Past Events
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May 2012
Tuesday 15 May 2012 | |||
| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17:30 | SAS |
The Intimacies of Four Continents A lecture by the School's Visiting Fellow for 2011/12, Professor Lisa Lowe, University of San Diego, California. This lecture examines liberal ideas of... |
The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 17:15 | IHR |
Black people in English localities since 1600: sourc... Venue: Holden Room 103, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 17:15 | IHR |
'A good Jew and a Good Englishman': Religion in Jewi... Please note: this session takes place in Room G21A, Senate House, South block, Ground floor |
Room G21a (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:15 | IHR |
Proclamations, Parliament and the fall of Lord Chanc... Venue: Torrington Room 104, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 17:15 | IHR |
Orde Wingate and the 21st Century |
The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 17:00 | IHR |
paper: TBA Bloomsbury Room (G35) |
Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:00 | IHR |
America's global imaginaries, 1776-1869: Geography a... Venue: Bedford Room G37, Senate House, South block, Ground floor |
Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:00 | IClS |
ICLS Trendall Lecture Myth, cult and performance: Sir John Soane’s Cawdor Vase |
Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:00 | IHR |
Black people in English localities since 1600: sourc... David Killingray is Professor Emeritus at Goldsmiths London, and President of the Sevenoaks Historical Society. England has had a small but ... |
Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 17:00 | IP |
Logic and Metaphysics Forum: Classification in mathe... |
STB3 (Stewart House, basement) |
| 15:30 | IALS |
Double jeopardy, ‘ne bis in idem’ or ‘autrefoi... Art 54 of the Schengen Implementing Agreement assures a person whose trial has been finally disposed of in one Contracting State that he will not be pro... |
IALS |
| 13:10 | WB |
From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Com... Week 3: Canto VII. Heaven of Mercury. Divine justice, original sin and redemption. After reading Dante in Italian, with English translation and visual ... |
Warburg Institute |
Monday 14 May 2012 | |||
| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 18:00 | IHR |
A Passion for Plagiarism: Collecting Copies of Anci... STB9 (Stewart House, basement) |
STB9 (Stewart House, basement) |
| 17:30 | IClS |
Roman Art Seminar Focussing on Roman objects: photographing the art and artefacts of Dura-Europos Mondays at 5.30pm in Room G3 of the Royal Holloway London Annex (11 Bed... |
11 Bedford Square Room G3 |
| 17:15 | IHR |
Ailsa Craig and the Leisure Industry on the Firth of... |
Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 16:30 | IClS |
ICLS Ancient Philosophy Seminar “Cicero’s Aristotelianism” |
Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 16:30 | WB |
Beauty and the Beast? Scholarship and Commerce in th... 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 |
| 16:15 | WB |
Islam and the Enlightenment Seminar - An Islamic Rad... In the Lecture Room - All welcome Full programme at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/seminars/islam-and-the-enlightenment/ |
Warburg Institute |
| 16:00 | IGRS |
German Philosophy Seminar Wagner and PhilosophyThe German Philosophy Reading Group is open to philosophers and Germanists, both students and staff, interested in reading and disc... |
Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 13:00 | IGRS |
IGRS Lunchtime Research Seminars Roger Cook (IGRS):Jean Genet, Marc Camille Chaimowicz and 'la courtoisie des choses' |
Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 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 | |
Saturday 12 May 2012 | |||
| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 11:00 | IES |
Modernism Research Seminar Series Modernism and AffectJennifer Cooke (Loughborough): 'From Normative Unhappiness to Non-Normative Bliss: Modernist Intimacies in Katherine Mansfield ... |
Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
Friday 11 May 2012 | |||
| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 18:00 | IGRS |
The Machiavelli Nights A series of four seminars, led by Gianluigi Sassu (Visiting Fellow, IGRS), exploring the thought of Niccolo Machiavelli in relation to rhetoric and lang... |
Room 264 (Senate House, second floor) |
| 17:00 | IHR |
A protean phenomenon: the patriots in the late sixte... Venue: Torrington Room 104, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 16:30 | IClS |
ICLS Postgraduate Work in Progress Worshiping Apollo in Rhodes after the synoikismos - NOTE ROOM CHANGE TO 102 |
Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 10:00 | ISA |
Caribbean postgraduate workshop The Institute for the Study of the Americas is pleased to host the second annual workshop for research students working on any aspect of the Caribbean a... |
Room 349 (SH) |
| 10:00 | IP |
Two-day Conference: The Personal and Subpersonal In association with Mindnet. Registration HERE. |
The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 09:30 | IGRS |
Motherhood: Theories, Methods and Narratives Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's WritingAHRC-Funded 'Motherhood in post-1968 European Literature' NetworkWorkshop 1 |
Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
Thursday 10 May 2012 | |||
| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 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 pleas... |
Warburg Institute |
| 18:00 | IP |
Lecture: Practical and 'Theoretical' Free Will |
Room 349 (SH) |
| 17:30 | IHR |
'Hidden Internationalisms' in Architecture and Educa... This seminar will report on trans-disciplinary biographical and prosopographical research that embraces the two fields of architecture and... |
Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 17:30 | HRC |
International Refugee Law seminar series “Refugees, Law and Postcolonial Theory” This is the 2nd year of the ‘International Refugee Law’ seminar series, which aims to p... |
The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 17:30 | ICwS |
International Refugee Law Seminar Series: Refugees, ... |
The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 17:30 | ISA |
Harry Allen Memorial lecture: Fifty Years On: The Cu... The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was the most dangerous moment in the Cold War and possibly in world history as two nuclear superpowers stood on... |
The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 17:15 | IGRS |
English Goethe Society Eleoma Joshua (Edinburgh):Writing on the Brocken on the Brocken:The Poetry of the Brocken Visitors' BooksMore about the English Goethe Society |
Room 261 (Senate House, second floor) |
| 17:15 | IHR |
Satires of embassy: John Barclay and the King's Book... Holden Room, 103 (First Floor) |
Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 17:15 | IHR |
No meeting |
Other |
| 17:00 | WB |
Alexander Nimmo (1783–1832) and Some of His Little... Full programme at: http://www.maphistory.info/warburgprog.html |
Warburg Institute |
| 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 |
Sympathy for the Devil's Chaplain: The Moral Implica... |
Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:00 | IMR |
Martinů |
Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 16:30 | IClS |
ICLS Ancient History Seminar On not learning from the past |
Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| IMR |
New Music in Britain Convened by Eva Mantzourani Canterbury Christ Church University in association with the Sounds New Music Festival and the IMR Supported by the Society... |
Other | |
Wednesday 9 May 2012 | |||
| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 18:00 | IALS |
The implementation of the Audio Visual Media Service... Product placement, the practice of placing brands within editorial content, has recently been liberalized across the EU with the aim of tapping into an ... |
IALS |
| 17:30 | IHR |
Gardening and photography in the making of the lower... Room 349, on the third floor of Senate House |
Room 349 (SH) |
| 17:30 | IHR |
Bowlbyism and the Postwar Settlement Please note: this session takes place in the Bedford room G37, Senate House, South block, Ground floor |
Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:30 | IHR |
'Precious iron', 'friend in war': swords with charac... Bloomsbury Room, G35, Senate House, South Block, ground floor |
Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:15 | IHR |
J. G. Frazer, Anthropology, and Christianity The Court Room (Senate House, first floor) |
The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 17:00 | IHR |
Conquest, liberty and the uses of history in Jacobea... Please note: this session has, with regret, been cancelled at short notice, owing to the indisposition of the speaker |
CANCELLED |
| 17:00 | IHR |
Placing Sugar: Dock Design and Commercial Disputes i... Venue: Holden Room 103, Senate House, South block, Ground floor |
Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 16:15 | WB |
Islam and the Enlightenment Seminar - Islam in Monte... In the Lecture Room - All welcome Full programme at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/seminars/islam-and-the-enlightenment/ |
Warburg Institute |
| 14:15 | WB |
Director's Work in Progress Seminar |
Warburg Institute |
| 12:30 | IES |
Institute of English Studies Director's Seminar Ellen McWilliams (Bath Spa University): 'The "Creative Migrant" in Colm Toibin's The South' In The Creative Migrant (1994), the third volume of The Iri... |
Room 264 (Senate House, second floor) |
| 11:00 | SAS |
Careers Workshop: Preparing for academic interviews More information |
STB3/6 (Stewart House, basement) |
| 10:30 | IP |
Two-day Conference: Free Will Then and Now Registration here. |
The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor) |
Tuesday 8 May 2012 | |||
| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 19:00 | IHR |
Becoming a Knight: Visual Evidence in Medieval Books |
Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 18:00 | IES |
Book Collecting Research Seminar Edward Baynton-Coward: 'Collecting Bindings' |
The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 18:00 | IHR |
Embassy of Sir Nicholas O'Conor at Constantinople be... Pease note: this seminar will be held at The Rothschild Archives . Please contact Dr Michael Kandiah (Michael.Kandiah@kcl.ac.uk) if you wi... |
Other |
| 18:00 | HRC |
The Responsibilities to Protect, Prosecute and Palli... The international community responds to mass atrocities and associated humanitarian crises in a number of ways with a number of different tools. These r... |
Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 17:30 | IHR |
Advocacy for the archive sector Please note: this session takes place in Room STB3, Stewart House, Basment |
Room 276 (Stewart House, Second floor) |
| 17:30 | IClS |
ICLS Accordia Lectures ‘The Tomb of the Warrior at Tarquinia’ |
Institute of Archaeology |
| 17:30 | IHR |
Climate, health and 'women's work' in nineteenth cen... Venue: Room STB9, Stewart House, Basement |
STB9 (Stewart House, basement) |
| 17:15 | IHR |
From Cradle to Antipodean Grave: Reconstructing 19th... Room S261 |
Room 261 (Senate House, second floor) |
| 17:00 | IHR |
Catholic manuscript circulation in seventeenth-centu... |
Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:00 | IClS |
ICLS Special Lecture Celebrating the elite or just elitism? The Ancient Olympics and contemporary academic values |
Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 10:35 | IALS |
The Iconography of Justice: From Renaissance Town Ha... Conference organsied by the Warburg Institute with support from the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. |
Warburg Institute |
| 10:00 | WB |
The Iconography of Justice from Renaissance Town Hal... Organised by: Dennis Curtis, Peter Mack and Judith ResnikProgramme at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/colloquia-2011-12/iconography-of-... |
Warburg Institute |
| 09:30 | IGRS |
Inert Cities: Globalization, Mobility and Interruption |
Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies |
Saturday 5 May 2012 | |||
| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 14:00 | IHR |
Lessons in Liberty: English Schoolboy Rebellions in ... Court Room, Senate House, South block, first floor |
The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 14:00 | IES |
The Future of Poetry Don Paterson's Rain: a consideration Don Paterson (b. 1963) is an accomplished jazz musician as well as a poet. Born in Dundee, he left school to... |
Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 10:30 | IGRS |
Research Training Workshop: Before, During and After... More information |
STB9 (Stewart House, basement) |
Friday 4 May 2012 | |||
| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 18:00 | IES |
Finnegans Wake Research Seminar We will continue at FW 517.19. |
Room 264 (Senate House, second floor) |
| 16:30 | IClS |
ICLS Postgraduate Work in Progress Who decides your time to die? Death, Life and the Moirai in Early Greek Religion |
Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 10:00 | IGRS |
Italian Research Training |
Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 10:00 | WB |
Epigenesis in the History of Powers and Laws : Re-de... Conference organised by: Anton Schütz, Director, (Birkbeck), Jean-François Malherbe, Co-Director (Trento), Alberto Bondolfi (Trento), Thanos... |
Warburg Institute |
Thursday 3 May 2012 | |||
| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 19:30 | IP |
Two-day Workshop: Experiments on Ethical Dilemmas In conjunction with AHRC Framing Effects in Ethical Dilemmas project. Registration |
The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 18:30 | IES |
London Theatre Seminar Keren Zaiontz (Roehampton): 'Olympic Risk and Rhythm' |
Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 18:15 | WB |
Islam and the Enlightenment. An introduction. Full programme at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/seminars/islam-and-the-enlightenment/ |
Warburg Institute |
| 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 | IGRS |
IGRS Graduate Forum Further details |
STB3 (Stewart House, basement) |
| 17:30 | ISA |
BOOK LAUNCH: The Republican Party and American Polit... This event celebrates the publication by Cambridge University Press of a new book by Robert Mason (Edinburgh University). This is the first archiv... |
Room 264 (Senate House, second floor) |
| 17:15 | IHR |
Gavin Smith - Engineer of Aldgate (c. 1550 - c. 1604) Dean Rowland (IHR) 'Nostra Lingua Materna': The Language of Proclamations and Readings of Legislation in London c.1415-c.1485 ... |
to be confirmed |
| 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... |
CANCELLED |
| 17:00 | IMR |
Einstein on the Beach - authors and influence |
The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 16:30 | IClS |
ICLS Ancient History Seminar Local historiography and the uses of the past |
Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 15:00 | ISA |
The Global Century (Postgraduate Reading Group) New attendees are always welcome. Please see The Global Century for further details. |
Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
Wednesday 2 May 2012 | |||
| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 18:00 | IES |
Senate House Library Friends Peter Mack (Warburg Institute): 'Print and Innovation in Sixteenth Century Rhetoric: Agricola, Erasmus and Melanchthon' Peter Mack is Director of the W... |
Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies |
| 18:00 | IES |
Literary and Critical Theory Seminar Professor Wendy Wheeler (London Met): 'Biosemiotics and the Book of Nature: Realism, Nominalism and Science Beyond Nihilism and Gnostic Earth-Hatred'The... |
Room 264 (Senate House, second floor) |
| 17:30 | ICwS |
Commonwealth Research Seminar Series: The Aga Khan D... Event Flyer |
Room 261 (Senate House, second floor) |
| 17:15 | WB |
Philosophy and Narrative Full programme at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/seminars/literature-ideas-society/ |
Warburg Institute |
| 17:00 | IClS |
ICLS Classical Archaeology Seminar Schliemann and London: a Special Relationship |
Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:00 | IHR |
Cheap Turbans and Suspicious Bonnets: Head Dress, Mi... Venue: Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL, Seminar Room A Please note: 2 May, not, as previously listed, 7 May |
Venue to be confirmed |
| 17:00 | IMR |
ICONEA seminar: The Lyre as an Instrument of Divinat... Free of charge. Open to the public. No advance booking required. |
Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 16:00 | IGRS |
Friends of Germanic Studies at the IGRS - Annual Mee... Benedict Schofield (King's College, London):Bestsellers, 'Worstsellers', and the Question of Canonicity:Gustav Freytag's Die Ahnen and Theodor Fontane's... |
The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 16:00 | IP |
IP aesthetics forum: The Aims of Art Criticism Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics |
STB9 (Stewart House, basement) |
| 14:15 | WB |
'Stephen of Antioch's Liber Mamonis as an early-12th... |
Warburg Institute |
| 14:15 | WB |
Stephen of Antioch's Liber Mamonis as an early-12th-... Full programme at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/seminars/work-in-progress/ |
Warburg Institute |
Tuesday 1 May 2012 | |||
| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 18:00 | IES |
Medieval and Renaissance Close Reading Group The theme up for discussion will be 'time in Chaucer' and we will be examining lines 484-97 and 561-88 of 'The Parliament of Fowls'. All are welc... |
Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 17:30 | IES |
History of Libraries Research Seminar Dr Karen Attar (Senate House Library): 'The University of London Library during the Second World War'. While London's Senate House is best known for th... |
Room 349 (SH) |
| 17:30 | IHR |
The University of London Library during the Second W... While London's Senate House is best known for the period 1939-1945 as the home of the Ministry of Information, the University of London Library ... |
Room 349 (SH) |
| 17:30 | IES |
The Rise of Creative Writing Impacts on Poetry. Gregory Leadbetter was born in Stourbridge in 1975. A collection of his poems, The Body in the Well, was published by HappenStance i... |
Room 261 (Senate House, second floor) |
| 17:00 | ICwS |
Behind the Headlines: Trends in the Uttar Pradesh el... This seminar is a joint initiative between ICwS and the King's College India Institute This event will take place in the King's College London India In... |
King's College London |
| 13:10 | WB |
From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Com... Week 2: Canto III. Heaven of the moon. Piccarda Donati After reading Dante in Italian, with English translation and visual and verbal commentary, there... |
Warburg Institute |