School of Advanced Study Events Brochure - February / March / April 2015

february/march/april 2015

hundreds of events

highlighting research in the

humanities

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker highlights 12

Exhibitions 16

Events calendar – Listings 19

Seminar series 74

Research training 81

Calls for papers 82

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History

Philosophy

Culture, language & literature

Human rights

Politics

Law

Music

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February

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

Time: 18:00–19:30Date: 5 February

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


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


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

Time: 09:15–20:00Date: 26–27 February


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

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

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

Time: 10:00–18:00Date: 5–6 March

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

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

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

Time: 9:30–17:00Date: 20–21 March


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

Time: 18.00–20:00Date: 25 March




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

Time: 10:00–17:00Date: 23 April 2015


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the new philosophy of photography13–14 February 2015

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

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

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

19 February 2015

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


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

24 February 2015

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

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


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experimental narrativesFrom the novel to digitalstorytelling

26–27 February 2015

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


framing victorySalamis, the Athenian Acropolis and the Agora

4 March 2015

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


afterlife of greek tragedy5–6 March 2015

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


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

27 March 2015

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


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london and the first world war20–21 March 2015

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


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

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second international conference on music and consciousness14–17 April 2015

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


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

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Marginal presences Unorthodox belief andpractice, 1837–2014

23 April 2015

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

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

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


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


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

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


Brazilian diaries with Michael Palin and alan charlton 5 February 2015

Michael PalinActor, comedian, television presenter, author

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

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

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



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

20 February 2015

David AndersonProfessor of African History, University of Warwick

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


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

18 February 2015

Pascal GrienerProfessor of Art History, Université de Neuchâtel

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

lachenmann at 8016 February 2015

Helmut LachenmannComposer

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

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Marketing and competition in ancient romeAccordia Italy lecture

3 March 2015

Marta García MorcilloSenior lecturer, University of Roehampton

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

inaugural lecture 19 March 2015

Lawrence GoldmanDirector of the Institute of Historical Research (IHR)

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



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

18 March 2015

Mark Doty, poet

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

Ruth Padel, poet

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


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european duty and dissentA Belgian example, Émile Cammaerts

19 March 2015

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

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

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

25 March 2015

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

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



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

25 March 2015

Tom Conley Abbott Lawrence LowellProfessor, Harvard University

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


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

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Duty and Dissent

12 January–6 June 2015

Senate House Library, Convocation Hall

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

The exhibition is free and no registration is required. Please contact Richard Espley with enquiries at [email protected]

Aldus Manutius and His Legacy

16 January–15 March 2015

Senate House Library, Membership Hall

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

The exhibition is free and no registration is required. Please contact Karen Attar with enquiries at [email protected]

Neuroses of War

16–31 March 2015


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

The exhibition is free and no registration is required. Please contact Mura Ghosh with enquiries at [email protected]

Exile Lives told through the Archives

1 April–30 May 2015


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

The exhibition is free and no registration is required. Please contact Clare George with enquiries at [email protected]

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Subject area key

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Human rights

Politics

Law

Music

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Monday 2Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Whistleblowers: better off in the UK or elsewhere in the EU?Gary Walker, Peter de Roeck, Simone White and Cathy James | Chair: Anna Myers | Registration requiredFree [email protected]

L OSeminar14:00–18:00Charles Clore House

Institute of Musical Research Cutting through the noise: learning to listen to acoustic recordings via a 21st-century reenactmentAmy Bliers-CarruthersFree [email protected]

MSeminar17:00–18:30Room 102

Institute of Classical Studies Maecenas the lyric tyrantEmily Gowers (Cambridge)Free [email protected]

C USeminar17:00–19:00Room 349

Institute of Historical Research

From Le Puy to Jerusalem: Raymond of Saint-Gilles, the Auvergne, and the ‘provencal’ background of the first CrusadeThomas Lecaque (Tennessee)Free [email protected]

HSeminar17:15–19:15North Block


Arming both sides: the armaments industry in World War OneMatthew Burnett-StewartFree [email protected]

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


Confederate conscription and the issue of genderPatrick Doyle (Royal Holloway)Free [email protected]

HSeminar17:30–19:30Room 103

Institute of Philosophy Practical reasoning seminarDoug Lavin (UCL)Free [email protected]

PSeminar17:30–19:30Room G34

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

reasoningJulien Murzi (Kent)Free [email protected]

PSeminar17:00–19:00Room 243


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Global histories of science and the bookJames Poskett (Cambridge)Free [email protected]

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


Vollrath von Maltzan: a German diplomat and ‘Mischlinge’ in Weimar, the Third Reich and the Federal Republic, 1899–1967Jean-Marc Dreyfus (Manchester)Free [email protected]



Puritanism and the Ten Commandments in post-Reformation EnglandJonathan Willis (Birmingham)Free [email protected]



Infancy rites of passage in Mamluk society (Egypt & Syria, 1250–1517)Catherine Rose (Queen Mary)Free [email protected]

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

Institute of English Studies Medieval manuscripts seminarFree [email protected]

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

Institute of English Studies | Institute of Historical Research

The archaeology of an Elizabethan library: reading Richard Stonley (c. 1520–1600)Jason Scott-Warren (Cambridge)Free [email protected]

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Seminar17:30–19:30Room G22/26


JFK’s coup dilemma: idealism, military regimes and the recognition problem, 1961–63Jeff Michaels (KCL)Free [email protected]



Like children with apples: knowing the Bible in medieval EnglandEyal Poleg (Queen Mary)Free [email protected]

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


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Events calendarFebruaryWednesday 4Warburg Institute The scientific interests of the Accademia

Olimpica of Vicenza (1556–86)Roberta Giubilini (Warburg Institute)Free [email protected]

H USeminar14:15–15:15Warburg Institute

Institute of Modern Languages Research

Voicing voluntary childlessness: narratives of non-mothering in contemporary FranceNatalie Edwards (Institute of Modern Languages Research/Adelaide)Free [email protected]



‘Morality, and in particular justice’: John Rawls and the normative turn in American ethical theory, 1955–63Kenzie Bok (Cambridge)Free [email protected]



William Hazlitt’s radical faithKevin Gilmartin Hazlitt (Caltech/York)Free [email protected]

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


Belgian army officer corps c. 1830–1918Mario Draper (Kent)Free [email protected]


Institute of English Studies London Old and Middle English research seminar (LOMERS)Natalie Jones (UCL)Free [email protected]

U HSeminar17:30–19:30Room G26


Dissident domesticity: an ethnographic conceptualist approach to house arrest and diplomatic asylumMichal Murawski (UCL) and Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll (artist)Free [email protected]



Charles Roach Smith and the illustrations of Roman London (1859)Roey Sweet (Leicester)Free [email protected]

H CSeminar17:30–19:30North Block


Coinage and the late Anglo-Saxon ‘state’Rory Naismith (Cambridge)Free [email protected]

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

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

HSeminar17:30–19:30Room G35

Institute of English Studies Contemporary innovative poetry research seminarFree [email protected]

USeminar18:00–20:00Room 104

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

Lucy JacksonFree [email protected]

CSeminar14:15–16:15Room 246

Warburg Institute Pacific frontiers: the Selden map and the redefinition of East Asia in the 17th centuryRobert Batchelor (Georgia Southern)Free [email protected]

U HLecture17:00–18:30Warburg Institute


Fighting corruption in the 14th century: Perugia and beyondGuy Geltner (Amsterdam)Free [email protected]



Protestant Ireland and the creation of the Restoration settlement, 1655–65Neil Johnston (UCD)Free [email protected]



The underground slave trade? Understanding the phenomenon of slave stealingLaura Sandy (Keele)Free [email protected]


Institute of Latin American Studies

Brazilian diaries: Michael Palin in conversation with Alan CharltonMichael Palin CBE FRGS and Alan Charlton (Institute of Latin American Studies Robin Humphreys Fellow) | Registration requiredFree [email protected]

U Colloquium18:00–19:30Beveridge Hall

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German autumn or Prague Spring? The Empire in 14th-century political cultureLen Scales (Durham) | Chair: John SabapathyFree [email protected]



Circular 10/65, comprehensive education and the hidden legacy of the 1944 Education ActGary McCulloch (Institute of Education)Free [email protected]



Karl Marx’s method and the study of historyJohn Foster (West of Scotland) | Chair: Richard SavilleFree [email protected]



Rashid al-Din, Bolad Chengxiang and cultural administration in the Mongol Empire: imperial ambitions and local identities in the production of art, history and scienceVivienne Lo (UCL), Wang Yidan (Peking) and Persis Berlekamp (Chicago)Free [email protected]

H USeminar17:30–19:30Room 243

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

A woman in charge: Elizabeth I’s scheme for access to justice, women’s rights, legal aid and no chicaneryDerek Roebuck and Francis BoormanFree [email protected]

L HSeminar18:00–20:00Charles Clore House


Constructing post-war Britain: building workers’ histories 1950–70Christine Wall (Westminster)Free [email protected]

HSeminar18:00–20:00Room G21A


Exotics from North America in the 18th centuryJean Stone (independent scholar/writer)Free [email protected]


Institute of English Studies Dickensian eventTony Jordan (Royal Holloway Victorian Studies Centre), Juliet John (Royal Holloway)Free [email protected]


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Institute of English Studies London theatre seminarFree [email protected]


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

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

U HColloquium10:00–18:00Warburg Institute

Institute of Philosophy Normativity: new directionsOrganised by Southern Normativity Group | Sophia Grace Chappell (Open), Louise Hanson (Cambridge), John Skorupski (St Andrews), Jennifer Saul (Sheffield), Paulina Sliwa (Cambridge), Pekka Vyrynen (Leeds), Jonathan Way (Southampton) and Jonathan Webber (Cardiff)Free [email protected]

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

Warburg Institute Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading groupCharles Burnett (Warburg Institute)Free [email protected]

U PSeminar13:00–14:15Warburg Institute


‘Every woman’s destiny is motherhood’: women and work in post-war Italy (1945–70)Pamela Schievenin (Institute of Historical Research/Glasgow)Free [email protected]



The development of the writ of ‘praemunire facias’ during the 14th centuryDaniel Gosling (Leeds)Free [email protected]



The lead books of Granada: film screening and discussionFilm screening and discussion | Oscar Berdullas Pomares (filmmaker) and Elizabeth Drayson (author, Cambridge)Free [email protected]


Institute of English Studies The Charles Peake Ulysses seminarFree [email protected]

USeminar18:00–20:00Room G35

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Events calendarFebruarySaturday 7Institute of English Studies Modernism and sport

Bernard Vere (Sotherby’s Institute of Art) and Richard Parker (Dokuz Eyll University, Izmir, Turkey)Free [email protected]


Monday 9Institute of Modern Languages Research

On the west–eastern couch: Empedocles and Lao-Tzu as vanishing mediatorsRegistration requiredFree [email protected]

U PSeminar16:00–18:00Room 246

Institute of Classical Studies Ancient philosophy seminarC.C.W. Taylor (Oxford)Free [email protected]

C PSeminar16:30–19:00Room 243

Institute of Classical Studies Greek and Latin literature seminarIan Rutherford (Reading)Free [email protected]



Gian Pietro Carafa and the reform of the Roman Church: concepts, institutions and inquisitions, 1524–42Andrea Vanni (York)Free [email protected]



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



Producing public history: how the National Football Museum created ‘The greater game: the history of football in World War One’Alex Jackson (National Football Museum)Free [email protected]



Book launch for The Rise of Heritage: Preserving the Past in France, Germany and England, 1789–1914 by Astrid Swenson (Brunel)Alison Carrol (Brunel), Richard J. Evans (Cambridge) and Peter Mandler (Cambridge)Free [email protected]


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Tuesday 10Institute of Historical Research

‘They got it all wrong!’ Victorian future war fiction and the First World WarJorit Wintjes (Wuerzburg)Free [email protected]



‘One of the best men of business we had ever met’: Thomas Drummond, the boundary commission and the 1832 Reform ActMartin Spychal (Institute of Historical Research/History of Parliament Trust)Free [email protected]



Learning to lead: the Admiralty and Pacific exploration in the long 18th centuryKatherine Parker (Pittsburgh)Free [email protected]



Sixty-one days at sea: fishermen, their rafts, and regional identity in the Brazilian northeastCourtney Campbell (Institute of Historical Research)Free [email protected]


Human Rights Consortium 5th international refugee law seminar series: ‘moving beyond protection space: developing a law of asylum in Asia’Martin Jones (York) | Registration requiredFree [email protected]

R OSeminar18:00–19:30Charles Clore House

Institute of English Studies ‘But do you actually read them?’: forty years of collecting fine bindingsFree [email protected]


Wednesday 11Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Investor protection and protectionist nature of the EU market for corporate controlJonathan Mukwiri (Durham/Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) | Registration requiredFree [email protected]

LSeminar12:00–14:00Charles Clore House

Warburg Institute Dante’s shadow: Ombra at the limits of the humanAndrew Hui (Warburg Institute)Free [email protected]

U HSeminar14:15–15:15Warburg Institute

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Institute of Classical Studies Social change in the Middle Helladic periodSophia Voutsaki (Groningen)Free [email protected]

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

Institute of Philosophy Chandaria lectureFree [email protected]

PLecture16:00–18:00Room 349

Warburg Institute Alberti self-fashionista: the name, the self-portrait, the autobiographyMartin McLaughlin (Oxford)Free [email protected]

U PLecture16:30–18:00Warburg Institute


‘The writings of querulous women’: contraception, conscience and clerical authority in 1960s BritainAlana Harris (Oxford)Free [email protected]



Germaine de Stael and the politics of passions, 1789–96Biancamaria Fontana (Lausanne)Free [email protected]



Refusing the unconscious? Second wave feminism and psychoanalysisElsa Richardson (Queen Mary)Free [email protected]



Bede’s world chronicles: a reappraisal of the ‘Chronica Minora’Marn MacCarron (Galway)Free [email protected]



John William Colenso, Bishop of Natal, and William Colenso of New Zealand: 19th-century protestant missionary cousins in conflict with their bishops and colonial governorsGwilym Colenso (London)Free [email protected]



Panel: comparative perspectives on museums and cultural exchangesJames Poskett (Cambridge) and Harry Stopes (UCL) | Chair: Axel KörnerFree [email protected]


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

archaeological investigation of the connection between the Greeks and the BalkansMarek VercikFree [email protected]


Institute of Classical Studies Electoral defeats and political career in the Roman RepublicFrancisco Pina Polo (Zaragoza)Free [email protected]

C OSeminar16:30–19:30Room G22/26


Of hungry hens and broken bones: gender and obscene humour in 16th-century St. GallenCarla Roth (Oxford)Free [email protected]



Hölderlin: tragedy and translationWorking group for the reception of German, Austrian and Swiss literature lecture | Jeremy Tambling (Manchester)Free [email protected]

ULecture17:30–19:30Room G35


Herbert’s hallways: navigating the magical, the middlebrow and the domestic in the London seriesHollie Price (Queen Mary)Free [email protected]



Manchurian candidates: brainwashing, the Cold War, and the history of the psy professionsOrganised with the University of Notre Dame and Centre for Global History, University of Oxford | Daniel Pick (Birkbeck) | Registration requiredFree [email protected]

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


Negotiating race and national identity in an African-descent Mexican communityLaura Lewis (Institute of Latin American Studies Fellow/Southampton)Free [email protected]

U RSeminar17:30–19:30Room 102

Institute of English Studies Postgraduate feminist reading groupFree [email protected]

U OSeminar18:30–20:00Room 246

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Events calendarFebruaryFriday 13Institute of Philosophy The new philosophy of photography

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

P 2-day workshop10:00–18:00Room 349

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



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

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


Creativity in contemporary Latin American cultureJulie Cupples (Edinburgh), Eamon McCarthy (Glasgow) and Mara Soledad Montaez (Stirling)Free [email protected]

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




The Netherlandishness of 16th- and 17th-century British art: the case of Cornelius JohnsonKaren Hearn (UCL)Free [email protected]



The price of trust: Jamaica, the Jewish diaspora and Spanish American trade, 1655–1730Nuala Zahedieh (Edinburgh)Free [email protected]


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The hue and cry in 13th-century EnglandKenneth Duggan (King’s, London)Free [email protected]


Institute of English Studies Ezra Pound Cantos reading group: Canto VIIIRobert Hampson (Royal Holloway)Free [email protected]


Institute of English Studies Romantic Ireland: history and illusionDavid Dwan (Oxford)Free [email protected]


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

Christine Kenyon Jones (King’s, London), Cheryl Kinney, Jane Darcy (UCL), Maggie Lane (author)£35 standard | £25 concession | £15 students [email protected]

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

Monday 16Institute of Musical Research Institute of Modern Languages Research

Lachenmann at 80Supported by the Hepner Foundation | Helmut Lachenmann in conversation with Julian Anderson, with performances of Lachenmann’s work | Max Paddison (Durham), Rüdiger Görner (Queen Mary), Ulrich Mosch (Geneva)Free [email protected]

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


Material effects: leave-taking and rituals of departure in preparation for the Fourth CrusadeAnne Lester (Colorado, Boulder)Free [email protected]



Charles Bradlaugh and the First InternationalDeborah LavinFree [email protected]


Institute of Philosophy Practical reasoning seminarJen Hornsby (Birkbeck)Free [email protected]


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

odoursFree [email protected]

PWorkshop10:00–18:30Room 246

Senate House Library Albert Einstein and Arthur Stanley Eddington: a pacifist relationshipLunchtime talk | Jordan Landes (SHL)Free [email protected]

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

Institute of Philosophy Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminarGuy Longworth (Warwick)Free [email protected]



Jewish chaplaincy and the British Armed Forces, 1892–1919Jonathan Lewis (UCL)Free [email protected]



The intellectual circle of Thomas Plume, 1630–1740Helen Kemp (Essex)Free [email protected]



After the accident: disability and work in British coalmines, 1880–1948Mike Mantin (Swansea)Free [email protected]



Retracing Victorian anti-racism: race, class and the network of Anti-Caste’s activistsCaroline Bressey (UCL)Free [email protected]


Institute of Classical Studies Perfume, flowers and deities in the western Greek world: the case study of GelaClaudia Lambrugo (Milan)Free [email protected]

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


Company numbers: a key resource in tracing businesses and their recordsAlex Ritchie (The National Archives)Free [email protected]


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Britain and the Muslim world, 1918–23Heather Campbell (Queen Mary)Free [email protected]



Sex backwards: sexology speaks about desire in communist CzechoslovakiaKateřina Lišková (Masaryk)Free [email protected]



‘Chile’s student uprising’: documentary and debate on privatisation of education in Chile and beyondPanelists: Roberto Navarrette (director), Ivette Hernandez (UCL Institute of Education) and Deborah Hermanns (National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts)Free [email protected]

U OOther events18:00–20:00Room 349


Narratives of the body in literature, art and filmResearch-in-progress presentations from doctoral students in Comparative LiteratureFree [email protected]



The endurance of old Gods: engaging with paganism in the eastern Baltic crusader statesAleks Pluskowski (Reading)Free [email protected]


Wednesday 18Institute of Modern Languages Research

The art of memory as cultural transfer: an Italian treatise of the 15th-century and its adoptionAngelika Kemper (Institute of Modern Languages Research/Klagenfurt)Free [email protected]


Institute of Philosophy Chandaria lectureFree [email protected]

PLecture16:00–18:00Room 349

Warburg Institute The power of plaster: Wilhelm von Humboldt and the experience of antique sculpture at Tegel castlePascal Griener (Neuchâtel)Free [email protected]

U Lecture16:30–17:30Warburg Institute

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Institute of Classical Studies Art or archaeology: ancient values and modern perceptions in Classical material cultureDavid Gill (Suffolk)Free [email protected]



‘Hobbes’s fool as ‘hostis humani generis’Max Jaede (St Andrews)Free [email protected]



The post-Restoration army: 1660–1714Ralph Thompson (The National Archives)Free [email protected]



Goats mingling with sheep? The British Army’s use of civilian experts during the First World WarAimee Fox (PhD student, Birmingham)Free [email protected]



Selling Paris: the commerce in real estate in the fin-de-siecleAlexia Yates (Cambridge)Free [email protected]



Bandiera Rossa: class struggle, the Allies and the Roman ResistanceManuele Cogni (Reading) and David Broder (LSE) | Chair: Christopher DugganFree [email protected]


Thursday 19Institute of Commonwealth Studies

What’s happening in Black British History? IIIn collaboration with the University of Liverpool | Convenors: Miranda Kaufmann and Michael Ohajuru£15 standard | £7.50 concession [email protected]

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


The (i)legitimacy of the duty of loyalty for corporate boardsDaniel Attenborough (Leicester) | Registration requiredFree [email protected]


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Institute of Classical Studies The enemy on stage: Rome’s invention of CarthageElena GiustiFree [email protected]


Institute of Classical Studies Consular lists supplementing calendars: Fasti and Roman prosopographyJörg Rüpke (Erfurt)Free [email protected]

CSeminar16:30–19:30Room G22/26


Burning things politically in late 17th-century LondonElaine Tierney (V&A)Free [email protected]



Privacy and community: urban planning for mental health in the American metropolis, c.1940–60Themis Chronopoulos (UEA) and Ed Ramsden (Queen Mary)Free [email protected]



Documents as art: England, France and Iberia, c.1200–1450Jessica Berenbeim (Oxford) | Chair: David CarpenterFree [email protected]



Inventing history: Eric Hobsbaum on nations and classesDavid Howell (York) | Chair: Richard SavilleFree [email protected]



Communications, media and the imperial experience: Britain and India in the 20th centuryAward of the annual doctoral prize | Jointly sponsored by the Centre for Media History, University of Aberystwyth | Drinks reception to follow | Chandrika Kaul (St Andrews)Free [email protected]



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


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My family in exileThird Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller memorial lecture | Dame Stephanie ShirleyFree [email protected]

ULecture18:00–19:30Court Room


Indian influence in the 18th-century British gardenDiane James (Warwick)Free [email protected]


Friday 20Warburg Institute Philosophers in the kitchen

Annalisa Ceron (Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli), Sam Galson (Princeton), Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute), Sara Miglietti (Warwick), Cecilia Muratori (Warburg Institute), Valery Rees (School of Economic Science) and Annika Willer (LMU Munich) | Registration required£25 standard | £12.50 concession [email protected]

P UColloquium10:00–18:00Warburg Institute

Institute of Commonwealth Studies

The hidden history of decolonization: what do the ‘migrated archives’ reveal about British withdrawal from Empire?In collaboration with King’s, London | Keynote speaker: David Anderson (Warwick)£15 standard | £10 concession [email protected]

H 1-day conference11:00–19:00Room 349



Institute of English Studies Pedagogic criticism workshop: English between higher and secondary educationBarbara Bleiman (English and Media Centre), Andrew Green (Brunel) and Clare Lynch (Brunel)Free [email protected]

USeminar14:00–17:00Senate Room


Nahuatl study dayConvenor: Elizabeth Baquedano (UCL)Lecture: free | Workshop: £25 standard | £15 concession [email protected]

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


Roundtable discussion about gender and the two World WarsSusan R. Grayzel (Mississippi), Lucy Noakes (Brighton) and Krisztina Robert (Roehampton)Free [email protected]


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Institute of English Studies London 19th-century studies seminarFree [email protected]



The Feckless Gaveston, the Avaricious Isabella and the Officious Stapeldon: Cornwall’s turbulent lordship and the county polity, 1300–37Sam Drake (Royal Holloway)Free [email protected]

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

Saturday 21Institute of Modern Languages Research

First World War commemorationCentre for the Study of Cultural Memory workshopFree [email protected]

U HWorkshop11:00–16:00Room 243

Institute of English Studies Robert Hooke and late 17th-century dramaErin Reynolds (Birkbeck)Free [email protected]

UEMPHASIS seminar14:00–16:00Room G35


Captive children: (re)situating childhood and education in Napoleonic experiences of military detentionElodie Duch (Warwick)Free [email protected]



Non-motherhood in contemporary women’s writing in FrenchContact Gill Rye for advance reading list | Natalie Edwards (Institute of Modern Languages Research/Adelaide) and Julie Rodgers (Maynooth) | Registration requiredFree [email protected]




U PSeminar16:00–18:00Room G21a

Institute of Classical Studies Ancient philosophy seminarUrsula Coope (Oxford)Free [email protected]

C PSeminar16:30–19:00Room 243

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Institute of Musical Research Tokaido RoadTokaido Road will be performed at Milton Court, Silk Street, London on Wednesday 25 February | Nicola Lefanu (York) and Nancy Gaffield (Kent) | Chair: Kate Romano (Guildhall School)Free [email protected]


Institute of Classical Studies Denying patronage: the myth of autonomyTim Whitmarsh (Cambridge)Free [email protected]


Institute of English Studies Shakespeare, religion and usageBrian Cummings and Michael SilkFree [email protected]



‘Complete knowledge/Entera noticia’: the status of knowledge in the colonial politics of Philip II of SpainArndt Brendecke (Munich)Free [email protected]



Catholics in Herefordshire, 1605: the Whitsun RiotsWendy Brogden (Birmingham) and Eilish Gregory (UCL)Free [email protected]



Portuguese India and British India: comparing colonialisms in the 19th centuryFelipa Vicente (Instituto de Cincias Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa)Free [email protected]



Therapeutic leisure in Victorian BritainCharlotte Jones (UCL) and Jade Shephard (Queen Mary)Free [email protected]



Death and violence in Paris during the Algerian WarSarah Howard (Birkbeck)Free [email protected]



Legislative standardsIn collaboration with the Statute Law Society | Dawn Oliver (UCL)| Registration requiredFree [email protected]

LLecture18:00–19:00Charles Clore House

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Tuesday 24Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Law and information policy workshop: information flows and damsFollowed by a public lecture by Timothy Pitt-Payne QC (below) | Registration requiredFree [email protected]

L OWorkshop14:00–17:30Charles Clore House


Travel writing in the pre-railway ageNat Alcock (Warwick)Free [email protected]


Institute of Philosophy Objective probability, and conditional reasoning seminar: two notions of holismElizabeth Miller (Birmingham)Free [email protected]



Innovative bureaucracies: medicine in the French and British naviesErica Charters (Oxford)Free [email protected]



Trees and tweets project seminarJack Grieve (Aston)Free [email protected]



Military history seminarFree [email protected]



The uses of a parliamentary diary in the making of a royalist: the case of Henry Townshend of Worcestershire, 1640–43Stephen Roberts (History of Parliament Trust)Free [email protected]



From the Chinese guan to the Mexican chocolatero: a tactile history of the transpacific trade, 1571–1815Meha Priyadarshini (European University Institute)Free [email protected]



Does privacy matter?: Launch of the Centre for Law and Information PolicyTimothy Pitt-Payne QC | Reception to follow | Registration requiredFree [email protected]

L Lecture18:00–20:00Charles Clore House

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Institute of English Studies Modernist magazines seminarFree [email protected]


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

personal secretary of Cosimo I de MediciDesiree Cappa (Warburg Institute)Free [email protected]


Institute of Philosophy Aesthetics forumFree [email protected]


Warburg Institute Notebooks as handwritten librarySietske Fransen (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) and Hannah Murphy (Oxford)Free [email protected]

USeminar17:15–18:30Warburg Institute


A new model of ecumenism: the practice of the Common Good in the partnership of Bishop David Sheppard and Archbishop Derek WorlockMaria Power (Liverpool)Free [email protected]



History of political ideas seminarTimothy Hampton (Berkeley)Free [email protected]



Changing faces: media and materiality in the early Byzantine cult of the virginLeslie Brubaker (Birmingham)Free [email protected]



Evangelical agency, the location question: church missionary society medical planning 1870s–1930sSara Ebrahimi (University College Dublin)Free [email protected]




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Thursday 26Institute of Modern Languages Research

Experimental narratives: from the novel to digital storytellingFee applicable [email protected]

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


Ten years of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA): progress, problems and prospectsKeynote speaker: Olivier Dabne (President of the Political Observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean)£15 standard | £10 concession [email protected]

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


Judicial training: the Canadian model Justice R. James Williams (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Inns of Court Fellow) | Registration requiredFree [email protected]


Institute of Classical Studies The queen in tears: a century of Sophocles Eurypylos (1912–2012)Giulio IovineFree [email protected]


Institute of Classical Studies Explusion from the Senate of the Roman Republic: demographic considerationsLee Moore (King’s, London)Free [email protected]


Warburg Institute An account so just and exact: Captain Narbrough’s voyage to South America 1669–71 and its cartographical significanceRichard Campbell (Hakluyt Society) and Peter Barber (British Library)Free [email protected]



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


Institute of English Studies Media history seminarFree [email protected]




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Events calendarFebruaryFriday 27Institute of Historical Research

Gerald Aylmer seminar, 2015: ‘Secret histories’Hosted by the Royal Historical Society, Institute of Historical Research, The National Archives and The British Library | Registration requiredFree [email protected]

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




Dutch Diplomacy and Trade in Rariteyten: Episodes in the History of Material Culture of the Dutch RepublicClaudia Swan (Northwestern)Free [email protected]



English agricultural development 1270–1870: reflections on new estimates of output and productivityMark Overton (Exeter)Free [email protected]



Political spin in 14th-century England? The reputation of Queen Isabella of FranceLaura Slater (York)Free [email protected]



Legal history seminarOrganised with the London Legal History Seminar | Registration requiredFree [email protected]


Institute of English Studies Finnegans Wake research seminarFree [email protected]


Saturday 28Institute of Historical Research

70 years since the 1945 Attlee governmentFrancis Beckett, Ian Birchall and John NewsingerFree [email protected]


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Events calendarMarch

Subject area key

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Politics

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Music

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Events calendarMarchMonday 2Institute of Modern Languages Research




What’s new in Europe? European criminal law updateJohn Spencer (Cambridge) | Registration requiredFree [email protected]


Institute of Musical Research Improvisation, attention and rapid decision-making under uncertaintyAdam Linson (Oxford)Free [email protected]


Institute of Classical Studies Theocritus and Hieron (Idyll 16)Richard Rawles (Nottingham)Free [email protected]



The ecology of crusading: the environmental impact of holy war, colonisation and religious conversion in the medieval BalticAleks Pluskowski (Reading)Free [email protected]


Institute of English Studies Open University book history and bibliography research seminarWim Van Mierlo (Institute of English Studies)Free [email protected]



Women and slavery and MonticelloAnnette Gordon-Reed (Harvard/Oxford)Free [email protected]


Institute of Philosophy Practical reasoning seminarDaniel Whiting (Southampton)Free [email protected]



Elena Poniatowska’s ‘Leonora’Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing Spanish Reading Group Maria CaneteFree [email protected]

USeminar18:30–20:00King’s, London

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Tuesday 3Institute of Philosophy Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar

Ofra Magidor (Oxford)Free [email protected]



John Prestall and Catholic opposition to Elizabeth IGlyn Parry (Roehampton)Free [email protected]



Religious History of Britain 1500–1800John D. Gilles (Essex)Free [email protected]



Faith, family and healing in post-war England: the career and marriage of Trevor Dearing, ‘the exorcist vicar’Neil Armstrong (Teeside)Free [email protected]



Selling Enlightenment: book trade networks and the intellectual origins of the French Revolution, 1769–89Mark Curran (Queen Mary)Free [email protected]



The kibbutz’s passage into the state of Israel: a socio-political crisis or a cultural-epistemological rift?Lior Libman (UCL/Hebrew University)Free [email protected]


Institute of English Studies Medieval manuscripts seminarHanno Wijsman (Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, Paris)Free [email protected]


Institute of English Studies Institute of Historical Research

The borrowers’ register of St Andrews University libraryMatthew Sangster (Birmingham)Free [email protected]

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Seminar17:30–19:30Room 104

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Institute of Classical Studies Advertisement, marketing and competition: performing auctions in Roman ItalyMarta Garcia Morcillo (Roehampton)Free [email protected]

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


The challenges of the Franko B ArchiveBex Carrington and Jo Elsworth (Bristol Theatre Collection)Free [email protected]



Strongholds and small monsters: identifying precise vocabulary in the medieval Latin of the CeltsAnthony Harvey (Royal Irish Academy)Free [email protected]


Wednesday 4Warburg Institute The transmission of Aristotle’s Nicomachean

Ethics (Book I): scholarly activity from Byzantium to RenaissancePelagia Vera Lounghi (Warburg Institute)Free [email protected]


Institute of Classical Studies Framing victory: Salamis, the Athenian Acropolis and the AgoraJohn Papadopoulos (UCLA)Free [email protected]

C Lecture17:00–19:30Room G22/26


Arendt on the ‘grammar of politics’ in the American RevolutionCaroline Ashcroft (Cambridge)Free [email protected]



All ex-servicemen under one umbrella? Military associations in Scotland, 1919–39Ellie O’Keefe (PhD student, Queen Mary)Free [email protected]



Gardens and philanthropic and social housing in the 19th and 20th centuriesZoe CrispFree [email protected]


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Public debates about the economic performance and competitiveness of the United Kingdom and Germany since 1970Wencke Meteling (Cambridge)Free [email protected]



Housing acts: performing the pursuit of public housingDavid Roberts (Bartlett)Free [email protected]



Melania the Younger in AfricaJuliette Day (Helsinki/Oxford)Free [email protected]




Thursday 5Warburg Institute The afterlife of Greek tragedy

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

C U Colloquium10:00–18:00Warburg Institute

Institute of Classical Studies A luminous world in antiquity: a study of Argos in Homer’s IliadYukiko SaitoFree [email protected]


Institute of Classical Studies The extraordinary commands of the Roman Republic, or: Why the Roman nobility became demilitarized?Wolfgang Blsel (Duisburg)Free [email protected]



Judging in 14th-century Florence: the use of images to guide and informClaire Sandford-Couch (Northumbria)Free [email protected]


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Martin Clifford’s ‘A Treatise of Humane Reason’ (1674), and the paradox of religious rationalismCatherine Gill (Loughbourough)Free [email protected]



5th biennial Ingeborg Bachmann Centre lectureMichael Minden (Cambridge)Free [email protected]

ULecture17:30–19:00Room G35


The ideological origins of the 20th-century American peace movementMarc Palen (Exeter)Free [email protected]



Student misbehaviour in 15th-century Oxford, Paris and HeidelbergHanah Skoda (Oxford) | Chair: Alice TaylorFree [email protected]



Parents, teachers and children’s wellbeing in London, 1918–39Hester Barron (Sussex)Free [email protected]



Eric Williams and the materialist approach to the history of slaveryNuala Zahedieh | Chair: Richard SavilleFree [email protected]



The ecology of war in China: Henan province, the Yellow River and beyondDr Micah Muscolino (Oxford)Free [email protected]



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


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Sir Hans Sloane and exoticaVictoria Pickering (Queen Mary) and Alice Marples (King’s, London)Free [email protected]


Friday 6Warburg Institute Esoteric traditions and occult thought reading

groupCharles Burnett (Warburg Institute)Free [email protected]



Daughters of the Anglican clergy: religion, gender and identity in Victorian EnglandMidori Yamaguchi (Daito Bunko)Free [email protected]



The English under Burgundian banners, 1420–35Aleksandr Lobanov (Southampton)Free [email protected]


Institute of English Studies The Charles Peake Ulysses seminarFree [email protected]


Saturday 7Institute of English Studies Afromodernism

Rachel Farebrother (Swansea) and Fionnghuala SweeneyFree [email protected]


Institute of English Studies Atlantis, druids and megaliths: making sense of the ancient landscape in early modern EuropeKelsey Jackson Williams (St Andrews)Free [email protected]

U HEMPHASIS seminar14:00–16:00Room G35

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

Pierre Destree (Louvain)Free [email protected]


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Institute of Musical Research Learning from the enemy: William Glock and the BBC Third Programme in 1947Alison GarnhamFree [email protected]

M HSeminar17:00–18:30Room 102

Institute of Classical Studies Messalla, Tibullus and the Corpus TibullianumRobert Maltby (Leeds)Free [email protected]



Apocalypse nigh? The aftermath of Oudenarde and military imbroglio of 1708Mark Bryant (Chichester)Free [email protected]



England and the Thirty Years’ War: the English military diaspora and the early Stuart stateAdam MarksFree [email protected]



The British Empire and the Hajj in the First World WarJon Slight (Cambridge)Free [email protected]



‘I saw my name on the board’: race, gender and the Summer Olympics, 1932–48Dr Stanley Arnold (Northern Illinois)Free [email protected]



Political violence in interwar FranceChris Millington (Swansea)Free [email protected]


Tuesday 10Warburg Institute | Institute of Historical Research

Libraries ‘in exile’: the case of the library of the Jesuit Seminary in Jersey (1880–1939)Sheza Moledina (Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon)Free [email protected]

HSeminar16:30–18:30Warburg Institute

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The provincial marine clears the decks: Britain’s forgotten colonial navy preparing for war, 1792–1812Ian StaffordFree [email protected]



The lost visions projectJulie Thomas (Cardiff)Free [email protected]



The tactical performance and learning of British Third Army during the battles of the Scarpe, April–May 1917Christopher Newton (King’s, London)Free [email protected]



Contested spaces: temporary houses of Parliament and government, 1834–52Rebekah Moore (Institute of Historical Research/History of Parliament Trust)Free [email protected]


Institute of English Studies Contemporary cultures of writing seminarFree [email protected]



Surveying nature in late-Colonial Central AmericaSophie Brockman (Institute of Latin American Studies)Free [email protected]


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

RLecture18:00–19:30Charles Clore House

Institute of English Studies Collecting Association CopiesChristopher Edward (independent dealer)Free [email protected]



The preparation for total war in JapanYasuo Mori (Doshisha/LSE)Free [email protected]


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Portugal on the periphery? Scenarios from the history of sexuality, 1900–60Richard Cleminson (Leeds)Free [email protected]



The writing of oralityGalin Tihanov (Queen Mary)Free [email protected]


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

Constructing gender in Anglo-Saxon EnglandDavid Clark (Leicester) and Katherine Weikert (Winchester)£12 standard | £6 concession [email protected]

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

Senate House Library Bertrand Russell and the philosophy of pacifismLunchtime talk | Charlie Potter (SHL)Free [email protected]

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

Warburg Institute Carnivores against vegetarians: Cardano on the best dietCecilia Muratori (Warburg Institute)Free [email protected]


Institute of Classical Studies Interacting Minoan arts: seal images and mural iconography in Minoan CreteFritz Blakolmer (Vienna)Free [email protected]

C ULecture15:30–19:30Room G22/26


New perspectives on motherhood in Italian women’s writing and cinemaClaudia Karagoz (Institute of Modern Languages Research/Saint Louis)Free [email protected]




Warburg Institute ‘Wondrous Flitting’ of Mary’s Holy House: moving home, planting signsMarina Warner (Oxford/Birkbeck)Free [email protected]

U PLecture16:30–18:00Warburg Institute

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The grand tours and conflicting identities of 18th-century English Catholic travellers: Sir Thomas Gascoigne (1745–1810) and Henry Swinburne (1743–1803)Alexander Lock (British Library)Free [email protected]



Rhetoric, parliament and monarchy in Elizabethan and early-Stuart EnglandMarkku Peltonen (Helsinki)Free [email protected]



Exhibiting the 18th centuryJoint seminar with Queen Mary University of London Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies | Drinks reception to follow | Joanna Marschner (Historic Royal Palaces), Moira Goff (The Garrick Club)Free [email protected]

HSeminar17:15–19:15Kensington Palace


Donald Winnicott, Melanie Klein and the shape of postwar British psychoanalysisLesley Caldwell (UCL/Winnicott Trust)Free [email protected]



‘A sign of God’s favour’: Byzantine gold coins in Indian Ocean tradeRebecca Darley (London)Free [email protected]



Play, missionaries and the Colonial encounter, 1800–70: evangelization, acculturation or hybridization?Mary Clare Martin (Greenwich)Free [email protected]



Beaten but not defeated. Siegfried Moos: an anti-Nazi hero who settled in BritainMerilyn Moos (London)Free [email protected]


Thursday 12Warburg Institute A coordinated approach to recording and

searching provenance records and images: moving forwardsIn collaboration with International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals and Consortium of European Research Libraries | Registration requiredFree [email protected]

UColloquium10:00–16:30Warburg Institute

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Institute of Classical Studies The rival kings: politics, Alexander the Great and the English RestorationAndrew RobertsFree [email protected]

C HSeminar14:15–16:15Room 246

Warburg Institute A tricky passage: navigating, mapping and publishing representations of Tierra del Fuego in the long 18th centuryKatherine Parker (Pittsburgh)Free [email protected]



Neither healthy nor sick: the Classical–Romantic distinction revisitedStephanie Dumke (Edinburgh)Free [email protected]

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


Brave minds and hard hands: drama and social relations in the hungry 1590sAndy Wood (Durham)Free [email protected]



A transnational history of psychoanalysisUffa Jensen (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)Free [email protected]

HSeminar17:30–19:30German Historical Institute

Institute of English Studies Media history seminarFree [email protected]


Institute of English Studies International encyclopaedia of women screenwritersJill Nelmes (UEL)Free [email protected]






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

forms and ideasCaroline Bohrmann (KHI Florenz), Jost Philipp Kleiner (Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach) and members of the Bilderfahrzeuge research team£12 standard | £8 concession [email protected]



Imperial War Museum: memory and history reconsideredCentre for the Study of Cultural Memory seminarFree [email protected]

UWorkshop11:00–16:00Room 246




State centralization on Europe’s periphery in the middle ages: Scotland and Poland comparedLeigh Gardner (LSE) and Mikolaj Malinowski (Utrecht)Free [email protected]



Late-medieval land disputes and the manipulation of the inquisitions ‘post mortem’Simon Payling (History of Parliament)Free [email protected]


Institute of English Studies Ezra Pound Cantos reading group: Canto LXMick Sheldon (SAS/Queen Mary)Free [email protected]





Institute of Musical Research Performing freeFranziska Schroeder (Queen’s University Belfast)Free [email protected]


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Institute of Classical Studies Comites, clientes, convivae in Roman satireAnna Chahoud (Trinity College Dublin)Free [email protected]


Institute of English Studies Stanza forms in Shakespeare’s narrative poems and the complaint genreSarah Ross and Elizabeth Scott-BaumannFree [email protected]



Launch of A History of Riots (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)Keith FlettFree [email protected]


Institute of Philosophy Practical reasoning seminarHanjo Glock (Zurich)Free [email protected]



Legislation as aspiration: statutory expression of policy goalsDavid Feldman (Cambridge) | Registration requiredFree [email protected]

LLecture18:00–19:00Charles Clore House

Tuesday 17Institute of Philosophy Logic, epistemology and metaphysics seminar

Free [email protected]

Seminar17:00–19:00Room 243


The Jews, the Left and the idea of revolutionary violence in the 1960s and 70sJulia David (Paris)Free [email protected]



‘We were very sociable together’: sociability and meaning in the life of Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle (1778–1857)Elaine Chalus (Bath Spa)Free [email protected]



Decentering with distance: networks of May fourth in southeast AsiaRachel Leow (Cambridge)Free [email protected]


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Archiving the artsFleur Soper (The National Archives)Free [email protected]


Institute of English Studies Literary London reading groupFree [email protected]



The slave trade in Western Europe, c.500 to 1200Alice Rio (King’s, London)Free [email protected]


Wednesday 18Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Harmonisation under siege in the EU market for corporate controlJonathan Mukwiri (Durham/Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) | Registration requiredFree [email protected]


Warburg Institute Public lectureCaroline van Eck (Leiden)Free [email protected]

ULecture16:30–17:30Warburg Institute


Bow Bell Canto: Vera Lynn, music and the people’s warKate Guthrie (PhD student, King’s, London)Free [email protected]



Rethinking the origins of Marxism in modern FranceJulia Nicholls (Queen Mary)Free [email protected]



Disordered London? The view from Rosemary LaneJanice Turner (Hertfordshire)Free [email protected]



Postcarding the capital: representations of Ottoman Istanbul, 1890–1914Radha Dalal (Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar)Free [email protected]


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



Launch and discussion of: Il melodramma della nazione: politica e sentimenti nel et del resorgimento (Carlotta Sorba, Laterza, 2014)Discussants: Martin Thom and Maurizio Isabella | Chair: Axel KörnerFree [email protected]


Institute of Classical Studies What made the Greeks rectangular and the Romans round? Neuroscience and the formation of Classical cultureRumble Lecture in Classical Art | In association with King’s, London | John Onians (UEA) | Registration requiredFree [email protected]

C ULecture18:00–20:00King’s, London

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

U Reading19:00–21:00Chancellor’s Hall

Thursday 19Institute of Philosophy Logic & inference conference

Free [email protected] P

2-day conference10:00–18:30Room G37


Evidence and the archives: ethics, aesthetics and emotionKatherine Biber (University of Technology Sydney/Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) | Registration requiredFree [email protected]



John Richard Hicks and the theory of economic historyRichard Saville | Chair: Helena HammondFree [email protected]


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Institute of Classical Studies Playing the radical? The tribunate of the plebs and young men’s changing self-presentation in Republican politicsAmy Russell (Durham)Free [email protected]

C OSeminar16:30–19:30Room G22/26


Inaugural lecture: Professor Lawrence Goldman, director of the Institute of Historical ResearchLawrence Goldman (Institute of Historical Research)Free [email protected]

H Lecture17:00–20:00TBC


‘Mints in remote parts’: the geography of the Great Recoinage, 1695–99Mara Caden (Yale)Free [email protected]



The popular historians: writing and reading the American past, 1947–1980Nick Witham (Canterbury Christ Church)Free [email protected]



Food culture and cuisine in late medieval EuropeChristopher Woolgar (Southampton) | Chair: Alexandra SapoznikFree [email protected]



The transformation of the worldOrganised with the University of Notre Dame and Centre for Global History, University of Oxford | Jürgen Osterhammel (Konstanz) | Registration requiredFree [email protected]



One eye is not enough: stereoscopic writing after World War II2015 Sylvia Naish Lecture | Melanie Dilly (Kent)Free [email protected]

ULecture18:00–19:30Room 243

Senate House Library European duty and dissent: a Belgian example, Émile CammaertsPart of the ‘Duty and dissent’ exhibition | Ulrich Tiedau (UCL)Free [email protected]

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

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DNA technology and fundamental rights protection in EU multilevel systemJoaquin Sarrion Esteve (Valencia/Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) | Registration requiredFree [email protected]

L RSeminar18:00–20:00Charles Clore House


A taste for the exotic: pineapple cultivation in BritainJoanna Lausen-HigginsFree [email protected]


Friday 20Institute of Historical Research

London and the First World WarOrganised by IWM (Imperial War Museums) in partnership with the Centre for Metropolitan History | Plenary lectures by Adrian Gregory (Oxford) and Jerry White (Birkbeck) | Registration requiredFee applicable [email protected]

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


Frontiers in Central American researchConvenor: Hilary Francis (Institute of Latin American Studies Fellow)Fee applicable [email protected]

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

Institute of Music | Institute of Modern Languages Research

Pierre Boulez at 90: a study dayStudy day, in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s festival ‘Total immersion: Pierre Boulez’ at the Barbican Centre, London | Capacity is limited; please arrive early to avoid disappointmentFree [email protected]

M U1-day workshop10:00–20:00TBC




Grave affairs: Cold War Vilnius and the wounds of memoryLaimis Briedis (Vilnius)Free [email protected]

U HSeminar17:00–19:00Room 246


Lower-deck masculinities and the plebeian experience of the Naval warship, 1756–1815Elin Jones (Queen Mary)Free [email protected]


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Legal history seminar: 18th-century trustsDavid Foster (Queen Mary) | Registration requiredFree [email protected]


Institute of English Studies Louis MacNeice’s radio voicesRhiannon Moss (Leeds)Free [email protected]


Saturday 21Institute of Latin American Studies

Acceleration of historyIn collaboration with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences,European University CyprusFee applicable [email protected]

H1-day conference10:00–18:00Room 349

Monday 23

Institute of Classical Studies Reasonable and unreasonable emotions in AristotleDorothea Frede (Hamburg)Free [email protected]

CSeminar16:30–19:00Room G34

Institute of Musical Research Towards a historiography of the early modern voiceRichard Wistreich (Royal College of Music)Free [email protected]

M HSeminar17:00–18:30Room 102

Institute of Classical Studies Master, slaves and fortuna in Plautus’ Asinaria and PseudolusLuca Grillo (North Carolina)Free [email protected]

C RSeminar17:00–19:00Room 349


The trouble with gypsies in early modern EnglandDavid Cressy (Ohio State)Free [email protected]



Global Labour history: provisional results and further prospectsMarcel van der Linden (International Institute of Social History and Amsterdam)Free [email protected]


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‘A fortune in a thrill!’: early amusement parks in Britain, 1900–39Josephine Kane (Westminster)Free [email protected]


Tuesday 24Institute of Philosophy Objective probability and conditional reasoning

seminar: propensities for agent-based accounts of causationAlison Fernandes (Columbia University)Free [email protected]



‘Piratical states’: British imperialism in the Indian Ocean worldSimon Layton (Cambridge)Free [email protected]



The death of the deer park: disparkment in England, 1500–1800Rod Liddiard (UEA)Free [email protected]



Mining the history of medicine projectSophia Ananiadou (Manchester)Free [email protected]



Magna Carta: law, liberty and mythAlexander Lock (British Library)Free [email protected]


Institute of English Studies One hand, many scripts: engaging with a late Tudor herald and his outputsNigel Ramsay (UCL/Exeter)Free [email protected]




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The politics of giving in the viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata: donors, lenders, subjects and citizensViviana Grieco (Missouri at Kansas City)Free [email protected]



‘A test case of Western readiness to help’: Britain, Polish renewal and economic crisis in the early 1980sRichard Smith (FCO)Free [email protected]


Wednesday 25Institute of Latin American Studies | Human Rights Consortium

Climate change and human rights in Latin AmericaIn collaboration with LAB | Registration requiredFee applicable [email protected]

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

Warburg Institute Sebond and Montaigne: natural theology, analogy and the limits of reasonAlberto Frigo (Warburg Institute)Free [email protected]





How (not) to draw contemporary insights from the history of political thoughtAdrian Blau (King’s, London)Free [email protected]



Farewell to Anglicanism: evangelical seceders from the Church of England, 1964–76Andrew Atherstone (Oxford)Free [email protected]



The Baroque ‘event’: from Deleuze to Montaigne2015 Malcolm Bowie memorial lecture | Tom Conley (Harvard)Free [email protected]

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

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The composition, structure and audience of Flodoard’s ‘Annals’Edward Roberts (King’s, London)Free [email protected]



Discussion and launch of: State, faith and nation in Ottoman and post-Ottoman lands, (Frederick F. Anscombe, CUP, 2014)Discussants: Alex Drace-Francis (Amsterdam) and Ben Fortna (SOAS) | Chair: Simon Jackson (Birmingham)Free [email protected]



Latin American documentary screeningsTres instantes, un grito – Cecilia Barriga Free [email protected]

UFilm screening17:30–19:30Room 349


Family law reform: why is it so hard to move beyond reports? What can we do? What can you do?Justice R. James Williams (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Inns of Court Fellow) | Registration requiredFree [email protected]

L Seminar18:00–20:00Charles Clore House




Autobiography and its other scene: some notes on psychoanalysis, life history and the hidden curriculum vitaePhil CohenFree [email protected]


Thursday 26Warburg Institute Warburg–UCL scholasticism reading group

Basic reading knowledge of medieval Latin is recommended | Registration requiredFree [email protected]

USeminar17:30–18:30Warburg Institute


Fashioning Britain: non-fiction fashion films of the post-war eraJo Stephenson (Queen Mary)Free [email protected]


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A commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the death of Joseph NeedhamOrganised with the University of Notre Dame and Centre for Global History, University of Oxford |Leonard Bluss (Leiden) | Registration requiredFree [email protected]



The reform of the equal bicameralism in Italy: the EU context and the implications for the EUEnrico Albanesi (Genova/Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) | Chair: Helen Xanthaki | Registration requiredFree [email protected]


Friday 27Institute of Latin American Studies

Swinging back? Winds of change after a decade of the Latin American LeftConvenors: Alejandro Peña (York) and Christopher Wylde (Richmond)Fee applicable [email protected]

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


Creativity in contemporary Latin American cultureDennis Hanlon (St Andrews), Guillermo Olivera (Stirling), Fiona Mackintosh (Edinburgh), Patience Schell (Aberdeen)Free [email protected]

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



Institute of English Studies Finnegans Wake research seminarFree [email protected]


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

seminar (LOMERS)Free [email protected]


Thursday 2Institute of Historical Research

Catholic youth in Cold War MexicoOrganised with the University of Notre Dame and Centre for Global History, University of Oxford | Jaime Pensado (Notre Dame) | Registration requiredFree [email protected]


Friday 3Institute of English Studies The Charles Peake Ulysses seminar


Seminar18:00–20:00Room G35

Tuesday 7Institute of Historical Research

War captivity in the 18th-century: Britain and FranceRenaud Morieux (Cambridge)Free [email protected]


Thursday 9Institute of Musical Research Music biography conference

In association with Monash UniversityFee applicable [email protected]

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


Exotic EnglandOrganised with the University of Notre Dame and Centre for Global History, University of Oxford | Gerald Maclean (Exeter) and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown | Registration requiredFree [email protected]


Senate House Library War resisters in Britain during the First World War: a re-appraisalCyril Pearce (Leeds)Free [email protected]

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

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

theodicyAlberto Frigo (Universit Lyon 2)Free [email protected]

U PEMPHASIS seminar14:00–16:00Room G35

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

consciousnessKeynote speakers include Judith Becker (Michigan), Susan Blackmore (Plymouth) and Colin Blakemore (Philosophy)Fee applicable [email protected]

M P 3-day conference10:00–18:00TBC



Institute of English Studies Literary London reading groupFree [email protected]


Institute of English Studies The Galsworthy bubble and other freaks of fashionCharles CoxFree [email protected]


Wednesday 15Senate House Library A talk on international peace organisations

Lunchtime talk | Hester Swift (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Library)Free [email protected]

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

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Events calendarAprilThursday 16Institute of Historical Research

Europe and the worldOrganised with the University of Notre Dame and Centre for Global History, University of Oxford | Julio Crespo Maclennan (Instituto Cervantes, London) | Registration requiredFree [email protected]


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

modernism: 1895–1945Nick Freeman (Loughborough) and Michèle Mendelssohn (Oxford) | Registration required Fee applicable [email protected]

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

Warburg Institute Ideas and society in the middle ages and early RenaissanceDavid d’Avray (UCL), Serena Ferente (King’s, London), Magnus Ryan (Cambridge), John Sabapathy (UCL), Hannah Skoda (Oxford) and John Watts (Oxford) | Registration requiredFree [email protected]



Paolo Giovio: Vita di Adriano VIFriends of Italian Studies event | Lara Michelacci (Bologna) and Jane Everson (London)Free [email protected]

U HLecture17:00–19:00Room 243

Tuesday 21Institute of Philosophy Objective probability and conditional reasoning

seminarJoseph Berkovitz (Toronto)Free [email protected]



‘Gullible’s travels’: Anglo-Australian wartime relations and Sir Earle Page’s mission to London, 1941–42Kent Fedorwich (UWE/King’s, London) and Jayne Gifford (UEA)Free [email protected]


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

mediaJudith Townend (SAS)Free [email protected]

L USeminar13:00–14:00Room 243

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Explorations in anonymous history: urban, architectural and anthropological contributions to transatlantic media studies, 1953–59Michael Darroch (Institute of Modern Languages Research/Ontario)Free [email protected]


Senate House Library Latin American documentary series 2015: ‘Oscar’ – Sergio MorlanRegistration requiredFree [email protected]

H UScreening17:30–19:30Room 349

Thursday 23Senate House Library Marginal presences: unorthodox belief and

practice, 1837–2014Symposium on the campaigns, beliefs and lifestyles of those on the margins of society | Registration requiredFee applicable [email protected]

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

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

El Sistema and the alternatives: social action through music in critical perspectiveConvenors: Geoff Baker (Royal Holloway), Gustavo Borchert (Turku) and Owen Logan (Aberdeen) | Registration requiredFee applicable [email protected]

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1-day conference10:00–18:00Room 349




Tuesday 28Institute of English Studies Modernist magazines seminar


Seminar18:00–20:00Room G34

Wednesday 29Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Commonwealth London workshop I: InstitutionsConvenor: Damian Skinner (Institute of Commonwealth Studies Visiting Fellow/New Zealand)Fee applicable [email protected]

H OWorkshop10:00–18:00Room G34

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The consequences for criminal law of an EU exitJohn Spencer, Steve Peers and Estella Baker | Registration requiredFree [email protected]

L OSeminar14:00–18:00Charles Clore House

Warburg Institute Work in progress seminarChristopher Braun (Warburg Institute)Free [email protected]


Thursday 30Warburg Institute Reforming cartography: John Britton and the

topographical survey of the borough of St Marylebone (1834)Stephen Daniels (Nottingham)Free [email protected]



Philosophical aesthetics and philosophical anthropology at the turn of the 19th century: holism, expressivism and the question of autonomyJerome Carroll (Nottingham)Free [email protected]

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


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

institute of advanced legal studiesContact: [email protected]

European criminal law

Usually Mondays at 14:00–17:30

Dates: 2 Feb, 2 Mar, 29 Apr

Legal history

Usually Fridays at 18:00–19:30

Dates: 27 Feb, 20 Mar

institute of classical studiesContact: [email protected]

Ancient history

Thursdays at 16:30–19:00

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

Ancient philosophy

Alternate Mondays at 16:30–19:00

Dates: 9, 23 Feb, 9, 23 Mar

Classical archaeology

Wednesdays monthly at 17:00–19:30

Date: 18 Feb

Early career


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

Greek and Latin literature

Mondays at 17:00–19:30

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

Postgraduate work-in-progress

Fridays at 16:30–18:30

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

(Open to postgraduate students only)

Roman art

Alternate Mondays


institute of english studiesContact: [email protected]

Book collecting

Tuesdays at 18:00–19:30

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

Open University book history and bibliographyresearch


2 Mar, 1, 8 June

Charles Peake Ulysses


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

Open University contemporary cultures of writing

Usually Tuesdays at 17:30–19:30

Dates: 10, 25 Mar, 14 Apr

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Contemporary innovative poetry research

Wednesdays at 17:30–19:00


Early modern philosophy and the scientificimagination (EMPHASIS)

Saturdays at 14:00–16:00

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

Ezra Pound Cantos reading group


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

History of libraries research

Tuesdays at 17:30 –19:30

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

Irish studies


Dates: 13 Feb, 20 March

Literary London reading group


Dates: 17 Mar, 14 Apr, 16 June

London 19th century studies


Dates: 20 Feb, others TBC

London Old and Middle English researchseminar (LOMERS)


Dates: 4 Feb, 1 Apr, 20 May

London screenwriting research



London Shakespeare



London theatre

Thursdays at 18:30–20.30

Dates: 5 Feb, 26 Feb, 12 Mar

Media history

Thursdays at 18:00–20.00

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

Medieval manuscripts

Usually Thursdays at 17:30–19:00

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

Modernism

Saturdays at 11.00–13:00

Dates: 7 Feb, 7 Mar, 9 May

Modernist magazines research


Dates: 24 Feb, 28 Apr, 26 May

Pedagogic criticism 2: workshops 2014–15


Date: 20 Feb, 15 May

Postgraduate feminist reading group


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

Psychoanalysis, literature and practice

Usually Fridays 17:00–19:00

Dates: TBC

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Roman Jakobson: poetry of self, city, signand form


Date: 11 Mar

Theory now

Dates: TBC

University of London Finnegans Wake research


Dates: 27 Feb, 27 Mar, 29 May

institute of historical researchContact: [email protected]

American history

Usually Thursdays at 17:30

Dates: 19 Feb, 5, 19 Mar

Archives and society

Usually Tuesdays at 17:45


British history in the long 17th century



British history in the long 18th century

Usually Wednesdays at 17:15

Dates: 4, 18 Feb, 11, 18 Mar

British maritime history


Dates: 10, 24 Feb, 10, 24 Mar

Christian missions in global history


Dates: 11, 25 Feb, 11 Mar

Comparative histories of Asia



Crusades and the Latin East

Usually Mondays at 17:15


Digital history



Earlier Middle Ages


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

Economic and social history of the earlymodern world

Usually Fridays at 17:15


Education in the long 18th century

Usually Saturdays at 14:00

Dates: 21 Feb

European history 1150–1550



European history 1500–1800



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Gender and history in the Americas


Dates: 2 Feb, 2 Mar

Global history


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

History lab


Dates: 12, 26 Feb 12, 26 Mar

History of education


Dates: 5 Feb, 5 Mar

History of gardens and landscapes



History of libraries



History of political ideas



History of political Ideas / early career


Dates: 4, 18 Feb, 4, 18 March

History of sexuality



Imperial and world history



International history


Dates: 3, 17, Feb 10, 24 Mar

Jewish history



Late medieval


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

Late medieval and early modern Italy


Dates: 5 Feb, 5 Mar

Latin American history


Dates: 10, 24 Feb, 10, 24 Mar

Life-cycles



Locality and region

Usually alternate Tuesdays at 17:15


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London Group of Historical Geographers



London Society for Medieval Studies



Low Countries history


Dates: 13, 27 Feb

Metropolitan history



Military history



Modern French history



Modern German history


Dates: 4, 12 Mar

Modern Italian history



Modern religious history


Dates: 11, 25, Feb 11, 25 Mar

Oral history


Date: 5 Feb

Parliaments, politics and people


Dates: 10, 24 Feb, 10, 24 Mar

Philosophy of history



Psychoanalysis and history



Religious history of Britain 1500–1800


Dates: 3, 17, Feb 3, 17 Mar

Rethinking modern Europe



Socialist history


Dates: 2, 16, 28 Feb, 16 Mar

Society, culture and belief, 1500–1800



Sport and leisure history



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Studies of home


Dates: 4 Feb, 4 Mar

Tudor & Stuart history


Dates: 9, 23 Feb 9, 23 Mar

War, society and culture



Women’s history



institute of Musical researchContact: [email protected]

Directions in musical research



Performance/research seminars



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

institute of PhilosophyContact: [email protected]

Aesthetics forum

Usually Wednesdays at 16:00–18:00


Logic, epistemology and metaphysics forum



Practical reasoning



Objective probability and conditional reasoning

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

Dates: 24 Feb, 24 Mar, 21 Apr

Rethinking the senses: multisensory perceptionand action

Usually Thursdays at 17:00–19:00

19 Feb, 5, 19 Mar, 30 Apr

www.thesenses.ac.uk

the warburg instituteContact: [email protected]

Arabic philosophy

Mondays at 14.15–15.15

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

Basic knowledge of Arabic required

Bruno’s art of memory: a laboratorium

Tuesdays at 17.30–19.00

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

Director’s work-in-progress

Wednesdays at 14.15–15.15

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

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Editing Byzantine texts

Fridays at 15.45–17.45

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

Esoteric traditions and occult thought

Fridays at 13.00–14.15

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

Latin palaeography

Tuesdays at 16.15–17.15

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

Literature, ideas and society

One meeting per term, 17.15–19.15

Date: 25 Feb

Maps and society

Thursdays at 17.00–18.00

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

Medieval Philosophy Network

Once a term

Dates: TBC

Warburg-UCL Scholasticism Reading Group

Thursdays, 17.30–18.30

Date: 26 Mar

senate house libraryContact: [email protected]

Senate House Library Friends events

For details and membership visit www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/about-us/friends

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

School of Advanced Study Registry Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU United Kingdom

Email [email protected]

Phone +44 (0)20 7862 8823/8695

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

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

22–23 June 2015

CFP deadline: 1 February 2015

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

Please send abstracts of 300 to 500 words to [email protected] by email attachment. Abstracts should not include embedded footnotes or endnotes.

Interpreting communities: minority writing in European literary fields

29–30 October 2015

CFP deadline: 28 February 2015

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

Please send a 200-word abstract with a 50-word bio to both organisers: Malachi McIntosh (Cambridge) and Godela Weiss-Sussex (Institute of Modern Languages Research/Cambridge): [email protected]; [email protected].

Marginal presences: unorthodox belief and practice, 1837–2014

Thursday 23 April 2015

CFP deadline: 9 March 2015

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

Please send proposals for 20-minute papers and any enquiries to [email protected].

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

27–28 July 2015


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

Please send proposals for papers to: [email protected] and [email protected]. For plenary sessions or for working groups proposals, abstracts should be no longer than 300 words. Papers for plenary sessions should be no more than 30 minutes in length; working group papers should be 15–20 minutes. Working group sessions are normally planned for one hour and 15 minutes.

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

11–12 November 2015


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

Abstracts of 250–300 words, accompanied by a short bibliography, should be submitted to Dr Sue Onslow: [email protected].

Decolonisation and colonial legacies

21–22 October 2015


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

Abstracts of 250–300 words, accompanied by a short bibliography, should be submitted to Dr Sue Onslow: [email protected].

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

10–11 September 2015

CFP deadline: 7 April 2015

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

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

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

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

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Unless otherwise stated, all events are held within the central University of London precinct in Bloomsbury, central London. Most events take place in or around Senate House South and North Blocks (North Block rooms are named accordingly) or Stewart House (Stewart House room numbers are preceded with ST) which are adjacent. The University of London takes its responsibility to visitors with special needs very seriously and will endeavour to make reasonable adjustments to facilities to accommodate such needs. If you have a particular requirement, please discuss it confidentially with the event organiser ahead of the event taking place.

Rooms listed in the events brochure are located as follows:

Senate House University of London Malet Street London WC1E 7HU

Stewart House University of London 32 Russell Square London WC1B 5DN

Charles Clore House Institute of Advanced Legal Studies 17 Russell Square London WC1B 5DR

The Warburg Institute Woburn Square London WC1H 0AB

How to find usVenue

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

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