Public Events
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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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
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| 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 |
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| 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 … |
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| 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) |
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| 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
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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) |
| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
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| 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. |
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) |
| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
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| 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) |
| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
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| 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 … |
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| 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
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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) |