Events Brochure Oct 2016 - Jan 2017

Events

October | November | December January 2016–17

Hope and Fear: Being Human 2016 Senate House Library exhibition: ‘Utopia and Dystopia’ Plus hundreds of other events highlighting the latest research across the humanities

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

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

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

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Contents Event highlights – timeline

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Events are listed in date and time order. On the left we list the department responsible for organising the event, the time, type of event or series and the venue. On the right we list the event title, speaker(s) and a short description if available. There is further information about highlighted events at the start of the guide, and about research training events and calls for papers at the end. Please check our websites for the latest information or email SAS at sas.events@sas.ac.uk or Senate House Library at senatehouselibrary@london.ac.uk.

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Key Subject area Classics History Philosophy Culture, language and literature Human rights Politics Law Highlights Highlights 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 Institute of Modern Languages Research Institute of Philosophy The Warburg Institute

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

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

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

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

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E H Gombrich lecture series on the classical tradition

The Latin American communities in Britain

By the seaside: the beach 1700-2000

Philip Hardie, senior research fellow and honorary professor of Latin, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, presents three lectures at the Warburg Institute on ‘Celestial Aspirations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century British Poetry and Painting, and the Classical Tradition’.

The first lecture will focus on visions of apotheosis and glory on painted ceilings; the second will address poetic ascents and flights of the mind from Neoplatonism to Romanticism, and the third will consider Miltonic ascents and their reception.

Cathy McIlwaine, professor of geography at Queen Mary University of London, will discuss her research on Britain’s Latin American communities. For more than a decade, McIlwaine has researched low-paid migrant labour and transnational relationships in London, which has resulted in the influential reports No Longer Invisible and Towards Visibility. She is currently working on an ESRC-funded project that explores violence against migrant women in the Brazilian diaspora.

Drawing on new research about the English beach, Allan Brodie and John Cattell (Historic England) will present an evening lecture on the history of the British seaside from 1700 to 2000. They will describe fascinating elements of change in relation to class, leisure, trade and economy, architecture and even the geography of the British beach.

Date: 11, 12, 13 October

Date: 2 November

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Date: 21 November See page 50 for event information

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Katherine Mansfield Society annual birthday lecture 2016 Katherine Mansfield was an impassioned student of the cello before moving towards literary creation. Could the pulse and rhythm of music have influenced her early prose poems? This year’s Katherine Mansfield Society annual birthday lecture, hosted by the Institute of English Studies, will be in the form of a dialogue between words and music, as Professor Claire Davison and cellist Joseph Spooner explore the musical setting and imagination of Katherine Mansfield during her literary apprenticeship years.

Date: 15 October See page 26 for event information

Being Human festival Being Human returns for its third year in 2017, with hundreds of events across the country making humanities research engaging and fun for non-academic audiences. Led

by SAS in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy, the festival is back with a new director, Professor Sarah Churchwell, and a new theme: ‘Hope & Fear’.

Date: 17-25 Novermber See page 47 for event information

Urban belonging: history and the power of place

Mary Fulbrook, professor of German history and dean of the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences at University College London, will discuss her recent research as part of the Miller Memorial Lecture series sponsored by the Martin Miller and Hannah NorbertMiller Trust. She is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including the Fraenkel Prize-winning A Small Town near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust and Dissonant Lives: Generations and Violence through the German Dictatorships. Her new book, Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution, will be published in 2017.

This two-day conference, organised by the Centre for Metropolitan History at the Institute of Historical Research and the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester, will address the forms of belonging that cities have made possible, and how have these changed across time and place; how belonging has been articulated in political discourse, cultural ritual and spatial practice; the ways in which ‘modern’ manifestations of urban belonging and identity differ from ‘pre’ and ‘early modern’ forms; the extent to which forms of urban belonging reflect the workings of categories such as gender, class, nationality, race, and sexuality; how ideologues or organisations have negotiated or rejected the challenges of integrating new communities or ‘outsiders’; and how those deemed to be ‘outsiders’ have responded to attempts to keep them out of the city.

Date: 1 December

Date: 13–14 January

December The personal impact of Nazi persecution

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‘The End of Utopia?’ symposium This one-day symposium will bring together a panel of scholars and academics from a wide range of disciplines to explore whether utopian visions of society are still possible in our time. Cathy Shrank, professor of Tudor and Renaissance literature at the University of Sheffield, will deliver the keynote lecture on the reception and interpretation of Utopia in the 16th and early 17th centuries.

This event is part of a programme accompanying the Senate House Library exhibition ‘Utopia and dystopia: dreaming the future’.

Date: 6 December See page 60 for event information

Institute of Historical Research winter conference: civil wars The Syrian Civil War is now in its sixth year, prompting a consideration of the nature of civil wars in general and the term ‘civil war’ itself. Do civil wars share certain features or is this a term of art that obscures the uniqueness of each separate historical situation?

This conference will question the conceptualisation and language of civil discord.

Date: 20 January See page 71 for event information

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E H Gombrich Katherine Mansfield Doing women’s lecture series on the Society annual legal history classical tradition birthday lecture 26 October2016 11–13 October 2016

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As we approach the centenary in 2019 of women’s admission to Philip Hardie, senior research Katherine Mansfield was an the legal profession in the UK and fellow and honorary professor of impassioned student of the cello Ireland, lawyers and legal scholars Latin, Trinity College, University before moving towards literary have initiated several projects to of Cambridge, will present three creation. But what music did she mark this achievement that aim to lectures at the Warburg Institute on enjoy, and what impact might uncover and recover the history ‘Celestial Aspirations: Seventeenth- this have had on her literary of women’s experiences of law. and Eighteenth-Century British apprenticeship? Could the pulse These include the Women’s Legal Poetry and Painting, and the and rhythm of the music around Landmarks project, the First 100 Classical Tradition’. His first lecture her have influenced her early prose Years project and the First Women will focus on visions of apotheosis poems or provided the themes Lawyers in Great Britain and the and glory on painted ceilings, for later stories? What are we to Empire symposium series. This is from Rubens’ Banqueting House, make of the decidedly fin de siècle a golden age for legal scholars Whitehall, to Thornhill’s Painted musical tastes reflected in her early undertaking historical work on Hall, Greenwich. The second will diaries and notebooks? This year’s women and law and for historians address poetic ascents and flights Katherine Mansfield Society annual working on legal issues. This of the mind from Neoplatonism birthday lecture, hosted by the conference, organised by the to Romanticism, and the third Institute of English Studies, will Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, will consider Miltonic ascents be in the form of a dialogue brings together scholars working and their reception. Hardie’s most between words and music as in the field to share experiences recent books are The Last Trojan Professor Claire Davison and of doing women’s legal history Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil’s cellist Joseph Spooner explore the and to build and develop the Aeneid and Rumour and Renown: musical setting and imagination discipline of feminist legal history.

Representations of Fama in Western of Katherine Mansfield during her Speakers will include June Purvis, Literature. literary apprenticeship years. feminist historian, editor Women’s History Review and convenor of the See pages 23, 24, 25 See page 26 Women’s History Network, and for event information for event information Gillian Murphy of the Women’s Library at the London School of Economics.

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Imagining the Guyanas Rose Hall Estate panel and a reading by Fred D’Aguiar 27 October 2016

Ecologies of memory and movement conference 27 – 29 October 2016 Commemorating the Republic of Suriname’s 40 years of independence, Guyana’s 50 years of independence, and the 70th anniversary of the declaration of la Guyane as a French Département d’Outre-Mer, this three-day conference is sponsored by the 3-G Network’s ‘Celebration of the Guyanas’, a gathering of scholars, authors and activists. It will engage the landscapes of memory as they are intertwined with the politics and ecologies of place and movement. These areas have been scarred by colonization and ethnic violence, their resources plundered at enormous political and ecological costs. How have these changes been articulated within the communities that have moved (voluntarily and involuntarily) to and from these countries?

What strategies of resilience and agency are being implemented? How are these histories remembered, represented, imagined, and re-imagined in the memories and present realities of the peoples and communities living in these countries and the diaspora?

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Journalist Gaiutra Bahadur and authors Cyril Dabydeen and Jan Lowe Shinebourne were born in the Canje District in Berbice, Guyana. They all grew up on, or close to, the Rose Hall Estate and have maintained a strong bond with Guyana through their writing, scholarship and commitment to human rights.

‘Imagining the Guyanas’ provides a rare opportunity for these leading Guyanese intellectuals to discuss the autobiographical narrative, the diasporic existence, the Rose Hall Estate and Guyana as a source of creativity, and the epistemology of belonging. The panel will be followed by a reading and Q&A with Guyanese poet, playwright and novelist Fred D’Aguiar, whose first collection of poetry, Mama Dot (1985), established his reputation as one of the finest British poets of his generation. His first novel, The Longest Memory (1994), won both the David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award; his latest, Children of Paradise (2014), tells the story of a utopian society and explores oppression of both mind and body. His plays include A Jamaican Airman Foresees His Death, performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1991. His poetry collection Continental Shelf (2009) was shortlisted for the 2009 T. S. Eliot Prize. He teaches at UCLA. See page 33 for event information

A celebration of Guyana in poetry and music 28 October 2016 Join four of the best-known Guyanese artists for an evening celebrating the country’s colourful past and present. Three award-winning poets – John Agard, Malika Booker and Grace Nichols – will be joined by noted flautist Keith Waithe playing his distinctive fusion of jazz, classical, African, Caribbean, Asian and Western music. It promises to be an unforgettable 50th birthday party.

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What’s happening in ‘Overstepping History Libraries and Black British history? the boundaries / Research Open Day (V) Transgresser les 15 November 2016 limites’: 21st-century Need some advice on finding 27 October 2016 for your history research women’s writing in resources This workshop, organised by project? This day-long event the Institute of Commonwealth French organised by the Institute of Studies, is the fifth in a biannual series held in London and elsewhere in the UK. It seeks to reveal a Black British history beyond slavery, colonialisation and immigration, one in which people of African heritage are seen not as victims but as active contributors to British history. It fosters dialogue between researchers, teachers, artists, writers, archivists, curators, policy makers, and the public.

Topics of discussion will include Black women writers, recovering and engaging the public with Black British histories and identities, and the teaching of Black British history in schools. The keynote speaker will be Kehinde Andrews of the University of Birmingham.

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28–29 October 2016

This conference, organised by the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing within the Institute of Modern Languages Research, will chart recent trends in contemporary women’s writing in French, focusing in particular on leading developments since the turn of the 21st century. Keynote speakers Dr Siobhán McIlvanney and Prof Shirley Jordan will contextualise contemporary fictional transgressions in women’s writing and consider how the experimental life-writing of two contemporary French practitioners, Annie Ernaux and Christine Angot, repeatedly jostles, oversteps and re-sets boundaries. A reading and Q&A with the innovative French author of graphic novels Aurélia Aurita will focus on the overstepping of boundaries of textual and visual media in contemporary women’s writing in a genre that, despite its growing popularity, has received less attention in women’s writing studies.

Historical Research Library and Senate House Library is an open history fair featuring more than 30 libraries, archives and other research organisations, many of whom are members of the Committee of London Research Libraries in History. Choose from several panel presentations on libraries, archives, digital research and public history and hear from Lawrence Goldman of the Institute of Historical Research, Suzannah Lipscomb of the New College of the Humanities, London, and librarians and archivists from the British Library, the National Archives, and Senate House Library.

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holding our first international event this year at the University of London Institute in Paris.

The 2016 programme features everything from magic lantern shows to a ‘Martian autopsy’, mermaids on the Mersey to the lost cities of Egypt. From Orkney to Dartmoor researchers will be exploring some of the most pressing ‘hopes and fears’ affecting humanity today—including climate change, forced migration, terrorism, and visions of utopia and dystopia—in ways that inspire and fire peoples’ imaginations.

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Some highlights from the varied programme include: • an H G Wells inspired ‘Martian autopsy’ at the University of Dundee, conducted by the UK’s leading forensic anthropologist Professor Sue Black • a vertigo-inducing installation in the North Tower of Newcastle’s Tyne Bridge • stories of child refugee journeys told through music, dance and drama at the V&A Museum of Childhood (London) • an evening with the much-loved children’s author Michael Morpurgo in Swansea The full national programme can be viewed at www.beinghumanfestival.org.

17–25 November 2016 Being Human returns for its third year in 2017, with hundreds of events across the country making humanities research engaging and fun for nonacademic audiences. Led by SAS in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy, the festival is back with a new director, Professor Sarah Churchwell, and a new theme: ‘Hope & Fear’.

Right across the country humanities researchers have responded to the theme with fantastic imagination and creativity. The nine-day festival will bring together activities from more than 70 universities and research organisations, including designated festival hubs in Dundee, Swansea, Leeds, Liverpool, Nottingham, Exeter and of course our own Senate House hub in London.

We are thrilled to be working in partnership with BBC Radio 3 this year on a special festival preview event, and thrilled too to be taking over Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum for a huge ‘FRIGHTFriday’ closing event. As if that wasn’t enough, we are also Events October 2016 – January 2017

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Warburg Institute Open House 18 November 2016 The Warburg Institute’s ‘Opening Doors | Moving Pictures’ event captures the dynamism and openness of the Institute under its new director, David Freedberg.

It will feature engaging seminars

by Guido Giglioni (head of the MA in Cultural and Intellectual History 1300 – 1650) and Joanne Anderson (head of the MA in Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture offered in partnership with the National Gallery). There will be tours of the famous Warburg library, including an introduction to its unique classification and arrangement of material on human culture and expression, and tours of the Aby Warburg archive and photographic collection. The day also features a showing of Judith Wechsler’s film on the life of Aby Warburg and an informational session on studying at the Warburg.

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By the seaside: the beach, 1700–2000 21 November 2016 As part of the Being Human festival, the Institute of Historical Research, in collaboration with Historic England and the Institute of Modern Languages Research, presents an evening lecture on the history of the British seaside from 1700 to 2000.

Drawing on a survey conducted about the English beach, speakers Allan Brodie and John Cattell (Historic England) will describe the fascinating elements of change in relation to class, leisure, trade and economy, architecture and even geography of the British beach. The lecture will be accompanied by an exhibition and display exploring the sights, sounds and smells of the English beach.

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The Archaic necropolis in Faliron Delta 25 November 2016 Dr Stella Chrysoulaki presents a British School at Athens/Institute of Classical Studies public lecture on the rescue excavations at Faliron, which have been carried out since 2012 by the Ephorate of Antiquities of West Attica, Piraeus and Islands on the site of the new Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre. The site was used as a cemetery from the late eighth century BC to the fourth century BC, and finds of vessels and other offerings are contributing to a new understanding of the archaic pottery of Attica. In March 2016, a group of 80 skeletons with iron bonds on their wrists were discovered and subsequently dated to the seventh century BC. Anthropological study of this group will throw light on a turbulent time in Athens’ history.

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Institute of Historical Research winter conference: civil wars 20 January 2017 The Syrian Civil War is now in its sixth year, prompting a consideration of the nature of civil wars in general and the term ‘civil war’ itself. Is it a helpful label when considering events as different as the English and French Revolutions (both of which have been called civil wars), the American Civil War of the 1860s, the Russian Civil War after the 1917 Revolution, and the events in Spain in the 1930s? Do civil wars share certain features or is this a term of art that obscures the uniqueness of each separate historical situation? This conference will question the conceptualisation and language of civil discord.

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Chandaria Lecture Series 18, 21 and 25 October 2016 Andy Clark Chair in Logic and Metaphysics, The University of Edinburgh This year’s Chandaria Lecture series, hosted by the Institute of Philosophy, will feature Andy Clark, chair in logic and metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh, who will present three talks—‘Prediction Machines’, ‘Busting Out: Two Takes on the Predictive Brain’, and ‘The Future of Prediction’—that explore the fundamental nature of our perceptual contact with the world.

Clark’s research interests include philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence, robotics, artificial life, embodied cognition, and mind, technology and culture.

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‘The Humanities Human rights and Now’ – literature and the news media: the public good an ethic of care?

19 October 2016

20 October 2016

Rick Rylance Director of the Institute of English Studies

Judy MacGregor Professor of human rights and head of the School of Social Sciences and Public Policy, Auckland University of Technology

To celebrate the launch of Professor Rylance’s new book, Literature and the Public Good, Oxford University Press and the School of Advanced Study will host a discussion on ‘The Humanities Now’. Leading figures from the humanities, policy and publishing sectors will ponder why the humanities, so strong in Britain in reality, are perceived to be in retreat. Chaired by Sir Adrian Smith, the event will include audience discussion followed by a reception.

Professor Rylance was previously CEO of the Arts and Humanities Research Council and chair of Research Councils UK. His research interests include the history of psychology and reading and the brain. He is currently writing the Oxford English Literary History volume covering the period 1930-1970.

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A human rights expert, Professor McGregor was the first equal employment opportunities commissioner with the New Zealand Human Rights Commission and is a renowned expert on women’s economic and employment rights. She has worked internationally for the Asia Pacific Forum—with emerging human rights institutions in the Maldives, Nepal, Palestine and Malaysia—and has led media monitoring missions in Timor-Leste and new Pacific states. Professor McGregor has recently completed four research projects on human rights in New Zealand. They showed the country was regressing in areas like child poverty, pay equity and social and economic disadvantages for women. In June she won top prize in the New Zealand Women in Governance Awards.

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What is lived ancient The Latin American religion? communities in Britain 1 November 2016 Joerg Ruepke Deputy Director of the Max Weber Kolleg for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt

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Hamlyn Lecture Series 17 November 2016 Dame Sian Elias Chief Justice of New Zealand

The Rt Hon Dame Sian Elias is the 12th Chief Justice of New Zealand and the first woman to be appointed to that office. In 2003 Professor Ruepke is an she became head of the newly With a background in development internationally renowned authority created New Zealand Supreme geography—mainly in Latin on comparative religion who Court. She started her career America—Costa Rica, El Salvador, has pioneered the application of working first as a solicitor and Colombia and Guatemala social studies perspectives to the then as a barrister in Auckland. study of the Roman world. He is Professor McIlwaine focuses on From 1984 to 1989 she was a the author of more than a dozen issues of gender, poverty and civil member of Law Commission. In books and numerous articles society as well as everyday urban 1988 she was appointed a Queen’s and has led a series of major and gender-based violence. For Counsel, appearing in a number of collaborative projects. He has held more than a decade she has also significant cases, including several visiting positions at the Institute of addressed low-paid migrant labour concerning the Treaty of Waitangi.

Advanced Study at Princeton, at and transnational relationships In 1995, Dame Sian was appointed the Collège de France, at Aarhus in London, which has resulted in Judge of the High Court in University and at the University of the influential reports No Longer Auckland. On 17 May 1999, she was Chicago. In 2008 he was awarded Invisible and Towards Visibility. appointed Chief Justice of New the Gay-Lussac Prize for FrancoShe is currently working on an German Research collaboration Zealand and made a Dame Grand ESRC-funded project that explores Companion of the New Zealand and in 2012 was appointed to the Federal Science Council violence against migrant women Order of Merit. She was appointed (Wissenschaftsrat) of Germany. In his in the Brazilian diaspora. She has a Privy Councillor in 1999 and first talk he will discuss the work of his sat on the Privy Council in 2001. published and edited ten books ERC-funded project ‘Lived ancient The lecture will be chaired by The including Cities, Slums and Gender religion: questioning ‘cults’ and in the Global South and Cross-Border Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC. ‘polis religion’’, which has brought Migration Among Latin Americans. together classicists, Egyptologists, See page 48 sociologists and researchers in for event information

See page 39 religious studies. After his talk for event information there will be responses by Gesine Manuwald (UCL) and Hugh Bowden (KCL), followed by a reception.

Cathy McIlwaine Professor of geography, Queen Mary University of London

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Lachmann today: the debate on the method of textual criticism and its consequences for the history of ancient art 25 November 2016

4th Miller Memorial Lecture: the personal impact of Nazi persecution

How modernism became our classicism: from Mallarmé to Kafka

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Mary Fulbrook, FBA Professor of German history, University College London

Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and comparative literature, University of Pennsylvania

Luca Giuliani Professor of classical archaeology, Humboldt University of Berlin

Mary Fulbrook is professor of German history and dean of the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences at University College Luca Giuliani’s research focuses on forms and functions of ancient London, and serves on the Academic Advisory Board of pictorial narrative, portrait art the Foundation of the former in the field of tension between Nazi concentration camps at depiction and statement, and the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora. history of classical archaeology She is the author or editor of and of archaeological collections. more than 20 books, including He taught at the universities of the Fraenkel Prize-winning A Small Freiburg, Heidelberg and Munich Town near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis before joining the Humboldt University Berlin in 2007. He is also and the Holocaust and Dissonant Lives: Generations and Violence Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin. His books include Image and through the German Dictatorships.

Myth: A History of Pictorial Narrative Her new book, Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution, will in Greek Art. be published in 2017. Sponsored by the Martin Miller and Hannah See page 54 Norbert-Miller Trust. for event information See page 58 for event information

Co-founder and senior curator of the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, Jean-Michel Rabaté is also a managing editor of the Journal of Modern Literature and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2008.

Professor Rabaté has authored or edited 38 books on modernism, psychoanalysis, contemporary art, philosophy, and authors such as Beckett, Joyce and Pound.

His recent publications include Crimes of the Future, The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis and Les Guerres de Derrida. The symposium will examine the history of modernism and the avant-gardes as well as pertinent philosophies of time, historiographical practices and representations of local and world history events. This event is part of the Historical Modernisms symposium organised by the Institute of English Studies.

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Humans and other beings in our classical past Inaugural lecture 14 December 2016 Greg Woolf, FSA Scot, FSA Director of the Institute of Classical Studies Professor Greg Woolf’s research focuses on the history and archaeology of the ancient world at the very large scale. His current projects include books on urbanism and on mobility, and ongoing collaborations on ancient library culture with former colleagues at St Andrews, where he was professor of ancient history.

He is an associated fellow at the Max Weber Kolleg in Erfurt, where he leads a Humboldt Foundationfunded research project into the role of sanctuaries in forming religious experience. Professor Woolf chairs the Council of University Classical Departments and is a member of the British Museum Trustees’ Research Committee. In June 2016 he was elected a member of the Academia Europea.

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The Apotheosis of James I, the central panel of the ceiling by Peter Paul Rubens, Banqueting House, Whitehall, London See page 48 for event information

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Utopia and Dystopia: Dreaming the Future 3 October – 17 December 2016 Senate House Library Malet Street, London

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‘though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties; neither apprehending want himself’

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Free Exhibition 3.10.16 ~ 17.12.16 utopia-and-dystopia/senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

To mark the 500th anniversary of the publication of Thomas More’s Utopia in December 1516, the University of London will mount a thoughtprovoking and exciting exhibition and programme of events in Senate House Library this autumn.

More’s work was hugely influential in Western philosophical and political thought. It coined a new word in the English language—Utopia (nowhere land)—and challenged the foundations of early modern English society by advocating an imaginary republic in which all social conflict and distress have been overcome.

Based primarily in Room 101 and the fourth floor of Senate House, the exhibition draws on the Library’s rich and wide-ranging collections to explore how humankind has dreamed and experimented with the concept of the perfect society. Taking early modern English utopias as a starting point (gallery 1), we trace utopian political movements that emerged in Latin America and Africa in the second half of the 20th century (gallery 2), the philanthropic spirit behind many social and urban reform initiatives in Britain, France and the USA (gallery 3), concepts of utopia in literature (gallery 4) and more recent utopian and dystopian visions in popular culture (gallery 5).

The exhibition is free to enter on a library day pass.

For complete details, please visit the Senate House Library website at senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/ exhibitions-and-events.

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A programme of related events will take place throughout October, November and December. These are free but require booking. Please contact Shl.Whatson@london.ac.uk to register your interest in attending any of the following events.

significance and examining its ideological afterlives in our own times.

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Utopia London (2010), film screening

Game on: vintage computer games of the 1980s and 1990s from the Internet Archive, interactive workshop

Saturday, 8 October, 14:00–17:00

Thursday, 27 October, 11:00–16:00

Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library

Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library

In this hands-on interactive Join film director Tom Cordell in a workshop, participants will be journey through the city he grew able to play vintage computer up in; meet the architects who designed it and the buildings they games from the 1980s and 1990s inspired by the concepts of utopia created. This acclaimed film tells the story of a group of idealists who and dystopia. ‘Sinistar’, ‘Fallout’, ‘Syndicate’, ‘Utopia: the Creation of combined science and art to build a Nation’ and many other classic a city of equal citizens at a time titles depict post-apocalyptic when London was united around worlds full of action and adventure the vision of a better future. Cordell where the player is in control of will introduce the film and lead the the future. Many of these games discussion afterwards, which will be have been preserved by the followed by a drinks reception.

Internet Archive. The workshop will be facilitated by Jane Winters, See page 22 professor of digital humanities at for event information the School of Advanced Studies, University of London.

‘Looking Backward/Looking Forward: Utopian Literature’, lecture Thursday, 13 October, 18:00–19:00 Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library Matthew Beaumont, professor of English at University College London, will sketch the history of utopian and dystopian fiction, especially since the height of its popularity in the late 19th century, exploring its literary and political Events October 2016 – January 2017

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The City (1939), film screening Thursday, 10 November, 18:00–19:30

with the superior social and physical conditions that can be provided in a planned community.

The film was the idea of Catherine Bauer, an urban planner and public housing advocate. It was directed and photographed by Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke. Aaron Copland wrote the musical score and Morris Carnovsky provided the narration. Maria Castrillo, head of Special Collections and Engagement at Senate House Library, will introduce the film and lead the discussion afterwards.

See page 43 for event information

‘Hope and Fear in London’, street arts workshop Friday-Saturday, 18–19 November, 9:00–17:00 Senate House This arts workshop will bring a group of young people into London’s central educational hub, encouraging them to engage with humanities researchers in Senate House Library and the Centre for Metropolitan History at the School of Advanced Study. The aim of the two-day workshop is to create a canvas mural with guidance from James Titchnert (AeroArts), a London-based street artist, which visualises their hopes and fears about living in London.

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Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library The City is a pioneering short documentary film from 1939 that contrasts the problems of the contemporary urban environment 15

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become identified as the classic precursor of the modern argument for communism as the solution to Tuesday, 6 December, mankind’s most essential woes. This Wednesday, 23 November, 10:00–17:00 talk will sketch the main themes and 18:00–20:00 Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, context of Utopia, suggesting that Senate House Library Senate House Library to modern readers More presents a Join us for an evening of activities This one-day symposium will bring highly ambiguous, even ‘dystopian’ portrait of an ‘ideal society’. It then evoking Latin American utopias together a panel of scholars and traces the development of the from the 1970s. Featuring ‘Utopia academics from a wide range of utopian idea across the centuries and Dystopia: Dreaming the Future’, disciplines to explore whether to the present. It will ask what an exhibition displaying ephemera utopian visions of society are still relevance, if any, More’s central related to Latin American political possible in our time. Cathy Shrank, themes have to the modern reader, and socioeconomic utopian ideas professor of Tudor and Renaissance and suggest that in its warnings and dystopian developments, literature at the University of about the effects of machinery upon the event will also include Sheffield, will deliver the keynote humanity and in its varied visions of screenings of digitised images lecture on the reception and global environmental catastrophe, and video clips, food tastings and interpretation of Utopia in the the dystopian tradition offers later music. Participants will be able to 16th and early 17th centuries. modern readers a stark warning meet members of UK solidarity Other confirmed speakers include about our possible future. The event movements working with Latin Professor Keith Somerville (Institute will be followed by a drinks reception.

American countries—including of Commonwealth Studies and See page 63 Chile, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Kent University), Dr Johan Siebers for event information Venezuela—and learn about the (Institute of Modern Languages political utopias that have emerged Research), Dr Clare Launchbury from these countries since the 1970s (Institute of Modern Languages and which have inspired many Research/Institute of Historical abroad. For this event, please book Research), and Alessandro Scafi online at beinghumanfestival.org.

(Warburg Institute).

‘Latin American Utopias’, in-conversation event

See page 52 for event information The Friends of Senate House Library book club: Coming Up for Air by George Orwell Wednesday, 30 November, 18:30–20:00 Durning-Lawrence Library, Senate House Join us for an exploration of George Orwell’s novel Coming Up for Air (1938) with D J Taylor, author of Orwell: The Life. Coming Up for Air is the story of one man’s attempt to recapture the innocence of his childhood as war looms on the horizon.

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‘The End of Utopia?’, symposium

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‘Utopia at 500: A Final Reckoning?’, closing keynote lecture Thursday, 8 December, 18:00–19:30 Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library Gregory Claeys, professor of the history of political thought at Royal Holloway, will deliver the closing keynote lecture of the Library’s Utopia season. Published in 1516, Thomas More’s Utopia has come to signify attempts to reform society in a dramatic, radical and substantial manner. Thanks to the influence of Karl Marx in the 20th century, it has Events October 2016 – January 2017

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Radical Voices January-March 2017 Senate House Library Senate House Library boasts one of the country’s most comprehensive collections of material related to radical movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. This exhibition features highlights from the collection, shedding light not only on enormously influential but subsequently neglected figures, campaigns and organisations, but also on the University of London’s own institutional history. It focuses on the means of expressing ideas for change and reform, celebrating the actual radical voices that advocated for societal improvement. Items in the exhibition will include suffragette badges, exam papers, school lessons, lectures, ephemera, legislation, poetry, posters, songs and music.

A series of related events accompanies the exhibition: 19 January – Film: Storm Centre (1956), Bette Davis as a censorship-fighting librarian 17 February – Radical Walking: protest, dissent, and crossing urban boundaries conference 3 March – Radical Collections: radicalism and libraries and archives conference

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Dates to be confirmed for an evening with Ron Heisler sponsored by the Friends of Senate House Library; sound installations; a screening of Spirit of ’45 (2013), Ken Loach’s passionate portrayal of the Labour Party’s historical electoral victory in 1945; and Radical Voices Aloud: a concert of socialist and radical music.

For complete details, please visit senatehouselibrary.ac.uk.

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The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Art, history and neuroscience: the work of art in the age of digital reproducibility An encore presentation of the 2016–17 Cambridge University Slade Lectures David Freedberg, director of the Warburg Institute 14 October

The painter without hands: phantom limbs and the history of art

20 October

Compassion and canonicity: humanism and the fear of science

27 October The work of art in the age of digital reproducibility: Walter Benjamin and Aby Warburg 3 November Real and banal empathy: movement and feeling 18 November The bear and the marionettes: automaticity and innocence 24 November Lip-synch lessons: sight, sound and touch 1 December Inhibition and judgement: the paradox of disinterest (16:30 start)

Natural piety: sensation and reflection (18:00 start) All lectures begin at 17:30 at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, unless otherwise noted.

All are free and open to the public. Please book a place at http://bit.ly/2bFiKS1.

The Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London

History Now and Then Six public discussions of current issues related to the study of the past, chaired by Daniel Snowman 5 October

2 November

7 December

11 January

8 February

8 March

The Rhodes statue and beyond Panel: Martin Daunton, Margot Finn, Jinty Nelson, David Starkey History and change Panel: Margaret MacMillan, Rana Mitter, Andrew Roberts, Gareth Stedman Jones The focus of history Panel: Maxine Berg, Jerry Brotton, Richard Drayton, Chris Wickham Lessons from the past Panel: Jeremy Black, Taylor Downing, Ian Mortimer, Lucy Riall History and religion(s) Panel: Felicity Heal, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Miri Rubin, Brian Young The future of the past Panel: Caroline Barron, Anne Curry, Charlotte Roueché, Jane Winters

All talks begin at 6pm in the Wolfson Conference Suite, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street. Each will last for approximately 90 minutes, followed by refreshments.

Advance registration is required. Tickets are £5 per session or £25 for all six sessions and can be purchased online at bit.ly/historynowandthen.

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Philosophy Culture, language and literature Human rights Politics Law Highlights Highlights

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Monday 03 Warburg Institute Class

Arabic philosophy reading class Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

14:15 - 15:30 Warburg Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

European criminal law seminar: a measure of last resort?

Pre-trial detention decision-making in the EU

14:30 - 18:00

Fair Trials has for the last two years been coordinating research across ten EU Member States examining the practice of judicial decision-making on pre-trial detention.

IALS

Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

London Shakespeare seminar

Seminar

Seminar

Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:15 - 19:00 The Court Room (Senate House) Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30 - 19:30

Neoplatonism study group - Proclus, In Parmenidem Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg

Tuesday 04 Warburg Institute

Latin palaeography

Class

Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

16:15 - 17:30 Warburg Institute of English Studies Walking tour 17:30 - 19:00

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture 18:00 - 19:00 IALS

History of libraries walking tour Alice Ford-Smith (Bernard Quaritch Ltd.) will lead a repeat of last term’s library walk for the History of Libraries seminar: ’London 1708: a walk into library history’. £10 www.eventbrite.co.uk | iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Open access online to ‘The Global History of the Common Law’: prototype demonstration and discussion Jules Winterton, director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, and Graham Greenleaf AM, professor of law and information systems, University of New South Wales; co-director, Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII); Asia-Pacific editor, Privacy Laws and Business International Report.

Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 18:00 - 20:00 Room G22/26 (Senate House) 20

ICS and Friends of the British School at Athens ‘Tyrants and temples: an introduction to Greek Sicily’ Peter Higgs (British Museum) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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Wednesday 05 Warburg Institute Class 12:00 - 13:30

Classical Greek reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Historical Research

History Now and Then: the Rhodes statue and beyond

Wolfson Room NB01 (Senate House)

How far can or should history be rewritten to accommodate contemporary values? The panel will consider the pros and cons of ‘apology’. Have some aspects of history become unacceptable even to discuss?

Chair: Daniel Snowman; panel: Martin Daunton, Margot Finn, Jinty Nelson, David Starkey

Institute of English Studies

Ezra Pound Cantos reading group

Lecture 18:00 - 19:30

Seminar

£5 per session or £25 for all six sessions | Free for Friends of the IHR ihr.events@sas.ac.uk Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00 - 20:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

Thursday 06 Institute of Classical Studies

ICS ancient history seminar

16:30 - 18:30

‘Volcanically-induced Nile flood failure, social unrest and suppression of interstate conflict in Ptolemaic Egypt’ Joseph Manning (Yale) and Francis Ludlow (Dublin)

Room 349 (Senate House)

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

How well does plain language work? A legislative perspective

Seminar

Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Seminar

Speaker: Jeffrey Barnes, senior lecturer in law, La Trobe University, Australia

18:00 - 19:00 IALS

Friday 07 Warburg Institute Reading Group 13:00 - 14:30

Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30 - 18:30

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar Welcome event in second floor lift lobby, Senate House Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Senate House

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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00 - 20:00

IALS legal history seminar: ‘The new historical jurisprudence’ Organised in association with the London legal history seminar Markus Dubber (University of Toronto) Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

IALS Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00 - 20:00

London Beckett seminar Dr Mark Byron (University of Sydney) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Room 243 (Senate House)

Saturday 08 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium

Dickens’s days: heritage, celebrations and anniversaries £35 standard | £30 speakers and retired | £25 students iesevents@sas.ac.uk

09:30 - 17:30 Room G22/26 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 11:00 - 13:00

London Modernism seminar Alex Davis Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 14:00 - 16:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

Early modern philosophy and the scientific imagination seminar (EMPHASIS) ‘Francis Bacon in Poland: reading the New Organon in Protestant Europe’ Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Senate House Library

Utopia London (2010)

Film screening

Tom Cordell, film director, will introduce the film and lead a discussion afterwards.

14:00 - 17:00

Free Shl.Whatson@london.ac.uk

Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library

Monday 10 Institute of Modern Languages Research Project launch 14:00 - 18:00

Cross-language dynamics: reshaping communities Launch of the OWRI research project Venue: University of Manchester; times and details to be confirmed Free catherine.davies@sas.ac.uk

University of Manchester Warburg Institute Class

Arabic philosophy reading class Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00 - 18:00

Process philosophy Johan Siebers (IMLR) Registration required Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30 - 18:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies

ICS ancient philosophy seminar ‘The real Euthyphro dilemma, solved’ Nick Denyer (Cambridge) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

ICS ancient literature seminar

17:15 - 19:00

‘Genealogies of knowledge: new digital approaches to the study of translations into Latin and Arabic’ Peter Pormann (Manchester)

Room 349 (Senate House)

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Latin American Studies

Latin American anthropology seminar series

Seminar

Seminar 17:30 - 19:30

‘A politics of indiscipline: anthropology from and of Latin America’ Inaugural lecture by Sian Lazar (University of Cambridge) Free ainhoa.montoya@london.ac.uk

Room G26 (Senate House) Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30 - 19:30

Neoplatonism study group - Proclus, In Parmenidem Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg

Tuesday 11 Warburg Institute Class 16:15 - 17:30

Latin palaeography Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Warburg Institute Lecture 17:30 - 19:30 Warburg

Visions of apotheosis and glory on painted ceilings: from Rubens’ Banqueting House, Whitehall, to Thornhill’s Painted Hall, Greenwich E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series 2016—Celestial aspirations: seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British poetry and painting, and the classical tradition Philip Hardie (Cambridge) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of English Studies Seminar

Medieval manuscripts seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:30 - 19:15 Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies

Wednesday 12 Warburg Institute Class 12:00 - 13:30

Hebrew reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Warburg Institute Lecture 17:30 - 19:30 Warburg

Poetic ascents and flights of the mind: Neoplatonism to Romanticism E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series 2016—Celestial aspirations: seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British poetry and painting, and the classical tradition Philip Hardie (Cambridge) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:00 - 20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

The Belgian exile press in Britain during the First World War: transnational, cross-cultural and yet unique Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Christophe Declercq (London/Antwerp) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Latin American Studies

Andean Studies seminar

Seminar

Free mark.thurner@sas.ac.uk

18:00 - 20:00

Information andeanstudiesseminarilas.blogs.ac.uk

Convenor: Mark Thurner

Room 104 (Senate House) Institute of Commonwealth Studies Lecture 18:30 - 20:00

Memorial 2007 inaugural lecture ‘Revitalising the African hinterland’

by Lord Boateng Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

The Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)

Thursday 13 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30 - 18:30

ICS ancient history seminar ‘From ecology to economy: ancient forests and Rome’ Robyn Veal (Cambridge) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Room 349 (Senate House)

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Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00 - 19:00

CenSes seminar Part of the Rethinking the Sense project funded by the AHRC Free info.rts@sas.ac.uk

Room 246 (Senate House) Warburg Institute

‘No middle flight’: Miltonic ascents and their reception

17:30 - 19:30

E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series 2016—Celestial aspirations: seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British poetry and painting, and the classical tradition Philip Hardie (Cambridge)

Warburg

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Senate House Library

Looking backward/looking forward: utopian literature

Lecture

Lecture 18:00 - 19:00

Matthew Beaumont (University College London) Free Shl.Whatson@london.ac.uk

Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library Institute of Latin American Studies

LAGLOBAL seminar

Seminar

Free mark.thurner@sas.ac.uk

18:00 - 20:00

Information laglobal.blogs.sas.ac.uk

Convenor: Mark Thurner

Room 243 (Senate House)

Friday 14 Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference 10:00 - 18:00

‘Have you heard?’ Navigating the interstices between public and private knowledge 2016 MHRA PG / ECR conference Registration fee jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Room G34 (Senate House) Warburg Institute Reading Group 13:00 - 14:30

Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30 - 18:30 Room 246 (Senate House)

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar ‘The theory of the two equalities and its application to politics in Isocrates’ Maria Gisella Giannone (Exeter) Free postgradwip@gmail.com

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Warburg Institute Lecture 17:30 Warburg

The painter without hands: phantom limbs and the history of art Art, history and neuroscience: the work of art in the age of digital reproducibility— an encore presentation of the 2016–17 Cambridge University Slade Lectures David Freedberg (Warburg Institute) Free; registration required http://bit.ly/2bFiKS1

Institute of Latin American Studies

Seminar on Cuban art and culture

Seminar

Free admin@cuba-solidarity.org.uk

Organised by Cuba Solidarity Campaign

18:00 - 20:30 The Senate Room (Senate House)

Saturday 15 Institute of English Studies Seminar 14:00 - 18:00 The Court Room (Senate House)

Annual Katherine Mansfield society birthday lecture: the musical world of Katherine Mansfield Claire Davison (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), Joseph Spooner (cellist) £20 non-members | £15 KM Society and IES members | £15 concessions and students iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Monday 17 Warburg Institute Class 14:15 - 15:30

Arabic philosophy reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:15 - 19:00 Room 349 (Senate House) Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30 - 19:30

ICS ancient literature seminar ‘St Jerome on the best way of translating’ Daniel Hadas (KCL) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Neoplatonism study group - Proclus, In Parmenidem Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00 - 20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

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Comparative Modernisms seminar ‘Ghostmodernism’ Stephen Ross (University of Victoria) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Tuesday 18 Warburg Institute Class 16:15 - 17:30

Latin palaeography Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30 - 19:30 Room G34 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:30 - 20:00 Room G22/26 (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy

Contemporary cultures of writing seminar ‘Negotiated truths’ Anna Derrig (Goldsmiths), Sarah Law Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Accordia Lecture ‘The past for the people: presenting the archaeology of Italy to the general public’ Lucy Shipley (National University of Ireland, Galway) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

The Chandaria Lectures 2016 | Lecture 1

18:00 - 19:30

This year’s Chandaria Lecture Series will feature Andy Clark, chair in logic and metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh. First of three lectures: ‘Prediction Machines’

The Senate Room (Senate House)

Free IP@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Literary London reading group

Lecture

Seminar

Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00 - 19:30 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00 - 20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Wednesday 19 Warburg Institute Class 12:00 - 13:30

Media history seminar ‘Psychotechnographies: why all machines are writing machines’ Steve Connor (Cambridge) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Classical Greek reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 12:00 - 14:00

Artificial intelligence: oh, really? And why judges and lawyers are central to the way we live now Stephen Mason (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 15:30 - 18:00 Room G22/26 (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00 - 18:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Discussion 17:00 - 19:00 Room 243 (Senate House) Warburg Institute Reading Group

ICS Mycenaean seminar ‘Nuances of metal vessel usage in the Mycenaean political world’ Stephanie Aulsebrook (Cambridge) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

London aesthetics forum The London Aesthetics Forum is generously sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Ana Luisa Amaral and Margaret Jull Costa (II) Part of the ‘Encounters: Writers and Translators in Conversation’ This event is sponsored by the Camões Centre for Portuguese Language and Culture at King’s College London Free cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk

Warburg-UCL Scholasticism reading group Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30 - 18:30 Warburg Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:30 - 19:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar

ICS classical archaeology seminar ‘Revisiting Taxila: a new approach to the archaeological record of Gandhara’ Marike van Aerde (Leiden) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

London Old and Middle English research seminar (LOMERS) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:30 - 19:30 Room G35 (Senate House) Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 18:00 - 20:00

The business relationship Kindly organised by Canning House Dr Rory Miller Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Room G34 (Senate House) School of Advanced Study Discussion, book launch 18:30 - 20:00 Beveridge Hall (Senate House)

The Humanities Now – Literature and the Public Good To celebrate the launch of Literature and the Public Good by Rick Rylance, director of the Institute of English Studies, Oxford University Press and the School of Advanced Study will host a discussion on ‘The Humanities Now’. Leading figures from the humanities, policy and publishing sectors will discuss why the humanities, so strong in Britain in reality, are perceived to be in retreat. Chaired by Sir Adrian Smith, the event will include audience discussion followed by a reception.

Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

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Thursday 20 Institute of Modern Languages Research Workshop 13:00 - 19:00 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30 - 18:30 Room 349 (Senate House)

Jüdin und Moderne Recent research: Auguste Auschner, Elsa Bernstein, Mascha Kaléko, Gertrud Kolmar, Alice Rühle-Gerstel, Else Lasker-Schüler and Grete Meisel-Hess An OWRI ‘Translingual Communities’ research project workshop Registration fee jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

ICS ancient history seminar ‘Hares, hounds and snares: tracking the hunt in Rome’s north-west provinces’ John Pearce (KCL) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Modern Languages Research

Cities in theory reading group

Workshop

Free claire.launchbury@sas.ac.uk

A regular informal reading group organised as part of Cities@SAS

17:00 - 19:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Warburg Institute

Compassion and canonicity: humanism and the fear of science

17:30

Art, history and neuroscience: the work of art in the age of digital reproducibility— an encore presentation of the 2016–17 Cambridge University Slade Lectures David Freedberg (Warburg Institute)

Warburg

Free; registration required http://bit.ly/2bFiKS1

Institute of Modern Languages Research

The breasts of Tiresias

Lecture

Lecture 17:30 - 20:00

This event on the prose writings of the French poet Apollinaire features Professor Peter Read from Canterbury University.

Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Room G22/26 (Senate House) Institute of Latin American Studies

Ruben Dario

Seminar

Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

In collaboration with the Embassy of Nicaragua and Canning House

18:00 The Senate Room (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00 - 19:00 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00 - 20:00 Room 104 (Senate House)

Ministry of Information project seminar ‘Biff Bang Pow! The Commercial Artists Group, war artists and illustrators and the Ministry of Information’ This seminar is part of the Ministry of Information project.

Tony Rich (independent researcher) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Irish studies seminar ‘Ireland’s criminal conversation: a legal suit and its reform’ Diane Urquhart (Liverpool) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Commonwealth Studies Lecture 18:30 - 20:30 The Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Seminar

Human rights and the news media: an ethic of care?

Organised by the NZ-UK Link Foundation in collaboration with SAS and the Human Rights Consortium Judy MacGregor is professor of human rights and head of the School of Social Sciences and Public Policy at Auckland University of Technology. She was the first equal employment opportunities commissioner with the New Zealand Human Rights Commission and is a widely respected expert on women’s economic and employment rights.

Free; registration requested nzuk_hrc_media_201016.eventbrite.co.uk

London theatre studies seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:30 - 20:30 Room 103 (Senate House) School of Advanced Study

Silent cinema: scoring and screening F. Scott Fitzgerald

19:00 - 20:30

An evening of jazz, literature and the ‘language’ of silent cinema. Join two F. Scott Fitzgerald experts in the magnificent setting of Charles Holden’s Art Deco masterpiece Senate House for an introduction to the jazz age.

The Senate Room (Senate House)

Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Special event

Friday 21 Warburg Institute Reading group 13:00 - 14:30

Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Classical Studies

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar

16:30 - 18:30

‘Two twentieth-century adaptations of Sophocles’ Antigone: between politics and war’ Rossana Zetti (Edinburgh)

Room 246 (Senate House)

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Institute of English Studies

London-Paris Romanticism seminar—launch event

Seminar

Seminar 17:30 - 20:30

‘De l’Allemagne with love: English bards and European theorists’ Christoph Bode (LMU Munich) Opening reception with special guest Marc Porée (Paris)

Room G35 (Senate House)

This seminar series is hosted jointly by the Institute of English Studies and the Institute of Modern Languages Research.

Institute of Philosophy

The Chandaria Lectures 2016 | Lecture 2

Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00 - 19:30

This year’s Chandaria Lecture Series will feature Andy Clark, chair in logic and metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh. Second of three lectures: ‘Busting Out: Two Takes on the Predictive Brain’

Room 349 (Senate House)

Free IP@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of English Studies Seminar

Charles Peake Ulysses seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00 - 20:00 Room G34 (Senate House) School of Advanced Study Special event 18:00 - 20:00 The Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)

Saturday 22 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium 10:30 - 17:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Salon Voltaire at Senate House Join us for an evening soirée at the Senate House Salon Voltaire! Inspired by the Cabaret Voltaire that launched the Dadaist movement in 1916, this evening of performances, talks, readings, food and drink will feature everything from Hungarian poetry to musique concrète.

Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Poetics and metonymy conference: poetics of the metonym with reference to city poetry Speakers: Mary Coghill (IES, SAS): ‘Formalist poetics: towards a theory of a city poetic with special reference to the definition and use of the metonym’; Gareth Farmer (Bedfordshire): ‘Metonymy and post-mimesis’; Dominic Lash (Bristol) : ‘Constraining truths: JH Prynne on metonymy and metonymy in JH Prynne’; Jeannette Littlemore (Birmingham): ‘The communicative effects of metonymy in real-world settings’; Sebastian Matzner (KCL): ‘Metonymia at Aulis’; Qiauyun Peng (Glasgow): ‘The “Paris” imagery in Mayakovsky’s poetry–metropolis, love and revolution’; Sarah Wardle (Middlesex, Morley College, WEA): ‘Poetry and metonymy: writing the city’ Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Monday 24 Warburg Institute Class 14:15 - 15:30

Arabic philosophy reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Modern Languages Research

Process philosophy

Seminar

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

Johan Siebers (IMLR)

16:00 - 18:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies

ICS ancient philosophy seminar

16:30 - 18:30

‘Socrates’ myth and Odysseus’ tales: on the allusion to the Odyssey at “Republic” X, 614b2-4’ Nicolo Benzi (UCL)

Room 246 (Senate House)

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies

ICS ancient literature seminar

Seminar

‘The limits of translation in Cicero’ Gina White (Princeton/CEU Budapest)

Seminar

17:15 - 19:00 Room G22 (Senate House)

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30 - 19:30

Neoplatonism study group - Proclus, In Parmenidem Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Refugee Law Initiative Seminar 18:00 To be confirmed

‘One protocol yet to be drafted’? What treaty law can and cannot do to advance refugee protection Jean-Francois Durieux (Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study) Part of the 7th International Refugee Law Seminar Series addressing the theme of ‘Protection in the context of large-scale movements of refugees and migrants’.

The International Refugee Law Seminar Series provides a public space for discussion, promotion and dissemination of research between academics, practitioners, students and others with an interest in the refugee and forced migration field.

Free susan.reardon-smith@london.ac.uk

Tuesday 25 Warburg Institute Class 16:15 - 17:30

Latin palaeography Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:30 - 19:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar The Centre for Logic and Language hosts this regular seminar series, which generally meets fortnightly in term time.

Free corine.besson@sas.ac.uk

The Chandaria Lectures 2016 | Lecture 3

18:00 - 19:30

This year’s Chandaria Lecture Series will feature Andy Clark, chair in logic and metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh. Third of three lectures: ‘The Future of Prediction’

Room 349 (Senate House)

Free IP@sas.ac.uk

Lecture

Wednesday 26 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Doing women’s legal history Registration fee Belinda.Crothers@sas.ac.uk

Conference / Symposium 10:00 - 17:00 IALS Warburg Institute Class 12:00 - 13:30

Hebrew reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

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School of Advanced Study Conference / Symposium Senate House

Thursday 27

Imagining the Guyanas / ecologies of memory and movement This three-day conference engages the landscapes of memory as they are intertwined with the politics and ecologies of place and movement.

Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Commonwealth Studies

What’s happening in Black British history? (V)

Workshop

Information blackbritishhistory.co.uk/2016/whbbh5-agenda

Registration fee £10 | £20 olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

10:00 - 18:15 Wolfson Conference Suite Senate House Library Workshop 11:00 - 16:00 Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30 - 18:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy Seminar

Game on: vintage computer games of the 1980s and 1990s from the Internet Archive The event will be facilitated by Jane Winters, School of Advanced Study.

Free Shl.Whatson@london.ac.uk

ICS ancient history seminar ‘“Pagan animism” and its ecological impact’ Ailsa Hunt (Cambridge) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

CenSes seminar Free info.rts@sas.ac.uk

17:00 - 19:00 Room G34 (Senate House) School of Advanced Study Panel discussion, reading 17:00 The Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)

Rose Hall Estate panel and a reading by Fred D’Aguiar Journalist Gaiutra Bahadur and authors Cyril Dabydeen and Jan Lowe Shinebourne were born in the Canje District in Berbice, Guyana. They all grew up on, or close to, the Rose Hall Estate and have maintained a strong bond with Guyana through their writing, scholarship and commitment to human rights. ‘Imagining the Guyanas’ provides a rare opportunity for these leading Guyanese intellectuals to discuss the autobiographical narrative, the diasporic existence, the Rose Hall Estate and Guyana as a source of creativity, and the epistemology of belonging.

The panel will be followed by a reading and Q&A with Guyanese poet, playwright and novelist Fred D’Aguiar.

Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 17:15 - 19:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Politische Klassik: zur Literatur-und Ideengeschichte des politischen Denkens in Weimar um 1800 English Goethe Society lecture Gerhard Lauer (Göttingen) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

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Warburg Institute Lecture 17:30 Warburg

The work of art in the age of digital reproducibility: Walter Benjamin and Aby Warburg Art, history and neuroscience: the work of art in the age of digital reproducibility— an encore presentation of the 2016–17 Cambridge University Slade Lectures David Freedberg (Warburg Institute) Free; registration required http://bit.ly/2bFiKS1

Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 17:30 - 19:30 Room 234 (Senate House)

Latin American anthropology seminar series ‘Off/on the map and beyond: recalibrating Lima’s art scene and the networking of Latin America’ Giuliana Borea (ILAS) Free ainhoa.montoya@london.ac.uk

Institute of Commonwealth Studies

History on Film series 2016

Film screening

Free shihan.desilva@sas.ac.uk

In collaboration with SOAS

17:30 - 20:30 Room G22/26 (Senate House) Institute of Latin American Studies

LAGLOBAL seminar

Seminar

Free mark.thurner@sas.ac.uk

18:00 - 20:00

Information laglobal.blogs.sas.ac.uk

Convenor: Mark Thurner

Room 104 (Senate House)

Friday 28 Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference / Symposium 09:30 - 18:00 Room 349 (Senate House) Warburg Institute Reading group 13:00 - 14:30

Overstepping the boundaries: 21st-century women’s writing in French 2016 CCWWF Conference Organisers: Kate Averis (ULIP) and Eglė Kačkutė (Vilnius) Registration fee cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk

Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Codification: a civil law solution to a common law conundrum?

Workshop

Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

IALS Law Reform Project workshop

14:00 - 17:15 IALS

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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30 - 18:30 Room 246 (Senate House)

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar Foreign gods in local coinage: religious convergence in Greek Sicily José Miguel Puebla Morón (Madrid) Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Institute of English Studies

London nineteenth-century studies seminar

Lecture

‘Oscar Wilde and liberal politics: the Eighty Club and the trials of 1895’ Joseph Bristow (UCLA)

17:00 – 18:30 Room G35 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Book launch 18:30 - 21:30

Free IESEvents@sas.ac.uk Book launch: Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), edited by Joseph Bristow and Josephine McDonagh Free IESEvents@sas.ac.uk

Room G34 (Senate House) Institute of Commonwealth Studies

History on Film series 2016

Film screening

Free shihan.desilva@sas.ac.uk

In collaboration with SOAS

17:30 Room G22/26 (Senate House) School of Advanced Study Special event 18:00 The Chancellor’s’ Hall (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar

A celebration of Guyana in poetry and music Come and listen to three award-winning poets – John Agard, Malika Booker and Grace Nichols – whose lively work moves from a newly independent Guyana to a postcolonial Britain. Alongside them is noted flautist Keith Waithe, playing his distinctive fusion of jazz, classical, African, Caribbean, Asian and Western music. £7 | £5 for conference delegates kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Finnegans Wake Seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00 - 20:00 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference / Symposium 18:00 - 21:00 The Macmillan Hall (Senate House)

Saturday 29 Institute of Classical Studie Lecture

Catalan flavours: Ramon Llull, landscapes and medieval cooking Immerse yourself in the medieval world through the eyes of one of the foremost writers and philosophers of the Middle Ages, Ramon Llull. This public event will celebrate Llull’s legacy by studying his journeys across the Mediterranean, giving us a taste of the history of Catalan medieval cooking.

Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

ICS Virgil Society lecture Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

11:00 - 17:00 Room 349 (Senate House)

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Monday 31 Institute of Philosophy Conference / Symposium

Language and law conference Free IP@sas.ac.uk

09:30 - 18:00 The Senate Room (Senate House) Warburg Institute Class 14:15 - 15:30

Arabic philosophy reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Classical Studies

ICS ancient literature seminar

17:15 - 19:00

‘Did the Greeks of the imperial period ever acknowledge the existence of a “Roman translation project”?’

Daniel Jolowicz (Cambridge)

Room 349 (Senate House)

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute

Neoplatonism study group - Proclus, In Parmenidem

Seminar

Short course 17:30 - 19:30

Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Historical Research Lecture 18:00

‘Keep the damned women out’ : the struggle for coeducation Nancy W. Malkiel (Princeton University) Free ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Wolfson Room NB01 (Senate House) Institute of Commonwealth Studies Other events 19:00 - 20:30

History on Film series 2016 In collaboration with SOAS Film director Markus Rediker Free shihan.desilva@sas.ac.uk

SOAS, Khalili Lecture Theatre

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November Key Subject area Classics History Philosophy

Culture, language and literature Human rights Politics Law Highlights Highlights

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Events calendar November Tuesday 01 Warburg Institute Class 16:15 - 17:30

Latin palaeography Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:00 - 19:00 Room 104 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30 - 19:00 Room 103 (Senate House)

ICS lecture ‘What is lived ancient religion?’

Joerg Ruepke (Erfurt) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

History of libraries ’The private diaries of Robert Proctor’ The bibliographer Robert Proctor kept a private diary for the last four years of his life. From it we gain a picture of his work at the British Museum, his private life with Mother in Oxshott, and his obsession with anything related to William Morris.

John Bowman (formerly UCL) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies Seminar

Book collecting seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00 - 20:00 Room G35 (Senate House)

Wednesday 02 Institute of Classical Studies Workshop

Workshop on ancient sanctuaries Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

02/11/2016 Room 243 (Senate House) Warburg Institute Class 12:00 - 13:30

Classical Greek reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Classical Studies

Teaching and learning about ancient religion seminar (TLAR)

17:00 - 19:00

‘Teaching history of religion by comparing different religions: initiation rituals as a case study’ Elena Franchi (Trento)

Room 246 (Senate House)

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

IHR modern religious history seminar

Seminar

Seminar 17:15 Room N102, Olga Crisp Room (Senate House) 38

‘Gladstone and the Roman Catholic converts’ Roland Quinault (IHR) Free john.maiden@open.ac.uk

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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:30 - 19:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Lecture 18:00 Wolfson Room NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of Modern Languages Research Book launch 18:00 - 20:00

ICS classical archaeology seminar ‘Gandharan sculpture and Roman sarcophagi’ Peter Stewart (Oxford) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

History Now and Then: history and change Is history necessarily the story of change? Who or what creates change? The panel will reflect on the role of ‘great men’ and ‘great women’ in driving historical change.

Chair: Daniel Snowman; panel: Margaret MacMillan, Rana Mitter, Andrew Roberts, Gareth Stedman Jones £5 per session or £25 for all six sessions | Free for Friends of the IHR ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Italian academies and their networks, 1525–1700 Book launch of monograph by Simone Testa: Italian Academies and Their Networks 1525-1700, from Local to Global (New York: Palgrave, 2015) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 18:00 - 20:00 The Senate Room (Senate House)

The Latin American communities in Britain Organised by Canning House Cathy McIlwaine, professor of geography at Queen Mary University of London, will discuss her research on Britain’s Latin American communities.

Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Latin American Studies

Andean Studies seminar

Seminar

Free mark.thurner@sas.ac.uk

18:00 - 20:00

Information andeanstudiesseminarilas.blogs.sas.ac.uk

Convenor: Mark Thurner

Room 234 (Senate House)

Thursday 03 Institute of Historical Research Two-day conference 09:00 - 17:00 Wolfson Conference Suite (Senate House)

Cities and disasters: urban adaptability and resilience in history The Centre for Metropolitan History, in association with the National Institutes for the Humanities in Japan (NIHU) will be holding a major conference on 3-4 November 2016 that seeks to explore the ways in which cities across time and geographical regions have experienced, and been shaped by, natural disasters and other ‘shocks’.

Registration fee ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Modern Languages Research Workshop 10:00 - 20:00 The Court Room (Senate House)

Poesía y crisis / Poetry and crisis Poesía y crisis will gather eight poets at different stages in their literary careers who will read their poetry and share their thoughts on the role of poetry in periods of crisis.

Speakers: Mercedes Cebrián, Fruela Fernández, Luisa Futoranski, Ana Merino, Luis Muñiz, Carlos Pardo, Jenaro Talens and Pablo Valdivia Free Jorge.catala-carrasco@newcastle.ac.uk

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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 12:30 - 13:30 IALS Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30 - 18:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Warburg Institute

IALS lunchtime seminar ‘Modern drafting and the criminal law – does codification work?’

The Hon Justice Mark Weinberg, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia; IALS Inns of Court Fellow Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

ICS ancient history seminar ‘Writing the history of disease in the ancient Mediterranean’ Peregrine Horden (RHUL) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Real and banal empathy: movement and feeling

17:30

Art, history and neuroscience: the work of art in the age of digital reproducibility— an encore presentation of the 2016–17 Cambridge University Slade Lectures David Freedberg (Warburg Institute)

Warburg

Free; registration required http://bit.ly/2bFiKS1

Lecture

Friday 04 Institute of Modern Languages Research Two-day conference 09:00 - 18:00 Room G35 (Senate House) Warburg Institute Reading Group 13:00 - 14:30

French postgraduate conference The London French Postgraduate Conference invites postgraduate researchers from all areas of French Studies to come together in a lively and informal setting, ideal for productive scholarly exchange.

Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Classical Studies

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar

16:30 - 18:30

‘Ekphrasis between Greek and Jewish traditions: Ptolemy’s gifts to the Jerusalem Temple in the Letter of Aristeas’ Max Levanthal (Cambridge)

Room 246 (Senate House)

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

IALS legal history seminar

Seminar

Seminar 18:00 - 20:00 IALS

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‘Banking and society in 19th-century Britain: contemporary perspectives on “socially useless” and “socially useful” banking’ Sarah Wilson (University of York) and Gary Wilson (Nottingham Law School) Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar November Saturday 05 Institute of Modern Languages Research

Reconfiguring black Europe

Workshop

Registration fee jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory Workshop

09:00 – 18:00 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 11:00 - 13:00

London Modernism seminar Nick Gaskill Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 14:00 - 16:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

Early modern philosophy and the scientific imagination seminar (EMPHASIS) Grantley McDonald (University of Vienna): ‘Newton as Nicodemite: the origins and multiple failures of his Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of the Scripture’ Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Monday 07 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 14:00 - 18:30

European criminal law seminar: issues in security and money laundering laws This seminar is organised with the European Criminal Law Association UK. Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

IALS Warburg Institute Class 14:15 - 15:30

Arabic philosophy reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Modern Languages Research

Process philosophy

Seminar

Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

Johan Siebers (IMLR)

16:00 - 18:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30 - 18:30

ICS ancient philosophy seminar ‘Alexander of Aphrodisias on seeing as a relative’ Katerina Ierodiakonou (Geneva) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Room 246 (Senate House)

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Institute of English Studies Seminar

London Shakespeare seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:15 - 19:00 The Senate Room (Senate House)

Tuesday 08 Institute of Philosophy Seminar

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar Free events@sas.ac.uk

17:30 - 19:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Lecture 18:00

London journal lecture Jerry White (Birkbeck College, University of London) Free ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Wolfson Room NB01 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00 - 20:00

Media history seminar Amanda Wrigley (Westminster), John Wyver (Westminster) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Room 243 (Senate House)

Wednesday 09 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 15:30 - 18:00 Room G22/26 (Senate House) School of Advanced Study Seminar 17:00 - 19:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

ICS Mycenaean seminar ‘The early neopalatial palace of Knossos: development and domain’ Colin Macdonald (Athens) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Postcolonial seas research seminar The Centre for Postcolonial Studies continues its Postcolonial Seas research seminar series with a focus on the Caribbean. Peter Hulme (professor emeritus at the University of Essex) will speak on ‘Our womb of history: the Caribbean as postcolonial sea’ Free mark.thurner@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Annual lecture of the Information Law and Policy Centre

18:00 - 19:00

Speaker: Rosemary Jay, senior consultant attorney at Hunton & Williams and former head of the Legal Office of the Data Protection Registrar (now the Information Commissioner), and author of Sweet & Maxwell’s Data Protection Law & Practice.

IALS

Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of English Studies Seminar

Ezra Pound Cantos reading group Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00 - 20:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

Thursday 10 Institute of Historical Research Workshop 09:00 - 17:00 Wolfson Room NB01 (Senate House) Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

City Beaches—Cities @ SAS A one-day workshop on the urban beach Keynote: Lalah Khalili Registration fee ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

IALS lunchtime seminar Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Seminar 12:30 - 13:30 IALS Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00 - 19:00

CenSes seminar Part of the Rethinking the Sense project funded by the AHRC Free info.rts@sas.ac.uk

Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 17:30 - 19:00

‘The pursuit of the whole’: sociogenesis of the male homosexual in German fiction 1890-1921 Peter Morgan (Sydney) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 17:30 - 19:30 Room 234 (Senate House) Senate House Library Film screening 18:00 - 19:30 Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library

Latin American anthropology seminar series ‘Is a non-Bororo man a Mr. Wrong? Exploring gender and kinship through the generation of filmic knowledge’ Flavia Kremer (University of Manchester) Free ainhoa.montoya@london.ac.uk

The City (1939) Maria Castrillo, head of special collections and engagement at Senate House Library, will introduce the film and lead the discussion afterwards.

Free Shl.Whatson@london.ac.uk

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Gender and materiality in Latin American history

Conference / Symposium

Registration fee £10 | £20 Kathryn.Santner@sas.ac.uk

Keynote speaker: James Córdova (University of Colorado at Boulder)

10:00 - 17:30 The Court Room (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference 10:00 – 18:00

Bridges between: intercultural exchange and the modern Nordic world Nordic Research Network Conference Registration fee london@nordicresearchnetwork.co.uk

Rooms 243/246 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 14:00 - 18:00

Emotion and ethics in contemporary women’s travel writing One of the continuing series of cross-cultural seminars from the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing.

Free giorgia.alu@sydney.edu.au

Room 103 (Senate House) Institute of Latin American Studies

The impact of gold mining in Chocó, Colombia

Conference / Symposium

£30 standard | £20 concession ainhoa.montoya@london.ac.uk

Organised by ABColombia

14:00 - 20:00 The Senate Room (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30 - 18:30 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Commonwealth Studies Book launch 17:30 - 19:30 The Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30 - 19:30 Room G35 (Senate House)

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar ‘Back to the past, for a change: Varro, doctor of Roman Salus’ Irene Leonardis (Università Roma Tre/Université Paris 8) Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Amnesty International book launch, Combating Torture: a Manual for Action Organised by Amnesty International with the support of the Human Rights Consortium Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

London-Paris Romanticism seminar ‘Re-collection’s intranquility: romanticism, self-canonization and the business of poetry’ Michael Gamer (Pennsylvania) This seminar series is hosted jointly by the Institute of English Studies and the Institute of Modern Languages Research.

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Institute of English Studies Seminar

Charles Peake Ulysses seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00 - 20:00 Room 104 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00 - 20:00

London Beckett seminar Conor Carville (University of Reading) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Room G22 (Senate House)

Saturday 12 Institute of Classical Studies Workshop 09:00 - 20:00

ICS/British Epigraphy Society workshop Eleanor Robson, Andrew Burnett and others Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Room G22/26 (Senate House)

Monday 14 Warburg Institute Class 14:15 - 15:30

Arabic philosophy reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:15 - 19:00 The Court Room (Senate House) Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30 - 19:30

ICS ancient literature seminar ’Empire without end: Virgil, translation, nationalism and transnationalism’ Susanna Braund (British Columbia) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Neoplatonism study group - Proclus, In Parmenidem Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg

Tuesday 15 Institute of Historical Research Open Day 10:00 Senate House Warburg Institute Class 16:15 - 17:30

History Libraries and Research Open Day A one-day programme ideal for postgraduate students and early career researchers.

Free ihr.library@sas.ac.uk

Latin palaeography Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of English Studies

Contemporary cultures of writing seminar

17:30 - 19:30

‘Bodies politic’ Matthew Green (author) Janet Wolff (University of Manchester)

Room 243 (Senate House)

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Inaugural Kehoe Lecture in Irish history

Seminar

Lecture 18:00

‘Never so simple and clear again: memory, disillusionment and the aftermath of the Irish Revolution’ Professor Roy Foster (University of Oxford)

The Beveridge Hall (Senate House)

Free ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Wordsworth Trust annual lecture

Lecture 18:00 - 19:00 Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House) Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00 - 19:30 IALS Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 18:00 - 20:00 Room G22/26 (Senate House)

Wednesday 16 Warburg Institute Class 12:00 - 13:30

‘Romantic poetry and the existing state of things’ Michael Rossington (Newcastle University) Free; registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

The future of the jury in criminal trials: the problem of jury directions The Hon Justice Mark Weinberg, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia; IALS Inns of Court Fellow Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

ICS and the Friends of the British School at Athens ‘The Minoan distance: Knossos, the Minoans and Sir Arthur Evans in the 20th and 21st centuries AD’ Gerald Cadogan Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Hebrew reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15

IHR modern religious history seminar ‘The United Kingdom as an Ulster-Scottish project: Presbyterianism, literature, and politics in the nineteenth century’ Andrew Holmes (Queen’s, Belfast)

Room N102, Olga Crisp Room (Senate House)

Free john.maiden@open.ac.uk

Warburg Institute

Warburg-UCL Scholasticism reading group

17:30 - 18:30

The group explores scholastic texts and themes on occasional Wednesdays from 5:30 to 6:30 pm at the Warburg Institute (Droz Library). This year readings will be on ‘heaven and earth’.

Warburg

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Reading group

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Institute of Modern Languages Research

‘The enemy must be annihilated’: typography and anti-semitism in the new ‘Mein Kampf’

Lecture

JD Adler (King’s College London)

17:30 - 19:00

Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Room G35 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:30 - 19:30 Room 349 (Senate House)

Thursday 17 Institute of Historical Research Conference / Symposium 09:00 - 17:00 Wolfson Conference Suite (Senate House) School of Advanced Study Festival 09:00 - 20:00 Senate House

ICS classical archaeology seminar ‘Roman art in Eurasian context’ Jas Elsner (Oxford) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Pieter Geyl symposium A one-day symposium on Ghent’s most famous historian on the fiftieth anniversary of his death.

Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Being Human festival 2016: hope and fear The UK’s only national festival of the humanities is back, celebrating its third year with hundreds of events, including exhibitions, film screenings, tours, performances and big debates. This year, Senate House is home to more than 20 events exploring our brightest hopes and darkest fears. Drop in and explore the building in one of our Orwell-inspired ‘Ministry of hope and fear’ tours, go scavenging in the IHR’s library at night, explore the archival collections of Senate House library, and have your taste buds tickled in an event on gastronomics and astrophysics.

Free beinghuman@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute Conference / Symposium

Cultural encounters: tensions and polarities of transmission from the late middle ages to the Enlightenment

10:15 - 18:00

The Warburg Institute’s first postgraduate symposium will explore the concept of cultural encounters and focus particularly on their productive outcomes.

Warburg

Free warburg.postgrad@gmail.com

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

IALS lunchtime seminar Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Seminar 12:30 - 13:30 IALS Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30 - 18:30 Room 349 (Senate House)

ICS ancient history seminar ‘Trees and people in the ancient Mediterranean environment’ William Harris (Columbia) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30 - 19:30

Ministry of Information project seminar Katherine Howells (KCL) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture 18:00 - 19:00

Hamlyn Lecture: ‘The most important of all judicial functions’ Speaker: Dame Sian Elias, Chief Justice of New Zealand This lecture is the third in a series titled ‘Golden threads and pragmatic patches: fairness in criminal justice’. The first lecture is on 8 November in Cardiff, the second is on 14 November in Exeter. Sponsored by the Hamlyn Trust.

Old Hall, The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, London WC2A 3TL

Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Latin American Studies

LAGLOBAL seminar

Seminar

Free mark.thurner@sas.ac.uk

18:00 - 20:00

Information laglobal.blogs.sas.ac.uk

Convenor: Mark Thurner

Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar

London theatre studies seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:30 - 20:30 Room 104 (Senate House)

Friday 18 Senate House Library Two-day workshop 9:00 - 17:00 Senate House

‘Hope and Fear in London’ Over two days a group of young people will work with library staff, academic researchers and a graffiti artist to create a canvas mural reflecting their hopes and fears about living in London. Visitors to the building will have the opportunity to see the creative process. This event runs on Friday, 18 November, from 9:00 to 17:00 and on Saturday, 19 November, from 11:00 to 17:00.

Free Shl.Whatson@london.ac.uk

SAS Central Conference 09:00 - 19:00 Court Room Warburg Institute Open day 10:30-16:30 Warburg Institute

Francophone postcolonial studies in the 21st century Two-day conference £100 (one-day rate: £55) | £50 (one-day rate: £30) sfpsconference2016@gmail.com

Opening Doors | Moving Pictures This Open Day event captures the dynamism of the Warburg Institute under its new director, David Freedberg. It will feature seminars by Guido Giglioni (head of the MA in Cultural and Intellectual History 1300 – 1650) and Joanne Anderson (head of the MA in Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture offered in partnership with the National Gallery). There will be tours of the famous Warburg library, including an introduction to its unique classification system, and tours of the Aby Warburg archive and photographic collection. The day also features a showing of Judith Wechsler’s film on the life of Aby Warburg and an information session on studying at the Warburg. Refreshments and lunch will be provided.

Free; registration required http://bit.ly/2ctlUJo

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Workshop 11:00 - 17:30 Room G35 (Senate House)

‘Cinema and memory’: engaging with memories of cinemagoing in post-war Italy Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory Workshop Exploring the central theme of ‘cinema and memory’, this workshop features a presentation of the findings from the Italian Cinema Audiences project (AHRC 2013–2016) followed by two panel discussions that will bring together the expertise of researchers from academia, the arts and cultural heritage sectors.

Free sc13699@bristol.ac.uk

Warburg Institute Reading Group 13:00 - 14:30

Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Classical Studies

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar

16:30 - 18:30

‘War reports and Caesar’s Commentarii: a medium inside a medium and its (hidden) audience’ Francesco Strocchi (UCL)

Room 246 (Senate House)

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Warburg Institute

The bear and the marionettes: automaticity and innocence

Seminar

17:30

Art, history and neuroscience: the work of art in the age of digital reproducibility— an encore presentation of the 2016–17 Cambridge University Slade Lectures David Freedberg (Warburg Institute)

Warburg

Free; registration required http://bit.ly/2bFiKS1

Institute of English Studies

Contemporary cultures of writing seminar

Lecture

Seminar

Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:30 - 19:30 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

Night in the Library

18:00

As part of our contribution to Being Human, SAS’s festival of the humanities, we will give visitors the chance to explore our building and collection as they learn more about ‘hope and fear’ during the Great Fire of London.

IHR (Senate House)

Free ihr.library@sas.ac.uk

Special event

Saturday 19 Institute of Latin American Studies Workshop 10:30 - 17:30

Latin American music seminar In collaboration with the IMLR, the Horniman Museum and the Royal Anthropological Institute £8 olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

The Horniman Museum 100 London Road SE23 3PQ

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Events calendar November Monday 21 Warburg Institute Class 14:15 - 15:30

Arabic philosophy reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Modern Languages Research

Process philosophy

Seminar

Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

Johan Siebers (IMLR)

16:00 - 18:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30 - 18:30

ICS ancient philosophy seminar ‘Why geometry is better than draughts: the role of diagrams in Plato’ Tamsin de Waal (KCL) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:15 - 19:00 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Lecture 18:00 Wolfson Conference Suite (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00-20:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

Tuesday 22 Warburg Institute Class 16:15 - 17:30

ICS ancient literature seminar ‘Greek Critics on Latin’ Casper de Jonge (Leiden) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

By the seaside: the beach 1700-2000 As part of the Being Human festival, the Institute of Historical Research, in collaboration with Historic England and the Institute of Modern Languages Research, presents an evening lecture on the history of the British Seaside (1700-2000).

Allan Brodie (Historic England), John Cattell (Historic England) Free ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Comparative Modernisms seminar ‘From avant-garde to architecture (and back)’ Tyrus Miller (University of California Santa-Cruz) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Latin palaeography Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Modern Languages Research

Cities in Theory reading group Free claire.launchbury@sas.ac.uk

Workshop 17:00 - 19:00 Classroom 1, Warburg institute 50

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Institute of English Studies Seminar

Medieval manuscripts seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:30 - 19:15 Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies Institute of Philosophy Seminar

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

17:30 - 19:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Refugee Law Initiative Seminar 18:00 To be confirmed

Developing a global compact for safe, regular, and orderly migration Michele Klein-Solomon (International Organisation for Migration) Part of the 7th International Refugee Law Seminar Series addressing the theme of ‘Protection in the context of large-scale movements of refugees and migrants’.

The International Refugee Law Seminar Series provides a public space for discussion, promotion and dissemination of research between academics, practitioners, students and others with an interest in the refugee and forced migration field.

Free susan.reardon-smith@london.ac.uk

Wednesday 23 The Human Mind Project Workshop 10:00–18:00 Senate House

Creativity and the mind Is creativity the product of mental power, the endpoint of a creative process of discovery? Or, perhaps, a feature of our attitude towards things, attentive and open? Is creative agency and intelligence a prerogative of the individual? What is the creative mind? Get inspired by leading experts from the arts, humanities and sciences at this one-day event produced for the Being Human festival by The Human Mind Project and Guerilla Science. Hear from creative practitioners and scholars and flex your own creative muscles through a series of creative challenges and discussions that aim to turn new ideas into reality.

Free anna.hopkins@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute Class 12:00 - 13:30

Classical Greek reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:00 - 19:00 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar

Thinking the impossible: symbolic representations of the tsunami in the ancient world Manuel Álvarez Martí-Aguilar (Malaga/ICS) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

London Old and Middle English research seminar (LOMERS) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:30 - 19:30 Room G35 (Senate House)

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Institute of Latin American Studies

Andean studies seminar

Seminar

Free mark.thurner@sas.ac.uk

18:00 - 20:00

Information andeanstudiesseminarilas.blogs.sas.ac.uk

Convenor: Mark Thurner

Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Latin American Studies

Latin American utopias

Seminar

Infomation eventbrite.co.uk/e/latin-american-utopias-tickets-21266308100

Free ainhoa.montoya@london.ac.uk

18:00 - 20:00 Senate House Library

Thursday 24 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

IALS lunchtime seminar Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Seminar 12:30 - 13:30 IALS Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30 - 18:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00 - 19:00

ICS ancient history seminar ‘Coastal lagoons and the Roman fishing “industry”’ Annalise Marzano (Reading) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

CenSes seminar Part of the Rethinking the Sense project funded by the AHRC Free info.rts@sas.ac.uk

Room 246 (Senate House) Warburg Institute Lecture 17:00 - 19:00 Woburn Room (Senate House)

Plotting London’s buildings, c.1450–1720 Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute).

Dorian Gerhold (Independent Scholar) Free tony@tonycampbell.info

Warburg Institute

Lip-synch lessons: sight, sound and touch

17:30

Art, history and neuroscience: the work of art in the age of digital reproducibility— an encore presentation of the 2016–17 Cambridge University Slade Lectures David Freedberg (Warburg Institute)

Warburg

Free; registration required http://bit.ly/2bFiKS1

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Institute of Modern Languages Research

The reception of Goethean morphology in 19th-century Britain

Lecture

Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Angus Nicholls (Queen Mary, University of London)

17:30 - 19:30 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Lecture 18:00

Marc Fitch lecture and launch of Victoria County History Oxfordshire 18 Free ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

The Court Room (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00 - 20:00 Room 104 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar

Irish studies seminar ‘Unmasking the confessional unmasked’ Katherine Mullin (Leeds) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Postgraduate feminist reading group Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:30 - 20:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

Friday 25 Institute of Modern Languages Research Workshop 10:00 - 18:00

What is modern languages research (2)?

‘Teaching and research in strategically important languages: a comparative perspective between France and the United Kingdom’ Organisers: Christine Lorre-Johnston (Paris), Catherine Davies (IMLR), Charles Forsdick (Liverpool)

University Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris)

Free Christine.lorre@univ-paris3.fr

Warburg Institute

Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group

Reading Group 13:00 - 14:30

Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30 - 18:30 Room 246 (Senate House)

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar ‘Epicurus and Lucretius on the end of worlds’ Jonathan Griffiths (Heidelberg) Free postgradwip@gmail.com

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Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:00 - 19:00 Room 349 (Senate House)

British School at Athens/ICS lecture ‘The Archaic necropolis in Faliron Delta’ Stella Chrysoulaki Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

London nineteenth-century studies seminar

Seminar

‘Refugees, renegades and misrepresentation: British responses to the Paris Commune during the 1870s’ Owen Holland (Oxford)

17:00 – 19:00 Room 104 (Senate House)

‘Between Mudie’s and the British Museum: 1890s Bloomsbury and the imagination of literary production’ Matthew Ingleby (QMUL) Free IESEvents@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute Lecture 17:30 - 19:30 Warburg Institute of English Studies Seminar

Lachmann today: the debate on the method of textual criticism and its consequences for the history of ancient art Luca Giuliani (Humboldt Berlin) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Finnegans Wake seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00 - 20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Monday 28 Warburg Institute Class 14:15 - 15:30

Arabic philosophy reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:15 - 19:00 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar

ICS ancient literature seminar ‘Marie Darrieussecq’s Tristes Pontiques’ Fiona Cox (Exeter) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

London Shakespeare seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:15 - 19:00 The Senate Room (Senate House) Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30 - 19:30

Neoplatonism study group - Proclus, In Parmenidem Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg

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Events calendar November Tuesday 29 Warburg Institute Class 16:15 - 17:30

Latin palaeography Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg

Wednesday 30 Warburg Institute Class 12:00 - 13:30

Hebrew reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15

IHR modern religious history seminar ‘Faith and scholarship in Victorian England: Henry Wace and the Dictionary of Christian Biography (1877-87)’ Michael Ledger-Lomas (KCL)

Room N102, Olga Crisp Room (Senate House)

Free john.maiden@open.ac.uk

Senate House Library

The Friends of Senate House Library book club: Coming Up for Air by George Orwell

Other events 18:30 - 20:00 Durning-Lawrence Library, Senate House

Join us for an exploration of George Orwell’s novel Coming Up for Air with DJ Taylor, author of the acclaimed biography Orwell: The Life.

Free development@london.ac.uk

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December Key Subject area Classics History Philosophy

Culture, language and literature Human rights Politics Law Highlights Highlights

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Events calendar December Thursday 01 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

IALS lunchtime seminar Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Seminar 12:30 - 13:30 IALS Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30 - 18:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Warburg Institute Lecture 16:30 and 18:00 Warburg

ICS ancient history seminar ‘Animals and Romano-British society: a zooarchaeological approach’ Mark Maltby (Bournemouth) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Inhibition and judgement: the paradox of disinterest (16:30) Tea break (17:30)

Natural piety: sensation and reflection (18:00) Art, history and neuroscience: the work of art in the age of digital reproducibility— an encore presentation of the 2016–17 Cambridge University Slade Lectures David Freedberg (Warburg Institute) Free; registration required http://bit.ly/2bFiKS1

Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 17:30 - 19:30 Room 234 (Senate House) Refugee Law Initiative Seminar 18:00 To be confirmed

Latin American anthropology seminar series ‘Taxing the indigenous: a history of barriers to fiscal inclusion in the Bolivian highlands’ Miranda Shield Johansson (UCL) Free ainhoa.montoya@london.ac.uk

Refugee protection in mixed migration – a UNHCR perspective pre- and post-summit Sarah Elliott (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) Part of the 7th International Refugee Law Seminar Series addressing the theme of ‘Protection in the context of large-scale movements of refugees and migrants’.

The International Refugee Law Seminar Series provides a public space for discussion, promotion and dissemination of research between academics, practitioners, students and others with an interest in the refugee and forced migration field.

Free susan.reardon-smith@london.ac.uk

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

The personal impact of Nazi persecution: experiences and life stories 4th Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Memorial Lecture Mary Fulbrook (Professor of German History, UCL) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

London theatre studies seminar

Seminar

Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:30 - 20:30 Room 104 (Senate House)

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Events calendar December Friday 02 Warburg Institute Reading Group 13:00 - 14:30

Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30 - 18:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar ‘Plato’s Timaeus on the younger gods’ Vilius Bartninkas (Cambridge) Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00 - 20:00 Room G35 (Senate House) Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00 - 20:00 IALS

Saturday 03 Institute of Latin American Studies

IALS legal history seminar—Nervous shock and the chameleon nature of English judicial decisions in Australian legislation: Section 4 of the ‘Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1944’ (NSW) Mark Lunney (University of New England) Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

South American archaeology seminar Registration required b.sillar@ucl.ac.uk

Workshop 10:00 - 17:00 Institute of Archaeology, UCL Institute of English Studies Seminar 14:00 - 16:00 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Lecture

Early modern philosophy and the scientific imagination seminar (EMPHASIS) ‘Painting, poetry and philosophy: the potential of allegory in Giordano Bruno’s visual memory’ Hanna Gentili (Warburg Institute) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

ICS Virgil Society lecture Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

14:30 - 17:00 Room 349 (Senate House)

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Events calendar December Monday 05 Warburg Institute Class 14:15 - 15:30

Arabic philosophy reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar

European criminal law seminar: Legal responses to third country migration in Europe Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

14:30 - 18:00 IALS Institute of Modern Languages Research

Visual documents of Italian cultural heritage

Seminar

Free katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk

Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory seminar

15:00 - 19:00 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research

Process philosophy

Seminar

Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

Johan Siebers (IMLR)

16:00 - 18:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:15 - 19:00 Room G22 (Senate House) Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30 - 19:30

ICS ancient literature seminar ’Colourful like a pyrrhic dance: interweaving languages in Roman epistolography’ Alex Mullen (Nottingham) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Neoplatonism study group - Proclus, In Parmenidem Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg

Tuesday 06 Senate House Library Symposium 10:00 - 17:00 Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library

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The End of Utopia?

This symposium will explore to what extent the idea of the perfect society is still relevant and possible in our world. Confirmed speakers include Cathy Shrank (University of Sheffield), Keith Somerville (ICWS), Johan Siebers (IMLR), Clare Launchbury (IMLR/IHR), Alessandro Scafi (Warburg) Free Shl.Whatson@london.ac.uk

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Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Diplomatic Spaces

10:00 - 17:00

The Oral History of the Commonwealth Project in collaboration with the Institute of Classical Studies Organisers: Hannah Cornwell (Institute of Classical Studies) and Sue Onslow (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

Room G34 (Senate House)

Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk.

Institute of Modern Languages Research

Translating less-common languages and cultures

Workshop

Workshop 16:00 - 17:30 Room 243 (Senate House)

This workshop series will focus on some of the most widely spoken languages of the world in cultural contexts in which they are less common. In 2016-17, the sessions will cover Chinese, Arabic and Portuguese.

Organiser: João Paulo Silvestre (KCL) Speakers: Daniel Hahn (translator from Portuguese, Spanish and French); Lisa Lixiang Shao (UK China Association of Linguists) Free cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute Class 16:15 - 17:30

Latin palaeography Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30 - 19:00 Room 104 (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy Seminar

History of libraries seminar ‘Winchester College Fellows’ Library (1600–1670)’ Richard Foster (Fellows’ Librarian, Winchester College) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

17:30 - 19:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies

Accordia Anniversary Lecture

17:30 - 20:00

‘Sicily in transition: a new archaeological study of the island in the 6th to 13th centuries AD’ Martin Carver (York) and Alessandra Molinari (University of Rome 2, Tor Vergata)

Room G22/26 (Senate House)

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Lecture

Wednesday 07 Warburg Institute Class 12:00 - 13:30

Classical Greek reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 15:30 - 18:00 Room G22/26 (Senate House)

ICS Mycenaean seminar ‘The use and abuse of Ahhiyawa texts’ Oliver Dickinson (Durham) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Philosophy Seminar

London aesthetics forum Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

16:00 - 18:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar

ICS classical archaeology seminar Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

17:30 - 19:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Lecture 18:00 Wolfson Room NB01 (Senate House)

History Now and Then: the focus of history Should history focus on the nation? A locality? The wider world? Or should it focus on ‘things’ instead? Should it have a short, precisely defined temporal focus or a longer durée?

Chair: Daniel Snowman; panel: Maxine Berg, Jerry Brotton, Richard Drayton, Chris Wickham £5 per session or £25 of all 6 sessions | Free for the Friends of the IHR ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 08 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

IALS lunchtime seminar Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Seminar 12:30 - 13:30 IALS Institute of Philosophy Seminar

CenSes seminar Free info.rts@sas.ac.uk

17:00 - 19:00 Room G34 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 17:15 - 19:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

From political ideal to political idyll: re-readings of Fénelon’s ‘Télémaque’ by Haller and Wieland English Goethe Society lecture Christoph Schmitt-Maaß (Potsdam/Oxford) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

IHR Creighton Lecture

Lecture

‘The globe, the sea and the city: port cities and globalisation in the long 19th century’ John Darwin (University of Oxford)

18:00 Wolfson Conference Suite (Senate House)

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Senate House Library Lecture 18:00 - 19:30 Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library Institute of English Studies Seminar

‘Utopia at 500: A Final Reckoning?’ closing keynote lecture Professor Gregory Claeys from Royal Holloway will deliver the closing keynote lecture of the ‘Utopia and Dystopia’ season. This talk will sketch the main themes and context of Thomas More’s Utopia, suggesting that to modern readers More presents a highly ambiguous even dystopian portrait of an ideal society.

Free Shl.Whatson@london.ac.uk

Book Collecting seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00 - 20:00 Room G35 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00 - 20:00

Irish Studies seminar Peter Shirlow (Liverpool) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Room 104 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Workshop T.b.c.

Cognitive approaches to ancient religious experience (CAARE) workshop Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Room 349 (Senate House)

Friday 09 Institute of Latin American Studies Two-day conference 10:00 - 16:00

‘Global commodity frontiers in comparative historical context’ international workshop The transformation of the global countryside has been one of the key processes in the emergence and consolidation of global capitalism over the past 500 years. Providing raw and intermediate materials to satisfy the voracious appetite of machines and city dwellers, the flatlands, valleys, forests, marine spaces and mountains of the world have been transformed at astonishing and accelerating speed. This process of appropriation of the world’s ecological surpluses has come to be understood as that of shifting ‘commodity frontiers’.

Free jon.curry-machado@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies Seminar 16:00 - 20:00 IALS Council Chamber Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30 - 18:30 Room 246 (Senate House)

London Beckett seminar Screening of film Castro with paper by Garin Dowd (University of West London) and interview with Argentinian film director Alejo Moguillansky.

Free

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar ‘Music in ancient Sparta’ James Lloyd (Reading) Free postgradwip@gmail.com

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30 - 19:30 Room 243 (Senate House)

London-Paris Romanticism seminar ‘The poetics of the letter’ Pamela Clemit (QMUL/Wolfson, Oxford University): ‘Difficult to make and difficult to fake: signalling in Romantic-period letters’ Jeremy Elprin (Caen): ‘Qui me néglige me désolé: the neglected countenance of Keats’s letters’ Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Monday 12 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium 09:00 - 19:30

Historical Modernisms symposium Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania), Laura Marcus (University of Oxford) Registration fee iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Senate House Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30 - 19:30

Neoplatonism study group - Proclus, In Parmenidem Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg

Wednesday 14 School of Advanced Study

Postcolonial seas research seminar

17:00 - 19:00

The Centre for Postcolonial Studies continues its Postcolonial Seas research seminar series with a talk by Jamal Bahmad (University of Leeds) on the Mediterranean in North African Francophone cinema.

Room 234 (Senate House)

Free claire.launchbury@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

IHR modern religious history seminar

Seminar

Seminar 17:15

‘“Praying for Billy”: religious practice and the shaping of a transnational evangelical community during the Billy Graham Crusades, 1950-1960’ Uta Balbier (KCL)

Room N102, Olga Crisp Room (Senate House)

Free john.maiden@open.ac.uk

School of Advanced Study

Humans and other beings in our classical past

Lecture 17:30 - 19:00 The Beveridge Hall (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar

Professor Greg Woolf, director of the Institute of Classical Studies, delivers his inaugural lecture.

Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Ezra Pound Cantos reading group Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00 - 20:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

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Events calendar December Thursday 15 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

IALS lunchtime seminar Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Seminar 12:30 - 13:30 IALS Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00 - 20:00

The competence of the European Union in copyright lawmaking Ana Ramalho (Maastricht University) Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

IALS

Friday 16 Institute of English Studies Seminar

Finnegans Wake seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00 - 20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Monday 19 Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30 - 19:30

Neoplatonism study group - Proclus, In Parmenidem Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

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January Key Subject area Classics History

Philosophy Culture, language and literature Human rights Politics Law Highlights Highlights

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Tuesday 03 Institute of English Studies Seminar

Book collecting seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00 - 20:00 Room G35 (Senate House)

Friday 06 Institute of English Studies Seminar

Charles Peake Ulysses seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00 - 20:00 Room G35 (Senate House)

Saturday 07 Institute of English Studies Seminar 14:00 - 16:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

Monday 09 Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30 - 19:30

Early modern philosophy and the scientific imagination seminar (EMPHASIS) ‘Sebastian Castellio and the legacy of the sibyl: the impact of non-Christian prophecies on his theology and the sixteenth-century debate about religious toleration’ Finn-Schülze-Feldmann (Warburg Institute) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Neoplatonism study group - Proclus, In Parmenidem Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg

Tuesday 10 Institute of Philosophy Seminar

The practical, the political and the ethical seminar series Free ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

17:30 - 19:30 Room 246 (Senate House)

Wednesday 11 Institute of Philosophy Seminar

London aesthetics forum Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

16:00 - 18:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar

ICS classical archaeology seminar Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

17:00 - 19:00 Room 349 (Senate House) 68

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Warburg Institute Reading Group 17:30 - 18:30 Warburg

Warburg-UCL Scholasticism reading group The group explores scholastic texts and themes on occasional Wednesdays from 5:30 to 6:30 pm at the Warburg Institute (Droz Library). This year readings will be on ‘heaven and earth’.

John Sabapathy and Sophie Page (UCL) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research Lecture 18:00–19:30 Wolfson Room NB01 (Senate House)

History Now and Then: lessons from the past Does history repeat itself? What kind of ‘lessons’ can we learn from history?

The panel will explore the idea of counterfactual history: could the past have been different?

Chair: Daniel Snowman; panel: Jeremy Black, Taylor Downing, Ian Mortimer, Lucy Riall £5 per session or £25 for all six sessions | Free for Friends of the IHR ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies Seminar

Ezra Pound Cantos reading group Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00 - 20:00 Room G35 (Senate House)

Thursday 12 Institute of English Studies Seminar

London theatre studies seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:30 - 20:30 Room 104 (Senate House)

Friday 13 Institute of Historical Research 2-day conference 09:00 - 17:00 Wolfson Conference Suite (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30 - 19:30 Room G37 (Senate House)

Urban belonging: history and the power of place A conference organised by the Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research and the Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester Registration fee ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

London-Paris Romanticism seminar ‘The phantasmal imagination: Biographia Literaria and continental philosophy’ Martin Procházka (Prague) This seminar series is hosted jointly by the Institute of English Studies and the Institute of Modern Languages Research.

Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Monday 16 Warburg Institute Class 14:15 - 15:30

Arabic philosophy reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Modern Languages Research

Process philosophy

Seminar

Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

Johan Siebers (IMLR)

16:00 - 18:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30 - 18:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar

ICS ancient philosophy seminar ‘Plato on illness’ Gabor Betegh (Cambridge) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

ICS ancient literature seminar Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

17:00 - 19:00 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar

ICS Roman art seminar Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

17:00 - 19:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Tuesday 17 Warburg Institute Class 16:15 - 17:30

Latin palaeography Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Refugee Law Initiative Seminar 18:00 To be confirmed

Between conflict and survival: Unravelling the drivers of migration across the Mediterranean in 2015 Heaven Crawley (Coventry University) Part of the 7th International Refugee Law Seminar Series addressing the theme of ‘Protection in the context of large-scale movements of refugees and migrants’.

The International Refugee Law Seminar Series provides a public space for discussion, promotion and dissemination of research between academics, practitioners, students and others with an interest in the refugee and forced migration field.

Free susan.reardon-smith@london.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies Reading group

Literary London reading group Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00 - 19:30 Room 243 (Senate House)

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Wednesday 18 Warburg Institute Class 12:00 - 13:30

Hebrew reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 15:30 - 18:00 Room G22/26 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:00 - 20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Thursday 19 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar

ICS Mycenaean seminar ‘The origins of writing in the Aegean’ Silvia Ferrara (Rome and Oxford) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

A Viennese cabarettist at the BBC: the Robert Lucas Archive reveals the life and work of this assimilated emigré Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies seminar Jennifer Taylor (London) and Clare George (IMLR) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

ICS ancient history Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

16:30-18:30 Room G37 (Senate House) Warburg Institute Lecture 17:00 - 19:00 Warburg

Travel, Maps and Inns in Eighteenth-Century Britain Daniel Maudlin (Plymouth) Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute).

Free tony@tonycampbell.info

Institute of Modern Languages Research

Cities in Theory reading group

Workshop

Free claire.launchbury@sas.ac.uk

A regular informal reading group organised as part of Cities@SAS

17:00 - 19:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

Friday 20 Institute of Historical Research Conference 09:00 - 17:00 Wolfson Conference Suite (Senate House)

IHR winter conference 2017: civil wars The Syrian Civil War is now in its sixth year, prompting a consideration of the nature of civil wars in general and the term ‘civil war’ itself. Is it a helpful label when considering events as different as the English and French Revolutions (both of which have been called civil wars), the American Civil War of the 1860s, the Russian Civil War after the 1917 Revolution, and the events in Spain in the 1930s? Do civil wars share certain features or is this a term of art that obscures the uniqueness of each separate historical situation? This conference will question the conceptualisation and language of civil discord.

Registration fee ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

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Warburg Institute Reading group 13:00 - 14:30

Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Classical Studies

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar

16:30 - 18:30

‘Tragic anagnorisis versus comic unmasking: the problem of recognising identity on the fifth-century Greek stage’ Antonia Marie Schrader (Cambridge)

Room 246 (Senate House)

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Institute of English Studies

London Beckett seminar

Seminar

Seminar 18:00 - 20:00

Rodney Sharkey (Weill-Cornell University) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Room 234 (Senate House)

Saturday 21 Institute of Classical Studies Lecture

ICS Virgil Society lecture Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

14:30 - 17:00 Room G22/26 (Senate House)

Monday 23 Warburg Institute Class 14:15 - 15:30

Arabic philosophy reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Classical Studies Seminar

ICS ancient literature seminar Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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

London Shakespeare seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:15 - 19:00 The Senate Room (Senate House) Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30 - 19:30

Neoplatonism study group - Proclus, In Parmenidem Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg

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Tuesday 24 Warburg Institute Class 16:16 - 17:30

Latin palaeography Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Philosophy

The practical, the political and the ethical seminar

Seminar

Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

17:30 - 19:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies

Accordia Lecture

17:30 - 20:00

‘Landscape as political negotiation, 6000 BC–AD2016: a longue durée history of Southern Calabria’ John Robb (Cambridge)

Room G22/26 (Senate House)

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Media studies seminar

Lecture

Seminar 18:00 – 20:00

Jane Chapman (Lincoln) Free IESEvents@sas.ac.uk

Room 243 (Senate House)

Wednesday 25 Warburg Institute Class 12:00 - 13:30

Classical Greek reading class Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Modern Languages Research

Lisbon as a translation zone

Workshop

Free AtkinR@cardiff.ac.uk

An initial network event for the AHRC network ‘Lisbon as a Translation Zone’

14:00 - 18:00 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy Seminar

London aesthetics forum Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

16:00 - 18:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar

ICS classical archaeology seminar Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

17:00 - 19:00 Room 349 (Senate House)

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Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 18:00 - 20:00

The British communities in Latin America Organised by Canning House David Rock olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

The Senate Room (Senate House)

Thursday 26 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar

ICS ancient history seminar Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

16:30 - 18:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy Seminar

CenSes seminar Free info.rts@sas.ac.uk

17:00 - 19:00 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies

Postgraduate feminist reading group

Seminar

Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:30 - 20:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

Friday 27 Warburg Institute Reading Group 13:00 - 14:30

Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30 - 18:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar ‘Foreign soldiers and mercenaries in late-period Egypt (664–332BC)’ Justin Yoo (KCL) Free postgradwip@gmail.com

IALS legal history seminar Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Seminar 18:00 IALS Institute of English Studies Seminar

Finnegans Wake seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Saturday 28 Institute of English Studies

18th Annual Virginia Woolf Society Birthday Lecture

Lecture

Susan Sellers (St Andrews)

14:00 - 16:00

Fee £20 standard | £15 concessions iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Woburn Suite (Senate House)

Monday 30 Warburg Institute

Arabic philosophy reading class

Class

Charles Burnett (Warburg)

14:15 - 15:30

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Modern Languages Research

Process philosophy

Seminar

Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

Johan Siebers (IMLR)

16:00 - 18:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30 - 18:30

ICS ancient philosophy seminar Sarah Broadie (St Andrews) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar

ICS ancient literature seminar Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

17:00 - 19:00 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar

ICS Roman art seminar Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

17:00 - 19:00 Room 243 (Senate House) Warburg Institute

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia

Public reading

Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took (UCL), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL)

18:00 - 19:30

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar January Tuesday 31 Warburg Institute Class 16:15 - 17:30

Latin palaeography Charles Burnett (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute of Philosophy Seminar

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar Free events@sas.ac.uk

17:30 - 19:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar

Medieval manuscripts seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:30 - 19:15 Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies

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

Institute of Classical Studies Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk Ancient history

Postgraduate work-in-progress Fridays at 16:30-18:30 Dates: 7, 14, 21, 28 October; 4, 11, 18, 25 November; 2, 9 December; 20, 27 January Roman art Mondays at 17:00-19:00 Dates: 16, 30 January

Institute of English Studies Contact: ies@sas.ac.uk

Thursdays at 16:30-18:30

Comparative modernisms seminar

Dates: 6, 13, 20, 27 October; 3, 17, 24 November; 1 December; 19, 26 January

Mondays at 18:00–20:00

Ancient literature Mondays at 17:15-19:00 Dates: 10, 17, 24, 31 October; 14, 21, 28 November; 5 December; 16, 23, 30 January Ancient philosophy Mondays at 16:30-18:30 Dates: 10, 24 October; 7, 21 November; 16, 30 January Classical archaeology Wednesdays at 17:30-19:30 Dates: 19 October; 2, 16 November; 7 December Classical archaeology Wednesdays at 17:00-19:00 Dates: 11, 25 January

Seminar series

Seminar series

Dates: 7 October; 21 November Book collecting seminar Tuesdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 1 November; 10 January The Charles Peake Ulysses seminar Fridays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 23 September; 21 October; 11 November; 2 December; 6 January Contemporary cultures of writing seminar Tuesdays at 17:30–19:30 Dates: 20 September; 18 October; 15 November Contemporary innovative poetry research seminar Wednesdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 26 October; 23 November; 7 December; 25 January

Mycenaean Wednesdays at 15:30-18:00 Dates: 19 October; 9 November; 7 December; 18 January Events October 2016 – January 2017

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Seminar series Early modern philosophy and the scientific imagination (EMPHASIS) seminar Saturdays at 14:00–16:00 Dates: 8 October; 5 November; 3 December; 7 January Ezra Pound Cantos reading group Wednesdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 5 October; 9 November; 14 December; 11 January

London nineteenth-century studies seminar 17:00–19:00 Dates: 28 October; 25 November; 13 January London Old and Middle English research seminar (LOMERS) Wednesdays at 17:30–19:30 Dates: 19 October; 23 November London-Paris Romanticism seminar

Finnegans Wake research seminar

Fridays at 17:30–20:30

Fridays at 18:00–20:00

Dates: 21 October; 11 November; 9 December; 13 January

Dates: 30 September; 28 October; 25 November; 16 December; 27 January

London Shakespeare seminar

History of libraries seminar

Mondays at 17:15–19:00

Tuesdays at 17:30 – 19:30

Dates: 3 October; 7 November; 28 November; 23 January

Dates: 4 October; 1 November; 6 December Irish studies seminar Thursdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 20 October; 24 November; 8 December; 26 January Literary London reading group Tuesdays at 18:00–19:30 Dates: 18 October; 29 November; 17 January London Beckett seminar Fridays at 18:00–20:00

London theatre studies seminar Thursdays at 18:30–20:30 Dates: 20 October; 17 November; 1 December; 12 January Media history seminar Tuesdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 4, 11 October; 8 November Medieval manuscripts seminar Tuesdays at 17:30–19:00

Dates: 11 November; 9 December; 20 January

Dates: 11 October; 25 October; 8 November; 22 November; 31 January

London Modernism seminar

Postgraduate feminist reading group

Saturdays at 11:00–13:00

Thursdays at 18:30–20:00

Dates: 8 October; 5 November

Dates: 22 September; 24 November; 26 January

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Institute of Historical Research

Colonial/postcolonial new researchers’ workshop

Contact: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15

American history Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 13, 27 October; 10, 24 November; 8 December; 19 January Archives and society Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:45

Dates: 26 September; 10, 24 October; 7, 21 November; 5 December; 16, 30 January Comparative histories of Asia Fortnightly on Thursdays at 12:30 Dates: 28 September; 12, 26 October; 9, 23 November; 7 December; 18 January

Dates: 11, 25 October; 8, 22 November; 6 December; 17, 31 January

Contemporary British history seminar

British history in the 17th century

Dates: TBA

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15 Dates: 6, 20 October; 3, 17 November; 1, 15 December; 12, 26 January British history in the long 18th century Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15 Dates: 12, 26 October; 9, 23 November; 7 December; 18 January British maritime history Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 27 September; 11, 25 October; 8, 22 November; 6 December; 17, 31 January Christian missions in global history Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30 Dates: 27 September; 11, 25 October; 8, 22 November; 6 December; 17, 31 January Collecting and display Fortnightly on Mondays at 18:00 Dates: 3 October; 14 November; 12 December; 9 January

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:00

Conversations and disputations Once a month on Fridays at 17:30 Dates: 7 October; 4 November; 2 December; 13 January Crusades and the Latin East Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 26 September; 10, 24 October; 7, 21 November; 5 December; 16, 30 January Digital history Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 27 September; 11, 25 October; 8, 22 November; 6 December; 17, 31 January Disability history seminar 1st Monday of every month at 17:15 Dates: 3 October; 7 November; 5 December; 9 January Earlier Middle Ages Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 19, 26 October; 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 November; 7 December; 18, 25 January

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Seminar series Economic and social history of the early modern world Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15 Date: 30 September; 14, 28 October; 11, 25 November; 9 December; 20 January Education in the long 18th century Once a month on Saturdays at 14:00-16:00 Dates: 1, 8 October; 3 December; 14 January European history 1150-1550 Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 29 September; 13, 27 October; 10, 24 November; 8 December; 19 January European history 1500-1800 Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 26 September; 10, 24 October; 7, 21 November; 5 December; 16, 30 January

History Lab seminar Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 6, 20 October; 3, 17 November; 1, 15 December; 12, 26 January History of education 1st Thursday of every month at 17:30 Dates: 6 October; 3 November; 1 December History of gardens and landscapes Fortnightly on Thursdays at 18:00 Dates: Dates: 29 September; 13, 27 October; 10, 24 November; 8 December; 19 January History of libraries Once a month on Tuesdays at 17:30 Dates: 4 October; 1 November; 6 December History of liturgy

Film history

Once a month on Mondays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30

10 October; 5 December; 30 January

Dates: 6, 20 October; 3, 17 November; 1, 15 December; 12, 26 January

History of political ideas Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15

Gender and history in the Americas 1st Monday of the month at 17:15

Dates: 5, 19 October; 2, 16, 30 November; 14 December; 11, 25 January

Dates: 3 October; 7 November; 5 December; 9 January

History of political ideas / early career seminar Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15

Global history Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: TBA

Dates: 28 September; 12, 26 October; 9, 23 November; 7 December; 18 January History of sexuality seminar

History and public health

Once a month on Tuesdays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 12:45

Dates: 4 October; 1 November; 6 December; 10 January

Dates: 6, 19 October; 2, 16, 30 November; 7 December 80

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Imperial and world history

Locality and region

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

Dates: 3, 17, 31 October; 14, 28 November; 12 December; 9, 23 January

Dates: 4, 18 October; 1, 15, 29 November; 13 December; 10, 24 January

International history

London Group of Historical Geographers

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 18:00

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

Dates: 27 September; 11, 25 October; 8, 22 November; 6 December; 17, 31 January

Dates: 4, 18 October; 1, 15, 29 November; 13 December; 10, 24 January

Jewish history

London Society for Medieval Studies

Once a month on Mondays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 19:00

Dates: 31 October; 28 November; 12 December; 23 January

Dates: 4, 18 October; 1, 15, 29 November; 13 December; 10, 24 January

Late medieval and early modern Italy

Low countries history

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15

Dates: 6, 20 October; 3, 17 November; 1, 15 December; 12, 26 January

Dates: 7, 21 October; 4, 18 November;

Late medieval seminar

Marxism in culture

Weekly on Fridays at 17:30

Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:30

Dates: 30 September; 7, 14, 21, 28 October; 4, 11, 25 November; 2, 9, 16 December; 13, 20, 27 January

Date: 30 September; 14, 28 October; 11, 25 November; 9 December; 20 January

Latin American history Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30 Dates: 4, 18 October; 1, 15, 29 November; 13 December; 10, 24 January Life-cycles Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 27 September; 11, 25 October; 8, 22 November; 6 December; 17, 31 January

Events October 2016 – January 2017

Seminar series

Seminar series

2, 16 December; 13, 27 January

Metropolitan history Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 28 September; 12, 26 October; 9, 23 November; 7 December; 18 January Military history Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 4, 18 October; 1, 15, 29 November; 13 December; 10, 24 January

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Seminar series Modern British history

Philosophy of history

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30

Dates: 29 September; 13, 27 October; 10, 24 November; 8 December; 19 January

Dates: 29 September; 13, 27 October; 10, 24 November; 8 December; 19 January

Modern French history

Psychoanalysis and history

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30

Dates: 3, 17, 31 October; 14, 28 November; 12 December; 9, 23 January

Dates: 5, 19 October; 2, 16, 30 November; 14 December; 11, 25 January

Modern German history

Public history seminar

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30

Dates: 28 September; 12, 26 October; 9, 23 November; 7 December; 18 January

Dates: 5, 19 October; 2, 16, 30 November; 14 December; 11, 25 January

Modern Italian history

Reconfiguring the British: nation, empire, world 1600-1900

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 28 September; 12, 26 October; 9, 23 November; 7 December; 18 January Modern religious history Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15 Dates: 5, 19 October; 2, 16, 30 November; 4 December; 11, 25 January Oral history 1st Thursday of every month at 18:00 Dates: 6 October; 3 November; 1 December; 12 January Parliaments, politics and people Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 4, 18 October; 1, 15, 29 November; 13 December; 10, 24 January

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Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30 Dates: 6, 20 October; 3, 17 November; 1, 15 December; 12, 26 January Religious history of Britain 1500-1800 Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 27 September; 11, 25 October; 8, 22 November; 6 December; 17, 31 January Rethinking modern Europe Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 5, 19 October; 2, 16, 30 November; 14 December; 11, 25 January Socialist history Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30 Dates: 26 September; 10, 24 October; 7, 21 November; 5 December; 16, 30 January

Events October 2016 – January 2017

Society, culture and belief, 1500-1800

Women’s history

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30

Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15

Dates: 29 September; 13, 27 October; 10, 24 November; 8 December; 19 January

Dates: 30 September; 14, 28 October; 11, 25 November; 9 December; 20 January

Once a month on Mondays at 18:00

Institute of Latin American Studies

Dates: TBA

Contact: ilas@sas.ac.uk

Society for Court Studies

Seminar series

Seminar series

Latin American anthropology seminar series Sport and leisure history

17:30 - 19:30

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15

10, 27 October; 10 November; 1 December

Dates: 3, 17, 31 October; 14, 28 November; 12 December; 9, 23 January

Andean studies seminar

Studies of home 1st Wednesday of every month at 17:30 Dates: 5 October; 2 November; 7 December; 11 January

18:00 – 20:00 12 October; 2, 23 November LAGLOBAL seminar 18:00 - 20:00

Tudor and Stuart history Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 26 September; 10, 24 October; 7, 21 November; 5 December; 16, 30 January

13, 27 October; 17 November

Institute of Modern Languages Research Contact: modernlanguages@sas.ac.uk

Voluntary action history

IMLR graduate forum

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30

Once a month on Thursdays at 18:00

Dates: 3, 17, 31 October; 14, 28 November; 12 December; 9, 23 January

Date: 6 October; 17 November; 8 December; 19 January

War, society and culture

Process philosophy

Once a month on Wednesdays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Mondays at 16:00

Dates: 19 October; 16 November; 14 December; 11 January

Dates: 10, 24 October; 7, 21 November; 5 December; 16, 30 January

Events October 2016 – January 2017

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Seminar series Institute of Philosophy

Classical Greek

Contact: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Alternate Wednesdays, 12:00 – 13:30

CenSes seminars Thursdays, 17:00 – 19:00

Dates: 5, 19 October; 2, 23 November; 7 December; 15 January

Dates: 29 September; 13, 27 October; 10, 24 November; 8 December; 2 January

Esoteric traditions and occult thought Fridays, 13:00 - 14:15 pm

London aesthetics forum Wednesdays 16:00 – 18:00

Dates: 7, 14, 21, 28 October; 4, 18, 25 November; 2, 9 December; 20, 27 January

Dates: 5, 19 October; 7 November; 7 December; 11, 25 January

Hebrew Alternate Wednesdays, 12:00 – 13:30

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminars

Dates: 12, 26 October; 16, 30 November; 18 January

Thursdays 17:30 – 19:30 Dates: 8, 15, 29 November; 6 December; 31 January

Latin palaeography Tuesdays, 16:15 – 17:30

The practical, the political and the ethical Thursdays 17:30 – 19:30 Series reconvenes Jan 2017

Dates: 4, 11, 18, 25 October; 1, 15, 22, 29 November; 6 December; 17, 23, 30 January Maps and society

The place of metaphysics in philosophy

Occasional Thursdays, 17:00 – 18:00

Dates: occasional Wednesdays 4:30pm – 6:30pm

Dates: 24 November; 19 January

Dates: 5, 12 October; 2, 16 November

Neoplatonism study group

BodyTalk seminars

Mondays, 17:30 – 19:30

Dates announced on BodyTalk website: bodytalk2016.wordpress.com

Dates: 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 October; 7, 14, 21, 28 November; 5, 12, 19 December; 16, 23, 30 January

The Warburg Institute

Warburg-UCL Scholasticism reading group

Contact: warburg@sas.ac.uk

Occasional Wednesdays, 17:30 – 18:30

Arabic philosophy*

Dates: 19 October; 16 November; 11 January

Mondays at 14:15 – 15:15 pm

Senate House Library

Dates: 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 October; 14, 21, 28 November; 5 December; 16, 23, 30 January

Contact: senatehouselibrary@london.ac.uk

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Senate House Library Friends events For details and membership visit www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/about-us/friends Events October 2016 – January 2017

Calls for papers

Calls for papers Radical walking: protest, dissent, and crossing urban boundaries 17 February 2017 CFP deadline: 14 October 2016 For centuries people have taken steps to effect change, moving through urban spaces supporting rights, opportunities and societal innovation, and walking has allowed these advocates to express radical goals and argue for social, political and religious change. Radicalism, most commonly understood in reference to the British Liberal Party’s 18th-century stance on the reform of society and parliament, is now applied more widely by scholars to take in causes from peasant protests in medieval Japan to modern quests for civil rights. This one-day conference will explore the relationship between walking and radicalism, from a range of perspectives, places and periods. Questions may include: How has walking informed radical thinking or politics? How has radical walking been written about? Can the act of walking itself be radical? Was it radical in the past?

Is there a difference between urban and rural walking through the lens of radicalism? Was there a difference historically? How has walking allowed social actors to transgress spatial boundaries? What was the role of the physical landscape in the act of radical walking?

The £10 conference fee covers refreshments and lunch.

the definition of ‘radical’ has specifically referred to the late 18th- and early 19th-century British sense.

But this one-day symposium, part of Senate House Library’s Radical Voices season, seeks to examine radicalism more widely, embracing all those who more generally advocated for societal improvements through reform. This conference, therefore, welcomes proposals for papers about diverse periods, locations and topics by exploring the following: Who works in libraries and archives? Who uses them? What is in collections and how are collections being developed?

How are books, manuscripts and information being organised, and what is the impact of information professionals’ decisions? What is happening now, and what are the current events in libraries, archives and the information professions?

Send 200-word abstracts for 20-minute presentations to Jordan.Landes@london.ac.uk by 21 November 2016.

Radical Voices is an ongoing celebration and promotion of Senate House Library’s radical voices collections dating from the 18th to the 20th centuries.

Revealing this strand in the library’s collections sheds light on enormously influential but subsequently neglected figures, campaigns and organisations.

Pocahontas and after: historical culture and transatlantic encounters, 1617-2017 16-18 March 2017

Send 200-word abstracts for 20-minute presentations to Jordan.Landes@london.ac.uk, by 14 October 2016.

Radical collections: radicalism and libraries and archives 3 March 2017 CFP deadline: 21 November 2016 As centres of published and unpublished information, libraries and archives have an impact on the dissemination of knowledge. From selection, accession and collection development to cataloguing, classification and arrangement, librarians and archivists can widen or limit access to materials.

Additionally, there are consequences on materials, users and the perception of the field as a result of who enters the information professions. These issues are all set within current decisions regarding funding, closures and technological change. Traditionally, 86

CFP deadline: 13 November 2016 In 2017 the Anglo-American world will mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Pocahontas.

Numerous commemorative activities, from walking tours to talking monuments, have been planned on both sides of the Atlantic. Intense, closely focused interest in her life is, of course, not a new phenomenon. Her story has been romanticised at many points over the centuries, and multiple representations of Pocahontas (as Noble Savage, Mother of a Nation, propaganda icon, seductive temptress) have materialised in historical accounts, in literature, and in visual, material, and performance art.

From a range of historical and literary perspectives, and for a variety of social and political purposes, the tale of this Native American ‘princess’ has left an enduring legacy among Indigenous, local, national, and international communities.

Using Pocahontas’ visit to England and her death and burial in Kent as an entry point, this conference Events October 2016 – January 2017

will explore the continued interest in Pocahontas as a subject of study. It will explore the academic challenges posed by the multiple versions and the contemporary appropriations of this Powhatan/ Pamunkey woman variously known as Amonute, Matoaka, Pocahontas, and Rebecca. In exploring the life and afterlives of Pocahontas, it aims to open new interdisciplinary discussions.

Papers are thus welcomed from all disciplinary perspectives, including (but not limited to) transatlantic and early modern studies; visual, literary and cultural studies; and, particularly, from Native American perspectives. Comparative work is also encouraged, as are contributions from early career researchers. We additionally encourage contributions that shed new light on the British Library and the Institute of Historical Research’s collections related to Pocahontas.

Suggested themes include: • Cultural encounters • The Atlantic World • Indigenous feminism • Pocahontas and political resistance • Cultural mediation and negotiators • Native knowledge and natural environments • Transatlantic deathways • Pocahontas’ legacies in the UK • Commemorations and celebrations • Comparative approaches to Pocahontas (eg. La Malinche) • Representations of Pocahontas in literature and culture • Pocahontas and Bloomsbury • Teaching Pocahontas, and Pocahontas as subject of academic enquiry Confirmed speakers: • Mishuana Goeman (UCLA) • Karen Kupperman (NYU) • Camilla Townsend (Rutgers) • Karenne Wood (Virginia Indian Heritage Programme) Send 250-word abstracts together with a short biography to eccles-centre@bl.uk (please include subject line: Pocahontas and After conference) by Sunday 13 November 2016.

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Researchers, practitioners and the archived web 14–15 June 2017 CFP deadline: 9 December 2016 Organised by the School of Advanced Study, University of London; the British Library; The National Archives of the UK; the Oxford Internet Institute; Aarhus University; L’Institut des sciences de la communication (CNRS, Paris-Sorbonne; UPMC); L3S Research Center – Leibniz University Hannover; the Royal Library, Denmark; the Bibliothèque nationale de France; L’Institut national de l’audiovisuel and AixMarseille University.

Call for contributions Work to archive the web began in 1996, with the ground-breaking initiative of the Internet Archive.

Other organisations and institutions have followed, from national and state libraries and archives to museums and NGOs. Even individual researchers and research teams are beginning to create archives for personal use, as new tools make web archiving possible from a desktop PC. We now have access to two decades of web archives, collected in different ways and at different times, constituting an invaluable resource for the study of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Researchers are still just beginning to explore the potential of these vast archives, and to develop the theoretical and methodological frameworks within which to study them, but recognition of that potential is becoming ever more widespread. This conference seeks to explore the value of web archives for scholarly use, to highlight innovative research, to investigate the challenges and benefits of working with the archived web, to identify opportunities for incorporating web archives in learning and teaching, and to discuss and inform archival provision in all senses.

In conjunction with the overall topic of web archives, general areas of interest include, but are not limited to: • the history(ies) of the web • the changing structure of the web • material culture and display in a digital context • political and literary reputation online • public engagement online • patterns of culture online • networks of social communication • the evolution of language on the web • the history of institutions and organisations online 87

Calls for papers

Calls for papers

Calls for papers

Calls for papers • the history of social and political movements on the web • the relationship between image, sound and text online • the web as a forum for commemoration • health and education online • using web archives in the classroom • national/international boundaries online • approaches to web archiving • research methods for studying the archived web • providing access to the archived web Submissions The call will close at the beginning of December.

Submissions are welcomed from all sectors and disciplines, and we would particularly encourage postgraduate students and early career researchers to apply.

• Short papers – individual papers of 15 minutes’ length (short abstract, of no more than 500 words, and a one-page CV) • Long papers – individual papers of 30 minutes’ length (short abstract, of no more than 500 words, and a one-page CV) • Panel sessions – consisting of three short papers, introduced by a chair (short abstract for each paper, of no more than 500 words, a brief description of the purpose of the session, and a one-page CV for all speakers) • Posters and demonstrations (short abstract, of no more than 300 words, and a one-page CV) • Workshops (a 350-word rationale for the workshop, including discussion of why the topic lends itself to a workshop format, and a two-page CV for the workshop organiser(s)).

Acceptance will be on the basis of double-blind peer review.

For more information or to submit, please contact jane.winters@sas.ac.uk.

Biennial London Chaucer Conference: Chaucer and the Law 30 June – 1 July 2017 CFP deadline: 30 September 2016 This two-day conference will consider ideas about the law in the age of Chaucer and in relation to the works of Chaucer and his contemporaries, probing questions about legal practices and culture, justice, regulation and instruction, and the consequences of making and breaking laws. Interdisciplinary topics and approaches are most welcome. The conference hopes to bring together scholars and postgraduate students working in a range of disciplines and departments. Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers on topics related to fourteenth- and fifteenthcentury literature, culture and law.

Topics may include (but are not limited to): canon law, common law, crime and punishment, outlaws, legal bureaucracy and scribal culture, laws of nature, laws of love, gender, sexuality and the law, literary ‘laws’ (genre, decorum, metre), rules for living/ religious rules, the Old Law and the New Law, divine justice, Chaucer as Justice of the Peace, the Man of Law and the Manciple, cross-cultural encounters and the law, breaking laws, evidence, authority and proof, eyewitness testimony, languages of the law, iconographies of the law.

Send proposals of 250 words to Alastair Bennett, Natalie Jones and Jaclyn Rajsic at londonchaucer@ outlook.com by 30 September 2016.

Britain, Canada, and the Arts: Cultural Exchange as Post-war Renewal 15-17 June 2017 CFP deadline: 1 November 2016 Coinciding with and celebrating the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, this conference will focus on the strong culture of artistic exchange, influence, and dialogue between Canada and Britain, with a particular but not exclusive emphasis on the decades after World War II. The immediate post-war decades saw both countries look to the arts and cultural institutions as a means to address and redress contemporary post-war

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realities. Central to the concerns of the moment was the increasing emergence of the United States as a dominant cultural as well as political power. In 1951, the Massey Commission gave formal voice in Canada to a growing instinct, amongst both artists and politicians, simultaneously to recognize a national tradition of cultural excellence and to encourage its development and perpetuation through national institutions. This moment complemented a similar post-war engagement with social and cultural renewal in Britain that was in many respects formalized through the establishment of the Arts Council of Great Britain. It was further developed in the founding of such cultural institutions as the Royal Opera, Sadler’s Wells Ballet, the Design Council and later the National Theatre, and in the diversity and expansion of television and film.

While these various initiatives were often instigated by a strong national if not nationalist instinct, they were also informed by an established dynamic of social, political, and cultural dialogue. In the years before the war, that dynamic had been marked primarily by the prominent, indisputably anglophile voices of such influential Canadians in Britain as Beverly Baxter and Lord Beaverbrook. In Englishspeaking Canada, an established recognition of Britain as a dominant, if not originating, influence on definitions of cultural excellence continued to predominate. In the years following the war, however, that dynamic was to change, and an increased movement of artists, intellectuals, and artistic policymakers between the two countries saw the reciprocal development of an emphatically modern, confident, and progressive definition of contemporary cultural activity.

This conference aims to expose and explore the breadth of this exchange of social and cultural ideals, artistic talent, intellectual traditions, and aesthetic formulations. We invite papers from a variety of critical and disciplinary perspectives—and particularly encourage contributions from scholars and practitioners working in theatre, history, literature, politics, music, film and television, cultural studies, design, and visual art.

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Postgraduate study in the humanities at the University of London

The School of Advanced Study at the University of London brings together nine internationally renowned research institutes to form the UK’s national centre for the support and promotion of research in the humanities. The School offers full- and part-time master’s and research degrees in its specialist areas: LLM in Advanced Legislative Studies LLM in Advanced Legislative Studies via distance learning LLM in International Corporate Governance, Financial Regulation and Economic Law MA in Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture MA in Cultural and Intellectual History 1300–1650 MA in Garden and Landscape History MA/MRes in Historical Research MA/MRes in The History of the Book MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies via distance learning MA in The Making of the Modern World Master’s by Research in Modern Languages

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

Face-to-face training

effectively.

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.

and undertaken at any pace. It provides the building blocks for humanities research generally, as well as for particular humanities disciplines and specific topics.

Designed to meet the needs of 21st-century researchers, PORT offers specific skills-based programmes as well as more general guidance. For further information, please visit port.sas.ac.uk.

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

For a printed copy of our research training handbook or for further information, please contact us:

Extensive training for students of cultures and literatures is Making the most of the expertise offered by the Institute of Modern available in the School and the Languages Research, whose University of London, the institutes well-established and popular between them also provide wellprogramme, comprising a series of established discipline-specific Saturday workshops, is offered to research training in core humanities any postgraduate student working disciplines. in modern languages or a related discipline (for instance, film or art Training in aspects of history, for history). instance, is extensive, notably in the Institute of Historical Research Most of the School’s training is (IHR), which offers a comprehensive available to postgraduate students The School’s programme programme of short courses in across the UK, much of it free of of personal development research skills for historians. Taking charge. Details of all the research and transferable skills advantage of the unparalleled training courses provided are training is available in the availability of historical expertise available at our website: form of weekly workshops in the University of London and www.sas.ac.uk/support-research/ the wealth of archival materials commencing in the research-training in and around the capital, the autumn.

Institute’s long-established and Online research training highly successful courses are widely In addition to the face-to-face This general training is complemented by a set of recognised as the best means training we offer, the School’s of developing and extending both Postgraduate Online Research research methodologies essential and more specialised Training (PORT) website provides courses and specific research skills. The IHR training free online resources including training in the software programme is primarily aimed at tutorials, handbooks and and management postgraduate historians, but also multimedia. PORT complements information tools required welcomes established historians postgraduate study, providing and independent researchers to enable students to training packages that can be and writers. complete their research accessed anywhere, at any time,

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