff ), Maria Drakopoulou (Kent), Marie Fox (Liverpool) This event is co-hosted by QMUL School of Law and Birmingham Law School and will be followed by a reception. Free advance registration required [email protected]


Lecture

17:00–19:00


T. B. L. Webster LectureTragedy: The Art of Facing DeathKaren Bassi (University of California, Santa Cruz)Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Religious Policy and Faction in the Second Protectorate Parliament, 1656-58Elliot VernonFree [email protected]


Seminar

18:00–19:30


Literary London Reading GroupLauren Elkin (Liverpool) Free [email protected]

Wednesday 14Institute of Classical Studies

Seminar

13:00–13:55




Seminar

16:00–20:00

Paul Hurst Room (Birkbeck College)

In Praise of Depth; or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the HiddenRodrigo Duarte (Federal University of Minas Gerais), Joshua Landy (Stanford)This event is part of the London Aesthetics Forum, which is sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


The Supermarine Spitfire: A History of a TotemTony Pratley (Kent) Free [email protected]


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June


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Fathers and Sons in Cold War Australia: A Family MemoirMike Roper (Essex) Free [email protected]


Lecture

17:30–18:30

Warburg Institute

The Relic as Image: Prophetic Aura in an Age of Technological ReproducibilityFinbarr Barry Flood (New York University) Among the most celebrated relics of the Prophet Muhammad was his sandal. Tracings made from the most famous sandal relic, kept in Damascus, were believed to circulate the blessings (baraka) of the Prophet. These indexes of the relic as outline were often copied in their turn, generating an enchained series that enabled the sandal and its blessings to travel well beyond the site of the relic’s enshrinement. This tradition continued into modernity, when new print technologies were applied to the reproduction of the sandal image. Such images raise significant questions about mediation and the ontology of the devotional image in modernity.Free advance registration required bit.ly/relic14


Seminar

18:00–20:00


Ezra Pound Cantos Reading GroupCanto 35Guy Stevenson (Goldsmiths) Free [email protected]

Thursday 15Institute of English Studies


10:00–18:00

Senate House

Britain, Canada, and the ArtsCoinciding with and celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation, this conference will focus on the strong culture of artistic exchange, influence, and dialogue between Canada and Britain, with a particular but not exclusive emphasis on the decades after World War II. It aims to expose the breadth of this exchange of social and cultural ideals, artistic talent, intellectual traditions, and aesthetic formulations. A variety of critical and disciplinary perspectives will be explored, with scholars and practitioners working in theatre, history, literature, politics, music, film and television, cultural studies, design, and visual art.The conference is organised in collaboration with the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University and the University of Westminster.Free advance registration required [email protected]



14:00–17:30

IALS

Compassion: Immigration and Asylum LawA symposium exploring compassion in relation to immigration and asylum law through presentations and discussion, including speakers from academia, practice, and the judiciary, plus the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration.Dermot Feenan (IALS), James Sweeney (Lancaster University), David Bolt (Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration), Hugo Storey (Upper Tribunal Judge, Immigration and Asylum Chamber), Mark Symes (Garden Court Chambers), Lisa Doyle (Refugee Council), Sue Conlon (Fountain Solicitors), David Cantor (Refugee Law Initiative, SAS), Peter Grady (UNHCR) Organised in association with the Law and Compassion Research Network.£59 standard | £20 student [email protected]

Events calendarJune


June


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Medieval and Tudor London SeminarMerridee Bailey (University of Adelaide/Oxford), Anna Boeles Rowland (Oxford)Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


History Lab SeminarFree [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


The Top of the Food Chain: A Transnational Food Company’s Involvement in Public Health and Humanitarian Relief in Europe and West Africa, 1930-1970Lola Wilhelm (The Graduate Institute, Geneva) Free [email protected]


Seminar

18:00–20:00

Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew Gardens)

Site Visit to the Padoga Restoration at Kew GardensFor details contact the History of Landscape and Garden convenors at [email protected]

Friday 16Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Seminar

10:00–18:00


Researching Southern AfricaFree [email protected]


Events calendarJune

June



10:00–19:00

Warburg Institute

Under the Greek Sky: Imitation and Geographies of Art after WinckelmannThis year marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of the German classicist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann, commonly regarded as the founding father of both archaeology and art history. Winckelmann’s writings heralded a revolution in approaches to the history of ancient art and culture, as well as contributing to the spread of neoclassical taste throughout Enlightenment Europe. This conference will re-evaluate Winckelmann’s legacy and his influence on art theory since the eighteenth century. The concept of imitation, central to Winckelmann’s theories and writings, proves to be a linchpin for modern ideas about the diffusion, appropriation, and musealization of art. The first day of the conference will focus on the ‘culture’ of imitation. Winckelmann famously claimed, paradoxically, that one has to imitate Greece in order to become inimitable. From a range of historical and artistic perspectives, papers map the consequences this claim had for art’s theory, practice, and body politics since the eighteenth century. The second day will discuss the ‘nature’ of imitation and the consequences of the ecological boundaries set for it by Winckelmann. It will explore the implications of Winckelmann’s climate theory for neoclassical geographies of art and contemporary debates on aesthetic relativism in the age of nationalism. The conference is organised by Katherine Harloe (Reading), Hans Christian Hönes (Warburg/Bilderfahrzeuge Research Group), Daniel Orrells (KCL) and Sadie Pickup (Christie’s). Additional support has been provided by the British Museum, the Institute of Classical Studies and Christie’s Education. Conference venues include King’s College London, the Warburg Institute, and the British Museum.Please visit the conference website for complete programme details: .sas.ac.uk/events/event/8010 Free advance registration required [email protected]


Seminar16:30–18:00Gordon Room (Senate House)

Recogito 2: Linked Data without the Pointy BracketsValeria Vitale (Institute of Classical Studies) This event is part of the ICS Digital Classics Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Romanticism and the Culture of Non-PublicationLynda Pratt (Nottingham)This event is part of the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar Series hosted jointly by the Institute of English Studies and the Institute of Modern Languages Research. Free [email protected]

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June

Saturday 17SAS Central


09:00–20:00


Fieldwork in the Postcolonial Research Site: A Question of Language?While fieldwork in the postcolonial research site is almost invariably multilingual, the impact of language use in accessing and negotiating legitimacy in the research site has only occasionally come to the fore of academic discussions on postcolonial perspectives and methodologies. Does the use of an ex-colonial language actually matter in the globalised world of scholarship? If it does, to what extent are we ignoring the impact of non-indigenous language use in research in postcolonial contexts? And if, for pragmatic reasons, scholarship will persist in the foreseeable future in mediating ‘subaltern’ experiences through imperial codes, how can this be mitigated (if at all) in new developments in fieldwork methodology and post-fieldwork analysis? Have significant changes in the modes of engagement employed by observers, commentators, scholars and practitioners using the medium of European languages taken place in the postcolonial research site in recent years? Or has there been a failure to engage with the language question rendering fieldwork absent from the transformations that have shaped Europe’s critical engagement with its former colonies? Indeed, how does a researcher’s language identity impact on scholarship in a transnational space and what role does language play here in the negotiation of legitimacy and reciprocity between researcher and researched? These are some of the questions to be explored in the complex network of structures, relations, codes, constraints and choices scholars encounter in the postcolonial research site. The symposium will provide a forum to exchange experiences, knowledges and interpretations of the questions at stake. Organised by Claire Griffiths (Chester), Kaya Davies-Hayon (Bristol), Catherine Gilbert (KCL)[email protected]

Monday 19The Warburg Institute

Seminar

18:30–19:45


On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light A weekly series of public readings of Dante’s works hosted by the Warburg Institute.Paradiso, Canto XI. Thomas Aquinas. Francis of Assisi.Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) Remaining dates: 26 June: Paradiso, Canto XVII. Heaven of Mars. Cacciaguida.3 July: Paradiso, Canto XXXIII. The Empyrean. The Vision of the Trinity.Free [email protected]


Lecture

18:00–20:30


The Deana & Jack Eisenberg Lecture in Public History 2017The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Changed the American ConstitutionEric Foner (Columbia)The preservation of the American nation and the destruction of slavery, the two most profound consequences of the Civil War, raised questions about the definition of American citizenship, the rights of the former slaves, and relations between the states and federal government. Three constitutional amendments were adopted during the Reconstruction period following the war that fundamentally changed the rights of citizens and the powers of the federal government. This lecture will consider the legal, political, and social consequences of amending the Constitution in the 1860s.A reception will follow the lecture at approximately 19:30.Free advance registration required [email protected]


Events calendarJune

June


Seminar

16:00–18:00




Seminar

17:15–19:15


Yulia Egorova (Durham) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Being Catholic in Protestant England: The Archpriest Affair and Post-Reformation ReligionPeter Lake (Vanderbilt University) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


An English Proposal for a Crusade against the Irish, c.1329–31Norman Housley (Leicester) Free [email protected]



IALS

2017 Summit on Commercial Dispute Resolution in ChinaThis well-established and prestigious annual event brings together experts from China and the UK to present and discuss reports on developments in a wide range of fields of commercial arbitration in China. This is an opportunity for scholars and practitioners to meet, gain insights into those developments, and hear advice from long-term industry observers.The Summit is co-organised by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London; the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London; the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; and the Beijing Arbitration Commission / Beijing International Arbitration Center.Conference venue: Double Tree by Hilton Tower of London Hotel, 7 Pepys Street, London EC3N 4AF.Advance registration required at annualreport.bjac.org.cn/[email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Sleeping with the VictoriansVicky Holmes (British Association for Victorian Studies) Chair: Mary Clare MartinFree [email protected]

Events calendarJune


June


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Kendra Packham (Visiting Fellow, Lewis Walpole Library) Free [email protected]


Seminar

18:00–20:00

IALS

Personal Control of EmployeesAdriana Topo (Università degli Studi di Padova; IALS Visiting Fellow)Free advance registration required [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Technoindustrial Capitalism and the Politics of Catastrophic Velocity from Sorel to LandVincent Garton (Cambridge) Free [email protected]


Seminar

18:00–20:00


Writing the Emigré Experience into British Art, 1915-75Rachel Dickson (Ben Uri Gallery, London), Sarah MacDougall (Ben Uri Gallery, London) This event is part of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar Series.Free [email protected]

Thursday 22The Warburg Institute


14:00–17:30

Warburg Institute

Climates and Elements: Man and His Environment in Western CultureThe concern of man’s relationship with his natural environment is not new. The elements from which the human body is made are the same as the elements in his surroundings, and events in the sky (whether of the stars or of meteorological phenomena) affect human health, character and well-being. Ever since Hippocrates’ Airs, Waters and Places, a strong medical tradition has related human regimen and diet to the seasons of the year and geographical and topographical conditions. Astrological traditions relate different regions and different latitudinal bands (climes) to different human characteristics. There was even the idea that an individual or a society could improve the bad effects of the environment through good conduct. This workshop will take up some of the issues surrounding elements, climates and regions as they are found in philosophical, medical, astrological, and alchemical literature in Greek, Syriac, Arabic and Latin in late Antique and medieval Western culture. Speakers will include Godefroid de Callatay (Louvain and 2017 Cassal Lecturer), Juan- Pedro Mantas España (Cordoba), Remke Kruk (Leidon), Pedro Monferrer-Sela (Cordoba), and Sébastien Moureau (Warburg).This event is supported by the Cassal Fund.Free advance registration required bit.ly/climates22


Events calendarJune

June


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Men and Feminism in the Later Twentieth CenturyLucy DelapFree [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Medieval and Tudor London SeminarClaire Martin, Claire Benson (University of York)Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Meet the Transport ArchivistFree [email protected]


Two-Day Conference/Symposium

10:00–18:00


Translating Queer [email protected]


Seminar

16:00–18:00


On the Social-Aesthetic Construct Rodrigo Duarte (Federal University of Minas Gerais)This event is part of the London Aesthetics Forum, which is sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics.Free [email protected]


Seminar

16:30–18:00


Historical GIS of South-Eastern EuropeDimitar Iliev (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”)This event is part of the ICS Digital Classics Seminar Series.Free [email protected]

Saturday 24Institute of Modern Languages Research

Workshop

13:00–17:00


Launch of the British Association of Teachers and Researchers of Portuguese Language (TROPO), with CPD Workshops for Researchers and PractitionersFree [email protected]

Events calendarJune


June



10:00–16:00

The Court Room (Senate Room)

Political Violence or Violent Politics? Contemporary Approaches to Violence in Latin American Studies£15 | £10 [email protected]


Summer School

12:00–17:00

Senate House

London Rare Books SchoolThe London Rare Books School (LRBS) is a series of five-day, intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects taught in and around Senate House, University of London. A range of fascinating specialist courses is offered, ranging from Medieval Women and the Book, The History of Book Illustration, and The Digital Book, covering over two thousand years of book history and investigating the world’s diverse cultures and traditions in book production. LRBS 2017 will take place from 26-30 June (week one), 3-7 July (week two), and 10-14 July (week three). Fees for a one-week course are £650 standard (£500 student), with discounts offered for booking multiple weeks. Bursaries are available. Apply online at www.ies.sas.ac.uk/[email protected]


Summer School

13:00


Metropolis 2017In addition to conference panels, this four-day summer school will include a number of other stimulating events, including a screening of Fritz Lang’s 1927 expressionist epic Metropolis, walking tours exploring the ‘hidden’ sides of London’s history and infrastructure, and an opportunity to respond creatively to the ‘metropolis’ theme. Keynote speakers: Erica Carter (KCL), Ruth Dawson (University of Hawaii/IMLR); Matthew Gandy (Cambridge), Esther Leslie (Birkbeck), and Martin Swales (UCL)£40 advance registration required [email protected]


Seminar

16:00–18:00


Comparative Modernisms SeminarFree [email protected]


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Becoming Race Women Internationalists: Black Activist-Intellectuals, Travel and Freedom Struggles, 1920s–1960sImaobong Umoren (Oxford/LSE) Free [email protected]


Seminar

18:30–19:50

Warburg Institute

On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light A weekly series of public readings of Dante’s works hosted by the Warburg Institute.Paradiso, Canto XVII. Heaven of Mars. Cacciaguida.Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) Remaining date: 3 July: Paradiso, Canto XXXIII. The Empyrean. The Vision of the Trinity.Free [email protected]


Events calendarJune

June


Summer School

IALS

Course in Legislative Drafting 2017The aim of this course is to encourage modern drafting techniques with an emphasis on effective and user-friendly legislation, and to expose drafters to a variety of drafting styles, thus allowing participants to select elements that best suit their national laws and their own tradition, culture, and jurisprudence. The course is suitable for both experienced and inexperienced drafters. Helen Xanthaki (UCL), Constantin Stefanou (IALS), Maria Mousmouti (IALS) Course fees: £5,250 (includes tuition, two textbooks and course materials) OR £6,703 (includes all the above plus a single room with shared facilities, buffet breakfast, and dinner from 25 June to 22 July inclusive at a University of London hall of residencePlaces on this course are by application only. For details, visit ials.sas.ac.uk/study/courses/legislative-drafting-course.


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Liberalism, Politics, Identity and Reform of British Sodomy Laws in the Early Nineteenth CenturyCharles Upchurch (Florida State University) Free [email protected]

Wednesday 28Human Rights Consortium


09:00–18:00

Senate House

Activist Scholarship in Human Rights: New ChallengesThis conference aims to facilitate a productive exchange between scholars and activists working within the broad interdisciplinary field of human rights on the epistemological, methodological and ethical challenges in activist scholarship. [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


Roundtable on the Anglo-German RelationshipA roundtable discussion to mark the publication of Jan Rüger’s Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea (Oxford University Press, 2017). David Blackbourn (Vanderbilt University), Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck), Celia Applegate (Vanderbilt University) Chair: Lucy Riall, European University Institute, Florence Organised by the Modern German History Seminar Series, the Rethinking Modern Europe Seminar Series, and the German Historical Institute, London.Free [email protected]

Events calendarJune


June


Lecture

18:00–20:00

Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)

2017 John Coffin Memorial Annual Irish Studies LectureShifting Ground: Irish Poetry in a Time of ChangeEavan BolandIn the last hundred years, Ireland has seen seismic changes in its social and political worlds. How did these changes come to be reflected or resisted in Irish poetry? Did the identity of the Irish poet shift with the society? Or did Irish poetry remain merely at the edge of change? Eavan Boland, Melvin and Bill Lane Professor in Humanities at Stanford University, has published several volumes of poetry, including New Collected Poems (2008), Domestic Violence (2007) and An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967–1987 (1996), as well as the prose memoir Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time, among many other works. Her A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet won the 2012 PEN Award for creative nonfiction. She has been the recipient of the Lannan Award for Poetry and the American Ireland Fund Literary Award. Free advance registration required [email protected]


Seminar

10:00–17:00


Language, Communities and Moving BordersIncreasingly volatile global political and economic contexts call the issues of mobility and globalisation in question. Consequently, terms such as ‘communities’ and ‘moving borders’ recur in modern languages and applied linguistics research. This one-day seminar aims at creating a space where colleagues from modern languages and applied linguistics exchange their latest research findings about language, communities and moving borders, learn from each other’s theoretical and methodological perspectives, and explore new and further areas of collaboration. Three principle investigators leading AHRC-funded projects from the Translating Cultures programme and the Open World Research Initiative will give their responses to the key themes, drawing insights from their research, career trajectories, and disciplinary affinity. Participants will have opportunities to talk about their work and to take part in the discussion. The seminar will finish with a panel discussion that considers the key issues and challenges for modern languages and applied linguistics research.Speakers: Angela Creese (Birmingham, PI for Translation and Translanguaging: Investigating Linguistic and Cultural Transformations in Superdiverse Wards in Four UK Cities project), Alison Phipps (Glasgow, PI for Borders of Language: The Body, Law and the State project), Catherine Boyle (KCL, PI for the Language Acts and Worldmaking project)Panel discussants: Charles Forsdick (Liverpool, AHRC Theme Leadership Fellow, Translating Cultures), Janice Carruthers (Queen’s University Belfast, AHRC Theme Leadership Fellow, Modern Languages), Li Wei (UCL), Bernard McGuirk (Nottingham)Organisers: Zhu Hua (Birkbeck), Catherine Davies (IMLR) This event is produced with funding support from the AHRC Translating Cultures and Open World Research Initiative projects.£10 advance registration blogs.sas.ac.uk [email protected]


Events calendarJune

June


Seminar

17:15–19:15


Town Planning in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century London: How to Build an Urban MonasteryNick Holder (Exeter) The event will be combined with the launch of Jim Bolton’s festschrift, Medieval Merchants and Money, and followed by the annual party for members of the seminar in the IHR Common Room, for which a small charge will be made.Free [email protected]


Lecture

17:30–18:30

Warburg Institute

Concepts of ‘Nachleben’: Aby Warburg, Friedrich Gundolf and Julius von Schlosser as Book CollectorsMichael Thimann (Georg-August University Göttingen) Free [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


History Lab SeminarFree [email protected]


Seminar

17:30–19:30


‘Well-Tested, Written with Greatest Effort and Care’: The Various Functions of Austrian Manuscript Recipe BooksHelga Mullneritsch (Liverpool) Free [email protected]


Seminar

18:30–20:00


Postgraduate Feminist Reading GroupFree [email protected]

Friday 30Institute of English Studies


09:30–17:00

Senate House

Biennial London Chaucer ConferenceThis two-day conference will consider ideas about the law in the age of Chaucer and in relation to the works of Chaucer and his contemporaries, probing questions about legal practices and culture, justice, regulation and instruction, and the consequences of making and breaking laws. It will bring together scholars and postgraduate students working in a range of disciplines and departments.Keynote addresses will be given by Sebastian Sobecki (University of Groningen) and Emily Steiner (University of Pennsylvania).£65 standard | £45 students, unwaged, retired [email protected]

Events calendarJune


June


Seminar

16:30–18:00


The Role of Digital Humanities in Papyrology: Practices and User Needs in Papyrological ResearchLucia Vannini (Institute of Classical Studies)

Cultural Contact in Early Roman Spain through LOD ResourcesPaula Granados García (Open University)This event is part of the ICS Digital Classics Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Seminar

18:00–20:00


Finnegans Wake SeminarFree [email protected]

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09:00–19:00

University of St Andrews, Scotland

Medicine, Literature and Culture in the Early Modern Hispanic World / Medicina, cultura, y literatura en el mundo hispánico de los siglos XV-XVIII 3–5 JulyThis conference will bring together experts in medicine, literature, history, and related or connected disciplines, including the visual arts, to share research and ideas with a focus on medicine and its role in the Spanish-speaking world in the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries. Speakers include Alexander Samson (UCL), María Luz López-Terrada, I (NGENIO, CSIC–Universitat Politècnica de València), M. Pierre Civil (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle–Paris 3) and Christoph Strosetzki (Universität Münster).The conference is organised by Ted L L Bergman and María Luisa Lobato and sponsored by the University of St Andrews, Grupo PROTEO (Universidad de Burgos), CRES (Centre de Recherche sur l’Espagne des XVIe et XVIIe Siècles, Sorbonne Nouvelle–Paris 3), and the Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Venue: The conference will be held at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.Registration fee advance registration required [email protected]


Seminar

18:30–19:50

Warburg Institute

On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the LightA weekly series of public readings of Dante’s works hosted by the Warburg Institute.Paradiso, Canto XXXIII. The Empyrean. The Vision of the Trinity.Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) Free [email protected]

Thursday 06Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Institute of Latin American Studies

Two-Day Workshop

10:00–17:00

Global Decolonization Workshop The Global Decolonization Workshop (GDW) is a new collaboration between the School of Advanced Study and New York University. It seeks to forge a global forum for knowledge exchange in the interdisciplinary field of decolonization studies. The series launch will take place at the University of London in Paris on 6-7 July with a workshop exploring the ‘Concepts and Connections’ associated with the fields of decolonization and postcolonial studies. These have hitherto largely been defined by a focus on the post-war dissolution of the modern empires of France and Britain. Consequently, the Cold War ‘last wave’ in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean has been privileged. Meanwhile, the earlier, ‘first and second waves’ of decolonization in the Americas, Eastern and Southern Europe, Russia, and parts of the Middle East play little if any role in most ‘global’ accounts of the history of decolonization. A symposium held at the University of London in March 2015, however, sought to revise and expand the scope of the field. The London symposium confirmed Latin America’s vanguard role in the global history of decolonization. This Paris meeting of the GDW will explore and debate the connections among and key concepts animating the three waves of decolonization in various locales and linguistic spheres. Free advance registration required [email protected]

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10:00–17:00

Gordon Room, Room G34 (Senate House)

Telling Stories: Changing Narratives in Low Countries History, Culture and SocietySecond Biennial Colloquium in Low Countries StudiesOrganisers: Jenny Watson (Swansea) and Cyd Sturgess (Sheffield)[email protected]

Friday 07Institute of Historical Research

Workshop

09:30–18:00


Collectors and Collections: Display and Taste in the Modern and Contemporary PeriodsThis event is part of the Collecting and Display Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Seminar

16:30–18:00


Collation Visualization: Helping Users to Explore Collated ManuscriptsElisa Nury (KCL)This event is part of the ICS Digital Classics Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


Summer School

09:00–17:00

Senate House

T. S. Eliot International Summer School8–16 JulyThe T.S. Eliot International Summer School invites all those with an interest in the life and work of this Bloomsbury-based poet, dramatist, and man of letters to enrol in its one-week programme. The School draws visitors from across the world, bringing together some of the most distinguished scholars of T. S. Eliot and modern literature. Visits to the sites of The Four Quartets, poetry readings, and a unique seminar series have made this world-renowned gathering of Eliot scholars and enthusiasts an annual highlight, launching the academic careers of a number of its former students. Fees for the full course are £600 with a number of full and partial bursaries available. Apply online at www.ies.sas.ac.uk/tseliot.


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July

Monday 10Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Workshop

08:30–17:00

IALS

WG Hart Legal Workshop 2017: Law, Society and Administration in a Changing World10–11 JulyThe 2017 W G Hart Legal Workshop will explore political, institutional, economic and cultural factors that influence (or have in the past influenced) the emergence and development of legal regimes for controlling administrative power. For the purposes of the workshop, a regime for controlling administrative power encompasses legal rules and principles (‘administrative law’), and also institutions and practices relating to control of administrative power. Administrative power is understood broadly in terms of any and all of the multifarious functions and activities associated with modern ‘governance’.Speakers and discussants will include Sophie Boyron (Birmingham Law School); Robert Thomas (Manchester Law School), Joe Tomlinson (Sheffield Law School), Guillermo Jiminez Salas (UCL), Richard Kirkham (Sheffield Law School), Michael Stolleis (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt); Peter Collin (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt), Carol Harlow (LSE), Richard Rawlings (UCL), Robert Siucinski (University of Lodz); Yseult Marique (Essex); Catherine Warin (University of Luxembourg), Swati Jhaveri (National University of Singapore), James Fisher (University of Tokyo), Paul Craig (Oxford), Filipe Brito Bastos (European University Institute), Veronika Fikfak (Cambridge), Gianluca Sgueo (New York University, Florence), Jerry Mashaw (Yale University), Peter Strauss (Columbia University), Aileen McHarg (Strathclyde); Tom Mullen, Colin Scott and Rebecca Schmidt (University College, Dublin).Concluding reflections will be provided by Peter Cane (Cambridge and Australian National University).£120 for two days | £75 per day (standard) | £75 for two days | £50 per day (students and SALS members) Advance registration requiredPlease visit the conference website for complete programme details: bit.ly/2p9xtc6.

Tuesday 11Institute of English Studies

Seminar

18:00–20:00


Two Nineteenth-Century Collectors of Fine BindingsMirjam Foot (UCL) This event is part of the IES Book Collecting Seminar Series.Free [email protected]

Thursday 13Institute of English Studies


10:00–18:00

Senate House

Literary London Society Annual ConferenceThe conference will focus on periods and genres of literature about, set in, inspired by, or alluding to central and suburban London and its environs, from the city’s roots in pre-Roman times to its imagined futures. While the main focus of the conference will be on literary texts, speakers will also address film, architecture, visual arts, topography and theories of urban space. Registration fee advance registration required [email protected]

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14:00–17:30

IALS

Compassion: Child and Family LawA symposium exploring compassion in relation to child and family law through presentations and discussion, including speakers from academia, practice, the charitable sector, and the judiciary.Speakers and chairs include Dermot Feenan (IALS), Jonathan Herring (Oxford), Noel Arnold (Coram Children’s Legal Centre), Mark Baer (attorney, California), Anthony Douglas (Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service), Samia Bano (SOAS), Alison Diduck (UCL), Daniel Monk (Birkbeck), Sir Alan Ward (former Lord Justice of Appeal).Organised in association with the Law and Compassion Research Network.£59 standard | £20 student [email protected]


Beveridge Hall (Senate House)

Music in the Age of ReformationStar vocal ensemble I Fagiolini performs a unique, specially selected arrangement to mark the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation in Europe.Details: senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/exhibitions-and-events/exhibitions/reformation

Friday 14Institute of Commonwealth Studies


10:00–17:00

Senate House

Photographs beyond Ruins: Women and Photography in Africa This symposium marks the opening of ‘Usakos–Photographs beyond Ruins: The Old Location Albums, 1920s-1960s’, an exhibition at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, that runs from 13 July through 23 September. The exhibition centres on three private collections of historic photographs preserved and curated by four women residents of the former ‘Old Location’ in Usakos, an urban railway hub in central Namibia. With a view to reflecting the resonances of these personal archives, Paul Grendon’s contemporary photographs enter a visual dialogue with the women’s collections, thereby providing a particular opening into the present and future.This conference will focus on new research on African women and photography and reflect on how far female photographic practices constituted a domain in which women represented, commented on, responded to and made sense of their experiences of the transformations brought about by colonialism and apartheid. Sponsored by the Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, with support from the Centre of African Studies at SOAS, University of London; the College of Arts and Humanities, University of Brighton; and the Hutchins Center, Harvard University.£20 | £10 [email protected]


Seminar

16:30–18:00


Re-Imagining Nineteenth Century Nile Travel and Excavation for a Digital Age: The Emma B. Andrews Diary ProjectSarah Ketchley (University of Washington)This event is part of the ICS Digital Classics Seminar Series.Free [email protected]


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July

Monday 17Institute of English Studies

Summer School

09:30–16:00


The London Free School of Applied Critical and Feminist TheoryThe London Free School of Applied Critical and Feminist Theory will bring together postgraduates and academics to discuss questions and insights that arise from critical and feminist theories. The aim of the week is to foster an intimate and supportive environment where students and academics learn from and with one another. Subjects will include queer temporalities and transnational feminism and scholarship; the limits of sexualities legislation; sex/gender, the body and puberty; gender, sexuality and nationalism and critical legal theory; and drag and feminist cinema. Free advance registration required at ies.sas.ac.uk/study-training/summer-schools/ london-free-school-applied-critical-and-feminist-theoryiesevents@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 19Institute of English Studies


10:00–18:00

Senate House

Victorian Popular Fiction Association Conference: Travel, Translation and Communication The Victorian Popular Fiction Association is dedicated to fostering interest in understudied popular writers, literary genres and other cultural forms, and to facilitating the production of publishable research and academic collaborations amongst scholars of the popular. This conference will bring together academics with interests in Victorian popular writing, culture and contexts. It has a reputation for offering a friendly and invigorating opportunity for academics at all levels of their careers, including postgraduate students, to meet, connect, and share their current research. This year the programme will feature talks on textual travel, genre crossings, forms of communication, translation, migration, tourism, trade and commerce, crossing boundaries, transport, travel plans, religious movements, communication between the classes, communication between genders, education and the transmission of knowledge, movement and performance, life stages, and digital humanities.Keynote speakers include Anne-Marie Beller (Loughborough), Mary Hammond (Southampton), and Catherine Wynne (Hull).Fee advance registration required at http://victorianpopularfiction.org/[email protected]



11:00–18:00


Belief and the Individual in Greek [email protected]



09:30–18:30


Video Games and Virtual EthicsFree [email protected]

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July


Seminar

16:30–18:00


Issues in the Development of Digital Projects Based on User Requirements: the Case of Beta Maşāh.

eftDorothea Reule and Pietro Liuzzo (University of Hamburg)This event is part of the ICS Digital Classics Seminar Series.Free [email protected]

Tuesday 25Institute of English Studies


09:30–19:30

Senate House

Information and Its Communication in Wartime As part of the AHRC-funded project ‘A Publishing and Communications History of the Ministry of Information, 1939-45’, the Institute of English Studies will hold an international conference on the subject of information and its communication in wartime. Although the project has a particular interest in the Second World War, the conference will set the subject in a larger context and explore the theme throughout several periods and areas. £30 standard | £20 [email protected]

Friday 28Institute of Classical Studies

Seminar

16:30–18:00


Romans 1 by 1: Transferring Information from Ancient People to Modern UsersRada Varga (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)This event is part of the ICS Digital Classics Series.Free [email protected]

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Reformation: Shattered World, New BeginningsKeynote address: Suzannah Lipscomb Historian, author and broadcaster Suzannah Lipscomb is senior lecturer in early modern history and fellow of the New College of the Humanities, London. Her research focuses on sixteenth-century English and French history. She works on Henry VIII and the early Tudor court, and is especially interested in the intersection of religious, gender, political, social and psychological history. This has led her to write about Henry VIII’s annus horribilis, 1536; Anne Boleyn’s fall; and the creation of Henry VIII’s last will and testament. She is also interested in religion, gender, and sexuality in sixteenth-century France. She writes a regular column for History Today that explores the role of history outside the academy. senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/exhibitions-and-events/exhibitions/reformation

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09:00–18:00


Ordering the Margins of Society: Space, Authority and Control in Early Modern BritainSince the spatial turn, historians have conceptualised space not as a passive backdrop against which social interactions and everyday life took place, but as a social construct that shaped identity, societal development, human behaviour and experience. Historians of early modern Britain have long been concerned with questions of social order and control. Debates continue about the relationship between the coercive and participatory facets of governance and the capacity for social discipline. Yet while these subjects remain fertile areas of research, relatively little work has examined the interaction between space, authority and social control of the people on the margins of society.This one-day workshop aims to address these historiographical lacunae by considering the attempts of those in charge to order society within particular places, spaces and locales. It asks how marginal populations (that is, the economic or socially vulnerable) were organised in spaces such as workhouses, taverns, households, prisons, asylums, hospitals, streets, marketplaces and churches. It seeks to explore how authorities attempted to exert social control and discipline within these spaces and how these efforts might be resisted. What were the extents and limits of negotiation, participation and defiance within the systems of regulation, and how did this shape social order?Keynote speaker: Andy Wood (Durham)This event is funded by the IHR’s Power and Postan Fund and by Past & [email protected]

Monday 11Institute of Classical Studies


09:30–19:00


Ancient ‘Holism’ in Graeco-Roman Medicine and its Cultural ContextFree advance registration required [email protected]

Wednesday 13Institute of Modern Languages Research

Three-Day Conference/Symposium

13:00–16:00

Woburn Room (Senate House)

Emigration from Nazi-Occupied Europe to British Overseas Territories after 1933Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Triennial International ConferenceRegistration fee [email protected]


Workshop10:00–17:30Room 349 (Senate House)

TLAR Network Workshop: Teaching Students with AnxietyJane Ainsworth (Leicester), Carla Brain (Leicester) Free [email protected]



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Teaching History in Higher Education How can we move towards excellence in teaching history in higher education? How can we support both students and staff using research-informed teaching? In what ways can we use pedagogic theory and research in order to engage learners at all levels? What opportunities are there to teach across and into other disciplines? How do we support students through critical transition points and intellectual thresholds? What innovative practice can inform our teaching?This conference seeks to address these questions and, in doing so, explore theory and practices in teaching, learning and assessment in critical areas such as public history education; the use of digital and other new technologies; the relationship between school and university history; pedagogic theory, practice and the student experience; ethical dimensions and the teaching of ‘controversial’ subjects; learning outside the classroom; employability and work-based learning; policy, policy-makers and strategy. Papers, workshops and panel discussions will provide opportunities to showcase evidence-informed practice from the higher education sector, facilitate discussion and debate and, importantly, provide networking opportunities for participants.£150 standard, two days | £80 standard, one day | Reduced rates for postgraduate students and early career researchers | Optional conference dinner: £50Advance registration required [email protected]



09:00–19:00


Latin American Women’s FilmmakingThis conference aims to contribute to the ongoing project of reviewing and rewriting Latin American film history and theory with women directors placed centre stage. Latin American filmic production has rightly held a celebrated place in the global cinematic canon with many key filmmakers and theorists receiving significant scholarly and public attention. Traditionally, however, the vast majority of these acclaimed practitioners have been men. While recent years have witnessed an increase in the international popularity of notable directors such as Lucrecia Martel, Anna Muylaert, and Claudia Llosa, and in studies of women’s filmmaking in Latin America, much work remains to be done. Women have played a crucial role in the region’s rich cinematic history, yet many female artists have yet to be included in the overarching narrative of Latin American cinema history. Moreover, their contribution to the politics and aesthetics of the region’s filmic landscape has not been fully recognised or analysed. Indeed, the new critical methodologies required to examine these contributions are still under construction. The conference will bring together researchers interested in the filmic narratives and cinematic processes created and conducted by women in Latin America in order to analyse the contributions they have made to the region’s cinematic history.Keynote speakers include Deborah Shaw (Portsmouth) and Deborah Martin (UCL), editors of the forthcoming volume Latin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics to be published with I. B. Tauris and launched during the conference, and Lucia Nagib (Reading), author of The New Brazilian Cinema (2003) and Brazil on Screen: Cinema Novo, New Cinema, Utopia (2007). The conference is part of a series of events sponsored by the Centro de Estudios La Mujer en la Historia de América Latina and hosted by the Institute of Modern Languages Research and the Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, with the participation of the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies, Birkbeck, University of London. [email protected]



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09:00–19:00

Senate House

Postcolonial Studies Association Convention 2017The Postcolonial Studies Association (PSA) Convention is the biennial gathering of members of one of the largest scholarly associations in the field. Papers are drawn from many disciplines, including literary studies, history, law, media studies, development studies, sociology, area studies, philosophy, and economics and speak to a wide range of topics related to colonial and postcolonial cultures, histories and experiences. The special keynote theme for this convention, ‘Globalisation’, will investigate the crucial role of postcolonial studies in furthering newer understandings of economic, political and cultural globalisation in the light of the current international climate: the complex socio-political ramifications of the Brexit verdict, Trump’s electoral victory, and the European refugee crisis, which have come to be regarded as a reactionary ‘whitelash’ against globalisation. Keynote speakers include Aamir Mufti (UCLA), Nandini Gooptu (Oxford) and Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin)[email protected]



Latin American Women’s Filmmaking: A Conversation with Marita BareaMarita Barea is a distinguished film director, producer and actor who began her cinematic career in 1971. She has worked on many important films, including Luis Figueroa’s Yawar Fiesta (1979). In 1982 she co-founded the film group Chaski, with whom she has made Gregorio and Miss Universo en el Perú [Miss Universe in Peru]. In 1989, she co-founded the women’s film group WARMI Cine y Video and with them produces and directs documentaries. Her films include Mujeres del Planeta [Women of the Planet] (1982), Andahuaylas – suenen las campanas, Andahuaylas – cuidad hermana [Andahuaylas – The Bells Ring, Andahuaylas – Sister City] (1987), Juliana (1989), Porcón (1989/92), Porque quería estudiar [Why I Wanted to Study] (1990), Barro y Bambú [Mud and Bamboo] (1991), and Antuca (1992). [email protected]



09:00–18:00


Herta Müller and the Currents of European HistoryIt has been 30 years since Herta Müller fled Romania, yet her work on the damaging effects of exploitative regimes and the dehumanisation of man by man sadly remains as relevant as ever. This conference will bring together leading Müller scholars as well as new voices in an effort to facilitate a collective reassessment of her work and its significance in the light of recent history and her long career. Keynote speakers: Karin Bauer (McGill University), Norbert Otto Eke (Paderborn University)[email protected]



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Thursday 28Senate House Library


In Conversation with Philippa GregoryBestselling author Philippa Gregory will join Senate House Library for a unique and exciting in-conversation event that will range widely over her interests in the period of the Reformation. She was an established historian and writer when she discovered her interest in the Tudors and wrote the internationally bestselling novel The Other Boleyn Girl. Her Cousin’s War novels, reaching their dramatic conclusion with The King’s Curse, were the basis for the highly successful BBC series The White Queen. In 2016, she was presented with the Outstanding Contribution to Historical Fiction Award by the Historical Writers’ Association.

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A broad range of seminar series are organised in the School and Senate House Library. Many of our series are supported by and organised in collaboration with other institutions and organisations. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated. Dates and times are given below where known and were correct at the time of going to print. These seminars are listed in the calendar where further details are known. Due to the nature of series events, these may be subject to change.

Institute of Classical StudiesContact: [email protected]

Ancient history

Thursdays at 16.30–18.30

Dates: 4, 11, 18, 25 May; 1, 8 June

Ancient philosophy

Mondays at 16.30–18.30

Dates: 15 May

Classical archaeology

Wednesdays at 17.00–19.00

Dates: 10, 24, 31 May

Classical literature


Dates: 8, 15 May

Digital classics

Fridays at 16.30–18.30

Dates: 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 June; 7, 14, 21, 28 July

Director’s seminar

Wednesdays at 13.00–14.00

Dates: 17, 24, 31 May; 7, 14 June

Postgraduate work-in-progress

Fridays at 16.30–18.30

Dates: 5, 12, 19, 26 May; 2, 9 June

Roman art


Dates: 8, 22 May

Institute of English StudiesContact: [email protected]

London Beckett seminar

Times: 18:00–20:00

Date: 12 May

Book collecting seminar

Times: 18:00–20:00

Dates: 9 May; 11 July

Charles Peake Ulysses seminar

Times: 18:00–20:00

Dates: 12 May; 2 June

Comparative modernisms seminar

Times: 16:00–18:00

Date: 26 June

Early modern philosophy and the scientificimagination seminar (EMPHASIS)

Times: 14:00–16:00


Ezra Pound Cantos reading group

Times: 18:00–20:00


Finnegans Wake research seminar

Times: 18:00–20:00

Dates: 5 May; 26 May; 30 June

History of libraries seminar

Times: 17:30–19:30

Date: 2 May

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Institute of Historical ResearchContact: [email protected]

American history

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30

Dates: 8 June

British history in the seventeenth century


Dates: 4, 18 May; 1, 15, 29 June

British History in the long eighteenth century

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15

Dates: 10, 24 May; 7 June

British maritime history

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

Dates: 9, 23 May; 6, 20 June

Christian missions in global history


Dates: 9, 23 May

Collecting and display

Fortnightly on Mondays at 18:00


Colonial/postcolonial new researchers’ workshop



Comparative histories of Asia


Dates: 10, 24 May

Conversations and disputations

Twice a month on Fridays at 17:30

Dates: 5, 19 May; 2, 16, 30 June

Literary London reading group

Times: 18:00–19:30

Date: 13 June

London Old and Middle English research seminar(LOMERS)

Times: 17:30–19:30

Date: 17 May

London modernism seminar

Times: 11:00–13:00

Dates: 6 May

London nineteenth century studies seminar

Times: 17:00–19:00

Dates: 9 June

London theatre seminar

Times: 18:30–20:30

Date: 11 May

London-Paris romanticism seminar

Times: 17:30–19:30


Media history seminar

Times: 18:00–20:00

Date: 16 May

Open University book history seminar

Times: 17:00–19:00

Dates: 8 May; 15 May; 22 May

Postgraduate feminist reading group

Times: 18:30–20:00



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History Lab seminar


Dates: 4, 18 May; 1, 15, 29 June

History of education

1st Thursday of every month at 17:30


History of gardens and landscapes

Fortnightly on Thursdays 18:00

Date: 22 May

History of political ideas

Fortnightly on Wednesdays 17:15

Date: 31 May

History of political ideas/early career seminar

Fortnightly on Wednesdays 17:15


History of sexuality seminar

Once a month on Tuesdays at 17:15


Imperial and world history


Dates: 15 May; 12, 26 June

International history



Jewish history

Once a month on Mondays at 17:15


Life-cycles



Crusades and the Latin East



Disability history seminar

1st Monday of every month at 17:15


Earlier middle ages

Weekly on Wednesdays at 17:30

Dates: 3, 10, 17, 34, 31 May

Early modern material cultures

Weekly on Wednesdays at 17:15

Dates: 3, 10, 17, 34, 31 May; 7, 14, 21, 28 June

Economic and social history of the early modern world

Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15


Education in the long eighteenth century

Once a month on a Saturday 14:00–16:00

Dates: 6, 20 May

European history 1500–1800


Date: 22 May

Film history


Dates: 4, 18 May; 1, 15, 29 June

Food history seminar


Dates: 4, 18 May; 1, 15, 29 June

Gender and history in the Americas

1st Monday of the month at 17:15


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Oral history

1st Thursday of every month at 18:00


Parliaments, politics and people


Dates: 2, 16, 30 May; 13, 27 June

Psychoanalysis and history



Public history seminar


Dates: 3, 17, 31 May; 14, 28 June

Religious history of Britain 1500–1800



Rethinking modern Europe



Socialist history



Society, culture and belief, 1500–1800

Once a month on Thursdays at 17:30

Dates: 11 May

Sport and leisure history



Studies of home

1st Wednesday of every month at 17:30


Locality and region


Dates: 2, 16, 30 May; 13, 27 June

London group of historical geographers


Dates: 2, 16, 30 May

London Society for Medieval Studies


Dates: 2, 16, 30 May; 13, 27 June

Low countries history


Dates: 5, 19 May

Marxism in culture



Medieval and Tudor London

Weekly on Thursdays at 17:15

Dates: 4, 11, 18, 25 May; 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 June

Military history


Dates: 2, 16, 30 May; 13, 27 June

Modern British history



Modern French history



Modern religious history


Dates: 3, 17, 31 May; 14, 28 June


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Institute of PhilosophyContact: [email protected]

Censes seminars

17:00–19:00

11, 25 May

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminars

17:30–19:30

2, 16, 30 May

The practical, the political and the ethical

17:30–19:30

23 May; 6 June

London aesthetics forum

16:00–18:00

10, 24 May; 7, 14, 23 June

The Warburg InstituteContact: [email protected]

On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light

Mondays, 18:30–19.50

Dates: 8, 15, 22 May; 5, 12, 19, 26 June; 3 July

Neoplatonism study group

Mondays, 17.30–19.30

Dates: 8, 15, 22 May; 5, 12 June

Senate House LibraryContact: [email protected]

Senate House Library Friends events

For membership information, visit senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/about-us/friends

Tudor and Stuart history



Voluntary action history



War, society and culture

Once a month on Wednesdays at 17:15


Women’s history



Institute of Latin American StudiesContact: [email protected]

Andean seminar series

17:30–19:30

Dates: 10, 31 May

LAGLOBAL seminar

13:00–14:00

Date: 18 May

Anthropology seminar series

17:30–19:30


Institute of Modern Languages ResearchContact: [email protected]

IMLR graduate forum

Once a month on Thursdays at 18:00

Date: 18 May

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The School of Advanced Study draws on its research and teaching expertise to provide a programme of discipline-specific, generic and online research training to support the development of the scholars of tomorrow.

The School’s programme of personal development and transferable skills training is available in the form of weekly workshops commencing in the autumn.

This general training is complemented by a set of research methodologies courses and specific training in the software and management information tools required to enable students to complete their research effectively.

Face-to-face trainingMaking the most of the expertise available in the School and the University of London, the institutes between them also provide well-established discipline-specific research training in core humanities disciplines.

Training in aspects of history, for instance, is extensive, notably in the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), which offers a comprehensive programme of short courses in research skills for historians. Taking advantage of the unparalleled availability of historical expertise in the University of London and the wealth of archival materials in and around the capital, the Institute’s long-established and highly successful courses are widely recognised as the best means of developing and extending both essential and more specialised research skills. The IHR training programme is primarily aimed at postgraduate historians, but also welcomes established historians and independent researchers and writers.

Further historical skills courses run by the Warburg Institute include classes in medieval and Renaissance Latin for historians and a programme of training in resources and techniques (jointly with the University of Warwick), which provides specialist research training for doctoral students working on Renaissance and early modern subjects in a range of disciplines.

The London Palaeography Summer School run by the Institute of English Studies provides training in that key skill.

Extensive training for students of cultures and literatures is offered by the Institute of Modern Languages Research, whose well-established and popular programme, comprising a series of Saturday workshops, is offered to any postgraduate student working in modern languages or a related discipline (for instance, film or art history).

Most of the School’s training is available to postgraduate students across the UK, much of it free of charge. Details of all the research training courses provided are available at our website: sas.ac.uk/support-research/research-training.

Online research trainingIn addition to the face-to-face training we offer, the School’s Postgraduate Online Research Training (PORT) website provides free online resources including tutorials, handbooks and multimedia. PORT complements postgraduate study, providing training packages that can be accessed anywhere, at any time, and undertaken at any pace. It provides the building blocks for humanities research generally, as well as for particular humanities disciplines and specific topics. Designed to meet the needs of twenty-first-century researchers, PORT offers specific skills-based programmes as well as more general guidance. For further information, please visit port.sas.ac.uk.

For a printed copy of our research training handbook or for further information, please contact us:E: [email protected]: +44 (0)20 7862 8823


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Warburg-UCL Scholasticism Reading GroupGroup leaders: John Sabapathy and Sophie Page (UCL)This group explores scholastic texts and themes on occasional Tuesdays from 17:30 to 18:30 at the Warburg Institute in Classroom 1. Summer term meetings will be on 2 May and 16 May. This year readings will be on the subject ‘heaven and earth’. A basic reading knowledge of Medieval Latin is sometimes needed. For details, please contact [email protected]. Free [email protected]

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Hebrew Reading ClassCharles Burnett (Warburg) The Hebrew reading class takes place in the Droz Library on alternative Wednesdays starting on 3 May (classes will be on 3, 17, 31 May and 14, 28 June). A basic reading knowledge of Hebrew is required.Please email [email protected] before attending your first class.Free [email protected]

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Collaborative PublishingBex Lyons (Bristol), Alice White (Wellcome Library), Pip Willcox (Bodleian Libraries and Oxford e-Research Centre) This workshop will address questions such as interdisciplinary co-authorship and writing; collaborative and distributed writing tools; working with citizen-scholars on collaborative projects; how to find publishing outlets for interdisciplinary research; and the kinds of research ‘publications’ that can arise from humanities interdisciplinary digital research.The workshop is open to PhD students and early career researchers. Lunch will be provided. [email protected]

Thursday 04Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

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IALS PhD Masterclass Diamond Ashiagbor (IALS head of research) will chair a mock viva session, Bahar Hatami (GSM London) will speak about the experience of her successful formal viva, and Sirajo Yakubu will discuss the experience of his successful mini viva.PhD Masterclasses at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies provide an opportunity for current PhD students to discuss research with colleagues, with expert input from senior academics experienced in PhD research. Free advance registration required [email protected]


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14th Annual London/Berkeley Philosophy Graduate ConferenceFree [email protected]

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Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading GroupCharles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Please email [email protected] for further details before joining the group.Free [email protected]

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Before, During, After the Modern Languages PhDJane Everson, RHUL; Benedict Schofield, KCL; Emily Morrell, SAS Publications; Lucila Granada, policy worker/campaigner working in the voluntary sectorTopics covered: overcoming the fear of writing; the PhD viva; applying for academic jobs, writing a CV and preparing for the job interview; publishing your work and careers in publishing; careers for modern language graduates in NGOs and public policy Free [email protected]


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Arabic Philosophy Reading ClassCharles Burnett (Warburg) Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class.Free [email protected]


Research Training

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How to Get a PhD in Law: Practical Skills for StudentsAvrom Sherr (IALS) Lisa Webley (Westminster), Constantin Stefanou (IALS) Topics covered: legal writing, preparing for the ethics committee, preparing for the mini viva and the viva, presenting skills, legal publishing (books and journals) and how to stay up-to-date following completion of the degree. An optional tour of the IALS Library will be led by senior library staff. Although this training session is tailored specifically for those pursuing a PhD in law, research students in other disciplines may find it beneficial and are welcome to enrol.£100 | £75 students [email protected]

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IMLR Graduate ForumAnthony Mitzel (UCL/Bologna): ‘Ephemerality, Ethnogenesis, and the Transformation of Culture’Jonathan Tyrens (Bristol): ‘French for the British: Teaching Grammars for French in the Seventeenth Century: The Significance of Prefaces’Free [email protected]


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Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading GroupCharles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning from the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Please email [email protected] for further details before joining the group.Free [email protected]


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PhD Training Programme: Resources and Techniques for the Study of Renaissance and Early Modern CultureThis short course provides specialist research training to doctoral students working on Renaissance and Early Modern subjects in a range of disciplines at universities across the UK and the rest of the world. The programme draws on the combined skills of the staff of the Warburg Institute and the University of Warwick, two of the major centres in Britain for the study of the Renaissance and Early Modern periods.The programme consists of a series of strands held over four days at the Warburg Institute in London. It features sessions on working with documents, working with images, the digital renaissance, interdisciplinarity, professional skills and career development. Participants will visit the National Gallery and have an opportunity to present their own projects. The programme is open to all PhD researchers. Pre-registration via bit.ly/warbwarwick£99 standard | £50 Warburg and Warwick students


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IALS PhD Masterclass: Jurisprudential MethodologiesHelen Xanthaki (UCL), Ahmet Mustafa Osam PhD Masterclasses at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies provide an opportunity for current PhD students to discuss research with colleagues, with expert input from senior academics experienced in PhD research. Free advance registration required [email protected]


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Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading GroupCharles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning from the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Please email [email protected] for further details before joining the group.Free [email protected]

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IALS PhD Masterclass: Editing and Publishing While Completing a PhDHelen Xanthaki (University College London), Susan Edwards (Buckingham) PhD Masterclasses at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies provide an opportunity for current PhD students to discuss research with colleagues, with expert input from senior academics experienced in PhD research. Free advance registration required [email protected]


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IALS PhD Masterclass: CareersHelen Xanthaki (UCL) What Next Career-Wise? Legal Practice, General Counsel, Academia and NGOsPhD Masterclasses at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies provide an opportunity for current PhD students to discuss research with colleagues, with expert input from senior academics experienced in PhD research. Free advance registration required [email protected]


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Renaissance Latin CourseThis Latin course is for beginners and is taught by Guido Giglioni, Cassamarca Senior Lecturer in Neo-Latin Cultural and Intellectual History at the Warburg Institute, for two weeks, 11–22 September, from 11:00 to 13:00 and from 14:00 to 15:00, Monday to Friday.The course focuses on Latin texts from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, drawing on a wide range of sources: the sophisticated Latin of the humanists, various forms of technical Latin (medical, philosophical, theological), and macaronic jumbles of Latin and the vernacular. One of the principal aims of the course is to help students develop the ability to read primary sources in the original Latin. Students who wish to brush up their Latin are welcome to register, but they should be aware that the course content will be at beginner level. Please contact Dr Giglioni if you have questions about the content of the course: [email protected].£175 standard | Free for current Warburg Institute students and those attending a course during the 2017/18 academic year at the Warburg Institute. Advance registration required bit.ly/renlatin

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Proposals may be made for one-hour panel discussion sessions, one-hour workshops, or 30-minute papers.

For complete details on how to submit a proposal, please visit history.ac.uk/events/event/7795. The submission deadline is 6 May by 23.00.

Ordering the Margins of Society: Space, Authority and Control in Early Modern Britain5 September 2017CFP deadline: 21 May 2017

Since the spatial turn, historians have conceptualised space not as a passive backdrop against which social interactions and everyday life took place, but as a social construct that shaped identity, societal development, human behaviour and experience. Historians of early modern Britain have long been concerned with questions of social order and control. Debates continue about the relationship between the coercive and participatory facets of governance and the capacity for social discipline. Yet while these subjects remain fertile areas of research, relatively little work has examined the interaction between space, authority and social control of the people on the margins of society.

This one-day workshop hosted by the Institute of Historical Research aims to address these historiographical lacunae by considering the attempts of those in charge to order society within particular places, spaces and locales. It asks how marginal populations (that is, the economic or socially vulnerable) were organised in spaces such as workhouses, taverns, households, prisons, asylums, hospitals, streets, marketplaces and churches. It seeks

Teaching History in Higher Education13-14 September 2017CFP deadline: 6 May 2017

How can we move towards excellence in teaching history in higher education? How can we support both students and staff using research-informed teaching? In what ways can we use pedagogic theory and research in order to engage learners at all levels? What opportunities are there to teach across and into other disciplines? How do we support students through critical transition points and intellectual thresholds? What innovative practice can inform our teaching?

This conference seeks to address these questions and, in doing so, explore theory and practices in teaching, learning and assessment in critical areas such as public history education; the use of digital and other new technologies; the relationship between school and university history; pedagogic theory, practice and the student experience; ethical dimensions and the teaching of ‘controversial’ subjects; learning outside the classroom; employability and work-based learning; policy, policy-makers and strategy. Papers, workshops and panel discussions will provide opportunities to showcase evidence-informed practice from the higher education sector, facilitate discussion and debate and, importantly, provide networking opportunities for participants.

Contributions are invited on, but not limited to, the following range of topics related to teaching, learning and assessment in history and history-related disciplines:

• ‘TeachingExcellence’

• Publichistoryandcommunityengagement

• Curriculumdevelopment

• Assessmentandfeedback

• Retentionandsuccess

• Work-basedlearning

• Theinterfacebetweenschoolanduniversitypedagogies

• Newtechnologies

• Enhancementstrategies

• Studentengagement

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sCalls for papersmovements. This interdisciplinary conference will appraise the extent to which such transformations were triggered or repressed by the acts of individuals such as innovators, pioneers, reformers and censors.

Questions pertaining to specific individuals might include: What was the relationship of the individual to their societal context, and how did this affect their actions? What was the short- and long-term reception of their activities? Did their contribution come from a position of authority, or subvert it? More critical lines of enquiry might encompass: What factors determine a positive or negative perception of innovation? What are the methodological and historiographical implications of focusing on the individual in history? Did the notion of ‘individuality’ change in the period and does this differ to how it is perceived in the present day?

The Symposium will bring together speakers from different backgrounds in the humanities and draw on a variety of disciplinary tools and methodologies. We hope to engage with a wide range of topics represented by the global cultural interests of the Warburg Institute, within the chronological frame of the Late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. The symposium will be multidisciplinary and will cover topics that fall into the unique classification system of the Warburg Library: image, word, orientation and action. We invite submissions on individuals including but not limited to:

• Artists,craftsmen,patrons

• Writers,publishers,translators

• (Counter-)Reformers,heretics,mystics

• Philosophers,scientists,doctors

• Socialandpoliticaltheorists,explorers

The symposium is intended for postgraduate students and early career researchers. It is free to attend. Limited funding to help cover travel expenses is available.

Send a 300-word abstract, in English, for a 20-minute paper, as well as a one-page CV that includes full name, affiliation and contact details (in PDF or Word format). Proposals should be sent to [email protected] by 31 May. All those submitting will be notified by 31 July. For more information about the symposium, please visit warburgpostgrad.wordpress.com.

to explore how authorities attempted to exert social control and discipline within these spaces and how these efforts might be resisted. What were the extents and limits of negotiation, participation and defiance within the systems of regulation, and how did this shape social order?

Proposals for 20-minute papers are invited from both new and established researchers to contribute to this discussion. Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to:

• Regulationandcontrolofmarginalpeopleininstitutional spaces

• Socialdeviancy,agencyandspatialdisorder

• Discipline,authorityanddomesticspace

• DigitalHumanitiesandanalysesofspace(GIS,network analysis, etc)

• Mobility,migrationandgeographiesofsocialcontrol

• Physicalandconceptualboundariesofauthority

• Genderandpowerinpublicandprivatespaces

• Tensionsbetweenagencyandsubordinationinearly modern spaces

Proposals should include a 200-word abstract and a brief biography. Please email proposals to Charmian Mansell, Joe Harley and Richard Bell at [email protected] by 21 May. Some travel grants will be available for postgraduate and early career researchers and will be announced closer to the conference.

Singular Acts: The Role of the Individual in the Transformation of Collective Culture16 November 2017CFP deadline: 31 May 2017

The Warburg Institute’s second Postgraduate Symposium focuses on particular personalities who acted for or against historical and cultural change. The Early Modern period saw seismic shifts across all aspects of society, ranging from technological developments to new artistic techniques; innovations in philosophical thought, religious doctrine and scientific discoveries; and social and political


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• Newworldorder:impactontrade,politics,economic relationships, the age of exploration; London’s place within the new world order; impact of religious changes in Ireland and Scotland; the Spanish Armada, naval warfare and politics spilling into oceanic battle grounds

Send proposals for 20-minute papers to [email protected] with relevant personal details by 30 June.

Reformation London 6 December 2017 CFP deadline: 30 June 2017

Senate House Library invites papers on the English Reformation and its effect on society, culture, communication, and the new world order through the spectrum of London and the wider British Isles for presentation at a one-day symposium on 6 December. The symposium will close the events programme for the exhibition ‘Reformation: Shattered World, New Beginnings’, which will be held at the Library from 26 June through 15 December.

This year marks the 500th anniversary of the publication of Martin Luther’s theses, documents that sparked a new religious movement that was to shatter the unity of the Catholic Church in Europe. King Henry VIII cemented England’s role in this period when he overthrew the authority of Rome and established himself as Head of the Church of England with the Act of Supremacy in 1534. The consequences of taking England outside the family of Catholic states were profound, and had a major impact on London throughout the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries as it grew into a global city.

We welcome papers that trace the impact of the Reformation on society and culture during this period, the way that communication drove change, and the consequences of the emergence of a new world order. Topics might include, but are not limited to, the four themes of the exhibition:

• Society:changesindevotionalandreligiouspractices; tension, division and persecution; social upheaval and change; iconoclasm; migrant and refugee communities and their impact on London’s demographics; transformation of urban layout and architecture

• Culture:impactonculturallifeinLondonand/or England; effects on the arts, including theatre, music, literature and fine art; development and rise in the use of vernacular and English in print; impact on literacy; cultural impact of religious changes more broadly

The School of Advanced Study at the University of London brings together nine internationally renowned research institutes to form the UK’s national centre for the support and promotion of research in the humanities. The School offers full- and part-time master’s and research degrees in its specialist areas:

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Glanz und Abglanz Two Centuries of German Studies in the University of London

John L. Flood and Anne Simon

In 1943, in the midst of a London still reeling from the Blitz, initial plans were laid for an Institute devoted to rebuilding relations between English and German scholars and academics once hostilities had ceased. Established in 1950, the Institute served for more than half a century as a research centre and focal point for researchers the world over. However, German Studies in London have a much older tradition which goes back almost two centuries.

Glanz und Abglanz tells the fascinating tale of German Studies in London from their beginnings at the ‘godless institution of Gower Street’, and the remarkable personalities whose energy and commitment ensured that the discipline flourished. The story is told through two essays: ‘Taught by Giants’ outlining the history of the subject in London from 1826, and ‘“Sehr schön, Piglet?” “Ja, Pooh.”’ following the development of the Institute of Germanic Languages and Literatures and showcasing its remarkable library. The volume is rounded off with an account of the magnificent collection of rare books assembled by two of the personalities, Robert Priebsch (1866–1935) and August Closs (1898–1990).

John L. Flood has been associated with the University of London for more than fifty years, having taught German at King’s College from 1965 until 1979, when he was appointed Deputy Director of the Institute of Germanic Studies. Since his retirement in 2002, Professor Flood has been an Honorary Fellow of the Institute.

Anne Simon took her PhD at the University of London, then became Lecturer in Medieval German at the University of Bristol from 1992 to 2011. She held a temporary Lectureship at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, London, in 2012–13, and is now an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Modern Languages Research.

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Glanz und Abglanz: Two Centuries of German Studies in the University of LondonJohn L. Flood & Anne Simon April 2017 | 978-0-85457-263-2 (£20, pb)

Glanz und Abglanz explores the fascinating history of German Studies in London from its beginnings at the ‘godless institution of Gower Street’, and the remarkable personalities whose energy and commitment ensured that the discipline flourished. The story is told through two essays: ‘Taught by Giants’, outlining the history of the subject in London from 1826, and ‘Sehr schön, Piglet?’ ‘Ja, Pooh’, following the development of the Institute of Germanic Languages and Literatures and showcasing its remarkable library.

To order please email [email protected].

New Publications

Electronic EvidenceEdited by Stephen Mason and Daniel SengMay 2017 | 978-1-911507-05-5 (£60, hb) | 978-1-911507-09-3 (£40, pb)

In this updated edition of the well-established practitioner text, Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng have brought together a team of experts in the field to provide an exhaustive treatment of electronic evidence. This fourth edition continues to follow the tradition in English evidence text books by basing the text on the law of England and Wales, with appropriate citations of relevant case law and legislation from other jurisdictions.

This book is available online at http://ials.sas.ac.uk/digital/humanities-digital-library/observing-law-ials-open-book-service-law.To order please email [email protected].

Chile and the Inter-American Human Rights SystemEdited by Karinna Fernández, Cristian Peña and Sebastián SmartJuly 2017 | 978-1-908857-27-9 (£25, pb)

This book reflects on the relationship between Chile and the Inter-American Human Rights System, focusing on an interdisciplinary and detailed examination of the consequences of recent cases decided by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights against the Chilean state. These cases illustrate central challenges in the areas of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex rights, as well as shedding light on torture and indigenous rights in Chile and the Americas as a whole.


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Shaping the humanities research

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SAS Publications

+44 (0)20 7862 8753 | [email protected] | www.sas.ac.uk/support-research/publications

Glanz und Abglanz Two Centuries of German Studies in the University of London

John L. Flood and Anne Simon

In 1943, in the midst of a London still reeling from the Blitz, initial plans were laid for an Institute devoted to rebuilding relations between English and German scholars and academics once hostilities had ceased. Established in 1950, the Institute served for more than half a century as a research centre and focal point for researchers the world over. However, German Studies in London have a much older tradition which goes back almost two centuries.

Glanz und Abglanz tells the fascinating tale of German Studies in London from their beginnings at the ‘godless institution of Gower Street’, and the remarkable personalities whose energy and commitment ensured that the discipline flourished. The story is told through two essays: ‘Taught by Giants’ outlining the history of the subject in London from 1826, and ‘“Sehr schön, Piglet?” “Ja, Pooh.”’ following the development of the Institute of Germanic Languages and Literatures and showcasing its remarkable library. The volume is rounded off with an account of the magnificent collection of rare books assembled by two of the personalities, Robert Priebsch (1866–1935) and August Closs (1898–1990).

John L. Flood has been associated with the University of London for more than fifty years, having taught German at King’s College from 1965 until 1979, when he was appointed Deputy Director of the Institute of Germanic Studies. Since his retirement in 2002, Professor Flood has been an Honorary Fellow of the Institute.

Anne Simon took her PhD at the University of London, then became Lecturer in Medieval German at the University of Bristol from 1992 to 2011. She held a temporary Lectureship at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, London, in 2012–13, and is now an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Modern Languages Research.

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Cover image: Plate from Goethe’s Farbenlehre (1810) from the Germanic Studies Collection, London.

Glanz und Abglanz: Two Centuries of German Studies in the University of LondonJohn L. Flood & Anne Simon April 2017 | 978-0-85457-263-2 (£20, pb)

Glanz und Abglanz explores the fascinating history of German Studies in London from its beginnings at the ‘godless institution of Gower Street’, and the remarkable personalities whose energy and commitment ensured that the discipline flourished. The story is told through two essays: ‘Taught by Giants’, outlining the history of the subject in London from 1826, and ‘Sehr schön, Piglet?’ ‘Ja, Pooh’, following the development of the Institute of Germanic Languages and Literatures and showcasing its remarkable library.


New Publications

Electronic EvidenceEdited by Stephen Mason and Daniel SengMay 2017 | 978-1-911507-05-5 (£60, hb) | 978-1-911507-09-3 (£40, pb)

In this updated edition of the well-established practitioner text, Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng have brought together a team of experts in the field to provide an exhaustive treatment of electronic evidence. This fourth edition continues to follow the tradition in English evidence text books by basing the text on the law of England and Wales, with appropriate citations of relevant case law and legislation from other jurisdictions.

This book is available online at http://ials.sas.ac.uk/digital/humanities-digital-library/observing-law-ials-open-book-service-law.To order please email [email protected].

Chile and the Inter-American Human Rights SystemEdited by Karinna Fernández, Cristian Peña and Sebastián SmartJuly 2017 | 978-1-908857-27-9 (£25, pb)

This book reflects on the relationship between Chile and the Inter-American Human Rights System, focusing on an interdisciplinary and detailed examination of the consequences of recent cases decided by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights against the Chilean state. These cases illustrate central challenges in the areas of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex rights, as well as shedding light on torture and indigenous rights in Chile and the Americas as a whole.


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