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David Hendy: Radio, Mind-Control & Air War in the Early Twentieth-Century Britain
March 22, 2011 12:17 - 21 minutes - 302 MB VideoDr David Hendy (University of Westminster): Radio, Mind-Control & Air War in the Early Twentieth-Century Britain Covert Cultures: Art and the Secret State, 1911-1989
Cathy Caruth: Colloquium on the Work of Professor Cathy Caruth - Part 2
March 22, 2011 12:01 - 1 hour - 1.6 GB VideoA colloquium with Cathy Caruth (Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Emory University). Professor Caruth will be talking about her paper Lying and History. This follows her lecture at CRASSH on Thursday 10 March. This is Part 2 or 2
Cathy Caruth: Colloquium on the Work of Professor Cathy Caruth - Part 1
March 22, 2011 11:48 - 1 hour - 1.07 GB VideoA colloquium with Cathy Caruth (Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Emory University). Professor Caruth will be talking about her paper Lying and History. This follows her lecture at CRASSH on Thursday 10 March. This is Part 1 or 2
Cathy Caruth: After the End: Psychoanalysis in the Ashes of History
March 22, 2011 11:33 - 59 minutes - 829 MB VideoA lecture by Cathy Caruth (Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Emory University) in which she discusses Derrida's 'Archive Fever', Freud, and Jensen's 'Gradiva'. The lecture will be followed by a colloquium on Friday 11 March in which Professor Caruth will be talking about her work.
Thomas W. Laqueur: Human Rights Pedagogy and the Politics of Humanitarianism
December 07, 2010 10:10 - 1 hour - 870 MB VideoThomas W. Laqueur: Human Rights Pedagogy and the Politics of Humanitarianism
Deliberating new media: creating alternative politics in the Middle East and Africa?
December 07, 2010 10:04 - 1 hour - 1.26 GB VideoThe New Media / Alternative Politics conference on 14-16 October debated the relationship between communication technologies and political change in the Middle East and Africa. Amy Saunderson-Meyer, from FreedomFone in Zimbabwe, Herman Wasserman of Rhodes University and Firoze Manji, editor of Pambazuka News joined this panel discussion at the opening session.
Deliberating new media: creating alternative politics in the Middle East and Africa?
December 07, 2010 10:04 - 1 hour - 1.26 GB VideoThe New Media / Alternative Politics conference on 14-16 October debated the relationship between communication technologies and political change in the Middle East and Africa. Amy Saunderson-Meyer, from FreedomFone in Zimbabwe, Herman Wasserman of Rhodes University and Firoze Manji, editor of Pambazuka News joined this panel discussion at the opening session.
Prasenjit Duara: Translating Religion and Secularism in China
June 29, 2010 10:18 - 1 hour - 888 MB VideoProfessor Prasenjit Duara (National University of Singapore), 'Translating Religion and Secularism in China', a lecture in association with the AHRC China Network.
Jay Winter: Moving Images
June 29, 2010 09:42 - 53 minutes - 740 MB VideoProfessor Jay Winter (History, Yale University) 'Moving Images: From Silent Film to Film Silences in War Films, 1914-2009'. Keynote lecture at CRASSH conference 'The Moving Image' (26-27 February, 2010). This paper explores the long history of representation of war in film, from the Great War to the present. It suggests first that silent film provided a form of public séance in an era when spiritualism was at its apogee, and secondly, that it is the silences in later 'talkies' which enable us...
Veit Erlmann: The Physiologist at the Opera
June 29, 2010 09:13 - 47 minutes - 661 MB VideoProfessor Veit Erlmann (Butler School of Music, University of Texas at Austin), 'The Physiologist at the Opera: Claude Perrault and the Politics of Pleasure in the Ancien Régime'. Professor Erlmann was speaking to the Mellon-funded seminar series 'Music and Society' as a Mellon Invited Fellow (22, February 2010).
Tzo Zen Ang and Sandy Kwok: Boxed In Memories
June 28, 2010 11:26 - 4 minutes - 66.7 MB VideoA dance performance by Tzo Zen Ang and Sandy Kwok choreographed by Jennifer Hersch with music by Ruth Boswell. This piece explores the madness which can arise when beauty and pain cannot be assimilated in the psyche as a woman finds herself on the edge between love and loss. The performance was part of the CRASSH conference, 'Pain in Performance and 'Moving Beauty'' (21-22 May, 2010).
Tzo Zen Ang, Saba Hinrichs and Jennifer Hersch: Please Please Please
June 28, 2010 10:45 - 8 minutes - 112 MB VideoA dance performance by Tzo Zen Ang, Saba Hinrichs and Jennifer Hersch, choreographed by Lise Smith. The performance was part of the CRASSH conference, 'Pain in Performance and 'Moving Beauty'' (21-22 May, 2010).
Havi Carel: Subjective Wellbeing and Objective Health
June 28, 2010 10:36 - 52 minutes - 727 MB VideoDr Havi Carel (Philosophy, University of the West England), 'Subjective Wellbeing and Objective Health'. Keynote lecture at the Health and Welfare Group Annual Symposium at CRASSH (16 June 2010).
Gwylim Bowen, Misha Mulloy-Abbado, Jeremy Thurlow (and John Keats): Unbidden Visions
June 28, 2010 09:56 - 8 minutes - 123 MB VideoLines from a verse-letter by John Keats, set to music by Jeremy Thurlow. Performers: Gwylim Bowen (tenor), Misha Mulloy-Abbado (horn), Jeremy Thurlow (piano). The performance was part of the CRASSH conference, 'Pain in Performance and 'Moving Beauty'' (21-22 May, 2010).
Jeremy Hardingham: Without article (A performance of pain)
June 08, 2010 13:18 - 21 minutes - 303 MB VideoA performance by Jeremy Hardingham with Lucy Beynon and Lisa Jeschke in Berlin. The performance was part of the CRASSH conference, 'Pain in Performance and 'Moving Beauty'' (21-22 May, 2010).
Scholars at Risk: Human Rights and Academic Freedom
June 08, 2010 12:15 - 44 minutes - 613 MB VideoAn event co-organised by the Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CG+HR), Cambridge, The Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA) and CRASSH, in which refugee academics shared their experiences confronting professional and personal threats in their native countries along with the challenges of settling and working in the UK.
David Spiegelhalter: Challenging Models in the Face of Uncertainty (Conference trailer)
June 08, 2010 10:20 - 3 minutes - 12.8 MB VideoProfessor David Spiegelhalter re-caps on the scope of the year-long Mellon Sawyer sponsored seminar series Modelling Futures and looks towards the Series-concluding international conference in September 2010.
Elaine Scarry: Beauty and Social Justice
June 08, 2010 09:55 - 55 minutes - 777 MB VideoProfessor Elaine Scarry (English, Harvard), 'Beauty and Social Justice'. Professor Scarry was delivering the first of two keynote addresses to the conference 'Pain in Performance and 'Moving Beauty' (21-22 May, 2010). The second keynote (available in the CRASSH collection) was by Professor Helmut Lethen (The IFK, Vienna)
Helmut Lethen: 'Pain has no meaning' (Paul Valéry)
June 08, 2010 09:41 - 46 minutes - 650 MB VideoProfessor Helmut Lethen (The IFK, Vienna), ''Pain has no meaning' (Paul Valéry). Narratives of Anti-Therapeutic Realism as a Provocation of Cultural Studies'. Professor Lethen was delivering the second of two keynote addresses to the conference 'Pain in Performance and 'Moving Beauty' (21-22 May, 2010). The first keynote (available in the CRASSH collection) was by Professor Elaine Scarry (English, Harvard).
Maarten Hajer: Reframing Climate Policy
May 28, 2010 13:07 - 52 minutes - 729 MB VideoProfessor Maarten Hajer (Director of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and Professor of Public Policy at the University of Amsterdam), 'Reframing Climate Policy: Reflections on Science, Politics and the Role of the State'. Professor Hajer was delivering the keynote address at the conference 'Democratising Futures' (28 May). Part of the Mellon Sawyer sponsored seminar series 'Modelling Futures: Understanding Risk and Uncertainty'.
Roberto Scazzieri: Connections, Reasons and the Social Economy
May 24, 2010 13:42 - 33 minutes - 468 MB VideoRoberto Scazzieri (Professor of Economic Analysis, Economics, Bologna and CAMSHET - Cambridge History of Economic Analysis at Clare Hall). Opening lecture at CRASSH conference 'Rethinking Social Economy' (7 May, 2010).
Ha-Joon Chang and Milfor Bateman: Social Economy for Economic Development
May 24, 2010 12:05 - 31 minutes - 431 MB VideoDr Ha-Joon Chang (Economics, Cambridge) and Dr Milfor Bateman (Economics, Juraj Dobrila Pula, Croatia) speaking at CRASSH conference 'Rethinking Social Economy' (7 May, 2010).
Dr Sarah Kember and Dr Joanna Zylinska: Creative Mediation
May 24, 2010 10:52 - 55 minutes - 772 MB VideoDr Sarah Kember and Dr Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths, University of London) address the question of 'creativity' and its application under the umbrella of 'creative industries'; they consider the links often made with originality, genius or chance and offer an alternative reading that draws on work by Henri Bergson and Jacques Derrida (CRASSH, 17 May 2010. Part of the Intermedia Research Group.)
Sheldon Pollock: The Great Chain of Academic Being
May 21, 2010 12:33 - 1 hour - 982 MB VideoProfessor Sheldon Pollock (Columbia): The Great Chain of Academic Being: A View from the Bottom: Reflections on the Non-Western, the Non-Modern and the Philological (CRASSH, 13 May, 2010). Professor Pollock was speaking at the Centre as part of the Mellon CDI Invited Fellows Programme.