SAS Events Brochure February - April 2018

Events

February | March | April 2018

Leading Women, 1868–2018: 150 years of university education for women Home: New Histories of Living Reconsidering the Raj Remembering World War I Being Human Festival: call for participation 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.

For a complete list of upcoming events and exhibitions, please visit sas.ac.uk and senatehouselibrary.ac.uk.

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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.

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Cover image: Honeysuckle wallpaper, design by May Morris, c. 1883. © William Morris Gallery, London Borough of Waltham Forest.

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 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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Leading Women

Leading Women In 1868, nine women were admitted to the University of London and permitted to enrol for a ‘special examination’ course. This was the first time in Britain that women had gained access to university education and, though it was to be another ten years before they were admitted on equal terms with men to read for the same degree programmes, this modest event was an immensely significant moment for the University, for women, and for society as a whole.

Celebrating 150 years since women first accessed university education in Britain, the Leading Women campaign celebrates Deeds Not Words Helen Pankhurst in Conversation with Professor Lynn Abrams (University of Glasgow) 13 March, 18:00 | IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, NB01/NB02, Senate House On the 100th anniversary of women getting the vote, Helen Pankhurst—great-granddaughter of suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst and a leading women’s rights campaigner—charts how women’s lives have changed over the last century, and offers a powerful and positive argument for a new way forward.

Why is it taking so long?

Despite huge progress since the suffragette campaigns and wave after wave of feminism, women are still fighting for equality. Why, at the present rate will we have to wait in Britain until 2069 for the gender pay gap to disappear? Why, in 2015, did 11% of women lose their jobs due to pregnancy discrimination? Why, globally, has 1 in 3 women experienced physical or sexual violence?

In 2018, on the centenary of one of the most significant steps forward for women—the Fourth Reform Act (6 February), which saw propertied women over 30 gain the vote for the first time—

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exceptional women by sharing stories of women leading both by being the first, and by leading through their inspirational educational and professional achievements.

Throughout 2018, a number of events and resources—including pop-up exhibitions and talks, panel debates, a student art contest, a new student scholarship, and an online gallery of 150 leading women associated with the University—will mark this ‘foot in the door’ moment for women in higher education.

The events listed here are those relating to the Leading Women initiative that have been organised by the School of Advanced Study.

For a comprehensive list of Leading Women events, please visit london.ac.uk/women.

Helen Pankhurst charts how women’s lives have changed over the last century, and offers a new way forward. Each of the five chapters within the book explores a different theme; politics, money, family & identity, violence and culture. The voices of both pioneers and ordinary women are woven into the analysis which ends with suggestions about how to better understand and strengthen feminist campaigning and with aims for the future.

Combining historical insight with inspiring argument, Deeds Not Words: The Story of Women’s Rights, Then and Now reveals how far women have come since the suffragettes, how far we still have to go, and how we might get there.

Dr Helen Pankhurst is a women’s rights activist and senior advisor to CARE International, based in the UK and in Ethiopia. She has extensive media experience including national and international radio and print interviews, and was involved in the 2015 film Suffragette. Her work in Ethiopia includes support to program development across different sectors, focused on the interests and needs of women and girls. In the UK she is a public speaker and writer on feminist issues. She also leads CARE International’s #March4Women event in London on 4 March.

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February Kalliroa, Razia, Sibulla: Female Supplicants at the Oracle of Dodona in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods 2 February, 16:30 | Room 246, Senate House This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar.

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Jane Austen Society Study Day: Northanger Abbey – Literature and Life 10 February, 09:00–16:30 | Woburn Suite, Senate House See page 46 for event information

Exit Pursued by a Bear: Tacitus’ Nero, Agrippina, and the Dramatic Turn 19 February, 19:00 | Room 349, Senate House This event is part of the ICS Ancient Literature Seminar.

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Encounters: Writers and Translators in Conversation – Kerstin Hensel and Jen Calleja 22 February, 18:00 | Gordon Room, G34, Senate House This event is part of the IMLR Encounters: Writers and Translators in Conversation Seminar.

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Leading Women Institute of Historical Research: Women’s History Seminar Women’s Money Management in Eighteenthand Nineteenth-Century Glasgow Catriona Macleod (University of Glasgow) 9 February, 17:00 | IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Emotional Culture and Relations with Women in Rural Edwardian England Hera Cook (University of Otago) 23 February, 17:15 | IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

“Dear Norah, why did you take my letter the wrong way, it was not intended to hurt or corrupt…”: Danger, Desire and Patriotic Femininity in Britain during WW2 Alison Twells (Sheffield Hallam University) 9 March, 17:30 | IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Maria Theresa (1717–80): Tercentenary Workshop on the Empress and Her Time 26 February, 12:45 | Queen’s College, Oxford Last year marked the tercentenary of the birth of Maria Theresa, who ruled the Habsburg Empire from 1740 to 1780. Her reign was steeped in controversies and major wars, but it also saw the dawn of the Austrian Enlightenment and significant political as well as cultural reforms. In this workshop, experts from across Europe will discuss the prevailing ‘myth’ of Maria Theresa alongside questions of gender and political power in the eighteenth century.

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March A New Language, a New Life? Translingual Literature by Contemporary Women Writers 1 March, 14:00 | Gordon Room, G34, Senate House This symposium will bring together scholars working on translingual women’s writing in the language fields of Italian, French, and German. It will explore the particular richness of texts produced by writers in languages that are not their mother tongues. Is translingual writing perceived by the authors in question as a liberation and a new beginning, or as a requirement demanded by the literary market? How does the particular attention to language required in translingual writing affect the text? What are the distinctive literary and linguistic strategies employed in translingual writing? Does writing in a foreign tongue go hand in hand with establishing a new identity? What can translingual writing achieve that goes beyond the possibilities of texts produced by mother-tongue writers? These are some of the questions that will be explored.

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Virgil Society Lecture: The Female Hero and the Aeneid Natalie Haynes (writer and broadcaster) 3 March, 14:30 | Woburn Suite, G22/26, Senate House See page 69 for event information

The Homeric Penelope: A Model ‘Military Wife’?

14 March, 13:00 | Room 234, Senate House See page 82 for event information

April Virginia Woolf Society Conference and AGM 2018: Virginia Woolf and Her Relatives 14 April, 10:00–16:00 | Room 349, Senate House See page 101 for event information

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July Rights for Women: Campaigning for Equality Senate House Library exhibition and events Steel engraving to the revised edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, published by Colburn and Bentley, London 1831.

July–December 2018 | Senate House Library This summer, Senate House Library will offer an exhibition and programme of public events exploring historical and contemporary campaigns for equal rights. Taking the right to education and more specifically higher education as the starting point in the long road towards gender equality, the season will also explore other significant women’s rights campaigns, including those related to the right to vote and to hold public office, employment rights, and reproductive rights.

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May Women’s Writing and Science 18 May | Room 243, Senate House

Living Literature: Frankenstein 23 May | Senate House The third event in the School of Advanced Study’s acclaimed Living Literature series is an epic thriller brought to life through immersive performances, talks, workshops and activities. Welcome to the world of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein! Listen to chilling ghost stories by candlelight as our experts set the scene of that night in the ‘year without a summer’ at the Villa Diodati, where the first version of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was created. Tread carefully through Victor Frankenstein’s rooms in Ingolstadt, relive the birth of the monster, and learn about the scientific and medical innovations of the period that provided inspiration for Shelley. Listen to talks and join in with activities led by gothic experts, learn about how Shelley’s Frankenstein has inspired popular culture since its publication in 1818, and more!

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Minutes of the Examiners for the Examination of Women, May 1869 – June 1878, showing the first nine women to sit the Special Examination for Women (University of London Archive, RO/3/10).

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Alan May (r) and Martin Andrews (l) at the Gutenberg Press. Image courtesy of University of Glasgow Library.

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Coffin Memorial Lecture: The History of the Book and Keepsake Printing Alan May and Martin Andrews 1 February Johannes Gutenberg printed the first book, the Gutenberg Bible, around 1455. More than 500 years later, his invention still shapes how we communicate. But what did his press look like? And how did it work? This event gives participants the rare opportunity to learn how Alan May and Martin Andrews reverse-engineered and rebuilt Gutenberg’s 6

invention, and then stand in Gutenberg’s footsteps to print a take-away keepsake on the replica Gutenberg Press. Alan and Martin are world-leading experts in the history of printing techniques. Their reconstruction of the Gutenberg Press pioneered research into mechanics of the press and methodologies based on reconstructions. Raphaële Mouren (Warburg) will respond. The lecture marks the relaunch of the Institute of English Studies Annual Lecture in the History of the Book.

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Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice?

Titian’s Portrait of Clarice Strozzi Beverly Brown 1 February A popular nineteenth-century nursery rhyme tells us that little boys are made of snips and snails and puppy dog tails while little girls are filled with sugar and spice and all things nice. And who could be nicer than two-year-old Clarice Strozzi, who in Titian’s portrait so sweetly shares a ring-shaped biscuit with her toy spaniel? Today, Instagram is overflowing with similar snapshots eagerly sent by adoring parents to family and friends. Such adorable images would seem to embody the essence of childhood by celebrating their subjects’ natural spontaneity. They are lasting reminders of the halcyon days of childhood innocence. It is in this vein that we might assume Clarice Strozzi’s parents commissioned her portrait in 1542. But if we look more carefully at Titian’s charming portrayal of a little girl and her dog, we soon discover that it is unlikely to have been a mere celebration of sugar and spice and all things nice. Warburg Institute Fellow Beverly Brown has published widely on Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, looking recently at the depiction of antique sculpture in the work of Bellini and Titian. After teaching at Wellesley College as well as Brown, Harvard, and Princeton, she served as a curator at the National Gallery School of Advanced Study

of Art, Washington, and as assistant director of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. The recipient of fellowships and awards from the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the American Philosophical Society, she was appointed a visiting professor at Villa I Tatti, Harvard University’s Center for Renaissance Studies. She has organized numerous exhibitions, including The Age of Correggio and the Carracci (1986), Veronese (1988), Jacopo Bassano (1993), Giambattista Tiepolo: Master of the Oil Sketch (1993), Renaissance Venice and the North: Crosscurrents in the Time of Bellini, Dürer, and Titian (1999) and The Genius of Rome (2001).

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Highlights The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America Today Adolfo Pérez Esquivel 5 February Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, artist, educator, author, and promoter of nonviolence, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1980 for his defence of human rights in his native Argentina and throughout Latin America. In this talk he will reflect on progress in the field of human rights since military dictatorships in much of the region ended 30 years ago, analysing how these developed under subsequent democratisation. He will also address some of the urgent challenges being faced today as many of these gains are rolled back in Brazil, Venezuela, Honduras, Paraguay, Colombia, Argentina, and elsewhere. This event is sponsored by the Institute of Latin American Studies in collaboration with the Human Rights Consortium.

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IHR Historical Research Lecture 2018 V&A: A Museum of the Home and the World Tristram Hunt 7 February This year’s IHR Historical Research Lecture, sponsored by Wiley, features Tristram Hunt, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Dr Hunt will discuss the V&A’s founding commitment to design, education, and industry, which has forged an enduring connection to domesticity and the home. This lasting vision of ‘art for all’ continues to shape the V&A’s world-class collection today. A historian, politician, writer, and broadcaster, Dr Hunt is an expert on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a particular focus on Victorian urban history. He is the author of several books, including The English Civil War: At First Hand, and, most recently, Ten Cities That Made an Empire.

A regular history broadcaster on BBC and Channel 4, he has made more than a dozen series on subjects including Elgar and empire, Isaac Newton, and the English Civil War. He lectures on modern British history at Queen Mary University of London and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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Permeability, Agency, and the Technological History of Photography Kate Flint 8 February

What happens in the permeable area between the human body and a piece of photographic apparatus? This question is crucial to histories of nineteenth-century photography. Professor Kate Flint will discuss the conceptual and theoretical challenges she encountered when writing a cultural history of flash photography. She will also consider the usefulness of the hand—both as a physical part of an individual and as a synecdoche—as a means of approaching the conundrum of the interwoven roles of human and mechanical in writing photographic history. The hand proves to be a rhetorical and literal instrument that not only connects eye, brain, and camera, but also helps articulate the art vs. mechanical reproduction/commercial activity distinctions that are inseparable from this history.

Kate Flint is Provost Professor of Art History and English at the University of Southern California. She has published The Woman Reader, 1837–1914 (Oxford University Press, 1993), The Victorians and the Visual Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and The Transatlantic Indian 1776–1930 (Princeton University Press, 2008); edited The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature (2012); and written widely on Victorian and modernist fiction, Victorian and early twentieth-century painting and photography, and cultural history. This seminar is supported by the journal Media History, Queen Mary University of London, the Institute of English Studies, and the Institute of Historical Research.

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Highlights The Friends of Senate House Library Charles Holden Lecture The Sterling Library: Twentieth-Century Book Collecting and Twenty-FirstCentury Book History Julia Walworth 8 February The Sterling Library started out as the private collection of Sir Louis Sterling (1879–1958), a wealthy businessman. When the collection arrived at the Senate House Library in 1956, it comprised more than 4,000 rare printed books and manuscripts of English literary works from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, and it has now grown to more than 7,000 volumes.

In this year’s Charles Holden Lecture, Dr Julia Walworth, Fellow Librarian of Merton College, University of Oxford, will introduce some of these treasures and explore how the role and function of the Sterling Library has evolved from a collection of ‘trophy books’ to an invaluable resource for the University’s many activities in the burgeoning field of History of the Book.

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IHR Winter Conference Home: New Histories of Living 8–9 February This two-day conference will highlight new research exploring the many ways that the home has been thought about, used, and lived within throughout history. These perspectives open the shutters on domesticity by showing how patterns of homemaking shape our conceptions of kinship, consumption, and the everyday. Confirmed plenary speakers include Jane Hamlett (Royal Holloway), Owen Hatherley (architectural historian and journalist), and Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck).

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20 February Rita Volpe (Roma Tre University) will deliver the 2018 Institute of Classical Studies / British School at Rome Lecture. On 14 January 1506, the statue group of the Laocoon was discovered in a vineyard on the Esquiline Hill in Rome. It was almost intact and recognised at once as the same work of art that Pliny the

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ICS/British School at Rome Lecture 14 January 1506: The Discovery of the Laocoon Rita Volpe

Elder considered one of the most beautiful creations of antiquity. The Laocoon quickly became one of the best known sculptural groups in the world, yet until recently scholars were unsure of the vineyard’s location.

Research began with the owner of the vineyard and the discovery of new archival documents that have provided a definitive solution to the problem. The reconstruction of a landscape of Rome of the sixteenth century, populated by notaries, innkeepers, doctors, and prostitutes, throws light onto the ancient Rome in which the Laocoon was admired.   See page 53

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Pablo Neruda’s Passion for Ecuador: A Meeting of Hearts and Minds Adam Feinstein 22 February The UK embassies of Chile and Ecuador are jointly sponsoring this presentation by Adam Feinstein, the acclaimed biographer and translator of Pablo Neruda, who will tell the fascinating story of the Chilean Nobel Prizewinning poet’s relationship with Ecuador. This passion was conducted largely through his friendships with leading Ecuadorian artists and writers, including the painter Oswaldo Guayasamín and the poets Jorge Carrera Andrade and Jorge Enrique Adoum. The talk will be interspersed with readings from the poetry of Carrera Andrade and Adoum 12

in both Spanish and English. Mr Feinstein’s biography Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life was first published by Bloomsbury in 2004 and reissued in an updated edition in 2013 (Harold Pinter called it ‘a masterpiece’). Also in 2013, Mr Feinstein launched Cantalao, a biannual magazine dedicated to Neruda’s life and work. His translations from Neruda, Lorca, Benedetti, and others have appeared in many publications, including Modern Poetry in Translation and Agenda. His book of translations from Neruda’s Canto General, with colour illustrations by the Brazilian artist Ana Maria Pacheco, was published by Pratt Contemporary in 2013. This event is jointly organised by the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Institute of Modern Languages Research.

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Highlights Crown Copyright, courtesy of The National Archives (catalogue reference: MEPO 2/11409).

Gerald Aylmer Seminar 2018: Diversity amongst the Documents?

The Representation of BAME Communities within the UK’s Archives 23 February Researching and writing inclusive histories that capture the full spectrum of British history demands the creation, cataloguing, and use of diverse archives. Focusing on archives that chronicle Black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) lives, institutions, and initiatives, the Gerald Aylmer Seminar 2018 will explore how these communities are represented within local UK archives by bringing together leading archivists and historians in discussion and debate. Questions to be considered: how have archives captured social, cultural, and political change? How do we ensure that modernday social and demographic development is School of Advanced Study

represented? And what has been the impact of collections and collecting on the historical profession? The Gerald Aylmer Seminar is an annual one-day symposium organised by The National Archives, the Royal Historical Society, and the Institute of Historical Research, which brings together historians and archivists to discuss topics of mutual interest, particularly the nature of archival research and the use of collections.   See page 59 for event information

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Highlights Warburg on Luther and Dürer: Media Wars and the Freedom to Think Jane O. Newman 26 February Jane O. Newman, professor of comparative literature at the University of California at Irvine, specialises in the pre- and early modern past and the modern and postmodern present.

Her talk references Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s assertion that ‘Luther’s words are everywhere’ in his 1937 book Nachfolge, which protested the impoverished ways in which the Great Reformer’s ideas and words were being deployed in support of the Nazi regime.

Professor Newman will use Aby Warburg’s theory of the ‘migration routes’ or paths (Wanderstraßen) of culture and ideas to explore the circulation of Martin Luther’s image, ideas, and words in a variety of highly charged political contexts. These contexts will include not only Luther’s own sixteenth century, but also the volatile worlds of a war-torn early twentieth-century Germany, colonial German East Africa (Tanzania), and the twenty-first century world. In his 1920 essay on Luther, Warburg himself noted that the language of images was an international one; in her lecture, Professor Newman discuss the equally international circulation of Luther’s ideas in the spheres of culture and politics. This event and a related roundtable discussion on 27 February mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and the 100th anniversary of Warburg’s seminal lecture on Luther and the role of propaganda in public opinion-making. Warburg and Luther – Word | Image in Times of Crisis – 1517, 1917, 2017 is supported by the University of London Coffin Trust.

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Virgil Society Lecture: The Female Hero and the Aeneid Natalie Haynes 3 March Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster, and president of the Virgil Society. Her first novel, The Amber Fury (2014), was published to great acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, as was The Ancient Guide to Modern Life (2010).

She has spoken on the modern relevance of the classical world on three continents, from Cambridge to Chicago to Auckland. She is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4: reviewing for Front Row and Saturday Review, appearing as a team captain on three seasons of Wordaholics, and presenting her own show, Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics. Her documentary on the Defining Beauty exhibition at the British Museum, Secret Knowledge: The Body Beautiful, aired in 2015 on BBC4 in the UK and on BBC World News. She was a judge for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction, the 2013 Man Booker Prize, and the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

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Highlights Captured South African Tank with FAPLAs examining.

Taken at Cutio Cuanavale in May 1988 by Jeremy Harding.

On the Record: Memories of the Anschluss 80 Years Ago

Missing Voices: The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale

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This event, organised by the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, will feature a talk by Dorothea McEwan (Warburg Institute) with musical interludes by Ensemble Émigré. Artistic director and singer Norbert Meyn (tenor) and acclaimed pianist Lucy Colquhoun will perform music by émigré composers from Austria and Germany living in Britain as well as a selection of German Lieder, popular in British émigré circles for providing a sense of identity and spiritual nourishment.

This event is organised under the auspices of the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies, the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature and Culture, and the Austrian Cultural Forum.

This commemorative event organised by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies marks the 30th anniversary of the battle of Cuito Cuanavale. The momentous events in Southern Angola in 1988 represented a turning point in the history of the Namibian independence struggle and South Africa’s own lengthy transition from apartheid. The event will highlight the important historical antecedents of the ‘decolonising the academy’ debate, the New International Information Order of the 1970s and 80s, and the need to emphasise African voices in the news narrative. Speakers will also address the the ‘lost voice’ of the MPLA/FAPLA in Angola, as set against the current popular narrative around Cuito Cuanavale in South Africa.

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Reading Human Rights Morally: (Un)Certainty and Restlessness at the European Court of Human Rights Natasa Mavronicola 20 March Dr Natasa Mavronicola, Special Adviser to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, is a senior lecturer at the Birmingham Law School, and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. She researches and teaches on human rights, public law, and legal theory as well as on the interplay between counter-terrorism and human rights and on key intersections between human rights and criminal justice. She has published work in a number of journals, including the Human Rights Law Review and the Modern Law Review.

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Printing Colour 1700–1830 10–12 April Following on from last year’s Printing Colour 1400–1700 conference, this three-day event organised by the Institute of English Studies represents the first interdisciplinary assessment of Western colour printmaking in the long eighteenth century, 1700–1830. It will bring together researchers, curators, special collections librarians, printers, printmakers, cataloguers, conservators, art historians, book historians, digital humanities practitioners, scientists, and others who care for colourprinted material, seek to understand them, or use them in research. The discussion will encompass all media, techniques, and functions, from fashion to fine art, wallpaper to scientific communication.

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British Association for Canadian Studies Annual Conference 2018 – A Century Later: Memory, Remembrance, and Change Margaret MacMillan 19–21 April Professor Margaret MacMillan will give the keynote address at the British Association for Canadian Studies annual conference hosted by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Professor MacMillan is Professor of History at the University of Toronto, the Xerox Foundation Distinguished Scholar at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Munk School of Global Affairs. Her research interests include the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and international relations of the twentieth century.

Her most recent book is The Uses and Abuses of History (2008).

Other books include Women of the Raj; Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World (2002); and Nixon in China: The Week that Changed the World (2006).

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The More Things Change? Labour Protection and Labour Migration under Trade Agreements in a Post-Brexit and Trump Era Joo-Cheong Tham 25 April Professor Joo-Cheong Tham, professor at Melbourne Law School and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, studies labour law and public law with a focus on the regulation of precarious work and political finance law. He has also undertaken considerable research into counter-terrorism laws. His publications include Money and Politics: The Democracy We Can’t Afford (University of New South Wales Press, 2010) and more than 30 book chapters and articles. He has given evidence to parliamentary inquiries into labour migration, terrorism laws, and political finance laws, and has written key reports for the New South Wales Electoral Commission on the regulation of political finance and lobbying.

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Institute of Classical Studies T.B.L. Webster Lecture Caeciliopolis: A Greeker Rome?

Niall Slater 25 April Niall Slater is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Latin and Greek at Emory University, where he won the Emory Williams Award for Distinguished Teaching. His research interests include the ancient theatre and its archaeology, the ancient novel, gender studies, and recently warfare and its cultural impacts.

His books include Euripides: Alcestis (in the Bloomsbury Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy series); Spectator Politics: Metatheatre and Performance in Aristophanes (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002); Reading Petronius (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990); and Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind (Princeton University Press, 1985).

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of Comedy: Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486–280, edited by Jeffrey Rusten (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011). He is currently editing and translating the fragments of Caecilius Statius as part of the new Loeb Library edition of Fragmentary Republican Latin.

ProfessorSlater is T.B.L. Webster Fellow at the Institute of Classical Research from midMarch to early June and has previously held fellowships at the University of Konstanz; the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University; Clare Hall, Cambridge; Magdalen College, Oxford; the American Academy in Rome, Ohio State University, and the University of St. Andrews and was Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellow 2015–2016.

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Re-opening the Workshop: Medieval to Early Modern Lecture series Workshop and workshop practices represent a core and dynamic research strand in the history of art. This strand encompasses the study of canonical artists but equally of the anonymous producers whose activities can be deduced from the surviving art objects, thanks to ever-developing research questions and methodologies. This topic helps us to think about the agents and their networks (artists, patrons, and other market consumers), objects and socio-economic factors (making, buying, and trading) as well as the broader cultural issues of the transmission of skills and ideas (the movement of artists, objects, and imagery). The lecture series brings together leading experts in medieval and early modern historical periods in and beyond Europe, those researching particular high points in workshop practice, and those researching workshop continuities and change in later centuries, including digital mediation. Re-opening the Workshop is supported by the University of London Coffin Trust Fund.

Admission is free and open to the public but advance registration is required.

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31 January Inside Pygmalion’s Workshop: Ivory Carving in Gothic Paris Sarah Guérin (University of Pennsylvania)

21 March The Socialisation and Specialisation of Workshop Labour at the Charterhouse of Champmol Andy Murray (Open University)

7 February Alonso Berruguete, ‘the Son of Laocoon’, and His Assimilation of Classical Sources Manuel Arias (Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid)

9 May Mediation and Transformation | Alchemy and New Technology: Factum Arte’s Workshop Practice in an Age of 3D Recording and Printing Adam Lowe (Factum Arte, Madrid)

21 February Master and Apprentice: Transferring Skills in the London Huguenot Communities Tessa Murdoch (Victoria and Albert Museum)

16 May Goldsmiths, Ivory Carvers, Embroiderers: Identity in the Medieval Workshop Glyn Davis (Museum of London)

28 February The Bernini Workshop (Re)visited Joris van Gastel (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome)

27 June Re-opening the Treasury: Meaning in Materials at San Isidoro de León Therese Martin (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid)

7 March Botticelli, His Assistants and the Business of the Workshop Michelle O’ Malley (Warburg Institute) School of Advanced Study

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Highlights On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light A weekly series of free public readings of Dante’s work hosted by the Warburg Institute and led by Alessandro Scafi (Warburg) and John Took (UCL). Readings begin at 18:00 and end by 19:30 and are held at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square.

For more information, please email warburg@sas.ac.uk.

Spring term 15 January Inferno, Canto I. The dark wood and wild animals. The appearance of Virgil.

22 January Inferno, Canto V. The lustful. Paolo and Francesca.

19 March Purgatorio, Canto X.1-45. Canto XI.1-117. The First Cornice: the proud. The Lord’s Prayer; Omberto Aldobrandeschi; Oderisi da Gubbio.

26 March Purgatorio, Canto XXX. Appearance of Beatrice on the chariot of the Church

29 January Inferno, Canto XIII. The suicides. Pier della Vigna.

Summer term

5 February

14 May

Inferno, Canto XXVI and XXVII. The evil counsellors. Ulysses and Guido da Montefeltro.

Purgatorio, Canto XXXIII. Beatrice’s prophesies.

The final ritual of Dante’s spiritual cleansing.

12 February

21 May

Inferno, Canto XXXIII. Count Ugolino. Canto XXXIV. Centre of Hell. Lucifer.

Paradiso, Canto I. Ascent to the heaven of fire.

5 March

Paradiso, Canto III. Heaven of the moon.

Piccarda Donati.

Purgatorio, Canto XVI.58-105; Canto XVII.91105; Canto XVIII.13-75.

4 June

11 June

The moral structure of Purgatory; the nature of love and its relation to free will.

Paradiso, Canto XI.Thomas Aquinas. Francis of Assisi.

12 March

18 June

Purgatorio, Canto I; Canto II.106-132. Dante and Virgil emerge from the abyss of Hell on the shore of Mount Purgatory. Cato. The ritual of purification. Casella.

Paradiso, Canto XVII. Heaven of Mars.

Cacciaguida.

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25 June Paradiso, Canto XXXIII. The Empyrean. The vision of the Trinity.

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Now in its fourth year, the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar invites you to a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry, and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, and Peter Singer among many other regular and occasional contributors.

The seminar meets on Thursdays from 17:30 to 19:30 in Classroom 1 of the Warburg Institute. All are welcome. For more information, please contact the convener Georgios Tsagdis at georgiostsagdis@outlook.com.

Free and open to the public warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Neoplatonic Studies Seminar Series 2018 Programme Olympiodorus, On Phaedo 11 January 18 January 25 January 1 February

1. 1N–17N 2. 18N–44N 3. 45N–64N 4. 65N–83N

Porphyry, The Cave of the Nymphs 8 February

i. §§ 1–18

Porphyry, How Embryos are Ensouled 15 February 22 February

i. 33,1K–45,4K ii. 45,5K–61,13K

(and anonymous Christianus and Michael Psellus)

Proclus, On Alcibiades I (Page numbers refer to the 1954 Westernink edition)

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i. 1–24 ii. 25–47 iii. 48–67 iv. 68–92 v. 93–114 vi. 115–137 vii. 138–160 viii. 161–178 ix. 179–201 x. 202–234 xi. 235–260 xii. 261–282 xiii. 283–311 xiv. 312–339 21

‘We will remember them’ The School of Advanced Study commemorates the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I with a number of special events. All are free and open to the public.

27 February

The 28th Division in 1915 Institute of Historical Research 17:15–19:15 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Spencer Jones (Wolverhampton) This event is part of the Military History Seminar Series.

Booking: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

28 February

Making Histories in No Man’s Land: Reflections on the First World War Commemorations of British and German Descendants Institute of Historical Research 17:30–19:30 | IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Michael Roper (Essex), Rachel Duffett (Essex), David Savill (Age Exchange) In early 2016, David Savill, artistic director of the reminiscence organisation Age Exchange, collaborated with Rachel Duffett and Michael Roper of the University of Essex on a five-day event in Bavaria that explored family legacies of the First World War among British and German descendants.

For this event, they will talk about their experience of bringing together family stories from across the

national boundaries of ‘no man’s land’ and reflect on their experience as practitioners working across the boundaries of heritage and history. Michael Roper is currently working on a Leverhulme Trust funded project about childhood and family legacies of the Great War in Britain and a study of the war’s impact across three generations of his family in Australia. He is a co-investigator in the University of Hertfordshire’s AHRC/HLF Engagement Centre, ‘Everyday Lives in the First World War’, which funded the collaboration with Age Exchange. Rachel Duffett has a particular interest in the material culture of the First World War and its legacies in the interwar years and is a researcher in AHRC/HLF Centre, ‘Everyday Lives in the First World War’. David Savill specializes in reminiscence practice with older people in care and community settings. His work with older people and with intergenerational groups has resulted in many theatre productions, exhibitions, documentary films, and most recently dance.

Booking: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

1 March

British Ex-Service Students and the Rebuilding of Europe, 1919–26 Institute of Historical Research 17:30–19:30 | IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Georgina Brewis (UCL), Sarah Hellawell (Northumbria), Daniel Laqua (Northumbria) After the First World War, British universities received

an influx of students who had undertaken wartime service—whether as soldiers serving at the front, members of the field ambulance, or VAD nurses.

The Board of Education’s scholarship scheme for ex-service students helped produce a more socially diverse student body, a social transformation of higher education yet to be thoroughly investigated.

The post-war enfranchisement of women coincided with further changes in higher education, exemplified by the University of Oxford’s decision to give full membership to female students in 1920. This talk investigates the war generation’s entry into higher education by focusing on one particular aspect: their contribution to reconstructing Europe by forging links with students from other countries, including former enemy nations. The immediate post-war years saw a plethora of international student initiatives, encompassing humanitarian efforts as well as the promotion of student interests at the international level. British university students were actively involved in these ventures; indeed, the very foundation of the National Union of Students (NUS) in 1922 was partly aimed at strengthening international links. Even when not active in such organisations, many British students engaged in internationalism, for example by participating in study exchanges and travel schemes.

The talk will examine how young adults with direct experience of war experienced and fostered international dialogue and understanding, and is based on a collaborative project funded by an AHRC First World War Engagement Centre grant and codesigned with the National Union of Students (NUS) and the North East branch of the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA).

Booking: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

20 March

12 March

18 April

The Ministry of Pensions and the Disabled Great War Veteran across the British Empire

Neutrality and Resistance: British Propaganda in Spain in the two World Wars

Institute of Historical Research 17:15–19:15 | IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Michael Robinson (Liverpool) After the First World War, servicemen returned home physically altered, with permanently scarred senses, bodies, and minds. In the public sphere, charities and government ministries dealt with their economic and medical needs with varying degrees of success; in the privacy of homes, families and friends endured their loved one’s pain, disorientation, and distress. The Disability History Seminar Series will commemorate these living memorials to the aftermath of war in 2018.

Institute of Historical Research 17:15–19:15 | IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Marta Garcia-Cabrera (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) Booking: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Booking: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Humour, Propaganda, and Print Culture: American Satirical Magazines during the First World War Institute of English Studies 17:30–19:00 | Room 243 (Senate House) Vincent Trott (Open University/Oxford Brookes) This event is part of the Open University History of Books and Reading (HOBAR) Seminar Series.

Booking: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

16 April

‘Not the only shells he encountered’: War Disabled Poultry Farmers after the First World War Institute of Historical Research 17:15–19:15 | IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Emily Bartlett (Kent) After the First World War, servicemen returned home physically altered, with permanently scarred senses, bodies, and minds. In the public sphere, charities and government ministries dealt with their economic and medical needs with varying degrees of success; in the privacy of homes, families and friends endured their loved one’s pain, disorientation, and distress. The Disability History Seminar Series will commemorate these living memorials to the aftermath of war in 2018.

Booking: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Queer Between the Covers Senate House Library 15 January – 16 June Free Queer Between the Covers is a new exhibition and event season at Senate House Library that explores more than 250 years of queer literature. The exhibition displays 50 carefully selected works from the Library’s collection, showcasing works of satire, autographed manuscripts, illustrated novels, and pulp fiction book designs, as well as rare editions of works by famous authors such as Oscar Wilde, WH Auden, and Virginia Woolf. The event series opened with an evening of poetry reading and music with Carol Ann Duffy, the UK’s first female and openly LGBT Poet Laureate. It also features BFI film screenings in the library and walking tours in partnership with Queer Tours of London.

Related events Polari Literary Salon with Neil Bartlett, VG Lee, Alexis Gregory, and Paul Burston 22 February, 19:00–20:30 Periodicals Lounge, Senate House Library £6 (concessions £3) An exclusive evening with London’s award-winning LGBT literary salon Polari is coming to Senate House Library. Founded in 2007 by author Paul Burston, Polari showcases the best in established and emerging LGBT literary talent and is based in London’s Southbank Centre.

Saving Gay’s the Word, and Being Gay in the 80s

Representing LGBTQ Online: An Introduction to Editing Wikipedia 14 March, 09:30–17:00 Seng Tee Lee Room, Senate House Library Free Join Senate House Library and Wikimedia UK to learn how to be a Wikipedia editor and contribute to live entries about queer literature in the online encyclopaedia. Reference works and expert help will be on hand from Senate House Library, and training and support will be provided by Wikimedia UK. No prior knowledge of editing Wikipedia is necessary.

Queer Publishing: A Senate House Library Conference 16 March, 09:30–17:30 Wolfson Conference Suite, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House £17 (£10 concession) Join us for talks and discussion of the world of queer publishing. The presence of queer works on publishers’ lists has tended to represent complex processes of equivocation, marked by streams of open titillation and multi-layered camouflage.

Novels of queer love could be presented by mainstream firms as examining ‘social problems,’ released by pulp presses with lurid covers promising erotic excitement, printed in severely limited and expensive editions to avoid censure, or offered to the public by imprints more accustomed to gambling against censorship with works pornographic in their intent and content. This conference seeks to promote a broad discussion of the subject in an English language context.

Queer Bloomsbury – A Walking Tour with Queer Tours of London 3 April, 18:30–20:30 Meet at Senate House reception Free

27 February, 18:00–20:00 Macmillan Hall, Senate House Free

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Queer Between the Covers...

‘Nish the Chat and Pin Back Your Aunt Nells’ Queer creative writing and Polari workshop with Queer Tours of London 5 April, 18:30–20:30 Senate House Library Free

Film Screenings at Senate House Library To start at 13:15 Free, including light refreshments

Killing of Sister George (1968), 135 mins 14 February

Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971), 106 mins

BFI Britain on Film: LGBT Britain

21 March

26 April, 19:00–21:00 Senate House Library Free

Paris is Burning (documentary) (1990), 73 mins

An Evening with the Fourth Choir 19 May, 19:30–21:30 Crush Hall, Senate House £14/£9

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Tangerine (2015), 88 mins 16 May

Moonlight (2016), 111 mins 6 June School of Advanced Study

Organised by the Warburg Institute Venue: Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts 10 January – 3 February Tuesday to Friday: 11:00–18:00 Saturday: 12:00–17:00 We encounter the world through metadata, or data that provides information about other data.

Maps, calendars, the location and time of a text message—all describe and classify information.

Images carry their own metadata that affects how we relate to them, whether engaging with history and the passage of time or as beholders curating our own visual experience. Focusing on the role of metadata in art and art history, this exhibition shares contemporary reflections on the status of data, extending beyond the digital.

Works range from interventions, such as Nora Al-Badri and Nikolai Nelles’ Nefertiti Hack Project, to the Arts and Crafts movement’s engagement

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Metadata: How We Relate to Images

with medieval ornament. Where there is information there is metadata.

This exhibition arises out of a longstanding collaboration between artists and academics from Central Saint Martins and the Warburg research project Bilderfahrzeuge (a phrase coined by art historian Aby Warburg that translates as ‘image vehicles’).

Related events The exhibition is accompanied by a series of panel discussions in which curators, artists, and academics will discuss some of its overarching themes. All events are free and open to the public.

Practices of Production 25 January, 17:00, Lethaby Gallery, 1 Granary Square, London N1C 4AA

Policies of Ownership 3 February, 14:00, Lethaby Gallery, 1 Granary Square, London N1C 4AA

Featured artists: Nora Al-Badri and Nikolai Nelles | Alexander Burgess Hussein Chalayan | Matthew Clarke | Joyce Clissold | Carole Collet Sarah Craske, Dr Simon Park and Dr Charlotte Sleigh Matthew Darbyshire | Rosemary House | Lauren Jetty Edward Johnston and Violet E. Hawkes | Owen Jones | Lottin de Laval Richard Long | Nicola Lorini | Alfred Maudslay | Louisa Minkin William Morris and John Henry Dearle | Noel Rooke Henrietta Simson | Jeremy Wood

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Rights for Women: Campaigning for Equality Senate House Library Venue: Senate House Library 16 July – 15 December 2018 As part of the University of London’s celebration of the 150th anniversary of women being admitted to its courses through ‘special examinations’ (see pages xx–xx), Senate House Library will offer an exhibition and programme of public events exploring historical and contemporary campaigns for equal rights.

Taking the right to education and more specifically higher education as the starting point in the long road towards gender equality, the season will also explore other significant women’s rights campaigns, including those related to:

The right to vote (2018 is also the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act, which extended the franchise to most men and some women for the first time) and to hold public office

Employment rights, including the struggle to end discrimination in the work place and equal pay

Reproductive rights, touching on controversial and important issues around birth control and contraception, abortion, voluntary motherhood, and sexual health

The exhibition will tell the story of women’s fight for equal rights through the University archive and the unique and rich collections of archives, manuscripts, and printed books held at Senate House Library. It will also provide an opportunity to reflect on the current state of women’s equality at a time when some of the long-fought civil and human rights achieved are at stake.

The exhibition will be complemented by a programme of events including lectures, workshops, a conference and a concert by the Berkeley Ensemble.

For details, please visit senatehouselibrary.ac.uk.

Suffrage pilgrims signing a petition to Mr Asquith, c. 1910. Papers of Molly De Morgan relating to Women’s Suffrage, MS 913E/3/4

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Events calendar February Thursday 01 Institute of Modern Languages Research

Posthuman Transcultural Memory in European Fiction and Visual Culture

Seminar

Florian Mussgnug (UCL), Matthew Mild, David Lomas (Manchester) From the natural sciences to anthropology, from literary theory to medicine, the posthuman has been called upon to innovate disciplinary discourses by articulating what had been unthinkable, unsayable, and untheorisable: the possible obsolescence of the very subject who formulated them. This seminar will discuss posthuman transcultural memory in British Muslim fiction, migrant German and Italian fiction, and French visual culture. The three panelists will draw on the 2017 Utrecht ACLA posthuman seminar in their overview on transcultural memory and posthuman studies. Because ‘humanity’ is never neutral or abstract but always embodied within specifications of gender, sexuality, class, race, and ability, an analysis of the posthuman can productively engage all of these categories. The posthuman opens a space for contamination and intersectionality. This can be fruitfully applied both to ways of conceiving, impersonating, and representing subjects and to ways of producing, organising, and disseminating remembrance.

This event is part of the ICS Ancient History Seminar Series.

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

14:30–16:30 Room 246 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies

The Persian Past and Present in Greek Thought, c. 430–330 BCE

Seminar

Lloyd Llewelyn Jones (Cardiff ) This event is part of the ICS Ancient History Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

16:30–18:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

‘The king touches you, God heals you’: Using Printed Images to Compare the Royal Touch Ceremonies of Seventeenth-Century England and France Stephen Brogan (RHUL) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Wall behind the Wall: Global Backgrounds of Maps and Ambitions in Sixteenth-Century Italy Giuseppe Marcocci (Oxford) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Toward a Transnational History of the English Public Schools

Seminar

Petter Sandgren (Stockholm) This talk revisits and rethinks the idea of the English public schools as a global model for elite boarding schools. The argument at the heart of this presentation is that from the beginning of the nineteenth century and onwards, there existed something that could be understood as a ’global transnational field’ of elite boarding schools. During the formation of this transnational field, the English public schools quickly emerged as an international gold standard for what an elite boarding school should look like. The ethos and educational ideology of the Victorian English public schools thus not only spread throughout the vast British Empire, but also left a lasting impact in countries such as Denmark, Greece, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Notwithstanding this process of a global diffusion of the English public school model, this talk also highlights the importance that ideas emanating from outside the British Isles have had in shaping the present-day English public schools and the transnational field that they are a part of.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

All Respectable Medicine Venders: Reputation, Trust and the Sale of Medicines in England, 1850–1920 David Helm (Leicester), Laura Mainwaring (Leicester) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Teaching British History after Brexit (panel discussion)

Seminar

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Latin American Studies

‘The Face of the Corporation’: Understanding CorporateCommunity Relations through the Eyes of Villager-Employees

Seminar

Anneloes Hoff (Oxford) Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork she has conducted as part of a study of a large gold mining corporation in Colombia, the speaker will explore the boundaries between corporation and community at the village level by focusing on the village residents who work for the corporation’s Community Relations Department. How do they understand and perform their hybrid ‘villageremployee’ identity? To what extent do they identify with the corporation? As the local agents of corporate social responsibility, they are central to the construction of the so-called ‘social licence to operate’. How do they portray and defend ‘their corporation’ to ‘their community’? How are they, and their work, perceived by other local actors? How do they justify their work to themselves and their social environment? This seminar series is jointly run by the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Anthropology departments of LSE, Goldsmiths, and UCL. This event is part of the Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Room 234 (Senate House)

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Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry, and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 21.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

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The Warburg Institute Lecture 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Institute of English Studies Lecture 18:00–20:00 Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:30–20:00

Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice? Titian’s Portrait of Clarice Strozzi Beverly Brown (Warburg) A popular nineteenth-century nursery rhyme tells us that little boys are made of snips and snails and puppy dog tails while little girls are filled with sugar and spice and all things nice. And who could be nicer than two-year-old Clarice Strozzi, who in Titian’s portrait so sweetly shares a ring-shaped biscuit with her toy spaniel?

Today, Instagram is overflowing with similar snapshots eagerly sent by adoring parents to family and friends. Such adorable images would seem to embody the essence of childhood by celebrating their subjects’ natural spontaneity. They are lasting reminders of the halcyon days of childhood innocence. It is in this vein that we might assume Clarice Strozzi’s parents commissioned her portrait in 1542. But if we look more carefully at Titian’s charming portrayal of a little girl and her dog, we soon discover that it is unlikely to have been a mere celebration of sugar and spice and all things nice.

Beverly Brown has published widely on Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, looking recently at the depiction of antique sculpture in the work of Bellini and Titian. After teaching at Wellesley College as well as Brown, Harvard, and Princeton, she served as a curator at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and as assistant director of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. The recipient of fellowships and awards from the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the American Philosophical Society, she was appointed a visiting professor at Villa I Tatti, Harvard University’s Center for Renaissance Studies. She has organized numerous exhibitions, including The Age of Correggio and the Carracci (1986), Veronese (1988), Jacopo Bassano (1993), Giambattista Tiepolo: Master of the Oil Sketch (1993), Renaissance Venice and the North: Crosscurrents in the Time of Bellini, Dürer, and Titian (1999) and The Genius of Rome (2001).

Free advance registration required warburg@sas.ac.uk

Coffin Memorial Lecture: The History of the Book and Keepsake Printing Johannes Gutenberg printed the first book, the Gutenberg Bible, around 1455.

More than 500 years later, his invention still shapes how we communicate. But what did his press look like? And how did it work? This event gives participants the rare opportunity to learn how Alan May and Martin Andrews reverse-engineered and rebuilt Gutenberg’s invention, and then stand in Gutenberg’s footsteps to print a take-away keepsake themselves on the replica Gutenberg Press. Alan and Martin are world-leading experts in the history of printing techniques. Their reconstruction of the Gutenberg Press pioneered research into mechanics of the press and methodologies based on reconstructions. Raphaële Mouren (Warburg) will respond. The lecture marks the relaunch of the Institute of English Studies Annual Lecture in the History of the Book.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk Giulia Palladini (Roehampton) This event is part of the London Theatre Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Renaissance Travel: In Space, in Time, in the Mind

Colloquium

The aim of this Warburg colloquium is to mark out new approaches in French Renaissance travel by attention to a representative range of topics, including exploration, ideas of Europe and the foreign, cosmography, pilgrimages, and utopias. Speakers include Frédéric Tinguely (Geneva): ‘Trois Horloges. Expansion européenne et maîtrise du temps à la Renaissance’, Richard Scholar (Oxford): ‘Travelling Utopia’, Wes Williams (Oxford): ‘“Mind Out!” Thinking through Danger on the Pilgrim Road’, Thibaut Maus de Rolley (UCL): ‘Voyageurs et bateleurs à la Renaissance’, Raphaële Garrod (Cambridge): ‘Une Amérique de papier? Frontières, définitions et preuves géographiques dans la Cosmographia (1550) de Sebastian Munster et sa traduction, la Cosmographie universelle de François de Belleforest (1575)’, and Niall Oddy (Durham): ‘Understanding Europe: Journeys in Space and in the Imagination’.

Free advance registration required warburg@sas.ac.uk

10:00–17:00 Warburg Institute

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar

Kalliroa, Razia, Sibulla: Female Supplicants at the Oracle of Dodona in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods

Room 246 (Senate House)

Karolina Frank (UCL) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar Series.

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Institute of Historical Research

Art and the Urban Subconscious: A Long View of Dutch Culture

Seminar

Elisabeth de Bièvre (independent scholar) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

16:30–18:30

17:15–19:15

IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Knights, Notaries and Chancellors: Slavonian Nobility and the Court of King and Emperor Sigismund of Luxemburg (1387–1437) Suzana Miljan (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar

Seminar

The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar is devoted to the line-by-line reading and analysis of James Joyce’s Ulysses and it has acted as a focal point for academic researchers and postgraduate students with research interests in Joyce across London and the southeast and beyond for thirty years. Over that time it has built up a dedicated following while also drawing in new participants year on year. It keeps in touch with seminarians past and present by way of a blog that disseminates the seminar’s findings each month.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

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Virginia Woolf’s ‘Gigantic Ear’

Seminar

Anna Snaith (KCL)

11:00–13:00

Music, Modernism, and the Limits of the Rational

Room 349 (Senate House)

Gemma Moss (Birmingham City) This event is part of the London Modernism Seminar Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Policies of Ownership

Panel discussion

The rapid expansion and proliferation of digital technologies have led to a vast increase in the amount of data being recorded, stored, and broadcast. Inevitably, control and ownership of this data—and its metadata—has become a muchdebated topic in political and economic, but also cultural, arenas, raising questions concerning the status of cultural goods and museum collections. This workshop brings together artists commenting on these issues in their practice as well as museum professionals whose collections are the object of these discussions.

‘Metadata: how we relate to images’ is organised by the Bilderfahrzeuge: Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology project in collaboration with Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.

Free advance registration required warburg@sas.ac.uk

14:00–15:00 Lethaby Gallery, 1 Granary Square, London N1C 4AA

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

An Empiricism of Imperceptible Entities: Robert Boyle on the Representation of Atoms, the Resurrection, and God Alex Wragge-Morley (UCL) This event is part of the Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar (EMPHASIS) Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Monday 05 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

Wagner Among the Hegelians Organised by Jeremy Coleman (IMLR/Aberdeen) and Johan Siebers (IMLR/ Middlesex).

This event is part of the Music and Marxism Seminar Series.

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

Institute of Classical Studies

The Drama in the Dance

Seminar

Helen Slaney (Roehampton) This event is part of the ICS Ancient Literature Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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

Decrypting Monastic Customaries

Seminar

Isabelle Cochelin (Toronto) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:00 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR North American History Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Guided by Goethe: German-Jewish, Gay Muslim Writer Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) Marc Baer (LSE) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Healing, Translating, Collecting: Doctor Michelangelo Tilli in the Ottoman Empire (1683–88) Giulia Calvi (European University Institute) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Dynamics of Caste and Class: Mahar Industrial Workers in Late Colonial Bombay, 1928–40) Zaen Alkazi (SOAS) Coolie Narratives: Indentured Labour Migration and the ‘Coolie’ in Fiction Purba Hossain (Leeds) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Queen, the Prince and the Soldier: English Captains and the Anglo-Dutch Alliance, 1594–1604 David Trim (Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

The Left and the Cult of the Individual

Seminar

Kevin Morgan (Manchester) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) The Warburg Institute

On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light

Seminar

A weekly series of public readings of Dante’s work hosted by the Warburg Institute.

For details, see page 20.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

18:00–19:30 Warburg Institute Institute of Latin American Studies Lecture 18:00–20:00 Beveridge Hall (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study

The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America Today Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, artist, educator, author, and promoter of nonviolence, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1980 for his defence of human rights in his native Argentina and throughout Latin America. In this talk he will reflect on progress in the field of human rights since military dictatorships in much of the region ended 30 years ago, analysing how these developed under subsequent democratisation. He will also address some of the urgent challenges being faced today as many of these gains are rolled back in Brazil, Venezuela, Honduras, Paraguay, Colombia, Argentina, and elsewhere. This event is sponsored by the Institute of Latin American Studies in collaboration with the Human Rights Consortium.

Organised by Argentina Solidarity Campaign.

Free advance registration required goo.gl/F2o77V

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Henry VIII and Luther: A Reappraisal

Seminar

David Starkey Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 Lambeth Palace, Lambeth, London SE1 7JU Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

Studying History with Corpora: Social Outsiders in the Seventeenth Century Tony McEnry (Lancaster), Helen Baker (Lancaster) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Parchment: The Animal Turn

Seminar

Matthew Collins (York) Most medieval writings were on the skins of animals, that is, on parchment. The speaker begins with the premise that parchment is the largest biological tissue bank ever assembled. He will discuss how, working with conservation studios, scientists have started to explore this archive, examining the range of animals used to contract codices and the patterns seen in production. To what extent do these results have relevance for manuscript studies and how can this type of highly interdisciplinary research be advanced? Matthew Collins FBA, is Niels Bohr Professor at the University of Copenhagen and Professor of Biomolecular Archaeology at the University of York.

This event is part of the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:15 Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies (Senate House Library)

Institute of English Studies

Sarum Old and New: a Cathedral Library in Eleven Centuries

Seminar

Peter Hoare (Salisbury) The Cathedral library at Salisbury, in Wiltshire, began at Old Sarum within twenty years of the Conquest and has an unbroken history ever since, though its home has changed two or three times. Its early manuscripts include one of the largest collections from the Norman period to survive in the possession of its original owner. The early printed books derive partly from the rich bequest in 1577 of Bishop Edmund Geste, whose library was one of the most extensive in Elizabethan England, and since then the collections have been enhanced by several donations, with a number of significant rarities (not only theological). The present library building dates from the fifteenth century—with links to Oxford—but it has undergone changes over the years. Despite some earlier periods of neglect, the library is now in a good state and looks forward to the creation of an online catalogue to make its treasures more widely known.

This event is part of the History of Libraries Seminar Series jointly sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, the Institute of Historical Research, the Warburg Institute and the Library & Information History Group of CILIP. Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Lecture Theatre, Warburg Institute

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

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The Lives and Criminal Careers of Nineteenth-Century Juvenile Offenders Emma Watkins (Liverpool) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Philosophy

Against Partial Benevolence

Seminar

Roger Crisp (Oxford) This event is part of The Practical, the Political and the Ethical Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk

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

Iamblichus Seminar

Seminar Warburg Institute

Participants in this seminar series discuss the Reply to Porphyry (De mysteriis) of Iamblichus of Chalcis (c.245–c.325 CE), the most influential Platonic philosopher of late antiquity after Plotinus.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Religious Heritage and Archives

Seminar

David Trim (Director of Archives, Statistics, and Research, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists) The usual challenges in organisational archiving are multiplied in an eschatologically minded religious movement that prioritises mission and growth over consolidation. The Seventh-day Adventist Church, founded in 1863 in the United States, and originally a small movement limited to the American Midwest, has grown into a denomination with more than 20 million members and a presence in almost all the world’s countries. As it expanded, it faced the challenges of creating sound administration, including a records management programme. The General Conference (the overarching Seventh-day Adventist organisation) created an Archives in 1973, giving it responsibility not only for a records management programme at the Church’s world headquarters but also for encouraging, supporting, and coordinating administrative archives around the world. This talk describes the history of this ambitious (and, to date, still not entirely successful) development of archives and records centres around the world.

Owen Roberts (Heritage Officer, The Methodist Church of Great Britain) The British Methodist Church has extensive archive material dating back to the early eighteenth century, including two internationally renowned collections held at university libraries, various significant specialist collections, and a vast wealth of localised church records held by every local government-run archives service.

The material ranges from the latter grass roots treasures to the correspondence and journals of the founders of the Methodist movement, periodicals and other publications, organisational records as the movement grew into a structured national church and subsequently divided into several separate denominations, and the records of multiple major institutions and smaller agencies (and countless committees) for missionary work, social action, education, and ministerial training.

Since the formation of the Methodist Heritage Committee in 2008, the Church has sought to identify contemporary engagement opportunities through all aspects of its heritage. This talk highlights the role that archives play in this developing work.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:45–19:30

17:45–19:45 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

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

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Reconsidering the Raj With Havelock at Lucknow, 1857: City, Siege and Resistance

Rosie Llewellyn-Jones and Sir Mark Havelock-Allan QC The year 1947 marked the end of British rule in India, two hundred years in which the British replaced the Mughals as controlling power and laid the foundations for modern India. In collaboration with the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, the Institute of Historical Research will reconsider this remarkable period in a series of lectures by leading scholars. Rosie Llewellyn-Jones is the author of The Great Uprising in India 1857-58. Sir Mark Havelock-Allan QC, 5th Baronet of Lucknow, is the great-great-grandson of Sir Henry Havelock. £7.50 | £5 advance registration required ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Britain, West Africa and the ‘New Nuclear Imperialism’: Decolonisation and Development during French Tests Christopher Hill (Birmingham City) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 07 Institute of Modern Languages Research Three-day conference 09:00–18:00 Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 12:30–14:30 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 12:45–14:00 LG24, Keppel Street Building, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

First International Congress – Modes of Production, Revolution and Transition to Capitalism in Latin America: Economic Structures, Classes, Networks, Communities, Ethnicities and Languages This event is organised by the Institute of Modern Languages Research in collaboration with the Universidad Pablo de Olavide and Universitat Jaume I as part of the Open World Research Initiative (OWRI). The Open World Research Initiative is a four-year project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Fee applicable advance registration required congresomodosdeproduccion@gmail.com

Global Christianity and the Transformation of Dalits in Colonial and Postcolonial Kerala Sanal Mohan (Mahatma Gandhi University, India) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

From Pleasure to Moral Panic? Tracing the History of Gay Men, Sex and Drugs Maurice Nangington (Manchester) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Race and Revolution at the Dawn of the Nineteenth Century: The Importance of Christoph Meiners and Charles de Villers Morgan Golf-French (UCL) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Slavery and the British Working Class, 1787–1838

Seminar

Ryan Hanley (UCL) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

Housing Crisis: Home and Identity in Nineteenth-Century London

Seminar

Lisa Robertson (Warwick) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

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Institute of Historical Research

Illuminating Homely Atmospheres

Seminar

Mikkel Bille (Roskilde) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Professor Olga Crisp Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

A Historical Approach to Leghismo: North Italian Regionalism as Force of Unity or Fragmentation?

George Newth (Bath) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Medieval Belonging and Oriental Otherness in Figurations of Iberia Nadia Altschul (Glasgow) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

New Perspectives on Education during the Third Reich

Seminar

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Institute of Latin American Studies

Sobre los orígenes globales del populismo latinoamericano: el APRA y el Kuo-Min-Tang

Seminar

Martín Bergel (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Free advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House) The Warburg Institute Lecture 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

School of Advanced Study

Alonso Berruguete, ‘The Son of Laocoon’, and His Assimilation of Classical Sources Manuel Arias (Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid) This event is part of the Re-opening the Workshop: Medieval to Early Modern Lecture Series. For details, see page 19.

Free advance registration required warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Lecture 18:00–20:30 IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, NB01/NB02 (Senate House)

IHR Historical Research Lecture 2018 V&A: A Museum of the Home and the World Tristram Hunt (V&A) This year’s IHR Historical Research Lecture, sponsored by Wiley, features Tristram Hunt, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. He will discuss the V&A’s founding commitment to design, education, and industry, which has forged an enduring connection to domesticity and the home. This lasting vision of ‘art for all’ continues to shape the V&A’s world-class collection today. A historian, politician, writer, and broadcaster, Dr Hunt is an expert on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a particular focus on Victorian urban history. He is the author of several books, including The English Civil War: At First Hand, and, most recently, Ten Cities That Made an Empire. A regular history broadcaster on BBC and Channel 4, he has made more than a dozen series on subjects including Elgar and empire, Isaac Newton, and the English Civil War. He lectures on modern British history at Queen Mary University of London and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a founder of the Stoke-onTrent Literary Festival, and a Patron of the British Ceramics Biennial. He previously served as a trustee of both the Heritage Lottery Fund and the National Heritage Memorial Fund, and as curator of the Mayor of London’s History Festival.

Free advance registration required ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 08 Institute of Historical Research Two-day conference 09:30–17:00 IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, NB01/NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar

IHR Winter Conference Home: New Histories of Living This two-day conference will highlight new research exploring the many ways that the home has been thought about, used, and lived within throughout history.

These perspectives open the shutters on domesticity by showing how patterns of homemaking shape our conceptions of kinship, consumption, and the everyday.

Confirmed plenary speakers include Jane Hamlett (RHUL), Owen Hatherley (architectural historian and journalist), and Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck).

Fee applicable advance registration required ihr.events@sas.ac.uk Armin Kammel (Donau-Universität Krems; IALS) This event is part of the IALS Lunchtime Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required.

12:30–13:30 IALS, Charles Clore House Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 349 (Senate House)

Moral Tales of Marathon: Moral Themes in the Historiography of the Battle of Marathon Sonya Nevin (Roehampton) This event is part of the ICS Ancient History Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Modern British History Reading Group

Seminar

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

A Cultural History of Memory in the Twentieth Century: High Culture and Popular Culture Patrick Finney (Aberystwyth) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Coincidence and Empire: The United States and the Pacific

Seminar

Elliott West (Arkansas) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR North American History Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 243 (Senate House)

Gender and the Language of Politics in Thirteenth-Century Royal Letters Anaïs Waag (KCL)

Treasured Assets: Jewish Tax-Payers in the Economy of Late Medieval Castile Cecil Reid (QMUL) This event is part of the European History 1150–1550 Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Meet the Transport Archivist

Seminar

Alison Kay (National Railway Museum), Chris Heather (The National Archives) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) The Warburg Institute

Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry, and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 21.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

School of Advanced Study

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Institute of English Studies Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 The Senate Room (Senate House)

Senate House Library Lecture 18:00–20:30 Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)

Permeability, Agency, and the Technological History of Photography Kate Flint (Southern California) What happens in the permeable area between the human body and a piece of photographic apparatus? This question is crucial to histories of nineteenth-century photography. Professor Kate Flint will discuss the conceptual and theoretical challenges she encountered when writing a cultural history of flash photography.

She will also consider the usefulness of the hand—both as a physical part of an individual and as a synecdoche—as a means of approaching the conundrum of the interwoven roles of human and mechanical in writing photographic history. The hand proves to be a rhetorical and literal instrument that not only connects eye, brain, and camera, but also helps articulate the art vs. mechanical reproduction/commercial activity distinctions that are inseparable from this history. Kate Flint is Provost Professor of Art History and English at the University of Southern California. She has published The Woman Reader, 1837–1914 (Oxford University Press, 1993), The Victorians and The Visual Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and The Transatlantic Indian 1776–1930 (Princeton University Press, 2008); edited The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature (2012); and written widely on Victorian and modernist fiction, Victorian and early twentieth-century painting and photography, and cultural history. This seminar is supported by the journal Media History, Queen Mary University of London, the Institute of English Studies, and the Institute of Historical Research.

This event is part of the Media History Seminar and Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Friends of Senate House Library Charles Holden Lecture The Sterling Library: Twentieth-Century Book Collecting and Twenty-First-Century Book History Julia Walworth (Oxford) The Sterling Library started out as the private collection of Sir Louis Sterling (1879– 1958), a wealthy businessman. When the collection arrived at the Senate House Library in 1956, it comprised more than 4,000 rare printed books and manuscripts of English literary works from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, and it has now grown to more than 7,000 volumes. In this year's Charles Holden Lecture, Dr Julia Walworth, Fellow Librarian of Merton College, University of Oxford, will introduce some of these treasures and explore how the role and function of the Sterling Library has evolved from a collection of ‘trophy books’ to an invaluable resource for the University’s many activities in the burgeoning field of History of the Book.

Free advance registration required shl.whatson@london.ac.uk

Institute of Modern Languages Research

Mussolini’s Greek Island: Fascism and the Italian Occupation of Syros in World War II

Lecture

Sheila Lecoeur (Imperial College London) A lecture by Dr Sheila Lecoeur on the publication of her book Mussolini’s Greek Island: Fascism and the Italian Occupation of Syros in World War II. The lecture will focus on the legacy of the Italian fascist occupation of Greece during the Second World War. This event is generously supported by the British Italian Society.

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

19:00–21:00 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

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Anatolian Lexicon in Mycenaean Greek

Seminar

Michele Bianconi (Oxford) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar Series.

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:00–19:00 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Women’s Money Management in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Glasgow Catriona Macleod (Glasgow) This event is part of the Women’s History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Subtenancy Uncovered: A New Approach to Agrarian Capitalism in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England Joshua Rhodes (Exeter) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Royal Witches: Gendering Treason in the Fifteenth Century

Seminar

Sarah Stockdale (Winchester) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR North American History Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

The Politics of Style: Towards a Marxist Poetics

Seminar

Daniel Hartley (Leeds) In this session, Daniel Hartley will present the main arguments of his book, The Politics of Style: Towards a Marxist Poetics (Brill: 2017). The book develops a Marxist theory of literary style through an immanent critique of the work of Raymond Williams, Terry Eagleton, and Fredric Jameson. The first part delineates the historical and conceptual preconditions for the emergence of a ‘politics of style’ and uncovers an underground current of stylistics within the Marxist tradition from Marx to Barthes. The second sets out what each thinker has written on style and demonstrates how this came to figure in their overall intellectual and political projects, focusing above all on a reconstruction of Williams’s best-known concept, the ‘structure of feeling’. The third part sets out an independent theory of style and frames it as a foundational element of a potentially larger Marxist poetics. Daniel Hartley is a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Languages, Cultures, and Societies at the University of Leeds.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Room 243 (Senate House)

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Events calendar February Saturday 10 Institute of English Studies Study day 09:00–17:00 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House)

Jane Austen Society Study Day: Northanger Abbey – Literature and Life Speakers include Emma Clery, Jane Darcy, Stephen Mahony, and Bill Hutchings £35 | £25 | £15 advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Monday 12 Institute of Classical Studies

Twelfth London Ancient Science Conference

Four-day conference

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

10:00–18:00 Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies

Plato and Aristotle on the Power of Music

Seminar

Dominic Scott (Oxford) This event is part of the ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

16:30–18:30 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies

Remediating Inns of Court Drama: Gismund in Script and Print

Seminar

Tamara Atkin (QMUL)

17:15–19:00

Shakespeare’s Suppliant Women: Coriolanus as Tragedy of Hiketeia

The Senate Room (Senate House)

Christina Wald (Konstanz) This event is part of the London Shakespeare Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Television, Taste and Home Decor: Putting Leisure on Display in the British Home, 1945–75

Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

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Emily Rees (Nottingham) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Resistible Rise of the Otherwise Neoliberal: On Special Economic Zones and the (Caribbean) Making of World-History Patrick Neveling (SOAS) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

After Serialisation: Adapting the Mid-Victorian Novel for Later Audiences Chris Louttit (Radboud, Nijmegen, Netherlands) This event is part of the Open University History of Books and Reading (HOBAR) Seminar Series.

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Institute of Historical Research

Moulinex: Women, Workers and Post-War France

Seminar

Jackie Clarke (Glasgow) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) The Warburg Institute

On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light

Seminar

A weekly series of public readings of Dante’s work hosted by the Warburg Institute.

For details, see page 20.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

18:00–19:30 Warburg Institute Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

The First Charity Shops? Salvation Army and Red Cross Stores (1890s–1910s) Marjorie Gerhardt (Reading) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Visual Knowledge and the Grand Tour: The Print Collection of Walter Bowman Grant Lewis (British Library) The Grand Tours of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have long proved a rich field for historians of collecting, and increasingly this is as much the case for acquisitions of ‘lesser’ arts like prints as for the celebrated purchases of painting and sculpture. Indeed, over the past few decades several Grand Tourists’ print collections have been the subject of in-depth investigations, and in a new contribution to this body of work, this paper will focus on the collection of the Scottish tutor and antiquary Walter Bowman (1699-1782). Surviving in several carefully curated and presented albums of French and Italian views in the National Library of Scotland and the British Library, each with their own fine manuscript title-page, this collection has been totally overlooked by print scholars, so much so that the two proudly signed volumes in the British Library go unmentioned in Bowman’s entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Yet this is a significant, indeed rare, collection, for unlike the better studied Grand Tour collectors Bowman was not a tourist as such but a cicerone, a guide for foreign travellers, and as a result his collection has a different character from the latters’ aristocratic ones, containing rudimentary and worn out impressions as well as fine art prints, not to mention a distinct function as a dependable educational resource. Grant Lewis is part of the British Library prints and drawings team responsible for cataloguing King George III’s Topographical Collection, a vast array of some 40-50,000 prints and drawings dating from the 1500s to the 1820s.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 13 Institute of Historical Research

There and Back Again: The Haida Great Box and Its Child

Seminar

Laura Peers (Pitt Rivers Museum/Oxford) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:00 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Lesbian Domesticities: Material Structures of Same-Sex Intimacy in Post-War Britain and Australia Rebecca Jennings (UCL) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Sinew of the Secret War: SOE and Money 1940–45

Seminar

Declan O’Reilly (East Anglia) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:15 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

Speaking for the Nation: Sheridan, Parliament, and the Newspapers in 1798 Robert Jones (Leeds) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Villa Imperial de Potosí and Legal Diversity in the Habsburg Andes Renzo Honores (Instituto Internacional de Derecho y Sociedad) The Villa Imperial de Potosí was the largest urban center in the Spanish Atlantic during the Habsburg period. Located at the heart of South America (currently in western Bolivia), the town was the epicenter of the silver industry and a crucial producer for the imperial economy. With a population of more than 100,000, the city was an example of ethnic, political, and legal diversity. Europeans (Spaniards and Portuguese), Africans (slaves and free), Andeans (relocated by the mita system), and a numerous mixed population of mestizos were the main residents. This talk explores the local dynamics of Potosino justice, the strategic use of royal and customary spheres for dispute resolution, and the rise of a colonial legal culture. It presents the complex panorama of the Villa Imperial, its legal debates and social practices, and proposes a reading of Potosí as a pluralistic space, an iconic example of colonial legal diversity. By using the theoretical arsenal of the sociology of law, this presentation highlights the nuances, facets, and features of the vibrant legal world of the Andean Habsburgs in the city of silver. Renzo Honores is a researcher at the Instituto Internacional de Derecho y Sociedad. His specialty is the colonial law of the Andes during the Habsburg period. He is currently researching the circulation of legal doctrines in the sixteenth-century Andes.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Philosophy

Two Subject Matter Views in Aboutness Theory

Seminar

Naomi Osorio-Kupferblum (Vienna) This event is part of the Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk

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

Iamblichus Seminar

Seminar

Participants in this seminar series discuss the Reply to Porphyry (De mysteriis) of Iamblichus of Chalcis (c.245–c.325 CE), the most influential Platonic philosopher of late antiquity after Plotinus.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:45–19:30 Warburg Institute

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 19:00–20:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Simon de Montfort, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd and the Creation of the Principality of Wales David Carpenter (KCL) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 14 Institute of Classical Studies

Suetonius on Greek Insults: the Peri Blasphemion in Context

Seminar

Amy Coker (ICS) This event is part of the ICS Fellows Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

13:00–14:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

Minority Governments in Britain

Seminar

Simon James (KCL) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:00–19:00 IHR North American History Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

Napoleon’s Wars in Scandinavia

Seminar

Morten Ottosen (University of Southern Denmark/Norwegian Military Academy) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

Towards a History of Liberalism

Seminar

Alan Kahan (Université de Versailles St Quentin) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

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Remembering as Reparation in Psychoanalysis and Post-War German History Karl Figlio (Essex) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Empires of Race and Spirit: France and Spain in the Americas, 1860s–1920s Miquel de la Rosa (Sciences-Po, Le Havre), Gäel Sanchez Cano (European University Institute) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of English Studies

Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group: Canto 88

Seminar

The Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group was formed in 2006. At each meeting, a speaker introduces a canto, followed by discussion. Speakers and members range from internationally established Pound critics to poets, postgraduates, independent scholars, and Pound enthusiasts. All are welcome.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

Thursday 15 The Warburg Institute Lecture 17:00–19:00 Warburg Institute Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR North American History Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

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Early English Globe Making: A Social Study of a Terrestrial Globe

by Morden, Berry and Lea, c.1685 Emma Perkins (Cambridge) Free advance registration required tony@tonycampbell.info

‘Every low herdsman has a wheel-lock arquebus’: Small Arms Proliferation in Sixteenth-Century Italy Catherine Fletcher (Swansea) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Evil Counsellors, Popish Plots, and the Origins of Parliamentarian Sexual Lbel, 1640–44 Samuel Fullerton (UC Riverside) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Festivity, Conviviality, and Sociability: Eating Symbols in EarlyModern Norfolk and Norwich Victor Morgan (East Anglia) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Islamophobia and the Rise of Religiosity amongst British-Born Muslims Hira Amin (Cambridge)

Anti-Semitism and Identity Politics in Post-War Britain David Feldman (Birkbeck) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Race, Politics and Networking: Christoph Meiners in the European Enlightenment Morgan Golf-French (UCL) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Latin American Studies

Sex, Privacy, and Violence Online: The Construction of Revenge Porn as a Public Debate in Brazil

Seminar

Beatriz Accioly Lins (Universidade de São Paulo) Smartphones, social networks, and the proliferation of technological devices enable the production and exchange of information online. The term ‘revenge porn’ is used in several countries and contexts to refer to the nonconsensual disclosure of intimate, erotic, or sexual images via the web. In Brazil, following the suicides of two teenagers and the creation of bills to criminalise the practice, it became the concern of feminists, the media, and law and policy makers. Sometimes perceived as a sexually permissive country, Brazil can be very conservative when it comes to sexuality and nude bodies. Placing various legal questions about privacy, the liability of internet providers, sexual morals, and the use of online platforms in everyday life, ‘revenge porn’ and the debates that surround it allow us to reflect on how some ‘social markers of difference’—gender, sexuality, class, and generation— operate in an intersectional way to create several forms of conceptualizing and legislating sex. The speaker will bring a Brazilian perspective to the subject, paying special attention to the different nomenclatures in use and in dispute in the identification of this ‘phenomenon’, underlining differences, similarities, questions, and ambivalences in the use of these terms, and thinking about what they say about morality, women, and notions about intimacy and sex.

This event is part of the Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series, which is jointly run by the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Anthropology departments of LSE, Goldsmiths, and UCL. Free advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Room 234 (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute

Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry, and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 21.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–19:30 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

The Trouble with a Lower Case ‘t’: Memory, Deindustrialisation and Urban Redevelopment in Belfast Sean O’Connell (Queen’s University, Belfast) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Pounds or Protestantism? The Modern Democratic Unionist Party

Seminar

Jon Tonge (Liverpool) This event is part of the Irish Studies Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 The Senate Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

The Dockrill Lecture

Seminar

The Lion and the Eagle: The British and American Empires, 1783–1972 Kathleen Burk (UCL) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 The Great Hall, King’s College London

School of Advanced Study

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Arcesilaus’ Two Faces in the Philosophical Reception

Seminar

Anna Schwetz (Tübingen) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar Series.

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Master AC and His Models: Biography and the Netherlandish Reproductive Print Olenka Horbatsch (British Museum) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Crabb Robinson, Aesthetic Autonomy, and Staël’s Corinne, Or Italy

Seminar

James Vigus (QMUL)

17:30–19:30

Critical Dissemination: Kant, Hazlitt, and Crabb Robinson

Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

Philip Hunnekuhl (Hamburg) This event is part of the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Service Patterns and the Question of Professionalism in the Garrisons of Lancastrian Normandy

Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Tom Wex (Winchester) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 17 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 14:00–16:00 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Wonder in the Quotidian: Lessons from Barbauld in LateEighteenth Century British Conversational Primers Jessica Lim (Cambridge) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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

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Exit Pursued by a Bear: Tacitus’ Nero, Agrippina, and the Dramatic Turn Rhiannon Ash (Oxford) This event is part of the ICS Ancient Literature Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

What Does It Smell Of? Identifying Drugs and Explaining Scents in Seventeenth-Century Rome Silvia de Renzi (Open University) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

The Crusading Context of the Polish Relief of Vienna, 1683

Seminar

Philip James (RHUL) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

The Scottish Enlightenment and the British Empire: William Robertson on India Yusuke Wakazawa (York) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Festival of Virility and Virginity: Shrovetide and the Manipulation of Festive Time at the Courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I Kat Byrne (Kent), Taylor Aucoin (Bristol) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

‘They were not Communists, they were Independistas!’ The Beginning of the Cold War in Ghana and Nigeria in 1948 Marika Sherwood (SAS) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 20 Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:00–19:00 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study

ICS/British School at Rome Lecture 14 January 1506: The Discovery of the Laocoon Rita Volpe (Roma Tre) Rita Volpe will deliver the 2018 Institute of Classical Studies / British School at Rome Lecture. On 14 January 1506, the statue group of the Laocoon was discovered in a vineyard on the Esquiline Hill in Rome. It was almost intact and recognised at once as the same work of art that Pliny the Elder considered one of the most beautiful creations of antiquity. The Laocoon quickly became one of the best known sculptural groups in the world, yet until recently scholars were unsure of the vineyard’s location. Research began with the owner of the vineyard and the discovery of new archival documents that have provided a definitive solution to the problem. The reconstruction of a landscape of Rome of the sixteenth century, populated by notaries, innkeepers, doctors, and prostitutes, throws light onto the ancient Rome in which the Laocoon was admired.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research

The English Intellectual Reformation

Seminar

Polly Ha (UEA) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

The Forgotten Boys of the Sea: Marine Society Merchant Sea Apprentices, 1772–1854 Caroline Withall (National Maritime Museum) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Language of Migration in the Victorian Press: A Corpus Linguistic Approach Ruth Byrne (Lancaster) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Creative Writing and REF21: The Assessment of Practice-based Research This event is part of the Contemporary Cultures of Writing Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

The Wolfe Sisters of Foochow, China: The Work of Three CMS Missionary Sisters, 1886–1944 Frances Slater (UCL Institute of Education) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

War Widows in England, 1642–80

Seminar

Hannah Worthen (Hull), Stewart Beale (Leicester) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy

Scepticism about Practical Reason

Seminar

Thomas Pink (KCL) This event is part of The Practical, the Political and the Ethical Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Room 246 (Senate House)

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Refugee Law Initiative

Authority and Affect in Immigration Detention: A Critical Account

18:00–19:30

Mary Bosworth, Director of Centre of Criminology and Border Criminologies (Oxford) Drawing on a long-term research project across a number of British Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs), this talk considers the relationship between authority and affect. In contrast to much of the literature on the prison, which advances a liberal political account in which power is constantly negotiated and based on mutual recognition, in detention, staff authority rests on an abrogation of their self rather than engagement with the other. Officers turn away (deny) and switch off (emotionally withdraw) from those before them in order to do their job. In so doing, they construct a distinct form of power and authority, in which arguments over legitimacy have no currency. Under such circumstances, troubling questions arise over the limits of the power of the state, and how we might call it to account.

This event is part of the International Refugee Law Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required rli@sas.ac.uk

IALS Council Chamber, Charles Clore House

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

An ‘Entente in Good Heart’? UK-French Relations under Thatcher and Giscard, 1979–81 Rachel Utley (Leeds) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 21 Institute of Historical Research

Doctoral Prize Presentations

Seminar

Aeron O’Connor (UCL), Judith Jacob (LSE) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

12:30–14:30 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies

Narratives of Democratization and Decline in Fifth-Century Athens

Seminar

Tom Hooper (ICS) This event is part of the ICS Fellows Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

13:00–14:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 15:30–17:30 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House)

Mycenaean Eleon in Eastern Boeotia: From the Shaft Grave Era through the Post-Palatial Period Brendan Burke (Victoria), Bryan Burns (Wellesley College) Sponsored by INSTAP. This event is part of the ICS Mycenaean Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Philosophy

Metaphor in Pictures

Seminar

John Kulvicki (Dartmouth) This event is part of the London Aesthetics Forum.

Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk

16:00–18:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study

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Institute of Historical Research

Montesquieu, Hume and English History

Seminar

Tom Pye (Cambridge) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

The Provincial Businesswoman in Georgian England, 1780–1830

Seminar

Peter Collinge (Keele) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 The Court Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

‘From dusky lane and foetid alley to open, bright Canadian field’: Anti-Urban Discourse and its Role in Late Nineteenth-Century Child Emigration Programmes Sarah Wise (independent scholar) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Memory as Resistance to Fascism: Commemoration of Giacomo Matteotti in Italian Communities of the United States Amy King (Bristol) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Latin American Studies

Crossing Oceans, Transgressing Boundaries: Writing Muslims and Moriscos into Histories of Colonial Spanish America

Seminar

Kaja Cook (RHUL) Free advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

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

Master and Apprentice: Transferring Skills in the London Huguenot Communities Tessa Murdoch (V&A) This event is part of the Re-opening the Workshop: Medieval to Early Modern Lecture Series. For details, see page 19.

Free advance registration required warburg@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 22 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 12:45–14:00 LG24, Keppel Street Building, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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The Emotional Politics of Family Planning Campaigns in 1970s and 1980s Britain Katie Jones (Birmingham) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

School of Advanced Study

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Institute of Classical Studies

Ideological Rhetoric in Xenophon’s Historiography

Seminar

Rosie Harman (UCL) This event is part of the ICS Ancient History Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

16:30–18:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15

Christienna Fryar (Liverpool) This event is part of the Modern British History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

R. G. Collingwood and the Philosophy of History

Seminar

Jonas Ahlskog (Åbo Akademi) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

Discovering African Americans’ Civil Cases: The Untold Story of Civil Cases between Black and White Southerners Melissa Milewski (Sussex) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Emotions, Selfhood and Subjectivity in Early Modern Witch Trials

Seminar

Laura Kounine (Sussex) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Petrifying Wealth: The Southern European Shift to Masonry as Collective Investment in Identity, c. 1050–1300 Ana Rodríguez (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry, and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 21.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Institute of Historical Research

Origins of the Royal Horticultural Society

Seminar

Brent Elliot (RHS) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House)

Encounters: Writers and Translators in Conversation – Kerstin Hensel and Jen Calleja This Encounter focuses on Kerstin Hensel’s narration Tanz am Kanal (1997) and Jen Calleja’s translation, published earlier this year as Dance by the Canal by Peirene Press. Dance by the Canal tells the story of a woman who fails to find her place in society—neither in communist GDR nor in the capitalist West. Her refusal to conform to the patriarchal structures of either society forces her into ever-increasing isolation.

Kerstin Hensel was born in 1961 in Karl-Marx-Stadt in former East Germany and studied in Leipzig. She has published more than 30 books, including novels, short story collections, poetry, and plays. She has won numerous prizes, including the Anna Seghers-Preis as well as the Lessing prize for her entire body of work. Jen Calleja is a literary translator from German into English, a writer, editor, and musician. She is currently Translator-in-Residence at the British Library.

This event is sponsored by the Keith Spalding Bequest Fund and is part of the IMLR Encounters: Writers and Translators in Conversation Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Latin American Studies

Pablo Neruda’s Passion for Ecuador: A Meeting of Hearts and Minds

Institute of Modern Languages Research

Adam Feinstein The UK embassies of Chile and Ecuador are jointly sponsoring this presentation

by Adam Feinstein, the acclaimed biographer and translator of Pablo Neruda, who will tell the fascinating story of the Chilean Nobel Prize-winning poet’s relationship with Ecuador. This passion was conducted largely through his friendships with leading Ecuadorian artists and writers, including the painter Oswaldo Guayasamín and the poets Jorge Carrera Andrade and Jorge Enrique Adoum. The talk will be interspersed with readings from the poetry of Carrera Andrade and Adoum in both Spanish and English. Mr Feinstein’s biography Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life was first published by Bloomsbury in 2004 and reissued in an updated edition in 2013 (Harold Pinter called it ‘a masterpiece’). Also in 2013, Mr Feinstein launched Cantalao, a biannual magazine dedicated to Neruda’s life and work. His translations from Neruda, Lorca, Benedetti, and others have appeared in many publications, including Modern Poetry in Translation and Agenda. His book of translations from Neruda’s Canto General, with colour illustrations by the Brazilian artist Ana Maria Pacheco, was published by Pratt Contemporary in 2013. This event is jointly organised by the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Institute of Modern Languages Research.

Free advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Seminar 18:00–20:30 The Court Room (Senate House)

Senate House Library

Polari Literary Salon

Performance

London’s award-winning LGBT literary salon Polari is coming to Senate House Library.

Founded in 2007 by author Paul Burston, Polari showcases the best in established and emerging LGBT literary talent and is based in London’s Southbank Centre. The salon also tours regularly, funded by Arts Council England, and has appeared at many festivals including Aye Write Glasgow, Belfast Book Festival, Books on Tyne, Homotopia, and Manchester Literature Festival. Thus event features Neil Bartlett, VG Lee, Alex Gregory, and Paul Burston, curator of Polari, who will also be performing. £6 | £3 advance registration required shl.whatson@london.ac.uk

19:00–20:30 Periodicals Room (Senate House Library)

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Gerald Aylmer Seminar 2018

One-day symposium

Diversity amongst the Documents? The Representation of BAME communities within the UK’s Archives Researching and writing inclusive histories that capture the full spectrum of British history demands the creation, cataloguing, and use of diverse archives.

Focusing on archives that chronicle Black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) lives, institutions, and initiatives, the Gerald Aylmer Seminar 2018 will explore how these communities are represented within local UK archives by bringing together leading archivists and historians in discussion and debate. Questions to be considered: how have archives captured social, cultural, and political change?

How do we ensure that modern-day social and demographic development is represented? And what has been the impact of collections and collecting on the historical profession? The Gerald Aylmer Seminar is an annual one-day symposium organised by The National Archives, the Royal Historical Society, and the Institute of Historical Research, which brings together historians and archivists to discuss topics of mutual interest, particularly the nature of archival research and the use of collections.

Free advance registration required ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

09:00–17:00 IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, NB01/NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies

Ovidian Appropriations in the Middle Ages

Seminar

Angela Cossu (EPHE Paris) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar Series.

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar

A Perpetual Seminary and Succession of Merchants: The Merchant Adventurers of England as a Monopoly Company Thomas Leng (Sheffield) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Emotional Culture and Relations with Women in Rural Edwardian England

IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Hera Cook (Otago) This event is part of the Women’s History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Nineteenth-Century Opera

Seminar

Flora Willson (KCL), Kate Bailey (V&A) This event is part of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15

17:30–19:30 Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study

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Institute of Historical Research

Sunil Janah: Documenting the Bengal Famine, 1943–44

Seminar

Emilia Terracciano (Oxford) Communist Party of India photographer Sunil Janah (1918–2012) indicted the colonial state and its pitiless reduction of three million rural refugees to bare life in his horrific documentary portrayal of the Bengal Famine (1943–44). In the aftermath of 1935 and the Seventh Congress, Janah took up Lenin’s lessons on the role of photography. The speaker argues that Janah creatively negotiated colonial censorship to focus his camera on the evidence of state oppression during World War II. Famine was a recurring phenomenon in the history of India, a collective catastrophe of huge proportions that caused abnormal levels of destitution, hunger, and death. Studies of famished subjects conducted by British photographers suggest that famine was treated as a natural phenomenon, providing visual grounds for the continuation of the Empire, whose ‘civilising’ mission was seen as a cure. Janah, by contrast, honed affective techniques to imply famine was in fact a product of imperialism and the collapse of British governmentality. Janah’s photography contrasted with the highly mediatised, spectacular biomoral resistance and fasting techniques performed by Mahatma Gandhi, one of the leading nationalist figures of the time. Created in the manner of what Benjamin termed phantasmagoria (phantasmagoria as the demonic doppelganger of allegory), the viewer travels through Janah’s spectral landscapes and gazes upon skulls. The push-button moment of shooting is delayed, there is an insistence on the theatrics of preparatory operations to manipulate viewers’ sensory perceptions: the ghostly space of the photograph is meticulously choreographed. Co-opting the medium as a means to further anti-colonial resistance, Janah figured dissent and decried the hypocritical (and political) sacrifice of Indian lives in a world war fought for ‘civilisation’ and against the barbarism of Nazism and Fascism. Emilia Terracciano is the Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

The Crown’s Ecclesiastical Creditors: State Loans from the English Church, 1307–77 Robin McCallum (Queen’s University Belfast) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Finnegans Wake Reading Group

Reading Group

This reading group has been running regularly since 2007. It studies James Joyce’s final work, Finnegans Wake, at a close level of detail. Discussion is focused on the text and attention is also paid to Joyce’s manuscripts (copies of which are displayed on a screen). The group hosts a blog to record its discussions.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Monday 26 Institute of Modern Languages Research Workshop 12:45–19:00 The Queen’s College, Oxford

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Maria Theresa (1717–80): Tercentenary Workshop on the Empress and Her Time Last year marked the tercentenary of the birth of Maria Theresa, who ruled the Habsburg Empire from 1740 to 1780. Her reign was steeped in controversies and major wars, but it also saw the dawn of the Austrian Enlightenment and significant political as well as cultural reforms. In this workshop, experts from across Europe will discuss the prevailing ‘myth’ of Maria Theresa alongside questions of gender and political power in the eighteenth century.

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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Matter, Form, and Parthood: How Not to Understand Aristotle’s Hylomorphism Gabriele Galluzzo (Exeter) This event is part of the ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Theatricality and Affectations: Dramatic Displays in the Latin Novels Regine May (Leeds) This event is part of the ICS Ancient Literature Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

A Roundtable on Rohan Deb Roy’s Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine, and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909 (Cambridge, 2017) Discussants: Clare Anderson (Leicester), Richard Drayton (KCL), Nayanika Mathur (Oxford), Simon Schaffer (Cambridge), Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Oral History of Class and Rugby Union in Post-War Britain

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Joe Hall (De Montfort) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) The Warburg Institute Lecture 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

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Warburg on Luther and Dürer: Media Wars and the Freedom to Think Jane O. Newman Jane O. Newman, professor of comparative literature at the University of California at Irvine, specialises in the pre- and early modern past and the modern and postmodern present. Her talk references Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s assertion that ‘Luther’s words are everywhere’ in his 1937 book Nachfolge, which protested the impoverished ways in which the Great Reformer’s ideas and words were being deployed in support of the Nazi regime. Professor Newman will use Aby Warburg’s theory of the ‘migration routes’ or paths (Wanderstraßen) of culture and ideas to explore the circulation of Martin Luther’s image, ideas, and words in a variety of highly charged political contexts. These contexts will include not only Luther’s own sixteenth century, but also the volatile worlds of a war-torn early twentiethcentury Germany, colonial German East Africa (Tanzania), and the twenty-first century world. In his 1920 essay on Luther, Warburg himself noted that the language of images was an international one; in her lecture, Professor Newman discuss the equally international circulation of Luther’s ideas in the spheres of culture and politics. The lecture will be followed by a roundtable discussion on 27 February with James Curran (Goldsmiths), Jo Fox (IHR), Jane O. Newman, and Petra Roettig (Hamburger Kunsthalle). Both events mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and the 100th anniversary of Warburg’s seminal lecture on Luther and the role of propaganda in public opinion-making. Warburg and Luther – Word | Image in Times of Crisis – 1517, 1917, 2017 is supported by the University of London Coffin Trust.

Free advance registration required warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Making History: Stories of Brilliant Founders in the Voluntary Sector Caroline Diehl (Social Founders Network) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 27 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:00 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Objects, Islands, Empire: Collecting in the Western Indian Ocean, 1860–1930 Sarah Longair (Lincoln) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

The 28th Division in 1915

Seminar

Spencer Jones (Wolverhampton) This event is part of the Military History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:15 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

The Global Coolie Trade between China and Latin America in the Nineteenth Century: Its Origins and Collapse Rudolph Ng (Birkbeck) This talk details how two opposing coalitions of international agents fought for thirty years, one to continue, the other to abolish, the Chinese coolie trade to Latin America. As abolitionism gained strength in the early 1800s, owners of mines, plantations, and other industries in Latin America began looking with some urgency for a substitute for their African slaves. Failing to find sufficient workers in the Americas or Europe to fill the growing labor shortage, they turned their attention to China, where they found large numbers ready to take on manual work. The result was a massive growth in the so-called coolie trade, by which, from 1847 to 1874, more than 250,000 indentured laborers from Southern China were shipped to Latin America. While some planters, officials, and diplomats in Spanish America argued for the continued import of Chinese coolies, others sought to defeat this human trafficking and in the end prevailed. An assessment of previously unexamined documents in China, Peru, Cuba, and Chile calls for revising the historiography of the coolie story, which has always been interpreted through a nationalistic lens in both Chinese and Latin American scholarship.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Ex-Servicemen and the Liberal Party: The Great War Generation and the Electoral and Parliamentary Politics of the 1920s Matthew Johnson (Durham) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Philosophy

Contrastivism and the Harm of Death

Seminar

Tatjana von Solodkoff (Dublin) This event is part of the Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Room 246 (Senate House)

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The Warburg Institute Roundtable discussion 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Warburg and Luther – Word | Image in Times of Crisis – 1517, 1917, 2017 This roundtable discussion is the second of two events to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and the 100th anniversary of Aby Warburg’s seminal lecture on Luther and the role of propaganda in public opinion-making.

Participants include James Curran (Goldsmiths), Jo Fox (IHR), Jane O. Newman (California at Irvine), and Petra Roettig (Hamburger Kunsthalle). The other event in this series is a keynote lecture entitled ‘Luther’s words are everywhere’: Protestantism and Politics, 1517–2017 by Jane O. Newman on 26 February.

Warburg and Luther – Word | Image in Times of Crisis – 1517, 1917, 2017 is supported by the University of London Coffin Trust.

Free advance registration required warburg@sas.ac.uk

Senate House Library

Saving Gay’s the Word, and Being Gay in the 80s

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Hear Jim MacSweeney, manager of London’s leading LGBT bookshop, Gay’s the Word, in a discussion with Graham McKerrow on the raid on the shop by H.M. Customs in 1984, which saw all of its foreign-published stock impounded, and the wider experience of being gay in 80s London.

Free advance registration required shl.whatson@london.ac.uk

18:00–20:30 Macmillan Hall (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 19:00–20:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

"Structuring the Sacred": Considering Framing, Space and Place on the Easby Cross Meg Boulton (York) This event is part of the London Society for Medieval Studies Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 28 Institute of Classical Studies

Making Athens Great Again

Seminar

Sophie Mills (University of North Carolina, Asheville) This event is part of the ICS Fellows Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

13:00–14:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 349 (Senate House)

Archaeologists and the Management of Heritage Damage in the Time of War: The Syrian Case Laurence Gillot (Université Paris 7) This event is part of the ICS Classical Archaeology Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Losing the War: Grief and Post-War Conservatism

Seminar

Kit Kowol (Oxford) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:00–19:00 IHR North American History Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

Carl Schmitt’s Concept of Secularisation

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Peter E. Gordon (Harvard) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Professor Olga Crisp Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

‘The Number One Religious Bestseller’: John Robinson and Honest to God Hugh McLeod (Birmingham) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Making Histories in No Man’s Land: Reflections on the First World War Commemorations of British and German Descendants Michael Roper (Essex), Rachel Duffett (Essex), David Savill (Age Exchange) In early 2016, David Savill, artistic director of the reminiscence organisation Age Exchange, collaborated with Rachel Duffett and Michael Roper of the University of Essex on a five-day event in Bavaria that explored family legacies of the First World War among British and German descendants. For this event, they will talk about their experience of bringing together family stories from across the national boundaries of ‘no man’s land’ and reflect on their experience as practitioners working across the boundaries of heritage and history. Michael Roper is currently working on a Leverhulme Trust funded project about childhood and family legacies of the Great War in Britain and a study of the war’s impact across three generations of his family in Australia. He is a co-investigator in the University of Hertfordshire’s AHRC/HLF Engagement Centre, ‘Everyday Lives in the First World War’, which funded the collaboration with Age Exchange. Rachel Duffett has a particular interest in the material culture of the First World War and its legacies in the interwar years and is a researcher in AHRC/HLF Centre, ‘Everyday Lives in the First World War’. David Savill specializes in reminiscence practice with older people in care and community settings. His work with older people and with intergenerational groups has resulted in many theatre productions, exhibitions, documentary films, and most recently dance.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Empire of Taste: French Commodities and Global Power in the Nineteenth Century David Todd (KCL) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

The Bernini Workshop (Re)visited

Lecture

Joris van Gastel (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome) This event is part of the Re-opening the Workshop: Medieval to Early Modern Lecture Series. For details, see page 19.

Free advance registration required warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute Institute of English Studies

Anna Margolin’s New York Modernism

Seminar

Jordan Savage (UEA) This event is part of the Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

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Thursday 01 Institute of Modern Languages Research Workshop 14:00–18:00 Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House)

A New Language, a New Life?

Translingual Literature by Contemporary Women Writers This symposium will bring together scholars working on translingual women’s writing in the language fields of Italian, French, and German.

It will explore the particular richness of texts produced by writers in languages that are not their mother tongues. Is translingual writing perceived by the authors in question as a liberation and a new beginning, or as a requirement demanded by the literary market? How does the particular attention to language required in translingual writing affect the text? What are the distinctive literary and linguistic strategies employed in translingual writing? Does writing in a foreign tongue go hand in hand with establishing a new identity? What can translingual writing achieve that goes beyond the possibilities of texts produced by mother-tongue writers? These are some of the questions that will be explored. This event is supported by the AHRC-funded Open World Research Initiative, and Cassal Trust Fund.

Free advance registration required sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies

Thucydides, Homer and the Idea of Historical Distance

Seminar

Tim Rood (Oxford) This event is part of the ICS Ancient History Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

16:30–18:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

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London, Locke, and 1690s Provisions for the Poor in Context: Beggars, Sailors, Spinners and Slaves; Workhouses, Wars, Coins and Companies; England, Ireland, Scotland and the Caribbean John Marshall (Johns Hopkins) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Politics and Written Culture in the Early Modern Era: The Italian Campaign of Charles VIII of France (1494–95) and Its Network of Texts Lorenza Tromboni (Strasbourg) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research

British Ex-Service Students and the Rebuilding of Europe, 1919–26

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Georgina Brewis (UCL), Sarah Hellawell (Northumbria), Daniel Laqua (Northumbria) After the First World War, British universities received an influx of students who had undertaken wartime service—whether as soldiers serving at the front, members of the field ambulance, or VAD nurses. The Board of Education’s scholarship scheme for ex-service students helped produce a more socially diverse student body, a social transformation of higher education yet to be thoroughly investigated. The post-war enfranchisement of women coincided with further changes in higher education, exemplified by the University of Oxford’s decision to give full membership to female students in 1920. This talk investigates the war generation’s entry into higher education by focusing on one particular aspect: their contribution to reconstructing Europe by forging links with students from other countries, including former enemy nations. The immediate post-war years saw a plethora of international student initiatives, encompassing humanitarian efforts as well as the promotion of student interests at the international level. British university students were actively involved in these ventures; indeed, the very foundation of the National Union of Students (NUS) in 1922 was partly aimed at strengthening international links. Even when not active in such organisations, many British students engaged in internationalism, for example by participating in study exchanges and travel schemes. The talk will examine how young adults with direct experience of war experienced and fostered international dialogue and understanding, and is based on a collaborative project funded by an AHRC First World War Engagement Centre grant and co-designed with the National Union of Students (NUS) and the North East branch of the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA).

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research

Britain and the Long Echoes of Empire

Seminar

Gurminder Bhambra (Sussex), Charlotte Riley (Southampton) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

Gone is the Club: Early Labour in the National Daily Press

Seminar

Christopher Shoop-Worrall (Sheffield) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

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The Profit of Bees and Honey: Beekeeping Manuals on the Cusp of Scientific Study, 1568–1657 Matt Phillpott (SAS) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Latin American Studies

Young Lives at the Outskirts of Progress: A Child-Centred Study of Indigenous Exclusion and Marginalisation in Amazonian Peru

Seminar

Camilla Morelli (Bristol) This talk examines the challenges faced by indigenous children and youth in Peru who are rejecting hunter-gathering lifestyles in the rainforest in the hope of accessing market-based, urban livelihoods. It examines how young indigenous people are receiving, and actively negotiating, the impact of urbanisation, political readjustments, and rapid expansion of neoliberal markets in Latin America.

The analysis draws on ethnographic fieldwork with Matses people in Peru, who have recently ended a long period of voluntary isolation in the rainforest and are currently adjusting to the national economy and enhanced relations with the state. Children and youth play an active role in appropriating national and transnational influences beyond their communities, including urban practices, globalised media, and developmental policies centred on specific ideas of ‘progress’ promoted by the Peruvian state. In choosing to do so, they are entering unprecedented conditions of poverty and marginalisation as they become part of a global economy in which they occupy a peripheral position.

This event is part of the Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series, which is jointly run by the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Anthropology departments of LSE, Goldsmiths, and UCL. Free advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Room 234 (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute

Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry, and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 21.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:30–20:00 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

Performing Oceans: Interdisciplinary Panel on Dance and English Literature Arabella Stranger (Sussex), Matt Kerr (Southampton) This event is part of the London Theatre Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Friday 02 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House)

The Linguistic Landscape of Late Roman Sicily: Interferences and Resistances Marta Capano (Universita’ degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar Series.

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Institute of Historical Research

Secrets in the Dutch Golden Age and Where to Find Them

Seminar

Djoeke van Netten (Amsterdam) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

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What is a Yeoman? Status and Identity in Later Medieval England

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Louisa Foroughi (Fordham) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies

Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar

Seminar

The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar is devoted to the line-by-line reading and analysis of James Joyce’s Ulysses and it has acted as a focal point for academic researchers and postgraduate students with research interests in Joyce across London and the southeast and beyond for thirty years. Over that time it has built up a dedicated following while also drawing in new participants year on year. It keeps in touch with seminarians past and present by way of a blog that disseminates the seminar’s findings each month.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Saturday 03 Institute of English Studies

En/chanting Modernism: Liturgical Reform and the Poetry Reading

Seminar

Jamie Callison (Nord University)

11:00–13:00 Room 349 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Seminar

‘One leant to things’: Domestic Space and Spirituality in Modernist Women’s Writing Elizabeth Anderson (Stirling) This event is part of the London Modernism Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Antonio Genovesi and Leibnizio-Wolffianism in EighteenthCentury Sicily

Room 246 (Senate House)

Felix Waldmann (Cambridge) This event is part of the Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar (EMPHASIS) Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies

Virgil Society Lecture: The Female Hero and the Aeneid

14:00–16:00

Lecture 14:30–17:00 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House)

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Natalie Haynes Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster, and president of the Virgil Society. Her first novel, The Amber Fury (2014), was published to great acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, as was The Ancient Guide to Modern Life (2010). She has spoken on the modern relevance of the classical world on three continents, from Cambridge to Chicago to Auckland. She is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4: reviewing for Front Row and Saturday Review, appearing as a team captain on three seasons of Wordaholics, and presenting her own show, Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics.

Her documentary on the Defining Beauty exhibition at the British Museum, Secret Knowledge: The Body Beautiful, aired in 2015 on BBC4 in the UK and on BBC World News. She was a judge for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction, the 2013 Man Booker Prize, and the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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Monday 05 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

Historical Materialism and Models of Criticism Organised by Jeremy Coleman (IMLR/Aberdeen) and Johan Siebers (IMLR/ Middlesex).

This event is part of the Music and Marxism Seminar Series.

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

Institute of Classical Studies

Connotations of ‘Comedy’ in Classical Athens

Seminar

Michael Silk (KCL) This event is part of the ICS Ancient Literature Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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

Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Form and Future

Seminar

A roundtable discussion in which Andrea Brady (QMUL), Hannah Crawforth, Sarah Howe, Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Clare Whitehead (KCL) and Jane Kingsley-Smith (Roehampton) will explore the legacy of Shakespeare’s sonnets in contemporary poetry and criticism.

This event is part of the London Shakespeare Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:00 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research

Liturgical Vision and Liturgical Practice in Crusader Jerusalem

Seminar

Iris Shagrir (Open University of Israel) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:00 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Between Pietism and the Enlightenment: Johann Gottlieb Burckhardt, Theologian, Historian and Philosopher Philip Broadhead (University of the Arts) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Mestizos and Limpieza de Sangre in Colonial Latin America: A Matter of Blood and Milk?

Virginia Ghelarducci (ILAS) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Secret Knowledge and Corruption in Late Tudor Projecting Culture

Seminar

David Smith (Wilfrid Laurier) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies

Serial Marketing: Ouida in the 1860s

Seminar

Andrew King (Greenwich) This event is part of the Open University History of Books and Reading (HOBAR) Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required sas.events@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

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

Medicine and Hebrew in the Late Renaissance: a Story of Inclusion or Exclusion?

Magdaléna Jánošíková (QMUL) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Monday 10th April 1848 Revisited

Seminar

Keith Flett This event is part of the Socialist History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) The Warburg Institute

On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light

Seminar

A weekly series of public readings of Dante’s work hosted by the Warburg Institute.

For details, see page 20.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

18:00–19:30 Warburg Institute Institute of Historical Research

Full-Scale Displays and the Reform of Architecture in Germany

Seminar

Wallis Miller (Kentucky) The speaker is currently writing a book titled Architecture on Display: Exhibitions and the Emergence of Modernism in Germany, 1786-1932. The book uses German case studies to reveal the particular character of an architecture exhibition and demonstrate the ways in which exhibitions contributed to modernism in architecture. He will focus on a specific form of display, the full scale interior, and the ways in which a means of presentation originally developed to portray the past, in the form of the period room, became a catalyst for the early twentiethcentury reforms that led to the emergence of modern architecture.

Wallis Miller is the Charles P. Graves Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Kentucky, College of Design.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

Tuesday 06 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

English Designed Landscapes, c.1550–1660: Using 3D-GIS to Recreate ‘Prospects’ and ‘Promenades’ Lizzie Stewart (UEA) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Thomas Cranmer in Light of New Research

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Ashley Null (Durham) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House) School of Advanced Study

Writing about Writing: What is a Creative Writing PhD Commentary?

In association with the National Association of Writers in Education This event is part of the Contemporary Cultures of Writing Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Warburg Lecture Theatre, Warburg Institute

Institute of Historical Research 17:30–19:30

‘Africa or death’: The Medical Mission of the Comboni Sisters in Northern Uganda Kathleen Vongsathorn (Warwick) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Problem of Reconstructing a Seventeenth-Century Scholarly Library: The Case of Lord George Douglas’s Collection W A Kelly (formerly National Library of Scotland) This illustrated lecture will highlight the life and the book collection of Lord George Douglas, a member of the Queensberry branch of a family long active in Scottish life. The speaker will trace Douglas’ education from school to his studies at the University of Glasgow, before he travelled through part of Europe on an educational Grand Tour. He will then discuss the manuscript sources for the reconstruction of Douglas’s library and the problems that they pose.

This event is part of the History of Libraries Seminar Series jointly sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, the Institute of Historical Research, the Warburg Institute and the Library and Information History Group of CILIP. Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Vaccination While You Dance: Persuasive Press and Poster Promotion of the Polio Vaccine to British Publics, 1956–62

IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

Gareth Millward and Hannah J Elizabeth (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) People in the 1950s feared polio. When Jonas Salk’s vaccine was announced to the world in 1955, it was hailed as a miracle of modern science and a victory against a dreaded disease. And yet the British government frequently struggled to raise registration rates for the vaccine. The Ministry of Health embarked on several promotional campaigns across the 1950s. These campaigns were unusual in comparison to previous British vaccine drives, aimed as they were at broad swathes of the public, rather than infants and those occupying professions that placed them at specific risk. Indeed, from 1956 to 1961, the programme expanded from children under the age of 9 to those under the age of 15, to young adults under 26, and finally to all citizens under 40. Unlike typical programmes—where publicity would target parents (usually mothers) to present their children for the procedure—there were several cohorts of differing ages, each requiring different approaches. This talk explores how this was achieved by examining the posters and press advertisements of the period, paying particular attention to the emotions that lay behind polio vaccination promotion. It shows how the government used prevailing emotional responses to polio to try to improve uptake. From bonnie babies to male bread-winners via courting teenagers, polio vaccine was ‘sold’ as an integral part of good healthy citizenship for people of all ages.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Philosophy

Getting Rights out of Wrongs

Seminar

Kimberley Brownlee (Warwick) This event is part of The Practical, the Political and the Ethical Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Room 246 (Senate House)

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Exploring Archive Exhibitions

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Peter Lester (Leicester) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:45–19:45 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Lecture 18:00–19:29 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Reconsidering the Raj Afghanistan: Britain’s Imperial Misadventures Jules Stewart The year 1947 marked the end of British rule in India, two hundred years in which the British replaced the Mughals as controlling power and laid the foundations for modern India. In collaboration with the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, the Institute of Historical Research will reconsider this remarkable period in a series of lectures by leading scholars. This lecture considers the subject of Afghanistan. Britain’s most recent military involvement in Afghanistan remains a contentious issue, yet it is often overlooked that this engagement is in fact the fourth in a string of conflicts dating back to the nineteenth century. Determined to safeguard British India’s borders from the expanding Russian Empire and Afghan aggression, the British fought three campaigns on Afghan territory between 1838 and 1919. The Anglo-Afghan wars of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries resulted in some of the worst military calamities ever sustained by the Raj in this part of the world. In the first war alone, a column of 16,000 soldiers and civilians was annihilated on the retreat from Kabul. Jules Stewart’s talk looks at the lack of understanding of Afghanistan and its people that led to disaster and considers the lessons to be learnt. Jules Stewart is a journalist and author of On Afghanistan’s Plains, The Savage Border, and five other books on Afghanistan and the North West Frontier. £7.50 | £5 advance registration required ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

The Ambassadors: The Struggle in Britain to Maintain a Career Service, 1919–39 Erik Goldstein (Boston) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 07 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 12:30–14:30 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 12:45–14:00 LG24, Keppel Street Building, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

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Tibet Lost in Translation: Power Politics, Language and International Order Transformation at the Simla Convention, 1913–14 Amanda Cheney (Lund University, Sweden) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Political, the Emotional, and the Therapeutic: The Women’s Movement and Mental Health Activism in England, c. 1969–95 Kate Mahoney (Essex) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00

Michael Newall (Kent) This event is part of the London Aesthetics Forum.

Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk

Room G21A (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 349 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

The Ghost of Palmyra Yet-to-Come? Exploring Memory, People, and Place in Post-Conflict Reconstruction Zena Kamash (RHUL) This seminar will be screencast via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwVQ_yqJ_68.

This event is part of the ICS Classical Archaeology Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Dazzling or “Fantastically Dull”? Reconsidering Sociability at the Eighteenth-Century Masquerade Meghan Kobza (Newcastle) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Regulating Liberty: The State Versus the Man

Seminar

Steph Conway (RHUL) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Professor Olga Crisp Room (Senate House)

Georges Perec’s Daily Space(s) in the Era of ‘Aménagement’: Species of Spaces and Town Planning Circa 1974 Anna-Louise Milne (University of London Institute in Paris) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Within Worlds: Towards an Intimate History of London’s Docklands

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Simeon Koole (Oxford) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

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Book Launch: Making Italian Jews: Family, Gender, Religion and the Nation, 1861–1919 (Palgrave, 2017) Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti (UCL) Chair: Nicola Pizzolato; discussants: Elena Bacchin (QMUL) and Michael Berkowitz (UCL) This event is produced in collaboration with the UCL Department of Italian–SELCS. Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 University of Amsterdam

Hunger and the Allied Blockade of Germany: Malnutrition and Humanitarian Aid, 1914–24 Mary Cox (Oxford) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Philosophy of Medieval History: An Intellectual Mode for Experiencing the Middle Ages?

Daniel Fairbrother (Warwick) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Appearance of Saints: Photography as Incrimination and Religious Justification in Secret Police Archives in Romania and the Republic of Moldova James Kapalo (University College Cork) This event is part of a roving seminar series co-organised with and hosted at the EAST seminar at University of Amsterdam.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Latin American Studies

Science and the Arts in Contemporary Latin America: Towards a Life in Common

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Joanna Page (Cambridge) Free advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House) The Warburg Institute Lecture

Botticelli, His Assistants and the Business of the Workshop

Warburg Institute

Michelle O’Malley (Warburg Institute) This event is part of the Re-opening the Workshop: Medieval to Early Modern Lecture Series. For details, see page 19.

Free advance registration required warburg@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group: Cathay, with Kent Su (UCL)

Seminar

The Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group was formed in 2006. At each meeting, a speaker introduces a canto, followed by discussion. Speakers and members range from internationally established Pound critics to poets, postgraduates, independent scholars, and Pound enthusiasts. All are welcome.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30

18:00–20:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

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Thursday 08 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 349 (Senate House)

Damastes of Sigeion, the ‘Impossible’ Journey of Diotimos to Sousa, and Other Problematic Cases in Greek fragmentary Historiography Virgilio Costa (University of Rome Tor Vergata) This event is part of the ICS Ancient History Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Modern British History Reading Group

Seminar

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Framing ‘Rural’ Railway Closures in 1960s Britain: Lessons for Sustainable Urban Mobilities Colin Divall (York) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Observing Religion: High Medieval Religious Movements and their Polemical Vocabularies Sita Steckel (Münster) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Slavery and Unfreedom in the Desert South

Seminar

Kevin Waite (Durham) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR North American History Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

Welcoming the King to Normandy: Louis XV and Louis XVI Visit the Provinces Anne Byrne (Birkbeck) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

What is a Classic in History?

Seminar

Jaume Aurell (Navarra) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) The Warburg Institute Lecture 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

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Architecture without Architects: Scholars as Designers in the Veneto from Petrarch to Daniele Barbaro Guido Beltramini (Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, Vicenza) This event is part of the Director's Seminar Series.

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Henry Crabb Robinson and the Diffusion of German Literature in Britain

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Organised by the Working Group for the Reception of German, Austrian, and Swiss Literature at the Institute of Modern Languages Research.

James Vigus (Sheffield) Free advance registration required jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

18:00–19:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Refugee Law Initiative 18:00–19:30

Protecting Syrian Refugees: Laws, Policies and Global Responsibility-Sharing

IALS Council Chamber, Charles Clore House

Susan Akram (Boston) This event is part of the 8th International Refugee Law Seminar Series, ‘Refugee Law in the New World Disorder’.

Free advance registration required rli@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

The Representation of Country Houses and Gardens, 1720–1845

Seminar

Paula Riddy (Sussex) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

Friday 09 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

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‘Monumentum’, Memory, and the Destruction of Statues in Livy Book 31 Gavin Blasdel (Pennsylvania) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar Series.

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

German Bubble Companies in 1720: Transferring Power and Knowledge Eve Rosenhaft (Liverpool) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

"Dear Norah, why did you take my letter the wrong way, it was not intended to hurt or corrupt…": Danger, Desire, and Patriotic Femininity in Britain during WW2 Alison Twells (Sheffield Hallam) This event is part of the Women’s History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Histories of Small Group Formation and Publishing on the International Communist Left: Experimental Sociology from Bataille to Inventory Antony Iles Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research

Lyndwood’s Church, 1446–1518

Seminar

Paul Cavill (Cambridge) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar

Progressive Lawyers? The Law Amendment Society, Market Morality, and the Campaign for Company Law Reform, 1852–56

IALS, Charles Clore House

David Chan Smith (Wilfrid Laurier) This event is part of the IALS Legal History Seminar Series organised in collaboration with the London Legal History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Insufferable: Gender and Sexuality in the Work of Samuel Beckett

Seminar

Daniela Caselli (Manchester) This event is part of the London Beckett Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–19:30

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Saturday 10 Institute of English Studies

Seventh London Anglo-Saxon Symposium

One-day symposium

This year’s theme is ‘Anglo-Saxon London’. Drawing on literary, archaeological, and historical sources, the symposium will consider how London was created both as a physical and conceptual place in Anglo-Saxon England. £20 | £10 advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

14:00–18:30 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House)

Monday 12 Institute of English Studies Seminar 16:00–20:00 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243 (Senate House)

Print and Digital: National Media Collections and Contemporary Library Policies Katherine Hayles (Duke), Aled Gruffydd Jones (EMIET), Richard Price (British Library) Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Why Socrates’ Legs Don’t Run Off to Megara: Moral Deliberation in Plato’s Crito Ellisif Wasmuth (Essex) This event is part of the ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies

The Drama of Greek Deliberation

Seminar

Jon Hesk (St Andrews) This event is part of the ICS Ancient Literature Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

17:00–19:00 Room 349 (Senate House)

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

‘This is our town, forged from steel’: Deindustrialisation and Football in Scotland Andy Clarke (Newcastle) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Ministry of Pensions and the Disabled Great War Veteran across the British Empire Michael Robinson (Liverpool) After the First World War, servicemen returned home physically altered, with permanently scarred senses, bodies, and minds. In the public sphere, charities and government ministries dealt with their economic and medical needs with varying degrees of success; in the privacy of homes, families and friends endured their loved one’s pain, disorientation, and distress. The Disability History Seminar Series will commemorate these living memorials to the aftermath of war in 2018.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

When Slime Sticks on Clean Deeds: The Political Opportunism of E. H. Duckworth’s Clean-Up Lagos Campaigns Terri Ochiagha (KCL) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

French Colonialism in India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Akhila Yechury (St Andrews) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light

Seminar

A weekly series of public readings of Dante’s work hosted by the Warburg Institute.

For details, see page 20.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

18:00–19:30 Warburg Institute Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

Print and Digital: National Media Collections and Contemporary Library Policies Aled Gruffydd Jones (EMIET) and Richard Price (British Library) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

The History of Food Banks

Seminar

Alex Murdoch (London South Bank) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study

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Tuesday 13 Institute of Historical Research

Museum, Magic, Memory: The Curating of Paul Montague

Seminar

Julie Adams (British Museum) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:00 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Rethinking Sexual Geography: ‘Sexuality’ and European Identity, c. 1550–1700 Nailya Shamgunova (Cambridge) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Colophons in Context

Seminar

Dominique Stutzmann (Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes, Paris) This event is part of the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:15 Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies (Senate House Library) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

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‘Ready for public use on all occasions’: The Politics of Parliamentary Record Keeping in the English Revolution Kate Peters (Cambridge) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Promise and Peril of the Popular: Peasant and Indigenous Otherness in the Study of Nineteenth-Century Mexican Liberalism Ariadna Acevedo-Rodrigo (Cinvestav) The historiography on nation-state building in nineteenth-century Mexico now considers peasants and indigenous peoples as political agents in their own right.

Research on popular support for liberalism finally put to rest the idea that former Indian pueblos could only be anti-liberal and that liberalism could only be elite.

Or did it? One would think that the abundant—and still growing—evidence for this phenomenon would allow us to de-essentialise our understanding of liberalism and of peasants/indigenous peoples. However, the speaker argues that some of this research (including work cast in the new mould of global history) has not completely de-essentialised its concepts and actors, and has therefore concluded that popular liberalism was fundamentally other: an ‘alternative’ liberalism that was significantly different, and more ‘democratic’ or ‘communitarian’, than that of the elite. She argues that there was no such rift and that these works have not engaged sufficiently with a) the old problem that the restitution of subaltern agency seems to lead too often to reifying subaltern autonomy and, with it, their otherness and b) an intellectual history that seeks to understand the contingencies of liberalism rather than fix its contents.

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Institute of English Studies

Teaching and Collecting in a Small Historic Library

Seminar

Richard Foster (Winchester College) The Fellows’ Library of Winchester College was established soon after the foundation of the school at the end of the fourteenth century. It has grown by purchase and donation over the past six centuries and now contains almost 10,000 rare books. This talk will consider the ways in which the library is integrated into the life of the school and its teaching. It will also examine the growth of the collection over the past few decades and strategies for developing the collection of a small historic library on a small budget.

This event is part of the Book Collecting Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies

Literary London Reading Group

Seminar

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Lecture 18:00–20:30

Deeds Not Words Helen Pankhurst in Conversation with Lynn Abrams (Glasgow)

IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, NB01/NB02 (Senate House)

On the 100th anniversary of women getting the vote, Helen Pankhurst— great-granddaughter of suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst and a leading women’s rights campaigner—charts how women’s lives have changed over the last century, and offers a powerful and positive argument for a new way forward. Why is it taking so long? Despite huge progress since the suffragette campaigns and wave after wave of feminism, women are still fighting for equality. Why, at the present rate will we have to wait in Britain until 2069 for the gender pay gap to disappear? Why, in 2015, did 11% of women lose their jobs due to pregnancy discrimination? Why, globally, has 1 in 3 women experienced physical or sexual violence? In 2018, on the centenary of one of the most significant steps forward for women – the Fourth Reform Act (6 February), which saw propertied women over 30 gain the vote for the first time – Helen Pankhurst charts how women’s lives have changes over the last century, and offers a new way forward. Each of the five chapters within the book explores a different theme; politics, money, family & identity, violence and culture. The voices of both pioneers and ordinary women are woven into the analysis which ends with suggestions about how to better understand and strengthen feminist campaigning and with aims for the future. Combining historical insight with inspiring argument, Deeds Not Words: The Story of Women’s Rights, Then and Now reveals how far women have come since the suffragettes, how far we still have to go, and how we might get there.

Dr Helen Pankhurst is a women’s rights activist and senior advisor to CARE International, based in the UK and in Ethiopia. She has extensive media experience including national and international radio and print interviews, and was involved in the 2015 film Suffragette. Her work in Ethiopia includes support to program development across different sectors, focused on the interests and needs of women and girls. In the UK she is a public speaker and writer on feminist issues. She also leads CARE International’s #March4Women event in London on 4 March.

Free spaces are limited; advance registration required ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Feelings of Betrayal and Echoes of the First Crusade in Odo of Deuil’s Account of the Second Crusade

Seminar 19:00–20:30 Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study

Stephen Spencer (IHR) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Wednesday 14 Senate House Library

Representing LGBTQ Online: An Introduction to Editing Wikipedia

Workshop

In the past year, Wikipedia’s pages on LGBTQ culture in the UK have been read more than 100 million times. Join Senate House Library and Wikimedia UK to learn how to be a wiki editor. Reference works and expert help will be on hand from Senate House Library, and training and support will be provided by Wikimedia UK. No prior knowledge is necessary.

Free advance registration required shl.whatson@london.ac.uk

10:00–17:00 Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room (Senate House Library)

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 13:00–14:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar

The Homeric Penelope: A Model ‘Military Wife’?

Emma Bridges (ICS) This event is part of the ICS Fellows’ Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

‘Hello! Is it (Not) Me You’re Looking For?’ The Many Local Communities of Middle Eastern Living Heritage Sites

Room 349 (Senate House)

Heba Abd el Gawad (Durham) This event is part of the Classical Archaeology Seminar Series and will be screencast on youtube.com/watch?v=TqZw72GILrs. Free advance registration required valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

The PACE of Policing 1964–96

Seminar

Judith Rowbotham (Plymouth) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

16:30–18:30

17:00–19:00 IHR North American History Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

Conflict, Cacti and the Chaco War

Seminar

Esther Breithoff (UCL) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15

Jim Rollo (Open University) This event is part of the Modern Religious History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR Professor Olga Crisp Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

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The Politics of Rights: From the Wars of Religion to the Age of Revolution Dan Edelstein (Stanford) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research

Forebodings about Fascism: Marion Milner Reads Virginia Woolf

Seminar 17:30–19:30

Helen Tyson (Sussex) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) The Warburg Institute

How X-Ray Imagery Changed the Practice of Art History

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Sven Dupre (Utrecht/Amdsterdam) Free advance registration required warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 19:00–21:00 Austrian Cultural Forum London, 28 Rutland Gate, London SW7 1PQ

On the Record: Memories of the Anschluss 80 Years Ago This event hosted by the Institute of Modern Languages Research will feature a talk by Dorothea McEwan (Warburg) with musical interludes by Ensemble Émigré.

Artistic director and singer Norbert Meyn (tenor) and acclaimed pianist Lucy Colquhoun will perform music by émigré composers from Austria and Germany living in Britain as well as a selection of German Lieder, popular in British émigré circles for providing a sense of identity and spiritual nourishment. This event is organised under the auspices of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature and Culture, and the Austrian Cultural Forum.

Free advance registration required jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 15 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar

Pavel Bureš (Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic; IALS Visiting Fellow) This event Is part of the IALS Lunchtime Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

12:30–13:30 IALS, Charles Clore House Institute of Commonwealth Studies Colloquium 14:00–18:00 Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House)

Missing Voices: The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale This commemorative event organised by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies marks the 30th anniversary of the battle of Cuito Cuanavale. The momentous events in Southern Angola in 1988 represented a turning point in the history of the Namibian independence struggle and South Africa’s own lengthy transition from apartheid. The event will highlight the important historical antecedents of the ‘decolonising the academy’ debate, the New International Information Order of the 1970s and 80s, and the need to emphasise African voices in the news narrative. Speakers will also address the the ‘lost voice’ of the MPLA/FAPLA in Angola, as set against the current popular narrative around Cuito Cuanavale in South Africa.

Free advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies

Herodotus and Thucydides in Procopius’ Wars

Seminar

Vasiliki Zali (Liverpool) This event is part of the ICS Ancient History Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

16:30–18:30 Room 349 (Senate House)

School of Advanced Study

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The Warburg Institute Lecture 17:00–19:00 Warburg Institute

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Putting Saxton into Context: State Surveys in Early Modern Europe with Particular Reference to Palatinate-Neuburg (Bavaria), Saxony, and England Thomas Horst (Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Lisbon) Free advance registration required tony@tonycampbell.info

At the Nexus of Lineage and Female Agencies: Luisa Strozzi at the Este Court Lisa Di Crescenzo (QMUL) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

From Captives to Servants: The Contract Labour of Prisoners of War in the 1650s Sonia Tycko (Harvard) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

‘At nature’s mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him’: Suicide, Masculinity, and the Unproductive Man in NineteenthCentury Britain Lyndsay Galpin (RHUL) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Food, Travel, and the Evolution of Food Tourism

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Paul Cleave (Exeter) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR North American History Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 German Historical Institute, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2NJ

German Orchestras, the Volksgemeinschaft, and the Persecution of the Jews, 1933–45 Neil Gregor (Southampton) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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The ‘Anglosphere’ and the Colonial Past

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Michael Collins (UCL) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30

Markus Prutsch (European Parliament) Response by Dan Stone (RHUL) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

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Childlessness in Colombia: Changing Family Formation and NonMotherhood in Intergenerational Perspective

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Cristina Perez (UCL) Between 1965 and 2015, Colombia experienced a dramatic fertility decline, as the ‘average’ woman went from having seven children to just two. Since the 1980s, in particular, this decreasing family size has been accompanied by concomitant, and substantial, increases in women’s educational and professional achievements: Colombian women now outperform men at every level of education, and female labour-force participation has also expanded markedly. This broadening of non-reproductive roles and opportunities has transformed society, particularly in urban areas, by opening space for new choices like voluntary childlessness, albeit unequally across class, racial, and regional boundaries. While ‘childlessness’ unrelated to infertility has received increasing attention in Europe and North America, Latin American perspectives remain relatively uncharted. The research described in this talk seeks to address this gap by exploring childlessness (in all its forms) against the backdrop of the socio-demographic transformations described above. Drawing on a year of ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth life history interviews with women living in Bogotá, Colombia, it will engage with demographic transition theories from a gender-sensitive, anthropological perspective. The research represents part of an interdisciplinary study that integrates anthropological fieldwork with the analysis of large-scale demographic survey data to address childlessness as both a micro- and macro-level phenomenon.

This event is part of the Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series, which is jointly run by the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Anthropology departments of LSE, Goldsmiths, and UCL. Free advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Room 234 (Senate House)

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Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry, and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 21.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–19:30 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 The Senate Room (Senate House)

With Care in the Community Everything Goes: Oral Histories of People Giving and Receiving Care in Nottingham Mental Hospitals Verusca Calabria (Nottingham) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Beyond Metaphor: Memory and the Witnessing Body in PostAgreement Northern Ireland Alex Coupe (Goldsmiths)

‘The air is rent with a wild huzzah for the stars and stripes and Eringo-bragh!’: The Sentiments of Irish American Civil War Songs This event is part of the Irish Studies Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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Publishing Queer/Queer Publishing: A Senate House Library Conference

09:30–17:30

The presence of queer works on publishers’ lists has tended to represent complex processes of equivocation, marked by streams of open titillation and multi-layered camouflage. Novels of queer love could be presented by mainstream firms as examining ‘social problems,’ released by pulp presses with lurid covers promising erotic excitement, printed in severely limited and expensive editions to avoid censure, or offered to the public by imprints more accustomed to gambling against censorship with works pornographic in their intent and content. This fragmented world, driven by simultaneous repression of and prurient interest in queer lifestyles, means that it is difficult to delineate a broad history of queer publishing. This conference seeks to engender as broad a discussion as possible of the area in an English language context. £17 | £10 (includes lunch and refreshments) advance registration required shl.whatson@london.ac.uk

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Revolutions in Bolivia

One-day conference 10:00–18:00 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

Institute of Modern Languages Research

This conference organised by the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Anglo-Bolivian Society celebrates the Society’s 25th anniversary and marks twelve years since the inauguration of Evo Morales, leader of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), as President of Bolivia and the start of one of the longest continuous periods of government in the country’s history. The twelve years of MAS rule is not, however, unique, and finds precedent in the twelve years of Movimiento Nationalista Revolucionario (MNR) rule, 1952--1964. This conference will place Bolivia’s current processes of change in historical context. Speakers will reflect on the similarities and differences between these two periods of revolution, as well as the long view of MAS policies and the striking period of economic, political, and social change that Bolivia has experienced since 2006. The conference will explore the shifting meanings of revolution, nation, social class, ethnicity and transformation in Bolivian history, and the elements of continuity and change.

Free advance registration required katefordis@gmail.com

Embodied Encounters and the Senses in Modern Languages

Room 234 (Senate House)

This half-day workshop will explore research across languages as an embodied, sensory process. Scholars working across a range of contexts such as film, food, performance, and photography will focus on questions of positionality and the role the senses play in our experience of languages and cultures. Participants will discuss the opportunities and challenges of carrying out projects and sharing findings with an ethnographically informed attention to the self and the senses.

This event is part of the Open World Research Initiative ‘Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community’ strand.

Free advance registration required jo.bradley@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies

Regional Diversity in Roman Cults of Mithras

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Kevin Stoba (Liverpool) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar Series.

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Workshop 14:00–18:00

16:30–18:30 Room 246 (Senate House)

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Trading Books in the Age of Rembrandt

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Andrew Pettegree (St Andrews), Arthur der Weduwen (St Andrews) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 University of Birmingham

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

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Theatrical Improvisation and Periodical Culture: London and Paris, 1824 Angela Esterhammer (Toronto) This event is part of the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Rethinking Modern Europe ‘Roving Seminar’: Roundtable— Empire, Race, and Humanitarianism in the Twentieth Century Eleanor Davey (Manchester), Claire Eldridge (Leeds), Sarah Frank (University of the Free State), Nina Wardleworth (Leeds) This event is produced in partnership with the Humanitarian Working Histories Network and hosted by the Center for Modern and Contemporary History, University of Birmingham.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Regulation of Religious Communities in the Late Middle Ages: A Comparative Approach to Pre-Reformation England and Ming China Teng Li (Shanghai Normal University) Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Saturday 17 Institute of Modern Languages Research Workshop 10:00–17:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 14:00–18:00 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

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Hans Blumenberg and the Theory of Political Myth Felix Heidenreich (Stuttgart), Jean-Claude Monod (ENS, Paris), Herbert De Vriese (Antwerp), Geert Van Eekert (Antwerp), Angus Nicholls (QMUL) In recent years, the phenomenon of political myth has attracted increasing scholarly attention. In its wake, the concept of political myth has begun to establish itself as a relevant concept of political theory. The increasing interest in political myth seems to be related to the rapidly changing landscape of contemporary politics. Especially in the context of political rhetoric, identity politics, and collective action, the theory of political myth has often proved to be a vital source of fresh and illuminating insights. Since Chiara Bottici’s A Philosophy of Political Myth (2007), the theoretical framework of political myth has been successfully enriched by integrating seminal concepts from Hans Blumenberg’s theory of myth. Under the influence of Bottici’s work, recent theorists of political myth tend to underline, for instance, that one of the most important functions of political myths is to create ‘significance’. But what does it mean to create significance, as a specific dimension of political communication or political action?

How do political myths construct collective identities and thereby affect political agency? Are political myths always nefarious and related to propaganda and misinformation, or might they have a legitimate use under some circumstances?

The workshop will focus on the importance of the work of Hans Blumenberg in relation to these questions and will offer close readings and interpretations of two recently published texts from the Blumenberg Nachlass: ‘Präfiguration’ (which deals with political myth and its relation to National Socialism) and ‘Moses der Ägypter’ (which examines the use of political myth in relation to the trial of Adolf Eichmann), and include lectures on Blumenberg’s most fruitful and challenging contributions to developing a more refined theory of political myth.

Free advance registration required herbert.devriese@uantwerpen.be This event is produced with the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations at QMUL and the Centre for European Philosophy, University of Antwerp.

Education and the Idea of Development in Rousseau and Thomas Day Gavin Budge (Hertfordshire) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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

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Houses in Herculaneum: Reconstructing Architecture and Decoration Using 3D Digitization Alexandra Dardenay (Université de Toulouse II) Having disappeared during the eruption of Vesuvius of 79 AD which also buried Pompeii, the ancient city of Herculaneum has had fewer archaeological and historical studies in comparison to its famous neighbour. To date, most of its buildings remain unpublished and there is no recent general synthesis proposing a global approach to the habitat and way of life of the society of this Roman city. However, the exceptional conditions of conservation of the archaeological site and the abundance of archival documentation make it possible to carry out a systematic analysis of the buildings, furniture and the painted and sculpted decoration, which can be restored in their original context. The VESUVIA project is innovative in that it transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries by integrating all available sources on an ancient site. The objective is to produce a global, sociological, and anthropological analysis centred on an ancient urban society.

It also uses the most up-to-date technologies in analyzing ancient decorative techniques and 3D reconstructions, in order to offer the public a new and living vision of the ancient city of Herculaneum.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Humour, Propaganda, and Print Culture: American Satirical Magazines during the First World War

Room 243 (Senate House)

Vincent Trott (Open University/Oxford Brookes) This event is part of the Open University History of Books and Reading (HOBAR) Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required sas.events@sas.ac.uk

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On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light

Seminar

A weekly series of public readings of Dante’s work hosted by the Warburg Institute.

For details, see page 20.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:00

18:00–19:30 Warburg Institute

Tuesday 20 Institute of Historical Research

Colonizing Commons in the Spanish Empire

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Vera S. Candiani (Princeton) The Spanish overseas expansion has often been described as having built an ‘empire of towns’, wherein municipalities acted as ‘instruments of colonization.’ This paper delves deeper into the meaning of these descriptions by examining the role of commons in the colonization process of the Spanish Atlantic. Historically rooted as part of the urban fabric of Castilian towns since the Middle Ages, as it was elsewhere in Europe, the institution of commons was systematically transplanted to Spanish America by plebeians and the crown. Two central hypotheses are presented here. First, that it was crown intervention and the confluence between royal priorities and commoner desires and needs that ensured the creation, transmission, and persistence of the institution of commons throughout the Hispanic realm. Second, that commons came to lie at the heart of a plebeian form of early modern colonization that was distinct and in tension with that of other classes and that differed from analogous processes in French, English and Portuguese America.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:00 IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

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Reading Human Rights Morally: (Un)Certainty and Restlessness at the European Court of Human Rights

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Natasa Mavronicola, Special Adviser to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture; Birmingham Law School; IALS Visiting Fellow Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IALS, Charles Clore House Institute of English Studies

Innovations in Contemporary Poetic Practice

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This event is part of the Contemporary Cultures of Writing Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House) Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:30–20:00 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House)

No Provisos: A Critique of Habermas and of Rawls on Religion and Public Reason Gordon Finlayson (Sussex) This event is part of The Practical, the Political and the Ethical Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk

Accordia Lecture: The Nuragic Statuary of Monte Prama in Iron Age Sardinia Carlo Tronchetti (National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari) Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 21 Institute of Latin American Studies

Global Latin American Studies: Past, Present and Future Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Workshop 10:00–17:00 The Senate Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 12:45–14:00 LG24, Keppel Street Building, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 15:30–17:30 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House) The Warburg Institute Lecture 17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute 90

Relief and Regret: Fifty Years of Women’s Voices in British Abortion Activism Clare Parker (Kent) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

On the Side of Rhadamanthus: Phaistos and Its Region at the Beginning of the Neopalatial Period Luca Girella (Università Telematica Internazionale Uninettuno, Rome) This event is part of the ICS Mycenaean Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

The Socialisation and Specialisation of Workshop Labour at the Charterhouse of Champmol Andy Murray (Open University) This event is part of the Re-opening the Workshop: Medieval to Early Modern Lecture Series. For details, see page 19.

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Thursday 22 Institute of Classical Studies

ICS Public Engagement Workshop

Workshop

Free advance registration required emma.bridges@sas.ac.uk

10:30–17:00 Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies

Pausanias and the Gauls: Thermopylae Refought and Rewritten

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Chris Carey (UCL) This event is part of the ICS Ancient History Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

16:30–18:30 Room 349 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research

‘Lust und Last’: Thomas Manns Idee der Rechtfertigung (2018 Ida Herz Lecture)

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Tim Lörke (Berlin) From a religious perspective, the German author Thomas Mann is an interesting figure. Raised in the Protestant faith, he contemplated Catholic ideas as well as those of the American Unitarian Church. Thomas Mann’s religious belief can be described as eclectic and centred around mankind’s moral duties. Therefore, a strong thread of Mann’s reflections is formed by his productive adoption of the idea of justification. As a figure of thought, theodicy is nearly always present in Mann’s works. Thomas Mann is, however, more interested in mankind’s justification than God’s. This talk explores Mann’s specific take on concepts like theodicy and anthropodicy and emphasizes his postulate of adopting political responsibilities as a means of justification.

Free advance registration required jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

The Warburg Institute

Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry, and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 21.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Institute of Historical Research

Walled Garden/Glasshouse Technology in the Repton Era

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Susan Campbell (author and garden consultant) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Friday 23 Institute of Historical Research One-day conference 09:00–17:00 IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, NB01/NB02 (Senate House)

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Postgraduate and Early Career Conference in Early American History 2018 This day-long event, organized by the British Group in Early American History Postgraduate and Early Career Conference with the British American Nineteenth Century Historians’ postgraduate community, will be a key forum for the discussion of individual research as well as themes and issues emerging in the field of American research in the UK. Fee applicable advance registration required ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Workshop 09:00–18:00 The Court Room (Senate House)

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

Mediating Literature What has happened to French literature over the last 40 years? The first study day of the AHRC ‘Literature under Constraint’ project looks at shifts in the creative and publishing landscapes in France and francophone countries from 1980 to the present day. With talks by Gisèle Sapiro, Alexandre Gefen, Erika Fülop, Subha Xavier, Alain Farah, and Claire Ducournau, we will be studying the role of intermediaries (agents, publishers, distributors, journalists) on the production of literature. We’ll examine how the emergence of digital landscapes has been a game-changer and think about what literature means in the twenty-first century.

This event is part of the AHRC research network ‘Literature under Constraint’.

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

On Displaying Interior Décor and Identity(ies): A Contextual Approach to Hispano-Roman Mosaics Rubèn Montoya (Leicester), Lucy Elkerton (Bristol) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar Series.

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Institute of English Studies

Finnegans Wake Reading Group

Seminar

This reading group has been running regularly since 2007. It studies James Joyce’s final work, Finnegans Wake, at a close level of detail. Discussion is focused on the text and attention is also paid to Joyce’s manuscripts (copies of which are displayed on a screen). The group hosts a blog to record its discussions.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Saturday 24 Institute of Classical Studies

A Celebration of the Life of Alan Cameron

Colloquium

Everyone is invited to celebrate the life and work of Professor Alan Cameron FBA (1938–2017), with friends, former colleagues, and family. Alan Cameron read Classics at New College, Oxford, and then went on to teach Latin at the University of Glasgow before coming to London in 1971, first as a Reader at Bedford College and then as Professor of Latin at Kings. In 1977 he moved to Columbia University in New York, where he was Anthon Professor of Latin Literature and Language until his retirement in 2008. His books included studies of Hellenistic poetry, circus factions in Byzantium, Greek mythography, and the magisterial Last Pagans of Rome that appeared in 2011. A number of friends and colleagues will offer reminiscences of Alan and appreciations of his work. Among the confirmed speakers are Arianna Gullo, Gavin Kelly, Oswyn Murray, John North, Peter Wiseman and members of his family.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

14:30–18:00 Room 349 (Senate House)

Monday 26 Institute of Classical Studies

Plato on Ruling and Being Ruled

Seminar

Amanda Greene (UCL) This event is part of the ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

16:30–18:30 Room 243 (Senate House)

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‘Don’t know what upset Sylvia’: Book Club Judges, Editing and Censorship

Room 243 (Senate House)

Nicola Wilson (Reading) This event is part of the Open University History of Books and Reading (HOBAR) Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required sas.events@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

On the Peak of Darkness: From the Abyss to the Light

Seminar

A weekly series of public readings of Dante’s work hosted by the Warburg Institute.

For details, see page 20.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:00

18:00–19:30 Warburg Institute

Tuesday 27 Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 18:00–20:00 Room 349 (Senate House)

Burning in Hell: Representations of Hell and Its Inhabitants on Venetian Crete (1211–1669) Angeliki Lymberopoulou (Open University) Organised by ICS and Friends of the British School at Athens.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 28 Institute of English Studies

Australian Poetry of the 1970s

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Laurie Duggan (Kent) This event is part of the Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

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Tuesday 03 Senate House Library

Tour with Queer Tours of London

Tour

From Gay socialists breaking the ice and forming legendary community spaces, to mincing down the same streets as Bloomsbury group queers, author Virginia Woolf, and economist John Maynard Keynes, Queer Tours of London will be strutting through the streets of Bloomsbury, shining a light on the flung-open closets of this notorious neighbourhood’s queer and theatrical history. Add a dash of Polari, a little Ivor Novello, and lots of Lesbian and Gays supporting the Miners— we will be uncovering our queer past and examining what can be learnt for our queer cultural futures.

Free advance registration required shl.whatson@london.ac.uk

18:30–20:30 Queer Bloomsbury: A Walking

Wednesday 04 The Warburg Institute

Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry, and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 21.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Thursday 05 Senate House Library

Queer Creative Writing and Polari Workshop

Workshop

Have you ever wanted to share your queer story, inspirations, desires, vulnerabilities, hopes and dreams? Have you been inspired by queer literary writers and maybe one day inspire others? Have you ever wanted to explore what it means to queer up culture, literature, and storytelling? Do you want to create a queer community that can support you in your journey as a queer writer? In this interactive workshop, participants will explore the legacy of London’s queer writers, develop their own stories, and share them amongst the group. This workshop is open to anyone who wants to not only develop their craft but also learn how to perform in front of an audience. Participants will also learn about Polari, the gay slang that faded away with the decriminalisation of male homosexuality and the advent of gay liberation but which is now making a comeback. Polari flourished in the difficult years between the trial of Oscar Wilde and the 1967 Sexual Offences Act and continues to protect against rising LGBT homophobia as a vocabulary for talking about sexuality and a way of asserting identity.

Free advance registration required shl.whatson@london.ac.uk

18:30–20:30 Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room (Senate House Library)

Friday 06 Institute of English Studies

Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar

Seminar

The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar is devoted to the line-by-line reading and analysis of James Joyce’s Ulysses and it has acted as a focal point for academic researchers and postgraduate students with research interests in Joyce across London and the southeast and beyond for thirty years. Over that time it has built up a dedicated following while also drawing in new participants year on year. It keeps in touch with seminarians past and present by way of a blog that disseminates the seminar’s findings each month.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

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Beckett – Artaud – Namelessness in More than One Language

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Sam Slote (Trinity College Dublin) This event is part of the London Beckett Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Saturday 07 Institute of English Studies

Imagining Perspective in Reformation Nuremberg

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Hannah Murphy (KCL) This event is part of the Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar (EMPHASIS) Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

16:00–20:00 Room 246 (Senate House)

Monday 09 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 234 (Senate House) Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Musical Reproduction in Modernity Organised by Jeremy Coleman (IMLR/Aberdeen) and Johan Siebers (IMLR/ Middlesex).

This event is part of the Music and Marxism Seminar Series.

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

Penguin Parade! Penguin Books and the Venture into Periodical Publishing Samantha Rayner (UCL) This event is part of the Open University History of Books and Reading (HOBAR) Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 10 Institute of English Studies

Printing Colour 1700–1830

Three-day conference

Following on from last year’s Printing Colour 1400–1700 conference, this three-day event organised by the Institute of English Studies represents the first interdisciplinary assessment of Western colour printmaking in the long eighteenth century, 1700–1830. It will bring together researchers, curators, special collections librarians, printers, printmakers, cataloguers, conservators, art historians, book historians, digital humanities practitioners, scientists, and others who care for colour-printed material, seek to understand them, or use them in research. The discussion will encompass all media, techniques, and functions, from fashion to fine art, wallpaper to scientific communication.

Fee applicable advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

09:00–18:00 Macmillan Hall (Senate House)

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

Reconsidering the Raj Independence and Partition Panel discussion: Joya Chatterji (focusing on India), Farzana Shaikh (focusing on Pakistan) and Ian Talbot (focusing on Britain). Victoria Schofield will act as moderator.

Joya Chatterji is author of The Spoils of Partition, The Bengal Diaspora and Bengal Divided. She is professor of South Asian History and director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at Cambridge. Farzana Shaikh is author of Making Sense of Pakistan and Community and Consensus in Islam: Muslim Representation in Colonial India, 1860-1947. She is a specialist in the regional politics of South Asia. She is an associate fellow, Asia Programme, Chatham House. Ian Talbot is author of Pakistan: A New History, The Independence of India and Pakistan, The Partition of India, and many others. He is professor of Modern British History at Southampton.

Victoria Schofield is author of Kashmir in Conflict, Afghan Frontier, Wavell: Soldier and Statesman and Bhutto: Trial and Execution. £7.50 | £5 advance registration required ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Literary London Reading Group

Seminar

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Wednesday 11 Institute of English Studies

Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group: Canto 89

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The Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group was formed in 2006. At each meeting, a speaker introduces a canto, followed by discussion. Speakers and members range from internationally established Pound critics to poets, postgraduates, independent scholars, and Pound enthusiasts. All are welcome.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Thursday 12 Institute of Modern Languages Research

63rd National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies Free advance registration required jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Two-day colloquium 10:00–18:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

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The Spirits’ Power: Poetics and Crisis of a Pastoral Society in the Colombian Eastern Plains

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Johanna Pérez Gómez (UCL) The speaker will discuss the first findings of her fieldwork on occult forces and conflict in the Colombia Eastern Plains: she finds there was little that was ‘occult’ about forces intervening in all sort of magical happenings there. The forces scaring people in the wilderness, moving furniture in houses, causing illness and misfortune, or providing protection for paramilitary groups are well defined ‘spirits,’ generally humanized ones. Based on one year of ethnographic observations in the oldest town of the Colombian Plains, San Martin, the paper explores these spirits’ ‘humanity’ and its relation with the ‘civilizing’ landscapes of stockbreeding. This mode of production has been naturalised over the last three centuries, initially in violent opposition to the sociocultural orders of the indigenous communities in the region.

This seminar series is jointly run by the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Anthropology departments of LSE, Goldsmiths, and UCL. Free advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Room 234 (Senate House)

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Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry, and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 21.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

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2018 Sylvia Naish Lecture Free advance registration required jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Lecture 18:00–19:30 Room 243 (Senate House)

Friday 13 Institute of Modern Languages Research

Music History and Historical Materialism: Reflections and Possibilities

One-day conference

Marxist thought and music historiography have only occasionally combined in critical writing or scholarly research, and from the perspective of the present most examples of such approaches appear as so many moribund historical curiosities. This one-day international conference, organised by the Ernst Bloch Centre, believes that genuinely fruitful interaction between music history writing and historical materialism has yet to be carried out and, at the same time, that signs towards such a mode of criticism are discernible in the very agents and materials of music history and of the history of philosophy. Beyond Marxist cultural theory or critical theory, the conference seeks to ask what musicology could still learn from the central insights of Marx and Marxism and to what extent music history and historical materialism can even be ‘thought together’. The aim of the conference is not merely to excavate cases of officially Marxist historiography of music, nor to consider music in relation to Marxist individuals and political regimes, but—taking a more speculative approach—to evaluate the potential of Marxist thought for historical musicology and for philosophy of music today.

Keynote speaker: Benjamin Korstvedt (Clark University) Conference organisers: Jeremy Coleman (IMLR/Aberdeen) and Johan Siebers (IMLR/Middlesex) Fee applicable advance registration required jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

09:30–18:00 Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House)

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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar

Across the Ocean: Coin Hoarding throughout the Eastern Atlantic Coast from the Second Century BC to the First Century AD

16:30–18:30

David Swan (Warwick) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar Series.

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Room 246 (Senate House)

Saturday 14 Institute of English Studies One-day conference 10:00–16:00 Room 349 (Senate House)

Virginia Woolf Society Conference and AGM 2018: Virginia Woolf and Her Relatives Confirmed speakers: Marion Dell on ‘Fabulous Forebears: Virginia Woolf’s Ancestors’ Philip Carter, IHR, on ‘The Stephens in St Ives: Leslie and Virginia, At Work and At Play’ Maggie Humm: ‘Relational Aesthetics: Virginia Woolf’s Artistic Family and Friends’ £30 | £25 advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Monday 16 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

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‘Not the only shells he encountered’: War Disabled Poultry Farmers after the First World War Emily Bartlett (Kent) After the First World War, servicemen returned home physically altered, with permanently scarred senses, bodies, and minds. In the public sphere, charities and government ministries dealt with their economic and medical needs with varying degrees of success; in the privacy of homes, families and friends endured their loved one’s pain, disorientation, and distress. The Disability History Seminar Series will commemorate these living memorials to the aftermath of war in 2018.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Authors and the Value of Serial Publication at the End of the Nineteenth Century Andrew Nash (IES) This talk will discuss the market for serial fiction in newspapers and periodicals in the late nineteenth century in the context of the economics of authorship. The expansion of the serial market in 1870s and 1880s coincided with the emergence of the professional literary agent, and, in 1883, the founding of the Society of Authors. By assessing the careers of a representative sample of writers, this talk will explore the value of the serial market to authors of the period and sketch out some of the contractual arrangements under which they worked.

This event is part of the Open University History of Books and Reading (HOBAR) Seminar Series.

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

‘Les derniers venus sont aujourd’hui les premiers’: English Prints Collections in Eighteenth-Century Paris Alice Otazzi (Università degli Studi di Torino) This talk aims to investigate the (re)discovery of English art in eighteenth-century Paris. In a comparative approach that will involve both literature and philosophy, the principal promoters of Anglomania will be discussed, highlighting the interaction between general culture and artistic outcomes. She will examine the presence of English works of art, predominantly prints, that dominated the Parisian scene during the 70s and 80s. Undertaking this investigation allows the outlining of English artists who were collected in France, bringing to light names nowadays almost unknown. Studying collections both private (Marquis de Beringhen, Marquis de Paulmy, Duc de Richelieu, Princesse de Lamballe) and royal (Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette), it is possible to understand the reasons behind this practice of collecting and its evolution during the eighteenth century. At the beginning of the century, English prints were collected because of their specific technique, mezzotint, or, later, crayon manner, and in the second half of the eighteenth century for the name of the artist or the subject represented. Finally, some post-mortem inventories hold information on the display of these prints, enabling a deeper analysis of the collection of English prints in Paris.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 17 Institute of Historical Research

The Royal Anglo-Saxon Burials of Winchester

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Barbara Yorke (Winchester) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

19:00–20:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Wednesday 18 Institute of Historical Research Seminar 12:45–14:00 LG24, Keppel Street Building, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Itching to Serve: Entomology, Infection, and the Experimental Citizen in Wartime Britain, 1939–45 Dave Saunders (QMUL) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Freedom’s Silence

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Mónica Brito Vieira (York) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

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Neutrality and Resistance: British Propaganda in Spain in the Two World Wars Marta Garcia-Cabrera (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar / Book launch 17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 18:00–20:00

Obscene Publications in Early Twentieth-Century England: Or Why was Freud’s Work Never Censored?

Philip Kuhn This event is part of the Psychoanalysis and History Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Rights of the Roma: The Struggle for Citizenship in Postwar Czechoslovakia Book Launch: The Rights of the Roma: The Struggle for Citizenship in Postwar Czechoslovakia by Celia Donert (Liverpool) Discussant: Michael Stewart (UCL, Anthropology) The Rights of the Roma writes Romani struggles for citizenship into the history of human rights in socialist and post-socialist Eastern Europe. If Roma have typically appeared in human rights narratives as victims, Celia Donert here draws on extensive original research in Czech and Slovak archives, sociological and ethnographic studies, and oral histories to foreground Romani activists as subjects and actors. Through a vivid social and political history of Roma in Czechoslovakia, she provides a new interpretation of the history of human rights by highlighting the role of Socialist regimes in constructing social citizenship in postwar Eastern Europe. The post-socialist human rights movement did not spring from the dissident movements of the 1970s, but rather emerged in response to the collapse of socialist citizenship after 1989. A timely study as Europe faces a major refugee crisis, which raises questions about the historical roots of nationalist and xenophobic attitudes towards non-citizens.

This event is part of the Rethinking Modern Europe Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

From Vienna to London: Pictures in the Post by Gerti Deutsch Amanda Hopkinson (London) Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies Seminar Free advance registration required jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Room 243 (Senate House)

Thursday 19 Institute of Historical Research

Travel and Memory in the Early Modern Anabaptist Diaspora

Seminar

Kat Hill (Birkbeck)

17:30–19:30

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) The Warburg Institute

Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry, and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 21.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

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British Association for Canadian Studies Annual Conference 2018 – A Century Later: Memory, Remembrance, and Change

Opening lecture (19 April)

Professor Margaret MacMillan will give the keynote address at the British Association for Canadian Studies annual conference hosted by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Professor MacMillan is Professor of History at the University of Toronto, the Xerox Foundation Distinguished Scholar at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Munk School of Global Affairs. Her research interests include the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and international relations of the twentieth century. Her most recent book is The Uses and Abuses of History (2008). Other books include Women of the Raj; Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World (2002); Nixon in China: The Week that Changed the World (2006); and three edited volumes, Canada and NATO: Uneasy Past, Uncertain Future; The Uneasy Century: International Relations 1900–1990; and Parties Long Estranged: Canada and Australia in the Twentieth Century.

Fee applicable advance registration required bart.zielinski@kcl.ac.uk

18:00 Canada House Three-day conference continues 20 April: 09:30–17:30 21 April: 09:30–16:30 Chancellor’s Hall (Senate House)

Institute of Historical Research

Social History without People: Capturing the Voices of Welsh Jewry

Seminar

Cai Parry-Jones (Royal Horticultural Society) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

18:00–19:30 IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

Friday 20 The Warburg Institute

The Book as World and the World as Book

Workshop

Alberto Manguel (Director, National Library of Argentina), José Emilio Burucúa (Universidad de San Martín), Roberto Casazza (National Library of Argentina), Bill Sherman (Director, Warburg Institute).

This event is co-sponsored by the Cervantes Institute.

Free advance registration required warburg@sas.ac.uk

10:00–18:00 Warburg Institute

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

The Observation of Skin in the Ancient World: The Case of Mesopotamian Medicine Francesca Minen (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar Series.

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Saturday 21 Institute of Historical Research

The Extracurricular Economy in Early Modern England

Seminar

John Gallagher (Leeds) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

14:00–16:00 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

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Monday 23 Institute of Historical Research

Academic Duty and Communal Obligation Revisited

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Geoffrey Alderman (IHR) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR North American History Room (Senate House)

Tuesday 24 Institute of Historical Research

Bram Vannieuwenhuyze (Amsterdam)

Seminar

This event is part of the Digital History Seminar Series.

17:15–19:15

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar 17:15–19:15 IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

From Sailors’ Chests to Sailors’ Homes: Finnish Seamen and Domesticity in the Early Twentieth Century Laika Nevalainen (European University Institute) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

Gender, Class, Religion and Life-Cycle: Early Medieval Connections

Seminar IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

Jinty Nelson (KCL) Religious lives in the early medieval period, whether in Francia, Anglo-Saxon England, or the Holy Land, were strongly conditioned by gender and social status and the effects of both on life-cycle. By bringing to bear comparative perspectives, geographical and institutional, and looking at case studies of individual men and women, the speaker will highlight the importance of life-cycle(s).

Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Philosophy

What is Wrong with Implicit Race Bias and How to Fix It

Seminar

Magali Bessone (Rennes 1) This event is part of The Practical, the Political and the Ethical Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30

17:30–19:30 Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 17:30–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

Burlesque and Cabaret in Theory and Practice Clare George (IMLR/London), Ben Walters, Luke Meredith, Sarah-Louise Young This seminar, comprising performers, academics, and archivists, will examine ideas around memory, representation, and performance in contemporary burlesque and cabaret. This extends from French cabaret and chanson to German-language material (be it Berlin or Austria), music-hall and British vaudeville, and the influence of American performers.

Free advance registration required jenny.stubbs@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research

The Place of Archives in the South London Gallery Project

Seminar

Lucy Inglis (South London Gallery) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:45–19:45 IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

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UK/USJapanese Relations in the Middle East during the 1970s

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Erika Tominaga (KCL) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Wednesday 25 Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00

Aaron Meskin (Leeds) This event is part of the London Aesthetics Forum.

Free advance registration required ip@sas.ac.uk

Room 246 (Senate House) Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:00–19:00 Room 349 (Senate House)

Institute of Classical Studies T.B.L. Webster Lecture Caeciliopolis: A Greeker Rome?

Niall Slater (Emory) Every poet of comoedia palliata fabricated a Greek world for a Roman audience— but it was not always the same Greek world. Caecilius Statius, rated by some in antiquity a finer comic poet than Plautus, seems to have used a few more Greek titles and loanwords than other Roman comedians; but did these elements build a significantly different fictional space? Our brief tour of Caeciliopolis will examine if and how the characters and stories of his city differ from those of his better preserved comrades.

Niall Slater is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Latin and Greek at Emory University, where he won the Emory Williams Award for Distinguished Teaching.

His research interests include the ancient theatre and its archaeology, the ancient novel, gender studies, and recently warfare and its cultural impacts.

His books include Euripides: Alcestis (in the Bloomsbury Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy series); Spectator Politics: Metatheatre and Performance in Aristophanes (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002); Reading Petronius (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990); and Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind (Princeton University Press, 1985). His translations of various Middle and New Comedy poets are included in The Birth of Comedy: Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486–280, edited by Jeffrey Rusten (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011). He is currently editing and translating the fragments of Caecilius Statius as part of the new Loeb Library edition of Fragmentary Republican Latin. ProfessorSlater is T.B.L. Webster Fellow at the Institute of Classical Research from mid-March to early June and has previously held fellowships at the University of Konstanz; the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University; Clare Hall, Cambridge; Magdalen College, Oxford; the American Academy in Rome, Ohio State University, and the University of St. Andrews and was Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellow 2015–16.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies

Old English and Contemporary Poetic Archives

Seminar

Karl Kears (KCL) This event is part of the Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

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Thursday 26 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

The More Things Change? Labour Protection and Labour Migration under Trade Agreements in a Post-Brexit and Trump Era

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Joo-Cheong Tham (Melbourne Law School; IALS Visiting Fellow) Professor Joo-Cheong Tham, professor at Melbourne Law School and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, studies labour law and public law with a focus on the regulation of precarious work and political finance law.

He has also undertaken considerable research into counter-terrorism laws. His publications include Money and Politics: The Democracy We Can’t Afford (University of New South Wales Press, 2010) and more than 30 book chapters and articles.

He has given evidence to parliamentary inquiries into labour migration, terrorism laws, and political finance laws, and has written key reports for the New South Wales Electoral Commission on the regulation of political finance and lobbying.

Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

12:30–13:30 IALS, Charles Clore House

The Warburg Institute Workshop

Alberto Manguel (Director, National Library of Argentina) Free advance registration required warburg@sas.ac.uk

14:00–18:00 Warburg Institute Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30

Series: Epigraphy, Archaeology and Community in the Roman Empire Wim de Clercq (Ghent)

Room 349 (Senate House)

This event is part of the ICS Ancient History Seminar Series.

Free valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute

Early Modern Town Plans and Views of Vienna and Their Importance in an International Context

Lecture 17:00–19:00 Warburg Institute

Ferdinand Opll (Vienna) Free tony@tonycampbell.info

Institute of Modern Languages Research

English Goethe Society Lecture: Wilhelm Müller’s ‘Die Winterreise’ and its Literary Afterlife

Lecture

Joanna Neilly (Oxford) Free advance registration required jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:00 Room 243 (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Luke Blaxill (Cambridge) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

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Translating Rights: Indigenous Language Policy as Practice in Hispanicised Latin America

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Rosaleen Howard (Newcastle) Professor Rosaleen Howard is Chair of Hispanic Studies at Newcastle University.

She joined the School of Modern Languages there from the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Liverpool in July 2005 and works on the anthropology and sociolinguistics of the Andes. Her research is based on field work in areas where both Spanish and Quechua are spoken (Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia). She has published widely on Quechua oral history; anthropological approaches to the study of language contact, especially translation issues; language politics and cultural identity in the Andes; and intercultural education policy for indigenous peoples.

Free advance registration required jo.bradley@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Room G21A (Senate House)

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Readings in Neoplatonic Scholarship

Seminar

Part of a series of readings of seminal texts by Damascius, Olympiodorus, Porphyry, and Proclus and an ongoing exchange that includes Harold Tarrant, Dilwyn Knox, and Peter Singer, among many other regular and occasional contributors. For details, see page 21.

Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 Warburg Institute

Institute of English Studies

‘You’re sure you saw me?’: How Irish Theatre Remembers

Seminar

Emilie Pine (UCD) This event is part of the Irish Studies Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

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

Postgraduate Panel

Seminar

This event is part of the London Theatre Seminar Series.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:30–20:00 Gordon Room, G34 (Senate House) Senate House Library

BFI Britain on Film: LGBT Britain

Film screening

Britain’s LGBT history is the inspiring subject of this Britain on Film on Tour programme. With films spanning 1909 to 1994, it documents a century in which homosexuality went from crime to Pride via decades of profoundly courageous activism and the shifting attitudes to LGBT people and their rights across the board throughout a time of explosive social change. Including some of the earliest known representations of LGBT people on screen, the collection includes a 1925 film on ‘Cutie Cattaro’, a boxer more interested in flirting than fighting, and a drag queen, ‘Percy’, competing for a prize in 1909. Exploring the struggles and identity politics of the ‘80s and ‘90s, the films cover early AIDS victims recounting their painful experiences; the formation of the Gay Black Group, an early instance of intersectional thinking; and the 1980 fight for transgender rights in the European Court. This is a moving and fascinating collection, a social document encompassing both the collective public fight for basic rights and equality and more personal, intimate, and psychological ones: the shedding of shame and the ability to be open about one’s most private self; the claiming of the right to love and to say publicly, proudly: this is who I am. The film will be introduced by BFI curator Simon McCallum.

Free advance registration required shl.whatson@london.ac.uk

19:00–21:00 Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room (Senate House Library)

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Friday 27 Institute of Modern Languages Research

Contemporary Jewish Women’s Writing in Germany and Austria – A ‘Minor’ Literature?

Workshop

This one-day workshop aims to probe whether the label and concept of a ‘minor literature’ (Deleuze/Guattari, 1975) can be usefully applied to contemporary writing by female Jewish authors in Germany and Austria. The workshop will explore what the term ‘minor’ could mean and contribute when discussing a broad range of contemporary authors and their aesthetics and writing practices, images of the self/the other inside and outside of their works, forms of community building, and their relationship with the broader literary field (i.e. the literary market). This event is organised by the Open World Research Initiative CrossLanguage Dynamics translingual strand. It is generously supported by the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing (CCWW).

Free advance registration required jo.bradley@sas.ac.uk

10:00–20:00 Room 243 (Senate House)

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

Epicurus on the truth of all perceptions: a ‘phenomenal’ interpretation Cristòbal Zarzar (Cambridge) This event is part of the ICS Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar Series.

Free postgradwip@gmail.com

Institute of English Studies

Finnegans Wake Reading Group

Seminar

This reading group has been running regularly since 2007. It studies James Joyce’s final work, Finnegans Wake, at a close level of detail. Discussion is focused on the text and attention is also paid to Joyce’s manuscripts (copies of which are displayed on a screen). The group hosts a blog to record its discussions.

Free advance registration required iesevents@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00 Room 234 (Senate House)

Monday 30 Institute of Historical Research Seminar

Ethan Katz (Cincinnati) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:15–19:15 IHR North American History Room (Senate House) Institute of Historical Research

The Language Question under Napoleon

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Roundtable discussion Stewart McCain (St Mary's, Twickenham) Free advance registration required ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

17:30–19:30 IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

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Seminar series

Seminar series 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: 1, 8, 22 Feb; 1, 8, 15, 22 Mar; 26 Apr

Ancient Literature Mondays at 17.00–19.00 Dates: 5, 19, 26 Feb; 5, 12 Mar

Ancient Philosophy Mondays at 16.30–18.30 Dates: 12, 26 Feb; 12, 26 Mar

Classical Archaeology Wednesdays at 16.30–18.30 Dates: 28 Feb; 7, 14 Mar

Fellows' Seminar Wednesdays at 13.00–14.00

Book Collecting Seminar Tuesdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 9 Feb; 13 Mar; 8 Apr

Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar Fridays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 2 Feb; 2 Mar; 6 Apr

Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Wednesdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 28 Feb; 28 Mar; 25 Apr

Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar (EMPHASIS) Once a month on Saturdays at 14:00–16:00 Dates: 3 Feb; 7 Apr

Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group Second Wednesday of the month at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 14 Feb; 7 Mar; 11 Apr

Finnegans Wake Research Seminar The last Friday of the month at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 23 Feb; 23 Mar; 27 Apr

Irish Studies Seminar Thursdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 15 Feb; 15 Mar; 26 Apr

Literary London Reading Group The second Tuesday of the month at 18:00–20:00

Dates: 14, 21, 28 Feb; 14 Mar

Dates: 13 Mar; 10 Apr

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London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS)

Wednesdays at 15.30–17.30 Dates: 21 Feb; 21 Mar

Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Fridays at 16.30–18.30 Dates: 2, 9, 16, 23 Feb; 2, 9, 16, 23 Mar; 13, 20, 27 Apr

Once a month on Wednesdays at 17:30–19:30 Dates: 7 Feb; 14 Mar

London Shakespeare Seminar Tuesdays at 17:00–19:00 Dates: 12 Feb; 5 Mar

Institute of English Studies

Media History Seminar

Contact: ies@sas.ac.uk

18:00–20:00

London Beckett Seminar

Dates: 8 Feb; 12 Mar

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Medieval Manuscripts Seminar

Collecting and Display

Tuesdays at 17:30–19:15

Fortnightly on Mondays at 18:00

Dates: 6 Feb; 13 Mar

Dates: 12 Feb; 5 Mar; 16 Apr

Modernism Seminar

Colonial/Postcolonial New researchers’ Workshop

Saturdays at 11:00–13:00

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15

Dates: 3 Feb; 3 Mar

Dates: 5, 19 Feb; 5 Mar

Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar

Comparative Histories of Asia

Fridays at 17:30–19:30

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 12:30

Date: 23 Feb

Dates: 7, 21 Feb; 7 Mar

London Theatre Seminar

Contemporary British History

The first Thursday of the month at 18:30–20:00

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:00

Dates: 1 Feb; 1 Mar

Dates: 14, 28 Feb; 14 Mar; 18 Apr

London–Paris Romanticism Seminar

Conversations and Disputations

Once a month on Fridays at 17:30–19:30

Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:30

Dates: 16 Feb; 16 Mar

Dates: 2, 16 Feb; 2, 16 Mar

Open University History of Books and Reading (HOBAR) Seminar

Crusades and the Latin East

Mondays at 17:30–19:00

Dates: 19 Feb; 5 Mar

Dates: 12 Feb; 19, 26 Mar; 9, 16 Apr

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15

Digital History

Institute of Historical Research

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

Contact: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Dates: 6, 20 Feb; 6 Mar; 24 Apr

Archives and Society Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:45 Dates: 6 Feb; 6 Mar; 24 Apr

British History in the Seventeenth Century Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15 Dates: 1, 15 Feb; 1, 15 Mar

British History in the Long Eighteenth Century Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15 Dates: 7, 21 Feb; 7 Mar

British Maritime History Once a month on a Tuesday at 17:15 Dates: 20 Feb; 24 Apr

Christian Missions in Global History Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30 Dates: 20 Feb; 6 Mar

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Seminar series

Disability History Seminar First Monday of every month at 17:15 Dates: 12 Mar; 16 Apr

Earlier Middle Ages Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:30 Dates: 7, 21 Feb; 7, 14 Mar

Early Modern Material Cultures Weekly on Wednesdays at 17:15 Dates: 18, 25 Apr

Economic and Social History of the Early Modern World Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15 Dates: 9, 23 Feb; 9 Mar

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Seminar series European History 1150–1550

History of Sexuality Seminar

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30

Once a month on Tuesdays at 17:15

Dates: 8, 22 Feb; 8 Mar

Dates: 13 Feb; 13 Mar

European History 1500–1800

Imperial and World History

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15

Dates: 5, 19 Feb; 5 Mar

Dates: 12, 26 Feb; 12 Mar

Film History

International History

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 18:00

Dates: 1, 15 Feb; 1, 15 Mar

Dates: 6, 15, 20 Feb; 6 Mar; 24 Apr

Food History Seminar

Interdisciplinary Seminar on Medievalism

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30

Once a month on Wednesdays at 17:30

Dates: 1, 15 Feb; 1, 15 Mar

Dates: 7 Feb; 7 Mar

Gender and History in the Americas

Jewish History

First Monday of the month at 17:15

Once a month on Mondays at 17:15

Dates: 12 Feb; 12 Mar; 16 Apr

Dates: 5 Feb; 5 Mar; 23, 30 Apr

History Lab Seminar

Late Medieval Seminar

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30

Weekly on Fridays at 17:30

Dates: 1, 15 Feb; 1, 15 Mar

Dates: 2, 9, 16, 23 Feb; 2, 9, 16 Mar

History of Education

Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy

First Thursday of every month at 17:30

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15

Dates: 1 Feb; 1 Mar

Dates: 1, 15 Feb; 1, 15 Mar

History of Gardens and Landscapes

Latin American History

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 18:00

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30

Dates: 8, 22 Feb; 8, 22 Mar

Dates: 13, 27 Feb; 13, 20 Mar

History of Libraries

Life–Cycles

Once a month on Tuesdays at 17:30

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

Dates: 6 Feb; 6 Mar

Dates: 6, 20 Feb; 6 Mar; 24 Apr

History of Liturgy

Locality and Region

Once a month on Mondays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

Dates: 5 Feb; 5 Mar

Dates: 13, 27 Feb; 13 Mar; 17 Apr

History of Political Ideas

London Group of Historical Geographers

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

Dates: 14, 28 Feb; 14 Mar; 18 Apr

Dates: 13, 27 Feb; 13 Mar

History of Political Ideas / Early Career Seminar

London Society for Medieval Studies

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 19:00

Dates: 7, 21 Feb; 7, 21 Mar

Dates: 13, 27 Feb; 13 Mar; 17 Apr

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Low Countries History

Oral History

Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15

First Thursday of every month at 18:00

Dates: 2, 16 Feb; 2, 16 Mar

Dates: 15 Feb; 15 Mar; 19 Apr

Marxism in Culture

Parliaments, Politics and People

Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:30

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15

Dates: 9, 23 Feb; 9 Mar

Dates: 13, 27 Feb; 13 Mar

Media History

Philosophy of History

Once a month on Thursdays at 18:00

Fortnightly on Thursday at 17:30

Dates: 8 Feb; 12 Mar

Dates: 8, 22 Feb; 8 Mar

Medieval and Tudor London

Psychoanalysis and History

Weekly on Thursdays at 17:15

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30

Dates: 26 Apr

Dates: 14 Feb; 14 Mar; 18 Apr

Metropolitan History

Public History Seminar

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30

Dates: 7, 21 Feb; 7 Mar

Dates: 28 Feb; 15 Mar

Military History

Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600–1900

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 13, 27 Feb; 13 Mar

Modern British History Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15 Dates: 8, 22 Feb; 8 Mar; 26 Apr

Modern French History Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30 Dates: 12 Feb; 12 Mar; 30 Apr

Modern German History Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 7 Feb; 7, 15 Mar

Modern Italian History Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 7, 12 Feb; 7 Mar

Modern Religious History Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15 Dates: 28 Feb; 14 Mar

North American History Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 8, 22 Feb; 8 Mar

Seminar series

Seminar series

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 1, 15 Feb; 1, 15 Mar

Religious History of Britain 1500–1800 Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 Dates: 6, 20 Feb; 6 Mar

Rethinking Modern Europe Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Dates: 14, 28 Feb; 7, 16 Mar; 18 Apr

Socialist History Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30 Dates: 5, 19 Feb; 5 Mar

Society, Culture and Belief, 1500–1800 Once a month on Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 22 Feb; 8 Mar; 19 Apr

Sport and Leisure History Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 12, 26 Feb; 12 Mar

Studies of Home First Wednesday of every month at 17:30 Dates: 7 Feb; 7 Mar

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Seminar series Transport and Mobility History

Institute of Philosophy

Once a month on a Thursday at 17:30

Contact: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Dates: 8 Feb; 8 Mar

Tudor and Stuart History Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:15 Dates: 5, 19 Feb; 5 Mar

Voluntary Action History Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30 Dates: 12, 26 Feb; 12 Mar

War, Society and Culture Once a month on Wednesdays at 17:15 Dates: 14 Feb; 14 Mar; 18 Apr

Women's History Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15

Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30–19:30 Dates: 13, 27 Feb; 13 Mar

London Aesthetics Forum Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 16:00–18:00 Dates: 21 Feb; 7 Mar; 25 Apr

The Practical, the Political and the Ethical Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17.30–19.30 Dates: 6, 20 Feb; 6, 20 Mar; 24 Apr

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

Dates: 9, 23 Feb; 9 Mar

Director’s Seminar

Institute of Latin American Studies

Occasional Thursdays at 17:30–19:30

Contact: ilas@sas.ac.uk Latin American Anthropology All from 17:30–19:30

Dates: 1 Feb; 8 Mar; 12 Apr

Editing Byzantine Texts Occasional Fridays at 15.45–17.45 Dates: 2, 9, 16, 23 Feb; 2, 9, 16, 23 Mar

Dates: 1, 15 Feb; 1, 15 Mar; 12, 26 Apr

From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Commedia

London Andean Studies

Mondays at 18:30–19:50

Wednesdays at 17:30–19:30

Dates: 5, 12 Feb; 5, 12, 19, 26 Mar

Date: 21 Feb

Maps and Society

LAGLOBAL

Occasional Thursdays at 17:30–19:30

Wednesdays at 17:30–19:30

Dates: 15 Feb; 15 Mar; 26 Apr

Date: 7 Feb; 7 Mar

Iamblichus Seminar

Institute of Modern Languages Research Contact: johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk German Philosophy: Music and Marxism Mondays at 16:00–18:00 Dates: 5 Feb; 5 Mar; 9 Apr

Tuesdays at 17.45–19.20 Dates: 6, 13 Feb

Neoplatonic Studies Group Thursdays at 17:30–19:30 Dates: 1, 8, 15, 22 Feb; 1, 8, 15, 22 Mar; 5, 12, 19, 26 Apr

New Dialogues in Art History Occasional Wednesdays at 16.00–17.00 Date: 28 Feb

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The School of Advanced Study draws on its research and teaching expertise to provide a programme of discipline-specific, generic and online research training to support the development of the scholars of tomorrow.

The School’s programme of personal development and transferable skills training is available in the form of weekly workshops commencing in the autumn.

This general training is complemented by a set of research methodologies courses and specific training in the software and management information tools required to enable students to complete their research effectively.

Face-to-face training Making the most of the expertise available in the School and the University of London, the institutes between them also provide well-established discipline-specific research training in core humanities disciplines.

Training in aspects of history, for instance, is extensive, notably in the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), which offers a comprehensive programme of short courses in research skills for historians. Taking advantage of the unparalleled availability of historical expertise in the University of London and the wealth of archival materials in and around the capital, the Institute’s long-established and highly successful courses are widely recognised as the best means of developing and extending both essential and more specialised research skills. The IHR training programme is primarily aimed at postgraduate historians, but also welcomes established historians and independent researchers and writers.

Further historical skills courses run by the Warburg Institute include classes in medieval and Renaissance Latin for historians and a programme of training in resources and techniques (jointly with the University of Warwick), which provides specialist research training for doctoral students working on Renaissance and early modern subjects in a range of disciplines.

The London Palaeography Summer School run by the Institute of English Studies provides training in that key skill.

Extensive training for students of cultures and literatures is offered by the Institute of Modern Languages Research, whose well-established and popular programme, comprising a series of Saturday workshops, is offered to any postgraduate student working in modern languages or a related discipline (for instance, film or art history).

Most of the School’s training is available to postgraduate students across the UK, much of it free of charge. Details of all the research training courses provided are available at our website: sas.ac.uk/supportresearch/research-training.

Online research training In addition to the face-to-face training we offer, the School’s Postgraduate Online Research Training (PORT) website provides free online resources including tutorials, handbooks and multimedia. PORT complements postgraduate study, providing training packages that can be accessed anywhere, at any time, 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 twenty-first-century researchers, PORT offers specific skills-based programmes as well as more general guidance. For further information, please visit port.sas.ac.uk.

For a printed copy of our research training handbook or for further information, please contact us: E: sas.info@sas.ac.uk P: +44 (0)20 7862 8823

For further details on the training sessions listed here, or to register, please visit sas.ac.uk/research-training.

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Research training School of Advanced Study

Getting Research Published

Contact: kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

14:00–16:00 | Room 246 (Senate House)

Conducting Interviews: Oral History 14:00–16:00 | Room 243 (Senate House) Date: 1 Mar Session Leader: Sue Onslow (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, SAS) This session offers guidance and practical advice on how to conduct and transcribe interviews. The starting point will be group interviewing and witness seminars. The session will consider issues around objectivity and subjectivity; how to determine the usefulness of information gathered, and to make the most effective use of the information for the research project; how to distinguish between fact and opinion; and the place of secondary sources. The session will look at sensitivity and cultural awareness, and address issues of ethical interviewing.

Free advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Research Software: EndNote I and II 14:00–16:00 | IHR Research Training Room, N318 (Senate House) Dates: 15 and 22 Feb Workshop Leader: Simon Trafford (Institute of Historical Research, SAS) This two-part workshop is ‘hands-on’; aimed principally at complete beginners, it covers the basics and some more advanced features. The first session introduces the software package and gives practice in sorting, searching, and entering and editing references.

More advanced features covered include the use of accents, predefined styles, customising the program, downloading references from internet sources, importing images, and linking with other files. In the second session (26 October, see below), students create and manipulate their own bibliographical database and learn how EndNote integrates with MS Word.

Familiarity with basic word-processing will be assumed.

The session is suitable both for beginners and those already familiar with EndNote.

Free advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

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Date: 9 Mar Session Leader: Jonathan Newbury (Institute of Historical Research, SAS) 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.

Free advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Introduction to Fieldwork 14:00–16:00 | Room 243 (Senate House) Date: 12 Apr Session Leader: Naomi Wells (Institute of Modern Languages Research, SAS) Fieldwork involves a variety of well-defined methods, depending on the discipline: archival research, informal interviews, surveys, participant observation and so on. The quality of results obtained from fieldwork depends on the data gathered, and preparation for a period of fieldwork is essential. This session concentrates not on issues of safety or risk, but on the importance of researchers’ openness to new ideas and unfamiliar customs, and how to understand the forces of culture operating and the ways they modify the lives of the people and things under study.

Free advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Introduction to Public Engagement 14:00–16:00 | Room 243 (Senate House) Date: 22 Mar Session Leader: Michael Eades (SAS) Public engagement describes the many ways in which research can be shared with non-academic audiences.

This session will provide 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. Increasingly a part of the portfolio expected from an academic, engagement activity can be both challenging and fun. This session will offer an introduction to the key skills involved and how they can feed into everything from teaching to funding applications. It will also outline some opportunities to get involved in public engagement activity within the School of Advanced Study.

Free advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

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Research training

Research training Organising Successful Academic Events

Teaching Skills for the PhD Student

14:00–16:00 | Room 234 (Senate House)

14:00–16:00 | Room 243 (Senate House)

Date: 2 Feb

Date: 15 Mar

Session Leaders: Dominic Glynn (Institute of Modern Languages Research, SAS) and James Hadley (Trinity College Dublin) Organising an academic event can offer students careerchanging opportunities and be rewarding and enjoyable.

This session runs through the key steps to organising a successful academic event. We will discuss the different event types, public engagement, impact, timing, venues, audiences, speakers, finance, collaborations, technical issues, hospitality, programming, the night before, the day itself, post-event issues and potential pitfalls.

Free advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Session Leader: Richard Freeman (Institute of Education, University College London) This session will explore the issues for the doctoral student engaged in teaching seminars or classes in their own department or external institution. It will examine the skills that are necessary and identify strategies for the researcher as teacher: how to manage research alongside teaching, planning a class, managing assessment, identifying and dealing with student needs, organising material and keeping records, team-teaching and moving to the first academic position.

Free advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Public Speaking

The PhD Viva

14:00–16:00 | Room 246 (Senate House)

14:30–16:30 | Room 243 (Senate House)

Date: 29 Mar

Date: 1 Feb

Session Leader: Naomi Paxton (Vote 100 Exhibition Project) 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.

This session will help you consider how to improve all aspects of the public delivery of your research message to ensure maximum impact. Please wear or bring clothing and footwear that does not restrict easy movement.

Free advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Session Leader: Philip Murphy (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, SAS) and Catherine Davies (Institute of Modern Languages, SAS) The session is intended to help PhD students prepare for the viva examination. It will look at a range of issues including choosing the external examiners and the roles and strategies of the student, the supervisors and the examiners. It will review the regulations and guidelines for examiners and candidates. It will also discuss practical questions surrounding the examination.

Free advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

SAS PhD Research Seminar 14:30–16:30 | Room 246 (Senate House)

Working with Images in Your Research

Date: 6 Mar

14:30–15:30 | Room 243 (Senate House)

Tessa Morrison (Institute of Modern Languages Research, SAS), Daniela Zanini A regular, interdisciplinary seminar for PhD research students at the School of Advanced Study to encourage student contact and academic debate. All SAS PhD students are strongly encouraged to attend.

Free advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Date: 7 Mar Session leaders: Nessa Malone and Rembrandt Duits (Warburg Institute, SAS) This session will explore practical ways of accessing and using images in your research and publications, exploring tools for finding images, print and electronic resources, and copyright, licensing and reproduction. The workshop will include use of the Warburg Institute’s photographic collections, library collections and digital and electronic resource collections.

Free advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

For further details on the training sessions listed here, or to register, please visit sas.ac.uk/research-training.

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Research training Zotero

IALS PhD Masterclass: 'Research Presentation'

14:00–16:00 | IHR Research Training Room, N318 (Senate House)

14:00–15:15 | IALS, Charles Clore House

Date: 5 Apr

A PhD student will give a presentation on their research question, approach/methodology, and some preliminary findings.

The IALS PhD Masterclass is an opportunity to discuss PhD research with colleagues, with expert input from senior academics experienced in PhD research.

Free advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Session Leader: Simon Trafford (Institute of Historical Research, SAS) Zotero is a widely used free and open-source tool for compiling and managing bibliographies. This training session provides a basic introduction to the software and explains how to input references, create reading lists and add citations to written work. It will be offered once in the autumn and once in the spring term.

Free advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Contact: ials.events@sas.ac.uk How to Get a PhD in Law: The PhD Journey: Supervision, Research Ethics and Preparing Yourself for Upgrade and Vivas 10:00–16:30 | IALS, Charles Clore House Date: 2 Mar The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies welcomes postgraduate research students from across the UK to this specially tailored day of presentations, library tours, and networking opportunities. Sessions will include: The PhD journey: The staging posts of your PhD and support for research students (Diamond Ashiagbor, IALS) Handling the supervision relationship (Avrom Sherr, IALS) Preparing for the Ethics Committee (Avrom Sherr, IALS) Preparing for upgrade viva and the PhD viva (Natasa Mavronicola, Birmingham) The foreign, international and comparative law research collections at IALS Library (Hester Swift, IALS Library) A panel of research students who have completed or nearly completed their PhDs will discuss how they approached researching their theses and the PhD journey.

An optional tour of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Library led by senior library staff A further training day will take place on 11 May 2018: ‘How to get a PhD in Law: Researching, Disseminating, and Publishing in the Digital World’. £100 | £75 advance registration required ials.events@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Contact: ihr.training@sas.ac.uk Creating and Maintaining an Online Academic Profile 14:00–17:00 | IHR Research Training Room, N318 (Senate House) Date: 6 Feb This workshop provides an overview and step-bystep guide to creating an online research profile using Wordpress.

The workshop is designed for postgraduates with little or no knowledge of Wordpress, but it is also suitable for those with some knowledge who would like advice on writing blog posts and developing an online presence.

Free advance registration required ihr.training@sas.ac.uk ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Databases for Historians (2) 10:30–17:00 | IHR Research Training Room, N318 (Senate House) Dates: 10–13 Apr The aim of this course is to provide participants with an introduction to database techniques appropriate for historical research, with a focus on the concepts of good database design and the creation of high-quality historical data. The course is taught through a mixture of formal lectures and ‘hands-on’ practical classes that provide practical guidance on the use of commercially available database software packages. The module covers a broad range of skills and techniques, including data manipulation (searching, sorting, and editing records), modelling historical data for computer-based analysis, methods of data collection and data entry, and principles of coding. The remainder of the course considers the general presentation and publication of historical research findings in terms of the design and production of tables, charts, basic figures, and associated graphics. The module does not require any previous specialist knowledge of computing or training in mathematics, though a working familiarity with Microsoft Windows is necessary and it would be advantageous for School of Advanced Study

participants to take the IHR’s free online course Designing Databases for Historical Research in advance of the start.

The course is open to postgraduates, academics, and all who are interested in using databases to organise or analyse historical data. Places are strictly limited and early application is strongly recommended. £265 SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR research training courses. Advance registration required ihr.training@sas.ac.uk.

Explanatory Paradigms 17:30–19:00 | IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Dates: 25 Apr – 27 Jun The aim of this course is to provide an outline of some of the main debates around historical usage of key concepts such as class, gender, race, power, space, memory, narrative, and archive since the 1960s. It will, in other words, provide a kind of pre-history of our contemporary uses of such terms and enable students to see how they developed out of arguments and historical interpretation. At the same time, it will introduce students to a series of seminal texts. So this course will be a mapping of a conceptual terrain and an intellectual journey.

In Explanatory Paradigms, three historians examine specific paradigms. John Seed considers the continuing importance of Marxism; Sally Alexander evaluates the growing salience of psychoanalysis in historical enquiry; and John Tosh assesses the claims of gender not only to uncover new subject matter, but to provide a powerful explanatory tool.

John Seed returns to consider some of the theoretical implications of narrative, through the work of Paul Ricoeur.

A concluding session will discuss how these theoretical positions have influenced our own scholarly work.

The course is open to postgraduates and all who are interested in exploring historical theory. £180 SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR research training courses. Advance registration required ihr.training@sas.ac.uk.

Research training

Research training Historical Research on the Internet (2) 10:30–17:00 | IHR Research Training Room, N318 (Senate House) Date: 1 Mar This intensive one-day workshop introduces the principal online resources available to historical researchers and shows how to make best use of them in pursuit of primary sources and secondary literature. The tools available online to the historical researcher are immensely diverse and constantly expanding. Internet resources have become an integral feature of many parts of the process of research for most historians: online bibliographies and library catalogues have made the gathering of secondary literature far easier, and the growing mass of digitised primary source material has not only greatly increased ease of access, but opened up the evidence to new and very powerful types of computer-assisted analysis. Topics covered will include: search techniques (Booleans, wildcards, and choosing search terms); search engines (making the best use of Google and non-specialist tools); reference tools; secondary sources (bibliographies, library catalogues, and accessing full text online); primary sources (locating traditional archival sources and digital/digitised sources); debate, discussion and publication online; and database deposition and data archives. The course covers British, European, and world history from the Romans to the present, but with an emphasis on resources in English. Computers will be provided and there is no need to bring your own laptop. £100 SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR research training courses. Advance registration required ihr.training@sas.ac.uk.

Methods and Sources for Historical Research (2) 10:30–16:30 | IHR Date: 16–20 Apr Original research on primary sources lies at the heart of the historian’s enterprise, yet the techniques necessary to locate and obtain archival materials are rarely taught and can be hard to acquire. This course aims to equip historical researchers with the skills they will need to find and gain access to all the primary source materials they require for their projects. The course is primarily aimed at those engaged in research degrees in history or related disciplines, but is open to all researchers wishing to expand their skills and knowledge in original source materials. Over the course of a week (Monday-Friday), participants will learn, through an intensive programme of lectures and visits to repositories in and around London, how to combine online tools and traditional archival search techniques to locate and obtain evidence. Institutions visited will include the British Library, the National Archives, a number of other major national repositories, and a wide range of smaller and more specialised archives. £265 SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR research training courses. Advance registration required ihr.training@sas.ac.uk.

For further details on the training sessions listed here, or to register, please visit sas.ac.uk/research-training.

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Research training Oral History Spring School 09:00–17:00 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Date: 19–21 Apr The Oral History Spring School covers the theory and practice of oral history in depth, with the help of leading UK oral historians. To be able to take advantage of the course students should have some prior experience in recording and writing, and will be asked to complete readings in advance, available through a dedicated online website.

Anyone new to oral history should consider enrolling on either the IHR's An Introduction to Oral History or the Oral History Society's basic training course.

The three day course will also include a visit to a central London museum where oral history is incorporated into exhibitions.

Tutors on the 2018 course may include: Joanna Bornat (Open University), Jenny Harding (London Metropolitan), Graham Smith (RHUL), Paul Thompson (Essex), Shelley Trower (Roehampton) Fee applicable advance registration required ihr.training@sas.ac.uk.

Visual Sources for Historians 10:30–17:00 | IHR and various

Institute of Latin American Studies Contact: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk Conducting Fieldwork in Latin America 10:00–17:00 | Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House) Date: 16 Feb This one-day training event is for postgraduate students embarking on fieldwork in Latin America and the Caribbean. Hosted by the Institute of Latin American Studies, the event features experienced researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. The event will introduce students to a range of strategies and techniques to design and execute their future research trips effectively, prepare students for challenges they may encounter in the field, and provide them with the opportunity to discuss their plans with experienced researchers. A small charge of £10 will cover the cost of catering. £10 advance registration required olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

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

Date: 27 Feb – 26 Mar This course considers visual sources as evidence in historical practice and provides an introduction to understanding and researching material and visual culture. Drawing on diverse media from cartoons to political portraits, in still and moving images, in print and online, it suggests ways in which understanding visual sources can enhance the study of history by posing new questions and suggesting new answers to thorny research issues with material unavailable elsewhere.

An Introduction to Visual Sources for Historians takes the form of full-day sessions held over the course of five weeks (but please note the different days of the week on which sessions will be held). The sessions will normally start with a lecture, followed by a seminar discussion. After lunch each week, the group will visit a gallery or institution of relevance to the week's topic.

Fee applicable SAS students receive a 50% discount on all IHR research training courses. Advance registration required ihr.training@sas.ac.uk.

History, Ethnography and Memory 11:00–17:00 | Room 243 (Senate House) Date: 17 Mar Sessions will include: Historical methods and archives (Carlos Lopez Galviz, Lancaster) Introduction to oral history, fieldwork and collections (Michael Kandiah, KCL) Ethnography and fieldwork (Chandra Morrison, LSE) Search for Memory Traces and Markers: A ‘Memory Hunt’ in Tavistock Square (Katia Pizzi, IMLR). Guest speaker: Philip Nelson (Tavistock Square Memorial Trust) Free katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk

IMLR Graduate Forum Monthly on a Thursday at 18:00–19:30 | Room 243 (Senate House) unless marked Dates: 8 Feb; 8 Mar; 12 Apr (Room 246, Senate House) Advance registration required kremena.velinova@sas.ac.uk

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Visual and Performing Arts

The Warburg Institute

11:00–17:00 | Room 243 (Senate House)

Contact: warburg@sas.ac.uk

Research training

Research training Date: 24 Feb Sessions will include: Working with images in theory and practice (Ben Thomas, Kent) Working on photography (Theresa Mikuriya, West London) Working on Performance (Dominic Glynn, IMLR) Film theory and its applications (Michael Witt, Roehampton) Free sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Refugee Law Initiative

Arabic Philosophy Reading Class Mondays at 17:00–18:30 | The Warburg Institute Dates: 5, 12, 26 Feb; 5, 12, 19, 26 Mar Charles Burnett (Warburg) Basic reading knowledge of Arabic required. Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class.

Free advance registration required charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk

Contact: rli@sas.ac.uk

Classical Arabic Reading Class

Refugee Studies Reading Group

Selected Thursdays at 15:00–16:30 | Classroom 2, The Warburg Institute

Monthly on a Wednesday at 15:00–17:00 | Senate House (location varies) Dates: 21 Feb, Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House); 21 Mar, Bloomsbury Room, G35 (Senate House) The RLI hosts a monthly Refugee Studies Reading Group in London during the academic year. The group is for students interested in refugee law and forced migration studies to discuss important and interesting texts and to build lasting networks and links between them.

Free advance registration required rli@sas.ac.uk

Dates: 1, 8, 22 Feb; 1, 15, 22 Mar Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) The Kitāb S.ūrat al-ard. of Abū l-Qa-sim Ibn H.awqal is one of the most important texts in the canon of classical Arabic geographical and historical writing. Composed in around 378/988, it presents a description of the Muslim world as he found it in the second half of the tenth century of the Common Era, a time when the Abbasid caliphate had already fragmented and new states and polities were emerging from al-Andalus in the West to Transoxania in East. In this reading group, we shall look at the text and the way it sheds light on many aspects of the classical Arabic civilisation of the period. A moderate reading knowledge of Arabic (for example, one year at University) is necessary, but the emphasis will be on encouraging reading skills and understanding. Photocopied texts will be provided.

Free no prior registration required; for further details, please email Hugh Kennedy at hk1@soas.ac.uk.

Classical Greek Reading Class Alternate Wednesdays at 12:00–13:30 | Room 308, The Warburg Institute Dates: 14, 28 Feb; 14, 28 Mar Charles Burnett (Warburg) Please contact Charles Burnett before attending your first class.

Free advance registration required charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk

For further details on the training sessions listed here, or to register, please visit sas.ac.uk/research-training.

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Research training Editing Byzantine Texts Fridays at 15:45–17:45 | The Warburg Institute

Esoteric Traditions and Occult Thought Reading Group

Dates: 2, 9, 16, 23 Feb; 2, 9, 16, 23 Mar

Fridays at 13:00–14:15 | The Warburg Institute

The University of London seminar Editing Byzantine Texts was established in 1985 through the cooperation of Dr Joseph A. Munitiz, SJ, the Late Julian Chrysostomides, and Dr Athanasios Angelou, initially with the aim of studying Byzantine literary works, the first of which was Nicephorus Blemmydes’ Autobiography. It later developed into a working seminar on editing Byzantine texts, joined by graduate students and visiting scholars. The seminar, the only one of its kind in London, has been the focus of Byzantinists specialising in various areas, such as textual criticism, language and literature, palaeography, history and historiography, theology, and art history. The seminar always tries to reach its decisions by common consent, in a spirit of friendly cooperation and discussion, each member contributing his/her own expertise and experience. More importantly, graduate students have the opportunity to learn and practise the editorial process, from the transcription of manuscripts to the final stages of publication of critical editions and annotated translations of Byzantine texts. The seminar has produced an annotated critical edition and translation of The Letter of the Three Patriarchs to Emperor Theophilos and Related Texts (eds.

J.A. Munitiz, J. Chrysostomides, E. Harvalia-Crook, and Ch. Dendrinos [Porphyrogenitus: Camberley, 1997]) and has edited a number of texts, including two unpublished religious works by the fifteenth-century scholar Manuel Calecas. At present, an annotated critical edition and translation of the extensive Correspondence of George of Cyprus (Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory II, 1283-89) is under preparation. Members are asked to prepare a transcription of a letter or a group of letters from the principal manuscripts (Mutinensis graecus 82 and Vaticanus graecus 1085), followed by an edition with an apparatus criticus and an apparatus fontium, together with a translation and notes to the text. Their work is then presented and discussed at the seminar. So far more than 50 letters have been edited, translated and annotated.

Scholars and graduate students who are interested in Byzantine texts are welcome to participate. For further information, please contact the co-convenors, Dr Charalambos Dendrinos (Ch.Dendrinos@rhul.ac.uk) and Dr Christopher Wright.

Free advance registration required warburg@sas.ac.uk

Dates: 2, 9, 16 Feb; 2, 9, 16, 23 Mar

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Charles Burnett (Warburg), Liana Saif (Oxford) This group reads texts in Arabic and Latin, spanning the early Islamic period to the Renaissance. Translations will be provided. Please email charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk for further details before joining the group.

Free advance registration required charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk

New Dialogues in Art History Monthly during term-time on a Wednesday at 16:00–17:00 | Classroom 1, The Warburg Institute Date: 28 Feb New Dialogues in Art History is a seminar group exclusively for postgraduate students. The group was established with the goal of fostering a stronger sense of community among art history PhD students who use the Warburg Library for their research. Run by Warburg research students, sessions take place in an informal atmosphere. There are two 20-minute papers per session with a further 20 minutes for questions and roundtable discussion. This format allows speakers to receive constructive feedback from their peers. Sessions conclude with refreshments and further discussion. Research students are invited to present papers that focus on any art historical aspect, time period, or topic. The two papers presented at each session are selected in order to draw out complementary themes and thus provoke interesting discussion. Each session’s theme is advertised once the invited speakers have confirmed their participation.

The group meets monthly during term-time at The Warburg Institute. Meetings take place on the following Wednesdays during term-time at the Warburg Institute at 16.00 in Classroom 1: 24 January, 28 February, 23 May, 27 June 2018 In order to allow time for the selection process, applicants wishing to present at a specific session should submit their proposals a month in advance. As the group is ongoing, successful applicants may be offered a presentation date a few months in advance or be placed on a waitlist. Proposals may also be considered for a conference at the end of the academic year. Applicants are therefore asked to indicate their general availability when submitting a proposal.

Research students enrolled at any institution are welcome to submit a proposal. Please note, however, that invited speakers are expected to be able to readily travel to the Warburg as there is no funding for travel expenses. Please send proposals (max. 250 words) and a short bio to: NewArtDialogues@gmail.com.

Free advance registration required NewArtDialogues@gmail.com

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Global Decolonisation Workshop: The Invention and Reinvention of Decolonization 21–22 June 2018, School of Advanced Study, Senate House, London CFP deadline: 16 February 2018 The Global Decolonization Workshop is a new collaboration between the School of Advanced Study and New York University that seeks to forge a global forum for knowledge exchange in the interdisciplinary field of decolonization studies.

The series was launched this series at the University of London in Paris in July 2017 with a workshop exploring the ‘Concepts and Connections’ associated with the fields of decolonization and postcolonial studies. It will continue with a second workshop, this time in London, which will take as its theme ‘The Invention and Reinvention of Decolonization’.

Was ‘decolonization’ a European invention designed to ease the ‘White Man’s Burden’ and pave the way for a neo-colonial system of extraction and dependency?

Was it a Latin American invention intended to undo ‘the colonial system?’ Or was it an Indian, French Algerian, or Caribbean invention? Or all the above? Is the received ‘wave’ narrative (first, second, third, fourth waves) currently used to tell the global history of decolonization still adequate? Or would notions such as ‘invention’ and ‘reinvention’ be more useful?

We seek papers that address any of the following:

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hen, where, and how was the concept and W act of ‘decolonization’ invented or reinvented?

T he circulation and deployment of concepts or cognate concepts of decolonization and independence across linguistic and imperial spheres T he invention and reinvention of the concepts or cognate concepts of ‘colonialism’ and ‘anticolonialism’ ssessments and critiques of the ‘waves’ A narrative of decolonization ase studies that clearly engage with any of C the above

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Please submit a 200-word abstract, paper title, and one-page biographical note copied jointly to Professor Philip Murphy (philip.murphy@sas.ac.uk) and Professor Mark Thurner (mark.thurner@sas.ac.uk) by Friday, 16 February 2018.

Corresponding with Beckett 1–2 June 2018, School of Advanced Study, Senate House, London CFP deadline: 1 March 2018 What does it mean to correspond with Beckett?

How does Beckett’s correspondence give us insight into the work? In what ways are critical reading and writing a form of correspondence with an author?

What would it mean to ‘perform the epistolary’?

The publication of the fourth and final volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett marks an appropriate moment to take stock of the role of autobiography in research and the importance of the epistolary in literary studies. A recent review by Cal RevelyCalder cautions that letters ‘are not propositions, manifestos, or statements of intent’, but rather ‘rough forays, conducted in private’. This conference will raise issues around the development of the ‘grey canon’ (S.E. Gontarski), the use of digital resources, translation, visual metadata, and the role of corollary correspondence. Given Beckett’s hesitation to render the personal public, the conference will address how we negotiate issues of privacy, permissions, and copyright. It will generate new thinking on the letter as artefact and the textual and stylistic aspects of the epistolary, as well as explore the legacy of a correspondence project and how the research that underpins it can be deployed for further research. Using literary correspondence and related materials raises older questions on authorial intention and reading methodologies that continue to inform literary analysis. In the age of Snapchat and WhatsApp, correspondence is primarily digital: the conference will question the longevity of contemporary digital correspondence and explore strategies for future engagement with the epistolary in literary research.

Topics to be addressed include, but are not limited to:

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Calls for papers

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The epistolary The legacy of the archive Digital correspondence Privacy and copyright Translation The ‘grey canon’ Corollary correspondences Visual metadata Location registers Ethics and the epistolary Authorial intentionality Literary criticism as correspondence Performing letters

The conference is organised by Stefano Rosignoli (Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin) and Derval Tubridy (Goldsmiths University of London). The keynote address will be given by Lois More Overbeck (Emory University), director of the Letters of Samuel Beckett Project.

Proposals for 20-minute papers should be sent to londonbeckettseminar@gmail.com by 1 March 2018 and should include:

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Title of the presentation Abstract of approximately 300 words iographical statement of approximately 100 B words Details of audio-visual requirements I ndication of any enhanced access requirements

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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 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 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.

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