Sas events brochure oct13 jan14

October/November/ December/January 2013–14

The Mona Lisa’s smile

Harvard’s Margaret Livingstone explores our powers of aesthetic appreciation

Bloomsbury festival 2013 inside

The institutes of the School collectively offer a rich programme of seminars, workshops, lectures, conferences and other academic events. Each year around 1,600 events are organised on humanities topics, attracting almost 50,000 audience members drawn from around the UK and internationally as well as the London area including scholars, representatives from academic, public and private organisations, policy-makers, professional experts, and the interested public. Almost 6,000 speakers, over one-third of whom are from outside the UK, are welcomed annually to contribute to the intellectual culture of the School.

The majority of our events are free and open to the public. All are welcome and encouraged to take advantage of the access to current research and the interdisciplinary cross-fertilisation these events afford.

The full list of forthcoming and past events held by the School can be found at www.sas.ac.uk/events

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Contents

Event highlights – Timeline

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Event highlights – Bloomsbury Festival 2013

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Event highlights

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Speaker highlights

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Events calendar – Listings

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Research training

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Calls for papers

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How to find us

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About the School

The School of Advanced Study, University of London (SAS) is the UK’s national centre for the promotion and facilitation of research in the humanities.

SAS brings together the specialised scholarship and resources of 10 prestigious research institutes in Bloomsbury to provide an unrivalled scholarly environment dedicated to the support, evaluation and pursuit of research which is accessible to all Higher Education institutions in the UK and the rest of the world.

Member Institutes of the School Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Institute of Classical Studies Institute of Commonwealth Studies Institute of English Studies Institute of Historical Research Institute of Latin American Studies Institute of Modern Languages Research

How to use this guide

Events are listed in date and time order. On the left we list the institute 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 where appropriate. There is further information about the highlighted events at the start of the guide, and about research training events and calls for papers at the end. Please check our website for full information.

Booking

The majority of our events are free and open to the public, unless stated otherwise. Some events have limited capacity and advance booking is advisable.

The event information in this brochure was correct at the time of going to press, but may be subject to change. Please check our website for the latest information or email sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Event podcasts

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

Mailing list

Sign up to our mailing list to receive information on events of interest to you by emailing sas.events@sas.ac.uk or via www.sas.ac.uk Key Subject area Classics

Human rights

Institute of Philosophy

History

Politics

The Warburg Institute

Philosophy

Law

culture, language

& literature

Music

Institute of Musical Research

SAS also hosts a cross-disciplinary centre.

The Human Rights Consortium brings together the multidisciplinary expertise found in the institutes, as well as collaborating with individuals and organisations worldwide, to support, promote and disseminate academic and policy work on human rights.

Highlights Highlights

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Event highlights Timeline October

November

Bloomsbury Festival 2013: Will Self on the madness of the modern city In conversation with Dr Nick Shepley, Will Self explores the links between modern urban life and mental health.

One of more than 40 events over six days hosted by SAS as it transforms itself into a ‘Ministry of Communication’ for the Bloomsbury Festival, 15–20 October 2013.

The artful brain Philosophers and cognitive neuroscientists investigate what makes us capable of aesthetic appreciation and whether art marks an ‘emergence of the modern mind’.

Contrasting minority and indigenous rights in practice The 2013 UK Network on Minority Groups and Human Rights conference examines the contrasts between the minority rights and indigenous rights legal frameworks, discourses and practices.

Time: 18:30–20:00 Date: 16 October

Time: 10:30–18:00 Date: 25 October

Time: 09:30–18:00 Date: 28 October

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The USA in the Caribbean: 30 years after American fury Sir Shridath ‘Sonny’ Ramphal, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, joins diplomats and academics to discuss the ‘Grenada Crisis’ of 1983.

Time: 09:30–18:00 Date: 24 October See page 44 for event information

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Celebrating the Mexican Day of the Dead: a showcase of community approaches Dying Matters, a coalition of some 30,000 members set up to promote public awareness of dying, death and bereavement, brings the Mexican festival ‘Día de los Muertos’ (‘Day of the Dead’) to Senate House.

Time: 14:00–19:30 Date: 1 November See page 52 for event information

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December

Medieval merchants and money: a conference in celebration of the work of Professor James L Bolton More than 20 scholars will present their current research on themes connected to Professor Bolton’s influential work on the economic and social history of the middle ages.

The afterlife of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg: traditions in the development of the warburg institute One of two conferences to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the warburg institute’s migration from Hamburg to London in December 1933.

Time: 09:30–18:00 Date: 7–8 November

Time: 10:00–18:00 Date: 16 December

Professor Brian Ferneyhough in conversation with Professor Colin Blakemore Marking his 70th year, the School’s ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellow and one of the most original and influential composers in contemporary music talks to one of the UK’s leading scientists. Followed by an Arditti Quartet concert of his works at 8pm.

Time: 19:00–20:00 Date: 25 November See page 70 for event information

Hamlyn lecture on the common law and Europe: balancing the scales of justice The Rt Hon Lord Justice Laws, who has served in the Court of Appeal and Privy Council since 1999, delivers his third and final 2013 Hamlyn lecture.

Time: 18:00–19:00 Date: 27 November See page 72 for event information

‘The Hamlyn Lectures are considered by many to be the UK’s premier legal lecture.

We are honoured to welcome Sir John Laws, one of our most distinguished judges, who has contributed so much to our understanding of the rule of law and parliamentary sovereignty.’

Professor Avrom Sherr, Chair of the Hamlyn Trust

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‘Inverting Senate House’s Orwellian associations, we want to create not a ministry of truth, or even of information, but a “Ministry of Communication”.

The School’s packed programme of over 40 events in 6 days explores the everchanging nature of communication: from propaganda to digital media, poetry to parkour.’

Dr Michael Eades, Cultural Contexts Research Fellow

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Event highlights Bloomsbury Festival 2013

Transforming itself into a ‘Ministry of Communication’, SAS will host an exciting programme of more than 40 events in and around Senate House during the 2013 Bloomsbury Festival, 15–20 October. Drawing on the building’s history as Ministry of Information during WWII, and inspiration for the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984, the theme reflects the School’s mission as a national humanities research hub dedicated to the openness and accessibility of knowledge to all.

The programme is supported by the AHRC Cultural Engagement Fund. All Festival events are free. Some events have limited capacity and advance booking is advisable. Check out the full Festival listings and book your place at www.bloomsburyfestival.org

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Visit online for more details

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Event highlights Bloomsbury Festival 2013 Festival picks: four from 40

The madness of the modern city

Exploratorium

Small global

exploring your senses

extreme energy

Will Self in conversation

19 October 2013

19 October 2013

16 October 2013

11:00–13:00

11:00–18:00

18:30– 20:00

15:00–17:00

20 October 2013

Acclaimed author Will Self is not constrained by convention – he writes for himself, not his readers – and he has a lot to say about psychiatrists and mental illness. His latest novel, Umbrella, which spans 92 years and examines the relativity of madness, the social legacy of WWI and the impact of technology on the human body, evidences this. In conversation with literary scholar Dr Nick Shepley, Will Self will explore the links between modern urban life and mental health, and also read from his Booker-prize shortlisted novel. A fitting discussion for an event taking place in an area famous as one of the crucibles of modernism but also regarded as a space of tranquillity amidst the madness of London.

See page 34 for event information

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Science meets philosophy in this series of hands-on experiments exploring sensory perception.

Encounter a number of visual, auditory and touch illusions, and uncover the workings of taste and smell, guided by experts from the Centre for the Study of the Senses including Professors Barry Smith, Colin Blakemore and Charles Spence, and Dr Ophelia Deroy.

See page 37 for event information

12:00–18:00 Fracking – shorthand for hydraulic fracturing, the process used to recover gas and oil from shale rock – has been in the news a lot recently. But for some of us, the whole thing is still a bit of a mystery. Over two days SAS and D-fuse (a London-based arts collective) will enlighten us by transforming the basements of Senate House, bringing to life the environmental and human rights issues surrounding the extensive use of a ‘frac job’. Using projections, light and sound, the destructive consumption that drives the ‘extreme energy’ process will be revealed. Supported by Arts Council England.

See page 37 for event information

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In protest new human rights poetry 20 October 2013 18:00–19:00 On the last evening of the Bloomsbury Festival, discover how powerful words can be at the launch of In Protest, 150 Poems for Human Rights: an anthology rooted in activism and calling for change. Internationally renowned poet Ruth Padel, who believes ‘that poetry has a responsibility to look at the world’, and publisher and philanthropist Sigrid Rausing will lead proceedings. As part of the celebration of this inspiring book, the event will also feature readings from poets including James Byrne, Chrissie Gittins and David Lee Morgan, and the opportunity to buy specially discounted copies of the anthology.

See page 41 for event information

‘Small global: extreme energy is an inspiring example of collaboration between academics and artists working outside the academy.

It is an innovative public engagement project.’ www.sas.ac.uk

Dr Michael Eades, Cultural Contexts Research Fellow

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Event highlights The USA in the Caribbean 30 years after American fury 24 October 2013 What really happened? What happened next? Why did it happen? These are some of the questions to be discussed at this conference on the ‘Grenada Crisis’ of 1983. Codenamed ‘Operation Urgent Fury’, the invasion led by the US was romantically described by former President Ronald Reagan as ‘an exemplar of the United States’ pursuit of the ideal of freedom’.

Sir Shridath ‘Sonny’ Ramphal, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, will join diplomats and academics at an event that will feature the publication of the Grenada Witness Seminar transcripts, including interviews with some of the decision-makers at the time. Support comes from the Political Studies Association, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs.

See page 44 for event information

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82nd Airborne soldiers in Grenada 1983

Event highlights Professor Philip Murphy, Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies

28 October 2013 This UK Network on Minority Groups and Human Rights conference will examine the contrasts between the minority rights and indigenous rights legal frameworks, discourses and practices.

Each thematic panel will focus on a specific theme, for example, how the experience of extractive industries by both minorities and indigenous peoples highlights the way the different legal frameworks translate in practice.

The conference aims to raise critical questions about the evolution of the legal frameworks and tensions that have resulted from distinct protection tools.

Established in 2009, the UK Network on Minority Groups and Human Rights provides a specialist interdisciplinary forum for scholars working in the area of minority and indigenous rights to meet and discuss new developments.

See page 47 for event information

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‘The US-led invasion thirty years ago of Grenada, one of the Queen’s Commonwealth Realms, remains highly controversial.

This conference provides an excellent opportunity to take stock of the latest evidence in the presence of the Commonwealth Secretary-General of the day, Sir Shridath ‘Sonny’ Ramphal.’

Contrasting minority and indigenous rights in practice

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Event highlights

Celebrating the Mexican Day of the Dead: a showcase of community approaches 1 November 2013

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Dying Matters, a coalition of some 30,000 members set up to promote public awareness of dying, death and bereavement, is bringing the Mexican festival ‘Día de los Muertos’ (‘Day of the Dead’) to Senate House.

This fusion of Catholic and indigenous cultures, which is designed to bring communities together to remember friends and family members who have died, is characterised in Mexico by altars, visits to graves and celebrations with traditional food and music. This British

version will have the food, drinks and music but will also include talks on sensitive issues around bereavement, panel discussions and art displays. The event will be chaired by Tony Bonser, Chair of People in Partnership at the National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC).

See page 52 for event information

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Büchner today/ Büchner heute

A conference in celebration of the work of Professor James L Bolton

14–15 November 2013

7–8 November 2013 For more than 40 years Jim Bolton has been based at Queen Mary, University of London, where he is currently Professorial Research Fellow, directing the Boromei Bank Research Project. His published work includes important and influential contributions to the economic and social history of the middle ages, and in particular to our understanding of the money supply and the operation of credit, international banking, the impact of the Black Death, the impact of Italians and other alien groups in London, and relations between the city of London and the Crown.

The conference will present current research by more than 20 scholars working on a range of themes connected with Jim’s work, including keynote lectures

by Professor Caroline Barron (Royal Holloway) and Professor Phillipp Schofield (Aberystwyth).

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Georg Büchner (1813–37) was not only a writer who lived his political convictions under conditions which made it extremely difficult and dangerous to do so, but in his aesthetics, his thinking, and his interdisciplinary practice he was also – almost uncannily – ahead of his time.

The conference will focus on such questions as: What is Büchner’s relevance within and beyond the discipline of German studies? How has his work impacted on the medical humanities, contemporary literary theory, or post-dramatic theatre/contemporary theatre practice – and how does it relate to current debates on the (im) possibility of politics?

See page 61 for event information

Arditti Quartet concert Brian Ferneyhough 25 November 2013 Since its formation in 1974 by first violinist Irvine Arditti, the quartet bearing his name has had a major impact on the development of contemporary chamber music. Over the past 25 years the ensemble has received many prizes for its work and commitment to supporting the next generation of musicians and composers.

Known for their casual brilliance, they work in close collaboration with composers, which they believe is vital to the process of interpreting music.

One of these composers is Brian Ferneyhough, ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellow for 2013. The quartet will perform three of his pieces (‘Ferneyhough String Quartet no.2’, ‘Dum Transisset’ and ‘String Quartet no.6’) in a concert following the event ‘Brian Ferneyhough in conversation with Colin Blakemore (Institute of Philosophy)’.

See page 70 for event information

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Medieval merchants and money

Event highlights

The common law and Europe Balancing the scales of justice 27 November 2013 The Rt Hon Lord Justice Laws, who has served in the Court of Appeal and Privy Council since 1999, gives his third 2013 Hamlyn lecture. Variously described as charming, erudite and an ‘original thinker’, he rewrote Britain’s constitutional law with his 2002 ruling that the he rewrote Britain’s constitutional law with his 2002 ruling on the “Metric Martyrs” which famously involved the selling of bananas by the pound rather than by the metric equivalent.

This recognition of the collision of the principles of common law and the notion of parliamentary sovereignty, and his role in a number of landmark rulings, place the former classical scholar in a good position to deliver his final lecture in the Hamlyn Trust series.

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The return of aesthetics to archaeology 28–29 November 2013 This is the first event of its kind in the UK to bring together philosophers, archaeologists, and museum and heritage practitioners to focus on the relation between ethics and aesthetics, and to explore how this relation shapes our understanding and practice of archaeological stewardship.

The conference is part of the AHRC-funded Ethics and Aesthetics of Archaeology Research Network.

See page 72 for event information

The Warburg Institute 80th anniversary The afterlife of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg.

Traditions in the development of the Warburg Institute – a commemoration of the migration in December 1933 16 December 2013 Two conferences will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Warburg Institute’s move to London – one at the WarburgHaus in Hamburg on 12 December and one at the Warburg Institute in London on 16 December.

While the Hamburg event will examine the impact of the institute’s intellectual approach on English scholars, the London conference will focus on how the relocation to England changed the intellectual approach of the institute. They are organised

by Uwe Fleckner, director of the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg and Professor of Art History at the University of Hamburg, and Professor Peter Mack, director of the Warburg Institute in London.

See page 87 for event information

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E H Gombrich lecture series on the classical tradition Ancient strength 10, 17 and 24 October 2013

Speaker highlights

Speaker highlights

Hercules Gallicus Personification of Eloquence

Professor Jonathan Bate Provost of Worcester College, University of Oxford Well known as a critic, biographer and broadcaster, Jonathan Bate is one of the world’s leading authorities on Shakespeare.

His one-man play for Simon Callow, The Man from Stratford, is currently on national tour.

Professor Bate read English literature at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge. He has held a number of high-level academic posts including King Alfred Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool and, since 2003, Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick.

A prolific writer, his books include a biography of Shakespeare, Soul of the Age, and a history of his fame, The Genius of Shakespeare. He was chief editor of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s edition of Shakespeare’s Complete Works.

10 October 2013: Tragical comical historical pastoral: Shakespeare and classical genre

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17 October: The madness of Hercules: Shakespeare and classical psychology 24 October: ‘I will read politic authors’: Shakespeare and classical political thought See page 27, 34, 45 for event information

Hercules Gallicus, Personification of Eloquence from: A. Bocchi, Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere, Bologna 1574

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Speaker highlights On ecocide In conversation with Richard Falk 22 October 2013 Richard Anderson Falk Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton

Meeting the directors Dialogues between new Argentine cinema and theatre: Federico Leon 15 October 2013 Federico Leon Actor, director, playwright, filmmaker and theatre teacher The 38-year-old Argentinian is as comfortable in the lecture hall showing and discussing his films as he is behind a camera.

Born in Buenos Aires, the actor, director, playwright, filmmaker and theatre teacher has won various awards.

These include first prizes for script writing from Argentina’s National Theatre Institute and the Argentinian Government and the 2004 Konex Prize awarded by the National Arts Fund.

His work has been exhibited in theatres and festivals in Germany, France, Holland, Austria, Italy, Denmark, Canada, Belgium, Spain, the UK, Brazil, the US, Australia and Japan.

As a teacher of theatre, he has conducted workshops in Latin America, Spain and France and has taught in the programme for artists at the Universidad Di Tella.

See page 32 for event information

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Ecocide is described as the ‘missing 5th crime against peace’ in a report from the Human Rights Consortium’s Ecocide Project. Richard Falk, who drafted the International Convention on the Crime of Ecocide in 1973, argued ‘that man has consciously and unconsciously inflicted irreparable damage to the environment in times of war and peace’ – perhaps as a response to the use of environmentallydestructive chemical agents in the Vietnam War. This Princeton University Professor Emeritus of International Law currently serves as the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights. Professor Falk previously taught at the University of California and is author and co-author of numerous books.

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Motherhood in post-1968 European women’s writing Cross-cultural and interdisciplinary dialogues 24–26 October 2013 Éliette Abécassis writer Born in Strasbourg, Éliette Abécassis is the daughter of renowned Jewish philosopher, Armand Abécassis, and professor of child psychology, Janine Abécassis. She studied philosophy in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure and taught at the Université de Caen before becoming a full-time writer.

Her work includes novels, children’s books, essays and screenplays. Her first novel, Qumran, was published in 1996. The novel Un heureux événement (2005) was adapted for the screen by Rémi Besançon in 2011. Her most recent novel is Le Palimpseste d’Archimède (2013). Éliette Abécassis will be one of three authors giving a reading on the opening day of the conference.

See page 44 for event information

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Nerve fibre tracts in the human brain

The artful brain 25 October 2013 Margaret Livingstone Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School As a visual neurophysiologist Professor Margaret Livingstone spends a lot of time talking about our visual shortcomings and has an explanation for the elusive quality of the Mona Lisa’s smile – its all to do with the ‘differences in resolution across our visual field’.

Her collaborative research looking at differences in visual processing in people with dyslexia has had far-reaching influence in the learningdisability field. Her popular book, Vision and Art, which explores how vision science can understand and inform the world of visual art, has sold more than 30,000 copies and brought her recognition from the art world as a scientist who can communicate with artists and art historians, with mutual benefit.

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Image of nerve fibre tracts in the human brain, visualised

by Diffusion Tensor Imaging

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Annual TBL Webster lecture

Annual George Eliot conference

5 November 2013

Romola and Felix Holt

Professor Victoria Wohl Department of Classics, University of Toronto; Webster Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies

23 November 2013

Professor Victoria Wohl works on the literature and culture of classical Athens. Her research spans a variety of genres, poetic and prosaic, and focuses on the social relations, political thought, and psychic life of the democratic polis.

She is the author of Intimate Commerce: Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy (Texas, 1998), Love Among the Ruins: The Erotics of Democracy in Classical Athens (Princeton, 2003), and Law’s Cosmos: Juridical Discourse in Athenian Forensic Oratory (Cambridge, 2010), as well as articles on Athenian tragedy, comedy, oratory, philosophy, and cultural history.

She is currently working on Euripides. She is the Institute of Classical Studies’ Webster Fellow for the autumn term 2013.

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Professor Isobel Armstrong Emeritus Professor of English, Birkbeck; Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies Described by colleagues as ‘one of the most powerful, dynamic and inspirational figures in literary and cultural studies over the last three decades’, Professor Isobel Armstrong is credited with overseeing a period of unprecedented renewal and expansion of Birkbeck’s Department of English.

Professor Armstrong previously taught at UCL, Leicester and Southampton universities before joining Birkbeck in 1989, where she is now Emeritus Professor of English and an Honorary Fellow.

A published poet, she has an international reputation for her pioneering work on Victorian poetry and Victorian culture, and has held visiting professorships at Harvard, Princeton, Johns Hopkins and Vermont. She is a Fellow of the British Academy.

See page 69 for event information

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Professor Brian Ferneyhough in conversation with Professor Colin Blakemore 25 November 2013 Professor Brian Ferneyhough William H Bonsall Professor at Stanford University; ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellow, School of Advanced Study

He will be based at the School for three weeks in November 2013. While in the UK, Professor Ferneyhough will attend a number of events including performances of his works

by Christopher Redgate and Quatour Diotima, Ensemble Linea, Nicolas Hodges and Arditti Quartet and the launch of Lois Fitch’s new biography Brian Ferneyhough at the Royal Northern College of Music.

See page 70 for event information

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Professor Ferneyhough is one of the most original and influential composers in contemporary music. His work has won many awards including the Ernst von Siemens Musikpreis and for five decades, he has continuously engaged with, and provoked, the debate to define a new artistic aesthetic for contemporary music. His visit to London, in his 70th year, is a fitting tribute to an outstanding career and an acknowledgement of his connection to the University.

He was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2012.

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Talk and book launch Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the war against Apartheid 29 November 2013 Professor Alan Wieder Professor Emeritus at the University of South Carolina A distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of South Carolina since 1999, Alan Wieder has worked on oral histories of political resistance in apartheid South Africa and taught at the University of Western Cape and Stellenbosch University.

Besides numerous academic articles on South Africans who resisted the apartheid regime, Professor Wieder has published three books – Voices from Cape Town Classrooms, Teacher and Comrade and, most recently, Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid. This book, which portrays the life and struggles of two remarkable people, is described in a foreword by South African writer, activist and Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer, as ‘a truly remarkable work’.

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The Caribbean Court of Justice and the dispute resolution regime of the Economic Treaty of CARICOM States

Meeting my own history coming back: Jacob Bronowski’s MI5 files

2 December 2013

10 December 2013

The Honourable Mme Justice Désirée Bernard Judge, Caribbean Court of Justice Inns of Court Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Professor Lisa Jardine CBE Director of the Centres for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities and Editing Lives and Letters at UCL

The first female judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice, Désirée Bernard’s list of accolades includes the CARICOM Triennial Award for Women, earning her the description ‘an outstanding Caribbean woman blazing a path of glory as the first female to hold many illustrious positions’.

Professor Lisa Jardine is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Honorary Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge, as well as an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple.

She is an advocate of women’s rights, has written extensively on gender and legal issues and has been at the forefront in the formation of numerous women’s associations in Guyana.

She has contributed to the development of law in Guyana and the region, is involved in voluntary work in education and is a member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women (CEDAW).

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2013 Creighton lecture

She has written a number of bestselling books, including Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance, Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution, and biographies of Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke. Her latest book, on Anglo-Dutch reciprocal influence in the 17th century, is entitled Going Dutch.

See page 84 for event information

Events calendar

Events calendar October Subject area key Classics History Philosophy culture, language

& literature Human rights Politics Law Music Highlights

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Events calendar October Tuesday 1 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium Tuesday 1–Friday 4 13:00–17:00 Senate House

Afroeurope@ns IV: black cultures and identities in Europe. Continental shifts, shifts in perception

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Institute of Historical Research London Group of Historical Geographers seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G34

Beyond belief: knowing the world through books of travel, 1773-1859

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Institute of English Studies Other events 17:45–19:30 Beveridge Hall

Afroeurope@ns IV launch event

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Institute of Historical Research International history seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G37

Anglo-American economic diplomacy towards South America during the Second World War

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The Warburg Institute Director’s work in progress seminar 14:15–15:15 The Warburg Institute

Figuratively glossed: an examination of Pierre Bersuire’s Ovidius Moralizatus in Bibliothèque Nationale de France MS. Latin 5703

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Director’s seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 246

Contemporary Italian writings and the legacy of the colonial past

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Institute of Historical Research History of political ideas seminar 17:15–19:00 Senate Room

New perspectives on J S Mill: discussion of recent books by London authors

An interdisciplinary conference on African European studies £35/£25 per day; £125/£110 full conference Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Innes Keighren (Royal Holloway) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

An evening of readings, comedy and music Free Email: iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Tom Mills (Lancaster) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Anne McLaughlin Free Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

Simone Brioni (Institute of Modern Languages Research) Free Email: christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk

Gregory Claeys (Royal Holloway), Frederick Rosen (UCL), Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary) Free Email: danny.millum@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Christian missions in global history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G21a

Book launch: ‘Race, gender and generation on the spiritual frontier’

Institute of English Studies Lecture 18:30–20:00 Beveridge Hall

Facing up to the colonial past

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Emily Manktelow (Kent) will introduce her new book Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Ngugi Wa Thiong’o (California, Irvine). 3rd John La Rose memorial lecture.

Registration required £5 Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

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Thursday 3 Institute of Historical Research British history in the 17th century seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 104

Leveller organisation and the dynamic of the English revolution

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Institute of Historical Research Modern British history seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

Roller skates to ragtime: Americanisation and popular culture in pre-1914 Britain

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Institute of Historical Research European history 1150-1550 seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 349

Martyrdom and stigmatisation in the middle ages

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Institute of Historical Research History of gardens and landscapes seminar 17:30–20:30 Room G35

The garden, the guide book and the visitor experience: how do descriptions, signage and visual references affect the garden visitor’s experience?

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Institute of English Studies Lecture 18:00–19:30 Beveridge Hall

Wasifiri poetry evening

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John Rees (Goldsmiths) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Peter Bailey (Manitoba; Indiana) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Gabor Klaniczay (Central European; Collegium Budapest) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Jay Bernard, Merle Collins, John Mateer, Karen McCarthy-Woolf, Roger Robinson, Warsan Shire, Anthony Joseph. Registration required £5 Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

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Daniel Lobb (Arts University Bournemouth) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar October Friday 4 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243

Postgraduate work in progress

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Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 5 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium 09:30–15:30 Senate House

All change at A-level: looking forward to the new English curriculum?

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Institute of English Studies Modernism seminar 11:00–13:00 Room 349

Modernism

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Organised by the English Association £125/£100 Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Angela Smith (Stirling) and Bill Schwarz (Queen Mary) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Monday 7 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 246

Materialism in German philosophy - from Boehme to Sloterdijk and beyond

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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 349

Greek literature seminar

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Institute of Musical Research CMPCP/IMR performance/ research seminar 17:00–18:30 Room 104

Hearing the continuum of sound

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Institute of Historical Research Modern French history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 102

After Marxism? Republicanism, liberalism and antiliberalism in contemporary French politics

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Convenor: Dr Johan Siebers (Institute of Modern Languages Research; Central Lancashire). Registration required Free Email: johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Salomé Voegelin (London College of Communication). In association with the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk

Emile Chabal (Edinburgh) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar October Institute of Historical Research Gender and history in the Americas seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G35

Letter-writing, friendship and the Foote-Gilder Correspondence

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Institute of Historical Research Socialist history seminar 17:30–19:30 STB5

Socialist history

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Janet Floyd (King’s, London) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 8 The Warburg Institute From devilry to divinity seminar 13:00–14:15 The Warburg Institute

Divina Commedia - Inferno, Canto I. The dark wood and wild animals. The appearance of Virgil.

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Institute of Classical Studies Reception seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Trivium

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Institute of Historical Research British maritime history seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

‘Well meaning enthusiasts whose enthusiasm runs into hysteria’: The Imperial Maritime League, 1908–20

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Institute of Historical Research Life-cycles seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 103

What was ‘old’ about old age mental disturbance in 19th-century Britain?

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Institute of English Studies Roman Jakobson seminar 17:30–19:00 Room 234

Poems on the Underground

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Readings in the Divina Commedia. Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) and John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) £80 Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Neil Fleming (Worcester) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Judith Chernaik (poet and author) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

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Emily Andrews (Warwick) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar October Institute of English Studies Annual Wordsworth lecture 18:00–19:00 Chancellor’s Hall

‘A sea rolling high’: Wordsworth in 1804

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Institute of English Studies Book collecting seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 349

Collecting Victorian bestsellers: are they ‘dogs’ or objects of desire?

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The Warburg Institute Director’s work in progress seminar 14:15–15:15 The Warburg Institute

Gog and Magog: a cross-religious history

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The Warburg Institute Lecture 16:30–17:45 The Warburg Institute

Love and pastoral: constructing a history of Arcadia

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Institute of Commonwealth Studies Other events 17:00–19:30 Court Room

Talk and book launch: writing imperial histories

Edited by Andrew Thompson. In collaboration with Manchester University Press Free Email: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research History of political ideas seminar 17:15–19:00 Room G37

Machiavelli in Germany: Schiller, Goethe, Fichte, and others

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Institute of Historical Research Metropolitan history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

Providing for Londoners: interventions by the authorities at times of crisis in the early 17th century

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Stephen Gill (Oxford) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Brian Lake (Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

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Free Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

Paul Holberton (Paul Holberton Publishing) Free Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

Ritchie Robertson (Oxford) Free Email: danny.millum@sas.ac.uk

David Carmichael (Centre for Metropolitan History; Institute of Historical Research) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Historical Research Rethinking modern Europe seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G35

Travel agents on trial: emigration and freedom in east central Europe, 1889–1948

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Tara Zahra (Chicago). Chair: Dejan Djokic. Discussant: Josie McLellan (Bristol) Co-hosted with the Centre for the Study of the Balkans, Goldsmiths Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 10 Institute of Classical Studies Ancient history seminar 16:30–19:30 Room G22/26

Health, well-being and the Roman family

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The Warburg Institute E H Gombrich lecture 17:00–18:00 The Warburg Institute

Tragical comical historical pastoral: Shakespeare and classical genre

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Institute of Historical Research Late medieval and early modern Italy seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

‘I shall write by preaching and I shall preach by writing.’ Sermons between orality and writing in early modern Italy

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Institute of Historical Research History Lab seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

Horses, housewives and heretics: a Frankfurter merchant and his experiences on crusade in Bohemia

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Reception Group for German, Austrian and Swiss Literature lecture 17:30–20:00 Room G21a

Anthropophagy? Küssen, Beißen, Schlürfen: Döblin and the Vampire Tradition’

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Institute of English Studies Media history seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243

The Great War, the emotions, and the origins of the BBC

Saskia Hin (Max Plank Institute; Exeter) Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Series on the classical tradition by Jonathan Bate (Oxford) Free Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

Stefano Dall’Aglio Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Mark Whelan (Royal Holloway) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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David Hendy (Sussex) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

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Nicholas Saul (Durham) Free Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar October Institute of English Studies Modernist magazines seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 234

Rhythm

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Institute of English Senate House Library Friends Charles Holden lecture 18:00–20:00 Chancellor’s Hall

Tangible intangibility: the present and future of research

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Institute of Historical Research Conference / Symposium Friday 11–Saturday 12 09:00–17:00 Senate House

Emotional objects: touching emotions in Europe 1600–1900

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The Warburg Institute Seminar 13:00–14:00 The Warburg Institute

Reading group in esoteric traditions and occult thought

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Institute of Classical Studies Early career seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Civil war and autocracy in Annals 1–6: Romans, foreigners and metus hostilis

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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243

Postgraduate work in progress

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Institute of Historical Research Economic and social history of the premodern world, 15001800 seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

Estate reconstitution and the separation of town and countryside: the case of Kent’s rural-urban fringe, 1580–1850

Andrew Thacker (editor, The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Andrew Green (National Library of Wales, 1998–2013). In what ways do national and university libraries need to change to survive and thrive in the future?

Free Email: shl.officeadmin@london.ac.uk tel. 020 7862 8411

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Keynote speaker: John Styles (Hertfordshire) Free Email: manjeet.sambi@sas.ac.uk

Convenors: Liana Saif and Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute). Texts spanning from the early Islamic period until the Renaissance Free Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

Katie Low Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

David Ormrod (Kent) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar October Institute of Historical Research Women’s history seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G21a

‘I want her bound over’: poor women’s agency in the London police courts of the long 19th century

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Institute of Historical Research Late medieval seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

Just another day in Chancery Lane: violence and the law in London’s legal quarter in the 15th century

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 234

Charles Peake Ulysses seminar

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 103

Ezra Pound Cantos

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

Irish studies seminar

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Sascha Auerbach (Nottingham) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Hannes Kleineke (History of Parliament) and James Ross (PRO) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Reading group Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Guy Beiner (Ben-Gurion) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 12 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium 09:30–17:30 Senate House

Dickens Day 2013: Dickens and history

Institute of English Studies Early modern philosophy and the scientific imagination seminar 14:00–16:00 Senate Room

Early human history and the uses of Diodorus in Renaissance scholarship

Michael Slater (Birkbeck), Ruth Livesey (Royal Holloway), Katherine Inglis (Edinburgh), Ruth Richardson (King’s, London) £30/£25/£20 Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

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Philipp Nothaft (Warburg Institute) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar October Institute of Historical Research Education in the long 18th century seminar 14:00–16:00 Court Room

Suitors as tutors in Frances Burney and Jane Austen Sarah Faulkner (Edinburgh) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Monday 14 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 243

Ancient philosophy seminar

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 349

Greek literature seminar

Institute of Musical Research Directions in musical research seminar 17:00–18:30 Chancellor’s Hall

What we hear and what we understand: some thoughts about listening and literacy

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Institute of English Studies London Shakespeare seminar 17:15–19:00 Senate Room

Theatrical genre

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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture 18:00–19:00 Charles Clore House

Statute law and legislative drafting

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The Warburg Institute From devilry to divinity seminar 18:30–20:00 Italian Cultural Institute

Introduction to Dante’s life and works and Dante’s universe

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Free Email: sarah.mayhewhinder@sas.ac.uk

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Christopher Fox (Brunel). In association with Brunel University Centre for Contemporary Music Practice Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk

Lucy Munro (KCL) and Fionnuala O’Neill (Edinburgh) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Richard Heaton (First Parliamentary Counsel and Permanent Secretary at the Cabinet Office). Registration required. Co-organised with the Statute Law Society Free Email: ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Readings in the Divina Commedia. Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) and John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) £80 Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar October Tuesday 15 School of Advanced Study Bloomsbury Festival 2013 Tuesday 15–Sunday 20 10:00–18:00 Senate House

The Ministry of Communication

Human Rights Consortium Institute of Commonwealth Studies Bloomsbury Festival 2013 Tuesday 15–Sunday 20 10:00–18:00 Senate House

100 images of migration

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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 12:30–14:00 Charles Clore House

Advanced legal studies lunchtime seminar

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 12:30–14:00 Room 234

Djuna Barnes research seminar

The Warburg Institute From devilry to divinity seminar 13:00–14:15 The Warburg Institute

Divina Commedia - Inferno, Canto V. Punishment of the lustful. Paolo and Francesca

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Institute of Classical Studies Reception seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Trivium

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Institute of Historical Research London Group of Historical Geographers seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G34

Counterfeit cartographies in the 15th century

Witness the transformation of Charles Holden’s iconic Senate House into an immersive ‘Ministry of Communication’ in this exhibition. In association with Wiener Library Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Displaying a selection of 100 images of migration from 100 years of migration in Britain. In collaboration with the Migration Museum project Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

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Free Email: ials.events@sas.ac.uk

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Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Readings in the Divina Commedia. Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) and John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) £80 Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

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Patricia Seed (California, Irvine) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar October Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 243

‘Je me souviens’? Youth and history in Quebec

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School of Advanced Study Bloomsbury Festival 2013 18:00–19:30 Senate House

Reading as art: turning the pages of psychology

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Institute of English Studies Literary London reading group seminar 18:00–19:30 Room 234

Tales from the Underground

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Institute of Historical Research International history seminar / Modern German history seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G37

The West’s spies in the GDR’s economy during the Cold War

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Institute of Latin American Studies Institute of Modern Languages Research Film screening 18:00–20:00 Court Room

Meeting the directors. Dialogues between new Argentine cinema & theatre: Entrenamiento elemental para actores (2009), a film directed by Federico Leon and Martin Rejtman

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Institute of Musical Research Bloomsbury Festival 2013 20:00–21:00 Chancellor’s Hall

Jayson Gillham piano recital

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Jocelyn Létourneau (Laval). Organised by the Centre for Quebec and FrenchCanadian Studies in association with the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory Free Email: william.marshall@sas.ac.uk

An evening of readings, performances, and art engages with the library collections of Victorian psychology. Convenors: Sharon Kivland and Mura Ghosh. Limited capacity.

18+ (adults only). In collaboration with Senate House Library Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Richard Dennis (UCL) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Paul Maddrell (Loughborough) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Introduced by Federico Leon. In Spanish with English subtitles. Convenors: Cecilia Sosa (East London; Institute of Latin American Studies) and Jordana Blejmar (Institute of Modern Languages Research). Sponsored by the Argentine Embassy Free Email: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

London-based Australian pianist Jayson Gillham has captured the hearts and interest of music lovers across Britain with his virtuosic performances. He was named Commonwealth Musician of the Year in 2012. Advance booking advisable.

Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar October Wednesday 16 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 14:00–16:00 Room G21a

Cultural Memory, Affect and Trauma Working Group

The Warburg Institute Director’s work in progress seminar 14:15–15:15 The Warburg Institute

‘Even the man who is very good at dissimulating cannot change his face’. The physiognomical discourse on dis/simulation in early modern Europe

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Institute of Classical Studies Mycenaean series lecture 15:30–19:30 Room G22/26

The fabric of Minoanisation: textile production, the transmission of craft knowledge and social dynamics in the Bronze Age southern Aegean

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Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00 STB8

Aesthetics forum

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Institute of Classical Studies Classical archaeology seminar 17:00–19:30 King’s College London

The Greek east under Rome: art and representation

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Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 349

‘Heart of Brazil’: an Illustrated talk about the Amazon and its people

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Institute of Historical Research Christian missions in global history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 103

Lost in transition: missionary children of the Basel Mission in the 19th century

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Free Email: jordana.blejmar@sas.ac.uk

Michael Gordian Free Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Joanne Cutler (UCL) Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Dan Hutto (Hertfordshire/Wollongong). Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Bert Smith (Oxford) Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Sue Cunningham. This talk aims to raise awareness of issues affecting tropical forests and their indigenous tribal inhabitants Free Email: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

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Dagmar Konrad (Basel) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar October Human Rights Consortium Institute of Commonwealth Studies Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Senate Room

The right to seek and obtain asylum under the African human rights system

Institute of Modern Languages Research Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243

‘Picture Post’: photojournalism and emigré photographers in Britain, 1938–45

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Institute of English Studies Bloomsbury Festival 2013 18:30–20:00 Chancellor’s Hall

The madness of the modern city: Will Self in conversation

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Chaloka Beyani (UN Special Rapporteur on IDPs; LSE). Seminar exploring the results of research into the right to seek and obtain asylum under the African human rights instruments Free Email: rli@sas.ac.uk

Amy Shulman (Birmingham) Free Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Acclaimed author Will Self, in conversation with Nick Shepley, explores the links between modern urban life and mental health Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 17 Institute of Classical Studies Ancient history seminar 16:30–19:30 Room G22/26

Augustan marriage legislation

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The Warburg Institute E H Gombrich lecture 17:00–18:00 The Warburg Institute

The madness of Hercules: Shakespeare and classical psychology

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Institute of Historical Research Modern British history seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G21a

The other Bryce Report: historians, propaganda, international networks and ‘The treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1915–16’

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Institute of Historical Research British history in the 17th century seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G37

Who’s the daddy? The strange case of the (Wilmot) earls of Rochester

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Rebecca Flemming (Cambridge) Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Series on the classical tradition by Jonathan Bate (Oxford) Free Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

David Monger (Canterbury, New Zealand) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Ian Roy (King’s, London) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar October Institute of Historical Research History of gardens and landscapes seminar 17:30–19:30 STB2

Garden plots: garden history in contemporary fiction

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:00 Seng Tee Lee Centre, Senate House Library

Medieval Manuscripts Seminar

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Institute of Historical Research American history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

Paradoxes of marriage and slavery in early North America

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Institute of Historical Research European history 1150-1550 seminar 17:30–17:30 Room 349

The project after next

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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture 18:00–19:30 Charles Clore House

Human rights lecture

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School of Advanced Study Bloomsbury Festival 2013 18:30–20:00 Senate House

Neil Spring presents: The Ghost Hunters

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

Theatre

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Shelley Saguaro (Gloucestershire). Shelley’s research interests include eco criticism, gardens and literature, ideas of nature and representations of the natural world Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Cynthia Johnston (Institute of English Studies) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Sarah Pearsall (Cambridge) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Discussion Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Geoffrey Robertson QC. Registration required. In association with the Solicitors International Human Rights Group and the Society for Advanced Legal Studies Free Email: ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Neil Spring investigates Ghost hunter Harry Price’s death at this launch for his novel the Ghost Hunters. Advance booking advisable. In collaboration with Senate House Library Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar October Friday 18 Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium Room G22/26

Translating music, AHRC network, seminar 3: opera, digital media and translation

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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243

Postgraduate work in progress

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Institute of Classical Studies Early career seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

The origin of the Lares: from votive statuettes to household gods

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Institute of Historical Research Modern Italian history seminar and book launch 17:00–19:00 Room G34

Book launch: Ending terrorism in Italy (2013)

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Institute of Historical Research Late medieval seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G37

The governed and the ungovernable in late medieval Ireland

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School of Advanced Study Bloomsbury Festival 2013 19:00–20:30 Senate House

Poets in the library: Sir Andrew Motion in conversation with Mark Ford

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100 images of migration

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Ken Chalmers (Royal Opera House) and Sarah Weaver (Durham) in conversation with project leaders Lucile Desblache and Helen Julia Minors (convenor) Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Alexandra Sofroniew Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Anna Cento Bull (Bath) and Philip Cooke (Strathclyde). Discussants: John Foot and Benedetta Tobagi (Bristol Free Email: emanuela.patti@sas.ac.uk

Brendan Smith (Bristol) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Join poets Sir Andrew Motion and Mark Ford in a discussion of libraries as places of inspiration and enchantment. In collaboration with Senate House Library Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 19 Human Rights Consortium Institute of Commonwealth Studies Bloomsbury Festival 2013 10:00–18:00 Senate House

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Displaying a selection of 100 images of migration from 100 years of migration in Britain. In collaboration with the Migration Museum project Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar October School of Advanced Study Bloomsbury Festival 2013 workshop 10:00–16:00 Senate House

Bloomsbury Group Wiki-edit-a-thon

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School of Advanced Study Institute of Classical Studies Bloomsbury Festival 2013 talk 11:00–12:15 Beveridge Hall

Senate House at war

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School of Advanced Study Bloomsbury Festival 2013 workshop 11:00–16:00 Crush Hall

Spread the Word drop in desk

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School of Advanced Study Institute of Philosophy Bloomsbury Festival 2013 workshop 11:00–13:00 15:00–17:00 Macmillan Hall

Exploratorium: exploring your senses

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School of Advanced Study Bloomsbury Festival 2013 11:00–18:00 Senate House

Ministry of Communication Orwellian Garden

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School of Advanced Study Human Rights Consortium Bloomsbury Festival 2013 11:00–18:00 Deller Hall

Small global: extreme energy

Join Karen Attar and Richard Simpson to learn about the history of one of Bloomsbury’s most striking buildings, and its fate as an ‘occupied’ building during WWII. In collaboration with Senate House Library Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Spread the Word return to offer professional development and advice for writers. If you are an aspiring writer, attend the Senate House Ministry of Communication and sign up for a 10 minute slot Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Science meets philosophy in this series of hands-on experiments exploring sensory perception. Encounter visual, auditory and touch illusions, and uncover the workings of taste and smell Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Join forces with artist Alex Beeching to lay out an ‘Orwellian’ office reclaimed by leaf, tendril and flower in front of Senate House Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Step into a world of light and sound as D-Fuse brings to life environmental issues surrounding oil extraction and shale gas fracking. Supported by Arts Council England Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

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Wikimedia UK and Senate House Library are organising an ‘edit-a-thon’ about the Bloomsbury Group, including a training session and a day of improving articles on the topic. Limited capacity Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar October School of Advanced Study Bloomsbury Festival 2013 12:00–17:00 Other

Poetry explorers - finding poetry in Bloomsbury

Institute of English Studies Bloomsbury Festival 2013 12:30–13:30 Beveridge Hall

Imagining Bloomsbury’s streets

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School of Advanced Study Institute of Classical Studies Bloomsbury Festival 2013 12:30–13:30 14:30–15:30 16:30–17:30 Senate House

Senate House tour

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School of Advanced Study Institute of English Studies Bloomsbury Festival 2013 12:30–13:30 Senate House

The Museum of Writing presents: a history of writing

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Institute of Philosophy Bloomsbury Festival 2013 13:30–14:00 17:30–18:00 Macmillan Hall

Sarah Angliss: sound artist

School of Advanced Study Human Rights Consortium Bloomsbury Festival 2013 14:00–15:00 Deller Hall

Tour of a small globe: introducing ‘extreme energy’

School of Advanced Study Institute of English Studies Bloomsbury Festival 2013 talk 14:00–15:00 Beveridge Hall

Resurrecting lost London fictions

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Contribute to a festival poem with our Poetry Explorers - Keats House Poets Simon Mole and Sonority Turner - as they tour Bloomsbury throughout the day Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Join Robert Shepherd, Susan Trangmar, Martin Austwick and Stephan Hugel as they rediscover Bloomsbury’s streets Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Take a tour of Charles Holden’s Art Deco masterpiece. Maximum of 20 on any one tour. Note that tours on Sunday do not include the library Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Join Alan Cole (Museum of Writing creator) and Simon Eliot (Institute of English Studies) for a tour of the history of writing from c. 3000 BC to the present day. Limited capacity Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Sarah Angliss presents two performances featuring uncanny sonic experiments and Hugo, the head of a 1930s ventriloquist’s dummy Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Join representatives of Frack Off, the UK Tar Sands Network, Damien Short and artists D-Fuse to discuss growing controversies over and resistance to ‘extreme energy’ practices Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Andrew Whitehead, Ken Worpole, and Cathi Unsworth discuss the greatest forgotten authors, and forgotten novels, of this most ‘literary’ quarter of London Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar October School of Advanced Study Bloomsbury Festival 2013 workshop 14:00–16:30 Senate House

Ministry of Communication: make your own pamphlet

School of Advanced Study Institute of English Studies Bloomsbury Festival 2014 15:00–16:00 Senate House

The Museum of Writing presents: quill making and wax tablet workshop

School of Advanced Study Institute of English Studies Bloomsbury Festival 2013 15:30–16:30 Beveridge Hall

Bloomsbury in contemporary fiction: D J Taylor and Helen Smith

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School of Advanced Study Institute of English Studies Bloomsbury Festival 2013 17:00–18:00 Beveridge Hall

Bloomsbury, bad journeys: Iain Sinclair and Phil Cohen

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The Warburg Institute Bloomsbury Festival 2013 18:00–19:00 Chancellor’s Hall

30,000 Gods and Myths from the Warburg Institute

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The power of propaganda: public information cinema

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Book-binder and conservationist Angela Craft leads this series of drop-in workshops.

Jointy organised with Senate House Library Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

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Ever fancied trying your hand at writing on a wax tablet with a genuine Roman stylus, or with a quill? Join this workshop led by the creator of the Museum of Writing.

Limited capacity Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Famous for its literary history, how does Bloomsbury continue to shape contemporary fiction? Bestselling authors D J Taylor (Derby Day, The Windsor Faction) and Helen Smith (the Emily Castles mystery series) discuss their new novels set in Bloomsbury Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Iain Sinclair, one of the foremost writers on contemporary London, is joined by Bloomsbury-born author, urban activist, and academic Phil Cohen to reflect on Bloomsbury as an intersection for creative ‘bad journeys’ Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Join curator of digital resources François Quiviger and jazz musician John-Paul Muir on a unique audiovisual and musical tour into the heart of a unique collection Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Sample a rundown of public information films from the last 70 years. Ian Cooke (British Library) and Sue Woods (BFI) lead this exploration of film and public opinion Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Sunday 20 Spread the Word drop in desk

Spread the Word return to offer professional development and advice for writers. If you are an aspiring writer, attend the Senate House Ministry of Communication and sign up for a 10 minute slot Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

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Endangered archives

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Ministry of Communication Orwellian Garden

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School of Advanced Study Bloomsbury Festival 2013 12:00–16:00 Senate House

Parkour workshops

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School of Advanced Study Bloomsbury Festival 2013 12:00–13:00 14:00–15:00 16:00–17:00 Senate House

Senate House tour

Human Rights Consortium Institute of Commonwealth Studies Bloomsbury Festival 2013 12:00–17:00 Senate House

100 images of migration

School of Advanced Study Human Rights Consortium Bloomsbury Festival 2013 12:00–18:00 Senate House

Small global: extreme energy

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Bloomsbury, a history of refuge

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The Endangered Archives Programme preserves some of the most fragile repositories of knowledge worldwide, through digitisation. Discover documents and photographs from Latin America and the Caribbean Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Join forces with artist Alex Beeching to lay out an ‘Orwellian’ office reclaimed by leaf, tendril and flower in front of Senate House Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Exercise for your body and your mind! Parkour is an athletic discipline based around free and efficient movement through urban space. Come and learn the basic moves, and see parkour athletes in training.

Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Take a tour of Charles Holden’s Art Deco masterpiece. Maximum of 20 on any one tour. Note that tours on Sunday do not include the library Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Displaying a selection of 100 images of migration from 100 years of migration in Britain. In collaboration with the Migration Museum project Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Step into a world of light and sound as D-Fuse brings to life environmental issues surrounding oil extraction and shale gas fracking. Supported by Arts Council England Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Join Rosemary Ashton, Sarah Young and Anthony Grenville to discover Bloomsbury’s long history as a place of refuge Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar October Institute of Modern Languages Research Bloomsbury Festival 2013 15:00–16:00 Chancellor’s Hall

Political cabaret in exile - music from the Miller Archive

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School of Advanced Study Human Rights Consortium Bloomsbury Festival 2013 16:00–17:30 Beveridge Hall

Human rights poetry slam

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Institute of English Studies Human Rights Consortium School of Advanced Study Bloomsbury Festival 2013 18:00–19:00 Beveridge Hall

In protest: new human rights poetry

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 246

Materialism in German philosophy - from Boehme to Sloterdijk and beyond

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Institute of Musical Research Directions in musical research seminar 17:00–18:30 Chancellor’s Hall

Electric Schubert, 1928

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 349

Greek literature seminar

Institute of Historical Research Imperial and world history seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 103

To be despised: concubines, prostitution and respectability in early 19th-century Jamaica

Drawing on the archive of actor/director Martin Miller, this event recreates the atmosphere of London’s Austrian exile theatre, the Laterndl Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

High octane and fiercely competitive, six award-winning poets perform pieces about protest, judged by poets Musa Okwonga and Deanna Rodger, you (the audience) and human rights experts Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Internationally renowned poet Ruth Padel and publisher and philanthropist Sigrid Rausing launch In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights. Featuring readings from James Byrne, Chrissie Gittins, David Lee Morgan Free Email: sas.events@sas.ac.uk

Monday 21 Convenor: Dr Johan Siebers (Institute of Modern Languages Research; Central Lancashire). Registration required Free Email: johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

Laura Tunbridge (Manchester) Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar October Institute of Historical Research Socialist history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G35

Capitalism and sport - some histories

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Institute of Historical Research Modern French history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 102

National money and the erasure of social difference in 19th-century France

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The Warburg Institute From devilry to divinity seminar 13:00–14:15 The Warburg Institute

Divina Commedia - Inferno, Canto XIII. Punishment of suicides

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Institute of Classical Studies Reception seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Trivium

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Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 243

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics

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Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 17:00–18:30 Room 349

Psychedelic Cumbia – from the Amazon to the world (and live performance by Los Músicos)

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Institute of Historical Research British maritime history seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

Isaac Newton’s time

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Book launch with Gareth Edwards (Portsmouth), Keith Flett, Hazel Potter, David Renton Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Rebecca Spang (Indiana) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Readings in the Divina Commedia. Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) and John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) £80 Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Yuri Cath (East Anglia) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Henry Stobat and Genner Llanes-Ortiz (Royal Holloway) Free Email: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Simon Schaffer (Cambridge) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar October Institute of Historical Research Life-cycles seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 103

The archaeology of play

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Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:30–19:30 Room G22/26

Accordia lecture

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Human Rights Consortium Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar 18:00–20:30 Senate Room

On ecocide: in conversation with Richard Falk

Ruth Colton (Manchester) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Richard A Falk (Princeton; United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights since 2008) will discuss the challenges posed in adopting an international law of ecocide, links between ecocide and human rights, and the reasons why an international law of ecocide is necessary Free Email: hrc@sas.ac.uk

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Wednesday 23 Institute of Historical Research History of gardens and landscapes seminar 14:00–18:10 Other

Stanley Picker House seminar follow-up visit

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The Warburg Institute Director’s work in progress seminar 14:15–15:15 The Warburg Institute

Historians, politicians and epigraphists at the dawn of Spanish antiquarianism

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Institute of Musical Research ICONEA seminar 17:00–18:30 Room 246

Pitch, pi, and other musical paradoxes, or MusicAsEasyAsPi

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Institute of Historical Research History of political ideas seminar 17:15–19:00 Room G37

How to read the king’s words: Frederick the Great as an author

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A visit to Stanley Picker House led by Fiona Fisher and Rebecca Preston Limited capacity; advance booking advisable £16.00 Email: gardenhistory@ihr.ac.uk

Gerard Gonzlez Germain. Director’s work in progress seminar Free Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

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Charles Lucy Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk

Andreas Pečar (Halle) Free Email: danny.millum@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar October Institute of Historical Research Metropolitan history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

Segregating the city: class, the railways, and Greater London 1880–1920

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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture 18:00–19:30 Charles Clore House

Company law lecture

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Institute of English Studies Contemporary fiction research seminar 18:00–20:00 Court Room

Literature and pop music

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference / Symposium Thursday 24–Saturday 26 13:00–17:00 Chancellor’s Hall

Motherhood in post-1968 European women’s writing: cross-cultural and interdisciplinary dialogues

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Institute of Commonwealth Studies Conference / Symposium 09:30–18:00 Senate Room

The USA in the Caribbean: 30 years after American fury

Institute of English Studies Seminar 12:30–14:00 Room 234

Neo-Victorianism on screen: adapting Victorian heroines today

Institute of Classical Studies Ancient history seminar 16:30–19:30 Room G22/26

Old queens, old popes, old emperors: age and intergenerational relationships in the family

Simon Abernethy (Cambridge) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Johan Henning (Free State, Bloemfontein; Institute of Advanced Legal Studies; BPP School of Law, London) Free Email: ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Author and music journalist Cathi Unsworth (Weirdo, Bad Penny Blues) talks to Mark Blacklock about fiction, pop, and the world in between Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

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Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing AHRC-funded ‘Motherhood in post-1968 European literature’ network closing conference £100 (3 days)/£45 (1 day) Email: victoria.browne@sas.ac.uk

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Sir Shridath ‘Sonny’ Ramphal, former Commonwealth Secretary-General, joins diplomats and academics to explore the ‘Grenada Crisis’ of 1983. Convenor: Karen Hunte (Institute of Commonwealth Studies; Political Studies Association’s Caribbean Section) £5 Email: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

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Antonija Primorac (Split, Croatia) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Mary Harlow (Leicester) and Ray Lawrence (Canterbury, Kent) Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar October The Warburg Institute E H Gombrich lecture 17:00–18:00 The Warburg Institute

‘I will read politic authors’: Shakespeare and classical political thought

Institute of Historical Research History Lab seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

‘Managing a material world for the next generation’: elite men and domestic consumption in Britain, 1760–1830

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 STB5

Unraveling motivations: the Great War and masculinity in oral histories of Second World War enlistment

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The Warburg Institute Colloquium 10:00–18:00 The Warburg Institute

Sculpture in Rome: rethinking classicism and questioning materiality

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Institute of Philosophy Centre for the Study of the Senses (CenSes) workshop 10:30–18:00 Room G22/26

The artful brain

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Institute of Latin American Studies Workshop 15:00–18:00 Room 349

Latin American music workshop

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243

Postgraduate work in progress

Series on the classical tradition by Jonathan Bate (Oxford) Free Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

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Charlotte Brown (Royal Holloway) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Joel Morley (Queen Mary) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Friday 25 Focusing on the Sack of Rome in 1527. Jointly organised with the V&A Museum and the American Academy of Rome £25 Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

Margaret Livingstone, Mohan Matthen, Greg Currie, Marius Kwint, Corrine Jola Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Diego Laverde (Colombian harpist) Convenors: Hettie Malcomson (Southampton) and Henry Stobart (Royal Holloway) Free Email: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar October Institute of Classical Studies Early career seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Reconstructing a cultural ideal: Aristotle’s virtue of ‘greatness of soul’

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Institute of Historical Research Women’s history seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G34

Attitudes to female beauty in 17th-century England

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Institute of Historical Research Economic and social history of the premodern world, 15001800 seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G35

Revisiting R H Tawney’s The agrarian problem in the 16th century

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Institute of Historical Research Late medieval seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G37

That memorable parliament: medieval history in parliamentarian polemic, 1641–2

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Institute of Philosophy Workshop 10:00–15:00 Senate Room

Rethinking the senses

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory seminar 11:00–16:00 Room G37

Sites of trauma

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Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 15:00–18:00 Room 349

Virgil Society lecture

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Kleanthis Mantzouranis Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Tim Reinke-Williams (Nottingham) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Jane Whittle (Exeter) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Jason Peacey (UCL) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Colin Blakemore, Ophelia Deroy, Matt Nudds, Fiona Macpherson, Charles Spence.

AHRC project Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Patrizia Violi (Bologna) and Jens Andermann (Zurich) Free Email: emanuela.patti@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar October Monday 28 Human Rights Consortium Institute of Commonwealth Studies UK Network on Minority Groups and Human Rights conference 09:30–18:00 Chancellor’s Hall

Contrasting minority and indigenous rights in practice

Human Rights Consortium Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room G37

Gender, violence and asylum: a troubling trilogy?

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 243

Ancient philosophy seminar

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 349

Greek literature seminar

Institute of Musical Research CMPCP/IMR performance/ research seminar 17:00–18:30 Room G34

The practice of creative performance

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Advanced legal studies lunchtime seminar

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Helen Baillot (Joint Client Database Integration Project; Scottish Guardianship Service; Rape Crisis Centre Glasgow), Sharon Cowan (Edinburgh), Vanessa E Munro (Nottingham), Frances Webber (Birkbeck). Chair: Heaven Crawley (Swansea).

Registration required Free Email: rli@sas.ac.uk

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Karen Wise (Cambridge), Mirjam James (Cambridge) and John Rink (Cambridge).

In association with the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 29 Free Email: ials.events@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 12:30–14:00 Charles Clore House

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Events calendar October The Warburg Institute From devilry to divinity seminar 13:00–14:15 The Warburg Institute

Divina Commedia - Inferno, Canto XXVI - XXVII. Punishment of evil counsellors. Ulysses; Guido da Montefeltro

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Institute of Classical Studies Reception seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Trivium

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Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:15–19:00 Room 243

Objective probability, and conditional reasoning

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Institute of Historical Research London Group of Historical Geographers seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G34

The games that mapped the world: French 18thcentury travel and geography board games at Waddesdon Manor

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Institute of English Studies Contemporary cultures of writing seminar 17:30–19:30 Senate Room

Situation comedy – creativity in writing and performance

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Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G22

Voices of the Afro-Sri Lankans

Institute of Historical Research International history seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G37

Colonel Nasser v Captain Pugwash: the AngloEgyptian propaganda war in the Middle East 1956–67

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Readings in the Divina Commedia. Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) and John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) £80 Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Dorothy Edgington (Birkbeck) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Rachel Jacobs (Waddesdon Manor) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

FREE Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Convenor Shihan de Silva (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) Free Email: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Spencer Mawby (Nottingham) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar October Rehabilitating the First Republic

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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Conference / Symposium Charles Clore House

Legal Education and Training Review

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The Warburg Institute Director’s work in progress seminar 14:15–15:15 The Warburg Institute

Divine Hippocrates and the transformations of medical alchemy in the early 17th century

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Institute of Classical Studies Classical archaeology seminar 17:00–19:30 King’s College London

Medium and mimesis: the case of the ‘Small Gauls’

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Institute of English Studies Lecture 18:00–20:00 Senate Room

Contemporary narrative and the coming of ageing: an author event and book launch

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature lecture 19:00–20:00 Austrian Cultural Forum, 28 Rutland Gate, London SW7 1PQ

Andrew Barker (Edinburgh) Free Email: heide.kunzelmann@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 30 Conference on the Report of the Legal Education Review. Organised in association with Society of Legal Scholars, Socio-Legal Studies Association, Assocation of Law Teachers and the Committee of Heads of University law Schools Free Email: ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Jo Hedesan Free Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

Robin Osborne (Cambridge) Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Paul Bailey and Courttia Newland Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 31 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:30 Room G22/26

Ancient history seminar

Institute of Historical Research British history in the 17th century seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G37

British history in the 17th century

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Angela McShane (V&A Museum; Royal College of Art) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar October Institute of Historical Research Modern British history seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G21a

Containing racism? The London experience, 1957–68

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Institute of Modern Languages Research English Goethe Society lecture 17:15–19:00 Room 104

Der behauste Mensch: on being at home in the universe - Goethe, Kant and others

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Institute of Historical Research American history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

North American protest and Central American revolution: the cultural left and the Reagan era

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Institute of Historical Research History of gardens and landscapes seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 102

Not another gardening book! The perennial allure of horticultural publishing

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Institute of Historical Research European history 1150-1550 seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 349

Writing the history of the Mediterranean

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Human Rights Consortium Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar 18:00–20:30 Senate Room

Corporate power and human rights series

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:30–20:00 Chancellor’s Hall

Theatre seminar

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John Davies (Oxford) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

T J Reed (Oxford) Free Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Nick Witham (Canterbury Christ Church) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Margaret Willes spent her entire career in publishing, editing and commissioning garden books Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

David Abulafia (Cambridge) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar November Friday 1 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium Friday 1–Saturday 2 09:30–18:00 Senate House

Dante and Milton: national visionaries and visionary nationalists

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Institute of Latin American Studies Conference / Symposium 14:00–19:30 Beveridge Hall

Day of the Dead

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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243

Postgraduate work in progress

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Institute of Classical Studies Early career seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

The Neoteric generation

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Institute of Historical Research Late medieval seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

What made 13th-century kings pious? The case of Edward I

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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00–19:30 Charles Clore House

Legal history seminar

Nick Havely, Mahnaz Yousefzadeh, Andrew Sanders £60/£40 Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

In collaboration with the National Council for Palliative Care £35 Email: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Dániel Kiss Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Charles Farris (Royal Holloway) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Saturday 2 Institute of Latin American Studies Institute of Musical Research Seminar 10:00–18:00 Room G22/26

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Latin American music seminar Convenor: Henry Stobart (Royal Holloway) £5 Email: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of English Studies Modernism seminar 11:00–13:00 Room 349

Modernism

John Nash (Durham) and Scarlett Baron (UCL) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

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Monday 4 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 246

Materialism in German philosophy - from Boehme to Sloterdijk and beyond

Institute of Musical Research CMPCP/IMR performance/ research seminar 17:00–18:30 Chancellor’s Hall

Performance/research seminar

Institute of Historical Research Imperial and world history seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 103

‘Inhabitants of the universe’: networks, empire and the English East India Company in the early modern world

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Institute of Historical Research Socialist history seminar 17:30–19:30 STB2

Agents of reason, Jeremiah Joyce & Tom Paine in the 1790s

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Human Rights Consortium Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Charles Clore House

Securitisation of the refugee: regional responses, states and civil society in South East Asia

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Institute of Historical Research Gender and history in the Americas seminar 17:30–19:30 STB8

The influence of architecture in Cold War literature

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Convenor: Johan Siebers (Institute of Modern Languages Research; Central Lancashire). Registration required Free Email: johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

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Yi Li (SOAS) and David Veevers (Kent) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

John Issit (York) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Antonia Mackay (Oxford Brookes; Goldsmiths) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Susan Kneebone (Monash; Refugee Law Initiative Visiting Fellow) evaluates the emerging challenge to existing regional responses and processes in the Asia-Pacific region. Registration required Free Email: rli@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar November Institute of Historical Research Modern French history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 102

The London French from the 17th century to the present day: liberty, equality, opportunity

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Institute of Historical Research Gender and history in the Americas seminar 17:30–19:30 STB2

The woman who changed Nixon: LaDonna Harris’s lessons on how small nations can successfully relate to entrenched power

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Institute of Historical Research International history seminar 18:30–21:00 King’s College London

The unloved quatrieme; locating empire violence in the failure of France’s post-war republic

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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 14:00–17:30 Charles Clore House

Electronic evidence in fraud cases

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Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 246

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics

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Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:00–19:30 Room G22/26

Webster lecture

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Institute of Historical Research British maritime history seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

The National Gallery of Naval Art: patriotic patronage and the development of a British school of art, 1795–1823

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Debra Kelly (Westminster) and Martyn Cornick (Birmingham) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Joy Porter (Hull) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Martin Thomas (Exeter). The Saki Ruth Memorial lecture Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Christopher Docksey (Office of the European Data Protection Supervisor), Ian Walden (Institute of Computer and Communications Law), Stephen Mason (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies). Chair: Simone White (European Commission’s Anti-Fraud Office, OLAF; Associate Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) Free Email: ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Susanne Bobzien (Oxford) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Victoria Wohl (Toronto) Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Cicely Robinson (York) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar November The archival research library in the West: from the Alexandrian Library to the present day

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Director’s seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 246

Italian literature across borders: from Pasolini to transmedia storytelling

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Institute of Historical Research Metropolitan history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

Selling on the streets: food and urban space in 18thcentury Naples

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Institute of Historical Research Conference / Symposium Thursday 7–Friday 8 09:30–18:00 Senate House

Medieval merchants and money

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Institute of Latin American Studies Conference / Symposium Thursday 7–Friday 8 10:00–17:00 Room G37

Picturing Latin America: rethinking film and photographic archives

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The Warburg Institute Colloquium Thursday 7–Friday 8 10:00–18:00 The Warburg Institute

Platonism

Institute of English Studies Institute of Historical Research History of libraries research seminar 17:30–19:30 Senate Room

Ian Willison (Institute of English Studies) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 6 Emanuela Patti (Institute of Modern Languages Research) Free Email: william.marshall@sas.ac.uk

Melissa Calaresu (Cambridge) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 7 Keynote lectures by Caroline Barron (Royal Holloway) and Phillipp Schofield (Aberystwyth) Free Email: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Convenor: Luciana Martins (Birkbeck) Free Email: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar November Institute of Historical Research History Lab seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 103

Some notes on the origins of American antiEuropeanism: the role of public intellectuals

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Institute of Historical Research History of education seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G21a

To ‘learn lessons’ or to think critically? A history of Holocaust consciousness and education

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Institute of English Studies Senate House Library Friends lecture 18:00–19:00 Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies

Treasures untold: the opportunities and challenges of the UK’s rich library heritage

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Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium Senate House

The weird: fugitive fictions/hybrid genres

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Institute of Historical Research Late medieval seminar 09:30–18:30 Room G22/26

Comprehending credit in the medieval English countryside

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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Early career seminar

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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243

Postgraduate work in progress

Alessandra Bitumi (Bologna) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Andy Pearce (Institute of Education) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Stella Butler (Leeds) Free Email: shl.officeadmin@london.ac.uk

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S T Joshi, Victoria Nelson £35/£25; 20 students £12.50 Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Phillipp Schofield (Aberystwyth) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar November Institute of Historical Research Economic and social history of the premodern world, 15001800 seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

Economic and social history of the premodern world, 1500–1800

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Institute of Historical Research Women’s history seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G21a

Lady Bella and Sir Charles Steadfast Strong: mysticism, sexuality, socialism and the Woman Question in Glasgow, 1890–1910

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 234

Charles Peake Ulysses seminar

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

Irish studies seminar

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Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium Chancellor’s Hall

The future of Britten

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Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium 10:00–17:30 Senate Room

Wilkie Collins: new directions and readings

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Institute of English Studies Early modern philosophy and the scientific imagination seminar 14:00–16:00 Room 104

‘So they vanished into their thoughts’: Archangelo Burgonovo on kabbalah and philosophy

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Craig Muldrew (Cambridge) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Tanya Cheadle (Glasgow) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Rhiannon Moss (Queen Mary) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 9 Keynote lecture: Arnold Whittall Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk

The Victorian Popular Fiction Association is pleased to announce a study day devoted to the work of Wilkie Collins £10 Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

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Crofton Black (independent scholar) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar November ‘The confessions of J Lackington, late bookseller’ (1804): a pattern for education in an age of infidelity

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Institute of Musical Research CMPCP/IMR performance research seminar 14:00–16:00 Chancellor’s Hall

Christopher Redgate and Brian Ferneyhough

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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 243

Ancient philosophy seminar

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 349

Greek literature seminar

Institute of Historical Research Education in the long 18th century seminar 14:00–16:00 Room 349

Sophie Bankes (Open) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Monday 11 Christopher Redgate demonstrates passages from Brian Ferneyhough’s new work ’Schatten aus Wasser und Stein’ for the Redgate/Howarth oboe and string quartet .

In association with the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk

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Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

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Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 12 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 12:30–14:00 Charles Clore House

Advanced legal studies lunchtime seminar

The Warburg Institute From devilry to divinity seminar 13:00–14:15 The Warburg Institute

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

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Institute of Classical Studies Reception seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Trivium

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Free Email: belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

Readings in the Divina Commedia. Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) and John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) £80 Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar November Institute of Historical Research London Group of Historical Geographers seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G34

Empire of curiosities: Hans Sloane and the collection of the world

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Institute of English Studies Roman Jakobson seminar 17:30–19:00 Room 234

Vladimir Mayakovsky: poetry: rules and revolution

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Institute of Historical Research International history seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G37

Britain, the Soviet threat lobby and the Cold War

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Institute of English Studies Book collecting seminar 18:00–20:00 Court Room

Collecting the distant world

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Institute of Latin American Studies Institute of Modern Languages Research Other events 18:00–20:00 Room 103

Meeting the directors. Dialogues between new Argentine cinema & theatre: Mi vida después / My life After (2009)

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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Institute of Latin American Studies Lecture 18:00–19:30 Charles Clore House

No end to impunity for disappearances in Mexico: the way forward?

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James Delbourgo (Rutgers) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Mary A. Coghill (London Metropolitan) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Jeff Michaels (King’s, London) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Michael Graves-Johnston (Antiquarian and Rare Books) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Video conference with Lola Arias. Convenors: Cecilia Sosa (East London; Institute of Latin American Studies) and Jordana Blejmar (Institute of Modern Languages Research) Free Email: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

Ruber Knox (Amnesty International) and Alma Rosa Garca Guevara (Fray Juan de Larios Human Rights Center). Registration required. Organised jointly with the Solicitors International Human Rights Group and the Society for Advanced Legal Studies Free Email: ials.events@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar November Wednesday 13 Human Rights Consortium Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Institute of Commonwealth Studies Conference / Symposium Wednesday 13–Thursday 14 09:00–14:00 Charles Clore House

On the borders of refugee protection? The impact of human rights law on refugee law - comparative practice and theory

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Conference / Symposium

Legal education research workshop

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 14:00–16:00 Room G21a

Cultural Memory, Affect and Trauma Working Group

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The Warburg Institute Director’s work in progress seminar 14:15–15:15 The Warburg Institute

Director’s work in progress seminar

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Institute of Classical Studies Mycenaean series lecture 15:30–19:30 Room G22/26

Aegean-type pottery in the late Bronze and early Iron Age southern Levant: a revaluation of functions and meanings

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Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00 STB8

Aesthetics forum

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The Warburg Institute Lecture 16:30–17:45 The Warburg Institute

Ancient scholars at work or at play? Athenaeus of Naucratis

Charles Clore House

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This expert conference breaks new ground in exploring how human rights law is shaping the protection of refugees worldwide. It brings together exciting new contributions from more than 25 leading international specialists - including experts from UNHCR. Registration required £110.00 standard / £60.00 student Email: rli@sas.ac.uk

Organised with the Legal Education and Research Network Free Email: belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: jordana.blejmar@sas.ac.uk

Fabrizio Bigotti Free Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Phillip Stockhammer (Heidelberg). Mycenaean series Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Mitchell Green (Virginia). Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Christian Jacob (CNRS; l’EHESS ANHIMA) Free Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar November Institute of Musical Research ICONEA seminar 17:00–18:30 Room 246

Ajnas,’uqud and the traditional maqam form in Iraq

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Institute of Classical Studies Classical archaeology seminar 17:00–19:30 King’s College London

Animated armours and the materiality of metaphors in Attic vase-painting

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Institute of Historical Research Modern French history / Modern Italian history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 103

From anti-fascism to anti-colonialism: Italian intellectuals and the Algerian war

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Institute of Historical Research Christian missions in global history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G37

Revd Dr Theophilus Scholes, Jamaican missionary critic at the heart of empire

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature lecture 19:00–20:00 Austrian Cultural Forum, 28 Rutland Gate, London SW7 1PQ

Gothic Austrian avant-garde - H C Artmann and England

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Büchner today / Büchner heute

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Ahmad Mukhtar Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk

Francois Lissarrague (Paris).

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Neelam Srivastava (Newcastle). Chair: Carl Levy Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

David Killingray (London) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Heide Kunzelmann (Institute of Modern Languages Research; Kent) Free Email: heide.kunzelmann@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 14 £65 (2 days)/ £40 (1 day) Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference / Symposium Thursday 14–Friday 15 10:00–18:00 Room G22/26

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Events calendar November Institute of Commonwealth Studies Conference / Symposium 10:00–19:00 Senate Room

Witness seminar: ghosts of CHOGMs past - lessons of managing controversy

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 12:30–14:00 STB3

Lunchtime seminar: intergenomic conflict and common currencies

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Institute of Classical Studies Ancient History seminar 16:30–19:30 Room G37

Population, society and family in Roman Egypt

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The Warburg Institute Seminar 17:00–18:30 The Warburg Institute

Squaring the circle: rhumbs, globes and the making of the Mercator Projection (1569)

UH

Institute of Historical Research British history in the 17th century seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 104

Rex Jacobus, Rex Fatuus? Or the reputation of James VI and I revisited for the umpteenth time

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Institute of Historical Research Modern British history seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

Violence and the body politic in popular protest in the 1830s

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Human Rights Consortium Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar 18:00–19:30 Charles Clore House

Climate change-related displacement: what scope for protection under refugee and human rights law?

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Organised by the Commonwealth Oral History project. Registration required Free Email: vanessa.rockel@sas.ac.uk

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David Spurrett (KwaZulu-Natal) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

April Pudsey (Birkbeck) Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Joaquim Alves Gaspar and Henrique Leito (Centro Interuniversitario de Historia das Ciéncias e da Tecnologia, Lisbon) Free Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Michael Questier (Queen Mary) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Katrina Navickas (Hertfordshire) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Bruce Burson (New Zealand Immigration and Protection Tribunal) and Matthew Scott (Lund). This cutting-edge workshop explores how protection against refoulement can be provided to victims of climate change-related displacement under conventional asylum and human rights law. Registration required Free Email: rli@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar November Institute of Historical Research European history 1150-1550 seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 349

Peasants and the intensification of English agriculture

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Institute of Historical Research History of gardens and landscapes seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

The lemon tree and me

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Institute of English Studies Modernist magazines seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 234

The London Magazine

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Alex Sapoznik (King’s, London) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

John Newling (Nottingham Trent) is Professor Emeritus of Installation Sculpture and a pioneer of public art with a social purpose. This paper is based on an unpublished text about his struggle to cultivate a lemon tree in soil created from 85% paper Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Faith Binckes (author of Modernism, Magazines, and the British Avant-Garde) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Friday 15 The Warburg Institute Colloquium 14:30–18:00 The Warburg Institute

The mobility of antiquities - cultural processes and collecting practices in early modern Italy

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243

Postgraduate work in progress

Institute of Historical Research Late medieval seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

Middling sorts of people in late medieval England

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54th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies

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Kathleen Christian (Open), Leah Clark (Open), Bianca de Divitiis (Naples ‘Federico II’), Barbara Furlotti (Warburg Institute) Free Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

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Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Matt Holford (Winchester) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Modern Languages Research Colloquium 09:30–18:30 University of Birmingham

£10 Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

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Saturday 16

Events calendar November Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium 11:00–17:00 Senate Room

Illustrating Dickens

Geoffrey Beare, Rowan Watson, Amanda-Jane Doran, Simon Cooke, Anthony Burton, Tony Williams, Michael Slater, Leonée Ormond £20/£15 conference only; £32/£27 with Dickens Museum visit Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

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Sunday 17 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:30 King’s College London

Classical archaeology seminar

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Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Monday 18 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 246

Materialism in German philosophy - from Boehme to Sloterdijk and beyond

Institute of Musical Research Directions in musical research seminar 17:00–18:30 Room 104

From poem to song and back: the spectre of music in 19th-century France

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 349

Greek literature seminar

Institute of Historical Research Imperial and world history seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 103

Black skin and white hearts: counterrevolutionary black Jamaicans in the Baptist War and Morant Bay Rebellion

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Institute of English Studies London Shakespeare seminar 17:15–19:00 Senate Room

Performing Shakespeare locally and globally

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Convenor: Johan Siebers (Institute of Modern Languages Research; Central Lancashire). Registration required Free Email: johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

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Helen Abbott (Sheffield) Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk

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Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Adam Thomas (California, Irvine) and William Bramwell (Warwick) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Jonathan Holmes (Jericho House) and Tom Bird (Shakespeare’s Globe) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar November Institute of Historical Research Modern French history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 102

The Huguenots of Paris and the coming of religious freedom

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Institute of Historical Research Socialist history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G35

UKIP’s forebears? Poujade and the French left

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The Warburg Institute From devilry to divinity seminar 18:30–20:00 Italian Cultural Institute

Divina Commedia - Inferno - introduction: From Hell to Purgatory

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 12:30–14:00 Room 234

Djuna Barnes research seminar

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The Warburg Institute From devilry to divinity seminar 13:00–14:15 The Warburg Institute

Divina Commedia - Purgatorio, Canto XVI.58-105; Canto XVII.91-105; Canto XVIII.13-75. The moral structure of Purgatory; the nature of love and its relation to free will

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Institute of Classical Studies Reception seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Trivium

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Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 243

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics

David Garrioch (Monash) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Ian Birchall Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Readings in the Divina Commedia. Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) and John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) £80 Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 19 Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) and John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) £80 Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

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Bryan Rabern (Edinburgh) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar November Institute of Historical Research British maritime history seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

The silent service on the silent screen: the ‘Cult of the Navy’ and early cinema

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Institute of English Studies Contemporary cultures of writing seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 349

Lost in translation? – comedy across cultures

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Institute of English Studies Literary London reading group seminar 18:00–19:30 Room 234

Gimme shelter: a panel on women’s housing in London, 1880–1945

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The Warburg Institute Director’s work in progress seminar 14:15–15:15 The Warburg Institute

Lorenzo Valla and the ancient grammarians

U

Institute of Modern Languages Research Director’s seminar 15:00–17:00 Room 246

The language of images: literature and iconography in Giuseppe Betussi’s poetical work

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Institute of Historical Research History of political ideas seminar 17:15–19:00 Room G37

Why should philosophers be interested in the history of ideas?

Institute of Historical Research Metropolitan history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

Localism in turn-of-the-century London? The development of the Minet Estate in Lambeth c.1870–1910

Victoria Carolan (Greenwich Maritime Institute) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

FREE Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Emily Gee (English Heritage), Terri Mullholland (Oxford), Emma Short (Newcastle) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

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Clementina Marsico Free Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

Carmen Donia (Institute of Modern Languages Research; Padua) Free Email: william.marshall@sas.ac.uk

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Edward Skidelsky (Exeter) Free Email: danny.millum@sas.ac.uk

David Kroll (Institute of Historical Research) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar November Institute of Modern Languages Research Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243

Illustrating internment: graphic contributions in The Camp and The Onchan Pioneer

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Institute of English Studies Contemporary fiction seminar 18:00–20:00 Court Room

Literature and social media

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Institute of Philosophy Lunchtime seminar 12:30–14:00 Room 246

Can we visually experience aesthetic properties?

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Institute of Classical Studies Ancient history seminar 16:30–19:30 Room G22/26

Children and labour

Institute of Historical Research Late medieval and early modern Italy seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

Records and government in late medieval Sicily: the books of salaries

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Institute of Historical Research History Lab seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

Choosing demons: freedom and responsibility in Eusebius of Caesarea

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Institute of Historical Research Rethinking modern Europe seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

On the transnational destruction of cities: what Japan and the US learned from the bombing of Germany and Britain in WWII

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Chiara Barbieri (London) Free Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Casey Brienza (City), Ruth Page (Leicester) and Bronwen Thomas (Bournemouth).

Contemporary Fiction Research seminar on literature as it is produced through social media as well as the ways we encounter social media in recent print fiction Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 21 Heather Logue (Leeds) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Arietta Papaconstantinou (Reading) Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

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Alessandro Silvestri Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Hazel Johannessen (King’s, London) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Sheldon Garon (Princeton). Chair: Naoko Shimazu (Birkbeck) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar November Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243

Media history seminar

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:30–20:30 Court Room

Theatre

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Margaret Beetham (Salford) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Friday 22 Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference / Symposium Friday 22–Saturday 23 09:00–18:00 Room G22/26

Iconic images in modern Italy: politics, culture and society

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference / Symposium Friday 22–Saturday 23 10:00–18:00 Court Room

Francophone postcolonial studies and book culture

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Institute of Classical Studies Early career seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

On the book trade in 5th-century Athens

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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243

Postgraduate work in progress

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Institute of Historical Research Women’s history seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G21a

‘I do most sincerely wish you dear madam a happy minute’: the experience of childbirth in the long 18th century

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2013 Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI) conference Fee applicable Email: alessandra.antola@ntlworld.com

2013 Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies (SFPS) conference Fee applicable Email: ruth.bush@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

Hallie Marshall Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Sarah Fox (Manchester) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar November Institute of Historical Research Economic and social history of the premodern world, 15001800 seminar 17:15–17:15 Room 102

Interlopers and disorderly brethren at the stade mart: mercantile practices amongst the merchant adventurers of England, 1593–1611

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Institute of Historical Research Late medieval seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

The yeoman of the chamber and the secretary for French affairs: construction of individual lien identities in later Medieval England

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Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium 09:30–18:00 Senate House

Annual George Eliot conference: Romola and Felix Holt

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Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium 10:00–17:30 Senate House

Blackburn’s ‘worthy citizen’: a colloquium on the R E Hart collection

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Institute of Historical Research Education in the long 18th century seminar 14:00–16:00 Room 104

Playing with pedagogy’ in the Christmas annuals of the 1820s and 1830s

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Institute of Musical Research Other events 13:00–14:00 Chancellor’s Hall

Concert: Nicolas Hodges

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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 243

Ancient philosophy seminar

Tom Leng (Sheffield) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Jessica Lutkin and Bart Lambert (York) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 23 Barbara Hardy, Leonée Ormond, Andrew Sanders, Isobel Armstrong, Ruth Livesey, Alain Jumeau, Louise Lee £35/£25 Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

£15/£5; 20 free student places Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Karen Williams (Roehampton) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Programme to include: Ferneyhough’s Epigrams , Three Pieces for Piano , LemmaIcon-Epigram, Opus Contra Naturam. Supported by the Hepner Foundation Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk

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Monday 25

Events calendar November Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 349

Greek literature seminar

Institute of Modern Languages Research Friends of Italian Studies book launch 17:30–19:30 Senate Room

Storia umana e inumana. A reading and discussion of Giorgio Pressburger’s book (2013)

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00–19:30 Charles Clore House

Privacy law

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Institute of Musical Research Directions in musical research seminar 19:00–21:00 Chancellor’s Hall

Brian Ferneyhough in conversation with Colin Blakemore

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Institute of Philosophy LEOS seminar 19:00–21:00 Room G37

Temporal dominance of sensations and perceived complexity in wine

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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 12:30–14:00 Charles Clore House

Advanced legal studies lunchtime seminar

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The Warburg Institute From devilry to divinity seminar 13:00–14:15 The Warburg Institute

Divina Commedia - Purgatorio, Canto I; Canto II.106132. Dante and Virgil emerge from the abyss of Hell on the shore of Mount Purgatory. Cato. The ritual of purification. Casella

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Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

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Giorgio Pressburger Free Email: emanuela.patti@sas.ac.uk

James Michael (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) Free Email: ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Brian Ferneyhough (ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellow) and Colin Blakemore (Institute of Philosophy). Followed by an Arditti Quartet concert: Ferneyhough String Quartet no.2, Dum Transisset, Lemma-Icon-Epigram, Opus Contra Naturam Free Email: Tickets available from music@sas.ac.uk

Pascal Schlich (INRA, Dijon) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 26 Free Email: ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) and John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) £80 Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar November Institute of Classical Studies Reception seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Trivium

Institute of Historical Research London Group of Historical Geographers seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G34

Knowing your latitude and longitude in 18th-century London

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Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:15–19:00 Room 243

Objective probability, and conditional reasoning: individual risk: does it exist?

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Institute of Historical Research International history seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G37

Martinique in World War II - conflict and diplomacy in the Caribbean

H

The Warburg Institute Director’s work in progress seminar 14:15–15:15 The Warburg Institute

The English pupils of Angelo Poliziano

U

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 243

Aesthetics forum

P

Institute of Classical Studies Classical archaeology seminar 17:00–19:30 King’s College London

Divine libations: mimesis, medium, motion

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Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Katy Barrett (National Maritime Museum) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Philip Dawid (Cambridge) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Bartholomaeus Zielinski (King’s, London) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 27

Manuel Garcia Carpintero (Barcelona). Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Milete Gaifman (Yale) Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

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Laura Refe Free Email: warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar November The common law and Europe

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Institute of Philosophy Conference / Symposium Thursday 28–Friday 29 14:00–17:45 Senate Room

The return of aesthetics to archaeology

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Institute of Classical Studies Ancient history seminar 16:30–19:30 Room G22/26

Uncovering childhood in Late Antique sources: methodological considerations

CH

The Warburg Institute Seminar 17:00–18:30 The Warburg Institute

Recording the discoveries: the Pacific and Tartary mapped by Lorenz Fries in early 1525

UH

Institute of Historical Research British history in the 17th century seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 104

British history in the 17th century

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Institute of Historical Research Modern British history seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

The making of the modern British family? Mass suburbanisation and changes in household behaviour between the wars

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Institute of Historical Research European history 1150-1550 / Medieval and early modern Italian seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 349

England and Italy: which holds the record for records?

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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture 18:00–19:00 Inner Temple Hall, Inner Temple, London EC4Y 7HL

The Rt Hon Lord Justice Laws, Lord Justice of Appeal. The Hamlyn Trust Lectures series. Registration required Free Email: ials.events@sas.ac.uk

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Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann, Robin Skeates, Chris Gosden, Gregory Currie, Christina Riggs, Anna Bergquist, Andy Jones, David Cooper, John Chapman, Derek Matravers. Organised by an AHRC funded project at Durham Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Reidar Aasgard (Oslo) and Ville Vuolanto (Oslo) Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Frederik Muller (Antiquarian bookseller, Bergum, Netherlands) Free Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Dan Clinkman (British Library) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Peter Scott (Reading) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar November Institute of Historical Research American history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 103

From the ‘murdering wives’ to Abu Ghraib: a half century of American civilian immunity from courtmartial prosecution

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Lecture 17:30–19:30 Room G34

Gleichzeitigkeit kann täuschen - Goethe und Kleist an den Grenzen ihrer Zeitalter

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Institute of Historical Research History of gardens and landscapes seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G37

Stranger in a strange land: representing different landscapes

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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture 18:00–19:00 Charles Clore House

Annual Statute Law Society Lord Renton lecture

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Patrick Hagopian (Lancaster) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Hans Joachim Kreutzer (Regensburg) Free Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Ingrid Pollard (photographer/artist) is known for her photographic series that question social constructs such as Britishness and racial difference Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Lord Pannick QC. Jointly organised with the Statute Law Society Free Email: statutelaw@aol.com

Friday 29 The Warburg Institute Colloquium Friday 29–Saturday 30 10:00–13:00 The Warburg Institute

Horace in Renaissance France

Institute of Commonwealth Studies Conference / Symposium 10:30–19:30 Room 349

Decolonisation workshop

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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243

Postgraduate work in progress

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In collaboration with King’s, London £15/£10 Email: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

UH

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

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Ingrid de Smet (Warwick), Hugo Tucker (Reading) and Paul White (Cambridge).

Organised by: Daniel Andersson (Oxford), Ariane Schwartz (Dartmouth) and Peter Mack (Warburg Institute) £40 Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar November Institute of Classical Studies Early career seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Vivam ... Ovid’s continuing survival in 20th-century France

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Institute of Historical Research Late medieval seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

Canons in the cloister: St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, in the late 15th century

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Institute of Commonwealth Studies Talk and book lanuch 17:30–19:30 Room 349

Talk and book launch: Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the war against Apartheid

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 18:00–19:30 Charles Clore House

Legal history seminar

Kathleen Hamel Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Euan Roger (Royal Holloway) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Alan Wieder Free Email: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

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Free Email: ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 30 Institute of Historical Research Socialist history seminar 12:00–17:00 Room 246

Remake, remodel: the making of the English working class at 50

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing seminar 14:30–16:30 Room 243

Women’s writing and the visual arts

U

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Roundtable discussion with Logie Barrow (Bremen) and Pete Dwyer (Ruskin).

Respondent: Keith Flett Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: gill.rye@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar December Subject area key Classics History Philosophy culture, language

& literature Human rights Politics Law Music Highlights

www.sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar December Monday 2 Institute of Philosophy Workshop Monday 2–Tuesday 3 10:00–18:00 Room G37

European Science Foundation Eurounderstanding: varieties of shared intentionality

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 246

Materialism in German philosophy - from Boehme to Sloterdijk and beyond

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 349

Greek literature seminar

Institute of Historical Research Imperial and world history seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 103

Buying at the Bazaar: the distribution of domestically-produced political objects through the Anti-Slavery Bazaar

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Institute of Historical Research Modern French history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 102

The Crac des Chevaliers and French colonial history

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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture 18:00–19:00 Charles Clore House

The Caribbean Court of Justice and the dispute resolution regime of the Economic Treaty of CARICOM States

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Jonas Åkerman, Johannes Brandl, Ingar Brinck, Stephen Butterfill, Mattia Gallotti, Julian Kiverstein, Patrizio Lo Presti, Teresa Marques, John Michael, Hannes Rakoczy, Philippe Rochat, Andreas Roepstorff, Glenda Satne, Hans Bernhard Schmid, Dan Zahavi. Supported by the European Science Foundation Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

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Convenor: Johan Siebers (Institute of Modern Languages Research; Central Lancashire). Registration required Free Email: johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

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Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Naomi Gardner (Royal Holloway) and Sarah Jane Bodell (Warwick) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Astrid Swenson (Brunel) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Hon Madam Justice Désirée Bernard (CCH, OR, Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice; Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Inns of Court Fellow) Free Email: ials.events@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar December Tuesday 3 School of Advanced Study Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Conference / Symposium 15:00–19:00 Charles Clore House

Responsibilty and accountability in the financial sector

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Institute of Classical Studies Reception seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Trivium

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Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 243

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics: why is belief involuntary?

P

Institute of Historical Research British maritime history seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

The culture of coaling stations: tourism, entertainment and interactions at British naval coaling stations

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Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:30–19:30 Room G22/26

Accordia lecture

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Institute of English Studies Contemporary cultures of writing seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 349

Comedy live – creativity in stand up

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Institute of English Studies Institute of Historical Research History of libraries research seminar 17:30–19:30 British Library

The Survival of the Old Royal Library Collections 1660-1760

U

Keynote speaker: Arthur Grimes (NZ-UK Link Foundation Visiting Professor; former Chair of the Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand). Chair: Barry Rider (Cambridge). Organised by the NZ-UK Link Foundation Free Email: ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Anthony Booth (Sussex) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Steven Gray (Warwick) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Stand-up is a special form of comedy as it involves the audience perhaps more than any other genre. In this session we will explore the nature of stand-up versus other forms of comedy. Questions will also focus on the role of writing in stand-up, how the audience can be accounted for in the writing process, and how the written piece might be different from the performed piece FREE Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

John Goldfinch (British Library) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar December Wednesday 4 Institute of Musical Research ICONEA conference 2013 Wednesday 4–6 Friday Room 104

The reliability in transmission in texts of musical theory in the Ancient World from sources to the present day: Mesopotamia, Ancient Turkey, the Levant, Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Byzantium and the Occident

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In association with the British Museum. Registration required £75.00 Email: music@sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute Director’s work in progress seminar 14:15–15:15 The Warburg Institute

Director’s work in progress seminar

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Institute of Classical Studies Mycenaean series lecture 15:30–19:30 Room G22/26

The pottery from the early Cycladic settlement at Dhaskalio, Keros and its wider implications for the later early Bronze Age of the Cyclades

C

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 243

Aesthetics forum

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Institute of Historical Research History of political ideas seminar 17:15–19:00 Room G37

Tragic politics: Hegel, Marx, Schmitt

Institute of Historical Research Metropolitan history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

Bargain hunt? Selling and buying secondhand in London and New York, c.1700–1850

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Jeroen De Keyser Free Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Peggy Sotirakopoulou (Athens) Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Hong Yu Wong (Tubingen). Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Miriam Leonard (UCL) Free Email: danny.millum@sas.ac.uk

Sara Pennell (Roehampton) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar December Institute of Historical Research Rethinking modern Europe / Modern religious history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G35

‘This hellish atomic technology’: pacifism, patriotism, and Soviet evangelicals in the early Cold War

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 246

Theory now

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Miriam Dobson (Sheffield). Chair: Stephen Lovell Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

FREE Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 5 Institute of Classical Studies Ancient history seminar 16:30–19:30 Room G22/26

Adoption and intergenerational relationships in the Roman family

Institute of Philosophy Centre for the Study of the Senses (CenSes) seminar 17:00–19:00 Room 243

The dual visual stream hypothesis

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Institute of Historical Research Late medieval and early modern Italy seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

Between Arras and Puglia: minstrels at the court of Robert II of Artois

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Institute of Historical Research History of education seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G21a

Agriculture, industry and culture: the response of the south-eastern mechanics institutes as pioneers in 19th-century adult education

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Sabine Huebner (Berlin; Rome) Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Thor Grunbaum (Copenhagen) and Jens Christiansen Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Ella Williams Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

Jana Sims (Institute of Education) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar December Human Rights Consortium Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Charles Clore House

Gangs, cartels and the new dynamics of forced displacement in Latin America

Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:00 Seng Tee Lee Centre, Senate House Library

Medieval manuscripts

U

Institute of Historical Research History Lab seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

The presence of the public in later 15th-century Scotland

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Human Rights Consortium Institute of Commonwealth Studies Lecture 18:00–20:00 Room 349

Corporate power and human rights series

Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 103

Europe’s 1968: the use of life histories

H

Postgraduate work in progress

C

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David James Cantor (Refugee Law Initiative) presents new research findings from his project on ‘New Dynamics of Forced Migration in Latin America’. Registration required Free Email: rli@sas.ac.uk

James Freeman Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Claire Hawes and Malcolm Petrie (both St Andrews): ‘Popular radicalism, public politics, and local electoral campaigning in Scotland, 1920-35’ Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

David Kinley (Sydney), who has written extensively on issues of business, finance and human rights Free Email: hrc@sas.ac.uk

Robert Gildea (Oxford) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Friday 6 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243

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Events calendar

Events calendar December Institute of Classical Studies Early career seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

The end of the world? On the wall with Rudyard Kipling and George R R Martin

C

Institute of Historical Research Women’s history seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G21a

An accidental educationalist: the educational work of S Margery Fry (1874–1958)

H

Institute of Historical Research Economic and social history of the premodern world, 15001800 seminar 17:15–19:15 STB2

The Atlantic ‘silver loop’: London and the Spanish silver trade (1620–60)

H

Institute of Historical Research Late medieval seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G37

Henry V: the business, and busyness, of kingship

H

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 234

Charles Peake Ulysses seminar

U

Stephen Harrop Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Anne Logan (Kent) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Claudio Marsilio (ISEG Lisbon; Institute of Historical Research) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Malcolm Vale (Oxford) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 7 Post-national modern languages

Examining new research in diasporic and translation studies, and probing the relevance of the ‘nation’ in modern languages research Fee applicable Email: christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk

U

www.sas.ac.uk

Institute of Modern Languages Research Conference / Symposium 09:00–18:00 Room G22/26

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Events calendar December Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar 10:00–17:30 Other

South American archaeology seminar

U

Institute of English Studies Early modern philosophy and the scientific imagination seminar 14:00–16:00 Room G37

Harmony vs Unity: Giordano Bruno, Copernicus, and the abandonment of circular uniformity

U

Institute of English Studies Contemporary fiction research seminar 14:00–16:00 Room G35

Literature and sport

U

Institute of Historical Research Education in the long 18th century seminar 14:00–16:00 Court Room

Public lectures in Egyptology in the 18th and 19th centuries: education and entertainment

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Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 15:00–18:00 Senate Room

Virgil Society lecture

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Convenor: Bill Sillar (UCL) £7.50 Email: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Dario Tessicini (University of Durham) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Joe Brooker and Jon McLeod Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Gabriel Moshenska (UCL) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Monday 9 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 00:00–00:00 Charles Clore House

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European criminal law seminar

Registration required. Jointly organised with the European Criminal Law Association Free Email: ials.events@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar December Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 243

Ancient philosophy seminar

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 349

Greek literature seminar

Institute of Musical Research CMPCP/IMR performance/ research seminar 17:00–18:30 Chancellor’s Hall

What might Schechner’s performance studies and the emerging field of performance philosophy mean for music?

M

Institute of English Studies London Shakespeare seminar 17:15–19:00 Senate Room

Editing: Shakespeare and free will

U

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar 12:30–14:00 Charles Clore House

Advanced legal studies lunchtime seminar

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Institute of Philosophy Seminar 17:15–19:00 Room 243

Objective probability, and conditional reasoning: counterfactuals and chances

P

Institute of English Studies Roman Jakobson seminar 17:30–19:00 Room 234

Jan Mukarovsky: a personal response

U

CP

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

CU

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Laura Cull (Surrey) Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk

Suzanne Gossett (Loyola University Chicago), Peter Holbrook Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 10 Free Email: belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

Denise Riley (Cornell) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

Richard Bradley (LSE) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar December Institute of Latin American Studies Institute of Modern Languages Research Other events 18:00–20:00 Senate Room

Meeting the directors. Dialogues between new Argentine cinema & theatre: Fauna (2013)

U

Institute of Historical Research International history seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G37

The international gold market, empire and diplomacy

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

The obscure origins, wonderful life, and shock death of the railway library in British fiction

U

Institute of Historical Research Lecture 18:30–19:30 Beveridge Hall

2013 Creighton lecture

H

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 14:00–16:00 Room 243

Cultural Memory, Affect and Trauma Working Group

U

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 14:00–18:00 STB2

Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing seminar

Romina Paula. Convenors: Cecilia Sosa (East London; Institute of Latin American Studies) and Jordana Blejmar (Institute of Modern Languages Research) Free Email: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Michele Blagg (King’s, London) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

John Spiers (Institute of English Studies; Glamorgan) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Lisa Jardine (UCL) Free Email: manjeet.sambi@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 11

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Free Email: jordana.blejmar@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: gill.rye@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar December Institute of Historical Research Christian missions in global history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G21a

From celebrity to saintliness: David Livingstone and memories of mission

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Institute of Historical Research Modern Italian history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 103

Verdi and politics: views from (of) Italy, 1859–1861

H

Institute of Classical Studies Ancient history seminar 16:30–19:30 Room G22/26

Roman household formation: theories of structure and change

CH

Institute of Historical Research Modern British history seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

‘Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind’: Christmas in Britain in the mid-20th century

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Institute of Modern Languages Research English Goethe Society lecture 17:15–19:00 Room G34

‘Das “Innere” des Menschen aufklär[en]’: poetry as psychology in Moritz’s Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde

U

Institute of Historical Research British history in the 17th century seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 104

Elias Ashmole’s library for the Ashmolean museum

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Chris Wingfield (Cambridge) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Francesca Vella (UCL). Chair: Axel Korner Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 12 Richard Alston (RHUL London) Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Martin Johnes (Swansea) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Vittoria Feola (Medical University of Vienna) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

Sheila Dickson (Glasgow) Free Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar December Institute of Philosophy Other event 17:30–19:00 Beveridge Hall

Human Mind Project panel discussion

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Institute of Historical Research European history 1150-1550 seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 349

Copernicus’s library

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Institute of Historical Research History of gardens and landscapes seminar 17:30–19:30 STB2

Groombridge place as cultural palimpsest

H

Institute of Historical Research American history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 103

Ireland and England in confederate nationalism

H

Institute of English Studies Modernist magazines seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 234

Virginia Woolf and Good Housekeeping

U

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:30–20:30 Chancellor’s Hall

Theatre seminar

U

Chair: Colin Blakemore (Institute of Philosophy, Centre for the Study of the Senses) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Dilwyn Knox (UCL) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Lavinia Brydon (Kent) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

David Gleeson (Northumbria) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Alice Wood (author of Virginia Woolf’s Late Cultural Criticism) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Friday 13 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243

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Postgraduate work in progress Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G37

19th century studies seminar

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

Irish studies seminar

Events calendar

Events calendar December U

Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Marc Mullholland (Oxford) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

U

Monday 16 The Warburg Institute Colloquium 10:00–18:00 The Warburg Institute

The afterlife of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek, Hamburg and London. Traditions in the development of the Warburg Institute. A commemoration of the migration in December 1933

UH

Fee applicable Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk Institute of Historical Research Imperial and world history seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 103

The portrait, the sketch, the man: re-presenting slave-ownership - George Hibbert 1837–2007

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Institute of Historical Research Socialist history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G21a

Commitment, stories from the left. A photographic project

H

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 19:15–21:00 Room G37

LEOS seminar

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Djuna Barnes research seminar

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Kate Donington (UCL) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Vaughan Melzer Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Didier Mariotti (Mumm, Chef de cave) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies Seminar 12:30–14:00 Room 234

www.sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 17 Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar December Institute of Historical Research Life-cycles seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 103

Charting Australian youthscapes, 1860–1914

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Institute of Historical Research British maritime history seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

‘The artist in me survived’: John Kingsley Cook and serving in the merchant navy during WWII

H

‘My people, my people!’: the transnational travels of African American women anthropologists and the creation of the African diaspora

H

Simon Sleight (King’s, London) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Melanie Vandenbrouck (National Maritime Museum) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 19 Institute of Historical Research History Lab seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

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Imaobong Umoren (Oxford) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar January Subject area key Classics History Philosophy culture, language

& literature Human rights Politics Law Music Highlights

www.sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar January Monday 6 Institute of Historical Research Modern French history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 102

‘La semaine sanglante’. What happened after the Bastille fell

H

Institute of Historical Research Gender and history in the Americas seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 104

War and the female franchise in Jamaica

H

The Warburg Institute From devilry to divinity seminar 13:00–14:15 The Warburg Institute

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

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Institute of Historical Research International history seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G21a

Tell French he can go hang: the king on the front line

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The Warburg Institute Director’s work in progress seminar 14:15–15:15 The Warburg Institute

Director’s work in progress seminar

U

Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 246

Director’s seminar

U

Donald Sutherland (Maryland) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Henrice Altink (York) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 7

Readings in the Divina Commedia. Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) and John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) £80 Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Matthew Glencross (King’s, London) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 8

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Claudia Daniotti Free Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar January Thursday 9 Sometimes I feel like a motherless child: the effacement of mothers in medieval Irish saints’ lives

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 246

Materialism in German philosophy - from Boehme to Sloterdijk and beyond

UP

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 243

Ancient philosophy seminar

CP

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 349

Latin literature seminar

Institute of Historical Research History Lab seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

Tom O’Donnell (UCL) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Monday 13 Convenor: Dr Johan Siebers (Institute of Modern Languages Research; Central Lancashire). Registration required Free Email: johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

CU

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 14 Institute of Philosophy Workshop 10:00–18:30 Room 243

Music, mind and culture

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The Warburg Institute From devilry to divinity seminar 13:00–14:15 The Warburg Institute

Divina Commedia - Purgatorio, Canto XXX. Appearance of Beatrice on the chariot of the Church

U

Paul Boghossian, Ophelia Deroy and Christopher Peacocke Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

Readings in the Divina Commedia. Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) and John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) £80 Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar January The Warburg Institute Director’s work in progress seminar 14:15–15:15 The Warburg Institute

Director’s work in progress seminar

U

Institute of Classical Studies Reception seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Trivium

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Institute of Historical Research British maritime history seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

Masculinity, space, and the 18th-century Royal Naval ship

H

Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 17:30–19:30 Room G22/26

Accordia lecture

C

Institute of English Studies Book collecting seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G35

Censorship and the limits of bibliography and collecting: the case of Richard Hakluyt and the Earl of Essex

U

Institute of English Studies Seminar 18:00–19:30 Room 234

Literary London reading group

U

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Paolo Sachet Free Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Elin Jones (Queen Mary) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Anthony Payne (independent antiquarian bookseller) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar January Wednesday 15 Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 15:30–19:30 Room G22/26

Mycenaean series

C

Institute of Philosophy Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 246

Aesthetics forum

P

The Warburg Institute Lecture 16:30–17:45 The Warburg Institute

Warburg lecture

Institute of Historical Research History of political ideas seminar 17:15–19:15 Room G37

The theatrical origins of human rights in 18thcentury France

H

Institute of Modern Languages Research Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 243

The internment correspondence of Paul and Charlotte Bondy and its place in exile studies

U

John Bennet (Sheffield) Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Adam Toon (Exeter) Free Email: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Professor Heidemann. In association with the Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe Free Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

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Sanja Perovic (King’s, London) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Jennifer Taylor (London) Free Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 16 Ancient history seminar

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Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:30 Room G22/26

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Events calendar January The Warburg Institute Seminar 17:00–18:30 The Warburg Institute

Colour printing in the Renaissance: the Strasbourg edition of Ptolemy’s Geography (1513)

UH

Institute of Historical Research American history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 103

A missed opportunity: US hard line policy towards the People’s Republic of China and the Geneva negotiations of 1955–57

H

Institute of Historical Research European history 1150-1550 seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 349

Clergy and laity in pre-Reformation England

H

Institute of Classical Studies Early career seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Image and practice in ancient Greece: the case of the Athenian Plemochoai

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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243

Postgraduate work in progress

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Elizabeth Upper (Cambridge) Free Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Mara Oliva (Queen Mary) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

John Watts (Oxford) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Friday 17 Diana Rodriguez Perez Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 18 Institute of English Studies Early modern philosophy and the scientific imagination seminar 14:00–16:00 Room G37

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Henry Oldenburg as a reader and reviewer of scientific texts Niall Hodson (Durham) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar January Monday 20 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 349

Latin literature seminar

Institute of Musical Research Seminar 17:00–18:30 Chancellor’s Hall

Musical research seminar

Institute of Historical Research Modern French history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 102

Guinea pigs and poster boys: lives and afterlives of Pasteur’s rabies patients, 1885-1940

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 12:30–14:00 Room 234

Djuna Barnes research seminar

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The Warburg Institute From devilry to divinity seminar 13:00–14:15 The Warburg Institute

Divina Commedia - Purgatorio, Canto XXXIII. Beatrice prophesies the advent of a champion sent from God to deliver Church and Empire. The final ritual of Dante’s spiritual cleansing.

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Trivium

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Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

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Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk

Robert Priest (Cambridge) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 21 Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) and John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) £80 Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies Reception seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

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Events calendar January Human Rights Consortium Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Institute of Commonwealth Studies Symposium 17:30–19:30 Charles Clore House

Constraints on executive power: explaining variation in the acceptance of asylum-seekers and refugees

Institute of Historical Research International history seminar 18:00–20:00 Room G21a

International history

Institute of Latin American Studies Institute of Modern Languages Research Other events 18:00–20:00 Senate Room

Meeting the directors. Dialogues between new Argentine cinema & theatre: Viola (2012)

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The Warburg Institute Director’s work in progress seminar 14:15–15:15 The Warburg Institute

Director’s work in progress seminar

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Institute of Musical Research ICONEA seminar 17:00–18:30 Room 246

Near and Middle Eastern archaeomusicology

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Institute of Classical Studies Classical archaeology seminar 17:00–19:30 Room G22/26

When is the gaze not a gaze? Meditating vision in early classical vase painting

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Eiko Thielemann (LSE; New York). Registration required Free Email: rli@sas.ac.uk

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Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Matias Piñeiro. Convenors: Cecilia Sosa (East London; Institute of Latin American Studies) and Jordana Blejmar (Institute of Modern Languages Research) Free Email: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 22

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Roberta Giubilini Free Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk

Mark Stansbury O’Donnell (St Thomas Minnesota) Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Historical Research Modern French history / Modern Italian history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 103

Constance Bantman and Pietro Di Paola book launch

Discussant: Ruth Kinna (Loughborough). Constance Bantman: The French Anarchists in London 1880-1914: exile & transnationalismin the first globalization (Liverpool, 2013) & Pietro Di Paola: The knights errant of anarchy London and the Italian anarchist diaspora (1880-1917) (Liverpool, 2013) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar January H

Thursday 23 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:30 Room G22/26

Ancient history seminar

Institute of Historical Research History Lab seminar 17:30–19:30 Room G34

Asceticism begins at home: did late Roman villas become Merovingian monasteries?

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Institute of English Studies Seminar 17:30–19:00 Seng Tee Lee Centre, Senate House Library

Medieval manuscripts seminar

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar 18:00–20:00 Room 103

Performing memory, remembering performance: engaging audiences in oral histories

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Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Alice Larter (Reading) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Alessandra Bucossi (King’s, London) Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Heike Roms (Aberystwyth) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Friday 24 Image and language - theories of language and ideas about images

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Horst Bredekamp, Sabine Marienberg and Jürgen Trabant (all Humboldt University, Berlin), Alva Noe (Berkeley), Peter Mack (Warburg Institute) and Paul Smith (Warwick). Co-hosted with the BildAkt research group Humboldt University, Berlin £25 Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute Colloquium 10:00–18:00 The Warburg Institute

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Events calendar January Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 243

Postgraduate work in progress

Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Syene as face of battle: Heliodorus and late antique historiography

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Institute of English Studies Lecture 14:00–16:00 Chancellor’s Hall

15th annual Virginia Woolf birthday lecture: ‘To pin down the moment’

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Institute of Classical Studies Lecture 15:00–18:00 Room 349

Virgil Society lecture

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Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Alan Ross. Early Career Seminar Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 25 Dame Hermione Lee (Oxford). In association with the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain £20 Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Monday 27 Institute of Modern Languages Research Seminar 16:00–18:00 Room 246

Materialism in German philosophy - from Boehme to Sloterdijk and beyond

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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:00 Room 243

Ancient philosophy seminar

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Convenor: Johan Siebers (Institute of Modern Languages Research; Central Lancashire). Registration required Free Email: johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Events calendar

Events calendar January Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 17:00–19:30 Room 349

Latin literature seminar

Institute of Musical Research Seminar 17:00–18:30 Room 102

Musical research seminar

Institute of English Studies London Shakespeare seminar 17:15–19:00 Senate House

London Shakespeare seminar

The Warburg Institute From devilry to divinity seminar 18:30–20:00 Italian Cultural Institute

Divina Commedia - Introduction: Paradise

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The Warburg Institute From devilry to divinity seminar 13:00–14:15 The Warburg Institute

Divina Commedia - Paradiso, Canto I. Ascent to the heaven of fire

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Institute of Classical Studies Reception seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

Trivium

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Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

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Free Email: music@sas.ac.uk

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Free Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

Readings in the Divina Commedia. Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) and John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) £80 Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 28 Readings in the Divina Commedia. Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) and John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) £80 Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

www.sas.ac.uk

Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar January Institute of Historical Research British maritime history seminar 17:15–19:15 Room 102

Cartel and contra cartel: the politics surrounding prisoners of war, 1793–1815

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Bob Sutcliffe (Greenwich Maritime Institute) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 29 Warburg lecture

James Hankins (Harvard) Free Email: jane.ferguson@sas.ac.uk

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Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 16:30–19:30 Room G22/26

Ancient history seminar

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Institute of Historical Research American history seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 103

Apocalypse Americana: imagining the end of the world since the atomic bomb

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Institute of Historical Research European history 1150-1550 seminar 17:30–19:30 Room 349

Thinking about medieval institutions

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‘Salvation’ and ‘saving’ gods in ancient Greece

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The Warburg Institute Lecture 16:30–17:45 The Warburg Institute

Thursday 30 Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

Mara Keire (Oxford) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

John Arnold (Birkbeck) and John Sabapathy (UCL) Free Email: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Friday 31 Institute of Classical Studies Early career seminar 16:30–18:30 Room 246

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Theodora Jim Free Email: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.uk

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‘The School’s extensive and varied range of training programmes are designed to meet the needs of 21st century researchers, offering programmes which enable scholars in the humanities to develop their skills and pursue their studies to maximum effect.’ Rachel Stickland, Registrar

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The School’s programme of personal development and transferable skills training is available in the form of weekly workshops.

This general training is complemented by a set of research methodologies courses for students in social science disciplines, and in the software and management information tools required to enable students to complete their research effectively.

Making the most of the concentration of 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, which offers a comprehensive programme of short courses in research skills for historians.

Taking advantage of both the unparalleled concentration of historical expertise available in the University of London, and the wealth of archival materials in and round 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 of all sorts. 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 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). And the Institute of Musical Research runs a successful national scheme of day schools, aimed at PhD students but also open to those taking masters’ programmes in music, whereby specialist tutors from across the UK provide an insight into current research questions, debates and methodologies across a spectrum of musical research.

Most of the School’s training is available to postgraduate students across the UK, much of it free of charge.

Details of all of the research training courses provided are available from our website: www.sas.ac.uk/support-research/ research-training

If you would like to receive a printed copy of our research training and skills handbook, or would like any guidance, please contact us: School of Advanced Study Registry Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU United Kingdom Email sas.info@sas.ac.uk Phone +44 (0)20 7862 8823/8695

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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.

Research training

Research training

Further details of all calls for papers are available from our website at www.sas.ac.uk/events

83rd Anglo-American conference of historians: the Great War at home 3–4 July 2014 CFP deadline: 15 December 2013 Fought across the world, the First World War struck deepest at home. Few neighbourhoods, villages, towns or regions emerged untouched by the conflict. Next year’s Anglo-American conference will explore the impact of the war on the locality and local institutions, on the family and social life, and on the memorialisation of war in the built environment and in private life.

Co-organised with the British Association of Local History and the Victoria County History, the Institute of Historical Research conference aims to be an international festival of local history seen through the lens of war. Our focus is not restricted to the UK, but will cover ‘home fronts’ across the world, including those of Britain’s empire, allies and other combatant nations.

Please send panel proposals to IHR.Events@sas.ac.uk

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Calls for papers

Calls for papers

BBC2: origins; influence; audiences: a 50th anniversary conference

Old and Middle English studies: texts and sources

25 April 2014

3–5 September 2014

On 20 April 1964 the BBC launched its second television channel: BBC2. Although the launch was a flop (due to a major power cut) the station soon became a fixture of UK broadcasting.

This Institute of Historical Research conference, marking its 50th birthday, engages with the example of BBC2 in a contribution to the history of how, as well as what, we access through television. In the 1960s questions were raised about the increasingly dominant role of television in the home and the part the Pilkington Committee played in preserving middle- and upper-class values in the medium. It was also the first channel in the UK to offer UHF, then colour, television, changing the way that television was produced, broadcast and consumed.

Please send proposals of around 300 words for a 20 minute paper to research@sciencemuseum.ac.uk

‘For the greater glory of God and the more universal good’: a celebration of the 400th anniversary of the foundation of Heythrop College and of the Jesuit educational tradition 19–20 June 2014 CFP deadline: 15 November 2013 During 2013–14, Heythrop College will celebrate the 400th anniversary of its foundation by the English Jesuits in Louvain in 1614. To commemorate this notable anniversary, Heythrop College and the Institute of English Studies are organising a conference which will explore the character and significance of the Jesuit educational tradition, with respect both to the study of theology and philosophy and to science, letters and the arts. Short papers related to Jesuit education are invited from research students and established scholars.

Please send proposals of no more than 350 words (along with a cover sheet including your name, university, contact information, and a brief biographical paragraph about your academic interests) to Dr Thomas M. McCoog at tmmccoog@gmail.com and Dr Francesca Bugliani Knox at f.knox@heythrop.ac.uk

CFP deadline: 1 December 2013 The study of Old and Middle English sources is critical for an understanding of medieval language and literature in the British Isles. This conference jointly organised by the Institute of English Studies and Keio University, Tokyo aims to open up and explore new ways for intellectual exchange and collaboration between scholars working in any aspect of medieval English, in London and Japan especially. The theme for the 2014 conference is ‘texts and sources’. Papers will be selected for their ability to link various branches of learning that touch upon Old and Middle English studies, including such topics as history, language, literature, philology, to name just a few. The conference will be accompanied by a special exhibit of manuscripts from medieval and early modern times curated with a view to illustrating the central theme of the proceedings.

Please send proposals of up to 250 words to ieskeio.conference@gmail.com

Indigeneity and French Canada 16–17 May 2014 CFP deadline: 1 December 2013 A bilingual and interdisciplinary conference jointly organised by the Institute of Modern Languages Research with the Centre for Quebec and FrenchCanadian Studies. The relationship between the cultures and languages of indigenous peoples and those of the French, French-Canadians, and modern Québécois represents an extremely rich vein for intellectual enquiry and research. This conference, as well as attending to the urgent political issues which have accompanied this reality and these histories, is particularly concerned with questions of conceptual, cultural, literary, and identitarian importance which are provoked by the encounters, conflicts and hybrid interactions between these groups over the centuries. Papers, in English or in French, are invited on any relevant topic in the form of a title and a summary.

Please send proposals of 500 words (maximum) to Professor Bill Marshall at william.marshall@sas.ac.uk

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CFP deadline: 25 October 2013

How to find us Venue Unless otherwise stated, all events are held in the School of Advanced Study within the central University of London precinct in Bloomsbury, central London. Most events take place in or around Senate House or Stewart House (Stewart House room numbers are preceded with ST) which are adjacent. The School takes its responsibility to visitors with special needs very seriously and will endeavour to make reasonable adjustments to facilities to accommodate such needs. If you have a particular requirement, please discuss it confidentially with the event organiser ahead of the event taking place.

Rooms listed in the events brochure are located as follows: Senate House University of London Malet Street London WC1E 7HU Stewart House University of London 32 Russell Square London WC1B 5DN Charles Clore House Institute of Advanced Legal Studies 17 Russell Square London WC1B 5DR The Warburg Institute Woburn Square London WC1H 0AB

A number of events will be held at external venues. Please see www.sas.ac.uk/events for details.

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