School of Advanced Study: Venue Online
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Description Tuesday, 11 May 2021 Eyal Poleg, Queen Mary University of London 'more busines to fynd out what should be read, then to read it when it was founde out’: A Material History of the Bible in late medieval and early modern England. Introducing the Book of Common Prayer in 1549, Thomas Cranmer sought to highlight the break with the medieval past. This paper will explore the long history of the Bible in England, from the rise of the single-volume, mass-produced Bibles of the mid-thirteenth century to the death of Edward VI in 1553. The prism of materiality and use would enable us to question Reformation paradigms, tracing continuities, as well as transformations, in the history of the Bible across the later Middle Ages and early modernity. Some changes to layout and design, such as the introduction of chapter division, took centuries to be implemented. The paper will end with reassessing the methodologies needed for such analysis, advocating a new approach which would combine book and religious histories with scientific analysis of manuscripts and early printed books. 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 Other
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Description Common out of Chaos: Utopia in Mohsin Hamid and Kae Tempest’s Contemporary Londons We welcome you to our next Literary London Reading Group session where Dr Raphael Kabo will be leading discussion. Link to the reading are available on the LLRG website. This meeting will be taking place virtually over zoom on Tuesday, 11th May 2021 6:00pm - 7: 15pm. To attend, please sign up via the link below. Abstract The city of London has had a long relationship with the slippery concept of utopia. Thomas More, the author of the 1516 book Utopia which gave the literary tradition its name, lived his whole life in London; the protagonist of William Morris’s 1890 novel News from Nowhere visits a utopian vision of London in the twenty-second century. More recent utopian imaginaries set in London are not as complete and absolute as those of More and Morris – they are fragmentary, precarious, and transitional, reflecting the worlds within which their authors write. In this talk, I will share some thoughts on Mohsin Hamid’s 2017 novel Exit West and Kae Tempest’s 2016 spoken word poem and album Let Them Eat Chaos as examples of utopian visions of ever-evolving, temporary commons which emerge out of disaster and destruction on the streets of London. Through magical doors and apocalyptic storms, these stories offer directions out of the global power of late capitalism for their protagonists. About the Speaker Raphael Kabo is interested in the manifestations of utopia, the commons, and precarity in contemporary culture. His thesis, completed in 2019, explored the representation of utopian spaces as a form of opposition to capitalism in post-2008 literature and poetry. He is a co-founder of the Utopian Acts research network (https://utopia.ac) and the Beyond Gender Research Collective (https://beyondgender.space). Outside of academia, he works on coding utopian online social networks. 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 This Encounter features author Dörte Hansen, whose novel Altes Land (2015) was voted 'Favourite Book of the Year' by German independent booksellers in the year of its publication, and Anne Stokes, whose translation of the novel was published by St Martin’s Press under the title This House is Mine (2016) and was long-listed for the 2018 International DUBLIN Literary Award. The novel tackles issues of refuge, home-making and belonging across the past century, focusing on women of several generations, who find refuge in an old farm building in Northern Germany and against the odds make it their home. The event offers an opportunity to listen to author and translator discussing text, context, and translation process ― and to join in their conversation. Dörte Hansen was born in 1964 in Husum and studied linguistics at the Universities of Kiel and Galway. She wrote her dissertation on multilingualism and language contacts at the University of Hamburg and then worked as a writer and editor for radio and the press. Her first novel, Altes Land, published in 2015, has been translated into more than ten languages. Her second book, Mittagsstunde, was published in 2018, to similar acclaim. Anne Stokes holds a PhD degree in German literature from Ohio State University and a PhD in English literature (creative writing and literary translation) from the University of Glasgow. She co-directs the Translation Studies programmes at the University of Stirling, and translates literary and academic texts from the German, including work by Sarah Kirsch (Ice Roses: Selected Poems [Carcanet, 2014]) and Christian Adam (Lesen Unter Hitler, which will appear later this year as Bestsellers of the Third Reich: Readers, Writers and the Politics of Literature [Berghahn, 2021]). This Encounter will take place online, via Zoom. Participation is free, but advance registration is essential. The event is sponsored by the Keith Spalding Trust (University of London). More about the Encounters series Precarious Homes – Narratives and Practices of Home-Making in Turbulent Times This event series takes its cue from the CCWW Conference "'Where are you from?' to 'Where shall we go together?' Re-imagining Home and Belonging in 21st-Century Women's Writing", hosted at the IMLR in September 2020. Dedicated to further exploration of literary and theoretical conceptualisations of home-making, the series considers women’s writing in context, using various formats - reading groups, a symposium, and an author/translator conversation. Programme of events (PDF)
University College London: ONLINE
Yiddish is often thought of as a dying language, or as a language confined to insular Haredi communities. However, this view ignores the growing numbers of Yiddish speakers who choose to leave Haredi communities and live more secular lives. Public
Gresham College: Online Lecture
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The nature of investment is changing to better reflect the ecosystem of the planet we live on. The days of fossil fuel are numbered by the move to renewable energy. Resources and a healthy environment are finally being seen as core to our future. In this lecture we explore the response of the finance industry and whether green bonds and/or green public procurement can make a difference in delivering better environmental outcomes. Register for Online Lecture If we decide we can go ahead with a live audience, we will email you and let you know.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.
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Professor of High Speed Electronics at Chalmers University, Herbert Zirath, will provide this seminar exploring challenges in engineering high data rate wireless communication set to exploit frequencies above 100GHz
School of Advanced Study: Venue Online Seminar (Zoom)
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Description 12 May 2021, 12:00 - 13:30 (London time-BST) Key Speaker: Professor Tim Potier Brief Bio: Professor Tim Potier is a member of the Department of International Law at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University). A British national, he has been living and working in the former Soviet region for a quarter of a century. He was one of the first foreign nationals to visit Nagorno-Karabakh following the ceasefire of 1994 and is the author of the highly credited book Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia: A Legal Appraisal (Kluwer, 2000). He has written extensively on the conflict since then and remains in good contact with all sides. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS). Abstract: Few would deny that the resumption of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh in late September 2020 caught the world by surprise. To be fair, Baku had always warned that the state of “no peace, no war” could not continue forever. However, an international community long distracted by other regions and conflicts last autumn suddenly had its attention forced upon a conflict so long in the “deep freeze” that policymakers would have been forgiven for having forgotten about it. Last year’s war proved to be a triumph for Azerbaijan and a humiliating defeat for the Armenian side. By the time the ceasefire took effect at midnight on 10 November 2020, not only had the Karabakh Armenian forces retreated from much of the territory occupied lying outside of Nagorno-Karabakh, but they had withdrawn from a considerable portion of territory from within the former (Soviet) autonomous oblast, also. During the period since, the ceasefire, in accordance with its terms, has proved enduring and become embedded. However, the dispute of course remains unresolved. The purpose of this seminar, therefore, shall be to examine the possible options for the sides in securing a lasting settlement to a conflict that had defeated mediators for almost three decades. Chair: Professor Carl Stychin, IALS Director 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 closer to the event date.
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This masterclass for entrepreneurs will help you recognise the signs of poor mental health and understand how to avoid and manage stress. It’s free and open to all.
Birkbeck: Online
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A Birkbeck Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Worlds Research Event. Chaired by Isabel Davis (English, Theatre and Creative Writing). Laura Seymour's paper concerns the non-conformist religious melancholic Hannah Allen’s pair(s) of scissors, which she uses as instruments of self-harm and tools for communication. These scissors feature in the only text we know Allen to have written: a 1683 autobiographical pamphlet entitled Satan: His Methods and Malice Baffled, describing her experience of religious melancholy and subsequent ‘cure’ at the hands of a parson and physician. Please use this link to join the event. 'Doors' will be open from 12.15 for you to test your tech settings. This is a COVID event: i.e. contributors may have the unmutable sounds of their household in the background and will depend on internet connectivity and technology. Contact name: Isabel Davis
Birkbeck: Online
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The Centre for Law and the Humanities welcomes Artist in Residence, Manu Luksch for this online seminar. Senegalese rappers, an Emirati blogger, and queen of the silver screen Tilda Swinton – these are just some of the voices that inhabit my works, which interrogate archives, regimes and processes in networked society. Concretely, I craft interdisciplinary approaches to identify critical points and latent contradictions in political and technological architectures, to then pivot these systems against themselves. In this talk, I’ll illustrate my practice using a range of works including the speculative fiction film FACELESS, compiled from surveillance recordings recovered under data protection legislation; media installation LIMITATIONS PERMITTED, which translates urban bye-laws into a differently-accessible spatial language; and ALGORITHMIC CITY WALK, an AR phone app in the making that uses tactical fiction to provoke discussion about algorithmic decision making processes. Beforehand, you are invited to view ALGO-RHYTHM (2019, 14 min), a hip-hop musical on electioneering and voter micro-targeting via this link. ALGO-RHYTHM (2019; AT/UK/SEN; 14min) Preview: https://vimeo.com/luksch/algo-rhythm Password: ALGOsenegal About the Speaker Manu Luksch is the Artist in Residence at Birkbeck's School of Law. Through her films and art works, Manu Luksch researches the effects of emerging technologies on daily life, social relations, urban space and political structures. Her current focus is on corporate-governmental relationships and the social effects of predictive analytics in the algorithmic city. Her work is included in the Collection de Centre Pompidou, the BFI National Archive and the Core Collection at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts Sciences. Her awards include: Globale Perspektiven Award 2020, ZONTA Award – 65th Kurzfilmfest Oberhausen 2019, Open Media Award 2019, Best Feature – Moscow International Documentary Film Festival 2016, Elevate Artivism Award 2015 and the M. v. Willemer Prize by Ars Electronica Centre and City of Linz. Manu is a Resident Artist at Somerset House and a founding member of ambientTV.NET (Ambient Information Systems), a long-time collaboration with Mukul Patel. She was formerly Open Society Fellow 2018 and visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. This event is open to the public and free to attend however booking is required via this page. The event will be hosted on Collaborate, a free to access website. You will be sent a link to access the event upon registration. Contact name: School of Law
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Description Mirjam Hauck (Open University) will argue that Virtual Exchange (VE) provides the ideal setting for promoting critical agency and a sustainable approach to developing language, intercultural and digital skills (Hauck, 2019; Helm, 2014). VE is a practice, informed and supported by research, that consists of sustained, technology-enabled, people-to-people education programmes or activities in which constructive communication and interaction takes place between individuals or groups who are geographically separated and/or from different cultural backgrounds, with the support of educators or facilitators. VE combines the deep impact of intercultural dialogue and exchange with the broad reach of digital technology (EVOLVE, 2019). The challenge lies in addressing not only issues of language and culture in such a way as to avoid linguistic and cultural hegemonies, but also in addressing issues of digital literacy so as to overcome digital inequality and marginalisation (Satar Hauck, in press). Mirjam Hauck proposes this can be achieved, through VE tasks designed to develop a critical lens through which language learners examine linguistic and non-linguistic features of digital media, their biases, and assumptions, in order to verify information and access the truth (Darvin, 2017). To illustrate the suggested approach she will be drawing on examples from exchanges carried out in the context of the EU ERASMUS Plus-funded Evidence Validated Online Learning through Virtual Exchange (EVOLVE) project: https://evolve-erasmus.eu. Biography: Dr. Mirjam Hauck is Associate Head for Internationalisation, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the Open University/UK and a Senior Fellow of the UK’s Higher Education Academy. She has published widely on the use of technologies for the learning and teaching of languages and cultures, in virtual exchange contexts in particular. Her work covers aspects such as learner and teacher autonomy, intercultural communicative competence, and critical digital literacy. She presents regularly at conferences, seminars, and workshops worldwide. She is the President of the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), serves as Associate Editor of the CALL Journal and is a member of the editorial board of ReCALL and LLT. She is also a founding board member of UNICollaboration.org. This event is part of the Digital Modern Languages seminar series convened by Naomi Wells (IMLR) and Paul Spence (KCL).
School of Advanced Study: Venue ONLINE
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Description NB: PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME Marta Ajmar (V A Research Institute): 'Looking into Renaissance Wood Intarsia: Material Mimesis, Embodied Disegno and Remaking' In his Historia naturalis, Pliny the Elder foregrounds an almost anatomical approach to trees, and the idea of a deep structural and physiological analogy between the vegetable, animal and human worlds, whereby the human body and the body of the tree are essentially the same, linked through a bond of embodied design that can become manifest. Building on this fundamental consonance, which enjoyed significant popularity during the Renaissance, this paper takes a fresh look at wood inlay or intarsia, a technology involved in an animated conversation with nature through the medium of wood. Intarsia will be explored through material mimesis, an active component of wider processes of artisanal epistemology whereby approximating another material – natural or man-made – does not reflect only an artistic and technological aspiration, but also a new way of looking into the depth of matter, and an intention to connect at a deep level human making with nature’s generative power. To make with nature. Examining recent experiences of partial intarsia reconstruction, I will consider how remaking can affect our perception and understanding of the making of images, and open new questions around the historicity of materials, histories of labour and technology and the human/more-than-human ecosystems underpinning them. 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
SOAS: Venue: Virtual Event
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Abstract For the third session on LGBTQ Iran, Saman Arastoo, Iranian actor, director and activist, will share his life of being trans in Iran, and present excerpts of his theatre production and self-cognition workshops, before discussing his work as an artist and activist in the world of Iranian performance. About the speakers Saman was born in 1967 as Farzaneh Arastoo in Shahrud Iran. Aged 16 she wrote, directed and performed in Celul Hijda ‘Cell 18’, and founded the Avaye Divanegan (Song of the Mad) Theatre Group. In 1987 she joined the management team of the Shahrud theatre society for three years and remains an active member until the present day. Farzaneh had a ‘forced marriage’ in 1991, which lasted a year and a half, after which she spent five years teaching underprivileged children and adults, whilst undertaking performance studies in Tehran. In 1999, she moved to Tehran and began working in theatre with the Iranian greats, including Davoud Rashidy. Farzaneh first appeared on film in Masoud Kimiai’s, ‘Sarbazhayeh Jom’eh’ (Friday’s Soldiers) in 2004, before going on to work with directors including Asghar Farhadi and Tahmineh Milani. In 2006, the Suisse Embassy in Tehran invited Arastoo to stage readings of Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s travelogue (translated by Firouzabadi, publisher Ali Dehbashi). In 2008 Farzaneh underwent sex re-assignment surgery, after which he was contacted by trans from all over Iran for advice and assistant. Over the next years Saman learnt more about Iranian trans experiences and in 2015 initiated his “self-cognition workshop”, involving transsexuals - a place to be open, share and find a single voice - to create a united cohesive group within Iranian society. Without governmental or institutional backing, Saman raises funds to realise his theatre workshops and productions. Inspired by Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and Antoine Artaud, he uses drama therapy for treating the inner turmoil, whilst his workshops and theatre productions seek to better understand and represent the lives and experiences of trans in Iran. In 2016 Avaye Divanegan theatre group won best performance for their play ‘haman bash ke nisty’ (Be What You Are Not), at the first ever ‘Iran- France Performance’ festival, after which they were invited to present the play by Jean Louise Hekel for La-Nef in Paris, and at Berlin’s FIND Festival 2017 by Thomas Ostermeier, Schaubühne Theatre, performing to sold out audiences in both cities. In 2021 Saman’s film ‘hamatun man-u mishnasyn’ (You All Know Me) was nominated for the ‘Best International Medium-Length Film’ category at BIMIFF, in Brazil. Discussant: Bahar Azadi received her doctorate in philosophy from University of Paris Descartes-Sorbonne. Her main area of interest is the subject of trans-identity, subjectivation and resistance. She dedicated her thesis to the subjectivation of trans-identity in Iranian society after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Paris 1- Sorbonne and part-time researcher in unit U1037 Inserm at the Faculty of Medicine Bichat, University of Paris 7, studying female genital mutilation in France Moderator: Roya Arab is a musician, archaeologist and curator of cultural events celebrating MENA heritage, with a focus on Iran. Registration This webinar will take place online via Zoom. Click here to register * The webinar will also be live-streamed on our Facebook page for those that are unable to participate via Zoom. Organiser: SOAS Middle East Institute Contact email: smei@soas.ac.uk
London School of Economics: Online public event
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In a session chaired by Tony Travers, Madeleine Sumption, Mark Kleinman, Ben Rogers and Andrew Carter will discuss the issue of London's growth in the backdrop of London's Mayoral elections. In early March 2020, when London was starting to think about Mayoral elections - initially due in May 2020 - we organised a short series of roundtables to discuss key policy issues for the City of London. Following the 12-month postponement of all May elections due to Covid, the London Mayoral elections have now been confirmed for 6 May 2021. Therefore, we have decided to resume our series of events to discuss the key issues facing the new Mayor of London after the elections, ranging from leadership, London’s growth to-the levelling up agenda. This interactive session will bring together professionals, academics and the public around presentations and a general discussion. Andrew Carter is Centre for Cities Chief Executive since April 2017. Before that he was the Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Policy and Research with overall responsibility for the Centre’s research and policy programme. Andrew has over 20 years of experience working on urban economic policy issues for public and private development agencies, consultants and research institutes. He has also spent time in the US as part of the Churchill Foundation’s Fellowship Programme reviewing urban economic development policy and practice in American cities including New York, Washington DC, Boston and Chicago. Mark Kleinman is Professor of Public Policy and Director of Analysis at the Policy Institute at King's College London. He has been a government adviser at the No. 10 Strategy Unit, a civil servant, and a policy director for all three London Mayors. His interests include the economy and business, migration, urban governance, regulation, digital innovation and technology, and UK-EU relations. He has held academic posts at the University of Cambridge and LSE, as well as a chair in international social policy at the University of Bristol. In 2015 he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Toronto. Ben Rogers is founding director of Centre for London, urbanist, author and commentator. Ben Rogers is now Visiting Senior Fellow for LSE Cities, leading a new strand of work on European cities, building on his interests in civic engagement, public space and urban democracy. Previously Ben was an Associate Director of IPPR for five years and subsequently led strategy teams at Haringey Council, the Department for Local Government and Communities and the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, where he wrote the government’s strategy on ‘Quality of Place’. Ben has also been appointed Professor in Practice at the University of London. Madeleine Sumption is the Director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford. She is a policy specialist focusing on the impacts of migration policies and the role of migrants in the labour market. Madeleine’s research interests include labour migration, the economic and social impacts of migration policies, and immigrant integration. Before joining Oxford, Madeleine was Director of Research for the international program at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) in Washington, DC. She remains a Non-resident Fellow with Migration Policy Institute Europe. Madeleine is also a member of the Migration Advisory Committee, an independent panel that advises the UK Government on migration issues. She is also Chair of Migration Statistics User Forum, which brings together producers and users of migration data. In 2017, she received an MBE for services to social science Tony Travers is Visiting Professor at LSE's Department of Government and Director of LSE London. His key research interests include local and regional government, elections and public service reform. Professor Travers’ knowledge is frequently sought by policy makers and he has advised a range of select committees and think tanks. He also provides expert analysis for broadcast and print media, regularly appearing on major television and radio networks. LSE London is a research centre at LSE that focuses on the economic and social issues of the London region, as well as the problems and possibilities of other urban and metropolitan regions. The centre has a strong international reputation particularly in the fields of labour markets, social and demographic change, housing, finance, and governance, and it is the leading academic centre for analyses of city-wide developments in London. Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LondonMayoralElections
School of Advanced Study: Venue Online
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Description In 1800 the process of printing was essentially the same as it had been in Gutenberg’s time. By 1900 paper making and printing had been transformed by the Industrial Revolution into a communications machine that informed and shaped society – and the individuals within it. This London Rare Books School special event will survey the technologies that made it possible, and the changes in readers that made it profitable. Additionally, it will offer an introduction to the under-researched area of printing ink manufacture. The event will consist of two lectures with question-and-answer sessions following each. The first lecture will provide a whistle-stop tour of the major developments in the industrialisation of paper making and printing in the nineteenth century, exploring their social and economic contexts and impact. The second lecture will explore how ink manufacturing processes – informed by new discoveries in science, new industrial methods, and new printing ink constituents – corresponded with changes in printing technology, and contributed to advances in colour printing and photomechanical printing which enabled the flourishing of a cheaper and more colourful print culture. Simon Eliot is Senior Research Fellow and Professor Emeritus of the History of the Book in the Institute of English Studies, University of London. He is general editor of The History of Oxford University Press (2013-17) and co-editor, with Jonathan Rose, of A Companion to the History of the Book (second edition, 2019). He was Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded project ‘The Publishing and Communication History of the Ministry of Information 1939-46’. Ian Dooley holds a BA in Philosophy and English and a Masters of Information degree, both from Rutgers University. He has worked as a curatorial assistant in Princeton University Special Collections, and as a Fulbright Scholar in Azerbaijan. He has recently completed an MA in the History of the Book at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, completing his dissertation on ‘The Industrialization of Printing Ink Manufacture: 1820-1900’. 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 Sharon R Stocker, Cincinnati Jack L Davis, Cincinnati This event will be held via Zoom. Booking is essential.
School of Advanced Study: Venue Online
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Description Speakers: Elizabeth Ward (Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London) Bill Niven (Professor Emeritus in Contemporary German History, Nottingham Trent University) Chair: David Clarke (Professor of Modern German Studies, Cardiff University) Focusing on the West and East respectively, Bill Niven and Elizabeth Ward discuss two different attempts to contain socially or politically contentious subjects within political frameworks in the Federal Republic and German Democratic Republic. Throughout its existence, the German Democratic Republic’s ruling party never officially acknowledged responsibility for the crimes committed during the Third Reich. Instead, it cast the East German working class as both the victims of, and antifascist victors over, National Socialist oppression, whilst marginalising discussions of Jewish suffering. Yet the Holocaust and the persecution of Jews was a present theme in East German film throughout the history of the GDR. So how did East German filmmakers approach the crimes of the Holocaust in a country where memories of National Socialist persecution were highly prescribed, tightly controlled and invariably political? Elizabeth will discuss the findings of her new book, East German Film and the Holocaust (2021, Berghahn Books). Drawing on the findings of extensive archival work coupled with detailed close readings of the films, she will discuss examples from films including Konrad Wolf’s Sterne (1959), Wolfgang Luderer’s Lebende Ware (1966) and Siegfried Kühn’s Die Schauspielerin (1988) to reveal the ways in which East German Holocaust films created an alternative space for the discussion of the National Socialist past as well as how such films were viewed by the state. Bill’s focus will be on West Germany, and particularly on the postwar career of the film director Veit Harlan, whose notorious antisemitic film Jud Süß had been shown to millions of Germans and non-Germans during the Second World War. While the Holocaust played a largely marginal role West German films in the 1950s and 1960s, the debates around Veit Harlan in the 1950s ensured that the theme was ever-present when it came to arguing for or against his rehabilitation. Bill will discuss the ways in which West German politics, media, judiciary and society more widely participated in and shaped an at times vitriolic controversy over the right to free speech and freedom of artistic expression against the background of complicity in the Holocaust. His paper will also discuss the role of the Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle (FSK) in the discussions around Harlan’s films from the 1950s, particularly Anders als du und ich on the subject of homosexuality. The FSK demanded so many cuts that Harlan claimed it was the new Goebbels. Harlan took on a peculiarly ambivalent role, seeking to cultivate an image of himself as a defender of Jews and homosexuals, one who had been defamed as the very opposite. All attendees will receive a code for 50% off the hardback edition of East German Film and the Holocaust. All are welcome to attend this free event, at 17.00 BST. 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)
Gresham College: Online Lecture
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Serial murderer Myra Hindley is often portrayed as an “evil icon”. Her crimes of sadistic murder against children continue to shock. There are few artistic sights so terrifying as the giant portrait of Hindley composed of the handprints of children. Sadistic women are uniquely evil: in the entire history of humanity, there are only a few and, even then, they generally offend alongside a man (in Hindley’s case, Ian Brady). What do we know about rape-murdering women? Is redemption possible? Register for Online Lecture If we decide we can go ahead with a live audience, we will email you and let you know.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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What the NHS has provided and had to treat over its existence has changed much more radically than most people realise. Some of this change is rightly the domain of politics, but much is driven in response to changing health needs, improvements in medical science and priorities of society. The next two decades of changes in health will be as striking as any seen previously: this lecture will address some of the predictable changes public health and the NHS will need to address. Register for Online Lecture If we decide we can go ahead with a live audience, we will email you and let you know.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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Mathematics has been used as a tool to understand and control infectious disease for over a century, but Covid-19 brought along a whole epidemic of new challenges. In this joint lecture with the London Mathematical Society we will see some of the maths used in the fight against the pandemic, and also hear some insights into life as a mathematician assisting with policy advice during this unprecedented time.In association with the London Mathematical Society Register for Online Lecture If we decide we can go ahead with a live audience, we will email you and let you know.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.
SOAS: Venue: Virtual Event
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The full project team can be found at the link: https://projectdldl.org/about-us/
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Description Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) probably wrote more words than any other writer in the eighteenth century. This has often been overlooked because the words were not always his own. Smollett laboured over vast works of compilation, including historical works, reviews, magazines, translations and compendiums. Even his novels – which sit a little awkwardly in the stories that have been told about the rise of the novel – embraced a similar practice. As a result, Smollett has never been quite able to achieve the reputation which he rightly deserves – that is, as one of the great literary figures of the mid-eighteenth century. This year marks the three-hundredth anniversary of Smollett’s birth and this provides the excuse to ask some questions about his ‘work of writing’. This is the kind of work that might stand as an image of the Enlightenment; it is also a labour that, as Smollett predicted, exhausted him and contributed to his death. We will want to ask how Smollett understood the task that he set himself. Is it right to speak of him as a historian or translator or critic or poet or novelist or hack? How can we understand the kind of creativity Smollett shows in his work? What might this tell us about the work of writing in the eighteenth century – or how might it change our understanding of the Enlightenment itself? 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 Benjamin Kolbeck, King's College London This event will take place on Zoom. Joining details will be emailed to you in advance of the event. Booking is essential. Advice about attending online events is available here.
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In this masterclass, ‘accidental entrepreneur’ Riham Satti will talk about what it takes to move from being a researcher to an entrepreneur. It's free and open to all.
School of Advanced Study: Venue Online
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Description Ikram Belaid (UCL): Trends and Tropes in YA Fantasy Books Beyond the Text. YA fantasy is known for its heavy reliance on narrative tropes such as the Chosen one orphans, the hidden magical powers and the dooming prophecies. This paper explores YA fantasy tropes beyond the text by looking at the evolution of trends in book covers and book titles from 2010 to 2020. Comparability represents a big part of the marketing strategy for YA fantasy titles. Most of the new releases rely on the ‘X meets Y’ formula, or the similar ‘perfect for fans of X and Y’ formula to promote a new title and attract a similar fanbase. We can also observe this comparability through the similarity in titles and cover designs of YA fantasy books over the last decade. Through an analysis of 30 bestselling (according to Nielsen’s BookScan list) YA fantasy book covers and book titles each year, published from 2010 to 2020, this paper will focus on the evolution of the visual representation of YA fantasy novels and the way in which that impacts originality and diversity in this genre. This paper argues that the evolution of the trends in YA fantasy titles and cover designs mirrors the evolution of the genre’s expectations over the last decade. Ikram Belaid is a PhD candidate at University College London (UCL). Her PhD project focuses on YA fantasy fiction and publishing. She explores the current state of diversity and inclusivity in YA fantasy stories with a particular focus on ‘crew’ heroes dynamics. Ikram’s research aims to reach a better understanding of genre expectations and the influence of publishers, social media influencers, readers, and transmedia storytelling on the representation of marginalised groups in YA fantasy. Chiara Bullen (University of Stirling) “Censoriousness is spreading more widely in our culture," states Harper's Magazine's ‘A Letter on Justice and Open Debate'. Published in 2020, The Letter's signatories include J.K. Rowling and Margaret Atwood, and the content alludes to the so-called climate of 'cancel-culture', which involves “the withdrawal of support for those who are assessed to have said or done something unacceptable or highly problematic.” (Ng, 2018) This can involve expressing prejudiced views such as racism, sexism and transphobia. Recent high-profile events such as Julie Burchill's book being cancelled after accusations of Islamophobia (Bakare, 2020) and staff at Hachette threatening to walk out in protest after J.K. Rowling's comments regarding self-identifying transgender-women (Cowdrey 2020) have contributed to speculation that “cancel-culture” puts “literary free speech” into “crisis”. (Law 2021) This talk will draw on primary research consisting of interviews and case studies to examine the claims of censorship and "cancel-culture" in the publishing industry today. 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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Gresham College: Online Lecture
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Knife violence is one of the biggest challenges facing our society. Simulation offers a way to involve young people in exploring the consequences of carrying a knife and responding when incidents occur. Realistic physical simulation invites participants to co-design scenarios that show the effects of a stab wound. Building on over ten years of research, the lecture shows how healthcare and criminal justice professionals can work with young people to develop ‘reciprocal illumination’ for everyone who takes part. Register for Online Lecture If we decide we can go ahead with a live audience, we will email you and let you know.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: Barnard's Inn Hall
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Lord Richard Harries has selected 30 images to convey the essential truths of the Christian faith, some ancient and some modern. Drawn from both the West and the East, a few are well-known masterpieces and others will be unfamiliar. He will discuss these with Professor Alec Ryrie, who will join in a discussion on the rich and sometimes fraught relationship between the Christian faith and the visual arts. Register for Online Lecture If we decide we can go ahead with a live audience, we will email you and let you know.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.
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At one point in his life, Shostakovich considered the career of a concert pianist. He was talented enough to become a Soviet competitor at the international Chopin Competition of 1927, but he was struck down with acute appendicitis, and he had to leave with only a diploma rather than a major prize. Whether his pain and disappointment soured his relations with the piano we cannot be sure, it is astonishing that his piano music studiously avoids the virtuosity he had assiduously cultivated as a young performer. Almost all his piano writing is in some way experimental, conceptual, challenging the pianist to make sense of piano writing that often seems ungrateful, not unlike Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, which we heard in the first lecture of this series. Even so, Shostakovich’s monumental cycle of Preludes and Fugues stands at the very core of his output. Written “for the desk drawer” in his most difficult years, following a second round of official criticism, it often rejoices in the very “formalism” he was accused of. Following the example of J.S. Bach, Shostakovich offers us twenty-four strictly constructed fugues in all the keys, each preceded by a free-flowing prelude. The set takes us on a fascinating journey, beginning with near-pastiches of Bach, into a world where Russian folk song can meet Jewish cantillation, and where Baroque idioms meet modernism, with extremes of emotion that can rival any of Shostakovich’s symphonies.Image © Deutsche Fotothek CC BY-SA Register for Online Lecture If we decide we can go ahead with a live audience, we will email you and let you know.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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Toy pianos were first made in the 19th century. This lecture/recital tells the story of an instrument originally marketed at children, that subsequently made a surprising transition into the professional sphere and is currently enjoying unprecedented popularity as a concert instrument in its own right with a growing body of repertoire. This unusual miniature instrument provides a respite from the traditional implications of the grand piano and breaks the ice with audiences. Register for Online Lecture If we decide we can go ahead with a live audience, we will email you and let you know.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.
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Several different schools of philosophy emerged at the same time and shortly after the famous traditions of Platonism and Aristotelianism in ancient Greece. The most significant, which have had a lasting impact on philosophy since antiquity, were Cynicism, Stoicism and Epicureanism, each of which offered a moral programme advocating the best way to live and a more abstract physical, scientific model of the workings of the universe. This lecture traces the main intellectual strands in each, focussing on the differences between them. The great thinkers whose works will be considered in detail are the fragments of Diogenes and of Zeno, the founders of Cynicism and Stoicism respectively, and Lucretius, the author of the great Epicurean poem of the 1st century BCE, On the Nature of Things. Register for Online Lecture If we decide we can go ahead with a live audience, we will email you and let you know.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 Stella is dead, the funeral is over and Anna’s husband, Richard, has taken the children to his mother’s for the weekend. Alone at last, Anna has two days ahead of her to make sense of the catastrophe that ensues when she takes the 19-year-old Stella into her home. She can’t help the baby bird in the garden screeching for its mother but she could have helped Stella. ‘Why did nothing warn me on that September evening when Stella came to us?’ KILLING STELLA is adapted from Marlen Haushofer’s novella Wir töten Stella (Austria, 1958), an unflinching story of collusion in abuse, and the price that has to be paid for remaining silent. Originally created for the stage, this version of the piece has been re-imagined by Gaitkrash for the online medium. The creative team includes: Bernadette Cronin (performance, translation and script adaptation) Regina Crowley (artistic direction) Harry Moore (videography) Mick O'Shea (Sound art) Gaitkrash was formed in 2007 by theatre artists Bernadette Cronin and Regina Crowley, and sound and visual artist Mick O’Shea. The cornerstone of all their work is the alchemy of collaboration and their exploration takes place at the intersection between image, sound, and text, in keeping with Arnold Schopenhauer’s thesis that when images are accompanied by sound, 'the sound seems to open up their most secret sense and meaning, and to constitute the clearest commentary on them'. For more information, see http://www.gaitkrash.com/. This adaptation for the screen is timed to coincide with the conference 'Marlen Haushofer in Context' organised by the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre, which is taking place online from 17 to 19 May 2021. The video can be watched free of charge from 14 to 28 May only.
School of Advanced Study: Venue Online
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However, stratifications of gender, age and social diversity within a single IDP population, as well as broader distinctions between IDP populations in different countries, mean that the disease burden is not equally distributed. How, then, can health policy and interventions respond to the differential health impact of internal displacement in IDP populations? The Health and Internal Displacement Network (HIDN), launched in April 2021, promotes research engagement and evidence-driven policy on IDP health. This event - the first in our new 2021 HIDN Webinar Series - builds on earlier HIDN expert workshops with researchers and policy actors that identified IDPs as often the population most affected by disease and deathin conflict contexts. In this webinar, three presentations by leading HIDN researchers ask us to consider how such health outcomes are distributed within, and between, different IDP populations and profiles: “IDP Child Health in Pakistan and the MENA Region” - Professor Zulfiqar A Bhutta FRS, Aga Khan University, Pakistan “Health of Internally Displaced Children in Africa” - Professor Bukola Salami, University of Alberta, Canada “Health of IDPs in Syria” - Dr Aula Abbara, Syria Public Health Network This webinar is hosted by HIDN researcher Diana Rayes, Johns Hopkins University, USA. Register below to join us for this important webinar discussion. Please also feel free to forward the details of this event to your colleagues or networks as appropriate. Participants will be able to ask questions and share comments through online moderation. The event will be held in English and take place online, with the event recording made available afterwards. 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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;} --> Vanessa Wills (George Washington University) The Institute of Philosophy hosts a regular workshop series entitled ‘The Practical, the Political, and the Ethical’. The series was created in 2015 by Véronique Munoz-Dardé (UCL) and Hallvard Lillehammer (Birkbeck) in order to discuss work in progress from visiting speakers. This year the series is convened by Kate Vredenburgh (LSE) and Jonathan Gingerich (KCL). Talks are normally 50 minutes (no pre-circulation of the paper), followed by discussion. All are welcome. <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-alt:"Calisto MT"; 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-alt:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"; 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-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;} @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;} --> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-alt:"Calisto MT"; 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-alt:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073786111 1 0 415 0;} @font-face {font-family:Tahoma; panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-520081665 -1073717157 41 0 66047 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;} p.xmsonormal, li.xmsonormal, div.xmsonormal {mso-style-name:x_msonormal; mso-style-unhide:no; 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-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;} @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;} -->