School of Advnaced Study Events Brochure Feb-Apr 2012

Contents The School of Advanced Study 1 Institutes of the School 2 Events at the School 4 Highlights: 5 University of London Trust Fund events 5 Dean’s Seminars 6 Conferences and symposia 7 Events calendar 17 Research training 74 Call for papers 82 How to find us 83

The School of Advanced Study The School of Advanced Study at the University of London is the only institution of its kind in the UK nationally funded to promote and facilitate research in the humanities and social sciences.

The School brings together the specialised scholarship and resources of ten prestigious research institutes at the centre of the University of London to provide a unique environment for 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 Germanic & Romance Studies Institute of Historical Research Institute of Musical Research Institute of Philosophy Institute for the Study of the Americas The Warburg Institute The School also hosts a cross-disciplinary centre. The Human Rights Consortium, founded in 2009, brings together the multidisciplinary expertise in human rights found in several institutes of the School, as well as collaborating with individuals and organisations with an interest in the subject. The main aim of the Consortium is to facilitate, promote and disseminate academic and policy work on human rights by holding conferences and seminars, hosting visiting fellows, coordinating the publication of high quality work in the field, and establishing a network of human rights researchers, policy-makers and practitioners across the UK and internationally, with a view to collaborating on a range of activities.

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Institutes of the School

Institutes of the School INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED LEGAL STUDIES The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) was founded in 1947 as a national academic institution serving all universities through its national legal research library. Its function is to promote, facilitate and disseminate the results of advanced study and research in the discipline of law, for the benefit of persons and institutions in the UK and abroad. Its areas of speciality include arbitration and dispute settlement, company law, comparative law, economic crime, financial services law and legislative studies and law reform, and the legal profession and delivery of legal services.

W: www.ials.sas.ac.uk | E: ials@sas.ac.uk | T: +44 (0)20 7862 5800 INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES The Institute of Classical Studies (IClS) is a national and international research centre for the study of the languages, literature, history, art, archaeology and philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Founded in 1953, it provides an internationally renowned research library available to scholars from universities throughout the world, in association with the Hellenic and Roman Societies. IClS also serves as the meeting place of the main Classics organisations in the UK. W: www.icls.sas.ac.uk | E: admin.icls@sas.ac.uk | T: +44 (0)20 7862 8700

INSTITUTE OF COMMONWEALTH STUDIES The Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICwS) is the only postgraduate academic institution in the UK devoted to the study of the Commonwealth. Founded in 1949, its purpose is to promote interdisciplinary and inter-regional research on the Commonwealth and its member nations in the fields of history, politics and other social sciences. Its areas of specialism include international development, governance, human rights, north-south relations and conflict and security. It is also home to the longest-running interdisciplinary and practice-oriented human rights MA programme in the UK. W: www.commonwealth.sas.ac.uk | E: ics@sas.ac.uk | T: +44 (0)20 7862 8844 INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES The Institute of English Studies (IES), founded in 1999, exists to facilitate advanced study and research in English studies within the University of London and in the wider academic community, national and international. Its Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies covers such fields of study as palaeography, history of printing, manuscript and print relations, history of publishing and the book trade, textual criticism and theory and the electronic book.

W: www.ies.sas.ac.uk | E: ies@sas.ac.uk | T: +44 (0)20 7862 8675

INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC & ROMANCE STUDIES The Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS) was established in 2004 with the merger of the Institute of Germanic Studies and the Institute of Romance Studies, founded in 1950 and 1989 respectively. Its purpose is to promote and facilitate the study of the cultures of regions speaking the Germanic and Romance languages across a range of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields in the humanities.

W: www.igrs.sas.ac.uk | E: igrs@sas.ac.uk | +44 (0)20 7862 8677

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INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH Founded in 1921, the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) is at the centre of the study of academic history. It provides a stimulating research environment supported by the IHR’s two research centres: the Centre for Metropolitan History and the Victoria County History; is home to an outstanding open access library, hosts events and seminars and has a dedicated programme of research training.

W: www.history.ac.uk | E: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk | T: +44 (0)20 7862 8740

INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL RESEARCH Established in 2006, the Institute of Musical Research (IMR) was set up as a university-wide and national resource with a commitment to foster musical research in all its diversity. The IMR offers a unique meeting point for researchers and postgraduate students across the UK and acts as a hub for collaborative work on a national and international scale.

W: www.music.sas.ac.uk | E: music@sas.ac.uk | T: +44 (0)20 7664 4865

INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY The Institute of Philosophy (IP) was founded in 2005, building upon and developing the work of the Philosophy Programme from 1995–2005. The Institute’s mission is to promote and support philosophy of the highest quality in all its forms, both inside and outside the University, and across the UK. Its activities divide into three kinds: events, fellowships and research facilitation.

W: www.philosophy.sas.ac.uk | E: philosophy@sas.ac.uk | T: +44 (0)20 7862 8683

INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAS The Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA) was founded in 2004 through the merger of the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Institute of United States Studies, both of which were established in 1965. ISA promotes, coordinates and provides a focus for research and postgraduate teaching in history and the social sciences on the Americas – Canada, the US, Latin America and the Caribbean – and plays a national and international role as a coordinating and information centre for all parts of the hemisphere at the postgraduate level in the universities of the UK. W: www.americas.sas.ac.uk | E: americas@sas.ac.uk | T: +44 (0)20 7862 8870 THE WARBURG INSTITUTE The Warburg Institute (WI), incorporated in the University in 1944, exists principally to further the study of the classical tradition – those elements of European thought, literature, art and institutions which derive from the ancient world. The classical tradition is conceived as the theme which unifies the history of Western civilisation. The bias is not towards ‘classical’ values in art and literature: students and scholars will find represented all the strands that link medieval and modern civilisation with its origins in the ancient cultures of the Near East and the Mediterranean.

W: www.warburg.sas.ac.uk | E: warburg@sas.ac.uk | T: +44 (0)20 7862 8949 www.sas.ac.uk

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Events at the School

Events at the School The institutes of the School collectively offer a wide range of seminars, workshops, lectures, conferences and other academic events. The School’s events programme is unrivalled in its scale, focus and quality. Each year around 1,600 events are organised in the School on humanities and social science topics, attracting almost 50,000 audience members drawn from around the UK and internationally as well as the London area.

The School brings together scholars, representatives from academic, public, and private organisations, policy-makers, professional experts, and the interested public from the local community, the UK and beyond to participate in its varied programme of events. 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 interdisciplinary cross-fertilisation these events afford.

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

How to use this guide Events are listed in date and time order. On the left we list the time, the institute responsible for organising the event, the type of event or series and the venue. On the right we list the event title and speaker where appropriate. There is further information about the highlighted events at the start of the guide, and about the School’s research training events at the end. Please check our website for full information.

Subject area key C - classics

H - history

P - philosophy

Cu - culture, language & literature

Hu - human rights

Po - politics

D - development studies

L - law

S - sociology & anthropology

E - economics

M - music

Booking The majority of our events are free and open to the public, unless stated otherwise. 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, www.sas.ac.uk/events, 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 or on iTunes U. 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 the School’s website at www.sas.ac.uk Follow us on University of London – School of Advanced Study 4

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Highlights University of London Trust Fund events

The School organises an annual University Trust Fund programme of prestigious public lectures, recitals and readings. Free to attend and all welcome.

8 March 2012 18:00–19:45 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies John Coffin Memorial Fund event Chancellor’s Hall

2011 – A Family Odyssey: Ophelia’s Version (Dir. S. Miles, 2002) and Sarah Miles in conversation with Lucy Reynolds Sarah Miles in conversation with Lucy Reynolds (University of the Arts) following a film screening of 2011 - A family odyssey: Ophelia’s vision Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

9 March 2012 18:30–19:30 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies John Coffin Memorial lecture Chancellor’s Hall

On looking back: photography, memory and forgetting

15 March 2012 18:00–19:00 Institute of English Studies John Coffin Memorial Annual Palaeography Lecture Chancellor’s Hall

Inscribed images and inspired scribes

Rosy Martin Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Jennifer O’Reilly is a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Her research interests include: the transformation of the inheritance of Late Antiquity in the early medieval West, particularly in Irish and Anglo-Saxon monastic culture; and issues of text and image and various iconographic themes in Early Christian, medieval and Renaissance art. Followed by a wine reception.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk/ +44 (0)207 664 4859

21 March 2012 17:30–19:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas John Coffin Memorial Fund event Institute of Education, room 728

Writing constitutions: divergences and convergences in the Atlantic World, 1776–1848 Linda Colley (Princeton) Co-sponsored by the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library Contact: chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk

12 April & 13 April 2012 09:00–19:00 Concert 18:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Institute of Musical Research John Coffin Memorial Fund event Gresham College

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Debussy: text and idea / Debussy: le texte et l’idée Convenors: Richard Langham Smith (Royal College of Music) and Helen Abbott (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies; Sheffield) Limited places available In collaboration with Gresham College Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk 5

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Dean’s Seminars The Dean’s Seminars, chaired by the Dean of the School, are a series of lunchtime research seminars, which aim to promote cross-disciplinary debate in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. Seminars are free to attend and open to all – booking is not required. A sandwich lunch will be provided.

15 February 2012 12:30–14:00 Room 103

The fetishism of colonial commodities and the intimacies of four continents

14 March 2012 12:30–14:00 Room 103

As western governments squeeze public services, the BRICs expand them: new efforts to tackle poverty and inequality in Brazil, South Africa, India and China

Lisa Lowe (School of Advanced Study; California, San Diego)

James Manor (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

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Highlights: Conferences and symposia

Conferences and symposia 2 February 2012 10:45–18:00 The Warburg Institute Colloquium The Warburg Institute

Leonardo da Vinci: painting as philosophy Speakers include: Martin Clayton (Royal Library, Windsor), Frank Fehrenbach (Harvard), Francesca Fiorani (Virginia), Alessandro Nova (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence), Mary Pardo (North Carolina), Robert Zwijnenberg (Leiden) This conference is held to coincide with the exhibition at the National Gallery November 2011-February 2012. Focusing particularly on his paintings, papers will be asking how Leonardo set about expressing visually different and sometimes competing ideas about the universe and its causes, in a Christian era. What did Leonardo mean by promoting painting as a science, as knowledge, and how should we understand the scientific painting of traditional (or novel) devotional subjects? How did his theory of painting affect his treatment of secular commissions, such as portraiture? How did his thinking change? How did he react to classical thought and the ideas of his contemporaries and what impact did this have on his art? There will be a viewing of the exhibition from 8.30-10.00 for those who have registered for the conference in advance (ticket will need to be shown).

In collaboration with the National Gallery Contact: francois.quiviger@sas.ac.uk

3 February 2012 14:00–18:00 Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium Room ST274/275

Contesting the performance of pre-eminence Rachel Beckles Willson (Royal Holloway), Yara El-Ghadban, Jonathan Holmes, Alison Jeffers, Annie Pfingst, Dylan Robertson A symposium bringing together scholars and creative practitioners in performance, music, and critical spatial practice, addressing movement around borders in Canada, Palestine and the UK. Advance registration advised.

In collaboration with the Humanities and Arts Research Centre and the Centre for International Theatre and Performance Research, Royal Holloway, University of London Contact: music@sas.ac.uk

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Highlights: Conferences and symposia 10 February 2012 10:00–20:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Conference / Symposium Room 349

50 years of independence: Jamaica’s development and impact as a sovereign state Keynote speaker: Professor Brian Meeks (West Indies, Jamaica) August 2012 will mark two significant anniversaries, but will also signal a third, which is rarely acknowledged. On 6 August and 31 August 2012, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, respectively, will celebrate 50 years of independence from the UK. However, the third, unobserved date is that this month and the two anniversaries together, symbolise the beginning of the independence process for most of the Commonwealth Caribbean. For the people in the region, independence came with tremendous, perhaps unrealistic, expectations.

Freedom from colonial tutelage and domination was at the forefront, but the experience of the last 50 years has been a lesson on the limitation of sovereignty.

Another area where there was great hope was in relation to the economy, with expected prosperity and social well-being. The experiences of the past 50 years have turned out to be sobering and contradictory, at best. This oneday conference provides a multi-disciplinary overview of Jamaica’s internal development since independence, as well as the country’s impact on the Caribbean and the wider world.

Admission free Contact: chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk

18 February 2012 09:30–16:00 Institute of English Studies Workshop Chancellor’s Hall

Institute of English Studies and Muslim Writers Awards: Mark Gonzales: poetry masterclass and performance series Poetry development masterclass by internationally renowned spoken word artist and educator Mark Gonzales making his UK debut.

Described as ‘Khalil Gibran meets Pablo Neruda,’ Mark is a HBO Def Jam poet who has shared his writing on stage around the world, including the first TEDxRamallah talks held in Palestine, which led him to trend worldwide on Twitter. As a community builder he was an invited speaker at the United Nations tribunal on Social Exclusion. He is currently a Visiting Professor and Artist in Residence at the Institute of Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University. Mark’s work breaks borders to wage beauty across continents of language and culture, which has earned him respect for his creative approaches to suicide prevention, human rights and human development. Joining us from his Middle East tour Mark will deliver two intensive masterclasses to a small group of writers, focussing on exploring poetry as a means to human development.

Fee: £25 For further information: www.muslimwritersawards.org.uk

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Highlights: Conferences and symposia 20 February 2012 10:00–18:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Conference / Symposium Senate Room

Learning from Latin America: debt crises, debt rescues and when and why they work Speakers: Enrique García (CAF), Enrique Iglesias (SEGIB), Rosario Green (Mexican Senate), Alessandro Leipold (Lisbon Council), Ugo Panizza (UNCTAD), Robert Devlin (OAS), Carlos Eduardo Freitas (OF Consultoria Econômica), Roberto Frenkel (CEDES), Arturo Porcekanski (American University), Alonso Perez-Kakabadse (SAC Global Investors), Stephany Griffith-Jones (Columbia University), Jose Antonio Ocampo (Columbia University), Rosemary Thorp (Oxford) Convenors: Rosemary Thorp (Oxford), José Antonio Ocampo (Columbia) and Paulo Drinot (Institute for the Study of the Americas) This conference brings together scholars and practitioners deeply knowledgeable about recent Latin American crises and rescue experiences, with people actively interested in the current European crisis. The Brady rescue in Latin America in the 1980s is frequently quoted as a model for Europe on the basis of inadequate knowledge. But other recent crises, in particular Argentina and Ecuador, contain interesting lessons well worth careful analysis and debate.

Admission free Generously supported by CAF, Latin America’s Development Bank Contact: paulo.drinot@sas.ac.uk

22 February 2012 09:45–17:45 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Conference / Symposium Charles Clore house

Experiencing the law - accessing justice: rights, responsibilities and effective strategies Avrom Sherr (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies): ‘Legal aid’ Barry Godfrey (Keele): ‘The role of the modern magistracy’ Lord Bach (House of Lords Opposition Spokesperson on Justice): ‘The practicalities of legal aid’ Oliver Blaiklock (King’s, London): ‘The Citizens Advice Bureau’ Tom Smith (Plymouth): ‘Ethical dilemmas for criminal defence lawyers’ Sarah Wilson (York): ‘Understanding social contexts for legal aid’ Judith Rowbotham (Nottingham Trent): ‘Protests and access to justice’ Vikram Sachdeva; Victoria Butler Cole (39 Essex Street Chambers): ‘Justice for “outsiders”’ Round table discussion: ‘Effective alternatives to state provision - or not?’

Chair: Kim Stevenson (Plymouth) This is the 6th Annual Experiencing the Law conference.

The conference is an initiative between SOLON, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and the Centre for Contemporary British History at King’s College London Contact: belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

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Highlights: Conferences and symposia 24 February 2012 The Warburg Institute Colloquium The Warburg Institute

Rabelais’s rhetorics Speakers include: Richard Cooper, Marie-Luce Demonet, James Helgeson, Neil Kenny, Richard Scholar, Rowan Tomlinson Rabelais was ambitiously experimental and extremely self-conscious about structure, style and use of language. His comedy is inseparable from his linguistic inventiveness. Traditional historians of rhetoric have found prompts for his approach in humanist rhetoric. Later students of rhetoric shifted our understanding from source-based analysis to the notion of intertexuality, a textuality without an author and an emphasis on language and linguistic performance. While that shift has been a fruitful development in Rabelais studies (starting no doubt with Rigolot’s Les langages de Rabelais), it nonetheless obscured some rhetorical relationships which deserve to be re-considered. What relationship, for instance, exists between descriptive rhetoric (for example, the study of the figures of speech), communicative rhetoric (a study of the effects of such figures in speech and writing) and ethical rhetoric (the study of the desired action or attitude that emerges from reading a text in the light of such figures of speech)? How are such rhetorics - in the plural - articulated together? What new approaches to rhetoric are there (e.g. cognitive) which might offer a different perspective from those developed in the twentieth century? Is there a rhetoric of laughter in Rabelais? How would such a rhetoric in Rabelais differ from or relate to the rhetorical techniques exploited by other comic writers?

The conference is organised by Peter Mack (The Warburg Institute) and John O’Brien (Royal Holloway) Fee (including coffee/tea and a sandwich lunch): £25 (£12.50 for concessions) Contact: warburg@sas.ac.uk.

27 February 2012 10:00–17:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Conference / Symposium Room 349

The return of the Indian: an interdisciplinary seminar on class and ethnicity in the Andes Over the past twenty years Andean politics has been transformed by the appearance of new collective actors. As class based movements have lost their central role there has been a resurgence of Indian Movements and a self-conscious indigenous politics. Indigenous movements have articulated their demands both on the streets and in parliament through their political parties. The ‘return of the Indian’ (Albo 1991) at the end of the 20th century challenges our existing academic categories regarding political process and identity. This shift raises challenging questions such as (but not exhaustively): Has ethnicity come to replace class struggle? If so, then how and why? What are the consequences and limitations of this transformation? What kinds of rights are being demanded and what is left out in the shift from class to ethnicity? Does the shift from classbased politics to a politics of identity spell the end of ideology and the articulation of material demands? Are we witnessing a new kind of social mobilization that is post materialist and/or post-modern with reference to their proposals and demands? What role have other actors (academics, NGOs, religious groups etc) played in this process? What are the articulations, previous or current, between changes in political praxis and theoretical reflection? What do these movements bring that is actually new to the social and political sphere?

In collaboration with LSE Contact: t.grisaffi@lse.ac.uk

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Highlights: Conferences and symposia 2 March 2012 10:30–19:00 Institute of Philosophy Conference Room ST274/275

Hume’s legacy

9 March 2012 09:30–18:00 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium Senate House

UCL English Graduate Conference 2012: Intersections

Helen Beebee (Birmingham; Institute of Philosophy), Galen Strawson (Oxford), Simon Blackburn (Oxford), Stewart Sutherland Contact: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

The Intersections conference aims to solicit a range of papers united by a common view of literature as built upon collaboration, influence, and interchange.

Unique literary experiences occur at ‘point[s] at which the world’s phenomena intersect’: these points might be located in the confrontation between literature and science, at a crossroads in a literary landscape, or on a page annotated by its readers. We hope that delegates will relish this opportunity to interrogate such diverse types of intersection both with and within English literature.

The conference is offered in association with the Jacques Ranciere HARC Seminar. A lecture by Jacques Ranciere and two seminars in response to his work.

In collaboration with the Humanities and Arts Research Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

9 March 2012 09:30–19:45 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Conference Chancellor’s Hall

Family ties: recollection and representation Keynote speakers: Rosy Martin, Marsha Meskimmon (Loughborough) Conference organisers: Sally Waterman, Katia Pizzi (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies) A Centre for Cultural Memory interdisciplinary conference exploring the representation and role of family memories in autobiographical writing, photography and artist’s film and video.

Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

9 March 2012 10:00–18:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Conference Senate Room

Decolonisation The second decolonisation workshop for 2011–12 will culminate with the launch of the Oxford History of the British Empire companion volume Britain’s Experience of Empire in the Twentieth Century. As before, we aim to have three panel discussions over the course of the day, followed by the launch. Each will consist of three papers lasting for 15-20 minutes.

Contact: chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk

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Highlights: Conferences and symposia 9 March 2012 10:00–18:00 The Warburg Institute Colloquium The Warburg Institute

Medieval diagrams and maps Speakers include: Peter Barber, Charles Burnett (The Warburg Institute), Mary Carruthers, Catherine Delano-Smith, Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard), Paul Harvey In the past, maps were defined as representations of the surface the earth or a part of it, but modern cartographical theorists and map historians define maps more widely as forms of graphic representations facilitating ‘a spatial understanding of things and concepts’. The workshop will provide a chance to explore distinctions between diagrams and maps by discussing specific examples from the medieval period.

Fee (including coffee/tea and a sandwich lunch): £25 (£12.50 for concessions) Contact: warburg@sas.ac.uk

10 March 2012 Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium Chancellor’s Hall

International bagpipe conference Fee payable In collaboration with SOAS Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

15–16 March 2012 09:45–17:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Conference / Symposium Room ST274/275

Familie und moderne / Family and modernity (1880–1945) Co-ordinators: Christine Kanz (Ghent), Frank Krause (Goldsmiths), Godela Weiss-Sussex (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies) Organised with the University of Ghent and Goldsmiths, University of London Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

15–16 March 2012 10:00 (day one)–14:00 (day two) Institute of Philosophy Conference Room 349 (Thur) & G22/26 (Fri)

Understanding expertise

15–17 March 2012 10:00–16:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Conference / Symposium Senate Room

International conference: Textiles, techne, and power in the Andes

16 March 2012 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Conference / Symposium Charles Clore house

Public interest environmental law conference 2012

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Mark Addis (Birmingham City), Fernand Gobet (Brunel), Andreas Roeperstoff (Aarhus), Paul Snowdon (UCL), Jan Derry (Institute of Education), Ben Kotzee (Birkbeck) Contact: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Fee: £90 (£50 for concessions) Further information: www.bbk.ac.uk/cilavs/events#textiles

Contact: belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

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Highlights: Conferences and symposia 16 March 2012 10:00–16:30 Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium Chancellor’s Hall

The instrument in musical performance Mine Dogantan Dack (Middlesex - piano), Neil Heyde (Royal Academy of Music - cello), David Horne (Royal Northern College of Music), Melinda Maxwell (Royal Northern College of Music - oboe), Thor Magnusson (Brighton), Anthony Rooley (lute) In collaboration with Middlesex University Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

16 March 2012 10:00 The Warburg Institute Colloquium The Warburg Institute

Translating the Qur’an Hartmut Bobzin (Erfurt), Thomas E. Burman (Tennessee), Ziad Elmarsafy (York), Robert Irwin (London), Tarif Khalidi (Beirut), Noel Malcolm (Oxford), Angelika Neuwirth (Berlin) Organised by Charles Burnett, Alastair Hamilton and Jan Loop (The Warburg Institute) this is a launch conference for the newly founded Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe (CHASE) at The Warburg Institute. The conference is devoted to the European reception and understanding of the Qur’an.

Contact: warburg@sas.ac.uk

21 March 2012 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Conference / Symposium Charles Clore house

Annual postgraduate students’ EU tax conference 2012

21 March 2012 14:30–19:30 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium Venue tbc

The London Anglo-Saxon symposium

Contact: belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

The London Anglo-Saxon symposium (LASS) aims to provide a forum for the multidisciplinary discussion of Anglo-Saxon topics in a relaxed and engaging atmosphere. LASS will bring together internationally renowned experts and interested members of the public, an interaction that promises to be highly informative and enjoyable for everyone involved. This year the focus will be on the origins of the Anglo-Saxons and the beginnings of their culture.

Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

23–24 March 2012 09:30–19:30 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Conference / Symposium Room ST274/275

Peripheral modernisms Keynote Speakers: Benita Parry (Warwick) and Maria Irene Ramalho (Coimbra; Wisconsin-Madison) An interdisciplinary international conference exploring the contributions made by so-called peripheral modernisms to a global aesthetic of modernism that accounts for its geographical variety and cultural diversity.

Contact: katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk

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Highlights: Conferences and symposia 23 March 2012 09:30–17:30 Institute of Historical Research Conference / Symposium Court Room

Symposium on art, landscape and history

29–30 March 2012 09:30–18:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Conference/ Research training Room ST274/5

51st national postgraduate colloquium in German studies

30 March 2012 10:00–18:00 Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium Chancellor’s Hall

Ligeti’s later music

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Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Keynote speaker: Richard Steinitz (Huddersfield) Fee payable.

In collaboration with Kingston University Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

12–13 April 2012 09:00–19:00 Concert: 18:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium Gresham College

Debussy: text and idea / Debussy: le texte et l’idée

17 April 2012 10:00–19:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas Conference / Symposium Room G22/26

Cuba in the 21st century

Convenors: Richard Langham Smith (Royal College of Music) and Helen Abbott (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies/Sheffield) Limited places available In collaboration with Gresham College Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Speakers include: Rafael Hernandez and Carlos Alzugary In April 2011 the first Cuban Communist Party Congress in over a decade agreed a programme of economic policy measures aimed at what it called the ‘updating of the Cuban socialist model’ heralding the most intensive and extensive change since the earliest days of the Revolution more than 50 years ago. In February 2012 the Communist Party is to meet again in a special conference to discuss and agree political reforms that are likely to be equally profound in their effect. Just what are the prospects for Cuba and the Cuban socialist project in the 21st Century? How will these changes affect the trajectory of the revolution and it relationship with the wider world?

Contact: chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk

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Highlights: Conferences and symposia 18–19 April 2012 10:00–18:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Conference / Symposium Room ST273

LIT.NET Austria: the net as theme, aesthetic paradigm and communicative tool in literary Austria An Ingeborg Bachmann Centre conference on the ‘net’ in Australia and literary theory combined with a workshop on communicating literature through the internet, with international experts on the topic.

Contact: heide.kunzelmann@sas.ac.uk

19 April 2012 Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium Chancellor’s Hall

Sound, music and the moving-thinking body Convenor: Marilyn Wyers (Goldsmiths) Delegate fee payable Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

26–28 April 2012 Institute of Historical Research Summer school Montague Room

Spring summer school The tutors are all members of the Oral History Society and will be: Joanna Bornat (Professor Emeritus, Open University), Graham Smith (Royal Holloway, University of London), Anna Green (University of Exeter), and Shelley Trower (University of Hull) Focus upon six major themes, or issues, within oral history: memory; experience; the researcher’s habitus; re-use of recordings; representativeness and generalisability; and outputs and impacts.

Fee: £160 In association with the Oral History Society Contact: simon.trafford@sas.ac.uk

26–27 April 2012 Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium Chancellor’s Hall

(M)other Russia: revolution or evolution?

Convenor: Alexander Ivashkin (Goldsmiths) Fee payable Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

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Apostles and Heresiarchs: representations of early Christianity in 16th–17th-century India Speakers include: Paolo Aranha, Ananya Chakravarti, Istvn Perczel, Ricardo Ventura, Ines Županov A major consequence of Vasco da Gama’s expedition to India was the establishment of a new contact between the Roman Catholic Church and the Saint Thomas Christians in the Malabar region, an ancient and thriving community subject to the Eastern Syriac Patriarchate of the Church of the East, established in Mesopotamia. The arrival of the Portuguese meant also the beginning of Catholic missions in various regions of India. Our workshop aims to explore how the St Thomas Christians and the new Latin Christian communities of India were represented by European observers during the 16th and 17th century, by the means of analogies and evocations of the Christian origins.

On the one hand it was widely believed that the conversion of Indian groups configured a new apostolic age; on the other hand, the early Christian heresy of Nestorianism was projected on the St Thomas Christians in order to establish a distance, impose otherness and enable reduction strategies. Both the apostles and the heresiarchs, the “heroes” and the “villains” of early Christianity, were active models in the European perception of early modern Indian Christianity.

If early Christianity is an integral part of the classical tradition, then the history of its transmission to the modern world needs to include even India, as far and marginal it may appear to a Eurocentric perspective.

Organised by Paolo Aranha (The Warburg Institute) Fee (including coffee/tea and a sandwich lunch): £25 (£12.50 for concessions) Contact: warburg@sas.ac.uk

27 April 2012 10:00–18:00 The Warburg Institute Colloquium The Warburg Institute

From Mêlée to opera: the metamorphosis of the chivalric tournament Speakers include: David Crouch, Tobias Capwell, Noel Fallows, Iain Fenlon, Helen Watnabe-O’Kelly, Sydney Anglo Organised by Sydney Anglo Contact: warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendar Wednesday 1 February 2012 14:15–15:30 The Warburg Institute Director’s work in progress seminar The Warburg Institute

Director’s work in progress

16:30–18:00 The Warburg Institute Lecture The Warburg Institute

Vasari and portraiture

17:00–18:30 Institute of Musical Research ICONEA seminar Room ST276

Between Freudian libido and Lacanian jouissance: the X factor of emotion in musicology and its sublime object a.

Alessandro Nova (Kunsthistorisches Institute, Florence) Cu, H, P

Bruno de Florence M 17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research History of political ideas seminar series Room 104

Reception and afterlife of a clandestine manuscript: the case of Bodin’s ‘Colloquium Heptaplomeres’ (17th/18th century) Delphine Doucet (Sunderland) H

17:00–19:30 Institute of Classical Studies Classical archaeology seminar series Room G22/26

Bernard Ashmole’s studies of Greek reliefs and the three Graces on the Acropolis Olga Palagia (Athens) C

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Modern religious history seminar series Room 103

20th-century sunday schools: the institutional problem

17:30–19:00 Institute of English Studies Open University book history and bibliography seminar series Room 264

Landmarks in book history: bestsellers and beyond

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Naomi Stanton (Open) H

Claire Squires (Stirling) Cu

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Events calendar 17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Earlier Middle Ages seminar series Room G35

February–April 2012 Bishops, books and excommunication in England and Frankia, c. 900–1200 Sarah Hamilton (Exeter) Chair: Jinty Nelson H

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

Shopping for pleasure on Saturday night: working-class street markets in London, 1880– 1914 Victoria Kelley (University for the Creative Arts) [Title tbc] H

18:00–20:00 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Institute for the Study of the Americas Caribbean seminar series Room 349

George Price, A Life Revealed: The Authorised Biography, Ian Randle Press (2011) by Godfrey Smith Godfrey P Smith’s book launch Commentator: Lord Michael Ashcroft RSVP: chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk H

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Contemporary fiction seminar series Room 265

Wes Anderson and the new sincerity: or, what comes after postmodernism?

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Literary and critical theory seminar series Room 261

Literary and critical theory seminar

18:00–20:00 Institute of Historical Research Roundtable discussion Chancellor’s Hall

Holocaust memorial day

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Thursday 2 February 2012 10:45–18:00 The Warburg Institute Colloquium The Warburg Institute

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Leonardo da Vinci: painting as philosophy For more information see p.7 C, Cu, H, P

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14:00–16:00 School of Advanced Study Research training Room 265

Research skills workshop: getting research published

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

From Roman to medieval slavery, without Karl and Max

Jane Winters (Institute of Historical Research)

Kyle Harper (Oklahoma) C, H

17:00–18:00 The Warburg Institute Research training The Warburg Institute

German reading class: Thomas Mann: Joseph und seine Brüder Organised by Jan Loop (The Warburg Institute) Cu

17:00–18:30 Institute of Musical Research Directions in musical research seminar series Room G35

Jewish cupids and Scottish valkyries: once more Mendelssohn and Wagner Monika Hennemann (Birmingham) Chair: John Deathridge (King’s, London) M

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

People, property and charity: benefaction to the Clothworkers’ Company, c.1500–1680

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Comparative histories of Asia seminar series Jessell Room

Ghosts of imperial Japan: Chinese nationalists, imperial Japanese and the curious plot to defend post-war Taiwan

Annaleigh Margey (Nui Maynooth; National Library of Ireland) H

Barak Kushner (Cambridge) H

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research History of education seminar series Room 104

Understanding the role of statistical data in the annual reports of the Committee of Council on Education, 1852–72 Gemma Moss (Institute of Education) H

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Modern German history seminar series Room G34

The ‘German question’ in the reconstruction of Roman Catholicism in Poland after the Second World War James Bjork (King’s, London) H

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17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Postgraduate and early career history seminar series Room 103

The two sphinxes: fighting poverty with art on the covers of the new age, 1909–10

17:30–19:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas Seminar Room 349

Debate: is the United States of America in decline?

Chloe Kroeter (Cambridge) H

Mick Cox (LSE) and Nick Kitchen (LSE) to argue the case against decline; Adam Quinn (Birmingham) and Iwan Morgan (Institute for the Study of the Americas) to argue the case for decline H, Po

18:00–21:00 Institute of English Studies London screenwriting research seminar series Room 261

The screenplay and cinematic modernism: Ingmar Bergman’s Persona Anna Sofia Rossholm (Linneaus) Cu

Friday 3 February 2012 14:00–16:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Workshop Room 102

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14:00–18:00 Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium Room ST274/275

Contesting the performance of pre-eminence

15:00–16:30 Institute of Philosophy Plurals, predicates and paradox seminar series Court Room

Complexity and hierarchy in truth predicates

16:30–18:30 Institute of Classical Studies Postgraduate work in progress seminar Room 35

Schlegel, Shelley and the “Death” of Seneca

17:00–18:00 The Warburg Institute The history of scholarship from the Renaissance onwards seminar series The Warburg Institute

Benedictus’ dictionary: some notes on the history of Greek-Latin lexica in the 15th century

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Helen Slaney (Oxford) C

Gabor Bolonyai Cu, H

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17:00–19:00 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Institute for the Study of the Americas Caribbean seminar series Room 264

Fighting the criminalisation of homosexuality in Belize

17:00–19:00 Institute of English Studies Psychoanalysis, literature and practice seminar series Room 261

The symbol of feeling in Feeling and form: a theory of art

Godfrey P. Smith Po, S

Susanne Langer Commentator: Kenneth Wright (psychoanalyst) Cu

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Economic and social history of the premodern world, 1500-1800 seminar series Room 102

Markets and growth in early modern Europe

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Women’s history seminar series Room G37

Milliners, modistes and marchandes de mode: gender, creativity and skill in the 18th-century workplace

Victoria Bateman (Cambridge) H

Deborah Simonton (Southern Denmark) H 17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Late medieval seminar series Room G34

Fraternities in evil: Henry VII and Livery Companies of London Samantha Harper (Institute of Historical Research) H

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Irish studies seminar series Room 265

Not just a precursor: MacNeice’s Irish poetry

18:00–20:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies The Machiavelli nights seminar series Room ST276

The Machiavelli nights

18:30–20:00 Human Rights Consortium Lecture Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS

International justice: between impunity and show trials

Tom Walker (Trinity College, Dublin) Cu

Led by Gianluigi Sassu (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies) Cu, H, P, Po

Martti Koskenniemi (international lawyer) and Jacques Verges (defence counsel) Chair and discussant: Robert Murtfeld Hu, L

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Saturday 4 February 2012 10:30–16:00 Institute of English Studies Seminar Room G34

Methods and resources: mastering the dissertation

11:00–13:00 Institute of English Studies Modernism seminar series Room G37

Modernism and the popular

Wim Van Mierlo (Institute of English Studies)

Len Platt (Goldsmiths): ‘Modern and modernism in West End musical theatre, 1895-1939’ Michael Sayeau (UCL): Title tbc Cu

14:00–16:00 Institute of English Studies The future of poetry seminar series Room ST274

The future of poetry Kathleen Jamie Cu

Monday 6 February 2012 17:00–18:00 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture Charles Clore house

EU criminal law: what’s new for 2012?

John Spencer (Cambridge; President of the European Criminal Law Association UK) L

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Disability history seminar series Room ST273

Illness or disability? Conceptualising the longstay patient in post-war mental health services Vicky Long (Glasgow Caledonian) H

17:15–19:15 Institute of Classical Studies Latin literature seminar series Room G37

Livy’s census numbers and the audience of Plautus C.W. Marshall (British Columbia) C

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Sport and leisure history seminar series Room G35

A man cannot see his own faults: British professional trainers and the 1912 Olympics

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

From the personal to the political. Researching the German KPD

David Day (Manchester Metropolitan) H

Merilyn Moos H

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Tuesday 7 February 2012 13:10–14:15 The Warburg Institute Research training The Warburg Institute

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia. Spring term: Purgatory Alessandro Scafi (The Warburg Institute) and John Took (UCL) Cu

17:15–18:15 Institute of Historical Research British maritime history seminar series Wolfson Room

Naval volunteerism in Hong Kong, 1933–67

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Archives and society seminar series Room ST275

Private minds, public collections: exploring the public use of mental health records

Daniel Spence (Sheffield Hallam) H

Julian Pooley (Surrey History Centre) H

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Institute for the Study of the Americas Latin America seminar series Court Room

Taxation and society in 20th-century Argentina

18:00–20:00 Institute of Historical Research International history seminar series Room 102

The de Bunsen Mission to South America, 1918

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Postgraduate feminist reading group Room 264

Postgraduate feminist reading group

19:00–20:30 Institute of Historical Research London Society for Medieval Studies seminar series Room G37

Forward contracts between Cistercian monasteries in England and Italian merchant banks

Jos Antonio Snchez Romn (Complutense) H

John Fisher (West of England) H

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Adrian Bell (Reading) H

Wednesday 8 February 2012 14:15–15:30 The Warburg Institute Director’s work in progress seminar The Warburg Institute

Gas and Blas: neologisms in Jan Baptista van Helmont’s language Sietske Fransen C

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16:00–18:00 Institute of Philosophy Aesthetics forum Room 265

Musical timbre: between ontology and perception

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research British history in the long 18th century seminar series Court Room

Rusty old Queen Anne’s many suitors’: firearms and inter-communal violence in Armagh, 1783–90

17:30–19:00 Institute of English Studies Open University book history and bibliography seminar series Room 103

Landmarks in book history: Pascale Casanova’s World Republic of Letters

17:30–19:00 Institute of English Studies South Asian fiction: contemporary transformations Room 264

The poetics and politics of imagining Pakistan in recent diasporic fiction

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Earlier Middle Ages seminar series Room 102

The context and implications of the manuscript transmission of Pelagius’s Ad Demetriadem

Margaret Moore (Leeds) P

Stephen Duane Dean jr (King’s, London) H

Susan Pickford (Paris) Cu

Amina Yaqin (SOAS) Cu

Ali Bonner (Cambridge) Chair: Alan Thacker H

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Histories of home seminar series Room 104

Domestic subjects: the East India Company at home, 1757–1857 Helen Clifford, Ellen Filor, Margot Finn and Kate Smith (Warwick) H

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

Restricting the use of the Death Penalty: the relevance of international human rights norms Saul Lehrfreund MBE (Death Penalty Project, Simons Muirhead & Burton) H

Thursday 9 February 2012 15:00–18:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas The Global Century postgraduate reading group Room 102

World War II and the postwar order Chair: William Booth (Institute for the Study of the Americas) and Rosy Rickett (Manchester) Further information: www.theglobalcentury.wordpress.com H

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February–April 2012 16:30–19:30 Institute of Classical Studies Ancient history seminar series Room G22/26

Events calendar Bartering for slaves on the Upper Guinea coast in the early 17th century Linda Newson (King’s, London) C, H

17:30–19:00 Institute of English Studies Medieval manuscripts seminar series Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies

The early history of the London Scriveners’ Company common paper and its so-called ‘oaths’

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Institute for the Study of the Americas American history seminar series Room G34

Freedom’s debt: politics and the development of American slavery, 1672–1712

Richard Firth Green (Ohio State) Cu

William Pettigrew (Kent) Chair: Erik Mathisen H

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

The papal chapel and cultural life at the late 13thcentury Curia

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Film history seminar series Room ST274

Where we came in: how film came to be ‘taken seriously’ in the 1920s and 1930s

Matthew Ross (UCL) H

Henry K. Miller (Birkbeck) H

17:30–20:30 Institute of Classical Studies Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies The reception of classical antiquity in German literature II seminar series Room ST273

Obeying the law: Leonidas and the reception of the Persian War in German postwar literature

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

The UN War Crimes Commission of 1943–48

18:30–20:30 Institute of English Studies London theatre seminar series Room 261

London theatre

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Manuel Baumbach (Zurich) C, Cu, H, P

Dan Plesch (SOAS) L, H, Hu

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Friday 10 February 2012 10:00–18:00 Institute of Philosophy Workshop Room ST274/275

Freud and Nietzsche on repression and sublimation Jacob Golom (Hebrew), Sebastian Gardner (UCL) P

10:00–20:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Conference / Symposium Room 349

50 years of independence: Jamaica’s development and impact as a sovereign state For more information see p. 8 D, H, Po

13:00–17:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Workshop Room G26

Liberalism, monarchy and empire: ambiguous relationships Speakers include: Matthew Brown (Bristol), Erika Pani (El Colegio de México), Rebecca Earle (Warwick), Philip Kaisary (Warwick), Anthony McFarlane (Warwick), Alan Knight (Oxford) By invitation only Contact: deborah.toner@sas.ac.uk H, Po

14:00–17:00 Institute of Musical Research Research training reading group Room 103

Classic texts in music and culture

15:00–16:30 Institute of Philosophy Plurals, predicates and paradox seminar series Room G35

Deflationism, instrumentalism and reflection

16:00–18:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies The mind-matter argument in late German philosophy (1860-1950) seminar series Room ST276

Franz Brentano: the notions of self-evident experience and intentionality

16:30–18:30 Institute of Classical Studies Postgraduate work in progress seminar Room 102

Soyinka’s Nietzschean Bacchae: can we find 19th-century continental philosophy in a 20thcentury postcolonial tragedy?

Convenor: Anahid Kassabian (Liverpool) M

Martin Fischer (Munich) P

Christine Lopes (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies) Cu, P

Adam Lecznar (UCL) C

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17:00–18:00 The Warburg Institute The history of scholarship from the Renaissance onwards seminar series The Warburg Institute

Leibniz, Gilbert Burnet and 17th-century discussions on predestination

17:00–18:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas Latin America seminar series Senate Room

The enigma of liberalism in imperial Brazil

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Low Countries history seminar series Room 104

Belgian refugee workers in Britain during World War I

Irena Backus

Roderick J. Barman (British Columbia) H, Po

Christophe Declercq (Imperial) H

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

Hungarians in wonderland: late 18th- and early 19th-century Hungarian travellers on British gardens and landscapes Kristof Fatsar (Corvinus, Budapest) H

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Late medieval seminar series Room 103

The hue and cry in English towns Samantha Sagui (Fordham) H

Saturday 11 February 2012 10:30–16:15 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Research training Room ST273

Research training workshop: Visual languages

14:00–16:00 Institute of English Studies EMPHASIS (early modern philosophy and the scientific imagination) Room G37

As above, so below: medieval and early modern conjunctions of astrology and alchemy

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Peter J. Forshaw (Amsterdam) Cu

Monday 13 February 2012 10:30–17:30 Institute of Musical Research Research training Room ST273

Music and the social David Wright (Royal College of Music), Leanne Langley (Institute of Musical Research), Tina K. Ramnarine (Royal Holloway) M

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16:00–18:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies German philosophy seminar series Room 265

Wagner and philosophy

16:30–19:00 Institute of Classical Studies Ancient philosophy seminar series Room G34

Uses of Plato in Cicero’s philosophical works

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Tudor and Stuart history seminar series Court Room

Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford and the politics of the 1540s

17:30–19:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Latin America seminar series Room 264

The Nitrate King: The remarkable life of John Thomas North

Convenor: Johan Siebers (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies) Cu, P

Tobias Reinhardt (Oxford) C, P

Alan Bryson (Sheffield) H

Talk and book lanch Sponsored by the Chilean embassy in London RSVP: chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk H

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Modern French history seminar series Room G35

The making of a French regionalist: Jean Baffier (1851–1920) Daniel DeGroff (Queen Mary) H

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Voluntary action history seminar series Room 104

The affairs of deaf-mutes are their own’: agency, welfare, and the limits of voluntarism in the Soviet Union, 1917–41 Claire Shaw (Bristol) H

18:30–20:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Tertúlia reading group Room 265

Mayombe Pepetela: Mayombe [translation by Michael Wolfers] Convenor: Maria-José Homem (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies) Cu

Tuesday 14 February 2012 17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Jewish history seminar series Room G35

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Odessa: a Jewish city?

Marina Sapritsky (LSE) H

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February–April 2012 17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Military history seminar series Court Room

Events calendar Organization of defeat: the BEF and preparations for defence of the Western Front 1917–18 Simon Justice (Birmingham) H

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Life-cycles seminar series Room G34

‘Unnatural offenders’: infanticide in the Old Bailey, 1674–1701 Emma Sadera (King’s, London) H

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Locality and region seminar series Room ST273

Shaping the seaside resort - the seaside urban developer 1820–1914 Sue Berry (Sussex; Institute of Historical Research) H

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Christian missions in global history seminar series Room ST274

The king, the missionary, and the missionary’s daughter: the relationship between King Sekhukhune and the German missionary J.A. Winter Peter Delius (Witwatersrand) and Kirsten Rther (Leibniz, Hannover) H

17:30–19:30 Institute of English Studies Institute of Historical Research History of libraries research seminar series Room 264 / Room G37

An unpublished Treatise of Librarianship in the Italian Renaissance. De Bibliothecis disponendis et informandis, by Prospero Podiani (Perugia 1535 ca –1615) Alessandra Panzanelli (Perugia) Cu

17:30–20:30 Institute of Classical Studies Accordia lectures Institute of Archaeology

Landscapes of contact: Greeks and Indigenes at L’Amastuola, southern Italy Gert-Jan Burgers (KNIR, Dutch Institute in Rome) C

18:00–19:30 Institute of English Studies Book collecting seminar series Durning-Lawrence Room

Rick Gekoski: book collecting in modern times

18:00–20:00 The Warburg Institute Research training The Warburg Institute

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Wednesday 15 February 2012 12:30–14:00 School of Advanced Study Dean’s seminars Room 103

The fetishism of colonial commodities and the intimacies of four continents For more information see p.6 Cu, S

15:00–19:30 Institute of Classical Studies Mycenaean seminar series Room G22/26

The settlement at Dhaskalio, Keros and the later Early Bronze Age in the Cycladic Islands Colin Renfrew and Michael Boyd (Cambridge) C

17:00–19:00 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Institute for the Study of the Americas Caribbean seminar series Room 264

East Indian civil society in the pre-independence Caribbean Feriel Kissoon: ‘How East Indians became West Indians: the indigenization of East Indians in Trinidad and Tobago 1910-1930’ Clem Seecharan (London Metropolitan): ‘The British Guiana East Indian Association: Indo-Guyanese politics and civil society’ H

17:30–19:00 Institute of English Studies Open University book history and bibliography seminar series Room 265

Landmarks in book history: how to do things with books: Wolfgang Iser’s The Implied Reader

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

Suburban identity and the idea of London: a comparative study of two boroughs, c. 1885–1925

Kate Longworth (Oxford) Cu

Mary Lester (Institute of Historical Research) [Title tbc] H

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Literary and critical theory seminar series Room 261

Literary and critical theory seminar Cu

Thursday 16 February 2012 16:30–19:30 Institute of Classical Studies Ancient history seminar series Room G22/26

The baggage train of the Ten Thousand in Xenophon’s Anabasis Edith Hall (Royal Holloway) C, H

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February–April 2012 17:00–18:30 Institute of Musical Research Directions in musical research seminar series Room G35

Events calendar Understanding dynamic music improvisation: the application of computational music analysis techniques to the analysis of music therapy Elaine Streeter (York) Chair: Catherine Carr M

17:00–18:30 The Warburg Institute Maps and society seminar series The Warburg Institute

Maps for The Hakluyt Society, 1847–2010: or, from Cosmas to Cook and computers Francis Herbert (former Curator of Maps, Royal Geographical Society) Cu, H, S

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

British history in the 17th century

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Comparative histories of Asia seminar series Jessell Room

Rebellion in pre-modern Korea: regional discrimination and the Musillan rebellion of 1728

17:30–19:30 Institute of English Studies London seminar in digital text and scholarship series Room 265

A supple vocabulary for digital scholarly editions

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Postgraduate and early career history seminar series Room 103

Antonio Stoppani and the popularisation of science in risorgimental Italy

Siobhan Talbott (Manchester) H

Andrew D Jackson (SOAS) H

Katherine D. Harris (San Jos State) Cu

Elena Zanoni (Verona; Birkbeck) H

Friday 17 February 2012 15:00–16:30 Institute of Philosophy Plurals, predicates and paradox seminar series Court Room

Plurals, predicates and paradox

16:30–18:30 Institute of Classical Studies Postgraduate work in progress seminar Room G35

Luctum, fuga, and voluntas: ghosts of the persecuted age in Adversus Jovinianum 2.20-31

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17:00–18:00 The Warburg Institute The history of scholarship from the Renaissance onwards seminar series The Warburg Institute

Jacob Brucker’s Historia critica philosophiae (1757) – antecedents and consequences

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Economic and social history of the premodern world, 1500-1800 seminar series Room 102

The London water market: expansion and public debate, 1750–1820

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Women’s history seminar series Room G37

God’s other architects: nuns and the building of English convents, 1830–1940

Constance Blackwell

Carry van Lieshout (King’s, London) H

Kate Jordan (Birkbeck) H

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Late medieval seminar series Room G34

Late-medieval monastic recruitment in the diocese of Exeter John Jenkins H

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Ezra Pound Cantos reading group Room 265

Poetry shaped by exile: a comparison between Pound and an Iraqi exile Maureen O’Rourke Cu

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies The Charles Peake Ulysses seminar series Room 264

The Charles Peake Ulysses seminar Cu

Saturday 18 February 2012 09:30–16:00 Institute of English Studies Workshop Chancellor’s Hall

Institute of English Studies and Muslim Writers Awards: Mark Gonzales: poetry masterclass and performance series For more information see p. 8 Cu

Monday 20 February 2012 10:00–18:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Conference / Symposium Senate Room

Learning from Latin America: debt crises, debt rescues and when and why they work For more information see p. 9 Po

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Events calendar Painting restoration before La Restauration: the origins of the profession in France Ann Massing Cu, H

17:15–19:15 Institute of Classical Studies Latin literature seminar series Room G37

Property, status and social relations in the poetry of Catullus Monica Gale (Trinity College Dublin) C

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Sport and leisure history seminar series Room G35

Women’s Cricket Magazine, 1930–67: making cricket possible, enjoyable and fruitful for all women and girls Rafaelle Nicholson (Queen Mary) H

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

The revolutionary left press after 1968

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

The democratic legitimacy of international human rights conventions: parliament, political constitutionalism and the Hirst case

Manus McGrogan H

Richard Bellamy (UCL) L 18:00–19:30 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Black Britain seminar series Room 261

The art of being black

18:00–20:00 Institute of Historical Research Collecting and display (100BC to AD1700) seminar series Room ST273

Collecting and display (100BC to AD1700)

David Neita Cu

Dries Lyna H

Tuesday 21 February 2012 13:10–14:15 The Warburg Institute Research training The Warburg Institute

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia. Spring term: Purgatory Alessandro Scafi (The Warburg Institute) and John Took (UCL) Cu

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Events calendar 17:00–20:00 Institute of Classical Studies Guest lecture Room G22/26

February–April 2012 Up close and personal: revisiting the Parthenon’s east pediment Dyfri Williams (British Museum) C

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

Modernity, nostalgia and the ship in the long 19th century Don Leggett (Kent) H

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Archives and society seminar series Room ST274

The Olympics, documentation strategy and the Minnesota Method Cathy Williams (The National Archives) H

17:30–19:30 Human Rights Consortium Institute of Commonwealth Studies International refugee law seminar series Charles Clore house

The supervision of international refugee law

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Institute for the Study of the Americas Latin American history seminar series Room G32

Was the Mexican Revolution a success?

17:30–19:30 Institute of English Studies The rise of creative writing seminar series Room ST273

Impacts on the short story

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

The changing landscape of women in the professions: why women study law and not engineering?

James C. Simeon (York, Toronto) Refugee Law Initiative event H, L’

Alan Knight (Oxford) H

Alison MacLeod (Chichester) Cu

Carroll Seron (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) Chair: Avrom Sherr (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) L

18:00–20:00 Institute of Historical Research International history seminar series Room 102

Embassy of Sir Nicholas O’Conor at Constantinople before World War I John Burman (Cambridge) H

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February–April 2012 19:00–20:30 Institute of Historical Research London Society for Medieval Studies seminar series Room G37

Events calendar Tearing Christ’s seamless tunic? The Eastern Schism and Crusades against the Greeks in the 13th century Nikolaos Chrissis (Royal Holloway) H

Wednesday 22 February 2012 09:45–17:45 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Conference / Symposium Charles Clore house

Experiencing the law - accessing justice: rights, responsibilities and effective strategies For more information see p. 9 L

12:30–16:00 Institute of English Studies Director’s seminar Room 104

Mrs Beeton cooking abroad: Martha Foster Crawford and the Victorian middle-class discourse of gastronomy Isaac Yue (University of Hong Kong) Cu

14:00–16:00 Institute of English Studies Senate House Library Friends seminar Other

Senate House Library Friends visit

14:15–15:30 The Warburg Institute Director’s work in progress seminar The Warburg Institute

Francis Bacon and the religious mind

16:00–18:00 Institute of Philosophy Aesthetics forum Room 104

Aesthetic displeasure and artistic appreciation: feeling bad about good art

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James Lancaster Cu

Elisabeth Schellekens (Durham) P

16:30–18:00 The Warburg Institute Lecture The Warburg Institute

In search of Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s lost Long Documentum Martin Camargo (Illinois) Cu, H, P

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

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The origins of social hierarchies in 18th-century conjectural histories Catherine Wilson (Aberdeen) H

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17:00–19:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Seminar Room ST274

AUT of the box: Austrian literature received in China

17:00–19:30 Institute of Classical Studies Classical archaeology seminar series Room G22/26

Henry Wellcome’s classical erotica

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research British history in the long 18th century seminar series Court Room

Antislavery and empire: the imperial context of British Abolitionism, c.1783–93

17:30–19:00 Institute of English Studies Open University book history and bibliography seminar series Room 103

Landmarks in book history: what is the history of the history of reading?: reinvestigating Robert Darnton’s First Steps

Arnhilt Höfle (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies) An Ingeborg Bachmann Centre seminar Cu

Jennifer Grove (Exeter) C

Matthew Wyman-McCarty (McGill) H

Stephen Colclough (Bangor) Cu

17:30–19:00 Institute of English Studies South Asian fiction: contemporary transformations Room 265

Yusuf, Hajj, Ummah: a comparative approach to Pakistani fiction in English

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Earlier Middle Ages seminar series Room G35

Apocalyptic outsiders and their uses in the early medieval West

Claire Chambers (Leeds Metropolitan) Cu

James Palmer (St Andrews) Chair: Alice Rio H

17:30–19:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas Seminar Room 261

Cultures of devotion: folk saints of Spanish America Frank Graziano (Connecticut College) H, S

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

A legal history of an inventive solution to the problems posed by the Laws of Shemitta Chagit Blass Chair: Avrom Sherr (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) L

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Thursday 23 February 2012 15:00–18:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas The Global Century postgraduate reading group Room 103

China’s century Chair: William Booth (Institute for the Study of the Americas) and Rosy Rickett (Manchester) Further information: www.theglobalcentury.wordpress.com H

16:00–18:00 School of Advanced Study Research training Room G34

Research skills workshop: Teaching skills for the PhD student

17:00–18:30 Institute of Musical Research Directions in musical research seminar series Room G35

Distressed surfaces: British musical expressionism since 2001

Corinne Lennox (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

Arnold Whittall (King’s, London) Chair: J P E Harper-Scott (Royal Holloway) M

17:30–19:00 Institute of English Studies Medieval manuscripts seminar series Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies

Medicine for a great household: Berkeley Castle muniments SB 89 Ann Payne (formerly of the British Library) and Linda Voigts (Missouri, Kansas City) Cu

17:30–19:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas nstitute of Historical Research American history seminar series Room G34

Nation building: African American women’s experiences and work in the nation of Islam, 1960–75 Dawn-Marie Gibson (Royal Holloway) Chair: Emily West H

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

The nobility in the medieval Low Countries. A survey of the state of the art

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Modern German history seminar series German Historical Institute

West Germany in a world of oil: energy and foreign policy in the Oil Crisis 1973–74

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Arie Van Steensel (European University Institute, Florence) H

Rdiger Graf (Bochum) H

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February–April 2012 Integration: global perspectives on the transition from being apart to being a part (of something) Alastair Kenneth Ager (Columbia) Chair: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (journalist and author) Refugee Law Initiative event L, H, Hu, Po

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Society, culture and belief, 1500-1800 seminar series Room 102

The accusation of imposture in early modern witchcraft and possession cases Michael Hunter (Birkbeck) H

Friday 24 February 2012 The Warburg Institute Colloquium The Warburg Institute

Rabelais’s rhetorics For further information see p. 10 C, Cu, H, P

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

Crime and criminal process in historical perspective Henry Mares (Oxford); Ruth Paley (History of Parliament) and Phil Handler (Manchester) L

15:00–17:00 Institute of Philosophy Plurals, predicates and paradox seminar series Room 103

Restricted quantification as a challenge for Naive Truth Theory

16:30–18:30 Institute of Classical Studies Postgraduate work in progress seminar Room G35

MA session: peresentations by postgraduate students

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Low Countries history seminar series Room 104

A “disordered house”: the marriage of Philip of Burgundy and Juana of Castile (1496–1506)

Hartry Field (New York) P

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

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The garden of Milton’s Paradise Lost Celia Downie (Bristol) H

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February–April 2012 17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Late medieval seminar series Room G34

Events calendar Pope Honorius III and the tax of a 20th on ecclesiastical income Tom Smith (Royal Holloway) H

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Finnegans Wake seminar series Room 265

Finnegans Wake research seminar Cu

Saturday 25 February 2012 11:00–13:00 Institute of English Studies London 19th century studies seminar series Room G37

London 19th century studies: orality and literacy Matthew Bevis (Oxford): ‘Poetry for laughs’ Louise Lee (King’s, London): ‘Shattered articulations: Darwin’s evolutionary jokes and the deferral of cognition’ Cu

14:00–16:00 Institute of English Studies Contemporary fiction seminar series Room 264

Post-apocalypse now Speakers: Caroline Edwards (Lincoln), Monica Germana (Westminster), Gill Partington (Birkbeck). Chair: Professor Adam Roberts (Royal Holloway) Cu

Monday 27 February 2012 10:00–17:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Conference / Symposium Room 349

The return of the Indian: an interdisciplinary seminar on class and ethnicity in the Andes For more information see p. 10 S

16:00–18:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies German philosophy seminar series Room 265

Wagner and philosophy

16:30–18:00 The Warburg Institute Art history seminar series The Warburg Institute

Art history

16:30–19:00 Institute of Classical Studies Ancient philosophy seminar series Room G34

The dialectical turn of rhetorical theory

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Convenor: Johan Siebers (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies) Cu

Jennifer Montagu Cu, H

Christof Rapp (Munich) C, P

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Events calendar 17:00–19:00 Institute of English Studies London Shakespeare seminar series Chancellor’s Hall

February–April 2012 Shakespearean awkwardness: Tolstoy’s diatribe reconsidered Joe Moshenska (Cambridge) Cu

17:15–19:15 Institute of Classical Studies Latin literature seminar series Room G37

Representations of Nero and Domitian as builders Carole Newlands (Colorado, Boulder) C

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Tudor and Stuart history seminar series Court Room

Thomas Cromwell and the Anglo-Scottish war of 1532–3 Mike Everett (Southampton) and Catriona Murray (Edinburgh; Institute of Historical Research): ‘“Sorrow noe toung can expresse”: James VI and I and the mourning of his son, Henry, Prince of Wales (1594-1612)’ H

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Modern French history seminar series Room G35

The Nazi occupation of France as transnational history Simon Kitson (Institute of Historical Research) H

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Voluntary action history seminar series Room 104

The historical geography of philanthropy in England and Wales Nigel Goose (Hertfordshire) H

Tuesday 28 February 2012 13:10–14:15 The Warburg Institute Research training The Warburg Institute

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia. Spring term: Purgatory Alessandro Scafi (The Warburg Institute) and John Took (UCL) Cu

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Jewish history seminar series Room ST275

Jewish history, 1933–49: a recovering contingency and the experience of the unprecedented David Cesarani (Royal Holloway) H

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Military history seminar series Court Room

Rebuilding the Polish Army after the September 1939 catastrophe, 1939–45 Halik Kochanski H

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17:00–20:00 Institute of Classical Studies TBL Webster Lecture Room G22/26

Masks of Pompeii

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Life-cycles seminar series Room G34

A childhood in hospital: multiple admissions and long stay patients in the pre-1914 children’s hospital

C.W. Marshall (British Columbia) C

Andrea Tanner (Institute of Historical Research; Great Ormond Street Hospital) and Susan Hawkins (Kingston; Historic Hospitals Archive Project) H

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Locality and region seminar series Room ST273

Private housing to council housing: the development of the Campbsbourne Estate, Hornsey, North London, 1866–1965 John Hinshelwood (Hornsey Historical Society) H

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Parliaments, politics and people seminar series Room ST274

Fixed like a ballad on the wall’: lobbying parliament and persuading the public in early 17th-century print culture Jason Peacey (UCL) H

17:30–19:30 Institute of English Studies London forum for authorship studies Room 349

London forum for authorship studies

18:00–19:30 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Centre for Contemporary Women’s Writing Spanish reading group Room 264

Giconda Belli, El infinito en la palma de la mano

Hugh Craig (Newcastle, Australia) [Title tbc] Cu

Cristina Sánchez (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies; King’s College London) Convenor: Maria-José Blanco (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies; King’s College London) Cu

Wednesday 29 February 2012 14:15–15:30 The Warburg Institute Director’s work in progress seminar The Warburg Institute

Director’s work in progress

17:00–18:30 Institute of Musical Research Seminar Room ST276

The Pythagorean conspiracy and the contingency of arithmetics and geometrics in the theory of music Richard Dumbrill and Bruno de Florence M

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17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research History of political ideas seminar series Room 104

The pre-history of the ‘Cambridge School’ in the history of political thought, 1948–69

17:00–19:30 Institute of Classical Studies Classical archaeology seminar series Room G22/26

The Hoard diary of ESG Robinson

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Modern religious history seminar series Room 103

The death and resurrection of Christian Britain, 1980 to 2012

17:30–19:00 Institute of English Studies Open University book history and bibliography seminar series Room 265

Landmarks in book history: Jerome McGann’s Social Textual Criticism and the editing of literary texts

Sam James (Cambridge) H

Amelia Dowler (British Museum) C

David Goodhew (Durham) H

Bob Owens (Open) Cu

17:30–19:00 Institute of English Studies Open University romantic period seminar series Room 264

Open University romantic period seminar

17:30–19:30 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Institute for the Study of the Americas Caribbean seminar series Room 261

Panel: small territories, global issues: governance and corruption in the Caribbean

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Peter Clegg (West of England): ‘The Turks and Caicos Islands - can the cloud be banished?’ Dylan Vernon (Institute for the Study of the Americas): ‘Our turn to feed: big implications of rampant political clientelism in small state Belize’ H, Po

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Earlier Middle Ages seminar series Room G35

The recovery and use of Justinian’s Code in 11thcentury Italy Charles Radding (Michigan) Chair: Michael Crawford H

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

The prevention of crime in late 18th-century Bristol: policing, the public, and the city Matthew Neale (Institute of Historical Research) H

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17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Psychoanalysis and history seminar series Room G37

Reading between the lines: regressive states as social indicators in 1950s Britain

18:00–21:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Seminar Court Room

Absence - the haunted landscape (GHost hostings 6)

Shaul Bar-Haim (Birkbeck) H

Sarah Sparkes (artist-curator) Cu

Thursday 1 March 2012 10:00–18:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Workshop Room 349

Para leer a América Latina: comics, graphic novels and collective memory Speakers: Cristian Castro García (California-Davis); Ernesto Priego (UCL); Amanda M. Ledwon (Texas, Dallas); Christiane Berth (St. Gallen); Jorge CataláCarrasco (Newcastle); Edoardo Balletta (Bolonia); Taylor Jardno (Yale); Paulo Drinot (Institute for the Study of the Americas); Alexandra Hibbett (Birkbeck College); Cynthia E. Milton (Montréal); Edward King (Cambridge); James Scorer (Manchester) Fee: £15 (£10 for concessions) Contact: chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk Cu, H, Po

16:00–18:00 Institute of Philosophy Seminar Room 273

Perception, senses and action

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

Slavery and unfreedom in the early Middle Ages

17:00–18:30 Institute of Musical Research Directions in musical research seminar series Room G35

Applying music; singing on prescription

17:00–18:30 The Warburg Institute Research training The Warburg Institute

Reasoning with maps: amateur mapmakers in imperial China (1100–1300)

Luciano Fadiga (Neurolab, Ferrara) P

Alice Rio (King’s, London) C, H

Grenville Hancox and Stephen Clift (Canterbury Christ Church) Chair: Norma Daykin (West of England) M

Hilde De Weerdt (Oxford) Cu, H, S

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17:00–19:00 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Behind the headlines seminar series Room 265

The politics of economic reforms in India today

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

British history in the 17th century

17:30–19:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas Seminar Room 264

The U.S. economy: can it regain its mojo?

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research History of education seminar series Room 104

Politics, politicians and English comprehensive schools

Vijay Joshi (Oxford) and Lawrence Saez (SOAS) Po

Anthony Milton (Sheffield) H

Phil Mullan (Easynet Global Services) P, E

David Crook (Brunel) H

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Postgraduate and early career history seminar series Room 103

‘Seconde en grandeur, mais la premiere en volonte’: Toulouse and the Royal Entry of Charles IX (1565) Linda Briggs (Warwick) H

18:00–20:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Reading/discussion Chancellor’s Hall

Narratives and ageing: a reading by Martin Walser and Jane Gardam Martin Walser (Ein liebender Mann [2008]) and Whitbread Novel prize-winner Jane Gardam (Old Filth [2004] and The Man in the Wooden Hat [2009]) Organised with the Institute of German Studies, Birmingham, and the University of Leeds and sponsored by the Keith Spalding Trust Cu, S

18:30–20:30 Institute of English Studies London theatre seminar series Room 261

London theatre

19:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Comparative histories of Asia seminar series Jessell Room

Early modern Asia and religious change: are generalizations possible?

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Friday 2 March 2012 10:00–17:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Seminar Room 102

Italian research training

10:30–19:00 Institute of Philosophy Conference Room ST274/275

Hume’s legacy

16:00–18:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies The mind-matter argument in late German philosophy (1860-1950) seminar series Room ST276

Ernst Cassirer: the notion of symbolic form

16:30–18:30 Institute of Classical Studies Postgraduate work in progress seminar Room G35

Lycia as a linguistic crossroads: contact and interference between Lycian and other languages

17:00–18:00 The Warburg Institute The history of scholarship from the Renaissance onwards seminar series The Warburg Institute

Scholastic trifles vs salubrious criticism: on the scholarly dimension of the German Benedictines’ struggle for educational reform in the early 18th century

Convenor: Daniela La Penna (Reading) Cu

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Christine Lopes (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies) Cu, P

Carlos Molina Valero (Salamanca) C

Thomas Wallnig 17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Economic and social history of the premodern world, 1500-1800 seminar series Room 102

The culture and practice of improvement in 17thcentury England

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Women’s history seminar series Room G37

Women, land and litigation in early modern England

Paul Slack (Oxford) H

Amanda Capern (Hull) H

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Events calendar 17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Late medieval seminar series Room G34

February–April 2012 Mission impossible: administration in the diocese of Lincoln under Robert Grosseteste Philippa Hoskin (Lincoln) H

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Irish studies seminar series Room 265

Irish studies seminar Caoimhe Nic Dhibhid (Cambridge) Cu

Saturday 3 March 2012 11:00–13:00 Institute of English Studies Modernism seminar series Room ST274

Modernism, language, poetry Daniel Katz (Warwick): ‘Android: Jack Spicer’s Language and the language of modernism’ Will Montgomery (Royal Holloway) and Robert Creeley: Title tbc Cu

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

A table of the human passions’: learning to read the past in 18th-century Britain

14:00–16:00 Institute of English Studies The future of poetry seminar series Room ST274

The future of poetry

Mark Towsey (Liverpool) H

Michael Longley Cu

Monday 5 March 2012 10:00–16:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Research training Wiener Library

Research training workshop: Skills training day

10:30–17:30 Institute of Musical Research Research training Room ST273

Music and philosophy

Organised with the Wiener Library Cu

Convenors: Nanette Nielsen (Nottingham), Tomas McAulay (King’s, London) Speakers include Matthew Keeran (Leeds) M

17:30–18:00 The Warburg Institute Art history seminar series The Warburg Institute

Leonardo’s London Virgin of the Rocks: conservation and cleaning - change and recovery Ashok Roy Cu, H

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17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Disability history seminar series Room ST276

Art, disability and Edwardian politics

17:15–19:15 Institute of Classical Studies Latin literature seminar series Room G37

Roman exempla: food for thought

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Sport and leisure history seminar series Room G35

Khaki Fever at the Finsbury Park rink cinema: gender, sexuality and modernity, 1913–19

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

Adding red to the black Atlantic: the industrial workers of Africa and International Socialist League’s black revolutionary syndicalists and the South Africa Native National Congress’s 1917–20 radicalisation

Ann Roberts (Exeter) H

Rebecca Langlands (Exeter) C

Alex Rock (De Montfort) H

Lucian van der Walt (Witwatersrand) H 18:30–20:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Tertúlia reading group Room 265

A viagem do elefante / The Elephant’s Journey José Saramago [translation by Margaret Jull Costa] Convenor: Maria-José Homem (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies) Cu

Tuesday 6 March 2012 13:10–14:15 The Warburg Institute Research training The Warburg Institute

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia. Spring term: Purgatory Alessandro Scafi (The Warburg Institute) and John Took (UCL) Cu

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

Thinking outside the gundeck: the navy, the maritime community, and the outbreak of civil war, 1625–42 Richard Blakemore (Cambridge) H

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Archives and society seminar series Room ST276

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Electronic records/digital preservation Simon Wilson (Hull History Centre) H

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February–April 2012 Godly examples and Christian agents: training African missionary workers in British institutions in the 19th century David Killingray (Goldsmiths) H

17:30–19:30 Institute of English Studies Institute of Historical Research History of libraries research seminar series Room 349 / Room G37

An English island in Castile: the slumbering treasures of the Biblioteca of the Royal and Pontifical College of St Alban, Valladolid

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Institute for the Study of the Americas Latin America seminar series Court Room

The political economy of royal emotions: ruling the Spanish Empire in the 17th century

17:30–20:30 Institute of Classical Studies Accordia Italy lectures Room G22/26

There’s something different about Italy? Cultural disconnection in the Western Mediterranean in the Roman period

Peter Harris (Dean, Tower Hamlets) Cu

Alejandro Caeque (Maryland) H

Ray Laurence (Kent) C 18:00–20:00 Institute of Historical Research International history seminar series Room 102

India as a factor in Anglo-Soviet relations from the trade agreement to the rupture of relations, 1921–27 Alastair Kocho-Williams (West of England) H

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Postgraduate feminist reading group Room 264

Postgraduate feminist reading group

19:00–20:30 Institute of Historical Research London Society for Medieval Studies seminar series Room G37

Prisons in medieval Italy: the experience of semiexclusiveness

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Guy Geltner (Amsterdam) H

Wednesday 7 March 2012 12:30–14:00 Institute of English Studies Director’s seminar Room 265

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14:15–15:30 The Warburg Institute Director’s work in progress seminar The Warburg Institute

Director’s work in progress

16:30–18:00 The Warburg Institute Lecture The Warburg Institute

Medieval hypertext: the illuminated manuscript in an age of virtual reproduction Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard) Cu, H, P

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

Sociability and sacred history: Neapolitan answers to a Hobbesian problem

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research British history in the long 18th century seminar series Court Room

Neutral nobility to contentious aristocracy; changing terms in testing times, 1700–1850

17:30–17:30 Institute of Historical Research Earlier Middle Ages seminar series Room G35

Theophilus of Edessa and the historiography of the 7th- and 8th-century Near East

John Robertson (Cambridge) H

Amanda Goodrich (Open) H

Robert Hoyland (Oxford) Chair: Hugh Kennedy H

17:30–19:00 Institute of English Studies South Asian fiction: contemporary transformations Room 264

Minority literature and the South Asian short story

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Histories of home seminar series Room 104

Home-making in pre-modern England

18:00–19:30 Institute of Musical Research Other events Chancellor’s Hall

Creative processes in string quartets

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Literary and critical theory seminar series Room 261

Literary and critical theory seminar

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Neelam Srivastava (Newcastle) Cu

Sara Pennell (Roehampton) H

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Thursday 8 March 2012 15:00–18:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas The Global Century postgraduate reading group Room 104

Decolonisation Chair: William Booth (Institute for the Study of the Americas) and Rosy Rickett (Manchester) Further information: www.theglobalcentury.wordpress.com H

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

Slavery in the villages of early Roman Egypt

17:00–18:30 Institute of Musical Research Directions in musical research seminar series Room G35

Music and the deconstruction of touch, 1700– 1900

Jane Rowlandson (King’s, London) C, H

Naomi Waltham-Smith (Indiana) Chair: J.P.E. Harper-Scott (Royal Holloway) M

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Institute for the Study of the Americas American history seminar series Room G34

Strength and unity’ in American science: Hugo Munsterberg and the St. Louis Congress of 1904

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

Licit medicine or Pythagorean necromancy?

The case of the spheres of life and death in late medieval England

Robin Vandome (Nottingham) Chair: Bruce Baker H

Jo Edge (Royal Holloway) Stephanie Seavers (UCL): ‘The imitation of gold in the Middle Ages’ H

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Film history seminar series Room ST274

Decades never start on time: Richard Roud’s journeys through film culture, 1929–89 Michael Temple (Birkbeck) H

18:00–19:45 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies John Coffin Memorial Fund event Chancellor’s Hall

2011 – A Family Odyssey: Ophelia’s Version (Dir. S. Miles, 2002) and Sarah Miles in conversation with Lucy Reynolds For more information see p.5 Cu

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Friday 9 March 2012 09:30–18:00 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium Senate House

UCL English graduate conference 2012: Intersections For more information see p.11 Cu

09:30–19:45 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies’ Conference Chancellor’s Hall

Family ties: recollection and representation

10:00–18:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Conference Senate Room

Decolonisation

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

Medieval diagrams and maps

15:00–16:30 Institute of Philosophy Plurals, predicates and paradox seminar series Room 104

Paradox and possible worlds

16:30–18:30 Institute of Classical Studies Postgraduate work in progress seminar Room G35

Socio-political change in early Iron Age ‘Phoenicia’

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Low Countries history seminar series Room ST274

On furies: the logistics of sacking in the Dutch Revolt

Centre for Cultural Memory conference For more information see p.11 Cu

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Volker Halbach (Oxford) P

Philip Boyes (Cambridge) C

Judith Pollmann (Leiden) H

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

Did women cause the fall of native Wales?

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Ezra Pound Cantos reading group Room 265

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Emma Cavell (Exeter) H

David Ashford (Surrey) Cu

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18:00–20:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies The Machiavelli nights seminar series Room ST276

The Machiavelli nights

18:30–19:30 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies John Coffin Memorial lecture Chancellor’s Hall

On looking back: photography, memory and forgetting

Led by Gianluigi Sassu (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies) Cu, H, P, Po

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Saturday 10 March 2012 Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium Chancellor’s Hall

International bagpipe conference For more information see p.12 M

14:00–16:00 Institute of English Studies EMPHASIS (early modern philosophy and the scientific imagination) Room G35

Mathematical practitioners in early modern England Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin (Victoria and Albert Museum): ‘Mastering crafts: the mathematic text and artisanal epistemology in 17th-century England’ Stephen Johnston (Museum of the History of Science, Oxford): ‘Confessions of a mathematical practitioner: Richard Norwood’s spiritual autobiography’ Cu

Monday 12 March 2012 16:00–18:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies German philosophy seminar series Room 264

Wagner and philosophy

16:30–18:00 The Warburg Institute Art history seminar series The Warburg Institute

‘Armet se duritia’: Domenico Beccafumi and the politics of punishment

Convenor: Johan Siebers (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies) Cu

Jennifer Sliwka Cu, H

16:30–19:00 Institute of Classical Studies Ancient philosophy seminar series Room G34

Plato on fallacy

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

Beyond the radif: new forms of improvisational practice in Iranian music

Luca Castagnoli (Durham) C, P

Laudan Nooshin (City) Chair: John Rink (Cambridge) M

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February–April 2012 17:15–19:15 Institute of Classical Studies Latin literature seminar series Room G37

Events calendar Conversing with the absent: friendship and philosophical community in Seneca’s Epistulae morales Catharine Edwards (Birkbeck) C

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Tudor and Stuart history seminar series Court Room

Tudor and Stuart history

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Modern French history seminar series Room G35

The impact of the Haitian Revolution in the 19th century

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17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Voluntary action history seminar series Room 104

Mapping membership: a social and spatial analysis of associational activity, 1950–2005 Laura Balderstone (Liverpool) H

Tuesday 13 March 2012 10:00–18:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Workshop Room G22/26

Women and Latin American independence: history, politics and culture Contact: olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk Cu, H, Po

10:30–10:30 Institute of English Studies Senate House Library Friends seminar Other

Senate House Library Friends visit

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Jewish history seminar series Room G35

Rethinking Victorian anti-Semitism

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Military history seminar series Court Room

Communications goes to war: 1914–18

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Denis Paz (North Texas) H

Geoff Blades H

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February–April 2012 Ulcers, cortisol and the remaking of modern Britain Rhodri Hayward (Queen Mary) H

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Locality and region seminar series Room ST273

The medieval peasant house in the Midlands

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Parliaments, politics and people seminar series Room ST274

Scrutinizing parliamentary elections, c.1600 to the present

Nat Alcock (Vernacular Architecture Group) H

Ruth Paley (History of Parliament), Alex Robertson (Electoral Commission), Andrew Thrush (History of Parliament) H

17:30–18:30 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Commonwealth research seminar series Room 261

The Commonwealth Secretary-General - from Smith to Sharma

17:30–19:30 Human Rights Consortium Institute of Commonwealth Studies International refugee law seminar series Charles Clore house

The fast-developing field of LGBTI refugee law

18:00–19:30 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Black Britain seminar series Room 349

Medieval perceptions

18:00–19:30 Institute of English Studies Book collecting seminar series Durning-Lawrence Room

Natalie Galustian, Justin Croft, and others: book collecting and the Web

Stuart Mole (Institute of Commonwealth Studies; Comonwealth Advisory Bureau) H, Po

S Chelvan (No 5 Chambers) Refugee Law Initiative event H, L

Tessa Hosking H

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Wednesday 14 March 2012 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Workshop Charles Clore house

LERN research workshop: managing qualitative projects Fees: £35 (half day); £50 (full day) Organised by the Legal Education Research Network with support from IALS Contact: j.guth@bradford.ac.uk L

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February–April 2012 12:30–14:00 School of Advanced Study Dean’s seminars Room 103

Events calendar As western governments squeeze public services, the BRICs expand them: new efforts to tackle poverty and inequality in Brazil, South Africa, India and China For more information see p.6 D, E, Po, S

14:15–15:30 The Warburg Institute Director’s work in progress seminar The Warburg Institute

Director’s work in progress

15:00–19:30 Institute of Classical Studies Mycenaean seminar series Room G22/26

Demonstration: searching for seals on-line: the Corpus of Minoan and Mycenaean Seals (CMS) database goes live!

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Of prisms and pictographs: searching for patterns in MM II glyptic Olga Krzyszkowska (Institute of Classical Studies; CMS) and Maria Anastasiadou (Heidelberg; CMS) C 16:30–18:00 The Warburg Institute Lecture The Warburg Institute

Palla Strozzi orator

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research History of political ideas seminar series Room 104

Reflections on the history of history in political theory

17:30–19:00 Institute of English Studies Open University romantic period seminar series Room 103

Open University romantic period seminar

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Earlier Middle Ages seminar series Room G35

Restructuring landed society in 1066

Stephen Milner (Manchester) Cu, H, P

Jonathan Floyd (Oxford) H

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17:30–19:30 Institute of English Studies London Old and Middle English research seminar series (LOMERS) Room 264

London Old and Middle English research

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

A neighbourhood of this sort. How Southwark shaped ideas of child and school: Orange Street Elementary 1870–1914

Elizabeth Archibald (Bristol) Cu

Imogen Lee (Goldsmiths) H 17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Psychoanalysis and history seminar series Room G37

William James and the varieties of moral medicine

18:00–21:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Seminar Court Room

Presence - manifesting ghosts (GHost hostings 7)

18:30–20:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Malcolm Bowie Memorial Lecture Queen Mary, University of London

Love and love of self in 17th-century French writing

Emma Sutton (UCL) [Title tbc] H

Sarah Sparkes (artist-curator) Cu

Michael Moriarty (London) In collaboration with Queen Mary, University of London Cu

Thursday 15 March 2012 15–16 March 2012 09:45–17:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Conference / Symposium Room ST274/275

Familie und moderne / Family and modernity (1880–1945)

15–16 March 2012 10:00 (day one)–14:00 (day two) Institute of Philosophy Conference Room 349 (Thur) & G22/26 (Fri)

Understanding expertise

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15–17 March 2012 10:00–16:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Conference / Symposium Senate Room

International conference: Textiles, techne, and power in the Andes

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

Slaves and ex-slaves at Herculaneum: the evidence of The Album

For more information see p.12 Cu, P, S

Peter Garnsey (Cambridge) and Luuk de Ligt (Leiden) C, H

17:00–18:30 Institute of Musical Research Directions in musical research seminar series Room G35

Practising research, playing with knowledge

17:00–18:30 The Warburg Institute Research training The Warburg Institute

Alexander von Humboldt and the scientific mapping of the Americas

Celia Duffy and Stephen Broad (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) Chair: Claire Mera-Nelson (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance) M

Imre Demhardt (Texas, Arlington) Cu, H, S

17:00–19:00 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Behind the headlines seminar series Room 261

Are we seeing the best or the worst of the Indian state?: a public debate James Manor (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) and Christopher Jaffrelot (Centre d’Etudes et de la Recherches Internationales, Paris) Po

17:00–19:30 Institute of Commonwealth Studies New challenges in refugee integration seminar series Parliament

Open debate with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees Chair: Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament Refugee Law Initiative event L, H, Hu, Po

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

State formation and social mobility in late 17thcentury Britain

17:30–19:30 Institute of English Studies London seminar in digital text and scholarship series Room 265

Discovering and using ancient place data

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Aaron Graham (Oxford) H

Elton Barker (Open) and Leif Isaksen (Southampton) Cu

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February–April 2012 Mission impossible: Confederate governors in the American Civil War, 1861–65. A study in leadership Matthew Poteat (Birkbeck) H

18:00–19:00 Institute of English Studies John Coffin Memorial Annual Palaeography Lecture Chancellor’s Hall

Inscribed images and inspired scribes

19:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Comparative histories of Asia seminar series Room 264

Heuristics of hegemony: debating affirmative action in India and Malaysia

For more information see p.5 Cu

Rochana Bajpai (SOAS) H

Friday 16 March 2012 00:00–00:00 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Conference / Symposium Charles Clore house

Public interest environmental law conference 2012 For further information see p.12 L

10:00–16:30 Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium Chancellor’s Hall

The instrument in musical performance

10:00 The Warburg Institute Colloquium The Warburg Institute

Translating the Qur’an

13:00–19:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Workshop Macmillan Hall

Challenges to human security and the Santos administration

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16:00–18:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies The mind-matter argument in late German philosophy (1860-1950) seminar series Room ST276

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Karl Jaspers: the notion of psychopathology Christine Lopes (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies) Cu, P

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16:30–18:30 Institute of Classical Studies Postgraduate work in progress seminar Room G35

Coinage, culture and change in Etruria

17:00–19:00 Institute of English Studies Psychoanalysis, literature and practice seminar series Room 261

Bollas, Hysteria; Henry James, The Wings of the Dove

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Economic and social history of the premodern world, 1500-1800 seminar series Room 102

London’s livery companies in the 15th century: changing geography and changing sociability?

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Women’s history seminar series Room G37

Chaste and dignified’: female audiences and the development of anatomical models in the 19th century

Miriam Gillett (Macquarie) C

Commentator: Nicola Diamond (East London; psychoanalytic- psychotherapist) Cu

Justin Colson (Royal Holloway) H

Anna Maerker (King’s, London) H 17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Late medieval seminar series Room G34

Philippa of Lancaster, queen of Portugal: influence and persuasion at the margins Tiago Viula de Faria (Oxford) H

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies The Charles Peake Ulysses seminar series Room 265

The Charles Peake Ulysses seminar Cu

Saturday 17 March 2012 10:30–16:00 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research training Charles Clore house

How to get a PhD in law: what legal research skills will I need? Literature reviews, qualitative and quantitative research and comparative legal research Lisa Webley (Westminster), Helen Xanthaki (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies), Gerry Power (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies), Steve Whittle (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) L

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10:30–16:15 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Research training Room ST273

Research training workshop: Historic and memorial methods

11:00–17:00 Institute of English Studies London 19th century studies seminar series Room G37

London 19th century studies: orality and literacy

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Jason Camlot (Concordia): ‘Early literary recordings and digital analysis James Mussell (Birmingham): ‘19th and 20th century media and digital literacy’ Claire Potter (Paris Diderot): ‘The weight of the voice/the slant of the word: circulations of melancholia in Hardy’ Roisin Quinn-Lautrefin (Paris Diderot): ‘Giving utterance: Mary Barton and the language of the working class’ Mary L. Shannon (King’s, London): ‘Spoken word and printed page: G. W. M. Reynolds and the London Riots, 1848’ Sandra M. Gustafson (Notre Dame): ‘Public speech and nonviolence in the 19thcentury United States’ Cu

Monday 19 March 2012 10:30–17:30 Institute of Musical Research Research training Room ST273

Music and gender Anna Morcom (Royal Holloway), Shrz Ee Tan (Royal Holloway), Rowan Pease (SOAS) M

17:00–19:00 Institute of English Studies London Shakespeare seminar series Other

London Shakespeare seminar Lukas Erne (Geneva): ‘Shakespeare, publication and the London book trade’ Alice Hunt (Southampton): ‘Ceremony and entertainment at the coronation of James I’ Cu

17:15–19:15 Institute of Classical Studies Seminar Room G37

Latin literature: graduate presentations Nicholas Freer (UCL), Giulia Brunetta (Royal Holloway), Olive Norris (King’s, London) C

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Sport and leisure history seminar series Room G35

Sport’s role in 1951’s Festival of Britain

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

Mary Wollstonecraft: from journalist, socialist, to somewhere else on the political spectrum?

Iain Wilton (Queen Mary) H

Roberta Wedge H

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February–April 2012 18:00–19:00 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lecture Charles Clore house

Events calendar The Data Protection Act 1998 and personal privacy Philip Coppel (Queen’s Counsel) L

18:00–20:00 Institute of Historical Research Collecting and display (100BC to AD1700) seminar series Room ST274

Collecting and display (100BC to AD1700) Jonathan Yarker H

Tuesday 20 March 2012 17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research British maritime history seminar series Wolfson Room

‘Children of the service’: paternalism, patronage and friendship in the Georgian Navy Ellen Gill (Sydney) H

17:30–19:30 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Diamond Jubilee seminar series Senate Room

The Crown, the media and the Commonwealth

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Archives and society seminar series Room ST276

User participation

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Institute for the Study of the Americas Latin America seminar series Room 103

The Bolivian Revolution at 60: politics and historiography

17:30–19:30 Institute of English Studies Literary London reading group Room 104

Literary London reading group

18:00–19:30 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Centre for Contemporary Women’s Writing Spanish reading group Room 264

Carmen Martín Gaite, Lo raro es vivir

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James Dunkerley (Queen Mary) H

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18:00–20:00 Institute of Historical Research International history seminar series Room 102

International history

19:00–20:30 Institute of Historical Research London Society for Medieval Studies seminar series Room G37

Neo-classicism and English political culture in the later 15th century

Sochi Naraoka (Kyoto) H

John Watts (Oxford) H

Wednesday 21 March 2012 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Conference / Symposium Charles Clore house

Annual postgraduate students’ EU tax conference 2012 For more information see p.13 L

12:30–14:00 Institute of English Studies Director’s seminar Room 265

The case of Florence Marryat: custodian of the spirit world/popular novelist Tatiana Kontou (Oxford Brookes) Cu

13:00–16:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas Workshop Court Room

Liberal constitutionalism in the Americas: theory and practice Incl.: Prof. Kenneth Maxwell (Visiting Professor, Harvard University), Dr Max Edling (Loughborough University), Dr Natalia Sobrevilla Perea (University of Kent), Dr Marta Irurozqui (CSIC, Madrid), Dr Adrian Pearce (KCL) Po

14:30–19:30 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium Venue tbc

The London Anglo-Saxon symposium

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

What is historicism?

17:00–19:30 Institute of Classical Studies Classical archaeology seminar series Room G22/26

Shaping, collecting and dispalaying medicine and architecture in London: responses to the classical legacy

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Frederick Beiser (Syracuse) H

Ellen Adams (King’s, London) C

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17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research British history in the long 18th century seminar series Court Room

Love, bitter wrong, freedom, sad pity, and lust of power’: politics and performance in 1820

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Modern religious history seminar series Room G34

Freed slaves and respectability: the expansion of the Christian frontier from Angola to Belgian Congo

Malcolm Chase (Leeds) H

David Maxwell (Cambridge) H

17:30–19:00 Institute of English Studies South Asian fiction: contemporary transformations Room 264

In terror: trespass and the writer as witnesstraveler

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Earlier Middle Ages seminar series Room G35

Earlier Middle Ages

Minoli Salgado (Sussex) [Title tbc] Cu

Morn Capper (British Museum) Chair: Stephen Baxter H

17:30–19:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas John Coffin Memorial Fund event Institute of Education, room 728

Writing constitutions: divergences and convergences in the Atlantic World, 1776–1848 For more information see p.5 H

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Literary and critical theory seminar series Room 103

Literary and critical theory seminar Cu

Thursday 22 March 2012 14:00–17:30 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar Charles Clore house

Recognition of EU sentences and the framework directive on prison sentences: serving time in a foreign land?

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Neo-imperialism Chair: William Booth (Institute for the Study of the Americas) and Rosy Rickett (Manchester) Further information: www.theglobalcentury.wordpress.com H

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

Slavery and the workforce of the city of Rome

17:00–18:30 Institute of Musical Research Directions in musical research seminar series Room G35

Spinning the yarn: Wagner’s use and reuse of his songs in his music dramas

Claire Holleran (Liverpool) C, H

Malcolm Miller (Institute of Musical Research; Open) Chair: David Pear (Institute of Musical Research) M

17:15–19:30 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies English Goethe Society 2012 Ida Herz lecture Room ST273

Vansittartism revisited: German exiles and Vansittart’s Black Record

18:00–20:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Seminar Chancellor’s Hall

The presidential difference: White House leadership in the Civil War era from James Polk to Abraham Lincoln

Hans Rudolf Vaget (Massachusetts) H

Fred Greenstein (Princeton) Co-sponsored by the Eccles Centre for American Studies, The British Library H

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Wyndham Lewis reading group Senate House

“The present is art”: Vorticist and Futurist temporalities Rosalind McKever (Kingston; Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art) Cu

18:30–20:30 Institute of English Studies London theatre seminar series Room 261

London theatre Cu

Friday 23 March 2012 23–24 March 2012 09:30–19:30 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Conference / Symposium Room ST274/275

Peripheral modernisms

09:30–17:30 Institute of Historical Research Conference / Symposium Court Room

Symposium on art, landscape and history

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16:30–18:30 Institute of Classical Studies Postgraduate work in progress seminar Room G35

Who fills the forge? Exploring the role of the Aegean in the earliest days of iron production

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Late medieval seminar series Room G34

Murder, mayhem and a very small penis: motives for revenge in the 1375 murder of William Cantilupe, great-great nephew of St. Thomas of Hereford

Joanna Palermo (Oxford) C

Frederick Pedersen (Aberdeen) H 18:00–19:00 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Seminar Charles Clore House

The Confederate’s last battle: Judah Benjamin’s legal defence of Confederate assets in England Catharine Macmillan (Queen Mary; Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) L

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Finnegans Wake seminar series Room 265

Finnegans Wake research seminar Cu

Monday 26 March 2012 16:00–18:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies German philosophy seminar series Room 265

Wagner and philosophy

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

Muses from the past: historical flute recordings and today’s performance style

17:00–19:00 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar Room 349

Afro-Indians in Gujara

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Modern French history seminar series Room G35

Modern French history

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Abigail Dolan (Institute of Musical Research; Surrey) M

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Tuesday 27 March 2012 27 March 2012 11:30–18:00 Institute of Philosophy Workshop Room G22/26

Originalism

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Jewish history seminar series Room G35

Hidden from interfaith history - the Society of Jews and Christians, c.1924–44

Michael Tye (Texas) and Mark Sainsbury (Texas) P

Anne Summers (Birkbeck) H

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Military history seminar series Court Room

Search and destroy? A reappraisal of large scale operations during the Vietnam War, 1964–72 Arrigo Velicogna (King’s, London) H

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Life-cycles seminar series Room G34

Wives and daughters: the making of clerical dynasties in 17th-century England Jackie Eales (Kent) H

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Locality and region seminar series Room ST273

The Trevelyans: a successful Somerset family

17:15–19:15 Institute of Historical Research Parliaments, politics and people seminar series Room ST274

Anticlericalism and the early Tudor parliament

17:30–19:30 Institute of English Studies The rise of creative writing seminar series Room 261

The rise of creative writing

Mary Siraut (Somerset Victoria County History) H

Paul Cavill (Leeds) H

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Wednesday 28 March 2012 17:00–18:30 Institute of Musical Research Seminar Room ST276

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17:30–18:30 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Commonwealth research seminar series Court Room

Reporting on the Truth and Justice Commission of Mauritius

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Earlier Middle Ages seminar series Room 265

In line with Omurtag and Alfred: linear frontiers in the 9th century

Vijaya Teelock (Mauritius) H

Florin Curta (Florida) Chair: Peter Heather H

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Psychoanalysis and history seminar series Room G37

Historical subjectivity

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

European Private Law at the crossroads: some thoughts on the proposed new European Sales Law

Barbara Taylor (East London) H

Maren Heidemann (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) L 18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Contemporary fiction seminar series Room 264

Contemporary fiction Kim Akass (Hertfordshire) and Janet McCabe (Birkbeck) Cu

Thursday 29 March 2012 29–30 March 2012 09:30–18:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Conference/ Research training Room ST274/5

51st national postgraduate colloquium in German studies

11:00–18:00 Institute of Commonwealth Studies ICwS and OSPA witness seminar series Senate Room

Indirect rule – right or wrong?

16:30–19:30 Institute of Classical Studies Ancient history seminar series Room 349

The scholar, his wife, her slave-girl: romantic triangles and polygamy in 15th-century Cairo

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Speakers include: John Smith, Andrew Stuart, Simon Gillett; David Salmon; Don Barton H, Hu, Po

Yossef Rapoport (Queen Mary) C, H

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17:00–18:30 Institute of Musical Research Directions in musical research seminar series Room 265

Satie and mechanical music

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Film history seminar series Room ST273

British critics and a Hollywood career: re-writing James Mason

Caroline Potter (Kingston) Chair: Anthony Gritten (Royal Academy of Music) M

Adrian Garvey (Queen Mary) H

17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Society, culture and belief, 1500-1800 seminar series Room 102

Reformation truth and doubt in the ‘Dialogue Concerning Heresies’ and ‘Acts and Monuments’ Tom Betteridge (Oxford Brookes) H

Friday 30 March 2012 10:00–18:00 Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium Chancellor’s Hall

Ligeti’s later music

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Irish studies seminar series Room 265

Irish studies seminar

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Saturday 31 March 2012 14:00–16:00 Institute of English Studies The future of poetry seminar series Room ST274

The future of poetry Jo Shapcott Cu

Monday 2 April 2012 16:00–18:00 Institute of Philosophy Seminar Room 265

Perception, senses and action

17:00–19:00 Institute of Historical Research Disability history seminar series Room ST273

Breaking out of the asylum: presenting disability history through space, place and landscape

Ned Block P

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Tuesday 3 April 2012 17:30–19:30 Institute of English Studies Institute of Historical Research History of libraries research seminar series Room 265 / Room G37

Selectivity and survival: Matthew Parker and the role of the Codex in early modern England?

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies Postgraduate feminist reading group Room 264

Postgraduate feminist reading group

Elizabeth Evenden (Cambridge) Cu

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Wednesday 4 April 2012 17:30–19:30 Institute of Historical Research Histories of home seminar series Room 104

Everyday life and energy in the sensory home Sarah Pink (Loughborough) H

Thursday 5 April 2012 15:00–18:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas The Global Century postgraduate reading group Room 103

The politics of race Chair: William Booth (Institute for the Study of the Americas) and Rosy Rickett (Manchester) Further information: www.theglobalcentury.wordpress.com H

Thursday 12 April 2012 12–13 April 09:00–19:00 Concert: 18:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Institute of Musical Research John Coffin Memorial Fund event Gresham College

Debussy: text and idea / Debussy: le texte et l’idée For more information see p.5 Cu, M

Saturday 14 April 2012 14:00–16:00 Institute of English Studies EMPHASIS (early modern philosophy and the scientific imagination) Room G37

Current research on Jan Baptista Van Helmont Sietske Fransen (The Warburg Institute): ‘Jan Baptista van Helmont and the power of words’ Jo Hedesan (Exeter): ‘Alchemy and Light Theory in the Work of Jan Baptista Van Helmont (1579-1644)’ Cu

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Monday 16 April 2012 10:30 Institute of Musical Research IMR/Brunel CCMP seminar series Chancellor’s Hall

Jacob Lenz Wolfgang Rihm (Karlsruhe) in conversation with Tom Service (BBC) M

Tuesday 17 April 2012 10:00–19:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas Conference / Symposium Room G22/26

Cuba in the 21st century

18:00–19:30 Institute of English Studies Book collecting seminar series Durning-Lawrence Room

Valerie Jackson-Harris: collecting ephemera

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Wednesday 18 April 2012 10:00–18:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Conference / Symposium Room ST273

LIT.NET Austria: the net as theme, aesthetic paradigm and communicative tool in literary Austria An Ingeborg Bachmann Centre conference For more information see p.15 Cu

13:00–17:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas Workshop Court Room

Liberalism and religion: secularisation and the public sphere in the Americas Speakers include: Christopher Abel (UCL), Gregorio Alonso (Leeds), Guy Thomson (Warwick) By invitation only Contact: deborah.toner@sas.ac.uk H, Po

17:00–18:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas Latin America seminar series Senate Room

Liberalism, secularisation and church-state relations in Latin America Matthew Butler (Texas, Austin) H, Po

Thursday 19 April 2012 Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium Chancellor’s Hall

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February–April 2012 15:00–18:00 Institute for the Study of the Americas The Global Century postgraduate reading group Room 103

Events calendar Postwar Western Europe Chair: William Booth (Institute for the Study of the Americas) and Rosy Rickett (Manchester) Further information: www.theglobalcentury.wordpress.com H

17:00–18:30 The Warburg Institute Maps and society seminar series The Warburg Institute

Improved satin maps for ladies’ schools: a new revenue stream for 19th-century printsellers Ljiljana Ortolja-Baird (School of Advanced Study) Cu, H, S

18:00–20:30 Institute of Historical Research Oral history seminar series Room 104

Montreal life stories: oral history at the crossroads Steven High (Concordia) H

Friday 20 April 2012 14:00–17:00 Institute of Musical Research Research training Room G34

Research training reading group: Classic texts in music and culture Convenor: Anahid Kassabian (Liverpool) M

18:00–20:00 Institute of English Studies The Charles Peake Ulysses seminar series Room 265

The Charles Peake Ulysses seminar Cu

Tuesday 24 April 2012 13:10–14:15 The Warburg Institute Research training The Warburg Institute

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia. Spring term: Purgatory Alessandro Scafi (The Warburg Institute) and John Took (UCL) Cu

17:30–18:30 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Commonwealth research seminar series Room 261

Rebuilding Sierra Leone’s evidence base in the post-conflict period

17:30–19:30 Institute of English Studies Literary London reading group Room 264

Literary London reading group

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February–April 2012 Senate House Library Friends talk Talk by James Shapiro [Title tbc] Cu

Wednesday 25 April 2012 14:15–15:30 The Warburg Institute Director’s work in progress seminar The Warburg Institute

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16:30–18:00 The Warburg Institute Lecture The Warburg Institute

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18:00–20:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies seminar series Room ST273

Networks of exile, resistance and remigration

Istvn Perczel (Central European, Budapest) Cu, H, P

Peter Pirker (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies; Vienna) Cu

Thursday 26 April 2012 26–28 April 2012 Institute of Historical Research Summer school Montague Room

Spring summer school

26–27 April 2012 Institute of Musical Research Conference / Symposium Chancellor’s Hall

(M)other Russia: revolution or evolution?

Institute for the Study of the Americas Conference Venue tbc

Research students’ conference

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For more information see p.15 M

Speakers: Ben Lafferty; Richard Dotor; Mara Oliva; Stephen Cushion; Dylan Vernon; Shirley Pemberton; William Booth; Geoff Goodwin; Alejandra Serpente; Edward Smith; Nicolas Bouchet; Michael Espinoza; Sarah Fearn; Carmen Sepulveda Zelaya; Juan Venegas P, S, Cu, H

The Warburg Institute Colloquium The Warburg Institute

Apostles and Heresiarchs: representations of early Christianity in 16th–17th-century India For more information see p.16 C, Cu, H, P

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Friday 27 April 2012 10:00–18:00 The Warburg Institute Colloquium The Warburg Institute

From Mêlée to opera: the metamorphosis of the chivalric tournament For more information see p.16 C, Cu, H, M, Po, S

Saturday 28 April 2012 14:00–16:00 Institute of English Studies Contemporary fiction seminar series Room 264

Money: the reckoning. Session to mark the launch of a special issue of Textual Practice on Martin Amis’ Money Joe Brooker (Birkbeck) Cu

Monday 30 April 2012 17:00–18:30 Institute of Musical Research CMPCP performance / research seminar Chancellor’s Hall

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The digital instrument as an epistemic tool Thor Magnusson (Brighton) Chair: Mine Dogantan Dack (Middlesex) M

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Research training 2 February 2012 14:00–16:00 School of Advanced Study Research training Room 265

Research skills workshop: Getting research published Jane Winters (Institute of Historical Research) This session will address the process of publication in a variety of academic/ professional outlets including digital publication; preparing articles for submission to academic journals, the process of editing, writing book proposals, and (from the perspective of the publisher) turning a thesis into a non-academic book.

Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk

2 February 2012 17:00–18:00 The Warburg Institute Research training The Warburg Institute

German reading class: Thomas Mann: Joseph und seine Brüder Organised by Jan Loop (The Warburg Institute) Weekly German reading class dedicated to Thomas Mann’s trilogy Joseph und seine Brder. Meets weekly during term time on Thursday afternoon from 5-6 p.m to read, translate, and discuss short sections of this great work. Participants should have a good reading knowledge of German.

Fee: £80 (per term) (free to all students, staff and fellows of The Warburg Institute) Contact: warburg@sas.ac.uk

4 February 2012 10:30–16:00 Institute of English Studies Research training Room G34

Methods and resources English MA study day 2: mastering the dissertation Wim Van Mierlo (Institute of English Studies) Participants are invited to email in advance with particular questions or issues they would like to see raised.

Contact: wim.van-mierlo@sas.ac.uk

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Research training 6 February–20 March 2012 14:30–16:30 Institute of Historical Research Research training

An introducation to oral history This course addresses theoretical and practical issues in oral history through workshop sessions and participants’ own interviewing work. It deals with the historiographical emergence and uses of oral history, with particular reference to the investigation of voices and stories not always accessible to other historical approaches. It will examine theoretical and methodological issues, for instance concerning memory, the interviewing relationship, ethics and the uses to which recordings may be put. And it will help students to develop practical skills in interviewing, recording, the preservation of cassettes and the organization and preservation of oral material.

This course takes place every Monday from 9 January to 20 March 2012.

Fee: £210 Contact: simon.trafford@sas.ac.uk or visit www.history.ac.uk/research-training

7 February–6 March 2012 Institute of Historical Research Research training

Visual sources for historians An introduction to the use of art, photography, film and other visual sources by historians (post-1500). Through lectures, discussion and visits the course will explore films, paintings, photographs, architecture and design as historical sources, as well as provide an introduction to particular items both in situ and held in archives and libraries.

This course will take place every Tuesday from 7 February to 6 March 2012.

Fee: £210 Contact: simon.trafford@sas.ac.uk or visit www.history.ac.uk/research-training

7 February–7 March 2012 Institute of Historical Research Research training

Intermediate Medieval and Renaissance Latin This course builds upon the basis of Medieval and Renaissance Latin I, deepening and extending understanding of the language. By the end of the course, students should feel confident to tackle most basic Latin historical sources.

This course will take place every Tuesday till 7 March 2012.

Fee: £200 Contact: simon.trafford@sas.ac.uk or visit www.history.ac.uk/research-training

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Research training 7 February 2012 13:10–14:15 The Warburg Institute Research training The Warburg Institute

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia. Spring term: Purgatory Alessandro Scafi (The The Warburg Institute) and John Took (UCL) Week 5: Canto X. The First Cornice: the proud After reading Dante in Italian, with English translation and visual and verbal commentary, there will be time for informal and informed discussion inspired by the text.

8 sessions per term.

Fee: £80 per term (£50 for concessions; free of charge to The Warburg Institute and UCL staff, students and fellows).

Contact: warburg@sas.ac.uk

10 February 2012 14:00–17:00 Institute of Musical Research Research training Room 103

Research training reading group: Classic texts in music and culture Convenor: Anahid Kassabian (Liverpool) Discussion of readings (available in advance) Contact: a.kassabian@liv.ac.uk

11 February 2012 10:30–16:15 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Research training Room ST273

Research training workshop: Visual languages

13 February 2012 10:30–17:30 Institute of Musical Research Research training Room ST273

Music and the social

Contact: christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk

David Wright (Royal College of Music), Leanne Langley (Institute of Musical Research), Tina K. Ramnarine (Royal Holloway) Research training in music day school. Open to all postgraduate students.

Advance booking required.

Fee payable.

Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

14 February & 13 March 2012 18:00–20:00 The Warburg Institute Research training The Warburg Institute

Warburg-UCL scholasticism reading group Reading and discussion group exploring scholastic texts.

Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Medieval Latin and an interest in scholastic topics, texts and arguments.

In collaboration with the UCL History Department Contact: warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Research training 21 February 2012 13:10–14:15 The Warburg Institute Research training The Warburg Institute

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia. Spring term: Purgatory Alessandro Scafi (The The Warburg Institute) and John Took (UCL) Week 6: Canto XI. The Lord’s Prayer; Omberto Aldobrandeschi; Oderisi da Gubbio After reading Dante in Italian, with English translation and visual and verbal commentary, there will be time for informal and informed discussion inspired by the text.

8 sessions per term.

Fee: £80 per term (£50 for concessions; free of charge to The Warburg Institute and UCL staff, students and fellows).

Contact: warburg@sas.ac.uk

23 February 2012 16:00–18:00 School of Advanced Study Research training Room G34

Research skills workshop: Teaching skills for the PhD student Corinne Lennox (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) This session will explore the issues for the doctoral student engaged in teaching seminars or classes in their own department or external institution. It will examine the skills that are necessary, and identify strategies for the researcher as teacher: how to manage research with teaching; planning a class; managing assessment; identifying and dealing with student needs; organising material, and keeping records; team-teaching; moving to the first academic position.

Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk

28 February 2012 13:10–14:15 The Warburg Institute Research training The Warburg Institute

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia. Spring term: Purgatory Alessandro Scafi (The The Warburg Institute) and John Took (UCL) Week 7: Canto XXX. Appearance of Beatrice on the chariot of the Church After reading Dante in Italian, with English translation and visual and verbal commentary, there will be time for informal and informed discussion inspired by the text.

8 sessions per term.

Fee: £80 per term (£50 for concessions; free of charge to The Warburg Institute and UCL staff, students and fellows).

Contact: warburg@sas.ac.uk

1 March 2012 17:00–18:30 The Warburg Institute Research training The Warburg Institute

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Reasoning with maps: amateur mapmakers in imperial China (1100–1300) Hilde De Weerdt (Oxford) Contact: warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Research training 5 March 2012 10:00–16:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Research training Wiener Library

Research training workshop: Skills training day

5 March 2012 10:30–17:30 Institute of Musical Research Research training Room ST273

Music and philosophy

Organised with the Wiener Library Contact: katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk

Convenors: Nanette Nielsen (Nottingham), Tomas McAulay (King’s, London) Speakers include Matthew Keeran (Leeds) Research training in music day school. Open to all postgraduate students.

Advance booking required.

Fee payable Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

6 March 2012 13:10–14:15 The Warburg Institute Research training The Warburg Institute

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia. Spring term: Purgatory Alessandro Scafi (The The Warburg Institute) and John Took (UCL) Week 8: 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 After reading Dante in Italian, with English translation and visual and verbal commentary, there will be time for informal and informed discussion inspired by the text.

8 sessions per term.

Fee: £80 per term (£50 for concessions; free of charge to The Warburg Institute and UCL staff, students and fellows).

Contact: warburg@sas.ac.uk

7 March 2012 Institute of Historical Research Research training Venue tbc

Internet sources for historical research This course provides an intensive introduction to use of the internet as a tool for serious historical research. It includes sessions on academic mailing lists, usage of gateways, search engines and other finding aids, and on effective searching using Boolean operators and compound search terms, together with advice on winnowing the useful matter from the vast mass of unsorted data available, and on the proper caution to be applied in making use of online information.

Fee: £70 Contact: simon.trafford@sas.ac.uk or visit www.history.ac.uk/research-training

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Alexander von Humboldt and the scientific mapping of the Americas Imre Demhardt (Texas, Arlington) Contact: warburg@sas.ac.uk

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Research training 17 March 2012 10:30–16:00 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research training Charles Clore house

How to get a PhD in Law: what legal research skills will I need? Literature reviews, qualitative and quantitative research and comparative legal research Lisa Webley (Westminster), Helen Xanthaki (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies), Gerry Power (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies), Steve Whittle (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) MPhil/PhD law students from across the UK are warmly invited to attend this specially tailored day of presentations and networking opportunities.

Booking forms, with course fee, must be received by IALS one week in advance of the training day.

Contact: belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk

17 March 2012 10:30–16:15 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Research training Room ST273

Research training workshop: Historic and memorial methods

19 March 2012 10:30–17:30 Institute of Musical Research Research training Room ST273

Music and gender

Contact: christopher.barenberg@sas.ac.uk

Anna Morcom (Royal Holloway), Shrz Ee Tan (Royal Holloway), Rowan Pease (SOAS) Research training in music day school Open to all postgraduate students. Advance booking required.

Fee payable Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

27–30 March 2012 Institute of Historical Research Research training Venue tbc

Databases for historians This four-day course introduces the theory and practice of constructing and using databases. Through a mixture of lectures and practical, hands-on, sessions, students will be taught both how to use and adapt existing databases, and how to design and build their own. No previous specialist knowledge apart from an understanding of historical analysis is needed. The software used is MS Access, but the techniques demonstrated can easily be adapted to any package. This course is open to postgraduate students, lecturers and all who are interested in using databases in their historical research.

Fee: £200 Contact: simon.trafford@sas.ac.uk or visit www.history.ac.uk/research-training

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Research training 29–30 March 2012 09:30–18:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Research training Room ST274/5

51st national postgraduate colloquium in German studies

29 March 2012 17:30–20:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Research training Room ST274/5

Sylvia Naish research student lecture

16–20 April 2012 Institute of Historical Research Research training Venue tbc

Methods and sources for historical research

Contact: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Contact: godela.weiss-sussex@sas.ac.uk

This long-standing course is an introduction to finding and using primary sources for research in modern British, Irish and colonial history. The course will include visits to the British Library, the National Archives, the Wellcome Institute and the House of Lords Record Office, amongst others.

Fee: £210 Contact: simon.trafford@sas.ac.uk or visit www.history.ac.uk/research-training

20 April 2012 14:00–17:00 Institute of Musical Research Research training Room G34

Research training reading group: Classic texts in music and culture Convenor: Anahid Kassabian (Liverpool) Discussion of readings (available in advance) Contact: a.kassabian@liv.ac.uk

24 April 2012 13:10–14:15 The Warburg Institute Research training The Warburg Institute

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina Commedia. Spring term: Purgatory Alessandro Scafi (The The Warburg Institute) and John Took (UCL) Week 1: Title tbc After reading Dante in Italian, with English translation and visual and verbal commentary, there will be time for informal and informed discussion inspired by the text.

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Research training 24 April–26 June 2012 Institute of Historical Research Research training Venue tbc

Further Medieval and Renaissance Latin A third course, carrying on from the first two IHR Medieval and Renaissance Latin courses, to round out students’ grasp of the language and allow them to tackle more advanced Latin texts.

This course will take place every Tuesday between 24 April to 26 June 2012.

Fee: £200 Contact: simon.trafford@sas.ac.uk or visit www.history.ac.uk/research-training

26 April 2012 Institute for the Study of the Americas Conference Venue tbc

Research students’ conference Speakers: Ben Lafferty; Richard Dotor; Mara Oliva; Stephen Cushion; Dylan Vernon; Shirley Pemberton; William Booth; Geoff Goodwin; Alejandra Serpente; Edward Smith; Nicolas Bouchet; Michael Espinoza; Sarah Fearn; Carmen Sepulveda Zelaya; Juan Venegas P, S, Cu, H

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Calls for papers

Calls for papers Space and place in middlebrow: 1900–50 13–14 September 2012 Institute of English Studies CFP deadline: 15 February 2012 Firstly we invite participants to consider the spaces and places where middlebrow writing was supported: the social geographies, the topography and archaeology of middlebrow production and consumption; spaces of refuge, spaces of social power, spaces of industry and production; loci for writing: areas in a country, a county, a town, a village, even of a building. Where did middlebrow happen? Secondly, we invite papers that explore the literary representation of place and space in middlebrow writing. How do middlebrow writers image the places of gender, ethnicity, and class? We are particularly interested to learn about the experience of Empire in the first half of the twentieth century and middlebrow conceptions of home and exile, the country and city, the centre and the margins. How does middlebrow reflect and negotiate the spatial practices of society?

Website: http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2012/Middlebrow2012/index.htm Contact: abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to kate.macdonald@skynet.be and cornelia.waechter@uni-paderborn.de

The first international Djuna Barnes conference 21–22 September 2012 Institute of English Studies CFP deadline: 30 March 2012 The work of author, poet, playwright, journalist, visual artist and sometimes reluctant modernist Djuna Barnes (1892 – 1982) has continued to beguile, excite and inspire readers and has produced its own voluminous and varied critical history. While Barnes has often been treated as a somewhat peripheral figure in relation to modernism, recent studies reveal a deepening body of research that increasingly values Barnes’s importance as a central modern writer. The First International Djuna Barnes Conference presents itself as a timely opportunity to reflect upon this complex critical history and consider the shape and scope of Barnes scholarship and twentieth century literary studies today. We warmly invite papers on any aspect of the work of Djuna Barnes.

Website: http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2012/DjunaBarnes/index.htm Contact: proposals of no more than 300 words for 15–20 minute papers (or 500 word proposals for panels of 3 papers) + affiliation and details of graduate work and research interests to djunabarnes2012@gmail.com

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POSTGRADUATE STUDY in the humanities and social sciences at the University of London The School of Advanced Study, University of London, unites ten prestigious research institutes to form the UK’s national centre for the facilitation and promotion of research in the humanities and social sciences. The School offers full- and part-time Master’s and research degrees in its specialist areas, including:

LLM in Advanced Legislative Studies

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MA in Caribbean and Latin American Studies

MA in Comparative American Studies

MA in Cultural and Intellectual History 1300–1650

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MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights

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MRes in the History of the Book

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