SAS What's on July | August | September 2019

What’s on

July | August | September 2019

A selection of events highlighting the latest research across the humanities

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Welcome to the School of Advanced Study and to Senate House Library, University of London.

The School of Advanced Study is the UK’s national centre for the support and promotion of academic 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.

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies / ials.sas.ac.uk Institute of Classical Studies / ics.sas.ac.uk Institute of Commonwealth Studies / commonwealth.sas.ac.uk Institute of English Studies / ies.sas.ac.uk Institute of Historical Research / history.ac.uk Institute of Latin American Studies / ilas.sas.ac.uk Institute of Modern Languages Research / modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk Institute of Philosophy / philosophy.sas.ac.uk The Warburg Institute / warburg.sas.ac.uk

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. The Library organises a number of exhibitions and related events throughout the year.

The events included in this guide are just a few of the many taking place from 1 July through 30 September 2019. For a complete list, please visit sas.ac.uk/events and senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/exhibitions-and-events.

Book your place

Most events at the School of Advanced Study and Senate House Library are free and open to the public but some do require advance booking and/ or purchase of a ticket. Booking links are provided with each description in this guide. You can confirm event details on our websites (sas.ac.uk/events and senatehouselibrary. ac.uk/exhibitions-and-events) or by contacting the events team at sas.events@sas.ac.uk. For more information on attending our events, read the University of London’s visitor regulations at bit.ly/uolvisitors.

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You can request to be added to our weekly events email list or add/amend/remove your details from our postal mailing list by writing to sas.events@sas.ac.uk.

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Listen or watch again

Many of our events are recorded and available to view or download at sas.ac.uk/events, on iTunes U (Research at the School of Advanced Study), and on YouTube (SchAdvStudy).

Be part of the conversation

Facebook: facebook.com/schoolofadvancedstudy and facebook.com/senatehouselibrary Twitter: @SASNews and @SenateHouseLib The School’s flagship blog, Talking Humanities, written by humanities scholars throughout the UK, provides a range of thought-provoking articles on subjects that matter to humanities researchers.

Visit talkinghumanities.blogs.sas.ac.uk.

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Our venues

Access

Unless otherwise stated, events are held within the University of London precinct in Bloomsbury, central London. Most events take place in or around Senate House (north and south blocks) on Malet Street, WC1.

The University prides itself on making its events accessible to all who wish to participate. To that end, it will endeavour to make all reasonable adjustments to facilities to accommodate accessibility needs. If you have a particular requirement, please discuss it with the event organiser ahead of the event date, or contact our events team at sas.events@sas.ac.uk.

How to get here Euston, King’s Cross, St Pancras

Assistance dogs are most welcome.

Russell Square, Tottenham Court Road, Goodge Street, Warren Street, Euston Square

A large-print version of this guide can be viewed or downloaded at sas.ac.uk/events.

Bus routes 7, 10, 14, 24, 29, 59, 68, 73, 91, 98, 134, 168, 188, and 390 all have stops within walking distance of Senate House.

Attending an event

To plan your journey within London, visit tfl.gov.uk.

Events are subject to change; please check the

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Event highlights

Sun, Sea and Science – Trinidad After Oil 1 July, 17:30–19:30 | Room G12, Senate House Free | Book in advance ilas.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19697

The Trial of Warren Hastings: Classical Oratory and Reception in Eighteenth-Century England 1 July, 17:00–18:30 | Room G35, Senate House Free ics.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19434 Between 1788 and 1795, the first GovernorGeneral of Bengal, Warren Hastings, was impeached before the House of Lords on twenty charges of ‘high crimes and misdemeanours’ in his administration of East India Company operations. The prosecution was brought by a cast of star orators, including philosopher and politician Edmund Burke and celebrated playwright and theatre manager Richard Brinsley Sheridan. The trial of Hastings became a national sensation and the public’s appetite for this extraordinary spectacle was insatiable.

Hastings’ alleged crimes of plunder, brutality, and corruption were compared to those perpetrated eighteen centuries before by the famous villaingovernor of Sicily, Caius Verres. Not only did contemporaries juxtapose Hastings and Verres, but also their accusers, Burke and Cicero. Drawing on eighteenth-century sources, including diaries and letters, newspaper reports, engravings, and collected ephemera, Chiara Rolli (Parma) will explore the histrionic atmosphere of the trial at Westminster Hall and consider it in the light of classical reception studies.

Organised by the Institute of Classical Studies and The Open University, in conjunction with the Classical Reception Studies Network.

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The recent film Sun, Sea and Science – Trinidad After Oil looks at the possibilities for Caribbean development outside the traditional areas of tourism, Carnival, and primary agriculture. The film centres on Trinidad and Tobago, but its message applies across the English-speaking Caribbean. The film, which premiered at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival in 2018, was produced by the Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence. This scheme has presented awards to 39 laureates throughout the region since 2006, underscoring the importance of science and entrepreneurship in economic development. The screening will be followed by a discussion.

Organised by the Institute of Latin American Studies.

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Luis Covane 8 July, 12:30–14:00 | Room G37, Senate House Free | Book in advance commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19791

IES Annual Lecture in the History of the Book David McKitterick

In March and April 2019, the Commonwealth country of Mozambique was hit by two cyclones of unprecedented ferocity, Cyclone Idai and Cyclone Kenneth. Speaker Luis Covane (Rector, Universidade Nachingwea, Mozambique, and former Deputy Education Minister) will discuss the multiple challenges of reconstruction facing Mozambicans after these two natural catastrophes, and the Mozambique government and people’s response.

Organised by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.

3 July, 18:00–20:00 | Woburn Suite, Senate House Free | Book in advance bit.ly/invention2019 In this lecture David McKitterick will begin with a group of bibliophiles who came together in the 1850s to form a society that had much in parallel with the Roxburghe Club. In their meetings and discussions emerges a clearer picture of how changes in taste and practice affected attitudes to old books in the mid-Victorian period. The lecture expands on research presented in his latest book, The Invention of Rare Books (2018), which covers the development of the idea of rare books and why they matter. It explores how this idea took shape in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and how collectors, the book trade, and libraries gradually came together to identify canons that often remain the same today.

Organised by the Institute of English Studies. sas.ac.uk/events | senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/events

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Event highlights

Mozambique and the Cyclones Idai and Kenneth: Challenges of Reconstruction

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Literary London Society Annual Conference 2019 11–12 July, 9:00–18:00 | University of Notre Dame, London £90 standard | £70 concessions | Book in advance ies.sas.ac.uk/litlon19 This year’s conference will explore the neighbourliness or otherwise of our cities, both within and beyond the UK. How are our communities resisting, surviving, adapting, and developing in times of international turbulence and national division? How are places of safety, creativity, meeting, and exchange established and maintained? How do representations in print, on stage, and screen, as well as reading and digital communities, develop possibilities for neighbourliness? We will consider how urban networks operate and how these can transform spaces and human experience.

Organised by the Institute of English Studies.

Transnational Families, Transnational Novels 12–13 July, 9:00–20:00 | Room 243, Senate House Fee applicable | Book in advance modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/ event/19431 This two-day conference will examine novels that depict transnational families. From Ian Watt to Joseph Slaughter, scholars of literature have understood the novel as a genre that emphasises the formation of the individual in relation to a nation-state. However, in recent decades, the interconnectedness of the global market has provoked increased interest in literature that crosses national borders. The literary celebrity of Jhumpa Lahiri, Yaa Gyasi, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie denotes a widespread need for narratives that reflect our transnational reality, examining how, when, and why we cross borders. This examination of transnational family novels will raise questions about the novel form: What can the novel genre tell us about how families are transformed by border crossings? How does a focus on transnational families affect novel structure?

How do novels that focus on transnational families challenge the conventional wisdom that the novel genre privileges individual subjectivity?

Organised by the Institute of Modern Languages Research.

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Event highlights

Homes Fit for Heroes Centenary Conference: Learning from 1919 18 July, 10:00–17:45 | IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, Senate House £50 standard | £35 students | Book in advance history.ac.uk/events/event/16727 This conference commemorates the centenary of the passage of the 1919 Housing Act and the Homes Fit for Heroes programme that it inaugurated. The conference will explore new historical perspectives on the 1919 Housing Act and the housing that was built under its provisions (and those of subsequent Acts in 1923 and 1924), which established the principle of state-subsidised social housing for the next 60 years. The conference will be followed by an evening panel-led discussion that will consider the future of housing.

Organised by The Learning from 1919 Steering Group in partnership with the Institute of Historical Research.

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Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood: Integration, Community, and Co-Habitation 25–27 September | University College Dublin Fee applicable | Book in advance modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/ event/17598 Global mass migration on an unprecedented scale, dangerous journeys across the Mediterranean by refugees fleeing persecution and warfare, the loss of family and friends, the loss of home, the challenge of integrating the arrivants/arrivantes, and conflicting notions of identity and belonging – these are some of the transcultural predicaments of the globalisation processes of the twenty-first century coming to a head in the local encounters of urban (and rural) neighbourhoods. Transnational neighbourhoods are frequently depicted as the ‘other’ and a ‘deviant terrain’. However, voices from within often emphasise different perceptions and have the potential to challenge and counter discourses emerging in the context of the rapid rise of populist right-wing parties across Europe. The current political debate is highly polarised and often dominated by quantitative arguments concerning the number of refugees and the social, economic, and political impact of their integration. This conference seeks to shift focus by exploring transcultural encounters in the urban neighbourhood, seeing the urban neighbourhood as a social microcosm that allows for a more nuanced discussion of transculturality as lived practice.

Organised by the Institute of Modern Languages Research and UCD Humanities Institute.

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Short courses and summer schools

Short courses and summer schools Our institutes offer a range of summer schools and short courses taught by distinguished scholars. For further details about courses and fees, please visit sas.ac.uk/summer.

The Modern Commonwealth Short Course Study online at any time The modern Commonwealth was formed in 1949 with the London Declaration, which changed the basis of membership from common allegiance to the British Crown to a free and equal association of independent states. Yet this organisation often remains misunderstood or underappreciated. This short course, which can be undertaken entirely online, provides an insight into the history that has shaped the modern Commonwealth of Nations as well as the key events, figures, and formal agreements that have made it the organisation it is today.

Organised by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.

London Rare Books School Week 1 (17–21 June) | Week 2 (24–28 June) | Week 3 (1–5 July) The London Rare Books School (LRBS) is a series of five-day, intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects taught in and around Senate House, University of London. We offer a range of fascinating specialist courses ranging from Medieval Women and the Book, the History of Book Illustration, and the Digital Book, covering over two thousand years of book history and investigating the world’s diverse cultures and traditions in book production.

Organised by the Institute of English Studies.

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Professional Legislative Drafting Course 24 June – 19 July The aim of this course is to encourage modern drafting techniques with an emphasis on effective and user-friendly legislation, and to expose drafters to a variety of drafting styles, thus allowing participants to select elements that best suit their national laws and their own tradition, culture, and jurisprudence. Suitable for both experienced and inexperienced drafters.

Organised by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.

T. S. Eliot International Summer School 6–14 July The T.S. Eliot International Summer School welcomes to Bloomsbury all with an interest in the life and work of this Bloomsbury-based poet, dramatist, and man of letters. The Summer School brings together some of the most distinguished scholars of T.S. Eliot and modern literature.

Organised by the Institute of English Studies. sas.ac.uk/events | senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/events

Public Humanities Short Course

7–12 July

This two-day short course will explore how public engagement can be strategically embedded in humanities research careers. The course will cover key areas such as working with the media, navigating ‘impact’ and the REF, and looking at how engagement can be done through research. Participants will attend plenaries and talks by leading scholars as well as workshops led by the SAS Public Engagement team. This course is suitable for those with a humanities-focused research career, especially ECRS.

This second edition of the human rights summer school addresses the interplay between norms and facts about human rights, with a focus on the impact of new technologies on human rights. Jointly organised by the Human Rights Consortium and the University of Padova, its aim is to reflect on the challenges for human rights normative systems stemming from the variety of situations in which human rights are operationalised. The normative/factual fault lines, the chasm between law and reality, are investigated not only in terms of compliance gaps, but also as opportunities for expanding and attuning the legal, ethical, and philosophical articulations of current human rights narratives.

Organised by the Human Rights Consortium.

Aby Warburg, the Picture Atlas and the Making of Visual Culture 8–12 July The inaugural Warburg Institute Summer School is dedicated to the work of Aby Warburg and his picture atlas Mnemosyne. Over the course of five days, participants will first be introduced to exemplary panels from the Atlas; they will examine original material, familiarise themselves with the collections of the Warburg Institute, and discuss relevant texts by Warburg and other scholars that unlock this inspirational and complex body of work. This course will focus particularly on material and popular culture, on art and science, and on intercultural relations. It includes site visits (for example, to the Victoria and Albert Museum, Wellcome Collection, British Library, and National Gallery) to work through the different ways in which we can examine artworks and artefacts.

Organised by The Warburg Institute and The Bilderfahrzeuge Research Group. sas.ac.uk/events | senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/events

11–12 July

International Taxation Law Summer Course 2–6 September The International Taxation Summer Course developed by IALS will focus on various international taxation issues such as residence; permanent establishment; business profits, dividends, interest, royalties, under tax treaties; triangular cases; double taxation relief and nondiscrimination; beneficial ownership and antiavoidance provisions; transparency; exchange of information; protection of taxpayers’ rights; and transfer pricing. The course will be taught by distinguished academics and is open to university students and tax professionals.

Organised by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.

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Short courses and summer schools

Normativity and Reality of Human Rights

Exhibitions

Exhibition – Senate House Library

Writing in Times of Conflict 16 July – 15 December | Senate House Library Free | Open Monday–Saturday senatehouselibrary.ac.uk @SenateHouseLib | #WritingforPeace

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Senate House Library’s latest exhibition explores the power of words as a means to achieve peace and reconciliation in response to conflicts over the last 100 years.

The exhibition starts in 1919 just after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles put an end to the First World War, a conflict that led to the establishment of many contemporary peace movements. It explores some of the most prominent military, environmental, and economic conflicts that have ensued right up until 2019, including Brexit, social and economic inequality, and climate change.

Items on display include one of the first editions of John Maynard Keynes’ The Economic Consequences of the Peace, a signed rare copy of In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway, a letter from Virginia Woolf describing the WWII bombers flying overhead, and a first edition of Carol Ann Duffy’s thoughtprovoking play My Country: A Work in Progress.

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Exhibitions Exile artwork

Alongside these are unique photographs and items that give context to the works, such as one of only two surviving copies of the ‘Nazi Black Book’. This listed peace activists and politicians targeted by the Gestapo and was given to the Library in 1945 by the Ministry of Information, which was based at Senate House during the Second World War. Also included are the narratives of journalists, politicians, and local community voices in Africa, Latin America, and Europe.

Told through Senate House Library’s global collections, visitors can explore some of the world’s most notable conflicts through the eyes and the words of people who were there and consider some of the world’s biggest questions… Is the pen mightier than the sword? Is all fair in love and war? Can there ever be world peace?

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Cover image: Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg, Map of London (1572)