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The School organises an extensive academic events programme that is critical to its national mission to support and promote research in the humanities and social sciences. The majority of these events are free and open to all.
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Monday 9 January 2012 |
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| 09:00 | IHR |
An Introduction to Oral History This course addresses theoretical and practical issues in oral history through workshop sessions and participants’ own interviewing work. It deals... |
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Tuesday 10 January 2012 |
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| 09:00 | IHR |
Intermediate Medieval and Renaissance Latin This course builds upon the basis of Medieval and Renaissance Latin I, deepening and extending understanding of the language. By the end of the course, ... |
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Thursday 12 January 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 14:00 | IES |
Palaeography and Diplomatic for Historians Term 2, Thursday afternoons, 2.00-4.00 for 10 weeks, commencing January 2012. This course is designed to introduce historians to the palaeographical ... |
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Tuesday 7 February 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 09:00 | IHR |
Visual Sources for Historians An introduction to the use of art, photography, film and other visual sources by historians (post-1500). Through lectures, discussion and visits the cou... |
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Monday 13 February 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:30 | IMR |
Music and the Social Research Training in Music Day School Open to all postgraduate students. Advance booking required. Fee payable. Booking form at www.music.sas.ac.uk |
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| 16:00 | IGRS |
German Philosophy Seminar Wagner and PhilosophyThe German Philosophy Reading Group is open to philosophers and Germanists, both students and staff, interested in reading and disc... |
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| 16:30 | IClS |
ICLS Ancient Philosophy Seminar “Uses of Plato in Cicero's philosophical works” |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Papal government and the crusade under Honorius III |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Beyond the state: responses to mental illness in Uganda, 1894-1972 Colonialism/Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
Privy Council politics, faction and rebellion in mid-Tudor Ireland, 1544-8 |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
The Making of a French Regionalist: Jean Baffier (1851-1920) Please note: This session takes place in Senate House, South block, Bloomsbury Room G35 |
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| 17:30 | ISA |
The Nitrate King: The remarkable life of John Thomas North Talk and book launch About the book Invitation Kindly sponsored by the Chilean Embassy in London RSVP |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Please note: this session has been cancelled. The speaker who had been engaged for this session has, with regret, been obliged to withdraw. |
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| 18:30 | IGRS |
Tertúlia Reading Group: Mayombe Pepetela: Mayombe [translation by Michael Wolfers] |
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Tuesday 14 February 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 11:00 | SAS |
Careers Workshop: Applying for jobs in academia More information The session takes place in Stewart House, second floor, room 268 |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Odessa: A Jewish City? Bloomsbury Room (G35) |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Organization of Defeat: The BEF and Preparations for Defence of the Western Front 1917-18 |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
The British Academic World, 1880-1939 Please note: this session takes place on February 14th, not 7th as announced previously. Venue: Bedford Room (G37) |
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| 17:00 | IP |
Logic and Metaphysics Forum: Wiggins, Mackie and Fine on Essentialism |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
Shaping the seaside resort - the seaside urban developer 1820-1914 |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
'Unnatural offenders': infanticide in the Old Bailey, 1674-1701 |
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| 17:30 | IES |
History of Libraries Research Seminar Alessandra Panzanelli (University of Perugia): 'An unpublished Treatise of Librarianship in the Italian Renaissance. De Bibliothecis disponendis et info... |
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| 17:30 | IClS |
ICLS Accordia Lectures 'Landscapes of Contact: Greeks and Indigenes at L’Amastuola, southern Italy’ |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
The King, The Missionary, and the Missionary's Daughter: the relationship between King Sekhukhune and the German missionary J.A. Winter In association with the German Historical Institute, London Venue: Room ST274, Stewart House, 2nd floor |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
An Unpublished Treatise of Librarianship in the Italian Renaissance: De Bibliothecis disponendis et informandis, by Prospero Podiani (Perugia ca. 1535 - 1615) |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
An Unpublished Treatise of Librarianship in the Italian Renaissance: De Bibliothecis disponendis et informandis, by Prospero Podiani (Perugia ca. 1535 - 1615) This treatise, written in Perugia in about 1570, is concerned with the way of arranging an encyclopaedic collection and, at the same time, arran... |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Book Collecting Research Seminar Rick Gekoski: 'Book Collecting in Modern Times'. The first in the new series of seminars organised jointly by the Institute of English Studies (L... |
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| 18:00 | WB |
Warburg-UCL Scholasticism Reading Group The Warburg Institute and the UCL History Department are launching a reading and discussion group exploring Scholastic texts. Participants should have ... |
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| 18:00 | IHR |
TBA Please note this seminar will be held at The Rothschild Archives. Please contact Dr Michael Kandiah (Michael.Kandiah@kcl.ac.uk) if you wish to a... |
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| 18:00 | IHR |
Cotton, Finance and Slavery: Atlantic Credit and the Development of Modern Banking Please note this seminar will be held at The Rothschild Archives. Please contact Dr Michael Kandiah (Michael.Kandiah@kcl.ac.uk) if you wish... |
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Wednesday 15 February 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 12:30 | SAS |
Dean's Seminar: The Fetishism of Colonial Commodities and the Intimacies of Four Continents |
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| 15:00 | IClS |
ICLS Mycenaean Seminar The settlement at Dhaskalio, Keros and the later Early Bronze Age in the Cycladic Islands |
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| 17:00 | ICwS |
Caribbean Seminar Series: East Indian Civil Society in the Pre-Independence Caribbean |
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| 17:00 | ISA |
Caribbean seminar series: East Indian Civil Society in the Pre-Independence Caribbean |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
'It is so essentially a London district, though it has grown to the dignity of a borough in itself.' The making of suburban identities in east London, c.1885-1925 |
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| 17:30 | IES |
Open University Book History and Bibliography Research Seminar: Landmarks in Book History Kate Longworth (Oxford): 'How to do things with books: Wolfgang Iser's The Implied Reader'Kate Longworth is completing a doctorate at Oxford University;... |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Literary and Critical Theory Seminar tbc |
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Thursday 16 February 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 14:00 | SAS |
Using research software: Bibliographic software EndNote and Zotero are widely-used tools for publishing and managing bibliographies. This class, primarily for School students but with a few places for... |
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| 16:30 | IClS |
ICLS Ancient History Seminar The baggage train of the Ten Thousand in Xenophon’s Anabasis |
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| 17:00 | WB |
Maps for The Hakluyt Society, 1847–2010: or, from Cosmas to Cook and computers MEETING SPONSORED BY THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY |
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| 17:00 | IMR |
Understanding dynamic music improvisation: the application of computational music analysis techniques to the analysis of music therapy Free of charge. Open to the public. No advance booking required. |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Of more benefit than 'a beautiful bedroom, even if it is hung with gold brocade': the well-kept stable of an Italian Renaissance court Venue: Room ST274, Stewart House, 2nd floor |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
By the treaty of union their whole trade would be ruin'd: British commercial dynamics, c.1600-1760 Bedford Room (G37) |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Antonio Stoppani and the Popularisation of Science in Risorgimental Italy Holden Room (103), first floor, South block, Senate House |
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| 17:30 | IES |
London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship Katherine D. Harris (San José State University): 'A Supple Vocabulary for Digital Scholarly Editions' |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Rebellion in Pre-Modern Korea: Regional Discrimination and the Musillan Rebellion of 1728 Venue: Jessel Room (Senate House, first floor) |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Counterfactuals and context: is biography history? |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Feeding the ghosts: George Hibbert and the memory of British slave ownership; Jessica Moody (York), A proud and shameful eminence: slavery, memory and civic identity in Liverpool |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Peter Porter: A Memorial Celebration Presented by Kings College London and the Institute of English Studies, Mrs Christine Porter and family, friends and colleagues will celebrate the life ... |
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Friday 17 February 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 15:00 | IP |
Plurals, Predicates and Paradox Seminar: Truth and Dependence (joint work with F. van Vugt) |
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| 17:00 | WB |
Jacob Brucker's Historia critica philosophiae (1757) – antecedents and consequences |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
God's Other Architects: Nuns and the Building of English Convents, 1830-1940 Bedford Room (G37) |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
The London water market: expansion and public debate, 1750-1820 |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Late-medieval monastic recruitment in the diocese of Exeter |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
The Idea of Marx in Financial Times |
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| 18:00 | IES |
The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar We will continue with the `Hades' episode (Chapter 6), p. 87, l. 683 (Gabler ed.): `Corny Kelleher fell into step at their side'. |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group Maureen O'Rourke: 'Poetry shaped by exile: a comparison between Pound and an Iraqi exile' |
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Saturday 18 February 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | IES |
Mark Gonzales: Poetry Masterclass and Performance Series Poetry development masterclass by internationally renowned spoken word artist and educator Mark Gonzales making his UK debut. Organised by the Mus... |
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Monday 20 February 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | ISA |
Learning from Latin America: Debt crises, debt rescues and when and why they work This conference brings together scholars and practitioners deeply knowledgeable about recent Latin American crises and rescue experiences, with people a... |
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| 16:30 | WB |
Painting Restoration before La Restauration: The Origins of the Profession in France 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... |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
A World Safe Enough for Imperialism? American Perceptions of Danger and Violence in the World, 1789-1869 Venue: ST274/5, 2nd floor, Stewart House |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
A 17c Revolution in Medical-Care Demand? Why the Anglo-French comparison matters? |
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| 17:15 | IClS |
Latin Literature Seminar ‘Property, Status and Social Relations in the Poetry of Catullus’ |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
Women's Cricket Magazine, 1930-1967: Making Cricket Possible, Enjoyable and Fruitful for All Women and Girls |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
The revolutionary left press after 1968 |
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| 18:00 | ICwS |
Black Britain Seminar Series: The Art of Being Black |
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| 18:00 | IALS |
The Democratic Legitimacy of International Human Rights Conventions: Parliament, Political Constitutionalism and the Hirst Case Organised by the Statute Law Society with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. |
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| 18:00 | IHR |
Title to be announced ST273 (Stewart House, second floor) |
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| 18:00 | WB |
Aby Warburg Reading Group The aim of this reading group is to read and discuss a selection of Aby Warburg’s writings in order to explore the interest and validity of his th... |
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Tuesday 21 February 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 13:10 | WB |
From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Commedia. Spring Term: Purgatory Week 6: Canto XI. The Lord’s Prayer; Omberto Aldobrandeschi; Oderisi da Gubbio. After reading Dante in Italian, with English translation and visu... |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Scientific Speech and the Geography of Victorian Oratory Venue: Torrington Room 104, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
The origins of English evangelicalism reconsidered |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
Modernity, Nostalgia and the Ship in the Long-Nineteenth Century |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
The Old Bailey Corpus: Spoken English in the 18th and 19th Centuries Room ST276, Stewart House, second floor |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Was the Mexican Revolution a Success? Russell Room (Room 32) |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
The Olympics, documentation strategy and the Minnesota Method Please note: this session takes place in Room ST274, Stewart House, 2nd floor |
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| 17:30 | ISA |
Was the Mexican Revolution a Success? This seminar is a joint initiative between the IHR and the ISA |
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| 17:30 | HRC |
International Refugee Law seminar series "The supervision of international refugee law" This is the 2nd year of the ‘International Refugee Law’ seminar series, which aims to provid... |
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| 17:30 | ICwS |
International Refugee Law Seminar Series: The supervision of international refugee law |
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| 17:30 | IES |
The Rise of Creative Writing Alison MacLeod (University of Chichester), Derek Neale (open University). 'Impacts on the Short Story'. Alison MacLeod’s short stories have been ... |
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| 18:00 | ISA |
Challenging the idea of Canada as a disinterested internationalist |
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| 18:00 | IHR |
Britain and Abyssinia: the forward view, c1800 to 1875 Please note: this session was previously due to take place on 21 February. |
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| 18:00 | IHR |
Embassy of Sir Nicholas O'Conor at Constantinople before World War I Pease note: this seminar will now be held at The Rothschild Archives on 8 May. Please contact Dr Michael Kandiah (Michael.Kandiah@kcl.ac.u... |
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| 18:00 | IALS |
The Changing Landscape of Women in the Professions: Why Women Study Law and Not Engineering? Today, the legal profession in the US and the UK enjoys gender parity in education and at career launch, though questions of equity persist at later sta... |
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| 19:00 | IHR |
Tearing Christ's seamless tunic? The Eastern Schism and Crusades against the Greeks in the thirteenth century |
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Wednesday 22 February 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| IALS |
Accessing Justice: Rights, Responsibilities and Effective Strategies Registration Fee: £65.00. Academic/NGO Rate: £40.00. Student Rate: £20.00. For a copy of the programme and booking f... |
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| 12:30 | IES |
Institute of English Studies Director's Seminar Isaac Yue (University of Hong Kong): 'Mrs Beeton Cooking Abroad: Martha Foster Crawford and the Victorian Middle-class Discourse of Gastronomy' This pa... |
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| 13:50 | IES |
Senate House Library Friends Visit Senate House Library Friends Visit: Wellcome Library, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE. The Wellcome Library is Europe’s largest library devoted t... |
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| 14:15 | WB |
Francis Bacon and the Religious Mind |
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| 16:00 | IP |
IP aesthetics forum: Aesthetic Displeasure and Artistic Appreciation: Feeling Bad about Good Art Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics |
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| 16:30 | WB |
In Search of Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Lost Long Documentum |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Materialism and Communism: The critique of civilisation before (and in) Marx and Engels Senate House, Bedford Room G37 (ground floor) |
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| 17:00 | IClS |
ICLS Classical Archaeology Seminar Shaping, collecting and displaying medicine and architecture in London: responses to the classical legacy |
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| 17:00 | IGRS |
AUT of the Box: Austrian Literature Received in China Arnhilt Höfle (IGRS, London) discusses the reception of Austrian Writers in China More about the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
Antislavery and empire: The imperial context of British Abolitionism, c.1783-1793 Court room, Senate House, South block, first floor |
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| 17:30 | IES |
South Asian Fiction: Contemporary Transformations Claire Chambers (Leeds Metropolitan University): 'Yusuf, Hajj, Ummah: A Comparative Approach to Pakistani Fiction in English' |
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| 17:30 | ISA |
Cultures of Devotion: Folk Saints of Spanish America The miraculous souls known as folk saints are prominent in the lives of many Spanish Americans as they struggle with poverty, oppression, and the failur... |
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| 17:30 | IES |
Open University Book History and Bibliography Seminar: Landmarks in Book History Stephen Colclough (Bangor): ' "What is the history of the history of reading?": Reinvestigating Robert Darnton's "First Steps" 'Stephen Colclough is a l... |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Apocalyptic outsiders and their uses in the early medieval West (Chair: Alice Rio) Bloomsbury Room (G35) |
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| 18:00 | IALS |
A Legal History of an inventive solution to the problems posed by the Laws of Shemitta |
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Thursday 23 February 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 12:30 | IP |
IP Lunchtime Seminar: tba |
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| 15:00 | ISA |
The Global Century (Postgraduate Reading Group): China's Century New attendees are always welcome. Please see The Global Century for further details. |
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| 16:00 | SAS |
Research skills workshops: Teaching skills for the PhD student This session will explore the issues for the doctoral student engaged in teaching seminars or classes in their own department or external institution. I... |
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| 17:00 | WB |
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... |
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| 17:00 | IMR |
Distressed surfaces: British musical expressionism since 2001 Free of charge. Open to the public. No advance booking required. |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Sunday preaching in the People's Park: Oxford House Heads and the Performance of Religious Masculinity in the East End of London, 1880-1900 |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
The accusation of imposture in early modern witchcraft and possession cases |
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| 17:30 | IES |
Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Ann Payne (ex-BL) and Linda Voigts (University of Missouri, Kansas City): 'Medicine for a Great Household: Berkeley Castle Muniments SB 89' |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Nation Building: African American women's experiences and work in the Nation of Islam, 1960-1975 Chair: Emily West Room (G34), Senate House, ground floor |
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| 17:30 | HRC |
‘New Challenges in Refugee Integration’ seminar series “Integration: global perspectives on the transition from being apart to being a part (of something)” To mark the 60th anniversary of t... |
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| 17:30 | ICwS |
New Challenges in Refugee Integration seminar series: Integration: Global perspectives on the transition from being apart to being a part (of something) |
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| 17:30 | ISA |
Nation Building: African American women's experiences and work in the Nation of Islam, 1960-1975 This seminar is a joint initiative between ISA and the IHR |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
West Germany in a World of Oil: Energy and Foreign Policy in the Oil Crisis 1973/74 Seminar Room, German Historical Institute, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1A 2NJ  |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
The nobility in the medieval Low Countries. A survey of the state of the art Venue: Torrington Room (104) (please note: not Court Room), Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
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| 18:00 | WB |
New Testament Greek Reading Class The class meets at the Warburg Institute in the Droz Library. Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Greek. If you wish to attend ... |
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Friday 24 February 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | WB |
Rabelais's Rhetorics Rabelais was ambitiously experimental and extremely self-conscious about structure, style and use of language. His comedy is inseparable from his lingui... |
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| 14:00 | IALS |
Crime and Criminal Process in Historical Perspective The following papers will be given: Henry Mares pm the Star Chamber, King's Bench and the Criminal Information of the Attorney General in the Sevente... |
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| 15:00 | IP |
Plurals, Predicates and Paradox Seminar: Restricted Quantification as a Challenge for Naive Truth Theory |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
A "disordered house": The marriage of Philip of Burgundy and Juana of Castile (1496-1506) Venue: Torrington Room 104, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
The garden of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Please note: this session takes place in the Court Room, Senate House, South block, first floor |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Pope Honorius III and the Tax of a Twentieth on Ecclesiastical Income |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Finnegans Wake Research Seminar FW 516.22 know all what went off |
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Saturday 25 February 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 11:00 | IES |
London Nineteenth Century Studies Research Seminar 'Orality and Literacy' Matthew Bevis (Oxford): 'Poetry for Laughs'Louise Lee (KCL): 'Shattered Articulations: Darwin's Evolutionary Jokes and the Defer... |
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| 11:00 | IGRS |
Screen Media and Memory (Cutural Memory Seminar) Marlène Monteiro (Birkbeck, University of London): Topography of MemoryJill Daniels (University of East London): The Border Crossing: Autobiograp... |
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| 12:00 | IHR |
From Revolution to New Unionism: the impact of Bloody Sunday on the development of John Burns' Politics Neil Davidson Riots around the Scottish Union negotiations in 1706 and the Global South today Keith Flett A History of the London Cro... |
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| 14:00 | IES |
Contemporary Fiction Research Seminar Post- Apocalypse Now. The figure of the apocalypse retains a strong purchase on the contemporary imagination; as Zizek keeps saying, it'... |
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Monday 27 February 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | ISA |
'The Return of the Indian': An Interdisciplinary Seminar on Class and Ethnicity in the Andes This event is a joint iniative of the Institute for the Study of the Americas and LSE Programme Over the past twenty years Andean politics has been tr... |
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| 16:00 | IGRS |
German Philosophy Seminar Wagner and PhilosophyThe German Philosophy Reading Group is open to philosophers and Germanists, both students and staff, interested in reading and disc... |
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| 16:30 | WB |
Art History Seminar 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... |
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| 16:30 | IClS |
ICLS Ancient Philosophy Seminar “The Dialectical Turn of Rhetorical Theory” |
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| 17:00 | IES |
London Shakespeare Seminar Isabel Karreman (University of Munich, Germany): 'Falstaff and lethargy' Joe Moshenska (Trinity College, Cambridge): 'Shakespearean awkwardness: Tolsto... |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
A Controlled Exit? Anglo-Turkish Negotiations and Cyprus, 1956-7 Colonialism/Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop |
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| 17:15 | IClS |
Latin Literature Seminar |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
Thomas Cromwell and the Anglo-Scottish war of 1532-3 AND Catriona Murray (Edinburgh and IHR fellow) ‘Sorrow noe toung can expresse’: James VI and I and the mourning of his son, Henry,... |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
The Nazi Occupation of France as Transnational History Please note: This session takes place in Senate House, South block, Bloomsbury Room G35 |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
The Historical Geography of Philanthropy in England and Wales |
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| 18:00 | WB |
Aby Warburg Reading Group The aim of this reading group is to read and discuss a selection of Aby Warburg’s writings in order to explore the interest and validity of his th... |
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Tuesday 28 February 2012 |
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| 13:10 | WB |
From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Commedia. Spring Term: Purgatory Week 7: Canto XXX. Appearance of Beatrice on the chariot of the Church. After reading Dante in Italian, with English translation and visual and verbal ... |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Jewish history, 1933-1949: a recovering contingency and the experience of the unprecedented Please note: This session takes place in Room ST275 |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Rebuilding the Polish Army after the September 1939 Catastrophe, 1939-1945 |
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| 17:00 | IP |
Logic and Metaphysics Forum: Levity |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
Private Housing to Council Housing: the development of the Campbsbourne Estate, Hornsey, North London, 1866-1965 |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
'Fixed like a ballad on the wall': lobbying Parliament and persuading the public in early seventeenth-century print culture |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
A Childhood in Hospital: Multiple Admissions and Long Stay Patients in the pre- 1914 Children's Hospital |
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| 17:30 | IES |
London Forum for Authorship Studies Professor Hugh Craig (University of Newcastle, Australia): 'Thomas Nashe and Dido, Queen of Carthage' |
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| 18:00 | IGRS |
Centre for Contemporary Women's Writing Spanish Reading Group Giconda Belli, El infinito en la palma de la manoPresented by Cristina Sánchez Further details |
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| 18:00 | IES |
New Screen Histories Seminar Peter Krämer (University of East Anglia): ' "The greatest mass murderer since Adolf Hitler": Nuclear War and the Nazi Past in DR. STRANGELOVE (1964... |
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Wednesday 29 February 2012 |
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| 14:15 | WB |
Nicholas of Modrus 'The Glory of Illyria': Humanist Patriotism and Self-Presentation in Renaissance Rome |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
The pre-history of the 'Cambridge School' in the history of political thought, 1948-69 |
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| 17:00 | IClS |
ICLS Classical Archaeology Seminar The Hoard Diary of ESG Robinson |
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| 17:00 | IMR |
The Pythagorean conspiracy and the contingency of arithmetics and geometrics in the theory of music ICONEA seminar Free of charge. Open to the public. No advance booking required. |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
The Death and Resurrection of Christian Britain, 1980 to 2012 Holden Room (room 103) |
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| 17:30 | ICwS |
Caribbean Seminar Series: Panel: Small Territories, Global Issues: Governance and Corruption in the Caribbean The Turks and Caicos Islands: Can the cloud be banished?: The Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) is one of 14 Overseas Territories (OTs) still overseen by t... |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Reading between the lines: regressive states as social indicators in 1950s Britain Please note: this session takes place in the Bedford room G37, Senate House, South block, Ground floor |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
The prevention of crime in late eighteenth-century Bristol: policing, the public, and the city |
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| 17:30 | IES |
Open University Romantic Period Seminar Geoff Pick: 'Magic Casements – the reawakening of Keats House'Geoff Pick is the Head of Public Engagement in the Culture, Heritage and Libraries D... |
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| 17:30 | IES |
Open University Book History and Bibliography Seminar: Landmarks in Book History Bob Owens (The Open University): 'Jerome McGann's "Social Textual Criticism" and theEditing of Literary Texts'Bob Owens is Emeritus Professor of English... |
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| 17:30 | ISA |
Caribbean seminar series: Panel: Small Territories, Global Issues: Governance and Corruption in the Caribbean  The Turks and Caicos Islands: Can the cloud be banished?: The Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) is one of 14 Overseas Territories (OTs) still overseen... |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
The recovery and use of Justinian's Code in eleventh-century Italy Jointly with the Volterra Project (UCL) (Chair: Michael Crawford) Please note: this session will now take place in the Chancellor'... |
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| 18:00 | IGRS |
Absence - The Haunted Landscape (GHost Hostings 6) GHosting is led by Ricarda Vidal and the artist-curator Sarah Sparkes and aims to analyse the theme of the ephemeral and the ghostly Further details |
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Thursday 1 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | ISA |
Para leer a América Latina: Comics, Graphic Novels and Collective Memory Programme and abstracts Registration form Fees: £15 (standard); £10 (students/unwaged) |
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| 14:15 | IALS |
International aspects of mediation in commercial and civil matters For a copy of the programme and information about the speakers, please click here. Bar Standards CPD accreditation of 3.5 hours has been applied for. ... |
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| 16:00 | IP |
Perception, Senses and Action Forum: Sensorimotor processing of language |
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| 16:30 | IClS |
ICLS Ancient History Seminar Slavery and unfreedom in the early Middle Ages |
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| 17:00 | WB |
Reasoning with Maps: Amateur Mapmakers in Imperial China (1100–1300) |
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| 17:00 | ICwS |
Behind the Headlines: The Politics of Economic Reforms in India Today This seminar is a joint initiative between ICwS and the King's College India Institute |
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| 17:00 | WB |
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... |
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| 17:00 | IMR |
Applying music; singing on prescription Free of charge. Open to the public. No advance booking required. |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Building trust in the later middle ages? The cities of north-central Italy and their religious communities Venue: Room ST274, Stewart House, 2nd floor |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
The foreign reformed churches and England's second reformation, 1636-62 Bedford Room (G37) |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Politics, politicians and English comprehensive schools In this session David Crook will examine the part played by politics and politicians in developing a pluralist model for comprehensive... |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
'Seconde en grandeur, mais la premiere en volonte': Toulouse and the Royal Entry of Charles IX (1565) Holden Room (103), first floor, South block, Senate House |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Theory and Practice in the History of Poetry |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Slavery, Apprenticeship and Emancipation in the Caribbean |
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| 17:30 | ISA |
The U.S. Economy: Can It Regain Its Mojo? |
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| 18:00 | IGRS |
Narratives and Ageing: A Reading by Martin Walser and Jane Gardam Martin Walser (Ein liebender Mann [2008]) is joined by Whitbread Novel prize-winner Jane Gardam (Old Filth [2004], The Man in the Wooden Hat [2009]... |
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| 18:00 | WB |
New Testament Greek Reading Class The class meets at the Warburg Institute in the Droz Library. Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Greek. If you wish to attend pleas... |
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| 18:30 | IES |
London Theatre Seminar tbc |
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| 19:30 | IHR |
Early Modern Asia and Religious Change: Are Generalizations Possible? Venue: Jessel Room (Senate House, first floor) |
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Friday 2 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | IGRS |
Italian Research Training |
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| 10:30 | IP |
One-day Conference: Hume's Legacy Registration. |
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| 16:00 | IGRS |
The Mind-Matter Argument in Late German Philosophy (1860-1950): Seminar A series of four two-hour seminars convened by Dr Christine Lopes (Visiting Fellow, IGRS) Ernst Cassirer: the notion of symbolic form Further details |
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| 17:00 | WB |
“Scholastic trifles” vs “salubrious criticism”: on the scholarly dimension of the German Benedictines' struggle for educational reform in the early 18th century |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
Women, Land and Litigation in Early Modern England Bedford Room (G37) |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
The culture and practice of improvement in seventeenth-century England |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Mission impossible: administration in the diocese of Lincoln under Robert Grosseteste |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Cultures of Marxism: Manifestos of the Left Venue: Room 349 Senate House, South block, 3rd floor |
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| 17:30 | IP |
Public Lecture: Misunderstanding Hume: The Case of Practical Reason |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Irish Studies Seminars Dr Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid (University of Cambridge): ' "They bear names honoured forever in Ireland": The children of the Rising' |
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Saturday 3 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 11:00 | IES |
Modernism Research Seminar Series Modernism, Language, PoetryDaniel Katz (Warwick): 'Android: Jack Spicer's Language and the Language of Modernism'Will Montgomery (RHUL), Robert Cre... |
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| 14:00 | IHR |
'A Table of the Human Passions': Learning to Read the Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain Court Room, Senate House, South block, first floor |
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| 14:00 | IES |
Reading from the Future Michael Longley |
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Monday 5 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | IGRS |
Research Training Workshop: Skills Training Day Organised in conjunction with and held at the Wiener Library, 29 Russell Square Further details |
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| 10:30 | IMR |
Music and Philosophy Research Training in Music Day School Open to all postgraduate students. Advance booking required. Fee payable. Booking form at www.music.sas.ac.uk |
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| 16:30 | WB |
Leonardo’s London Virgin of the Rocks: conservation and cleaning - change and recovery 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... |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Art, Disability and Edwardian Politics Venue: ST276, 2nd floor, Stewart House |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
'Humanitarian intervention' and Liberal Imperialism Venue: ST274/5, 2nd floor, Stewart House |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Slavery and Visuality in Early Modern Spain |
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| 17:15 | IClS |
Latin Literature Seminar |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
Khaki Fever at the Finsbury Park Rink Cinema: Gender, Sexuality and Modernity, 1913-19 |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Adding Red to the Black Atlantic: the Industrial Workers of Africa and International Socialist League's black revolutionary syndicalists and the South Africa Native National Congress's 1917-1920 radicalisation |
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| 18:00 | WB |
Aby Warburg Reading Group The aim of this reading group is to read and discuss a selection of Aby Warburg’s writings in order to explore the interest and validity of his th... |
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| 18:30 | IGRS |
Tertúlia Reading Group: The Elephant's Journey José Saramago: A viagem do elefante(The Elephant's Journey [translation by Margaret Jull Costa]) |
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Tuesday 6 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 13:10 | WB |
From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Commedia. Spring Term: Purgatory Week 8: Canto XXXIII. Beatrice prophesies the advent of a champion sent from God to deliver Church and Empire. The final ritual of Dante’s spiritu... |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
A Scientific Republic of Letters?: Transnationality and the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1870-1945 Venue: Torrington Room 104, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
The religious context of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
Thinking outside the gundeck: the navy, the maritime community, and the outbreak of civil war, 1625-42 |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
Finding Meaning in a Million Victorian Books S261 (Senate House, second floor) |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
The Political Economy of Royal Emotions: Ruling the Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth Century The Court Room |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Godly examples and Christian agents: training African missionary workers in British institutions in the nineteenth century Venue: Room ST273, Stewart House, 2nd floor |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Electronic records/digital preservation Please note: this session takes place in Room ST276, Stewart House, 2nd floor |
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| 17:30 | ISA |
The Political Economy of Royal Emotions: Ruling the Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth Century This seminar is a joint initiative between the IHR and the ISA |
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| 17:30 | IES |
History of Libraries Research Seminar Fr Peter Harris (Dean of Tower Hamlets): 'An English Island in Castile: the slumbering treasures of the Biblioteca of the Royal and Pontifical College o... |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
An English Island in Castile: the slumbering treasures of the Biblioteca of the Royal and Pontifical College of St Alban, Valladolid The College, founded under the patronage of Philip II in 1589, still educates English and Welsh students for the Roman Catholic priesthood. Its ... |
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| 17:30 | IClS |
ICLS Accordia Lectures ‘There’s something different about Italy? Cultural disconnection in the Western Mediterranean in the Roman period’ |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
An English Island in Castile: the slumbering treasures of the Biblioteca of the Royal and Pontifical College of St Alban, Valladolid The College, founded under the patronage of Philip II in 1589, still educates English and Welsh students for the Roman Catholic priesthood. Its ... |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Postgraduate Feminist Reading Group NB: Tuesday |
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| 18:00 | IHR |
India as a factor in Anglo-Soviet Relations from the Trade Agreement to the Rupture of Relations, 1921-1927 Athlone Room (102), First floor, South block, Senate House |
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| 19:00 | IHR |
Prisons in Medieval Italy: The Experience of Semi-Exclusiveness |
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Wednesday 7 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 09:00 | IHR |
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... |
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| 12:30 | IES |
Institute of English Studies Director's Seminar Rupert Richard Arrowsmith (University College London): tbc. |
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| 14:15 | WB |
Director's Work in Progress Seminar |
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| 16:30 | WB |
Medieval Hypertext: The Illuminated Manuscript in an Age of Virtual Reproduction |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Sociability and sacred history: Neapolitan answers to a Hobbesian problem Senate House, Bedford Room G37 (ground floor) |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
Neutral nobility to contentious aristocracy; Changing terms in testing times, 1700-1850 Court room, Senate House, South block, first floor |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Home-making in pre-modern England Torrington Room (Room 104, first floor South Block) |
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| 17:30 | IES |
South Asian Fiction: Contemporary Transformations Neelam Srivastava (Newcastle University): 'Minority Literature and the South Asian Short Story' |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Theophilus of Edessa and the historiography of the seventh- and eighth-century Near East (Chair: Hugh Kennedy) Bloomsbury Room (G35) |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Mazzini and Abolitionism between Europe and America: 'Thought and Action' in the Antislavery Struggle Chair: Axel Körner Room ST273 (Stewart House, second floor) |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Literary and Critical Theory Seminar tbc |
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| 18:00 | IMR |
Creative Processes in String Quartets Launch of performance DVD, Four Quartets, and software DVD, Evolution and Collaboration: the composition, rehearsal and performance of Finnissy's Second... |
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Thursday 8 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 15:00 | ISA |
The Global Century (Postgraduate Reading Group): Decolonisation New attendees are always welcome. Please see The Global Century for further details. |
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| 16:30 | IClS |
ICLS Ancient History Seminar Slavery in the villages of early Roman Egypt |
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| 17:00 | WB |
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... |
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| 17:00 | IMR |
Music and the deconstruction of touch, 1700-1900 Free of charge. Open to the public. No advance booking required. |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Progress and Progressivism, 1888-1914 |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Healthscaping a Medieval City: Lucca's Environmental Court in the Fourteenth Century Venue: Room ST273, Stewart House, 2nd floor |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Decades Never Start On Time: Richard Roud's Journeys Through Film Culture, 1929-1989 Room ST274 |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
'Strength and Unity' in American Science: Hugo Munsterberg and the St. Louis Congress of 1904 Chair: Bruce Baker Room (G34), Senate House, ground floor |
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| 17:30 | ISA |
'Strength and Unity' in American Science: Hugo Munsterberg and the St. Louis Congress of 1904 This seminar is a joint initiative between ISA and the IHR |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Licit medicine or Pythagorean necromancy? The Case of the Spheres of Life and Death in late Medieval England Stephanie Seavers (UCL)The Imitation of Gold in the Middle Ages Venue: Court Room, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
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| 18:00 | IGRS |
Coffin Trust Screening / Discussion Sarah Miles in conversation with Dr Lucy Reynolds (University of the Arts, London)following a film screening of 2001 - A Family Odyssey: Ophel... |
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| 18:00 | IGRS |
Family Ties: Recollection and Representation An interdisciplinary conference organised under the auspices of theCentre for the Study of Cultural Memory at the IGRS by Sally Waterman and Katia Pizz... |
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| 18:00 | WB |
New Testament Greek Reading Class The class meets at the Warburg Institute in the Droz Library. Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Greek. If you wish to attend pleas... |
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Friday 9 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 09:30 | SAS |
UCL English Graduate Conference 2012: Intersections The Intersections conference aims to solicit a range of papers united by a common view of literature as built upon collaboration, influence, and interch... |
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| 09:30 | IES |
UCL English Graduate Conference: Intersections The UCL English Graduate Society invites abstracts for 20-minute papers for this year's Intersections conference. The day will be a forum for discussion... |
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| 10:00 | WB |
Medieval Diagrams and Maps In the past, maps were defined as representations of the surface the earth or a part of it, but modern cartographical theorists and map historians defin... |
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| 10:00 | ICwS |
Decolonization workshop The second decolonization workshop for 2011-2012 will culminate with the launch of the Oxford History of the British Empire companion volume Britain&rsq... |
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| 15:00 | IP |
Plurals, Predicates and Paradox Seminar: Paradox and possible worlds |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
On Furies. The Logistics of Sacking in the Dutch Revolt Venue: ST274, 2nd floor Stewart House |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Did women cause the fall of native Wales? This seminar will be held in the Bedford Room G37, Senate House, South block, Ground Floor |
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| 18:00 | IGRS |
The Machiavelli Nights A series of four seminars, led by Gianluigi Sassu (Visiting Fellow, IGRS), exploring the thought of Niccolo Machiavelli in relation to rhetoric and lang... |
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| 18:00 | SAS |
Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group David Ashford (University of Surrey): Canto 40 |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Jacques Rancière in London Lecture: 9 March: 6.00pm: ' "Modernity" Revisited'.Followed by a wine reception. All welcome. Working against simplistic visions of th... |
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| 18:30 | IGRS |
Coffin Trust Lecture Rosy Martin:On Looking Back: Photography, Memory and Forgetting |
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Saturday 10 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| IMR |
International Bagpipe Conference In association with the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London For further details please visit www.music.sas.ac.uk. Delegate fee... |
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| 14:00 | IES |
EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination) Mathematical Practitioners in Early Modern EnglandJasmine Kilburn-Toppin (V&A): 'Mastering crafts: the mathematic text and artisanal epistemology in sev... |
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Monday 12 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 16:00 | IGRS |
German Philosophy Seminar Wagner and PhilosophyThe German Philosophy Reading Group is open to philosophers and Germanists, both students and staff, interested in reading and disc... |
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| 16:30 | WB |
'Armet se duritia': Domenico Beccafumi and the politics of punishment 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... |
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| 16:30 | IClS |
ICLS Ancient Philosophy Seminar “Plato on Fallacy” |
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| 17:00 | IMR |
Beyond the radif: new forms of improvisational practice in Iranian music Performance/Research Seminar Organised by the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP) and hosted by the IMR Free of ... |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
The use of oral tradition and spoken reports in twelfth-century historical writing on the First Crusade |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
The Women of Kenya Speak: Imperial Politics, Voluntary Work, and the Construction of Colonial Welfare, 1930-50 Colonialism/Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop |
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| 17:15 | IClS |
Latin Literature Seminar 'Conversing with the absent: friendship and philosophical community in Seneca's Epistulae morales' |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
Networks of charity in early modern England: Dean Nowell and the spending of the money of Robert Nowell |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Nineteenth Century Please note: This session takes place in Senate House, South block, Bloomsbury Room G35 |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Mapping Membership: A social and spatial analysis of associational activity, 1950-2005 |
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Tuesday 13 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 09:30 | ISA |
Women and Latin American Independence: history, politics and culture. The bicentenary commemorations of Latin American political independence have given rise to a lively public debate on women’s involvement in the In... |
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| 10:30 | IES |
Senate House Library Friends Visit Senate House Library Friends Visit: Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE Friends members only. If you would like to atte... |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Rethinking Victorian Anti-Semitism Bloomsbury Room (G35) |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Communications Goes to War: 1914-18 |
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| 17:00 | IP |
Logic and Metaphysics Forum: tba |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
The medieval peasant house in the Midlands |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
Scrutinizing parliamentary elections, c.1600 to the present |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
Ulcers, cortisol and the remaking of modern Britain |
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| 17:30 | HRC |
International Refugee Law seminar series “The fast-developing field of LGBTI refugee law” This is the 2nd year of the ‘International Refugee Law’ seminar series, which ... |
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| 17:30 | ICwS |
International Refugee Law Seminar Series: The fast-developing field of LGBTI refugee law |
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| 17:30 | ICwS |
Commonwealth Research Seminar Series: The Commonwealth Secretary-General - from Smith to Sharma |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Book Collecting Research Seminar Natalie Galustian, Justin Croft, and others: 'Book Collecting and the Web'. The second in the new series of seminars organised jointly by the Inst... |
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| 18:00 | WB |
Warburg-UCL Scholasticism Reading Group The Warburg Institute and the UCL History Department are launching a reading and discussion group exploring Scholastic texts. Participants should have ... |
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| 18:00 | ICwS |
Black Britain Seminar Series: Medieval Perceptions |
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Wednesday 14 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| IALS |
LERN Research Workshop: Managing qualitative projects This Workshop will deal with some of the wider yet essential aspects of a research project. It will deal with funding, ethical issues and approval, mana... |
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| 12:30 | SAS |
Dean's Seminar: As Western Governments squeeze public services, the BRICs expand them: new efforts to tackle poverty and inequality in Brazil, South Africa, India and China |
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| 14:15 | WB |
Director's Work in Progress Seminar |
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| 15:00 | IClS |
ICLS Mycenaean Seminar Demonstration - Searching for seals on-line: the CMS database goes live! AND Of prisms and pictographs: searching for patterns in MM II glyptic &... |
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| 16:30 | WB |
Palla Strozzi Orator |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Reflections on the history of history in political theory |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
William James and the Varieties of Moral Medicine (title to be confirmed) Please note: this session takes place in the Bedford room G37, Senate House, South block, Ground floor |
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| 17:30 | IES |
London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS) Elizabeth Archibald (University of Bristol) |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
A neighbourhood of this sort. How Southwark shaped ideas of child and school: Orange Street Elementary 1870-1914 |
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| 17:30 | IES |
Open University Romantic Period Seminar Stephen Hebron: 'Displaying the Romantic Poets' Stephen Hebron is a writer and exhibition curator. In 2010-12 he curated the exhibition Shelley's Ghost... |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Shifting allegiances among the nationalities in the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires Venue: ST274, Stewart House, 2nd floor Chair: Dejan Djokić (In connection with the Centre for the Study of the Balkans, Goldsmiths) |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Restructuring landed society in 1066 (Chair: Alice Taylor) Bloomsbury Room (G35) |
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| 17:30 | ISA |
Caribbean Seminar Series: The Cuban economy since the Revolution |
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| 17:30 | ICwS |
Caribbean Seminar Series: The Cuban economy since the Revolution |
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| 18:00 | IGRS |
Presence - Manifesting Ghosts (GHost Hostings 7) GHosting is led by Ricarda Vidal and the artist-curator Sarah Sparkes and aims to analyse the theme of the ephemeral and the ghostly Further details |
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| 18:30 | IGRS |
Malcolm Bowie Memorial Lecture Michael Moriarty (London): Love and Love of Self in Seventeeth-Century French Writing Venue: Arts Two Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary, University of London... |
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Thursday 15 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 09:45 | IGRS |
Familie und Moderne / Family and Modernity (1880-1945) An international conference organised under the auspices of the IGRS in conjunction with the University of Ghent and Goldsmiths, University of... |
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| 10:00 | ISA |
International conference: Textiles, Techne, and Power in the Andes Full programme Registration is now open; please book early to avoid disappointment |
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| 10:00 | IP |
One-day Workshop: Theorising Expertise Registration to follow |
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| 14:00 | SAS |
Using research software: Bibliographic software EndNote and Zotero are widely-used tools for publishing and managing bibliographies. This class, primarily for School students but with a few places for... |
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| 16:30 | IClS |
ICLS Ancient History Seminar Slaves and ex-slaves at Herculaneum: the evidence of the Album |
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| 17:00 | WB |
Alexander von Humboldt and the Scientific Mapping of the Americas |
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| 17:00 | HRC |
‘New Challenges in Refugee Integration’ seminar series Open debate with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees To mark the 60th anniversary of the Refugee Council, this interdisciplinary series of si... |
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| 17:00 | ICwS |
New Challenges in Refugee Integration seminar series: Open debate with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees Event to be held at Parliament |
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| 17:00 | ICwS |
Behind the Headlines: Are We Seeing the Best or the Worst of the Indian State?: A Public Debate This seminar is a joint initiative between ICwS and the King's College India Institute |
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| 17:00 | WB |
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... |
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| 17:00 | IMR |
Practising research, playing with knowledge Free of charge. Open to the public. No advance booking required. |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Charles I of Anjou's 1265 senatorial procession into Rome Venue: Torrington Room 104, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
State formation, Connoisseurship and Collecting in Late Stuart England Bedford Room (G37) |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Mission Impossible: Confederate Governors in the American Civil War, 1861-1865. A Study in Leadership Holden Room (103), first floor, South block, Senate House |
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| 17:30 | IES |
London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship Elton Barker (Open University) and Leif Isaksen (University of Southampton): 'Discovering and using ancient place data' |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
The Idea of Oakeshott A one-day Colloquium in May is being planned in order to explore further last term'stheme of 'The Philosophy of the History of Science. The prov... |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery Roundtable discussion including: Nick Draper (UCL), Richard Drayton (KCL) |
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| 18:00 | IES |
John Coffin Memorial Annual Palaeography Lecture 'Inscribed images and inspired scribes' by Dr Jennifer O'Reilly, FSA (University College Cork) Dr. Jennifer O'Reilly is a member of the Royal Irish Aca... |
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| 18:00 | WB |
New Testament Greek Reading Class The class meets at the Warburg Institute in the Droz Library. Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Greek. If you wish to attend pleas... |
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Friday 16 March 2012 |
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| IALS |
Public Interest Environmental Law Conference 2012: Alternative forms of Environmental Governance For further information about PIEL 2012 please go to the PIEL Website: www.piel.org.uk |
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| 10:00 | WB |
Translating the Qur’an Organised by Charles Burnett, Alastair Hamilton and Jan Loop This is a one-day launch conference for the newly founded Centre for the History of ... |
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| 10:00 | IMR |
The Instrument in Musical Performance In association with Middlesex University For further details please visit www.music.sas.ac.uk. Delegate fee payable. |
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| 13:00 | ISA |
Challenges to Human Security and the Santos Administration There have been numerous attempts to reach a settlement of Colombia’s prolonged armed conflict, which have occasionally been combined with efforts... |
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| 16:00 | IGRS |
The Mind-Matter Argument in Late German Philosophy (1860-1950): Seminar A series of four two-hour seminars convened by Dr Christine Lopes (Visiting Fellow, IGRS) Karl Jaspers: the notion of psychopathology Further details |
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| 17:00 | IES |
Psychoanalysis, Literature and Practice Text: Bollas, Hysteria; Henry James, The Wings of the Dove. Commentator: Nicola Diamond (University of East London and Psychoanalytic- Psychotherapist) |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
'Chaste and dignified': Female Audiences and the Development of Anatomical Models in the Nineteenth Century Bedford Room (G37) |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
London's livery companies in the fifteenth century: changing geography and changing sociability? |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Philippa of Lancaster, queen of Portugal: influence and persuasion at the margins |
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| 18:00 | IES |
The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar |
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Saturday 17 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:30 | IGRS |
Research Training Workshop: Historic and Memorial Methods More information |
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| 10:30 | IALS |
How to get a PhD in Law: What legal research skills will I need? Literature reviews, qualitative and quantitative research and comparative legal research. MPhil/PhD law students from across the UK are warmly invited to attend this specially tailored day of presentations and networking opportunities at... |
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| 11:00 | IES |
London Nineteenth Century Studies Research Seminar 'Orality and Literacy' Jason Camlot (Concordia) on early literary recordings and digital analysis James Mussell (Birmingham) on nineteenth- and twenty-... |
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| 14:30 | IGRS |
Contemporary Women's Writing in French Seminar Contemporary French Women's Writing and the Historical NovelVenue: School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Leeds Texts for discussi... |
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Monday 19 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:30 | IMR |
Music and Gender Research Training in Music Day School Open to all postgraduate students. Advance booking required. Fee payable. Booking form at www.music.sas.ac.uk |
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| 17:00 | IES |
London Shakespeare Seminar Lukas Erne (University of Geneva, Switzerland): 'Shakespeare, Publication and the London Book Trade' Alice Hunt (University of Southampton):... |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
'W' Marks the Spot: Document Destruction and Removal at the End of the British Empire Venue: Woburn Suite G22/26, Senate House, South block, Ground floor |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
The Politics of Noble Fiscal Privilege |
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| 17:15 | IClS |
Latin Literature Seminar |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
Sport's Role in 1951's Festival of Britain |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Mary Wollstonecraft: from journalist, socialist, to somewhere else on the political spectrum? |
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| 18:00 | IALS |
The Data Protection Act 1998 and Personal Privacy Organised by the Statute Law Society with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. |
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| 18:00 | IHR |
Title to be announced ST274 (Stewart House, second floor) |
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Tuesday 20 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 17:00 | IHR |
Rome and Catholicity in sixteenth-century England |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
'Children of the Service': Paternalism, Patronage and Friendship in the Georgian Navy |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
The Future of the Past (round table session) S261 (Senate House, second floor) |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
The Bolivian Revolution at 60: Politics and Historiography Holden Room (Room 103) |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
User participation Please note: this session takes place in Room ST276, Stewart House, 2nd floor |
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| 17:30 | ISA |
The Bolivian Revolution at 60: Politics and Historiography This seminar is a joint initiative between the IHR and the ISA |
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| 17:30 | ICwS |
Diamond Jubilee Seminar Series: The Crown, the media and the Commonwealth Watch the video of the Diamond Jubilee Seminar Series Preview herePart of London University's Diamond Jubilee series of reflections on the role of ... |
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| 18:00 | IHR |
A new look at the 'Twenty-One Demands': Japan, China and the Anglo-Japanese Alliance during the World War I Athlone Room (102), First floor, South block, Senate House |
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| 18:00 | IGRS |
Centre for Contemporary Women's Writing Spanish Reading Group Carmen Martín Gaite, Lo raro es vivirPresented by Maria-José Blanco (KCL) Further details |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Literary London Reading Group East End Gangsterism in Baron and Sinclair, introduced by Ken Worpole. We are very pleased to announce that the Literary London Reading Group (formerly... |
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| 18:15 | IALS |
An evening seminar with UKAEL to introduce the UK rapporteurs and their reports for the biennial FIDE CONGRESS to be held in Tallinn on 30 May to 2 June 2012 Programme Topic 1 - UK Rapporteurs: Patrick Layden QC TD, Scottish Law Commission and Dr Tobias Lock, University of Surrey. Protection of F... |
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| 19:00 | IHR |
Neo-classicism and English political culture in the later fifteenth century |
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Wednesday 21 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| IALS |
Annual Postgraduate Students' EU Tax Conference 2012 |
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| 12:30 | IES |
Institute of English Studies Director's Seminar Tatiana Kontou (Oxford Brookes): 'The Case of Florence Marryat: Custodian of the Spirit World/Popular Novelist' This paper focuses on Florence Marryat,... |
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| 13:00 | ISA |
Liberal Constitutionalism in the Americas: Theory and Practice By invitation only; please send expressions of interest to Dr. Deborah Toner This workshop focuses a comparative perspective on constitutional traditio... |
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| 14:30 | IES |
The London Anglo-Saxon Symposium The London Anglo-Saxon Symposium (LASS) aims to provide a forum for the multidisciplinary discussion of Anglo-Saxon topics in a relaxed and engaging atm... |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe Senate House, Bedford Room G37 (ground floor) |
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| 17:00 | IClS |
ICLS Classical Archaeology Seminar Shaping, collecting and displaying medicine and architecture in London: responses to the classical legacy |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
'Love, bitter wrong, freedom, sad pity, and lust of power': Politics and performance in 1820 Court room, Senate House, South block, first floor |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
Freed Slaves and Respectability: The Expansion of the Christian Frontier from Angola to Belgian Congo Torrington Room (104) |
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| 17:30 | IES |
South Asian Fiction: Contemporary Transformations Minoli Salgado (University of Sussex): (title to be finalised) ‘In Terror: Trespass and the Writer as Witness-Traveler’) |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Forgotten war crimes. Italy and the ill-treatment of allied POWs of the Second World War Venue: ST273, Stewart House, 2nd floor Chair: Lucy Riall(In connection with IHR Modern Italian History series) |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
title tba (Chair: Stephen Baxter) Bloomsbury Room (G35) |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Forgotten war crimes. Italy and the ill-treatment of allied POWs of the Second World War Chair: Lucy Riall Room ST273 (Stewart House, second floor) Joint with the Rethinking Modern Europe seminar |
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| 17:30 | ISA |
Liberties and Empires: Writing Constitutions in the Atlantic World, 1776-1848 This event has been kindly funded by the John Coffin Memorial Fund. Co-sponsored by the Eccles Centre for American Studies, The British Library Please... |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Literary and Critical Theory Seminar tbc |
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Thursday 22 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 09:15 | IALS |
Banking Conference 2012: Basel III, the Vickers Report and Regulatory Restructuring For a copy of the programme and booking form for the Banking 2012 Conference on Basel III, the Vickers Reort and Regulatory Restructuring, please click ... |
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| 14:00 | IALS |
Serving Time in a Foreign Land: The Framework Decision on the Mutual Recognition of Custodial Sentences Organised in association with the European Criminal Law Association (UK) |
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| 15:00 | ISA |
The Global Century (Postgraduate Reading Group): Neo-Imperialism New attendees are always welcome. Please see The Global Century for further details. |
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| 16:30 | IClS |
ICLS Ancient History Seminar Slavery and the workforce of the city of Rome |
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| 17:00 | IMR |
Spinning the yarn: Wagner's use and reuse of his songs in his music dramas Free of charge. Open to the public. No advance booking required. |
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| 17:15 | IGRS |
English Goethe Society The 2012 Ida Herz LectureHans Rudolf Vaget (Massachusetts):Vansittartism Revisited: German Exiles and Vansittart's Black RecordMore about the Engli... |
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| 18:00 | ISA |
The Presidential Difference: White House Leadership in the Civil War Era from James Polk to Abraham Lincoln Co-sponsored by the Eccles Centre for American Studies, The British Library |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Wyndham Lewis Reading Group Rosalind McKever (Kingston University and the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art): ' "The Present is Art": Vorticist and Futurist Temporalities' ... |
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| 18:30 | IES |
London Theatre Seminar tbc |
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Friday 23 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 09:00 | SAS |
Peripheral Modernisms International Conference - CALL FOR PAPERS 23 March 2012 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London The last decade has witnessed renewed scholarly ... |
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| 09:30 | IHR |
Symposium on Art, landscape and History Please note: this session takes place in the Court Room, Senate House, South block, first floor 09.30 – 17.30 |
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| 09:30 | IGRS |
Peripheral Modernisms An interdisciplinary international conference exploring the contributions made by so-called peripheral modernisms to a global aesthetic of modernism tha... |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Murder, mayhem and a very small penis: motives for revenge in the 1375 murder of William Cantilupe, great-great nephew of St. Thomas of Hereford |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Finnegans Wake Research Seminar |
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| 18:00 | IALS |
The Confederate's Last Battle: Judah Benjamin's legal defence of Confederate assets in England Organised with the London Legal History Seminar. |
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Monday 26 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 16:00 | IGRS |
German Philosophy Seminar Wagner and PhilosophyThe German Philosophy Reading Group is open to philosophers and Germanists, both students and staff, interested in reading and disc... |
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| 17:00 | IMR |
Muses from the past: historical flute recordings and today's performance style Performance/Research Seminar Organised by the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP) and hosted by the IMR Free of ... |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Byzantine crusaders: holy war and crusade rhetoric in Byzantine contacts with the West (1095–1341) |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Money and the Changing Nature of Colonial Space in Northern Quebec: Aboriginal Peoples, Capital, and the State during the Nineteenth Century Colonialism/Postcolonial New Researchers' Workshop |
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| 17:00 | ICwS |
Afro-Indians in Gujarat: Traditions, Identity and Culture Flyer |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Tba Please note: This session takes place in Senate House, South block, Bloomsbury Room G35 |
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Tuesday 27 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 09:00 | IHR |
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... |
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| 11:00 | IP |
One-day Workshop: Originalism Registration to follow |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Hidden from Interfaith History - the Society of Jews and Christians, c.1924-1944 Bloomsbury Room (G35) |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Search and Destroy? A reappraisal of large scale operations during the Vietnam War, 1964-1972 |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
The Trevelyans: a successful Somerset family |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
Anticlericalism and the early Tudor Parliament |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
Wives and Daughters: the Making of Clerical Dynasties in 17th Century England The issue of clerical marriage remained contentious even after the Reformation, but by the early 17th century some notable clerical dynasties we... |
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| 17:30 | IES |
The Rise of Creative Writing Impacts on the Novel Professor Maureen Freely was born in the US but grew up in Turkey, where her family still lives. She was educated at Radclif... |
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Wednesday 28 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 17:00 | IMR |
Exploring the Musical Tetractys ICONEA seminar Free of charge. Open to the public. No advance booking required. |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Historical Subjectivity Please note: this session, rescheduled from 9 November, takes place in the Bedford room G37, Senate House, South block, Ground floor |
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| 17:30 | ICwS |
Commonwealth Research Seminar Series: Reporting on The Truth & Justice Commission of Mauritius |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
In line with Omurtag and Alfred: linear frontiers in the ninth century (Chair: Peter Heather) S265 |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Contemporary Fiction Research Seminar Dr Kim Akass (Hertfordshire) and Dr Janet McCabe (Birkbeck): 'The HBO Phenomenon' |
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Thursday 29 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 09:30 | IGRS |
51st National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies |
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| 11:00 | ICwS |
ICwS and OSPA Witness Seminar: Indirect Rule – right or wrong? Registration form |
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| 12:00 | IP |
IP Lunchtime Seminar: Against Disquotation |
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| 16:30 | IClS |
ICLS Ancient History Seminar NOTE ROOM CHANGE TO 349 The scholar, his wife, her slave-girl: romantic triangles and polygamy in fifteenth-century Cairo |
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| 17:00 | IMR |
Satie and Mechanical Music Free of charge. Open to the public. No advance booking required. |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
An advanced type of democracy? Governing adult education in 1920s England |
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| 17:30 | IGRS |
2012 Sylvia Naish Research Student Lecture Further details |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Reformation truth and doubt in the 'Dialogue Concerning Heresies' and 'Acts and Monuments' |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
British Critics and a Hollywood Career: Re-writing James Mason Room ST273 |
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| 18:00 | IALS |
European Private Law at the Crossroads: some thoughts on the proposed new European Sales Law This talk will debate the legal basis, aims and objectives of the proposed Regulation on a Common European Sales Law COM(2011) 635 final. The new projec... |
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Friday 30 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | IMR |
Ligeti's later Music In association with Kingston University London For further details please visit https://sites.google.com/site/ligeticonferencelondon2011/home. Delegate... |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Irish Studies Seminars Mary Hickman (London Metropolitan University): 'Social Cohesion and the notion of "suspect communities": comparing Irish and Muslim experiences in Britain' |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar Susan Rudy (LSE): tbc |
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Saturday 31 March 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 14:00 | IES |
Reading from the Future Jo Shapcott |
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Monday 2 April 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 16:00 | IP |
Perception, Senses and Action Forum: tba |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Breaking out of the asylum: presenting disability history through space, place and landscape Venue: ST273, 2nd floor, Stewart House |
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Tuesday 3 April 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 17:30 | IES |
History of Libraries Research Seminar Elizabeth Evenden (Newnham College, Cambridge): 'Selectivity and Survival: Matthew Parker and the Role of the Codex in Early Modern England'? This pape... |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Selectivity and Survival: Matthew Parker and the Role of the Codex in Early Modern England? This paper will discuss Matthew Parker's great searching out of manuscripts and the fate of these manuscripts once they came into the Archbishop... |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Selectivity and Survival: Matthew Parker and the Role of the Codex in Early Modern England? This paper will discuss Matthew Parker’s great searching out of manuscripts and the fate of these manuscripts once they came into the Arch... |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Postgraduate Feminist Reading Group NB: Tuesday |
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Wednesday 4 April 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 17:30 | IHR |
Everyday life and energy in the sensory home Torrington Room (Room 104, first floor South Block) |
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Thursday 5 April 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 15:00 | ISA |
The Global Century (Postgraduate Reading Group): The Politics of Race New attendees are always welcome. Please see The Global Century for further details. |
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Thursday 12 April 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| IMR |
Debussy: Text and Idea In collaboration with Gresham College and the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies Limited number of places available. |
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| 09:00 | IGRS |
Debussy: Text and Idea / Debussy: Le Texte et l'Idée Call for papers |
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Saturday 14 April 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 14:00 | IES |
EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination) Current Research on Jan Baptista Van HelmontSietske Fransen (Warburg Institute): 'Jan Baptista van Helmont and the power of words'Jo Hedesan (University... |
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Monday 16 April 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 09:00 | IHR |
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... |
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| 10:30 | IMR |
'Jacob Lenz' IMR/Brunel CCMP Seminar Free of charge. Open to the public. No advance booking required. |
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Tuesday 17 April 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | ISA |
Cuba in the 21st Century In April 2011 the first Cuban Communist Party Congress in over a decade agreed a programme of economic policy measures aimed at what it called the &lsqu... |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Book Collecting Research Seminar Valerie Jackson-Harris: 'Collecting ephemera'. The third in the new series of seminars organised jointly by the Institute of English Studies ... |
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Wednesday 18 April 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 09:30 | IGRS |
LIT.NET Austria: The Net as Theme, Aesthetic Paradigm and Communicative Tool in Literary Austria A conference on the 'net' in Austria and literary theory combined with a workshop on Communicating Literature through the Internet, with international e... |
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| 13:00 | ISA |
Liberalism and Religion: Secularisation and the Public Sphere in the Americas By invitation only; please send expressions of interest to Dr. Deborah TonerThe development of political, economic, scientific and cultural spheres sepa... |
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| 17:00 | ISA |
Revolutionary Religion? Liberalism and Catholicism in Post- Revolutionary Mexico The conventional historiographical narrative of revolutionary Mexico (1910-1940) stresses the institutional, intellectual, and affective animosity separ... |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Zhengfa: Practising Confucian 'Holy War' in Medieval Northeast Asia Please note: this session takes place on a Wednesday in Room 349, Senate House, South block, 3rd floor |
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Thursday 19 April 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| IMR |
Sound, Music and the Moving-Thinking Body For further details please visit www.music.sas.ac.uk. Delegate fee payable. |
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| 15:00 | ISA |
The Global Century (Postgraduate Reading Group): Postwar Western Europe New attendees are always welcome. Please see The Global Century for further details. |
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| 17:00 | WB |
Improved Satin Maps for Ladies' Schools: A New Revenue Stream for Eighteenth-Century Printsellers |
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| 18:00 | IHR |
Montreal Life Stories: Oral History at the Crossroads Please note: this session takes place in the Torrington Room (104), Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
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Friday 20 April 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 14:00 | IMR |
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 |
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| 18:00 | IES |
The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar |
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Saturday 21 April 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| IMR |
Perfect Constructions: the music of Conlon Nancarrow Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and Southbank Centre in association with the IMR For further details and booking please visit www.trinit... |
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Monday 23 April 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 18:00 | IES |
Hilda Hulme Memorial Lecture 2011-2012 James Shapiro (Columbia University): 'Unravelling Shakespeare's Life' Cradle-to-grave biographies of Shakespeare in the twenty-first century have stead... |
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Tuesday 24 April 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 09:00 | IHR |
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 ... |
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| 13:10 | WB |
From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Commedia. Summer term: Paradise Week 1: Title to be confirmed After reading Dante in Italian, with English translation and visual and verbal commentary, there will be time for informa... |
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| 17:30 | ICwS |
Commonwealth Research Seminar Series: Rebuilding Sierra Leone's Evidence Base in the Post Conflict Period |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Senate House Library Friends Talk by James Shapiro. tbc. |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Literary London Reading Group Lost Innocence in Literary Limehouse, introduced by Anne Witchard. |
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Wednesday 25 April 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 14:15 | WB |
Director's Work in Progress Seminar |
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| 17:00 | WB |
Apostles and Heresiarchs: Representations of Early Christianity in 16th - 17th Century India. A major consequence of Vasco da Gama's expedition to India was the establishment of a new contact between the Roman Catholic Church and the Saint Thomas... |
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| 17:00 | WB |
Have the flames of Diamper destroyed the cultural and historical patrimony of the Saint Thomas Christians? |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
'Amor patriae' and 'ratio status': The morality of patriotic actions in humanist political thought Senate House, Bedford Room G37 (ground floor) |
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| 17:30 | IES |
Open University Romantic Period Seminar Paula Byrne will speak on the problems and opportunities of writing a new biography of a well-known figure, with reference to her new high-profile biogr... |
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| 17:30 | IES |
Open University Romantic Period Seminar Paula Byrne will speak on the problems and opportunities of writing a new biography of a well-known figure, with reference to her new high-profile biogr... |
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| 18:00 | IGRS |
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar Peter Pirker (Vienna/London): Networks of Exile, Resistance and RemigrationMore about the Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies |
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Thursday 26 April 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| IMR |
(M)other Russia: Revolution or Evolution? For further details please visit www.music.sas.ac.uk. Delegate fee payable. |
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| 09:30 | ISA |
Research Students' Conference This conference will highlight the research currently undertaken by PhD students at the Institute for the Stuidy of the Americas. It is open to all. Pr... |
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| 10:00 | WB |
Apostles and Heresiarchs: Representations of Early Christianity in 16th - 17th Century India A major consequence of Vasco da Gama's expedition to India was the establishment of a new contact between the Roman Catholic Church and the Saint Thomas... |
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| 17:00 | WB |
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... |
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| 18:00 | WB |
New Testament Greek Reading Class The class meets at the Warburg Institute in the Droz Library. Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Greek. If you wish to attend ... |
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Friday 27 April 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | WB |
From Mêlée to Opera: The Metamorphosis of the Chivalric Tournament |
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Saturday 28 April 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 14:00 | IES |
Contemporary Fiction Research Seminar Dr Joe Brooker (Birkbeck): 'Money: The Reckoning'. Session to mark the launch of a special issue of Textual Practice on Martin Amis' Money. |
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Monday 30 April 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 17:00 | IMR |
The digital instrument as an epistemic tool Performance/Research Seminar Organised by the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP) and hosted by the IMR. Free of... |
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Tuesday 1 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 13:10 | WB |
From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Commedia. Summer term: Paradise Week 2: Title to be confirmed After reading Dante in Italian, with English translation and visual and verbal commentary, there will be time for informa... |
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| 17:00 | ICwS |
Behind the Headlines: Trends in the Uttar Pradesh elections 2012 This seminar is a joint initiative between ICwS and the King's College India Institute This event will take place in the King's College London India In... |
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| 17:30 | IES |
History of Libraries Research Seminar Dr Karen Attar (Senate House Library): 'The University of London Library during the Second World War'. While London's Senate House is best known for th... |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
The University of London Library during the Second World War While London's Senate House is best known for the period 1939-1945 as the home of the Ministry of Information, the University of London Library ... |
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| 17:30 | IES |
The Rise of Creative Writing tbc. Poetry. |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
The University of London Library during the Second World War While London's Senate House is best known for the period 1939-1945 as the home of the Ministry of Information, the University of London Library ... |
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Wednesday 2 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 09:00 | IHR |
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... |
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| 14:15 | WB |
Director's Work in Progress Seminar |
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| 17:00 | IClS |
ICLS Classical Archaeology Seminar The Bronze Age in London |
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| 17:15 | WB |
Philosophy and Narrative |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Senate House Library Friends Peter Mack (Warburg Institute): 'Print and Innovation in Sixteenth Century Rhetoric: Agricola, Erasmus and Melanchthon' Attendance free, all welcome.&n... |
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Thursday 3 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | IP |
Two-day Workshop: Experiments on Ethical Dilemmas In conjunction with AHRC Framing Effects in Ethical Dilemmas project. Registration (day 2 in ST274/275) |
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| 15:00 | ISA |
The Global Century (Postgraduate Reading Group) New attendees are always welcome. Please see The Global Century for further details. |
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| 17:00 | WB |
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... |
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| 17:30 | ISA |
BOOK LAUNCH: The Republican Party and American Politics from Hoover to Reagan This event celebrates the publication by Cambridge University Press of a new book by Robert Mason (Edinburgh University). This is the first archiv... |
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| 18:00 | WB |
New Testament Greek Reading Class The class meets at the Warburg Institute in the Droz Library. Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Greek. If you wish to attend ... |
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Friday 4 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | IGRS |
Italian Research Training |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Finnegans Wake Research Seminar |
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Saturday 5 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:30 | IGRS |
Research Training Workshop: Before, During and After the PhD More information |
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| 14:00 | IHR |
Lessons in Liberty: English Schoolboy Rebellions in the Late Eighteenth-Century Court Room, Senate House, South block, first floor |
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| 14:00 | IES |
Reading from the Future Don Paterson NB: Room change. |
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Monday 7 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 18:15 | WB |
Islam and the Enlightenment. An introduction. |
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Tuesday 8 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | WB |
The Iconography of Justice from Renaissance Town Halls to 21st Century Courts Further details to be announced Organised by: Dennis Curtis, Peter Mack and Judith Resnik |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Catholic manuscript circulation in seventeenth-century Shrewsbury: The case of Richard Owen |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Advocacy for the archive sector - title tbc Please note: this session takes place in Room ST274, Stewart House, 2nd floor |
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| 17:30 | IClS |
ICLS Accordia Lectures ‘The Tomb of the Warrior at Tarquinia’ |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Book Collecting Research Seminar Edward Baynton-Coward: 'Collecting Bindings' |
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| 18:00 | IHR |
Embassy of Sir Nicholas O'Conor at Constantinople before World War I Pease note: this seminar will be held at The Rothschild Archives . Please contact Dr Michael Kandiah (Michael.Kandiah@kcl.ac.uk) if you wi... |
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| 18:00 | HRC |
‘The Responsibilities to Protect, Prosecute and Palliate: Complementary or Conflicting?’ Hosted by the Human Rights Consortium at the School of Advanced Study and the London Transitional Justice Network |
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| 19:00 | IHR |
The Lost Sheep of Rochester: Transitus and Agency in Late Medieval England |
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Wednesday 9 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 11:00 | SAS |
Careers Workshop: Preparing for academic interviews More information |
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| 12:30 | IES |
Institute of English Studies Director's Seminar Ellen McWilliams (Bath Spa University): 'The "Creative Migrant" in Colm Toibin's The South' |
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| 14:15 | WB |
Director's Work in Progress Seminar |
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| 16:15 | WB |
Islam and the Enlightenment Seminar - Islam in Montesquieu’s writings and thought In the Lecture Room - All welcome |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Conquest, liberty and the uses of history in Jacobean England |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
J. G. Frazer, Anthropology, and Christianity The Court Room (Senate House, first floor) |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Gardening and photography in the making of the lower middle-class home in Britain, 1880-1914 ST273 (Stewart House, second floor) |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Bowlbyism and the Postwar Settlement Please note: this session takes place in the Bedford room G37, Senate House, South block, Ground floor |
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| 17:30 | IES |
London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS) |
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Thursday 10 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 17:00 | WB |
Alexander Nimmo (1783–1832) and Some of His Little-Known Irish Maps and Charts |
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| 17:00 | WB |
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... |
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| 17:15 | IGRS |
English Goethe Society Eleoma Joshua (Edinburgh):Writing on the Brocken on the Brocken:The Poetry of the Brocken Visitors' BooksMore about the English Goethe Society |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
'Hidden Internationalisms' in Architecture and Education: Mary (nee Crowley) Medd (1907-2005) This seminar will report on trans-disciplinary biographical and prosopographical research that embraces the two fields of architecture and... |
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| 17:30 | HRC |
International Refugee Law seminar series “Refugees, Law and Postcolonial Theory” This is the 2nd year of the ‘International Refugee Law’ seminar series, which aims to p... |
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| 17:30 | ICwS |
International Refugee Law Seminar Series: Refugees, Law and Postcolonial Theory |
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| 17:30 | ISA |
Harry Allen Memorial lecture: Fifty Years On: The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was the most dangerous moment in the Cold War and possibly in world history as two nuclear superpowers stood on... |
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| 18:00 | WB |
New Testament Greek Reading Class The class meets at the Warburg Institute in the Droz Library. Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Greek. If you wish to attend pleas... |
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Friday 11 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 17:00 | IHR |
A protean phenomenon: the patriots in the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Low Countries Venue: Torrington Room 104, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
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| 18:00 | IGRS |
The Machiavelli Nights A series of four seminars, led by Gianluigi Sassu (Visiting Fellow, IGRS), exploring the thought of Niccolo Machiavelli in relation to rhetoric and lang... |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group Alexander Howard (University of Sussex): Canto 105 |
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Saturday 12 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 11:00 | IES |
Modernism Research Seminar Series Modernism and AffectJennifer Cooke (Loughborough): 'From Normative Unhappiness to Non-Normative Bliss: Modernist Intimacies in Katherine Mansfield ... |
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Monday 14 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| IALS |
Certificate in International Commercial Arbitration This is a five-day intensive course that is aimed at introducing participants to international commercial and investment arbitration. The course covers ... |
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| 16:00 | IGRS |
German Philosophy Seminar Wagner and PhilosophyThe German Philosophy Reading Group is open to philosophers and Germanists, both students and staff, interested in reading and disc... |
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| 16:15 | WB |
Islam and the Enlightenment Seminar - An Islamic Radical Enlightenment? The Philosophes and their perceptions of the Arabic world. In the Lecture Room - All welcome |
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| 16:30 | IClS |
ICLS Ancient Philosophy Seminar “Cicero’s Aristotelianism” |
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| 18:00 | IHR |
Title to be announced ST273 (Stewart House, second floor) |
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Tuesday 15 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 13:10 | WB |
From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Commedia. Summer term: Paradise Week 3: Title to be confirmed After reading Dante in Italian, with English translation and visual and verbal commentary, there will be time for informa... |
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| 14:00 | IALS |
Double Jeopardy in the EU - what it means in practice |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
paper: TBA Bloomsbury Room (G35) |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
Black people in English localities since1600: sources and significance |
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| 17:30 | SAS |
SAS Visiting Fellow lecture A lecture by the School's Visiting Fellow for 2011/12 to be chaired by Professor Roger Kain, Dean of the School of Advanced Study |
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Wednesday 16 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 12:30 | SAS |
Dean's Seminar: title - TBC but on Charles Dickens |
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| 14:15 | WB |
Director's Work in Progress Seminar |
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| 15:00 | IClS |
ICLS Mycenaean Seminar Before Aphrodite: new light on Kytheran prehistory from the Kythera Island |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
'Actio popularis' and popular sovereignty in Rome Senate House, Bedford Room G37 (ground floor) |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Senate House Library Friends Carlos Galvis (Institute of Historical Research): 'Transport collections in the Goldsmiths Library. Attendance free, all welcome. If you would li... |
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Thursday 17 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | IGRS |
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 Call ... |
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| 15:00 | ISA |
The Global Century (Postgraduate Reading Group) New attendees are always welcome. Please see The Global Century for further details. |
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| 17:00 | WB |
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... |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
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 |
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| 17:30 | IES |
Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Mark Stansbury (National University of Ireland, Galway): 'Some thoughts on the origins of Insular Script' |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
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 |
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| 18:00 | IES |
John Coffin Memorial Irish Studies Lecture 'Samuel Beckett: Mystic' by Professor Declan Kiberd (University College Dublin) Declan Kiberd joined UCD as lecturer in Anglo-Irish literature in 1979,... |
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| 18:00 | WB |
New Testament Greek Reading Class The class meets at the Warburg Institute in the Droz Library. Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Greek. If you wish to attend ... |
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| 18:15 | WB |
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 |
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Friday 18 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 18:00 | IES |
The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar |
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Saturday 19 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | ISA |
South American Archaeology Seminar For further information please email Bill Sillar. |
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| 14:00 | IES |
EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination) Thomas Roebuck (Magdalen College, Oxford): 'Forms of Antiquarianism in the Early Royal Society' |
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Monday 21 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 17:00 | IHR |
Staufen Germany and the crusade |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Food alms for the poor in late medieval England |
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| 18:00 | IALS |
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and Lord Sankey’s 'living tree' theory of interpretation Organised by the Statute Law Society with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. |
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Tuesday 22 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 11:00 | IP |
One-day Conference: Politics of Secession in the European Union Organised by Forum for European Philosophy. Registration to follow. |
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| 13:10 | WB |
From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Commedia. Summer term: Paradise Week 4: After reading Dante in Italian, with English translation and visual and verbal commentary, there will be time for informal and informed discuss... |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
The holy maid of Wales: Visions, politics and Catholicism in Elizabethan Britain |
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| 17:30 | ICwS |
Commonwealth Research Seminar Series: What happened to 'garibi hatao'? India's Congress Party and the politics of poverty |
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| 18:00 | IHR |
Scots in Africa: A Nation of Empire-Builders in the Era of Decolonisation Athlone Room (102), First floor, South block, Senate House |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Wyndham Lewis Reading Group Nathan Waddell (University of Birmingham) |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Literary London Reading Group tbc |
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| 19:00 | IHR |
Visual Representations of Knighting Ceremonies |
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Wednesday 23 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:30 | IALS |
How to get a PhD in Law: Preparing yourself for the Vivas. Getting yourself known: Publishing your work, presenting skills and networking. This National Training Day is intended for MPhil/PhD students in Law, paricularly those enrolled in their first year of study. MPhil/PhD la... |
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| 12:30 | IES |
Institute of English Studies Director's Seminar William Radice (SOAS): tbc |
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| 14:15 | WB |
Director's Work in Progress Seminar |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Finding a nation, founding a nation: Tacitus's 'Germania' and German nationalism |
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| 17:00 | IClS |
ICLS Classical Archaeology Seminar Classical collections in museums across the UK |
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| 18:00 | IGRS |
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... |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Senate House Library Friends Book Talk Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, led by Professor Michael SlaterAttendance free, all welcome. If you would like to attend please contact Library Of... |
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Thursday 24 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | IGRS |
9th Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Postgraduate Conference Postgraduates from the UK and abroad discuss their research on Austrian literature and culture More about the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre |
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| 10:15 | WB |
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... |
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| 12:30 | IP |
IP Lunchtime Seminar: Reassessment of Impredicativity |
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| 17:00 | WB |
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... |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
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 ... |
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| 18:00 | WB |
New Testament Greek Reading Class The class meets at the Warburg Institute in the Droz Library. Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Greek. If you wish to attend pleas... |
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| 19:00 | IGRS |
Doron Rabinovici Reads from his Works Acclaimed Austrian writer and writer-in-residence at the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre in 2012 reads from his works Venue: Austrian Cultural Forum, 28 Rutla... |
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Friday 25 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 17:00 | IHR |
Jacques Presser between history and literature Venue: Torrington Room 104, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
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Saturday 26 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:30 | ISA |
Latin American Music Seminar Please contact Dr. Henry Stobart for more details |
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Monday 28 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 16:00 | IGRS |
German Philosophy Seminar Wagner and PhilosophyThe German Philosophy Reading Group is open to philosophers and Germanists, both students and staff, interested in reading and disc... |
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| 16:30 | IClS |
ICLS Ancient Philosophy Seminar “Philosophy versus rhetoric? Aspects of Galen's argumentative technique” |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
How risky is a risk-free asset: an inquiry into Louis XIV's finances |
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Tuesday 29 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 17:00 | IHR |
Anti-antisemitism in Interwar Britain Bloomsbury Room (G35) |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
Classicism after Grainger: Classical Architecture in Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1870-1914 |
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| 18:15 | WB |
Islam and the Enlightenment Seminar - Joseph White (1745-1814) and Arabic Studies in eighteenth-century England. In the Lecture Room - All welcome |
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Wednesday 30 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| IES |
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... |
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| 10:00 | ICwS |
Cultures of Decolonisation, c.1945-1970 Flyer This symposium will bring together scholars with an interest in the cultural practices, performances and material cultures of decolonisation, c.1... |
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| 16:30 | WB |
Where Europe Begins and Ends: Problematics of Literary History, 1348-1418. |
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| 17:00 | IGRS |
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... |
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Thursday 31 May 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 09:30 | IGRS |
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... |
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| 15:00 | ISA |
The Global Century (Postgraduate Reading Group) New attendees are always welcome. Please see The Global Century for further details. |
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| 16:30 | WB |
The Restoration of Giotto's Crucifix for the Church of Ognissanti, Florence |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Religious Perceptions of Death and the Afterlife in the First World War Holden Room (103), first floor, South block, Senate House |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Pandora's Post Box: The Mobility of Discourse Across British Asia, 1854-1914 Venue: Bedford room G37, Senate House, South block, Ground floor |
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Friday 1 June 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 13:00 | ISA |
The 2012 Mexican Elections |
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| 17:00 | IES |
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) |
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| 18:00 | IGRS |
The Machiavelli Nights A series of four seminars, led by Gianluigi Sassu (Visiting Fellow, IGRS), exploring the thought of Niccolo Machiavelli in relation to rhetoric and lang... |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Finnegans Wake Research Seminar |
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Saturday 2 June 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 14:00 | IHR |
Enlightenment in Lilliput: Republican Education in Eighteenth-Century Children's Literature Court Room, Senate House, South block, first floor |
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| 14:00 | IES |
EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination) Medieval Arabic and Latin AlchemyStephanie Seavers (University College, London): 'Medieval alchemy and the symbolism of gold'Gabriele Ferrario (Taylor-S... |
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| 14:00 | IES |
Reading from the Future Gillian Clarke |
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Tuesday 5 June 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 13:10 | WB |
From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Commedia. Summer term: Paradise Week 5: After reading Dante in Italian, with English translation and visual and verbal commentary, there will be time for informal and informed discuss... |
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| 17:30 | HRC |
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 ... |
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Wednesday 6 June 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 09:00 | IHR |
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... |
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| 10:00 | IGRS |
Stefan Zweig and Great Britain A three-day conference at which international and national experts discuss Stefan Zweig's relations with Great Britain, his world-wide reception and inf... |
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| 14:15 | WB |
Director's Work in Progress Seminar |
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| 16:30 | WB |
Public Lecture - Title to be confirmed |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Democratic subjectification |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
From necessary leisure to moral prophylaxis: death of the suburban garden Montague Room (Room 26, ground floor, South block) |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Psychoanalysis in Egypt: Victorian novels (tbc) Please note: this session takes place in the Bedford room G37, Senate House, South block, Ground floor |
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| 17:30 | ICwS |
International Refugee Law Seminar Series: The law of exclusion from refugee status: recent developments |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Senate House Library Friends Book Talk Two stories by Arthur Conan Doyle (‘The Empty House’ and ‘The Adventures of the Speckled Band’), led by Dr. Emelyne Go... |
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Thursday 7 June 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | ICwS |
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,... |
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| 17:00 | WB |
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... |
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| 17:15 | IGRS |
English Goethe Society Utz Raphael (Jena):Visiting Goethe: The Diary of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, 1829-1832 More about the English Goethe Society |
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| 17:30 | IES |
Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Tadashi Kotake (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, IES Visiting Fellow): 'Old English Glosses to the Rushworth Gospels: Palaeographical, Textua... |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
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... |
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| 18:00 | WB |
New Testament Greek Reading Class The class meets at the Warburg Institute in the Droz Library. Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Greek. If you wish to attend ... |
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Friday 8 June 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 17:00 | IGRS |
Taking Writing to Court |
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Saturday 9 June 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 11:00 | IES |
London Nineteenth Century Studies Research Seminar tbc |
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Monday 11 June 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | SAS |
Political Marketing and Consultancy in an Age of Global Crises Proposals are invited for contributions to a one-day conference convened by the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library in co-operatio... |
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| 10:00 | SAS |
Careers Workshop: All day careers session More information |
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| 16:00 | IGRS |
German Philosophy Seminar Wagner and PhilosophyThe German Philosophy Reading Group is open to philosophers and Germanists, both students and staff, interested in reading and disc... |
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| 18:00 | IHR |
Title to be announced ST273 (Stewart House, second floor) |
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Tuesday 12 June 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 09:00 | IHR |
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... |
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| 13:10 | WB |
From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Commedia. Summer term: Paradise Week 6: After reading Dante in Italian, with English translation and visual and verbal commentary, there will be time for informal and informed discuss... |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
The Passion of William of Norwich Bloomsbury Room (G35) |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
Getting old and dying in eighteenth-century Spitalfields: 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... |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
Archaeology and history in the Driffield area of Yorkshire East Riding [provisional title] |
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| 17:30 | IES |
History of Libraries Research Seminar Dr. David Shaw (Canterbury): 'Interpreting the Benefactors’ Book: a documentary and bibliographical account of Canterbury Cathedral Library in the... |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
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. ... |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
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. ... |
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| 18:00 | IHR |
The British Way in Cold Warfare: The Case of the Empire's Caribbean Communists 1952-1964 Holden Room (103), First floor, South block, Senate House |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Book Collecting Research Seminar Paul Goldman: 'Collecting Pre-Raphaelite Books and Illustration' |
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| 18:00 | IES |
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... |
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Wednesday 13 June 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 12:30 | SAS |
Dean's Seminar: Prophets-Play: Personifying the Old Testament from Early Christian Homiletics to Medieval Drama |
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| 14:15 | WB |
Director's Work in Progress Seminar |
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| 16:30 | WB |
The invention of religion in early modernity |
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Thursday 14 June 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:15 | WB |
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 ... |
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| 15:00 | ISA |
The Global Century (Postgraduate Reading Group) New attendees are always welcome. Please see The Global Century for further details. |
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| 17:00 | WB |
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... |
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| 18:00 | WB |
New Testament Greek Reading Class The class meets at the Warburg Institute in the Droz Library. Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Greek. If you wish to attend ... |
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Friday 15 June 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 18:00 | IES |
The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar |
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Monday 18 June 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | IES |
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 ... |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Peter Heylyn and seventeenth-century crusade historiography |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Saving Aboriginal Children: Save the Children Aboriginal Preschools, white volunteers and the rural colour bar |
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| 18:00 | IALS |
Why is law reform so difficult? Organised by the Statute Law Society with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. |
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Tuesday 19 June 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 13:10 | WB |
From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Commedia. Summer term: Paradise Week 7: After reading Dante in Italian, with English translation and visual and verbal commentary, there will be time for informal and informed discuss... |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Repetitive prayer and Reformation-era poetics |
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| 18:00 | IHR |
Striking the balance: State intervention vs. non-intervention in Britain's oil policy, 1957-1968 Athlone Room (102), First floor, South block, Senate House |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Literary London Reading Group tbc |
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Wednesday 20 June 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 14:15 | WB |
Director's Work in Progress Seminar |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Sir Anthony Sherley's political writings: diplomacy, travel, and forms of publication |
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Thursday 21 June 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 17:00 | WB |
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... |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
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 |
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| 18:00 | WB |
New Testament Greek Reading Class The class meets at the Warburg Institute in the Droz Library. Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Greek. If you wish to attend pleas... |
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Friday 22 June 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | WB |
THE MARRIAGE OF PHILOLOGY AND SCEPTICISM: UNCERTAINTY AND CONJECTURE IN EARLY MODERN SCHOLARSHIP AND THOUGHT |
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Monday 25 June 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:30 | IES |
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... |
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| 16:00 | IGRS |
German Philosophy Seminar Wagner and PhilosophyThe German Philosophy Reading Group is open to philosophers and Germanists, both students and staff, interested in reading and disc... |
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Tuesday 26 June 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| IALS |
Globalisation, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (W G Hart Legal Workshop 2012) For a copy of the Call for Papers, please click here The WG Hart Legal Workshop 2012 will address the multifarious relationship between globalisation, ... |
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| 13:10 | WB |
From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Commedia. Summer term: Paradise Week 8: After reading Dante in Italian, with English translation and visual and verbal commentary, there will be time for informal and informed discuss... |
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| 17:00 | IHR |
Michael Balint and the transformation of psychoanalysis in Britain Bloomsbury Room (G35) |
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| 17:15 | IHR |
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Wednesday 27 June 2012 |
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| IALS |
Modern Activism This interdisciplinary conference is a joint initiative between SOLON at Liverpool John Moores, the Centre for Contemporary British History at KCL and L... |
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| 09:00 | IHR |
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... |
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| 14:15 | WB |
Director's Work in Progress Seminar |
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Thursday 28 June 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 15:00 | ISA |
The Global Century (Postgraduate Reading Group) New attendees are always welcome. Please see The Global Century for further details. |
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| 17:00 | WB |
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... |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
Historia Magistra Vitae: John Toland, the life of Cicero and the value of history Gordon Room (G34), ground floor, South block, Senate House |
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| 18:00 | WB |
New Testament Greek Reading Class The class meets at the Warburg Institute in the Droz Library. Participants should have a basic reading knowledge of Greek. If you wish to attend pleas... |
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Friday 29 June 2012 |
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| IES |
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... |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group Richard Parker: Canto 35 |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Finnegans Wake Research Seminar |
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Monday 2 July 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:30 | IES |
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... |
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Tuesday 3 July 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 17:30 | IES |
History of Libraries Research Seminar Professor Alistair Black (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): ' "The necessity of clear expression": home-grown writing, organisational learning ... |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
"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... |
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| 17:30 | IHR |
'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... |
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Wednesday 4 July 2012 |
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| IES |
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... |
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Thursday 5 July 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | IGRS |
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... |
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Friday 6 July 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 09:00 | IHR |
Summer conference 349 (Senate House, third floor) Please note: this event takes place on a Friday. |
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Saturday 7 July 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 10:00 | IES |
Reading from the Future Symposium |
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| 15:30 | IES |
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... |
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Monday 9 July 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| IES |
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... |
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Tuesday 10 July 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 14:00 | IGRS |
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 (... |
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| 18:00 | IES |
Book Collecting Research Seminar Carl Williams: 'Collecting Counter-Culture' |
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Thursday 12 July 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 13:00 | ISA |
'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... |
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| 13:00 | ICwS |
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... |
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Friday 13 July 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 18:00 | IES |
The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar |
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Monday 16 July 2012 |
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
| 09:00 | IHR |
Methods and Sources for Historical Research This long-standing course is an introduction to finding and using primary sources for re | |