School of Advanced Study Events
The School of Advanced Study brings together the specialised scholarship and resources of ten prestigious postgraduate research institutes to offer academic opportunities, facilities and stimulation across and between a wide range of subject fields in the humanities and social sciences. Over the year the School and its institutes offer a very wide range of lectures and seminars, workshops and conferences.
You can browse for forthcoming events, past events or use our advanced search to find events by date, Institute or event type.
Please note that this events calendar is under development, and it is recommended to visit the Institutes' websites for up-to-date information until the calendar is fully operational.
Events at the School and the Member Institutes for the next 7 days.
Monday 14 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
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| IALS |
Certificate in International Commercial Arbitration This is a five-day intensive course that is aimed at introducing participants to international commercial and investment arbitration. The course covers ... |
IALS | |
Wednesday 16 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| IMR |
Musical Geographies of Central Asia Convenor: Saida Daukeyeva (IMR) Promoted by the Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum in association with SOAS Presented in collaboration with the ... |
The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor) | |
| 12:00 | ISA |
The United States: A Conservative Nation? Joel Aberbach (University of California Los Angeles) The United States is conventionally regarded by many of its own citizens and more widely in the ou... |
Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 12:30 | SAS |
Dean's Seminar: "Branding Authorship: The Advantages... |
Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 12:30 | IES |
The Dean's Seminar Professor Robert L. Patten (Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies and Lynette S. Autry Professor in Humanities, Rice University): 'Brandi... |
Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 14:15 | WB |
A Paper Archive of Everything Written: Ulisse Aldrov... Full programme at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/seminars/work-in-progress/ |
Warburg Institute |
| 15:00 | IClS |
ICLS Mycenaean Seminar Before Aphrodite: new light on Kytheran prehistory from the Kythera Island |
Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 16:00 | IP |
IP aesthetics forum: Sex Objects and Sexy Subjects: ... Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics |
Room 264 (Senate House, second floor) |
| 17:00 | IHR |
A Foreign Presence? Ivory Chairs and the Concept of ... Venue: Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL, Seminar Room A |
Venue to be confirmed |
| 17:00 | IHR |
The idea of 'auctoritas populi' in the late Roman Re... Senate House, Bedford Room G37 (ground floor) |
Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:15 | IHR |
Scientific Experiment as Moral Exercise in the Educa... Court room, Senate House, South block, first floor |
The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 17:30 | IHR |
In search of late antique popular culture Bloomsbury Room, G35, Senate House, South Block, ground floor |
Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 18:00 | IES |
Senate House Library Friends Carlos Galvis (Institute of Historical Research): 'Following the traces of the London and Paris railways: the Transport holdings of the Goldsmiths' Libr... |
Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies |
| 18:00 | IES |
Literary and Critical Theory Seminar Professor Catherine Belsey (Swansea): 'Dangerous Dead Women and the Practice of Criticism'. From the Icelandic sagas to The Woman in Black, women... |
Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 18:30 | IALS |
A Wind of Change in the Middle East? Consideration ... Organised by the Oasis of Peace Lawyers' Group in association with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Copy of poster and booking form attached he... |
IALS |
Thursday 17 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | IGRS |
Bilderrätsel des gesprungenen Bewusstseins / Modern... Organised in conjunction with the DFG Research Group 'Anfänge (in) der Moderne'at the University of Munich Co-Ordinator: Dr Gustav Frank Keyno... |
The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 10:00 | IP |
One-Day Workshop: Health Innovation and Social Equit... |
Room 264 (Senate House, second floor) |
| 11:30 | IALS |
Legislative Techniques and ICT Sir William Dale Centre Graduate Series of Seminars |
IALS |
| 15:00 | ISA |
The Global Century (Postgraduate Reading Group) New attendees are always welcome. Please see The Global Century for further details. |
Room 261 (Senate House, second floor) |
| 16:30 | IClS |
ICLS Ancient History Seminar Writing culture: historiography, hybridity and the shaping of the past |
Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:00 | WB |
German Reading Class. Thomas Mann: Joseph und seine ... This is a German Reading Class dedicated to Thomas Mann’s trilogy Joseph und seine Brüder. We meet weekly during term time on Thursday aftern... |
Warburg Institute |
| 17:00 | IMR |
Wagner and Paris: The case of Rienzi (1869) |
Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:15 | IHR |
Urban Planning after the Black Death: Townscape Tran... |
The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 17:30 | IHR |
Aspects of Governance in the Early Reign of Richard ... Holden Room (103), first floor, South block, Senate House |
Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 17:30 | IES |
Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Mark Stansbury (National University of Ireland, Galway): 'Some thoughts on the origins of Insular Script' |
Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies |
| 17:30 | IHR |
Commodities Caught in the Cross-fire: The Case of Ja... Venue: Bedford room G37, Senate House, South block, Ground floor |
Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:30 | IHR |
Law, Liberty and Identity in the 1820s Cape Colony Please note: this session takes place in Stewart House, Basement, Room STB9 |
STB9 (Stewart House, basement) |
| 17:30 | IHR |
Fifty Years of Film Criticism: In Conversation with ... This event will be held at Queen Mary University of London, and tickets are available online: http://philipfrench.eventbrite.co.uk/?ebtv=C |
Other |
| 18:00 | IES |
John Coffin Memorial Irish Studies Lecture 'Samuel Beckett - Mystic' by Professor Declan Kiberd (University of Notre Dame) A lecture exploring the problem of pain, authorship and godhead in Beck... |
The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 18:00 | WB |
New Testament Greek Reading Class The class meets at the Warburg Institute in the Droz Library. Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Greek. If you wish to attend ... |
Warburg Institute |
| 18:00 | IES |
John Coffin Memorial Irish Studies Lecture 'Samuel Beckett - Mystic' by Professor Declan Kiberd (University of Notre Dame) A lecture exploring the problem of pain, authorship and godhead in Beck... |
The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 18:15 | WB |
Islam and the Enlightenment Seminar - Sir James Port... In the Lecture Room - All welcome Full programme at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/seminars/islam-and-the-enlightenment/ |
Warburg Institute |
Friday 18 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | IES |
Insular Manuscripts Master Class The Institute of English Studies will be holding a one-day master class on Insular Manuscripts on Friday 18th May. This course is run on behalf of the S... |
Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies |
| 14:15 | IALS |
Imperial Encounters: colonialism and the law from th... Dr. Stacey Hynd (Exeter): '"The Extreme Penalty for the Extreme Crime"? Capital Punishment and Colonial Law in British Africa, c.1900-50'; Dr. Carol Ta... |
IALS |
| 16:30 | IClS |
ICLS Postgraduate Work in Progress Gender, Revenge and Cross-Dressing in Herodotus' Histories - NOTE ROOM CHANGE TO 37 |
Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:00 | IHR |
In the Workshop of History: Making, Writing, and Mea... RH Smith Renaissance Sculpture in Context Research Seminar Venue: Sackler Centre, Seminar Room 1, Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, Lo... |
Venue to be confirmed |
| 17:30 | IHR |
Forgotten Futures: Municipal Cinema as the People's ... Venue: The Court Room |
The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 18:00 | IES |
Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group Alexander Howard (University of Sussex): Canto 105 |
Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 18:00 | IES |
The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar from p. 89, line 754: `Tell her a ghost story....' |
Room 264 (Senate House, second floor) |
Saturday 19 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | ISA |
South American Archaeology Seminar Event Programme For further information please email Bill Sillar. |
Institute of Archaeology |
| 14:00 | IES |
EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific... Thomas Roebuck (Magdalen College, Oxford): 'Antiquarianism in Soho: History and Scholarship in the circle of Thomas Smith (1638-1710)' |
Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
Monday 21 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | IGRS |
HoGMeet - Annual Meeting of University Heads of German |
The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 12:45 | IMR |
South Asia Music and Dance Forum: Before 'Nautch-Gir... Advance registration advised. Waged £10 contribution to costs, on door. Concessions free of charge. |
Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 16:30 | WB |
A Triumphal Arch for Painting. Drawings by Peruzzi f... Mondays at 16.30 each term starting on 10 Oct 2011. From January 2012 to be offered jointly with the National Gallery Organised by: Paul Taylor and Re... |
Warburg Institute |
| 17:00 | IHR |
The German Crusade of 1197-8 |
Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 17:00 | IMR |
'Liveness': a quality, a platform, an essential crea... Performance/Research Seminar Organised by the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP) and hosted by the IMR Free of ... |
The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 17:00 | IHR |
Ghadar: Violence and the Global Potential of the Pol... Joint event with the India Institute of Kings College London Venue: Room S8.08, Strand Building, Kings College London, London WC2R 2LS Please no... |
STB3 (Stewart House, basement) |
| 17:15 | IHR |
'Enter the Machiavel': John Wolfe and the distributi... The Court Room |
The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 17:15 | IHR |
Joint session with the Society for Court Studies at ... Sophie Carney (National Maritime Museum and Roehampton) Foreign, feminine frontiers: constructing a vision of queenship in early Stuart Greenwi... |
Other |
| 17:15 | IHR |
Colonialism/Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop Panel session: Colonialism on Display* Lara Atkin (Queen Mary) Miniature manikins and savage hordes: Ethnographic representations ... |
Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 17:30 | IHR |
Food alms for the poor in late medieval England |
Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 17:30 | IClS |
Roman Art Seminar New evidence of polychromy in Hellenistic sculpture at Delos and elsewhere Mondays at 5.30pm in Room G3 of the Royal Holloway London Annex (11 Bedford ... |
11 Bedford Square Room G3 |
| 18:00 | IALS |
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and Lord... On 29 October, 1929, John Sankey, England’s reform-minded Lord Chancellor, ruled in the ‘Persons Case’ that women were eligible for ap... |
IALS |
Tuesday 22 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:30 | IP |
One-day Conference: Politics of Secession in the Eur... Organised by LSE Dept of Philosophy and Forum for European Philosophy. Supported by LSE Annual Fund. Registration |
Room 349 (SH) |
| 13:10 | WB |
From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Com... Week 4: Canto X. Heaven of the sun. Thomas Aquinas. After reading Dante in Italian, with English translation and visual and verbal commentary, there wi... |
Warburg Institute |
| 17:00 | IHR |
The holy maid of Wales: Visions, politics and Cathol... |
Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:00 | IHR |
Creolising London? Caribbean activists and the geogr... Venue: Gordon Room G34, Senate House, South block, Ground floor |
Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:30 | ICwS |
Commonwealth Research Seminar Series Event Flyer |
Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 17:30 | SAS |
Changing Tastes: How Foods Tasted in the Early Moder... 2011-12 ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellow Lecture and wine tasting In dietetic and natural philosophical frameworks of the period from Antiquity to t... |
Macmillan Hall |
| 17:30 | IHR |
Transcending the Western/Indigenous Binary: Punjabi ... Venue: Room STB9, Stewart House, Basement |
STB9 (Stewart House, basement) |
| 18:00 | IHR |
The British Way in Cold Warfare: The Case of the Emp... Athlone Room (102), First floor, South block, Senate House |
Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 18:00 | IES |
Wyndham Lewis Reading Group Nathan Waddell (University of Birmingham): 'Providing Ridicule: Wyndham Lewis and Satire in the Postwar-to-end-war World' |
Room 261 (Senate House, second floor) |
| 18:00 | IES |
Literary London Reading Group Brycchan Carey (Kingston) introducing 'Ignatius Sancho: An Eighteenth-Century African in London.' Ignatius Sancho's (1729-1780) origins were Africa... |
Room 264 (Senate House, second floor) |
| 19:00 | IHR |
Visual Representations of Knighting Ceremonies |
Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |