SAS What's on April | May | June 2019

What’s on April | May | June 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 April through 30 June 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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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.

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

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Station Bicycles: Bicycle racks are located throughout the University’s central precinct. Please note that we St Pancras cannot be held responsible for theft or damage toStation bicycles.

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Event highlights

Sanctuaries and Experience: Knowledge, Practice, and Space in the Ancient World 8 April, 10:30 – 10 April, 15:30 | Room 349, Senate House Free | Book in advance ics.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19326

South Africa’s Election and the Media 3 April, 18:00–20:00 | Room 349, Senate House Free | Book in advance commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19314 South Africa has a robust media landscape, which has been described as ‘the fourth pillar of democracy’. However, the ability of South African media and journalists to call the powerful to account is being increasingly challenged: Reporters Without Borders recently noted that ‘coverage of certain subjects involving the ruling ANC and government finances is off limits, or provokes a hostile reaction from the authorities’.

As the country approaches the May 2019 elections, freedom of the media, editorial bias, and manipulation of information have added importance given the mounting pressures on the ANC government. Three leading panellists will discuss the impact of the media and fake news on elections and the implications for democracy.

The colloquium will be chaired by ICWS Senior Research Fellow and former BBC World Service Africa Programme Editor Martin Plaut and will feature as speakers Golden Neswiswi (South African Deputy High Commissioner), Justin Adams (UK Chairperson, Democratic Alliance), and Desne Masie (economist and journalist, Wits School of Governance Fellow, and Senior Associate at Global Counsel).

Organised by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.

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Sanctuaries—places that are permanently special, even when no rituals are taking place— are common, perhaps universal, products of human societies. The use of sanctuaries asserts and reaffirms the interdependent senses of self and community generated by experiences shared in the present and over the ages. The Sanctuaries and Experience conference brings a diverse group of thinkers and practitioners together to discuss the ways in which sanctuaries, and the activities that took place around them, formed religious experience and reproduced religious knowledge across the ancient world. It will be the last major event of a five-year project funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation through an Anneliese Maier Research Prize held by Greg Woolf (ICS) and led by him and Jörg Rüpke (Erfurt).

Organised by the Institute of Classical Studies.

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The Queer Art of Feeling: Sensation, Emotion, and the Body in Queer Cultures 2–3 May, 10:00–17:00 | University of Cambridge Fee applicable | Book in advance ilas.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19188

A Celebration of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) 27 April, 9:30–17:00 | St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, NW1 1UL

This conference explores the potential of the arts to represent, explore, challenge, and create modes of queer lived, felt, and embodied experience. Taking ‘feeling’ in all its meanings— touch, hapticity, sensation, emotion, a hunch or gut reaction, as well as tentativeness when ‘feeling one’s way’—the conference will explore the complex relationships to culture and society that are at stake in queer artworks and queer experience. The keynote lecture will be given by feminist writer and independent scholar Sara Ahmed.

Organised by the Institute of Latin American Studies.

Lavender Study #5 used with the kind permission of Laurence Philomène

£28 standard | £18 concessions | Book in advance ies.sas.ac.uk/wollstonecraft On the 260th anniversary of Mary Wollstonecraft’s birth, activists, enthusiasts, students, and scholars are invited to take part in a celebration of her life, her writings, and her legacy. There will be discussion of the relevance of Wollstonecraft’s ideas today, new directions in research and gaps in the archive, and exciting plans for networks and societies. An exhibition and bookstall will accompany panel discussions and free walking tours of Wollstonecraft’s Bloomsbury and Somers Town.

Organised by the Institute of English Studies.

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Event highlights

Bodensee. Transnational Literatures of a Cultural Region Authors: Arno Camenisch, Verena Roßbacher, and Alissa Walser 8 May, 19:00 – 10 May, 17:00 | Room G37, Senate House Fee applicable (check online) | Book in advance modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/ event/19275

Children of the Windrush Generation 8 May, 13:45–20:00 | Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies, Senate House Library Free | Book in advance commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17972 The modern Commonwealth is all around us, not least because of migration into Britain since the Second World War. These population flows included returning communities from the dissolving British Empire, socioeconomic migrants, family reunions and marriage, refugees, and asylum seekers. As the recent stories around ‘the Windrush Generation’ have shown, individual experiences of those travelling to and settling in Britain have remained hidden from history and unknown by younger members of the family.

Each of us can use oral history to record people’s memories, unique experiences, and opinions.

This workshop offers the opportunity to gain important foundational skills around interviewing techniques. The workshop will be followed by a film screening of Mutiny (Tony T and Rebecca Goldstone), a story of World War One and the black struggle for pride and freedom.

Organised by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.

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The extended area around Lake Constance/ Bodensee, encompassing the Vierländereck of the surrounding parts of Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein, has long been perceived as a transnational cultural and economic space. It defines itself as such in the International Bodensee Konferenz, and is promoted as an inter-regional area by the European Union. The conference will focus on writers from the nineteenth century to the present who have either resided in the wider area, and/or have depicted it in their work. This event will take stock of literary traditions and recent developments, while enabling new views on the question of trans/national literatures. The programme features bilingual readings by Alissa Walser and Verena Roßbacher at the Austrian Cultural Forum on 8 May (acflondon.org) and by Arno Camenisch on 9 May (modernlanguages. sas.ac.uk/events/event/19315).

Organised by the Institute of Modern Languages Research.

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Equestrian statue of Juan De Oñate, Oñate Monument Center, Alcalde, New Mexico (Advanced Source Productions, CC BY 2.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)

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Across Languages: Translingualism in Contemporary Women’s Writing Anna-Louise Milne and Rebecca Walkowitz 30–31 May, 9:00–18:00 | Room G7, Senate House

Dorothy Tarrant Lecture – ‘Aquí fue Troia nobles caballeros:’ Intertextuality in Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá’s ‘Historia de la Nueva México’ Margaret Malamud 13 May, 17:00–19:00 | Room 349, Senate House Free ics.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19283 In 1610 Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá completed a remarkable verse epic, ‘Historia de la Nueva México’, an account of the conquistador Don Juan Oñate’s colonization of territory at the northern edge of the Spanish empire, from 1595 to 1599. Villagrá was a participant in events the poem narrates. The first half describes the arduous journey to Nueva México and the establishment of a colony, while the second chronicles the savage destruction of the Acoma pueblo. After the bloody final battle, Villagrá has one of the Spanish warriors say ‘Aquí fue Troia nobles caballeros.’ The poem is saturated with intertextual allusions to Virgil, Homer, and Lucan.

What can an understanding of these references bring to us as readers of this epic about early Spanish New Mexico?

Organised by the Institute of Classical Studies.

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Fee applicable | Book in advance modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/ event/17740 As part of a programme of events celebrating the tenth anniversary of the IMLR’s Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, this conference will bring together scholars working on translingual women’s writing in a range of language fields in order to explore the particular richness of texts produced by writers in languages that are not their mother tongues. In the current era of mass migration and transnational movement, analysis of translingualism as the mode of expression of this movement is an important area of inquiry.

Considered in conjunction with questions of gender and power, translingual writing can also reveal powerful ways of conceptualizing emancipatory feminine writing. Beyond concerns of identity formation, translingual language use opens up new ways of thinking and of deconstructing established modes of expression through associative cross-language connections. In so transcending the binaries of language use, it is apt to reveal new forms of literary writing.

Organised by the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute of Modern Languages Research.

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Logic in London – Workshop on Type-free Concepts 30–31 May, 13:00–18:00 | Room 246, Senate House Free | Book in advance philosophy.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19477 The inaugural Logic in London Workshop aims to bring together researchers working on the logic and the philosophy of type-free notions such as functions, classes, properties, and propositions. Due to the logical paradoxes, the traditional approach arranges such entities in hierarchies: type-theory and traditional set theory are well-known examples. The resulting picture has the obvious drawback of leaving out many legitimate objects. For instance, many innocuous circular properties and propositions cannot be assigned a place in the hierarchical approach. Similarly, it is not possible to accommodate propositions expressing quantification over all levels in a hierarchy. The aim of the workshop is to explore and compare different approaches to type-free notions that overcome such shortcomings. It will focus, in particular, on the formal frameworks employed to model them, and on their philosophical motivations and applications.

Organised by the Institute of Philosophy.

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RLI Annual Conference – Rethinking the ‘Regional’ in Refugee Law and Policy 3–5 June, 9:00–14:00 | Senate House £150 standard | £120 concessions (students, unwaged) | £100 RLI affiliates (SRAs, RAs, MA Refugee Protection students) | Book in advance rli.sas.ac.uk/events/event/17422 The fourth RLI annual conference offers a dedicated annual forum internationally to share and debate the latest research and cuttingedge developments in refugee protection. This conference builds on the success of the previous annual conferences that united academics, practitioners, policy-makers, and students in considering pressing challenges to refugee law.

In Africa, the 50th anniversary of the 1969 African refugee convention raises questions about its continuing role as the preeminent regional refugee treaty, even as the African Union declares 2019 the Year of Refugees in that region. In Europe, the future of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) is furiously debated as fracture lines grow between European Union (EU) member states and in anticipation of Brexit. Meanwhile, large-scale refugee movements from Syria, Venezuela, and Myanmar strain regional responses in the Middle East, Americas, and Asia. Against this backdrop, this year’s special conference theme interrogates the role of regional refugee law and policy in light of refugee movements and the shifting politics of today’s world.

Organised by the Refugee Law Initiative. sas.ac.uk/events | senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/events

4 June, 14:00–16:00 | Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Charles Clore House Free | Book in advance ials.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19467 The seminar brings together scholars from several disciplines of the arts and humanities in order to revisit the notion of harmony in a number of contexts. Harmony plays a role in music, architecture, sculpture, philosophy, sociology, and many more scholarly disciplines.

In the discipline of law, it has acquired a fixed place in legal terminology without ever enjoying a clear definition. Harmonisation of laws is often used as a synonym for uniform law on an international level. Within the EU, it has its most proliferous use in the context of law but has been replaced by the term ‘approximation’ in more recent legislative texts. The convenors of this event believe that harmonisation, if understood properly, could be a powerful tool in shaping better law. They are proposing research that will explore the full potential of harmony and harmonisation for the law by building a new, innovative, and interdisciplinary method and meaning of harmonised law. Speakers include Maren Heidemann (IALS), Simon Desbruslais (Hull), and Martin Parker Dixon (Glasgow), who have their background in law, musicology and philosophy.

Organised by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.

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Curatorial Conversations: Winds of Change Luke Syson 6 June, 17:30–19:30 | The Warburg Institute Free | Book in advance bit.ly/CCFitzwilliam Curatorial Conversations bring the museum directors and makers of recent exhibitions at world-leading museums and galleries to The Warburg Institute to discuss their work. The conversations, led by academics at The Warburg, discuss the issues of setting the directorial or curatorial agenda and staging meaningful encounters with objects. The series is designed to draw out discussion of the discoveries made, challenges tackled, and the lessons learned in heading a collection and putting together internationally renowned exhibitions.

Recent speakers have included Silvia Davoli, Research Curator at Strawberry Hill House, and Melanie Holcomb, Curator at the Museum of Metropolitan Art. Past event podcasts are available online: bit.ly/WIpodcasts.

Luke Syson, who began as Director and Marley Curator at the Fitzwilliam Museum in February 2019, brings a wealth of experience in managing diverse object collections and in leading people and research. The conversation will consider the pleasures and challenges of directing a vibrant museum with an international profile, particularly the questions involved in leading the project to develop the Fitzwilliam’s mission as well as its physical space.

Organised by The Warburg Institute.

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Event highlights

Giovanni Francesco Rustici, Mercury taking Flight (c. 1515), Fitzwilliam Museum

Harmonisation and the Law: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Enquiries. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Legislative Drafting?

18 June, 14:00–20:00 | Room G22 and Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House

Cantino Planosphere (1502), Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, Modena, Italy

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Global Portuguese Fee applicable (check online) | Book in advance modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/ event/17819 This symposium explores the global expansion of the Portuguese language, literature, and music. The linguistic impact of the Lusitanians is recognised in South America (Brazil), Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Sao Tome e Principe, and Cape Verde) and Asia (Macau and East Timor). But Portuguese cultural impressions have also spilt into areas outside the official empire. This symposium seeks to understand the nature of intercultural interactions. How did a country with limited resources make an impression that outlasted the successive imperial powers that followed them? How did the Portuguese bridge the cultural gap between themselves and ‘others’? The speakers will use contemporary literary texts, languages spoken in the Lusophone countries, identities constructed, and also live music to explore the global impact of Portuguese cultural imprints and transculturation.

Organised by the Institute of Modern Languages Research and supported by the John Coffin Fund.

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E.H. Gombrich Lecture Series – Provenance and Possession: Global Acquisitions from the Portuguese Trading Empire in Renaissance Italy 18, 19, and 20 June, 17:30–18:30 | The Warburg Institute Free | Book in advance bit.ly/GombrichLecturesWI From the mid-fifteenth century, all manner of ‘new’ peoples, objects, and animals began to arrive in Lisbon from the worldwide Portuguese trading empire; over the next 150 years, examples from these categories were sporadically shipped to the Italian peninsula.

These lectures will analyse the ways in which this global empire shaped diverse social, cultural, and economic spheres in Renaissance Italy, primarily in Florence and Rome. Most people and goods arrived in Italy with their place of origin erased, and the lectures will focus on the issues of provenance and possession in particular. Global goods offered an opportunity for the rich and well connected to acquire novel and rare possessions of both people and things; yet who chose these objects, on what basis, what made them attractive, and what effects they had on the population remain central questions.

Organised by The Warburg Institute and Princeton University Press.

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20–21 June, 9:30–15:45 | Venue: check online for details Fee applicable (check online) | Book in advance ials.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19468 State pensions are the largest item in the UK social security budget, estimated to cost £91.6 billion in 2016/17, with 12.9 million recipients paid an average of £7,100 each. Enormous wealth is also managed by the trustees of occupational pension schemes on behalf of members to whom distributions are eventually made as a form of deferred remuneration for their work; in 2015, 33.5 million people were members of such schemes in the UK. The social and economic impact of pensions law is therefore huge, and the development of this area of law is relevant to all of us as private citizens. In legal practice, social security law and pensions law are areas that have become increasingly specialised, with many solicitors and barristers making these their exclusive practice areas. This year’s WG Hart Legal Workshop will bring together academics and practitioners with an expertise and interest in the area to exchange ideas, discuss issues of topical concern, and stimulate the development of new academic literature and research agendas for the future.

Organised by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.

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Art and Cinema in TwentyFirst-Century Peru: Aesthetics, Politics, and Platform 20–21 June, 10:00–18:00 | The Court Room, Senate House Fee applicable (check online) | Book in advance ilas.sas.ac.uk/events/event/16813 The twenty-first century is witnessing a new moment of growth for Peru’s visual arts. Since the recovery of democracy and the rise of new social aspirations at the beginning of the century, the arts have played a significant role in rethinking the past and reimagining the country. Filmmakers and artists from new generations and from diverse socioeconomic sectors and regions have emerged, bringing new visual aesthetics and different forms of social and political engagement. The growth of Peru’s economy, rapid urban neoliberal transformations, and an incisive national branding campaign have all made an impact on the arts and cinema in terms of production, audiences, and distribution. Within these contexts, both the arts and cinema have developed more consolidated fields connected to local situations and transnational circuits in the hands of private initiatives and, although precarious and intermittent, state cultural policy.

Despite the strengthening of these fields, a fragility persists in their growth and the diversity of their approaches.

Co-sponsored and orrganised by the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of East Anglia, Grupo de Investigación en Antropología Visual (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú), and the Peruvian Embassy in London.

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Event highlights

Jose Carlos Martinat, Trampa para coleccionista (2008)

WG Hart Legal Workshop 2019 – Pensions: Law, Policy, and Practice

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British Association for Modernist Studies International Conference 2019 – Troublesome Modernisms 20–22 June | Venue: check online for details £40, £45, £50, £60 one day registration | £95, £105, £135, £150 three day registration | Book in advance ies.sas.ac.uk/bams2019 In troubled times, this year’s BAMS conference proposes the theme of ‘Troublesome Modernisms’. The conference aims to take a fresh look at modernism’s capacity to, and for, trouble, to examine anew the multiple modes of modernist argumentation, contestation, and dissent. In particular, the conference is eager to mark and reflect on the reverberations of Douglas Mao’s and Rebecca Walkowitz’s groundbreaking Bad Modernisms (2006), a volume that questioned the limits of modernist studies. The conference seeks to spark debate about how modernisms might have troubled contemporary writers, political thinkers, philosophers, artists, and consumers; about how modernisms might not fit with themes or ideals prescribed by modernist studies; and about how works not immediately identifiable as modernist might afford new analyses of the relationship between art, culture, and modernity. In all, ‘Troublesome Modernisms’ invites discussion of the ways in which modernisms might embody negativity, disorder, commotion, interruption, intrusion, insurgency, and difficulty. How does modernism continue both to address trouble and to behave badly?

Organised by the Institute of English Studies.

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Exhibitions

Exhibition – Senate House Library

Staging Magic: The Story Behind The Illusion

SENATE HOUSE Senate LIBRARY House Library’s latest #STAGINGMAGIC exhibition is an OPEN MONDAY – SATURDAY 4TH FLOOR, SENATE HOUSE adventure the history of conjuring www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk BLOOMSBURY, LONDON WC1 7HU through

21 January – 15 June | Senate House Library Free | Open Monday–Saturday senatehouselibrary.ac.uk #StagingMagic

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and magic as entertainment, a tradition that fascinated and entranced audiences for hundreds of years. Focusing on magic in the form of sleight of hand (legerdemain) and stage illusions, more than 60 stories are revealed, from sixteenth-century court jugglers to the great masters of the golden age of magic in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The books, manuscripts, and ephemera are from the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature, given to the University of London in 1936.

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Anatomie of Legerdemain, which set the formula for conjuring manuals through the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Also featured will be Henry Dean’s much reprinted The Whole Art of Legerdemain; or, Hocus Pocus in Perfection and books that exposed the techniques of the most popular performers of the eighteenth century, including Comus, Breslaw, and Pinetti.

Material from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries will celebrate the ‘Golden Age of Magic’ and the proliferation of manuals for magicians including Hoffmann’s Modern Magic, works

by John Henry Anderson, Robert-Houdin, the Maskelynes, Harry Houdini, Will Goldston, and David Devant.

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Exhibitions

Through five interconnected themes, the exhibition explores how magic has remained a mainstay of popular culture in the western world over 400 years, how its secrets have been kept and revealed, and how magicians have innovated to continue to surprise their audiences. Each theme features some of the most important books in the history of magic alongside lesserknown works celebrating a range of genres in magic publishing.

Exhibits include a rare first edition of Reginald Scot’s The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), the first printed book in English to describe a magic trick, and the 1634 edition of Hocus Pocus Junior: The

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