Kings College: Online
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This webinar is part of the Patriarchal Inscriptions: Female bodies contested, invaded defended owned webinar series. If as Simone de Beauvoir stated, women are made, not born and, by extension, clitoral amputation produces them, circumcision similarly makes the man. Although the aims of clitoridectomy and removal of the foreskin are incomparable, the belief in their equivalence plays a role in the longevity of the former. And given that human and children’s rights are increasingly influential in the discussion of both customs, avoidance of the ‘circumcision’ debate for anti-FGM campaigns is increasingly untenable. Therefore, contributions are invited to explore issues surrounding circumcision; consider circumcision in comparison to FGM; analyse efforts to sustain and abolish both; examine circumcision/FGM as enhancements/ detriments to sexual development or fulfilment; looks at each in relation to gender identities; takes into account personal narrative (memoirs) as well as creative writing (fiction); mines the shafts (pardon the pun) of ethnographic history concerning circumcision rites; historical and contemporary religious debates, and the like. Programme Circumcisions as Inscriptions of Gender: Implications of FGM Eradication or Sustenance Mary Nyangweso, PhD, Associate Professor J. Woolard Helen Peel distinguished chair in Religious Studies at East Carolina University Plastic Surgeons’ Familiarity with Female Genital Mutilation Cutting in the United States Ava G Chappell, MD, Division of Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, Institute for Global Health, the Buehler Center for Health Policy Economics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Mona Ascha, MD, Division of Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, North- western University Feinberg School of Medicine Rachita Sood, MD, MPH, Division of Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Kathryn E. Fay, MD, Department of Obstetrics Gynecology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Melissa Simon, MD, MPH, Department of Obstetrics Gynecology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine John Y. Kim, MD, Division of Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, North- western University Feinberg School of Medicine Sumanas W. Jordan, MD, Division of Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Lori A. Post, PhD, Buehler Center for Health Policy Economics, Department of Emergency Medicine, the Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Female Genital Mutilation, Male Circumcision other Genital Interventions as Markers of Collective /or Individual Identity: Exploring Legal Medical Approaches in the UK Jeanise Dalli, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Law Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle Emotional behavioral consequences of FGM/C among African immigrants in NYC: depression, anxiety, PTSD, but also coping recommendations for clinicians Mariama Diallo, Program Director, African Initiative Following presentations by the speakers, there will be a moderated Q A. Registered attendees will be sent the access link to participate in the webinar on their web browser or via the Microsoft Teams app the day prior. To register your place, please visit Eventbrite.
Kings College: Online
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About the conference Date: Mon 30 November 2020 and Tues 1 December 2020 Central banks can make better decisions by using historical evidence but learning from history can be challenging. As well as collating the evidence, policymakers also need a sophisticated understanding of how to use insights from past experiences. This conference aims to bring academics and senior policymakers together to understand better how historical analysis can help central banks make viable decisions. Questions for discussion will include: How can historical inquiry improve policymaking and delivery? What methodologies and data are available, and what are their strengths and limitations? What is the evidence base for assessing the current contribution of historically informed inquiry to policymaking and execution at central banks? This event has been organized in partnership with the Bank of England, the Qatar Centre for Global Banking and Finance at King's Business School, King's College London and the Data Analytics for Finance and Macro (DAFM) Research Centre at King's Business School, King's College London. Programme Day 1 Mon 30 November 2020 (GMT): 13:15 - Welcome from Andy Haldane (Bank of England, Chief Economist), 13:30 - 'Monetary Policy Before Central Banking: Lessons from Medieval Europe' by Nathan Sussman (The Graduate Institute, Geneva (IHEID)) with Martin Weale (King's College London) as respondent, 14:45 - Catherine Schenk (University of Oxford) – with Natacha Postel-Vinay (London School of Economics) as respondent, 16:00 - Keynote address: 'Central Banks and History: The Troubled Relationship.' by Barry Eichengreen (University of California, Berkeley). Register to attend Day 2 Tuesday 1 December 2020 (GMT): 14:00 - Panel discussion: How can policy-makers use history effectively? – Chaired by Claudio Borio (BIS, Head of the Monetary and Economic Department) with: Andrew Bailey (Bank of England, Governor), Vicky Saporta (Bank of England, Executive Director of Prudential Regulation), Lord Macpherson (Permanent Secretary to the Treasury from 2005 to 2016), Alan Taylor (University of California, Davis) 15:45 - ‘Theory, Empirics and History. Three Perspectives for Policy-making’ by Éric Monnet (Paris School of Economics and EHESS) with David Aikman (King's College London) as respondent, 16:45 - Closing remarks by Sam Woods (Bank of England, Deputy Governor) Register to attend Organizing committee: Peter Barrett (Bank of England), Sophie Dalzell (Bank of England), Georgina Green (Bank of England), Matt Hankin (Bank of England), George Kapetanios (King's College London), Francesca Monti (King's College London), Austen Saunders (Bank of England), Marco Schneebalg (Bank of England), Alison Schomberg (Bank of England), Polly Weaver (Bank of England), Andrew Whitworth (Bank of England).
Birkbeck: Online
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Our working culture’s encourage open minds and attitudes and are supported by a welfare and benefits structure that enables our workforce to be at its best. From training and development that helps employees expand their skills, to flexible working patterns that support a healthy work life balance MI5, MI6 GCHQ create an environment where everyone can achieve their full potential. Between us we have many ways to allow you to use your skills so we offer variety and potential to switch between agencies and we are so proud of our awards for diversity and inclusion, which underpin everything we do and hold important. Come and join us on Monday 30th November 2020 at 12:30PM where we will be sharing with you a presentation about what it is like to work for us, explain our missions further and to show you some of the many routes to joining us. To register for the event, please email careersadvisorcontact@recruitmentoffice.org.uk with your full name, email address, university and university course. Contact name: Stefanie Fenske
School of Advanced Study: Venue ONLINE
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Description A special tour for School of Advanced Study staff, students and fellows, with Professor Bill Sherman (Director, Warburg Institute) and Dr Claudia Wedepohl (Archivist, Warburg Institute) Monday 30 November 2020: 2.00pm (UK time) Hosted via Zoom. The Warburg Institute invites members of SAS to a special tour of a new online resource that makes available to a wide international audience two major exhibitions in Berlin devoted to Aby Warburg’s unfinished magnum opus, the Bilderatlas Mnemosyne: Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne - the Original, at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), curated by Roberto Ohrt and Axel Heil in collaboration with the Warburg Institute; and Between Cosmos and Pathos: Berlin Works from Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas, at the Gemäldegalerie. The exhibitions opened to great acclaim this Autumn, but the coronavirus prevented many people from seeing them, and with the lockdown of German museums this week the only way to visit is now online. The Bilderatlas Mnemosyne Virtual Exhibition provides a digital afterlife and an enduring resource. We would like to offer members of SAS a guided tour of this virtual tour with the Warburg Institute’s Director and Archivist. Aby Warburg (1866-1929), founder of the Warburg Institute, spent the last years of his life attempting to map our collective cultural memory through an ‘atlas of images’ that he named Mnemosyne, after the Greek goddess of memory. By the time of his death, Warburg had arranged 971 images on 63 large black panels. This unfinished magnum opus is at once a map of ancient images and one of modernity’s foundational projects. Known only from the black-and-white photos taken before Warburg’s death, the Bilderatlas has become a legend for scholars, artists and curators. The exhibition at HKW reconstituted the 63 panels of the Atlas for the first time since 1929 from Warburg’s original working materials preserved at the Warburg Institute. Parallel to the exhibition at HKW, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin presented in the Gemäldegalerie, Kulturforum, an unprecedented collection of 50 objects pictured in Warburg’s Atlas, gathered from 10 of Berlin’s state museums. The Bilderatlas is a masterpiece which draws on Warburg’s intellectual preoccupation with the afterlife (‘Nachleben’) of images and motifs, and how their continuity or metamorphosis as emotionally charged visual tropes resonates from antiquity to contemporary society. The Virtual Exhibition has been created with financial support from the Warburg Charitable Trust and technical direction from Marco Vedana at documentart.de. They allow visitors to explore the content of both exhibitions online and enables them to move freely between the panels of images at HKW and the original artworks in the Gemäldegalerie. The site also features interviews with the creators of the exhibitions, and selected objects are accompanied by expert commentary.
Kings College: Online
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Chair: Dr Kieran Mitton, Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies Speaker: Edgar Guerra, Drug Policy program, CIDE (Mexico). Discussant: Raúl Zepeda Gil, PhD Student, Defence Studies Department, King's College London, and president of the Mexican Society. This event is co-hosted with Bielefeld University, and the King's College London Mexico Society By performing a series of interviews by Zoom, WhatsApp and phone calls with key informants and general population using his previous research contacts, Edgar Guerra explores the impact of the Mexican government lockdown due to COVID-19 on the dynamics of violence in the southern region of Tierra Caliente in Michoacán, Mexico. Bio Dr Edgar Guerra (Drug Policy in CIDE, Mexico) holds a PhD in Sociology from Belfield University. He currently directs the project that assesses the potential for civil organisations within regions affected by criminal violence to hold state institutions committed to the goal of human rights-based development, financed by Economic and Social Research Council. His research focuses on non-state armed groups, criminal organisations, violence, and institutions. In 2018 he published ‘Demands, identities and repertoire of protest: an analysis of the Mexican cannabis movement’ in Drugs and Alcohol Today. 18(29), 108-116. Please register via Zoom
Kings College: Online
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Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (University of Maryland) presents 'Covid-19 and Emerging Markets: An Epidemiological Model with International Production Networks and Capital Flows' with Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Veronika Penciakova and Nick Sander. We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost-minimization and measure each firm’s liquidity shortfall during and after COVID-19. Our framework allows for a rich combination of sectoral and aggregate supply, productivity, and demand shocks. We estimate a large increase in the failure rate of SMEs under COVID-19 of nearly 9 percentage points, absent government support. Accommodation Food Services, Arts, Entertainment Recreation, Education, and Other Services are among the most affected sectors. The jobs at risk due to COVID-19 related SME business failures represent 3.1 percent of private sector employment. Despite the large impact on business failures and employment, we estimate only moderate effects on the financial sector: the share of Non Performing Loans on bank balance sheets would increase by up to 11 percentage points, representing 0.3 percent of banks’ assets and resulting in a 0.75 percentage point decline in the common equity Tier-1 capital ratio. We evaluate the cost and effectiveness of various policy interventions. The fiscal cost of an intervention that narrowly targets at risk firms can be modest (0.54% of GDP). However, at a similar level of effectiveness, non-targeted subsidies can be substantially more expensive (1.82% of GDP). Our results have important implications for the severity of the COVID-19 recession, the design of policies, and the speed of the recovery.
School of Advanced Study: Venue Online
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Description Martin Buber's dialogical philosophy contains a fundamental reflection on the nature of human relations and how they can be participated in, interpreted, and studied. In this seminar we will examine Buber's main writings, focusing on his claim that the dialogical I-Thou relation differs fundamentally from social relations, that it can only be understood on its own terms, that it exists in communicative speech (even though not always words are exchanged in concrete I-Thou instances) and that it resists all attempts at objectification. We will bring this claim into conversation with other approaches to understanding human relations and the nature of the social, e.g. Marxism, feminism, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, communication theory and contemporary social philosophy. We will ask how the interhuman and the social are related. Could a future-oriented, utopian horizon to human relationality emerge as the mediation between the interhuman and the social? How might this inform a contemporary assessment of Buber’s work? We’ll work with primary texts by Buber and others, as well as with literary and first-person accounts of relationality and dialogue. Convenors: Johan Siebers (Bloch Centre/Middlesex University) and Vic Seidler (Goldsmiths/Leo Baeck College) Seminars will be held fortnightly on Mondays, from 16:00-18:00 (online via Zoom). Times are given in London local time. Participation is free, however advance online registration is required as only registered participants will be sent to the link to access the event. Dates: 5, 19 October (BST); 2, 16, 30 November; 14 December 2020 (GMT) Further details and reading
Kings College: Online
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Economically, culturally and politically America is a global reference point, and the outcomes of its elections reverberate across the world. What are the consequences of such a bitterly fought battle, and what will the next four years hold for America’s relationship with the rest of the world on crucial issues like the recovery from Covid-19, trade and climate change. To begin to unpick the election and look forward, KBS Executive Dean, Professor Stephen Bach is joined in conversation by John Rentoul, Chief Political Correspondent of the Independent and Professor Rosie Campbell of King’s College London. Biographies John Rentoul is The Independent’s chief political commentator, having worked for the title since 1995. He is also visiting professor at King’s College London, and a prominent tweeter. He is the author of a biography of Tony Blair and, with Jon Davis, of Heroes or Villains? The Blair Government Reconsidered. As well as writing about politics, he contributes a weekly top 10 of curiosities and Mea Culpa, a column about style and usage. Professor Rosie Campbell is professor of politics and director of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London. She held positions at Birkbeck and UCL before joining King’s in 2018. She has recently written on barriers to participation in politics, gendered patterns of support for the populist radical right and what voters want from their elected representatives. Her publications cover the subjects of voting behaviour, public opinion, the politics of diversity and political recruitment. She is the principle investigator of the ESRC funded Representative Audit of Britain, which surveyed all candidates standing in the 2015, 2017 and 2019 British General Elections.
Kings College: Online
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Get a taste for life at King's at our online event for those interested in undergraduate study. In this taster session, you will learn about the fascinating international phenomenon of low-budget remakes of Hollywood blockbusters. Throughout the latter half of the 20th century, there were unlicensed reworkings of Hollywood films produced in industries around the globe, including Brazil, Italy, Turkey, Mexico, India, and the Philippines. This session will help us consider what films such as Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (1982, known as the ‘Turkish Star Wars’) and La Mujer Murciélago (1968, known as the ‘Mexican Batwoman’) can tell us about the politics of globalisation and the international spread of American popular culture. This is your chance to learn more about our courses and what it's like to live and study in London.
Kings College: Online
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Get a taste for life at King's at our online event for those interested in undergraduate Theology Religious Studies. Identity is an increasingly important part of politics in our world today. Movements such as Black Lives Matter and #MeToo are built on identity politics. This talk will explore how the identity politics of Islam works among young people in the East End of London borough of Tower Hamlets. In ways does the identity of being Muslim (or not) matter to young people, and how does that inspire their politics? This is your chance to learn more about our courses and what it's like to live and study in London.
School of Advanced Study:
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Description Douglas Cairns, University of Edinburgh This event will be held online via Zoom. Information about attending online events may be found at https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/attending-online-events
SOAS: Venue: Virtual Event
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Abstract China has already parlayed the world’s second largest economy and defense budget into armed forces boasting global superlatives. It has long retained the world’s largest standing ground force. Each of China’s three sea forces—Navy, Coast Guard, Maritime Militia—is now the world’s largest by number of ships. China has the Indo-Pacific’s largest air forces. It has the world’s largest sub-strategic missile forces, and one of the world’s largest and most sophisticated surface-to-air missile forces. The world’s largest technological acquisition and application infrastructure augments domestic weapons development. Forces’ further advances and potential employment are guided by the most far-reaching, clearly defined grand strategy of any great power today, with lofty goals for 2035 and 2049. Long before those milestones, paramount leader Xi Jinping wants his sweeping defense reforms to yield overwhelming military power that commands deference to Party policies at home and abroad. At the nexus of those contested parameters lies the greatest of all flashpoints: Taiwan. And the most dangerous decade may well have already begun. China under Xi has likely reached its peak growth rate and the zenith of its leaders’ ability to mobilize resources to serve ambitious national objectives. Biography Professor Andrew S. Erickson is a Professor of Strategy in the U.S. Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute. A core founding member, he helped establish CMSI and stand it up officially in 2006, and has played an integral role in its development. CMSI inspired the creation of other research centers, which he has advised and supported; he is a China Aerospace Studies Institute Associate. Erickson is currently a Visiting Scholar in full-time residence at Harvard University’s John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, where he has been an Associate in Research since 2008. He is also an Executive Committee member of Israel’s Haifa Maritime Center and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Erickson has deployed in the Pacific as a Naval Postgraduate School Regional Security Education Program scholar aboard the flagship aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. Erickson received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He runs the research website www.andrewerickson.com. Registration This webinar will take place online via Zoom. After registering, a separate Zoom link will emailed to you closer to the date of the webinar. Online Registration Chair: Professor Steve Tsang (Director, SOAS China Institute) Organiser: SOAS China Institute Contact email: sci@soas.ac.uk
Gresham College: Online Lecture
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Is Santa really Dutch? Were Christmas Trees introduced by Prince Albert? Was Christmas once a time of faith, rather than riotous feasting? In this lecture, social historian Judith Flanders considers Christmas myths and Christmas memory, and will explore how everything you think you know about Christmas is wrong. She looks at the long history of nostalgia for a different kind of Christmas, and whether Christmas ever really existed at all. Register for Online Lecture Given Covid-19, we are live-streaming all our lectures online in 2020-21 and aim to re-introduce in-person lectures gradually as social distancing rules change.To attend lectures online, please register using the button above. This also allows us to let you know how to book in-person tickets when they are reintroduced. The registration process is simple, free, and only requires an email address.
Gresham College: Online Lecture
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The interconnectivity of living organisms and the planet is brought to light through the development of digital intelligence of the planet. This lecture tells the story of how this started with early computing and chaos theory, and developed through models of how humans move around and inhabit different parts of the world, to open data systems. Stories from the voyages of Darwin and the first global explorers, to the new space science illustrate the different ways in which new knowledge is received by society. Register for Online Lecture Given Covid-19, we are live-streaming all our lectures online in 2020-21 and aim to re-introduce in-person lectures gradually as social distancing rules change.To attend lectures online, please register using the button above. This also allows us to let you know how to book in-person tickets when they are reintroduced. The registration process is simple, free, and only requires an email address.
School of Advanced Study: Venue ONLINE
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Description What factors do you need to consider when making sure you're conducing your work to a high ethical standard? This workshop explores research ethics and best academic practice, including working with individual participants and communities when conducting research, confidentiality and data protection, crediting other scholars, and the importance of supportive academic communities. We will share a link to access the Zoom event to those registered on the day of the event.
School of Advanced Study: Venue Online Seminar (Zoom)
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Description Online Event The Bribery Act received Royal Assent in April 2010. This expansive piece of legislation was introduced not only following recognition that the old law governing bribery was old and lacked clarity, but also in the wake of significant controversies (including the ‘cash for questions’ scandal and the dropping of the BAE Systems prosecution purportedly on the grounds of national security). The 2010 Act both updated and reformed the anti-bribery framework. It contains a robust range of offences: bribing a person; being bribed; bribing foreign officials; and failure to prevent bribery. The Act extends to activity that takes place in the UK ‘or elsewhere’. Significantly, not only can the company itself be prosecuted, but so too can individual officials (with penalties up to 10 years imprisonment). In March 2019, the House of Lords Select Committee on the Bribery Act described the Act as ‘an excellent piece of legislation which creates offences which are clear and all-encompassing’. It continued to say: ‘the Act is an example to other countries, especially developing countries, of what is needed to deter bribery.’ Notwithstanding such positive endorsements, however, there remain concerns. Questions remain as to whether the Act is being ‘adequately enforced’; collection of data is inconsistent across police forces; until 2019, there was no publicly available information on numbers of prosecutions/ convictions; the number of prosecutions appears to be low; there are ongoing issues with both under-resourcing and delays of enforcement agencies (particularly where large-scale and/or complex cases are being investigated); there remain issues with a lack of awareness of the Act on the part of police officials; and inter-agency cooperation is weak (House of Lords Select Committee, 2019). The Centre for Financial Law, Regulation and Compliance (FinReg) has organised a series of webinars to discuss and analyse the Bribery Act, ten years on from its enactment. Day Four: Deferred Prosecution Agreements • Dr Abiola Makinwa, The Hague University of Applied Sciences; • Polly Sprenger, Addleshaw Goddard LLP; • Dr Costantino Grasso, Coventry University. Chair: Dr Colin King, IALS. Webinar Series: Day One: The Bribery Act: Ten Years On Day Two: Reforming Bribery Legislation – looking back, looking forward Day Three: Bribery and Procurement Day Five: International and Comparative Perspectives of Anti-Bribery This Webinar is free but advance booking is required. Details about how to join the virtual event will be circulated via email to registered attendees the day before the event.
Birkbeck: Online
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Register here. Contact name: IHR / Raphael Samuel History Centre
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Description Professor Alan Nelson (University of California, Berkeley): `Reconstructing the Bradshawe Family Library of Marple, Cheshire, 1600-1784’. . The name of Henry Bradshawe, and the family seat in Marple, Cheshire, in the seventeenth century, are familiar to bibliographers and to the book trade. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, John Bradshawe the regicide, being childless, bequeathed 'all my Law Bookes', along with books 'on divinity, history and other books' to his nephew Henry, who maintained the family library until his death in 1698. This traditional account is an extreme simplification of the true story, which must start with the realization that books from the Bradshawe family library carry the ownership signatures of at least four Henry Bradshawes. Books from the library are scattered across the English-speaking world. Unless stated otherwise, all our events are free of charge and anyone interested in the topic is welcome to attend. Registration is required for all events. Please sign up using the booking form below.
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Description Tuesday, 1 December 2020 Dr Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh (Department of Early and Medieval Irish, University College Cork) The Relationship between the Manuscripts of the ‘Irish Liber Hymnorum’ The title Liber Hymnorum refers in an Irish context to a collection of hymns in Latin and Irish, as well as much ancilliary material, preserved in two extant manuscripts (Trinity College Dublin 1441 and University College Dublin OFM A2) It is doubtful whether the Liber Hymnorum codices were intended for regular liturgical celebration, since each hymn is preceded by a preface detailing the supposed place, time and cause of its composition as well as the author. Certain elements of the provenance and transmission of the manuscripts can only be sketched and the relationship between the two surviving witnesses is only partially understood. It is clear, however, that the codices are not reproductions of the same exemplar but the precise relationship between these two important sources of medieval Irish hymnody merits further investigation. Unless stated otherwise, all our events are free of charge and anyone interested in the topic is welcome to attend. Registration is required for all events. Please sign up using the booking form below.
School of Advanced Study: Venue Online
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Description Image: The Placenta Rainbow, Wellcome Collection CC BY 4.0 CCWW PGR/ECR Online Seminar Series All are invited to attend the Centre’s second PGR online seminar series entitled 'Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities'. This series examines engagements with healthcare, medical innovation, and ethics in contemporary women’s writing. It spotlights how a diverse range of contemporary women’s writing (spanning fiction, philosophy, life-writing, and many other genres) is engaging with central questions concerning public health at the intersections of the humanities and medical science and practice. Seminar Six Disability Narratives Guest Chair: Hannah Thompson (Royal Holloway) Sarah Simpson (Edinburgh): ‘Intellectual Disability and Undertones of Eugenics in Amparo Dávila’s Óscar’ Katja Herges (Tübingen): ‘Affect, Politics and Gender in Women’s Writing about ALS and Dying’ Christina Lee (King’s College London): ‘Beautiful Lyme: Mindful Crip Aesthetics and the Art of Being Sick’ Alice Hill Woods (York) - 'Autopathography as (eco)biosocial resistance: Aurora Levins Morales’s Kindling' Programme, including abstracts and bios (pdf) The seminar will be held in English. All are welcome to attend this free event, at 17:30 GMT. You will need to register in advance to receive the online event joining link. Please click on the Book Now button below to register. Download guidance on participating in an online event (pdf)
School of Advanced Study: Venue ONLINE
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Description Professor Alan Nelson (University of California, Berkeley): 'Reconstructing the Bradshawe Family Library of Marple, Cheshire, 1600-1784' The name of Henry Bradshawe, and the family seat in Marple, Cheshire, in the seventeenth century, are familiar to bibliographers and to the book trade. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, John Bradshawe the regicide, being childless, bequeathed 'all my Law Bookes', along with books 'on divinity, history and other books' to his nephew Henry, who maintained the family library until his death in 1698. This traditional account is an extreme simplification of the true story, which must start with the realization that books from the Bradshawe family library carry the ownership signatures of at least four Henry Bradshawes. Books from the library are scattered across the English-speaking world.
Wellcome Collection: Booking a ticket guarantees you entry to the online event. You will be given joining instructions in your confirmation email. If you have any access requests or requirements, for example a transcript of the event, email us at access@wellcomecollection.org or call 020 7611 2222.
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Wellcome Collection will reopen on Tuesday 5 JanuaryIn the interests of our staff and visitors' safety, we plan to reopen our museum and library on 5 January 2021. You will need to book a ticket to enter the venue, and follow our new safety measures. Ticket booking will be available in December.
University College London:
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An online seminar exploring the argument of Professor Oona Hathaway’s book, The Internationalists.
Birkbeck: Online
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In this webinar, Megan McElhone (Birkbeck) and Jaime Alves (UC Santa Barbara) will discuss the racialised policing practices as well as the racialised resistance strategies of urban communities. Part of the Urban Intersections series hosted by Birkbeck, University of London, each speaker will offer an initial set of reflections drawing on their discliplinary expertise (abstracts below), followed by a discussion with one another as well as webinar attendees. The event will be chaired by Mara Nogueira. Saturation, surveillance, squads and search powers: reflections on the ‘territorial’ policing of racialised communities in London and Sydney Megan McElhone (Birkbeck) In this talk, I will explore some of the ways that police in London and Sydney engage in ‘territorial’ strategies and practices to regulate how members of racialised communities move throughout those cities and use public space. I will focus on the police’s deployment of ‘specialist’ squads and stop and search powers to advance three interrelated observations about police ‘territoriality’: firstly, that historical (and ongoing) antagonisms with racialised communities inform the allocation of police resources; secondly, that resistance to ‘territorial’ practices creates opportunities for the police to criminalise ‘uncooperative’ behaviour by members of racialised communities; and thirdly, that acts of resistance against ‘territorial’ policing are often racialised as being indicative of disorder and disrespect for authority within racialised communities, thereby providing an apparent justification for further police intervention, surveillance and authority imposition in areas where sizable populations of racialised people tend to reside. While situating these observations in the recognition that police institutions in both London and Sydney have always been mandated to ensure colonial and capitalist expansion and repress the resistance of colonised peoples and the working classes, I will identify continuities and discontinuities in the nature of ‘territorial’ policing in London and Sydney, and in the waysthat the resistance of racialised communities has shaped ‘territorial’ policing in the two cities. Blue Lives, Black Death: Divine Violence and Black Sovereignty in the Afropolis Jaime Alves (UC Santa Barbara) Blue Lives Matter, says the mantra of police fragility. In this presentation, I look at the myth of police victimization and the unapologetic responses of Black youth engaged in outlawed forms of resistance against police terror in a Latin American city. I ask: If the grammar of rights - the right to the city/human rights/citizenship framework - is unable to make black suffering legible and to redress racial injury, how should black resistance look like in these spatialities of antiblackness? What is the place of violence - the violence of the colonized - against state delinquency in general and police terror in particular? If Black lives are always-already inscribed in the racial calculus of humanity as ungrievable life, what should be done to defend the dead and to reclaim the city as an Afropolis? I engage with the afropessimist/optimist theoretical and political project to analyze some forms of Black rebellion seeking to reclaim Black sovereignty and to decolonize the antiblack city. Contact name: Mara Nogueira Dr Megan McElhone is Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Criminology at Birkbeck, University of London. Megan primarily researches racialised policing. Her current research examines the racial and spatial patterning of the Metropolitan Police’s use of powers contained in Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. Dr Jaime Amparo Alves is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His current research focuses on racialized geographies of policing, black ungovernability, and urban security politics in Colombia and Brazil.
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Description In collaboration with the Institute of Historical Research and the British Library. The annual Linked Pasts conference, which has previously been held at KCL, Madrid, Stanford, Mainz and Bordeaux, brings together scholars, heritage professionals and other practitioners with an interest in Linked Open Data as applied to the study of the ancient and historical worlds. Panels and working groups at Linked Pasts are more goal-oriented than a conventional academic conference, and activities and agendas are often proposed, developed and revised by all participants at the event itself. The sixth installment of Linked Pasts, hosted by the University of London and British Library in December 2020, will be a fully remote and online event, with events taking place over two weeks rather than an intense three days of in-person sessions. Other than welcome, keynotes and wrap-up at the beginning and end of the conference, most activities will be asynchronous, with work or discussion taking place in whatever medium is most appropriate to the activity and community in question. Participation in the conference is free, but advance registration is required. Further details are at https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/linked-pasts-6 Please note that if you are booking for the whole conference there is no need to book separately for any of the keynote lectures.
University College London: Freud Museum London
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UPDATE: Melancholia will run from 21 October to 4 November, and will continue after lockdown for an extended period from 2 to 13 December 2020
School of Advanced Study: Venue Online Seminar (Zoom)
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Description Online Event Abstract: ‘Should contemporary national constitutions or legislative arrangements continue to recognise the power of a designated “sovereign” to disallow legislation, in light of its origin in colonial law, and historical and contemporary impact?’ The Power of Disallowing legislation (PoD) has its initial origins in Roman law but was recrafted and popularised by British colonialism from the 16th century, for governance and the administration of justice in the Empire to protect British interests. PoD has remained an important feature of Commonwealth constitutions and even beyond. This research is an investigation of the past, present and future of PoD in an age of decolonisation, liberal democracy, participatory governance and human rights. The research examines how the PoD has shaped the construction of law, contemporary law making and administration of justice in six countries/territories: Australia, Canada, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Nigeria and the US. Speaker: Professor Hakeem Yusuf, IALS Visiting Research Fellow, Chair in Law and Global Studies, University of Derby. He is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. His research interests are in comparative constitutional law, transitional justice and economic and social rights. Chair: Professor Catharine MacMillan, IALS Senior Associate Research Fellows. Professor of Private Law, KCL This Webinar is free but advance booking is required. Please note the link to join the meeting will be sent out closer to the event date.
University College London: Online via Zoom
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This seminar will look at dissipative anchoring system for strengthening weak historic masonry structures with inappropriate anchorage design.
Kings College: Online
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Black Women Confronting the Transnational Far-Right: Mo Asumang's DIE ARIER / THE ARYANS (2015) Film screening and Q A with celebrated Afro-German film-maker and journalist Mo Asumang, in conversation with Prof. Erica Carter, Professor of German and Film at King’s College London. With an introduction by Dr Lizzie Stewart, Lecturer in Modern Languages, Culture and Society at Kings College London. Q A: live online 3rd December 2020 @ 7:15pm. The film will be available to view for 24 hours online from 2nd December 7pm – 3rd December 7pm (GMT). Tickets are free, but please register in advance to obtain a link and password for the film screening. Mo Asumang in Die Arier. In her acclaimed documentary film DIE ARIER / THE ARYANS (2015), Afro-German filmmaker Mo Asumang sets out to critically explore connections between far-right movements worldwide and challenge racism in its most extreme manifestations head-on. Travelling between Germany, the US, and Iran, Asumang meets German neo-Nazis, the notorious white supremacist Tom Metzger, and Ku Klux Klan members interviewed in the Midwest twilight. THE ARYANS is a personal journey that confronts the far right and it’s thinking face-to-face, both at home in Germany and abroad. We invite you to a rare opportunity here in the UK to view Asumang’s bold and courageous film, and discuss the questions it raises with the film-maker herself. How and why does racism cross national boundaries? Which networks and imaginaries connect the far right across national and continental boundaries? What impact does this have on how communities imagine themselves? How can culture and the arts intervene? What does it take for a film-maker to stand up and challenge white supremacism? Supported by the DAAD-funded projects ‘Violence Elsewhere: Imagining Violence Outside Germany Since 1945’ and ‘Circulating Cinema: The Moving Image Archive as Anglo-German Contact Zone’ (German Screen Studies Network). Hosted by the Centre for Transnational German Relations. We are grateful to the supporters of this event.
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Description Katherine Hindley, 'Writing on the Body: Interacting with Charm Texts in Late Medieval England' In the hope of surviving a difficult childbirth, a medieval woman might place a text written on wax in her bosom, eat words written on cheese, bind a piece of writing to her right thigh, or tie one at her navel. Although medieval practitioners clearly viewed the words of written charms as having power, charm-texts often did not need to be read in order to take effect. In some cases, the instructions even warned that if the patient were to read the text it might lose its healing power completely. In examples such as the childbirth charms described above, interaction with the patient's body replaced the process of reading. Drawing evidence from two hundred instructions for creating written charms found in manuscripts copied or owned in England between 1350 and 1500, this paper examines the variety of ways in which charms reimagine the normal relationship between texts and their users. Unless stated otherwise, all our events are free of charge and anyone interested in the topic is welcome to attend. Registration is required for all events. Please sign up using the booking form below.
School of Advanced Study: Venue Online
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Description Part of the Convocation Seminars in World Literature and Translation Postgraduate workshop co-convened with LINKS (London Intercollegiate Network for Comparative Studies) Discussants: Florian Mussgnug (UCL) and Danielle Sands (Royal Holloway University London) Chair: Joseph Ford (IMLR) Global warming demands new forms of linguistic and conceptual inventiveness that can alert readers to unfamiliar and counterintuitive scales. As ecocritic Timothy Clark has suggested, much environmental damage happens at a scale that cannot be fully expressed by traditional realist modes of literary representation. It is brought about by individual human actions which are not ecologically significant in themselves but which collectively, across space and over time, threaten much of what we value about humanity and the more-than-human world. In the context of the climate crisis, this relation between individual observable causes and vast global effects marks a stark challenge to familiar anthropocentric narratives. It demands an unprecedented ability to move between counterintuitive scales and to communicate the unfamiliar. Writerly and critical attention to nonhuman subjectivity – a creative process that is also known as inter-species translation – marks a particularly important aspect of this new cultural and political agenda. In this workshop, we will read and discuss three chapters: by Timothy Clark, who has linked scalar literacy to the political critique of anthropocentrism; by cultural theorist Michael Cronin, who has stressed the significance of translation, beyond its linguistic origins, as a powerful metaphor for inter-species exchange; by Kari Weil who invites us to explore the apparent paradox of posthuman autobiography. Eco-translation, as defined by Cronin, and posthumanism, for Weil, foreground the importance of the more-than-human world, not as a mere backdrop or context for human stories, but as a co-constitutive presence that intersects with human culture and society in a single, volatile temporal force field. Translation, which “on the face of it appears to be a pre-eminently human activity”, thus comes to express extended forms of ecological relatedness (Cronin 2017: 13). Dramatic shifts in the common perception of distance, proximity and context, according to Cronin and Weil, are not only a persistent feature of cultural and linguistic translation: they also define our planetary habitat in times of anthropogenic crisis. Preparatory Reading Timothy Clark, “Scalar Literacy”, in The Value of Ecocriticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 38-56. Michael Cronin, “Translating Animals”, in Eco-Translation: Translation and Ecology in the Age of the Anthropocene (New York and London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 67-93. Kari Weil, “Autobiography”, in Bruce Clarke and Manuela Rossini (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 84-95. This free event will be held online, at 13:00 GMT. Please note that you will need to register in advance to receive the online event joining link and pdf copies of the preparatory reading. Download guidance on participating in an online event (pdf)
School of Advanced Study: Venue ONLINE
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Description Micha Lazarus (Frances A. Yates Long-Term Fellow): 'Northern Renaissances: Reforming the Classics in Wittenberg and Beyond' What did the Reformation make of the classics? The relationship between Christian and pagan thought in the sixteenth century has often been seen, through the lens of Renaissance Italy, as oppositional: what classicists call "Christianisation" and theologians have on occasion called heresy. I will spend this year at the Warburg working on a corpus of Reformation texts that instead attests productive and collegial relations between these two systems of thought which were, in reality, a single culture. First I'll be expanding my research into Philip Melanchthon's lectures at Wittenberg, where Greek tragedy was placed at the centre of Reformation ethics, theology, and politics. I'll then turn to a broader set of Reformation dramatic materials and libri annotati that illustrate the unexplored scope and mediating influence of the classics in the North. The Work in Progress seminar explores the variety of subjects studied and researched at the Warburg Institute. Papers are given by invited international scholars, research fellows studying at the Institute, and third-year PhD students. FREE VIA ZOOM. Please book by 5.00pm on Tuesday 1 December to be sent a link to the session.
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Description Valasia Isaakidou, Oxford/Bristol This event will be held online via Zoom. Information about attending online events may be found at https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/attending-online-events
School of Advanced Study: Venue Online seminar
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Description <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073786111 1 0 415 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;} .MsoPapDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; margin-bottom:8.0pt; line-height:107%;} @page WordSection1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} --> The Problem with the History of Aesthetics Before Aesthetics Kathrine Cuccuru: (University of Sussex) Abstract I argue that historians of aesthetics systematically apply a conventional approach to the history of the aesthetics, and it is a problem. The conventional approach presupposes that the history of (putative) aesthetic concepts is only anticipatory of the history of the concept of the aesthetic. Thus, problematically, the philosophical substance of pre-aesthetic accounts of concepts now claimed by philosophical aesthetics (paradigmatically, beauty) is entirely measured by their anticipation of, and relevance to, the origins of the field. It assumes a Whiggish ‘principle of progress,’ which prescribes that pre-aesthetic accounts are inherently philosophically primitive, and imposes an ahistorical question of enquiry that ignores the original philosophical issues being addressed by these accounts. To gain a rich, nuanced, and sophisticated understanding of the historical legacy at the heart of all aesthetics, I propose turning the current convention on its head. This seminar will be held online using Zoom. Please book using the button below. once your booking is complete you will be emailed a link to join the seminar at the stated start time. The London Aesthetics Forum (LAF) is a Forum of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study. With lectures on topics in aesthetics and philosophy of art, LAF aims to stimulate philosophical reflection on art. Our events are free and open to all. View our programme of events, sign up for the newsletter, or browse our archives and podcasts. Now available, episodes of Aesthetics Bites, a collaboration between the London Aesthetics Forum and Philosophy Bites (made possible by a grant from the British Society of Aesthetics). 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Birkbeck: Online
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The Raphael Samuel History Centre, in partnership with Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage at Manchester Metropolitan University, invite you to an ‘in conversation’ series on Covid-19 in Historical Perspective. Building on our first workshop (Doing Public History in Lockdown and Beyond) and bringing together historical experts on health, disease, policy, and more, this series or workshops will explore the many historical perspectives through which we can view, and better understand, the current coronavirus pandemic and the political and cultural responses to it. In each session, a panel of historians will discuss and reflect upon key questions, comparisons, contrasts, and ‘lessons’ that we might draw upon to help us make sense of the present through an examination of the past. This virtual event is free and open to all, but registration is essential. Please contact the RSHC administrator Katy Pettit to register: K.pettit@bbk.ac.uk Please note that all events will be recorded; by joining the event you give your permission to be recorded. Wednesday 2nd December, 4:00 – 5.30pm, Change and Continuity How is this pandemic, and our political, social and cultural responses to it, similar or different to past moments of intense crisis and change? Can we use history to imagine what life after coronavirus might look like? Discussants: Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck, University of London): Consuming at a Distance Kat Hill (Birkbeck, University of London): Awaiting Apocalypse in historical perspective Andrew Jackson (Bishop Grosseteste University): The legacies of 1919 and 2020 in the community Agnes Arnold-Forster (University of Bristol): The long history of health inequalities Contact name: Katy Pettit Further details: More information about this event …
SOAS: Venue: Virtual Event
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The webinar is open to all and there is no need for registration. All our webinars are recorded and will be made available on this webpage at a later date.
SOAS: Venue: Virtual Event
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Abstract In her newest book, Japanese Culture Through Videogames, Rachael Hutchinson explores videogames as a window into the Japanese worldview. This talk will focus on the cultural content of globally popular games such as SoulCalibur, Final Fantasy, and Metal Gear Solid. Delving into character design, background setting and environment, aesthetic style, thematic content, and games dynamics and goals, Hutchinson points to ways in which Japanese role-playing games serve as popular entertainment narratives that tackle big issues like social anxiety, absentee parents, nuclear power, and war memory. Video games are not only texts with aesthetic value, but may also be read as part of contemporary discourse, while gameplay itself can be understood as discursive practice. Speaker Biography Rachael Hutchinson received her D.Phil from the University of Oxford in 2000, and now teaches Japanese language, literature and culture at the University of Delaware, USA. She has published widely on representation and identity in Japanese narrative texts, from the novels of Nagai Kafu to the manga of Tezuka Osamu, the films of Kurosawa Akira to the videogames of Kojima Hideo. Her latest book, Japanese Culture through Videogames (Routledge 2019) was recently featured on the podcasts ‘Meiji at 150’ and ‘Japan Station.’ Registration If you would like to attend the event please register. The link to the webinar will be emailed to the registered attendee closer to the event date. Online registration Organiser: SOAS Japan Research Centre Contact email: centres@soas.ac.uk
SOAS: Venue: Virtual Event
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She was a Member of Sub-panel 27 (Area Studies), Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014), and is a Member of Sub-panel 25 (Area Studies), Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021). Her publications include: Politics and Poetics in the Algerian Novel (Edwin Mellen Press: 1999), The Arab Diaspora: voices of an anguished scream (Routledge: 2006 2011), Gender and Diversity in the Middle East and North Africa (Routledge: 2010 2014), Gender and Violence in Islamic Societies: Patriarchy, Islamism and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa (I. B. Tauris, 2013) and, most recently, Occidentalism: Literary Representations of the Maghrebi Experience of the East-West Encounter (EUP: 2019). She has also published a number of articles on literature and gender with focus on the Middle East and North Africa.
School of Advanced Study: Venue ONLINE
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Description Professor Juan Pimentel (CSIC, Madrid), author of Fantasmas de la Ciencia Española (Marcial Pons, 2020) and The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium, (Harvard, 2018). Convenor: Professor Mark Thurner (ILAS) ILAS LAGLOBAL AUTUMN 2020 WEBINAR SERIES REV.pdf