school of advanced study events brochure - february / march / april 2015

february/march/april 2015

hundreds of events

highlighting research in the

humanities

london and the first world war Major two-day conference coMMeMorating wwi centenary20–21 March 2015

The School of Advanced Study, University of London (SAS) is the UK’s national humanities research hub, dedicated to the promotion and support of research. The institutes of SAS collectively offer a rich programme of seminars, workshops, lectures, conferences and other academic events. Each year around 1,800 events are organised on humanities topics, attracting over 68,000 participants from around the world, including scholars, representatives from academic, public and private organisations, policy-makers, professional experts, and the interested public.

Senate House Library is the central library of the University of London. With more than two million books and over 1,200 archival collections, it is one of the UK’s largest academic libraries focused on the arts, humanities and social sciences. A number of the School’s collections are housed within the Library, which holds a wealth of primary source materials from medieval times to the modern age. The Library organises a number of events and exhibitions throughout the year, which are open to all to attend.

The majority of these events and exhibitions are free and open to the public. All are welcome and encouraged to take advantage of the access to current research and the interdisciplinary cross-fertilisation these events afford. The full list of events held by the School can be found at www.sas.ac.uk/events and by Senate House Library at senatehouselibrary.ac.uk.

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how to use this guideEvents are listed in date and time order. On the left we list the department responsible for organising the event, the time, type of event or series and the venue. On the right we list the event title, speaker(s) and a short description where appropriate. There is further information about the highlighted events at the start of the guide, and about research training events and calls for papers at the end. Please check our websites for the latest information or email SAS at sas.events@sas.ac.uk or Senate House Library at senatehouselibrary@london.ac.uk

BookingThe majority of our events are free and open to the public, unless stated otherwise. Some events have limited capacity and advance booking is advisable. The event information in this brochure was correct at the time of going to press, but may be subject to change. Please check our websites for the latest information or email SAS at sas.events@sas.ac.uk or Senate House Library at senatehouselibrary@london.ac.uk

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

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Speaker highlights 12

Exhibitions 16

Events calendar – Listings 19

Seminar series 74

Research training 81

Calls for papers 82

How to find us 86

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Subject area key

Classics

History

Philosophy

Culture, language & literature

Human rights

Politics

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event highlightstimeline

February

Brazilian diaries with Michael Palin and Alan CharltonThe actor, comedian, television presenter and author Michael Palin in conversation with Alan Charlton, British Ambassador to Brazil, 2008–13.

Time: 18:00–19:30Date: 5 February

Lachenmann at 80 This conference celebrates the life of one of Germany’s most influential composers, featuring Professor Helmut Lachenmann in conversation and ending with a concert of his work by the Arditti Quartet.

Launch of the Centre for Law and Information Policy (CLIP): Does privacy matter?Timothy Pitt-Payne QC asks whether privacy matters in this lecture marking the launch of a new research centre focused on information law and legal policy.

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Experimental narratives: from the novel to digital storytellingThis two-day conference looks at the experiments and changes in the novel form since the early 20th century.

Time: 09:15–20:00Date: 26–27 February

The new philosophy of photographyThis workshop brings together philosophers and theorists from the UK, USA, Canada, France, Belgium and Germany to discuss recent developments in the philosophy of photography.

Time: 10:00–18:00Date: 13–14 February See page 30

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March April

Afterlife of Greek tragedyInternational experts explore the impact of Greek tragedy on intellectual and cultural history, including the visual arts, philosophy, politics, rhetoric, literature and theatrical traditions.

Time: 10:00–18:00Date: 5–6 March

Tales of two citiesAward-winning poets Mark Doty and Ruth Padel give the T.S. Eliot memorial reading from their work.

Time: 19:00–21:00Date: 18 March London and the First

World WarThis major conference explores the ways in which London and its inhabitants were affected by, and involved in, the 1914–18 conflict.

Time: 9:30–17:00Date: 20–21 March

Family law reform: why is it so hard to move beyond reports? Justice James Williams, of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, Canada, addresses how the Family Law Justice System restructures families and family life and the criticisms of it in reports in countless jurisdictions.

Time: 18.00–20:00Date: 25 March

Marginal presences:unorthodox belief and practice, 1837–2014 This one-day symposium on the life, work and impact of marginal thinkers is inspired by Senate House Library’s extraordinary collections on the subject.

Time: 10:00–17:00Date: 23 April 2015

the new philosophy of photography13–14 February 2015

This workshop – a collaboration between the London Aesthetics Forum and the University of Warwick’s Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts – brings together philosophers and theorists from the UK, USA, Canada, France, Belgium and Germany to discuss recent developments in the philosophy of photography. In recent years, philosophers have belatedly begun to consider the challenge that artists’ use of photography may present for standard philosophical conceptions of photography as a ‘purely causal’ process ensuring ‘belief independent feature tracking’ or ‘natural counter-factual dependence’ of photographs on their subjects. These challenges, which can no longer

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be accommodated by ad hoc extensions to existing theories or by treating artistic uses of photography as a special case, also put into question core art theoretical notions such as ‘indexicality’. This British Society of Aesthetics-funded workshop considers philosophers’ attempts to address such problems and asks whether a fundamental re-conception of the field is now required.

what’s happening in Black British history? iiConvenors: Miranda Kaufmann and Michael Ohajuru

19 February 2015

The second in a series of workshops launched in October 2014 that aim to foster a creative dialogue between researchers, educationists (mainstream and supplementary), archivists and curators, and policy makers. Building on the success of the inaugural event – which was described by attendees as ‘exciting, informative, culturally enriching’ and praised for its ‘sense of warmth and informality within academic discourses’ and ‘clear rigour without elitism’ – this workshop will be held in Liverpool, home to one of the oldest black communities in the country. Topics for discussion include gender, education, sport, creative and cultural interpretations of Black British history, and emancipation.

launch of the centre for law and information PolicyWorkshop and public lecture

24 February 2015

Data are (or is) everything and everywhere, flowing through everyday life, our workplaces, our homes and minds. How can we control information flow through law and legal policy? That is one of the main research questions for the new Centre for Law and Information Policy which launches on this day

at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. During a small afternoon workshop, specialist scholars will discuss their current research in information law and policy, including Daithí Mac Síthigh (Newcastle), Marion Oswald (Winchester), Ian Brown (Oxford) and Asma Vranaki (Queen Mary). This will be followed by a public lecture at which Timothy Pitt-Payne QC, barrister at 11 King’s Bench Walk, will ask ‘Does privacy matter?’

experimental narrativesFrom the novel to digitalstorytelling

26–27 February 2015

Major changes in the 20th- and 21st-century media landscape have raised a number of questions about the role of the novel in contemporary culture. Its main structural components seem to have been superseded with postmodernity. Some writers and critics claim that ‘the novel is dead’ (Shields) or ‘culturally irrelevant’ (Lee) in our society, while others defend its crucial role in making sense of the world. Sponsored by the Modern Humanities Research Association, this conference provides a forum for discussion of the experiments and changes in the novel form since the early 20th century and the relationship of these changes to the culture and society in which they have been situated.

framing victorySalamis, the Athenian Acropolis and the Agora

4 March 2015

This special guest lecture from John K. Papadopoulos (California, Los Angeles) will focus on the very heart of the Classical beast, more specifically the monumental entrance/exit to the Athenian Acropolis, the Propylaia. In the 430s BC, Mnesikles, the architect of the Propylaia, changed the orientation of the building from that of the Old Propylon capturing, for eternity and in the architectural fabric of the city, a view of the greatest watershed event in Athenian history: the Battle of Salamis. This was only one part of the ‘dissertation on victory’ that the Acropolis represents; the Classical Agora was also part of the Athenian building programme after Salamis.

afterlife of greek tragedy5–6 March 2015

This conference will explore the impact of Greek tragedy on intellectual and cultural history, on the visual arts, philosophy, politics, rhetoric and literature, including the development and character of European and other theatrical traditions. The proceedings will be jointly published as Supplements to the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Speakers will include: Erika Fischer-Lichte (Freie Universitaet Berlin), Katie Fleming (Queen Mary), Edith Hall (King’s College London), Fiona Macintosh (Oxford), Anthony Ossa-Richardson (Queen Mary), Valentina Prosperi (Sassari), Andrea Rodighiero (Verona), Hanna Roisman (Colby College), Ruth Webb (Lille) and Gerald Wildgruber (Basel).

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swinging back? Winds of change after a decade of the Latin American Left

27 March 2015

This one-day conference will bring together scholars from different fields to discuss and analyse the causes, expressions, trends and implications of the ongoing and turbulent transition of the Left in Latin America. Ultimately, the guiding question behind the event is twofold: to what extent is the Latin American leftist decade over? And where to next?

london and the first world war20–21 March 2015

This major conference will explore the ways in which London and its inhabitants were affected by, and involved in, the 1914–18 conflict. Organised by IWM (Imperial War Museums) in partnership with the Centre for Metropolitan History as part of events to commemorate the centenary of the First World War. With a packed programme of wide-ranging papers, the conference appeals to both academics and members of the

public. Bookended by plenary lectures by Dr Adrian Gregory (Oxford) on ‘London: a wartime metropolis in comparative perspective’ and Professor Jerry White (Birkbeck) on ‘London in the First World War: questions of legacy’, there will also be seven panel sessions over the two days, a conference reception on Friday evening, as well as the opportunity to view IWM London’s new First World War gallery before the Museum opens to the general public on Saturday.

second international conference on music and consciousness14–17 April 2015

Following on from the success of the first international conference on music and consciousness (Sheffield, 2006), and the subsequent edited volume Music and Consciousness, this second conference is again intended as a forum for the exchange of perspectives from a broad range of disciplines, including neuroscience, psychology, phenomenology, philosophy, sociology, musicology, performance studies, ethnomusicology, music therapy, evolutionary

psychology, cognitive archaeology and cultural history. Keynote speakers include Professor Judith Becker (Michigan), Professor Susan Blackmore (Freelance writer, lecturer and broadcaster, and Visiting Professor, University of Plymouth) and Professor Sir Colin Blakemore (Institute of Philosophy).

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Marginal presences Unorthodox belief andpractice, 1837–2014

23 April 2015

This one-day symposium on marginal thinkers is inspired by Senate House Library’s extraordinary collections. The beliefs and lifestyles of those on the margins of society are frequently more revealing of the core values of a culture than its leaders and established interpreters. In their persistent, unobtrusive subcultures, or their prominent demands for reform and re-evaluation, such men and women hold up a mirror to those hegemonic structures from which they deviate. The Library is rich in the personal libraries and archives of many such figures – anti-censorship campaigners, paranormal investigators and practitioners, naturists, political radicals, and campaigning teetotallers. To honour their discounted unorthodoxy, this event will focus on the life, work and impact of the marginal minority with their restless doubts, behavioural vagaries and utopian dreams, existing alongside an unbelieving, heedless culture.

aestheticism and decadence in the age of modernism: 1895 to 194517–18 April 2015

This interdisciplinary conference will discuss the meaning and significance of aestheticism and decadence as these movements evolved between 1895 and the mid-20th century. Aestheticism and decadence were not

vanquished with Wilde’s imprisonment but, rather, continued as vital and diverse forms in 20th-century aesthetics and culture. Their influence was in some cases openly acknowledged by the authors in question, but often it was oblique and obscured as many later writers, most famously the High Modernists, eschewed any admissions of such a debt.

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Alan CharltonRobin Humphreys Fellow, Institute of Latin AmericanStudies (ILAS)

Alan Charlton was British Ambassador to Brazil 2008–2013. He continues his association with Brazil and Latin America through the Robin Humphreys Fellowship. He also advises De Montfort University on their Latin America strategy as a consultant and governor and holds advisory board memberships of the Brazil Institute, King’s College London, and ILAS. He has founded the British–Brazilian Conversa, a bilateral group seeking greater bilateral co-operation in public policy, business and education – the first meeting was held in Cambridge in September 2014 and a second is planned for the last quarter of 2015. He has lectured widely on Brazil and Diplomacy. He is also a governor of Sherborne School.

Brazilian diaries with Michael Palin and alan charlton 5 February 2015

Michael PalinActor, comedian, television presenter, author

Michael Palin established his reputation with Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Ripping Yarns. His work also includes several films with Monty Python, as well as The Missionary, A Private Function, an award-winning performance as the hapless Ken in A Fish Called Wanda, American Friends and Fierce Creatures. His television credits include two films for the BBC’s Great Railway Journeys, the plays East of Ipswich and Number 27, and Alan Bleasdale’s GBH. He recently starred in a three part drama for the BBC

called Remember Me. He has written books to accompany his eight very successful travel series, including Around the World in 80 Days, Pole to Pole, Full Circle, Sahara and Brazil. He is also the author of a number of children’s stories, the play The Weekend and the novels Hemingway’s Chair and The Truth. In July 2014, Michael, with his fellow Pythons, performed a ten night sell-out show at the 02 Arena – Monty Python Live.

Michael was made a CBE in the 2000 New Year’s Honours List for services to television drama and travel. In 2002, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the British Comedy Awards. In 2005, he was given a BAFTA Special Award and in 2013 he was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship. Between 2009 and 2012, Michael was President of the Royal Geographical Society.

the hidden history of decolonization What do the ‘migrated archives’ reveal about British withdrawal from Empire?

20 February 2015

David AndersonProfessor of African History, University of Warwick

Professor Anderson is a leading specialist in the history of East Africa and of the Cold War in Africa. His extensive publications in this area include the ground-breaking monograph Histories of the Hanged: Britain’s Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire. He provided expert historical advice to the legal team representing four former Mau Mau detainees in their case against the British Government in the High Court, an action that was instrumental in forcing the British government to admit the existence of thousands of hitherto secret files relating to Kenya and many other former British colonies.

the power of plasterWilhelm von Humboldt and the experience of antique sculpture at Tegel Castle

18 February 2015

Pascal GrienerProfessor of Art History, Université de Neuchâtel

Pascal Griener’s work focuses, among other things, on Winckelmann, Hans Holbein, and historiography and history of collections. He has worked on artistic exchanges in Europe, including as associate curator of the exhibition Europalia 2007, The Great Workshop, Brussels. His publications include La République de l’oeil – L’expérience de l’art au siècle des Lumières (co-edited with Roland Recht) and L’esthétique de la traduction. Winckelmann, les langues et l’histoire de l’art (1555–1784). Currently he is working on the critical edition of Edgar Wind’s ‘The School of Athens’. This lecture is held in conjunction with the Bilderfahrzeuge Project, led by the Warburg Institute.

lachenmann at 8016 February 2015

Helmut LachenmannComposer

This conference celebrates the life of one of Germany’s most influential composers with papers on Lachenmann’s music, his aesthetics and his context in contemporary culture. Professor Helmut Lachenmann’s works are performed by major orchestras, opera houses and chamber ensembles throughout the world. Born in 1935, he engaged with the post-war cultural debates to create a new musical aesthetic based on noise sounds – an instrumental musique concrète employing conventional orchestral instruments with unconventional playing techniques. Supported by the Hepner Foundation, the event will feature Lachenmann in conversation and will end with a concert of his work by the Arditti Quartet.

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Marketing and competition in ancient romeAccordia Italy lecture

3 March 2015

Marta García MorcilloSenior lecturer, University of Roehampton

A specialist in Roman economy and trade, Dr García Morcillo has published widely on topics relating to wealth and financial activities in ancient Rome, social status, and Roman law, as well as on ancient authors such as Pliny the Elder and Strabo. She is also a member of the research network Imagines, which deals with the reception of Antiquity in the visual and performing arts. She is currently involved in a project devoted to economic and juridical aspects in the work of the 3rd century Christian author Tertullian, with particular emphasis on North Africa and the city of Carthage. This lecture focuses on the socio-economic aspects of auction sales in ancient Italy, especially the role of advertisement, marketing and competition.

inaugural lecture 19 March 2015

Lawrence GoldmanDirector of the Institute of Historical Research (IHR)

Professor Lawrence Goldman was appointed as the new director of the IHR in October 2014. A Cambridge graduate and Oxford University historian (teaching American history), Professor Goldman has, from 2004–14, also edited the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the national record of men and women who have shaped British history and culture worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century. Publications by Professor Goldman include Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association 1857–1886, Dons and Workers: Oxford and Adult Education since 1850, The Life of R. H. Tawney: Socialism and History and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

tales of two citiesT.S. Eliot memorial reading byMark Doty and Ruth Padel

18 March 2015

Mark Doty, poet

Mark Doty, who was born in Maryville, Tennessee, and now lives in New York, was the first American poet to win the T.S. Eliot Award, and is a former winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. He first came to public attention with work exploring gay identity and the AIDS epidemic. Deep Lane, published this spring, is a book of descents – into the earth beneath the garden, and into the dark substrata of life. It ranges from agony to rapture, from great depths to hard-won heights.

Ruth Padel, poet

Ruth Padel, a former winner of the National Poetry Competition, was shortlisted for the 2014 T.S. Eliot Award for Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth, a book on conflict, harmony and creativity, weaving contemporary Middle Eastern politics and the history and culture of the Abrahamic religions, with music and craftsmanship. At its heart is a sequence on the Seven Last Words of Christ from the cross.

european duty and dissentA Belgian example, Émile Cammaerts

19 March 2015

Ulrich TiedauSenior lecturer in modern Low Countries history and society, UCL

Ulrich Tiedau is a historian and digital humanist. He is Associate Director of UCL’s Centre for Digital Humanities and acting Head of the Dutch Department. He also serves as principal editor of Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies and is a co-convenor of the Low Countries history research seminars at the Institute of Historical Research. He is a member of the publications committee of the Association for Learning Technology and represents Area Studies on the University Council for Modern Languages. This lecture explores the role of Belgian author Émile Cammaert in raising awareness and support for Belgium in Great Britain during the First World War, coinciding with Senate House Library’s exhibition, Duty and Dissent: Voices of Resistance during the First World War (see page 17).

family law reform Why is it so hard to move beyond reports? What can we do? What can you do?

25 March 2015

James WilliamsJustice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, Canada; Inns of Court Judicial Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Justice James Williams, a lawyer from 1977–87 and a judge since 1987, has been an associate director of the National Judicial Institute of Canada since 2000. He holds degrees in psychology, social work, law and judicial studies from the universities of Alberta, Dalhousie and Nevada. He has taught at Dalhousie Law School since 1978 and at law schools at the University of Alberta (Edmonton), University of Calgary, Hong Kong University and University of Sydney. He has lectured on five continents, organised a large number of family law conferences and is committed to continuing professional and personal education. In this seminar he will address how the Family Law Justice System restructures families and family life and the criticisms of it in reports in countless jurisdictions.

the Baroque ‘event’: from deleuze to Montaigne2015 Malcolm Bowie memoriallecture

25 March 2015

Tom Conley Abbott Lawrence LowellProfessor, Harvard University

This lecture will address the remarkable materials that emerged circa 1600 attesting to an extraordinary shift in perception and ordering of the sentient world. Drawing on Montaigne and Beroalde, Professor Conley will discuss classical items—literary, pictorial, cartographic—that can be read as ‘events’ in the sense that Malcolm Bowie had understood them. The lecture is supported by the Cassal Trust of the University of London.

Cartoon by Wooping published in the internee magazine, the Mooragh Times, 12 August 1940. From the Arnold and Henrietta Gerstle Papers in the Exile Archive (EXS.2.GER), German Studies Archives.

Duty and Dissent

12 January–6 June 2015

Senate House Library, Convocation Hall

Senate House Library has extremely rich holdings of material produced by those who resisted the national war effort during the First World War, much of which was officially suppressed under the Defence of the Realm Act (1914). This exhibition presents a selection of these items alongside governmental recruiting posters and other printed propaganda. As well as offering evidence of differing opinions, this presentation seeks to draw out similarities between them, particularly how both groups made strident appeals to very similar fundamental principles, or human duties, in order to support their arguments.

The exhibition is free and no registration is required. Please contact Richard Espley with enquiries at richard.espley@london.ac.uk

Aldus Manutius and His Legacy

16 January–15 March 2015

Senate House Library, Membership Hall

Marking the fifth centenary of the death of the great humanist printer Aldus Manutius, this exhibition displays books from each generation of the Aldine Press as well as some later books demonstrating the continuing influence of the Press and the family that ran it.

The exhibition is free and no registration is required. Please contact Karen Attar with enquiries at karen.attar@london.ac.uk

Neuroses of War

16–31 March 2015

‘Shell shock’ was coined as a new psychiatric term by psychologist Charles S. Myers in an article published in The Lancet in February 1915. With its origins firmly in the wartime experience of soldiers in the trenches of the Great War, ‘shell shock’ has since taken shape as a highly influential medical and cultural concept in the history of war neuroses. This exhibition brings together a selection of printed and archival sources on this topic from the collections of Senate House Library.

The exhibition is free and no registration is required. Please contact Mura Ghosh with enquiries at mura.ghosh@london.ac.uk

Exile Lives told through the Archives

1 April–30 May 2015

This exhibition, organised by the Institute of Modern Languages Research in association with Senate House Library, focuses on the experiences of German-speaking refugees who came to the UK in the 1930s after the National Socialists took power in Central Europe. It draws on some of the most fascinating material deposited in the German Studies Archives by exile actors, writers, journalists, trade unionists and other political activists, to illustrate the cultural, social and political lives of the refugees in their new home country. Sponsored by the Miller Trust.

The exhibition is free and no registration is required. Please contact Clare George with enquiries at clare.george@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendarFebruary

Subject area key

Classics

History

Philosophy

Human rights

Politics

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Monday 2Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Whistleblowers: better off in the UK or elsewhere in the EU?Gary Walker, Peter de Roeck, Simone White and Cathy James | Chair: Anna Myers | Registration requiredFree ials.events@sas.ac.uk

L OSeminar14:00–18:00Charles Clore House

Institute of Musical Research Cutting through the noise: learning to listen to acoustic recordings via a 21st-century reenactmentAmy Bliers-CarruthersFree zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk

MSeminar17:00–18:30Room 102

Institute of Classical Studies Maecenas the lyric tyrantEmily Gowers (Cambridge)Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

C USeminar17:00–19:00Room 349

Institute of Historical Research

From Le Puy to Jerusalem: Raymond of Saint-Gilles, the Auvergne, and the ‘provencal’ background of the first CrusadeThomas Lecaque (Tennessee)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

HSeminar17:15–19:15North Block

Arming both sides: the armaments industry in World War OneMatthew Burnett-StewartFree ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

HSeminar17:30–19:30Room 102, North Block

Confederate conscription and the issue of genderPatrick Doyle (Royal Holloway)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

HSeminar17:30–19:30Room 103

Institute of Philosophy Practical reasoning seminarDoug Lavin (UCL)Free zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk

PSeminar17:30–19:30Room G34

Tuesday 3Institute of Philosophy Naive logical properties and higher-order

reasoningJulien Murzi (Kent)Free zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk

PSeminar17:00–19:00Room 243

Global histories of science and the bookJames Poskett (Cambridge)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

H USeminar17:15–19:15Wolfson Room I, North Block

Vollrath von Maltzan: a German diplomat and ‘Mischlinge’ in Weimar, the Third Reich and the Federal Republic, 1899–1967Jean-Marc Dreyfus (Manchester)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Puritanism and the Ten Commandments in post-Reformation EnglandJonathan Willis (Birmingham)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Infancy rites of passage in Mamluk society (Egypt & Syria, 1250–1517)Catherine Rose (Queen Mary)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

H USeminar17:15–19:15Room 203, North Block

Institute of English Studies Medieval manuscripts seminarFree iesevents@sas.ac.uk

U HSeminar17:30–19:00Seng T Lee Room, Senate House Library

Institute of English Studies | Institute of Historical Research

The archaeology of an Elizabethan library: reading Richard Stonley (c. 1520–1600)Jason Scott-Warren (Cambridge)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Seminar17:30–19:30Room G22/26

JFK’s coup dilemma: idealism, military regimes and the recognition problem, 1961–63Jeff Michaels (KCL)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Like children with apples: knowing the Bible in medieval EnglandEyal Poleg (Queen Mary)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

U HSeminar19:00–20:30Wolfson Room I, North Block

Events calendarFebruaryWednesday 4Warburg Institute The scientific interests of the Accademia

Olimpica of Vicenza (1556–86)Roberta Giubilini (Warburg Institute)Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

H USeminar14:15–15:15Warburg Institute

Institute of Modern Languages Research

Voicing voluntary childlessness: narratives of non-mothering in contemporary FranceNatalie Edwards (Institute of Modern Languages Research/Adelaide)Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

‘Morality, and in particular justice’: John Rawls and the normative turn in American ethical theory, 1955–63Kenzie Bok (Cambridge)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

William Hazlitt’s radical faithKevin Gilmartin Hazlitt (Caltech/York)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

HSeminar17:15–19:15Wolfson Room I, North Block

Belgian army officer corps c. 1830–1918Mario Draper (Kent)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies London Old and Middle English research seminar (LOMERS)Natalie Jones (UCL)Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

U HSeminar17:30–19:30Room G26

Dissident domesticity: an ethnographic conceptualist approach to house arrest and diplomatic asylumMichal Murawski (UCL) and Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll (artist)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Charles Roach Smith and the illustrations of Roman London (1859)Roey Sweet (Leicester)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

H CSeminar17:30–19:30North Block

Coinage and the late Anglo-Saxon ‘state’Rory Naismith (Cambridge)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

HSeminar17:30–19:30Wolfson Room II, North Block

La repubblica dei matti. Franco Basaglia e la psichiatria radicale in Italia, 1961–1978 by John Foot (Feltrinelli, 2014)Book launch and discussion | Discussants: Howard Caygill (Kingston) and Barbara Taylor (Queen Mary) | Chair: Ilaria FavrettoFree ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

HSeminar17:30–19:30Room G35

Institute of English Studies Contemporary innovative poetry research seminarFree iesevents@sas.ac.uk

USeminar18:00–20:00Room 104

Thursday 5Institute of Classical Studies The chorus in fourth-century BCE comedy

Lucy JacksonFree earlycareerseminar@gmail.com

CSeminar14:15–16:15Room 246

Warburg Institute Pacific frontiers: the Selden map and the redefinition of East Asia in the 17th centuryRobert Batchelor (Georgia Southern)Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

U HLecture17:00–18:30Warburg Institute

Fighting corruption in the 14th century: Perugia and beyondGuy Geltner (Amsterdam)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Protestant Ireland and the creation of the Restoration settlement, 1655–65Neil Johnston (UCD)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The underground slave trade? Understanding the phenomenon of slave stealingLaura Sandy (Keele)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Latin American Studies

Brazilian diaries: Michael Palin in conversation with Alan CharltonMichael Palin CBE FRGS and Alan Charlton (Institute of Latin American Studies Robin Humphreys Fellow) | Registration requiredFree olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

U Colloquium18:00–19:30Beveridge Hall

German autumn or Prague Spring? The Empire in 14th-century political cultureLen Scales (Durham) | Chair: John SabapathyFree ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Circular 10/65, comprehensive education and the hidden legacy of the 1944 Education ActGary McCulloch (Institute of Education)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Karl Marx’s method and the study of historyJohn Foster (West of Scotland) | Chair: Richard SavilleFree ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Rashid al-Din, Bolad Chengxiang and cultural administration in the Mongol Empire: imperial ambitions and local identities in the production of art, history and scienceVivienne Lo (UCL), Wang Yidan (Peking) and Persis Berlekamp (Chicago)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

H USeminar17:30–19:30Room 243

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

A woman in charge: Elizabeth I’s scheme for access to justice, women’s rights, legal aid and no chicaneryDerek Roebuck and Francis BoormanFree ials.events@sas.ac.uk

L HSeminar18:00–20:00Charles Clore House

Constructing post-war Britain: building workers’ histories 1950–70Christine Wall (Westminster)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

HSeminar18:00–20:00Room G21A

Exotics from North America in the 18th centuryJean Stone (independent scholar/writer)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies Dickensian eventTony Jordan (Royal Holloway Victorian Studies Centre), Juliet John (Royal Holloway)Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies London theatre seminarFree iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Friday 6Warburg Institute The afterlife of Aldus: posthumous fame,

collectors and the book tradeOrganised with the Bibliographical Society | Lodovica Braida (Universit degli Studi, Milan), Franois Dupuigrenet Desroussilles (Florida State), Shanti Graheli (St Andrews), Kristian Jensen (British Library), Alessandro Ledda (Universit Cattolica, Milan), Raphaële Mouren (Warburg Institute), Nicholas Poole-Wilson (Bernard Quaritch Ltd), Paolo Sachet (Warburg Institute) and Julianne Simpson (John Rylands Library) | Registration required£25 standard | £12.50 concession warburg@sas.ac.uk

U HColloquium10:00–18:00Warburg Institute

Institute of Philosophy Normativity: new directionsOrganised by Southern Normativity Group | Sophia Grace Chappell (Open), Louise Hanson (Cambridge), John Skorupski (St Andrews), Jennifer Saul (Sheffield), Paulina Sliwa (Cambridge), Pekka Vyrynen (Leeds), Jonathan Way (Southampton) and Jonathan Webber (Cardiff)Free s.t.kirchin@kent.ac.uk

P1-day conference10:00–18:30Room G22/26

Warburg Institute Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading groupCharles Burnett (Warburg Institute)Free charles.burnett@sas.ac.uk

U PSeminar13:00–14:15Warburg Institute

‘Every woman’s destiny is motherhood’: women and work in post-war Italy (1945–70)Pamela Schievenin (Institute of Historical Research/Glasgow)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The development of the writ of ‘praemunire facias’ during the 14th centuryDaniel Gosling (Leeds)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The lead books of Granada: film screening and discussionFilm screening and discussion | Oscar Berdullas Pomares (filmmaker) and Elizabeth Drayson (author, Cambridge)Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies The Charles Peake Ulysses seminarFree iesevents@sas.ac.uk

USeminar18:00–20:00Room G35

Events calendarFebruarySaturday 7Institute of English Studies Modernism and sport

Bernard Vere (Sotherby’s Institute of Art) and Richard Parker (Dokuz Eyll University, Izmir, Turkey)Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Monday 9Institute of Modern Languages Research

On the west–eastern couch: Empedocles and Lao-Tzu as vanishing mediatorsRegistration requiredFree johan.siebers@sas.ac.uk

U PSeminar16:00–18:00Room 246

Institute of Classical Studies Ancient philosophy seminarC.C.W. Taylor (Oxford)Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

C PSeminar16:30–19:00Room 243

Institute of Classical Studies Greek and Latin literature seminarIan Rutherford (Reading)Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Gian Pietro Carafa and the reform of the Roman Church: concepts, institutions and inquisitions, 1524–42Andrea Vanni (York)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Roundtable discussion: political discourse, state theory and ‘English’ culture in early modern IrelandPapers by the discussants will be pre-circulated via the seminar mailing list | Discussants: Mark Empey (NUI Maynooth), David Heffernan (UC Cork) and Mark Hutchinson (Goettingen) | Commentator: Andrew Hadfield (Sussex and Oxford)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Producing public history: how the National Football Museum created ‘The greater game: the history of football in World War One’Alex Jackson (National Football Museum)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Book launch for The Rise of Heritage: Preserving the Past in France, Germany and England, 1789–1914 by Astrid Swenson (Brunel)Alison Carrol (Brunel), Richard J. Evans (Cambridge) and Peter Mandler (Cambridge)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 10Institute of Historical Research

‘They got it all wrong!’ Victorian future war fiction and the First World WarJorit Wintjes (Wuerzburg)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

‘One of the best men of business we had ever met’: Thomas Drummond, the boundary commission and the 1832 Reform ActMartin Spychal (Institute of Historical Research/History of Parliament Trust)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Learning to lead: the Admiralty and Pacific exploration in the long 18th centuryKatherine Parker (Pittsburgh)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Sixty-one days at sea: fishermen, their rafts, and regional identity in the Brazilian northeastCourtney Campbell (Institute of Historical Research)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Human Rights Consortium 5th international refugee law seminar series: ‘moving beyond protection space: developing a law of asylum in Asia’Martin Jones (York) | Registration requiredFree rli@sas.ac.uk

R OSeminar18:00–19:30Charles Clore House

Institute of English Studies ‘But do you actually read them?’: forty years of collecting fine bindingsFree iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 11Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Investor protection and protectionist nature of the EU market for corporate controlJonathan Mukwiri (Durham/Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) | Registration requiredFree ials.events@sas.ac.uk

LSeminar12:00–14:00Charles Clore House

Warburg Institute Dante’s shadow: Ombra at the limits of the humanAndrew Hui (Warburg Institute)Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

U HSeminar14:15–15:15Warburg Institute

Institute of Classical Studies Social change in the Middle Helladic periodSophia Voutsaki (Groningen)Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

CMycenaean series lecture15:30–19:30Room G22/26

Institute of Philosophy Chandaria lectureFree zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk

PLecture16:00–18:00Room 349

Warburg Institute Alberti self-fashionista: the name, the self-portrait, the autobiographyMartin McLaughlin (Oxford)Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

U PLecture16:30–18:00Warburg Institute

‘The writings of querulous women’: contraception, conscience and clerical authority in 1960s BritainAlana Harris (Oxford)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Germaine de Stael and the politics of passions, 1789–96Biancamaria Fontana (Lausanne)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Refusing the unconscious? Second wave feminism and psychoanalysisElsa Richardson (Queen Mary)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Bede’s world chronicles: a reappraisal of the ‘Chronica Minora’Marn MacCarron (Galway)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

John William Colenso, Bishop of Natal, and William Colenso of New Zealand: 19th-century protestant missionary cousins in conflict with their bishops and colonial governorsGwilym Colenso (London)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Panel: comparative perspectives on museums and cultural exchangesJames Poskett (Cambridge) and Harry Stopes (UCL) | Chair: Axel KörnerFree ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 12Institute of Classical Studies Did hoplites rule the Mediterranean? An

archaeological investigation of the connection between the Greeks and the BalkansMarek VercikFree earlycareerseminar@gmail.com

Institute of Classical Studies Electoral defeats and political career in the Roman RepublicFrancisco Pina Polo (Zaragoza)Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

C OSeminar16:30–19:30Room G22/26

Of hungry hens and broken bones: gender and obscene humour in 16th-century St. GallenCarla Roth (Oxford)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Hölderlin: tragedy and translationWorking group for the reception of German, Austrian and Swiss literature lecture | Jeremy Tambling (Manchester)Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

ULecture17:30–19:30Room G35

Herbert’s hallways: navigating the magical, the middlebrow and the domestic in the London seriesHollie Price (Queen Mary)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Manchurian candidates: brainwashing, the Cold War, and the history of the psy professionsOrganised with the University of Notre Dame and Centre for Global History, University of Oxford | Daniel Pick (Birkbeck) | Registration requiredFree lonconf@nd.edu

HSeminar17:30–19:30Fischer Hall, University of Notre Dame, 1 Suffolk Street, SW1Y 4HG

Negotiating race and national identity in an African-descent Mexican communityLaura Lewis (Institute of Latin American Studies Fellow/Southampton)Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

U RSeminar17:30–19:30Room 102

Institute of English Studies Postgraduate feminist reading groupFree iesevents@sas.ac.uk

U OSeminar18:30–20:00Room 246

Events calendarFebruaryFriday 13Institute of Philosophy The new philosophy of photography

A collaboration between the London Aesthetics Forum and the Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts at the University of Warwick, supported by the British Society of Aesthetics | Diarmuid Costello, Dominic McIver Lopes, Laure Blanc-Benon, Bence Nanay, Dawn M. Wilson, Paloma Atencia Linares, Charles Palermo, Martin Seel | Registration requiredFree zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk

P 2-day workshop10:00–18:00Room 349

Warburg Institute Writing history in 16th-century FranceEmily Butterworth (King’s, London), Jean-Raymond Fanlo (Aix), Neil Kenny (Oxford), Olivier Pedeflous (Institute of Historical ResearchT, CNRS, Paris), Rowan Tomlinson (Bristol) and Hugo Tucker (Reading) | Registration required£25 standard | £12.50 concession warburg@sas.ac.uk

Juan Luis Vives and Thomas More: humanism and Anglo-Spanish cultural relations in the 16th centurySupported by the Spanish Embassy in London | Eamon Duffy (Cambridge), Glyn Redworth (Oxford), Rosa Vidal Doval (Queen Mary), Bethany Aram (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville), Enrique Garcia Hernan (Institute of History, Spanish National Research Council), Igor Pérez Tostado (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville) | Registration required£20 standard | £10 concession ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

H1-day conference / symposium10:00–18:00Wolfson Room I, North Block

Creativity in contemporary Latin American cultureJulie Cupples (Edinburgh), Eamon McCarthy (Glasgow) and Mara Soledad Montaez (Stirling)Free charlotte.gleghorn@ed.ac.uk

UColloquium12:30–17:00Room 129, University of Glasgow, Hatherington Building, G12 8RS

Warburg Institute Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading groupCharles Burnett (Warburg Institute)Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

The Netherlandishness of 16th- and 17th-century British art: the case of Cornelius JohnsonKaren Hearn (UCL)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The price of trust: Jamaica, the Jewish diaspora and Spanish American trade, 1655–1730Nuala Zahedieh (Edinburgh)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The hue and cry in 13th-century EnglandKenneth Duggan (King’s, London)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies Ezra Pound Cantos reading group: Canto VIIIRobert Hampson (Royal Holloway)Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies Romantic Ireland: history and illusionDavid Dwan (Oxford)Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 14Institute of English Studies Jane Austen society conference: ‘Emma’

Christine Kenyon Jones (King’s, London), Cheryl Kinney, Jane Darcy (UCL), Maggie Lane (author)£35 standard | £25 concession | £15 students iesevents@sas.ac.uk

U1-day conference09:30–17:00Institute of English Studies

Monday 16Institute of Musical Research Institute of Modern Languages Research

Lachenmann at 80Supported by the Hepner Foundation | Helmut Lachenmann in conversation with Julian Anderson, with performances of Lachenmann’s work | Max Paddison (Durham), Rüdiger Görner (Queen Mary), Ulrich Mosch (Geneva)Free zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk

1-day symposium10:00–22:00King’s, London

Material effects: leave-taking and rituals of departure in preparation for the Fourth CrusadeAnne Lester (Colorado, Boulder)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Charles Bradlaugh and the First InternationalDeborah LavinFree ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Philosophy Practical reasoning seminarJen Hornsby (Birkbeck)Free zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk

Events calendarFebruaryTuesday 17Institute of Philosophy CenSes workshop on naming colours and

odoursFree zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk

PWorkshop10:00–18:30Room 246

Senate House Library Albert Einstein and Arthur Stanley Eddington: a pacifist relationshipLunchtime talk | Jordan Landes (SHL)Free shl.officeadmin@london.ac.uk

H OLecture13:00–13:40Durning-Lawrence Library, Senate House Library

Institute of Philosophy Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminarGuy Longworth (Warwick)Free zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk

Jewish chaplaincy and the British Armed Forces, 1892–1919Jonathan Lewis (UCL)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The intellectual circle of Thomas Plume, 1630–1740Helen Kemp (Essex)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

After the accident: disability and work in British coalmines, 1880–1948Mike Mantin (Swansea)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Retracing Victorian anti-racism: race, class and the network of Anti-Caste’s activistsCaroline Bressey (UCL)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies Perfume, flowers and deities in the western Greek world: the case study of GelaClaudia Lambrugo (Milan)Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

C UAccordia lecture17:30–20:00Institute of Archaeology

Company numbers: a key resource in tracing businesses and their recordsAlex Ritchie (The National Archives)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Britain and the Muslim world, 1918–23Heather Campbell (Queen Mary)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Sex backwards: sexology speaks about desire in communist CzechoslovakiaKateřina Lišková (Masaryk)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

‘Chile’s student uprising’: documentary and debate on privatisation of education in Chile and beyondPanelists: Roberto Navarrette (director), Ivette Hernandez (UCL Institute of Education) and Deborah Hermanns (National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts)Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

U OOther events18:00–20:00Room 349

Narratives of the body in literature, art and filmResearch-in-progress presentations from doctoral students in Comparative LiteratureFree jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

The endurance of old Gods: engaging with paganism in the eastern Baltic crusader statesAleks Pluskowski (Reading)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 18Institute of Modern Languages Research

The art of memory as cultural transfer: an Italian treatise of the 15th-century and its adoptionAngelika Kemper (Institute of Modern Languages Research/Klagenfurt)Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Philosophy Chandaria lectureFree zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk

PLecture16:00–18:00Room 349

Warburg Institute The power of plaster: Wilhelm von Humboldt and the experience of antique sculpture at Tegel castlePascal Griener (Neuchâtel)Free panchal@bilderfahrzeuge.org

U Lecture16:30–17:30Warburg Institute

Institute of Classical Studies Art or archaeology: ancient values and modern perceptions in Classical material cultureDavid Gill (Suffolk)Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

‘Hobbes’s fool as ‘hostis humani generis’Max Jaede (St Andrews)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The post-Restoration army: 1660–1714Ralph Thompson (The National Archives)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Goats mingling with sheep? The British Army’s use of civilian experts during the First World WarAimee Fox (PhD student, Birmingham)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Selling Paris: the commerce in real estate in the fin-de-siecleAlexia Yates (Cambridge)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Bandiera Rossa: class struggle, the Allies and the Roman ResistanceManuele Cogni (Reading) and David Broder (LSE) | Chair: Christopher DugganFree ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 19Institute of Commonwealth Studies

What’s happening in Black British History? IIIn collaboration with the University of Liverpool | Convenors: Miranda Kaufmann and Michael Ohajuru£15 standard | £7.50 concession olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

H U Workshop10:30–19:30University of Liverpool

The (i)legitimacy of the duty of loyalty for corporate boardsDaniel Attenborough (Leicester) | Registration requiredFree ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies The enemy on stage: Rome’s invention of CarthageElena GiustiFree earlycareerseminar@gmail.com

Institute of Classical Studies Consular lists supplementing calendars: Fasti and Roman prosopographyJörg Rüpke (Erfurt)Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

CSeminar16:30–19:30Room G22/26

Burning things politically in late 17th-century LondonElaine Tierney (V&A)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Privacy and community: urban planning for mental health in the American metropolis, c.1940–60Themis Chronopoulos (UEA) and Ed Ramsden (Queen Mary)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Documents as art: England, France and Iberia, c.1200–1450Jessica Berenbeim (Oxford) | Chair: David CarpenterFree ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Inventing history: Eric Hobsbaum on nations and classesDavid Howell (York) | Chair: Richard SavilleFree ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Communications, media and the imperial experience: Britain and India in the 20th centuryAward of the annual doctoral prize | Jointly sponsored by the Centre for Media History, University of Aberystwyth | Drinks reception to follow | Chandrika Kaul (St Andrews)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Mediterranean and Mediterraneans in global historyOrganised with the University of Notre Dame and Centre for Global History, University of Oxford | Nick Purcell (Oxford), David Abulafia (Cambridge), Cyprian Broodbank (Cambridge), Paolo Luca Bernardini (Bergamo) | Chair: Peregrine Horden (Royal Holloway) | Registration requiredFree lonconf@nd.edu

My family in exileThird Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller memorial lecture | Dame Stephanie ShirleyFree jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

ULecture18:00–19:30Court Room

Indian influence in the 18th-century British gardenDiane James (Warwick)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Friday 20Warburg Institute Philosophers in the kitchen

Annalisa Ceron (Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli), Sam Galson (Princeton), Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute), Sara Miglietti (Warwick), Cecilia Muratori (Warburg Institute), Valery Rees (School of Economic Science) and Annika Willer (LMU Munich) | Registration required£25 standard | £12.50 concession warburg@sas.ac.uk

P UColloquium10:00–18:00Warburg Institute

Institute of Commonwealth Studies

The hidden history of decolonization: what do the ‘migrated archives’ reveal about British withdrawal from Empire?In collaboration with King’s, London | Keynote speaker: David Anderson (Warwick)£15 standard | £10 concession olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

H 1-day conference11:00–19:00Room 349

Institute of English Studies Pedagogic criticism workshop: English between higher and secondary educationBarbara Bleiman (English and Media Centre), Andrew Green (Brunel) and Clare Lynch (Brunel)Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

USeminar14:00–17:00Senate Room

Nahuatl study dayConvenor: Elizabeth Baquedano (UCL)Lecture: free | Workshop: £25 standard | £15 concession olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

U HLecture and workshop17:30–19:00 (20 Feb)09:30–17:00 (21 Feb)Room G22/26

Roundtable discussion about gender and the two World WarsSusan R. Grayzel (Mississippi), Lucy Noakes (Brighton) and Krisztina Robert (Roehampton)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies London 19th-century studies seminarFree iesevents@sas.ac.uk

The Feckless Gaveston, the Avaricious Isabella and the Officious Stapeldon: Cornwall’s turbulent lordship and the county polity, 1300–37Sam Drake (Royal Holloway)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

HSeminar17:30–19:30Wolfson Room II (North Block)

Saturday 21Institute of Modern Languages Research

First World War commemorationCentre for the Study of Cultural Memory workshopFree jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

U HWorkshop11:00–16:00Room 243

Institute of English Studies Robert Hooke and late 17th-century dramaErin Reynolds (Birkbeck)Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

UEMPHASIS seminar14:00–16:00Room G35

Captive children: (re)situating childhood and education in Napoleonic experiences of military detentionElodie Duch (Warwick)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Non-motherhood in contemporary women’s writing in FrenchContact Gill Rye for advance reading list | Natalie Edwards (Institute of Modern Languages Research/Adelaide) and Julie Rodgers (Maynooth) | Registration requiredFree gill.rye@sas.ac.uk

U PSeminar16:00–18:00Room G21a

Institute of Classical Studies Ancient philosophy seminarUrsula Coope (Oxford)Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

C PSeminar16:30–19:00Room 243

Institute of Musical Research Tokaido RoadTokaido Road will be performed at Milton Court, Silk Street, London on Wednesday 25 February | Nicola Lefanu (York) and Nancy Gaffield (Kent) | Chair: Kate Romano (Guildhall School)Free zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies Denying patronage: the myth of autonomyTim Whitmarsh (Cambridge)Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies Shakespeare, religion and usageBrian Cummings and Michael SilkFree iesevents@sas.ac.uk

‘Complete knowledge/Entera noticia’: the status of knowledge in the colonial politics of Philip II of SpainArndt Brendecke (Munich)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Catholics in Herefordshire, 1605: the Whitsun RiotsWendy Brogden (Birmingham) and Eilish Gregory (UCL)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Portuguese India and British India: comparing colonialisms in the 19th centuryFelipa Vicente (Instituto de Cincias Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Therapeutic leisure in Victorian BritainCharlotte Jones (UCL) and Jade Shephard (Queen Mary)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Death and violence in Paris during the Algerian WarSarah Howard (Birkbeck)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Legislative standardsIn collaboration with the Statute Law Society | Dawn Oliver (UCL)| Registration requiredFree ials.events@sas.ac.uk

LLecture18:00–19:00Charles Clore House

Tuesday 24Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Law and information policy workshop: information flows and damsFollowed by a public lecture by Timothy Pitt-Payne QC (below) | Registration requiredFree judith.townend@sas.ac.uk

L OWorkshop14:00–17:30Charles Clore House

Travel writing in the pre-railway ageNat Alcock (Warwick)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Philosophy Objective probability, and conditional reasoning seminar: two notions of holismElizabeth Miller (Birmingham)Free zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk

Innovative bureaucracies: medicine in the French and British naviesErica Charters (Oxford)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Trees and tweets project seminarJack Grieve (Aston)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Military history seminarFree ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The uses of a parliamentary diary in the making of a royalist: the case of Henry Townshend of Worcestershire, 1640–43Stephen Roberts (History of Parliament Trust)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

From the Chinese guan to the Mexican chocolatero: a tactile history of the transpacific trade, 1571–1815Meha Priyadarshini (European University Institute)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Does privacy matter?: Launch of the Centre for Law and Information PolicyTimothy Pitt-Payne QC | Reception to follow | Registration requiredFree ials.events@sas.ac.uk

L Lecture18:00–20:00Charles Clore House

Institute of English Studies Modernist magazines seminarFree iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 25Warburg Institute Pierfrancesco Riccio (1501–64). Tutor and

personal secretary of Cosimo I de MediciDesiree Cappa (Warburg Institute)Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Philosophy Aesthetics forumFree zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute Notebooks as handwritten librarySietske Fransen (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) and Hannah Murphy (Oxford)Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

USeminar17:15–18:30Warburg Institute

A new model of ecumenism: the practice of the Common Good in the partnership of Bishop David Sheppard and Archbishop Derek WorlockMaria Power (Liverpool)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

History of political ideas seminarTimothy Hampton (Berkeley)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Changing faces: media and materiality in the early Byzantine cult of the virginLeslie Brubaker (Birmingham)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Evangelical agency, the location question: church missionary society medical planning 1870s–1930sSara Ebrahimi (University College Dublin)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 26Institute of Modern Languages Research

Experimental narratives: from the novel to digital storytellingFee applicable jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

U 2-day conference / symposium09:15–20:00Room 349

Ten years of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA): progress, problems and prospectsKeynote speaker: Olivier Dabne (President of the Political Observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean)£15 standard | £10 concession olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

O H1-day conference9:30–18:00Senate Room

Judicial training: the Canadian model Justice R. James Williams (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Inns of Court Fellow) | Registration requiredFree ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies The queen in tears: a century of Sophocles Eurypylos (1912–2012)Giulio IovineFree earlycareerseminar@gmail.com

Institute of Classical Studies Explusion from the Senate of the Roman Republic: demographic considerationsLee Moore (King’s, London)Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute An account so just and exact: Captain Narbrough’s voyage to South America 1669–71 and its cartographical significanceRichard Campbell (Hakluyt Society) and Peter Barber (British Library)Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Global approaches to the Middle AgesOrganised with the University of Notre Dame and Centre for Global History, University of Oxford | Carol Symes (Illinois), James Barrett (Cambridge), Elizabeth Lambourn (De Montfort), Nicholas Vincent (UEA) | Chair: Chris Wickham (Oxford) | Registration requiredFree lonconf@nd.edu

Institute of English Studies Media history seminarFree iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Events calendarFebruaryFriday 27Institute of Historical Research

Gerald Aylmer seminar, 2015: ‘Secret histories’Hosted by the Royal Historical Society, Institute of Historical Research, The National Archives and The British Library | Registration requiredFree research@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk

H1-day conference09:30–17:30Wolfson Conference Suite, North Block

Dutch Diplomacy and Trade in Rariteyten: Episodes in the History of Material Culture of the Dutch RepublicClaudia Swan (Northwestern)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

English agricultural development 1270–1870: reflections on new estimates of output and productivityMark Overton (Exeter)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Political spin in 14th-century England? The reputation of Queen Isabella of FranceLaura Slater (York)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Legal history seminarOrganised with the London Legal History Seminar | Registration requiredFree ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies Finnegans Wake research seminarFree iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 28Institute of Historical Research

70 years since the 1945 Attlee governmentFrancis Beckett, Ian Birchall and John NewsingerFree ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

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Events calendarMarchMonday 2Institute of Modern Languages Research

What’s new in Europe? European criminal law updateJohn Spencer (Cambridge) | Registration requiredFree ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Musical Research Improvisation, attention and rapid decision-making under uncertaintyAdam Linson (Oxford)Free zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies Theocritus and Hieron (Idyll 16)Richard Rawles (Nottingham)Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

The ecology of crusading: the environmental impact of holy war, colonisation and religious conversion in the medieval BalticAleks Pluskowski (Reading)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies Open University book history and bibliography research seminarWim Van Mierlo (Institute of English Studies)Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Women and slavery and MonticelloAnnette Gordon-Reed (Harvard/Oxford)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Philosophy Practical reasoning seminarDaniel Whiting (Southampton)Free zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk

Elena Poniatowska’s ‘Leonora’Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing Spanish Reading Group Maria CaneteFree jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

USeminar18:30–20:00King’s, London

Tuesday 3Institute of Philosophy Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar

Ofra Magidor (Oxford)Free zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk

John Prestall and Catholic opposition to Elizabeth IGlyn Parry (Roehampton)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Religious History of Britain 1500–1800John D. Gilles (Essex)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Faith, family and healing in post-war England: the career and marriage of Trevor Dearing, ‘the exorcist vicar’Neil Armstrong (Teeside)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Selling Enlightenment: book trade networks and the intellectual origins of the French Revolution, 1769–89Mark Curran (Queen Mary)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The kibbutz’s passage into the state of Israel: a socio-political crisis or a cultural-epistemological rift?Lior Libman (UCL/Hebrew University)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies Medieval manuscripts seminarHanno Wijsman (Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, Paris)Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies Institute of Historical Research

The borrowers’ register of St Andrews University libraryMatthew Sangster (Birmingham)Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Seminar17:30–19:30Room 104

Institute of Classical Studies Advertisement, marketing and competition: performing auctions in Roman ItalyMarta Garcia Morcillo (Roehampton)Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

C U Accordia lecture17:30–20:00Room G22/26

The challenges of the Franko B ArchiveBex Carrington and Jo Elsworth (Bristol Theatre Collection)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Strongholds and small monsters: identifying precise vocabulary in the medieval Latin of the CeltsAnthony Harvey (Royal Irish Academy)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 4Warburg Institute The transmission of Aristotle’s Nicomachean

Ethics (Book I): scholarly activity from Byzantium to RenaissancePelagia Vera Lounghi (Warburg Institute)Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies Framing victory: Salamis, the Athenian Acropolis and the AgoraJohn Papadopoulos (UCLA)Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

C Lecture17:00–19:30Room G22/26

Arendt on the ‘grammar of politics’ in the American RevolutionCaroline Ashcroft (Cambridge)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

All ex-servicemen under one umbrella? Military associations in Scotland, 1919–39Ellie O’Keefe (PhD student, Queen Mary)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Gardens and philanthropic and social housing in the 19th and 20th centuriesZoe CrispFree ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Public debates about the economic performance and competitiveness of the United Kingdom and Germany since 1970Wencke Meteling (Cambridge)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Housing acts: performing the pursuit of public housingDavid Roberts (Bartlett)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Melania the Younger in AfricaJuliette Day (Helsinki/Oxford)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 5Warburg Institute The afterlife of Greek tragedy

Erika Fischer-Lichte (Freie Universitaet Berlin), Katie Fleming (Queen Mary), Edith Hall (King’s, London), Fiona Macintosh (Oxford), Anthony Ossa-Richardson (Queen Mary), Valentina Prosperi (Sassari), Andrea Rodighiero (Verona), Hanna Roisman (Colby College), Ruth Webb (Lille) and Gerald Wildgruber (Basel)£40 standard | £25 concession warburg@sas.ac.uk

C U Colloquium10:00–18:00Warburg Institute

Institute of Classical Studies A luminous world in antiquity: a study of Argos in Homer’s IliadYukiko SaitoFree earlycareerseminar@gmail.com

Institute of Classical Studies The extraordinary commands of the Roman Republic, or: Why the Roman nobility became demilitarized?Wolfgang Blsel (Duisburg)Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Judging in 14th-century Florence: the use of images to guide and informClaire Sandford-Couch (Northumbria)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Martin Clifford’s ‘A Treatise of Humane Reason’ (1674), and the paradox of religious rationalismCatherine Gill (Loughbourough)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

5th biennial Ingeborg Bachmann Centre lectureMichael Minden (Cambridge)Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

ULecture17:30–19:00Room G35

The ideological origins of the 20th-century American peace movementMarc Palen (Exeter)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Student misbehaviour in 15th-century Oxford, Paris and HeidelbergHanah Skoda (Oxford) | Chair: Alice TaylorFree ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Parents, teachers and children’s wellbeing in London, 1918–39Hester Barron (Sussex)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Eric Williams and the materialist approach to the history of slaveryNuala Zahedieh | Chair: Richard SavilleFree ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The ecology of war in China: Henan province, the Yellow River and beyondDr Micah Muscolino (Oxford)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The history of trustOrganised with the University of Notre Dame and Centre for Global History, University of Oxford | Geoffrey Hosking (UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies), Warren Von Eschenback (Notre Dame), Sir Anthony Seldon (Institute of Contemporary British History), Kieron O’Hara (Southampton) | Registration requiredFree lonconf@nd.edu

Sir Hans Sloane and exoticaVictoria Pickering (Queen Mary) and Alice Marples (King’s, London)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Friday 6Warburg Institute Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading

groupCharles Burnett (Warburg Institute)Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Daughters of the Anglican clergy: religion, gender and identity in Victorian EnglandMidori Yamaguchi (Daito Bunko)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The English under Burgundian banners, 1420–35Aleksandr Lobanov (Southampton)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies The Charles Peake Ulysses seminarFree iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 7Institute of English Studies Afromodernism

Rachel Farebrother (Swansea) and Fionnghuala SweeneyFree iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies Atlantis, druids and megaliths: making sense of the ancient landscape in early modern EuropeKelsey Jackson Williams (St Andrews)Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

U HEMPHASIS seminar14:00–16:00Room G35

Monday 9Institute of Classical Studies Aristotle on tragic emotions and pleasures

Pierre Destree (Louvain)Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Musical Research Learning from the enemy: William Glock and the BBC Third Programme in 1947Alison GarnhamFree zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk

M HSeminar17:00–18:30Room 102

Institute of Classical Studies Messalla, Tibullus and the Corpus TibullianumRobert Maltby (Leeds)Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Apocalypse nigh? The aftermath of Oudenarde and military imbroglio of 1708Mark Bryant (Chichester)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

England and the Thirty Years’ War: the English military diaspora and the early Stuart stateAdam MarksFree ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The British Empire and the Hajj in the First World WarJon Slight (Cambridge)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

‘I saw my name on the board’: race, gender and the Summer Olympics, 1932–48Dr Stanley Arnold (Northern Illinois)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Political violence in interwar FranceChris Millington (Swansea)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 10Warburg Institute | Institute of Historical Research

Libraries ‘in exile’: the case of the library of the Jesuit Seminary in Jersey (1880–1939)Sheza Moledina (Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon)Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

HSeminar16:30–18:30Warburg Institute

The provincial marine clears the decks: Britain’s forgotten colonial navy preparing for war, 1792–1812Ian StaffordFree ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The lost visions projectJulie Thomas (Cardiff)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The tactical performance and learning of British Third Army during the battles of the Scarpe, April–May 1917Christopher Newton (King’s, London)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Contested spaces: temporary houses of Parliament and government, 1834–52Rebekah Moore (Institute of Historical Research/History of Parliament Trust)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies Contemporary cultures of writing seminarFree iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Surveying nature in late-Colonial Central AmericaSophie Brockman (Institute of Latin American Studies)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Human Rights Consortium 5th international refugee law seminar series: ‘The protection of conscientious objectors and UNHCR’s role as a norm entrepreneur’Cecilia M. Bailliet (Oslo) | Registration requiredFree rli@sas.ac.uk

RLecture18:00–19:30Charles Clore House

Institute of English Studies Collecting Association CopiesChristopher Edward (independent dealer)Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

The preparation for total war in JapanYasuo Mori (Doshisha/LSE)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Portugal on the periphery? Scenarios from the history of sexuality, 1900–60Richard Cleminson (Leeds)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The writing of oralityGalin Tihanov (Queen Mary)Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 11Institute of English Studies Fourth London Anglo-Saxon symposium 2015:

Constructing gender in Anglo-Saxon EnglandDavid Clark (Leicester) and Katherine Weikert (Winchester)£12 standard | £6 concession manjeet.sambi@sas.ac.uk

U H1-day conference14:15–18:10Deller Hall

Senate House Library Bertrand Russell and the philosophy of pacifismLunchtime talk | Charlie Potter (SHL)Free shl.officeadmin@london.ac.uk

P HLecture13:00–13:40Durning-Lawrence Library, Senate House Library (4th floor)

Warburg Institute Carnivores against vegetarians: Cardano on the best dietCecilia Muratori (Warburg Institute)Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies Interacting Minoan arts: seal images and mural iconography in Minoan CreteFritz Blakolmer (Vienna)Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

C ULecture15:30–19:30Room G22/26

New perspectives on motherhood in Italian women’s writing and cinemaClaudia Karagoz (Institute of Modern Languages Research/Saint Louis)Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute ‘Wondrous Flitting’ of Mary’s Holy House: moving home, planting signsMarina Warner (Oxford/Birkbeck)Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

U PLecture16:30–18:00Warburg Institute

The grand tours and conflicting identities of 18th-century English Catholic travellers: Sir Thomas Gascoigne (1745–1810) and Henry Swinburne (1743–1803)Alexander Lock (British Library)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Rhetoric, parliament and monarchy in Elizabethan and early-Stuart EnglandMarkku Peltonen (Helsinki)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Exhibiting the 18th centuryJoint seminar with Queen Mary University of London Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies | Drinks reception to follow | Joanna Marschner (Historic Royal Palaces), Moira Goff (The Garrick Club)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

HSeminar17:15–19:15Kensington Palace

Donald Winnicott, Melanie Klein and the shape of postwar British psychoanalysisLesley Caldwell (UCL/Winnicott Trust)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

‘A sign of God’s favour’: Byzantine gold coins in Indian Ocean tradeRebecca Darley (London)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Play, missionaries and the Colonial encounter, 1800–70: evangelization, acculturation or hybridization?Mary Clare Martin (Greenwich)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Beaten but not defeated. Siegfried Moos: an anti-Nazi hero who settled in BritainMerilyn Moos (London)Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 12Warburg Institute A coordinated approach to recording and

searching provenance records and images: moving forwardsIn collaboration with International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals and Consortium of European Research Libraries | Registration requiredFree secretariat@cerl.org

UColloquium10:00–16:30Warburg Institute

Institute of Classical Studies The rival kings: politics, Alexander the Great and the English RestorationAndrew RobertsFree earlycareerseminar@gmail.com

C HSeminar14:15–16:15Room 246

Warburg Institute A tricky passage: navigating, mapping and publishing representations of Tierra del Fuego in the long 18th centuryKatherine Parker (Pittsburgh)Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Neither healthy nor sick: the Classical–Romantic distinction revisitedStephanie Dumke (Edinburgh)Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

UEnglish Goethe Society lecture17:15–19:00Room G34

Brave minds and hard hands: drama and social relations in the hungry 1590sAndy Wood (Durham)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

A transnational history of psychoanalysisUffa Jensen (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

HSeminar17:30–19:30German Historical Institute

Institute of English Studies Media history seminarFree iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies International encyclopaedia of women screenwritersJill Nelmes (UEL)Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Friday 13Warburg Institute ‘Bilderfahrzeuge’: on the migration of images,

forms and ideasCaroline Bohrmann (KHI Florenz), Jost Philipp Kleiner (Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach) and members of the Bilderfahrzeuge research team£12 standard | £8 concession panchal@bilderfahrzeuge.org

Imperial War Museum: memory and history reconsideredCentre for the Study of Cultural Memory seminarFree jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

UWorkshop11:00–16:00Room 246

State centralization on Europe’s periphery in the middle ages: Scotland and Poland comparedLeigh Gardner (LSE) and Mikolaj Malinowski (Utrecht)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Late-medieval land disputes and the manipulation of the inquisitions ‘post mortem’Simon Payling (History of Parliament)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies Ezra Pound Cantos reading group: Canto LXMick Sheldon (SAS/Queen Mary)Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

On the west–eastern couch: Empedocles and Lao-Tzu as vanishing mediatorsRegistration requiredFree jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Musical Research Performing freeFranziska Schroeder (Queen’s University Belfast)Free zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies Comites, clientes, convivae in Roman satireAnna Chahoud (Trinity College Dublin)Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies Stanza forms in Shakespeare’s narrative poems and the complaint genreSarah Ross and Elizabeth Scott-BaumannFree iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Launch of A History of Riots (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)Keith FlettFree ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Philosophy Practical reasoning seminarHanjo Glock (Zurich)Free zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk

Legislation as aspiration: statutory expression of policy goalsDavid Feldman (Cambridge) | Registration requiredFree ials.events@sas.ac.uk

LLecture18:00–19:00Charles Clore House

Tuesday 17Institute of Philosophy Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar

Free zoe.holman@sas.ac.ukP

Seminar17:00–19:00Room 243

The Jews, the Left and the idea of revolutionary violence in the 1960s and 70sJulia David (Paris)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

‘We were very sociable together’: sociability and meaning in the life of Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle (1778–1857)Elaine Chalus (Bath Spa)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Decentering with distance: networks of May fourth in southeast AsiaRachel Leow (Cambridge)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Archiving the artsFleur Soper (The National Archives)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies Literary London reading groupFree iesevents@sas.ac.uk

The slave trade in Western Europe, c.500 to 1200Alice Rio (King’s, London)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 18Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Harmonisation under siege in the EU market for corporate controlJonathan Mukwiri (Durham/Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) | Registration requiredFree ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Warburg Institute Public lectureCaroline van Eck (Leiden)Free panchal@bilderfahrzeuge.org

ULecture16:30–17:30Warburg Institute

Bow Bell Canto: Vera Lynn, music and the people’s warKate Guthrie (PhD student, King’s, London)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Rethinking the origins of Marxism in modern FranceJulia Nicholls (Queen Mary)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Disordered London? The view from Rosemary LaneJanice Turner (Hertfordshire)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Postcarding the capital: representations of Ottoman Istanbul, 1890–1914Radha Dalal (Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

‘About the life of those who are called canons, what sort ought it to be?’ Regulating the life of the Canonical Clergy between between Chrodegang’s Rule and the Council of Aachen, c.750– 816Stephen Ling (Leicester)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Launch and discussion of: Il melodramma della nazione: politica e sentimenti nel et del resorgimento (Carlotta Sorba, Laterza, 2014)Discussants: Martin Thom and Maurizio Isabella | Chair: Axel KörnerFree ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies What made the Greeks rectangular and the Romans round? Neuroscience and the formation of Classical cultureRumble Lecture in Classical Art | In association with King’s, London | John Onians (UEA) | Registration requiredFree chsevents@kcl.ac.uk

C ULecture18:00–20:00King’s, London

Institute of English Studies T.S. Eliot memorial reading by Mark Doty and Ruth Padel: tales of two citiesReadings by Mark Doty and Ruth Padel | Introduced by Fiona Samson | Registration required: please visit rslit.org/tales-of-two-cities£8 standard | £5 concession | RSL members free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

U Reading19:00–21:00Chancellor’s Hall

Thursday 19Institute of Philosophy Logic & inference conference

Free zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk P

2-day conference10:00–18:30Room G37

Evidence and the archives: ethics, aesthetics and emotionKatherine Biber (University of Technology Sydney/Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) | Registration requiredFree ials.events@sas.ac.uk

John Richard Hicks and the theory of economic historyRichard Saville | Chair: Helena HammondFree ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of Classical Studies Playing the radical? The tribunate of the plebs and young men’s changing self-presentation in Republican politicsAmy Russell (Durham)Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

C OSeminar16:30–19:30Room G22/26

Inaugural lecture: Professor Lawrence Goldman, director of the Institute of Historical ResearchLawrence Goldman (Institute of Historical Research)Free ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

H Lecture17:00–20:00TBC

‘Mints in remote parts’: the geography of the Great Recoinage, 1695–99Mara Caden (Yale)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The popular historians: writing and reading the American past, 1947–1980Nick Witham (Canterbury Christ Church)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Food culture and cuisine in late medieval EuropeChristopher Woolgar (Southampton) | Chair: Alexandra SapoznikFree ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The transformation of the worldOrganised with the University of Notre Dame and Centre for Global History, University of Oxford | Jürgen Osterhammel (Konstanz) | Registration requiredFree lonconf@nd.edu

One eye is not enough: stereoscopic writing after World War II2015 Sylvia Naish Lecture | Melanie Dilly (Kent)Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

ULecture18:00–19:30Room 243

Senate House Library European duty and dissent: a Belgian example, Émile CammaertsPart of the ‘Duty and dissent’ exhibition | Ulrich Tiedau (UCL)Free shl.officeadmin@london.ac.uk

H O Lecture18:00–19:30Seng T Lee Room, Senate House Library

DNA technology and fundamental rights protection in EU multilevel systemJoaquin Sarrion Esteve (Valencia/Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) | Registration requiredFree ials.events@sas.ac.uk

L RSeminar18:00–20:00Charles Clore House

A taste for the exotic: pineapple cultivation in BritainJoanna Lausen-HigginsFree ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Friday 20Institute of Historical Research

London and the First World WarOrganised by IWM (Imperial War Museums) in partnership with the Centre for Metropolitan History | Plenary lectures by Adrian Gregory (Oxford) and Jerry White (Birkbeck) | Registration requiredFee applicable ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

H 2-day conference09:30–17:00Senate House

Frontiers in Central American researchConvenor: Hilary Francis (Institute of Latin American Studies Fellow)Fee applicable olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

U H1-day conference10:00–17:30Room 349

Institute of Music | Institute of Modern Languages Research

Pierre Boulez at 90: a study dayStudy day, in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s festival ‘Total immersion: Pierre Boulez’ at the Barbican Centre, London | Capacity is limited; please arrive early to avoid disappointmentFree music@sas.ac.uk

M U1-day workshop10:00–20:00TBC

Grave affairs: Cold War Vilnius and the wounds of memoryLaimis Briedis (Vilnius)Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

U HSeminar17:00–19:00Room 246

Lower-deck masculinities and the plebeian experience of the Naval warship, 1756–1815Elin Jones (Queen Mary)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Legal history seminar: 18th-century trustsDavid Foster (Queen Mary) | Registration requiredFree ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies Louis MacNeice’s radio voicesRhiannon Moss (Leeds)Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Saturday 21Institute of Latin American Studies

Acceleration of historyIn collaboration with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences,European University CyprusFee applicable aalecou@gmail.com

H1-day conference10:00–18:00Room 349

Monday 23

Institute of Classical Studies Reasonable and unreasonable emotions in AristotleDorothea Frede (Hamburg)Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

CSeminar16:30–19:00Room G34

Institute of Musical Research Towards a historiography of the early modern voiceRichard Wistreich (Royal College of Music)Free zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk

M HSeminar17:00–18:30Room 102

Institute of Classical Studies Master, slaves and fortuna in Plautus’ Asinaria and PseudolusLuca Grillo (North Carolina)Free admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

C RSeminar17:00–19:00Room 349

The trouble with gypsies in early modern EnglandDavid Cressy (Ohio State)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Global Labour history: provisional results and further prospectsMarcel van der Linden (International Institute of Social History and Amsterdam)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

‘A fortune in a thrill!’: early amusement parks in Britain, 1900–39Josephine Kane (Westminster)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Tuesday 24Institute of Philosophy Objective probability and conditional reasoning

seminar: propensities for agent-based accounts of causationAlison Fernandes (Columbia University)Free zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk

‘Piratical states’: British imperialism in the Indian Ocean worldSimon Layton (Cambridge)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The death of the deer park: disparkment in England, 1500–1800Rod Liddiard (UEA)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Mining the history of medicine projectSophia Ananiadou (Manchester)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Magna Carta: law, liberty and mythAlexander Lock (British Library)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies One hand, many scripts: engaging with a late Tudor herald and his outputsNigel Ramsay (UCL/Exeter)Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

The politics of giving in the viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata: donors, lenders, subjects and citizensViviana Grieco (Missouri at Kansas City)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

‘A test case of Western readiness to help’: Britain, Polish renewal and economic crisis in the early 1980sRichard Smith (FCO)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 25Institute of Latin American Studies | Human Rights Consortium

Climate change and human rights in Latin AmericaIn collaboration with LAB | Registration requiredFee applicable olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

2-day conference09:30–14:00Room G22/26

Warburg Institute Sebond and Montaigne: natural theology, analogy and the limits of reasonAlberto Frigo (Warburg Institute)Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

How (not) to draw contemporary insights from the history of political thoughtAdrian Blau (King’s, London)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Farewell to Anglicanism: evangelical seceders from the Church of England, 1964–76Andrew Atherstone (Oxford)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

The Baroque ‘event’: from Deleuze to Montaigne2015 Malcolm Bowie memorial lecture | Tom Conley (Harvard)Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

U University Trust Fund Event17:30–19:00Chancellor’s Hall

The composition, structure and audience of Flodoard’s ‘Annals’Edward Roberts (King’s, London)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Discussion and launch of: State, faith and nation in Ottoman and post-Ottoman lands, (Frederick F. Anscombe, CUP, 2014)Discussants: Alex Drace-Francis (Amsterdam) and Ben Fortna (SOAS) | Chair: Simon Jackson (Birmingham)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Latin American documentary screeningsTres instantes, un grito – Cecilia Barriga Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

UFilm screening17:30–19:30Room 349

Family law reform: why is it so hard to move beyond reports? What can we do? What can you do?Justice R. James Williams (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Inns of Court Fellow) | Registration requiredFree ials.events@sas.ac.uk

L Seminar18:00–20:00Charles Clore House

Autobiography and its other scene: some notes on psychoanalysis, life history and the hidden curriculum vitaePhil CohenFree ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 26Warburg Institute Warburg–UCL scholasticism reading group

Basic reading knowledge of medieval Latin is recommended | Registration requiredFree emily.corran.10@ucl.ac.uk

USeminar17:30–18:30Warburg Institute

Fashioning Britain: non-fiction fashion films of the post-war eraJo Stephenson (Queen Mary)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

A commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the death of Joseph NeedhamOrganised with the University of Notre Dame and Centre for Global History, University of Oxford |Leonard Bluss (Leiden) | Registration requiredFree lonconf@nd.edu

The reform of the equal bicameralism in Italy: the EU context and the implications for the EUEnrico Albanesi (Genova/Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) | Chair: Helen Xanthaki | Registration requiredFree ials.events@sas.ac.uk

Friday 27Institute of Latin American Studies

Swinging back? Winds of change after a decade of the Latin American LeftConvenors: Alejandro Peña (York) and Christopher Wylde (Richmond)Fee applicable olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

H U 1-day conference10:00–18:30Chancellor’s Hall

Creativity in contemporary Latin American cultureDennis Hanlon (St Andrews), Guillermo Olivera (Stirling), Fiona Mackintosh (Edinburgh), Patience Schell (Aberdeen)Free olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

UColloquium12:30–17:00Institute for the Advanced Study of the Humanities, Hope Park Square, Edinburgh EH8 9NW

Institute of English Studies Finnegans Wake research seminarFree iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Events calendarApril

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Highlights

Events calendarAprilWednesday 1Institute of English Studies London Old and Middle English research

seminar (LOMERS)Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 2Institute of Historical Research

Catholic youth in Cold War MexicoOrganised with the University of Notre Dame and Centre for Global History, University of Oxford | Jaime Pensado (Notre Dame) | Registration requiredFree lonconf@nd.edu

Friday 3Institute of English Studies The Charles Peake Ulysses seminar

Free iesevents@sas.ac.ukU

Seminar18:00–20:00Room G35

Tuesday 7Institute of Historical Research

War captivity in the 18th-century: Britain and FranceRenaud Morieux (Cambridge)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 9Institute of Musical Research Music biography conference

In association with Monash UniversityFee applicable zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk

M H3-day conference10:00–18:00Room G34/G37

Exotic EnglandOrganised with the University of Notre Dame and Centre for Global History, University of Oxford | Gerald Maclean (Exeter) and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown | Registration requiredFree lonconf@nd.edu

Senate House Library War resisters in Britain during the First World War: a re-appraisalCyril Pearce (Leeds)Free shl.officeadmin@london.ac.uk

H OLecture18:00–19:30Seng T Lee Room, Senate House Library

Saturday 11Institute of English Studies ‘A necessary error’: Descartes and Pascal on

theodicyAlberto Frigo (Universit Lyon 2)Free iesevents@sas.ac.uk

U PEMPHASIS seminar14:00–16:00Room G35

Tuesday 14Institute of Musical Research Second international conference on music and

consciousnessKeynote speakers include Judith Becker (Michigan), Susan Blackmore (Plymouth) and Colin Blakemore (Philosophy)Fee applicable infomuscon2@music.ox.ac.uk

M P 3-day conference10:00–18:00TBC

Institute of English Studies Literary London reading groupFree iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Institute of English Studies The Galsworthy bubble and other freaks of fashionCharles CoxFree iesevents@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 15Senate House Library A talk on international peace organisations

Lunchtime talk | Hester Swift (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Library)Free shl.officeadmin@london.ac.uk

H OLecture13:00–13:40Durning-Lawrence Library, Senate House Library

Events calendarAprilThursday 16Institute of Historical Research

Europe and the worldOrganised with the University of Notre Dame and Centre for Global History, University of Oxford | Julio Crespo Maclennan (Instituto Cervantes, London) | Registration requiredFree lonconf@nd.edu

Friday 17Institute of English Studies Aestheticism and decadence in the age of

modernism: 1895–1945Nick Freeman (Loughborough) and Michèle Mendelssohn (Oxford) | Registration required Fee applicable iesevents@sas.ac.uk

U H 2-day conference10:00–18:00Senate House

Warburg Institute Ideas and society in the middle ages and early RenaissanceDavid d’Avray (UCL), Serena Ferente (King’s, London), Magnus Ryan (Cambridge), John Sabapathy (UCL), Hannah Skoda (Oxford) and John Watts (Oxford) | Registration requiredFree alexander.russell@warwick.ac.uk

Paolo Giovio: Vita di Adriano VIFriends of Italian Studies event | Lara Michelacci (Bologna) and Jane Everson (London)Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

U HLecture17:00–19:00Room 243

Tuesday 21Institute of Philosophy Objective probability and conditional reasoning

seminarJoseph Berkovitz (Toronto)Free zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk

‘Gullible’s travels’: Anglo-Australian wartime relations and Sir Earle Page’s mission to London, 1941–42Kent Fedorwich (UWE/King’s, London) and Jayne Gifford (UEA)Free ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

Wednesday 22School of Advanced Study Legally navigating academic blogging and social

mediaJudith Townend (SAS)Free matt.phillpott@sas.ac.uk

L USeminar13:00–14:00Room 243

Explorations in anonymous history: urban, architectural and anthropological contributions to transatlantic media studies, 1953–59Michael Darroch (Institute of Modern Languages Research/Ontario)Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

Senate House Library Latin American documentary series 2015: ‘Oscar’ – Sergio MorlanRegistration requiredFree olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

H UScreening17:30–19:30Room 349

Thursday 23Senate House Library Marginal presences: unorthodox belief and

practice, 1837–2014Symposium on the campaigns, beliefs and lifestyles of those on the margins of society | Registration requiredFee applicable shl.officeadmin@london.ac.uk

H U 1-day symposium10:00–17:00Seng T Lee Room, Senate House Library

Friday 24Institute of Latin American Studies | Institute of Musical Research

El Sistema and the alternatives: social action through music in critical perspectiveConvenors: Geoff Baker (Royal Holloway), Gustavo Borchert (Turku) and Owen Logan (Aberdeen) | Registration requiredFee applicable olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

1-day conference10:00–18:00Room 349

Tuesday 28Institute of English Studies Modernist magazines seminar

Free iesevents@sas.ac.ukU

Seminar18:00–20:00Room G34

Wednesday 29Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Commonwealth London workshop I: InstitutionsConvenor: Damian Skinner (Institute of Commonwealth Studies Visiting Fellow/New Zealand)Fee applicable olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk

H OWorkshop10:00–18:00Room G34

The consequences for criminal law of an EU exitJohn Spencer, Steve Peers and Estella Baker | Registration requiredFree ials.events@sas.ac.uk

L OSeminar14:00–18:00Charles Clore House

Warburg Institute Work in progress seminarChristopher Braun (Warburg Institute)Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Thursday 30Warburg Institute Reforming cartography: John Britton and the

topographical survey of the borough of St Marylebone (1834)Stephen Daniels (Nottingham)Free warburg@sas.ac.uk

Philosophical aesthetics and philosophical anthropology at the turn of the 19th century: holism, expressivism and the question of autonomyJerome Carroll (Nottingham)Free jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk

UEnglish Goethe Society lecture17:15–19:00Room G34

A broad range of seminar series are organised in the School and Senate House Library. Many of our series are supported by and organised in collaboration with other institutions and organisations. All collaborators and supporters are listed on our website. All are welcome to attend unless otherwise stated. Dates and times are given below where known and were correct at the time of going to print. These seminars are listed in the calendar where further details are known. Due to the nature of series events, these may be subject to change. Please check our websites for further information.

institute of advanced legal studiesContact: ials.events@sas.ac.uk

European criminal law

Usually Mondays at 14:00–17:30

Dates: 2 Feb, 2 Mar, 29 Apr

Legal history

Usually Fridays at 18:00–19:30

Dates: 27 Feb, 20 Mar

institute of classical studiesContact: admin.icls@sas.ac.uk

Ancient history

Thursdays at 16:30–19:00

Dates: 2, 19, 26 Feb, 5, 19 Mar

Ancient philosophy

Alternate Mondays at 16:30–19:00

Dates: 9, 23 Feb, 9, 23 Mar

Classical archaeology

Wednesdays monthly at 17:00–19:30

Date: 18 Feb

Early career

Dates: 12, 19, 26 Feb, 5, 12 Mar

Greek and Latin literature

Mondays at 17:00–19:30

Dates: 2, 9, 23 Feb, 9, 16, 23 Mar

Postgraduate work-in-progress

Fridays at 16:30–18:30

Dates: 6, 13, 20, 27 Feb, 6, 13, 20 Mar

(Open to postgraduate students only)

Roman art

Alternate Mondays

institute of english studiesContact: ies@sas.ac.uk

Book collecting

Tuesdays at 18:00–19:30

Dates: 10 Feb, 10 Mar, 14 Apr, 9 June, 7 July

Open University book history and bibliographyresearch

2 Mar, 1, 8 June

Charles Peake Ulysses

Dates: 6 Mar, 3 Apr, 1 May, 5 June

Open University contemporary cultures of writing

Usually Tuesdays at 17:30–19:30

Dates: 10, 25 Mar, 14 Apr

Seminar series

Contemporary innovative poetry research

Wednesdays at 17:30–19:00

Early modern philosophy and the scientificimagination (EMPHASIS)

Saturdays at 14:00–16:00

Dates: 21 Feb, 7 March, 11 April, 16 May, 6 June

Ezra Pound Cantos reading group

Dates: 13 Feb, 13 Mar, 8 May, 12 June

History of libraries research

Tuesdays at 17:30 –19:30

Dates: 3 Feb, 3 Mar, 5 May, 2 June

Irish studies

Dates: 13 Feb, 20 March

Literary London reading group

Dates: 17 Mar, 14 Apr, 16 June

London 19th century studies

Dates: 20 Feb, others TBC

London Old and Middle English researchseminar (LOMERS)

Dates: 4 Feb, 1 Apr, 20 May

London screenwriting research

London Shakespeare

London theatre

Thursdays at 18:30–20.30

Dates: 5 Feb, 26 Feb, 12 Mar

Media history

Thursdays at 18:00–20.00

Dates: 26 Feb, 12 Mar, 7, 21 May

Medieval manuscripts

Usually Thursdays at 17:30–19:00

Dates: 3 Feb, 3, 24 Mar, 12 May

Modernism

Saturdays at 11.00–13:00

Dates: 7 Feb, 7 Mar, 9 May

Modernist magazines research

Dates: 24 Feb, 28 Apr, 26 May

Pedagogic criticism 2: workshops 2014–15

Date: 20 Feb, 15 May

Postgraduate feminist reading group

Date: 12 Feb, 12 Mar, 9 Apr, 14 May, 11 June

Psychoanalysis, literature and practice

Usually Fridays 17:00–19:00

Dates: TBC

Seminar series

Roman Jakobson: poetry of self, city, signand form

Date: 11 Mar

Theory now

Dates: TBC

University of London Finnegans Wake research

Dates: 27 Feb, 27 Mar, 29 May

institute of historical researchContact: ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk

American history

Usually Thursdays at 17:30

Dates: 19 Feb, 5, 19 Mar

Archives and society

Usually Tuesdays at 17:45

British history in the long 17th century

British history in the long 18th century

Usually Wednesdays at 17:15

Dates: 4, 18 Feb, 11, 18 Mar

British maritime history

Dates: 10, 24 Feb, 10, 24 Mar

Christian missions in global history

Dates: 11, 25 Feb, 11 Mar

Comparative histories of Asia

Crusades and the Latin East

Usually Mondays at 17:15

Digital history

Earlier Middle Ages

Dates: 4, 11, 25 Feb, 4, 11, 18, 25 Mar

Economic and social history of the earlymodern world

Usually Fridays at 17:15

Education in the long 18th century

Usually Saturdays at 14:00

Dates: 21 Feb

European history 1150–1550

European history 1500–1800

Film history

Gender and history in the Americas

Dates: 2 Feb, 2 Mar

Global history

Dates: 12, 19, 26 Feb, 5, 19, 26 Mar

History lab

Dates: 12, 26 Feb 12, 26 Mar

History of education

Dates: 5 Feb, 5 Mar

History of gardens and landscapes

History of libraries

History of political ideas

History of political Ideas / early career

Dates: 4, 18 Feb, 4, 18 March

History of sexuality

Imperial and world history

International history

Dates: 3, 17, Feb 10, 24 Mar

Jewish history

Late medieval

Dates: 6, 13, 20, 27 Feb, 6, 13 Mar

Late medieval and early modern Italy

Dates: 5 Feb, 5 Mar

Latin American history

Dates: 10, 24 Feb, 10, 24 Mar

Life-cycles

Locality and region

Usually alternate Tuesdays at 17:15

Seminar series

London Group of Historical Geographers

London Society for Medieval Studies

Low Countries history

Dates: 13, 27 Feb

Metropolitan history

Military history

Modern French history

Modern German history

Dates: 4, 12 Mar

Modern Italian history

Modern religious history

Dates: 11, 25, Feb 11, 25 Mar

Oral history

Date: 5 Feb

Parliaments, politics and people

Dates: 10, 24 Feb, 10, 24 Mar

Philosophy of history

Psychoanalysis and history

Religious history of Britain 1500–1800

Dates: 3, 17, Feb 3, 17 Mar

Rethinking modern Europe

Socialist history

Dates: 2, 16, 28 Feb, 16 Mar

Society, culture and belief, 1500–1800

Sport and leisure history

Studies of home

Dates: 4 Feb, 4 Mar

Tudor & Stuart history

Dates: 9, 23 Feb 9, 23 Mar

War, society and culture

Women’s history

institute of Musical researchContact: music@sas.ac.uk

Directions in musical research

Performance/research seminars

In collaboration with the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice

institute of PhilosophyContact: philosophy@sas.ac.uk

Aesthetics forum

Usually Wednesdays at 16:00–18:00

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics forum

Practical reasoning

Objective probability and conditional reasoning

Meeting monthly on Tuesdays at 17:15–19:00

Dates: 24 Feb, 24 Mar, 21 Apr

Rethinking the senses: multisensory perceptionand action

Usually Thursdays at 17:00–19:00

19 Feb, 5, 19 Mar, 30 Apr

www.thesenses.ac.uk

the warburg instituteContact: warburg@sas.ac.uk

Arabic philosophy

Mondays at 14.15–15.15

Dates: 2, 9, 23 Feb, 2, 9, 16, 23 Mar

Basic knowledge of Arabic required

Bruno’s art of memory: a laboratorium

Tuesdays at 17.30–19.00

Dates: 3, 10, 17, 24 Feb, 24 Mar

Director’s work-in-progress

Wednesdays at 14.15–15.15

Dates: 4, 11, 25 Feb, 4, 11, 18, 25 Mar

Seminar series

Editing Byzantine texts

Fridays at 15.45–17.45

Dates: 6, 13, 20, 27 Feb, 6, 13, 20, 27 Mar

Esoteric traditions and occult thought

Fridays at 13.00–14.15

Dates: 6, 13, 27 Feb, 6, 13, 20, 27 Mar

Latin palaeography

Tuesdays at 16.15–17.15

Dates: 3, 10, 24 Feb, 3, 10, 27, 24 Mar

Literature, ideas and society

One meeting per term, 17.15–19.15

Date: 25 Feb

Maps and society

Thursdays at 17.00–18.00

Dates: 5, 26 Feb, 12 Mar, 30 Apr

Medieval Philosophy Network

Once a term

Dates: TBC

Warburg-UCL Scholasticism Reading Group

Thursdays, 17.30–18.30

Date: 26 Mar

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Senate House Library Friends events

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The School of Advanced Study draws on its research and teaching expertise to provide a programme of discipline-specific, generic and online research training to support the development of the scholars of tomorrow.

The School’s programme of personal development and transferable skills training is available in the form of weekly workshops.

This general training is complemented by a set of research methodologies courses for students in social science disciplines, and in the software and management information tools required to enable students to complete their research effectively.

Making the most of the concentration of expertise available in the School and the University of London, the institutes between them also provide well-established discipline-specific research training in core humanities disciplines.

Training in aspects of history, for instance, is extensive, notably in the Institute of Historical Research, which offers a comprehensive programme of short courses in research skills for historians. Taking advantage of both the unparalleled concentration of historical expertise available in the University of London, and the wealth of archival materials in and around the capital, the Institute’s long-established and highly successful courses are widely recognised as the best means of developing and extending both essential and more specialised research skills. The Institute of Historical Research training programme is primarily aimed at postgraduate historians, but also welcomes established historians and independent researchers and writers of all sorts. Further historical skills courses run by the Warburg Institute include classes in medieval and Renaissance Latin for historians, and a programme of training in resources and techniques (jointly with the University of Warwick), which provides specialist research training for doctoral students working on Renaissance and early modern subjects in a range of disciplines. The London Palaeography Summer School run by the Institute of English Studies provides training in that key skill.

Extensive training for students of cultures and literatures is offered by the Institute of Modern Languages Research, whose well-established and popular programme, comprising a series of Saturday workshops, is offered to any postgraduate student working in modern languages or a related discipline (for instance, film, or art history). And the Institute of Musical Research runs a successful national scheme of day schools, aimed at PhD students but also open to those taking masters’ programmes in music, whereby specialist tutors from across the UK provide an insight into current research questions, debates and methodologies across a spectrum of musical research.

Most of the School’s training is available to postgraduate students across the UK, much of it free of charge.

Details of all the research training courses provided are available from our website:

www.sas.ac.uk/support-research/ research-training

If you would like to receive a printed copy of our research training and skills handbook, or would like any guidance, please contact us:

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‘The School’s extensive and varied range of training programmes are designed to meet the needs of 21st-century researchers, offering programmes which enable scholars in the humanities to develop their skills and pursue their studies to maximum effect.’Rachel Stickland, Registrar

research training

research trainingFurther details of all calls for papers are available from our websites at www.sas.ac.uk/events and senatehouselibrary.ac.uk

Law and the ageing of humankind (W G Hart legal workshop 2015)

22–23 June 2015

CFP deadline: 1 February 2015

In 2010 in the UK, there were 1.3 million more children under the age of 16 than people aged over 65, but by 2035 the Office for National Statistics expects this pattern to be reversed with a projected excess of 4 million more people aged over 65 than under 16. How will the law respond? Do we need a Convention of the Rights of Older People to protect them in their ‘second childhoods’ or are they less vulnerable than the younger generations? How many of the building blocks of our legal doctrine assume continuing economic activity? The committee especially welcomes contributions from early career researchers and papers of a cross-disciplinary nature.

Please send abstracts of 300 to 500 words to IALS.WGHart@sas.ac.uk by email attachment. Abstracts should not include embedded footnotes or endnotes.

Interpreting communities: minority writing in European literary fields

29–30 October 2015

CFP deadline: 28 February 2015

The past three decades have seen a widespread surge of interest in writing by and about ‘minority’ communities across the European continent. Scholars have turned to the writing of ‘minority’ authors to better understand the communities from which they hail and the ‘majority’ cultures with which they converse. By uniting researchers focused on literary texts produced by ‘minority’ writers throughout Europe, this conference will concentrate on a systematic, comparative study of ‘minority’ writing in European letters across the 20th and 21st centuries. We particularly encourage papers which do one or more of the following: interrogate the term ‘minority’, adopt a comparative approach, question the value of prevailing theories of identity to the European context, and consider the practical implications of teaching minority literatures.

Please send a 200-word abstract with a 50-word bio to both organisers: Malachi McIntosh (Cambridge) and Godela Weiss-Sussex (Institute of Modern Languages Research/Cambridge): msam2@cam.ac.uk; godela.weiss-susssex@sas.ac.uk.

Marginal presences: unorthodox belief and practice, 1837–2014

Thursday 23 April 2015

CFP deadline: 9 March 2015

The beliefs and lifestyles of those on the margins of society are frequently more revealing of the core values of a culture than its leaders and established interpreters. In their persistent, unobtrusive subcultures, or their prominent demands for reform and re-evaluation, such men and women hold up a mirror to those hegemonic structures from which they deviate. The Senate House Library is rich in the personal libraries and archives of many such figures – anti-censorship campaigners, paranormal investigators and practitioners, naturists, political radicals, and campaigning teetotallers. This one-day symposium will focus on the life, work and impact of the marginal minority with their restless doubts, behavioural vagaries and utopian dreams, existing alongside an unbelieving, heedless culture. Proposals are invited from researchers from any discipline, including librarians, archivists, biographers, literary scholars, psychologists, theologians and historians of all areas of interest.

Please send proposals for 20-minute papers and any enquiries to shl.officeadmin@london.ac.uk.

Language, culture and society in Russian/English studies: 6th conference

27–28 July 2015

Organised and sponsored by the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Linguistics and The Journal of Philology, this conference is devoted to the development of English and Russian studies, lexicography, sociolinguistics, English teaching in Russia, and the History of the Book.

Please send proposals for papers to: rector@gaudeamus.ru and jane.roberts@sas.ac.uk. For plenary sessions or for working groups proposals, abstracts should be no longer than 300 words. Papers for plenary sessions should be no more than 30 minutes in length; working group papers should be 15–20 minutes. Working group sessions are normally planned for one hour and 15 minutes.

calls for papers

Rhodesian UDI – 50 years on.Change and continuity in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.The record since UDI in 1965

11–12 November 2015

November 2015 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the illegal declaration of independence by the Rhodesia Front government of Ian Smith, against the British crown. How much can current internal developments and regional politics be traced back to events of 1965? How far did the failure to achieve accelerated independence at the same time as the rest of British Southern Africa, leave a lasting and complicated legacy for Zimbabwe politics, governance and society today? This conference in London will evaluate lasting legacies of UDI, and highlight new research on Zimbabwe’s complicated inheritance. Presentations that emphasise the themes of continuity and change are particularly welcome.

Abstracts of 250–300 words, accompanied by a short bibliography, should be submitted to Dr Sue Onslow: sue.onslow@sas.ac.uk.

Decolonisation and colonial legacies

21–22 October 2015

The implications of their imperial pasts continue to affect the contemporary internal and external policies of France, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Belgium, The Netherlands and Spain. These connected legacies manifest themselves most obviously in the diverse diplomatic associations which draw together countries formerly colonised by these states, but all six European states maintain varying institutional links. This conference will focus on the post-imperial legacies for these countries, in terms of political institutions, immigration and community relations, trade, investment and aid, culture and education. It is intended to highlight new research on critical process of transition for these former imperial powers, as well as to bring historians, political scientists and international relations scholars into contact with contemporary actors and policy makers.

Abstracts of 250–300 words, accompanied by a short bibliography, should be submitted to Dr Sue Onslow: sue.onslow@sas.ac.uk.

Anti-democratic ideology and criminallaw under Fascist, National Socialist and authoritarian Regimes

10–11 September 2015

CFP deadline: 7 April 2015

The Fascist, National Socialist and other forms of authoritarian regimes that emerged in the 20th century used criminal law as a key component of their repressive and social control strategies. Criminal law was both an instrument in such regimes’ exertion of power, and a medium through which their core ideologies were expressed and could be identified. Although such regimes were not merely negative movements grounded on opposition to other political forces, many of them included elements of anti-democratic ideology in the formulation, application and interpretation of criminal law.

This involved rejecting concepts identified with liberal democracy, and purporting to overcome their inadequacies. Whereas for some regimes such as Fascism and National Socialism this was an explicit, self-declared component of their identity, for others anti-democratic ideology was arguably more implicit in their turn away from liberal methods and models of criminal law. This conference invites participants to question the nature and extent of anti-democratic ideology in criminal law under Fascist, National Socialist and other authoritarian regimes during the 20th century. Although the primary focus is intended to be on Fascism, National Socialism and similar systems in Europe, proposals for papers adopting a comparative approach to criminal law under communism, or to experiences in other parts of the world, will also be considered.

After the conference and subject to strict criteria of quality and thematic cohesion, the aim is to publish selected papers in an edited, peer-reviewed collection with a leading publisher.

Abstracts of 250 words should be submitted by email to belinda.crothers@sas.ac.uk. Abstracts must include your name, affiliation, email address and a brief note (no more than 2–3 lines) about your research interests and key relevant publications. Any questions about these themes, the suitability of a possible paper, or suggestions for specific panels may be directed by email to the conference convenor, Dr Stephen Skinner: s.j.skinner@exeter.ac.uk.

calls for papers

Unless otherwise stated, all events are held within the central University of London precinct in Bloomsbury, central London. Most events take place in or around Senate House South and North Blocks (North Block rooms are named accordingly) or Stewart House (Stewart House room numbers are preceded with ST) which are adjacent. The University of London 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.

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