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Academic and Public Events in the School of Advanced Study

Collectively, the ten Institutes of the School of Advanced Study at the University of London organise one of the largest programmes of academic events in the humanities and social sciences in the UK. Each year around 1,400 separate events - including seminars, lectures, conferences and workshops - attract over 30,000 audience members drawn from around the UK and internationally as well as the London area. The majority of these events are open to the public and free to attend.

The School also manages major collaborative events on a regular basis, working with private, public and charitable organisations, from the local Bloomsbury Festival, to the Screen Studies Group, one of the world’s largest networks of screen media scholars.

Events Calendar
Use the left navigation to browse for forthcoming events, past events or use its advanced search to find events by date, Institute or event type. For more information about individual events, please contact relevant Institutes.
Videos & Podcasts
Selected events are recorded and available to view free online.
Dean’s Seminars
The Dean’s Lunchtime Seminar Series is a cross-disciplinary enterprise aimed to promote intellectual debate in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. A wide selection of regular seminar series is also offered on topics ranging from Caribbean Societies in Regional Context to James Joyce’s Ulysses. For more details, please use advanced search or visit Institutes’ events pages.
University Trust Fund Events
The School organises a University Trust Fund programme of prestigious public lectures, recitals and readings. These include the Hilda Hulme Lecture in English; the annual John Coffin Memorial lectures, readings and recitals in all subjects including history, literature and science; the John Coffin Memorial Lectures in the History of Ideas, Palaeography, the History of the Book and Christian Ethics; the Staunton-Cassal Lecture on French Culture; and the Creighton Lecture in History, which celebrated its centenary in 2007.
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Events at the School and the Member Institutes for the next 7 days.

Friday 12 March 2010

TimeInstituteTitleVenue
12:30 ISA Local Communities and Biodiversity Conservation in t...
In association with the 'World Land Trust' www.worldlandtrust.org
Room G22/24 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
12:30 ISA Research Student Seminars:
Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
16:00 IGRS Memories: Three languages – Three Generations: One...
The Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women Writers and the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory are delighted to present an afternoon of readings...
The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)
16:30 IClS Postgraduate Work In Progress Seminar
TBA
Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:00 WB The Work of the Spirit: Wilhelm von Humboldt on the...
Warburg Institute
17:15 IHR Domestic Secrets: Women and Property in Early Modern...
Low Countries Room (IHR)
17:30 IHR A Merchant's Mark: A study of Practical Piety in Med...
Ecclesiastical History Room (IHR)
18:00 IES Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group
Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
18:00 IES The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar
Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)

Saturday 13 March 2010

TimeInstituteTitleVenue
11:00 IES London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar
Susan Bernstein (Wisconsin-Madison), 'Reading Room Geographies of Late Victorian London: Constance Black Garnett, the British Museum and the People's ...
Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
14:30 IGRS CWWF Spring term 2010 - Seminar meeting
Co-ordinator: Julia Waters (Reading) Topic: Ananda Devi
Other

Monday 15 March 2010

TimeInstituteTitleVenue
IHR An Introduction to Oral History
(Mondays, 18 January – 29 March 2010) This course addresses theoretical and practical issues in oral history through workshop sessions and particip...
10:30 IMR Sounds: performance studies, analysis of recordings,...
Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
12:30 ISA Palabra Dulce, Aire de Vida. Campaña por la pervive...
In collaboration with ABColombia (www.abcolombia.org.uk) The talk will be in Spanish |
Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
16:30 IClS Ancient Philosophy Seminar
TBA
Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:00 IHR Serious fun: The politics of amusement in post-Revol...
Low Countries Room (IHR)
17:00 IClS Latin Literature Seminar
Virgil’s Catullan Plots
Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:15 IHR Never Forget You're Welsh: The Role of Sport as a Po...
Ecclesiastical History Room (IHR)
17:15 IHR National opera in Britain, 1902: new schemes, new works
Ethel Smyth's Der Wald was added at the last minute to the Covent Garden summer season in 1902, where it was one of only two British works performed tha...
The Wolfson Room (IHR)
17:30 IHR Don't You Hear the H Bombs Thunder; Youth & Politics...
Please note: this session takes place in G22/26 (Ground floor Senate House, South block)
The Pollard Room (IHR)
17:30 ICwS Decolonization Research Seminar
A Round Table discussion on new directions in the study of decolonization. Convened by Professor Philip Murphy and Dr Sarah Stockwell
The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor)
18:00 IALS POSTPONED: Adhering to traditional methods for moder...
IALS
18:30 IGRS Seminar on Modernism and Cinema
Cendrars, Survage and Colour Music
Room 274 (Stewart House)

Tuesday 16 March 2010

TimeInstituteTitleVenue
IHR Rev. Simpson's "Improper Liberties": Moral Scrutiny ...
The Pollard Room (IHR)
12:00 IGRS Work in Progress Seminars
‘Memories of trauma on film'
Room 274 (Stewart House)
12:45 IALS ECJ and Exit Taxes
IALS Lunchtime Tax Seminar. All seminars will start at 12.45pm sharp.
IALS
17:00 IHR The pub and the people: drinking spaces and UK alcoh...
The Wolfson Room (IHR)
17:00 IHR For Whom? For What? French Servicemen in the Indochi...
Germany Room (IHR)
17:00 IClS ICLS Webster Lecture
TBA - Speaker Liz Langridge-Noti (Athens)
Room G22/24 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:00 IES History of Communication: Seminar 5
Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
17:15 IClS Accordia Seminar
The Chalcolithic cemetary at Rinaldone: bodies and objects in a mortuary arena
Room 274 (Stewart House)
17:30 IHR The secret ingredient: Hunting early modern recipes ...
Ecclesiastical History Room (IHR)
17:30 ICwS Serving the Next Generation - The Commonwealth in th...
THIS EVENT IS PART OF THE LECTURE SERIES TO MARK THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF BOTH THE INSTITUTE AND THE MODERN COMMONWEALTH.
Lecture Theatre, IALS
17:30 IES Textual Scholarship Seminar
The session will include a demonstration of R. Carter Hailey’s COMET optical collator.
Room G21a (Senate House, Ground Floor)
18:00 IHR The Diplomatic Career of William James Garnett, 1902...
Low Countries Room (IHR)
18:15 ICwS India's Africans
A presentation on the diverse circumstances of African migration to India and the current situation of India's Africans in various states. This wil...
Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
19:00 IHR Heirlooms and ancient objects: connecting the lifecy...
The Wolfson Room (IHR)

Wednesday 17 March 2010

TimeInstituteTitleVenue
09:00 IALS Tax Conference: 'ECJ: Judicial Activism or Judicial ...
Conference Fees: Full Rate: £75; Student Rate: £30. Registrations should reach IALS no later than Friday 12 March.
IALS
10:00 SAS Careers workshop: Interview skills
Room 274 (Stewart House)
14:00 SAS Research Skills Workshop
Organizing a conference
Room 274 (Stewart House)
15:30 IClS Mycenaean Series
The story of the Aegean clay tablet: Cretan Hieroglyphic - Linear A - Linear B
Room G22/24 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:00 IHR '....without the oil, both the United Kingdom and We...
The Wolfson Room (IHR)
17:00 IHR Arendt, Hobson and Hobbes on Imperialism and the State
Room ST 274, Stewart House, second floor
Low Countries Room (IHR)
17:00 ISA European and Caribbean? The European Union's Policy ...
The presentation will explore European policy towards the Caribbean, whether British and Dutch Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) or independent ...
Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:00 ICwS Caribbean Seminar Series: European and Caribbean? Th...
The European Union (EU) is presently developing a new approach to the British and Dutch Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) in the Caribbean in ord...
Room G32 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:00 WB Launch and presentation of the Warburg Institute Ele...
Presentation of the archive database, the iconographic database and the Library digital collections
Warburg Institute
17:15 IHR "No mere playing at soldiers": The development of th...
The Pollard Room (IHR)
17:30 IES London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS)
Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:30 IES Open University Book History and Bibliography Resear...
Paul Stiff is Principal Investigator and Mike Esbester and Paul Dobraszczyk are Postdoctoral Researchers at the Department of Typography & Graphic Commu...
Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:30 HRC Human Rights Seminar Series: Accountability for one?...
Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
17:30 IHR Britain through a European prism
Chair: Helen Jones
Germany Room (IHR)
17:30 IHR Rome and Ravenna in the Early Middle Ages: An Archae...
Ecclesiastical History Room (IHR)
17:30 ICwS Human Rights Seminar Series: Accountability for one?...
Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)
17:30 ICwS Language Policy/Practice Seminar Series: TBC
Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)

Thursday 18 March 2010

TimeInstituteTitleVenue
IGRS Gender, Agency and Violence: European Perspectives f...
Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)
13:05 WB Africa, The Four Winds and the Cardinal Points of th...
Warburg Institute
14:30 IP IP Senses Project seminar: Sensory Memories
Room G22/24 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:00 IMR Hearing Music's Words: Imagery in Shakespeare's Theatre
Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:30 IHR "The Poor and Loafering Class of Whites are about on...
The Pollard Room (IHR)
17:30 IHR 'Ouie difficile a expliquer': Diderot and the diffic...
Ecclesiastical History Room (IHR)
17:30 IHR What difference does gender make to empire?
Jo McDonagh (KCL), Sonya Rose (Michigan), John Tosh (Roehampton)
The Wolfson Room (IHR)
17:30 ISA "The Poor and Loafering Class of Whites are about on...
The Pollard Room (IHR)
17:30 IES T. S. Eliot Research Seminar
The general editor Ronald Schuchard and volume editors Jason Harding and Iman Javadi will discuss the scope, principles, and problems of editing the pri...
Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
17:30 IHR Modern England is Rapidly Blackpooling Itself: J.B. ...
Low Countries Room (IHR)
18:00 IALS Is there a chill in here? News and free speech in Au...
News media in Malaysia and Singapore are often said to be constrained in covering political and public issues, in comparison with plural democratic stat...
IALS
18:30 IGRS Malcolm Bowie Annual Lecture
A series of annual lectures in celebration of Malcolm Bowie organised by Queen Mary University and the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies The lec...
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