Public Events
The School's extensive programme of events offers our national subject communities opportunities to disseminate their research to the widest possible audience.
Each year over 68,000 participants from around the world attend over 1,800 events - from seminars, lectures and workshops to major international conferences in the humanities and related social sciences.
The majority of our events are free and open to everyone and do not require advance booking.
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
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| 11:00 | Institute of English Studies |
London Nineteenth Century Studies Research Seminar Dino Felluga (Purdue University): 'BRANCHing Out: Victorian Studies and the Digital Humanities' Jason Camlot (Concordia): 'Digitalling Around With Tennyson: Towards a Design-Based Digital Humanities' |
Room G35 (Ground Floor) |
| 14:00 | Institute of English Studies |
Contemporary Fiction Research Seminar From Text to Book: Reworking the (Non) Literary Object CFS presents a pair of talks on reworking textual material in the digital age: Kaja Marczewska discusses creative practices of erasure using non-literary … |
Room G35 (Ground Floor) |
| 16:00 | Institute of Historical Research |
Joseph Priestley and Anna (Aikin) Barbauld: Utility, Devotion and Education |
Room 102 (Senate House, first floor) |
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| 17:15 | Institute of Historical Research |
From computers and history to digital history: a retrospective |
Room G37 (Ground Floor) |
| 17:15 | Institute of Historical Research |
Out of retirement? Lord Lansdowne and Opposition politics in the 1790s |
Room 102 (Senate House, first floor) |
| 17:15 | Institute of Historical Research |
The summits of modern man: mountaineering after the Enlightenment
Venue: Room S264, Senate House, 2nd floor Followed by the launching of Peter Hansens's book 'The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering after the Enlightenment' (Harvard University Press) |
Room 264 (Senate House, second floor) |
| 17:15 | Institute of Historical Research |
National Service, 1945-1963 |
Room 349 (3rd floor) |
| 17:30 | Institute of Historical Research |
The Day Parliament Burned Down Chair: Valerie Johnson Please note: this session has been postponed to a date to be announced |
Room G34 (Ground Floor) |
| 18:00 | Institute of Historical Research |
God Save the Community: Greece's entry into the EEC
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Room 103 (Senate House, first floor) |
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| 14:00 | Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies |
PhDs and Early Career Cultural Memory, Affect and Trauma Working Group |
STB2 (Stewart House, basement) |
| 14:00 | Human Rights Consortium |
PhDs and Early Career Cultural Memory, Affect and Trauma Working Group This working group is convened by the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies and is open to PhD candidates and early career researchers. Please contact Jordana Blejmar for more … |
STB2 (Stewart House, basement) |
| 14:15 | Warburg Institute |
Director's Work in Progress
‘Miracle Healing and Profane Therapy in the Canonization Processes’.
Full programme at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/seminars/work-in-progress/
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Warburg Institute |
| 16:00 | Institute of Philosophy |
IP Aesthetics Forum: Pause of Participation. On the Function of Artificial Presence. Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics |
Room 243 (Senate House) |
| 17:15 | Institute of Historical Research |
Lincoln's Deadly Hermeneutics Please note: this session takes place in the Bedford Room, G37 on the ground floor. |
Room G37 (Ground Floor) |
| 17:15 | Institute of Historical Research |
'Correspondence and time: the case of Cowper and Newton'. |
Room 104 (Senate House, first floor) |
| 17:30 | Institute of Historical Research |
The Audacity of Veracity - the Rev. Tiyo Soga's role and part in the translation of the Bible into Xhosa |
Room 261 (Senate House, second floor) |
| 17:30 | Institute of Historical Research |
Miracles and 'mutation' in Southern France and Northern Italy |
The Court Room (Senate House, first floor) |
| 18:00 | Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies |
Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Seminar Ann Rau Dawes (London): Milein Cosman: an Examination of Identity of an Emigré ArtistMore about the Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies |
Room G34 (Ground Floor) |
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| 16:30 | Institute of Classical Studies |
ICLS Ancient History Seminar "The Sea of Faith": a Greek perspective on the sunny uplands of Achaemenid historiography. |
Room 349 (3rd floor) |
| 17:00 | Institute of Philosophy |
CenSes Seminar: Working memory capacity limits in anxiety and depression: Can they be increased? |
Room 243 (Senate House) |
| 17:15 | Institute of Historical Research |
Lost Letters of Medieval Life: English Society, 1200-1250 |
The Court Room (Senate House, first floor) |
| 17:15 | Institute of Historical Research |
Social mobility in the English Revolution: the case of Adam Eyre |
Room 103 (Senate House, first floor) |
| 17:30 | Institute of Historical Research |
Where Did the Empire Go? Archives and Decolonization Venue: Torrington Room 104 |
Room 104 (Senate House, first floor) |
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| 10:00 | Warburg Institute |
The Place of Hell: Topographies, Structures, Genealogies An International conference held at King’s College London and The Warburg Institute A belief in Hell has been a staple of Christian thought from the earliest period of this religion. The depiction … |
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| 10:00 | Warburg Institute |
The Place of Hell: Topographies, Structures, Genealogies King’s College, London and The Warburg Institute, 31 May - 1 June 2013Organised by Dionysios Stathakopoulos and Rembrandt Duits On the island of Crete, there are around 850 historical churches … |
Warburg Institute |