External events calendar
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24/05/2013 - 25/05/2013 Alison Richard Building |
Ephemerality and Durability in Early-Modern Visual and Material Culture Studies in the visual and material culture of the early modern world have recently focused on the concrete materiality or ‘thingness’ of things. But why is it that certain early modern things endured while others did not? Organised by CRASSH, University of Cambridge. http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2408/ |
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24/05/2013 - 25/05/2013 CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT |
Plants and People: material and immaterial resources in trans-regional flows This symposium addresses issues related to the transactability of plants as resources that are both material and immaterial. With plants, bundles of ecological knowledge, know-how on propagation and cultivation, novel uses and also important understandings about human physiology and therapeutic applications are passed on and transformed along the way. Organised by Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2081/ |
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29/05/2013 Henriette Raphael Function Room |
Research into Policy and Practice 2: Changing the Law on Physical Punishment This lecture will outline the role of research and other influences (such as NGOs) on these reforms in New Zealand and the government’s failure to inform the public, and ask what lessons might have been learned that are relevant to other Anglophone countries. Chair: Emeritus Professor Jane Fortin (University of Sussex) Respondent: Peter Newell (Child Rights Information Network) Organised by Kings College London. Liza Fletcher |
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31/05/2013 - 31/05/2013 Alison Richard Building |
Exploring Traditions: Sources for a Global History of Science Convened by Sujit Sivasundaram (Faculty of History) and Simon Schaffer (HPS) this workshop continues an important set of debates and reflexions on the interaction between histories of the sciences and models of global history. These debates ask fundamental questions about what science has meant on the global stage and how sciences have come to take form through global confrontations, connections and politics. Organised by CRASSH, University of Cambridge . Ruth Rushworth |
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05/06/2013 Paintings Gallery |
Research into Policy and Practice 3: Child Protection This lecture looks critically at the policy recommendations and argues for a greater consideration for children’s participation rights, strengths rather than deficits, awareness of causes (especially poverty), and family support rather than surveillance. Chair: Dame Gillian Pugh DBE Respondent: Professor Harriet Ward CBE (Director of the Centre for Child & Family Research, University of Loughborough) Organised by The New Zealand-United Kingdom Link Foundation . In collaboration with The School of Advanced Study, University of London. Liza Fletcher |
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24/06/2013 - 25/06/2013 CFP deadline: 27/05/2013 Chancellor's Room in Hughes Parry Hall University of London, UK |
ROGE-2013 International Conference of Restructuring of the Global Economy To elucidate an issue that is becoming ever more important as global economies become intertwined. To learn more of the key concepts and frameworks from all disciplines regarding wide range of contemporary issues in business and management. To consider the pedagogy for teaching the issue of business & management, including recommendations about topics, syllabi and course materials. To meet and network with colleagues in the world's most ethnically diverse city. Organised by Academy of Business and Retail Management . In collaboration with The Journal of Business and Retail Management Research and International Journal of Business and Economic Development. Dr P R Datta |
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27/06/2013 - 29/06/2013 Manchester Metropolitan University |
International Conference on Narrative 2013 Sponsored by the International Society for the Study of Narrative and hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University, the International Conference on Narrative is an interdisciplinary forum addressing all dimensions of narrative theory and practice. We welcome proposals for papers and panels on all aspects of narrative in any genre, period, discipline, language, and medium. Our keynote speakers are: Catherine Belsey, Diane Negra and Nicholas Royle. Organised by The International Society for the Study of Narrative. In collaboration with Manchester Metropolitan University. Paul Wake |
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04/07/2013 - 05/07/2013 CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT |
Classifying Sex This conference brings together social scientists, gender scholars, sexologists, psychiatrists, historians of science, as well as mental health practitioners and sexual rights activists to critically explore the sexual classifications produced by the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental Disorders (DSM), published in May 2013. Organised by Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2076/ |
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15/07/2013 - 16/07/2013 CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT |
Infertility and Sacred Space: From Antiquity to the Early Modern Relations between human reproduction, divinity and sacred space are at the centre of this international conference, which embraces a range of perspectives in a broadly comparative framework. Organised by Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2078/ |
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23/07/2013 - 24/07/2013 Jock Colville Hall, Churchill College, Storey’s Way, Cambridge CB3 0DS |
Reimagining Modernism A major, two-day international conference reconceptualising modernist artistic practice from a transnational, interdisciplinary perspective Organised by Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2063/ |
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26/07/2013 - 26/07/2013 CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT |
Language Endangerment: Language Policy and Planning This conference will consider how and whether the interface between people, politics and language can affect the fortunes of the endangered linguistic varieties involved. Organised by Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2163/ |
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02/09/2013 - 03/09/2013 University of Surrey |
Corporeal Computing: A Performative Archaeology of Digital Gesture This conference on Corporeal Computing will bring together eminent international researchers in the field of digital performance and the digital arts who have made landmark advances in this field. SPEAKERS: Paul Kaiser (OpenEnded Group), pioneer digital artist; Thomas W. Calvert, Professor Emeritus in Computer Science, Simon Fraser University (Canada); Kirk Woolford, Senior Lecturer in Media and Film, University of Sussex, UK Organised by School of Arts and Department of Computing, University of Surrey. In collaboration with Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Surrey. Academic: Dr Nick Salazar-Sutil; Registration: Ms Mirela Dumic |
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07/11/2013 - 08/11/2013 CFP deadline: 21/10/2013 Malet Suite, University of London Union, London, UK |
ITARC-2013 International Trade & Academic Research Conference To elucidate an issue that is becoming ever more important as global economies become intertwined. To learn more of the key concepts and frameworks from all disciplines regarding wide range of contemporary issues in business and management. To consider the pedagogy for teaching the issue of business & management, including recommendations about topics, syllabi and course materials. To meet and network with colleagues in the world's most ethnically diverse city. Organised by Academy of Business and Retail Management . In collaboration with The Journal of Business and Retail Management Research. Dr P R Datta |
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15/07/2014 - 17/07/2014 CFP deadline: 30/01/2014 |
Transfusion and Transformation: the creative potential of interdisciplinary knowledge exchange This international conference examines the creative potential of interdisciplinarity, exploring how the comparison and exchange of disciplinary approaches can offer fresh insights and spark new lines of thought, not only complementing the strengths of more focused disciplinary approaches, but also comprising an important part of the process through which all disciplines negotiate, develop and transform over time. Call for panels is now open (deadline 30 September 2013). Organised by Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University. Linda Crowe |