Research seminars Winter/Spring Term 2019

Research seminars Winter/Spring Term 2019

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Institute of Classical Studies Institute of Commonwealth Studies Institute of English Studies Institute of Historical Research Institute of Latin American Studies Institute of Modern Languages Research Institute of Philosophy The Warburg Institute

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Classical Reception A new addition to the ICS seminar programme for summer 2019, this series will explore a range of topics relating to the reception of the ancient world.

Contact: valerie.james@sas.ac.uk

Mondays at 16:30–18:30

Downloadable copies of the programmes for the Institute of Classical Studies regular seminar and lecture series are available from the Institute's website.

Dates: 13 May (series opens with Tarrant Lecture by Professor Margaret Malamud, 17:00), 20 May; 3, 10, 17, 24 June

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The Digital Classicists seminar addresses the value and impact of digital and other quantitative methods in the study of classical heritage, material culture, and philology. Seminars are streamed online to a worldwide audience.

Ancient History The spring 2019 series of the ICS Ancient History seminar will focus on migration and refugees, while the summer 2019 series will take Greek and Roman historiography as its theme.

Thursdays at 16:30–18:30 Dates: 24 Jan; 7, 14, 21, 28 Feb; 7, 14, 21 Mar; 25 Apr; 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 May; 6 June

Ancient Literature This series of the ICS Ancient Literature seminar brings together different approaches and a range of speakers to explore aspects of writing on meaning and form in Greek and Latin literature.

Mondays at 17:00–19:00 Dates: 14, 21, 28 Jan; 4, 18, 25 Feb; 4, 11 Mar

Ancient Philosophy The ICS Ancient Philosophy seminar series brings together papers on philosophical texts and authors from the Greek and Roman world. The theme for the spring and summer terms will be 'New perspectives on ancient metaphysics, ethics, and philosophy of mind'.

Mondays at 16:30–18:30 Dates: 14, 28 Jan; 11, 25 Feb; 11, 25 Mar; 20 May

Classical Archaeology The theme of the spring and summer terms of the ICS Classical Archaeology seminar series will be ‘Archaeologies of empire’.

Wednesdays at 17:00–19:00 Dates: 23, 30 Jan; 6, 20 Feb; 6 Mar

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Fridays at 16:30–18:30 Dates: 7, 14, 21, 28 June; 12, 19, 26 July

Fellows' Seminar The ICS Fellows’ seminar is an informal lunchtime meeting at which visiting fellows and researchers working in the ICS present their work to each other and to anyone else who is interested. Coffee and tea will be provided. Attendees are welcome to bring their lunches.

Wednesdays at 13:00–14:00 Dates: 16 Jan; 6, 27 Feb; 13 Mar

Mycenaean The ICS Mycenaean seminar series presents papers on topics in Aegean Prehistory and attracts an international audience of scholars.

Wednesdays at 15:30–17:30 Dates: 16 Jan; 13 Feb; 13 Mar; 5 June (Ventris Lecture, 17:00–19:00)

Postgraduate Work-in-Progress The seminar provides a friendly environment in which postgraduate students are able to talk about their research on any subject connected with the ancient world (broadly defined), the reception of antiquity, or classical scholarship; take part in stimulating discussion of their paper; and extend their social and academic network.

Fridays at 16:30–18:30 Dates: 11,18, 25 Jan; 1, 8, 15, 22 Feb; 1, 8, 15, 22 Mar; 26 Apr; 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 May; 7, 14 June

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Contemporary Cultures of Writing

Contact: iesevents@sas.ac.uk The Institute of English Studies runs an active programme of research seminars and reading groups.

All seminars and reading groups are free and open to the public. ies.sas.ac.uk/events/research-seminars Book Collecting Seminar The focus of these lectures and seminars is on bibliophilia and the book trade. Book-collectors, dealers, and auctioneers are invited to give a lecture on a subject of their choosing which relates to the practice of bibliophilia. Lectures may be anecdotal, academic, or purely for entertainment, with a special focus this year on widening access in book-collecting.

With this in mind, the programme is jointly coordinated and run by the University of London’s new Society of Bibliophiles.

Tuesdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 12 Feb; 9 Apr; 11 June

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

Fridays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 4 Jan; 1 Feb; 1 Mar; 5 Apr; 3 May; 7 June

Comparative Modernisms The Comparative Modernisms Seminar Series stresses both modernism’s continuing relevance in the present and its complex, relational nature that calls for a comparative perspective. It provides a forum for groundbreaking multidisciplinary, transnational, inter-medial, and inter-textual research in modernist studies. Seminars feature both UK-based and international scholars and host a variety of associated events, such as roundtables, workshops and colloquia.

Tuesday at 16:00–18:00 Date: 25 June

The research focus of this new, interdisciplinary group is on writing practices, their cultural contexts, and their impacts. We are interested in all forms of creative and academic writing, reflective practices, academic literacies, and translation as a creative act. This series will focus on important matters in creative writing today.

Usually Tuesdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 20 Feb; 20, 27 Mar

Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research The focus of the seminar is contemporary innovative poetry and its antecedents. The speakers are predominantly either final-year research students or early-career academics from a range of institutions. The seminar provides a challenging, wellinformed, and critically supportive audience for both these groups. In other years, it has also aimed to create a dialogue between older academics (and poets) and these groups of young researchers.

Wednesdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 30 Jan; 27 Feb; 27 Mar; 24 Apr; 29 May; 26 June

Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar (EMPHASIS) The EMPHASIS seminar focuses on the history of early modern philosophy (broadly construed), and the history of early modern science (including the occult sciences). It is one of the only seminars in London that addresses these themes together.

Once a month on Saturdays at 14:00–16:00 Dates: 12 Jan; 9 Feb; 2 Mar; 6 Apr; 4 May; 1 June; 6 Jul

Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group The Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group has been in existence since late 2006. At each meeting a speaker introduces a canto, followed by discussion, always lively and questioning.

Speakers (and members) range from internationallyestablished Pound critics to poets, postgraduates, independent scholars, and Pound enthusiasts.

Second Wednesday of the month at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 16 Jan; 13 Feb; 13 Mar; 10, 17 Apr; 15 May; 12 June

Finnegans Wake Research Seminar The seminar is a reading group that has been running regularly since 2007. It reads James Joyce’s final work, Finnegans Wake, at a close level of detail, which the allusive and multi-layered work demands. Discussion is focused on the text and attention is also paid to Joyce’s manuscripts (copies of which are displayed on a screen). PhD students working on a range of topics (ethics, space, psychoanalysis, Catholicism, America, textual problems, Islam in the 1920s and 30s, fashion and clothing) attend and bring their own concerns to the group. Established academics, graduate students, and nonacademics alike attend regularly. The group hosts a blog to record its discussions: finneganswakelondon.wordpress.com.

The last Friday of the month at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 25 Jan; 22 Feb

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Historical Linguistics

London Modernism

In many universities, linguists are associated with languagespecific departments, though their research may not be limited to a single language or time period. The objective of the seminar is to facilitate interdisciplinary work in historical linguistics by creating a forum in which scholars researching historical varieties of all languages from all perspectives, working with a range of theoretical approaches, can present their research and lead discussions, promoting dialogues between the different parts of the discipline.

The London Modernism Seminar aims to showcase work-inprogress in the field of modernist studies. It features a mix of established and junior researchers from UK and non-UK institutions. The seminar aims to be interdisciplinary in focus, with speakers coming from the disciplines of English, drama, history, book history, art history, and neuroscience.

Thursdays at 17:30–20:00 | Room 234 (Senate House)

London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS)

Dates: 28 Feb; 28 Mar

Irish Studies The Institute of English Studies holds monthly Irish Studies seminars to support the discussion of Irish literature, culture, and history.

Thursdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 18 Jan; 21 Feb; 21 Mar; 25 Apr

Literary London Reading Group Since 2012, the Literary London Reading Group, an offshoot of the Literary London Society (literarylondon.org), has offered a seminar series that fosters interdisciplinary and historically wide-ranging research into London literature in its historical, social, and cultural contexts. The sessions aim to include all periods and genres of writing and representation about, set in, inspired by, or alluding to central and suburban London and its environs, from the city’s roots in pre-Roman times to its imagined futures.

Saturdays at 11:00–14:00 | Room 349 (Senate House) Dates: 2 Feb; 2 Mar; 11 May;

This seminar aims to include contributions both from leading medievalists and new members of the London medievalist community, to encourage participation from graduate students, and to range as widely as possible within the fields of Old English and Middle English studies. The selection of topics offers a balance of detailed analysis and more general theoretical / methodological or historical discussion. The seminar fosters a friendly spirit of collaboration among London medievalists and is an essential and vital forum where London medievalists can meet, exchange ideas, and keep abreast of current trends in medieval studies.

Once a month on Wednesdays at 17:30–19:30 | Room 243 (Senate House) Dates: 30 Jan; 6 Mar; 22 May

The second Tuesday of the month at 18:00–20:00

Maggs Bros Ltd, one of the world’s largest antiquarian booksellers.

Dates: 15 Jan; 5 Mar; 14 May; 11 June

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London–Paris Romanticism

Medieval Manuscripts

Launched in 2016, the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar is an international research forum devoted to British Romantic literature, its European connections, and the broader culture of the Romantic period, 1760–1830. The forum is a collaboration between four colleges of the University of London and a number of Parisian institutions including Université Paris-Sorbonne and the École Normale Supérieure, which hosts a two-day symposium in Paris each spring.

The seminar covers current research into the intellectual history of book production in the middle ages, into the history of medieval texts and script, and into manuscript culture more generally. The great value of the seminar, which was founded in the 1970s, is that it draws on a wide pool of expertise from the academic world, the British Library, and the commercial world of books. It is linked with the London Palaeography Teachers’ Group and so acts as the meeting place for many of those involved with the teaching of the London International Palaeography Summer School.

Fridays at 17:30–19:30 Dates: 18 Jan; 8 Feb; 15 Mar; 26 Apr; 17 May londonparisromantic.com

London Shakespeare Seminar Active for over a decade, the seminar seeks to showcase work in progress in the study of Shakespeare and early modern theatre, offering an environment that is open, welcoming, critically rigorous, and expressive of the contemporary state of play in the field. It welcomes anyone with an interest in the critical study of Shakespeare and early modern drama from across the UK and beyond.

Once a month on Mondays at 17:30–19:30 Dates: 21 Jan; 11 Feb; 4 Mar

London Theatre The London Theatre Seminar is a public forum for the development of theatre and performance scholarship and its intercollegiate and collaborative aspects are central to the productively speculative nature of its enquiry. This year’s seminar continues the focus on the intersection of theatre and performance with broader social phenomena, from social performances such as club culture to theatre, visual culture, and the question of the ‘amateur.’ The seminar maintains an active blog: londontheatreseminar.wordpress.com.

Once a month on Thursdays at 18:30–20:30 Dates: 24 Jan; 28 Feb; 21 Mar; 2, 30 May

Media History Seminar This seminar aims to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars working on a range of media including print, radio, film, and digital communications technologies from various time periods. It is run jointly with the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and maintains an active blog: mediahistoryseminar.wordpress.com.

Tuesdays at 17:30–19:15 Dates: 29 Jan; 12 Feb; 12 Mar

Nineteenth-Century Studies For several years now the Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar has brought together national and international scholars through its regular seminars, symposia, and postgraduate conference. The regular seminars are well attended by postgraduates, university lecturers both within and outside the University of London, and by interested members of the public. Our speakers are mainly from the field of nineteenth-century literary studies, but the seminars are frequently interdisciplinary in nature and have recently been informed by cultural studies, media history, and art history.

Fridays at 17:30–19:30 Dates: 1 Feb; 1 Mar; 12 Apr

Open University History of Books and Reading (HOBAR) Seminar The 2018/19 series of the HOBAR seminar will focus on the complex and productive relationship between authors, publishers, and serialisation as a primary mode of reaching audiences from the nineteenth century to the present day. It also seeks to examine the phenomenon of ‘series, serials, and serialisation’ more broadly. How did readers respond to the literary series, and in which reading environments were books in series consumed? What was the relationship between readers, periodicals, and their publishers?

Fridays at 17:30–19:30 Dates: 28 Jan; 4, 11, 18 Feb; 11, 18, 25 Mar; 1, 8, 15 Apr

Tuesdays at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 5 Feb; 12 Mar

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Christian Missions in Global History Tuesdays at 17:30 | IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Dates: 15 Jan; 12 Feb; 12 Mar

Contact: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk The Institute of Historical Research continues to run the largest programme of seminars dedicated to history in the UK, with over 70 running throughout the year, covering a wide variety of historical periods, places, and topics. Its seminars are open to everyone and are attended by more than 10,000 people each year. Many of the IHR’s seminars are also broadcast live and archived online at history.ac.uk/podcasts. All venues are subject to change. Please check online for latest details. history.ac.uk/events/seminars Archives and Society The focus of this seminar is the theory and practice of recordkeeping and the role of records and archives within wider society. Speakers from a range of practitioner and academic backgrounds present on work-in-progress and the seminar aims to support an informal, friendly atmosphere of discussion alongside more formal presentations.

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:45 | IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Dates: 26 Feb; 12 Mar; 7 May

Britain at Home and Abroad Since 1800 The seminar covers all aspects of modern British history – social, cultural, political and economic papers address domestic history as well as histories of empire and decolonisation, and transnational and comparative histories involving Britain.

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15 Dates: 17, 31 Jan; 14, 28 Feb; 14 Mar

British History in the Seventeenth Century Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:15 | IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Collecting and Display Tuesdays at 18:00 | IHR North American History Room (Senate House) Dates: please check website

Contemporary British History Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:00 | IHR North American History Room (Senate House) Dates: please check website

Conversations and Disputations Fridays at 17:30 | IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Dates: 22, 25 Jan; 19, 22 Feb; 12, 22 Mar; 3, 31 May

Crusades and the Latin East Mondays at 17:15 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Dates: please check website

Digital History Tuesdays at 17:15 | IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Dates: 12, 26 Feb; 12 Mar; 7, 21 May ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk

Disability History Mondays at 17:15 Dates: please check website

Earlier Middle Ages Wednesdays at 17:30 | IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Dates: please check website

Dates: 10, 24 Jan; 7, 21 Feb; 7, 21 Mar

Economic and Social History of the Early Modern World

British History in the Long Eighteenth Century

Fridays at 17:15 | IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

This seminar provides an important forum for debate on all aspects of research into the history of Britain over the long eighteenth century. Papers cross thematic, methodological, and disciplinary boundaries, and the series often hosts panels on particular themes and outreach events across London.

Following seminars, all are warmly invited to dinner at a local restaurant, with a pegged charge of £15 for postgrads and recent postdocs.

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Dates: 16, 30 Jan; 13, 27 Feb; 13 Mar; 24 Apr; 8, 22 May; 5, 19 June School of Advanced Study

Dates: 18 Jan; 1, 15 Feb; 1, 15 Mar

Education in the Long Eighteenth Century Once a month on a Saturday at 14:00–16:00 | IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Dates: 19 Jan; 9 Feb; 16 Mar; 4, 25 May; 29 June

European History 1150–1550 Thursdays at 17:30 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Dates: 17, 31 Jan; 14, 28 Feb; 14 Mar

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European History 1500–1800

History of Education

Mondays at 17:15 | IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

This seminar is convened by ICHRE (International Centre for Historical Research in Education) members. The seminar attracts speakers from around the world, providing a forum for established historians as well as early-career researchers to present their work.

Dates: 14, 28 Jan; 11, 25 Feb; 11 Mar; 1 May

Film History Thursdays at 17:30 | IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Thursdays at 17:30 Dates: 7 Feb; 7 Mar; 23 May; 20 June

Dates: please check website

History of Feminism

Food History

Thursdays at 17:15

Thursdays at 17:30 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Dates: please check website

Dates: 10, 24 Jan; 21 Feb; 7, 21 Mar

History of Gardens and Landscapes

Gender and History in the Americas

Fortnightly on Thursdays at 18:00 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Mondays at 17:15 | IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

Dates: 17, 31 Jan; 14, 28 Feb; 14, 28 Mar

Dates: 7 Jan; 4 Feb; 4 Mar; 29 Apr; 20 May; 10 June

History of Libraries

History Acts

These seminars are jointly sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, the Institute of Historical Research, the Warburg Institute and the Library and Information History Group of CILIP.

Monthly on Thursdays | The Court Room (Senate House) Dates: please check website

History and Public Health The History and Public Health IHR Seminar Series is organised by the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The spring 2019 series will be themed around the twin pillars of infectious disease and health systems covering a range of geographical areas. Previous themes have included the history of emotions in public health. As well as historians, the seminars draw an audience of anthropologists, epidemiologists, and clinicians.

Wednesdays at 12:45–14:00 | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, WC1E 7HT and 15–17 Tavistock Place, WC1H 9SH Dates: 17, 30 Jan; 7, 14 Feb; 7, 21 Mar; 4 Apr; 8, 23 May

History Lab Seminar History Lab is the national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines. It is an intellectual and social forum designed to meet the needs of the postgraduate history community. In our seminar series, PhD students at any level in their studies present their current research. We are thus covering a diverse range of topics and time periods of historical research and explore the most recent trends in historiography.

Thursdays at 17:30 | IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Dates: 10, 24 Jan; 2, 21 Feb; 7, 21 Mar; 2, 16, 30 May; 13, 27 June

Once a month on Tuesdays at 17:30 | Warburg Institute Dates: 5 Feb; 5 Mar; 2, 6 Apr; 7 May; 4 June

History of Liturgy Once a month on Mondays at 17:15 | IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Dates: 14 Jan; 11 Mar; 20 May

History of Political Ideas Wednesdays at 17:15 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Dates: 23 Jan; 6 Feb; 6, 20 Mar; 1, 15 May

History of Political Ideas / Early Career Seminar Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15 | IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Dates: 16, 30 Jan; 13, 27 Feb; 13 Mar; 24 Apr; 8, 22 May

History of Sexuality The history of sexuality is a diverse area of study that focuses broadly on men and women as sexual beings in the past, on the categories of heterosexuality and homosexuality through which sexual selfhood has been experienced, and, moving beyond this binary, on other historical expressions of gender identity, queerness, and sexual experience.

Once a month on Tuesdays at 17:15 | IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Dates: 22 Jan; 5 Feb; 5 Mar; 30 Apr; 28 May; 18 June

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Imperial and World History The Imperial and World History Seminar has been an international hub for researchers in global, transnational, and imperial history for decades. Its fortnightly meetings welcome senior and early career scholars, and graduate students from across the universities of London.

Mondays at 17:15 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Dates: 21 Jan; 4, 18 Feb; 4, 18 Mar; 29 Apr; 13 May, 10, 24 June

Imperial and World History Seminar Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop The workshop is an informal forum for postgraduates and new researchers to meet and present finished pieces or works in progress on any aspect of colonial or postcolonial history. The workshop features papers that address specific methodological, interdisciplinary, or theoretical concerns as well as colonial/postcolonial case studies from throughout the world. The workshop draws an audience from scholars at different stages of their research.

Mondays at 17:30 | IHR Pollard Room, N301 (Senate House) Dates: 14, 28 Jan; 11, 25 Feb; 11 Mar

International History

Institutions of British Government – in partnership with The Strand Group

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 18:00 | IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House)

Focusing on seminal moments in the contemporary history of British government and fusing academic papers with expert respondents, this seminar series seeks to examine how British government really works in practice as well as in theory.

Examining the changes and development of the institutions of British government, the seminar series seeks to highlight and assist government in understanding its own institutional history, providing a forum where current and previous government officials can learn from and help academics' research.

Dates: 15, 29 Jan; 12, 26 Feb; 12 Mar

Dates: please check website

Interdisciplinary Seminar on Medievalism Medievalism is the study of responses to the Middle Ages at all periods since a sense of the medieval began to develop.

The seminar discusses such responses, ranging from the robustly academic to the overtly political, to the whimsical, frivolous, and downright silly. What is significant is the way in which the idea of the Middle Ages functions as a consensually understood tool of reference and legitimation, and as a part of the modern cultural imaginary.

Wednesdays at 17:30 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Dates: 16 Jan; 13 Feb; 13 Mar; 24 Apr; 22 May; 19 June

Jewish History Seminars consist of a 40–50 minute presentation, followed by a question-and-answer session.

Once a month on Mondays at 17:15 | IHR North American History Room (Senate House) Dates: 14, 28 Jan; 25 Feb; 11 Mar

Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy Thursdays at 17:15 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Dates: please check the website

Late Medieval Fridays at 17:30 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Dates: 11, 18, 25 Jan; 1, 8, 15, 22 Feb; 1, 8, 15, 22 Mar

Latin American History Tuesdays at 17:30 | IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Dates: 8, 22 Jan; 5, 18, 19 Feb; 5, 19 Mar

Life-Cycles Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30 | IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) Dates: 15, 29 Jan; 12, 26 Feb; 12 Mar; 7, 21 May; 4, 18 June

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Locality and Region

London Society for Medieval Studies

This seminar welcomes all those who are interested in the relationship between local and national history and who wish to share ideas, viewpoints, and work in progress. It seeks to make an original contribution to local and regional history by drawing upon the long-established national resources of the Victoria County History and co-operating with participants from universities, record offices, local history societies, and heritage organisations, as well as with those engaged in independent research.

Founded in 1970, the London Society for Medieval Studies seeks to foster knowledge of, and dialogue about, the Middle Ages (c.500–c.1500 CE) among both scholars and the wider public in London. Organised by postgraduates and early career academics, our fortnightly seminars showcase the latest advances in all areas of medieval studies, including history, art, politics, economics, literature, and archaeology.

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 | IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Dates: 8, 22 Jan; 5, 19 Feb; 5, 19 Mar; 30 Apr; 14, 28 May

Dates: 22 Jan; 5, 19 Feb; 5 Mar; 2, 16, 30 Apr; 14, 28 May; 11 June

Low Countries History

London Group of Historical Geographers

The Low Countries Seminar is an interdisciplinary group with wide-ranging interests in the history of the Netherlands and Belgium. The topics of the papers range chronologically from the Middle Ages to the present, with a majority focusing on the Golden Ages of Flanders and Holland in the early modern era.

The London Group of Historical Geographers was originally established in 1981 and since 1989, it has organised fortnightly themed seminars across the academic year.

Interdisciplinary in focus, the seminar brings together scholars and practitioners from the arts, humanities, and social sciences to examine geographical themes across a range of historical periods.

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Dates: 22 Jan; 5, 19 Feb; 5, 19 Mar

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 19:00 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Dates: 25 Jan; 8, 22 Feb; 8 Mar; 3, 17 May

Maritime History and Culture Tuesdays at 17:15 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

London POTUS Group

Dates: 29 Jan; 26 Feb; 12 Mar; 21 May; 18 June

The London POTUS Group is dedicated to the study of modern US politics with a particular emphasis on the role played by the White House. Its seminar series will present cutting-edge research on the presidency. There will also be distinguished speakers from the Fourth Estate and Government in order to generate a fruitful dialogue with those groups.

Marxism in Culture Fridays at 17:30 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Dates:1, 15 Feb; 1, 15 Mar

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Modern Italian History

Jointly hosted by the Institute of English Studies and Institute of Historical Research, this series aims to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars working on a range of media including print, radio, film, and digital communications technologies from various time periods.

The Modern Italian History Seminar brings together scholars working on nineteenth- and twentieth-century history of Italy and acts as a focal point of academic debate in that area. It features a mix of established and junior scholars from the UK, Italy, and elsewhere. When there are links with other fields and seminar series, the seminar organises joint sessions.

Tuesdays at 18:00 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Dates: 5 Feb; 12 Mar

Wednesdays at 17:15 | IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House)

Medieval and Tudor London

Dates: 16, 30 Jan; 13 Mar

Thursdays at 17:15 | Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House)

Sponsored by ASMI (Association for the Study of Modern Italy)

Dates: please check the website

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Metropolitan History

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:15 | IHR Professor Olga Crisp Room, N102 (Senate House)

The Metropolitan History Seminar focuses on the history of London and other world cities in all periods of their history.

The seminar includes social, cultural, architectural, literary, economic, and religious history at a variety of geographical scales, and hosts talks concerning individuals, buildings, neighbourhoods, cities, and comparative urban historical approaches.

Wednesdays at 17:30 | IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Dates: 16, 30 Jan; 13, 27 Feb; 13 Mar

Military History The Military History seminar considers wars and warfare in the modern era, since the 1780s. Papers address the themes of the history of armed forces (land, naval, and air); strategy and operations; military theory and practice; commanders and campaigns; and the social and cultural impact of warfare.

Tuesdays at 17:15 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Dates: 8, 22 Jan; 5, 19 Feb; 5, 19 Mar; 30 Apr; 14, 28 May; 11 June

Modern British History Postgrad Reading Group Thursdays at 17:30 | Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Dates: 8, 22 Jan; 5, 19 Feb; 5, 19 Mar; 30 Apr; 14, 28 May; 11 June

Modern French History

Dates: please check the website

North American History Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 | UCL Institute of the Americas, 51 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PN Dates: 17, 31 Jan; 14, 28 Feb; 14 Mar; 9 May; 6 June

Oral History Thursdays at 18:00 | IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House) Dates: 7 Feb; 7 Mar

Parliaments, Politics and People This seminar provides a national forum for new research on all aspects of parliamentary and electoral politics, from the people and processes to the records and physical settings.

Most papers concern the United Kingdom and Ireland from the sixteenth century onwards, but it also welcomes presentations on the medieval period and the wider world.

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 | IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Dates: 22 Jan; 5, 19 Feb; 5, 19 Mar; 30 Apr; 14, 28 May; 11 June

Philosophy of History

Wednesdays at 17:30 | IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House) or Thursdays at 17:30 | German Historical Institute

The Philosophy of History Seminar aims to offer a forum for reflection on the nature of historicity as such, both in socio-cultural formations and in individual human existence.

It seeks to explore the nature of historical understanding, interpretation, and explanation, and thereby foster reflective and critical reappraisal of the enterprise of historical research and writing in all its forms. Founded in 2000, it has always welcomed all those with an interest in the philosophy of history, broadly and diversely construed.

Dates: 13 Feb; 13 Mar; 6 June

Thursdays at 17:30 | IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House) Dates: : 21 Jan; 4, 18 Feb; 4, 18 Mar; 29 Apr; 13, 20 May; 10 June

Modern German History

Dates: 17, 31 Jan; 14, 28 Feb; 14 Mar

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Psychoanalysis and History

Society, Culture and Belief, 1500–1800

The relationship between psychoanalysis and history is longstanding, productive, and controversial. This seminar series has a dual focus: on the impact of psychoanalytic ideas and practices on historical writing, and on the history of psychoanalysis as a body of theory, an international movement, and a clinical tradition.

Thursdays at 17:30 | IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 | IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Dates: 23 Jan; 6, 20 Feb; 6 Mar; 15 May

Public History Seminar Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 | IHR John S Cohen Room, N203 (Senate House)

Dates: 17 Jan; 14 Feb; 14 Mar; 25 Apr; 9 May Sponsored by Mark Storey

Sport and Leisure History The Sport and Leisure History Seminar is organised by the London Branch of the British Society of Sports History South of England Sport and Leisure History Network (BSSH South).

Fortnightly on Mondays at 17:30 | IHR Past and Present Room, N202 (Senate House) Dates: 14, 28 Jan; 11, 25 Feb; 11 Mar; 15, 29 Apr; 10, 24 June

Dates: 6 Feb; 14 Mar

Studies of Home

Religious History of Britain 1500–1800

Wednesdays at 17:30 | IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:15 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Dates: 9 Jan; 6 Feb; 6 Mar

Dates: 15, 29 Jan; 12, 26 Feb; 12 Mar; 7, 21 May; 4, 18 June; 2 July

Transport and Mobility History

Rethinking Modern Europe

Thursdays at 17:30 | IHR Peter Marshall Room, N204 (Senate House)

This seminar hosts discussions about cutting-edge research on modern and contemporary European history. Speakers ‘rethink’ Europe through comparative, global, transnational, local, national, and regional perspectives. ‘Brexit’ and, more generally, the rise of populist, right-wing and anti-immigration political options in Europe, and globally, mean that there is a need for historically grounded, intellectually innovative and socially engaged discussions on Europe, perhaps more than ever in recent history.

Dates: please check the website

Tudor and Stuart History Mondays at 17:15 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Dates: please check the website

Voluntary Action History

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB02 (Senate House)

Fortnightly on Mondays at 18:00 | IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House)

Dates: 9, 23 Jan; 6, 20 Feb; 6, 13, 20 Mar; 1, 15, 29 May; 12 June

Dates: 21 Jan; 4, 18 Feb; 4, 18 Mar; 29 Apr; 13, 27 May; 10 June

Sponsored by Lord Tugendhat

Socialist History The seminar's core remit is to promote new research in the area of socialist history broadly defined. This can range through labour struggles to women's history and anti-racism both in the UK and elsewhere in the world. The focus is on work either in progress or recently published either in a journal or as a book.

Mondays at 17:30 | IHR Seminar Room, N304 (Senate House) Dates: 28 Jan; 11, 25 Feb; 11 Mar; 20 May; 3, 17 June

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War, Society and Culture Once a month on Wednesdays at 17:15 | IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Dates: please check the website

Women's History Fortnightly on Fridays at 17:15 | IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301 (Senate House) Dates: please check the website

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Latin American Anthropology

Contact: ilas@sas.ac.uk The Institute of Latin American Studies hosts a broad range of seminar series throughout the academic year. These events are usually free and open to the public. ilas.sas.ac.uk/events/seminar-series Caribbean Regional Seminar Unique in the UK and Europe, the Centre for Integrated Caribbean Research (CICR) at SAS seeks to promote research into the Caribbean as an integrated unit, leading to new research agendas for scholars in the field. The Centre and its seminar seek to promote research and debate that connects cutting-edge, transnational, and multidisciplinary Caribbean and Area Studies scholarship with global issues and broad theoretical questions of significance to the wider academic community and public.

For further details and meeting dates, please visit: cicr.blogs.sas.ac.uk

Latin America and the Global History of Knowledge (LAGLOBAL) This seminar is a global academic forum for advanced interdisciplinary research on the contributions of Latin America to the global history of knowledge. LAGLOBAL aims to facilitate knowledge exchange by providing a metropolitan venue for the dissemination of new work in such fields as the history of natural history, expeditions, cartography, medicine, historiography, anthropology, archaeology, statecraft, theory or philosophy, and related practices.

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 For further details and meeting dates, please visit: laglobal.blogs.sas.ac.uk

This seminar offers a forum in which anthropologists in the early phase of their careers working on Latin America can present their work and get feedback in a supportive and collaborative environment, as well as build connections between researchers and departments. It is jointly run by the Institute of Latin American Studies and several London-based anthropology departments, including LSE, Goldsmiths, and UCL. Fortnightly on Thursdays at 17:30 | Room 234 (Senate House) Dates: 31 Jan; 14, 28 Feb; 14 Mar For further details, please visit: anthropologyseminarilas.blogs.sas.ac.uk

London Andean Studies A global academic forum for advanced interdisciplinary research on the past, present, and future of the Andean region of South America, broadly defined to include Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile. The seminar seeks to promote interdisciplinary research and debate that connects cutting-edge, transnational Andean and Area Studies scholarship with global issues and theoretical questions of significance to the wider academic community and public.

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:30 Date: 6, 20 Feb For further details and meeting dates, please visit: andeanstudiesseminarilas.blogs.sas.ac.uk

Latin American Music (LAMS) LAMS is a UK-based interdisciplinary forum and network for Latin American music research that brings together scholars, students, musicians, and the public to share interest, knowledge, and critical perspectives. Since 2000, LAMS has met twice each year on a Saturday for a day of presentations, discussion, and live music. Presenters include a mix of scholars, research students, and musicians, alongside international visitors and members of the UK Latin American community.

Two Saturdays per year (usually May and November) plus occasional small-scale events For further details and dates, please visit: ilas.sas.ac.uk/events/ seminar-series/latin-american-music-seminar

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Contact: modernlanguages@sas.ac.uk

Contact: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Two of the Institute of Modern Languages’ research centres run seminar series: the Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought and the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies. These seminars are free and all are welcome to attend.

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modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events Bloch Centre Seminar Series: Biological Thought and the German Left Traditionally viewed almost exclusively through the lens of its influence on the right, the political reception of biological thought has also had a profound and widespread influence on left-wing intellectual traditions and movements. The seminar examines the impact of biological ideas on the German left in the period from around 1800, when biology was accepted as a science until the rise of the Nazi biological state in 1933.

Mondays at 16:00–18:00 | Room 246 (Senate House) Dates: 4, 11, 18 Feb; 4, 11, 25 Mar modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/ernst-bloch-centre-germanthought

Exile Centre Seminar Series: Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminars Complementing the ‘Insiders/Outsiders’ Festival, which runs throughout 2019, these informal lecture/seminars will cover a broad range of topics relating to exile in Britain, including art and sculpture, design, literature, film and theatre, dance, the internment of aliens, and the Kindertransport.

Wednesdays at 18:00–19:30 | Room 243 (Senate House) Dates: 27 Feb; 27 Mar; 17, 30 Apr modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/research-centres/research-centregerman-and-austrian-exile-studies

CenSes Seminars The aim of the Centre for the Study of the Senses, or CenSes, is to bring researchers from different disciplines together to develop the understanding of how the different senses contribute to our perception of the environment, and awareness of ourselves.

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 17:00–19:00 Dates: 23 Jan; 6 Feb; 6, 20 Mar; 1, 15, 29 May; 5 June

Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30–19:30 Dates: 29 Jan; 26 Feb; 12, 26 Mar; 7, 21 May

London Aesthetics Forum With lectures on topics in aesthetics and philosophy of art, the Forum aims to stimulate philosophical reflection on art.

Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 16:00–18:00 Dates: 16 Jan; 13, 27 Feb; 1, 13 Mar; 24 Apr; 8 May; 7, 19 June

New Directions in Political Epistemology New Directions in Political Epistemology presents cuttingedge research at the intersection of epistemology and political philosophy Mondays at 17:00–18:30 Dates: 14, 28 Jan; 11, 25 Feb; 11, 25 Mar; 8, 25 Apr

The Practical, the Political and the Ethical Established in 2015, the PPE series was created by Véronique Munoz-Dardé (UCL) and Hallvard Lillehammer (Birkbeck) in order to discuss work in progress from visiting speakers. Talks are usually 50 minutes, followed by discussion.

Fortnightly on Tuesdays at 17:30–19:15 Dates: 22 Jan; 5, 19 Feb; 5, 19 Mar; 30 Apr; 14, 28 May; 11, 25 June

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History of Libraries Seminar

Contact: warburg@sas.ac.uk The Warburg Institute hosts research seminars on ideas, images, and society across time and space. They are open to the public and (unless otherwise noted) take place at the Warburg Institute in Woburn Square. warburg.sas.ac.uk/whats-on Director’s Seminar The Director’s Seminar brings leading scholars and writers to the Institute to share new work and fresh perspectives on key issues in their fields.

Dates: please check the website

Bilderfahrzeuge Lecture Series This annual lecture series is organised by the international research project ‘Bilderfahrzeuge: Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology’. Reflecting the broad scope of its research associates, the series brings together speakers from diverse academic and disciplinary backgrounds and invites them to consider their work in relation to the migration of images, ideas, and objects encapsulated in Aby Warburg’s metaphor of the Bilderfahrzeug.

For further details and meeting dates, please visit: bilderfahrzeuge.org Fridays at 17:30

Erasmus and Luther on Free Will The seminar will focus on the concept of free will as it was understood by Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466–1536) and Martin Luther (1483–1546), concentrating on two texts: Erasmus’s De Libero Arbitrio (1524), and Luther’s violent counterattack, De Servo Arbitrio (1525). Open to all postgraduate students, the seminar discusses the ideas that have shaped Christian theology and the Church through the centuries, as well as the notions of freedom, choice, thought, truth, tradition, and hermeneutics.

First Monday of each month, 16:00–17:00 Dates: please check the website

From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Commedia This series aims to introduce the beauty, complexity, and continuing significance of Dante’s ‘Divina Commedia’ through readings of the text, in the original and in translation, and through commentary on it. The readings are accompanied by a rich visual display of medieval illuminations while the commentary explores and invites discussion of some of the leading ideas of the poem.

This seminar series examines all aspects of the provision of libraries during all periods of history and in all countries. Talks are based on substantial original research and are usually by established researchers, but students are encouraged to present their research, as well. In collaboration with Lambeth Palace Library, National Trust, and Queen Mary University of London.

First Tuesday of every month at 17.30–18:30 Dates: please check the website

Image Economies As money seemingly grows ever more immaterial and threatens to vanish from sight entirely, the visual aspect of economics becomes more important if we are to avoid overlooking the obscure forces that rule our lives. This series asks: how does money look and what are its material qualities?

How are economic processes expressed and represented in visual terms? And what happens when images themselves take on some of the qualities of money, becoming stores of value or circulating as media of exchange?

Wednesdays at 17.30 – 19.30 Dates: 6, 13, 20, 27 Mar

Maps and Society These lectures focus on the history of maps and mapping worldwide, from earliest times to the twentieth century, with an emphasis on the social and cultural factors of the maps’ context, production, and use. Many speakers are internationally well-known scholars in the subject, but early-career speakers are also encouraged. The meetings provide an opportunity to advance understanding of noncurrent maps both through formal proceedings and informal encounters with established practitioners, who include academics, librarians, map collectors, and dealers. The style of the well-illustrated lectures is scholarly but accessible to an audience whose own interests and expertise range widely.

Occasional Thursdays at 17:30–19:30 Dates: please check the website

New Dialogues in Art History Art history has been at the core of the Warburg Institute since its foundation, and some of the most significant art historical research of the past century has originated at the Institute.

This seminar series aims to continue this tradition by opening dialogues among the next generation of art historians by providing a platform for art history researchers to present and discuss their work in an informal, supportive environment.

Seminars are open to doctoral researchers in art history from any institution.

An open call for papers throughout the academic year can be found at: newartdialogues.wixsite.com/warburg Occasional Wednesdays at 16:30–17:30 Dates: 30 Jan; 27 Feb

Mondays at 18:00–19:30 Date: please check the website

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Neoplatonic Studies On its fifth year, the Neoplatonic Studies Seminar will explore two thematic cycles. The first one, on evil, will explore the intertwining of materiality and evil that informs the groundwork of Platonist thought. For the first time, the seminar will follow the lineage of Platonist thought to explore Latin and Medieval thinkers. A small number of eminent scholars will be invited to present and open a discussion on a theme or text of their choice. The second cycle will focus on the Phaedrus, the celebrated Platonic dialogue on eros and the soul, along with the first part of the commentary of Hermias on the text, for the first time translated and published in English this year in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series.

Contact: rli@sas.ac.uk The Refugee Law Initiative hosts a broad range of events throughout the academic year, addressing issues of both refugee law and refugee protection.

These events are usually free and open to the public. rli.sas.ac.uk/events

In collaboration with University of Westminster and UCL. Thursdays at 17:30–19:30

Current Thinking in Refugee Law

Dates: 10, 17, 24, 31 Jan; 7, 14, 21, 28 Feb; 7, 14, 21, 28 Mar; 4, 11, 25 Apr; 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 May

Occasional Wednesdays at 14:00–16:00

Recent discussions surrounding refugee law have largely concentrated on procedural developments. But the substantive law has not stood still. The boundaries of refugee status remain one of the most important aspects of the protection afforded to forced migrants by international and domestic law.​In this lecture series, two of the foremost thinkers in refugee law, Mark Symes (Garden Court Chambers) and Hugo Storey (Judge of Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber), present a series of four discussions addressing the key constituents of refugee status.

Dates: please check the website

Dates vary, 18:00–20:00

Research Training and Reading Groups

Dates: 10 Jan; 6 Feb

The reading groups cover a range of topics in the fields covered by the Warburg Institute. These groups are typically open to students, research fellows, and interested scholars.

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Work-in-Progress The Work-in-Progress seminar series explores the variety of subjects studied at the Institute. Papers are given by third-year PhD students, research fellows studying at the Institute, visiting fellows, and occasionally invited international scholars.

For a full list of reading groups and upcoming dates, please see the Warburg Institute website: warburg.sas.ac.uk/whats-on.

The series provides a public space for discussion, promotion, and dissemination of research between academics, practitioners, students, and others with an interest in the refugee and forced migration field. The 9th International Refugee Law Seminar Series is an open theme covering a range of topics related to refugee law and protection, and presented by experts from a number of professions.

Once a month at 18:00–20:00 Dates: 23 Jan; 20 Feb; 14 Mar; 2 Apr

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