Work has become a critical site for apprehending broad changes in France’s society, culture and economy and their imprint on individual and collective life. At once localised and enclosed, the workplace is also traversed by structural transformations at national and international level. The purpose of this conference is to bring together a wide range of disciplinary and critical perspectives on […]
When: 5 April 2018, 6.30–8.30pm Who: Senate House Library, in collaboration with Queer Tours of London with special guests from the Gay Liberation Front Where: Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Polari, the gay slang which faded away with the decriminalisation of male homosexuality and the advent of gay liberation, […]
When: 28 March 2018, 5-7pm Who: The Institute of English Studies in partnership with the the Open University’s Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Cluster and the History of Books and Reading Research Collaboration Where: Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Novels today appear to accrue markets and circulation with viral speed on social media platforms, a […]
When: 18-19 Jan 2018, 9:30am – 6:00pm Who: The Institute of English Studies in partnership with the School of English, Newcastle University Where: Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Humanities research is developing at a new scale and in new directions. requiring us to ‘think bigger’ (and differently) than before. How is English as a […]
A keynote lecture entitled ‘Luther’s Words are Everywhere”: Protestantism and Politics, 1517-2017’ by Jane O. Newman (California at Irvine) on 13 December. When: 13 Dec 2017, 5:30 -7:30pm Who: The Warburg Institute Where: Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB Share this article:
When: Friday 8 December, 6-7pm Who: Institute of Philosophy Where: The Chancellor’s Hall, First Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Evolutionary psychology casts the human mind as a collection of cognitive instincts – organs of thought shaped by genetic evolution and constrained by the needs of our Stone Age ancestors. This picture was plausible 25 years […]
When: Friday 17 – Saturday 25 November 2017 Who: School of Advanced Study The School of Advanced Study’s flagship public engagement initiative – the national Being Human festival of the humanities – returns for a fourth year. This year’s festival theme is ‘Lost and Found’. More than 300 events responding to this theme and celebrating the very […]
When: Monday 6 November, 6-8pm Who: Institute of English Studies Where: The Beveridge Hall, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Ali Smith CBE FRSL, the award-winning Scottish author, playwright, journalist, and academic, will deliver the first annual Liberty Lecture in association with Liberty. Share this article:
When: Tuesday 31 October, 6-8pm Who: Institute of English Studies Where: The Chancellor’s Hall, First Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Wordsworth and Byron fell out in a not very dignified way over politics, and there was heavy collateral damage in their opinion of each other’s poetry. But there was a fundamental intellectual difference, too. Share […]
When: Thursday 26 October, 5.30-7pm Who: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Where: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR Diamond Ashiagbor, professor of law and director of research at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, will deliver her inaugural lecture, examining regions, market building, and labour law in the European Union and the African […]
When: Tuesday 17 October, 6-8pm Who: Institute of Classical Studies Where: Beveridge Hall, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Almost every society has imagined monsters, often hybrids of humans and beast. Today we worry about chimaeras, organisms created by combining genes from more than one species, and science fiction writers imagine bizarre aliens on other […]
