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Event Date: 22 October 2019 Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way London NW1 2HD The Royal Asiatic Society presents: Dr. Philip Mansel (Author) – The Sun King and the Sultan: Louis XIV and the Ottoman Empire Using unpublished archives and drawings, Dr Philip Mansel shows that the traditional alliance between France and the Ottoman Empire became a corner-stone of ...
Event Date: 22 October 2019 The Lecture Room Warburg Institute Woburn Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0AB The Warburg Institute presents: Professor Elizabeth Sears (University of Michigan) – Academic Refugees in the 1930s: In and Around the Warburg Circle Having accepted the necessity of exile, as they ventured into the unknown refugees had massive practicalities to contend with. This talk draws ...
Event Date: 9 October 2019 Hilda Clark 2/3 Friends House, 173 – 177 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ The Political Quarterly presents: Book Launch: Rethinking Democracy: Populism, Post-democracy and the Politics of Resentment Democratic politics is once again under attack – this time from populist nationalists, authoritarian rulers and new forms of political communication. It was not meant to ...
Event Date: 8 October 2019 Room RG01 Russell Square: College Buildings 10 Thornhaugh St, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0XG The SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies presents: Dr Lesley Pullen (SOAS) – Hindu Buddhist Java: Examining the Evolution of Dress on Sculpture This lecture examines a corpus of freestanding sculpture produced in Java during the Hindu Buddhist ...
Event Date: 7 October 2019 Chancellor’s Hall Senate House University of London London WC1E 7HU The Aristotelian Society presents: Professor Helen Steward (Leeds) – Free Will and External Reality: Two Scepticisms Compared As the first talk for the 2019-20 Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, this year’s Presidential Address marks the official inauguration of Professor Helen Steward (University of Leeds) as ...
Event Date: 3 October 2019 The Lecture Room Warburg Institute Woburn Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0AB The Warburg Institute presents: Curatorial Conversations: Dr Catherine Flood (V&A) Dr Catherine Flood (Victoria and Albert Museum) – Food: Bigger than the Plate Dr Catherine Flood, Curator, “Food: Bigger than the Plate”, Victoria & Albert Museum (to 20 October 2019) in conversation with Professor ...
Event Date: 27 September 2019 The Lecture Room Warburg Institute Woburn Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0AB The Warburg Institute presents: Marc Loopuyt – Music of the Three Andalusias An evening lecture/recital by musician, writer and teacher Marc Loopuyt on Muslim, Jewish and Christian music of Medieval Spain, focusing on the rabab and the oud, and on articulation techniques. Articulation in ...
Event Date: 26 September 2019 Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way London NW1 2HD The Royal Asiatic Society presents: Dr. Stefan Halikowski-Smith (Swansea University) – Two Missionary Accounts of Southeast Asia in the Late Seventeenth Century Introduction by Professor Anthony Stockwell (RAS): ——————— Talk: ——————– Questions: accompanying images: ” ngg_triggers_display=”always” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]
Event Date: 5 July 2019 Lecture Theatre B5 Chadwick Building, Front Quadrangle, UCL Campus, Gower Street London WC1E 6BT The Royal Historical Society presents: Professor Penny Roberts (Warwick) – Truth during the French religious wars Truth is always contestable. This lecture will explore that assertion in the context of the sixteenth century. In many ways, the French religious wars ...
Event Date: 16 September 2019 Room B01 Clore Management Centre Birkbeck University of London Torrington Sq London WC1E 7HX The Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck presents: Philippa Gregory in conversation with Stella Tillyard The acclaimed historian and author of The Other Boleyn Girl talks about her new book, historical fiction and why she is now, as honorary ...
Event Date: 5 July 2019 Room B01 Clore Management Centre Birkbeck, University of London Torrington Sq London WC1E 7HX The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities presents: 2019 London Critical Theory Summer School – Friday Debate II Speakers: Eyal Weizman, Stephen Frosh, Jacqueline Rose, Esther Leslie Chair: Oscar Guardiola-Rivera The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities’ annual London Critical Theory Summer School ...
Event Date: 12 June 2019 The Lecture Room Warburg Institute Woburn Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0AB The Warburg Institute presents: Cosimo I de’Medici and Granducal Florence Cosimo I de’ Medici (1519-1574), first Grandduke of Tuscany, was both a consummate administrator and a fierce patron of the arts. The lecture series Cosimo I De’Medici and Granducal Florence celebrates the 500th anniversary ...
Event Date: 6 June 2019 Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way London NW1 2HD The Royal Asiatic Society presents: Edward Weech (Royal Asiatic Society) – Systems of Religion and Morality in the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society The Royal Asiatic Society was founded in 1823, inspired by the model of Sir William Jones’s Asiatic Society of Bengal. From ...
Event Date: 9 – 10 May 2019 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Richmond TW9 3AB The Royal Holloway University of London Department of Geography in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew present: Collections in Circulation Conference The conference brings together scholars from the UK and overseas with a shared interest in the mobility of museum collections, past and present. Their ...
Event Date: 13 May 2019 Room 22/26 Senate House University of London Malet Street London WC1E 7HU The Aristotelian Society presents: Professor Christian List (LSE) – What’s Wrong with the Consequence Argument: A Compatibilist Libertarian Response Christian List is Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at the London School of Economics and a Fellow of the British Academy. He works ...
Event Date: 10 May 2019 Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre Wilkins Building, UCL Campus, Gower Street London WC1E 6BT The Royal Historical Society presents: Professor Mary Vincent (Sheffield) – The ‘Martyrdom of Things’: Iconoclasm and its Meanings in the Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War was among the greatest explosions of iconoclastic violence in European history and, understandably, scholarly ...
Event Date: 2 May 2019 Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way London NW1 2HD The Royal Asiatic Society presents: Philip Davies (Author) – Lost Warriors- Seagrim and Pagani of Burma – The Last Great Untold Story of WWII Published on 15th August to commemorate Victory Over Japan day, Lost Warriors: Seagrim and Pagani of Burma uncovers one of the ...
1Event Date: 2 May 2019 Room B35 Birkbeck, University of London Birkbeck Main Building Malet St London WC1E 7HX The Birkbeck School of Law presents: The 2019 Annual Law Lecture: Retinal Justice: Rats, Maps, and Masks Professor Peter Goodrich (Cardoza) – Retinal Justice: Rats, Maps, and Masks A judge springs out of his car on the way to court ...
Event Date: 1 May 2019 Wolfson Suite Institute of Historical Research University of London Senate House Malet St London WC1R 7HU The Department of History at Royal Holloway presents: Animals and the Home The ‘Animals and the Home’ conference will explore the relationship between animals, humans and the home in diverse forms. The study of the home is an important ...
Event Date: 29 April 2019 Room 22/26 Senate House University of London Malet Street London WC1E 7HU The Aristotelian Society presents: Professor Cheshire Calhoun (Arizona State) – Responsibilities and Taking On Responsibility Cheshire Calhoun is CLAS Trustee Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University and chair of the American Philosophical Association’s board of officers. Her work spans the philosophical subdisciplines ...
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