SAS Events: What's on guide Oct - Dec 2018

What’s on

October | November | December 2018

A selection of events highlighting the latest research across the humanities

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Welcome to the School of Advanced Study and to Senate House Library, University of London.

The School of Advanced Study is the UK’s national centre for the support and promotion of academic research in the humanities. Its nine institutes offer an extensive programme of seminars, workshops, lectures, and conferences. Each year around 1,800 events are organised on humanities topics, attracting more than 68,000 participants from around the world.

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies / ials.sas.ac.uk Institute of Classical Studies / ics.sas.ac.uk Institute of Commonwealth Studies / commonwealth.sas.ac.uk Institute of English Studies / ies.sas.ac.uk Institute of Historical Research / history.ac.uk Institute of Latin American Studies / ilas.sas.ac.uk Institute of Modern Languages Research / modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk Institute of Philosophy / philosophy.sas.ac.uk The Warburg Institute / warburg.sas.ac.uk

Senate House Library is the central library of the University of London. With more than two million books and 1,200 archival collections, it is one of the UK’s largest academic libraries focused on the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The Library organises a number of exhibitions and related events throughout the year.

The events included in this guide are just a few of the many taking place from 1 October through 31 December 2018. For a complete list, please visit sas.ac.uk/events and senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/exhibitions-and-events.

Book your place

Most events at the School of Advanced Study and Senate House Library are free and open to the public but some do require advance booking and/ or purchase of a ticket. Booking links are provided with each description in this guide. You can confirm event details on our websites (sas.ac.uk/events and senatehouselibrary. ac.uk/exhibitions-and-events) or by contacting the events team at sas.events@sas.ac.uk.

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Our venues

Access

Unless otherwise stated, events are held within the University of London precinct in Bloomsbury, central London. Most events take place in or around Senate House (north and south blocks) on Malet Street, WC1.

The University prides itself on making its events accessible to all who wish to participate. To that end, it will endeavour to make all reasonable adjustments to facilities to accommodate accessibility needs. If you have a particular requirement, please discuss it with the event organiser ahead of the event date, or contact our events team at sas.events@sas.ac.uk.

How to get here Euston, King’s Cross, St Pancras

Assistance dogs are most welcome.

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A large-print version of this guide can be viewed or downloaded at sas.ac.uk/events.

Bus routes 7, 10, 14, 24, 29, 59, 68, 73, 91, 98, 134, 168, 188, and 390 all have stops within walking distance of Senate House.

To plan your journey within London, visit tfl.gov.uk.

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Station Bicycles: Bicycle racks are located throughout the University’s central precinct. Please note that we St Pancras cannot be held responsible for theft or damage toStation bicycles.

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Simoni or mbalangwe mask for Nyau masquerade, © Hans Hillewaert

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Publishing Queer/Queer Publishing – A Senate House Library Conference

Fulfilling Indigenous Peoples’ and Minority Rights to Culture and Language Fernand de Varennes 11 October, 9:00–18:00 | The Court Room (Senate House) Free | Book in advance hrc.sas.ac.uk/events/event/16643 Both indigenous peoples and minorities have cultural life at the core of their collective identities; there are weaknesses and some opportunities in the international human rights law framework to address their cultural and language rights, both in principle and in practice. The preservation and development of distinct ways of life, languages, values, sciences, and other aspects of culture are both evolving and also under threat. Fernand de Varennes, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues (Université de Moncton, University of Pretoria) will be keynote speaker at this conference, which seeks to place culture at the centre of discussions: the UN distinguishes between tangible and intangible cultural heritage, but how does this equate with indigenous peoples’ and minorities’ own understanding of culture?

Organised by the Human Rights Consortium, Institute of Modern Languages Research and Brunel University Law School.

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11 October, 9:30–17:00 | Senate House £17 standard | £10 concessions senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/exhibitions-andevents/events/publishing-queerqueerpublishing-senate-house-library-conference The presence of queer works on twentiethcentury publishers’ lists tended to represent complex processes of equivocation, marked by streams of open titillation and multi-layered camouflage. Novels of queer love could be presented in a number of ways; mainstream firms could publish as examining ‘social problems’ and pulp presses released copies with lurid covers that promised erotic excitement or printed in severely limited and expensive editions or imprints to avoid censure. This fragmented world, driven by simultaneous repression of and prurient interest in queer lifestyles, means that it is difficult to delineate a broad history of queer publishing.

Following the successful Queer Between the Covers exhibition and season of events, this conference will explore the world of queer publishing and share perspectives to encourage further research on queer literature and broaden understanding of queer literary history.

Organised by Senate House Library.

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Don Paterson OBE 22 October, 18:00–20:00 | Macmillan Hall (Senate House) £10 standard | £5 concession | Book in advance ies.sas.ac.uk/stevenson2018

Necessary Beings: A Conference in Memory of Bob Hale 15–16 October, 9:30–18:00 | Room 349 (Senate House) Free | Book in advance philosophy.sas.ac.uk/events/event/16524 Bob Hale was one of the most distinguished philosophers of logic, mathematics, and metaphysics of his generation. His philosophical work was of enormous importance and influence. In particular, he published three major books: Abstract Objects (Blackwell, 1987), The Reason’s Proper Study: Essays Towards a Neo-Fregean Philosophy of Mathematics (OUP, 2001, jointly written with Crispin Wright), and Necessary Beings: An Essay on Ontology, Modality, and the Relations Between Them (Oxford, 2013).

These works – along with his many journal articles, chapters, and edited books – made a significant contribution to our understanding of the nature of mathematical objects, to the development of essentialist theories of modality, and to modal epistemology. In addition to his great philosophical talent, Hale was also a highly valued colleague, collaborator, teacher, and mentor to many philosophers. This conference on the major themes of his work will celebrate his life and philosophy.

Organised by the Institute of Philosophy.

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Acclaimed Scottish poet and Picador poetry editor Don Paterson OBE will give the annual Bloomsbury Chapter Stevenson Lecture in memory of Professor Iain Stevenson. Paterson’s lecture will celebrate Macmillan’s publishing of some of the greatest poetry in the English language over the last 175 years, from Alfred Lord Tennyson and The Golden Treasury to the current Poet Laureate Dame Carol Ann Duffy and Mercury Prize nominee Kate Tempest.

It will also draw on his own experiences as a celebrated poet, as Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews, and as the founding editor of Picador’s poetry list at Pan Macmillan, where he has been nurturing and championing new voices into award-winning poets for the past 21 years.

Organised by the Institute of English Studies.

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Bloomsbury Chapter Stevenson Lecture – The Golden Treasury

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Women and the Book 26 October, 9:30–18:45 | Senate House £35 standard | £30 concession | Book in advance ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/women-andbook This year sees the University of London celebrate the 150th anniversary of women’s first access to higher education in Britain with the intake of eight women at Queen Mary College.

This symposium explores the interaction of women and books from the Middle Ages to the present from the time that the book left the printing house: as collectors, owners, readers, and mediators, whether curatorial (librarians) or literary (adapting and translating for new audiences). It aims to enable connections across time and across types of engagement with the book, in discussion covering book, literary, and cultural history.

Organised by the Institute of English Studies.

Ancient Magic 31 October, 18:00–20:00 | Beveridge Hall (Senate House) Free | Book in advance ics.sas.ac.uk/events/event/16605 Since ancient times humans have used magic to curse and protect, to harm and heal, to divine and constrain. Join us to explore the mystical objects and potent rituals of our magical past in this free Halloween event, with expert talks from academics and a poet, and the opportunity to participate in a range of hands-on activities exploring ancient magic.

Supported by the John Coffin Memorial Fund.

Organised by the Institute of Classical Studies.

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Hamlyn Lecture – The Most Contentious Problem: Comparing Rights in Conflict Robin Allen QC 5 November, 18:00–19:00 | Middle Temple Hall, London EC4Y 9AT Free | Book in advance ials.sas.ac.uk/events/event/16618 The third and final 2018 Hamlyn Lecture addresses the theme ‘Why Does Equality Seem So Difficult? Three Problems in Comparison’.

Aristotle said that equal treatment required like situations to be treated alike, and unlike situations to be treated differently. Ever since, jurists, politicians, and the public have argued over when situations are, and are not, alike.

In this talk, Robin Allen QC discusses three aspects of the problem of comparison at the heart of equality law. He is Co-Head of Cloisters Chambers and Chair, Equality and Diversity Committee of the Bar Council of England and Wales.

Organised by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.

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What’s Happening in Black British History? IX 8 November, 11:00–18:00 | The Senate Room (Senate House) £24 standard | £12 students/unwaged | Book in advance commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/events/event/16425 The Black British History Workshop series promotes innovative new research into the history of people of African origin or descent in the UK and facilitates discussion of the latest developments in the dissemination of Black British history in a wide variety of settings, including the media, the classroom and lecture hall, and museums and galleries. With this year marking the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the Windrush, the workshop will present papers on the Windrush Generation and its impact on Britain.

Organised by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.

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Watching the Transnational Detectives: Showcasing Identity and Internationalism on British Television 8–9 November, 10:00–17:00 | Room 243 and Room 246 (Senate House) £20 standard | Free for students/unwaged | Book in advance by 1 November modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/ event/16471 A recent article in the Evening Standard posed the question: ‘Is it a coincidence that just as governments are seeking to close their borders, television is opening them?’ (15 March 2017).

Indeed, in post-Brexit Britain, television viewers have access to an ever-increasing number of foreign language programmes. And, as the article points out, ‘with the boom in streaming services, a single TV drama can cross borders like never before. Yet still, telling local stories appears to be the secret to international appeal’. But what is the relationship between the local, national, and transnational that is presented on screen? And how do these dramas influence viewers’ perceptions of the countries, nationalities, and languages that are depicted on screen? This conference will address these questions by focusing on popular global crime dramas that are available with English subtitles to British viewers, and explore the way in which ideas of national identity and nationhood are interrogated through crime drama series when watched in Britain and thus outside of their original national context.

Supported by the ‘Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies’ project (part of the AHRC’s Open World Research Initiative) and the German Screen Studies Network.

Organised by the Institute of Modern Languages Research and the School of Histories, Languages and Cultures, University of Hull.

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T.B.L. Webster Lecture – Brecht and Greek Tragedy: Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics Martin Revermann 14 November, 17:00–19:00 | Court Room (Senate House) Free ics.sas.ac.uk/events/event/16642 Brecht always considered Greek tragedy, and the kind of drama that in his perception it so prominently exemplified, as deeply problematic, politically naive, and artistically flawed.

Nonetheless, he very much needed Greek tragedy, and tragedy in general, as an art form to engage with polemically. This lecture will discuss key moments of Brecht’s complex and often stimulatingly idiosyncratic engagement with Greek tragedy: his 1948 adaptation of Sophocles’ ‘Antigone’ (Brecht’s play, his production in Chur, Switzerland, and the subsequent ‘model book’), his theoretical treatise ‘Small Organon for the Theatre’, as well as ‘functional equivalences’ like the use of masks, the nature of chronotopes, the use of choruses, closural techniques, and the representation of divinity.

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Senia Paseta 15 November, 17:30–20:30 | IHR Wolfson Room, NB01 (Senate House) Free | Book in advance history.ac.uk/events/event/16649 It is no coincidence that Constance Markievicz, the first woman elected to the House of Commons in 1918, was an Irish republican who had campaigned on an explicitly feminist and socialist platform. Feminism was a vibrant force in Irish political life, engaging with key political debates over the revolutionary period. When the vote finally came, Irish women were already well organised, politically mobilised, and able to exercise considerable influence over the election campaign and its outcome. Certainly, feminist activism took place around, within, and often despite the sometimes crushing influence of nationalism in late nineteenthand early twentieth-century Ireland. The Irish women’s suffrage movement was at times overshadowed by the national question and subject to competing political priorities. But its unique ability to negotiate these cleavages was key to its success in securing the vote, while the vibrant political context in which Irish women organised prepared them for political citizenship and activism. This radical feminist impulse within Irish nationalism soon faded, but for a time it promised a truly exciting and unprecedented form of egalitarian citizenship.

Organised by the Institute of Historical Research.

Reflections on Mantegna and Bellini Caroline Campbell 22 November, 17:30–18:30 | The Warburg Institute Lecture Theatre Free | Book in advance sas.ac.uk/events/event/16523

Members of the Irish Women’s Franchise League, Hyde Park, London, 1912. Courtesy of Dublin City Public Libraries and Archives.

The National Gallery exhibition Mantegna and Bellini explores the creative links between two related painters of the Venetian Renaissance.

Curator Caroline Campbell, in conversation with the Institute’s Deputy Director Michelle O’Malley, reviews the thinking behind the exhibition and discusses new ideas about these artists and their work that have been engendered in installing the exhibition and living with the show. This event is part of the Director’s Seminar Series, which brings to the Institute international scholars investigating key areas of debate in their fields.

Organised by The Warburg Institute.

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NG1417: Andrea Mantegna, The Agony in the Garden, © The National Gallery, London

Kehoe Lecture in Irish History – Suffrage and Citizenship in Ireland, 1912–18

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Common Scents: Smells and Social Life in European Literature (1880–1939) 22–23 November, 10:15–16:30 | Room 243 (Senate House) Both days: £30 standard | £25 Friends of Germanic Studies/Italian at the IMLR | £15 (students). One day only: £20 standard | £15 Friends of Germanic Studies/Italian at the IMLR | £10 (students) | Book in advance by 20 November 2018 modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/ event/16436 Olfactory motifs are important devices of emotional communication, and a sense of community or social boundaries is often evoked or enforced by smells. However, the ways in which European literature has employed smell motifs to give significance to social life have remained underexplored. European literature around 1880 marks a shift of interest from mere object smells to complex modes of olfactory experience, which are increasingly used in literary explorations of social life. The conference aims to take stock of innovative approaches in this field; its focus is on the timespan from the turn of the nineteenth into the twentieth century, when Naturalism and Symbolism set off the ‘olfactory explosion’ in literature, until 1939, when the inter-war literary scenes of both Modernists and Modern Realists were broken up by death, emigration, and a new World War. Sponsored by the Cassal Endowment Fund.

Organised by the Institute of Modern Languages Research.

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New Private Financing for Development: Latin America in Comparative Perspective 23 November, 10:00–18:00 | Room G4 (Senate House) Free | Book in advance ilas.sas.ac.uk/events/event/16432 The private sector has become increasingly engaged in the international development arena, with corporate and financial actors now frequently called upon to design market-based models for development. In parallel, a discourse has emerged on the necessity of private finance to meet the costs of development, with nation states and NGOs now tasked with mobilising this finance through new public-private partnerships (PPPs) and ‘blended finance’ models. Placing Latin America in comparative global perspective, this conference will explore the impacts of these trends on development policymaking and practice, and ask where enduring issues of economic and social justice sit within this landscape.

Organised by the Institute of Latin American Studies.

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Information Law and Policy Centre’s Annual Conference and Lecture 2018 – Transforming Cities with Artificial Intelligence: Law, Policy, and Ethics 23 November, 9:30–17:30 | Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Charles Clore House Free ials.sas.ac.uk/events/event/16285 This event will bring together experts in academia, government, industry, regulators, and civil society, including representatives from the Ministry of Justice, Palantir, and the Information Commissioner’s Office. Debates and discussions will examine how best to realise the potential societal benefits of AI through digital innovation and open data, while also respecting the individual’s rights to privacy, due process, and equality. Baroness Onora O’Neill will deliver the Centre’s Annual Lecture.

Organised by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.

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The Cultural Language(s) of Pain 23–24 November, 10:00–17:00 | Bedford Room, G37 (Senate House) £10 standard | Free for students/unwaged | Book in advance by 16 November modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/ event/16518 Language and culture play a key role in our understanding, experience, and communication of pain. Yet it has become a commonplace that pain defies language – that it is such an intensely private and shattering experience that it presents a significant creative challenge to writers who seek to express, communicate, and capture it. While much attention has been paid in recent years to the ways in which writers seek to overcome the creative challenge of pain, the focus has been on the Anglophone world.

With the aim of forging a new international perspective on the language of pain that embraces the richness and diversity of European languages and literature, this event will examine the culturally specific means by which writers, including patient-writers, in non-Anglophone European illness narratives communicate the experience of being in pain.

Sponsored by the AHRC and co-sponsored by the Modern Languages Research Group at Queen’s University Belfast.

Organised by Queen’s University Belfast and the Institute of Modern Languages Research.

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History Day 2018 27 November, 10:00–16:00 | Beveridge Hall (Senate House) Free | Book in advance history.ac.uk/events/event/16148 History Day is a one-day event bringing researchers together with information professionals from libraries, archives, and research organisations. The day includes an open history fair of libraries, archives, and other research organisations. You will be able to visit over fifty stands, where you can get expert help with your research. For more information about History Day, visit the blog: historycollections.blogs.sas.ac.uk/historyday-2018 or follow #Histday18 on Twitter.

Organised by the Institute of Historical Research.

Annual Gafoor Lecture on Indentureship Studies – Indentured Musicians in the Arms of the Cosmos: Inheritance and Legacy Tina K. Ramnarine 28 November, 14:00–18:00 | Woburn Suite, G22/26 (Senate House) £10 | Book in advance commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/events/event/15737 Chants of the cosmos permeated the soundscapes of the nineteenth-century maritime voyages that carried indentured Indian musicians to labour on plantations across the globe. British imperial policies on trade in sugar, tea, spices, and other commodities had an indelible impact on the musical life of this Indian diaspora. Musicians carried their musical instruments, practices, and memories with them when they embarked on ships as indentured subjects. In the second Annual Gafoor Lecture, musician, anthropologist, and global cultural explorer Professor Tina K. Ramnarine (Royal Holloway, University of London) will consider the broad contexts of music, indenture, and postcolonial creativity. By discussing the inheritance and legacy of indentured musicians, the lecture will reveal how musical traditions are connected in complex ways and how they narrate global histories.

Organised by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the University of Warwick.

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Unintended Convergences: Ernesto de Martino and Aby Warburg Carlo Ginzburg 6 December, 17:30–18:30 | The Warburg Institute Lecture Theatre Free | Book in advance sas.ac.uk/events/event/15453 Professor Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) is one of the most influential cultural historians in the world, best known for his pioneering work on micro-history and case studies at the intersection of historiography and law. He is also the author of one of the most important overviews of the legacy of Aby Warburg (1866–1929), From Aby Warburg to E. H. Gombrich: A Problem of Method, first published in 1966. In this lecture, delivered as part of his tenure as the S T Lee Visiting Fellow in the School of Advanced Study, he revisits Warburg and questions of method by comparing him to the Italian anthropologist and historian of religion Ernesto de Martino (1908–65). This event is part of the Director’s Seminar Series, which brings to the Institute international scholars investigating key areas of debate in their fields.

Organised by The Warburg Institute.

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Being Human

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The School of Advanced Study’s flagship public engagement initiative—the international Being Human festival of the humanities—returns for a fifth year.

At venues across the UK and beyond, the festival will celebrate the very best research in the humanities with a programme of walks, talks, tours, performances, comedy nights, and more.

This year’s theme is ‘Origins and Endings’, so expect everything from stargazing to séances, ‘death cafés’ to DNA. Events are taking place in more than 45 towns and cities across the country, with festival hubs in Dundee, Newcastle, Nottingham, Swansea, Exeter, and London.

The School of Advanced Study, based in the University of London’s iconic Senate House in the heart of Bloomsbury, serves as the coordinating hub for the festival and will host a number of events, including: ■■ Weaving Women’s Stories – an event that pairs researchers from the Institute of Classical Studies with weavers (and a large loom) in East London.

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residency by performance troupe A Beautiful Confusion Collective in Senate House, exploring the gender and power dynamics of architecture.

■■ Stories from El Salvador – an immersive evening of storytelling in Seven Sisters market.

‘London Bound’ will be a hub of activity in London’s East End where Queen Mary, University of London will delve into pre-NHS medical history, the history of the tea trade in Limehouse, and the ghostly traces of the lost East End. This promises to be a programme to remember.

Being Human is led by the School of Advanced Study in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. It features more than 250 events in its programme this year, across three continents.

International partners include the British School at Rome, the University of Melbourne, and Princeton University.

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13 November, 18:00–21:00 | Senate House Free | Book in advance beinghumanfestival.org Celebrating the most exciting ideas in the humanities from across the UK and beyond, the launch will offer a chance to sample bite-sized snippets of the programme all under one roof.

Senate House will host performances, music, hands-on activities and more exploring our ‘Origins and Endings’ theme, including genetics and UFOs, gender fluidity, and folk music. In honour of the University of London’s Leading Women campaign, we’ll also be celebrating some of ‘Being Human’s Leading Women’ as part of our launch celebrations.

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Beautiful Confusion in Senate House 15–24 November, performance times vary | Senate House Free Beautiful Confusion Collective are a femaleled performance group who specialize in exploring movement, gender, power, and the built environment through site-responsive interventions. During the festival they will undertake a residency in Charles Holden’s ArtDeco masterpiece, Senate House. Through dance, movement, and interaction with the people and ideas flowing through this unique building, the residency will explore the ‘beautiful confusion’ of life in Senate House in new and revealing ways.

Organised by Central Academic Initiatives.

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Being Human

Being Human Festival Launch

Being Human

Stories from El Salvador 17 November, 12:00–14:00 | Seven Sisters Indoor Market, 231–243 High Road, London, N15 5BT Free | Book in advance ilas.sas.ac.uk/events/event/16578

Weaving Women’s Stories

By Jove Theatre spoken word performance: 16 November, 19:30–22:00 | Gallery Café, St Margaret’s House, 29 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, E2 9PJ Free | Book in advance

Family craft workshops: 17 November, 10:00–13:00 | The Create Space, 29 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, E2 9PJ

El Salvador made history in 2017 by becoming the first country in the world to ban metal mining. Join us for an afternoon of Spanishlanguage storytelling and Salvadoran food tasting as you learn more about the origins and development of this decade-long struggle.

You’ll hear narrated and recorded testimonies from individuals directly affected by the process.

Hosted by the Seven Sisters Indoor Market, the event will also raise awareness of Latin Village UK’s own struggle to preserve the area’s Latin American cultural heritage.

Organised by the Institute of Latin American Studies in partnership with Save Latin Village.

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Talk and weaving workshop with textile artist Majeda Clarke: 17 November, 14:30–17:30 | The Create Space, 29 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, E2 9PJ Free | Book in advance ics.sas.ac.uk/events/special-events/weavingwomen’s-stories-being-human-festival-2018 Explore the connections between storytelling and textile-making in women’s lives from ancient Greece to modern London. Join us to look for the stories of our craftivist foremothers in artefacts and poetry from the past; hear the voices of these ‘subversive stitchers’ with an evening performance from By Jove Theatre, introduced by experts on ancient craft; try your hand at spinning wool into yarn, or at weaving on our replica loom; and make artefacts – from clay and cloth – inspired by archaeological evidence from ancient Greece and Rome.

Organised by the Institute of Classical Studies.

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Being Human

Post Truth Politics in the Pub 21 November, 17:30–19:30 | The Marquis Cornwallis, 31 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1AP Free | Book in advance

Journeys through Print 22 November, 18:00–21:00 | St Bride’s Library, 14 Bride Lane, London EC4Y 8EQ Free | Book in advance

We allegedly live in a ‘post-truth’ world in which facts have ceased to matter. Our political culture is increasingly characterised by appeals to emotion, disconnected from the details of policy, and framed by the repeated assertion of talking points to which factual rebuttals are ignored. Can we make progress in the current crisis over truth? We invite you to tackle these important questions at the pub, where people often talk about politics over a pint. The event will involve short presentations and discussion about the role of truth in politics, fake news, distrust of media, and propaganda Organised by the Institute of Philosophy.

Blending history and mobile technology, Journeys through Print takes participants on a self-guided tour of London’s traditional printing district, introducing listeners to historic printers and publishers. Incorporating St Paul’s (where Shakespeare’s plays were bought and sold), the grandeur of Stationers’ Hall, and St Bride’s Library (now home to the UK’s preeminent printing and typography library), Journeys through Print uncovers London’s important role in the history of printing. There will also be an opportunity to print from one of the historic presses in St Bride’s collection.

Organised by the Institute of English Studies.

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Exhibitions

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Rights for Women: London’s Pioneers in Their Own Words 16 July – 15 December 2018 | Senate House Library Free senatehouselibrary.ac.uk.

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As part of the University of London’s celebration of the 150th anniversary of women being admitted to its courses through ‘special examinations’, Senate House Library is offering an exhibition and programme of public events exploring the lives of more than 50 of London’s female pioneers who broke barriers to drive change and establish rights for women.

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Employment rights, including the struggle to end discrimination in the workplace and equal pay.

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

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

Exhibitions

Taking the right to education and more specifically higher education as the starting point in the long road towards gender equality, the season will also explore other significant women’s rights campaigns, including those related to: The right to vote (2018 is also the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act, which extended the franchise to most men and some women for the first time) and to hold public office.

Related events Faber & Faber Book Launch – What Would Boudicca Do? Everyday Problems Solved By History’s Most Remarkable Women Elizabeth Foley and Beth Coates, authors and editors, Penguin Random House 18 October, 18:00–20:30 | Macmillan Hall (Senate House) Free | Booking required senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/events

Guided Walking Tour: Rights for Women: London’s Pioneers in their Own Words 20 October, 11:00–12:45 and 17 November, 11:00–12:45 | Bloomsbury area (meet at Senate House entrance by the cloisters) Free | Book in advance senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/events To accompany the exhibition Rights for Women: London’s Pioneers in Their Own Words, Senate House Library will provide guided walking tours around the local Bloomsbury area. During the nearly two-hour tour, participants will see where 17 of the pioneers featured in the exhibition lived, worked, and fought for women’s rights.

These tours are led by the Camden Tour Guide Association. Proof of booking will be needed; please show the tour leader your booking either on your mobile device or printed out on paper.

Please wear comfortable footwear and bring a bottle of water.

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Cover image: Ernst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur, Wellcome Library, London.