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Ludmilla Jordanova: Cultures of Surgery

All medical fields have their cultures, both among professionals and in the wider world. Such cultures tend to be metaphorically rich. By that token surgery has been associated with, variously, butchery, cutting open, delving inside, mutilation, penetration and so on. We can see these features in satires, which for several centuries have developed a critical language, visual as well as verbal, for speaking about the aspects of surgery that perhaps seem most frightening to outsiders, and th...

Recordando a JB Trend: en conversación con Dame Margaret Anstee

Dame Margaret Anstee en conversación con Almudena de la Cueva y Alison Sinclair, como colofón a la Conferencia y Simposio MacColl, "Recordando a JB Trend: el discreto internacionalista," Universidad de Cambridge, 2013.

In conversation with Margaret Anstee on JB Trend

Dame Margaret Anstee in conversation with Alison Sinclair and Karen Arrandale.

Professor Cornel West in conversation with Ben Okri on Literature and the Nation

Mellon CDI-invited Fellow Cornel West Cornel West, one of America’s most celebrated and provocative public intellectuals, in conversation with Ben Okri (novelist) and respondent Malachi McIntosh (University of Cambridge) on Literature and the Nation.

Professor Vincent Descombes: Criteria for Collective Identities

The French Embassy has generously sponsored a cycle of lectures and workshops which bring to Cambridge leading scholars from France to interact and foster research collaborations with experts in Cambridge from across the Schools of Arts and Humanities and Humanities and Social Sciences. In this second year of collaboration, the cycle of talks and workshops will explore the complex theme of identity in 21st-century France and beyond. The lectures, which will be given in English, are open to a...

Professor Cornel West in conversation with MM McCabe on Philosophy in the Public Sphere

Mellon CDI-invited Fellow Cornel West Cornel West, one of America’s most celebrated and provocative public intellectuals, in conversation with Mary Margaret McCabe (KCL) and respondent Constanze Güthenke (Princeton University) on Philosophy in the Public Sphere.

Professor Clifford Siskin - 29 April 2013 - Guesswork: System, Science, and the Advancement of Knowledge

This is the second of two Leverhulme Re:Enlightenment Lectures by Clifford Siskin (Henry W and Alfred A Berg Professor of English and American Literature, New York University; Director, The Re:Enlightenment Project) who is currently a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at CRASSH. The video of the first lecture When System Met History: The Tectonics of the Modern Disciplines held on Tuesday 5 March 2013 is online here. These lectures examine how knowledge gets stuck and the strategies for restar...

Dr Gabriel Paquette: Balzan-Skinner Lecture and Symposium: Romantic Liberalism in Southern Europe, c. 1820-1850

Dr Gabriel Paquette (The Johns Hopkins University, US): CRASSH Balzan-Skinner Fellow 2012-13 Romantic Liberalism in Southern Europe, c. 1820-1850 Email: [email protected] In 1820, revolutions broke out in Spain, Naples, and Portugal. The revolutionaries overthrew absolutist regimes and forced monarchs to accept written constitutions and some representative institutions. In the case of the Iberian countries, these years also were marked by the final dismemberment of their Atlantic empires. B...

Denis-Constant Martin: The Political Configuration of Identities

The French Embassy has generously sponsored a cycle of lectures and workshops which bring to Cambridge leading scholars from France to interact and foster research collaborations with experts in Cambridge from across the Schools of Arts and Humanities and Humanities and Social Sciences. In this second year of collaboration, the cycle of talks and workshops will explore the complex theme of identity in 21st-century France and beyond.

Exploring Traditions: Sources for a Global History of Science

Simon Schaffer (HPS) & Sujit Sivasundaram (History) introduce the conference 'Exploring Traditions: Sources for a Global History of Science'.

Edmund de Waal's 'A Local History' for the University of Cambridge

Edmund de Waal on his installation 'A Local History' for the Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge.

Dame Margaret Anstee: JB Trend - The Life of a Scholar Gypsy

Dame Margaret Anstee gives the MacColl lecture beginning the symposium 'Remembering JB Trend: the quiet internationalist,' University of Cambridge, 2013. Further details: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2073/

Professor Clifford Siskin - 5 March 2013 - When System Met History: The Tectonics of the Modern Disciplines

This is the first of two Leverhulme Re:Enlightenment Lectures by Clifford Siskin (Henry W and Alfred A Berg Professor of English and American Literature, New York University; Director, The Re:Enlightenment Project) who is currently a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at CRASSH. The second lecture, Guesswork: System, Science, and the Advancement of Knowledge, will be held on Monday 29 April 2013. These lectures examine how knowledge gets stuck and the strategies for restarting it. Ranging from ...

Edmund de Waal - A Local History

A talk by Edmund de Waal on his installation 'A Local History' for the Alison Richard Building. A Local History A local history is an installation of three vitrines filled with porcelain, sunk below the paving outside the Alison Richard Building on the Sidgwick Site of Cambridge University. These vitrines are meant to be discovered, to be happened upon as you come and go across the site. They are there to make you pause momentarily. They are not sculpture as a Grand Statement. If you find ...

Posy Simmonds: Making People

CRASSH presents an evening with Posy Simmonds, cartoonist and graphic novelist, on inventing plots, characters, make-up, wardrobe, props, location, lighting, special effects, performing goats...

Mireille Rosello: Sharing Transnational Interiors: A Boat on the Mediterranean Sea

Filming Transnational Interiors ‘Sharing Transnational Interiors: A Boat on the Mediterranean Sea’ - Mireille Rosello

Dr Tim Stanton: John Locke and the Fable of Liberalism

The third Balzan-Skinner lecture and colloquium explores one crooked and circuitous route by which John Locke was claimed by liberalism and came over time to be refashioned in its image. For it was Locke's fate to become the hero of what we might call 'the fable of liberalism', the story which liberalism recounts to itself about its origins and purposes in enacting and reproducing its preferred ways of thinking about the human condition and the nature and limits of political life. This fabl...

DH23Things: 30 Things in 30 Mins - Meg Westbury

The DH23things programme will begin in September, 2012 with this launch event featuring a session from Meg Westbury of the Judge Business School Library on 30 Things in 30 Mins – a fast-paced tour of 30 of the most useful digital tools available on the web to help the researcher.

DH23Things Launch

23Things for Digital Humanities (DH23) is a self-directed, peer mentored reflective programme to help researchers in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cambridge University to explore digital technologies and the ways in which they impact on various aspects of their working lives, and thereby to develop their own strategic approach to engagement with digital technologies. It is a way to discover and explore digital tools which might be useful to you but also a framework for evaluatio...

POIESIS: Interdisciplinary Interventions on Urban Transformation

POIESIS: Interdisciplinary Interventions on Urban Transformation Urban Democracy by Design? Introduction: Poiesis and Cross-Sectoral Work Markus Hipp (Executive Director, BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt) Panelists: Michael Arad (Partner, Handel Architects) Ricky Burdett (Professor of Urban Studies and Director of the Cities and the Urban Age Programme, London School of Economics) Saskia Sasen (Robert S Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University) Richard Sennett (University Professor, N...

Workshop on Beauty, Towards Political Anthropology - 2012

Workshop on Beauty, Towards Political Anthropology - 2012 Convened by International Political Anthropology [IPA] at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) Cambridge with IPA book launch. Professor Arpad Szakolczai (University College Cork) Dr Agnes Horvath (Cambridge University) Dr Harald Wydra (Cambridge University) James Cuffe (University College Cork) Professor Sixto Castro (University of Valladolid) Anna-Riikka Kauppinnen (LSE, London) Arvydas Grisinas (Kent,Univer...

Alexandra Hyde: Bargaining with militarisation: an ethnography of women married to servicemen living overseas

Alexandra Hyde (Gender Institute, LSE) This paper is based on an ethnographic study of a British Army camp overseas, from the perspective of civilian women married to servicemen. By focusing on the experiences and attitudes of ‘military wives’ within the Army’s social and institutional structure, the aim of this research is to investigate the ways in which the depth and scope of militarisation might be argued to be contingent upon or indeed, mediated by other factors such as gender, race, c...

Professor Herbert Huppert: Climate Histories Series

Professor Herbert Huppert (FRS, Chairman of EASAC Working Group on Carbon Capture and Storage) This is Climate Histories' final meeting of the academic year. Professor Herbert Huppert FRS will speak on past volcanic eruptions and the future of carbon sequestration. He is from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and is interested in modeling complex systems.

Annettee Nakimuli: New Approaches to Maternal Mortality In Africa

Conference Conveners Ashley Moffett (Professor of Reproductive Immunology) Megan Vaughan (Professor of Commonwealth History) Conference Summary Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG5) aims to improve maternal health. Unlike other MDGs, few countries are on track to achieve even the first goal of MDG 5, namely, to reduce maternal mortality by 75%. Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from the highest regional maternal mortality rate (MMR) at 640 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births and the annual dec...

Ashley Moffett: New Approaches to Maternal Mortality In Africa

Conference Conveners Ashley Moffett (Professor of Reproductive Immunology) Megan Vaughan (Professor of Commonwealth History) Conference Summary Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG5) aims to improve maternal health. Unlike other MDGs, few countries are on track to achieve even the first goal of MDG 5, namely, to reduce maternal mortality by 75%. Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from the highest regional maternal mortality rate (MMR) at 640 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births and the annual dec...

Michael Wegener: A Round Table Discussion

Conveners Dr Ying Jin (Architecture, University of Cambridge) Dr Tony Hargreaves (Architecture, University of Cambridge) Co-ordinated by Marion Houston Scientific Committee Professor Marcial Echenique (Architecture, University of Cambridge) Professor Mike Batty (Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL) Professor Michael Wegener (Spiekermann & Wegener Urban and Regional Research, Dortmund) Conference Summary AUM2012 is the second of a planned series of annual symposia for discu...

Edmund de Waal: In Praise of Shadows: Installations and Archives

In Praise of Shadows: Installations and Archives: A talk by Edmund de Waal at Kettle's Yard

Professor Steven Shapin: The Tastes of Wine: Towards a Cultural History

ST Lee Professorial Fellow 2011-12 The ST Lee Professorial Fellowship has been made possible by a generous endowment by Dr ST Lee, of Singapore to the School of Advanced Study at the University of London. Professor Steven Shapin A lecture by Steven Shapin (Franklin L Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University) on the cultural and social history of how people have tasted wine and talked about its tastes followed by a wine reception. Abstract How have people talked abou...

Marcial Echenique: Introduction to AUM 2012

Conveners Dr Ying Jin (Architecture, University of Cambridge) Dr Tony Hargreaves (Architecture, University of Cambridge) Co-ordinated by Marion Houston Scientific Committee Professor Marcial Echenique (Architecture, University of Cambridge) Professor Mike Batty (Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL) Professor Michael Wegener (Spiekermann & Wegener Urban and Regional Research, Dortmund) Conference Summary AUM2012 is the second of a planned series of annual symposia for discussing app...

Witnessing War: Session Two

A half-day workshop in conjunction with Jay Winter's 2012 Humanitas Visiting Professorship in War Studies at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). Prof Alex Danchev : The Images of Abu Ghraib Professor of International Relations, University of Nottingham Dr Beatrice Jauregui : American Communion: Vietnam War Veterans Reunions Research Fellow in Social Anthropology, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge Ms Jananne Al-Ani : The Aesthetics of Disa...

Witnessing War: Session One

A half-day workshop in conjunction with Jay Winter's 2012 Humanitas Visiting Professorship in War Studies at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). Mr Paul Cornish : Exhibiting War. A New First World War Gallery for the Imperial War Museum. Senior Curator and Historian, Imperial War Museum, London Dr Dacia Viejo-Rose : Cultural and Symbolic Violence: The case of Spain, 1936-2006 British Academy Post-doctoral Fellow, Macdonald Institute for Archaeologi...

Professor Jay Winter: Imagining the Great War: The Historial de la grande guerre, Péronne, Somme

Professor Jay Winter: Imagining the Great War: The Historial de la grande guerre, Péronne, Somme Charles J. Still Professor of History, Yale University and CRASSH Visiting Humanitas Professor, University of Cambridge Building on Professor Jay Winter’s series of lectures on Writing War, Figuring War, and Filming War, as well as a concluding symposium on Imagining War in the 20th Century and After, this workshop will provide an opportunity to further explore the general topic of 'imagining wa...

Natalie Zemon Davis and Amitav Ghosh: Storytelling and the Global Past

Natalie Zemon Davis and Amitav Ghosh: Storytelling and the Global Past John-Paul Ghobrial (History, Churchill College) This public lecture will bring together the prize-winning historian Natalie Zemon Davis and the celebrated novelist Amitav Ghosh to reflect on prevailing approaches to writing about the global past. Masterful storytellers in their own right, both speakers have experimented in novel, poignant, and bold ways with several of the key questions facing global historians today. In...

Rising Powers in the International System: Harnessing Opportunities, Managing Challenges

Rising Powers in the International System: Harnessing Opportunities, Managing Challenges Rising Powers in the International System Chair and Discussant: Professor Andrew Gamble The Rise of the BRICs – Dr Jim O’Neill (Goldman Sachs) The Historic Struggle for Mastery – Professor Brendan Simms (POLIS, Cambridge; Member, Steering Committee, CRP) Negotiating with and as New Powers – Dr Amrita Narlikar (POLIS, Cambridge; Director, CRP)

Beyond revolutions: the use of ICTs for political mobilization and participation in Sub-Saharan Africa - Session 2

Conference Summary After witnessing the critical role new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) played in supporting political change in Northern Africa at the beginning of 2011, expectations have grown that in Sub-Saharan Africa authoritarian or semi-authoritarian regimes may also be challenged by emerging uses of ICTs for political change. However, there have been little signs that long-standing leaders in countries like Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, or Uganda may be ousted from power by...

Beyond revolutions: the use of ICTs for political mobilization and participation in Sub-Saharan Africa - Session 1

Conference Summary After witnessing the critical role new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) played in supporting political change in Northern Africa at the beginning of 2011, expectations have grown that in Sub-Saharan Africa authoritarian or semi-authoritarian regimes may also be challenged by emerging uses of ICTs for political change. However, there have been little signs that long-standing leaders in countries like Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, or Uganda may be ousted from power by...

David Hendy: Early Radio, Intellectuals, and the Cultures of Listening

A lecture by David Hendy at CRASSH - 12 March 2009

7 West Road

7 West Road

The Moving Image (Conference Trailer)

The Moving Image: Re-configuring Spaces of Loss and Mourning in the 21st Century (26-27 February 2010).

Apocalissi (Conference trailer)

Dr Heather Webb (French and Italian, Ohio) and Dr Florian Mussgnug (Italian, UCL), preview their CRASSH conference 'Apocalissi: Eschatological Imagination in Italian Culture from Dante to the Present' (9-10 October 2009).

Harald Wydra: Understanding New Wars (Conference trailer)

Harald Wydra: Understanding New Wars (Conference trailer) Understanding New Wars (12-13 February 2010).

Saad Eskander: Iraq National Library and Archives in Transition

Dr Saad Eskander (Director, Iraq National Library, Baghdad), 'Iraq National Library and Archives in Transition: Old Tasks and New Responsibilities'. This lecture was part of the Postcolonial Empires Grad/Fac group (October 2009).

James Elkins: 'The Variable Relation of Photography and Science'

James Elkins: 'The Variable Relation of Photography and Science' Professor James Elkins (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), 'The Variable Relation of Photography and Science'. Professor Elkins was delivering the keynote address for the conference 'William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography' (CRASSH, Cambridge, 24-26 June, 2010).

Hannah Dawson: The normativity of nature in early-modern thought

Hannah Dawson: The normativity of nature in early-modern thought The Balzan-Skinner inaugural lecturer by Dr Hannah Dawson of the University of Edinburgh, the theme is the normativity of nature. Examining the relationship between nature and morality in early enlightenment thought

Chaired Debate: Is Building Bigger and 'Better' Climate Change Models a Poor Investment?

Chaired Debate: Is Building Bigger and 'Better' Climate Change Models a Poor Investment? Jonathan Rougier (University of Bristol) and Tim Palmer (University of Oxford)

Chris Gregory: On Money, Debt and Morality: Before Smith, Smith, After Smith

Chris Gregory: On Money, Debt and Morality: Before Smith, Smith, After Smith Debt Conference Keynote Address Introduced by Dame Marilyn Strathern Chris Gregory (The Australian National University): On money, debt and morality: Before Smith, Smith, After Smith

Mary Jacobus: Achilles’ Horses, Twombly’s War: Monuments, Mourning, and Mars

The theme of war in paintings like Twombly's Fifty Days at Iliam reveals how martial art becomes polemical in making the destructiveness of the past visible to contemporary viewers. Professor Simon Goldhill responds, comparing Twombly's classicism with that of another modern artist, Andy Warhol.

Dr Joel Isaac : Radical Translation: Analytic Philosophy in America

In this year's Balzan-Skinner Lecture, Dr Joel Isaac (Queen Mary, University of London) discusses the analytic tradition of philosophy in the United States. The lecture will be followed by a colloquium on Friday 6 May 2011.

Louise Corti

Lily Ford: Views from the Air, Viewed in the Archive

Ms Lily Ford (London Consortium): Views from the Air, Viewed in the Archive. Covert Cultures: Art and the Secret State, 1911-1989