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.
Thursday 12 January 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
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| 14:00 | IES |
Palaeography and Diplomatic for Historians Term 2, Thursday afternoons, 2.00-4.00 for 10 weeks, commencing January 2012. This course is designed to introduce historians to the palaeographical ... |
Senate House |
Saturday 4 February 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:30 | IES |
Methods and Resources Methods and Resources MA Study Day 2 Wim Van Mierlo (Institute of English Studies): Mastering the Dissertation. Participants are invited to em... |
Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 11:00 | IES |
Modernism Research Seminar Series Modernism and the PopularLen Platt (Goldsmiths): 'Modern and Modernism in West End Musical Theatre, 1895-1939'Michael Sayeau (UCL): 'Modernism: Ads With... |
Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 14:00 | IES |
The Future of Poetry Kathleen Jamie’s Tree House: a consideration. |
Room 274 (Stewart House) |
Monday 6 February 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 17:00 | IHR |
Illness or disability? Conceptualising the long-stay... Venue: ST276, 2nd floor, Stewart House |
Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor) |
| 17:00 | IALS |
EU Criminal Law: What's New for 2012? Organised with the European Criminal Law Association (UK). |
IALS |
| 17:00 | IHR |
Discussion on his new book on the early history of t... Venue: ST274/5, 2nd floor, Stewart House With responses from José Lingna Nafafe and Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias PF (Birmingham) |
Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor) |
| 17:00 | IHR |
Marc Bloch and the royal touch revisited |
Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 17:15 | IClS |
Latin Literature Seminar |
Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:15 | IHR |
'A Man Cannot See His Own Faults': British Professio... |
Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:30 | IHR |
From the personal to the political. Researching the ... |
Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 18:00 | WB |
Aby Warburg Reading Group The aim of this reading group is to read and discuss a selection of Aby Warburg’s writings in order to explore the interest and validity of his th... |
Warburg Institute |
Tuesday 7 February 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 13:10 | WB |
From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Com... Week 5: Canto X. The First Cornice: the proud. After reading Dante in Italian, with English translation and visual and verbal commentary, there will be... |
Warburg Institute |
| 17:00 | IHR |
The British Academic World, 1880-1939 |
Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:00 | IHR |
The knock on the door: An English Jesuit observes th... Please note: this session has been moved to the Holden Room 103, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:15 | IHR |
Naval Volunteerism in Hong Kong, 1933-1967 Please note: this session has been moved to room STB7, Stewart House, Basement |
The Wolfson Room (IHR) |
| 17:30 | IHR |
Taxation and Society in Twentieth Century Argentina The Court Room |
The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 17:30 | IHR |
Private Minds, Public Collections: Exploring the Pub... Please note: this session takes place in Room ST275, Stewart House, 2nd floor |
Room 275 (Stewart House) |
| 17:30 | ISA |
Taxation and Society in Twentieth Century Argentina This seminar is a joint initiative between the IHR and the ISA |
The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 18:00 | IES |
Postgraduate Feminist Reading Group "Have you got medieval yet?"Carolyn Dinshaw, Got Medieval? (2001)Caroline Bynum, Why All the Fuss about the Body? A Medievalist's Perspective (1995)Caro... |
Room 264 (Senate House, second floor) |
| 18:00 | IHR |
Britain and Abyssinia: the forward view, c1800 to 1875 Athlone Room (102), First floor, South block, Senate House |
Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 19:00 | IHR |
Forward contracts between Cistercian monasteries in ... This meeting will be preceded by our Annual General Meeting at 6:30 The Venue for both AGM and seminar will be Room S261, Senate House, South b... |
Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
Wednesday 8 February 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 14:15 | WB |
Gas and Blas : Neologisms in Jan Baptista van Helmon... |
Warburg Institute |
| 16:00 | IP |
IP aesthetics forum: Musical Timbre: Between Ontolog... Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics |
Room 265 (Senate House, second floor) |
| 17:15 | IHR |
'Rusty old Queen Anne's many suitors': Firearms and ... Court room, Senate House, South block, first floor |
The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 17:30 | IHR |
Domestic subjects: the East India Company at home, 1... Torrington Room (Room 104, first floor South Block) |
Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 17:30 | IES |
South Asian Fiction: Contemporary Transformations Amina Yaqin (SOAS, University of London): 'The poetics and politics of Imagining Pakistan in recent diasporic fiction' |
Room 264 (Senate House, second floor) |
| 17:30 | IES |
Open University Book History and Bibliography Semina... Susan Pickford (Paris): 'Pascale Casanova's World Republic of Letters'Dr. Susan Pickford is senior lecturer in translation at the University of Paris 13... |
Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 17:30 | IHR |
The context and implications of the manuscript trans... (Chair: Alan Thacker) Athlone Room (102) |
Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 17:30 | IHR |
Designing Craft and Crafting Design in Post-War Ital... Chair: John Foot Room STB5 (Stewart House, basement, room 5) |
STB5 (Stewart House, basement) |
| 18:00 | IALS |
Restricting the use of the Death Penalty: the releva... Saul Lehrfreund is the co-founder and an Executive Director of the Death Penalty Project an international NGO based at Simons Muirhead & Burton. He has ... |
IALS |
Thursday 9 February 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 15:00 | ISA |
The Global Century (Postgraduate Reading Group): Wor... New attendees are always welcome. Please see The Global Century for further details. |
Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 15:00 | ISA |
Héctor Béjar: In conversation |
Room 264 (Senate House, second floor) |
| 16:30 | IClS |
ICLS Ancient History Seminar Bartering for slaves on the Upper Guinea coast in the early seventeenth century |
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 | IHR |
Improvement and Incarceration: the Strange Case of N... |
Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:30 | IGRS |
The Reception of Classical Antiquity in German Liter... Manuel Baumbach (Zurich): Obeying the Law: Leonidas and the Reception of the Persian Warin German Postwar Literature Organised in conjunction ... |
Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor) |
| 17:30 | IClS |
ICLS and IGRS Joint Series - The Reception of Classi... ICLS and IGRS Joint Series - The Reception of Classical Antiquity in German Literature II - Obeying the Law: Leonidas and the Reception of the Persian ... |
Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor) |
| 17:30 | IHR |
Where We Came In: How Film Came to be 'Taken Serious... Room ST274 |
Room 274 (Stewart House) |
| 17:30 | IHR |
Freedom's Debt: Politics and the Development of Amer... Chair: Erik Mathisen Gordon Room (G34), Senate House, ground floor |
Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:30 | ISA |
Freedom's Debt: Politics and the Development of Amer... This seminar is a joint initiative between ISA and the IHR |
Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:30 | IHR |
The papal chapel and cultural life at the late 13th ... Venue: Court Room, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 17:30 | IES |
Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Richard Firth Green (Ohio State University): 'The Early History of the London Scriveners’ Company Common Paper and its So-Called "Oaths" ' |
Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies |
| 18:00 | IALS |
The UN War Crimes Commission of 1943-1948 Dr Plesch will discuss the history and implications for modern International Criminal Law of the work of the UN War Crimes Commisson (UNWCC) based ... |
IALS |
| 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 |
| 18:30 | IES |
London Theatre Seminar tbc |
Room 261 (Senate House, second floor) |
Friday 10 February 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | ISA |
Fifty Years of Independence: Jamaica’s impact and ... Flyer Programme August 2012 will mark two significant anniversaries, but will also signal a third, which is rarely acknowledged. On 6 August and 31 Au... |
The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 11:15 | IP |
One-day Workshop: Nietzsche and Freud on Repression,... Registration not required. |
Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor) |
| 13:00 | ISA |
Liberalism, Monarchy and Empire: Ambiguous Relations... By invitation only; please send expressions of interest to Dr. Deborah Toner As a political philosophy, liberalism has been typically associated with t... |
Room G26 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 14:00 | IMR |
Research Training Reading Group: Classic Texts in Mu... Discussion of readings (available in advance). For further details please contact a.kassabian@liv.ac.uk |
Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 15:00 | IP |
Plurals, Predicates and Paradox Seminar: Deflationis... |
Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 16:00 | IGRS |
The Mind-Matter Argument in Late German Philosophy (... A series of four two-hour seminars convened by Dr Christine Lopes (Visiting Fellow, IGRS) Franz Brentano: the notions of self-evident experience and in... |
Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor) |
| 17:00 | IHR |
Belgian refugee workers in Britain during World War I Venue: Torrington Room 104, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 17:00 | WB |
Leibniz, Gilbert Burnet and seventeenth-century disc... |
Warburg Institute |
| 17:00 | ISA |
The Enigma of Liberalism in Imperial Brazil The Empire of Brazil, 1822-1889, conformed, it is widely agreed, to the Liberal model. The constitution of 1824 incorporated its precepts; politic... |
The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 17:30 | IHR |
Hungarians in Wonderland: Late 18th and Early 19thC ... Please note: this session takes place in the Court Room, Senate House, South block, first floor |
The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 17:30 | IHR |
The Hue and Cry in English Towns This seminar will be held in the Holden Room 103, Senate House, South block, First floor |
Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |