SAS Events Brochure 1 February - 30 April 2017

Events

February | March | April 2017

Ancient Science Origins of Art Pocahontas and After Senate House Library exhibition: ‘Radical Voices’ 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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On the cover: ‘Captain Argall takes Pocahontas the daughter of King Powhatan on board his ship’ by Johann Theodor de Bry (1561–1623), courtesy of the National Maritime Museum, London

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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 Most of our events are free and open to the public.

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

Mailing lists 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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Highlights February The neural basis of real-world social interaction: connecting art, education, neuroscience and brains Most of us interact with other people on a daily basis, yet we know very little about how the brain supports dynamic social interactions. In this talk, Dr Suzanne Dikker from Utrecht University will discuss a series of projects she has worked on with scientists, artists and educators to investigate the brain basis of realworld face-to-face communication.

She will present a number of multidisciplinary projects from the US and discuss promising new avenues for investigating social interactions outside the laboratory.

Date: 6 February

History, heritage and ideology: the commemoration of benefactors

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This year the Anglo-American world will mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Pocahontas with numerous commemorative activities. 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 international conference will explore her the life and afterlives, aiming to open new interdisciplinary discussions.

Cultural institutions including universities have, for centuries, depended on private benefactions. But the wealth from which these derive has frequently come from activity that is counter to modern social and ethical standards, and donors may have had dubious motives for their giving. In the light of the duty of these institutions to uphold the highest contemporary values, what is their duty to their benefactors? How, for example, should they acknowledge them?

This conference will be of interest to all students of history and to those engaged in educational and cultural fundraising. Conference fee applies.

Date: 16, 17, 18 March

Date: 23, 24 March

Pocahontas and after: historical culture and transatlantic encounters, 1617–2017

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11th London Ancient Science conference

London Anglo-Saxon Symposium 2017

This annual conference to discuss current research on any aspect of ancient science from the philosophical, historical, technical or social viewpoint within any ancient culture will once again be held at the Institute of Classical Studies. This year’s sessions will include Aristotle on nature, preSocratic science, science and rhetoric, Aristotle and biology, numbers and mathematics, astronomy and cosmology, science in early Plato, seeing and dreaming, and science in late Plato.

The London Anglo-Saxon Symposium is an opportunity for the public and members of academic institutions to come together and share their knowledge of and enthusiasm for Anglo-Saxon England. The theme of this year’s event, our sixth, is ‘animals’.

We will be looking at the AngloSaxons’ relationships with animals from different angles, starting with some of the ways in which they represented animals in their art and literature, then looking at their use of animals in hunting and farming, and moving on to a handling session and discussion of animal products. The event ends with a wine reception.

Date: 13, 14, 15 February See page 30 for event information

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This conference explores articulations of resistance and revolution in French in new and innovative ways. Radical politics, activism, and the transnational aspects of cultural production relative to them are all investigated while understanding the metropole and its ‘Outre-Mer’ as sites of mobility and exchange. Hitherto under-explored Francospheres highlight French linguistic networks and flows across the globe. From examples of revolution and resistance to research on contemporary uprisings – Nuit debout, the Arab spring, the legacies of Mai 68 and the HIV/AIDS – crisis are all up for discussion.

Lady Patricia Scotland QC became the first female Commonwealth secretarygeneral in 2016. In a career of firsts for women she is also the first black and youngest woman to be appointed Queen’s Counsel, deputy High Court Judge, Recorder and Master of Middle Temple. She is the only woman since the post was created in 1315 to be Attorney General for England and Wales. As a UK government minister, she oversaw a major reform of the criminal justice system, including the introduction of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act, and has been instrumental in the setting up of several foundations and nongovernmental organisations aimed at advancing human rights, the welfare of young people and the protection of girls and women from violence.

Date: 3, 4 April

Date: 4 April

Francospheres of resistance and revolution

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The Commonwealth and challenges to media freedom Using real examples from countries including Malaysia, South Africa, Botswana, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda, journalists, lawyers, magistrates, judges and policymakers will address government interference and restrictions at this Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) conference. They will investigate the challenges for journalists, bloggers and social media users in Kashmir, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and debate postLevenson UK and regional threats and personal violence in India and society in general.

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The Peter Lyon Memorial Lecture

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Holocaust Memorial EU legal translation: Lecture 2017: an past, present and intimate view of future? evil? How German 3 February 2017 Jews made sense of EU legal translation is complex. It challenges some central translation Nazi perpetrators concepts, is subject to frequent 1 February 2017

After years of focusing on policy and perpetrators, historians of the Holocaust have begun to give victims’ experience more attention.

But we have been surprisingly slow to ask how victims viewed the perpetrators. Jews from Germany were best placed to understand the Nazis. They shared the same language and national background, had anxiously observed them evolve, and were forced to confront painful questions about how the culture in which they had taken such pride had produced the barbarians who now confronted them. How did they make sense of the ‘perpetrators from next door’?

Led by historian Mark Roseman, the discussion is organised by the Institute of Historical Research and the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism.

switches between working languages, and is a fusion of legal cultures and complex drafting practices. These legal texts are hybrid and so are their translations.

This practically oriented overview delivered by Łucja Biel, associate professor at the University of Warsaw’s Institute of Applied Linguistics, will highlight and discuss recent developments and the future of language and translation policy. It will reveal the differences between EU and other types of legal translation, how translators who work with EU texts, or texts intended for EU institutions, are expected to understand institutional procedures, style guides, resources and tools, as well as when and how to use them.

The neural basis of real-world social interaction: connecting art, education, neuroscience and brains 6 February 2017 Most of us interact with other people on a daily basis, yet we know very little about how the brain supports dynamic social interactions. In this talk, Dr Suzanne Dikker from Utrecht University will discuss a series of projects she has worked on with scientists, artists and educators to investigate the brain basis of real-world face-to-face communication.

She will present a number of multidisciplinary projects from the US and discuss promising new avenues for investigating social interactions outside the laboratory.

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11th London Ancient Defending the Turkey and Islam in Science conference nature-culture divide France and Europe: migrant cultural 13–15 February 2017 2 March 2017 memory on screen This annual conference to discuss Does new scientific research current research on any aspect on development, epigenetics and page of ancient science from the and gene-culture co-evolution philosophical, historical, technical or social viewpoint within any ancient culture will once again be held at the Institute of Classical Studies. It is sponsored by the University College London’s Department of Science and Technology Studies and the British Society for the History of Science.

This year’s sessions will include Aristotle on nature, pre-Socratic science, science and rhetoric, Aristotle and biology, numbers and mathematics, astronomy and cosmology, science in early Plato, seeing and dreaming, and science in late Plato.

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show that nature and culture cannot be separated? And what does this assumption mean for our understanding of body and mind? Drawing on her work in the philosophy of life sciences, Maria Kronfeldner, associate professor in Central European University’s Department of Philosophy, will argue in defence of the nature-culture divide at this free one-day seminar.

Despite their entanglement at the developmental, epigenetic and evolutionary level, nature and culture are understood as two channels of inheritance, that is, as two bundle terms for two kinds of developmental resources. During this talk Professor Kronfeldner will explore four aspects that allow us to distinguish between nature and culture.

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11 March 2017

The workshop will start by focusing on a recent film about arranged marriages in Turkey written by a Turkish-French film director.

Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s 2015 film Mustang won the César awards for Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Original Music and Best First Feature Film. The director will speak about her views on women’s rights, faith, cinema, family, cultural identity and migration in France and Turkey.

Other films by Turkish-German and Turkish-Italian film directors will be introduced, as well as migrant literature from France, Italy, and Germany. A screening of Mustang and a debate will follow in the afternoon.

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London’s women historians: a celebration and a conversation 13 March 2017 At the start of 2017, gender equality remains one of the most pressing issues in the historical profession. This is evident from research published by the Royal Historical Society in 2015, longstanding efforts by the Economic History Society to elevate women in their discipline, and an initiative at the University of Oxford to launch a ‘manifesto’ for women in the humanities.

This event is an attempt to continue and deepen this conversation, thinking especially about how twentieth-century London institutions have both enabled and constrained female achievements in history. It will also be an opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments of women doing history in the past, inaugurating a pop-up exhibition of twentiethcentury London women historians at the IHR, organised by King’s College London.

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Pocahontas and after: historical culture and transatlantic encounters, 1617–2017 16–18 March 2017 This year the Anglo-American world will mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Pocahontas with numerous commemorative activities. 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. 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 international conference will explore her life and afterlives, aiming to open new interdisciplinary discussions.

Early history and landscapes of Rome seen from the Palatine 22 March 2017 Since 1985, investigations have been taking place on the northern slopes of the Palatine aiming to recover its physical layout and to map the extent of disappeared ancient landscapes as the basis for reconstructing historical interpretations and narrative.

Integration and reconstruction have been fundamental to this research, which has merged the traditional methods, techniques and operating procedures typical of ancient topography and classical archaeology. In this talk sponsored by the Institute of Classsical Studies, Paolo Carafa (La Sapienza, Rome) will discuss some recent results that contribute to the debate over the ancient topography of the Palatine Hill and the identification of monuments.

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Homophobias, human rights and social change in the French and British Caribbean 23 March 2017 Caribbean countries are often characterised as uniformly homophobic; governmental and non-governmental organisations sometimes claim LGBT rights can be used as a conduit for change.

What happens when we question assumptions about the meaning of homophobia and the effects of imposing this term on dispersed and diverse societies? How might we constructively question rights as a universal strategy through which to change local laws, beliefs and practices? Using ethnographic examples from Barbados and Martinique, this presentation will engage with key concepts of sexual minority discrimination and rights.

It will challenge assumptions of the uniformity and translatability of LGBT rights as a primary response to homophobia in the Caribbean.

Keynote speaker: David A B Murray (York University, Toronto). Convenor: William Tantam (Institute of Latin American Studies).

History, heritage and ideology: the commemoration of benefactors

London Anglo-Saxon Symposium 2017 25 March 2017

The London Anglo-Saxon Symposium is an opportunity 23–24 March 2017 for the public and members of academic institutions to Cultural institutions including come together and share their universities have, for centuries, depended on private benefactions. knowledge of and enthusiasm for Anglo-Saxon England. The theme But the wealth from which these of this year’s event, our sixth, is derive has frequently come from ‘animals’. We will be looking at activity that is counter to modern the Anglo-Saxons’ relationships social and ethical standards, and with animals from different angles, donors may have had dubious motives for their giving. In the light starting with some of the ways in of the duty of these institutions to which they represented animals in uphold the highest contemporary their art and literature, then looking at their use of animals in hunting values, what is their duty to their and farming, and moving on to a benefactors? How, for example, handling session and discussion of should they acknowledge them? animal products. The event ends This conference will be of interest with a wine reception. to all students of history and to those engaged in educational and See page 61 cultural fundraising. Conference fee for event information applies.

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Francospheres of resistance and revolution 3–4 April 2017 This conference explores articulations of resistance and revolution in French in new and innovative ways. Radical politics, activism, and the transnational aspects of cultural production relative to them are all investigated while understanding the metropole and its ‘Outre-Mer’ as sites of mobility and exchange.

Hitherto under-explored Francospheres highlight French linguistic networks and flows across the globe. From examples of revolution and resistance to research on contemporary uprisings – Nuit debout, the Arab spring, the legacies of Mai 68 and the HIV/AIDS crisis – are all up for discussion. Keynote speakers: Karin Speedy (Macquarie), Siobhan Shilton (Bristol) and Paul Mason (journalist, filmmaker and author).

Mary and Bryan Talbot will be in conversation with Charles Forsdick (Liverpool) about their graphic novel The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia.

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The Commonwealth The operas of and challenges to Thomas Adès: media freedom music, language and discourse 4–5 April 2017 Using real examples from countries including Malaysia, South Africa, Botswana, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda, journalists, lawyers, magistrates, judges and policymakers will address government interference and restrictions at this Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) conference. They will investigate the challenges for journalists, bloggers and social media users in Kashmir, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and debate post-Levenson UK and regional threats and personal violence in India and society in general. Speakers: Kishali PintoJayawardena; Gwen Lister (Namibia Media Trust); Irene Ovonji Odida (Uganda Association of Women Lawyers); Dan Branch (Warwick); William Crawley (ICWS); Kiran Hassan (SOAS); Kayode Samuel and Nupur Basu. Sponsored by the School of Advanced Study, Asian Affairs, The Commonwealth Press Union Media Trust and The Round Table.

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24–25 April 2017 Thomas Adès (b.1971) is one of Britain’s leading composers. His works are frequently performed by leading orchestras and opera companies across the world.

Each of his three operas offers a translation from a different source —biographical (Powder Her Face, 1995), literary (The Tempest, 2004) and filmic (The Exterminating Angel, 2016)—and with it the translingual negotiation between music, verbal and theatrical languages. The operas perform multiple acts of forging, reshaping and shattering the communities presented on stage and implied beyond its bounds. They achieve this not only through the dramatic presentation of multiple temporalities, social classes and place, but also by means of the musical contexts in which these occur. This is the first academic event to focus exclusively on Adès’s music, bringing together scholars from the UK and USA. See page 66 for event information

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The French Intifada: Heinrich Wölfflin in the long war the Hispanic world between France and 8 February 2017 its Arabs Tristan Weddigen Inaugural lecture 2 February 2017 Andrew Hussey OBE Professor of cultural history, director of the Centre for Postcolonial Studies, School of Advanced Study Andrew Hussey is professor of cultural history and director of the Centre for Postcolonial Studies at the School of Advanced Study.

Prior to this he was – and to a large extent still is – a specialist in French and European cultural history.

He began his academic career with a PhD at Manchester on Georges Bataille and since then his research has focused on extremist tendencies in French politics and culture. If there is a guiding theory throughout his work—he would argue—it is to trace the link between intellectual violence and real violence in French history. He is the author of four major books, including The French Intifada: The Long War between France and its Arabs. He is currently working on a biography of the French-Romanian poet Isidore Isou, resurrecting the relatively still unexplored territory of the Romanian Holocaust.

Barbara Honigmann in conversation 23 February 2017

Barbara Honigmann Chair in the history of early Writer modern art at the Institute of Art Born in East Berlin in 1949, Barbara History, University of Zurich and Rudolf Wittkower Visiting Professor, Honigmann occupies a special position among the GermanBibliotheca Hertziana (Rome) language writers of the post-war A century after the publication generation. The daughter of of Heinrich Wölfflin’s Principles German-Jewish exiles to Britain, of Art History, Professor Tristan she began her career as a theatre Weddigen’s paper, ‘Heinrich Wölfflin director and writer in the GDR and, in the Hispanic world’, will explore in 1984, moved to Strasburg, where its impact on Hispanic and Latin she continues to write in German.

American art and architectural In multi-layered, autobiographically history and aesthetics since the inspired books such as Chronik 1920s. Professor Weddigen, who meiner Strasse, she engages with took up his Bibliotheca Hertziana the complex subjectivity of her visiting professorship in September Jewishness, her rootedness in 2016, is currently working on a German language and literature, book dedicated to the iconology of and her life in France as mother, the textile medium. Other research artist and member of various projects deal with Heinrich intersecting communities. She Wölfflin’s works, the history of Latin will discuss her work, in English, American art, and digital art history. with Robert Gillett (Queen Mary This talk is part of a series organised University of London). This event by the Warburg Institute and the is sponsored by the University of Bilderfahrzeuge: Aby Warburg’s London Coffin Trust.

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New thinking: the Aztec and revision of ISO15489 conquistadors: is everything you 28 February 2017 thought you knew Rod Stone Royal Bank of Scotland about them wrong?

Rod Stone is an experienced records professional specialising in governance, risk and compliance, guidance and awareness, producing standards and global legal research. Before joining the Royal Bank of Scotland, he was senior records manager in the global markets business of the Dutch bank ABN AMRO. He has been a UK delegate to the ISO Records Management Committee for the last six years. He was one of two UK representatives on the working group that revised ISO15489—the international best practice standard for records management. It is this revision that will be the focus of the seminar.

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2 March 2017 Matthew Restall Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History and Anthropology, and director of Latin American studies, Pennsylvania State University

Pax Romana: the peace dividend 6 March 2017 Clifford Ando The David B and Clara E Stern Professor of Humanities and professor of classics, history, and law, University of Chicago

Professor Ando’s research focuses on law, religion and government in the Roman Empire, in particular on citizenship, legal pluralism and legal procedure, and the relationship between civil law, Matthew Restall was educated public law and international law at Oxford University and the in the Roman tradition. He has University of California Los Angeles. published widely on these topics, He has taught Latin American winning the Charles J. Goodwin history in the US for some 25 Award of Merit of the American years and holds an endowed Philological Association in 2003 chair and directs Latin American for Imperial Ideology and Provincial studies at Pennsylvania State Loyalty in the Roman Empire. He University. His visit to the School has held fellowships and visiting of Advanced Study coincides professorships in Canada, France, with the publication of his latest Germany, New Zealand and South book, The Meeting: A True History of the Spanish-Aztec War. Professor Africa, as well as the United States.

He is currently Research Fellow in Restall, who specialises in the Spanish Conquest, colonial Mexico, the Department of Classics and World Languages at the University Guatemala, Belize, the Maya and of South Africa. the African disapora in Spanish America, has held fellowships from See page 46 the Guggenheim Foundation, for event information the US National Endowment for the Humanities, and Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study.

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Towards a history of Jewish emancipation politics: the inaugural George Weidenfeld Lecture in Jewish History 2017 16 March David Sorkin Lucy G Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History, Yale University David Sorkin is an award-winning author and professor specialising in the intersection of Jewish and European history. His first book, The Transformation of Germany Jewry, 1980-1840, observed the formation of Jewish culture in the German states. In 2000 he wrote The Berlin Haskalah and German Religious Thought: Orphans of Knowledge, which argued that the Haskalah should be understood within the context of wider central European religious and intellectual changes.

In The Religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World), Professor Sorkin reconceived the relationship of the Enlightenment period to religion.

He has also served as associate editor of The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies.

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Legal practice and The Hogarth Press the legal profession: archive the transnational 1 April 2017 activism of women Nicola Wilson Department of English Literature, lawyers of colour University of Reading 28 March 2017

Gwen Jordan Associate professor and chair of the Legal Studies Department, University of Illinois Springfield Gwen Jordan is associate professor and chair of the Legal Studies Department, University of Illinois at Springfield. She is also a visiting fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and works part-time for the Illinois Innocence Project, where she represents wrongfully convicted individuals. Dr Jordan’s research focuses on the history of women lawyers’ local, national and international social justice activism.

She is currently analysing issues of race identity and strategies developed by women lawyers of colour to overcome legal and political discrimination. Her seminar will highlight Edith Sampson, a black lawyer and mid-20th-century international activist, who helped to build transnational coalitions of women.

Dr Nicola Wilson, lecturer in Book and Publishing Studies at the University of Reading, will give a talk on the Hogarth Press archive as part of the Virginia Woolf Annual Conference and AGM. Dr Wilson’s research focuses on twentiethcentury literature and print culture and working-class writing. She has written book chapters and articles on publishers’ archives, libraries and book distributions, colonial editions, as well as Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press. Also speaking at the conference will be Dr Hana Leaper, editorial assistant and postdoctoral fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies on British Art, and William Pryor, director of the Raverat Archive.

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The Peter Lyon Memorial Lecture 4 April 2017 The Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC Secretary-general of the Commonwealth of Nations Lady Patricia Scotland QC became the first female Commonwealth secretary-general in 2016. In a career of firsts for women she is also the first black and youngest woman to be appointed Queen’s Counsel, deputy High Court Judge, Recorder and Master of Middle Temple. She is the only woman since the post was created in 1315 to be named Attorney General for England and Wales.

As a UK government minister, she oversaw a major reform of the criminal justice system, including the introduction of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act, and has been instrumental in the setting up of several foundations and non-governmental organisations aimed at advancing human rights, the welfare of young people and the protection of girls and women from violence.   See page 64 for event information

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Exhibition highlights 16 January – 31 March 2017 Senate House Library Malet Street, London

Those who have radical voices ‘advocat[e]… thorough and far-reaching political or social reform … characterised by independence of or departure from what is usual or traditional’.

Oxford English Dictionary

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In Great Britain the word ‘radical’ is also commonly associated with the Liberal party’s stance towards reforming society and Parliament in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Drawing from Senate House Library’s collections, this exhibition celebrates the individuals and groups who raised their voices to argue for social and political reform over the past century and a half, shedding light on some enormously influential but subsequently neglected figures, campaigns and organisations. It also looks at the University of London’s own institutional history and potential futures. Items on display will include suffragette badges, tickets to a Great Socialist Demonstration in Watford early in the 20th century, a petition signed by British and European women doctors, including Elizabeth Blackwell and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and 100 years’ worth of handbooks providing legal advice to protesters.

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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Related events

Film night: Never Mind the Ballots

A programme of events (mostly free) will take place throughout February, March and April.

Please see Senate House Library’s events pages for more information or to book your place.

Thursday, 23 February, 18:00 – 20:00

Radical Walking: protest, dissent and crossing urban boundaries Tuesday, 17 February, 09:30–19:00 Wolfson Suite, north block, Senate House Walking allows radicals, whether self-acknowledged or not, to cross boundaries, challenge customs, redefine urban spaces, and physically express their opposition and beliefs. From a range of perspectives this conference will explore how walking can be a radical act, each step moving nearer towards effecting change through the centuries, allowing those who advocate for reform to express radical goals and argue for social, political and religious change. The term ‘radicalism’ is commonly linked to the British Liberal party’s stance on society and Parliament reform in the eighteenth century but, as this event will show, is now applied to causes ranging from peasant protests in medieval Japan to more recent fights for civil rights. Fee: £10.

Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library This screening of a group of radical films from the British Film Institute’s (BFI) National Archive will be presented by Ros Cranston, a specialist in political and campaigning film from the BFI’s non-fiction curatorial team. Titles include The Road to Hell (1933 silent film) and Vote for Froglet – The Clangers (1974).

See page 38 for event information Ephemera Road Show Saturday, 25 February, 10:00−15:00 Grand Lobby, Senate House Members of the public are invited to bring along their own items relating to political activity and protest. They will be able to learn more about their items and receive advice on conserving them from a team of librarians, archivists and conservators.

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Exhibition highlights Radical Sounds

Film night: Spirit of ’45 (2013)

Thursday, 2 March, 18:00 – 20:00

Friday, 17 March, 18:00 – 20:00

Beveridge Hall, Senate House

Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library

Orlando Harrison, a musician, sound artist and radio producer, and radical poets Sean Bonney and Nat Raha will create and perform works on the theme of radical protests.

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Radical Collections: radicalism and libraries and archives Friday, 3 March, 09:30 – 19:00 Wolfson Suite, north block, Senate House The themes and issues facing those working and disseminating knowledge in this particular sector of libraries/archives will be explored in a conference co-hosted by SHL, the Institute of Historical Research and the Institute of English Studies. Who works in and who uses libraries? What do collections contain and how are they being developed? How are books and information organised? Participants include Wendy Russell, BFI National Archive, on ‘We will not be silenced!

Ken Loach’s “Questions of Leadership”’; Julio Cazzasa, SHL, on cataloguing radical material; and Alycia Sellie, City University of New York, on ‘The peculiarities and marvels of American life and librarianship as viewed through the Wisconsin Historical Society’s newspapers and periodicals collection’.

Screening of Ken Loach’s passionate and extraordinary portrayal of the Labour party’s historical electoral victory in 1945, a pivotal year in British history.

The director used film from Britain’s regional and national archives, alongside sound recordings and contemporary interviews, to reveal how the unity that carried Britain through the war, allied to the bitter memories of the inter-war years, led to a vision of a better society.

See page 57 for event information Radical Voices Aloud Thursday, 30 March, 18:00 – 20:00 Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House The library will bring together a number of performers and groups to take part in a programme of socialist and radical music. Featured artists include Grace Petrie, who performs two-fisted folk songs in the tradition of Billy Bragg, and the north London-based Raised Voices Choir singing for peace, justice and the environment against militarism, capitalism, racism and sexism.

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Origins of Art

Lecture Series The Warburg Institute

Recent discoveries have pushed the boundaries of art-making into unimaginable depths of time and across diverse geographies bringing to light the crucial role of images in the cognitive development of the human mind. Taking up Aby Warburg’s lead in the questioning of the formations and fundamental principles of image-making and its cultural values, this lecture series seeks to explore the origins of art in a cross-disciplinary perspective.

Six leading experts will share their research on prehistoric art, from climate change to early faces, asking fundamental questions that open a ‘think space’ for researchers. ‘Origins of art’ speaks to an interdisciplinary audience interested in thinking about art in the widest possible sense and the theoretical implications this has for visual culture of all ages.

All talks begin at 6pm at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB. Each will last for approximately one hour, followed by a wine reception.

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

The stone age origin of art: what, when, where, why and by whom?

18 January Steve Mithen, professor of early prehistory and deputy vice chancellor, University of Reading

The shock of the old: art in the European Ice Age 25 January Jill Cook, curator of European prehistory, British Museum

Human art: the first 30,000 years – new perspectives on Palaeolithic cave art and the first known images 15 February Paul Pettitt, Department of Archaeology, Durham University

Environment versus culture: rock art in the context of Holocene climatic change 8 March Maria Guagnin, Department of Archaeology, University of Oxford

The origin of symbolic material culture: what does the archaeological record say?

22 March Francesco d’Errico, CNRS director of research, University of Bordeaux

Early faces 29 March Ludwig Morenz, Department of Egyptology, University of Bonn

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Living Literature

An immersive evening with Marcel Proust and the Belle Époque

Thursday 11 May An event from the School of Advanced Study bringing Proust’s iconic literary work ‘In Search of Lost Time’ to life through research expertise to create an immersive and theatrical world for audiences to explore.

“How do you engage lecture-goers with the ideas of a classic novel? Try recreating the spirit of the era.”

The Guardian

livingliterature.org.uk Living Literature

Register today for one of our summer short courses and seminars London International Palaeography Summer School 12–16 June 2017 | Institute of English Studies The London International Palaeography Summer School is a series of intensive courses in palaeography and manuscript studies. Courses last from one half to two days and are given by experts in their fields. Subject areas include Latin, Middle English, early modern English, German, Greek, medieval Spanish, and Merovingian palaeography, as well as calligraphy, illuminated manuscripts, codicology, manuscript editing and liturgical and devotional manuscripts. Knowledge of the course language is useful but not required. Fees for a one-day course are £100 (£75 student), with discounts for bookings of more than two days.

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

London Rare Books School 26–30 June, 3–7 July, 10–14 July | Institute of English Studies 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. LRBS 2017 will take place from 26-30 June (week one), 3-7 July (week two), and 10-14 July (week three). Fees for a one-week course are £650 (£500 student), with discounts offered for booking multiple weeks. Bursaries are available.

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

T. S. Eliot International Summer School 8–16 July 2017 | Institute of English Studies The T.S. Eliot International Summer School invites all those with an interest in the life and work of this Bloomsbury-based poet, dramatist, and man of letters. The School draws visitors from across the world, bringing together some of the most distinguished scholars of T. S. Eliot and modern literature. Visits to the sites of The Four Quartets, poetry readings, and a unique seminar series have made this worldrenowned gathering of Eliot scholars and enthusiasts an annual highlight, launching the academic careers of a number of its former students. Fees for the full course are £600 with a number of full and partial bursaries available.

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

Legislative Drafting 26 June-21 July | Institute of Advanced Legal Studies The aim of this course is to encourage modern drafting techniques with an emphasis on effective and user-friendly legislation, and to expose drafters to a variety of drafting styles, thus allowing participants to select elements that best suit their national laws and their own tradition, culture, and jurisprudence. The course is suitable for both experienced and inexperienced drafters. Course fees: £5,250 (includes tuition, two textbooks and course materials) OR £6,703 (includes all the above plus a single room with shared facilities, buffet breakfast, and dinner from 25 June to 22 July [inclusive] at a University of London hall of residence.

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

Day School in London History 20 July 2017 | Institute of Historical Research The Institute of Historical Research is delighted to announce the return of its training programme for local historians, now in its sixth year. The Day School in London History will blend exciting and inspirational lectures on recent and ongoing local history projects with practical instruction and workshops. It is presented in association with the Centre for Metropolitan History (CMH) and will feature tutors from the principal archives and research units concerned with London. It will cover the incredibly rich and abundant history of London and its surrounding area, exploring both its identity as a capital city and the special qualities of its many constituent towns, villages and suburbs.

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

February Key Subject area Classics History

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

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Wednesday 01 Institute of English Studies Lecture 16:00–17:00 Seng T Lee Seminar Room (Senate House Library)

Institute of Classical Studies

Palaeography and diplomatic lecture series 11th century transformations. English royal writs. Papal rota and monogramme and abandonment of ‘Curiale’.

David d’Avray (UCL) This event is part of the King’s, London, UCL and Institute of English Studies Palaeography and diplomatic lecture series, 2016/17.

Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

ICS classical archaeology seminar

Room 349 (Senate House)

Ghosts in the Mediterranean: tracing Lycia’s income and identity during the period of the Delian League Catherine Draycott (Durham) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

London Old and Middle English research seminar (LOMERS)

Seminar 17:00–18:30

Seminar 17:30–19:30

Anke Bernau (Manchester) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Bloomsbury Room (Senate House) Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G21A (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Lecture 18:30–20:00

Who killed Justa de Mamani?

Gendered violence and worker citizenship in the Bolivian national revolution This paper explores the social life of Bolivian mining camps during the 1950s and 1960s as a means of understanding the impact of the Bolivian National Revolution on the lives of some of its most celebrated participants: miners and their families.

Elena McGrath (University of Wisconsin and Institute of Latin American Studies) Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Holocaust Memorial Lecture 2017 An intimate view of evil? How German Jews made sense of Nazi perpetrators Free IHR.events@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House)

Thursday 02 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 17:15–19:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

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ICS ancient history seminar Majority rule vs. consensus: the practice of deliberation in the Greek poleis Mirko Canevaro (Edinburgh) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Unknown superiors: the spectre of invisible authority in late 18th-century Germany English Goethe Society Lecture Angus Nicholls (Queen Mary University of London) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR (Senate House) Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 234 (Senate House) SAS Central Lecture 18:00–19:00 The Beveridge Hall (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:30–20:00 Torrington Room, (Senate House)

Friday 03 Institute of Latin American Studies Conference 09:00–18:00 Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PL

Institute of Modern Languages Research

‘A hot drink and a sandwich’: the School Meals Service’s plans for nuclear war,1945–63 Using civil defence plans this paper considers the role of the School Meals Service during the early cold war (1945-63).

John Preston (East London) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Sonya’s place in the world: spatial negotiations of class and gender among higglers in Jamaica This presentation looks at spatial negotiations of class and gender in a small rural town in Jamaica, and how female market traders (‘higglers’) experience their marginalisation as working-class women.

William Tantam (Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study) Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Inaugural lecture: Andrew Hussey The French Intifada: the long war between France and its Arabs Andrew Hussey (School of Advanced Study) Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

London theatre studies seminar Ayumi Fyjioka (Sugiyama Univeristy): Early twentieth century transcultural popular entertainment in the British and Japanese theatre: from Edwardian musical comedy to Teigeki actress plays Jim Davis (Warwick University): Some aspects of Anglo-Australian cultural exchange 1880–1960 Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Cultures of anti-racism Henry Stobart (reader in music/ethnomusicology at Royal Holloway), Joanne Crow (Bristol), Charlotte Gleghorn (Edinburgh), Rosaleen Howard (Newcastle), Fiorella Montero (Keele), Patricia Oliart (Newcastle), Charles Pigott (Cambridge), Fabienne Viala (Warwick), Emily Zobel Marshall (Leeds Beckett) Organised by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies with the support of the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Society of Latin American Studies Free James.Scorer@manchester.ac.uk

Leopardi e i suoi fratelli: Le Marche e la letteratura italiana Free katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk

Seminar 14:00–19:00 Torrington Room, (Senate House)

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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar

A practical workshop on using corpus linguistics for law Attendees will gain insights into how electronic corpora can be used to study the language used in legal texts of all kinds.

Gianluca Pontrandolfo, IUSLIT Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

15:30–17:30 IALS Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar What ancient authors really have to say about Petronius Arbiter, or: The date of the Satyrica re-examined Oliver Schwazer (UCL) Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Reunite without delay: The suffragettes of the Women’s Social and Political Union

IHR (Senate House)

The decision of the WSPU leadership to suspend militant activity in 1914 alienated many WSPU members and heralded the founding of a breakaway organisation, The Suffragettes of the WSPU. Its contribution to the fight for women’s enfranchisement during World War I will be explored in this seminar.

Alexandra Hughes-Johnson (Royal Holloway University of London) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

The rise of cotton trade in Brazil during the industrial revolution

17:15–19:15

Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR (Senate House) Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 IALS Institute of English Studies Seminar

When and why did Brazilian cotton become important to the Industrial Revolution?

Thales Pereira (Universidade de São Paulo) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

EU legal translation: past, present and future?

This talk will be a practically oriented overview of major challenges and quality parameters in institutional legal translation in the European Union institutions.

Gianluca Pontrandolfo (University of Trieste ), Lucja Biel (University of Warsaw) Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

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

18:00–20:00 Bloomsbury Room (Senate House)

Saturday 04 Institute of English Studies Seminar 11:00–13:00 Room 349 (Senate House)

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London Modernism seminar Speculative fiction Absurd speculations and defeatism in the second world war: vita Sackvill’ West’s Grand Canyon (1942) Elizabeth English (Cardiff Metropolitan University), Kate Macdonald (Reading) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Reading Group 17:00–18:30

Common Law in French and Civil Law in English – Bijuralism and Bilingualism à la canadienne!

In bilingual countries like Canada, translators must be sensitive to the structural and cultural differences between legal systems and languages.

Laurence M Solan (Brooklyn Law School), Timothy Endicott (Oxford), Louis Beaudoin (juriste-traducteur, jurilinguiste) Free Advance registration required As the event is held in Quebec House, ID will be required to the enter. ials.events@sas.ac.uk

ICS ancient literature seminar Formulaic complexity and Homeric authorship Ahuvia Kahane (RHUL) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Humanities after Brexit and Trump reading group Brexit Seminar: discussion topic: The internet: comprehending changed discourse in the digital age Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar

Open University book history seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:00–19:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:30

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

The Warburg Institute Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30

Gender and history in the Americas seminar Whitney Wood (Birkbeck, University of London) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House) The Human Mind Project Seminar 18:30 – 20:00 Court room, Senate House

The neural basis of real-world social interaction Connecting art, education, neuroscience, and brains Suzanne Dikker (Utrecht University and New York University) Most of us interact with other people on a daily basis. Yet, we know very little about how the brain supports dynamic social interactions. In this talk, Suzanne Dikker will discuss a series of projects in which she collaborated with scientists, artists, and educators to investigate the brain basis of real-world face-to-face communication.

Free anna.hopkins@sas.ac.uk

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Warburg Institute Seminar 18:30–19:50

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

Tuesday 07 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 13:30–16:30 IHR (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:15–19:00 Seng T Lee Seminar Room (Senate House Library) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15

Practical public history seminar The London Centre for Public History, Royal Holloway, University of London, in collaboration with the IHR Public History Seminar, will host a ‘Practical Public History’ roundtable exploring collaborations and partnerships between higher education institutions and small-to-medium museums, galleries, libraries and archives.

Free ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Medieval manuscripts seminar Arabic palaeography: Mediterranean contacts and influences Arianna D’Ottone Rambach (University of Rome) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

From Mametz Wood to Langemarck: the 38th (Welsh) Division in 1917 Peter Robinson (Swansea) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar

The contestation of a linear model of health and psychiatric service provision

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Zowie Davy (Lincoln) The doctors and psychiatrists treating trans people from primary care to transitioning health services are often bound by a trans narrative of moving from one gender to another linearly.

Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Public library architecture in Britain in the long 1960s: style, siting, space and light

17:15–19:15

Seminar 17:30–19:30

Jill Dye (Stirling) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR (Senate House)

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The global ‘Coolie’ trade between China and Latin America in the nineteenth century Rudolph Ng (Birkbeck University of London) This paper details how two opposing coalitions of international agents fought for 30 years, one to continue, the other to abolish, the Chinese ‘coolie’ trade to Latin America.

Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:30–19:00 Room 104 (Senate House)

Wednesday 08 Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 13:00–14:00 Gordon Room (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Lecture 16:00–17:00 Seng T Lee Seminar Room (Senate House Library) Institute of Modern Languages Research Workshop 16:00–17:30 Room 246 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–18:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15

The practical, the political and the ethical seminar series Telic Alienation.

Thomas Smith (Manchester) Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

The transformation of Atlantic slave trade networks in Portuguese cartography (1750-1850) A series of events driven by the Seven Years’ War and, later, the rebellion in the 13 colonies in North America and the Napoleonic expansion in Europe marked the transformation of the Atlantic slave trade network on a global scale.

Iris Kantor (University of Sao Paulo) Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Palaeography and diplomatic lecture series Range of royal and papal commands: examples; rescript government David d’Avray (UCL) This event is part of the King’s, London, UCL and Institute of English Studies Palaeography and diplomatic lecture series, 2016/17.

Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Translating less-common languages and cultures 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.

Radia Kesseiri (Arabic translation teacher), João Paulo Silvestre (KCL) This event is sponsored by the Camões Centre for Portuguese Language and Culture at King’s, London.

Free, advance registration required cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk

ICS classical archaeology seminar Kandahar under Darius, Alexander and Asoka: Alexandria in Arachosia in Global Empires (4th-3rd centuries BC) Rachel Mairs (Reading) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Lily Montagu and the liberal Jewish Sabbath: socialism and Sabbatarianism at the fin-de-siècle Richa Dwor (Douglas College, Canada) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House) Warburg Institute Lecture 17:30–18:30 The Warburg Institute

Heinrich Wölfflin in the Hispanic world One century from the first publication of one of the most influential books of art history, Heinrich Wölfflin’s Principles of Art History of 1915, the paper explores one major part of its global reception: its impact on Hispanic and Latin American art and architectural history and aesthetics since the 1920s.

Tristan Weddigen (Zurich) Free moss@bilderfahrzeuge.org

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Institute of English Studies Reading Group 18:00–20:00 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

Ezra Pound Cantos reading group Canto 99 Michael Kindellan (University of Sheffield) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

History Now and Then: history and religion(s)

IHR (Senate House)

What role has religion played in the unfolding of history? Has it provided a fundamental motivating force? Or has religion primarily reflected deeper socioeconomic trends and priorities?

Chair: Daniel Snowman (Institute of Historical Research) Panel: Felicity Heal, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Miri Rubin, Brian Young £5 per session or £25 for all 6 sessions | Free for Friends of the IHR IHR.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Modern Languages Research

The other twin: discovering the belated story of artist Helga Michie, née Aichinger

Lecture 18:00–20:00

Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

Thursday 09 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 17:00–19:00

Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies seminar Christine Ivanovic (University of Vienna/Institute of Modern Languages Research) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

ICS ancient history seminar Politics, poverty, and the poor: the reproduction of poverty in democratic Athens Claire Taylor (Wisconsin) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

On Jaqueline Tyrwhitt A Cities@SAS seminar Christoph Lindner (University of Oregon), Ursula Huws (Hertfordshire) Free claire.launchbury@sas.ac.uk

Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture

CenSes seminar Part of the Rethinking the Senses project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Sarah Jessen, (University of Lübeck) Free info.rts@sas.ac.uk

Mars: a short history of extra-terrestrial imagination Philipp Theisohn (University of Zurich) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Network neutrality: from policy to law to regulation

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Christopher T Marsden (Sussex) Ian Walden (QMUL) Discussants: Angela Daly (Queensland University of Technology Faculty of Law; research associate, Tilburg Institute of Law, Technology and Society) Free ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Refugee Law Initiative

International refugee law seminar series

Seminar 18:00–20:00

Seminar 18:00–20:00 IALS Council Chamber, IALS

Friday 10 Warburg Institute Workshop 10:00–17:00 The Warburg Institute

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Film 16:30–19:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Bloomsbury Room (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

The end of the deterrence paradigm? Future directions for global refugee policy Heaven Crawley (Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry), Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (Raoul Wallenberg Institute) This event is part of the Refugee Law Initiative’s international refugee law seminar series ‘Protection in the context of large-scale movements of refugees and migrants’.

Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

The languages of translation in Renaissance France and Europe Translation was one of the most important and vibrant areas of reflection and practice in the French Renaissance and is one of the primary fields of modern critical interest and investigation.

Organisers: Raphaële Mouren (Warburg) and John O’Brien (Durham) This is a University Trust Fund event supported by the Cassal Fund.

Free jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar Foreign soldiers and mercenaries in Late Period Egypt (664-332 BC).

Justin Yoo (King’s, London) Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Über-Ich und Du (2014, dir. Benjamin Heisenberg) This comedy tells the story of young troubled bohemian Nick Gutlicht who meets star-psychologist Curt Ledig – a doctor with a controversial Nazi-related past - and inadvertently becomes the old man’s object of study. Eventually, Nick’s life is put back on track and the truth about Curt Ledig’s past is brought to light.

Free heide.kunzelmann@sas.ac.uk

London-Paris romanticism seminar Romanticism and the culture of non-publication Lynda Pratt (Nottingham) This seminar series is hosted jointly by the Institute of English Studies and the Institute of Modern Languages Research.

Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

London Beckett seminar Beckett and Speculative Realism Conor Carville (Reading) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Jane Austen Society Study Day 2017 Jane Austen: Writing to the End

Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)

Two hundred years after the death of Jane Austen, the 2017 study day will focus on the achievements of her final years and the enduring nature of her contribution to our literary heritage.

Speakers: Fiona Stafford (Oxford), Sandie Byrne (Oxford), Bharat Tandon (University of East Anglia), Maggie Lane (writer), and Angela Barlow (actress) £35 standard £25 *JAS members/unwaged £15 students IESEvents@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

EMPHASIS

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Seminar 14:00–16:00 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 14:00–16:00 IHR (Senate House)

Monday 13 Institute of Classical Studies Conference / Symposium 09:30–19:30

Prior convictions: alchemy and fraud in English religious houses Finn Schülze-Feldmann (Warburg), Jennifer M. Rampling (Princeton University) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Godwin’s Histories ‘for the use of schools and young persons’ In the first quarter of the nineteenth century, the notorious radical thinker and novelist William Godwin, husband of Mary Wollstonecraft and father of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, had become a children’s author and bookseller.

Rachel Wilson (Leeds) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

11th London ancient science conference This three-day begins 09:30am on 13th February and ends at 17:45 on 15th February.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Senate House Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar

Process philosophy Johan Siebers (Institute of Modern Languages Research) Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

16:00–18:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15

ICS ancient philosophy seminar Plato on the Grades of Perception: ‘Theaetetus’ 184-6 and the ‘Phaedo’ Gail Fine (Oxford/Cornell University) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Family and empire in Renaissance Venice Erin Maglaque (Oxford) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:15–19:00 The Senate Room (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:30–19:00 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30

London Shakespeare seminar Unfixing Renaissance disability (Katherine Schaap Williams) Acting amiss: pleasure, judgement and the early modern actor (Simon Smith) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

ICS Roman art seminar Technical analysis of the construction methods of Roman floor decorations Alessandro Lugari (Soprintendenza speciale per i beni archeologici di Roma) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Walls come tumbling down: from Rock Against Racism to Red Wedge Daniel Rachel Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House) Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:30

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

The Warburg Institute Warburg Institute Seminar 18:30–19:50

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

Tuesday 14 Institute of Modern Languages Research Workshop 14:00–17:30 Room 234 (Senate House)

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:30–19:30

What is a modern author? Evolutions in authorship from the 19th century to the present This workshop will examine interactions between the book market, modern writers’ self-representation and their reception, moving from the 19th to the 21st century and across French, Italian and Spanish. The event will include a book launch by Professor Martin McLaughlin.

Free cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar Sponsored by the Centre for Logic and Language Free corine.besson@sas.ac.uk

Room 246 (Senate House)

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Wednesday 15 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 15:30–18:00 Woburn Suite (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Workshop 16:00–19:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

Warburg Institute Lecture 18:00–19:00 The Warburg Institute

Thursday 16 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Reading Group

ICS Mycenaean seminar Two oxen in the Bronze Age: traditional Mediterranean farming and the political economy of Mycenaean palaces Paul Halstead (Sheffield) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Sexuality in popular culture At a time when equal rights campaigns and queer communities across the world are experiencing both unprecedented advances and setbacks, popular culture and media play a prominent role in defining and challenging attitudes to gender and sexuality, with important resonances across the geographical and political spectrum both within and outside the queer community. Monalesia Earle will explore how works of popular culture relate to the construction of sexual and/or gender identity, the building of queer communities, and the shaping of public opinion.

Monalesia Earle (Birkbeck), Ina Linge (Cambridge, Institute of Modern Languages Research), Tom Smith (Newcastle, Institute of Modern Languages Research) Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Human art: the first 30,000 years Recent discoveries have pushed the boundaries of art making into unimaginable depths of time and across diverse geographies bringing to light the crucial role of images in the cognitive development of the human mind.

Paul Pettitt (Durham) Free jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

ICS ancient history seminar Power and imperialism in Augustan and Julio-Claudian Rome Richard Alston (RHUL) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Cities in theory reading group A regular informal reading group organised as part of Cities@SAS Free claire.launchbury@sas.ac.uk

17:00–19:00 Room 246 (Senate House) Warburg Institute Lecture 17:00–18:30 The Warburg Institute

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

Lines and words: the surprising role of the Ordnance Survey Cóilin Parsons (Georgetown University) Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (King’s, London, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg).

Free tony@tonycampbell.info

The place of history in the Two Cultures debate Frank James (UCL/The Royal Institution) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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

Institute of Modern Languages Research Reading Group 19:00–20:30

The Pulse of Modernity and the Possibility of Buenos Aires Taxistas in Buenos Aires: The Contours of the Trade Juan Manuel del Nido (University of Manchester) The speaker will outline a series of organising elements of the Buenos Aires taxi driving industry. Taxis are defined as a public service in Buenos Aires; thus, a number of fundamental aspects of the trade, including fares, mechanisms of control, verification and scale are under the aegis of the city. The fundamental relations of property (who owns or does not own a car) and labour (who drives for himself and who drives for someone else) organise not only the political aspects of the trade but also the economic, social, associative and recreational possibilities of taxiing in Buenos Aires today.

Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Edouard Louis, The End of Eddy This reading group is a true celebration of translation. It meets monthly and focuses on the translated works of acclaimed French authors.

Free camille.ondet@institutfrancais.org.uk

Institut Français du Royaume-Uni, 17 Queensbery Place, London SW7 2DT Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 19:30–21:30

Institute of Ideas book club Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of poor, white Americans. Vance’s ‘inside’ story of the disintegration of this group tells the true story of what a social, regional and class decline feels like.

Free GeoffKidder@instituteofideas.com

Room 234 (Senate House)

Friday 17 Senate House Library Conference 09:30–19:00 Senate House

Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 15:00–17:00 University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House)

Radical Walking: protest, dissent, and crossing urban boundaries This one-day conference explores the relationship between walking and radicalism, from a range of perspectives, places, and periods.

Katrina Navickas (University of Herefordshire), David Rosenberg Part of Senate House Library’s ‘Radical Voices’ season in collaboration with the Institute of Historical Research and the School of Advanced Study.

Price: £10 17/02/2017 shl.whatson@london.ac.uk

After the thaw: cultural approaches to research on Cuba With the support of the ILAS Regional Seminar Grant Series and jointly organised by the universities of Edinburgh and Newcastle, this seminar series addresses the implications of the recent détente between the United States and Cuba.

Marisa Wilson (Edinburgh), Chiara Cochetti and Stephen Wilkinson Free Raquel.ribeiro@ed.ac.uk

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar A look at the role of agricultural abstract imagery in the conception of a transversal and traditional linguistic thought: some Sumerian and Latin references for the symbolic meanings of ‘farming’ Nelson Henrique da Silva Ferreira (Universitat de Barcelona/Universidade de Coimbra) Free postgradwip@gmail.com

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Intimacy, emotion and the social world of young people in an early modern city

IHR (Senate House)

An exploration of how the practices and conventions of premarital intimacy between young adults in Lyon framed licit desire and choreographed the progression of relationships from walking out to sex to marriage (or not) though public and private spaces as well as through promises and coercion.

Julie Hardwick (Texas) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

The circulation and commodification of prisoners of war in the eighteenth century

17:15–19:15

Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR (Senate House)

Monday 20 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00

In the eighteenth century West Indies, unlike in Europe, prisoners of war were rarely detained for long periods: they were normally exchanged locally between the different islands of the West Indies.

Renaud Morieux (Cambridge) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

ICS ancient literature seminar Philosopher or fraud? Rethinking Sudines of Pergamon Johannes Haubold (Durham) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Open University book history seminar Editing, connoisseurship, and attribution in eighteenth-century England: editing William Shakespeare, compiling William Hogarth Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15

Entangled archives: documenting the Nazi persecution of Jews and Roma Ari Joskowicz (Vanderbilt University) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House) Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:30

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

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Reconstructing judicial review Sarah Nason (Bangor) Mr Justice Lewis (Administrative Court), Rick Rawlings (UCL), Paul Bowen QC (Brick Court Chambers), Dimitrios Kyritsis (Reading) Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

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Witness seminar: my life in volunteering in three stories Justin Davis Smith (Cass Business School) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Tuesday 21 Institute of Latin American Studies Workshop 14:00–18:00 Athlone Room (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:14

Stage, page and screen: violence and memory in contemporary Latin American culture Geoffrey Maguire (Cambridge), Niall Geraghty (Institute of Latin American Studies), Francesco Di Bernado (Institute of Latin American Studies), Daniel Willis (UCL), Vikki Bell (Goldsmiths, University of London), Luciana Zorzoli (CONICET). In collaboration with the IMLR and CCM. Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

The ‘damned engineers’ in the Battle of the Bulge David Ulbrich (Rogers State University, Oklahoma) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30

Open University’s contemporary cultures of writing seminar Janet Wolff (Manchester), Matthew Green (author) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Gordon Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Lecture 18:00–20:30 IHR (Senate House)

Democracy, autocracy and sovereign debt in Mexico and Brazil during the pre-1914 globalisation Sovereign debt is a financial as well as a political topic; politics shapes the way governments borrow and repay Leonardo Weller (Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The practical, the political and the ethical seminar series The truth in conventionalism David Owens (King’s, London) Free IP@sas.ac.uk

The Russian Revolution: centenary lecture series The centenary of the Russian Revolution will be marked in the Institute of Historical Research by a series of lectures given by leading scholars on the events of 1917.

Peter Waldron (East Anglia) Tickets are £5 per session ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Wednesday 22 Institute of Modern Languages Research Workshop 14:00–19:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Lecture 16:00–17:00 Seng T Lee Seminar Room (Senate House Library)

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:15–18:00 Room B46, Trent Bdg, University of Nottingham

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

A genealogy of virtual reality and the future of the scholarly monograph The seminar is based on Massimo Rivo’s research in progress: the archaeology of virtual reality in techno-cultural devices from the eighteenth and nineteenth century and the role of technological change in the perception of reality and the shaping of cultural memory. The programme includes a workshop and roundtable discussion.

Free cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk

Palaeography and diplomatic lecture series Formularies: Liber diurnus, penitentiary formulary; audientia formulary, Glanville and registers of writs David d’Avray (UCL) This event is part of the King’s, London, UCL and Institute of English Studies Palaeography and diplomatic lecture series, 2016/17.

Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

London aesthetics forum Empathy in response to art: the case of illness-related artwork.

Efi Kyprianidou (Open University of Cyprus) The London Aesthetics Forum is generously sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics.

Free IP@sas.ac.uk

Encounters: Ursula Ackrill and Sarah Pybus Ursula Ackrill is a Romanian-born German writer. Her debut novel, Zeiden, im Januar, was shortlisted for several literary prizes, most significantly the Literature Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair.

Sarah Pybus has been working as a translator for 10 years. She was an in-house translator in Germany and the UK for several years before going freelance. In 2015, she was awarded 1st place in the GINT non-fiction translation competition.

Free heike.bartel@nottingham.ac.uk

Black Baptists and pan-Africanism in Britain, 1890s-1920s David Killingray (Goldsmiths University of London) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar

Contemporary innovative poetry research seminar Free, registration required IESEvents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Bloomsbury Room (Senate House)

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Postgraduate training day: conducting fieldwork in Latin America and the Caribbean Fee applicable. Registration required. £5, registration required Niall.Geraghty@sas.ac.uk

Woburn Suite (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference / Symposium 10:00–18:00 Bloomsbury Room (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Reading Group 17:00–18:30

Unsettling communities: minor, minority and small literatures in Europe Following on from a successful cross-language and cross-culture symposium held in October 2015 (‘Interpreting Communities: Minority Writing in European Literary Fields’), this conference will unite researchers for two days of systematic, comparative study of the content, form, status, and reception of ‘minority’ writing in Europe in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.

Organisers: Malachi McIntosh (Cambridge) and Godela Weiss-Sussex (IMLR) Both days: £60 (standard), £50 (Friends of Germanic Studies/Italian at the IMLR), £20 (students) One day only: £35 (standard), £30 (Friends of Germanic Studies/Italian at the IMLR), £15 (students) There will be a conference dinner on 23 February that carries an additional charge of £30. Please pay in advance during online registration. jo.bradley@sas.ac.uk

Humanities after Brexit and Trump reading group The prophets: artists and thinkers who forecast our present Free, registration required IESEvents@sas.ac.uk

Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Other Events 17:00–19:00 Bloomsbury Room (Senate House)

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00–19:00

Barbara Honigmann in conversation Born in East Berlin in 1949, Barbara Honigmann occupies a special position among the German-language writers of the post-war generation. In multi-layered, autobiographically inspired books such as the recent Chronik meiner Strasse, she engages with the complex subjectivity of her Jewishness, her rootedness in German language and literature, and her life in France as mother, artist, and member of various intersecting communities. She will discuss her work with Robert Gillett (QMUL) in English.

This event is sponsored by the University of London Coffin Trust Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

CenSes seminar Part of the Rethinking the Senses project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council Free info.rts@sas.ac.uk

Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00

Irish studies seminar Senia Paseta (Oxford) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Never Mind the Ballots

Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library

This screening of a group of radical films from the British Film Institute’s (BFI) National Archive will be presented by Ros Cranston, a specialist in political and campaigning film from the BFI’s non-fiction curatorial team. Titles include The Road to Hell (1933 silent film) and Vote for Froglet – The Clangers (1974).

Free shl.whatson@london.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Postgraduate feminist reading group

Film screening 18:00 – 20:00

Reading Group

Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:30–20:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

Friday 24 Institute of Historical Research

The Gerald Aylmer Seminar 2017

IHR (Senate House)

Strongroom to seminar: archives and teaching in higher education Speakers: Jo Fox (Durham University), Stephen Wildman (Lancaster University), Colin Harrison (Ashmolean Museum), Stuart Eagles (Guild of St George), Stuart Eagles (Guild of St George), Andrew Smith (University College London), Lisa Smith (University of Essex), Sean Cunningham (The National Archives), Sarah Mahurter (University of the Arts London), Sarah Price (Durham University) and Margot Finn (Royal Historical Society) Free IHR.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar

Conference / Symposium 09:00–17:00

Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar

Sextus Empiricus on religious dogmatism Máté Veres (Central European University) Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Finnegans Wake research seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00

IALS legal history seminar Details to be announced.

Organised in association with the London Legal History Seminar.

Free IALS.events@sas.ac.uk

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Ephemera Road Show Members of the public are invited to bring along their own items relating to political activity and protest. They will be able to learn more about their items and receive advice on conserving them from a team of librarians, archivists and conservators.

Free shl.whatson@london.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 14:00–16:00 IHR (Senate House)

Monday 27 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar

Education in Ascendancy Ireland, c. 1690-1745 This paper will begin by examining the education given to girls and boys of the elite in Ireland during the decades after the Glorious Revolution, a period of time commonly known as the Ascendancy as it saw the political, economic and social rise (or ascent) of a Protestant elite.

Rachel Wilson (Leeds) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Process philosophy Johan Siebers (Institute of Modern Languages Research) Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

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 17:00–19:00 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15

ICS ancient philosophy seminar Responsibility, self-movement and inquiry in Proclus Ursula Coope (Oxford) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

ICS ancient literature seminar Lysias and Socrates in Plato’s ‘Phaedrus’ Jenny Bryan (Manchester) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Telling stories about the environment in early modern Italy Jane Crawshaw (Oxford Brookes University) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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ICS Roman art seminar

Room 243 (Senate House)

The Hypogeum of the Aurelii: a new interpretation as the collegiate tomb of professional scribae John Bradley (RHUL) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

The peculiar career of Colonel John Walsh MP

Seminar 17:30–19:00

Seminar 17:30–19:30

Mike Haynes (Wolverhampton) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House) Warburg Institute Seminar 17:30–19:30 The Warburg Institute

Neoplatonism study group: Proclus, In Parmenidem Weekly sessions of an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox (UCL), Mark Kalderon (UCL), Peter Singer (Birkbeck) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg).

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Warburg Institute Seminar 18:30–19:50

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

Tuesday 28 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15

Ten things I hate about Edward Barlow: the life and journal of a 17th-century sailor Richard Blakemore (Reading) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:30–19:30

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar Sponsored by the Centre for Logic and Language Free corine.besson@sas.ac.uk

Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:45–19:45 IHR (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies

New thinking: the revision of ISO15489 Presented by Rod Stone, an experienced records professional specialising in governance, risk and compliance, guidance and awareness, producing standards and global legal research. He is joint editor of Managing records in global financial markets: ensuring compliance and mitigating risk.

Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

ICS and the Friends of the British School at Athens

Room 349, Senate House

The resilience of political communities in Crete in the 2nd century BC: the evidence of their destructions Gerald Cadogan, James Whitley (Cardiff ) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Media history seminar

Lecture 18:00–20:00

Seminar 18:00–20:00

Marianne van Remoortel and Birgit Van Puymbroeck (Ghent University) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Wednesday 01 Institute of English Studies Lecture 16:00–17:00 Seng T Lee Seminar Room (Senate House Library)

Institute of Modern Languages Research Semina 16:30–18:30

Palaeography and diplomatic lecture series Power at a distance: possessory assizes; papal judges delegate and letters of justice.

David d’Avray (UCL) This event is part of the King’s, London, UCL and Institute of English Studies Palaeography and diplomatic lecture series, 2016/17.

Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Nightmares of the 1950s: Günter Eich’s radio play Träume Excerpts from Günter Eich’s radio play Träume (in German, premiered on NWDR on 19 April 1951) will be played and discussed in a seminar about dreams in literature led by Heide Kunzelmann.

Free heide.kunzelmann@sas.ac.uk

Bloomsbury Room (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–18:30 The Court Room (Senate House) Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G21A (Senate House)

Institute of Modern Languages Research Other Events 17:30–19:30 Room 349 (Senate House)

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ICS classical archaeology seminar The grapevine motif from the classical world to East Asia: iconographic transfers across Eurasia in the 1st millenium AD Marta Zuchowska (University of Warsaw) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Charango wars: heritage lives of an Andean instrument The charango is a small, mandolin-like instrument that is widely played in Bolivia, Peru, and parts of Chile and Argentina. However, its high, sweet, and seductive sounds belie the bitter enmities that surround proprietary claims to its origins. This seminar charts ‘the heritage lives’ of the charango and its part in the highly transformative moment of Evo Morales rise to power as Bolivia’s first indigenous president.

Henry Stobart (Royal Holloway, University of London), Michelle Bigenho (Colgate, USA) Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

German Whispers – The Endings where Cultures Meet Prize-giving event and authors’ reading of stories of migration in German An evening celebrating the winners of this year’s German writing competition and the opportunity to hear to two high-profile German writers’ hot-off-thepress stories of migration. Following previous successes, the third competition organised by the Institute of Modern Languages Research and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) challenges participants to continue the storylines started by authors Anja Tuckermann (Berlin) and Ulrike Ulrich (Zurich).

The prize-giving will include readings of the winning and runner-up entries in each group, some of which are surprising, touching, complex, and a joy to read, as well as the endings crafted by the authors themselves. The event is organised in association with the DAAD and Goethe Institute, London, and is generously supported by the German and Swiss Embassies.

Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Constance Stuart’s war: women and documentary’s excess The lecture, part of Warburg’s Bilderfahrzeuge Project, focuses on a WW2 photograph of one of the sheared women (femmes tondues) who were punished for having ‘associated with the Germans’.

Tamar Garb (UCL) Free moss@bilderfahrzeuge.org Events February | March | April 2017

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Institute of English Studies Reading Group 18:00–20:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

Thursday 02 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:28 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Reading Group 17:00–18:30

Ezra Pound Cantos reading group Gemma Moss (Birmingham City University) Canto 75 Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

ICS ancient history seminar The Idea of ‘Auctoritas Populi’ Valentina Arena (UCL) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Humanities after Brexit and Trump reading group Post-truth: the creation of new cultural and national myths in re-formed alliances Free IESEvents@sas.ac.uk

Room 243(Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15

The inspiration of Germany in the founding of English universities in the nineteenth century Jill Pellew Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30

Poetry and history Carolyn Steedman (Warwick) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House) Institute of Latin American Studies

Chocolate and politics: an ethnographic contextualisation of the peace community of San José de Apartadó

Room 234 (Senate House)

Gwen Burnyeat (UCL) The Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, a peasant farmer community in Urabá, declared itself ‘neutral’ to the Colombian armed conflict in 1997. This paper carries out an ethnographic contextualisation of its collective identity, which boasts two narratives – radical and organic – and understood as cultural practices with historical trajectories.

Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Latin American Studies

Aztec and Conquistadors: is everything you thought you knew about them wrong?

Seminar 17:30–19:30

Lecture 17:30–20:30 The Senate Room (Senate House)

Matthew Restall (Pennsylvania State University) Funded by the Coffin Trust.

Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

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The Human Mind Project

Defending the nature-culture divide

Senate House

Does new scientific research on development, epigenetics and gene-culture co-evolution show that nature and culture cannot be separated? And what does this assumption mean for our understanding of body and mind? Drawing on her work in the philosophy of life sciences, Maria Kronfeldner argues in defence of the nature-culture divide and explores four aspects that allow us to distinguish between nature and culture.

Maria Kronfeldner (Central European University) Free anna.hopkins@sas.ac.uk

Refugee Law Initiative

International refugee law seminar series

Seminar 17:30–19:00

Seminar 18:00–20:00 IALS Council Chamber, IALS

Senate House Library Performance 18:00 – 20:00 Beveridge Hall, Senate House

Friday 03 Senate House Library Conference 09:30 – 19:00 Wolfson Suite, Senate House

Institute of Latin American Studies Workshop

EU law and the politics of ‘mass influx’ Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (Raoul Wallenberg Institute), Cathryn Costello (Oxford) This event is part of the Refugee Law Initiative’s international refugee law seminar series ‘Protection in the context of large-scale movements of refugees and migrants’ Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Radical Sounds Orlando Harrison, a musician, sound artist and radio producer will create and perform works on the theme of radical protests with radical poets Sean Bonney and Nat Raha.

Free shl.whatson@london.ac.uk

Radical Collections: radicalism and libraries and archives The themes and issues facing those working and disseminating knowledge in this particular sector of libraries/archives will be explored in a conference co-hosted by SHL and the Institute of Historical Research. Who works in and who uses libraries?

What do collections contain and how are they being developed? How are books and information organised? Participants include Wendy Russell (BFI National Archive), Julio Cazzasa (SHL), Alycia Sellie (City University of New York).

Free shl.whatson@london.ac.uk

Masterclass with Professor Matthew Restall Matthew Restall (Pennsylvania State University) Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

14:00–17:00 Woburn Suite (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar

Room 246 (Senate House)

Alina Kozlovski (Cambridge) Ruined Romans: fragmenting past and present landscapes in the ancient Roman world Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Institute of English Studies

London nineteenth century studies seminar

Seminar 16:30–18:30

Seminar 17:00–19:00 Torrington Room, (Senate House)

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This seminar will be devoted to the works of Boucicault, with two papers by Aiofe Monks (QMUL) and Sarah Meer (Cambridge).

Claire Brock (Leicester), Hilary Marland (Warwick) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Seminar

The beautiful Frankie Soo: class and sexuality in the 1938 diary of a scholarship girl This paper focuses on issues of agency and voice in the 1938 Charles Letts’ Schoolgirl’s Diary belonging to a working-class scholarship girl at a prestigious grammar school. It will discuss the diarist’s engagement with the proscribed content of the commercially-produced diary and explore how she makes space for her own interests, which include middlebrow fiction, Hollywood films, Derby County Football Club and celebrity sportsmen.

Alison Twells (Sheffield Hallam) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The regional dimensions of corruption in the eighteenthcentury English customs Following a pattern of more or less direct comparisons with the well-disciplined Excise that stretches back to the 1780s, corruption in the eighteenth-century Customs has long been held to be endemic. This paper presents new data on the regional incidence of taxation to suggest that the growth of a few large port towns in the north of England appears to have made the Customs more efficient to administer in the late eighteenth century when compared with the small southern ports that dominated regional trade earlier on.

Spike Sweeting (V&A Museum) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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

18:00–20:00 Bloomsbury Room (Senate House)

Saturday 04 Institute of English Studies Seminar 11:00–13:00 Room 349 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Seminar 14:00–16:00 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 14:30–17:00 Woburn Suite (Senate House)

London Modernism seminar Abbie Garrington (Durham), Drew Milne (Cambridge) Modernism in the wild The Fallen: Modernism’s mountain dead Lawrence’s dark ecology: women in love and anthropocene modernism Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

EMPHASIS Pete Forshaw (University of Amsterdam): ‘Grades of cognition and the ladder of union in Heinrich Khunrath’s Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae’ Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck): ‘Grades of cognition and the Cabala in the Systema Mnemonicum of Johann Heinrich Alsted’ Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Virgil Society lecture Fiachra Mac Góráin (UCL) Virgil in Friel’s translations Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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Monday 06 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30

ICS ancient literature seminar Roman Socrates: irony in the satires Paul Allen Miller (University of South Carolina) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Open University book history seminars From New York to Shanghai: global modernism, cheap reprints and copyrights Lise Jaillant (Loughborough University) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Gender and history in the Americas seminar Jonathan Coburn Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30

The first decade of the Overseas Doctors’ Association in the UK (1975–85) Julian M Simpson (Manchester) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House) Warburg Institute

Neoplatonism study group – Proclus, In Parmenidem

The Warburg Institute

Georgios Tsagdis (Kingston), Guido Giglioni (Warburg) A weekly session of ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, Mark Kalderon, Peter Singer and Guido Giglioni.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies

Pax Romana: the peace dividend

Research Training 17:30–19:30

Lecture 18:00–20:00

Clifford Ando (University of Chicago) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

The Court Room (Senate House) Warburg Institute Seminar 18:30–19:50 The Warburg Institute

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From devilry to divinity: Readings in the Divina Commedia Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) A weekly series of Dante public readings.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

BeLgoLab 2017: Belgian translations This half-day colloquium forms the second part of BeLgoLab 2017, the latest in an annual series of events that bring together specialists in Belgian literature and culture in French and Dutch. The colloquium will be of interest to researchers and postgraduates in comparative literature and translation studies, as well as in French and Dutch studies.

Free cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:15–19:00

Medieval manuscripts seminar David Rundle (Oxford) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Seng T Lee Seminar Room (Senate House Library) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15

Shaping the soldier’s experience of expeditionary warfare: Gallipoli 1915 and Normandy 1944 Gary Sheffield (Wolverhampton) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

The labour of bourgeois sexuality in the age of revolutions

IHR (Senate House)

Tom Cutterham (University of Birmingham) Elite women in the eighteenth century were trained in the art of pleasing, which meant they were taught to be submissive, mild, and deferential towards men.

Another eighteenth-century figure, the coquette, temporarily transgressed the injunction to submit. Yet her resistance was part of a ritual of courtship that still ultimately served the pleasure of men. This recognition has historians wondering what value was extracted from such labour, and by whom?

Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

History of libraries

Seminar 17:15–19:15

Seminar 17:30–19:00 Holden Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30

Helen Kemp (Exeter) The relationship between manuscript and print in Thomas Plume’s Library Part of the History of Libraries seminar series Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

The relationship between manuscript and print in Thomas Plume’s Library Helen Kemp (Essex) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Holden Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR (Senate House)

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

Histories of a plague year: population, health and colonial government Gabriela Ramos (Cambridge) Studies in Andean population history concur in considering 1720 a watershed for determining periods of decline and growth. After 1720, the Spanish colonial government launched a series of reforms aimed at improving revenue collection and governmental efficacy, especially by conducting new, accurate population counts. Through the study of reports about a mysterious epidemic that struck the Peruvian viceroyalty in the early eighteenth century, this paper investigates the significance of the year 1720 for the Andean population.

Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The practical, the political and the ethical seminar series ‘Criminal law and civil order’ Antony Duff (Stirling) Free IP@sas.ac.uk

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Wednesday 08 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 15:30–18:00 Woburn Suite (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Lecture 16:00–17:00 Seng T Lee Seminar Room (Senate House Library)

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

ICS Mycenaean seminar Yiannis Papadatos (University of Athens) ‘A mountain view of Neopalatial Crete: new evidence from the Ierapetra uplands’ Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Palaeography and diplomatic lecture series David d’Avray (UCL) Letters of Justice and Letters of Graces Significance of silk thread, external appearance, clausulae and government without record of letters Seng: ’Notwithstanding’ and ‘of certain knowledge’, etc.

This event is part of the King’s, London, UCL and Institute of English Studies Palaeography and diplomatic lecture series, 2016/17.

Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

London Aesthetics Forum Julia Peters (Tübingen) ‘Human nature, second nature and art in Hegel’ The London Aesthetics Forum is generously sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics Free IP@sas.ac.uk

ICS classical archaeology seminar

Room 349 (Senate House)

‘Qusayr ‘Amra and the continuity of post-classical art in early Islam: towards an iconology of forms’ Nadia Ali (Oxford/British Museum) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Nonconformity in Victorian London

Seminar 17:00–18:30

Seminar 17:15–19:15

Bill Jacob Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

History Now and Then: the future of the past

IHR (Senate House)

How will future historians judge today’s historiography? What do we overemphasise (or under-emphasise)? ‘Big’ history, ‘big’ data: how is ‘history’ changing in the digital age?

Chair: Daniel Snowman; panel: Caroline Barron, Anne Curry, Charlotte Roueché, Jane Winters £5 per session or £25 for all six sessions | Free for Friends of the IHR ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

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Environment versus culture: rock art in the context of Holocene climatic change

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Maria Guagnin (Oxford) Recent discoveries have pushed the boundaries of art making into unimaginable depths of time and across diverse geographies bringing to light the crucial role of images in the cognitive development of the human mind. This lecture series seeks to explore the origins of art in a cross-disciplinary perspective. Six leading experts will share their research on prehistoric art, from climate change to early faces, asking fundamental questions that open up a ‘think space’ for all researchers.

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Thursday 09 Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 13:00

Art and anthropology: contributions from Latin America Guilianna Borea (PULP, Lima) LAGLOBAL seminar Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Reading Group

ICS ancient history seminar Kostas Vlassopoulos (University of Crete) The politics of freedom and slavery in antiquity Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Cities in theory reading group A regular informal reading group organised as part of Cities@SAS Free claire.launchbury@sas.ac.uk

17:00–19:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy

CenSes seminar

Room 246 (Senate House)

Francesca Ferri (University of Essex) Part of the ‘Rethinking the Senses’ project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Free info.rts@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Latin American Studies

‘My tongue is the blast of a gun’: the midnight robber and the carnival trickster tradition

Seminar 17:00–19:00

Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G21 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:30–20:00

Emily Zobel Marshall (Leeds Beckett) Convenor: William Tantam (Institute of Latin American Studies) Free william.tantam@sas.ac.uk

London theatre studies seminar Dariusz Kosinski (Jagiellonian University, Poland) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Bloomsbury Room (Senate House)

Friday 10 Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 11:00–19:00

Decolonization workshop Guilianna Borea (PULP, Lima) Jointly organised with King’s College London Registration fee £20/£10 olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Senate Room (Senate House)

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Warburg Institute Workshop 10:00–17:00 The Warburg Institute

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 14:00–18:00

Symbolic articulation workshop Symbolic articulation has two philosophical and terminological sources: Cassirer’s famous theory of the symbol and Wilhelm von Humboldt’s lesser known theory of articulation. The workshop presents its findings on some basic philosophical problems as well as on concrete fields of symbolisation.

Organiser: Jürgen Trabant (Freie Universität Berlin) Participants: Horst Bredekamp, Yannis Hadjinicolaou, Sabine Marienberg, Anja Pawel, Tullio Viola (Humboldt Universität Berlin), Maria Luisa Catoni (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca), Matthias Jung (Universität Koblenz-Landau), Alva Noë (UC Berkeley), Jürgen Trabant (Freie Universität Berlin).

Free jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Women’s self-representation in the digital age This event will examine women’s self-representation in the twenty-first century with a particular focus on hybrid forms of self-representation.

Free cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk

Torrington Room, (Senate House) Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 14:30–16:30 University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL Institute of Classical Studies

After the thaw: cultural approaches to research on Cuba This seminar series, with the support of the ILAS Regional Seminar Grant Series follows the recent détente between the USA and Cuba to discuss the implications of the thaw to Cuba. Jointly organised by the University of Edinburgh and the University of Newcastle.

Emily Morris (UCL), Kepa Artaraz (Brighton) Free Raquel.ribeiro@ed.ac.uk

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar

Room 246 (Senate House)

Pier Luigi Morbidoni (Edinburgh) ‘Latins and other aliens in the Roman Empire: grants of citizenship in the epistles of Pliny’ Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Institute of English Studies

London-Paris Romanticism seminar

Seminar 16:30–18:30

Bedford Room (Senate House)

Rowan Boyson (KCL): ‘A literary history of sensuousness: smell, touch and romantic poetry’ Caroline Bertonèche (Université Grenoble Alpes): ‘Romantic strains and symptoms’ This seminar series is hosted jointly by the Institute of English Studies and the Institute of Modern Languages Research.

Lynda Pratt (Nottingham) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

London Beckett seminar

Seminar 17:30–19:30

Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

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Conor Carville (Reading), Rodney Sharkey (Weill-Cornell University) ‘Words + music, Beckett and Bowie: the 12-inch remix’ Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Saturday 11 Institute of Modern Languages Research Workshop 11:00–18:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 14:00–16:00 IHR (Senate House)

Monday 13 Institute of Historical Research Conference 12:30–20:00 IHR (Senate House)

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar

Turkey and Islam in France and Europe: migrant cultural memory on screen and page The workshop will focus on a recent film about arranged marriages in Turkey written by Turkish-French film director Deniz Gamze Ergüven. She will speak about her views on women’s rights, faith, cinema, family, cultural identity and migration in France and Turkey.

Free cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk

‘Les mots sont des pistolets chargés’: literary education at the École Royale Militaire, 1751–1788 Gemma Tidman (Oxford) This talk looks at practices of literary education at the Parisian École Royale Militaire, founded by Louis XV in 1751 for the sons of France’s poor nobility, and argues that the École militaire deserves to be understood as an institution that influenced post-Revolutionary French literary education.

Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

London’s women historians: a celebration and a conversation At the start of 2017, gender equality remains one of the most pressing issues in the historical profession. This is evident from research published by the Royal Historical Society in 2015, longstanding efforts by the Economic History Society to elevate women in their discipline, and an initiative at the University of Oxford to launch a ‘manifesto’ for women in the humanities.

Speakers: Caroline Barron, John Beckett, Laura Carter, Linda Clark, Amy Erickson, Margot Finn, Jo Fox, Laura Gowing, Alana Harris, Peter Mandler, Jinty Nelson, Lyndal Roper and Pat Thane Free, advance registration required ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Process philosophy Johan Siebers (Institute of Modern Languages Research) Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

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

ICS ancient philosophy seminar

Room 246 (Senate House)

‘Divine power, immanence and transcendence in Plotinus, porphyry and Iamblichus’ Crystal Addey (St Andrews) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies

ICS ancient literature seminar

Seminar 16:30–18:30

Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 349 (Senate House)

‘The poet’s privilege: “authentic” voices in later Greek epic’ Emily Kneebone (Cambridge) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00

Open University book history seminar Abigail Williams (Oxford) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Bloomsbury Room (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:15–19:00 The Senate Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15

London Shakespeare seminar Gary Taylor ‘Collaborative history: parts of Henry VI’ Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Evidence for the use of Salisbury in the twelfth century John Harper (Bangor) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:30–19:00 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30

ICS Roman art seminar Eleanor Betts (Open University) ‘Sensing the city: art and lived experience in ancient Rome and Ostia’ Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Lenin’s Moscow by Alfred Rosmer Ian Birchall Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House) Warburg Institute Research Training 17:30–19:30

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

The Warburg Institute Warburg Institute Seminar 18:30–19:50 The Warburg Institute Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) A weekly series of Dante public readings Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

‘We are all translators now: constitutional analysis as translation’ Łucja Biel (University of Warsaw), Laurence M Solan (Brooklyn Law School), Timothy Endicott (Oxford) Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

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Tuesday 14 Institute of English Studies

Medieval manuscripts seminar

Seng T Lee Seminar Room (Senate House Library)

‘English humanist script in England: the first ten years’ In the last half century, the outline of the early development in Florence of humanist bookhand, littera antiqua, has been amassed in detail. Central to this was the work of A C de la Mare, who also reconstructed the history of that script in England. This talk revisits that topic and reveals the identity of the first known humanist scribe at work in England.

David Rundle (Oxford) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Lives and letters project

Seminar 17:15–19:00

Seminar 17:15–19:15

Robyn Adams (UCL) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15

‘The hitchhiker’s guide to the galleries’: challenges in curating permanent exhibitions Laura Humphreys and Aaron Jaffer (National Maritime Museum) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies

Accordia lecture

Woburn Suite (Senate House)

‘Toward a social landscape of the house: a comparison between southern Etruria and coastal Campania in the Early Iron Age’ Beatriz Marin-Aguilera (Cambridge) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Open University’s contemporary cultures of writing seminar

Lecture 17:30–20:00

Seminar

Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Torrington Room, (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:30–19:30

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar Hosted by the Centre for Logic and Language Free corine.besson@sas.ac.uk

Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:45–19:45

New ICA archival description standard Bill Stockting Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Bedford Room (Senate House)

Book collecting seminar ‘A new generation of book collectors: the Oxford and Cambridge Societies of Bibliophiles’ Simon Beattie and Tom Lintern-Mole (Antiquates), Harriet Rix (Cambridge), Geri Della Rocca de Candal (Oxford) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–19:30

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

Room 243 (Senate House)

Wednesday 15 Institute of English Studies

Palaeography and diplomatic lecture series

Seng T Lee Seminar Room (Senate House Library)

Professor David d’Avray (UCL) ‘Record keeping: Registration: papacy. Chancery. Penitentiary’ This event is part of the King’s, London, UCL and Institute of English Studies Palaeography and diplomatic lecture series, 2016/17.

Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

London Old and Middle English research seminar (LOMERS)

Lecture 16:00–17:00

Seminar 17:30–19:30

Anke Bernau (Manchester) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Athlone Room (Senate House) Institute of Latin American Studies

Thanks to God, Juan, and Evita: indigenous leaders, Peronism, and the Argentine nation-state

Room G21A (Senate House)

Christine Mathias (King’s, London) In Argentina, many indigenous people have fond memories of President Juan Perón and his second wife Evita, even though Perón himself did little to promote indigenous rights. This talk draws on original archival research to show how indigenous leaders in the 1940s and 1950s embraced the rhetoric of Peronism and the principles of populism.

Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Modern Languages Research

The BBC German Service in wartime: the making of Frau Wenicke

Seminar 17:30–19:30

Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

Thursday 16 Institute of Historical Research Conference / Symposium 09:00–18:00 IHR (Senate House)

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Michelle Deignan Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Pocahontas and after: historical culture and transatlantic encounters, 1617-2017 A major international conference to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Pocahontas’ death. Co-hosted by the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library and the Institute of Historical Research. Additional support has been provided by the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture and the University of Warwick.

Conference fees apply ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Commonwealth Studies Workshop 11:00–18:00 The Institute for Black Atlantic Research, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire, UK PR1 2HE

Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 13:00–14:00 Room 349 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Warburg Institute Lecture

What’s happening in Black British history? VI This is the sixth event in a series that aims to identify and promote innovative new research into the history of people of African origin or descent in the UK, and to facilitate discussion of the latest developments in the dissemination of black British history in a variety of settings.

Keynote speaker: Gretchen Gerzina (University of Massachusetts), author of Black England: Life Before Emancipation and BBC Radio 4 presenter Organised by Black British History in partnership with IBAR and UCLAN. Registration fee: £20 (£10 for students/unwaged), including lunch and refreshments olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

The Brazilian Amazon, its people and the circulation of knowledge Mark Harris (St Andrews) Knowledge about the Brazilian Amazon for a global academic community is often associated with indigenous societies and their anthropologists and advocates. This presentation considers other kinds of knowledge practices that complement this ‘headline’ Amazon.

Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

ICS ancient history seminar Dean Hammer (Franklin & Marshall College) ‘Between sovereignty and non-sovereignty: “Maiestas” and Foundational Authority in the Roman Republic’ Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Translation and treason: the Luso Castilian demarcation controversy and Abraham Ortelius’ map of China from 1584

The Warburg Institute

Florin-Stefan Morar (Harvard University) Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg) Free tony@tonycampbell.info

Institute of Historical Research

The historical present as an ideological category

17:00–19:00

Seminar 17:30–19:30

Kenan Van De Mieroop (Ghent University) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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

‘My phone is my weapon’: independent media for human rights in Complexo do Alemão, Rio de Janeiro Charlotte Livingstone (Goldsmiths, University of London) Coletivo Papo Reto is an independent media collective from Complexo do Alemão, one of the largest favela complexes of Rio de Janeiro. This talk explores some of the ways in which the collective works through a digital, collective and constantly evolving methodology, armed with little more than cell-phones and a Wi-Fi/3G connection.

Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

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IMLR graduate forum

Room 246 (Senate House)

Amy King (Bristol/Bath) ‘The Martyrdom of Giacomo Matteotti: a Father for the Nation’ Fraser McQueen (Stirling/Aberdeen): ‘“N’êtes vous donc pas jolie?” Veils in recent French fiction’ Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Inaugural George Weidenfeld Lecture in Jewish History 2017

Research Training 18:00–19:30

Lecture 18:00–20:30 The Beveridge Hall (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Reading Group 19:00–20:30

David Sorkin (Yale University) ‘Towards a history of Jewish emancipation politics’ Free IHR.events@sas.ac.uk

Delphine Vigan, Nothing Holds Back the Night The Reading Group is a true celebration of translation. It meets monthly and focuses on the translated works of acclaimed French authors. camille.ondet@institutfrancais.org.uk

Institut Français du Royaume-Uni, 17 Queensbery Pl, London SW7 2DT

Friday 17 Institute of Classical Studies

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar

Room 246 (Senate House)

Mengzhen Yue (University College Dublin) ‘“You have examples from your own family”: The Greekness of Philip II in Isocrates’ Philippos’ Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Institute of English Studies

Humanities after Brexit and Trump reading group

Seminar 16:30–18:30

Reading Group 17:00–18:30

The role of the educated elite in radically changing times. Part One: re-examining class and privilege Free IESEvents@sas.ac.uk

Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR (Senate House)

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Travelling ayahs and amahs: navigating victimhood and agency Olivia Robinson (Oxford) In the early twentieth century, ayahs and amahs were a familiar sight onboard ships, employed to care for the children of British families as they travelled to and from ‘home’. The literature, however, only interprets their experiences once on British soil, positioning them as victims of an inequitable colonial system, abandoned by their employers and in need of rescue. This talk moves the focus away from the metropole towards an ayah-centred understanding of the entire journey between sites of empire.

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Senate House Library Fim screening 18:00 – 20:00 Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House Library

Monday 20 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15

Spirit of ’45 (2013) Screening of Ken Loach’s passionate and extraordinary portrayal of the Labour party’s historical electoral victory in 1945, a pivotal year in British history. The director used film from Britain’s regional and national archives, alongside sound recordings and contemporary interviews, to reveal how the unity that carried Britain through the war, allied to the bitter memories of the inter-war years, led to a vision of a better society. shl.whatson@london.ac.uk

The past as a foreign country: remembering Spain in Ottoman lands Julia P Cohen (Vanderbilt University) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30

The politics of poverty: the Child Poverty Action Group, 1965–2015 Ruth Davidson (King’s, London) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House) Warburg Institute Research Training 17:30–19:30

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

The Warburg Institute Warburg Institute Seminar 18:30–19:50

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

Tuesday 21 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15

Conjuring guns and money from the sky Declan O’Reilly (East Anglia) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR (Senate House)

The ideas behind the first estimates of the Argentine cost of living index, 1918–33 Cecilia Lanata (Sussex) This analysis compares and contextualises the ideas behind the cost of living index released in 1918 by Alejandro E Bunge and the one developed between 1933 and 1935 by the Departamento Nacional de Trabajo (National Labour Department, DNT) headed at the time by José Figuerola.

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Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 18:00–20:00 Woburn Suite (Senate House)

Wednesday 22 Institute of Modern Languages Research

The practical, the political and the ethical seminar series ‘A normative theory of disagreement’ Yonatan Shemmer (Sheffield) Free IP@sas.ac.uk

ICS and the Friends of the British School at Athens Ken Dark (Reading) ‘Building orthodoxy: recent archaeological work at Hagia Sophia’ valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Performing Beckett Free dominic.glynn@sas.ac.uk

Workshop 10:00–18:00 Bordeaux Institute of English Studies

Palaeography and Diplomatic Lecture Series

Seng T Lee Seminar Room (Senate House Library)

Diplomatic as a way of thought David d’Avray (UCL) This event is part of the King’s, London, UCL and Institute of English Studies Palaeography and diplomatic lecture series, 2016/17. iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Philosophy

London Aesthetics Forum

Lecture 16:00–17:00

Seminar 16:00–18:00 Gordon Room (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:00–19:00 Woburn Suite (Senate House)

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Diarmuid Costello (Warwick) What is abstraction in photography?

The London Aesthetics Forum is generously sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics.

Free IP@sas.ac.uk

ICS/BSR Rome London lecture Paolo Carafa (La Sapienza, Rome) ‘Early history and landscapes of Rome seen from the Palatine’ The main controversies about early Rome, including the origin of the city itself, will be considered in light of new evidence from investigations of the northern slopes of the Palatine.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

The origin of symbolic material culture: what does the archaeological record say?

Francesco d’Errico (Bordeaux) Recent discoveries have pushed the boundaries of art making into unimaginable depths of time and across diverse geographies bringing to light the crucial role of images in the cognitive development of the human mind. This lecture series explores the origins of art in a cross-disciplinary perspective.

Free jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

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Thursday 23 Institute of Modern Languages Research

Neuroscience and cultural memory for migrant cinema and literature: European Traumalgia

Room 246 (Senate House)

The seminar’s point of departure is a recent film about arranged marriages in Turkey written by a Turkish-French film-director, Deniz Gamze Ergüven. It will explore the themes of women’s rights, faith, cinema, family, cultural identity, and migration in France, Italy, and Germany and other films by Turkish-German and Turkish-Italian film-directors, as well as migrant literature from France, Italy, and Germany.

Free cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies

ICS ancient history seminar

Seminar 16:00–18:00

Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Reading Group 17:00–18:30 Room 234 (Senate House)

Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 17:15–19:00

Chris Farrell (Durham) ‘Xenophon on the political capacity of women’ Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Humanities after Brexit and Trump reading group The role of the educated elite in radically changing times. Part Two: what now?

The last year has seen a profound shift in the realities of the current world order.

Both UK and US electorates have taken decisions with profound implications for how nations will function, both internally and in relation to other sovereign states.

What do these new populisms portend for the coming decades?

Free IESEvents@sas.ac.uk

Metamorphosen der Freiheit: Zur Entwicklung und Rezeption einer Schlüsselkategorie Winckelmanns English Goethe Society Lecture Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Latin American Studies Lecture 17:30–19:30 Woburn Suite (Senate House)

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

Homophobias, human rights and social change in the French and British Caribbean The goal of this presentation is to engage with key concepts in sexual minority discrimination and rights talk occurring in transnational contexts. It will use ethnographic examples from Barbados and Martinique to challenge assumptions of the uniformity and translatability of LGBT rights as a primary response to homophobia in the Caribbean.

David Murray (York University, Toronto) Convenor: Willian Tantam, postdoctoral fellow (Centre for Integrated Caribbean Research) Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Irish studies seminar Senia Paseta (Oxford), Anne Dolan (Trinity College Dublin) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Torrington Room, (Senate House)

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Institute of Historical Research Lecture 18:30–21:00 The Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)

Friday 24 Institute of Historical Research Conference / Symposium 09:00–18:30 IHR (Senate House)

Institute of Latin American Studies Workshop 10:00–18:00 Woburn Suite (Senate House)

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

Disinterested philanthropy or tainted gifts?

Across the western world universities and other cultural institutions are struggling with moral issues that controversial legacies present. Sir David Cannadine (president-elect of the British Academy) will draw on British and US examples in his discussion of these dilemmas. His lecture is the opening event for the IHR’s conference, ‘History, heritage and ideology: universities and the commemoration of benefactors’ (see 24 March).

Sir David Cannadine (Princeton) Free IHR.events@sas.ac.uk

History, heritage and ideology: the commemoration of benefactors Cultural institutions, not least universities, have depended for centuries on private benefactions. But the wealth from which these derive has frequently come from activity that is counter to modern social and ethical standards, and donors may have had dubious motives for their giving. In the light of the duty of these institutions to uphold the highest contemporary values, what is their duty to their benefactors? How, for example, should they acknowledge them? This conference will be of interest to all students of history and to those engaged in educational and cultural fundraising.

Speakers: Richard Rex and John Shakeshaft (Cambridge), Lawrence Goldman (IHR), Stuart Jones (Manchester), Jill Pellew (IHR), Laura Van Broekhoven (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford), Tiffany Jenkins (author of Keeping their Marbles), William Whyte, Brian Young and Max Harris (Oxford), Howard Spencer (English Heritage), Nick Draper (UCL), Vicky Harrison (formerly of the Wolfson Foundation) and Bill Abrahams (UoL) Fee: £35; student/unwaged/retired/IHR Friend: £25 ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Homosexualities, homophobias, and heteronormativities in the Caribbean The Caribbean region is often characterized as uniformly homophobic and LGBT rights are often claimed by governmental and non-governmental organizations as the conduit through which change can be effected. What happens when we question assumptions about the meaning of homophobia and the effects of imposing this term on dispersed and diverse societies? How might we also constructively question rights as a universal strategy through which to change local laws, beliefs and practices? The goal of this presentation is to critically engage with key concepts in sexual minority discrimination and rights talk occurring in transnational contexts, using ethnographic examples from Barbados and Martinique to challenge assumptions of the uniformity and translatability of LGBT rights as a primary response to homophobia in the Caribbean.

David A.B. Murray (York University)

ICS postgraduate work in progress seminar Martina Russo (University of Warwick) ‘How to flatter with an historical example’ Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Finnegans Wake seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Saturday 25 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium 14:00–19:00 Court Room (Senate House)

Monday 27 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies

LASS: The London Anglo-Saxon Symposium 2017 Now in its sixth year, the theme for the 2017 symposium is ‘animals’. It will look at the Anglo-Saxons’ relationships with animals from a number of angles, starting with some of the ways in which they represented animals in their art and literature, then looking at their use of animals in hunting and farming, and moving on to a handling session and discussion of animal products. A wine reception follows.

Helen Brookman, Carol Farr, Corinne Dale, Hana Videen, Eric Lacey (Winchester), Debby Banham (Cambridge), Kenneth Rochester (Tha Engliscan Gesithas) Fees applicable IESEvents@sas.ac.uk

ICS ancient philosophy seminar Catharine Rowett (East Anglia) ‘What happens on Agathon’s couch in the “Symposium”?’

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

ICS Roman art seminar

Room 243 (Senate House)

Elizabeth Marlowe (Colgate University, New York) ‘Roman art in the British Museum and beyond: context, connoisseurship, and display’ Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute

Neoplatonism study group: Proclus, In Parmenidem

Seminar 17:30–19:00

Research Training 17:30–19:30

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

The Warburg Institute Warburg Institute Seminar 18:30–19:50

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia Alessandro Scafi (Warburg), John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

Tuesday 28 Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:15–19:00

Medieval manuscripts seminar David Rundle (Oxford) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Seng T Lee Seminar Room (Senate House Library) Institute of English Studies Seminar

Open University’s contemporary cultures of writing seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Gordon Room (Senate House)

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

Legal Practice and the Legal Profession: the transnational activism of women lawyers of colour Gwen Jordan (University of Illinois) Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

IALS

Wednesday 29 Institute of English Studies Seminar

Contemporary innovative poetry research seminar Free IESEvents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 246 (Senate House) Warburg Institute Lecture 18:00–19:00

Early Faces Ludwig Morenz (Bonn) Free jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

Thursday 30 Institute of Modern Languages Research

Portuguese and Galician studies: research projects and digital language resources

Room 246 (Senate House)

Portuguese and Galician are historically related romance languages that share a literary tradition and a continuity of linguistic phenomena on either side of the border line. This workshop will showcase a selection of digital language resources and research projects, covering areas such as text editing, dictionaries, dialectology and history of the language.

Sponsored by the Camões Centre for Portuguese Language and Culture at King’s, London.

Free cathy.collins@sas.ac.uk

Senate House Library

Radical Voices Aloud

Workshop 16:00–17:30

Performance 18:00 – 20:00 Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Reading Group

The library will bring together a number of performers and groups to take part in a programme of socialist and radical music. Featured artists include Grace Petrie, who performs two-fisted folk songs in the tradition of Billy Bragg, and the north London-based Raised Voices Choir singing for peace, justice and the environment, and against militarism, capitalism, racism and sexism. shl.whatson@london.ac.uk

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

18:30 – 20:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

Friday 31 Institute of Historical Research Workshop 10:00–17:00 IHR (Senate House)

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Early American history workshop 2nd annual IHR/BGEAH postgraduate and early career conference 2017 This day-long workshop for postgraduate researchers and early career academics working on any facet of American or Atlantic history from the seventeenth century through the early national period invites them to discuss their ideas among their peers and, where appropriate, to assess the current state of early American research in Britain.

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Saturday 01 Institute of English Studies Conference 10:00–16:00

Virginia Woolf Society conference and AGM £27.50 non-members standard £22.50 VWS members and concessions iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Court room (Senate House)

Monday 03 Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference 17:00–19:00

Francospheres of resistance and revolution Exploring articulations of resistance and revolution across different spaces and times, the papers presented at this conference enquire in new and innovative ways about radical politics, activism and resistance expressed in French.

Free claire.launchbury@sas.ac.uk

Woburn Suite (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 243 (Senate House) Warburg Institute Research Training 17:30–19:30

Open University book history seminar Will Slauter (Université Paris Diderot/Institut Universitaire de France) ‘Copyright and the newspaper, 1710–1911’ Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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

The Warburg Institute

Tuesday 04 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Conference / Symposium 10:00–18:00 The Senate Room (Senate House)

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Lecture

The Commonwealth and Challenges to Media Freedom This two-day meeting will draw together journalists, lawyers, magistrates, judges and policymakers to address government channels and information flows using examples from Malaysia, South Africa, Botswana, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda. Discussions will also include the challenges that journalists, bloggers and social media users face in low-intensity conflict zones such as Kashmir, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Convenor: Sue Onslow, ICwS senior lecturer and co-investigator, The Oral History of the Commonwealth Project Speakers: Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena, Gwen Lister (former editor, The Namibian), Irene Ovonji Odida (Uganda Association of Women Lawyers), Dan Branch (Warwick), William Crawley (ICwS), Kiran Hassan (SOAS), Kayode Samuel and Nupur Basu Funded by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and co-sponsored

by Asian Affairs, The Commonwealth Press Union Media Trust, The Round Table.

Fee: standard £40; concessions £15 olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Peter Lyon Annual Lecture Baroness Patricia Scotland (Commonwealth Secretary General) Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

17:30–18:30 The Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)

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Friday 07 Institute of Modern Languages Research

61st national postgraduate colloquium in German studies jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Research Training 10:00–17:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research

2017 Sylvia Naish Lecture Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:00

Institute of English Studies Seminar

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

18:00–20:00 Bloomsbury Room (Senate House)

Saturday 08 Institute of Modern Languages Research

French postgraduate conference dominic.glynn@sas.ac.uk

Research Training 10:00–18:00 Trinity College Dublin Institute of English Studies Seminar 14:00–16:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

Tuesday 11 Institute of English Studies Seminar

EMPHASIS Raphaële Garrod (CRASSH, Cambridge) ‘The natural philosopher as salon wit: the Chandoux/Descartes case’ Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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

18:00–19:30 Room 243 (Senate House)

Wednesday 19 Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00

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

Room 234 (Senate House)

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Thursday 20 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 Modern Languages Research Research Training 18:00–19:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Commonwealth Studies

IMLR graduate forum Dylan Sebastian Evans (RHUL): ‘Rape in France: notes towards a historical understanding of the “Problem’” Alex Leskanich (RHUL): ‘Orientation, identity, and the tautology of the Anthropocene’ Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

The Records Project Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Workshop 10:00–18:00 The Court Room (Senate House)

Friday 21 Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Monday 24 Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference / Symposium 10:00–19:00 The Court Room (Senate House)

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar

London Beckett seminar Nadia Louar (University of Wisconsin) ‘Bilingual Beckett’ Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

The operas of Thomas Adès: music, language and discourse This two-day symposium will address the critical gap in Adès studies by considering the multiple languages bound up in Adès’s three operatic shapes of music, text, and performative realisation and aligning these with a fourth shape: the discursive practices that arise when Adès’s operas are brought into the scholarly domain.

Sponsored by the Open World Research Initiative: Cross-Language Dynamics Project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council Free jo.bradley@sas.ac.uk

Process philosophy Johan Siebers (Institute of Modern Languages Research) Free johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

16:00–18:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15

Monsters, transgressed boundaries and contested hierarchies in eighteenth-century Yidddish translations Iris Idelson-Shein (Goethe University, Frankfurt) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House)

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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:30–19:00 Room 243 (Senate House) Warburg Institute Research Training 17:30–19:30

ICS Roman art seminar Jeffrey Veitch (University of Kent) ‘Ear and stone: acoustics, architecture and art at Ostia’ Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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

The Warburg Institute

Tuesday 25 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15

From the sailor to the landsman: nautical influences on tattooing and fashion Amber Butchart (University of the Arts London), Matt Lodder (Essex) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar

The practical, the political and the ethical seminar series Sarah Jean Broadie (St Andrews) ‘Virtue and the natural goods: an Aristotelian perspective’ Free IP@sas.ac.uk Tim Hitchcock (Sussex) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR (Senate House)

Wednesday 26 Institute of English Studies Seminar

Contemporary innovative poetry research seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–18:30 Room 349 (Senate House)

Thursday 27 Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00–19:00

ICS classical archaeology seminar Rachel Wood (Oxford/British Museum) ‘Globalisation across the Iranian Plateau: the visual culture of the sacred in the 2nd century BC’ Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

CenSes seminar Part of the ‘Rethinking the Senses’ project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council Free info.rts@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Modern Languages Research

From Sarmatia to Mare Nostrum jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Conference / Symposium 10:00–18:00 Bloomsbury Room (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Semina

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

16:30–18:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Torrington Room, (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:30–20:00 Bloomsbury Room (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar

Irish studies seminar ‘Playing the role of gaolers to little helpless children: competing pauper childhoods under the Irish Poor Law’ ‘A document of truth? Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and the McAleese Report’ Simon Gallagher (Cambridge), Lucy Simpson (Liverpool) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

London theatre studies seminar Panel on contemporary political theatre in collaboration with the European Theatre Research Network with Bryce Lease (RHUL), Peter Boenisch (University of Kent) and Günther Heeg (University of Leipzig) Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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

18:30–20:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Warburg Institute Lecture 17:00–19:00 The Warburg Institute

Friday 28 Institute of English Studies Seminar

Privateering and navigational practice: Edward Wright and the first Mercator chart, 1599 Stephen Johnston (Museum of History of Science, Oxford) Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (King’s College) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg) Free tony@tonycampbell.info

Finnegans Wake seminar Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

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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 Thursdays at 16.30–18.30 Dates: 2, 9, 16 February; 2, 9, 16, 23 March; 20, 27 April Ancient literature Mondays at 17.00–19.00 Dates: 6, 20, 27 February; 6, 13 March Ancient philosophy Mondays at 16.30–18.30 Dates: 13, 27 February; 13, 27 March Classical archaeology Wednesdays at 17.00–19.00 Dates: 1, 8 February; 1, 8 March; 26 April Mycenaean Wednesdays at 15.30–18.00 Dates: 15 February; 8 March Postgraduate work-in-progress Fridays at 16.30–18.30 Dates: 3, 10, 17, 24 February; 3, 10, 17, 24 March

Events February | March | April 2017

Seminar series

Seminar series Roman art Mondays at 17.00–19.00 Dates: 13, 27 February; 13, 27 March; 24 April

Institute of English Studies Contact: ies@sas.ac.uk London Beckett seminar Fridays at 18:00 – 20:00 Dates: 10 February; 10 March; 21 April Book collecting seminar Tuesdays at 18:00 – 20:00 Dates: 14 March Charles Peake Ulysses seminar Fridays at 18:00 – 20:00 Dates: 3 February; 3 March; 7 April Contemporary innovative poetry research seminar Wednesdays at 18:00 – 20:00 Dates: 22 February; 29 March; 26 April Early modern philosophy and the scientific imagination (EMPHASIS) seminar Satursdays at 14:00 – 16:00 Dates: 11 February; 4 March; 8 April Ezra Pound Cantos reading group Wednesdays at 18:00 – 20:00 Dates: 8 February; 1 March Finnegans Wake research seminar Times: 18:00 – 20:00 Dates: 24 February; 24 March; 28 April

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Seminar series History of libraries seminar

London-Paris romanticism seminar

Thursdays at 17:30 – 19:30

Fridays at 17:30 – 19:30

Dates: 2 February; 7 March

Dates: 10 February; 10 March

Humanities after Brexit and Trump reading group

Media history seminar

Times: 17:00 – 18:30

Tuesdays at 18:00 – 20:00

Dates: 6, 23 February; 2, 17, 23 March

Dates: 14, 28 February

Irish studies seminar

Medieval manuscripts seminar

Thursdays at 18:00 – 20:00

Tuesdays at 17:30 – 19:15

Dates: 23 February; 23 March; 27 April

Dates: 7 February; 14, 28 March

Literary London reading group Tuesdays at 18:00 – 19:30 Dates: 14 March; 11 April

Ministry of Information seminar Thursday at 17:30 – 19:30 Dates: 20 April

London Old and Middle English research seminar (LOMERS)

Open University book history heminar

Wednesdays at 17:30 – 19:30

Mondays at 17:00 – 19:00

Dates: 1 February; 15 March

Dates: 6, 20 February; 6, 13 March; 3 April

London Modernism seminar

Open University contemporary cultures of writing seminar

Saturdays at 11:00 – 13:00 Dates: 4 February; 4 March London nineteenth century studies seminar Friday at 17:00 – 19:00 Date: 3 March London Shakespeare seminar Mondays at 17:15 – 19:00 Dates: 13 February; 13 March

Tuesdays at 17:30 – 19:30 Dates: 21 February; 14, 28 March Postgraduate feminist reading group Thursdays at 18:30 – 20:00 Dates: 23 February; 30 March; 27 April

Institute of Historical Research Contact: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk *These seminars meet in the summer term only

London theatre seminar

American history

Thursdays at 18:30 – 20:30

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30

Dates: 2 February; 9 March; 27 April

Dates: 2, 16 February; 2, 16 March; 27 April

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Seminar series Archives and society

Crusades and the Latin East

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:45

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15

Dates: 14, 28 February; 14 March; 25 April

Dates: 13, 27 February; 13 March, 24 April

British history in the 17th century

Digital history

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

Dates: 9, 23 February; 9, 23 March

Dates: 14, 28 February; 14 March; 25 April

British history in the long 18th century

Disability history seminar

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15

1st Monday of every month at 17:15

Dates: 1, 15 February; 1, 15 March; 26 April

Dates: 6 February; 6 March

British maritime history Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 14, 28 February; 14 March; 25 April Christian missions in global history Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30 Dates: 14, 28 February; 14 March; 25 April

Earlier middle ages Weekly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 1, 8, 22 February; 1, 8, 15, 22 March; 26 April Early modern material cultures Weekly on Wednesdays at 17:15 Dates: 26 April

Collecting and display

Economic and social history of the early modern world

Fortnightly on Mondays at 18:00

Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15

Dates: 6 February; 6 March; 24 April

Dates: 3, 17 February; 3, 17 March; 28 April

Colonial/postcolonial new researchers’ workshop

Education in the long 18th century

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15

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

Dates: 13, 27 February;13 March; 24 April

Dates: 11, 25 February; 11 March

Comparative histories of Asia

European history 1150–1550

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 12:30

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30

Dates: 1, 15 February; 1, 15 March

Dates: 2, 16 February; 2, 16 March

Conversations and disputations

European history 1500–1800

Twice a month on Fridays at 17:30

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15

Dates: 10, 24 February; 10, 24 March

Dates: 13, 27 February; 13 March; 24 April

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Seminar series Film history

Imperial and world history

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15

Dates: 9, 23 February; 9, 23 March

Dates: 6, 20 February; 6, 20 March

Gender and history in the Americas

International history

1st Monday of the month at 17:15

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 18:00

Dates: 6 February; 6 March; 24 April

Dates: 14, 28 February; 14 March; 25 April

History Lab seminar

Jewish history

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30

Once a month on Mondays at 17:15

Dates: 9, 23 February; 9, 23 March

Dates: 20 February; 20 March; 24 April

History of education

Late medieval and early modern Italy

1st Thursday of every month at 17:30

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15

Dates: 2 February; 2 March

Dates: 9, 23 February; 9, 23 March

History of gardens and landscapes

Late medieval seminar

Fortnightly on Thursdays 18:00

Weekly on Fridays at 17:30

Dates: 2, 16 February; 2, 16, 30 March; 27 April

Dates: 3, 10, 17, 24 February; 3, 10, 17, 24 March

History of liturgy

Latin American history

Once a month on Mondays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30

Dates: 13 March

Dates: 7, 21 February; 7, 21 March

History of political ideas

Life-cycles

Fortnightly on Wednesdays 17:15

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

Dates: 8, 22 February; 8, 22 March

Dates: 14, 28 February; 14 March; 25 April

History of political ideas / early career seminar

Locality and region

Fortnightly on Wednesdays 17:15

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

Dates: 1, 15 February; 1, 15 March; 26 April

Dates: 7, 21 February; 7 21 March

History of sexuality seminar

London group of historical geographers

Once a month on Tuesdays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

Dates: 7 February; 7 March

Dates: 7, 21 February; 7, 21 March

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Seminar series London society for medieval studies

Modern Italian history

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 19:00

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30

Dates: 7, 21 February; 7, 21 March

Dates: 1, 15 February; 1, 15 March

Low countries history

Modern religious history

Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15

Dates: 10, 24 February; 10, 24 March

Dates: 8, 22 February; 8, 22 March

Marxism in culture

Oral history

Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:30

1st Thursday of every month at 18:00

Dates: 3, 17 February; 3, 17 March; 28 April

Dates: 2 February; 2 March

Medieval and Tudor London Weekly on Thursdays at 17:15 Dates: 27 April Metropolitan history Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 1, 15 February; 1, 15 March Military history Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 7, 21 February; 7, 21 March Modern British history Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15 Dates: 9, 23 February; 9 March; 27 April

Parliaments, politics and people Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 7, 21 February; 7, 21 March Philosophy of history Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 2, 16 February; 2, 16 March Psychoanalysis and history Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 8, 22 February; 8, 22 March Public history seminar Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 8, 22 February; 8, 22 March

Modern French history

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

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30

Dates: 6, 20 February; 6, 20 March

Dates: 9, 23 February; 9, 23 March

Modern German history

Religious history of Britain 1500–1800

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

Dates: 1, 15 February; 1, 15 March

Dates: 14, 28 February; 14 March; 25 April

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Seminar series Rethinking modern europe

Women’s history

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30

Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15

Dates: 8, 22 February; 8, 22 March

Dates: 3, 17 February; 3, 17 March; 28 April

Socialist history Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30 Dates: 13, 27 February; 13 March, 24 April

Institute of Latin American Studies Contact: ilas@sas.ac.uk Latin American anthropology seminar series

Society, culture and belief, 1500–1800

17:30 - 19:30

Once a month on Thursdays at 17:30

2 February; 16 February; 2 March; 16 March

Dates: 16 February; 16 March Andean studies seminar Sport and leisure history

17:30

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15

1 February; 1 March; 15 March

Dates: 6, 20 February; 6, 20 March; 24 April LAGLOBAL seminar Studies of home

13:00

1st Wednesday of every month at 17:30

8 February; 9 March; 16 March

Dates: 1 February; 1 March Transport and mobility history

Institute of Modern Languages Research

Once a month on Thursdays at 17:30

Contact: modernlanguages@sas.ac.uk

Dates: 16 February; 16 March; 27 April

IMLR graduate forum Once a month on Thursdays at 18:00

Tudor and Stuart history

Dates: 16 February; 16 March; 20 April

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 13, 27 February; 13 March; 24 April

Process philosophy Fortnightly on Mondays at 16:00

Voluntary action history Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30 Dates: 6, 20 February; 6, 20 March

Dates: 13, 27 February; 13 March; 24 April

Institute of Philosophy Contact: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

War, society and culture

CenSes seminars

Once a month on Wednesdays at 17:15

Thursdays at 17:00 – 19:00

Dates: 8 February; 8, 22 March; 26 April

Dates: 9, 23 February; 9 March; 27 April

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London aesthetics forum

Neoplatonism Study Group

Wednesdays at 16:00 – 18:00

Mondays, 17.30 – 19.30

Dates: 22 February; 8, 22 March; 19 April

Dates: 6, 13, 27 February; 6, 13, 20, 27 March; 3, 10, 24 April

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminars

Warburg-UCL Scholasticism reading group

Thursdays at 17:30 – 19:30

Occasional Wednesdays, 17.30 – 18.30

Dates: 28 February; 7, 14 March

Dates: 22 February

The practical, the political and the ethical Thursdays at 17:30 – 19:30 Dates: 7, 21 February; 7, 21 March; 25 April

The Warburg Institute Contact: warburg@sas.ac.uk

Seminar series

Seminar series

Senate House Library Contact: senatehouselibrary@london.ac.uk Senate House Library Friends events For membership information, visit www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/about-us/friends

Arabic Philosophy Mondays, 14.15 – 15.15 Dates: 6, 13, 27 February; 6, 13, 20, 27 March Basic knowledge of Arabic required Classical Greek Alternate Wednesdays, 12.00 – 13.30 Dates: 1, 15 February; 1, 15, 29 March Esoteric traditions and occult thought Fridays, 13.00 - 14.15 Dates: 3, 10, 17 February; 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 March Maps and Society Occasional Thursdays, 17.00 – 19.00 Dates: 16 February; 16 March, 27 April On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light Mondays, 18:30 – 19.45 Dates: 6, 13, 27 February; 6, 13, 20, 27 March

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Research training

Research training 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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Research training

Research training February Wednesday 01 Warburg Institute Research Training 12:00–13:15

Classical Greek reading class Juan Acevedo (Warburg Institute) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

Thursday 02 SAS Central Research Training 14:00–16:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

Friday 03 Warburg Institute Research Training 13:00–14:15

The PhD viva The session is intended to help students prepare for the viva examination. It will look at a range of practical matters including choosing the external examiners and the roles and strategies of the student, the supervisors and the examiners.

Workshop leader: Philip Murphy (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

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

The Warburg Institute

Monday 06 Warburg Institute Research Training 14:15–15:30

Arabic philosophy reading class Michael Noble (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Thursday 09 SAS Central Research Training 14:00–16:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

Friday 10 Warburg Institute Research Training 13:00–14:15

Applying for research funding This session will explore funding options for research projects. Presentations will cover where to find information about funders, how to pitch your research project, how to write a research proposal and how to prepare a proposal budget.

Workshop leader: Linda Newson (Institute of Latin American Studies) Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading group Dr Liana Saif (Oxford) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Research training Monday 13 Warburg Institute Research Training 14:15–15:15

Arabic philosophy reading class Michael Noble (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Wednesday 15 Warburg Institute Research Training 12:00–13:15

Classical Greek reading class Juan Acevedo (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Thursday 16 SAS Central Research Training 14:00–16:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

Institute of Modern Languages Research Research Training 18:00–19:30 Room 246 (Senate House)

Friday 17 Warburg Institute Research Training 13:00–14:15

Organising successful academic events Organising an academic event can offer students career-changing opportunities and be rewarding and enjoyable.

Workshop leaders: Dominic Glynn (School of Advanced Study) and James Hadley (Trinity College Dublin) Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

IMLR graduate forum Sara Boezio (Warwick): ‘Looking to the future through the lens of the past: Fin-de-siècle Italy’s torn stance at the turn of the century’ Guido Bartolini (RHUL): ‘Victims, lovers and goodhearted people: the memory of the Fascist Wars in Italian literary representations 1945-7’ Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

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

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Saturday 18 Institute of Modern Languages Research Research Training

Visual and performing arts IMLR research training programme Free katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk

11:00–18:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

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Wednesday 22 Warburg Institute Research Training 17:30–18:30

Research training

Research training Warburg-UCL scholasticism reading group John Sabapathy (UCL), Sophie Page (UCL) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

Thursday 23 Institute of Latin American Studies

Postgraduate training day: conducting fieldwork in Latin America and the Caribbean

Woburn Suite (Senate House)

Linda Newson, Niall Geraghty, Kathryn Santner, William Tantam, Mark Thurner, Guiliana Borea (Institute of Latin American Studies), Elena McGrath, Asa Cusack, Chandra Morrison (London School of Economics) Registration fee: £5 Niall.Geraghty@sas.ac.uk

SAS Central

Teaching skills for the PhD student

Research Training 10:30–16:30

Research Training 14:00–16:00

Workshop Leader: Richard Freeman (UCL) Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research Training IALS

Monday 27 Warburg Institute Research Training 14:15–15:15

IALS PhD masterclass (to be confirmed) PhD masterclasses at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) provide an opportunity for current PhD students to discuss research with colleagues and to gain expert input from senior academics.

Diamond Ashiagbore and Mazhar Ilahi (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Arabic philosophy reading class Michael Noble (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

March Wednesday 01 Warburg Institute Research Training 12:00–13:15

Classical Greek reading class Juan Acevedo (Warburg Institute) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Research training Thursday 02 SAS Central

EndNote I

IHR (Senate House)

This hands-on two-part workshop is aimed principally at complete beginners.

The first session introduces the software package while in the second part, students will create and manipulate their own bibliographical database and learn how EndNote integrates with MS Word. Familiarity with basic word-processing will be assumed. The workshop is suitable for beginners and those familiar with EndNote.

Workshop leader: Simon Trafford (Institute of Historical Research) kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

SAS Central

SAS PhD research seminar

Research Training 14:00–16:00

Research Training 14:00–16:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

Friday 03 Warburg Institute Research Training 13:00–14:15

Understanding rhetoric in its cultural and (inter)disciplinary framework: case studies from the early modern period This presentation focuses on the different functions of rhetoric in scientific, cosmological and moral arguments. Starting from the analysis of the importance of rhetoric in the early modern period, it offers a space for a methodological discussion of the value of rhetoric in its cultural context.

James Christie and Hanna Gentili (Warburg) kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

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

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Monday 06 Warburg Institute Research Training 14:15–15:15

Arabic philosophy reading class Michael Noble (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Friday 10 Warburg Institute Research Training 13:00–14:15

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

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Arabic philosophy reading class Michael Noble (Warburg) Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required.

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Wednesday 15 Warburg Institute Research Training 12:00–13:15

Research training

Research training Classical Greek reading class Juan Acevedo (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

Thursday 16 SAS Central

EndNote II

IHR (Senate House)

This hands-on two-part workshop covers the basics and some more advanced features of EndNote. The first session introduces the software package and gives practice in sorting, searching, entering and editing references, in the second session, students will create and manipulate their own bibliographical database and learn how EndNote integrates with MS Word.

Simon Trafford (Institute of Historical Research) kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

SAS Central

Getting research published

Research Training 14:00–16:00

Research Training 14:00–16:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

Friday 17 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research Training 10:00–16:30 IALS

Warburg Institute Research Training 13:00–14:15

This session will address the process of publication in a variety of academic/ professional outlets including digital publication, preparing articles for submission to academic journals, the process of editing, writing book proposals, and (from the perspective of the publisher) turning a thesis into a non-academic book.

Jonathan Newbury (Institute of Historical Research) Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

How to get a PhD in law: meeting the key challenges The challenges of researching a PhD in law: where to start? – Avrom Sherr (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) The PhD in law in the digital world – Judith Townend (Sussex) Handling the supervision relationship – Avrom Sherr (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) Fee: £100, £75 student IALS.events@sas.ac.uk

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

The Warburg Institute

Saturday 18 Institute of Modern Languages Research Research Training

History and memory IMLR research training programme Free katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk

11:00–17:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

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Thursday 23 SAS Central Research Training 14:00–16:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

Monday 24 Warburg Institute Research Training 13:00–14:15

Arabic philosophy reading class Michael Noble (Warburg) Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Introduction to public engagement Public engagement describes how research can be shared with non-academic audiences. This session provides an overview of some of the pathways through which you can start to take part in public engagement activity, and the benefits that can be derived from doing so. It will also outline public engagement opportunities at the School of Advanced Study.

Workshop Leader: Michael Eades Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

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

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Monday 27 Warburg Institute Research Training 14:15–15:15 The Warburg Institute

Wednesday 29 Warburg Institute Research Training 12:00–13:15

Arabic philosophy reading class Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required.

Michael Noble (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Classical Greek reading class Juan Acevedo (Warburg) Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Thursday 30 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research Training IALS

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Diamond Ashiagbore (IALS), Helen Xanthaki (UCL) Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

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SAS Central Research Training 14:00–16:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

Friday 31 The Warburg Institute Research Training 13:00–14:15

Research training

Research training Using social media Social media (from blogs, Twitter, YouTube and Vimeo to Facebook, Google+, Flickr, Instagram, LinkedIn and Academia.edu) can be powerful tools supporting a PhD student’s research and career. This workshop will give an overview of social media platforms, why you use them, what you share and which tool you use for what purpose.

Workshop leader: Matt Phillpott (SAS) Free kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

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

The Warburg Institute

April Thursday 06 SAS Central Research Training 14:00–16:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

Monday 10 Warburg Institute Research Training 17:30–19:30

Public speaking The importance of presenting your research clearly, coherently and cogently in public – whether quickly to a small group, or in depth to a large conference – cannot be overstated, and the way you present is a key component. Workshop leader Naomi Paxton will help you consider how to improve all aspects of the public delivery of your research message to ensure maximum impact.

(Special requirement for attendees: please wear or bring clothing and footwear that does not restrict easy movement.) kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

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

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Saturday 29 Institute of Modern Languages Research

Society for French studies postgraduate conference charlotte.thevenet.15@ucl.ac.uk

Research Training 10:00–18:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

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Calls for papers Latin American Women’s Filmmaking 18 September 2017 Deadline 20 February 2017 Hosted by the School of Advanced Study’s Institutes of Modern Languages Research and Latin American Studies (with the participation of the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies at Birkbeck, University of London), the ‘Latin American women’s filmmaking’ conference is one of the events in a programme organised by the Centro de Estudios La Mujer en la Historia de América Latina. It aims to contribute to the ongoing project of reviewing and rewriting Latin American film history and theory with women directors placed centre stage.

Call for contributions Latin American filmic production holds a celebrated place in the global cinematic canon with many filmmakers and theorists receiving significant scholarly and public attention. Traditionally, however, the majority of these acclaimed practitioners have been men. While recent years have witnessed an increase in the international popularity of notable directors such as Lucrecia Martel, Anna Muylaert, and Claudia Llosa, and in studies of women’s filmmaking in Latin America, much work remains to be done.

Women have played a crucial role in the region’s rich cinematic history, but they are not yet included in the overarching narrative of Latin American cinema history. Moreover, their contribution to the politics and aesthetics of the region’s filmic landscape has not been fully recognised or analysed. Indeed, the new critical methodologies required to examine these contributions are still under construction.

The conference will address these concerns. Its keynote speakers are: Lucia Nagib (Reading), author of ‘The New Brazilian Cinema’ and ‘Brazil on Screen: Cinema Novo, New Cinema, Utopia’; Deborah Shaw (Portsmouth) and Deborah Martin (UCL), editors of the forthcoming ‘Latin American women filmmakers: production, politics, poetics’.

This conference welcomes submission topics that include, but are not limited to: • new interpretations of cinematic works made by women in Latin America • Latin American women film directors, collectives, producers and below-the-line staff 84

• individual or collective social and political engagement in women’s filmmaking • the expansion of the ‘political’ through engagement with the personal, the domestic and private in Latin American women’s filmmaking • the role and significance of new technologies and formats, such as video and digital, in increasing women’s participation in Latin American filmmaking; • popular education through film and alternative dissemination projects led by women • Latin American women filmmakers in exile – political or economic • women filmmakers’ transnational strategies of funding, distribution and exhibition • sexual division of work within cinematic production and attempts to redress imbalances Send 100-word abstracts, titles of proposed papers and institutional affiliations to latamwomendirectors@gmail. com by 20 February 2017.

Histories of Race, Popular Culture, and Identity in the Andes 15 May 2017 CFP deadline: 1 March 2017 In September, 2016, Bolivia’s “indigenous fashion” debuted at New York Fashion Week, causing international interest in the clothing of chola designer Eliana Paco Paredes (for example, in National Geographic). Similar international curiosity has been raised by the “Andean architecture” of Freddy Mamani, profiled in The Guardian in 2014 and in the New Yorker. Each of these cultural representations has been celebrated as a form of international resistance and decolonization, a way of “turning the tables” on histories of colonial domination begun by Spain five centuries ago. These pieces celebrate efforts by indigenous Andeans to reclaim their history through art and culture.

Sergio Serulnikov writes that during the uprisings of Tupac Katari and Tupac Amaru in the 1780s, rebellious indigenous groups sometimes forced Spaniards to wear indigenous clothing as a form of humiliation or punishment (Serulnikov 2003, 165).

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reversal of Spanish colonial policies of proper dress and comportment. Indeed, cultural manifestations of indigeneity were so threatening in the Audiencia of Peru after these uprisings that Visitor General Antonio de Areche outlawed the use of many indigenous cultural practices, including clothing and theatrical representations of the Inca Empire (Serulnikov 2003, 224). Continuities with the colonial era can be found in November 2015, the when Bolivian highland town of Caquiaviri made national news for forcing its mayor to dress up a woman as a punishment for the crime economic mismanagement (El Diario 2015).

National headlines decried the practice as sexist and derogatory towards women “de pollera,” for the mayor had been required to don the traditional skirt (pollera), shawl (manta) and bowler hat of indigenous women of the region (Vidaurre Reyes 2015).

In May, 2017, the Institute of Latin American Studies will host a conference on the cultural politics of race and indigeneity in the Andes that seeks to explore moments of culture production of race and identity in the Andes. Building on Marisol de la Cadena’s observation that racial categories in the Andes are constructed through culture and cultural difference (De la Cadena 2000), this conference will bring together scholars of anthropology, history, and literature in the Andes to answer questions such as: How have Andean peoples used the tools of culture (for example: music, dance, clothing, theater, architecture, literature) to fashion national or regional identities, forms of resistance, and political movements? How have Afro-Andean, indigenous, mestizo and creole communities differently navigated cultural integration and autonomy historically and in the present? How have cultural practices been used in the past or present to mock, denigrate, or punish communities and individuals in the Andes?

How have certain cultural practices travelled across or subverted spatial and temporal boundaries, including rural/urban, highland/lowland, colonial/ national, indigenous/modern? How have cultural manifestations of race been used to perform or transcend class, gender, or sexual identities? How have struggles over patrimony and heritage defined or expanded definitions of Andean culture? How have Andean communities incorporated social and economic concerns through cultural practices.

We welcome abstracts of 300 words that address these and other questions concerning past or present manifestations of race and culture in the Andes, to elena.mcgarth@sas.ac.uk by 1 March.

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Calls for papers

Calls for papers Photographs beyond ruins: women and photography in Africa 14 July 2017 CFP deadline: 17 March 2017 This one-day symposium marks the opening of ‘Usakos – Photographs Beyond Ruins: The Old Location albums, 1920s–1960s’, an exhibition (www.soas.ac.uk/ gallery/forthcoming/) at SOAS, University of London.

The exhibition centres on three private collections of historic photographs preserved and curated by four women residents of the former ‘Old Location’ in Usakos, an urban railway hub in central Namibia. To reflect the resonances of these personal archives, Paul Grendon’s contemporary photographs enter a visual dialogue with the women’s collections, providing a particular opening into the present and future.

Demolished under the apartheid plan for Namibia in the 1950s, the Old Location is remembered with nostalgia by its former residents, who were forcibly removed to a new township on the outskirts of Usakos. Lorena Rizzo and Giorgio Miescher were introduced to the photograph collections of Cecilie Geises, Wilhelmine Katjimune, Gisela Pieters and Olga Garoës while researching Usakos’s history. For many years these women had been collecting, curating and circulating photographs taken in the Old Location, thus preserving and reshaping memories of this time and place.

These photographic collections (http://www. chrflagship.uwc.ac.za/photographs-beyond-ruins/) shed new light on southern African histories. Viewed from an urban history perspective, they differ strongly from hitherto dominant narratives of location life, focusing as they do on sociality and social relations, and the dignity and self-respect with which subjects presented themselves to the camera. In Usakos these images have become a historical form through which women negotiate their past, its bearing on their present and the imagining of their future. Unlike the collections of African photographers’ studios, names can be attributed to the people in these images, but the photographers – some of who were itinerant – remain largely anonymous.

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Calls for papers of photographic practices defined in the broadest sense: African women as clients, as photographers, as photographic subjects and as collectors and curators of photographs and private photographic archives; women engaged in aesthetic practices that bridge conventional distinctions such as that between the visual and the oral; and women’s role in memory work – whether through purely photographic collections, or other private collections that include photographs, letters, identity documents, moving image, objects and other manifestations of material culture. We are particularly interested in the themes of historic collections and memory work, but will also consider papers looking at women’s engagement with photographic practice today.

The conference will also consider how far female photographic practices constituted a domain in which women represented, commented on, responded to and made sense of their experiences of the transformations brought about by colonialism and apartheid. We invite papers which reflect on how women’s photographic and other archival and memory-work practices help to illuminate the specific histories of life under segregation, apartheid and colonialism more broadly – whether (for example) of urban planning, forced removals, housing, the railway system, migrant and domestic labour, cosmopolitanism, education and cultural life.

We expect that the majority of papers will focus on the African continent, but welcome proposals dealing with similar issues in the diasporic context.

The conference will be of relevance to academics and researchers in these fields as well as practitioners and a more general audience with an interest in Namibia and/or in African history and photography.

Contributors are asked to bear this in mind when drafting their presentations.

Send abstracts (300 words max.) and your name, title, affiliation (where appropriate) and contact details to giorgio.miescher@unibas.ch and marion.wallace@ wallpear.plus.com by 17 March 2017.

The Return of British Political History 29–30 June 2017 CFP deadline: 1 April 2017 ‘Brexit’ and associated events in Britain in 2016, including a new government under a second female prime minister, strains within the Labour Party and renewed calls for Scottish independence, have reminded us of the centrality of political institutions in history. Events have been dominated by elections and referenda, foreign diplomacy and negotiation, constitutional procedure and judicial review.

Meanwhile, in recent years, influenced by new work in social history on culture, personal identity, language, ethnicity, race and gender among many other categories, the definition of politics used by historians has expanded. The opportunity of revisiting the history of politics and writing it more broadly, linking insights from other historical genres and approaches to a more conventional focus on political institutions now presents itself. What might a new British political history look like? What should it include? And are there any limits to the definition of ‘politics’ used by historians of Britain?

This conference, organised by the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) with support from the North American Conference on British Studies, takes place at the IHR in Senate House, London, on 29–30 June 2017. It will consider how we should write the political history of Britain under the influence of new approaches and in the light of recent events.

Prospective speakers are invited to submit panel proposals on any period of British history – medieval, early modern and modern – which examine a common political theme, subject or period.

Send proposals of 300 words to ihr.events@sas.ac.uk by 1 April 2017. Proposals must include: three papers with a nominated chair; the title of the panel session; synopses of the individual papers; speakers’ names and affiliations.

Paul Grendon, Giorgio Miescher, Lorena Rizzo and Tina Smith, Usakos: Photographs beyond Ruins. The Old Location Albums, 1920s–1960s (Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2015)

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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 LLM in Legal Translation 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 Understanding and Securing Human Rights – Latin American Pathway MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies via distance learning MRes in Latin American Studies MA in The Making of the Modern World MRes in Modern Languages A range of MPhil and PhD programmes in a range of humanities subjects, including art history, classics, Commonwealth studies, English language and literature, history, Latin American studies, law, and modern languages. Some of these can be completed via distance learning.

For further information: sas.registry@sas.ac.uk www.sas.ac.uk/graduate-study

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How to find us Unless otherwise stated, all events are held within the University of London precinct in Bloomsbury, central London. Most events take place in or around Senate House (south or north blocks) or Stewart House (room numbers are preceded with ST), which is adjacent to Senate House.

The University of London takes its responsibility to visitors with special needs very seriously and will endeavour to make reasonable adjustments to facilities to accommodate such needs. If you have a particular requirement, please discuss it confidentially with the event organiser ahead of the event date.

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New Publications Glanz und Abglanz: Two Centuries of German Studies in the University of London John L. Flood and Anne Simon 2017 | 978-0-85457-263-2 (pb) Glanz und Abglanz tells the fascinating tale of German Studies in London from its beginnings at the ‘godless institution of Gower Street’, and the remarkable personalities whose energy and commitment ensured that the discipline flourished. The story is told through two essays: “Taught by Giants” outlining the history of the subject in London from 1826, and ‘“Sehr schön, Piglet’?

‘Ja, Pooh,”’ following the development of the Institute of Germanic Languages and Literatures and showcasing its remarkable library.

To buy please email orders to orders@nbninternational.com

A Return to the Village: Community Ethnographies and the Study of Andean Culture in Retrospective Edited by Francisco Ferreira with Billie Jean Isbell 2016 | 978-1-908857-24-8 (pb) This edited volume brings together several scholars who have produced outstanding ethnographies of Andean communities, mostly in Peru but also in neighbouring countries. These ethnographies were published between the 1970s and 2000s, following different theoretical and thematic approaches, and they often transcended the boundaries of case studies to become important reference works on key aspects of Andean culture. In their chapters the authors revisit their original works in the light of contemporary anthropology, focusing on different academic and personal aspects of their ethnographies.

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Electronic Signatures in Law Stephen Mason 2016 | 978-1-911507-04-8 (hb) | 978-1-911507-00-0 (pb) | 978-1-911507-02-4 (ebook) This fourth edition of the well-established practitioner text sets out what constitutes an electronic signature, the form an electronic signature can take, and issues relating to evidence – illustrated by analysis of relevant case law and legislation from a wide range of common law and civil law jurisdictions.

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