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Time	Institute	Title	Venue
Tuesday 24 April 2012
09:00	Institute of Historical Research	Further Medieval and Renaissance Latin A third course, carrying on from the first two IHR Medieval and Renaissance Latin courses, to round out students’ grasp of the language and allow ...
Wednesday 2 May 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
09:00	Institute of Historical Research	Explanatory Paradigms: An Introduction to Historical Theory A critical introduction to current approaches to historical explanation, taught by Prof John Tosh, Dr John Seed and Prof Sally Alexander. The contrastin...
Monday 14 May 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of Advanced Legal Studies	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
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of Musical Research	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	Institute for the Study of the Americas	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	School of Advanced Study	Dean's Seminar: "Branding Authorship: The Advantages of Anonymity"	Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
12:30	Institute of English Studies	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	Warburg Institute	A Paper Archive of Everything Written: Ulisse Aldrovandi's Pandechion Epistemonicon Full programme at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/seminars/work-in-progress/	Warburg Institute
15:00	Institute of Classical Studies	ICLS Mycenaean Seminar Before Aphrodite: new light on Kytheran prehistory from the Kythera Island	Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
16:00	Institute of Philosophy	IP aesthetics forum: Sex Objects and Sexy Subjects: A Critique of Sexiness Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics	Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)
17:00	Institute of Historical Research	A Foreign Presence? Ivory Chairs and the Concept of Hybridity Venue: Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL, Seminar Room A	Venue to be confirmed
17:00	Institute of Historical Research	The idea of 'auctoritas populi' in the late Roman Republic Senate House, Bedford Room G37 (ground floor)	Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	Scientific Experiment as Moral Exercise in the Education of George III Court room, Senate House, South block, first floor	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	In search of late antique popular culture Bloomsbury Room, G35, Senate House, South Block, ground floor	Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
18:00	Institute of English Studies	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	Institute of English Studies	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	Institute of Advanced Legal Studies	A Wind of Change in the Middle East? Consideration of the Arab Spring and its impact on Human Rights 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
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
10:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Bilderrätsel des gesprungenen Bewusstseins / Modernism and the Beginnings of Visual Culture (1890-1938) 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	Institute of Philosophy	One-Day Workshop: Health Innovation and Social Equity in the 21st Century: A Multidisciplinary focus on health injustices	Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)
11:30	Institute of Advanced Legal Studies	Legislative Techniques and ICT Sir William Dale Centre Graduate Series of Seminars	IALS
15:00	Institute for the Study of the Americas	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	Institute of Classical Studies	ICLS Ancient History Seminar Writing culture: historiography, hybridity and the shaping of the past	Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:00	Warburg Institute	German Reading Class. Thomas Mann: Joseph und seine Brüder 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	Institute of Musical Research	Wagner and Paris: The case of Rienzi (1869)	Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	Urban Planning after the Black Death: Townscape Transformations in Late Medieval England	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	Aspects of Governance in the Early Reign of Richard II: Richard II’s use of the Signet and Privy Seals during the 1380s./The Earls in Government During the Minority of Richard II Holden Room (103), first floor, South block, Senate House	Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
17:30	Institute of English Studies	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	Institute of Historical Research	Commodities Caught in the Cross-fire: The Case of Java Sugar and Imperial Japan, 1880-1945 Venue: Bedford room G37, Senate House, South block, Ground floor	Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	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	Institute of Historical Research	Fifty Years of Film Criticism: In Conversation with Philip French 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	Institute of English Studies	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	Warburg Institute	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	Institute of English Studies	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	Warburg Institute	Islam and the Enlightenment Seminar - Sir James Porter (1710–1776) and his 'Observations on the Religion, Law, Government, and Manners of the Turks' (1768) 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
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
10:00	Institute of English Studies	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	Institute of Advanced Legal Studies	Imperial Encounters: colonialism and the law from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century 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	Institute of Classical Studies	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	Institute of Historical Research	In the Workshop of History: Making, Writing, and Meaning 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	Institute of Historical Research	Forgotten Futures: Municipal Cinema as the People's Cinema? Venue: The Court Room	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
18:00	Institute of English Studies	Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group Alexander Howard (University of Sussex): Canto 105	Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
18:00	Institute of English Studies	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
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
10:00	Institute for the Study of the Americas	South American Archaeology Seminar Event Programme For further information please email Bill Sillar.	Institute of Archaeology
14:00	Institute of English Studies	EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination) 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
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
10:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	HoGMeet - Annual Meeting of University Heads of German	The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor)
12:45	Institute of Musical Research	South Asia Music and Dance Forum: Before 'Nautch-Girl' was a Racehorse: Indian Music and Dance c. 1800-1857 Advance registration advised. Waged £10 contribution to costs, on door. Concessions free of charge.	Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
16:30	Warburg Institute	A Triumphal Arch for Painting. Drawings by Peruzzi for St. Luke's Chapel in Santa Maria della Scala 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	Institute of Historical Research	The German Crusade of 1197-8	Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
17:00	Institute of Musical Research	'Liveness': a quality, a platform, an essential creative space in notated music 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	Institute of Historical Research	Ghadar: Violence and the Global Potential of the Political 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	Institute of Historical Research	'Enter the Machiavel': John Wolfe and the distribution of propaganda in late Elizabethan London The Court Room	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	Joint session with the Society for Court Studies at the Queen's House, Greenwich Sophie Carney (National Maritime Museum and Roehampton) Foreign, feminine frontiers: constructing a vision of queenship in early Stuart Greenwi...	Other
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	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	Institute of Historical Research	Food alms for the poor in late medieval England	Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
17:30	Institute of Classical Studies	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	Institute of Advanced Legal Studies	The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and Lord Sankey’s 'living tree' theory of interpretation 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
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
10:30	Institute of Philosophy	One-day Conference: Politics of Secession in the European Union Organised by LSE Dept of Philosophy and Forum for European Philosophy. Supported by LSE Annual Fund. Registration	Room 349 (SH)
13:10	Warburg Institute	From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Commedia. Summer term: Paradise 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	Institute of Historical Research	The holy maid of Wales: Visions, politics and Catholicism in Elizabethan Britain	Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:00	Institute of Historical Research	Creolising London? Caribbean activists and the geographies of race and empire in 1930s Britain Venue: Gordon Room G34, Senate House, South block, Ground floor	Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:30	Institute of Commonwealth Studies	Commonwealth Research Seminar Series Event Flyer	Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
17:30	School of Advanced Study	Changing Tastes: How Foods Tasted in the Early Modern Period and How They Taste Now 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	Institute of Historical Research	Transcending the Western/Indigenous Binary: Punjabi Dalit Hymnody Venue: Room STB9, Stewart House, Basement	STB9 (Stewart House, basement)
18:00	Institute of Historical Research	The British Way in Cold Warfare: The Case of the Empire's Caribbean Communists 1952-1964 Athlone Room (102), First floor, South block, Senate House	Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
18:00	Institute of English Studies	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	Institute of English Studies	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	Institute of Historical Research	Visual Representations of Knighting Ceremonies	Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Wednesday 23 May 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
09:00	Institute of Philosophy	One-day Conference: Olympic Ideals? In association with the University of East London. Directions to UEL Stratford campus. Registration.	Other
09:15	Institute of Advanced Legal Studies	Banking Law Conference 2012: Basel III, the Vickers Report and Regulatory Restructuring For a copy of the programme for the 2012 Banking Law Conference on 'Basel III, the Vickers Report and Regulatory Restructuring', please click ...	The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor)
10:30	Institute of Advanced Legal Studies	How to get a PhD in Law: Preparing yourself for the Vivas. Getting yourself known - presenting skills, publishing your work, and networking. MPhil/PhD law students from across the UK are warmly invited to attend this specially tailored day of presentations and networking opportuniti...	IALS
12:30	Institute of English Studies	Institute of English Studies Director's Seminar William Radice (Research Associate, SOAS): 'Yeats's impact on Gitanjali'Well known for his translations for Penguin Books of the poems and stories of Ra...	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
14:15	Warburg Institute	The Sound and the Silence: A Drawing by Lucas de Heere for Joris Hoefnagel Full programme at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/seminars/work-in-progress/	Warburg Institute
17:00	Institute of Classical Studies	ICLS Classical Archaeology Seminar Classical collections in museums across the UK	Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:00	Institute of Historical Research	'All arts are mechanical': investigating the common ground of craftsmanship in Renaissance Italy Venue: Athlone Room 102, Senate House South block, first floor	Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
17:00	Institute of Musical Research	ICONEA seminar: To hear. To be heard. To make onself heard: The function of the ear as object a with Freud and Lacan Free of charge. Open to the public. No advance booking required.	STB2 (Stewart House, basement)
17:30	Institute of English Studies	London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS) Elizabeth Archibald (University of Bristol): ' "Baths of Bliss": Bathing Practices in Medieval Literature and Society'	Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	Bede, Willibrord and the Letters of Pope Honorius I on the genesis of the archbishopric of York Bedford Room, G37, Senate House, South Block, ground floor	Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
18:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar Laure Guilbert (Paris/London): German and Austrian Dance in Exile in the World 1933-1945POSTPONED UNTIL 21 NOVEMBER 2012More about the Centre for G...	CANCELLED
18:00	Institute of English Studies	Senate House Library Friends Book Talk	CANCELLED
18:00	Institute of English Studies	Contemporary Fiction / Literary and Critical Theory Joint Seminar "Theory Shaping Fiction \| Fiction Shaping Theory" A panel on research into the intersections of critical and creative interventions in 21st Century Fic...	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Thursday 24 May 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
10:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	9th Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Postgraduate Conference Postgraduates from the UK and abroad discuss their research on Austrian literature and culture Programme and further details More about the Ingeborg B...	STB3/6 (Stewart House, basement)
10:15	Warburg Institute	Visual Interests: The Intellectual Legacy of Michael Baxandall The work of Michael Baxandall (1933-2008) was of profound importance to the study of the visual arts: its impact extended to all branches of the humanit...	Warburg Institute
11:30	Institute of Advanced Legal Studies	Quality of legislation and ways to address and operationalise it Sir William Dale Centre Graduate Series of Seminars	IALS
12:30	Institute of Philosophy	IP Lunchtime Seminar: Frege's Grundgesetze and a Reassessment of Impredicativity	STB9 (Stewart House, basement)
16:00	Institute of Philosophy	Perception, Senses and Action Forum: Colour as a superficial kind	STB9 (Stewart House, basement)
16:30	Institute of Classical Studies	ICLS Ancient History Seminar Why Mykalessos? Religion and intertextuality in Thucydides &n...	Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:00	Warburg Institute	German Reading Class. Thomas Mann: Joseph und seine Brüder 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	Institute of Historical Research	'Sometimes it was necessary, for the sake of the class, to exclude a hopeless case.' London's elementary schools and the origins of 'classification' 1870-1904 Chair: Sally Alexander (Rescheduled from 20 October)	Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:00	Institute of Musical Research	Towards a History of Musical Emotion	Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	The cuckold, the priest(s), his wife, and her lover: the politics of publicity and the publicity of politics in Restoration England Holden Room, 103 (First Floor)	Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	'Dead Commodities'? The Painting Trade in Elizabethan London Angela Cox (Birkbeck) Visible presentations: family portraits in the 16th century Please note: this session takes place in Room...	Room 349 (SH)
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	Model pupil, junior partner, or problem child? Germany's role in European integration since 1945 Annual German History Society Lecture Seminar Room, German Historical Institute, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1A 2NJ ...	German Historical Institute
18:00	Warburg Institute	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	Institute of Advanced Legal Studies	Three Visions of Transnational Economic Law Transnational economic law concerns the complex, multilevel and plural orders of law – national and international, public and private, state and n...	IALS
19:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Doron Rabinovici Reads from his Novel 'Andernorts' Doron Rabinovici, novelist, essayist, and historian, was born in 1961 in Tel Aviv and has lived in Vienna since 1964. He has written three novels and a ...	Other
Friday 25 May 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
09:00	Human Rights Consortium	The Right to Work: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives The UCL Institute for Human Rights and the UCL Labour Rights Institute will host a one-day international workshop on the right to work. The workshop is...
10:00	Institute of Philosophy	One-day Conference: Understanding Equality Registration.	Room 349 (SH)
14:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Impact Agenda 2 The second workshop on the Impact dimension of REF 2014, with emphasis on colleagues from different languages and departments speaking on one of their I...	Room 349 (SH)
15:00	Institute of Philosophy	Plurals, Predicates and Paradox Seminar: Russell's Theory of Incomplete Symbols and the Paradoxes	STB2 (Stewart House, basement)
16:30	Institute of Classical Studies	ICLS Postgraduate Work in Progress Chasing Hesiod's Snail: Animals and Astronomy in Early Greek Weather Prediction	Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:00	Institute of Historical Research	Jacques Presser between history and literature Venue: Torrington Room 104, Senate House, South block, 1st floor	Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	Virtue or pleasure? Moral texts in the early Polish landscape garden Please note: this session takes place in the Court Room, Senate House, South block, first floor	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
18:00	Institute of English Studies	Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar Poetry, Parapoetics and Architecture:Karen Mac Cormack: '"Enmeshed Tessitura": Poetry and Architecture';Steve McCaffery: 'Parapoetics and the architectu...	Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Saturday 26 May 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
10:15	Institute for the Study of the Americas	Latin American Music Seminar The Latin American Music Seminar is a British forum for Latin American music research that meets twice yearly. Seminar Programme For more information ...	The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)
10:30	Institute of Philosophy	One-day Conference: Conversations in Philosophy In association with Open University. Registration.	Room 349 (SH)
Monday 28 May 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
13:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	IGRS Lunchtime Research Seminars Antonia Brotchie (Birkbeck College, London):Nikolaus von Zinzendorf and his Reception in England	Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
16:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	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)
16:30	Institute of Classical Studies	ICLS Ancient Philosophy Seminar “Philosophy versus rhetoric? Aspects of Galen's argumentative technique”	Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
16:30	Warburg Institute	Ecclesia and Synagoga: Continuity and Change 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	Institute of Historical Research	How risky is a risk-free asset: an inquiry into Louis XIV's finances	Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
17:00	Institute of Musical Research	Performance and creativity: harpsichord as cultural microcosm 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)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	Following the Urban Alchemist: The Tour Guide and the History of London	Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	The 1961 trial of Henry Chipembere, Malawian nationalist Venue: Woburn suite G22/26, Senate House, South block, Ground floor	Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	Opposition to Royal Jubilees from Queen Victoria Queen Elizabeth Venue: Bloomsbury Room G35, Senate House, South block, Ground floor	Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
18:00	Institute of Advanced Legal Studies	Rendition and Holding Secret Government to Account? Rosa Curling is an assistant solicitor with Leigh Day working in the Human Rights Department. She specialises in Public Law particularly Judicial Review...	IALS
Tuesday 29 May 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
10:30	Institute of Classical Studies	Masks, Echoes, Shadows: Locating Classical Receptions in the Cinema Conference Institute of Classical Studies in association with the Classical Studies Reception Network (CRNS) Masks, Echoes, Shadows: Locating Classical Receptions...
17:00	Institute of Historical Research	Anti-antisemitism in Interwar Britain Bloomsbury Room (G35)	Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:00	Institute of Historical Research	Cruising Oceania: Sea transport and island tourism in the age of steam Venue: Bedford Room G37, Senate House, South block, Ground floor	Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:00	Institute of Historical Research	Classicism after Grainger: Classical Architecture in Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1870-1914 Michael Johnson is an architectural historian with a particular interest in the North East of England. His received his PhD in 2009 with a thesis ...	Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
17:00	Institute of Philosophy	Logic and Metaphysics Forum: The Metaphysics of Fictions and their Characters	STB3 (Stewart House, basement)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	Classicism after Grainger: Classical Architecture in Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1870-1914 Venue: Athlone Room 102, Senate House, South block, 1st floor	Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	Families in Crisis: Parenting and the Life-cycle in English society c.1450-1600	Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	The making of the modern ballot paper: a brief history of transnational technology, c.1750-1950 Venue: Torrington Room 104, Senate House, South block, 1st floor	Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	'To Control the Air': The Royal Air Force and the Development Combined Operations Doctrine in the Inter-War Era	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
18:00	Institute of Commonwealth Studies	Black Britain Seminar Series: African, Not ‘Black’ History: Arguments for ‘African’ "Black" in Britain used to be a "political colour of alliances", but now whom does it represent? Should we not use "African"?	Room 349 (SH)
18:00	Institute of English Studies	New Screen Histories Seminar Dina Iordanova (University of St. Andrews), tbc	to be confirmed
18:15	Warburg Institute	Islam and the Enlightenment Seminar - Joseph White (1745-1814) and Arabic Studies in eighteenth-century England. In the Lecture Room - All welcome Full programme at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/seminars/islam-and-the-enlightenment/	Warburg Institute
Wednesday 30 May 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of English Studies	Visions: Sixth International Conference of Iconographic Studies At the University of Rijeka, Croatia. This conference seeks to encourage interdisciplinary dialogue as well as to continue the cycle of sessions for sc...	Other
10:00	Institute of Commonwealth Studies	Cultures of Decolonisation, c.1945-1970 Flyer Programme This two-day symposium will bring together scholars with an interest in the cultural practices, performances and material culture...	Room 349 (SH)
14:15	Warburg Institute	Daz man bild mit bilden us tribe. Visual and Textual Theory of Images in Henry Suso's Exemplar Full programme at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/seminars/work-in-progress/	Warburg Institute
16:00	Institute of Philosophy	IP aesthetics forum: tba Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics	Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)
16:30	Warburg Institute	Where Europe Begins and Ends: Problematics of Literary History, 1348-1418.	Warburg Institute
17:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Austrian Literary Documentation of Serving and Deserting the 'Wehrmacht' Peter Pirker (IGRS Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Visiting Fellow/Vienna) introduces an interdisciplinary literary and historical project More...	Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:00	Institute of Historical Research	Exchanging Knowledge and Creating New Things: Three Dimensional Models and "In-Between Objects" in Early Modern Times Venue: Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL, Seminar Room A	Venue to be confirmed
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	British Slavery, Moral Responsibility and Political Representation, c. 1783-1834 Court room, Senate House, South block, first floor	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	Ninth-century networks: books, gifts, scholarly exchange Bloomsbury Room, G35, Senate House, South Block, ground floor	Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
18:00	Institute of English Studies	Literary and Critical Theory Seminar Professor Josh Cohen (Goldsmiths)	Room G26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Thursday 31 May 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
09:30	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Translations - Translating Language, Translating Media, Translating Experience Postgraduate Conference Abstracts of not more than 250 words and a brief cv should be sent to forum@igrs.sas.ac.uk by 17 February 2012 Detailed Call f...	Room 275 (Stewart House)
10:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Translations: Translating Language, Translating Media, Translating Experience IGRS Graduate Forum Conference Further details	STB3/6 (Stewart House, basement)
15:00	Institute for the Study of the Americas	The Global Century (Postgraduate Reading Group) New attendees are always welcome. Please see The Global Century for further details.	Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
16:00	Institute of Philosophy	Perception, Senses and Action Forum: 'Making Sense of the Senses' Redux	Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
16:30	Warburg Institute	The Restoration of Giotto's Crucifix for the Church of Ognissanti, Florence	Warburg Institute
16:30	Institute of Classical Studies	ICLS Ancient History Seminar Commemoration, destruction, and the reshaping of memory in Athenian inscriptions &nbs...	Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	Fish and fishmongers in later medieval London Jane Williams on the Forster family of London	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	Religious Perceptions of Death and the Afterlife in the First World War Holden Room (103), first floor, South block, Senate House	Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	Pandora's Post Box: The Mobility of Discourse Across British Asia, 1854-1914 Venue: Bedford room G37, Senate House, South block, Ground floor	Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
18:00	Institute of Commonwealth Studies	Sir Shridath "Sonny" Ramphal in conversation about the Queen and the Commonwealth Event Poster	Macmillan Hall
Friday 1 June 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
10:00	Institute of Philosophy	CenSes Workshop: Scent and Sensibility: The Neuroscience of Fragrance	Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
13:30	Institute for the Study of the Americas	Assessing Mexico’s 2012 General Elections The Institute for the Study of the Americas gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for this event. Programme	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
15:00	Institute of Philosophy	Plurals, Predicates and Paradox Seminar: Epistemic Church's Thesis	Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)
17:00	Institute of English Studies	Psychoanalysis, Literature and Practice Text: Didier Anzieu, The Skin Ego (1989). pp. 711-87 and 109-111Film:Lawrence of Arabia (Dir. David Lean, 1962) Commentator: Steve Pile (Open University)	Room 349 (SH)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	The Silent Partners of Britain's Financial Revolution: Women as Public Investors, c. 1690-1750 Gordon Room, G34	Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	Damien Hirst: The Capitalist Sublime? Venue: The Court Room	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
18:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	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)
18:00	Institute of English Studies	Finnegans Wake Research Seminar	Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)
Saturday 2 June 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
14:00	Institute of Historical Research	Enlightenment in Lilliput: Republican Education in Eighteenth-Century Children's Literature Court Room, Senate House, South block, first floor	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
14:00	Institute of English Studies	EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination) Medieval Arabic and Latin AlchemyGuido Frison (UCL): 'Ultramarine blue: historical, philological and epistemological considerations'Gabriele F...	Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
14:00	Institute of English Studies	The Future of Poetry Gillian Clarke’s poetry collection: A Recipe for Water: a consideration. Gillian Clarke (b. 1937) is one of the central figures in contemporary W...	STB2 (Stewart House, basement)
Wednesday 6 June 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
09:00	Institute of Historical Research	Internet Sources for Historical Research This course provides an intensive introduction to use of the internet as a tool for serious historical research. It includes sessions on academic mailin...
13:00	Institute for the Study of the Americas	Economic Liberalism in the Americas Liberal economic principles and policies were often at odds with politically liberal agendas across the Americas in the nineteenth century. This worksho...	STB9 (Stewart House, basement)
14:15	Warburg Institute	The Fabrist Inner Circle and the Cursus artium at Paris: The Mathematical Reading of Beatus Rhenanus Full programme at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/seminars/work-in-progress/	Warburg Institute
15:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Stefan Zweig and Britain The first major Stefan Zweig Conference since 1981, it is hoped that this event will generate a renaissance in public interest and academic research. Ap...	Room 349 (SH)
16:00	Institute of Philosophy	IP aesthetics forum: Photography, Trace and Trauma Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics	Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)
16:30	Warburg Institute	The melancholy tower - the varying meanings of the ivory tower in relation to the act of reading	Warburg Institute
17:00	Institute of Historical Research	Democratic subjectification	Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
17:00	Institute for the Study of the Americas	Freedom to Trade, Free Trade and Laissez-Faire: Latin American Approaches to Economic Liberalism in the 19th Century There were at least four stages in the 19th century transition from mercantilism to 'free trade'. The first involved the freedom to trade with any count...	The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)
17:30	Human Rights Consortium	International Refugee Law seminar series “The law of exclusion from refugee status:recent developments” This is the 2nd year of the ‘International Refugee Law’ seminar ...	Lecture Theatre, IALS
17:30	Institute of Commonwealth Studies	International Refugee Law Seminar Series: The law of exclusion from refugee status: recent developments	IALS
17:30	Institute of Commonwealth Studies	Commonwealth Research Seminar Series: Exploring W. African Worlds: "Agay the Salt Carrier" (1831) by Mrs Bowdich (Lee)	Room 265 (Senate House, second floor)
18:00	Institute of English Studies	Senate House Library Friends Book Talk Two stories by Arthur Conan Doyle (‘The Adventure of the Empty House’ and ‘The Adventure of the Speckled Band’), ...	Durning-Lawrence Room
18:00	Institute of English Studies	Medieval and Renaissance Close Reading Group tbc	STB3/6 (Stewart House, basement)
Thursday 7 June 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
10:00	Institute of Commonwealth Studies	A revolutionary life: Ruth First 1925-1982 This event is a joint initiative between the Commonwealth Advisory Bureau and ICwS Ruth First was an anti-apartheid activist, investigative journalist,...	Macmillan Hall
10:00	Institute of Philosophy	Two-day Conference: Knowledge of Action Programme and Registration.	The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor)
15:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Meet-the-Author: Jimmy Burns interviews Carlos Gamerro Jimmy Burns, award-winning journalist and author of The Land that lost its Heroes: How Argentina lost the Falklands War (Bloomsbury, 2012), will be...	Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
16:30	Institute of Classical Studies	ICLS Ancient History Seminar Presentism in Ephoros: the Return of the Heraclidae in fourth-century Greece	Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:00	Warburg Institute	German Reading Class. Thomas Mann: Joseph und seine Brüder 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	Institute of Historical Research	Vice Beyond the Pale: (Re)presenting the 'White Slave' Traffic in turn of the century Britain	Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:00	Institute of Musical Research	'The Regent's Harmonica': Music, Power and Innovation in Early Nineteenth-Century London	Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)
17:15	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	English Goethe Society Utz Raphael (Jena):Visiting Goethe: The Diary of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, 1829-1832 More about the English Goethe Society	STB3/6 (Stewart House, basement)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	The scribbler and the doctor: Daniel Defoe's long way with Henry Sacheverell Bloomsbury Room, G35	Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	Possibilities: The career path of a fifteenth-century London chaplain, Richard Berenger Euan Roger (Royal Holloway) Blackberd's Treasure: A Study in Fifteenth-Century Hospital Administration at St Bartholomew’s London	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
17:30	Institute of English Studies	Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Tadashi Kotake (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, IES Visiting Fellow): 'Old English Glosses to the Rushworth Gospels: Palaeographical, Textua...	Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	Constructing Citizenship: Schooling Youth in Immigrant Chicago, 1900-1940 Chicago in the early twentieth century was a city of immigrants; thirty-percent of the city’s population was foreign-born. These immigrant...	Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
17:30	Institute for the Study of the Americas	Cocaine's March North, 1910-2010: 'Blowback' and the Origins of the Mexican Drug War	Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
18:00	Warburg Institute	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
Friday 8 June 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
09:30	Institute for the Study of the Americas	Jorge Amado Conference Co-sponsored by ISA and the Eccles Centre, British Library For further information please contact Elizabeth Cooper.	Other
10:00	Institute of Musical Research	Composition Workshop A workshop for composition students from Goldsmiths University of London, Royal HollowayUniversity of London, and the University of Edinburgh. To be hel...	Other
14:00	Institute of Musical Research	Research Training Reading Group: Classic Texts in Music and Culture Discussion of readings (available in advance). For further details please contact a.kassabian@liv.ac.uk	Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
15:00	Institute of Philosophy	Plurals, Predicates and Paradox Seminar: Programs as data and intensional recursion	STB3 (Stewart House, basement)
17:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Taking Writing to Court	The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	Gardens of Marrakesh: back to the future Please note: this session takes place in the Court Room, Senate House, South block, first floor	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
18:30	Institute for the Study of the Americas	Racial Identity and Nationalism in the Americas Co-sponsored by ISA and the Eccles Centre, British Library	Other
Saturday 9 June 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
11:00	Institute of English Studies	London Nineteenth Century Studies Research Seminar Victorian Maritime: a Symposium. The University of London Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar with the Centre for Victorian Studies, Royal Holloway...	Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Monday 11 June 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
10:00	School of Advanced Study	Careers Workshop: All day careers session More information	Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
10:00	Institute for the Study of the Americas	American Presidential Elections: Model of Democracy or Flawed System? Event flyer Programme Biographies	British Library
16:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	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 264 (Senate House, second floor)
16:00	Institute of Classical Studies	ICLS Annual Byzantine Colloquium When East met West: the reception of Latin philosophical and theological thought in Late Byzantium	Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
16:30	Warburg Institute	The Paper Museum of Cassiano del Pozzo. Drawings after the Antique 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	Institute of Musical Research	Do you know the land? Wolf's performing and composing of Mignon's lyric chain 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)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	Goals and Walls: The Israeli-Palestinian Encounter in Football Films Venue: Bloomsbury Room 35, Senate House, South block, Ground floor	Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	Indigenous Resistance and 'Rebellion' in 19th century European Settler Societies Venue: Room STB3/6, Stewart House, Basement	STB3/6 (Stewart House, basement)
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	Was the Chartist Movement anti-semitic?	Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
18:00	Institute of Historical Research	Title to be announced STB9 (Stewart House, basement)	STB9 (Stewart House, basement)
Tuesday 12 June 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
09:00	Institute of Historical Research	Databases for Historians This four-day course introduces the theory and practice of constructing and using databases. Through a mixture of lectures and practical, hands-on, sess...
11:25	Institute of Advanced Legal Studies	Reviewing Legal Education: The Way Forward As the Legal Education and Training Review continues to make progress, the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) in associaotn with IALS is holding this one-d...	IALS
13:10	Warburg Institute	From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Commedia. Summer term: Paradise Week 5: Canto XI. Francis of Assisi. After reading Dante in Italian, with English translation and visual and verbal commentary, there will be time for ...	Warburg Institute
15:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Argentina: Representations and Memories on the Desaparecidos and the Malvinas War Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory Seminar Keynote speakers: Claudia Feld and Federico Lorenz (CONICET Argentina)Further details	Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:00	Institute of Historical Research	The Passion of William of Norwich Bloomsbury Room (G35)	Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:00	Institute of Historical Research	Archaeology and history in the Driffield area Alan Thacker is consultant editor to the Victoria County History at the IHR, having been the Executive Editor up until 2009. His research interests incl...
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	Archaeology and history in the Driffield area of Yorkshire East Riding [provisional title] Venue: Athlone Room 102, Senate House, South block, 1st floor	Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	The Prince of Wales and Parliament in the early 18th century Venue: Torrington Room 104, Senate House, South block, 1st floor	Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	The Better Part of Valour: Victimhood, Humour and British Perceptions of Courage during the First World War	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
17:30	Institute of English Studies	History of Libraries Research Seminar Dr. David Shaw (Canterbury): 'Interpreting the Benefactors’ Book: a documentary and bibliographical account of Canterbury Cathedral Library in the...	Other
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	Interpreting the Benefactors' Book: a documentary and bibliographical account of Canterbury Cathedral Library in the seventeenth century The Catalogus Benefactorum, established in 1628 to record the names of donors to the Cathedral Library, is a confusing and incomplete document. ...
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	Interpreting the Benefactors' Book: a documentary and bibliographical account of Canterbury Cathedral Library in the seventeenth century The Catalogus Benefactorum, established in 1628 to record the names of donors to the Cathedral Library, is a confusing and incomplete document. ...	Other
18:00	Institute of Historical Research	Scots and Africa: A Nation of Empire-Builders in the Era of Decolonisation Athlone Room (102), First floor, South block, Senate House	Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
18:00	Institute of English Studies	Book Collecting Research Seminar Paul Goldman: 'Collecting Pre-Raphaelite Books and Illustration'	Room 261 (Senate House, second floor)
18:00	Institute of English Studies	Senate House Library Friends Book Talk The Thirty Nine Steps, by John Buchan, led by Dr Kate MacdonaldAttendance free, all welcome. If you would like to attend please contact Library Of...	Durning-Lawrence Room
18:00	Institute of Advanced Legal Studies	Thirty Years of Counterclaims in Investor-State Disputes: A Study of ICSID, UNCITRAL and Iran-US Claims Tribunal Jurisprudence Dr Kryvoi, a New York and Russian-qualified lawyer, has been practising international dispute resolution for several years with major law firms in Washi...	IALS
Wednesday 13 June 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
12:30	School of Advanced Study	Dean's Seminar: Prophets-Play: Personifying the Old Testament from Early Christian Homiletics to Medieval Drama	Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
14:15	Warburg Institute	Plato's Prosopon: Marsilio Ficino and Quattrocento Humanism Full programme at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/seminars/work-in-progress/	Warburg Institute
16:00	Institute of Advanced Legal Studies	Hamlyn Seminar 2012: The Rule of Law and the Measure of Property Professor Jeremy Waldron (Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, University of Oxford, University Professor and Professor of Law, New York U...	IALS
16:30	Warburg Institute	The invention of religion in early modernity	Warburg Institute
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	Parish provision for unmarried mothers in London, 1720-1840 Court room, Senate House, South block, first floor	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
17:30	Institute of English Studies	London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS) Rob Ellis (QMUL) and Carl Kears (KCL)	Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)
18:00	Institute of Classical Studies	ICLS Barron Memorial Lecture Athletics and politics in the ancient Greek games - BARRON MEMORIAL LECTURE in association with the Embassy of Greece and sponsored by the Greek A...	The Beveridge Hall (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Thursday 14 June 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
09:30	Institute of Commonwealth Studies	Secrecy and Disclosure: Freedom of Information and the Commonwealth Event Programme Registration Form Poster	Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
10:15	Warburg Institute	Warburg, Benjamin and Kulturwissenschaft In continental Europe the intellectual legacy of Aby Warburg is currently a major topic of debate. Several eminent German art historians have announced ...	Warburg Institute
15:00	Institute for the Study of the Americas	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)
16:00	Institute of Philosophy	Perception, Senses and Action Forum: Imitation, skill learning, and conceptual thought: an embodied, developmental approach	Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:00	Warburg Institute	German Reading Class. Thomas Mann: Joseph und seine Brüder 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
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	A Commonplace Tyrant: Commonplacing and the Composition of John Milton's 'The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates' in January 1649 Please note: this session has been brought forward from 21 June Bloomsbury Room, G35	Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	Books in London Mercer Social Networks	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
17:30	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Keyboard beats Paper: German Writers and Literary Institutions on the Internet Jeanine Tuschling (Aston/Birmingham)	STB9 (Stewart House, basement)
17:30	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Italian Jewish Writers in the 20th Century Speaker: Alain Elkann (novelist, intellectual and journalist)Title to be confirmed Organised in conjunction with the Department of Italian at Universit...	Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
18:00	Warburg Institute	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
Friday 15 June 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of English Studies	The UCL Festival of London and Literature: "One Day in the City" “One Day in the City” is a celebration of London and Literature organised by the Department of English, at University College London. The da...	Other
10:30	Institute of Commonwealth Studies	Decolonization Workshop Call for papers	Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
11:00	Institute of Advanced Legal Studies	Terrorism & Security Research in the UK: Using and Understanding Legal Resources This day has been organised by the “Law, Terrorism and the Right to Know Project at the University of Reading in association with the In...	IALS
15:00	Institute of Philosophy	Plurals, Predicates and Paradox Seminar: tba	Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	Gendered Emotion and Sexuality in Therapy in Mid-Twentieth century England Gordon Room, G34	Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	Fashion and Materialism Venue: The Senate Room	The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor)
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	'Martha Rosler, The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems' - published by Afterall Venue: The Bloomsbury Room (G35) in Senate House on the ground floor	Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
18:00	Institute of English Studies	The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar	Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)
Saturday 16 June 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
09:30	Institute of English Studies	Irish Studies Symposium: Censored Ireland Speakers include: Donal O'Drisceoil, Maurice Walsh, Peter Martin, Lauren Arrington, Ben Levitas, Steve Nicholson, Catherine O'Leary, Niall Carson, Frank...	Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Monday 18 June 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
10:00	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 ...	Senate House
16:30	Warburg Institute	The Sculpture of Khajuraho 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	Institute of Historical Research	Peter Heylyn and seventeenth-century crusade historiography	Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	The last resort? Litigation, riot and the politics of enclosure, c.1560-1650 The Court Room	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	Colonialism/Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop Panel session on Early Modern Dutch colonialism Suze Zijlstra (University of Amsterdam) An English heritage: The significance of Surinam...	Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	Saving Aboriginal Children: Save the Children Aboriginal Preschools, white volunteers and the rural colour bar	Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
18:00	Institute of Advanced Legal Studies	Why is law reform so difficult? This event is free. REGISTRATION: Please register by using the automatic form below. Organised by the Statute Law Society with the Institut...	IALS
Tuesday 19 June 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
10:00	Institute of Commonwealth Studies	Monarchy, Republicanism and the Privy Council	Venue to be confirmed
13:10	Warburg Institute	From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Commedia. Summer term: Paradise Canto XVII. Heaven of Mars. Cacciaguida. After reading Dante in Italian, with English translation and visual and verbal commentary, there will be time ...	Warburg Institute
17:00	Institute of Historical Research	Repetitive prayer and Reformation-era poetics	Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Concentrationary Cinema. Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Resnais's 'Night and Fog' (1955) A discussion with the editors of the Kraszna Krausz award-winning book, Maxime Silverman and Griselda Pollock, and Patrick ffrench (King's College ...	Room 349 (SH)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	Getting old and dying in London: a material culture approach Skilled workers, such as the silk weavers of Spitalfields, had the early and middle years of their lives mapped out for them (at least in&n...	Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:30	Institute of Commonwealth Studies	Jamaica 50 Lecture Series (provisional)	Macmillan Hall
18:00	Institute of Historical Research	Striking the balance: State intervention vs. non-intervention in Britain's oil policy, 1957-1968 Athlone Room (102), First floor, South block, Senate House	Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
18:00	Institute of English Studies	Literary London Reading Group tbc	Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)
18:00	Institute of Advanced Legal Studies	The truth about the rule of law, democracy and human rights in Ukraine. Recent cases - what can we learn from them? Valentyna Telychenko is well-known as the defence lawyer of Myroslava Gongadze in the murder case of her husband, journalist Georgiy Gongadze. Rec...	IALS
Wednesday 20 June 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
10:00	Institute of Commonwealth Studies	'Connecting Cultures' and internationalisation through Commonwealth Foreign Languages (CFL) ‘Connecting Cultures’ is the Commonwealth theme for the year 2012. Language is a crucial element in constructing/connecting cultures, and th...	The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor)
14:15	Warburg Institute	Director's Work in Progress Seminar	Warburg Institute
17:00	Institute of Historical Research	Sir Anthony Sherley's political writings: diplomacy, travel, and forms of publication	Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
17:00	Institute of Musical Research	ICONEA seminar: Modality in Question Free of charge. Open to the public. No advance booking required.	STB9 (Stewart House, basement)
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	From necessary leisure to moral prophylaxis: death of the suburban garden This is a joint session with the History of Gardens and Landscapes Seminar S264 (please note the change of venue)	Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	From necessary leisure to moral prophylaxis: death of the suburban garden Please note: this is a joint session with the Histories of Home seminar, taking place on a Wednesday Venue: S264 in Senate House, on the second...	Room G26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
18:00	Institute of Commonwealth Studies	Skeletons in Britannia’s Closet? Reassessing British Documents on the End of Empire in the light of the ‘Migrated Archives’ Event Flyer	The Jessell Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Thursday 21 June 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of Advanced Legal Studies	Turning Around Troubled Families Affected by Imprisonment; A fresh approach to integrated working between prisons and community Programme and registration fees to follow Organised in association with PACT (Prison Advice Care Trust).	IALS
09:30	Institute of Musical Research	Lyric Song in Idea and Performance SongArt Performance Research Group 3rd annual meeting. Research Question: What is the lyric and how do we make it? Although the idea of the ly...	The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)
13:30	Institute of Philosophy	Three-day Conference: Philosophical Insights In collaboration with the University of East Anglia and supported by the Mind Association. Registration.	Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
16:30	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Marriage and Revolution: Monsieur and Madame Roland Panel discussion accompaning the publication of Marriage and Revolution: Monsieur and Madame Roland (Oxford University Press, 2012) by Siân Reynol...	Room 261 (Senate House, second floor)
17:00	Warburg Institute	German Reading Class. Thomas Mann: Joseph und seine Brüder 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	Institute of Historical Research	Gladstone, Bright and the ethics of Liberal interventionism	Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	Oligarchs: Cloth-trading Dynasties in London and Wiltshire 1530-80 [half paper] Another speaker title to be announced	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	Conceptualising market expansion in Victorian Britain: The commercial traveller as an economic character Holden Room (103), first floor, South block, Senate House Please note the date of this session	Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
18:00	Warburg Institute	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
Friday 22 June 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
10:00	Warburg Institute	THE MARRIAGE OF PHILOLOGY AND SCEPTICISM: UNCERTAINTY AND CONJECTURE IN EARLY MODERN SCHOLARSHIP AND THOUGHT Philology is nowadays recognized as the foundation stone of modern scholarship: by holding on to documents and sticking to evidence, it is supposed to r...	Warburg Institute
14:05	Institute of Historical Research	The estancia: a polite landscape out of the treeless plain Please note: this session takes place in the Court Room, Senate House, South block, first floor	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
18:00	Institute of English Studies	Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group Richard Parker: Canto 35	Room 261 (Senate House, second floor)
Saturday 23 June 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
09:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Memory and Empathy Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory Conference Venue: Birkbeck College, University of London	Other
Monday 25 June 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of Musical Research	Manchester International Beethoven Conference Convened by Matthew Pilcher (Manchester) University of Manchester in collaboration with the IMR Further details at www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectar...	Other
	Institute of Musical Research	Opera as Spectacle. Staging practices in French and Italian opera during the nineteenth century Recent trends in opera studies have included voice and multi-media developments, but relatively little attention has been paid to historical staging pra...	Room 261 (Senate House, second floor)
10:00	Institute of Historical Research	Summer School in Local History The Institute of Historical Research is delighted to announce its inaugural three-day non-residential summer school in local history, to be held at the ...
10:30	Institute of English Studies	London Rare Books School (week one) A series of five-day, intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects to be taught in and around Senate House, which is the centre of the Univ...	Senate House
10:30	Institute for the Study of the Americas	Canada, China and the Asia Pacific Event Programme	Venue to be confirmed
13:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	IGRS Lunchtime Research Seminars Cat Moir (Sheffield/IGRS):Bloch and the Philosophy of Translation	Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
13:00	Institute of Commonwealth Studies	The Internationalisation of Dalit and Adivasi Activism (Day One) This event is by invitation only.	STB3/6 (Stewart House, basement)
16:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	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...	STB7 (Stewart House, basement)
16:00	Institute of Philosophy	Perception, Senses and Action Forum: Two Concepts of Mental Qualities	STB9 (Stewart House, basement)
16:30	Warburg Institute	European Alabaster Sculpture 1330-1530 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
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	Boom and Bust: The Edwardian Roller Skating Boom, 1908-1912 Venue: Bloomsbury Room 35, Senate House, South block, Ground floor	Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	Class, Corruption and the London Olympics 2012	Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
18:30	Institute of Historical Research	Marc Fitch lecture The 2012 Marc Fitch lecture will be presented by Dr David Starkey on the subject of '"Head of Our Morality": why the twentieth-century British monarchy ...	The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)
Tuesday 26 June 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of Advanced Legal Studies	Globalisation, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (W G Hart Legal Workshop 2012) The WG Hart Legal Workshop 2012 will address the multifarious relationship between globalisation, on the one hand, and criminal law and justice, on the ...	IALS
09:00	Institute of Commonwealth Studies	The Internationalisation of Dalit and Adivasi Activism (Day Two) This event is by invitation only.	The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor)
10:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Cinema, Sexualities, Theory. Conference in Honour of Keith Reader Programme and further details	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
13:10	Warburg Institute	From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Commedia. Summer term: Paradise Week 7: Canto XXVII. Heaven of the fixed stars. St Peter. After reading Dante in Italian, with English translation and visual and verbal commentary, th...	Warburg Institute
17:00	Institute of Historical Research	Michael Balint and the transformation of psychoanalysis in Britain Bloomsbury Room (G35)	Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	Tba	Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	Parliament, politics and corruption (title to be confirmed) Please note: this session starts at the earlier time of 16:00 Venue: S264, Senate House, South block, 2nd floor	Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	The South Africans at Tobruk Please note: this session takes place in the Woburn Suite (G22/26) on the ground floor of Senate House	Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Wednesday 27 June 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of Advanced Legal Studies	Modern Activism Venue: The conference will take place in Liverpool, across a number of venues including Liverpool John Moores University and the Un...	Other
09:00	Institute of Historical Research	Databases for Historians II: Practical Database Tools The aim of this course is to develop the practical skills necessary for constructing and fully exploiting a database for use in historical research. Ass...
14:15	Warburg Institute	Director's Work in Progress Seminar	Warburg Institute
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	The material life of the militia man To be followed by the annual seminar party Court room, Senate House, South block, first floor	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Thursday 28 June 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
15:00	Institute for the Study of the Americas	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)
15:00	Institute of Philosophy	Plurals, Predicates and Paradox Seminar: Bilattices in Logic Programming and the Theory of Truth	Venue to be confirmed
17:00	Warburg Institute	German Reading Class. Thomas Mann: Joseph und seine Brüder 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
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	Privacy in Medieval London This seminar will be held in The Court Room and will be followed by the annual seminar party in 2 Gower Street.	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	Historia Magistra Vitae: John Toland, the life of Cicero and the value of history Gordon Room (G34), ground floor, South block, Senate House	Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
18:00	Warburg Institute	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
Friday 29 June 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of English Studies	The Power of the Word: Poetry and Prayer: Continuities and Discontinuities The second Power of the Word conference focuses on the theme of poetry and prayer. It seeks to promote further the dialogue, begun successfully at Heyth...	Institute of English Studies
18:00	Institute of English Studies	Finnegans Wake Research Seminar	Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)
Saturday 30 June 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
14:00	Institute of English Studies	Contemporary Fiction Research Seminar Special seminar to launch the publication of the anthology Alan Moore and the Gothic Tradition edited by Dr. Matt Green (Nottingham)	Room 261 (Senate House, second floor)
Monday 2 July 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
10:30	Institute of English Studies	London Rare Books School (week two) A series of five-day, intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects to be taught in and around Senate House, which is the centre of the Un...	Senate House
17:15	Institute of Historical Research	Round table on the public sphere in early modern England Bedford Room, G37	Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
13:10	Warburg Institute	From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Commedia. Summer term: Paradise Week 8: Canto XXXIII. The Empyrean. The vision of the Trinity. After reading Dante in Italian, with English translation and visual and verbal commentar...	Warburg Institute
17:30	Institute of English Studies	History of Libraries Research Seminar Professor Alistair Black (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): ' "The necessity of clear expression": home-grown writing, organisational learning ...	Room 349 (SH)
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	"The necessity of clear expression": home-grown writing, organisational learning and the library staff magazine in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century Unlike staff magazines in private enterprises, which pre-date them by two decades, library staff magazines of the early-twentieth century were m...
17:30	Institute of Historical Research	'The necessity of clear expression' home-grown writing, organisational learning and the library staff magazine in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century Unlike staff magazines in private enterprises, which pre-date them by two decades, library staff magazines of the early-twentieth century were m...	Room 349 (SH)
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of English Studies	Literary London Conference 2012 Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers, comprised panels, and roundtable sessions, which consider any period or genre of literature about, set in, i...	Institute of English Studies
Thursday 5 July 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
09:00	Institute of Historical Research	2012 Anglo-American Conference of Historians: Ancients and Moderns With the Olympics upon us in the UK it seems an appropriate moment to think more broadly about the ways in which the classical world resonates in our ow...	Senate House
09:15	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Kommerz und Imagination II: Literarische und filmische Beiträge zur Warenhaus-Debatte im frühen 20. Jahrhundert Tales of Commerce and Imagination II: Literary and Cinematic Contributions to the Department Store Debate in the Early 20th Century Venue: Literaturhau...	Other
10:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Tales of Commerce and Imagination II: Literary and Cinematic Contributions to the Department Store Debate in the Early Twentieth Century Tales of Commerce and Imagination II: Literary and Cinematic Contributions to the Department Store Debate in the Early Twentieth Century (Austria &ndash...
18:00	Institute of Commonwealth Studies	Black Britain seminar series: Paving the Empire Road: BBC Television and Black Britons	Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)
18:30	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Das Berliner Warenhaus - Kommerz und Imagination Philip Hensher (London) and Annett Gröschner (Berlin) read from their work Venue: Literaturhaus Berlin	Other
Friday 6 July 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
09:00	Institute of Historical Research	Summer conference Venue: Room 349 Senate House, South block, third floor Please note: this event takes place on a Friday	Room 349 (SH)
Saturday 7 July 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
10:00	Institute of English Studies	The Future of Poetry Symposium	Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
15:30	Institute of English Studies	T.S. Eliot International Summer School The Institute of English Studies, University of London is hosting the fourth annual T.S. Eliot International Summer School (7-14 July). Anyone wit...	Senate House
Monday 9 July 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of English Studies	Language, Culture and Society in Russian/English Studies Organised and sponsored by the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Linguistics and The Journa...	Institute of English Studies
Tuesday 10 July 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
14:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Digital Memories This joint initiative between the Centre for Media and Culture Research (London South Bank University) and the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory (...	Centre for Media and Cultural Research
18:00	Institute of English Studies	Book Collecting Research Seminar Carl Williams: 'Collecting Counter-Culture'	Room 261 (Senate House, second floor)
Wednesday 11 July 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of English Studies	Victorian Popular Fiction Association 4th Annual Conference Keynote speakers: Regenia Gagnier: 'The global circulation of British literature and culture: British fiction, economics and the marketplace', and Debor...	Institute of English Studies
Thursday 12 July 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of Musical Research	Music and Shape Convenor: Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (KCL) Music and Science Group in collaboration with the IMR	Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
13:00	Institute for the Study of the Americas	'The War of 1812: Memory and Myth, History and Historiography' An International conference organised by the Institute for the Study of the Americas, and Canterbury Christ Church University in partnership with t...	The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)
13:00	Institute of Commonwealth Studies	The War of 1812: Memory and Myth, History and Historiography An International conference organised by the Institute for the Study of the Americas, and Canterbury Christ Church University in partnership with t...	The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)
Friday 13 July 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
18:00	Institute of English Studies	The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar	Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)
Monday 16 July 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
09:00	Institute of Historical Research	Methods and Sources for Historical Research This long-standing course is an introduction to finding and using primary sources for research in modern British, Irish and colonial history. The course...
Friday 20 July 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of Musical Research	Music and Philosophy 2nd Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group in collaboration with the Music and Philosophy St...	Other
Tuesday 28 August 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
10:00	Institute of Philosophy	European Society for Philosophy and Psychology Four-day International Symposium. Conference website and registration: http://www.espp2012.com	Senate House
Monday 3 September 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
11:00	Warburg Institute	Renaissance Latin Course A course for beginners and those who wish to brush up their Latin or apply a knowledge of Classical Latin to the Renaissance and Early Modern period giv...	Warburg Institute
Thursday 6 September 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of English Studies	Dante in the Nineteenth Century As a number of historians have pointed out, the concept of the 'Renaissance' as a way of describing Italy from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries...	Institute of English Studies
Monday 10 September 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of Musical Research	Perspectives on Musical Improvisation AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice in association with the IMR At the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford Further de...	Other
Tuesday 11 September 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
09:00	Institute of Historical Research	Teaching history in higher education This year, the Higher Education Academy’s annual teaching and learning conference on history in higher education will be held in partnership with ...	Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
09:30	Institute of Historical Research	Anglo-Japanese Conference
Wednesday 12 September 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of Musical Research	Music and Movement National Graduate Conference for Ethnomusicology British Forum for Ethnomusicology in association with the IMR	Senate House
Thursday 13 September 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of English Studies	Space and Place in Middlebrow: 1900-1950 This conference aims to investigate the complex relationship between middlebrow writing and categories of space and place. For the exploration of this t...	Institute of English Studies
Saturday 15 September 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of English Studies	Weird Council: an International Conference on the Writing of China Miéville Papers are invited for the first academic conference dedicated to the work of China Miéville. Despite the cricial acclaim of Miévill...	Institute of English Studies
	Institute of Musical Research	RMA AGM and Dent Medal Study Day in Honour of Annegret Fauser The study day will be on the theme of 'Music and War', and, as this is the fiftieth award of the Dent medal, there will be a morning round table featuri...	Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
09:00	Institute of Historical Research	County Societies Symposium The symposium will be a forum for representatives of the county societies (archaeological, historical, antiquarian and natural history) to come together...	The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)
Monday 17 September 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
09:00	Institute of Historical Research	New perspectives on industrialisation The Institute of Historical Research and the PKU (Beijing) are joining together next September to host a conference on the recent historiography of Brit...
Thursday 20 September 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
10:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Protest and Reform in Wilhelmine German Culture (1871-1918) This interdisciplinary conference will explore the various discourses of protest, reform and experimentation conducted in the socio-political field. It ...	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Friday 21 September 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of English Studies	First International Djuna Barnes Conference The work of author, poet, playwright, journalist, visual artist and sometimes reluctant modernist Djuna Barnes (1892 – 1982) has continued to begu...	Institute of English Studies
	Institute of Musical Research	SMA TAGS for Music Postgraduates Further details will be available at www.music.sas.ac.uk	The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)
Thursday 27 September 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of English Studies	Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End: Modernism and the First World War Proposals are invited for an international conference on Ford Madox Ford's First World War tetralogy, Parade's End . First published as Some Do Not . . ...	Institute of English Studies
Tuesday 9 October 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
18:00	Institute of English Studies	Book Collecting Research Seminar Julian Browning: 'Collecting Autographs and Manuscripts'	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Thursday 11 October 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
10:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald	The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)
18:00	Institute of English Studies	Stephen Spender Research Seminar 'Bernard Spencer: Mystery Poet': Jonathan Barker, Professor Valentine Cunningham and Professor Peter Robinson discuss the writer's life, his work ...	The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Friday 12 October 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
09:30	Institute of English Studies	Brave New World and its Legacies When Brave New World first appeared in 1932 it caused a sensation. It was obvious that Aldous Huxley was intent on testing the boundaries of propriety (...	Institute of English Studies
Saturday 13 October 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
09:30	Institute of English Studies	Dickens Day 2012 Dickens and Popular Culture Dickens Day, now in its 26th year, is celebrating 2012 with a theme that explores Dickens’s popularity and his engagement with non-elite cultures ...	Institute of English Studies
Thursday 25 October 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
11:00	Institute of Commonwealth Studies	ICwS and OSPA Witness Seminar: Indigenisation of the Civil Service in colonial territories before and immediately after independence Registration form	The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Friday 26 October 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of English Studies	Cosmopolitan Animals Keynote speakers: Donna Haraway / Simon Glendinning In what ways can we conceptualise cosmopolitanisms which are not solely 'human', and where and how ...	Institute of English Studies
10:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Mothering and Work: Employment Trends and Rights Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's WritingAHRC-Funded 'Motherhood in post-1968 European Literature' NetworkWorkshop 2	Room 265 (Senate House, second floor)
10:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Umanesimo	Room 349 (SH)
Saturday 3 November 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of English Studies	South-Asian Fiction: Contemporary Transformations The South-Asian Fiction: Contemporary Transformations One-Day Symposium seeks to address emerging contexts and formal departures in South-Asian Anglopho...	Institute of English Studies
Thursday 8 November 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of English Studies	The Marginalised Mainstream: Literature, Culture & Popularity Keynote Speakers include: Professor Phillip Tew (Brunel University), Professor James Chapman (University of Leicester), Christoph Lindner (University of...	Institute of English Studies
10:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Shifting German Landscapes: East-West Perspectives on Cultural Hybridity and Place Even though mass migration and social transformations throughout Europe since 1989 have destabilized binaries such as East and West, Orient and Occident...	Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
17:30	Institute for the Study of the Americas	Republicans, Liberals and Constitutions in Nineteenth-Century Latin America	Room G22/26 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Tuesday 13 November 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
18:00	Institute of English Studies	Book Collecting Research Seminar Jolyon Hudson: 'Book Collecting: The Financial Nuts and Bolts'	to be confirmed
Friday 16 November 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
10:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Comunità Friulana	Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)
Monday 19 November 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
18:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Ingeborg Bachmann Centre 10th Anniversary Lecture Konstanze Fliedl (Vienna):Title to be announced	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Wednesday 21 November 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
18:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar Laure Guilbert (Paris/London): German and Austrian Dance in Exile in the World 1933-1945More about the Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies	Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Thursday 22 November 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of Musical Research	Aerophones in the Ancient World: Near and Middle east, Egypt and the Mediterranean ICONEA conference With the participation of Patrimoines et Langages Musicaux of the Sorbonne, Paris Further details at http://www.iconea.org/	The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)
Friday 23 November 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of English Studies	The British Monarchy on Screen Co-sponsored by the departments of the History of Art and Film, Birkbeck; Media Arts, Royal Holloway; the University of London Screen Studies Group; and...	Institute of English Studies
Friday 30 November 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of English Studies	Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues and Communities This conference's remit is to explore the numerous ways in which the modernist writer and painter Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) belonged to cultural network...	Institute of English Studies
Tuesday 11 December 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
18:00	Institute of English Studies	Book Collecting Research Seminar Roger Gaskell: 'Science, Illustration and the Royal Society'	The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Friday 14 December 2012
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of English Studies	Captivity and Culpability: The Disciplining Subject in the Literary and Cultural Imagination Keynote Speakers: Bob Brecher (University of Brighton), Anthony Downey (Sotheby's Institute of Art) Societies often have ambiguous and even conflicting...	Senate House
10:00	Human Rights Consortium	Captivity and Culpability: The Disciplining Subject in the Literary and Cultural Imagination Societies often have ambiguous and even conflicting attitudes towards state institutions that fulfil normalising, reformatory, punitive or disciplinary ...	The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Wednesday 16 January 2013
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
18:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar Rose Holmes (Sussex): Narratives of Reassurance. Quaker Humanitarian Photographs from Basque Children to the Kindertransport More about the Centre...	Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Friday 18 January 2013
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
10:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Changing Models of Motherhood Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's WritingAHRC-Funded 'Motherhood in post-1968 European Literature' NetworkWorkshop 3	Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
Saturday 16 February 2013
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
09:30	Institute of English Studies	Jane Austen Society 2012: Jane Austen's Men Rescheduled from 2012.	Institute of English Studies
Thursday 7 March 2013
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
10:00	Warburg Institute	The Afterlife of Ovid Call for Papers The Warburg Institute and the Institute of Classical Studies will be hosting an international conference on the afterlife of Ovid in Lo...
Friday 15 March 2013
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
	Institute of English Studies	Writers and their Libraries This conference in the History of Reading will bring together scholars working on the private libraries of some of the major literary figures in world l...	Institute of English Studies
Friday 26 April 2013
Time	Institute	Title	Venue
10:00	Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies	Motherhood and Religions Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's WritingAHRC-Funded 'Motherhood in post-1968 European Literature' NetworkWorkshop 4	Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)

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