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The Commons is Dead. Long Live the Commons! - 13 June 2020 - Panel 2: Whose Commons, For Whom?

June 23, 2020 12:35 - 2 hours - 2.74 GB Video

Participants: Tali Hatuka (Tel Aviv University), Zizi Papacharissi (University of Illinois-Chicago), Doina Petrescu (University of Sheffield / atelier d’architecture autogerée), Laura Lo Presti (University of Padua) Moderators: Alex Grigor, Michal Huss, Konstantinos Pittas Description: This panel deals with the ways that radical alterations in scale, time, and place, prompted by the digital age and by technological advancement require new methodologies for mapping, studying, and interpreti...

The Commons is Dead. Long Live the Commons! - 13 June 2020 - Panel 3: Reclaiming the Cultural Commons

June 23, 2020 10:48 - 1 hour - 2.56 GB Video

Participants: Sepake Angiama (Institute for International Visual Arts-London), Gavin Grindon (University of Essex), Ella McPherson (University of Cambridge), Pelin Tan (Bard College) Moderators: Alex Grigor, Michal Huss, Konstantinos Pittas Description: This panel looks at contestations around cultural commons and strategies to re-claim and re-mobilise them. In addition, the unfolding global health crisis urges to think about its repercussions to the basic rights of access to culture, to...

The Commons is Dead. Long Live the Commons! - 12 June 2020 - Panel 1: Commoning the City

June 23, 2020 08:06 - 1 hour - 2.43 GB Video

Participants: Ash Amin (University of Cambridge), Massimo De Angelis (University of East London), Shannon Mattern (The New School), Richard Sennett (Chair, Council on Urban Initiatives, United Nations Habitat) Moderators: Alex Grigor, Michal Huss, Konstantinos Pittas Description: This panel explores the current potentials of and constraints for the production of the city (understood as a social, historical, and multi-sensual construct) as a common space. How can we prevent a pandemic from b...

Festival of Ideas 2019 : Artificial Intelligence and Social Change

November 01, 2019 10:37 - 45 minutes - 82.4 MB

This talk considers how specifically language-based AI systems (for example, speech recognition, machine translation or smart telecommunications interfaces) have affected and transformed modern society. In an age when we spend large parts of our daily lives communicating with our smartphones and Virtual Personal Assistants such as Siri, Cortana, and Alexa, we need to consider how these technologies actually impact our lives. While these intelligent systems can certainly have a positive impact...

Dr Emma Hunter - 7 June 2019 - Rethinking Liberties in Twentieth-Century Africa

June 13, 2019 08:17 - 1 hour - 1.37 GB Video

7 June 2019 The Quentin Skinner Fellow for 2018-19, Dr Emma Hunter, will give the annual lecture and participate in the related symposium. Online registration is now available. Please click here to book your place or use the online registration link on this page. The standard fee is £20, and £10 for students/unwaged. This includes lunch and refreshments. Once approached primarily as part of the history of the West, liberalism has recently begun to receive attention from a global perspecti...

Beyond Binary - Susan Stryker - 1 March 2019 - 'Transgeneration: Or, Becoming-With My Monstrous Kin'

March 08, 2019 10:30 - 1 hour - 2.06 GB Video

Susan Stryker (University of Arizona) 'Transgeneration: Or, Becoming-With My Monstrous Kin' In this keynote address, Susan Stryker tells the story, from her perspective, of how the essay 'My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix' entered the world and what that monstrous assemblage has been doing since it found its way into print. In doing so, she charts a trajectory across queer theory in the 1990s, the emergence of transgender studies as an increasingly legible field...

Alison Wood - 19 October 2018 - The End of Universities?

January 11, 2019 10:26 - 40 minutes - 73.7 MB

This event is part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas. Bookings will open at 11:00 on Monday 24 September 2018. From MOOCS to networked institutions, remote and off-shore degrees, flexible and flipped learning, Universities seem to be changing at an unprecedented rate, on an unprecedented scale. This talk lays out some of the most radical of these changes and asks: What are we are witnessing now? Are we in the age of hyper education, and the end of Universities as they have been for centurie...

James Williams - 31 May 2018 - Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy - Nine Dots Prize Book Launch

June 08, 2018 07:32 - 1 hour - 1.99 GB Video

CRASSH is delighted to invite you to the book launch for Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy by James Williams, winner of the inaugural Nine Dots Prize. This event is free and open to the public, and a drinks reception will follow the event. Author: James Williams (University of Oxford) Discussants: Maria Farrell (Writer and Technology Consultant) John Naughton (The Observer's Technology Correspondent) WINNER OF THE INAUGURAL $100,000 NINE DOTS PRIZE Sta...

CRASSH Impact - 15 May 2018 - Reni Eddo-Lodge and Priyamvada Gopal in Conversation

May 23, 2018 08:13 - 1 hour - 1.85 GB Video

Our CRASSH Impact speaker this Easter Term will be Reni Eddo-Lodge, whose Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race recently won the 2018 Jhalak Prize for the best book by a British BAME writer. On 15 May 2018, Reni Eddo-Lodge will be in conversation with Priyamvada Gopal. The event is free and open to the public. No registration required. The conversation will be chaired by Lola Olufemi (Women's Officer, Cambridge University Students' Union). The event has been added to Faceb...

Sara Ahmed - 9 March 2018 - Complaint as Diversity Work

March 15, 2018 09:10 - 1 hour - 1.39 GB Video

The lecture explores how complaint can be understood as a form of diversity work, as the work you have to do in order to make institutions more open and accommodating to others. The lecture draws on written and oral testimonies provided by those who have made complaints about racism, sexism, sexual harassment and bullying within universities. The lecture addresses the difficulty of making complaints and asks how and why complaints are blocked. The lecture shows how we learn about the institut...

Sara Ahmed - 2 March 2018 - Uses of Use: Diversity, Utility and the University

March 05, 2018 09:34 - 1 hour - 1.43 GB Video

CRASSH Impact Lecture Series, Lent Term Speaker: Sara Ahmed Use is a small word with a lot of work to do, a small word with a big history. As Rita Felski describes in her introduction to a special issue of New Literary History on use, 'the very word is stubby, plain, workmanlike, its monosyllabic bluntness as bare and unadorned as the thing that it names' (2013, 5). This lecture explores different uses of use across a range of intellectual traditions including biology, design and psychology...

The Afterlives of Cybernetics - 17 November 2017 - Tracing the Information Revolution from the 1960s to Big Data

February 09, 2018 10:10 - 1 hour - 1.74 GB Video

Public Lecture Jon Agar and Jacob Ward (University College London) 'Communications, control and cybernetics in post-war British systems: rail, post and telecoms' Discussant: Matthew Gandy (University of Cambridge) Convenors Andrew McKenzie-McHarg (University of Cambridge) Poornima Paidipaty (University of Cambridge) Egle Rindzeviciute (Kingston University) Summary As more and more of our collective activities (education, pension planning, health management, environmental protection)...

AbdouMaliq Simone - 13 November 2017 - On the way home without a world: the case of Delhi

January 25, 2018 11:11 - 1 hour - 1.51 GB Video

Smuts Memorial Lecture Series 2017 Lecture Three: On the way home without a world: the case of Delhi Speaker: AbdouMaliq Simone (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity) Lecture Three Abstract This lecture explores what it means to live without a world, without an overarching orientation or anchorage that compels bodies, things and places to have something inevitably to do with each other; where the purported coherence undermines itself in the politics of impo...

AbdouMaliq Simone - 9 November 2017 - Looking out for the Dark: Navigating contemporary complexities in Jakarta and Hyderabad

January 16, 2018 09:40 - 1 hour - 1.6 GB Video

Smuts Memorial Lecture Series 2017 Lecture Two Abstract This lecture takes up the manufacturing of darkness as relationality spiraling out of control. Here, the capacity to render any experience as a piece of interoperable data intersects with the inability of any infrastructure to hold the sheer panoply of heterogeneous actions, recursions, and feedback loops that run up and down discernible scales. All of the devices and regimens capable of demonstrating exactly how things relate to each...

AbdouMaliq Simone - 7 November 2017 - Ensembles of the Uninhabitable

December 21, 2017 10:49 - 1 hour - 1.45 GB Video

Smuts Memorial Lecture Series (7, 9, 13 November 2017) Series Title: The Uninhabitable: Afterlives of the Urban South Speaker: AbdouMaliq Simone (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity) Series Abstract So many forces are at work to make habitation impossible or nearly impossible in many urban contexts. So much work is devoted toward detailing the demise of urban life in all of its aspects, and the way this destruction is unequally distributed across different ...

Festival of Ideas - 21 October 2017 - Who Believes in Conspiracy Theories?

December 19, 2017 11:07 - 1 hour - 114 MB

This talk explores what factors - religious, economic, political - make some and not others believe in conspiracy theories. Hugo Drochon considers what impact that has had on contemporary political events, from Brexit to Trump. Was Diana killed by the Secret Services? Is climate change a hoax? Did man not walk on the moon? Who shot JFK? Drawing on a nation-wide survey conducted with YouGov about belief in conspiracy theories, this talk explores what factors -religious, economic, political – ...

Festival of Ideas - 21 October 2017 - Who to Trust about your Health?

December 19, 2017 11:05 - 39 minutes - 71.4 MB

We’re bombarded by information about our health. But who should be trusted? Physicians? Scientists? Patients? Pharma? Instinct? Come along for a range of researcher perspectives and to offer your own. The safety and effectiveness of medical interventions is highly contested, even when it is backed by clinical research. Who should we trust? The truth of the scientists loyal to evidence-based medicine paradigms, or that of patients with their lived experience? Should we trust big pharma? Or...

Professor Michael Puett - 22 November 2017 - In Conversation with Julia Lovell

December 04, 2017 09:20 - 1 hour - 1.9 GB Video

CRASSH Impact Lecture Series, Michaelmas Term Speakers: Michael Puett (Harvard University) and Julia Lovell (Birkbeck) Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology, as well as the Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion, at Harvard University. His interests are focused on the inter-relations between philosophy, anthropology, history, and religion, with the hope of bringing the study of China into larger historical and comparative frameworks. His ...

Professor Michael Puett - 21 November 2017 - Neoliberalism and History, or: How Should We Understand China?

December 04, 2017 09:13 - 1 hour - 1.91 GB Video

CRASSH Impact Lecture Series, Michaelmas Term Speaker: Professor Michael Puett (Harvard University) We seem to have a relatively clear (if somewhat uncomfortable) narrative concerning the rise and (potential) decline of neoliberalism. But, if we take into account the perspective of China, such a narrative may have to be re-thought. This talk will place some of the current political debates in China within a larger historical context and argue that these debates may force us to re-think some ...

The Afterlives of Cybernetics: Tracing the Information Revolution from the 1960s to Big Data - 17 November 2017

November 21, 2017 10:34 - 54 minutes - 100 MB

The lecture by Jon Agar and Jacob Ward (University College London) will be open to all free of charge. Further information, including an abstract, is available here. Convenors Andrew McKenzie-McHarg (University of Cambridge) Poornima Paidipaty (University of Cambridge) Egle Rindzeviciute (Kingston University) Summary As more and more of our collective activities (education, pension planning, health management, environmental protection) are mediated by rapidly moving markets and compute...

Professor Paolo Quattrone - 6 September 2017 - Who said accounting was boring? Rhetoric and the making of socie-ties

October 10, 2017 10:20 - 1 hour - 1.64 GB Video

Keynote lecture by Professor Paolo Quattrone (University of Edinburgh) 'Who said accounting was boring? Rhetoric and the making of socie-ties’ -- Convenors Clément Feger (University of Cambridge) Bhaskar Vira (University of Cambridge) Laurent Mermet (AgroParisTech) Summary After the recent development of accounting for biodiversity and ecosystems at the business level and at the national level, a third construction site in accounting research is necessary at the scale of inter-organiz...

New Accounting for the Management of Ecosystems - 6 September 2017 - Introduction

October 10, 2017 10:10 - 24 minutes - 316 MB Video

Convenors Clément Feger (University of Cambridge) Bhaskar Vira (University of Cambridge) Laurent Mermet (AgroParisTech) Summary After the recent development of accounting for biodiversity and ecosystems at the business level and at the national level, a third construction site in accounting research is necessary at the scale of inter-organizational ecosystem management. This calls for a constructive dialogue between conservationists who design and use new information systems on ecosyste...

Theology and Politics in the German Imagination, 1789–1848 - 11 July 2017 - 'The Politics of Strauss’ Biblical Criticism'

July 18, 2017 09:30 - 1 hour - 149 MB

Keynote Lecture Chair: Jonathan Linebaugh (University of Cambridge) Frederick Beiser (Syracuse University) 'The Politics of Strauss’ Biblical Criticism' Respondent: Ian Cooper (University of Kent)

Theology and Politics in the German Imagination, 1789–1848 - 10 July 2017 - Roundtable Discussion

July 18, 2017 09:28 - 1 hour - 130 MB

Session One - Roundtable Discussion Chair: Ruth Jackson and Hanna Weibye (University of Cambridge) Panellists: Andrew Bowie (Royal Holloway, University of London) Maureen Junker-Kenny (Trinity College Dublin) Gareth Stedman-Jones (Queen Mary, University of London) Joachim Whaley (University of Cambridge)

Zsuzsa Gille - 2 June 2017 - Overflows, Agencement, and Inequalities of the Circular Economy

June 19, 2017 08:49 - 1 hour - 114 MB

Putting Dirt in Its Place: The Contemporary Politics of Waste Conference Keynote Lecture : Zsuzsa Gille (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) - 'Overflows, Agencement, and Inequalities of the Circular Economy' Convenor Patrick O'Hare (University of Cambridge) Summary This conference explores the socio-material interfaces where waste meets politics in the present. It brings together a group of established and emergent waste scholars from across the social sciences to discuss the co...

Patricia Williams - 4 May 2017 - Black Life, Law, Love and Survival in Times of Trump and Brexit

June 15, 2017 09:57 - 1 hour - 1.94 GB Video

A Black Feminist conversation: Black life, law, love and survival in times of Trump and Brexit Feminist professors of colour Patricia J. Williams (Columbia University) and Heidi Safia Mirza (Goldsmiths, University of London) will debate Black life, law, love and survival in times of Trump and Brexit. The discussion will be chaired by Sarah Franklin (University of Cambridge). Patricia Williams is perhaps America’s most distinguished writer on law, race and gender. She is the James L. Dohr P...

Patricia Williams - 3 May 2017 - ‘Other People’s Children’

June 15, 2017 09:52 - 1 hour - 1.92 GB Video

Speaker: Patricia J. Williams (Columbia University) Patricia Williams will remark on tensions between discourses of universalised longing for human identity, human rights, unbounded, globalised connection – and the traumatised and traumatising language of dislocation and dis-identification with ever more fragmented categories of 'other'.

Patricia Williams - 2 May 2017 - In Conversation with Paul Gilroy

June 15, 2017 09:45 - 1 hour - 2.05 GB Video

In Conversation: Paul Gilroy and Patricia Williams Patricia J. Williams (Columbia University) will join Paul Gilroy (King’s College London) in conversation at the launch of the CRASSH Impact series, Law, Race, Gender and Public Policy. The discussion will be chaired by former President of the Cambridge University Students' Union, Priscilla Mensah.

Sophie Smith - 9 June 2017 - The Nature of Politics: Quentin Skinner Lecture and Symposium

June 15, 2017 09:05 - 1 hour - 1.41 GB Video

Dr Sophie Smith (University of Oxford) is the Quentin Skinner Fellow 2016-17. She will be giving the annual Quentin Skinner lecture and participating in the symposium. What are we trying to understand when we study politics - and to what end? These are often thought of as relatively new questions in the long history of political thought. On the conventional view, though the ancients certainly wrote about politics, self-conscious reflection on politics as 'science' or 'philosophy' properly sp...

Adriana Erthal Abdenur - 3 April 2017 - Tupi or Not Tupi: Anthropophagy and Emulation in the Study of South-South Cooperation

April 11, 2017 08:06 - 1 hour - 1.58 GB Video

Researching South-South Development Cooperation The conference's keynote lecture, 'Tupi or Not Tupi: Anthropophagy and Emulation in the Study of South-South Cooperation', given by Professor Adriana Erthal Abdenur (Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro) Convenors Elsje Fourie (University of Maastricht) Emma Mawdsley (University of Cambridge) Wiebe Nauta (University of Maastricht) Summary The 'rise of the South' over the last 10-15 years has led to tectonic shifts in global deve...

Mary Jacobus - 15 March 2017 - Twombly’s Books

April 11, 2017 07:59 - 1 hour - 1.6 GB Video

How does literary reference affect the interpretation of largely abstract works? In her recent book, Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint (Princeton University Press, 2016), Mary Jacobus focuses on the artist’s use of poetry in his work, which often includes handwritten words and phrases—-naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho, Homer, and Virgil to Mallarmé, Rilke, and Cavafy. In the artist’s own words, he “never really separated painting and literature.” Mary Jacobus's opening presentati...

Diagrammatic: Beyond Inscription? - 2 December 2016 - Anthony Vidler: How to Do Things with Diagrams

December 06, 2016 09:57 - 57 minutes - 106 MB

Keynote Anthony Vidler (Cooper Union / Yale University) How to Do Things with Diagrams Convenors: Lukas Engelmann (University of Cambridge) Caroline Humphrey (University of Cambridge) Christos Lynteris (University of Cambridge) Summary Diagrams inhabit a liminal space between representation and prescription, words and images, ideas and things. From key moments of scientific and intellectual innovation (Darwin’s tree-diagram, Levi-Strauss’s diagram of the raw and the cooked, Lacan’s L-...

Campaigns on the World Stage: Madeleine Albright and Vin Weber

July 14, 2016 07:44 - 1 hour - 1.9 GB Video

11 July 2016 - Keynote address as part of the 2016's Race to Save the World conference. Madeleine Albright (Former U.S. Secretary of State) Vin Weber (Republican Party strategist and former Congressman) Chair : Steven Schrage (University of Cambridge)

Khaled El-Rouayheb - The Rise of “Deep Reading” in Ottoman Scholarly Culture

May 09, 2016 08:27 - 42 minutes - 953 MB Video

Professor Khaled El-Rouayheb, Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at CRASSH for 2015-2016, delivers the second of his Leverhulme lectures. This lecture will trace the emergence of a novel ideal of “deep reading” among Ottoman scholars of the seventeenth century. Medieval Arabic-Islamic educational manuals tended to focus on student-teacher relations and the acquisition of knowledge through listening. In the seventeenth century, Ottoman scholars articulate a new ideal of the acquisition of knowledge ...

Khaled El-Rouayheb - A Discourse on Method: Dialectics (‘ilm al-munazara) in the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century

May 09, 2016 08:22 - 47 minutes - 1.04 GB Video

Professor Khaled El-Rouayheb, Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at CRASSH for 2015-2016, delivers the first of his Leverhulme lectures. The second lecture, The Rise of "Deep Reading" in Ottoman Scholarly Culture, will take place on Wednesday 4 May. The science of ādāb al-baḥth or munāẓarah emerged relatively late in Islamic history. Its roots lay in the earlier science of eristic (jadal or khilāf) that had developed among early Islamic theologians and jurists (with some influence from Aristotelian...

Dr Teresa M. Bejan - 22 April 2016 - Acknowledging Equality

April 26, 2016 07:40 - 58 minutes - 1.28 GB Video

The seventh Balzan-Skinner lecture and symposium with Balzan-Skinner Fellow Dr Teresa Bejan. As the core premise of modern moral and political philosophy, equality often demands more allegiance than investigation. The question of its historical emergence as a social and political ideal is generally set aside in favor of identifying the causal and constitutive harms of various kinds of inequality – political, social, or economic. This talk will explore ideas of equality as a political princip...

James English - 14 April 2016 - Revisiting the "Great Divide”: The Past, the Future, and the Contemporary Novel

April 21, 2016 07:52 - 52 minutes - 1.15 GB Video

James English (University of Pennsylvania): Revisiting the "Great Divide”: The Past, the Future, and the Contemporary Novel Conference Details Summary This interdisciplinary symposium seeks to expand and enrich our understanding of contemporary literary production. Moving beyond the traditional triumvirate of author, reader and text, we situate today’s fiction within a wider field, encompassing literary agents, editors, book reviewers, writing teachers, prize judges, festival organizers, a...

Tim Boon and Julien Clement - 15 March 2016 - Reflections on Creating a Research Culture / Research in question at the musée du Quai Branly

March 22, 2016 09:18 - 1 hour - 1.32 GB Video

Tim Boon (Science Museum): Reflections on Creating a Research Culture Julien Clement (Musée du Quai Branly, Paris): Research in question at the musée du Quai Branly The Museum as Method: Collections, Research, Universities Summary If for many years collections seemed peripheral to innovative work in the arts and social sciences, there is a new sense that university museums can be research bases of a powerful and distinctive kind. New approaches to material and visual culture, artefact st...

Viola König - 14 March 2016 - Time Matters

March 22, 2016 08:36 - 52 minutes - 1.16 GB Video

Viola König (Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin) Respondent - Hedley Swain (Arts Council of England) The Museum as Method: Collections, Research, Universities Summary If for many years collections seemed peripheral to innovative work in the arts and social sciences, there is a new sense that university museums can be research bases of a powerful and distinctive kind. New approaches to material and visual culture, artefact studies and the intertwined histories of collections, exploration and t...

Genius in History: A Public Conversation - 2 March 2016

March 03, 2016 09:30 - 1 hour - 166 MB

Chair: Dr Alexander Marr A public conversation between Professor Ann Jefferson (University of Oxford and currently a Fellow of the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies) and Professor Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth College) about the history of genius and organised as part of the Genius before Romanticism: Ingenuity in Early Modern Art and Science research project.

Professor Jerome McGann - Truth and Method; or Humanities Scholarship as a Science of Exceptions

June 15, 2015 09:52 - 49 minutes - 1.08 GB Video

Professor Jerome McGann (University of Virginia) will give a public lecture as part of the CRASSH Mellon CDI Visitng Fellowship programme. Abstract As my title suggests, Hans-George Gadamer's dialectic of enlightenment is my point of reference. I mean to recover and revise Gadamer's thought by shifting it from a philosophical to a philological perspective. From the living example of certain individuals, I propose a model of humanist enquiry that seems to me worth preserving and emulating, p...

Dr Anna Becker - Gender in the History of Early Modern Political Thought

June 11, 2015 08:25 - 52 minutes - 1.14 GB Video

The sixth Balzan Skinner Lecture with Balzan Skinner Fellow 2014-15 Dr Anna Becker. While ‘gender’ is a well-established subject in many historical disciplines, such as cultural history, social history and global history, the same cannot be said for the history of political thought. Especially once we turn to the sort of early modern political thought that can be seen as republican in a broad sense, women seem to disappear. They are simply not political: they are not citizens, they cannot pa...

Katherine Hayles - 19 March 2015 - A Theory of the Total Archive

March 31, 2015 08:15 - 46 minutes - 1.02 GB Video

Katherine Hayles - A Theory of the Total Archive: Infinite Expansion, Infinite Compression, and Apparatuses of Control Keynote / Public Lecture from the conference The Total Archive Conference Summary Conveners Boris Jardine (University of Cambridge) Matthew Drage (University of Cambridge, PhD candidate) Ruth Horry (University of Cambridge) Summary The complete system of knowledge is a standard trope of science fiction, a techno-utopian dream and an aesthetic ideal. It is Solomon’s Hous...

Lorna Hutson - 23 March 2015 - 'Unseen, save to the eye of mind': criticism and the 'unscene' of early modern theatre

March 25, 2015 13:44 - 49 minutes - 1.06 GB Video

Conference Summary What is criticism? There is a telling irony in the fact that a word concerned with the making of clear separations and distinctions (< Greek krinein) should be used of early modern practices so various and so very often blurred in their disciplinary affiliation, method, aim, and indeed location. Thinking about literature and the visual arts is found in many places – in treatises on the arts of poetry or painting; in defences, apologies, praises, and paragoni; in critical...

Kwame Anthony Appiah - 17 March 2015 - Cosmopolitanism: In conversation with Ash Amin

March 19, 2015 13:21 - 58 minutes - 1.26 GB Video

CRASSH Mellon CDI Visiting Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah (New York University) in conversation with Professor Ash Amin (University of Cambridge). Abstract “Cosmopolitanism” is an ancient idea – that we are – or should aspire to be –citizens of the world and not merely beholden to a local community. This originally Epicurean and then Christian ideal has become one of the most pressing issues in modern ethics and political thought thanks to the brilliant work of Kwame Anthony Appiah, whose b...

CLAS Seminar: Fabienne Viala - 19 January 2015

January 22, 2015 09:01 - 46 minutes - 1.01 GB Video

Dr Karuna Mantena: Gandhi’s Realism: Means and Ends in Politics

May 21, 2014 10:59 - 50 minutes - 1.09 GB Video

Gandhian nonviolence is often misconstrued as a static moral injunction against violence or simply a condemnation of violent resistance. Gandhi himself is portrayed as a saintly idealist, pacifist, or purveyor of conviction politics – a moral critic of politics, speaking from standpoint of conscience and truth. I aim to show why this view of Gandhi and Gandhian politics is misleading. Against the saint-as-politician, or the moral man of conscience, I pursue Gandhi’s political thinking from...

Professor Mark Mazower: Fascism and Democracy Today: What Use is the Study of History in the Current Crisis?

March 24, 2014 08:42 - 40 minutes - 903 MB Video

Mark Mazower, Ira B. Wallach Professor of History at Columbia University, will give a public lecture as part of the CRASSH Mellon CDI Visiting Fellowship Programme. Mark Mazower is Ira B. Wallach professor of history at Columbia University. Trained in classics, philosophy and history at Oxford, and in international affairs at Johns Hopkins University, he is the author of several books on the history of Greece, modern Europe and international affairs. These include: Inside Hitler's Greece: th...

Professor Pranab Bardhan: Corruption in India: When Preaching Piety is Not Enough

March 18, 2014 11:59 - 1 hour - 1.42 GB Video

Public Keynote Lecture Conference Summary This two-day conference on institutions and institutional change in South Asia brings together historians, economic historians, economists, sociologists and political scientists to critically discuss and debate institutional development in the region. With panels ranging from the origins of institutions in the region to contemporary attempts at policy reform to the informal economy and innovation, the conference includes contributions from eminent s...

Mary Poovey - Working Outside my Comfort Zone: A Literary Scholar Tackles Financial Modelling

March 11, 2014 11:52 - 58 minutes - 1.28 GB Video

Mary Poovey, Samuel Rudin University Professor in the Humanities, New York University, will give a lecture as part of the CRASSH Mellon CDI Visiting Professor programme. This lecture explores some of the challenges of moving from a lifelong research project centred in eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literature to a project focused on modern economics and finance, mostly in the United States. Mary Poovey will discuss the argument of the book she and Kevin R Brine are completing, A M...

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