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 […]
This one-day workshop, sponsored by the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, will pose a number of questions about global decolonisation. Was ‘decolonisation’ a European invention designed to ease the ‘white man’s burden’ and pave the way for a neo-colonial system of extraction and dependency? Was it a Latin American invention intended to […]
Following two successful New York City conferences in 2014 and 2016, the International Society for Heresy Studies is holding its third biennial conference at Senate House, hosted by the Institute of English Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Share this article:
Join us at Senate House on 8 June for a music recital of relevant French repertoire by outstanding young pianist, Alexander Soares. This event, part of the ‘Surrealism and music in France, 1924–52: interdisciplinary and international contexts’ conference organised by the Institute of Modern Languages Research, will include works by Boulez, Messiaen and Jolivet. Share […]
In recent years, a rich wave of scholarship has been examining representations of ‘blackness’ in the visual cultures of the Atlantic world. It is an avenue of enquiry particularly germane to Latin America and the Caribbean, home to the world’s largest African diasporic populations, and allows us to understand how peoples of African descent and […]
The political philosopher and refugee Hannah Arendt, wrote in 1944 that: ‘Everywhere the word “exile” which once had an undertone of almost sacred awe, now provokes the idea of something simultaneously suspicious and unfortunate.’ Share this article:
When: 16 May 2018, 6-7.30pm, reception from 7:30-8:30 Who: Institute of Historical Research Where: Beveridge Hall, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Starting with the first visual propaganda for the Reformation this lecture, in memory of Professor Eric Hobsbawm and hosted in collaboration with Birkbeck, University of London, explores anti-papalism and anti-monasticism in Lutheran […]
When: 10 May 2018, 5.30–7.30pm Who: Institute of Latin American Studies, LSE, Goldsmiths, University of London and University College London Where: Room 234, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU This talk by Dr Camilla Morelli, a social anthropology lecturer at Bristol University, examines the challenges faced by indigenous children and youth in Peru […]
When: 1–20 May 2018, 5pm Who: Institute of Latin American Studies and Brazilarity Where: Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU This photographic exhibition is presented by Braziliarty and the Institute of Latin American Studies. It celebrates the 130th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Brazil which was the last American nation to do […]
When: 1 May 2018, 6–8.30pm Who: Institute of Historical Research Where: IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, NB01/NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU How are women remembered, commemorated and celebrated in public? How is this different from historical commemorations of men? These are among the questions that activist and campaigner Caroline Criado Perez […]
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, […]
