Events brochure Feb- April 2014

FEBRUARY/MARCH/ APRIL 2014

BEING HUMAN: A FESTIVAL OF THE HUMANITIES FUNDING CALL

WHEN BEN-HUR WENT POP

Professor Jon Solomon INVESTIGATES THE COMMERCIAL SUCCESS OF LITERARY PROPERTY

The institutes of the School collectively offer a rich programme of seminars, workshops, lectures, conferences and other academic events. Each year around 2,000 events are organised on humanities topics, attracting over 50,000 audience members drawn from around the UK and internationally as well as the London area including scholars, representatives from academic, public and private organisations, policy-makers, professional experts, and the interested public. More than 6,000 speakers, over one-third of whom are from outside the UK, are welcomed annually to contribute to the intellectual culture of the School.

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

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

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Event highlights – Timeline

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Speaker highlights

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Events calendar – Listings

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Research training

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Calls for papers

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How to find us

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About the School

The School of Advanced Study, University of London (SAS) is the UK’s national centre for the promotion and facilitation of research in the humanities.

SAS brings together the specialised scholarship and resources of 10 prestigious research institutes in Bloomsbury to provide an unrivalled scholarly environment dedicated to the support, evaluation and pursuit of research which is accessible to all Higher Education institutions in the UK and the rest of the world.

Member Institutes of the School Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Institute of Classical Studies Institute of Commonwealth Studies Institute of English Studies Institute of Historical Research Institute of Latin American Studies

How to use this guide

Events are listed in date and time order. On the left we list the institute responsible for organising the event, the time, type of event or series and the venue. On the right we list the event title, speaker(s) and a short description where appropriate. There is further information about the highlighted events at the start of the guide, and about research training events and calls for papers at the end. The event information in this brochure was correct at the time of going to press, but may be subject to change.

Please check our website for the latest information or email sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Booking

The majority of our events are free and open to the public, unless stated otherwise. Some events have limited capacity and advance booking is advisable. We reserve the right to refuse admittance to any disruptive individual.

Event podcasts

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

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Institute of Philosophy The Warburg Institute SAS also hosts a cross-disciplinary centre.

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

Subject area Classics

Human rights

History

Politics

Philosophy

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culture, language

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Event highlights Timeline February

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Refugee protection in the Middle East and the role of the UNRWA Anna Segall, Director of Legal Affairs at the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, offers insights into the role of the UNRWA and current challenges in refugee protection.

Ben Hur: avatar of the commercially successful literary property Professor Jon Solomon investigates the unparalleled consumer success of Lew Wallace’s novel Ben Hur (1880), set in ancient Rome and the Levant.

Experiences of World War One: strangers, differences and locality This one-day local history workshop is an introduction to researching war experience and its legacy, focusing on individual, family and community perspectives through the prism of the local, national and international.

Time: 17:30 –19:30 Date: 10 February

Time: 18:00–19:30 Date: 25 February

Time: 10:00 –16:15 Date: 28 February

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Scrutiny of terrorism laws: searchlight or veil?

David Anderson QC, Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, examines the work of the reviewer and asks whether its function is to challenge or to affirm the counterterrorism apparatus of the state.

Time: 18:00–19:00 Date: 24 February See page 38 for event information

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Second International Bagpipe Conference This one-day conference marks International Bagpipe Day, a celebration of the world’s bagpipes and bagpiping traditions.

Bagpipe specialists from all over Europe will exchange knowledge of their instruments, music and culture.

Time: 09:00–18:00 Date: 8 March See page 49 for event information

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Time: 10:00–15:30 Date: 15 March See page 56 for event information

The cultural use of caves in the Americas Bringing together archaeologists and cave specialists, this conference will explore the underground realm of past human experience in the Americas.

Time: 09:00–17:30 Date: 20 March See page 60 for event information

Constitutionalism, revolutions and the question of legitimacy Dr Lawrence Albert Joseph, President of the Senate of Grenada and the School’s ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellow, delivers a high-profile public lecture series on constitutionalism and legitimacy.

Date: March–April See page 18 for event information

Jennifer Egan in conversation with Professor Sarah Churchwell In a rare visit to the UK writer Jennifer Egan will discuss her writing, and matters of publishing, technology and pop culture with Professor Sarah Churchwell (University of East Anglia). The talk will be followed by an audience Q&A.

City margins, city memories Cities are growing, often merging with each other, as they spread across the face of the planet, seeking to contain the needs of our increasing populations.

This conference explores the multiplicity of meanings of the city, focusing on ‘margins’ and ‘memory’.

Time: 09:30–18:00 Date: 7–8 April See page 69 for event information

Time: 18:30–20:30 Date: 22 March See page 62 for event information

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Rethinking the senses: fifth sense Although traditionally neglected, olfactory perception presents fascinating features that are now starting to be investigated in depth. This one-day workshop, part of the Rethinking the Senses project, will look at current research and findings.

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Event highlights Refugee protection in the Middle East and the role of the UNRWA

A Syrian refugee chops firewood in Atmeh, Idib Province

10 February 2014 Anna Segall, Director of Legal Affairs at the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, offers insights into the role of the UNRWA. This seminar will explore the agency’s history and mandate; the development of its protection mandate over time and its engagement with complementary systems; and current challenges in refugee protection. Anna will address challenges in the context of the UNRWA’s five fields – Gaza, West Bank, Jordan and Syria – as well as Palestinian refugee protection beyond the UNRWA’s field of operation.

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‘This seminar series aims to provide a public space to discuss and disseminate research between academics and practitioners, bridging the gap between the two.

We are delighted to be able to host Anna Segall to discuss the changing role of the UNRWA, whose operations in a critical part of the world have evolved significantly since its establishment in 1949.’

Dr David James Cantor, Director, Refugee Law Initiative

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Scrutiny of terrorism laws Ben Hur Merchandise

Searchlight or veil?

24 February 2014 David Anderson QC David Anderson QC is the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation. In this role he is tasked with reviewing the UK’s antiterrorism laws and recommending changes to ministers and Parliament. As a reviewer he has a very high degree of access to both classified documents and to those most closely involved with defence against terrorism: police, intelligence agencies, prosecutors, civil servants and Ministers. David Anderson says that ‘such openness to an outsider is impressive, and has few parallels in other countries’ and though he cannot publish secret materials, ‘my access to them helps me to inform in a distinctive manner the important public and political debate on terrorism and civil liberties.’ His lecture will examine the work of the reviewer in the context of other forms of post-legislative scrutiny, and ask whether its function is to challenge or to affirm the counterterrorism apparatus of the state.

See page 38 for event information

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Anti-terrorist police London

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Event highlights Ben Hur Avatar of the commercially successful literary property 25 February 2014 Professor Jon Solomon Lew Wallace’s novel Ben Hur (1880), set in ancient Rome and the Levant, sold several million copies in America and Europe.

It permeated popular culture with both an exciting chariot race and a fictional eyewitness account of the Passion of Christ. Consumers never before seduced by such an alluring combination not only purchased the novel but eagerly bought some 20 million tickets to see tableaux adaptations, stereopticon lectures, and the spectacular Klaw & Erlanger dramatic production complete with an onstage, eight-horse chariot race. Such unparalleled success in the popular arts and entertainments inspired dozens of businessmen to start up ‘Ben-Hur’ companies and advertise ‘Ben Hur’ name brands and products.

The overwhelming success of these businesses developed into the first sustained example of popular consumer culture. Modern scholarship has previously ignored the fact that this quintessential dimension of modern economies originated within the parameters of Classical Reception. Professor Jon Solomon (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) is a leading expert in the field of classics and cinema. The lecture will be profusely illustrated with unique, vintage images.

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Ben Hur merchandise

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Experiences of World War One Strangers, differences and locality 28 February 2014

We are connected to the First World War through our family and community histories, and through the war’s impact on British and other societies.

The war provided opportunities to go to new places, engage in different activities and meet people not encountered in peacetime. What were people’s experiences of different places, living under different conditions, and how did they engage with different cultures?

This one-day local history workshop is an introduction to researching war experience and its legacy. It will focus on individual, family and community perspectives through the prism of the local, national

and international. Themes will be illustrated by reference to sources such as newspapers, local authority records, diaries, correspondence, Imperial War Museum archives, The National Archives and websites.

The event will be led by Dick Hunter, coordinator, British Association for Local History First World War centennial group and Mandy Banton, Institute of Commonwealth Studies.

Dr Catriona Pennell (Exeter University), author of A Kingdom United: Popular Responses to the Outbreak of the First World War in Britain and Ireland (OUP, 2012), will give a keynote address.

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Refugees leave Antwerp October 1914

Event highlights The global archive 2014 Gerald Aylmer Seminar 28 February 2014 In recent years, there has been an increased focus on the global across the humanities and social sciences, including in the discipline of history. Global history has been taken to mean many things, and can encompass world, transnational, postcolonial and connected and comparative approaches to the study of the past. But what are the implications of this widening of research beyond traditional national or area studies frameworks for archives? How does it impact on the way in which archivists view their collections, and how historians use them? How best can UK archives support global history? And how do their collections relate to the need for multi-sited research that doing global history implies? Does global history imply an expansion of the historian’s traditional archive, and the incorporation of other traces of the past, such as through oral history or ethnographies of commemoration? And, how does the global turn cause us to look differently at, and generate new uses for, the collections in UK archives? These are some of the questions that will be explored in this year’s Gerald Aylmer Seminar, hosted by The National Archives, the Institute of Historical Research, the Royal Historical Society and the University of Leicester.

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The seminar is held in memory of the late Gerald Aylmer, past President of the Royal Historical Society and Chairman of the Historical Manuscripts Commission. It aims to address subjects of joint interest to historians and the providers of their source materials, focusing on aspects of the relationship between historians and the sources they use.

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6–7 March 2014 This conference is one of a series on the afterlife of classical thinkers organised by John North (Institute of Classical Studies) and Peter Mack (Warburg Institute).

It focuses on the reception of the work of Herodotus and Thucydides and will include papers on a wide range of subjects including Mordecai Feingold (California Institute of Technology) on ‘A mathematician among the classics: Isaac Newton as a reader of Herodotus and Thucydides’, Giovanna Ceserani (Stanford University) on ‘Greek history and the early modern Dutch Republic: Emmius’s use of Thucydides 1605-1626’ and Gaston Javier Basile (University of Buenos Aires) on ‘The resurgence of Herodotus and the new philosophy of history’.

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Second International Bagpipe Conference 8 March 2014 This one-day conference has been organised by the International Bagpipe Organisation in association with the Institute of Musical Research and SOAS to mark International Bagpipe Day, a celebration of the world’s bagpipes and bagpiping traditions. Bagpipe specialists from all over Europe will exchange knowledge of their instruments, music and culture.

The event will bring together academics, music experts, instrument makers, folk musicians, dancers and music lovers and is open to everyone interested in the study of bagpipes. It also coincides with International Women’s Day and the conference organisers have encouraged the submission of papers on gender studies.

The conference will be preceded by a concert at SOAS on 7 March and followed, on the evening of 8 March, by a dance organised by the SOAS French Folk Dance Society.

2014 London AngloSaxon Symposium Religion and beliefs 15 March 2014 The London Anglo-Saxon Symposium aims to provide a forum for the multidisciplinary discussion of Anglo-Saxon topics in a relaxed and engaging atmosphere. It will bring together internationally renowned experts and interested members of the public, an interaction that promises to be highly informative and enjoyable for everyone involved. The programme features papers covering two broad themes: the conversion to Christianity, and (Non-) Christian culture in Anglo-Saxon England. The day will begin with a tour of Anglo-Saxon London by Dr Michael Bintley, and close with a performance by Royal Holloway students in response to Old English poetry.

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The afterlife of Herodotus and Thucydides

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Event highlights The cultural use of caves in the Americas 20 March 2014 This conference explores the hypogean (underground) realm of past human experience in the Americas.

Caves have always played a central role in cultures across the Americas. However, the archaeology of caves has been somewhat of a standalone research discipline.

Bringing together archaeologists and cave specialists from the Americas, this conference will begin with a plenary paper given by Dr James Brady (California State University, Los Angeles) followed by a paper from Caribbean archaeologist Reniel Rodriguez Ramos. In the afternoon the attendees will divide into three groups (each with a dedicated scribe) focusing on: the ‘contextual history of cave studies, the ‘importance of new methodologies’ and ‘future integration of cavescape interpretations’. This will be followed by group presentations and finally, a summary paper will be outlined that considers ‘reintegrating cavescapes within broader archaeological landscapes’.

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From Plato’s allegory of the cave, to indigenous cosmologies and modern exploration, humans have been involved with caves for millennia.

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21–22 March 2014 This conference is organised biennially by the Institute of Philosophy and the Northern Institute of Philosophy, in turn. The aim of the two-day conference is to showcase cutting edge research in the philosophy of logic and language, and to foster interaction between academics working in these areas both in the UK and abroad.

In particular, the event aims to give an opportunity to junior philosophers to interact with more senior colleagues working in the same field.

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City margins, city memories 7–8 April 2014 Cities are growing, often merging with each other, as they spread across the face of the planet, seeking to contain the needs of our increasing populations. The intense urbanisation of recent times has also brought into focus the need to assimilate disparate memories of the past into a landscape of the future. Despite the predominance of cities and the fact that they shape who we are and how we relate within the world, attempts to define and encapsulate their very nature remain elusive. This conference, organised together with Bangor University and the Opus Archives and Research Center in California, will explore the multiplicity of meanings of the city, taking ‘margins’ and ‘memory’ as two important and, often, intersecting phenomena to orient this investigation of urban spatialities.

Keynote addresses will be given

by Professors Hugh Campbell (University College Dublin) and Bill Marshall (Institute of Modern Languages Research; Stirling).

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Logic and Language Conference

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2014 Ida Herz Lecture A D Trendall Lecture Mehr Recht, mehr Glück: Thomas Mann und das Recht im Exil 6 February 2014 Thomas Sprecher Lawyer Thomas Sprecher studied German literature, philosophy and law in Zurich and Berlin.

He served as director of the Thomas Mann Archive in Zurich from 1994 to 2012, and currently practices as a lawyer in Zurich, as well as lecturing at the University of Fribourg. He has published widely, his monographs including Felix Krull and Goethe: Thomas Manns “Bekenntnisse” als Parodie auf “Dichtung und Wahrheit”, and Davos im “Zauberberg”. The Ida Herz Lecture is a biennial event endowed by a bequest to the English Goethe Society from Thomas Mann’s devoted secretary.

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Defining a Metapontine identity: the workshops and the contexts of South Italian red-figure pottery at Metaponto 19 February 2014 Dr Francesca Silvestrelli University of Salento, Lecce (Italy); Trendall Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies Dr Francesca Silvestrelli’s main field of research is the archaeology of Magna Graecia. Her focus is on the fine pottery wares produced in southern Italy during the 4th century BC, especially their iconography, distribution and consumption, and production.

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Historically-informed creativity?

24 February 2014 Professor John Butt Gardiner Professor of Music, University of Glasgow; Music Director, Dunedin Consort John Butt is an award-winning orchestral and choral conductor, organist, harpsichordist and scholar. He has previously held posts at the University of Aberdeen, Magdalene College Cambridge, UC Berkeley (as University Organist and Professor of Music) and King’s College, Cambridge.

His publications include Bach Interpretation (1990), a handbook on Bach’s Mass in B Minor (1991), Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque (1994), Playing with History (2002) and Bach’s Passions, Bach’s Dialogue with Modernity (2010). He is consultant editor of the Cambridge and Oxford Companions to Bach and joint editor of the Cambridge History of Seventeenth Century Music (2005).

John Butt Award-winning conductor

John Butt’s conducting engagements with the Dunedin Consort, where he has been Music Director since 2003, have included major Baroque repertory and several new commissions. He has also been guest conductor with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the Göttingen Handel Festspiele, the Berkeley Festival, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Chamber Orchestra and Chorus and the Irish Baroque

Orchestra. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2003 he received the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association and his book, Playing with History, was shortlisted for the British Academy’s annual Book Prize. In 2011 he became the fifth recipient of the Royal Academy of Music/Kohn Foundation’s Bach Prize, for his work in the performance and scholarship of Bach.

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‘This new [recording] from John Butt and the Dunedin Consort really struck home for me by achieving its vital results without extravagant overstatement, overt ‘holiness’ or self-conscious marking-out of the work’s architecture. Indeed, naturalness and emotional honesty are what emerge from this tight-knit and perfectly paced ensemble Passion.’

Review of recording JS Bach – St John Passion, BMV245 performed by the Dunedin Consort directed by John Butt. Lindsay Kemp in GRAMOPHONE, 7 February 2013

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Tempo relationships in 18th century music

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Speaker highlights Heinrich Glarean’s books The intellectual world of a 16th century Swiss musical humanist 12 March 2014

Peter Lyon Memorial Lecture Can the Commonwealth ever become relevant again?

6 March 2014 The Rt Hon Frank Field MP Frank Field has been the Labour MP for Birkenhead since 1979.

For the seven years leading up to the 1979 election, Frank chaired the Social Security Select Committee. He was Minister for Welfare Reform in Tony Blair’s first government He served as Chair of the Independent Review on Poverty and Life Chances, and is co-Chair of the Cross Party Group on Balanced Migration.

Frank co-founded Cool Earth, which aims to combat climate change by working with local communities around the world to protect endangered rainforest.

Frank is the Vice Chair of the Human Trafficking Foundation and Treasurer of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery.

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Professor Iain Fenlon Professor of Historical Musicology, University of Cambridge Iain Fenlon is Professor of Historical Musicology in the Faculty of Music, and a Fellow of King’s College, University of Cambridge. His principal area of research is music from 1450 to 1650, particularly in Italy. Most of his writings, some of which are gathered together in Music and culture in late Renaissance Italy (Oxford, 2000), explore how the history of music is related to the history of society. His most recent books include The ceremonial city: history, memory and myth in Renaissance Venice (Yale, 2007), Piazza San Marco: theatre of the senses, market place of the world (Harvard, 2012) and Heinrich Glarean’s books: the intellectual world of a 16th-century musical humanist (Cambridge, 2013).

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Rethinking the senses Fifth sense 15 March 2014 Dr Jay Gottfried Associate Professor, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

Jennifer Egan in conversation with Professor Sarah Churchwell 22 March 2014 Jennifer Egan Writer Each of Jennifer Egan’s works is a distinct experiment with genre and style. Her works share a preoccupation with memory and mediation, and the way public and private versions of these processes connect and intersect. Egan’s continually evolving approach to issues of memory, history, time, and media place her as a key writer of, and in, the contemporary moment. Following the first academic conference dedicated to her writing (at Birkbeck) we are excited to welcome Jennifer Egan in a rare visit to the UK to discuss her writing, and matters of publishing, technology and pop culture with Professor Sarah Churchwell (University of East Anglia). The talk will be followed by an audience Q&A. www.sas.ac.uk

‘Rethinking the senses: uniting the philosophy and neuroscience of perception’ is a threeyear interdisciplinary research project exploring sensory experience based at the Institute of Philosophy’s Centre for the Study of the Senses, in collaboration with the universities of Glasgow, Oxford and Warwick.

The project will bring together philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists to work together in entirely new ways, including planning laboratory experiments together.

Although traditionally neglected, olfactory perception presents fascinating features that are now starting to be investigated in depth by psychologists, and to raise philosophers’ interest.

Jay Gottfried’s research focuses on understanding olfactory percepts, more specifically how the human brain transforms odour inputs into smells such as the smell of mint, banana, or wet dog. He is also interested in how learning, memory, and experience modulate odour perception. He obtained MD and PhD degrees from New York University. In 2001 he received a Physician-Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, giving him an opportunity to work at the Functional Imaging Lab, University College London, with Professor Ray Dolan, where he studied the neural organisation of human olfaction. Since September 2004, Dr Gottfried has been in Chicago at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where he is Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology and the Cognitive Neurology & Alzheimer’s Disease Center, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychology.

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John Coffin Memorial Lecture Other cosmopolitans: the African, female, and Amerindian lettered cities in Spanish America.

24 March 2014 Professor Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History, University of Texas, Austin The historian Jorge CañizaresEsguerra is most notable for his work in Atlantic history, the history of science in the early modern Spanish empire, and the colonising ideologies of the Iberian and British empires. His publications include How to Write the History of the New World (2001), Puritan Conquistadors (2006), Nature, Empire, and Nation (2007); The Atlantic in Global History, 15002000 (co-edited, with Erik Seeman), and The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade (co-edited with Jim Sidbury and Matt Childs).

He is currently writing a book entitled Bible and Empire: The Old Testament in the Spanish Monarchy, from Columbus to the Wars of Independence.

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Constitutionalism, History after revolutions and the Hobsbawm question of legitimacy 29 April–1 May 2014 March–April 2014 Dr Lawrence Joseph President of the Senate of Grenada; ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellow, School of Advanced Study Dr Lawrence Albert Joseph, formerly Grenada’s AttorneyGeneral and Speaker of the House of Representatives, is widely recognised in the legal and political communities of the Caribbean and beyond. His field of expertise is interdisciplinary and spans law, political science and modern history.

He will be based at the School in March and April 2014, in close association with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, and will deliver a high-profile public lecture series on the topic of constitutionalism and legitimacy.

Details will be announced shortly.

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Professor Catherine Hall Professor of modern British social and cultural history, University College London Catherine Hall’s work focuses on the relationship between Britain and its empire in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her recent book, Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial Britain (Yale University Press, 2012), focuses on the significance of the Macaulays, father and son, in defining the parameters of nation and empire in the early 19th century. She is the Principal Investigator on the ESRC project ‘Legacies of British slave ownership’ and the ESRC/ AHRC project ‘The structure and significance of British-Caribbean slave-ownership, 1763-1833’.

Civilising Subjects: metropole and colony in the English imagination was published in 2002 and a collection edited with Sonya O. Rose, At Home with the Empire: metropolitan culture and the imperial world, in 2006. Professor Hall will give a plenary lecture at this conference, which explores where the study of history is currently heading.

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Events calendar February Subject area key Classics History Philosophy culture, language

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Events calendar February Saturday 1 Institute of English Studies Modernism seminar 11:00–13:00 Room 349

Magic modernism

Leigh Wilson (Westminster): ‘C.K. Ogden, basic English and magic’; Caroline Maclean (Oxford): ‘Modernism’s fourth dimension’ Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Monday 3 Warburg Institute Seminar 16:30–17:30 Warburg Institute

History of art seminar

Institute of Musical Research Directions in musical research seminar 17:00–18:30 Chancellor’s Hall

Reflections on Messiaen sketches

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Institute of Philosophy Practical reasoning seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 243

What is good reasoning?

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Institute of Classical Studies Latin literature seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 349

The synthetic passive in later Latin: can we really know what happened?

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

The Lachrymose Crusader: weeping, devotion and gender in sources for the crusades

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 STB2

Modelling beauty brown: sex, race, representation and African American womanhood in the early Cold War era

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 102

T’Aube Africain: Keita Fodeba and the imagining of national culture

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Paul Crossley (Courtauld) Free Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Peter Hill (Sheffield) looks at the compositional sketches for Oiseaux Exotiques, Catalogue d’oiseaux and the newly-discovered La Fauvette Passerinette (1961), which was given its premiere by Peter last November.

Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk Jonathan Way (Southampton) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

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Philip Burton (Birmingham) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Stephen Spencer (Queen Mary) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Laila Haidarali (Essex) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Andrew Smith (UCL; Chichester) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar February Institute of English Studies Book history & bibliography research seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 234

Paper, pen and ink: manuscript cultures in early modern England

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G37

Voluntarism and democracy in Britain since the 1790s

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G35

Notoriously militant, trade unionism at Fords Dagenham

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Warburg Institute Seminar 13:00–14:15 Warburg Institute

Divina Commedia - Paradiso, Canto III. Heaven of the moon. Piccarda Donati

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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Reception, history of ideas and political theory: the case of Thucydides

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Institute of Philosophy Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 243

What does ‘epistemic’ mean?

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G34

Walk the talk: indigeneity, dwelling and performative routes to reconciliation

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G26

The religious politics of coronations, c.1661–c.1714

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G22

Sexual abuse in Dutch juvenile care and in the Dutch Roman Catholic Church (1945–2000): comparing two research studies

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Sebastiaan Verweij (Oxford): ‘Reading records: the commonplace books of Francis Russell at Woburn Abbey’ Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Brian Harrison (Oxford) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Sheila Cohen Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 4 Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute), John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL).

Readings in the Divina Commedia £80/£50 concession per term Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Neville Morley Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk Allan Hazlett (Edinburgh) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Helen Gilbert (Royal Holloway) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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George Gross (King’s, London) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Nelleke Bakker (Groningen) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar February Human Rights Consortium Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Charles Clore House

Accelerated and third-country procedures: new developments

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Institute of Historical Research Institute of English Studies History of libraries research seminar 17:30–19:30 Senate Room

Tracing books through 17th century libraries: the case of Humphrey Dyson and Richard Smith

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:45–19:45 Room G35

New developments in library cataloguing

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G37

British intelligence and the international dimension to security of the Palestine Mandate

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Institute of Latin American Studies Film screening 18:00–20:30 Room G22/26

Film and panel discussion: The Colombia Connection by Pablo Navarrete

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 19:00–20:30 Room 104

The Classic versus the Bible: Theodolus’s Eclogues in French

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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Workshop 10:00–16:00 Charles Clore House

Teaching research skills to law students: a workshop on best practice

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Warburg Institute Director’s work in progress seminar 14:15–15:15 Warburg Institute

Aristotle’s Politics and 16th century Italian political literature

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Stephen Knafler and Mark Symes. Chair: Violeta Moreno-Lax (Queen Mary) Co-hosted with Garden Court Chambers. Registration required Free Email: RLI@sas.ac.uk

Alan Nelson (California, Berkeley) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Anne Welsh (UCL) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Steven Wagner (University College, Oxford) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Pablo Navarrete, Grace Livingston, Da Kovalik. Chair: Shilpa Jindia Documentary screening and discussion: US/Colombia relations past, present and future. The Colombia connection (Director’s Cut) (Director: Pablo Navarrete, Alborada Films, 2013, 76 minutes). In association with Alborada Films and Open Democracy Free Email: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Tony Hut (St Peter’s, Oxford) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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This event is funded as part of the Higher Education Academy’s social sciences workshop and seminar series 2013-14. Registration required Free Email: belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

Grace Allen Free Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar February Institute of Modern Languages Research Director’s seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 246

Hélène Cixous and Rembrandt

Institute of Classical Studies Classical Archaeology seminar 17:00–19:30 Room G22/26

Herodes Atticus’s sculptures: mimesis of Hadrian and afterlife

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–18:15 Room G35

Duel masculinities: a comparative analysis of English plebeian and elite honour fighting rituals

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 349

Junkers, brahmins, and knights of the sad face: revisiting Max Weber’s concept of nobility

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

At home in the institution: material life in lunatic asylums, lodging houses and schools in Victorian and Edwardian England

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

Freud and the scene of trauma

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 243

Health, history and policy: putting history to work in the UK’s national health service

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Chancellor’s Hall

London old and middle English research seminar (LOMERS)

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G37

Sailing across the English Channel in the AngloNorman period

Victoria Richardson Free Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

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Olga Palagia (Athens) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

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Des Newell (Hertfordshire; Oxford Brookes) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Dina Gusejnova (UCL) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Jane Hamlett (Royal Holloway) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

John Fletcher (Warwick) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Stephanie Snow (Manchester) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Martin Foys (King’s, London) Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Susan Raich (Trinity, Cambridge) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar February Institute of English Studies Senate House Library Friends seminar 18:00–20:00 Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies

Many archives, one story: Elgar’s other ‘Enigma’, his Violin Concerto

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Chris Banks (Imperial College) Free Email: shl.officeadmin@london.ac.uk

Thursday 6 Institute of Classical Studies Ancient history seminar 16:30–19:30 Room G22/26

Religion, language and topography at Palmyra

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Warburg Institute Seminar 17:00–18:30 Warburg Institute

Flinders and the cartography of Australia 1795–1815

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Institute of Latin American Studies Latin American anthropology seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 246

Happiness as style: joy and tranquillity in the Peruvian rainforest

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Institute of Modern Languages Research English Goethe Society Ida Herz lecture 17:15–19:30 Room 349

‘Mehr Recht, mehr Glück’: Thomas Mann und das Recht im Exil

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G21a

Imperial pedagogue: E.B. Sargant in South Africa, 1900–5

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

Hidden lives: madness and love

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G35

Demotion for Sanders: the end of a colonial service career and the emergence of VSO

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Ted Kaizer (Durham) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Kenneth Morgan (Brunel) Free Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Harry Walker (LSE). Convenor: Natalia Buitron Free Email: matt.wilde@sas.ac.uk

Thomas Sprecher (Zurich) Annual General Meeting at 17:15 - Lecture begins at 18:00 Free Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Philip Gardner (Cambridge) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Liz Gray and Jane Mackleworth (Queen Mary) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Chris Jeppesen (UCL) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar February Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

Chinese and British gift giving in the Macartney embassy of 1793

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Human Rights Consortium Institute of Latin American Studies Institute of Modern Languages Research Human Rights and Latin America: films in dialogue seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 103

La forma exacta de las islas (The exact shape of the islands)

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

London screenwriting seminar

Institute of English Studies London theatre seminar 18:30–20:30 Senate Room

Body-parts, choreography and politics

Henrietta Harrison (Oxford) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Screening of The exact shape of the islands by Edgardo Dieleke and Daniel Casabe. 8 m. Argentina Free Email: sosaceci@gmail.com

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Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Melissa Blanco Borelli (Royal Holloway) and Royona Mitra (Brunel) Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Friday 7 Warburg Institute Seminar 13:00–14:00 Warburg Institute

Reading group in esoteric traditions and occult thought

Institute of Classical Studies Early career seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Rival kings, the Restoration and the ‘Political’ Alexander

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Institute of Classical Studies Postgraduate work in progress 16:30–18:30 Room 243

A digital critical edition of Homer: is there a future?

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G37

Translating poetic capital in 15th-century Brussels: from Ame de Montgesoie’s Pas de la mort to Colijn Caillieu’s Dal sonder wederkeeren

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Convenors: Liana Saif and Charles Burnett Free Email: charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk

Andrew Roberts Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Chiara Salvagni (King’s, London) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

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Adrian Armstrong (Queen Mary) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar February Institute of English Studies London 19th century studies research seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 349

Archaeology of emotions 2: panel on An archaeology of sympathy

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

The Lancastrian legacy: re-evaluating the kingship of Henry VI

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

Walking and nightwalking in the 19th century

Institute of English Studies Irish studies seminar 18:00–19:30 Senate Room

W.B. Yeats’s ‘The Wanderings of Oisin’ in 1889

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 234

The Charles Peake Ulysses seminar

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Speaker: James Chandler. Respondent: Luisa Calé Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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David Grummitt (Kent) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Matthew Beaumont (UCL) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Peter MacDonald (Oxford) Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 8 Scientific instruments in the 17th and 18th centuries

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 246

Materialism in German philosophy - from Boehme to Sloterdijk and beyond

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

Image and argument: some Greek and Chinese comparisons and contrasts

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Institute of Musical Research Seminar 17:00–18:30 Room G37

The practice of creative performance

Institute of English Studies Early modern philosophy and the scientific imagination 14:00–16:00 Room G35

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Alexi Baker (CRASSH, Cambridge): ‘Craft, commerce and community: the “scientific” instrument trade in early modern London’ James Everest (UCL): ‘Thomas Hobbes’ optical instruments’ Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Convenor: Johan Siebers (Institute of Modern Languages Research; UCLAN) Free Email: johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

Geoffrey Lloyd (Cambridge) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Karen Wise, Mirjam James, John Rink (Cambridge). Chair: John Rink In association with the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk

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

‘It ain’t necessarily do...’: reinterpreting some poems of Catullus from a discursive psychological point of view

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G21a

Echoes of the crusade in Louis XIV’s France

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:00 Room 234

Djuna Barnes research seminar

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Human Rights Consortium Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Charles Clore House

Refugee protection in the Middle East and the role of UNRWA

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Institute of Classical Studies Roman art seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 264

Furnishing textiles of the Roman period: archaeological finds of cushion covers, mattress covers and wall hangings

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Kate Hammond (Kingston) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk Phil McCluskey (Sheffield) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Anna Segall (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) Free Email: RLI@sas.ac.uk

Hero Granger-Taylor Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute Seminar 13:00–14:15 Warburg Institute

Divina Commedia - Paradiso, Canto XI. Thomas Aquinas. Francis of Assisi

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Institute of Classical Studies Reception seminar (Trivium) 16:30–18:30 Room 246

The Really Wild Show: reception and reworking of animal motifs on third-century sarcophagi and in Flavian epic

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

The admiralty’s ‘Anywhere Court’: prosecuting and punishing pirates in the early 18th century

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Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) and John Took and Tabith Tuckett (UCL) £80/£50 concession per term Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Danielle Frisby and Will Leveritt Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

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William Hasty (Edinburgh) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar February Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 104

Dispute resolution choices of Jews in Georgian London: a halakhic framework?

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G34

New light on English surnames: the ‘Family Names of the UK’ research project at UWE, Bristol

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

Two hundred years of Latin American constitutionalism: promises and problems

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Institute of English Studies Book collecting seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G22/26

Collecting five centuries of printed board games

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Institute of English Studies Poetry reading 19:00–21:00 Chancellor’s Hall

Roehampton Poetry Centre reading series

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Institute of Latin American Studies Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 10:00–17:15 Chancellor’s Hall

21st-century fiction from Latin America

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Institute of Classical Studies Mycenaean series lecture 15:30–19:30 Room G22/26

Excavations at Sissi - exploring Malia’s hinterland

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G37

Michel Foucault as historian of political thought

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

Heroes or traitors? Experiences of returning Irish soldiers from World War One to the part of Ireland that became the Free State covering the period from the Armistice to 1939

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Wendy Filer (King’s, London) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Simon Draper (Victoria County History, Oxfordshire) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Roberto Gargarella (Torcuato di Tella/Leverhulme; UCL) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Adrian Seville Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Sean O’Brien and Robin Robertson Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 12 In conjunction with ACLAIIR, and the Instituto Cervantes, London. Registration required Fee: £30/£15 concessions Contact: www.aclaiir.org.uk

Jan Driessen (Louvain) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Duncan Kelly (Cambridge) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Paul Taylor (Oxford) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar February Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 103

Trust in the thought of Henry Thornton and the Clapham Sect

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

Rooftop robbers: The ‘cat’ burglar and the making of modern urban life, London 1918–68

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 243

Medieval and Renaissance close reading group

U

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

Crime, community and kingship in Anglo-Saxon England

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G35

Goodbye to all that? The story of Europe since 1945 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)

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Institute of English Studies Literary London poetry reading group 18:00–19:30 Room G21a

A seminar on the theory and practice of poetry with reference to London in David Jones’ poem The anathemata

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

Lunchtime seminar

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

Ancient and modern violence: re-thinking St Thecla’s powers of protection and revenge

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 104

The trial and execution of Oliver Plunket

Roshan Allpress (Oxford) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Eloise Moss (Oxford) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Tom Lambert (Oxford) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Laura Lee Downs (EUI) and Vladislav Zubok (LSE). Chair: Lucy Riall Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Martin Potter Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 13 Free Email: belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

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Kate Cooper (Manchester) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

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John Marshall (Johns Hopkins) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar February Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 17:30–19:30 Room G34

The challenges of contrition: dealing with sin in 12th-century German writing

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 349

Lying in the Middle Ages

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 103

Diplomacy, declension and native foodways in the American Revolution

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Other

The Maya and the world

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G35

Temporal stances

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G37

Changing interwar landscapes: the democratization of the garden

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

Colombian lawyers under threat

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Institute of English Studies Senate House Library Friends talk 18:00–20:00 Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies

35 years of the University Library: reflections and reminiscences

U

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 246

Postgraduate feminist reading group

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Sarah Bowden (King’s, London) Free Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Emily Corran (UCL) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Rachel Herrmann (Southampton) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Norman Hammond (Boston) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Jonathan Gorma (Queen’s, Belfast) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Michael Ann Mullen Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Rommel Durán Castellanos (the Colombian Association of Human Rights Lawyers, Acadehum), Sne Ganguly (the Colombian Caravana UK Lawyers’ Group). Chair: Sara Chandler (Colombian Caravana UK Lawyers’ Group) Free Email: IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk

Andrew Gibson Free Email: shl.officeadmin@london.ac.uk

Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies Media history seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243

Media history seminar Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent) Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Friday 14 Institute of Classical Studies Postgraduate work in progress 16:30–18:30 Room 243

Slaves and freedmen in Augustus’ adultery legislation: a grammatical approach to an exploration of their roles

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

The beginning of end: climate change, sheep panzootics and the decline of wool production in England, 1258–1320

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G21a

Dressing for romance and recognition in the renaissance: the first book of fashion

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

Charters and inter-urban networks in mid-15thcentury England

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 234

Ezra Pound Cantos reading group

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Amy Bratton (Edinburgh) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Philip Slavin (Kent) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Ulinka Rublack (Cambridge) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Eliza Hartrich (Institute of Historical Research/Oxford) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 15 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium 09:30–17:30 Senate House

Jane Austen Society Study Day 2014: Mansfield Park

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The truth, the part-truth, and something like the truth: facsimile portraiture and verisimilitude in the trecento

HU

Speakers include Professor Fiona Stafford (Somerville College, Oxford) £35 standard/£25 JAS and IES members/£15 students Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute History of art seminar 16:30–17:30 Warburg Institute

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Monday 17

Laura Jacobus (Birkbeck) Free Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar February Institute of Classical Studies Conference / Symposium 10:00–19:30 Room G37

London Ancient Science Conference

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

The pianist as actor: embodying hybrid knowledge

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G21a

A personal account of the changes in the charity sector, 1980–2010, with reflections on what next

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Institute of Historical Research Film screening 17:30–20:30 Room G22/26

The Duchess (2008)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–21:30 Room 104

Big flame 1970–84. A history of a revolutionary socialist organisation

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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Reception seminar (Trivium)

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Institute of Philosophy Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 243

Cognitive penetration: why do some top-down effects matter more than others?

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G34

Indigeneity and Englishness at the Pitt Rivers Museum

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G26

The impact of the English reformation on readers’ annotations in religious books

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Registration required Free Email: andrew.gregory@ucl.ac.uk

Paul Barker (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) and Alban Coombs.

Chair: Mine Dogantan-Dack. In association with the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk

Michael Brophy (Witness) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Penny Corfield (Royal Holloway) £15 standard / £10 student Email: manjeet.sambi@sas.ac.uk

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Eoin O’Cearnaigh Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Simon Goldhill Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Zoe Drayson (Stirling) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Chris Gosden (Oxford) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Dunstan Roberts (Cambridge) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar February Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 103

Toys and the material culture of children in ancient Rome

Institute of Classical Studies Accordia lecture 17:30–19:30 Institute of Archaeology

Massive buildings, intangible practices: making sense of the Tas-Silg prehistoric megalithic sanctuary in Malta

C

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G37

The role of the US embassy in Anglo-American relations in the 1960s

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

Goethe’s erotic poetry and the libertine spectre

HU

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 19:00–21:30 Room 104

Old Icelandic

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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar Charles Clore House

European criminal law seminar

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Human Rights Consortium Conference / Symposium 11:00–17:30 Senate Room

Key questions in human rights: debates for the next generation of advocates

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School of Advanced Study Social scholar seminar 13:00–14:00 Room 103

Social media for museums, archives and libraries

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Cultural memory, affect and trauma working group special seminar 14:00–16:00 STB5

Malvinas: writing fiction as an historical task

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Mary Harlow (Leicester; Copenhagen) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Giulia Recchia (Foggia) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

John Young (Nottingham) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Dan Wilson (Royal Holloway). Chair: Jana Funke Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Richard North (UCL) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 19 Organised with the European Criminal Law Association (UK). Registration required Free Email: belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

Kajsa Hartig (Nordiska Museet) and Kat Box (Manchester Museum). The Social Scholar is a series of lunchtime seminars on using social media in the research environment. Registration required Free Email: matt.phillpott@sas.ac.uk Federico Lorenz (CONICET, Argentina; Institute of Latin American Studies) Registration required Free Email: jordana.blejmar@sas.ac.uk

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Speakers include David Cantor (Refugee Law Initiative); Sarah Singer (Refugee Law Initiative); Nicholas Maple; Damien Short (Human Rights Consortium) Free Email: hrc@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar February Warburg Institute Director’s work in progress seminar 14:15–15:15 Warburg Institute

Depictions of the ‘Planetenkinder’ (children of the planets) in the 15th and 16th centuries

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Institute of Philosophy Forum 16:30–18:30 Room 102

London aesthetics forum

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Institute of Musical Research ICONEA seminar 17:00–18:30 Room 246

The intricacies of modulation in the Maqam

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Institute of Classical Studies Trendall Lecture 17:00–19:30 Room G22/26

Defining a Metapontine identity: the workshops and the contexts of South Italian red-figure pottery at Metaponto

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Warburg Institute Literature, ideas and society seminar 17:15–18:30 Warburg Institute

Geography, politics and medicine in the early modern period

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 349

Constructing the founder of Conservatism: Edmund Burke in Britain, 1886–1914

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

Thomas Hardy, religion, and public discourse in the 1790s

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

Intimacy in long term relationships

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

Popular protest and public history

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Annett Klingner Free Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

Gabriel Greenberg (California, Los Angeles) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Ahmed Mukhtar Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk

Francesca Silvestrelli (Salento) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Charles Wolfe (Ghent) and Simone Testa (Royal Holloway) Free Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

Emily Jones (Oxford) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Jon Mee (York) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Janet Fink and Jacqui Gabb (Open University) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Peter Yeandle (Manchester) and Cathy Ross (Museum of London) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar February Sympathy is no substitute for action: the Presbyterian Church of England and the establishment of a medical mission to Southern Formosa (Taiwan) in the late 19th century

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Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello: The new spirit of capitalism

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Institute of Philosophy Seminar 12:30–14:00 Room 243

Moral taste and normativity

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

CenSes seminar

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Institute of Latin American Studies Latin American anthropology seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 103

Performing class and status: Latin American women migrants in London

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

John Ramsay of Terrenzeane, c.1464–1513

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G37

Corruption in early modern Britain

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Other

Toward a global history of religion

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G37

Niki Alsford (SOAS) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Institute of English Studies Theory now seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G21a

Seb Franklin (King’s, London) Reading: Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello, The new spirit of capitalism Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 20 Adriano de Brito Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Frank Pollick (Glasgow) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

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Ana Gutierrez-Garza (LSE). Convenor: Natalia Buitron Free Email: matt.wilde@sas.ac.uk

Mark Knights (Warwick) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Thomas Tweed (Notre Dame) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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David Yorath (Bristol) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar February Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G35

Marriage and the abduction of women in Ireland, 1800–50

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

Universal crime, particular punishment: trying the atrocities of the Japanese occupation as treason in the Philippines, 1947–53

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Human Rights Consortium Institute of Modern Languages Research Institute of Latin American Studies Human rights and Latin America films in dialogue seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 349

La mujer sin cabeza (The Headless Woman) (2008) and Nueva Argirópolis (2010)

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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture 18:30–20:00 Charles Clore House

Election observation missions and international human rights: challenges and impact

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Institute of English Studies Modernist magazines seminar 18:30–20:00 Room 234

The use and abuse of archives: reading The Criterion and Encounter magazines

Maria Luddy (Warwick) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Konrad Lawson (St. Andrew’s) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Debbie Martin (UCL) Free Email: sosaceci@gmail.com

Rchard Howitt. Registration required Free Email: ials.events@sas.ac.uk

U

Jason Harding Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Friday 21 Warburg Institute Seminar 13:00–14:00 Warburg Institute

Reading group in esoteric traditions and occult thought

Institute of English Studies Pedagogic criticism workshop 14:00–17:00 The Deller Hall

Workshop II: teaching theory

U

Institute of Classical Studies Early career seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

A Dilettante’s guide to classical reception

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Convenors: Liana Saif and Charles Burnett Free Email: charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk

Speakers: Patricia Waugh, Pamela Thurschwell and Robert Eaglestone.

Registration required Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Helen Slaney Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar February Institute of Classical Studies Postgraduate work in progress 16:30–18:30 Room 243

Barbarians: shaping identities and religious belonging in the Visigothic migration (AD376– 418)

C

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

Nuremberg’s noble allies in the 15th century

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Viola Gheller (Trento) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Ben Pope (Institute of Historical Research; Durham) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Monday 24 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 246

Materialism in German philosophy - from Boehme to Sloterdijk and beyond

UP

Warburg Institute History of art seminar 16:30–17:30 Warburg Institute

Ingenuity in the gallery: The Gallery of Cornelis van der Geest

HU

Institute of Classical Studies Ancient philosophy seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 243

Images of poetic inspiration in Plato

CP

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

Tempo relationships in 18th-century music historically-informed creativity?

MS

Institute of Classical Studies Latin literature seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 349

Boccaccio’s Greek sources in the Genealogia Deorum Gentilium

CU

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

Kelly Stage on early modern theatrical networks and Joanne Paul on Hamlet and council.

Institute of Classical Studies Roman art seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 264

Landscape in Roman luxury villas: the architecture of experience

Convenor: Johan Siebers (Institute of Modern Languages Research; UCLAN) Free Email: johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

Alexander Marr (Cambridge) Free Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Suzanne Stern-Gillet (Manchester) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

John Butt (Glasgow). Chair: Daniel Leech-Wilkinson. In association with the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk

Jon Solomon (Illinois) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

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CU

Mantha Zarmakoupi (National Hellenic Research Foundation, KERA) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

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Kelly Stage (Nebraska) and Joanne Paul (New College of the Humanities).

Chair: Alison Shell Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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

Scrutiny of terrorism laws: searchlight or veil?

Institute of Modern Languages Research Tertúlia reading group seminar 18:30–20:30 STB2

‘Quando os lobos uivam’ (Aquilino Ribeiro)

U

Warburg Institute Seminar 13:00–14:15 Warburg Institute

Divina Commedia - Paradiso, Canto XVII. Heaven of Mars. Cacciaguida

U

Institute of Classical Studies Reception seminar (Trivium) 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Classics and experimentalism in British poetry

C

Institute of Philosophy Objective probability, and conditional reasoning seminar 17:15–19:00 Room 243

Deterministic and indeterministic modelling: underdetermination and indirect evidence

P

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

Hidden depths: the civilian shaping of military oceanography during the early Cold War

H

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 104

Was conversion an effective strategy for integration into European society?

H

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G34

An ‘industrial village’ in Sevenoaks, Kent in the 19th century

H

David Anderson. Registration required Free Email: ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Convenor: Maria-José Homem When the wolves howl (transl. Patricia McGowan Pinheir). Registration required Free Email: maria-jose.homem@sas.ac.uk

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Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) and John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) Readings in the Divina Commedia £80 / £50 concession per term Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Henry Stea and Lila Matsumoto Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Charlotte Werndl (LSE) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Samuel Robinson (Manchester) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Todd Endelman (Michigan; Oxford) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

David Killingray and Iain Taylor Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar February Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G21a

The struggle for political representation: Labour candidates and the Liberal Party, 1868–88

HO

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 103

Education for death? The glorification of selfsacrificial heroism in Prussian cadet-school literature

UH

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

Towards a more educated citizenry? Educational policies and outcomes in Peru, 1870–1960

Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 18:00–19:30 Room 349

Ben Hur: avatar of the commercially successful literary property

James Owen (History of Parliament Trust) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Helen Roche (Cambridge) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Leticia Arroyo Abad (Middlebury) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Jon Solomon (Illinois) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 26 Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:15 Warburg Institute

Director’s work in progress seminar

Warburg Institute Lecture 16:30–17:45 Warburg Institute

Marc-Antoine Muret (1526–85): scandal, exile and redemption

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Institute of Classical Studies Classical archaeology seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 243

The materiality of memory

CH

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G37

The rise and fall of ‘liberalism’ in France

HO

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

The methodology and uses of content analysis in history: the media and the Falklands War as a case study

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Hugo Tucker (Reading) Free Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

Nathan Arrington (Princeton) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Helena Rosenblatt (CUNY) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Corinna Gallori Free Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

Joanna Thornton (Kent) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar February Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

Dangerous streets: criminal activity and movement in Edwardian London

H

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

St Boniface and Thuringia

H

Institute of English Studies Contemporary innovative poetry research seminar 18:00–20:00 STB2

Beneath the surface: a personal view of the British poetry revival and its aftermath

U

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

Lunchtime seminar

L

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

Symeon Stylites the Elder: or how to be a role model for Syrians

CH

Warburg Institute Seminar 17:00–18:30 Warburg Institute

A view from the north? The medieval maps of Iceland

UH

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 104

‘Jovial compounders’? English royalism and the reactions to ‘delinquency’ in the Interregnum

H

Institute of English Studies Medieval manuscripts seminar 17:30–19:00 Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies

‘Þa-inne iuurn dægæn’: the sense of the literary past in 12th-century English writing

U

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 349

The transformation of antiquity and the later middle ages

H

Kallum Dhillon (UCL) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk John-Henry Clay (Durham) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Clive Bush Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Free Email: belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

Fergus Millar (Oxford) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Dale Kedwards (York) Free Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Robert Rudge (Nottingham) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Mark Faulkner (Sheffield) Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Johannes Helmrath (Humboldt, Berlin) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar February Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 103

Exceptional Liberalism, peculiar racism and the spectre of comparisons in American political thought

H

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Other

Humans and other animals

H

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G21a

Jack Babuscio, gay pride and film criticism in the 1970s

UH

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G35

Ruptures in time: the case of the revolutionary and positivist calendars

HP

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

London theatre seminar

Joshua Simon (King’s, London) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Jon Coleman (Notre Dame) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Andrew Moor (Manchester) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Sanja Perovic (King’s, London) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Sara Jane Bailes (Sussex) Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Friday 28 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 09:00–18:00 Chancellor’s Hall

The Gerald Aylmer Seminar 2014: The global archive

HU S

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Conference / Symposium 10:00–16:15 Senate Room

Experiences of World War One: strangers, differences and locality

HS

Warburg Institute Colloquium 10:00–13:30 Warburg Institute

The use of tafsir in translating the Koran

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Hosted by The Royal Historical Society, The National Archives and the University of Leicester. Registration required Free Email: research@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk

Speakers will include: Alastair Hamilton (Warburg Institute), Nuria Martínez de Castilla Muñoz (Madrid) and Roberto Tottoli (Naples) £10 / £5 concessions Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

In collaboration with the British Association for Local History (BALH).

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

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Events calendar February Warburg Institute Seminar 13:00–14:00 Warburg Institute

Reading group in esoteric traditions and occult thought

Institute of Classical Studies Postgraduate Work in Progress 16:30–18:30 Room 243

The polysemy of Alexander the Great in Angelopoulos’ film Megalexandros

Institute of English Studies Psychoanalysis, literature & practice seminar 17:00–19:00 Room G35

Blake & neuroscience

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

Crisis and consolidation: the rise of the parish welfare state in England, c.1600–1800

H

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G21a

Indian feminist Pandita Ramabai and transnational liberal religious networks

H

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G37

Rebellion, retaining and disorder in late Medieval English towns

H

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

Restructuring colonial legal thought?

Bengal 1860–80: an innovative phase in the jurisprudence of British India

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 234

Finnegans Wake research seminar

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Liana Saif and Charles Burnett Free Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Guendalina Taietti (Liverpool) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Rod Tweedy (Karnac Books). Texts: Ian McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary, Ch. 2; William Blake, Jerusalem, Ch. 1, Plates 1-25.

Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

UP

Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Clare Midgley (Sheffield, Hallam) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Gordon McKelvie (Winchester) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Raymond Cocks (Keele). Organised with the London Legal History Seminar.

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

Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar

Event calendar March Subject area key Classics History Philosophy culture, language

& literature Human rights Politics Law Music Highlights

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Events calendar March Saturday 1 Institute of English Studies Seminar 11:00–13:00 Room 349

Modernism seminar

U

Institute of Modern Languages Research Contemporary women’s writing in French seminar 14:30–16:30 Room 246

‘La langue amoureuse’ in contemporary women’s writing in French

U

Christina Britzolakis (Warwick) and Michèle Barrett (Queen Mary) Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Registration required Free Email: gill.rye@sas.ac.uk

Monday 3 Warburg Institute History of art seminar 16:30–17:30 Warburg Institute

‘And so we see...sculptors imitating painting’: Paragone and reform in late Renaissance Rome

Institute of Philosophy Practical reasoning seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 243

Aristotle on skill: a power that is both rational and productive

Institute of Classical Studies Latin literature seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 349

Cicero and philosophical dialogue

CU

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

Prophecy and the crusader states

H

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 STB2

Women of letters - editing and writing the Caribbean

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 102

A return to Fashoda or entente cordiale renewed?

Post-war Franco-British relations in the context of Anglophone Africa

Institute of English Studies Book history & bibliography research seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 234

Manuscripts in the early modern universities

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Dorigen Caldwell (Birkbeck) Free Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

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Ursula Coope (Oxford) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Matthew Fox (Glasgow) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Jay Rubenstein (Tennessee) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

UH

Claire Irving (Newcastle) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Joanna Warson (Portsmouth) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Christopher Burlinson (Cambridge) Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

UH

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G37

Late-medieval methods of poor relief

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G35

Pan-Africanism and Communism

Christopher Dye (Leicester) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Hakim Adi Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

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Tuesday 4 Warburg Institute Seminar 13:00–14:15 Warburg Institute

Divina Commedia - Paradiso, Canto XXXIII. The Empyrean. The vision of the Trinity

U

Institute of Classical Studies Reception seminar (Trivium) 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Methodizing the Socratic: the reception of Plato’s Socrates in American legal education, 1870–1910

C

Institute of Philosophy Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 243

Spacetime structuralism or spacetime functionalism?

P

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G34

Making strangers out of locals: oral histories of trans-spatial connection among the ‘indigenous’ English

H

Institute of Classical Studies Accordia lectures 17:30–19:30 Room G22/26

Indigenous cults in Roman North Italy

C

Institute of English Studies History of libraries research seminar 17:30–19:30 Senate Room

The rest of the iceberg: non-bibliophile libraries in the 19th century

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:45–19:45 Room G35

The day parliament burned down

Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) and John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) £80 / £50 concession per term Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Simone Oppen and Tom Watts Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Eleanor Knox (King’s, London) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Ben Rogaly (Sussex) and Becky Taylor (Birkbeck) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Ralph Hussler (Trinity Saint David) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

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Ed Potten (Cambridge) Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Caroline Shenton (Parliamentary Archives) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar March Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 The Rothcshild Archives, New Court, St Swithin’s Lane, London, EC4N 8AL

Let her rest in peace, HMS Edinburgh and the cargo of gold

H

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 19:00–20:30 Room 104

Medieval spanish

H

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 19:15–19:15 Room G26

The scandalous ministers of Cambridgeshire, 1640–47

H

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Conference / Symposium 00:00–00:00 Charles Clore House

Applying for research funding for legal education: an interactive workshop

L

Institute of Modern Languages Research Director’s Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 246

Decoding paradoxical behaviours: eating disorders and self-empowerment in Italian women’s writing of the 1990s–2000s

U

Warburg Institute Lecture 16:30–17:45 Warburg Institute

Drafting Ptolemy: maps and city views in 15thcentury Florence

UH OP

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 STB2

Michael Oakeshott and Hans-Georg Gadamer on practices, social science, and modernity

HO

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

Landscapes of London: the city, the country, and the suburbs in the 18th century

H

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

‘Learning the value of restraint.’ Plain versus patterned surfaces in the 1920s small modern interior

H

Michele Blagg (King’s, London) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Rosa Vidal Doval (Queen Mary) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Graham Hart (Essex) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Organised with the Legal Education and Research Network Free Email: belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

Francesca Calamita (Wellington/IMLR) Free Email: christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk

Caroline Elam (Warburg Institute) Free Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

Edmund Neill (New College of the Humanities) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Elizabeth McKellar (Open University) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Keren Protheroe (Kingston) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar March Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Court Room

Medieval and Renaissance close reading group

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G37

Facing up to early medieval disfigurement: questions, problems, comparisons

H

Warburg Institute Colloquium Thursday 6 – Friday 7 10:00–18:00 Warburg Institute

The afterlife of Herodotus and Thucydides

UP HS

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

The Edessan Martyrs and their Syriac afterlives

Institute of Latin American Studies Latin American anthropology seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 246

‘Living organised’ and the dangers of envy: being a beneficiary of distributive Sandinista politics in rural Nicaragua

HU

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Peter Lyon Memorial Lecture 17:30–19:00 Chancellor’s Hall

Can the Commonwealth ever become relevant again?

HS

Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 17:30–19:30 Room 103

Representing Rosmer, or: how not to do literary history

U

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 349

The laboratores: slave and serf before the 12th century

H

UH

Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Patricia Skinner (Swansea) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 6 Gaston Javier Basile (Buenos Aires), Reinhold Bichler (Innsbruck), Andrea Ceccarelli (Sapienza, Rome), Giovanna Cesarani (Stanford), Ben Early (Bristol), Mordecai Feingold (California Institute of Technology), Adam Foley (Notre Dame, US), Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido (Extremadura, Spain), Elizabeth Jeffreys (Oxford), Luca Iori (Parma), Neville Morley (Bristol), John Richards (Ohio State), Tim Rood (Oxford), Vasiliki Zali (UCL). Registration required £20 one day / £40 two days (£12.50/£25 concessions) Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe (King’s, London) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

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David Cooper (UCL). Convenor: Natalia Buitron Free Email: matt.wilde@sas.ac.uk

The Rt Hon Frank Field MP Free Email: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Paul Hyams (Cornell) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Robert Gillett (Quee Mary) Free Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar March Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G21a

History of education in Brazil: the formation of the field and its theoretical influences

H

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

Guns, Turks and news: managing outside news in colonial Algeria, 1881–1918

H

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

Spectacles of sovereignty: Persian Shahs in Imperial Europe, 1873–1905

H

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G35

Exterminate all the brutes: modern settler colonialism and the future of endangered races

H

Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium Friday 7–Saturday 8 09:30–18:00 Senate House/UCL

Location London: the city on screen

U

Warburg Institute Seminar 13:00–14:00 Warburg Institute

Reading group in esoteric traditions and occult thought

U

Institute of Modern Languages Research Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing seminar 14:00–18:00 Room G21a

Translating the female body in contemporary women’s writing

U

Institute of Classical Studies Early Career Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Little Korai: Persephone-imitation in marriage and death in early Greek cult

C

Institute of Classical Studies Postgraduate Work in Progress 16:30–18:30 Room 243

Contextualising Roman military spaces: power and social network dynamics

C

Marisa Bittar and Amarilio Ferreira Jr (San Carlos) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Arthur Asseraf (All Souls, Oxford) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

David Motadel (Cambridge) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Sadiah Quereshi (Birmingham) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Organised with the London Screen Studies Group. Registration required Fee applicable Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Liana Saif and Charles Burnett Free Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: gill.rye@sas.ac.uk

Ellie Mackin Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Anna Walas (Leicester) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar March Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room G34

Practising theory: the friction between theoretical work and writing novels

U

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

The Rijksmuseum and its art and historical collections: a peaceful wedding?

H

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

‘Completely free from fleshly lusts’: the contexts and consequences of Henry I’s liaisons

H

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

Soviet psychology, the avant-garde and the socialist subject as artwork

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

Republicanism and aristocracy in modern Irish culture

U

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 234

The Charles Peake Ulysses seminar

U

Enrico Palandri (Venice; UCL). Organised under the auspices of the Friends of Italian at the Institute of Modern Languages Research Free Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Martine Gosselink (Rijksmuseum) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Joanna Laynesmith (Reading) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

HP

Hannah Proctor (Birkbeck) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Joe Cleary (Maynooth/Yale) Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 8 Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium 09:00–18:00 Chancellor’s Hall

Second International Bagpipe Conference

MS

Institute of English Studies Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination seminar 14:00–16:00 Room G35

The Lunar Vale in Micrographia: competing selenographies in Robert Hooke’s engraving of the Moon

UH

Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 15:00–18:00 Room G22/26

Virgil Society lecture

Registration required £35 standard/£25 concession Email: music@sas.ac.uk

C

Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

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Nydia Pineda de Avila (Queen Mary) Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar March Institute of Historical Research Seminar 16:00–16:00 Room 349

Reformation and the distrust of the projector in the Hartlib Circle

H

Koji Yamamoto (King’s, London) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Monday 10 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 246

Materialism in German philosophy - from Boehme to Sloterdijk and beyond

UP

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

Ancient philosophy seminar

CP

Institute of Musical Research Directions in musical research seminar 17:00–18:30 Chancellor’s Hall

Cultural roots: connecting time and place in musical composition

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

Keats’s Catullan Samphire; or, did John Keats read Catullus?

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G21a

The search for a Republican morality: Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being

H

Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:00 Room 234

Djuna Barnes research seminar

U

Institute of Classical Studies Roman Art Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 264

The Pantheon and its interpretation: an update on recent developments

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Dr Johan Siebers (IMLR/UCLAN) Free Email: johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

Robert Wardy (Cambridge) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

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Hilda Paredes. To be followed by a short concert with Irvine Arditti (violin) Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk

CU

Henry Stead (King’s, London) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Jon Smyth (Birkbeck) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Mark Wilson Jones (Bath) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar March Tuesday 11 Testing the axes of reception: Oedipus repatriated in Modern Greek fiction and Antigone performed on the contemporary transnational stage

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

Searching for sailortown: naval towns and urban cultures, c.1820–1914

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 104

Revealing forgotten political options in divided Palestine through translation

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G34

Late-medieval heresy and topography revisited

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G21a

‘But private notes for my owne memory’?

Parliamentary diaries in 17th-century England

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 103

Tiny hands, tiny artefacts: did Roman children play with toys?

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Senate Room

Contemporary cultures of writing seminar

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

Low quality immigrants to Latin America? Human and social capital in historical migration

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Institute of English Studies Book Collecting Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G22/26

Taste and technique in book collecting - updated for the digital age

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Institute of Classical Studies Reception seminar (Trivium) 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Efstathia Athanasopoulou and Caterina Tsiouma Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Bradley Beaven (Portsmouth) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Yuval Evri (Cambridge) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Christopher Currie (IHR) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Philip Baker (History of Parliament Trust) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Mary Harlow (Leicester; Copenhagen) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Blanca Sanchez-Alonso (Madrid) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Jim Hinck Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar March Hidden treasures of the Royal Holloway and Bedford New College art collection

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Institute of English Studies Book sale Macmillan Hall

Senate House Library Friends book sale

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Warburg Institute Director’s work in progress seminar 14:15–15:15 Warburg Institute

Mozarab readers of the Bible, 9th–12th centuries

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Institute of Classical Studies Mycenaean series lecture 15:30–19:30 Room G22/26

Political formations in Minoan Crete

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Warburg Institute Lecture 16:30–17:45 Warburg Institute

Heinrich Glarean’s books: the intellectual world of a 16th century Swiss musical humanist

Institute of Modern Languages Research Director’s Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

How does one translate ‘Aryan race’ into German? A linguistic riddle wrapped in a historiographical enigma

Institute of Classical Studies Classical Archaeology Seminar 17:00–19:30 King’s College London Strand Campus ROOM K6.63

The Warren Cup: a piece of mimetic craftsmanship around 1900?

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G37

Household management and self-management in early modern thought

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Institute of English Studies Senate House Library Friends talk 18:00–20:00 Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies

Laura MacCulloch (Royal Holloway) Free Email: shl.officeadmin@london.ac.uk

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As part of their regular fundraising activities, the Friends will be hosting a book sale on the 12th and 13th of March 2014. The proceeds of this sale will go to Senate House Library (to help maintain and develop its collections, especially its Historic Collections). The Friends urgently require books in good condition.

Should you have any suitable books that you are willing to part with, you can leave them at the Membership Desk on the 4th floor of Senate House, or inside the Library at the Service Desk.

Free Email: sandra.clark@sas.ac.uk

Geoffrey Martin Free Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

Todd Whitelaw (UCL) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Iain Fenlon (Cambridge) Free Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Christopher Hutton (Hong Kong) Free Email: christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk

Luca Giuliani (Berlin) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Felicity Green (Edinburgh) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar March Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

30,000 points of danger: female enemy aliens in Britain and the gendering of Second World War internment policy

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 103

Observing Vatican II: ecumenical diplomacy and the Second Vatican Council, 1962–5

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Human Rights Consortium Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Charles Clore House

Towards a working definition of persecution

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G21a

Making the East India Company at home in Osterley Park

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

Everybody’s doing it! Americanisation on the West End stage (and beyond) 1898–1914

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

Ivo of Chartres and the laws of the Romans

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

Lunchtime seminar

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Warburg Institute Seminar 17:00–18:30 Warburg Institute

Adornments and metaphors: illustrations on the early printed maps of Greece

Zoe Denness (Birmingham; Kent) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Andrew Chandler and Charlotte Hansen (Chichester) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Hugo Storey (United Kingdom Upper Tribunal, Asylum and Immigration Chamber). Discussants: David Cantor (Refugee Law Initiative) and Violeta Moreno-Lax (Queen Mary). Registration required Free Email: RLI@sas.ac.uk

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Kate Smith (UCL) and Claire Reed (National Trust) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Peter Bailey (Manitoba; Indiana) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Michael Crawford (UCL) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 13 Free Email: belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

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George Tolias (Institute of Historical Research; National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens) Free Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar March Institute of Modern Languages Research English Goethe Society lecture 17:15–19:00 Room G34

Adelbert von Chamisso: Ein Versuch über den Erfolg

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 104

Lobbying London: the experience of Irish and Scottish petitioners, 1653–59

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 103

Nickel wars: streetcar politics in gilded age America

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 German Historical Institute

War, nationalism, and the making of Germany in the early 19th century

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Other

The triumph of music in the modern world

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G21a

Adult entertainment: conscience, creed and evolution of the crusading hero in Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G35

Castoriadis on the socio-historical nature of time

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

Brand name capitalism, advertising and the making of the conjugal family in Western India, 1918–45

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G37

James Lees-Milne: saving the gardens and great estates at risk

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Free Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Patrick Little (History of Parliament) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Jennifer Luff (Durham) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Ute Planert (Wuppertal) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Tim Blanning (Cambridge) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Hannah Graves (Warwick) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Angelos Mouzakitis (Crete) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Douglas Haynes (Dartmouth College) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Richard Wheeler (National Trust) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 234

Postgraduate feminist reading group

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Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies Modernist magazine seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243

Transition

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

London theatre seminar

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Cathryn Setz (Oxford) Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Helen Paris and Leslie Hill (Stanford) Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Friday 14 Institute of Modern Languages Research Workshop 10:00–18:00 Room G34

Universalism revisited: poetological, philosophical and historical encounters

Institute of Philosophy Aesthetics forum workshop 10:00–18:00 G22/26

Aesthetic adjectives and disagreements about taste

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

Malta as a crossroads of art and culture in the baroque period

Warburg Institute Seminar 13:00–14:00 Warburg Institute

The main enjeu of this workshop is to rethink the idea of universality in a historical perspective Free Email: christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk

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Aaron Meskin (Leeds), Shen-Yi Liao (Nanyang Technological, Singapore and Leeds), Tim Sundell (Kentucky), Isidora Stojanovic (Institut Jean Nicod), Nick Zangwill (Hull), Louise McNally (Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona). Registration required Free Email: contact@londonaestheticsforum.org

Charles Avery, John Gash (Aberdeen), Keith Sciberras (Malta), Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci (Malta), Guendalina Serafinelli (CASVA), John Spike (Florence), Marjorie Trusted (V&A), Jeremy Warren (Wallace Collection).

Registration required £25 / £12 concessions Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

Decolonization workshop

The conference provides an important opportunity for scholars of decolonization to meet and discuss their current research in a friendly and informal setting.

Contributions from PhD students and early-career scholars are particularly welcome. In collaboration with King’s College, London. Registration required £15/£10 student Email: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Reading group in esoteric traditions and occult thought

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Convenors: Liana Saif and Charles Burnett Free Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Commonwealth Studies Workshop 11:00–19:00 Room 349

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Events calendar March Institute of Classical Studies Early career seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

The crafted beat: shields, tympana and symbolic transformation in early Iron Age

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Institute of Classical Studies Postgraduate work in progress seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243

Ithome, Thucydides and the Athenian-Spartan rivalry

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Institute of English Studies Psychoanalysis, literature and practice seminar 17:00–19:00 Room G37

Psychoanalysis and architectural space

UP

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

The segmented English credit market: evidence from the stop of exchequer

HO

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G21a

Returning religious women to women’s history: nuns in 19th-century France

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

Henry IV: a new ‘Lord of this language’?

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 234

Ezra Pound Cantos reading group

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Aikaterini Kolotourou Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Matteo Zaccarini (King’s, London) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Commentator: Jane Rendall (Bartlett School of Architecture) D.W. Winnicott, ‘Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena’, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 34:2 (1953); Jane Rendall, ‘The setting and the Social Condensor, in Adam Sharr (ed), Architecture as Cultural Artifact (Routledge: 2013) Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Ling-Fan Li (Institute of Historical Research) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Sarah Curtis (San Francisco State) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Jennifer Nuttall (Oxford) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 15 Institute of Philosophy Workshop 10:00–15:30 Macmillan Hall

Rethinking the senses: fifth sense workshop

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Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium 14:15–18:35 All Hallows by the Tower, Byward Street, London, EC3R

London Anglo-Saxon Symposium 2014: religion and beliefs

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Carl Philpott, Duncan Boak, Maggie Rosen. AHRC Rethinking the Senses project Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Joshua Davies (King’s, London); David D’Avray (UCL); Martin Findell (Leicester); Tadashi Kotake (School of Advanced Study); James Paz (King’s, London) £12 standard / £6 students, concessions Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar March Monday 17 Institute of Musical Research Directions in musical research seminar 17:00–18:30 Room G35

The Elizabethan ‘dramatic’ jig: re-uniting words and music

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

Practical reasoning seminar

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

Latin literature seminar

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

Poetic form and emotions in Shakespeare’s sonnets

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

The Treaty of 1283 between Sultan Qalawun and the Frankish authorities of Acre: a new topographical discussion

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Institute of English Studies Book history & bibliography research seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 234

Making sense of chaos: analysing early modern manuscripts

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 102

The Saint-Simonians and colonisation

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G21a

Dona Montefiore and World War One

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Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

Oil sparks in the Amazon. Local conflicts, indigenous populations and natural resources

Lucie Skeaping (BBC Radio 3). Chair: Jeremy Barlow Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk

Christian List (LSE) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Graduate presentations Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

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Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (King’s, London); Femke Molekamp (Warwick).

Chair: Russ McDonald Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Rabei Khamisy (Cardiff) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Carlo M. Bajetta (Valle d’Aosta) Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Pamela Pilbeam (Royal Holloway) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Ted Crawford Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Patricia I. Vasquez, (Extractive Industries; Conflict-Social Assessment) Free Email: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

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

Dangerous trends in modern legislation

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Other events 18:00–20:00 Room G22

Amor che move: Dante, Pasolini and Morante (Manuele Gragnolati, 2013)

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Daniel Greenberg (In-house Parliamentary Counsel in the Parliamentary Team at Berwin Leighton Paisner BLP). Registration required Free Email: ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Registration required Free Email: emanuela.patti@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 18 Institute of Historical Research Workshop 09:00–17:00 Deller Hall (Senate House, basement)

History libraries and research open day

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G34

Dancing in the fields: virtual locality and imagined histories in indigenous Andean music videos

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G26

The ‘Enveigling projects of Romish priests’ and post-Reformation Religion and politics: demons, exorcisms and the “Boy of Bilson” affair revisited

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:45–19:45 Room G35

Archive as artefact? Interpreting echoes of the past in business history

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–19:30 Room 234

Literary London reading group seminar

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G21a

The organisational reform of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its diplomacy toward China in the interwar period: the significance of the establishment of the Asian Affairs Bureau

Co-hosted by Institute of Historical Research Library and Senate House Library.

Registration required Free Email: ihr.library@sas.ac.uk

Henry Stobart (Royal Holloway) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Michael Questier (Queen Mary) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Roy Edwards (Southampton) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Fumio Kumamoto (LSE; Komazawa) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar March Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G22/26

Friends of the British School at Athens

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 19:00–20:30 Room 104

Script imitation: the shock of the old

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School of Advanced Study Social Scholar seminar 13:00–14:00 Room 103

Online learning: developing trends

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Cultural memory, affect and trauma working group seminar 14:00–16:00 STB5

Redistributing the sensible. Mapping ecologies of memory through participative action research

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Director’s seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 246

Is Pasolini a romantic? Rational universalism and the anthropological crisis of modernity

U

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G37

Making remainders count: the radical potential of Hume’s court of competitors

HO

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

Britain and Europe in the long 18th century

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

Sites of the unconscious. Towards a historical anthropology of the psy sciences

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 102

The semantics of social justice. Britain and West Germany after 1945

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Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Julia Crick (King’s, London) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 19 Myles Runham (BBC Academy). Registration required Free Email: matt.phillpott@sas.ac.uk

Garikoitz Gómez Alfaro (Brighton). Registration required Free Email: jordana.blejmar@sas.ac.uk

Markus Messling (Potsdam; Institute of Modern Languages Research) Free Email: christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk

Marius Ostrowski (Oxford) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Richard Whatmore (St Andrew’s) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Andreas Mayer (CNRS, Paris) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Felix Römer (German Historical Institute London) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar March Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 STB5

Medieval and renaissance close reading group

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

Bishops in the mirror. Literary portraits and episcopal self-fashioning in early medieval Italy

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G21a

Class, violence and gender in early colonial Malawi: the curious case of Elizabeth Pithie

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243

Lilly Kann, Martin Miller and the Theatre of the ‘Jüdischer Kulturbund’ in Berlin

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 STB2

Contemporary innovative poetry research seminar

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Institute of English Studies Theory now seminar 18:00–20:00 Chancellor’s Hall

Text: Catherine Malabou: What should we do with our brain? (Fordham University Press, 2008)

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Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Giorgia Vocino (OAW; Vienna) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

John McCracken (Stirling) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Richard Dove (London) Free Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Sophie Seita Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Laura Salisbury Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 20 Institute of Latin American Studies Conference / Symposium 09:00–17:30 Chancellor’s Hall

The cultural use of caves in the Americas

Institute of Modern Languages Research Workshop 09:30–17:00 Room 349

Is Pasolini a romantic? Rational universalism and the anthropological crisis of modernity

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

Syria: past and present perspectives

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Convenor: Jago Cooper (British Museum) This conference explores the hypogean (underground) realm of past human experience in the Americas.

Free Email: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

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Free Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Hugh Pope (International Crisis Group, Istanbul) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar March Institute of Latin American Studies Latin American anthropology seminar 17:00–19:00 Room G21a

Asymmetrical structure in the Music of the Feast of La Tirana 2012 (Chile)

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

CenSes seminar

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

A women’s work is never done: women and the British anti-fascist movement

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G37

Shuffle and play, read and learn: early modern English didactic playing cards

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Other

IHR seminar

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G35

Empire and globalisation: from high imperialism to decolonisation

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

Narrating the self: temporality, imagination and possibility

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Human Rights Consortium Institute of Latin American Studies Institute of Modern Languages Research Human Rights and Latin America films in dialogue seminar 18:00–20:00 Chancellor’s Hall

La teta asustada (The Milk of Sorrow)

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–21:00 Senate Room

London screenwriting seminar

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Ricardo Alvarez (York). Convenor: Natalia Buitron Free Email: matt.wilde@sas.ac.uk

Matt Longo (Birkbeck) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Joe Mulhall (Royal Holloway) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Katherine Hunt (East Anglia) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Pierre Singaravlou (Sorbonne) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Andrew Thompson (Exeter) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

This series invites both the academic community and the general public to reflect on contemporary discourses of Human Rights in Latin America through the gaze of renowned film makers of the region.

Free Email: sosaceci@gmail.com

Paul Wells (Loughborough) Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Molly Andrews (East London) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar March Friday 21 Institute of Philosophy Conference / Symposium Friday 21 – Saturday 22 09:30–17:30 Senate Room

Logic and Language Conference 2014

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

South Germany - the culture of the Upper Rhine Valley in the late Middle Ages and early renaissance

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 11:00–16:00 Court Room

London 19th century studies research seminar

Institute of Classical Studies Postgraduate work in progress seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243

The decline of the west and the rise of cyclical history: visions of Rome in the inter-war period

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 103

Revolutionary ideas on taxation: the Dutch fiscal policy of the period 1795–1814

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

Artistic labour contracts and the legislative imperative of authorship

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Jennifer Egan in conversation with Professor Sarah Churchwell

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Institute of Historical Research/Northwestern University graduate student conference

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Ephraim Glick (Edinburgh), Rosanna Keefe (Sheffield), Peter Ludlow (Northwestern), Anna Mahtani (LSE), Stephen Neale (CUNY; Birmingham), Sarah Sawyer (Sussex), Alex Silk (Birmingham), James Studd (Oxford), Ian Rumfitt (Birmingham), Crispin Wright (New York; Aberdeen). Registration required http://philosophy.sas.ac.uk/LL2014 £40/£30/£15 Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Martina Backes (Freiburg), Sigrid Harbodian (Tübingen), Nikolaus Henkel (Hamburg), Stephen Mossman (Liverpool), Balazs Nemes (Freiburg) and Annette Volfing (Oxford). Registration required £25/£12 concessions Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Jasmine Hunter-Evans (Exeter) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Mark Hay (King’s, London) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Marina Vishmidt and Zoe Sutherland Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 22 Institute of English Studies Author event 18:30–20:30 Senate House

Jennifer Egan will discuss her writing, and matters of publishing, technology and pop culture. Registration required £5 Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Monday 24 Institute of Historical Research Conference / Symposium 09:00–18:00 Room G35

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

Ancient philosophy seminar

Institute of Musical Research Seminar 17:00–18:30 Room 102

Completing Mozart fragments: on musicology and forgetting

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

Practical reasoning seminar: habitual agency

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

Latin literature seminar

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Institute of Latin American Studies John Coffin Memorial Lecture 17:30–19:30 Chancellor’s Hall

Other cosmopolitans: the African, female, and Amerindian lettered cities in Spanish America

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Institute of Classical Studies Roman art seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 264

The patron’s dilemma: exploring the economic implications of scale and decoration in baths and columnar displays across the Roman Empire

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Tim Jones (Royal Academy of Music). Chair: Paul Archbold. In association with the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk

David Owens (Reading) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Ellen Oliensis (Berkeley). The pleasure of Ovid’s Amores Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Jorge Canizares-Esguerra and Alice Drysdale (Texas, Austin). Chair: Linda Newson (Institute of Latin American Studies) Free Email: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Janet DeLaine (Oxford) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

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

Objective probability, and conditional reasoning seminar: counterfactual desirability

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

The Lord High Admiral and the demise of the Navy Board: the battle for control of the Navy, 1801–32

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 104

Seeing syphilis in the Bible: Hebrews, Jews, and the debate over the origins of venereal disease

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Orri Stefansson (LSE) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Roger Knight (Greenwich) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Mitchell Hart (Florida; Oxford) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Fiona Leigh (UCL) Image, appearance and logos in the Sophist Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar March Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G34

‘Indigenous London’ - perspectives of the indigenous peoples of Empire on the Empire’s capital

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G21a

Lord Salisbury and the politics of image, 1880–1902

Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Senate Room

Contemporary cultures of writing seminar

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

War and independence in Spanish America

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Colm Thrush (Institute of Historical Research; British Columbia) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Tom Crewe (Cambridge) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Anthony McFarlane (Warwick) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Wednesday 26 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Conference / Symposium 10:00–18:30 Chancellor’s Hall

Black and Asian studies conference

Institute of Musical Research ICONEA seminar 17:00–18:30 Room 246

Where tetrachords meet: changing perspectives on modulation

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G37

The sacrificing king: between theology and law in early modern Europe

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

Ireland’s decade of centenaries: a Belfast perspective

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 103

Faith and scholarship in mid-Victorian Britain: William Smith’s ‘Dictionary of the Bible’

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This workshop will seek to explore how the Institute of Commonwealth Studies can tailor its events programme to meet the needs of researchers across the UK working in the area of Black and Asian studies. Scholars at all stages of their careers are welcome to attend. £15/£10 student Email: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

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Nick Stylianou Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk

Jonathan Sheehan (Berkeley) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Keith Jeffrey (Queen’s, Belfast) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Michael Ledger Lomas (King’s, London) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar March Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

Off the map? Late Anglo-Saxon literate culture beyond the metropolis

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G21a

Look and learn: the new world of live art broadcasts

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G35

Circulating knowledge between nations: a medical case history in 19th century Europe

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Colloquium 10:00–18:00 Room 243

55th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies

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

Lunchtime seminar

Human Rights Consortium Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar 16:00–18:00 Charles Clore House

The ‘war refuge’ and international law: new global approaches

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 104

IHR seminar

Institute of Modern Languages Research 2014 Sylvia Naish lecture 17:30–19:30 Room 243

A hidden idiom of cultural memory? Gender and attempts to manage the memory of national socialism

Julia Crick (King’s, London) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Phil Grabsky (Seventh Art Productions), Penny Nagle (More 2 Screen), Patricia Wheatley (British Museum) and John Wyver (Westminster; Illuminations) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Maria Boehmer (EUI), Lisa Plotkin (UCL): At home in the asylum: women & creative space at the Holloway Sanatorium, 1885-1912. Chair: Axel Korner Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 27

Free Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

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Free Email: belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

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In collaboration with the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, Canada on ‘Armed Conflict, Generalised Violence and Asylum Law’. Registration required Free Email: RLI@sas.ac.uk

Jennifer Wells (Brown) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Katie Stone (Clare College, Cambridge) Free Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar March Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 349

‘Simple faithful’ (fideles simplices) and ‘heretics believers’ (hereticorum credentes) in the 13th century

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 103

The chief city of America’: the American colony in London, Victorian globalisation and the transformation of US Empire, 1870–1914

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Other

IHR seminar

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G21a

David Lean’s 19th century: from Havisham to Hobson

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G35

The past is evil/evil is past. On retrospective politics, philosophy of history and temporal Manichaeism

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G37

Such is the price of Empire: how zoos and botanic gardens survived the war

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 246

Media history seminar

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Peter Biller (York) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Steve Tuffnell (Oxford) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Sunil Amrith (Birkbeck) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Melanie Williams (East Anglia) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Berber Bevernage (Ghent; International Network for Theory of History) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Mark Norris (Education Officer, Newquay Zoo) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk Jussi Parika (Southampton) Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Friday 28 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Legal history seminar 18:00–19:30 Charles Clore House

Restructuring colonial legal thought?

Bengal 1860–80: an innovative phase in the jurisprudence of British India

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 234

Finnegans Wake research seminar

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Organised with the London Legal History Seminar. Registration required Free Email: ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Event calendar April Subject area key Classics History Philosophy culture, language

& literature Human rights Politics Law Music Highlights

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Events calendar April Wednesday 2 Institute of Latin American Studies Conference Wednesday 2 – Friday 4 Birckbeck College and Senate House

Society for Latin American Studies 2014 – 50th anniversary conference

Institute of Modern Languages Research Director’s Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 246

Femininity, Jewishness and the city: Jewish women writers in Berlin (1900–18)

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 349

London old and middle English research seminar (LOMERS)

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Warburg Institute Seminar 17:00–18:30 Warburg Institute

One world, two systems: Claudius Ptolemy’s Geographike Hyphegesis and the birth of modern cartography

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Other

A panel on the scientific revolution in honour of Patrick O’Brien

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The Charles Peake Ulysses seminar

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Convenor: Jasmine Gideon (Birkbeck). Registration required Fee applicable Contact: www.slas.org.uk

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Godela Weiss-Sussex (Institute of Modern Languages Research) Free Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Colette Moore (Washington) Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 3

Leif Isaaksen (Southampton) Free Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Patrick O’Brien, Robert Iliffe, Richard Drayton, Andrew Wear, Alan Powers and others Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Friday 4 Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 234

Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 5 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium 10:30–16:00 Senate House

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Virginia Woolf and visual culture

Sarah Phillips: ‘Virginia Woolf as a Cubist Writer’; Wendy Hitchmough: ‘Re-Presenting Julia’; Claire Nicholson: ‘Virginia Woolf: a Woman of Fashion?’

Hosted by the Institute of English Studies for the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain. Registration required £30 standard/£25 for JAS and VWS members/students/concessions Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar April Polemical use of Islam in Christian religious conflicts

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference / Symposium Monday 7–Tuesday 8 09:30–18:00 Room G22/26

City margins, city memories

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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar Charles Clore House

European criminal law seminar

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

Performance/research seminar

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:00 Room 246

Djuna Barnes research seminar

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G35

Elizabeth Timothy and the feminisation of business and enterprise in Colonial South Carolina

Institute of English Studies Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination seminar 14:00–16:00 Room G35

Jan Loop (Kent) Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Monday 7

Tuesday 8

Keynote speakers: Hugh Campbell (Dublin), Bill Marshall (Institute of Modern Languages Research; Stirling) Free Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Organised with the European Criminal Law Association. Registration required Free Email: belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

Gwilym Simcock. Chair: Eric Clarke. In association with the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Inge Dornan (Brunel) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 234

Roman Jakobson: poetry of self, city, sign and form

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Institute of English Studies Book collecting seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 349

How the modern world was made - the literature of engineering

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Mary Coghill (London Metropolitan) Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Julia Elton. Organised with the Rare Book Society Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar April Wednesday 9 Institute of Modern Languages Research Director’s Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 246

Emotional response in historical practice: methodological approaches to representing collective experience

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 102

Challenging audiences: lessons from blogging at the intersection of history and science

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Colleen Becker (Institute of Modern Languages Research) Free Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Vanessa Heggie (Birmingham) and Rebekah Higgitt (Kent) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 10 Institute of English Studies Conference Thursday 10–Friday 11 09:30–18:00 Senate House

Guthlac of Crowland: celebrating 1300 years

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:00 Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies

Medieval manuscripts seminar

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Other

Dan Cohn-Sherbock and Mary Grey discuss their new book, The Palestine-Israeli Crisis: a JewishChristian Debate

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 234

Postgraduate feminist reading group

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Papers on the saint’s life and cult, the legend, Guthlac and Crowland, the Exeter Book poems, offices and music, aspects of the Guthlac Roll, Guthlac and Benedictinism. Registration required £65/£45 concession Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Lynn Ransom (Penn) Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

A panel on the Palestine question in global context Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Monday 14 Institute of English Studies Book history and bibliography research seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 234

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Paper, pen and ink: manuscript cultures in early modern England

Heather Wolfe (Folger Shakespeare Library). Rethinking the price, quality, and social significance of writing paper in early modern England Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar April Tuesday 15 Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G35

Contemporary cultures of writing seminar

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–19:30 Room 234

Literary London reading group

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Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 23 Institute of Modern Languages Research Director’s Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 246

From tragic to love: towards a constellation of Antigone’s girls

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

Theory now

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Valerie Lebrun (Institute of Modern Languages Research; Quebec) Free Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Andrew Goffey (Nottingham) Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 24 Warburg Institute Colloquium Thursday 24 - Friday 25 10:00–17:00 Warburg Institute

Astrolabes in medieval cultures

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Institute of Commonwealth Studies Workshop 09:00–17:00 Room G34

BRICS project workshop

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BBC2: origins; influence; audiences: a 50th anniversary conference

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Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute), Laura Fernandez Fernandez (Complutense Madrid), Stephen Johnston (Museum of the History of Science, Oxford), Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma (Stuttgart), Josefina Rodríguez Arribas (Warburg Institute), Petra Schmidl (Bonn), Johannes Thomann (Zürich), Flora Vafea (Cairo) and Koenraad van Cleepoel (CNHS, Bruxelles). Registration required £40 two days/£20 one day (£25/£12.50 concessions) Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk Convenor: James Manor (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) Free Email: ics@sas.ac.uk

Friday 25 Registration required Fee applicable Email: manjeet.sambi@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Conference 09:00–18:00 Science Museum, London

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Events calendar April Institute of Classical Studies Colloquium 09:30–17:00 Room G37

Greek warfare colloquium

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Institute of Classical Studies Postgraduate work in progress seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243

Law in Roman Arabia: a reconsideration of the Babatha and Salome Komaise archives

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Institute of English Studies Book history and bibliography research seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 234

Paper, pen and ink: manuscript cultures in early modern England

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Institute of Classical Studies Roman art seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 264

Utility and bravura: supports in Roman marble statues

Institute of Modern Languages Research Tertúlia reading group seminar 18:30–20:30 STB2

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Registration required Free Email: c.kucewicz@ucl.ac.uk

Kimberley Czajkowski (Oxford) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Monday 28 Andrew Gordon (Aberdeen) Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Anna Anguissola (Munich) Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Convenor: Maria-José Homem. Registration required Free Email: maria-jose.homem@sas.ac.uk

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Tuesday 29 Institute of Historical Research Conference / Symposium Tuesday 29–Thursday 1 May 09:00–18:00 Senate House

History after Hobsbawm: a conference on the current trajectories of history

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Trivium

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Director’s work in progress seminar

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A major international conference exploring where the study of history is currently heading. Organised by Birkbeck, University of London. Registration required £160 standard / £100 student Email: manjeet.sambi@sas.ac.uk

Roger Kneebone and Anastasia Bakogianni. The performance paradigm Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 30 Warburg Institute Seminar 14:15–15:15 Warburg Institute

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Christopher Braun Free Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

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‘The School’s extensive and varied range of training programmes are designed to meet the needs of 21st century researchers, offering programmes which enable scholars in the humanities to develop their skills and pursue their studies to maximum effect.’ Rachel Stickland, Registrar

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

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

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

Training in aspects of history, for instance, is extensive, notably in the Institute of Historical Research, which offers a comprehensive programme of short courses in research skills for historians.

Taking advantage of both the unparalleled concentration of historical expertise available in the University of London, and the wealth of archival materials in and round the capital, the Institute’s highly successful courses are widely recognised as the best means of developing and extending both essential and more specialised research skills. The IHR training programme is primarily aimed at postgraduate historians, but also welcomes established historians and independent researchers and writers of all sorts. Further historical skills courses run by the Warburg Institute include classes in medieval and Renaissance Latin for historians, 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 Institute of Modern Languages Research, whose well-established and popular programme, comprising a series of Saturday workshops, is offered to any postgraduate student working in modern languages or a related discipline (for instance, film, or art history).

And the Institute of Musical Research runs a successful national scheme of day schools, aimed at PhD students but also open to those taking masters’ programmes in music, whereby specialist tutors from across the UK provide an insight into current research questions, debates and methodologies across a spectrum of musical research.

Most of the School’s training is available to postgraduate students across the UK, much of it free of charge.

Details of all of the research training courses provided are available from our website: www.sas.ac.uk/supportresearch/ research-training

If you would like to receive a printed copy of our research training and skills handbook, or would like any guidance, please contact us: School of Advanced Study Registry Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU United Kingdom Email sas.registry@sas.ac.uk Phone +44 (0)20 7862 8823/8695

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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.

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

Being Human: a festival of the humanities 15–23 November 2014 CFP deadline: 14 March 2014 Being Human is the first coordinated national festival of the humanities in the UK. Led by the School of Advanced Study, the festival will celebrate the vitality, value, and social relevance of humanities research in 2014, via a national exploration of what it means to be human.

Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy, the festival has made funding available to allow universities, independent research organisations and cultural organisations to bid for support to stage events as part of the festival programme. Small grants of between £2,000-3,000 are being offered to support activities that will foster public engagement with the humanities during the festival. From talks and debates, hackathons, exhibitions, performances, installations, and more – applications are encouraged which respond imaginatively to the challenge of engaging the public with high quality humanities research.

For exceptional events, applications of up to £5,000 will also be considered.

Please submit proposals for events using the online form at www.sas.ac.uk/beinghuman

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12–13 June 2014

National security and public health: exceptions to human rights?

CFP deadline: 14 February 2014

29 May 2014

Since the 1920s, women have been among the most prolific and influential authors of crime fiction. Some of the best-known heroes and anti-heroes of fiction are also women. From pioneers in the genre, such as Anna Katherine Green and the Baroness Orczy, through Golden Age queens of crime, like Agatha Christie (for whom the term was invented), Dorothy L. Sayers and Margery Allingham, to the innovators of the present day, including Sara Peretsky, Val McDermid, and Kate Atkinson, the female of the species has been more deadly than the male.

This conference will address the relationship of gender and genre, past and present, and the known and the unknown. We welcome papers on thematic issues as well as those about individual writers and their creations.

Please send proposals of 300 words for 20-minute papers or 60-minute panels to Jamie Bernthal and Brittain Bright at qoc2014@gmail.com

Fifth Language, Culture and Society in Russian/English Studies Conference 5 August 2014 CFP deadline: 14 February 2014 Organised and sponsored by the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Linguistics and The Journal of Philology.

The conference is devoted to the development of English and Russian studies, lexicography, sociolinguistics, English teaching in Russia, and the History of the Book. Participants will be invited to submit their papers for consideration for publication in a special edition of the Journal of Philology.

Please send proposals of no more than 500 words for 30-minute plenary session papers or 15- to 20-minute working group papers to rector@gaudeamus.ru and jane.roberts@sas.ac.uk

CFP deadline: 14 February 2014 To what extent can – or shall – the protection of the individual be overridden to enable the protection of the general public? Are we actually dealing with ‘exceptions’ to human rights, when national security and public health can arguably be considered as human rights themselves? As practice and case law show that human rights need be protected even when they clash with the protection of national security or public health, is the language of balance the appropriate tool to address this relationship? These are some of the issues that the workshop aims to address in two separate panels respectively dedicated to national security and public health. Contributions from early career academics are encouraged.

Please send proposals of no more than 300 words in the form of title and abstract to Dr Myriam Feinberg at myriam.ap@gmail.com or Dr Laura Niada at l.niada@my.westminster.ac.uk

Adapting Conrad 30 May 2014 CFP deadline: 28 February 2014 Joseph Conrad’s fictions have been adapted for stage, screen, and radio, and have appeared in songs, graphic novels, and art installations.

His work has been adapted by Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Francis Ford Coppola, Bob Dylan, Christopher Hampton, Nicolas Roeg and Conrad himself, who wrote three stage plays and a film treatment based on his own stories. We are looking for contributions to this multidisciplinary conference in the form of either academic papers/panels or something more unusual (such as a performance or presentation of an adaptation of a work by Conrad). We are interested in adaptations of Conrad’s works for any medium, from stage plays to songs. Papers and panels can address any aspect of adapting Conrad’s work, from the effect of Apocalypse Now on Conrad’s reception, to a close-reading of Bob Dylan’s ‘Black Diamond Bay’.

Please send your proposal (no more than one side of A4) to adaptingconrad@gmail.com

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100 Dubliners 31 October – 1 November 2014 CFP deadline: 1 April 2014 2014 sees the 100th anniversary of James Joyce’s first book of fiction, Dubliners. Joyce’s collection of stories was intended as ‘a chapter in the moral history of my country’, and as a ‘nicely polished looking glass’ in which the Irish people could view themselves anew. Dubliners is a landmark in Joyce’s career, and hence in the history of literary modernism and of Irish literature. It is also one of the most influential volumes in the history of the short story form.

The Institute of English Studies will mark the centenary of the book’s publication with a symposium. Papers are invited on any topic related to Dubliners.

The Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) report’s recommendations generate many questions. Will legal education assessment be by the market, ‘traditional’ University law schools, vocational law schools, even venture capitalists? How will such a market driven system impact on academic research?

What is, and what should be, the role of a legal education? Does the emphasis on the market inevitably mean that it will be explicitly tailored to the demands of the profession? The workshop will provide some academic distance from LETR and professions’ and regulators’ responses. It represents an important opportunity to think about some of the issues identified above, and many other aspects of legal education and training and the professions.

Please send proposals of up to 200 words, along with a short biographical note, to j.brooker@bbk.ac.uk (Note: please begin the subject line of your email with the words ‘100 Dubliners’.

Please send proposals of 300 words (and no more than 500 maximum) as an attachment to IALS.WGHart@sas.ac.uk

Six Victorian Popular Fiction Association annual conference: Victorian treasures and trash

Literary London Conference 2014 23–25 July 2014 CFP deadline: 1 March 2014 For our 2014 conference, proposals are invited for papers, comprised panels, and roundtable sessions, which consider any period or genre 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. The main focus of the conference is literary text and representation, but we actively encourage interdisciplinary contributions relating film, architecture, geography, theories of urban space, etc., to literary representations of London. Papers from postgraduate students are particularly welcome for consideration.

Please submit proposals for 20-minute papers, comprised panels and roundtable sessions at www.literarylondon.org/conference/index.html

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8–10 July 2014 CFP deadline: 4 April 2014 The Victorian Popular Fiction Association conference is recognised as an important event on the annual conference circuit and offers a friendly and invigorating opportunity for established academics and postgraduate students to share their current research. We remain committed to the revival of interest in understudied popular writers which is pivotal to the reputation this conference has established.

The organisers invite a broad, imaginative and interdisciplinary interpretation of the topic and its relation to any aspect of Victorian popular literature and culture which might address literal or metaphorical representations of the theme.

Please send proposals of no more than 300 words to Drs. Kirsty Bunting, Janine Hatter and Helena Ifill at vpfamembership@gmail.com

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How to find us Venue Unless otherwise stated, all events are held in the School of Advanced Study within the central University of London precinct in Bloomsbury, central London. Most events take place in or around Senate House or Stewart House (Stewart House room numbers are preceded with ST) which are adjacent. The School takes its responsibility to visitors with special needs very seriously and will endeavour to make reasonable adjustments to facilities to accommodate such needs. If you have a particular requirement, please discuss it confidentially with the event organiser ahead of the event taking place.

Rooms listed in the events brochure are located as follows: Senate House University of London Malet Street London WC1E 7HU Stewart House University of London 32 Russell Square London WC1B 5DN Charles Clore House Institute of Advanced Legal Studies 17 Russell Square London WC1B 5DR The Warburg Institute Woburn Square London WC1H 0AB

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