SAS events brochure Oct 11 - Jan 12

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Contents

The School of Advanced Study 1Institutes of the School 2Events at the School 4Highlights: 5

University of London Trust Fund events 5Dean’s Seminars 6Visiting Professorial Fellow lecture 7Bloomsbury Festival 2011 7Friends of Senate House Library events 10Conferences and symposia 11

Events calendar 20Research training 67How to find us 72

The School of Advanced StudyThe 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 StudiesInstitute of Classical StudiesInstitute of Commonwealth StudiesInstitute of English StudiesInstitute of Germanic & Romance StudiesInstitute of Historical ResearchInstitute of Musical ResearchInstitute of PhilosophyInstitute for the Study of the AmericasWarburg 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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INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED LEGAL STUDIES

INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES

INSTITUTE OF COMMONWEALTH STUDIES

INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC & ROMANCE 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: [email protected] | T: +44 (0)20 7862 5800

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: [email protected] | T: +44 (0)20 7862 8700

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: [email protected] | T: +44 (0)20 7862 8844

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: [email protected] | T: +44 (0)20 7862 8675

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: [email protected] | +44 (0)20 7862 8677

Institutes of the School


INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES

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INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH

INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL RESEARCH

INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY

INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAS

WARBURG INSTITUTE

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: [email protected] | T: +44 (0)20 7862 8740

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: [email protected] | T: +44 (0)20 7664 4865

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: [email protected] | T: +44 (0)20 7862 8683

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: [email protected] | T: +44 (0)20 7862 8870

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: [email protected] | T: +44 (0)20 7862 8949


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Events at the School The institutes of the School collectively offer a wide range of seminars, workshops, lectures, conferences and other academic events. The events programme of the School is unrivalled in its scale, focus and quality. Each year around 1,400 events are organised in the School on humanities and social science topics, attracting over 30,000 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. Over 3,000 speakers, around 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.

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

How to use this guideEvents 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

BookingThe 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.html, or email [email protected]

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Highlights

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

21 October 201118:00–19:00Institute of English StudiesJohn Coffin Memorial Lecture in EnglishBeveridge Hall

The emergence of the everyday: Kipling and Indian regional writingProfessor Amit Chaudhuri (East Anglia)

Amit Chaudhuri is the author of five novels (the most recent being The Immortals, 2009), a book of short stories, a book of poems, a critical study of DH Lawrence’s poetry, and is the editor of the Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature. Among the awards he has won for his fiction are the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Betty Trask award, the Encore Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the Government of India’s Sahitya Akademi award. He was Creative Arts Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford; Leverhulme Special Research Fellow at the Faculty of English, Cambridge; a Visiting Professor at the Writing School, Columbia University; and Samuel Fischer Guest Professor at Freie University, Berlin. In 2009 he was one of the judges of the Man Booker International Prize, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books. He is also a vocalist in the Indian classical tradition, with HMV recordings to his credit, and has conceptualised a project in crossover music, This Is Not Fusion, which has travelled all over the world.

Contact: [email protected]

27 October 201118:00–19:00Institute of English StudiesJohn Coffin Memorial Lecture in EnglishBeveridge Hall

Prometheus: the two Shelleys and romantic scienceRichard Holmes

Comparing Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein with Percy Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound, including the scientific background to both, shared themes, possible collaboration, male and female perspectives on science, and the reception that both works received. Richard Holmes was Professor of Biographical Studies and Director of the Lifewriting MA between 2001 and 2006 and is now one of UEA’s Distinguished Writing Fellows. His first book, Shelley: The Pursuit (1974) won a Somerset Maugham Award, and he has subsequently been awarded the Whitbread Book of the Year for Coleridge: Early Visions (1989), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Dr Johnson and Mr Savage (1993), and the Duff Cooper Prize and the Heinemann Award for Coleridge: Darker Reflections (1998). Among his many other publications are Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer (1985) and Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer (2000). Followed by a wine reception.


In association with the Wordsworth Trust

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3 November 201118:20–20:30Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesCoffin Trust lectureRoom G22/26

The nightmare of Bram StokerChristopher Frayling

Drawing on his wide experience and research into popular culture, literature and film in particular, Sir Christopher Frayling will talk on both the meaning and manifestations of the figure of the vampire from the 19th century up to the present day. Whilst referencing his now seminal book on the subject, ‘Vampires: Lord Byron to Count Dracula’, he will also be utilizing material from a new, and as yet unpublished project, that explores the implications of the vampires’ continuing appeal in the 21st century. His lecture coincides with an international and inter-disciplinary conference on vampires which will attract scholars from across Europe, Asia, the Far East, and America.


28 November 201118:00–20:00Institute of Historical Research2011 Creighton LectureBeveridge Hall

Macaulay and son: an imperial storyCatherine Hall (UCL)

The Creighton Lecture, on a historical subject, was established in 1907 from funds donated to the University by Mrs Creighton and a committee set up to establish a memorial to Dr Creighton. Followed by a wine reception.


Dean’s SeminarsThe 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.

12 October 201112:30–14:00Room 103

Theories of privacyMichael Birnhack (Tel Aviv; Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)

9 November 201112:30–14:00Room 103

Big money and the threat of new music: issues in the historiography of new music in BritainRoddy Hawkins (Institute of Musical Research)

7 December 201112:30–14:00Court Room

Mapping the religious mind: India and the medieval geography of religionAlessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute)

18 January 201212:30–14:00Room 103

The Balkans in the Cold War and film Katia Pizzi (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies)

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Bloomsbury Festival 2011The Bloomsbury Festival is a high-profile, multidisciplinary arts and cultural event taking place from 21–23 October 2011 across the whole Bloomsbury area. The event will bring together many local businesses, communities and cultural and academic organisations to celebrate this fascinating area, through a programme packed with dance, music, performance, guided walks, art, workshops, talks, literary trails, a food programme and much, much more. www.bloomsburyfestival.org.uk

The School is delighted to be a partner of the Bloomsbury Festival and will be holding a special programme of events as part of the festivities. All School events offered as part of the Bloomsbury Festival are free of charge. All welcome. Reservation of places: 50% of places are available to be reserved in advance, the other 50% will be available on a first-come first-served basis. Please note: as the events are free and tend to book up quickly, you must turn up 10 minutes in advance of the event to claim your reserved space or it will be reallocated.

Contact [email protected] for further information about the Festival and the School’s programme of events.

22 October 201110:00–18:00

23 October 201111:00–17:00School of Advanced Study Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesBloomsbury Festival 2011Senate House

The Magical Library presents – the ghosts of Senate HouseSarah Sparkes

Celebrated psychical researcher, amateur conjurer and paper bag salesman Harry Price left his library of magical literature, to the University of London on his death in 1948. Artist Sarah Sparkes has been researching the Price bequest and is creating her own ‘Magical Library for the 21st Century’.

Inspired by Price’s ghost-hunting activities Sparkes’ Magical Library will be showing a number of specially created writings, recordings, artwork, artefacts, and other contributions documenting ghosts and other apocryphal stories emanating from Senate House and immediate surrounds. These works have been created by Output Arts, Magick Concrète (English Heretic and Mark Pilkington), Peter Suchin, Chris Roberts (One Eye Grey), Sarah Sparkes and others.

Members of the public can visit this Magical Library, and browse its contents, during the Bloomsbury Festival, when it will be displayed against the backdrop of Charles Holden’s impressive Crush Hall at the heart of iconic Senate House.

Visiting Professorial Fellow lectureAll welcome. Free to attend.

27 October 201117:30–19:30Institute of Commonwealth StudiesRoom 349

Nigeria’s 2011 Elections: Postscript and PrognosisKayode Samuel (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

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22 October 201111:00–18:00

23 October 201111:00–17:00School of Advanced Study Institute of Historical ResearchBloomsbury Festival 2011Jessell Room

The Institute of Historical Research – 90 years onThe Institute of Historical Research will be holding a special exhibition in celebration of its 90th birthday. Founded in 1921 by A F Pollard, the IHR has established itself to be a leading national resource for historical research and has worked to provide an accessible and stimulating portal for the exchange of ideas and information and current developments in historical scholarship. Now one of 10 member institutes of the School of Advanced Study, the IHR supports two research centres: the Victoria County History (VCH) and the Centre for Metropolitan History (CMH) and also hosts a range of projects. Our exhibition will present the Institute’s story through a series of photographs and newspaper articles from its birth in 1921 to the present. From 1930s press cuttings from national newspapers charting the key moments of the IHR, to documents and photographs recording the Institute’s survival through wartime Britain, this exhibition promises to be an exciting insight into the IHR’s own history over the past 90 years.

22 October 201114:00–15:30School of Advanced Study Institute of Historical ResearchBloomsbury Festival 2011Walking point, Russell Square

Garden squares of BloomsburyThe leafy London squares, their parks alight with colour in the autumn, present a historical sequence from the 17th century onwards. Many owe their design and planting to Humphry Repton (1725–1837), the most important landscape gardener of his time. Changes were made during Victorian times, and some squares were affected in World War II. More recently, English Heritage has worked hard to restore parks to their original designs and planting. Our tour, led by the IHR’s garden and architectural historians, will follow up the work of Repton, Cubitt and others, and will focus around Russell, Bedford, Gordon and Tavistock Squares. We will endeavour to follow the wartime story, and enjoy the restoration of the 18th-century ideas with some 20th and 21st century additions.

22 October 201114:30–16:00School of Advanced Study Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesBloomsbury Festival 2011Walking point, Russell Square

The ghosts of Senate House ghost walkScott Wood

Have you seen the Blue Lady of Senate House or witnessed the ghostly footprints in the Field of the Forty Footsteps? Join Scott Wood, London ghost and folklore expert on a ghost walk taking in sites of alleged hauntings and other un-explained phenomena emanating from Senate House and falling within its shadow. The tour will begin in Russell Square and meander the byways around Senate House before heading into the building itself. The tour is linked to artist Sarah Sparkes’ Magical Library project, which has been made in response to the Harry Price bequest at Senate House Library. Harry Price was, amongst other things, an infamous ghost-hunter and in tribute to this Sparkes and fellow researchers Chris Josiffe and Scott Wood have been uncovering ghostly, apocryphal tales in an exploration of the spirit of place.

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22 October 2011 16:30–17:30School of Advanced StudyInstitute of English StudiesBloomsbury Festival 2011Beveridge Hall

“The Bloomsbury Flâneur”: reading the streets of WC1Rosemary Ashton and authors Gillian Darley and Nicholas Murray

Dr Rosemary Ashton and authors Gillian Darley and Nicholas Murray search the streets and squares of Bloomsbury (from the comfort of the Beveridge Hall, Senate House) to identify signs and pointers to the area’s past in its present forms and most recent developments.

22 October 201118:00–19:00School of Advanced StudyInstitute of English StudiesBloomsbury Festival 2011Chancellor’s Hall

A Bloomsbury foursomeStephanie Gerra, Wendy Shutler, Andrew Cuthbert, Bob Goody, L. A. Salami

Bloomsbury Voices and the Bloomsbury Bards come together for an hour of poetry, music and banter on the big stuff of life in their inimitable, deep and saucy way. Prepare to be romanced, to cry, to be turned-on, and to laugh out loud. Poetry by Stephanie Gerra and Wendy Shutler (the Voices) and Andrew Cuthbert and Bob Goody (the Bards). Music by L. A. Salami who has just debuted on Steve Lamacq’s BBC 6 Music’s programme www.bloomsburyvoices.co.uk

In association with Bloomsbury Voices and Bloomsbury Bards

22 October 201119:15–21:00School of Advanced Study Institute of PhilosophyBloomsbury Festival 2011Senate House

Philosophy of tasteBarry Smith (Institute of Philosophy)

Tutored wine tasting.

When you open a good bottle of wine, your senses are aroused: from the sound of the cork to the heavenly aromas, the silky texture in the mouth to the lingering taste on the tongue. Glass in hand, we ask whether we can know the real taste of a wine and whether we can ever share that experience with others.

In association with Planet of the Grapes www.planetofthegrapes.co.uk

23 October 201111:00–12:00School of Advanced Study Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesBloomsbury Festival 2011Senate House

The ghosts of Senate House – artists’ talkSarah Sparkes

Meet in the historic Crush Hall of Senate House where Sarah Sparkes’ Magical Library artwork will be on display. Sarah Sparkes and other artists contributing to the project (Magick Concrète, Output Arts and Peter Suchin) will discuss how they have responded to the idea of ‘The ghosts of Senate House’.

23 October 201114:00–15:00School of Advanced StudyInstitute of English StudiesBloomsbury Festival 2011Crush Hall

Faber contemporary poetsReadings of new work by poets published by Faber and Faber.

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Friends of Senate House Library eventsAll welcome. Free to attend. Contact: [email protected] or +44 (0)20 7862 8411

18 October 201118:00–19:00Institute of English StudiesSenate Room

Borges meets Orwell: the 21st century research libraryChristopher Pressler (Director of Senate House Libraries)

Followed by a wine reception.

16 November 201118:00–19:00Institute of English StudiesSenate House Friends lectureCourt Room

From centre of culture to cultural centre: the public library in Britain since 1850Alistair Black (Illinois)

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Conferences and symposia

Highlights: Conferences and symposia

30 September–1 October 201110:00–18:00Institute of PhilosophyConference / SymposiumRoom G22/26

Was autonomy the wrong ideal? Autonomous judgement and its criticsContact: [email protected]

In conjunction with the AHRC Autonomy Project at Essex

3 October 201111:00–18:30Institute for the Study of the AmericasConference / SymposiumJessell Room

Diversity, identity and governance: Canada perspectivesOpening keynote: Patrick James (Southern California; Visiting Professor, Eccles Centre for American Studies). Speakers: Martin Ådahl (Forum for Reforms, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability), Anne Arnott (Canadian High Commission), Michelle Aguayo (Concordia), David Alexander Clark (independent researcher), Susan Hodgett (Ulster), Petter Hojem (Forum for Reforms, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability)

This one-day event features speakers from a range of fields including international relations, sociology, media and communications, social policy and journalism. The event will close with a wine reception hosted by the Canadian High Commission and an address by Doug Saunders, award-winning Canadian journalist and author of Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World. The event is free but spaces are limited.


6 October 201114:00–20:00Institute of Classical StudiesColloquiumRoom G22/26

Colloquium on ancient drama in honour of Eric HandleySpeakers and topics will include: Pat Easterling:’Tragic action: what the scholia can tell us’Mike Edwards: ‘Hyperides and the Archimedes Palimpsest’Richard Green: ‘Pictures of pictures of Comedy’Nick Lowe: ‘Ecological Catastrophe in Menander’Peter Parsons: ‘A few letters more: Misoumenos 132ff.?’Michael Square: ‘Aspis achilleios Theodoreos kath’ Omeron: An early Imperial text of Il. 18.483-557’Contact: [email protected]

15 October 201109:30–17:15Institute of English StudiesConference / SymposiumSenate House

Dickens Day 2011: Republics of the imagination: Dickens and travelSpeakers include: Steve Connor, Barbara Hardy, Andrew Sanders, Michael Slater

This one-day conference celebrates the 25th anniversary of Dickens Day. Jointly run by Birkbeck, University of Leicester and the Dickens Fellowship, it will explore Dickens’s travels and travels in Dickens.


In association with Birkbeck, Leicester and the Dickens Fellowship

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17 October 201110:00–18:00Institute of Musical ResearchConference / SymposiumRoom G22/26

Study day on tuning and temperamentOlmo Cornelis (IPEM, Ghent), Simon Dixon (Queen Mary), Frauke Jurgensen (Aberdeen), Francis Knights (Cambridge), Ian Knopke (BBC), Dan Tidhar (King’s, London), Mimi Waitzman (Horniman Museum)

This interdisciplinary study day brings together musicologists,harpsichord specialists, and digital music specialists, with the aim of exploring the different angles these fields provide on the subject, and how these can be fruitfully interconnected. We offer an optional introduction to temperament for non-specialists, to equip all potential listeners with the basic concepts and terminology used throughout the day.


20 October 201112:00–15:20School of Advanced StudyWorkshopSenate House

Open Access journal publishing Damien Short (Institute of Commonwealth Studies): ‘Where to start? Issues for the prospective new journal’

Steve Whittle & Julian Harris (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies): ‘Moving from print to web: the journal Amicus Curiae’

Peter Webster (School of Advanced Study): ‘Introducing SAS Open Journals’

Free. Lunch will be provided.


21–22 October 2011Institute of English StudiesConference / SymposiumSenate House

Rudyard Kipling: an international writerKeynote Speakers: Amit Chaudhuri and Charles Allen

This conference, sponsored by the Kipling Society, focuses on the figure of Kipling as an international writer. It seeks not only to re-assess Kipling’s involvement in imperial ideology, but also to examine his interests in wider international affairs and his connections with foreign locations both within and outside the British Empire. The conference thereby aims to re-examine his work and achievement by exploring his diverse roles as an internationalist, and by considering his relevance to our post-modern globalising world.


21 October 201114:00–17:40Institute of Advanced Legal StudiesConference / SymposiumCharles Clore House

EU defence rightsSimone White (OLAF), Marianne Wade (Birmingham), Jodie Blackstock (Justice), Daniel Mansell (Fair Trials International), John Spencer (Cambridge)

Registration required.


In collaboration with University of Birmingham, European Criminal Law Association (UK), Fair Trials International, and Justice

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28–29 October 2011Institute of English StudiesConference / SymposiumSenate House

Love, sex, desire and the (post)colonialThis interdisciplinary conference is the first of its kind to bring together into productive confrontation issues of love, sex, desire and the postcolonial. It aims to promote collaborative work between academics, activists, and the non-profit community. We invite panel proposals or single presentations from a range of disciplines (including but not restricted to anthropology, legal theory, history, sociology, geography, literary studies, cultural studies, media studies, drama, political science, development studies) on any topic pertaining to the above concerns. We particularly welcome participants from Africa, the Caribbean and Asia.


31 October 201110:00–20:00Institute of Commonwealth Studies Institute for the Study of the AmericasConference / SymposiumMacmillan Hall

Human rights defenders, environmental degradation and land rightsContact: [email protected]

1 November 201111:00–18:30Institute for the Study of the AmericasColloquiumMacmillan Hall

The Day of the DeadContact: [email protected]

In collaboration with the National Council for Palliative Care

2–4 November 201109:15–17:55Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesConference / SymposiumRoom G22/26

Vampires: myths of the past and the futureKeynote speakers include: Stacey Abbott, Catherine Spooner, Milly Williamson

An interdisciplinary conference organised by Simon Bacon (the London Consortium) in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies.


4–5 November 2011Institute of English StudiesConference / SymposiumSenate House

Ruins in 20th-century British art and fictionThis conference proposes to analyse the hybrid function of ruins as they shift from sublime metonymies to broken hints of shattered times and troubled consciousness, focusing not only on the visual motif of ruins but on the function of citation as an attempt to include the ruined pieces of bygone art and cultural systems, whether the purpose be to “shore fragments” against ruin, as in the case of Modernism, or to challenge and deconstruct present exhaustion and past master discourses, as in the case of post-modernism.


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5 November 2011Institute of Musical ResearchConference / SymposiumRoom ST274/275

Listening for a change: environment, music, actionContact: [email protected]

In association with the British Forum for Ethnomusicology

5 November 201110:00–18:00Institute of English StudiesConference / SymposiumCourt Room

Re-imagining the BrontësSpeakers include: Isobel Armstrong, Janis Caldwell, Barbara Hardy, Cora Kaplan, Sally Shuttleworth and Helen Small. Organised by Dr Alexandra Lewis with the support of the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick

The aim of the conference will be to reassess the Brontës’ perspectives on and uses of imagination (scientific; medical; childhood; romantic; poetic; visual; private; collective; auto/biographical; religious; political; theatrical; historical) together with the ways the Bronts’ works have been critically and creatively re-imagined from the 19th to the 21st century.


10–11 November 201110:00–17:30Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesWISPS XII annual conferenceRoom ST274/275

Performance, interpretation, translation

14 November 2011Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies2011 London postgraduate French studies conferenceRoom ST274/275

How do you talk about books you haven’t read?Keynote speakers: Pierre Bayard (Université Paris VIII), Tom Baldwin (Kent)Co-ordinators: Elise Aru (UCL), Cécile Bishop, Alex Robbins and Léa Vuong (King’s, London)

17–18 November 2011 Starts at 18:00 on 17 November Ends at 17:15Institute of Historical ResearchWinter conference 2011Chancellor’s Hall

Novel approaches – from academic history to historical fictionThe conference will open with a discussion between Hilary Mantel and David Loades. Other speakers include Alison Weir, Ian Mortimer and Paul Lay, among many other renowned authors and academics.

Contact: [email protected] for programme and registration details, or visit www.history.ac.uk/historical-fiction

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17–19 November 201110:00–17:00Warburg InstituteConference / Symposium King’s College London (17 November) Warburg Institute (18–19 November)

Palaeography, humanism and manuscript illumination in Renaissance Italy: a conference in memory of A. C. de la MareJonathan Alexander (Institute of Fine Art, New York), Giliola Barbero (Catholic, Milan), Concetta Bianca (Florence), Xavier van Binnebeke (Messina; Bodleian Library, Oxford), Lorenz Bninger (Lorenzo de’ Medici Letters), Irene Ceccherini (Florence), David Chambers (Warburg Institute), Martin Davies (I Tatti Renaissance Library), Teresa De Robertis (Florence), Angela Dillon Bussi (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana), Vincenzo Fera (Messina), Mirella Ferrari (Catholic, Milan), Sebastiano Gentile (Cassino), James Hankins (Harvard), Giordana Mariani Canova (Padua), Laura Nuvoloni (Cambridge University Library), Stephen Oakley (Cambridge), Gabriella Pomaro (Societ Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino), Silvia Rizzo (Rome ‘La Sapienza’), Stefano Zamponi (Florence).

Organised by Robert Black, Jill Kraye and Laura Nuvoloni

Fee (including morning coffee and afternoon tea): £5 per day (AMARC members: £2.50).

Register: [email protected]

Albinia de la Mare (1932–2001) OBE, FBA was one of the 20th century’s outstanding palaeographers and the world’s leading authority on Italian Renaissance manuscripts. Among her greatest achievements was tracing the careers of hundreds of scribes writing the new humanist script in Italy during the 15th century. The purpose of this conference is to honour her contribution to research and to illustrate how the main areas of her scholarly interests – the palaeography, humanism and manuscript illumination of the Italian Renaissance – have developed in the ten years since her death.


The conference has received generous financial support from AMARC (The Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections), APICES (Association Paléographique Internationale: Culture, Écriture, Société) and The Bibliographical Society

18 November 201114:30–17:00Institute of Musical ResearchConference / SymposiumRoyal Academy of Music, Piano Gallery, York Gate

Study day on technology in creative researchChristopher Redgate (Royal Academy of Music), Paul Archbold (Institute of Musical Research), David Sharp (Open University)


19 November 201109:00–19:00Institute of Classical StudiesColloquiumRoom G22/26

British Epigraphy Society colloquiumContact: [email protected]

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19 November 201109:30–17:30Institute of English StudiesConference / SymposiumSenate House

George Eliot conference: The Lifted Veil and Silas MarnerThis conference will discuss two of George Eliot’s most intriguing and contrasting works of shorter fiction: The Lifted Veil published in 1859, and Silas Marner (1861). Narrated through the jejune and alienated central presence of Latimer, who has foreseen the date of his own death, The Lifted Veil draws on both supernatural and Gothic tropes in a tale that prefigures the complex psychological portraits of Eliot’s later novels. Written while Eliot was in mourning for her sister Christiana, it is often cited as her most uncharacteristic work, with the author herself remarking that it was ‘not a jeu d’esprit, but a jeu de melancolie.’ A more redemptive kind of sadness dominates Silas Marner, however, with its themes of exile, community and history, and marks a return to recognisable Eliot. Published in April 1861, it was praised by Henry James as being ‘more nearly a masterpiece’ than any other of Eliot’s oeuvre, having ‘that simple, rounded, consummate aspect . . . which marks a classical work.’ Yet beneath this fairytale simplicity exists a complex Comtean system of values that considers the nature of the individual and society; and of inheritance, both personal and parental.


25 November 2011Institute of Musical ResearchConference / SymposiumRoom ST274/275

Middle East and Central Asia music forumRachel Beckles Willson (Royal Holloway), Felicity Lawrence (Newcastle), Jacob Olley (SOAS), Carolyn Landau (King’s, London), Peyman Yazdanian (Iran), Khyam Allani (SOAS)

Convenor: Laudan Nooshin (City)


25 November 201109:30–18:00Institute of English StudiesConference / SymposiumRoom G22/26

Book history research networkContact: [email protected]

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1–3 December 201109:45–17:00Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesConference / SymposiumRoom G22/26

First person writing, four-way readingOrganisers: Naomi Segal (Birkbeck), François-Joseph Ruggiu (FR), Petter Aaslestad (NO), Kristin Kuutma (EE) Keynote speakers include: Arianne Baggerman (NL), Rita Charon (USA), Marie Darrieussecq, Brian Hurwitz (UK), Alexander Kiossev (BG), Giorgio Pressburger (IT), Nigel Rapport (UK); Philip Rieder (CH), Michael Sheringham (UK), Amy Shuman (USA), Claudia Ulbrich (DE), Yuri Zaretsky (RU)

This conference brings together scholars from four academic fields – literature, history, medical humanities and ethnography – and from 23 countries – to discuss a common object of research: first-person writing. Four keynote speakers, 16 invited panellists and 45 break-out panellists will present papers and there will be four workshops. The term ‘writing’ is meant literally: the first-person material on which the project focuses is textual rather than oral, whether published or unpublished. The time-period covered is from the early modern period to the present day. Though the language of the conference will be English, material in any language may be referred to (using originals, translations and/or parallel texts). The term ‘reading’ is meant primarily in a metaphorical sense: how do scholars from these four fields investigate, interpret or, more broadly, ‘use’ first-person texts, what differences can be found in their methods and applications, and how can they debate these commonalities and differences in fruitful ways? It is hoped that, after the conference, further international and interdisciplinary research collaboration will be developed.


In collaboration with the European Science Foundation, and Birkbeck

1–3 December 2011Institute of Musical ResearchICONEA conferenceChancellor’s Hall

The oud from its Sumerian origins to modern timesContact: [email protected]

2 December 201110:15–18:00Warburg InstituteColloquiumWarburg Institute

Demons and devils in early modern EuropeAnna Corrias, Sietske Fransen, Michael Gordian, Nicholas Holland, James A. T. Lancaster, Anthony Ossa-Richardson

Organized by Guido Giglioni

In the course of his illustrious career at the Warburg Institute, D.P. Walker (1914–85) published seminal works that contributed to redefining our view of early modern magic and demonology, such as Spiritual and Demonic Magic from Ficino to Campanella (1958), Decline of Hell (1964) and Unclean Spirits: Possession and Exorcism in France and England in the Late 16th and Early 17th Centuries (1981). This conference intends to celebrate his legacy by presenting the most recent results by young researchers working at the Warburg Institute.


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8 December 201109:00–18:00Institute for the Study of the AmericasConference / SymposiumCourt Room

Crisis, response and recovery: a decade on from the Argentinazo 2001–11Keynote: Maristella Vampa (National Center for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Argentina; Universidad Nacional de la Plata)

As the 10th anniversary of the 2001 economic crash approaches, this one-day conference co-organised by the Argentine Students Research Network and the Institute for the Study of the Americas will bring together scholars and professionals working on Argentina from a range of disciplines to debate and discuss short and long-term response to crisis and subsequent trajectories of recovery. The term ‘response’ is not limited to the sphere of economic/political economy, but also encompasses the societal, cultural and literary fields In view of the current financial crisis in the West, this country-focused and timely conference proposes to analyse the effects of crisis and how it can be addressed, with a view to examining and reflecting on the ways in which recovery is undertaken in societal, cultural, economic and political spheres.


Jointly organised with the Argentina Research Students Network (ARSN) and the Crises of Capitalism in the Americas Research Network (COCARN)

10 December 201109:30–19:00Institute of English StudiesConference / SymposiumChancellor’s Hall

The Singing DetectiveThe 25th anniversary of the six-part series The Singing Detective, written by Dennis Potter and directed by Jon Amiel, occurs Nov-Dec 2011. As result of its narrative complexity, generic hybridity and formal experimentation, this is commonly regarded as a piece of landmark television set to inspire and influence a range of subsequent television drama. The purpose of this one-day symposium is to explore the context in which the production occurred, assess the significance of the series and examine its subsequent influence upon new kinds of ‘anti-naturalist’ television drama. To this end, the event will bring together a mixture of practitioners and scholars to debate these issues. It is planned that these should include the co-producer of the series, Ken Trodd, the then Head of BBC Television Drama (and current Head of the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway), Jonathan Powell, and, subject to availability, the director, Jon Amiel, and actor, Michael Gambon. We would also wish to involve those who have written about the programme, such as John Cook and Glen Creeber, and television more generally, such as John Ellis, along with creators who have clearly been influenced by the series (such as the writer Peter Bowker). It is also planned that papers and interviews from the conference will form the basis of a special issue of the Journal of Screenwriting to be co-edited by Adam Ganz, John Ellis and John Hill.


In association with the University of London Screenwriting Research Seminar and the new Media Arts Research Centre for Television in the Digital World

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13 December 2011Institute of Musical ResearchConference / SymposiumRoom G22/26

Technology and musical thoughtConvenor: John Dack

Part of the DREAM project (Digital Re-appropriation of ElectroAcoustic Music) Craig Ayrey (Golsmiths), Clarence Barlow (California, Santa Barbara), Marc Battier (Sorbonne), Pascal Decroupet (Nice), Elena Ungeheuer (Würzburg), John Young (De Montfort)


15–16 December 2011Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesASMI 2011 conferenceRoom G22/26

The Italian ‘character’: virtues and vicesKeynote speaker: Silvana Patriarca Conference organisers: Carl Levy

(Goldsmiths), Charlotte Ross (Birmingham) Marcella Sutcliffe (Newcastle)

15–16 December 201112:30–18:00Institute of Classical StudiesColloquiumRoom ST274/275

Reception studies colloquiumContact: [email protected]

16 December 201110:00–18:00Institute of Historical ResearchConference / SymposiumChancellor’s Hall

Princes consort in historySpeakers include: Professor Derek Beales (Cambridge), Luc Duerloo (Antwerp), Charles Beem (North Carolina, Pembroke), Paul Keenan (LSE), Daniel Alves (Nova de Lisboa), Karina Urbach (Institute of Historical Research), Franz Bosbach (Duisburg-Essen), Maria Grever (Erasmus, Netherlands)

2011 is the 150th anniversary of the death of Prince Albert and also the 90th birthday of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

This conference, held in collaboration with the Society for Court Studies, brings together a range of international historians to look at the peculiar yet influential institution of the male royal consort from Ferdinand of Castile through to the famous examples of the 18th century such as Prince George of Denmark, and onto contemporary personalities in western Europe. Our interest lies in studying how male partners of female monarchs have had and used power, how gender affected their perceived role, what sort of court and political influence they were able to wield and attract, how they often defined themselves in distinctive spheres of the arts or war, and more generally, the extent to which they contributed to the changing ideal and reality of royal families and dynasties over the centuries.


13 January 201210:00–18:00Institute of PhilosophyConference / SymposiumRoom G22/26

The editors cutContact: [email protected]

Supported by Metaphilosophy

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October 2011–January 2012Events calendar

Events calendar

Friday 30 September 2011

30 September–1 October10:00–18:00Institute of PhilosophyConference / SymposiumRoom G22/26

Was autonomy the wrong ideal? Autonomous judgement and its criticsFor more information see p.11

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Saturday 1 October 201114:00–16:00Institute of English StudiesModernism research seminar seriesRoom G37

Modernism and the mind

Cu

Monday 3 October 201111:00–18:30Institute for the Study of the AmericasConference / SymposiumJessell Room

Diversity, identity and governance: Canada perspectivesFor more information see p.11

Cu, E, H, Po

16:00–18:00Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesGerman philosophy reading group seminarSTB5

Retracing Adorno’s Heidegger-critique

Cu

16:00–18:00Institute of Advanced Legal StudiesSeminarCharles Clore House

The Hamlyn Seminar 2011: Lawyers and the public goodAlan Paterson

Discussants: Hazel Genn (UCL), David Feldman (Cambridge), Richard Moorhead (Cardiff) Chair: Avrom Sherr (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)

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16:30–19:00Institute of Classical StudiesAncient philosophy seminar seriesRoom G34

Longinus and Plotinus on rhetoricMalcolm Heath (Leeds)

C, P

17:00–19:30Institute of Classical StudiesGreek literature seminar seriesRoom G37

The Pindaric first person in fluxB. Currie (UCL)

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18:00–20:00Institute of English StudiesPostgraduate feminist reading groupvenue tbc

Postgraduate feminist reading group

Cu

Tuesday 4 October 201116:00–18:00Warburg InstituteWorkshopWarburg Institute

Dialogue poems as cultural encounters: a comparative reading of Syriac, Greek, Latin and medieval vernacular texts. Reading session 1: Mary and JosephCu, H

17:15–19:15Institute of Historical ResearchBritish maritime history seminar seriesWolfson Room

London Sons of the Sea: a new look at British imports in the Second World WarDavid Edgerton (Imperial)

H

17:30–19:30Institute of Historical Research Institute for the Study of the AmericasLatin American history seminar seriesRoom G34

Mexican nationalism: history and theoryDavid Brading (Cambridge)

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18:00–19:30Institute of English StudiesBook collecting research seminar seriesvenue tbc

Book Collecting Research Seminar

Cu

Wednesday 5 October 201112:30–14:00Institute of English StudiesDirector’s seminarvenue tbc

“Pardon may be found in time bethought”: Two time structures of the mind in Paradise Lost and McTaggart’s Theory of TimeAyelet C. Langer (Hebrew, Jerusalem)

Cu

17:15–19:15Institute of Historical ResearchBritish history in the long 18th century seminar seriesCourt Room

Rethinking the interests of 18th-century BritainJulian Hoppit (UCL)

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17:30–19:30Institute for the Study of the AmericasSeminarRoom 102

South America’s regional options: too many and too diverse?Gian Luca Gardini (Bath)

D, E

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18:00–19:00Institute of Advanced Legal StudiesLectureCharles Clore House

Cloud computing: identifying and managing legal risksChristopher Millard (Queen Mary)

L

Thursday 6 October 201114:00–20:00Institute of Classical StudiesColloquiumRoom G22/26

Colloquium on ancient drama in honour of Eric HandleyFor more information see p.11

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15:30–17:30Institute of PhilosophyPerception, senses and action forum seminarRoom ST273

Integrating sensory substitution devices: an analogy with readingMalika Auvray (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay)

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16:30–19:30Institute of Classical StudiesAncient history seminar seriesvenue tbc

Ancient historyLin Foxhall (Leicester)

C, H

17:00–19:00Institute of Historical ResearchBritish history 1815–1945 seminar seriesRoom G37

Roundtable on the legacies of British slave owning projectCatherine Hall (UCL), Nick Draper (UCL) and Keith McLelland (UCL)

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17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchEuropean history 1150–1550Court Room

How I work on medieval governmentMichael Clanchy (Institute of Historical Research), Alice Taylor (King’s, London), John Sabapathy (UCL)

Chair: David Carpenter (Queen Mary)

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17:30–19:30Institute for the Study of the AmericasLectureSenate Room

Liberalism in the Great DepressionAlan Brinkley (Columbia)

H, E, Po

17:30–19:00Institute of Commonwealth StudiesBook launchRoom 104

Catastrophe – what went wrong in Zimbabwe?Richard Bourne (Institute of Commonwealth Studies and author of Catastrophe – what went wrong in Zimbabwe?) and Philip Murphy (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

Followed by a reception.

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17:30–20:00Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesReception of German/Austrian/Swiss literature working group lectureRoom ST273

Double lives: Alexander von Humboldt’s work in 19th-century English translation

Cu

18:00–20:00Institute of English StudiesStephen Spender research seminarvenue tbc

Stephen Spender research seminar

Cu

Friday 7 October 201116:00–19:30Institute of PhilosophyIP aesthetics forumRoom G22/26

IP aesthetics forumCain Todd (Lancaster)

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16:30–18:30Institute of Classical StudiesPostgraduate work in progress seminarRoom G34

Classical studies postgraduate work in progress

C

17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchHistory of gardens and landscapes seminar seriesRoom 104

Edith Wharton: interior design and gardensHelena Chance (Buckingham New)

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18:00–20:00Institute of English StudiesIrish studies seminarvenue tbc

Irish studies

Cu

19:30Institute of Musical ResearchDeNOTE Lecture-RecitalSt Mary’s Arts Centre, Strand Street,Sandwich, Kent

Exploring classical chamber music: Mozart and his Viennese contemporariesJane Booth (classical clarinet), Peter Collyer (classical viola), John Irving

(fortepiano)

M

Saturday 8 October 201114:00–16:00Institute of Historical ResearchEducation in the long 18th century seminar seriesCourt Room

‘My materials are copious’: three schoolboy-published periodicals and what they reveal about extra-curricular education in the late 18th centuryJill Gage (Queen Mary)

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Monday 10 October 201116:30–18:00Warburg InstituteHistory of art seminar seriesWarburg Institute

History of artPaul Taylor and Rembrandt Duits (Warburg Institute)

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Greek literatureL. Swift

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17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchVoluntary action historyRoom 104

Two tier philanthropy: the philanthropists who funded the Bishop of London’s Fund and the work that the Fund financed, 1863–1914Sarah Flew (Open)

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Tuesday 11 October 201117:00–20:00Institute of Historical ResearchLaunchChancellor’s Hall

Launch of Victoria County History’s new interactive digital resources

17:15–19:15Institute of Historical ResearchLife-cycles seminar seriesRoom G34

Class, children’s clothing and life-cycle: four generations of ‘Make, Do and Mend’ in professional families, 1900–2000Mary Clare Martin (Greenwich)

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17:30–19:30Institute of English StudiesHistory of libraries research seminar seriesvenue tbc

History of libraries research

Cu

18:15–20:00Institute of Commonwealth StudiesInternational refugee law seminar seriesCharles Clore House

Article 1F(c) of the 1951 Convention: denying refugee status because of acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United NationsGuy Goodwin-Gill (Oxford)

Hu

Wednesday 12 October 201112:30–14:00School of Advanced StudyDean’s SeminarsRoom 103

Theories of privacyMichael Birnhack (Tel Aviv; Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)

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15:30–19:30Institute of Classical StudiesMycenaean seminar seriesRoom G22/26

Spinning a communications web: media interactivity and the political management of Mycenaean MesseniaMark Peters (Sheffield)

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16:30–18:00Warburg InstituteLectureWarburg Institute

Emblems in the margins: the Four Seasons Tapestries at Hatfield HouseMichael Bath

Cu, H, P

17:00–18:30Institute of Musical ResearchInternational Conference of Near Eastern Archaeomusicology ICONEA seminarRoom 103

Between truth and knowledge: the Lacanian contribution to musicology Bruno de Florence

M

17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchHistories of home seminar seriesRoom 102

Centre for Studies of Home seminar

H

17:30–19:30Institute of English StudiesLondon old and middle English research seminar (LOMERS)venue tbc

London old and middle English research

Cu

17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchPsychoanalysis and history seminar seriesRoom G37

Anna Freud’s war nurseriesAngela Davies (Warwick)

H

17:30–19:30Institute of Commonwealth Studies Institute for the Study of the AmericasSeminarMacmillan Hall

Caribbean creative writingAmanda Smyth and Monique Roffey

Cu

Thursday 13 October 201116:30–19:30Institute of Classical StudiesAncient history seminar seriesRoom G22/26

Settlement and productivity in the Greek landscapeRobin Osborne (Cambridge)

C, H

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17:00–18:30Institute of Musical ResearchDirections in musical research seminar seriesRoom G35

‘Sea of blood’: a night at the North Korean OperaKeith Howard (SOAS) Chair: Nathan Hesselink (British Columbia)

M

17:00–19:00Institute of Commonwealth StudiesSeminarKing’s College London

The political and moral economy of corruptionAlpa Shah (Goldsmiths), Sambit Bhattacharyya (Oxford), Mushtaq Khan (SOAS)

Contact: [email protected] or [email protected]

Organised jointly with the India Institute, King’s College London

Po

17:30–19:30Institute of English StudiesLondon seminar in digital text and scholarshipvenue tbc

The role of narrative bifurcation in web design and content presentationHelena Barbas

Cu

17:30–19:00Institute of English StudiesMedieval manuscripts seminar seriesvenue tbc

Illuminated manuscripts at the V&A: cataloguing “one of the smaller collections”

Cu

18:00–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchOral history seminar seriesSTB5

Opportunities and challenges in the re-use of archived oral history: a case study from the history of geriatric medicineJoanna Bornat (Open)

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Cu

18:30–20:00Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesOther eventsChancellor’s Hall

Entre Escritoras: Cristina Cerezales Laforet remembers Carmen Laforet

Cu

Friday 14 October 201113:05Institute of Musical ResearchDeNOTE Lecture-RecitalClothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music, University of Leeds

Exploring classical chamber music: Mozart and his Viennese contemporariesJane Booth (classical clarinet), Peter Collyer (classical viola), John Irving

(fortepiano)

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Peru since Humala’s election Javier Diez Canseco, member of the Peruvian congress

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18:00–20:00Institute of English StudiesEzra Pound Cantos reading groupvenue tbc

Ezra Pound Cantos

Cu

Saturday 15 October 201109:30–17:15Institute of English StudiesConference / SymposiumSenate House

Dickens Day 2011: Republics of the imagination: Dickens and travelFor more information see p.11

Cu

Monday 17 October 2011 Institute of Advanced Legal StudiesSeminarCharles Clore House

The current Colombian legal system: an update. The proposed judicial reforms: an analysis.Contact: [email protected]

L

10:00–18:00Institute of Musical ResearchConference / SymposiumRoom G22/26

Study day on tuning and temperamentFor more information see p.12

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16:30–18:00Warburg InstituteHistory of art seminar seriesWarburg Institute


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The anonymous Isocrates: the close of the Euthydemus and Socrates’ claim for philosophyMM McCabe (King’s, London)

C, P


Greek literature

C

17:00–19:00Institute of English StudiesLondon Shakespeare seminar seriesChancellor’s Hall

London Shakespeare seminar

Cu

17:30–19:30Institute of English StudiesLondon forum for authorship studies and digital text and scholarship seminarRoom 104

Case studies in traditional and non-traditional authorship attribution

Cu

17:30–19:30Institute for the Study of the AmericasSeminarSenate Room

The Argentine electionsPanel on the 2011 Argentine elections with Celia Szusterman (Westminster),

Colin Lewis (LSE), Martin Castro (Oxford)

H, Po

Tuesday 18 October 201116:00–18:00Warburg InstituteWorkshopWarburg Institute

Dialogue poems as cultural encounters: a comparative reading of Syriac, Greek, Latin and medieval vernacular texts. Reading session 2: Christ and John the Baptist (The Epiphany)C


Keeping it in the family: the Nelson tradition in 20th-century children’s fictionHazel Sheeky (University of Newcastle; National Maritime Museum)

H

17:30–20:30Institute of Classical StudiesAccordia lecture seminar seriesRoom G22/26

From religion to science: another look at Etruscan divinationJean Turfa (Pennsylvania Museum)

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17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchInstitute for the Study of the AmericasLatin American history seminar seriesRoom G34

Weetman Pearson and Mexican national development 1889–1919Paul Garner (Leeds)

H

17:30–19:30Institute of English StudiesTextual scholarship research seminarRoom 103

The manuscripts of Jonathan Swift’s “Journal to Stella”

Cu


Cloud computing and law enforcement access to confidential dataIan Walden (Queen Mary)

L

18:00–19:00Institute of English StudiesSenate House Friends Charles Holden LectureSenate Room

Borges meets Orwell: the 21st-century research libraryFor more information see p.10

Cu

18:00–19:30Institute of Commonwealth StudiesBlack Britain seminar series Court Room

The legacy of Atlantic slavery: the unfinished business of emancipation Kwame Nimako

Po, Hu

Wednesday 19 October 2011 12:30–14:00Institute of English StudiesDirector’s seminarvenue tbc

“Here’s the product of my hand and quill”: English children’s “school pieces”, c.1650–c.1850Jill Shefrin (Toronto)

Cu


Chancery Lane: politics, space and the built environment, c.1760–1815Francis Boorman (Institute of Historical Research)

H

17:30–19:30Institute for the Study of the AmericasPanel and book launchSenate Room

The Caudillo of the Andes: Andres de Santa CruzNatalia Sobrevilla (Kent)

Comments by James Dunkerley (Queen Mary) and Alejandra Irigoin (LSE)

Cu, H, Po

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17:30–19:00Institute of English StudiesThe inter-university romantic period seminarRoom 103

Key voices of the 1790s: “The use of conversation”: William Godwin, Mary Hays, and Mary Wollstonecraft in the 1790s

Cu


Bosnia – an overview of the historical and current situationEd Vulliamy (Senior Correspondent, The Observer/The Guardian)

Hu, L

Thursday 20 October 201112:00–15:20School of Advanced StudyWorkshopSenate House

Open Access journal publishing For more information see p.12

15:30–17:30Institute of PhilosophyPerception, senses and action forumRoom ST273

Iconic representation and its limitationsMohan Matthen (Toronto)

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16:30–19:30Institute of Classical StudiesAncient history seminar seriesRoom G22/26

Moving stories: mobility, power and the development of the Greek cityJanett Morgan (Royal Holloway)

C, H

17:00–19:00Institute of Historical ResearchBritish history 1815-1945 seminar seriesRoom G37

“Sometimes it was necessary, for the sake of the class, to exclude a hopeless case.” London’s elementary schools and the origins of classification 1870–1904Imogen Lee (Goldsmiths)

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Borderland views of the British musical Renaissance: the cultural politics of the English EisteddfodRachel Cowgill (Cardiff)

Chair: Meirion Hughes

M

17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchEuropean history 1150-1550Court Room

The regulation of marital sex in medieval Europe: Jews and ChristiansEvyatar Marienberg (North Carolina)

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17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchFilm history seminar seriesRoom ST274

Intersecting lives: racial segregation, colonial nostalgia and the making of Charles Chauvel’s Jedda (1955)Catherine Kevin (Flinders University)

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17:30–19:00Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesReception of classical antiquity in German literature lectureRoom ST273

Inflections of the claim to truth: from Greek tragedy to Richard StraussErika Swales (Cambridge)

C, Cu

17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchSociety, culture and belief, 1500-1800 seminar seriesRoom 102

Reformation and the distrust of the projector in the Hartlib CircleKoji Yamamoto (Edinburgh)

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Friday 21 October 201121–22 October 2011Institute of English StudiesConference / SymposiumSenate House

Rudyard Kipling: an international writerFor more information see p.12

Cu

11:30–19:00Institute of Commonwealth StudiesWorkshop and book launchChancellor’s Hall

Decolonization workshopFollowed by a reception and the launch of John Stuart’s British Missionaries and

the End of Empire: East, Central and Southern Africa, 1939–64

Cu, D, E, H, Hu, L, Po

13:00–17:00Institute of Historical ResearchWorkshopChancellor’s Hall

Locating London’s pastTo showcase locating London’s past mapping tools and a more broad discussion

of the use of mapping in historical research

H

14:00–17:40Institute of Advanced Legal StudiesConference / SymposiumCharles Clore House

EU defence rightsFor more information see p.12

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16:30–18:30Institute of Classical StudiesPostgraduate work in progress seminarRoom 102


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17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchHistory of gardens and landscapes seminar seriesSenate Room

“I walked in the garden”: Mary, Marchioness of Huntly 1822–1893, her life, her diary, her gardensMaxine Eziefula

H

18:00–19:00Institute of English StudiesJohn Coffin Memorial Lecture in EnglishBeveridge Hall

The emergence of the everyday: Kipling and Indian regional writingFor more information see p.5

Cu

Saturday 22 October 2011

22–23 October 201110:00–18:00 on 22 October11:00–17:00 on 23 OctoberSchool of Advanced Study Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesBloomsbury Festival 2011Senate House

The Magical Library presents – the ghosts of Senate HouseFor more information see p.7

Cu, H

22–23 October 201111:00–18:00 on 22 October

11:00–17:00 on 23 OctoberSchool of Advanced Study Institute of Historical ResearchBloomsbury Festival 2011Jessell Room

The Institute of Historical Research – 90 years onFor more information see p.7

Cu, H

11:00–13:00Institute of English StudiesLondon 19th-century studies seminar seriesRoom G37

London 19th-century studies research

Cu

14:00–15:30School of Advanced Study Institute of Historical ResearchBloomsbury Festival 2011Walking point, Russell Square

Garden squares of BloomsburyFor more information see p.7

Cu, H

14:00–16:00Institute of English StudiesEMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination) seminar seriesRoom G37

Giordano Bruno’s Cantus Circaeus and demonic deception

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14:30–16:00School of Advanced Study Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesBloomsbury Festival 2011Walking point, Russell Square

The ghosts of Senate House ghost walkFor more information see p.7

Cu, H, S

16:30–17:30School of Advanced StudyInstitute of English StudiesBloomsbury Festival 2011Beveridge Hall

“The Bloomsbury Flâneur”: reading the streets of WC1For more information see p.7

Cu, H

18:00–19:00School of Advanced StudyBloomsbury Festival 2011Chancellor’s Hall

A Bloomsbury foursomeFor more information see p.7

Cu, M

19:15–21:00School of Advanced Study Institute of PhilosophyBloomsbury Festival 2011Senate House

Philosophy of taste: tutored wine tastingFor more information see p.7

Cu, P

Saturday 23 October 201111:00–12:00School of Advanced Study Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesBloomsbury Festival 2011Crush Hall

The ghosts of Senate House – artists’ talkFor more information see p.7

Cu, H

14:00–15:00School of Advanced StudyInstitute of English StudiesBloomsbury Festival 2011Beveridge Hall

Faber contemporary poetsFor more information see p.7

Cu

Monday 24 October 201116:30–18:00Warburg InstituteHistory of art seminar seriesWarburg Institute


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Greek literature

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The Hoxton Cafe Project: following the fault lines of community, welfare and perceptionKate Bradley (Kent)

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Tuesday 25 October 201117:15–19:15Institute of Historical ResearchLife-cycles seminar seriesRoom G34

Changing relationships: parents and the life-course in Georgian EnglandJoanne Bailey (Oxford Brookes)

H

18:00–19:30Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesCentre for Contemporary Women’s Writing Spanish reading groupRoom 103

Centre for Contemporary Women’s Writing Spanish reading group

Cu

Wednesday 26 October 201117:00–19:30Institute of Commonwealth Studies Institute for the Study of the AmericasCaribbean seminar seriesRoom 102

Suriname: moving from the Netherlands to Venezuela?Rosemarijn Hoefte, KITLV

Cu, H

17:00–19:30Institute of Classical StudiesClassical archaeology seminar seriesRoom G22/26

Collecting objects and people: Charles Newton and CyprusThomas Kiely (British Museum)

Cu, H

17:30–19:00Institute of Commonwealth StudiesNew challenges in refugee integration seminar seriesChancellor’s Hall

Authority and inclusion: reconsidering the meaning of integration in a fragmented ageLoren B Landau (Witwatersrand)

Hu, Po

17:30–19:00Institute of English StudiesOpen University book history and bibliography seminar seriesvenue tbc

Open University book history and bibliography

Cu

Thursday 27 October 201116:30–19:30Institute of Classical StudiesAncient history seminar seriesRoom G22/26

Ancient historyGuy Bradley (Cardiff) C, H

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IMR/Brunel Centre for Contemporary Music Practice seminarPaul Griffiths

Chair:Bob Gilmore (Brunel)

M

17:00–19:00Institute for the Study of the AmericasSeminarRoom ST275

Transformations and transmutationsAna Maria Pacheco

Cu


Pro-poor politics and policy making under the United Progressive AllianceAnuradha Joshi (Sussex) on the right to food, James Manor (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) on NREGA and Suchi Pande (Sussex) on the right to information



Po

17:15–19:30Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesEnglish Goethe Society lectureRoom ST273

“Des Menschen Herz, o Gott! welch Elend kann es stiften!”: The tragedies of Christian Felix Weisse

Cu

17:30–19:30Institute of Commonwealth StudiesVisiting fellow seminarRoom 349

Nigeria’s 2011 elections: postscript and prognosisKayode Samuel (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

H, Hu, L,Po

18:00–19:00Institute of Advanced Legal StudiesFamily law lectureCharles Clore House

Islamic family law in legal practiceAina Khan (Senior Consultant Solicitor, Family Law Department, Russell Jones & Walker Solicitors, London)

L

18:00–19:00Institute of English StudiesJohn Coffin Memorial Lecture in EnglishBeveridge Hall

“Prometheus”: the two Shelleys and romantic scienceFor more information see p.5

Cu

18:30–20:30Institute of English StudiesLondon theatre seminar seriesvenue tbc

London theatre

Cu

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Friday 28 October 201128–29 October 2011Institute of English StudiesConference / SymposiumSenate House

Love, sex, desire and the (post)colonialFor more information see p.13

Cu



C

17:00–19:00Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesBook launchRoom G22/26

The legacy of the Italian resistance

Cu, H

Saturday 29 October 201114:00–16:00Institute of English StudiesContemporary fiction research seminar seriesRoom G34

Contemporary fiction research seminar: inaugural session

Cu

15:00–18:00Institute of Classical StudiesVirgil Society lectureRoom G22/26

Virgil Society lecture

C

Monday 31 October 201110:00–20:00Institute of Commonwealth Studies Institute for the Study of the AmericasConference / SymposiumMacmillan Hall

Human rights defenders, environmental degradation and land rightsFor more information see p.13

Hu, L, Po

13:00–17:00Institute for the Study of the AmericasSeminarSenate Room

Liberalism in the Americas: what is to be doneAlan Knight (Oxford), Klaus Gallo (Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires), Natalia Sobrevilla Perea (Kent), James Dunkerley (Queen Mary), Colin Lewis (London School of Economics)

By invitation only. Expressions of interest can be sent to [email protected]

Po

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Cu, H


Good and bad rhetoric in Plato’s GorgiasJimmy Doyle (Bristol)

C, P


‘Occasion’ and occasions in Callimachus and PosidippusEvelyne Prioux (Paris)

C

17:00–19:00Institute for the Study of the AmericasLectureSenate Room

The liberal traditions in the AmericasGregory J. Grandin (New York)

E, H, Po

18:00–19:00Institute of Advanced Legal StudiesSir William Dale Memorial Lecture Senate House

Drafting comprehensible legislation in a multi-lingual, multi-legal-system environment: some reflections on the EU drafting process and its consequencesEleanor Sharpston, QC (Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union)

Chair: The Hon Mr Justice Sales

L

Tuesday 1 November 201111:00–18:30Institute for the Study of the AmericasColloquiumMacmillan Hall

The Day of the DeadFor more information see p.13

Cu, H, S

12:00–14:00Institute for the Study of the AmericasSeminarVenue tbc

Political philosophy in 19th-century Argentina Klaus Gallo (Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires)

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The latitude of the search for the longitude in 18th-century BritainAlexi Baker (Cambridge)

H



Cu

17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchInstitute for the Study of the AmericasLatin American History seminar seriesRoom G34

Citizens in arms: the army, the militias and the national guards and the creation of the Peruvian state (1821–1861)Natalia Sobrevilla (Kent)

H


Book collecting research seminar

Cu

18:00–20:30Institute of Classical StudiesFBSA LectureRoom G22/26

Friends of the British School at Athens lecture

C


Data protection jurisdiction in cloud computing and international data transfersJulia Hornle, Kuan Hon (Queen Mary)

L

Wednesday 2 November 2011

2–4 November 201109:15–17:55Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesConference / SymposiumRoom G22/26

Vampires: myths of the past and the futureFor more information see p.13

Cu, H

12:30–14:00Institute of English StudiesDirector’s seminarvenue tbc

Institute of English Studies Director’s seminarTatiana Kontou

Cu

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16:30–18:00Warburg InstituteLectureWarburg Institute

Homo Ludens revisited: from Huizinga to Zemon Davis and beyondLisa Jardine

Cu, H, P

17:15–19:15Institute of Historical ResearchBritish history in the long 18th century seminar seriesSenate Room

Pecha Kucha! Three minute seminars

H


¿Narcoamérica? Panel on the political economy of drugs, drug trafficking, and drug cultures in Latin AmericaAlan Knight (Oxford), Tom Grisaffi (LSE), Jeff Garmany (King’s, London)

E, H, Po

17:00–18:30Institute of Musical ResearchResearch forumRoyal Academy of Music

Birth of an oboe

M

Thursday 3 November 201117:00–18:30Institute of Musical ResearchDirectors in musical research seminar seriesRoom G32

Digitalisation not dematerialisation: the musical artefact in the digital age. A case study of Björk’s BiophiliaNicola Dibben (Sheffield)

Chair: Keith Negus (Goldsmiths)

M

17:00–18:30Warburg InstituteMaps and society seminar seriesWarburg Institute

Maps and societyCatherine Delano Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell

(formerly British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute)

H


The twin-crime: Cultural conflations of abortion and infanticide in England, 1860–1967Daniel Grey (Oxford)

H

17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchEuropean history 1150-1550Senate Room

The contested order: conflicts and interactions between civic powers and the Venetian people in the 15th centuryClaire Judde-de-la-Rivire (Toulouse)

H

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17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchFilm history seminar seriesSTB8

Circles, columns and screenings: mapping the spaces of film criticism in 1940s LondonMelanie Selfe (Glasgow)

H

17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchHistory of education seminar seriesvenue tbc

Creating world citizens? League of Nations teaching in English schools, 1919–39Susannah Wright (Oxford Brookes)

H

17:30–19:00Institute of Classical StudiesInstitute of Germanic & Romance StudiesReception of classical antiquity in German literature lectureRoom ST273

The Greek chorus through German eyes: putting philosophy on stageSimon Goldhill (Cambridge)

C, Cu



Cu

18:20–20:30Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesCoffin Trust lectureRoom G22/26

The nightmare of Bram StokerChristopher Frayling


Cu, H

Friday 4 November 20114–5 November 2011Institute of English StudiesConference / SymposiumSenate House

Ruins in 20th-century British art and fictionFor more information see p.13

Cu

14:00–19:00Institute for the Study of the AmericasWorkshopRoom 261

Reading women’s history: a roundtable discussion about scholarship on women’s history in the Americas

H

16:30–18:30Institute of Classical StudiesPostgraduate work in progress seminarRoom 102


C

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17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchHistory of gardens and landscapes seminar seriesCourt Room

The role of the gardener in England from 1600 to 1730: studies from Knole in Kent and Arbury in WarwickshireSally O’Halloran (Sheffield)

H


Irish studies

Cu

Saturday 5 November 2011Institute of Musical ResearchConference / SymposiumRoom ST274/275

Listening for a change: environment, music, actionFor more information see p.14

M

10:00–18:00Institute of English StudiesConference / SymposiumCourt Room

Re-imagining the BrontësFor more information see p.14

Cu

11:00–13:00Institute of English StudiesModernism research seminar seriesRoom G37

Modernism and disability

Cu


Locke on the law of nature

Cu

Monday 7 November 201110:30–17:15Institute of Musical ResearchStudy dayDeller Hall

Sight, sound and semantics – the representation and iconology of western musical performanceAntonio Baldassare, Dorothea Baumann, Antonio Corona, Emily Peppers and Debra Pring

To be followed at 19:45 by a concert at Fenton House, Hampstead.

In association with Repertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale

M

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Greek literature

C


From ‘cruelty men’ to ‘rottweilers’. The Royal Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Child Protection 1960–2000Chris Nottingham (Glasgow Caledonian)

H



Cu

Tuesday 8 November 201117:15–19:15Institute of Historical ResearchLife-cycles seminar seriesRoom G34

‘Deedes are males and woordes are females’? Verbal abuse and gender in 16th-century EnglandDonald Spaeth (Glasgow)

H

17:30–20:30Institute of Classical StudiesAccordia lectureInstitute of Archaeology

Grotta dell’Uzzo and the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Sicily’Sebastiano Tusa (Soprintendente del Mare della Regione Siciliana)

C


Textual scholarship research seminar

Cu

Wednesday 9 November 201112:30–14:00School of Advanced StudyDean’s SeminarsRoom 103

Big money and the threat of new music: issues in the historiography of new music in BritainRoddy Hawkins (Institute of Musical Research)


M

17:00–19:30Institute of Commonwealth Studies Institute for the Study of the AmericasCaribbean seminar seriesRoom 103

Kanaval – a people’s history of HaitiLeah Gordon (film-maker and photographer)

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Cu

17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchPsychoanalysis and history seminar seriesSTB7

Historical subjectivityBarbara Taylor (East London)

H

Thursday 10 November 2011

10–11 November 201110:00–17:30Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesWISPS XII annual conferenceRoom ST274/275

Performance, interpretation, translation

Cu

16:30–19:30Institute of Classical StudiesAncient history seminar seriesRoom ST274/275

The changed landscape of South Etruria: the imperial landscape of the middle Tiber valleyRobert Witcher (Durham)

C, H

17:00–18:30Institute of Musical ResearchDirections in musical research seminar seriesRoom 104

Exploding the monochord: an intuitive spatial representation of microtonal relational structuresNick Stylianou (independent researcher)

Chair:Bruno de Florence (independent researcher)

M


Medieval manuscripts

Cu

17:30–19:00Institute of Commonwealth StudiesInternational refugee law seminar seriesCharles Clore House

Armed conflict and refugee law: are courts getting it right?Hugo Storey (senior immigration judge, Asylum and Immigration Tribunal)

Hu

Friday 11 November 201116:30–18:30Institute of Classical StudiesPostgraduate work in progress seminarRoom 102


C

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18:00–20:00Institute of Historical ResearchConversations and disputations: discussions among historiansSenate Room

Biology, brain theory and history: what, if anything, can historians learn from biology?Lisa Blackman (Goldsmiths), Hera Cook (Birmingham), Roger Cooter (UCL)

Chair: Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck)

H

18:30–20:30Institute for the Study of the AmericasSeminarG22/26

The foreign relations of Peru with Great Britain and the United States in the mid 19th century Rosa Garibaldi, Peruvian historian and diplomat, with comments by Natalia

Sobrevilla (Kent) and Rory Miller (Liverpool)

H

Saturday 12 November 201114:30–16:30Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesSeminarRoom ST273

Contemporary women’s writing in French: ‘rentre text’

Cy

Monday 14 November 2011Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies2011 London postgraduate French studies conferenceRoom ST274/275

How do you talk about books you haven’t read?For more information see p.14

Cu

Institute of Advanced Legal StudiesLectureCharles Clore House

The victim’s law – pros, cons, implementation, challenges for the future: with specific reference to ColombiaEdwin Rubio (Asociacion Colombiana de Abogados Defensores ‘Eduardo Umana Mendoza’ ACADEUM)


L



Cu



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Greek literature

C

17:00–19:00Institute of English StudiesLondon Shakespeare seminar seriesDeller Hall

London Shakespeare seminar

Cu

Tuesday 15 November 201116:00–18:00Warburg InstituteWorkshopWarburg Institute

Dialogue poems as cultural encounters: a comparative reading of Syriac, Greek, Latin and medieval vernacular texts. Reading session 3: The Sinful Woman (Luke 7:36-50)


“As his was not a surgical case it was not my duty to attend upon him”: The surgeon’s role in the 19th-century royal dockyardsRichard Biddall (Wellcome Institute, Oxford)

H


Great wealth in Argentina, 1810–1930Roy Hora (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes/Conicet, Argentina)

H

18:30–19:30Institute of Commonwealth StudiesBlack Britain seminar seriesRoom STB8

An introduction to the Black presence in Renaissance EuropeMichael Ohajuru

H

Wednesday 16 November 201112:00–15:00Institute of Classical StudiesDynamis seminarRoom ST276

Dynamis seminar

C


Mycenaean seminarYannis Fappas

C

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17:00–18:30Institute of Musical ResearchInternational Conference of Near Eastern Archaeomusicology (ICONEA) seminarRoom 104

An old Babylonian lament with instrumentsIrving Finkel (British Museum)

M


Sex and illegitimacy during the long 18th century: evidence from working-class autobiographiesEmma Griffin (East Anglia)

H


From multiculturalism to social justiceDavid Lehmann (Cambridge)

Hu, H, Po

17:30–19:00Institute of English StudiesSouth Asian fiction: contemporary transformationsvenue tbc

South Asian fiction: contemporary transformations

Cu

17:30–19:00Institute of English StudiesThe inter-university romantic period seminarRoom 103

Key voices of the 1790s: Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth and romanticism

Cu


The situation in Belarus, is there any hope for democracy? The view from two prominent Belarus human rights lawyers (working title)Aleh Volchek and Harry Poginiajlo

Hu, L

18:00–19:00Institute of English StudiesSenate House Friends lectureCourt Room

From centre of culture to cultural centre: the public library in Britain since 1850For more information see p.10

Cu

Thursday 17 November 2011

17–18 November Starts at 18:00 on 17 November Ends at 17:15Institute of Historical ResearchWinter conference 2011Chancellor’s Hall

Novel approaches – from academic history to historical fictionFor more information see p.14

Cu, H

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10:00–17:00Warburg InstituteConference / SymposiumKing’s College London / Warburg Institute

Palaeography, humanism and manuscript illumination in Renaissance Italy: a conference in memory of A. C. de la MareFor more information see p.15

C, Cu, H, P


Garamantian landscapes: irrigation and settlement in the Libyan SaharaAndrew Wilson (Oxford)

C, H

17:00–19:00Institute of Historical ResearchBritish history 1815-1945 seminar seriesCourt Room

Globalization and its discontents: Dundee circa 1870–1939Jim Tomlinson (Dundee)

H


IMR/Brunel Centre for Contemporary Music Practice seminarFrançois-Bernard Mâche

Chair: Bob Gilmore (Brunel)

M

17:00–18:30Institute of Advanced Legal StudiesSeminarCharles Clore House

The European Investigation Order: progress updateKenny Bowie and Sara Khan (Judicial Co-operation Unit, Home Office)

Chair: John Spencer, President of European Criminal Law Association

L

17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchEuropean history 1150-1550Room G37

High politics and local acquisitiveness: the Bassets of High Wycombe in the 13th centuryWilliam Stewart-Parker (King’s, London)

H

17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchFilm history seminar seriesRoom ST273

Early film criticism and the concept of rhythmLaura Marcus (Oxford)

H


The translator’s other invisibility: stylometry in translation

Cu

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Trading on others’ credit: imitation, copying and plagiarism in the business of 18th-century scienceFlorence Grant (King’s, London)

H


London theatre

Cu

Friday 18 November 201114:30–17:00Institute of Musical ResearchConference / SymposiumRoyal Academy of Music, Piano Gallery, York Gate

Study day on technology in creative researchFor more information see p.

M



C

17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchHistory of gardens and landscapes seminar seriesCourt Room

Urban design and landscape architecture in the UK and Hungary: Thomas Mawson and Bela RerrichLuca Csepeley-Knorr (Manchester; Corvinus, Budapest)

H


Ezra Pound Cantos

Cu

Saturday 19 November 201109:00–19:00Institute of Classical StudiesColloquiumRoom G22/26

British Epigraphy Society colloquiumFor more information see p.15

C

09:30–17:30Institute of English StudiesConference / SymposiumSenate House

George Eliot conference: The Lifted Veil and Silas MarnerFor more information see p.16

Cu

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11:00–13:00Institute of English StudiesLondon 19th–century studies seminar seriesRoom G37

London 19th–century studies research

Cu

14:00–16:00Institute of Historical ResearchEducation in the long 18th century seminar seriesRoom G37

Genlis’s Tales, and the learning of French in Britain and North AmericaGillian Dow (Southampton; Chawton)

H

Monday 21 November 201116:30–18:00Warburg InstituteHistory of art seminar seriesWarburg Institute


Cu, H


Greek literature

C

17:00–18:30Institute of Musical ResearchPerformance/research seminarChancellor’s Hall

CMPCP performance/research seminarDeniz Peters (independent researcher) Chair: Mine Dogantan Dack (Middlesex)

M

Tuesday 22 November 201117:15–19:15Institute of Historical ResearchLife-cycles seminar seriesRoom G34

From boy to man: renegotiating relationships with fathers in the 19th centuryJulie-Marie Strange (Manchester Metropolitan)

Title tbc

H

17:30–19:30Institute of English StudiesContemporary fiction research seminar seriesRoom ST275

Contemporary fiction research seminar: postgraduate forum

Cu

Wednesday 23 November 201112:30–14:00Institute of English StudiesDirector’s seminarvenue tbc

Towards a modernist ‘Tractatus’Benjamin Ware (Manchester; Institute of English Studies)

Cu

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17:00–19:30Institute for the Study of the AmericasInstitute of Commonwealth StudiesCaribbean seminar seriesRoom 102

The Turks and Caicos Islands: can the cloud be banished?Peter Clegg (West England)

H, Po

17:30–19:30Institute of English StudiesLondon old and middle English research seminar (LOMERS)venue tbc

London old and middle English research

Cu



Cu

Thursday 24 November 201116:30–19:30Institute of Classical StudiesAncient history seminar seriesRoom G22/26

Ancient historyRay Laurence (Kent)

C, H


Paul Bekker’s ambivalent modernismNanette Nielsen (Nottingham)

Chair: Julian Johnson (Royal Holloway)

M


The politics of protestCarole Spary (York) and others



Po

17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchHistory of education seminar seriesRoom G27

The origins, rise and crisis of scientific rationalism in English educationBernard Barker (Leicester)

H

17:30–20:30Institute of Classical Studies Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesThe reception of classical antiquity in German literature IIRoom ST273

Correcting ancient myths – Brecht’s approach to antiquityMartin Vohler (Berlin; Nicosia)

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17:30–19:30Institute for the Study of the AmericasSeminarChancellor’s Hall

An unfinished revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham LincolnRobin Blackburn (Essex). Comments by Tristram Hunt MP (Queen Mary) and

Adam Smith (UCL)

H, Hu, Po

18:00–19:30Institute for the Study of the AmericasSeminarRoom ST274

Perspectives on the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt

H, Po

Friday 25 November 201109:15–18:30Institute of Musical ResearchConference / SymposiumRoom ST274/275

Middle East and Central Asia music forumFor more information see p.16

M

09:30–18:00Institute of English StudiesConference / SymposiumRoom G22/26

Book history research networkFor more information see p.16

Cu

10:30–18:00Warburg InstituteConference / SymposiumLecture room

Looking for meaning in Renaissance ArtMichael Cole, Caroline Elam, Paul Hills, Amanda Lillie, Pat Rubin and Salvatore

Settis

Cu, H



C


Two hundred years of Sarmiento: looking backwards and forwardsRichard Gott, Adrián Gorelik (Cambridge), Eduardo Ortiz (Imperial)

H

Saturday 26 November 201110:15–18:00Institute for the Study of the AmericasInstitute of Musical ResearchWorkshopChancellor’s Hall

Latin American music seminar

Cu, M

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11:00–16:00Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesCultural memory seminarRoom G34

Learning memory’s lessons

Cu

Monday 28 November 201116:00–18:00Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesGerman philosophy reading group seminarSTB5


Cu



Cu, H

16:30–19:00Institute of Classical StudiesAncient philosophy seminar seriesRoom ST273

Likely rhetoric and the PhaedrusJenny Bryan (UCL)

C, P


Greek literature

C

17:00–18:30Institute of Musical ResearchPerformance/research seminarChancellor’s Hall

CMPSP performance/research seminarDarla Crispin (Orpheus Institute) Chair: John Rink (Cambridge)

M

18:00–20:00Institute of Historical Research2011 Creighton LectureBeveridge Hall

Macaulay and son: an imperial story Catherine Hall (UCL)


H

Tuesday 29 November 201112:30–14:00Institute of PhilosophyLunchtime seminarRoom ST274/275

Cognitive disparities: dimensions of intellectual diversity and the resolution of disagreementsRobert Audi (Notre Dame)

P

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16:00–18:00Warburg InstituteWorkshopWarburg Institute

Dialogue poems as cultural encounters: a comparative reading of Syriac, Greek, Latin and medieval vernacular texts. Reading session 4: The lament of Mary (the passion of Christ)


Traversing the Arabian Seas: the ‘worlds’ of British Trade in the Indian Ocean, 1680–1760Timothy Davies (Warwick)

H

17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchInstitute for the Study of the AmericasLatin American history seminar seriesRoom ST273

The rivalry between Spanish and Californian quicksilver, and the consequences for Bolivian liberalization (1850–80)Tristan Platt (St Andrews)

H

17:30–19:00Institute of English StudiesMedieval and early modern reading groupvenue tbc

Medieval and early modern closed reading group

Cu

18:00–19:30Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesCentre for Contemporary Women’s Writing Spanish reading groupRoom 103

Centre for Contemporary Women’s Writing Spanish reading group

Cu

Wednesday 30 November 201117:15–19:15Institute of Historical ResearchBritish history in the long 18th century seminar seriesRoom ST274/275

Print culture and punishment: the Murder Act of 1752Richard Ward (Sheffield)

H

17:30–19:00Institute of Commonwealth StudiesNew challenges in refugee integration seminar seriesCharles Clore House

Refugee centred versus state centred approaches to integration: processes, practices and narrativesMaja Korac-Anderson (East London)

Hu

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Cu

18:00–20:00Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesResearch centre for German and Austrian exile studies seminarRoom ST273

Investigating the roots of 20th-century German art

Cu

Thursday 1 December 20111–3 DecemberInstitute of Musical ResearchICONEA conferenceChancellor’s Hall

The oud from its Sumerian origins to modern timesFor more information see p.17 M

1–3 December09:45–17:00Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesConference / SymposiumRoom G22/26

First person writing, four-way readingFor more information see p.17

Cu

09:45–17:00Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesRealism and Romanticism in German literature seminar seriesRoom ST274/275

Realism and romanticism in German literature

Cu, H


Travels with Malthus: landscape, development, and Roman historyRichard Alston (Royal Holloway)

C, H




H


On an equal footing with men? Women and work at the BBC, 1923–39Kate Murphy (Goldsmiths)

H

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17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchEuropean history 1150-1550Senate Room

Women in office and late medieval juristsSerena Ferente (KCL)

H


London theatre

Cu

Friday 2 December 201110:15–18:00Warburg InstituteColloquiumWarburg Institute

Demons and devils in early modern EuropeFor more information see p.17

C, Cu, H, P, S



C

17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchHistory of gardens and landscapes seminar seriesRoom G35

Sir Thomas Hanmer of Bettisfield: travel, plants and gardens in the mid 17th centuryJill Francis (Birmingham)

H


Irish studies

Cu

Saturday 3 December 201110:00–18:00Institute of English StudiesModernism research seminar seriesRoom G37

Future work in modernist studies

Cu

15:00–18:00Institute of Classical StudiesVirgil Society lectureRoom G22/26

Virgil Society lecture

C

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Monday 5 December 201116:30–18:00Warburg InstituteHistory of art seminar seriesWarburg Institute


Cu, H


Greek literature

C

17:00–18:30Institute of Musical ResearchSeminarChancellor’s Hall

Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice performance/research seminarJohn Wallace (Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Dance)

Chair: Paul Archbold (Institute of Musical Research)

M


A ‘movement that moves’: the settlement movement in Britain after the First World WarMark Freeman (Glasgow)

H


Russia’s economy under Putin: energy superpower or oil-eependent laggard?Simon Pirani (Oxford Institute of Energy Studies; author of Change in Putin’s Russia: Power, Money and People)

Hu, L



Cu

Tuesday 6 December 2011 17:15–19:15Institute of Historical ResearchBritish maritime history seminar seriesWolfson Room

The South Sea CompanyPatrick Walsh (Trinity College Dublin)

Title tbc

H

17:15–17:15Institute of Historical ResearchLife-cycles seminar seriesRoom G34

Life-cycles seminar

H

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Cu


Textual Scholarship Research Seminar

Cu

17:30–20:30Institute of Classical StudiesAccordia lectureRoom G22/26

Copper from Cyprus: the Bronze Age metal trade in the Central MediterraneanFulvia Lo Schiavo (formerly Soprintendente per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana, Firenze)

C


Book collecting research seminar

Cu

Wednesday 7 December 201112:30–14:00School of Advanced StudyDean’s SeminarsCourt Room

Mapping the religious mind: India and the medieval geography of religionAlessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute)


Cu, H, S


Cacophony and silence: the place of religion in Neopalatial CreteMatthew Haysom (Cambridge)

C

17:00–19:30Institute for the Study of the AmericasInstitutes of Commonwealth StudiesCaribbean seminar seriesRoom 102

Slavery, emancipation, and the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company

Cu, H



Cu

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17:30–19:00Institute of Commonwealth StudiesInternational refugee law seminar seriesThe Chancellor’s Hall

The right to asylum in EU lawRaza Husain (Matrix Chambers)

Hu

17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchPsychoanalysis and history seminar seriesSTB7

The single swallow does not make a summer: psychological approaches in late 19th-century asylum case historiesSarah Chaney (UCL)

H

Thursday 8 December 201109:00–18:00Institute for the Study of the AmericasConference / SymposiumCourt Room

Crisis, response and recovery: a decade on from the Argentinazo 2001–11For more information see p.18

H, E, Po


The search for Roman urban landscapes: innovation,interpretation and invention from Britain to the MediterraneanWilliam Bowden (Nottingham)

C, H


Absent cadencesDanuta Mirka (Southampton) Chair:David Wyn Jones (Cardiff)

M


Was Frankenstein’s monster Jewish? Uncanny anthropoids from British gothic to modern German-Jewish folktale writing

Cu


London theatre

Cu

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9 December 201116:30–18:30Institute of Classical StudiesPostgraduate work in progress seminarRoom G35


C

17:15–18:30Warburg InstituteLiterature, ideas and society seminar seriesWarburg Institute

The limits of believabilityEugenio Refini (Warwick): ‘“No Empty Fiction Wrought by Magic Lore”’: wonders of nature, irony and disbelief in 16th-century Italian fiction narratives’ Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck): ‘“Dowt not for We are Good Angells”: John Dee, Meric Casaubon and the limits of early modern credulity’

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Ezra Pound Cantos

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Saturday 10 December 201109:30–19:00Institute of English StudiesConference / SymposiumChancellor’s Hall

The Singing DetectiveFor more information see p.18

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10:00–18:00Institute for the Study of the AmericasSouth American archaeology seminarInstitute of Archaeology

South American archaeologyJointly organised with the Institute of Archaeology

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11:00–13:00Institute of English StudiesLondon 19th–century studies seminar seriesRoom G37

London 19th–century studies research

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14:00–16:00Institute of English StudiesContemporary fiction research seminar seriesRoom G34

Contemporary fiction research seminar: Rewriting Exodus: American Futures from Du Bois to Obama

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Italian renaissance philosophy in the vernacular: ‘Logic, rhetoric and poetics as rational faculties in Alessandro Piccolomini’s map of knowledge’

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12 December 201116:00–18:00Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesGerman philosophy reading group seminarSTB5


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16:30–19:00Institute of Classical StudiesAncient philosophy seminar seriesRoom ST273

The liver and the cave: rhetoric, imagery, and the non-rational soulJessica Moss (Oxford)

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17:00–19:30Institute of Classical StudiesGreek literature seminar seriesRoom 103

Greek literature

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17:00–19:00Institute of English StudiesLondon Shakespeare seminar seriesDeller Hall

London Shakespeare Seminar

Cu

Tuesday 13 December 2011Institute of Musical ResearchConference / SymposiumRoom G22/26

Technology and musical thoughtFor more information see p.19

Convenor: John Dack

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17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchInstitute for the Study of the AmericasSeminarRoom 273

Art in the aftermath of violence: Peru in comparative perspectiveCynthia Milton (Montréal)

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Wednesday 14 December 201117:15–19:15Institute of Historical ResearchBritish history in the long 18th century seminar seriesCourt Room

Space, place, and popular politics in northern England, 1789–1848Katrina Navickas (Hertfordshire)

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17:30–19:00Institute of Commonwealth StudiesNew challenges in refugee integration seminar seriesThe Chancellor’s Hall

Employment: integration, exclusion and human rightsAlice Bloch (City University)

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17:30–19:30Institute of Commonwealth StudiesSeminarRoom 102

Londres Latino: academic perspectives on Latin American migrants in LondonLibia Villazana (Institute for the Study of the Americas), Cathy McIlwaine (Queen

Mary), Patria Román-Velasquez (City University)

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15–16 December 2011Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesASMI 2011 conferenceRoom G22/26

The Italian ‘character’: virtues and vicesFor more information see p.19

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15–16 December 201112:30–18:00Institute of Classical StudiesColloquiumRoom ST274/275

Reception studies colloquiumFor more information see p.19

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Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know? The United Kingdom in 1820Kate Murphy Malcolm Chase (Leeds)

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Hidden histories: computing and the humanities c.1949–1980

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Medieval manuscripts

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Debate, public truth and natural knowledge in 18th-century MexicoMiruna Achim (Autnoma Metropolitana, Mexico City)

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Friday 16 December 201110:00–18:00Institute of Historical ResearchConference / SymposiumChancellor’s Hall

Princes consort in historyFor more information see p.19

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Monday 9 January 201216:30–18:00Warburg InstituteHistory of art seminar seriesWarburg Institute


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Tuesday 10 January 201217:15–19:15Institute of Historical ResearchBritish Maritime History seminar seriesWolfson Room

The role of secondary navies under Pax Britannica: the Spanish caseCarlos Alfaro Zaforteza (King’s, London)

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Of ‘savages’ and sailors: British consular contacts with the Mapuche of Chile during the 1820s and 1830sManuel Llorca (Chile)

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Thursday 12 January 201210:00–18:30Institute for the Study of the AmericasWorkshopRoom 261

What makes indicators of societal progress politically successful? Lessons from international history

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17:30–20:00Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesWorking group for the reception of German/Austrian/Swiss literature lectureRoom ST273

Germania in England: functions of the ‘Germanic’ in English identity constructions and British historical thinking in the 19th centuryMaike Oergel (Nottingham)

Cu

Friday 13 January 201210:00–18:00Institute of PhilosophyConference / SymposiumRoom G22/26

The editors cutFor more information see p.19

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17:00–18:30Warburg InstituteThe history of scholarship seminar seriesWarburg Institute

The history of scholarshipChristopher Ligota (Warburg Institute)

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Irish studies

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18:00–20:00Institute of English StudiesEzra Pound Cantos Reading Groupvenue tbc

Ezra Pound Cantos reading group

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Saturday 14 January 201211:00–13:00Institute of English StudiesLondon nineteenth–century studies seminar seriesCourt Room

London 19th–century studies research seminar

Cu

14:00–16:00Institute of English StudiesEMPHASIS seminar seriesRoom G37

EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination)

Cu

Monday 16 January 201216:30–18:00Warburg InstituteHistory of art seminar seriesWarburg Institute


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Wednesday 18 January 201212:30–14:00School of Advanced StudyDean’s SeminarsRoom 103

The Balkans in the Cold War and filmKatia Pizzi (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies)

Title tbc. For more information see p.6

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17:00–19:30Institute of Commonwealth StudiesCaribbean seminar seriesRoom 102

Caribbean seminar

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17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchPsychoanalysis and history seminar seriesRoom G37

Inversions: casts, masks and mortalityMarcia Pointon (Manchester)

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Thursday 19 January 201217:00–18:30Institute of Musical ResearchDirections in musical research seminar seriesRoom G26

Jewish cupids and Scottish valkyries: once more Mendelssohn and WagnerMonika Hennemann

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18:00–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchOral history seminar seriesRoom 104

Oral history in conditions of political conflict and controversyCarrie Hamilton (Roehampton)

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Friday 20 January 2012 17:00–18:30Warburg InstituteThe history of scholarship seminar seriesWarburg Institute


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18:00–20:00Institute of English StudiesThe Charles Peake Ulysses seminar seriesvenue tbc

The Charles Peake Ulysses

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Monday 23 January 201223–24 JanuaryInstitute of Musical ResearchArditti Quartet Composition workshopsCourt Room

Arditti Quartet composition

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Tuesday 24 January 201217:15–19:15Institute of Historical ResearchBritish Maritime History seminar seriesThe Wolfson Room (IHR)

Creolizing steam: the Royal Mail steam packet company’s ship as placeAnyaa Anim-Addo (Royal Holloway; National Maritime Museum)

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17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchInstitute for the Study of the AmericasSeminarRoom G35

Evolution into what? 19th-century Brazilian social thought and the prospect of RepublicanismIsabel DiVanna (Cambridge)

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17:30–19:30Institute of Historical ResearchSeminarRoom ST274

The impact of digitisation and its implications for the future direction of archives and special collectionsRichard Ovenden (Bodleian Library, Oxford)

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Tuesday 25 January 201217:15–18:30Warburg InstituteLiterature, ideas and society seminar seriesWarburg Institute

Literature, ideas and societyGuido Giglioni (Warburg Institute), Jacqueline Glomski and Emily Butterworth

(King’s, London)

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17:30–19:30Institute of English StudiesLondon Old and Middle English research seminar (LOMERS)venue tbc

London old and middle English researchDaniel Wakelin (Oxford)

Cu, H

19:30Institute of Musical ResearchConcertSt Giles Cripplegate

Arditti Quartet concert: works by Harvey, Rihm, Archbold and and early-career composersM

Wednesday 26 January 201214:00Institute of Musical ResearchRehearsalJerwood Hall, LSO St Luke’s

Arditti Quartet open rehearsal: Jonathan Harvey String Quartet no.4M




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Visiting Goethe: the diary of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, 1829–32Utz Raphael (Jena)

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The experiential world of Jean BodinMark Greengrass (Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg)

H

Friday 27 January 201217:00–18:30Warburg InstituteThe history of scholarship seminar seriesWarburg Institute


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18:00–20:00Institute of English StudiesFinnegans Wake research seminarvenue tbc

Finnegans Wake research

Cu

Saturday 28 January 201214:00–16:00Institute of Historical ResearchEducation in the Long 18th Century seminar seriesCourt Room

Patterns of virtue: books recommended for boys and girls in the long 18th centuryPolly Bull (Royal Holloway)

H

Monday 30 January 201214:00–17:00Institute of Musical ResearchDeNOTE seminar seriesRoom G22/26

Recreating early 19th-century style in a 21st- century marketplace: an orchestral violinist’s perspectiveClaire Holden (Cardiff)

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Research training

Research training

3 and 5 October 201110.30–12.00 6 and 10 October 201114.30–16.00Institute of Advanced Legal StudiesCharles Clore House

Introduction to electronic resourcesA demonstration of different databases available on the IALS Electronic Law Library for postgraduate law students: how to login, how to search and browse for legislation, case law and journal articles, and how to find help with databases when you need it.

Contact: [email protected] , or phone 020 7862 5821

4 October 201110.30–12.00, 13.00–14-30 and 15.00–16.306 October 2011 10.30–12.007 October 2011 10.30–12.00, 13.00–14.30 and 15.00–16.30 10–13, 17, 18 and 26 October 2011 10.30–12.0024, 25 and 27 October 201118.00–19.30Institute of Advanced Legal StudiesCharles Clore House

Introduction to Lexis and Westlaw: hands-on session Electronic information training session for postgraduate law students. How to login and find different databases, and how to search and browse effectively for legislation, case law and journal articles. Small group teaching, advance registration is recommended. Further sessions will be available in October.

Contact: [email protected] , or phone 020 7862 5821

4, 11, 18, 25 October 20111, 15, 22, 29 November 20116 December 201110, 17, 24, 31 January 201213:10–14:15Warburg InstituteWarburg Institute

From devilry to divinity: readings in the Divina CommediaAlessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute), John Took (UCL)

Autumn term – Hell; Spring term – Purgatory; Summer term – Paradise

Fee: £80 per term - Free to Warburg Institute and UCL staff, students and fellows.


5 October 201112:45–16:00Institute of Historical ResearchWoburn Room

Day for new research students in historyContact: [email protected]

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Research training

7, 14, 21, 28 October 2011 4, 18, 25 November 2011 2, 9 December 201111:00–12:00Warburg InstituteDroz Library

German palaeographyDr Dorothea McEwan - Dr Claudia Wedepohl

Fridays 11:00–12:00 am (autumn term only), commencing on 7 October 2011 in the Droz Library. This class is a reading class. Its aim is to familiarize students with a number of different handwritings. Participants should have a reading knowledge of German. We will read and examine a variety of texts from the 17th to the 20th centuries, and offer some flexibility in as much as it will be possible to present documents from different centuries and handwriting styles in order to suit the needs of its participants.

Fee: £80 per term - Free to Warburg Institute staff, students and fellows.


11 October –13 December 201109:00–17:00Institute of Historical Researchvenue tbc

An introduction to medieval and renaissance LatinThis ten-week course will provide an introduction to Latin grammar and vocabulary, together with practical experience in translating typical post-classical Latin documents. It is intended for absolute beginners, or for those with a smattering of the language but who wish to acquire more confidence. Students will emerge at the end with not just a strong grounding in the mechanics of Latin, but also an understanding of the changes that it underwent, and the new ways in which it was used in medieval and early modern Europe. The course isopen to all who are interested in using Latin for their research. The fee for the course is £200. This course will take place every Tuesday from 11th October–13th December 2011.

Contact: [email protected] or visit www.history.ac.uk/research-training

22 October 201110:30–16:15Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesRoom ST273

Research projects in the modern languagesContact: [email protected]

24 October 201110:30–17:30Institute of Musical ResearchRoom ST273

Practicalities of PhD studyPaul Archbold (Institute of Musical Research), Laudan Nooshin (City), Rachel Cowgill (Cardiff)

29 October 2011Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesJesus College, Oxford

50th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German StudiesContact: [email protected]

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Research training

2 November 201110.00–16.30Institute of Advanced Legal StudiesCharles Clore House

How to get a PhD in Law: meeting the challenges of the first yearThis National Training Day is intended for MPhil/PhD students in Law, particularly those enrolled in their first year of study. MPhil/PhD law students from across the UK are warmly invited to attend this specially tailored day of presentations and networking opportunities at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. This is the first of three training days to be held in 2011–12 for MPhil/PhD students in law.

Fee: £35


4 November 20119.30–16.30Institute of Advanced Legal StudiesCharles Clore House

Archives, records and repositories for socio-legal researchOrganised by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and the British Library with support from the Socio-Legal Studies Association. This National Training Day is aimed at doctoral students and early career academics planning to embark on archival socio-legal projects. Contributors: Professor William Twining, UCL; Professor David Fraser, Nottingham; Dr Sarah Wilson, York; Dr simon Trafford, IHR; Dr Amanda Bevan, National Archives.

Fee: £25


5 November 201110:30–16:15Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesRoom G35

Modern language archives and librariesContact: [email protected]

7–11 November 201109:00–17:00Institute of Historical Researchvenue tbc

Methods and sources for historical researchThis 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: [email protected] or visit www.history.ac.uk/research-training

7 November 201110:30–17:30Institute of Musical ResearchRoom ST273

Iconographies of musicDebra Pring with Antonio Baldassare and other colleagues from Rpertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale


3 December 201110:30–16:15Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesRoom G35

Digital languagesWorkshop


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7 December 201109:00–17:00Institute of Historical Researchvenue tbc

Internet sources for historical researchThis 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.

For venue information, please contact [email protected] or visit www.history.ac.uk/research-training

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12 December 201109:00–17:00Institute of Historical Researchvenue tbc

Qualitative data analysis workshopResearchers in the social sciences and humanities are increasingly using computers to manage, organise and analyse non-numerical data from textual sources. This workshop introduces historians to this rapidly growing field and will furnish participants with a good working grasp of the NVivo 8 software package and its uses for all historical research projects. Note that the course consists of two sessions, a month apart. Fee: £120.


13–16 December 201109:00–17:00Institute of Historical Researchvenue tbc

Databases for historiansThis 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. Thiscourse is open to postgraduate students, lecturers and all who are interested in using databases in their historical research. Fee: £200.


16 December 201114:00–17:00Institute of Musical ResearchRoom G37

Research training reading group: Classic texts in music and cultureConvenor: Anahid Kassabian (Liverpool)

Discussion of readings (available in advance) A Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway


9–13 January 201209:00–17:00Institute of Historical Research

Methods and sources for historical researchContact: [email protected]

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9 January–20 March 201209:00–17:00Institute of Historical ResearchResearch training

An introduction to oral historyThis course will take place every Monday between 9 January and 20 March 2012


10 January–7 March 201209:00–17:00Institute of Historical ResearchResearch training

Intermediate medieval and renaissance LatinThis course will take place every Tuesday between 10 January and 7 March 2012


14 January 201210:30–16:15Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesResearch training workshopRoom ST273

TheoriesJohan Siebers (UCLAN/IGRS), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck), James Williams (Royal Holloway), Michael Witt (Roehampton)


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How to find usVenue

Unless otherwise stated, all events are held in the School of Advanced Study which is located within the central University of London precinct in Bloomsbury, central London. Most events take place in or around Senate House or Stewart House which are adjacent.

The School of Advanced Study is part of the University of London and takes its responsibility to visitors with special needs very seriously and will endeavour to make reasonable adjustments to facilities to accommodate such needs. If you have a particular requirement, please discuss it confidentially with the event organiser ahead of the event taking place.

Rooms listed in the events brochure are located as follows:

Room STB2/3/5/6/7 Stewart House, basementRoom G22/24/26 Senate House, ground floorRoom G32/34/35/37 Senate House, ground floorBeveridge Hall Senate House, ground floorCrush Hall Senate House, ground floorDeller Hall Senate House, ground floorMacmillan Hall Senate House, ground floorRoom 102/103/104 Senate House, first floorChancellor’s Hall Senate House, first floorCourt Room Senate House, first floorJessell Room Senate House, first floorSenate Room Senate House, first floorRoom 254, Library Training Suite Senate House LibraryRoom 261 Senate House, second floorRoom ST273/274/275/276 Stewart House, second floorCommon Room Senate House, third floorEcclesiastical History Room Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North BlockGermany Room Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North BlockLow Countries Room Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North BlockWolfson Room Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North BlockCharles Clore House Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell SquareIALS Lecture Theatre Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square Warburg Institute Warburg Institute, Woburn Square

A number of events will be held at external venues. Please see www.sas.ac.uk/events.html for details.

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By tube

Nearest underground stations: Russell Square (Piccadilly line) Goodge Street (Northern line),Tottenham Court Road (Central and Northern lines), Euston Square (Circle and Metropolitan lines), Euston Station (Victoria and Northern lines)

By rail

Euston, King’s Cross and St Pancras International mainline stations are within walking distance. The other London mainline stations are a short tube or taxi journey away.

By air

From Heathrow, the Piccadilly tube line provides a service to Russell Square (approximately 45 minutes). From Gatwick, there is a mainline train service to Victoria station (30 minutes) where tube trains and taxis are available.

Car parking facilities

Public car parking is not available at Senate House. NCP at Woburn Place & Bloomsbury Place.

Contacts

Please check the website for the contact details relating to each event or email [email protected].

If you would like to find out more about the Institutes of the School contact the following:

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS)Website: www.ials.sas.ac.uk Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 5800

Institute of Classical Studies (ICS)Website: www.icls.sas.ac.uk Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 8700

Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS)Website: www.commonwealth.sas.ac.uk Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 8844

Institute of English Studies (IES)Website: www.ies.sas.ac.uk Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 8675

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS)Website: www.igrs.sas.ac.uk Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 8677

Institute of Historical Research (IHR)Website: www.history.ac.uk Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 8740

Institute of Musical Research (IMR)Website: www.music.sas.ac.uk Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0)20 7664 4865

Institute of Philosophy (IP)Website: www.philosophy.sas.ac.uk Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 8683

Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA)Website: www.americas.sas.ac.uk Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 8870

Warburg Institute (WI)Website: www.warburg.sas.ac.uk Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0)20 7862 8949

How to find us

POSTGRADUATE STUDYin 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 LLM in Advanced Legislative Studies by distance learning LLM in International Corporate Governance, Financial Regulation and Economic Law MA in Caribbean and Latin American Studies MA in Comparative American Studies MA in Cultural and Intellectual History 1300–1650 MA in Historical Research MA in the History of the Book MA in Latin American Studies MA in Taxation (Law, Administration and Practice) MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights MA in United States Studies: History and Politics MRes in the History of the Book MSc in Environment and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean MSc in Globalisation and Latin American Development MSc in Latin American Politics MSc in Latin American Studies (Development) Postgraduate Diploma in Taxation

Postgraduate Certificate in Taxation

Postgraduate Open Day: Wednesday 8 February 2012

For further information email [email protected] or visit our website www.sas.ac.uk/postgraduatestudy.html

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