school of advanced study events brochure april - august 2010

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ContentsInstitutes of the School 2Events at the School 4Highlights: University of London Trust Fund events 5Highlights: Visiting Professorial Lecture 6Highlights: Dean’s Seminars 6Highlights: Fratricide and Fraternité seminar series 7Highlights: Conferences and symposia 9Summer Schools 19Events calendar 21Research training 61Calls for papers 65How to find us 66

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

The School brings together the specialised scholarship and resources of ten prestigious postgraduate research institutes to offer academic opportunities, facilities and stimulation across a wide range of subjects for the benefit of the national and international scholarly community.

Member Institutes of the School:Institute of Advanced Legal StudiesInstitute of Classical StudiesInstitute of Commonwealth StudiesInstitute of English StudiesInstitute of Germanic & Romance StudiesInstitute of Historical ResearchInstitute of Musical ResearchInstitute of PhilosophyInstitute for the Study of the AmericasWarburg Institute

The School also hosts a cross-disciplinary centre. The Human Rights Consortium, founded in 2009, brings together the multidisciplinary expertise in human rights found in several Institutes of the School, as well as collaborating with individuals and organisations with an interest in the subject. The main aim of the Consortium is to facilitate, promote and disseminate academic and policy work on human rights by holding conferences and seminars, hosting visiting fellows, coordinating the publication of high quality work in the field, and establishing a network of human rights researchers, policy-makers and practitioners across the UK and internationally, with a view to collaborating on a range of activities.

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INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED LEGAL STUDIES

INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES

INSTITUTE OF COMMONWEALTH STUDIES

INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES

INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC & ROMANCE STUDIES

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

The Institute of Classical Studies (IClS) is a national and international research centre for the study of the languages, literature, history, art, archaeology and philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Founded in 1953, it provides an internationally renowned research library available to scholars from universities throughout the world, in association with the Hellenic and Roman Societies. IClS also serves as the meeting place of the main Classics organisations in the UK.www.icls.sas.ac.uk

The Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICwS) is the only postgraduate academic institution in the UK devoted to the study of the Commonwealth. Founded in 1949, its purpose is to promote interdisciplinary and inter-regional research on the Commonwealth and its member nations in the fields of history, politics and other social sciences. Its areas of specialism include international development, governance, human rights, north-south relations and conflict and security. www.commonwealth.sas.ac.uk

The Institute of English Studies (IES), founded in 1999, exists to facilitate advanced study and research in English studies within the University of London and in the wider academic community, national and international. Its Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies covers such fields of study as palaeography, history of printing, manuscript and print relations, history of publishing and the book trade, textual criticism and theory and the electronic book. www.ies.sas.ac.uk

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

Institutes of the School



INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH

INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL RESEARCH

INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY

INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAS

WARBURG INSTITUTE

Founded in 1921, the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) is an important resource and meeting place for researchers from all over the world. It provides a stimulating research environment supported by the IHR’s three research centres: the Centre for Local History; the Centre for Metropolitan History; and the Centre for Contemporary British History. www.history.ac.uk

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

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

The Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA) was founded in 2004 through the merger of the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Institute of United States Studies, both of which were established in 1965. ISA promotes, coordinates and provides a focus for research and postgraduate teaching in history and the social sciences on the Americas – Canada, the US, Latin America and the Caribbean – and plays a national and international role as a coordinating and information centre for all parts of the hemisphere at the postgraduate level in the universities of the UK.www.americas.sas.ac.uk

The Warburg Institute (WI), incorporated in the University in 1944, exists principally to further the study of the classical tradition – those elements of European thought, literature, art and institutions which derive from the ancient world. The classical tradition is conceived as the theme which unifies the history of Western civilisation. The bias is not towards ‘classical’ values in art and literature: students and scholars will find represented all the strands that link medieval and modern civilisation with its origins in the ancient cultures of the Near East and the Mediterranean.www.warburg.sas.ac.uk



Events at the School The Institutes of the School collectively offer a wide range of seminars, workshops, lectures, conferences and other academic events. The events programme of the School is unrivalled in its scale, focus and quality. Each year around 1,400 events are organised in the School on humanities and social science topics, attracting over 30,000 audience members drawn from around the UK and internationally as well as the London area.

The School brings together scholars, representatives from academic, public, and private organInstitute for the Study of the Americastions, policy-makers, professional experts, and the interested public from the local community, the UK and beyond to participate in its varied programme of events. Over 3,000 speakers, around one-third of whom are from outside the UK, are welcomed annually to contribute to the intellectual culture of the School.

The majority of our events are free and open to the public. All are welcome and encouraged to take advantage of the access to current research and interdisciplinary cross-fertilisation these events afford.

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

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

BookingThe majority of our events are free and open to the public, unless stated otherwise. The event information in this brochure was correct at the time of going to press, but may be subject to change. Please check our website for the latest information, www.sas.ac.uk/events.html, or email [email protected].

Event videos onlineSelected School events are recorded and available to view or listen to online at www.sas.ac.uk/video.html.

Mailing listSign up to our mailing list to receive information on events of interest to you by emailing [email protected] or via the School’s website at www.sas.ac.uk.

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Events at the School


Highlights: University of London Trust Fund events

HighlightsUniversity of London Trust Fund eventsThe School organises an annual University Trust Fund programme of prestigious public lectures, recitals and readings. These events are free to attend. All welcome.

25 May 2010

18.00–20.00

Institute of Musical Research

John Coffin Memorial Trust lecture-recital

Goodenough College

Old Hispanic chantEmma Hornby (Bristol) and Rebecca Maloy (Colorado) with the Schola Cantorum of the University of Bristol

In association with the University of Bristol and the University of Colorado.

Advance booking essential. Contact: [email protected]

24 June 2010

18.00–20.00


John Coffin Memorial Trust lecture-recital

Goodenough College

Performing Haydn’s piano musicTom Beghin (McGill) in conversation with John Irving (Director, Institute of Musical Research)

Advance booking essential. Contact: [email protected]

30 June 2010

18.00–19.00

Institute of English Studies

John Coffin Memorial Lecture in the History of the Book

Room G22/24

Presence and absence in Keats’s lettersJohn Barnard

Contact: [email protected]/tel. +44 (0)20 7664 4859

16 April 2010

18.00–19.00


John Coffin Memorial Trust Recital

Gresham College

Erik Satie: his music, the visual arts, his legacy.Recital of music by Erik SatieFully booked. Contact: [email protected]

7 July 2010

18.00–19.00


Hilda Hulme Memorial Lecture

Beveridge Hall

Dickens and Shakespeare (title tbc)Michael Slater (Institute of English Studies Senior Research Fellow; Birkbeck)

Contact: [email protected]/tel. +44 (0)20 7664 4859


Events calendar April–August 2010

The Dean’s SeminarsThe Dean’s Seminars, chaired by the Dean of the School, are a series of lunchtime research seminars, which aim to promote cross-disciplinary debate in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. Seminars are free to attend and open to all – advance booking is not required. Participants may bring their lunch.

21 April 2010

12.30–14.00

Room G37

Skepticism and the space of reasonsMichael Williams (School Fellow; Johns Hopkins) Professor Williams is Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the School ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellow.

19 May 2010

12.30–14.00

Room G37

Mothers, wives and welfare politics in Latin America (tbc)Maxine Molyneux (Director, Institute for the Study of the Americas)

9 June 2010

12.30–14.00

Room G37

How do you solve a problem like Edmund Curll?Pat Rogers (School Fellow; South Florida)

Professor Rogers is Distinguished University Professor and holder of the DeBartolo Chair in the Liberal Arts at the University of South Florida. He is the School Visiting Professorial Fellow.

Visiting Professorial LectureAll welcome. Free to attend.

21 April 2010

17.30–19.00

School of Advanced Study

Visiting Professorial Lecture

Chancellor’s Hall

Checkered careers: from Samuel Johnson and Edgar Allan Poe to the Bronx Comet and a computer named ChinookPat Rogers (School Fellow; South Florida)

Professor Rogers is Distinguished University Professor and holder of the DeBartolo Chair in the Liberal Arts at the University of South Florida. He is the School Visiting Professorial Fellow.

Contact: [email protected]

Highlights: Visiting Professorial Lecture/Dean’s Seminars


Fratricide and Fraternité: Understanding and Repairing Neighbourly Atrocity

John E. Sawyer Seminar Series 2009–10Andrew W. Mellon FoundationThis prestigious seminar series brings together the ten Institutes of the School, with their formidable, international research networks, as well as a range of distinguished British and international scholars, to investigate neighbourly atrocities from an extensive range of thematic, disciplinary, methodological, geographic, and temporal perspectives. The series seeks to answer two overarching and inter-related questions:

What turns neighbour against neighbour?

How do neighbours live together again after atrocity?

All events are free and open to the public. Advance registration is required.

Please email [email protected] to register or if you would like to be added to the mailing list for updates on Fratricide and Fraternité events.

www.sas.ac.uk/human_rights.html

M. Chagall, 'Cain and Abel' (1956), published by Verve, Revue artistique et litteraire (1960), printed by Fernand Mourlot, Paris

Highlights: Fratricide and Fraternité

Fratricide and Fraternité events April–August 2010:

23 April 2010

14.00–16.30

Room G35

Seminar 2: intimate atrocities“Truth in Lies”: the performativity of rape and domestic violence in RwandaAnanda Breed (East London)

Bush wives and girl soldiers in Sierra Leone Chris Coulter (Uppsala)

Title tbaJason Hart (Bath)

Chair: Gill Rye (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies)

Violence


Highlights: Fratricide and Fraternité

14 May 2010

14.00–17.00

Room ST273

Seminar 3: perpetrators/bystanders/rescuersWhat do we know about violence between neighbours?Stathis N. Kalyvas (Yale)

Explaining divergent paths of genocidal violenceScott Straus (Wisconsin-Madison)

A cultural history approach to perpetratorsDan Stone (Royal Holloway)

A different kind of ‘perpetrator’? Functionaries, facilitators and beneficiaries of Nazi policies of persecutionMary Fulbrook (UCL)

Sons of the soil: autochthony, indigeniety and violent politics in Kenya’s Rift ValleyDavid M. Anderson (Oxford)

Chair: Lars Waldorf (York) and Damien Short (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

28 May 2010

14.00–16.30

Room G35

Seminar 4: drawing linesAftermaths of partition: Bengal and Bosnia compared

Sumantra Bose (LSE)

Live and let die: an analysis of separatist factions

Kirstin Bakke (UCL)

Parading, territoriality and the protestant bands in Northern Ireland

Suzel Ana Reily (Queen’s, Belfast)

Chair: James Manor (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

Aftermaths

25 June 2010

14.00–17.00

The Court Room

Seminar 5: truth, justice and reparationsAnger, pragmatism and ambivalence: views on ‘Victor’s Justice’ from within the International Criminal Tribunal for RwandaNigel Eltringham (Sussex)

In the village where youth ruled their fathers: justice and generation in a postwar Sierra Leonean communityRosalind Shaw (Tufts)

Reconciliation Australian-style: some truth, little justice and no reparationsDamien Short (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

Chair: Avrom Sherr (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)

The politics of Aparición in contemporary ArgentinaVikki Bell (Goldsmiths)

Through the land of pale hands: femincide, social cleansing and impunity in GuatemalaVictoria Sanford (City, New York)

Chair: Par Engstrom (Human Rights Consortium)


19–20 April 2010


Room ST274/ST275

Hanns EislerConvenors: Erik Levi (Royal Holloway), Albrecht Dümling (International Hanns Eisler Society, Berlin) and Michael Haas (Jewish Museum, Vienna). Keynote speaker: David Blake (York)

Booking form available at www.music.sas.ac.uk


28 April 2010

10.00–19.00

Institute for the Study of the Americas

Chancellor’s Hall

Our national character, our national purpose: American presidents, democracy promotion and global orderSpeakers include: Nicolas Bouchet (Institute for the Study of the Americas), David Clinton (Baylor), Marshall De Rosa (Florida Atlantic), Ruth Deyermond (King’s College London), Oz Hassan (Warwick), Scott Lucas (Birmingham), Tony McCulloch (Canterbury Christ Church), Inderjeet Parmar (Manchester), Adam Quinn (Birmingham), Jon Roper (Swansea), Maria Ryan (Nottingham), Rob Singh (Birkbeck), Tony Smith (Tufts)

The conference aims to deepen our understanding of how different presidents have interpreted the democracy promotion tradition and used it to further their own ends – or have tried to escape it.

£30 (concessionary rate: £10). Contact: [email protected]

Conference convened by the United States Presidency Centre at the Institute for the Study of the Americas.

Highlights: Conferences and symposia

26 April 2010

10.00–16.00


Room G37

Musicology in the digital ageAlan Marsden (Lancaster), Tim Crawford (Goldsmiths), David Bretherton (Southampton), Vanessa Hawes (UEA), Polina Proutskova (Goldsmiths)

Free to attend. Contact: [email protected]

A study day in association with the Society for Music Analysis

Conferences and symposia16 April 2010


Gresham College

Erik Satie: his music, the visual arts, his legacy Convenor: Caroline Potter (Kingston). Speakers include Robert Orledge (Liverpool), Simon Shaw-Miller (Birkbeck), Grace Cheung (Kingston), and composers Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons

Full booked. For further information on future and related events contact: [email protected]

A study day in association with Kingston University and Gresham College


6–7 May 2010

10.00–18.00


Beveridge Hall

The traditions of liberty in the Transatlantic worldSpeakers include: Ronald Beiner (Toronto), Adrian Pearce (Institute for the Study of the Americas; King’s College), Rebecca Kingston (Toronto), Susan Hodgett (Ulster), Kevin Morrell (Birmingham), Michel Ducharme (British Columbia), José María Hernández Losada (Spanish National University of Distance Learning), Ambrosio Velasco (UNAM, México), Francisco Colom (Spanish National Research Council), Ángel Rivero (Madrid), Rubem Barboza Filho (Juiz de Fora, Brazil)

The workshop is an attempt to clarify the classical discussion on the origins and development of liberal democracy through a spatial and temporal orientation: what we here call the traditions of liberty.


Co-organised with the British Association for Canadian Studies, the International Council for Canadian Studies, and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas

18 May 2010

9.30–19.00


Chancellor’s Hall

Study day: performativity, poetry and creationSpeakers include: Kathryn Whitney (Institute of Musical Research; Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama), Amanda Glauert (Kingston), Fiona Sampson (Kingston), Norbert Meyn (Guildhall School of Music & Drama; Royal College of Music)


29–30 April 2010

9.00–18.00

Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Room G37

Policing and the policed in the postcolonial stateSpeakers include: David Anderson (Oxford), Graham Ellison (Queen’s, Belfast) and Alice Hills (Leeds)

This conference seeks to examine policing practice across the Commonwealth from a variety of perspectives, including that of the ‘policed’, a constituency whose voices are under-represented in the existing literature. A key aim of this conference is to bring together academic specialists from the fields of history, criminology and the social sciences, as well as those responsible for devising and implementing policing policy. Contact: [email protected]

Organised in conjunction with the Colonial and Postcolonial Policing Group (COPP) hosted by the Open University’s International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research

1 May 2010

Institute of Historical Research

Wolfson and Pollard Rooms

County Record, Local History and Archaeology Societies SymposiumThe symposium provides a forum for County Societies to meet together to discuss matters of mutual interest and to share best practice.


13–15 May


Conference/Symposium

Venue tbc

London Debates 2010: how does Europe in the 21st century address the legacy of colonialism?London Debates are discussion workshops at which a subject of broad concern in the humanities and social sciences is debated by a small group of invited senior academics and a selection of early-career researchers. The resulting report will be published by the School. Contact: [email protected]



21 May 2010

10.00–18.00


Chancellor’s Hall

Women and US foreign policyKeynote speaker: Ambassador Nancy Soderberg, President Clinton’s NSC Staff Director (1993–97), US Ambassador to the United Nations (1995–2001), and author of The Superpower Myth: The Use and Misuse of American Might (2005).

Tickets: £30 (concessionary rate £10)

From Jeane Kirkpatrick in the 1980s and Madeleine Albright in the 1990s to Condoleezza Rice in the 2000s and Hillary Clinton today, women have achieved significant foreign policy power in the United States. And yet our appreciation of how their gender may or may not impact on their statecraft is the focus of surprisingly little scholarly attention. This conference will bring together over 20 speakers (including former and current US diplomats and internationally recognised scholars) to assess the place of women in US foreign policy since the end of the cold war. Contact: [email protected]

In partnership with the Eccles Centre for American Studies, the British Library and with support from the Warwick Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) and the BISA Gendering International Relations working group

21 May 2010

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies

Room ST274/ST275

Polemical AustriaCo-ordinators: Antony Bushell (Bangor) and Martin Liebscher (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies)

This conference will explore how the concept of ‘Austria’ has evolved and been treated by Austrians. Speakers will contrast the way in which the state has presented itself, how it has been perceived by various social groups, how communists and socialists have used the term, and how the concept fits into the Catholic tradition. Amongst the eminent speakers will be Robert Evans, Regius Professor of History at Oxford University, who will set the historical context on which subsequent discussions will be based. Contact: [email protected]

21 May 2010

9.30–18.30

Institute of Philosophy

Room G22/24

Experience and phenomenal qualitiesSpeakers include: Susanna Siegel, Howard Robinson, Alan Thomas


In conjunction with the University of Hertfordshire AHRC Phenomenal Qualities project


27 May 2010

18.00–20.30

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies


Held to account: political and military leaders should be subject to trial in England for alleged war crimes committed abroadChair: Joshua Rozenberg.

For the Motion: Philippe Sands QC; Joel Bennathan QC; Alex Bates.

Against the Motion: Iain Morley QC; Jonathan Kirk QC; Rodney Dixon.

Registration fees: £10 in advance (£5 students in advance) OR £15 at the door (£7.50 students at the door). Book by 20 May.


Organised in association with the British Friends of Neve Sahlom - Wahat al-Salam Lawyer’s Group


11–12 June 2010

Institute of Historical ResearchRe-thinking 17th-century AmericaInstitute of Historical Research/Warwick conference

11–12 June 2010

10.00–18.00


Room G22/24

Humans and other animals: challenging the boundaries of humanitySpeakers include: Patrick Bateson, John Harris, Lisa Bortolotti, Matteo Mameli, Margot Brazier, Sir John Sulston, Sarah Cunningham Burley, Frans De Waal, David DeGrazia, Sir David Weatherall, Juan Carlos Gomez

Two-day conference


In conjunction with the Manchester Institute for Science Ethics and Innovation

28 May 2010


Chancellor’s Hall

New insights into Gramsci’s life and workSpeakers include: Derek Boothman (Bologna), Craig Brandist (Sheffield), Fabio Frosini (Urbino), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths), James Martin (Goldsmiths), Anne Showstack Sassoon (Birkbeck), and Peter Thomas (member of the editorial board of Historical Materialism).

The main aim of this one-day conference is to disseminate the results of recent, specialised research on Gramsci. Significant novelties will be presented by leading experts with the aim of overcoming disciplinary boundaries and helping to reduce the gaps between: a) widespread, conventional understandings of Gramsci and up-to-date specialised research; and b) the work on Gramsci’s writings and biography and the use of Gramsci’s theories for understanding current social, political and cultural issues.

Free to attend. Contact: [email protected]

Organised by Alessandro Carlucci (Royal Holloway) in association with the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies and sponsored by the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust

3–4 June 2010


Charles Clore House

Regulating and deregulating lawyers in the 21st centuryContact: [email protected]

Jointly organised with the University of Westminster School of Law and the Cleveland State University College of Law

3–4 June 2010


Room ST274/5

Seventh international postgraduate conference on current research in Austrian literatureThis annual conference, which consistently draws participants from both Europe and America, offers postgraduate students working in the field of Austrian literature an opportunity to present their work and discuss aspects of it with colleagues and other specialists.




14–15 June 2010

9.00–18.00

Institute of Classical Studies

Venue tbc

Annual Byzantine colloquiumContact: [email protected]

14–15 June 2010

9.00–17.00


Room ST274/ST275

Cultural institutions and literary reception in EuropeKeynote speakers: Bernhard Fabian (Münster), Marc Fumaroli (Académie française; Collège de France), Joseph Th. Leerssen (Amsterdam), Mihály Szegedy-Maszák (Budapest), Rosa Rabadán (León)


Organised by the Research Project on the Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe (RBAE) and supported by the British Academy

17 June 2010

9.30–18.00


Comics and medicine: medical narrative in graphic novelsSpeakers include: Paul Gravett, Brian Fies, Marc Zaffran

This one-day interdisciplinary conference aims to explore medical narrative in graphic novels and comics. Although the first comic book was invented in 1837 the long-format graphic narrative has only become a distinct and unique body of literary work relatively recently. Thanks in part to the growing Medical Humanities movement, many medical schools now encourage the reading of literature and the study of art to gain insights into the human condition. A serious content for comics is not new but representation of illness in graphic novels is an increasing trend. The melding of text and visuals in graphic fiction and non-fiction has much to offer medical professionals, students and, indeed, patients. Among the growing number of graphic novels, a sub-genre exploring the patients’ and the carers’ experiences of illness or disability has emerged.


17–18 June 2010

9.00–18.30


Charles Clore House

Cities and nationalismsSpeakers include: Robert Bickers (Bristol), Iain Black (Cambridge), Bill Freund (Kwa-Zulu Natal), Tim Harper (Cambridge), Paul-André Linteau (Québec)

This conference will explore the nature and rich variety of connections between nationalisms and cities in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. .

Register by 4 June 2010. Contact: [email protected]

Supported by The Leverhulme Trust

17–19 June 2010

10.00–18.00


Beveridge Hall

The world as will and consciousness: celebrating the work of Brian O’ShaughnessySpeakers include: Thomas Baldwin (York), Tyler Burge (UCLA), Thomas Crowther (Heythrop), MGF Martin (UCL), Brian O’Shaughnessy (King’s College London), Christopher Peacocke (Columbia), Lucy O’Brien (UCL), Paul Snowdon (UCL), Hong Yu Wong (Birkbeck)

Three-day conference. Contact: [email protected]

In conjunction with Heythrop College



18–19 June 2010

Institute of English StudiesLOMERS annual conference: studies in Cotton Nero A.x (the Gawain-Manuscript)Speakers include: Alcuin Blamires, Helen Cooper, Tony Davenport, Rosalind Field, Susanna Fein, Julian Harrison, Derek Pearsall, Ad Putter


21–22 June 2010

10.00–17.00


Charles Clore House

From Duvalier to Préval l: Haiti yesterday, today and tomorrowKeynote speakers: Michael Dash (New York), Alex Dupuy (Wesleyan), Anthony Maingot (Florida International), Reginald Dumas (former Special Advisor on Haiti to the UN Secretary-General)

Recent events in Haiti underscore more than ever the urgency of understanding the history, politics, development and future prospects of this Caribbean nation. This international conference will bring together academics, policy-makers and NGOs to discuss key themes in the history and development of Haiti in the last fifty years.


Supported by the David Nicholls Memorial Trust

23–25 June 2010

Institute of English StudiesPatrick White: modernist impact/critical futuresSpeakers include: Tim Armstrong, Simon During, Elizabeth Schafer, David Marr (2010 Menzies Lecturer)

This international conference will forge new perspectives on the work of Patrick White, winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature. Invited speakers from around the world will explore White’s impact in Australia, America, Britain, Europe, and Asia and speculate on critical futures for White and for literary modernism.


24–25 June 2010


Charles Clore House

The historical roots of social exclusion in Latin America and the CaribbeanConvenor: Ame Bergés (Institute for the Study of the Americas)

This intensive two-day workshop takes a broad comparative and historical perspective on the roots of social exclusion and the formation of the social contract in Latin America and the Caribbean, from the nature of inherited institutions to the nature and consequences of the struggle for independence in the former New World colonies.


Sponsored by the Economic History Society Conferences and Initiatives Fund and the Society for Latin American Studies


18 June 2010

10.00–18.00

Warburg Institute

Colloquium

Sense, affect and self-preservation in Bernardino Telesio (1509–1588)Speakers include: Michaela Boenke, Roberto Bondì, Andrew Campbell, Stephen Clucas, Jean-Paul De Lucca, Sabrina Ebbersmeyer, Guido Giglioni, Nuccio Ordine, Anna Laura Puliafito Bleuel


24–26 June 2010

9.30–16.00



The history of families and households: comparative European dimensionsFollowing the June 2006 Regional Symposium on ‘Social Behaviour and Family Strategies in the Balkans (16th to 20th Centuries)’ held at the New Europe College in Bucharest, this conference aims to place Balkan family history in its wider European context. While research in family history in the Balkans is still in its infancy compared to that of many other parts of Europe, and scholars can learn much from the methodological groundwork of (for example) the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, it is equally true that scholars outside south-eastern Europe have a limited, indeed stereotyped, understanding of the situation in the region. Bringing these communities of scholars together will be an important step towards a deeper mutual understanding of the issues in family history, and lay better groundwork for a comparative methodology.


28–29 June 2010

Institute of English StudiesWomen writers of the fin de siècleSpeakers include: Linda Peterson (Yale), Lyn Pykett (Aberystwyth)

Exploring women’s writing across a wide range of genres and from a variety of aspects, the Women Writers of the Fin de Siècle International Conference focuses on British women’s writing in the period 1880 to 1900. Contact: [email protected]

28 June 2010


Victoria County History international symposium and Marc Fitch Lecture


The economic worlds of Sir Richard Newdigate: tenants, servants, labourers and craftsmen in a Warwickshire parish, c.1670–1710Steve Hindle (Warwick)


29 June–1 July 2010


W G Hart Legal Workshop

Comparative perspectives on constitutions: theory and practiceAcademic directors: Martin Loughlin (LSE); Dawn Oliver (UCL), Constantin Stefanou and Helen Xanthaki (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies).

Speakers and participants to include: Lord Hope of Craighead (Vice President of the UK Supreme Court), Cheryl Saunders (Melbourne), Jeffrey Jowell (UCL and the Council of Europe’s Commission for Democracy Through Law), Stephen Laws (First Parliamentary Counsel)




1–3 July 2010


Senate House

The symphony orchestra as cultural phenomenonKey speakers include: James Dillon (Minnesota), Tina K Ramnarine (Royal Holloway), David Wright (Royal College of Music), Emile Wennekes (Utrecht)


1–2 July 2010

9.30–18.00


Beveridge Hall

Environments 79th Anglo-American conference of historiansKeynote speakers include: William Beinart, Alfred Crosby, John McNeill, Harriet Ritvo, and Donald Worster

Over the last two decades environmental history has developed at an amazing pace, broadening and deepening our understanding of human interaction with nature, climate, landscape and resources across two millennia of historical time. The conference will explore where environmental history has been and where it is going, its relationship to other scholarly disciplines, and the ways in which historians of the environment can inform global green awareness today.


7–9 July 2010

Institute of English StudiesLiterary London 2010: representations of London in literatureSpeakers include: Michael Slater (Birkbeck), Susan Alice Fischer (City University, New York), Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck)

Literary London 2010 aims to:

• Read literary and dramatic texts in their historical and social context and in relation to theoretical approaches to the study of the metropolis

• Investigate the changing cultural and historical geography of London

• Consider the social, political, and spiritual fears, hopes, and perceptions that have inspired representations of London

• Trace different traditions of representing London and examine how the pluralism of London society is reflected in London literature

• Celebrate the contribution London and Londoners have made to English literature and drama


7–9 July 2010


Senate House

Reassessing the SeventiesCentre for Contemporary British History annual conferenceThe 1970s marked a watershed in post-war British history with economic crises and profound political and social discord precipitating major social, cultural, political and economic changes with enduring consequences. Three decades after the ‘winter of discontent’ and the election of Margaret Thatcher, and with the papers now fully open, this major interdisciplinary conference will reassess developments in this crucial decade, placing them in the context of post-war British history as a whole. The conference will include keynote addresses from notable academics and contemporary figures.



16–17 July 2010


Venue STB3–6

Poetic practice and the practice of poetics in French since 1945The conference will be the starting point of an international collaborative network working on recent and emerging poetic practice. The July event will include papers by UK-based and international scholars of poetry and poetic practice and will aim at defining ‘poetic’ in the contemporary context, focusing on new trends in poetic writing and the interrelation of poetry and other genres and art forms.


10 July 2010

Institute of English StudiesJohn Buchan and the idea of modernityPlenary speakers: Douglas Gifford (Glasgow), Douglas Kerr (Hong Kong)

The conference seeks to build on recent efforts to re-establish Buchan as more than a writer of thrillers, by considering his views and influence on 20th-century politics, culture, and aesthetics. An increased level of attention to the comparatively neglected areas of his output has demonstrated his significance within early 20th century popular culture, and laid the groundwork for considerations of his contributions to debates about the nature of modernity.


13–14 July 2010

10.00–18.00


Beveridge Hall

Emergence in physicsSpeakers include: Robert Batterman (Western Ontario), Jeremy Butterfield (Cambridge), Roman Frigg (LSE), Stephan Hartmann (Tilburg), Eleanor Knox (Institute of Philosophy), David Wallace (Oxford)

Two-day conference. Contact: [email protected]

15–17 July 2010


Senate House

BoundariesKeynote speakers: Sara Cohen (Liverpool), Jim Sansom (Royal Holloway), Martin Clayton (Open University)


Royal Musical Association Annual Conference.

17 July 2010

10.00–16.00


Room G16

Language policy/practice seminar series: summary of the seriesContact: [email protected]



Events calendar

19 July 2010

Institute of English StudiesReading conflict Open University postgraduate conferenceKeynote Lecture by Sarah Brouillette (MIT)

This one day-conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate students. As a critical discipline postcolonial studies has challenged traditional ways of reading and engaging with the canon, but has also often been in conflict with other literary disciplines. This conference examines the role of postcolonial studies in relation to other critical disciplines, and asks what is the role of the creative voice in conflict zones? How do we read during conflict? And what is the role of publishing during conflict? Contact: [email protected]

22–24 July 2010

9.30–17.30


Victorian popular culture: prose, stage & screenSpeakers include: Kate Newey (Birmingham), Nickianne Moody (Liverpool John Moores)

Adapting the Victorian popular novel develops our contemporary interest in nineteenth century print culture, and our understanding of the different ways in which a single text might be consumed, to acknowledge the role of theatrical, and later film, adaptations of popular fiction in maintaining the popularity of particular novels, and particular genres. Theatrical adaptations were an important means by which the Victorian popular novel found new audiences, and because of the lack of theatrical copyright such adaptations abounded.




Summer Schools21–25 June 2010



Institute of English StudiesLondon Rare Books School Week 1Speakers include: Michelle Brown, Alan Cole, Catherine Delano-Smith, Anthony Edwards, John Feather, Irving Finkel, Arnold Hunt, Giles Mandelbrote, Matthew Nicholls, Marigold Norbye, Kathryn E. Piquette, Jill Shefrin, Sarah TyackeWeek IISpeakers include: Martin Davies, Catherine Delano-Smith, Jane Everson, Paul Goldman, James Mosley, Douglas Muir, Nicholas Pickwoad, Denis Reidy, Iain Stevenson, Peter Stokes, Simone Testa, Sarah Tyacke, Rowan Watson, Laurence Worms

A series of five-day, intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects to be taught in and around Senate House. The courses will be taught by internationally renowned scholars associated with the Institute’s Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, using the unrivalled library and museum resources of London, including the British Library, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the University of London Research Library Services, and many more. All courses will stress the materiality of the book so you can expect to have close encounters with remarkable books and other artefacts from some of the world’s greatest collections. Each class will be restricted to a maximum of 12 students in order to ensure that everyone has plenty of opportunity to talk to the teachers and to get very close to the books.

www.ies.sas.ac.uk/cmps/events/courses/LRBS/index.htm


London Palaeography Summer SchoolSpeakers include: David D’Avray, Debby Banham, Charles Burnett, Carol Farr, David Ganz, Peter Kidd, Patricia Lovett, Dorothea McEwan, Marigold Norbye, Nigel Ramsay, Jane Roberts, Anna Somfai, Jenny Stratford, Hanna Vorholt, Rowan Watson

A series of intensive courses in Palaeography and Diplomatic. Courses range in duration from a half to two days duration and are given by experts in their respective fields from a wide range of institutions. Subject areas include: Latin palaeography, Medieaval music notation, pigments, German palaeography, Papal diplomatic, illuminated manuscripts and Books of Hours.

www.ies.sas.ac.uk/cmps/events/courses/SummerSchool/School10/index.htm


5–9 July 2010


Summer Schools




Venue: various

Memory, empire and technologyPlenary speaker: Patrick Keiller

This summer school explores the relationship between memory and technology through a series of seminars, lectures and workshops on a broad range of subjects. The sessions will be taught by a team of internationally renowned scholars and will range from experimental early flying to colonial memories in film, from vinyl and swinging London to photography and workshops on digital archives. These sessions will be complemented by afternoon activities centred round London understood as technological city: the Greenwich History Project, visits to the Stanley Kubrick Archives and the Warburg Library, and an architectural tour on a historic Routemaster bus. The summer school welcomes researchers, students, artists, archivists, conservation and heritage professionals and any others interested in memory, technology and the industrial legacy of London.

Deadline for applications: 30 April 2010

£300 (early bird registration before 31 May 2010: £250)

For more details and to register visit: www.igrs.sas.ac.uk/research/CMsummerschool.html or email [email protected]

The summer school is organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies on behalf of the School of Advanced Study

10–17 July 2010

Institute of English StudiesThe T. S. Eliot International Summer SchoolThe T.S. Eliot International Summer School will be opened by Sir Tom Stoppard and will bring together some of the most distinguished scholars of T.S. Eliot and modern literature, including Massimo Bacigalupo (Genoa), Jewel Spears Brooker (Eckerd College), Ron Bush (St. John’s College, Oxford), David Chinitz (Loyola University Chicago), Professor Nancy Duvall Hargrove (Mississippi State), Mark Ford (UCL), Iman Javadi (Institute of English Studies), Hermione Lee (Oxford), Jim McCue (London), Gail McDonald (Southampton), Marjorie Perloff (Stanford), Stephen Romer (Tours), Ronald Schuchard (Emory) and Wim Van-Mierlo (Institute of English Studies).

The T.S. Eliot International Summer School welcomes to Bloomsbury all with an interest in the life and work of this Bloomsbury-based poet, dramatist, and man of letters.

www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/TSE/index.htm


Summer schools


Events calendarApril–August 2010

10.00–17.00


Research Training

University of Birmingham

Composing for percussion and live electronics workshop IFor more information see p.61

9.00–17.00


JISLAC Seminar

University of Bordeaux

Old rebellions to serve the present : construction of collective memories on slave rebellions in the Caribbean

18.00–20.00


Seminar

Room G37

The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar

12–16 April 2010


Research Training

Venue tbc

Methods and sources for historical researchFor more information see p.61

16.00–18.00


German Philosophy Reading Group

Room ST276

Ernst Bloch: ‘Spuren’ (1930, 1959; selection): IConvenor: Johan Siebers (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies)

18.00–20.00


Postgraduate Feminist Reading Group

Room ST276

Postgraduate Feminist Reading GroupDrucilla Cornell: At the Heart of Freedom: Feminism, Sex & Equality (1998)

Helene Cixous: Excerpt from Coming to Writing (1977)

H.D.: Excerpt from HERmione (1981)

17.00–18.30


Seminar

Room 102

Postgraduate Forum at the Institute of Germanic & Romance StudiesOpen to all postgraduate researchers engaged with any aspect of cultural studies in those parts of the world where French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish is spoken.

Friday 2 April 2010

Events calendar

Friday 9 April 2010

Monday 12 April 2010

Tuesday 13 April 2010

Thursday 8 April 2010




Seminar series: Collecting & Display (100BC to AD1700)

Room G35

“Un lusso splendido, e virtuoso inspiro gli uomini facoltosi a formare collezioni”: the “Quadrerie” and Florentine private collectors in the 18th centuryAnna Maria Poma Swank (NYU, Polo Museale Fiorentino)

17.00–19.00


Seminar series: History of communication

Room 104

History of communication: seminar 6



Gresham College

Erik Satie: his music, the visual arts, his legacyAll places taken

For more information see p.9

14.00–16.00


Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group

Room G35

Canto 41David Moody (York)

18.00–19.00


John Coffin Memorial Trust Recital

Gresham College

Recital of music by Erik SatieAll places taken. For more information see p.5

12.30–14.30


Seminar

Room G34

Kinship and abandonment in the AndesJessaca Leinaweaver (Brown)

Wednesday 14 April 2010


Friday 16 April 2010

11.00–18.00


Workshop

Room G22/26

CenSes WorkshopMohan Matthen and Charles Spence

17.00–18.00

Warburg Institute

Maps and Society Seminar

Cosmography and cartography in the Renaissance: their relationship revisitedAdam Mosley (Swansea):




Research Training

Venue tbc

Freedom of information: a practical guide for historiansFor more information see p.61

17.00–19.00


Seminar series: European history 1500–1800

Low Countries Room

Englishness, Europeanness, and travel to the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuriesEva Johanna Holmberg

17.30–19.30


Postgraduate Seminar

Low Countries Room

Managing the ‘Royal Road’: the development and failings of managerial structure on the London and South Western Railway 1836–1900David Turner (York)

12.30–14.00


Dean’s Seminar

Room G37

Skepticism and the space of reasonsMichael Williams (School Fellow; Johns Hopkins)


16.00–18.00


Seminar

Room ST275

Measuring the world. 20th-century Austrian writers abroad The English yearsNorbert Gstrein

Convenors: David McNair and Martin Liebscher (London)

17.30–19.30


Textual Criticism, Bibliography, Textual Scholarship Seminar

Room G21a

Textual Scholarship Seminar



19 –20 April 2010



Room ST274/ST275

Hanns EislerFor more information see p.9




17.30–19.00


Visiting Professorial Lecture

Chancellor’s Hall

Checkered careers: from Samuel Johnson and Edgar Allan Poe to the Bronx Comet and a computer named ChinookFor more information see p.6

17.30–19.30


Language Policy/Practice Seminar Series

Room G37

Hinglish in the Indian media – linguistic hegemony or hybridization?Daya Thussu (Westminster)

17.30–19.30


Seminar

Room G34

London Old and Middle English Research SeminarJennifer Jahner (Pennsylvania; King’s College London)

Second speaker tbc


Research Training

Venue tbc

Explanatory paradigms: an introduction to historical theoryFor more information see p.61

17.15–19.30


Lecture

Room ST273

English Goethe SocietySemiotizing the body: corporeality and emotion in Goethe’s ‘Die Wahlverwandtschaften’Claudia Nitschke (Oxford)

Tropical furniture and bodily comportment in Colonial AsiaJordan Sand (Georgetown)

17.30–19.30


Seminar series: Comparative histories of Asia

Room G37



Colloquium

Room G22/24

Workshop on the orchestra in global perspectiveConvenor: Tina K Ramnarine (Royal Holloway)

By invitation only. Contact: [email protected]




14.00–16.30

Human Rights Consortium

Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series: Fratricide and Fraternité

Room G35

Understanding and repairing neighbourly atrocity: intimate atrocitiesFor more information see p.7

14.00–17.00


Research Training


Composing for percussion and live electronics workshop IIFor more information see p.62

17.30–19.30


Seminar series: History of gardens and landscapes

Wolfson Room

Is there such a thing as a gothic garden?Michael Symes (Birkbeck)

18.00–20.00


Seminar

Room G37

University of London Finnegans Wake Research Seminar

15.00–17.00


The Virgil Society Lecture

Room G22/24

Night attacks: Iliad X and Aeneid IX through Dryden, Pope and ByronRobin Sowerby

10.00–16.00



Room G37

Musicology in the digital ageFor more information see p.9

Saturday 24 April 2010


12.00–13.30


Seminar series: Work in progress

Room ST274

Embodied voices: female performers in narrative fictionBarbara Straumann



18.00–20.00


Djuna Barnes Research Seminar

Room G21a

Late poetry

17.00–19.00


Lecture

Chancellor’s Hall

Annual Globalisation LectureEduardo Stein

17.30–19.30


Seminar series: Modern French history

Pollard Room

Physical culture, manly ideals and social hygiene in inter-war FranceJoan Tumblety (Southampton)

17.30–19.30


Seminar series: Voluntary action history

Low Countries Room

Returned Volunteer Action from 1996 to 2006: an assessment of the life cycle of the fly in the ointment of the British Returner Volunteer ProgrammeSteve Butter

18.00–20.00


Tertúlia Seminar Series

Room ST274

A Costa dos Murmúrios/The murmuring coastLídia Jorge

17.00–19.00


Lecture

Room G22/24

The performance of Athenian lawMichael Gargarin (Austin Texas)

Death and the underworld in prehistoric SardiniaRobin Skeates (Durham)

17.15–19.15


Accordia Seminar

Room ST273


17.30–19.30



History of Libraries Research Seminar

Room G37

The history and archaeology of a 17th century library: Peterhouse, Cambridge, from Andrew Perne (d. 1589) to John Cosin (d. 1672)Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge)



18.00–20.00


Seminar series: International history

Low Countries Room

Advertising America: the United States Information Service in Italy, 1945–1956Simona Tobia (Reading)

10.00–19.00



Chancellor’s Hall

Our national character, our national purpose: American presidents, democracy promotion and global orderFor more information see p.9

14.30–14.30


Senate House Library Friends Visit

The Goldsmiths’ Company

The Goldsmiths’ Company


17.00–19.00


Seminar series: Contemporary British history

Wolfson Room

The tide of democracy: shipyard workers and social relations in BritainAlastair Reid (Cambridge)

17.15–19.15


Seminar series: British history in the long 18th century

G22/26

Agency and reform: the regulation of chimney sweep apprentices, 1770–1840Niels van Manen (York, Institute of Historical Research)

17.30–19.30



Seminar Series

Room ST273

Human Rights SeminarPilar Domingo (Overseas Development Institute)


Research Training

Venue tbc





17.30–19.30


Seminar series: Film history

Germany Room

Basil Dean and The Constant Nymph (1933): adaptation and British cinemaVicky Lowe (Manchester)

9.00 –18.00



Room G37

Policing and the policed in the postcolonial stateFor more information see p.10

EndNote: basic training in electronic bibiographic techniquesFor more information see p.62

Sounding the gallery: video installation and the rise of Art-MusicHolly Rogers (Liverpool)

Chair: Anahid Kassabian (Liverpool)

17.30–21.00


2010 Keigh Spalding Lecture

Room ST273

Deutsche und europäische Sprachenpolitik. Bestandsaufnahme – Meinungen – Konsequenzen für die PraxisRudolf Hoberg (Darmstadt/Berlin)

17.00–18.30


Seminar series: Directions in musical research

Room G35

14.00–17.00


Research Training

Room 254

17.00–18.00

Warburg Institute


Settling Disputes through Cartography in Fourteenth-Century Palma de Mallorca: The Map of the Siquia AqueductChet Van Duzer

17.30–19.30


Seminar Series

Room G34

T. S. Eliot Research seminarAnne Stillman (Cambridge)

17.30–19.00


Lecture

Charles Clore House

Issues in legal history (tbc)Sally Hadden (Florida State)




10:30–16.30




County Record, Local History and Archaeology Societies SymposiumFor more information see p.10

17.15–19.15


Seminar series: Economic and Social History of the Premodern World, 1500–1800

Germany Room

The insecurity of property in Britain, 1688–1835Julian Hoppit

10.00–17.00


Research Training


Composing for percussion and live electronics workshop IIIFor more information see p.62

17.00–19.00


Seminar series: Religious history of Britain 1500–1800

Germany Room

The pulpit at Paul’s Cross and Tudor origins of the early-modern public sphereTorrance Kirby (McGill)

17.15–19.15


Seminar series: Locality & region

Ecclesiastical History Room

The Exmoor planned farmstead: a multidisciplinary approach to understanding post-enclosure hill farmsMatthew Bristow (VCH, Institute of Historical Research)

Saturday 1 May 2010

Monday 3 May 2010

Tuesday 4 May 2010

17.30–19.30




Room G37

Libraries of the National Trust: some houses in Kent and Sussex – Shakespeare, landscape and the in-lawsStephen Massil (National Trust)

17.30–19.30


Accordia Lecture

Institute of Archaeology

Cubrar Matrer: goddess of the Picenes?Eleanor Betts



10.00–18.00



Beveridge Hall

The traditions of liberty in the transatlantic worldFor more information see p.10

April–August 2010

16.00–18.00


Annual Meeting Lecture

Room ST274/ST275

The 19th century writer as mentor and soulmate: readers’ responses to Karl GutzkowMartina Lauster (Exeter)

Friends of Germanic Studies at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies By invitation only.

17.00–18.00


Lecture

Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS

How enemies become friends: the sources of stable peaceCharles Kupchan (Georgetown)

17.00–19.00


Seminar

Room G22/24

Seminar series: classical archaeology

17.30–19.30


Seminar series: Psychoanalysis and History

Low Countries Room

History and timeEva Hoffman (writer), Bill Schwarz (Queen Mary), Susannah Radstone (East London), Esther Leslie (Birkbeck)


Research Training

Venue tbc


Events calendar

Wednesday 5 May 2010

Thursday 6 May 2010

14.00–17.00


Research Training

Room 254

EndNote: intermediate training in electronic bibiographic techniquesFor more information see p.62


17.00–18.30



Room G35

Performing editions of the Leipzig School, 1850–1900 and their testimony to 19th century performing practicesGeorge Kennaway and David Milsom (Leeds/LUCHIP)

Chair: John Irving (Institute of Musical Research)

17.30–19.30



Room G37

Sinophiles and sinophobes: politics, classicism and medicine Ben Elman (Princeton)

17.30–19.30



Low Countries Room

Vernacular and verse in English pastoral careCarol Sibson (Queen Mary)

17.30–19.30


Seminar series: History of education

Germany Room

History in schools – a century of debate, 1900–2010Jenny Keating and Nicola Sheldon (Institute of Historical Research)

17.30–19.30



Low Countries Room

The Tudor monarchy and the Somerset gentrySimon Lambe (St Mary’s University College)

17.30–19.30



Seminar series: American history

Pollard Room

The problem of emancipation: ideology and the fate of land redistribution during the Civil War and reconstructionNichola Clayton (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid)


18.00–20.00


Seminar series: United States

Room G21a

The presidency impeached – Hollywood style: Oliver Stone’s Nixon (1995) and M-G-M’s Tennessee Johnson (1943)Iwan Morgan (Institute for the Study of the Americas)

In collaboration with the American Popular Culture Group, London Metropolitan University



11.00–13.00


Seminar series: London 19th century studies

Room G22/24

Cockney cosmopolitan: the match factory girl and Nellie Dowell in east London and the worldSeth Koven (Rutgers)

9.30–19.00


Forum

Room G22/24

Middle East and Central Asia Music ForumSeth Ayyaz (City), Raimond Mirza (Independent composer), Rachel Harris (SOAS), Marina de Giorgi (SOAS), Claire Launchbury (Royal Holloway), Saida Daukeyeva (SOAS), Convenor: Laudan Nooshin (City University)

10.00–17.00


Research Training

Room ST274

Joint postgraduate training programme in ItalianFor more information see p.62

16.30–18.30


Postgraduate Work In Progress Seminar

Room G34

Classical Art panelDiana Rodríguez Pérez and Christine Gardner

17.00–19.00


Seminar series: Low countries

Low Countries Room

The Calvinist Republic in Antwerp 1577–1585Guido Marnef (Antwerp)

17.30–19.30



Wolfson Room

Parks and gardens in the art of Paul Sandby, 1760–1800Stephen Daniels (Nottingham)

10.30–16.15


Research Training

Room ST273

Workshop on: organising a conference, giving a paper, writing an article, editing books and journalsFor more information see p.62

10.30–18.00


Workshop

Institute of Archaeology

South American Archaeology Seminar

Friday 7 May 2010

Saturday 8 May 2010



11.00–13.00


Seminar series: Modernism research

Room G35

Modernism and the seashellSam Halliday (Queen Mary)Death by modernity: sound, identity, and interruption in William FaulknerJohn Michael Gomez-Connor (Cambridge)

Chair: Gail McDonald (Southampton)


Research Training

Venue tbc

Interviewing for researchersFor more information see p.63

14.00–19.00


Seminar series: Music in Britain

Wolfson Room

Extended Summer Seminar

16.00–18.00Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies


Room ST276

18.00–19.00


Lecture

Charles Clore House

Rights-consistent interpretation of statutes under section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998The Hon Mr Justice Sales

14.00–16.00


Research Training

Room ST275

Careers workshop: Interview skills for academic jobsFor more information see p.63

17.30–19.30



Pollard Room

Militarised environments in Cold War FranceChris Pearson (Sussex)

Ernst Bloch: ‘Spuren’ (1930, 1959; selection): IIConvenor: Johan Siebers (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies)

Monday 10 May 2010

Tuesday 11 May 2010

10–14 May 2010

Warburg Institute

Warburg-Warwick Research Training Programme

Resources and techniques for the study of Renaissance and early modern cultureFor more information see p.63



19.00–21.00


Seminar series: London Society for Medieval Studies

Wolfson Room

A medieval Reformation? The delivery of pastoral care in the central Middle AgesSarah Hamilton (University of Exeter)

10.30–17.30:


Research Training

Newcastle University

Creative practice as research: research as creative practiceFor more information see p63.

15.30–19.30


Mycenaean Series Lecture

Room G22/24

Recent excavations at LefkandiIrene Lemos (Oxford)

17.00–19.00



Wolfson Room

‘Doing God’: religious conventions and political values in British politics c.1979-present.Liza Filby (Warwick)

17.15–19.15



Wolfson Room

The hustling panic of 1821: street robbery in the early 19th century metropolisHeather Shore (Leeds Metropolitan)

17.30–19.30


Senate House Library Friends Talk

Room 102

The UK Research Reserve (UKRR) – securing knowledge for researchFrances Boyle (UKRR)

18.00–20.00



Low Countries Room

Anglo-Italian relations in the Middle East in the interwar periodMassimiliano Fiori (King’s College London)


17.15–19.15


Accordia Seminar

Room ST273

Giving voice: social change seen through mortuary remains in early Iron Age BasilicataGiulia Saltini Semarari (UCL)



18.00–20.00


Black Britain Seminar Series

Room G35

White women and black history – the case of Catherine ImpeyCaroline Bressey


Research Training

Venue tbc


13–15 May



Venue tbc

London Debates 2010: how does Europe in the 21st century address the legacy of colonialism?For more information see p.10

15.00–17.00


Denkanstöße Seminars

Room ST276

The Ullstein paper Tempo and the generational problem in the Weimar RepublicJochen Hung (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies)

16.30–19.30


Joint Ancient History & Classical Archaeology Seminar

Room G22/24

Archaic GreeceEnrietta Bissa (Lampeter) and Thomas Brisart (Oxford, Brussels)

17.00–18.30



Room G35

Opera in the British provinces in late Victorian EnglandPaul Rodmell (Birmingham)

Chair: David Wright (Royal College of Music)

17.30–19.30


Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Lecture

Room ST273

Types and stereotypes: Sigmund Freud’s portrayal of Jews in Greater AustriaSiegbert Prawer (Oxford)

Thursday 13 May 2010

18.00–19.00


Lecture

Charles Clore House

Money laundering: where are the authorities going now?Andrew Haynes (Wolverhampton)

17.30–19.30



Germany Room

Abstraction and embodiment in the war filmRobert Burgoyne (St Andrews)



14.00–17.00


Seminar series: Legal history, family and child law

Charles Clore House

Issues in the legal history of family lawRebecca Probert (Warwick), Joanne Bailey (Oxford Brookes), Mary Sokol (UCL)

Greek martial arts and the professional hopliteJarryd Hoy

18.00–20.00



Room G35

Canto 84Martin Stoddard

18.00–20.00


Seminar

Room G37


10.00–18.00



Workshop

Macmillan Hall

Latin American Music Seminar

16.30–18.30



Room G34

18.30–20.30


Seminar series

Room 102

London Theatre seminar

14.00–16.30



Room ST273

Understanding and repairing neighbourly atrocity: perpetrators/bystanders/rescuersFor more information see p.7

Friday 14 May 2010

Saturday 15 May 2010

14.00–16.00


Seminar series: EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination)

Room G34

Historians of error: the Protestant attack on Platonic orientalismWouter Hanegraaff (Amsterdam)





Room G35

Horace Walpole and the collections at Strawberry HillBet McLeod (independent scholar)

17.00–19.00



Low Countries Room

Almost a separate race: race theory and the idea of Europe, 1771–1830Paul Stock (LSE)

Study day: performativity, poetry and creationFor more information see p.10

17.00–19.00



Germany Room

Religious practice and scientific benefaction: the case of Thomas Hollis the 3rd (1659–1731)Ric Whaite (King’s College London)

17.15–19.15




Small towns and economic changeRobert Peberdy (Oxfordshire Victoria County History)

18.00–19.30


Jacobsen Lecture

Beveridge Hall

Rationality and instrumental reasoningJohn Broome (Oxford)

9.30–19.00



Chancellor’s Hall

Monday 17 May 2010

Tuesday 18 May 2010

18.00–20.00

Institute of Classical StudiesInstitute of English Studies

Lecture

Room G22/24

Looking at the Acropolis in the age of EnlightenmentWilliam St Clair (Institute of English Studies)



12.30–14.00


Dean’s Seminar

Room G37

Mothers, wives and welfare politics in Latin America (title tbc)For more information see p.6

17.00–19.00


Seminar series

Room G22/24

Classical archaeology seminar

17.30–19.30



Room G16

English in diaspora: Canada/Australia/New ZealandJohn Harris (UCL)

18.00–20.00


Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar

Room ST273

German ‘Gastarbeiter’: female work and life experiences in post-war BritainInge Weber-Newth (London)



Research Training

Venue tbc



17.00–19.30

Seminar


Room G21a

Alineamientos politicos de los gobiernos y politicas laborales en América Latina en la década del 2000Graciela Bensusan (UNAM, Mexico)

16.30–19.30



Room G22/24

Classical GreeceRobin Osborne (Cambridge) and Alan Johnson (UCL; Institute of Classical Studies)



17.30–19.30



Low Countries Room

Exiled English convents and the French RevolutionCaroline Watkinson (Queen Mary)



Room ST274/ST275

Polemical AustriaFor more information see p.11

10.00–18.00



Chancellor’s Hall

Women and US foreign policyFor more information see p.11

The role of Cupid in Claudian’s Epithalamium de Nuptiis HonoriiClare Coombe

17.30–19.00


Lecture

Charles Clore House

Issues in legal history (tbc)John Tribe (Kingston)

16.30–18.30



Room G34

9.30–18.30



Room G22/24

Experience and phenomenal qualitiesFor more information see p.11

Friday 21 May 2010

17.30–19.30 PM Institute of Historical Research


Seminar series: American history

Pollard Room

Roundtable discussion of Daniel Walker Howe, What hath God wrought: the transformation of America, 1815–1848 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007)

17.30–19.30



Room G37

Notes from the Imperial undergroundTim Harper (Cambridge)



17.00–19.00


Seminar series: Low countries

Low Countries Room

Low Countries divines and England’s Second Reformation 1636–62Anthony Milton (Sheffield)

17.30–17.30


Lecture

Room G35

MMSDA public lectureSimon Tanner (King’s College London)

17.30–19.30



Pollard Room

Postgraduates working on modern France present their research

17.30–19.30



Low Countries Room

Making the English patient (consumer): patient groups and health consumerism, 1960s–2000sAlex Mold (School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

17.30–19.30



Wolfson Room

The new spring gardens: a patriot Elysium at Vauxhall 1732–1751Suzannah Fleming (The Temple Trust)

11.30–17.00


The Virgil Society

Room G22/24

Reading of Virgil’s Muse, a play by Oliver Chadwick (d.2009) Annual General MeetingVirgil and Horace – Friendship with DifferencesHarry Eyres

Saturday 22 May 2010

Monday 24 May 2010

Tuesday 25 May 2010

14.30–18.00


Seminar

Charles Clore House

European criminal law and human rightsJohn Spencer, William Robinson, William Dale (Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies), Me Bertrand Favreau (Europena Bar Human Rights Institute), Jodie Blackstock (JUSTICE), Simone White (European Anti-Fraud Office; Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)



Notes from the rotten West: Soviet correspondents in the United States, 1950–1985Dina Fainberg (Rutgers)

18.00–20.00


John Coffin Trust lecture-recital

Goodenough College

Old Hispanic chantFor more information see p.5

18.00–20.00



Low Countries Room

19.00–21.00


Seminar series: London Society for Medieval Studies

Wolfson Room

The Normans and empireDavid Bates (East Anglia)


Seminar

Room ST274

Seminar in visual culture 2010: the art of murderNever afraid – murder at crimes townSarah SparkesMonochrome mirror: representing Dennis NilsenLisa Downing

11.00–17.00



Workshop

Chancellor’s Hall

Migration and health rights

12.00–13.30



Room ST274

Gentrification and artRicarda Vidal (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies)

17.00–19.00



Wolfson Room

Black political activism in Britain, 1900–1965Marika Sherwood (Black and Asian Studies Association)


17.30–19.30




Dulwich College Library

Visit to Dulwich College Library Keith A Manley (Institute of Historical Research)



The origins of a coming ideal: meritocracy in Britain 1750–1850Penelope J Corfield

17.15–19.15



Wolfson Room

17.00–19.00



Room 104

History of communication: seminar 7

17.15–19.30


English Goethe Society: Ida Herz Lecture

Room ST273

Jewish Names in Thomas MannYahya Elsaghe (Berne)


Research Training

Venue tbc


16.00–19.30



Room G22/24

The central Mediterranean 600–300Tim Cornell (Manchester) and Gabriele Cifani (Rome)


18.00–20.00


ICLS-FBSA Lecture

Room G22/24

The Antikythera Mechanism: a Hellenistic planetariumMichael Wright (Science Museum)

18.00–20.00


Seminar series: United States

G21a

TBAMartin Halliwell, University of Leicester

In collaboration with the American Popular Culture Group, London Metropolitan University

17.00–18.00

Warburg Institute


European encounters with ‘the Other’ in 16th- century cartographySandra Sáenz-López Pérez (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Madrid):



17.30–19.30


Seminar Series

Room G34

T. S. Eliot Research SeminarStefan Collini, Alexis Kirschbaum, George Simmers

10.00–16.00


Workshop

Court Room

Understanding South India

Friday 28 May 2010



Chancellor’s Hall

New insight into Gramsci’s life and workFor more information see p.12

16.30–18.30



Room G34

Roman non-elite urban housingColin Runeckles

18.00–20.00


Seminar

Room G37


14.00–16.30



Room G35

Understanding and repairing neighbourly atrocity: drawing linesFor more information see p.7

18.00–20.30



Charles Clore House

Held to account: political and military leaders should be subject to trial in England for alleged war crimes committed abroadFor more information see p.11

17.30–19.30



Germany Room

Leni Riefenstahl, Charlie Chan, Tarzan and the 1936 OlympicsJeffrey Richards (Lancaster)



Between radicalism and rationalism: the strange case of English antitrinitarianism between 1640 and 1660Paul Lim (Vanderbilt)

17.00–19.00



Germany Room

Tuesday 1 June 2010

18.00–20.00


Black Britain Seminar Series

Room G35

Black West Indians in Britain and the politics of empire, c.1931–48Daniel Whittall

13:30–18.30


South Asia Music and Dance Forum

Room G34

New research in Indian musicSpeakers include: Martin Clayton (Open University) and Laura Leante (Open University)

17.15–19.15




Myths beside the seaside – the influence of myths on how history of the City of Brighton and Hove is perceivedSue Berry

17.30–19.30



Room G37

An ‘unglamorous’ profession? The public librarian in late-Victorian LondonMichelle Johansen (East London; Bishopsgate Institute; Birkbeck)

18.00–20.00


Wyndham Lewis Reading Group

Room G35

Garbo, Nabokov and the revenge for loveAnthony Paraskeva (Dundee)


Fellows’ Annual Lecture

Venue tbc

The gilded stage and beyond: why history and the arts should get together more oftenDaniel Snowman

Wednesday 2 June 2010

18.30–20.00


Seminar

British Library

Revolutions! US and Spanish-American independence comparedSir John Elliott (Oxford), James Dunkerley (Queen Mary), Simon Newman (Glasgow), Anthony McFarlane (Warwick)

In collaboration with the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library



9.00–18.00


Workshop

Court Room

India and China in comparative perspective

16.30–19.30



Room G22/24

Imperial RomeNeville Morley (Bristol) and Kris Lockyear (UCL)

17.00–18.30



Room G35

Politics, music and the idea of sovereignty in the early modern worldDavid RM Irving (Cambridge)

Chair: Katherine Butler Brown (King’s College London)


Research Training

Venue tbc


3–4 June



Room ST274/5

Seventh international postgraduate conference on current research in Austrian literatureFor more information see p.12

17.30–19.30


Seminar series: History of education

Germany Room

The growth of mass literacy in Britain during the 18th centurySteven Cowan (Institute of Education)

3–4 June



Charles Clore House

Regulating and deregulating lawyers in the 21st centuryFor more information see p.12

Thursday 3 June 2010

19.00–21.00


Reading

Austrian Cultural Forum

Lydia Mischkulnig reading



16.30–18.30


Seminar series

STB9

Digital classicists seminar

17.30–19.30



Wolfson Room

Fit for a queen: creating and maintaining the London gardens of Catherine of BraganzaDavid Marsh (Birkbeck)

11.00–13.00


Seminar series:

Room G34

London 19th century studies seminarIsobel Armstrong (Birkbeck)

14.00–18.00


Research Training

Room ST275

Workshop on: the PhD viva, applying for a job, getting your PhD publishedFor more information see p.63

14.00–16.00


Seminar series: Education in the long 18th century

Germany Room

What DID 18th-century women know? Clues about girls’ education to be found in textile objectsBridget Long (Hertfordshire)

14.00–16.00


Seminar series: EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination)

Room G34

Early modern heterodoxiesWilliam Poole, Richard Serjeantson and Rhodri Lewis,

Friday 4 June 2010

Saturday 5 June 2010



Room G35

Odoardo Farnese’s collection of exotica, curiosities, ‘mirabilia’ and ‘naturalia’Antonio Denunzio (Bank of San Paolo, Naples)

Monday 7 June 2010




Research Training

Venue tbc

Internet sources for historical researchFor more information see p.64

17.00–19.00


Seminar

Room G21a

IP logic and metaphysics forumArif Ahmed (Cambridge)

18.00–20.00



Low Countries Room

Statesmen, smugglers and sideshows: British policy towards international efforts to control private armaments manufacture and the Arms Trade, 1917–35Ed Packard (LSE)

9.00–18.00


Workshop

Room G37

Sri Lanka (title tba)

16.00–18.00



Room ST273

‘Minima Moralia’ – Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben (1951; selection): I Theodor W.Adorno

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

18.00–19.00


Lecture

Charles Clore House

Legislative form and the European UnionNeville March Hunnings

Tuesday 8 June 2010

18.00–19.30


Seminar

Charles Clore House

The best interests of the child: current issues?Helen Codd (Lancashire Law School, UCLAN; Institute of Advanced Legal Studies), Jonathan Herring (Oxford) and Helen Reece (LSE)

9–14 June

Warburg Institute

June Bruno Seminar

Giordano BrunoMiguel Angel Granada (Barcelona) and Jürgen Renn (Max Planck)




12.30–14.00


Dean’s Seminar

Room G37

How do you solve a problem like Edmund Curll?Pat Rogers (School Fellow; South Florida)


14.00–18.00


Colloquium

Room ST274/ST275

Popular Music ColloquiumConvenors: Allan Moore (Surrey) and Tim Hughes (Surrey)

15.00–17.00


Seminar

Room ST276

Lydia Mischkulnig – meet the authorContact: [email protected]

17.00–19.00



Wolfson Room

New questions in the history of the early modern clerical profession: a prolegomenon for researchArthur Burns (King’s College London), Kenneth Fincham (Kent) and Stephen Taylor (Reading)

17.30–18.30


Lecture

Beveridge Hall

Serving the next generation – the Commonwealth in the 21st century: movement for colonial freedomTony Benn


Research Training

Venue tbc



10.00–16.00


Research Training

Room G32

Careers workshopFor more information see p.64

13.00–16.00


Workshop

Room G22/24

Byzantine workshop



16.30–19.30



Room G22/24

Indo-Roman tradeDominic Rathbone (King’s College London) and Roberta Tomber (British Museum)

17.00–18.30


Seminar

Room G35

Computational thinking in music composition: a personal perspectiveMichael Edwards (Edinburgh)

Chair: Michael Vaughan (Keele)

17.30–20:00


Lecture

Charles Clore House

US immigration reformStephen Legomsky (Washington, St Louis)

17.30–19.30


Corresponding Fellow’s Lecture

Room ST273

Deutsch-jüdische Literatur und Kulturgeschichte: Zur Entwicklung eines Forschungsfelds in den letzten 30 JahrenHans-Otto Horch (Aachen)

17.30–18.30

Warburg Institute

Lecture

What was historia Sacra? Using Christian pasts in an age of ReformationsSimon Ditchfield (York)

15.00–17.00


Denkanstöße Seminars

Room ST276

The interrelationship between British and Austrian youth culture 1960–90Bianca Zaininger (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies)

Friday 11 June 2010 11–12 June


IHR/Warwick conference

Venue tbc

Re-thinking 17th-century AmericaFor more details see p.12

11–12 June



Room G22/24

Humans and other animals: challenging the boundaries of humanity For more details see p.12



12.00–13.30



Room ST273

Odour and mediaHyunseon Lee

16.30–18.30


Seminar

STB9

Seminar series: digital classicists

18.00–20.00



Room G35

Canto 32Eric White (Oxford Brookes)

18.00–20.00


Seminar

Room G37


11.00–13.00


Djuna Barnes Research Seminar

Room G21a

Presenting from ‘Improper Modernism: Djuna Barnes’ Bewildering Corpus’Daniela Caselli (Manchester) Followed by (weather permitting) picnic in Russell Square Gardens.

14–15 June



Room ST274/ST275

Cultural institutions and literary reception in EuropeFor more information see p.13

17.00–19.00



Low Countries Room

Debauchery in 18th-century France (title tbc)Lisa Jane Graham (Haverford College)

Saturday 12 June 2010

Monday 14 June 2010

14–15 June


Colloquium

Venue tbc

Annual Byzantine ColloquiumFor more information see p.13




Research Training

Venue tbc

Databases for historiansFor more information see p.64

17.00–19.00



Germany Room

Clerical pluralism and incomes in Canterbury Diocese, 1600–1715Tom Reid (Kent)

Tuesday 15 June 2010

17.30–19.30



Room G16

South Africa: a creole society and its literatureChristopher Heywood (Sheffield)

17.15–19.15




The other Londons: North AmericaChristopher Currie (Institute of Historical Research)

16.00–18.00


Seminar

Room ST275

Measuring the world. 20th-century Austrian writers abroadSlow HomecomingPeter Handke

17.00–19.30


Caribbean Seminar Series

Room ST273

Seminar and book launchPost-Colonial Trinidad: An Ethnographic JournalColin and Gillian Clarke

17.00–19.00


Lecture

Room G22/24

JP Barron Memorial LectureChristopher Pelling (Oxford)




17–18 June



Charles Clore House

Cities and nationalismsFor more information see p.13


Research Training

Venue tbc

Explanatory paradigms: an introduction to historical theoryJohn Tosh, John Seed and Sally Alexander

9.30–18.00



Comics and medicine: medical narrative in graphic novelsFor more information see p.13


17–19 June


Conference

Beveridge Hall

The world as will and consciousness: celebrating the work of Brian O’ShaughnessyFor more information see p.13

17.30–19.30


Senate House Library Friends Talk

Room 102

Libraries across cultures: developing a new academic library in EgyptBill Simpson

18.00–19.00


Lecture

Charles Clore House

Formalism, contract law and the marketJohn Gava (Adelaide; Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)

18–19 June


LOMERS annual conference

Studies in Cotton Nero A.x (the Gawain-Manuscript)For more information see p.14

10.00–18.00

Warburg Institute

Colloquium

Sense, affect and self-preservation in Bernardino Telesio (1509–88)For more information see p.14

Friday 18 June 2010



16.30–18.30


Seminar series

STB9


17.30–19.30



Wolfson Room

Medicinal apothecaries and gardens in Venice and London in the 16th centuryValentina Pugliano (Oxford)

Monday 21 June 2010

21–22 June



Charles Clore House

From Duvalier to Préval : Haiti yesterday, today and tomorrowFor more information see p.14

22–25 June


Summer School

London Palaeography Summer SchoolFor more information see p.19

17.30–19.30



Low Countries Room

To create community: some contrasting inter-war initiatives in the UKLesley Hall (Wellcome Library)

23–25 June



Patrick White: modernist impact/critical futuresFor more information see p.14


18.00–19.00


Lecture

Charles Clore House

Sir Owen Dixon’s strict and complete legalism in the 21st centuryJohn Gava (Adelaide; Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)

17.15–19.15



Wolfson Room

Britain’s lost revolution: remembering the Gordon Riots on their 230th anniversaryIan Haywood and John Seed (Roehampton), Tim Hitchcock and Matthew White (Hertfordshire)




24–26 June




The history of families & households: comparative European dimensionsFor more information see p.15


Research Training

Venue tbc


17.00–19.30


Seminar

STB9

Beyond the fur trade: the French in Michigan before 1837Guillaume Teasdale (York, Toronto)

17.00–19.00



Room 104

Seminar 8

18.00–19.00


Lecture

Charles Clore House

Credit rating agencies and global governanceHarry McVea (Bristol; Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)

18.00–20.00


John Coffin Trust lecture-recital

Goodenough College

Performing Haydn’s piano musicTom Beghin (McGill) in conversation with John Irving (Institute of Musical Research)

14.00–17:00



Court Room

Understanding and repairing neighbourly atrocity: truth, justice and reparationsFor more information see p.7

Friday 25 June 2010

24–25 June



Charles Clore House

The historical roots of social exclusion in Latin America and the CaribbeanFor more information see p.14



16.30–18.30


Seminar series

STB9


28–29 June



Women writers of the fin de siècleFor more information see p.15

18.00–20.00


Seminar

Room G37


10.00–19.00




VCH international symposium and Marc Fitch lectureFor more information see p.15

28 June–2 July


Summer School

London Rare Books School: week 1For more information see p.19

29 June–1 July


W G Hart Legal Workshop

Charles Clore House

Comparative perspectives on constitutions: theory and practice For more information see p.15

Tuesday 29 June 2010

Monday 28 June 2010

29–30 June



Wolfson and Pollard rooms

History Lab annual conference

29 June–3 July


Summer School

Memory, empire and technologyFor more information see p.20



18.00–19.00


John Coffin Memorial Lecture in the History of the Book

Room G22/24

Presence and absence in Keats’s lettersFor more information see p.5

17.00–19.00



Germany Room

Free will and enclosure: recruitment and motivation in the English convents in exile 1600–1700Caroline Bowden (Queen Mary), Katharine Keats-Rohan and Katrien Daemen DeGelder (Ghent)


1–3 July 2010



Senate House

The symphony orchestra as cultural phenomenonFor more information see p.16

1–2 July



Beveridge Hall

Environments79th Anglo-American conference of historiansFor more information see p.16

17.30–19.30


Lecture

Sussex University

To make democracy safe for the world: the Southern US sources of the global push for privatisationNancy MacLean (Northwestern)

The James Bryce Lecture on the American Commonwealth and plenary address for the 2010 Historians of the Twentieth Century United States conference.

16.30–18.30


Seminar series

STB9


11.00–13.00


London 19th century seminar series

Room G16

Close-reading Victorian poetryCatherine Maxwell (Queen Mary)

Thursday 1 July 2010

Friday 2 July 2010

Saturday 3 July 2010




Research Training

Venue tbc

Methods and sources for historical researchFor more information see p.61

5–9 July


Summer School

London Rare Books School: Week 2For more information see p.19

Monday 5 July 2010

16.00–18.00


German Philosophy Seminar

Room ST276

‘Minima Moralia’ – Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben (1951; selection): IITheodor W Adorno

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

15.00


Lecture-recital

Goodenough College

Practising research in performance: Beethoven’s chamber musicJohn Irving (Institute of Musical Research), fortepiano; Jane Booth, clarinet; Jennifer Morsches, cello

7–9 July



Literary London 2010: representations of London in literatureFor more information see p.16

7–9 July


Centre for Contemporary British History annual conference

Senate House

Reassessing the seventiesFor more information see p.16

18.00–19.00


Hilda Hulme Memorial Lecture

Beveridge Hall

Dickens and ShakespeareFor more information see p.5

Tuesday 6 July 2010

Wednesday 7 July 2010



16.30–18.30


Seminar series

STB9



Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture

Beveridge Hall

London and the making of the permissive societyFrank Mort (Manchester University)


Friday 9 July 2010


Conference/SymposiumJohn Buchan and the idea of modernityFor more information see p.17

10–17 July


Summer School

The T. S. Eliot International Summer SchoolFor more information see p20.

15.00–16.30


Lecture-recital

Morden College Chapel, Blackheath

Practising research in performance: Beethoven’s chamber musicJohn Irving (Institute of Musical Research), fortepiano; Jane Booth, clarinet and Jennifer Morsches, cello

13–14 July



Beveridge Hall

Emergence in physicsFor more information see p.17


Research Training

Venue tbc

Databases for historians II: practical database toolsFor more information see p.64


Tuesday 13 July 2010





15–17 July



Senate House

BoundariesFor more information see p.17

16–17 July



STB3–6

Poetic practice and the practice of poetics in French since 1945For more information see p.17

16.30–18.30


Seminar series

STB9


10.00–16.00



Room G16

Language Policy/Practice Seminar Series: summary of the seriesFor more information see p.17


Conference/SymposiumReading conflict: Open University postgraduate conferenceFor more information see p.18

9.00–18.00


Workshop

Room ST274/ST275

Commerce and migrationJohn Villiers (Royal Asiatic Society), Marie-Claude Machon (Sorbonne),

Rogerio Puga (Nova de Lisboa), Shihan de Silva (Institute of Commonwealth Studies), Rolf Killius (Horniman Museum, London)

Friday 16 July 2010


Monday 19 July 2010



Events calendarEvents calendar

Friday 23 July 2010

Friday 30 July 2010

Friday 6 August 2010

Friday 13 August 2010

16.30–18.30


Seminar series

STB9


16.30–18.30


Seminar series

STB9


16.30–18.30


Seminar series

STB9



Seminar series

STB9


22–24 July



Victorian popular culture: prose, stage & screenFor more information see p.18


April–August 2010


2 April 2010

10.00–17.00



Composing for percussion and live electronics workshop IConvenor: Scott Wilson (Birmingham), with Joby Burgess and Eric Bumstead (Birmingham)

This workshop will offer a maximum of 6 student composers the opportunity to gain experience in composing for percussion with live electroacoustics. Held at the Elgar Concert Room, Arts Building, University of Birmingham.

12–16 April 2010

Institute of Historical ResearchMethods and sources for historical researchThis long-standing course is an introduction to finding and using primary sources for research in modern British, Irish and colonial history. The course will include visits to the British Library, the National Archives, the Wellcome Institute and the House of Lords Record Office, amongst others.

Fee £185. Contact: [email protected]

19 April 2010

Institute of Historical ResearchFreedom of information: a practical guide for historiansA practical guide to using the Freedom of Information Act to find and obtain historical source material.


22 April–24 June 2010

(Thursdays)


Explanatory paradigms: an introduction to historical theorySpeakers: Sally Alexander, John Seed, John Tosh

A critical introduction to current approaches to historical explanation. The contrasting explanatory frameworks offered by Marxism, psychoanalysis, gender analysis and Paul Ricoeur’s work on narrative form the central discussion points of the course, equipping students to form their own judgements on the schools of thought most influential in the modern discipline.


Research trainingThe School draw on the research and teaching expertise of the Institutes to provide a programme of discipline-specific and generic research training to support scholarly development. The following research training events are also listed in the events calendar. For further information visit www.sas.ac.uk/researchtraining.html or contact [email protected] unless otherwise stated.

Research training



23 April 2010

14.00–17.00



Composing for percussion and live electronics workshop IIConvenor: Scott Wilson (Birmingham), with Joby Burgess and Eric Bumstead (Birmingham)

Second of three workshops offering 6 student composers the opportunity to gain experience in composing for percussion with live electronics. Held at the Elgar Concert Room, Arts Building

3 May 2010

10.00–17.00



Composing for percussion and live electronics workshop IIIConvenor: Scott Wilson (Birmingham), with Joby Burgess and Eric Bumstead (Birmingham)

Third of three workshops offering 6 student composers the opportunity to gain experience in composing for percussion with live electronics. Held at the Elgar Concert Room, Arts Building

6 May 2010

14.00–17.00


Room ST275

Getting research publishedOpen to research students in the humanities and social sciences to attend.

6 May 2010

14.00–17.00


Room 254

EndNote: intermediary training in electronic bibliographic techniquesNumbers are strictly limited.

29 April 2010

14.00–17.00


Room ST273

Teaching skills for the PhD studentOpen to research students in the humanities and social sciences to attend.

29 April 2010

14.00–17.00


Room 254

EndNote: basic training in electronic bibliographic techniquesNumbers are strictly limited.

Research training

7 May 2010

10.00–17.00


Room ST274

Joint postgraduate training programme in ItalianThis programme is a partnership of the Departments of Italian at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Reading, and Royal Holloway and UCL. It provides training in Italian Studies for research students and is also an opportunity for meeting and networking between both students and staff. Contact: [email protected]

8 May 2010

10.30–16.15


Room ST273

Workshop on: organising a conference, giving a paper, writing an article, editing books and journalsCourse convenor: Katia Pizzi


10 May 2010

Institute of Historical ResearchInterviewing for researchersSpeaker: Michael Kandiah (Institute of Historical Research)

For those who wish to investigate the recent past, collecting the testimony of relevant individuals is a vital resource. This course offers practical information and training on how to interview and how to use interviews for the purposes of research. Led by Dr Michael Kandiah, Director of the Oral History Programme, CCBH, Institute of Historical Research, this course will examine: (1) how to interview public officials (politicians and civil servants), security and intelligence personnel, scientists and technicians, and medical professionals; (2) what are the best practices for recording, preserving and transcription of interviews; (3) how to ensure interviewing techniques are ethical; (4) copyright and data protection issues; (5) alternative techniques such as group interviewing; and (6) the advantages and limitations of interviews. Fee £70.


11 May 2010

14;00–16.00


Room ST275

Careers workshop: interview skills for academic jobsOpen to research students in the humanities and social sciences to attend.

12 May 2010

10:30–17.30


Newcastle University

Creative practice as research: research as creative practiceConvenor: Agustin Fernandez (Newcastle)

Speakers include Richard Wistreich (Royal Northern College of Music) with participation from academic staff and recently-completed PhD students from the International Centre for Music Studies (ICMuS). To be held at the ICMus, CETL Seminar Room, Armstrong Building, Newcastle University.

5 June 2010

14.00–18.00


Room ST275

The PhD viva, applying for a job, getting your PhD publishedFree to graduate students in departments subscribing either under the Institute’s membership scheme or in departments which have registered as participants in the Research Training Network.


10–11 May 2010

Warburg Institute

Warburg- Warwick Research Training Programme

Resources and techniques for the study of Renaissance and early modern cultureThe teachers come from the Warburg Institute and the Warwick’s Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. The course covers electronic resources, archival sources, manuscripts, books and images.


Research training


Events calendar

10 June 2010

10.00–16.00


Room G32

Careers workshopCareer planning beyond academia; CVs and application forms; personality profiling; interview skills and interview skills specifically for academic jobs.

15–18 June 2010

Institute of Historical ResearchDatabases for historians Speaker: Mark Merry

This four-day course introduces the theory and practice of constructing and using databases. Through a mixture of lectures and practical, hands-on, sessions, students will be taught both how to use and adapt existing databases, and how to design and build their own. No previous specialist knowledge apart from an understanding of historical analysis is needed. The software used is MS Access, but the techniques demonstrated can easily be adapted to any package. This course is open to postgraduate students, lecturers and all who are interested in using databases in their historical research.


5–9 July 2010

Institute of Historical ResearchMethods and sources for historical researchThis long-standing course is an introduction to finding and using primary sources for research in modern British, Irish and colonial history. The course will include visits to the British Library, the National Archives, the Wellcome Institute and the House of Lords Record Office, amongst others.


14–16 July 2010

Institute of Historical ResearchDatabases for historians II: practical database toolsThe aim of this course is to develop the practical skills necessary for constructing and fully exploiting a database for use in historical research. Assuming a basic understanding of the conceptual issues in digitally managing information from historical sources, the course aims to introduce the specific tools and techniques required for improving the utility of the database from the data entry stage, through to the generation and presentation of analysis. The course consists of ‘hands-on’ practical sessions in which students are provided with practical guidance on employing these techniques through the use of Microsoft Access. Familiarity with the basic concepts of database use is required.


8 June 2010

Institute of Historical ResearchInternet sources for historical researchThis course provides an intensive introduction to use of the internet as a tool for serious historical research. It includes sessions on academic mailing lists, usage of gateways, search engines and other finding aids, and on effective searching using Boolean operators and compound search terms, together with advice on winnowing the useful matter from the vast mass of unsorted data available, and on the proper caution to be applied in making use of online information.


Research training


Calls for papers

Calls for papersArt musics of Israel: identities, ideologies, influences28 –31 March 2011


CFP deadline: Monday 5 July 2010, at 12 noon GMT

Israel has become the home of a range of art musics that are not widely familiar, and represents a fascinating crucible for the study of creativity in a young nation state. This conference intends to explore the ways in which Israeli music and musical life throw light on aesthetic issues of wide relevance. These include the balance of regional and international musical elements, the interfaces between art and popular styles and the integration of a variety of musical sources, such as liturgical, folk, pop and local idioms. Discussion about repertories that challenge conventional notions of genre and style will also be welcome.

Papers of 30 minutes based on new research and to include musical examples, will be welcomed – as will live or recorded musical presentations of one hour about specific composers by composers or performers that include some scholarly introduction to the material. The official language of the conference is English. It is envisaged that selected papers will be published in a volume of proceedings. There will be an award for the best paper by a postgraduate student. Please send an abstract of 250 to 300 words together with your biography of up to 150 words, and with your contact details to the Conference Director, Malcolm Miller.

Jewish Music Institute Forum for Israeli Music at SOAS in association with the Institute of Musical Research

Web: www.music.sas.ac.uk/imr-events/imr-conferences-colloquia-performance-events/art-musics-of-israel-identities-ideologies-influences.html#c1429


Reading conflict: Open University postgraduate conference19 July 2010


CFP deadline: 19 April 2010

Keynote lecture by Sarah Brouillette (MIT)

This conference examines the role of postcolonial studies in relation to other critical disciplines, and asks what is the role of the creative voice in conflict zones? How do we read during conflict? And what is the role of publishing during conflict? We invite 20–minute papers, as well as 60–minute panel proposals, from postgraduate students and early career researchers that engage with, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Conflict and the Creative Voice

• Reading during Conflict

• Conflict and Publishing

• Conflict and the History of the Book

• Conflict and Travel Writing

• Conflict and the Canon

• Conflict between Literary Disciplines

• Conflict between Literary Genres

• Conflict within Postcolonial Studies

• Conflict, Empire and Postcolonialism

Website: www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2010/Conflict/index.htm


Organised by the Open University Postcolonial Literatures Research Group


How to find usVenue

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

Rooms listed in the events brochure are located as follows:

Beveridge Hall Senate House, ground floor

Chancellor’s Hall Senate House, first floor

Court Room Senate House, first floor

Room STB2 Stewart House, basement



Room G22/24 Senate House, ground floor

Room G34 Senate House, ground floor



Macmillan Hall Senate House, ground floor

Room 102 Senate House, first floor

Room 103 Senate House, first floor

Room 254, Library Training Suite Senate House Library

Room 273 Stewart House, second floor




The School Common Room Senate House, third floor

Ecclesiastical History Room Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block

Germany Room Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block

Low Countries Room Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block

Wolfson Room Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block

Charles Clore House Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square

Warburg Institute Woburn Square

External venues listed in this events brochure (see event listings for details)

Austrian Cultural Forum Modern College Chapel, Blackheath

British Library Newcastle University

Goodenough College Sussex University

Gresham College The Goldsmith’s Company

Institute of Archaeology, UCL University of Bordeaux

Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS University of Birmingham

How to find us


How to find us


By tube

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

By rail

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

By air

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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