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The School's extensive programme of events offers our national subject communities opportunities to disseminate their research to the widest possible audience.

Each year over 68,000 participants from around the world attend over 1,800 events - from seminars, lectures and workshops to major international conferences in the humanities and related social sciences.

The majority of our events are free and open to everyone and do not require advance booking.

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Monday 10 June 2013
Time Institute Title Venue
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Course in Legislative Drafting 2013

For further information, see the website

For a copy of the course brochure (PDF), please click here

IALS
Monday 17 June 2013
Time Institute Title Venue
18:05 Institute of English Studies London Palaeography Summer School

The London Palaeography Summer School is a series of intensive courses in Palaeography and Diplomatic. Courses range from a half to two days duration and are given by experts in their …

Wednesday 19 June 2013
Time Institute Title Venue
09:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Theatrical Lives from Vienna to London: Treasures from the Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Archive

Seventy-five years since the German annexation of Austria in March 1938, the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS) is mounting an exhibition illustrating the lives of two Jewish refugee actors …

Senate House
13:30 Institute of Philosophy Sixth Petaf Workshop on Norms, Taste and Value

More information. Enquires.

STB9 (Stewart House, basement)
Thursday 20 June 2013
Time Institute Title Venue
09:30 Institute of Philosophy Two-day Conference: Go Figure: Understanding of Figures

Organised by University of Birmingham with support from BSA, Analysis, Mind Association, Aristotelian Society and the Leverhulme Trust. Programme and Registration.

Room G22/26 (Ground Floor)
17:15 Institute of Historical Research Sexuality and intimate life in women's autobiography c1920 -1980

 

Room 102 (Senate House, first floor)
17:15 Institute of Historical Research Mapping Early Modern London
The Court Room (Senate House, first floor)
17:30 Institute of Historical Research Syphilis and Silver Noses in Seventeenth Century London
STB5 (Stewart House, basement)
17:30 Institute for the Study of the Americas From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery 1659-1761

Brycchan Carey is Reader in English Literature at Kingston University in London. He is the author of From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1658–1761 (Yale …

Room 261 (Senate House, second floor)
Friday 21 June 2013
Time Institute Title Venue
Institute of English Studies Sherlock Holmes: Past and Present

This conference offers a serious opportunity to bring together academics, enthusiasts, creative practitioners and popular writers in a shared discussion about the cultural legacy of Sherlock Holmes. 

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Institute of English Studies
10:00 Warburg Institute Philosophy and Knowledge in the Renaissance: Interpreting Aristotle in the Vernacular
This colloquium is the culmination of the AHRC-funded research project ‘Vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy, ca. 1400 - 1650’ (2010-2013), a collaboration between the University of Warwick and the Warburg Institute. …
Warburg Institute
16:30 Institute of Classical Studies ICLS Digital Classicist Seminar

Putting Translations To Work: TransVis

Room G37 (Ground Floor)
17:15 Institute of Historical Research The Impact of Shoplifting on Female Retailing in Eighteenth-Century London
Room G34 (Ground Floor)
17:30 Institute of Historical Research Indirect Slavery and the Adulteration of Food in Capital
Room 349 (3rd floor)
18:00 Institute of English Studies Finnegans Wake Research Seminar

Carrying on from 522.14

NB: room change

Room 243 (Senate House)
18:00 Institute of English Studies Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group

Richard Parker (University of Gaziantep): Canto 115

NB: Room change

Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)
Saturday 22 June 2013
Time Institute Title Venue
Institute of English Studies Rushdie in the 21st Century

Keynote speakers: Dr Nick Bentley (Keele), Dr Stephen Morton (Southampton)

‘[H]e will dream about this scene, understanding that his story is a sort of prologue: the tale of the moment when the …

Institute of English Studies
11:00 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Ottoman Pasts, Present Cities: Cosmopolitanism and Transcultural Memories

Speakers: Sahar Hamouda (Alexandria): Memory and Space: Oral Narrative of a pre-1948 Jerusalemite FamilyGabriel Koureas (Birkbeck, London): Curating Ottoman Memories: Klitsa Antoniou's 'The Persistence of the Image' and 'Parallelotopia'

Event organiser/chair: Colette …

Room 246 (Senate House)
Monday 24 June 2013
Time Institute Title Venue
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies The Constitution of the Public Sphere: the post-Leveson Landscape (W G Hart Legal Workshop 2013)

The W G Hart Legal Workshop 2013 will address the array of legal, regulatory and philosophical questions opened by the Leveson Inquiry and Report, and by the subsequent and related reform …

IALS
11:00 Institute of English Studies London Rare Books School 2013

24-28 June (Week one) 1-5 July (Week two)

The London Rare Books School (LRBS) is a series of five-day, intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects to be taught in and around Senate …

15:00 Institute of English Studies Literary and Critical Theory Seminar

Professor Monika Fludernik (Freiburg): 'Stylistic Issues in Dickens from a Cognitive Approach'

NB: EARLIER TIME

 

Room 246 (Senate House)
16:30 Warburg Institute History of Art Seminar

How surmise from images, and inventing intellectual milieu, has given us a series of politically palatable Joseph Wright of Derbys since the Second World War

 

Full programme at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/seminars/history-of-art/

Warburg Institute
17:00 Institute of Musical Research How creative can a musical practice be?

CMPCP/IMR Performance/Research seminars

The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, first floor)
17:15 Institute of Historical Research The virginity of Katharine of Aragon, 1509

Venue:  Bloomsbury Room G35, Senate House, Ground floor

Room G35 (Ground Floor)
17:15 Institute of Historical Research Preaching the Crusades: Patterns and Impact of Recruitment Campaigns in the 11th and 12th Centuries

Andrew Buck (Queen Mary, University of London)The Principality of Antioch and the Visit of Manuel Comnenus in 1158: The Condominium Revisited

Sam Wilson (Nottingham Trent University)Who had the strongest legal claim to …

The Court Room (Senate House, first floor)