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Welcome to a new year at CRASSH. It promises to be an exciting one, as our plans for growth are coming to fruition. We have three new full-scale projects starting this year to add to the four already in place – by the end of the year we will have 36 post-doctoral fellows on long-term contracts mainly working on interdisciplinary, collaborative projects at CRASSH. We are looking forward to greeting ten new research fellows this term, as well as our usual crop of visitors.

The European Research Council project Genius before Romanticism, headed by Alex Marr from Art History, looks at the multiple ways that ideas of expertise, brilliance and special learning function in the early modern period. This naturally interconnects with another large- scale early modern project, also funded by the ERC, on Crossroads of Knowledge, run by Subha Mukherji from the English Faculty. Cambridge will soon be home to one of the biggest research groups on early modern culture in the country.

The Centre for Digital Knowledge opens its (metaphorical) doors this autumn with the launch of two projects. The first looks at whether the digital revolution really does produce new knowledge, and if so how it is to be understood. This project is led by Peter de Bolla, from English, and his team will be taking the archives of the early modern period as one of their test-cases, linking with the Crossroads and Genius projects. We will shortly be recruiting for two new fellows in a parallel project on Digital Society – so watch this space to see how our work with modern technology and society is expanding.

All of these projects grew out of work being undertaken at CRASSH in the workgroups, seminars and conferences: there is a bulging programme for this term. So take a look at what’s on – and if you want to find out more about research, new and longstanding, at CRASSH, visit us in the Alison Richard Building at the CRASSH Open Day on 17 October. We look forward to seeing you here!

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BER 2014 8 OCT READING GROUP Organic Forms12pm-2pm • CRASSH (SG2) Rethinking Life www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25749

8 OCT SEMINAR Reading Institutional and Domestic Things 12pm-2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Jane Hamlett (Royal Holloway), Alastair Owens (Queen Mary) • Things That Matter, 1400-1900 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25801

8 OCT SEMINAR Fracking: A Roundtable Discussion 2:30pm-4:30pm • CRASSH (SG2) Natalie Bennett (Green Party), David Reiner (Cambridge), Tim Harris (Warriors Call)Susan Crate (George Mason)• Climate Histories www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25819

9 OCT SEMINAR Climate Change Anthropology and Engagement 10am-12pm • CRASSH (SG1) Susan Crate (Virginia) • Climate Historieswww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25820

9 OCT SEMINAR 1414-2014: Literary Internationalism in the years of 3 Popes 5pm-7pm • CRASSH (SG2) David Wallace (Pennsylvania) • Multilingualism www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25751

13 OCT SEMINAR George Eliot’s Forms of Research 12:30pm-2pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Ruth Abbott (English/St John’s College) • Work in Progress Seminar www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25517

13 OCT SEMINAR Re-Imagining the Sound of a Mining Landscape 1:30pm-3:30pm • CRASSH (SG1) Sarah Buckler (Robert Gordon University) • Civic Matter www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25818

13 OCT SEMINAR Performing the Public Sphere 5pm-7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Anastasia Piliavsky (Cambridge/UCL), Rafael Schacter (BA Postdoctoral Fellow) • Performance Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25810

14 OCT READING GROUPCambridge Psychoanalysis Reading Group 12:45pm-2pm • CRASSH (S3) Cambridge Psychoanalysis www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25731

14 OCT LECTUREConspiracy and Democracy5pm-7pm • CRASSH (SG1) David Aaronovitch (Journalist) • Conspiracy and Democracy www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25833

14 OCT SEMINARScreen Media 5:15pm-7:15pm • CRASSH (SG2) Nikolaj Lubecker (Oxford) • Screen Media www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25740

15 OCT SEMINAR Presentation and Film ‘Confidential Report’ (Welles 1955) 2:30pm-4:30pm • CRASSH (SG2)Places of Amnesia www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25797

15 OCT SEMINARReligious Belief 3pm-5pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Convenors: Arif Ahmed and Daniel Weiss (Cambridge) • Mellon Teaching Seminar www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25703

15 OCT SEMINAR Emotion and Rationality: Moral Decisions 5pm-7pm • CRASSH (S1) Joshua Greene (Harvard), Rae Langton (Cambridge) • Moral Psychology www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25792

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BER 2014 16 OCT SEMINAR Energy Efficiency and Heritage Buildings 2pm-4pm• CRASSH (SG1) Minna Sunnikka Blank and Kayla Friedman (Cambridge) • Greenbridge www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25814

17 OCT OPEN DAY CRASSH Open Day 1.30pm-6pm• CRASSH (SG1) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25855

20 OCT SEMINARThe Cold War Enlightenment 12:30pm-2pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Joel Isaac (History/Christ’s College) • Work in Progress Seminar www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25494

20 OCT SEMINAR Interreligious Dialogue (Christian/Hindu) 1:30pm-3:30pm • CRASSH (SG1) Ankur Barrua (Cambridge) • Locating Religion www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25806

20 OCT SEMINAR Revanchist Sanitisation or Coercive Care? 5:30pm-7:30pm • CRASSH (SG1) Sarah Johnsen (Heriot-Watt) • City Seminar www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25773

21 OCT SEMINAR The Albums of a Victorian Naval Surgeon 12pm-2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Jim Secord (Cambridge) • Global Science www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25759

21 OCT READING GROUPCambridge Psychoanalysis Reading Group 12:45pm-2pm • CRASSH (S3) Cambridge Psychoanalysis www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25732

21 OCT SEMINAR Writing in South Italy: Adaptation, Exchange and Identity 5pm-7pm • CRASSH (SG2)Katherine McDonald and Nick Zair (Cambridge) • Multilingualism www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25752

21 OCT LECTURE Paranoid Masculinities: Conspiracy Theory in Mark Twain’s Fiction 5pm-7pm • CRASSH (SG1) Alex Beringer (Montevallo) • Conspiracy and Democracy www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25763

22 OCT READING GROUP Knowing Life 12pm-2pm • CRASSH (SG2) Rethinking Lifewww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25756

22 OCT SEMINAR Household Things 12pm-2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Julia Poole and Craig Cessford (Cambridge) • Things That Matter, 1400-1900 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25802

22 OCT SEMINAR Climate Histories 2:30pm-4:30pm • CRASSH (SG2) Climate Histories www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25821

22 OCT SEMINAR Religious Belief 3pm-5pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Convenors: Arif Ahmed and Daniel Weiss (Cambridge) • Mellon Teaching Seminar www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25706

22 OCT SEMINAR The Roman Past of al-Andalus 5pm-7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Ann Christys (Independent) • Late Antiquity Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25779

23 OCT READING GROUP Researching (with) Social Media: A Reading Group 2pm-4pm • Department of Sociology (Seminar Room) Digital Humanities Network and Sociologywww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25838

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BER 2014 27 OCT SEMINAR Beyond One Man and One Woman: A History of Early American Polygamy 12:30pm-2pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Sarah Pearsall (History/Robinson College) • Work in Progress Seminar www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25495

27 OCT SEMINAR Creativity and Capitalism: Opponents or Allies?5pm-7pm • CRASSH (SG1) Eleonora Belfiore (Warwick), Susan Bayly and Jonas Tinius (Cambridge) • Performance Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25811

28 OCT READING GROUPCambridge Psychoanalysis Reading Group 12:45pm-2pm • CRASSH (S3) Cambridge Psychoanalysis www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25733

28 OCT LECTUREA Land of Conspiracy: Geopolitics and Imagination in Colonial North Africa 5pm-7pm • CRASSH (SG1) James Roslington (Cambridge) • Conspiracy and Democracy www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25764

28 OCT LECTURE Human Prosperity within Planetary Boundaries 5pm-6:30pm • Lady Mitchell Hall Johan Rockström (Stockholm) • Humanitas in Sustainability Studies www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25842

28 OCT SEMINARScreen Media 5:15pm-7:15pm • CRASSH (SG2) Robbie Duschinsky (Northumbria) • Screen Media www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25741

29 OCT SEMINAR Religious Belief3pm-5pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Convenors: Arif Ahmed and Daniel Weiss (Cambridge) • Mellon Teaching Seminar www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25707

29 OCT SEMINAR Planetary Boundaries 2.0: Advancements on Defining a safe Operating Space for Humanity on Earth 5pm-6:30pm • Department of Geography (CCI Seminar) Johan Rockström (Stockholm) • Humanitas in Sustainability Studies www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25843

30 OCT SEMINAR Competition of Life Game 11am-1pm • University CentreJohan Rockström (Stockholm) • Humanitas in Sustainability Studies www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25844

30 OCT SEMINAR Rethinking Existing Buildings in the UK 2pm-4pm • CRASSH (SG1) Andy Ford (CEREB/London SouthBank), Aaron Gillich (Cambridge) • Greenbridge www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25815

30 OCT SEMINARThe Unclaimed Legacy of the Romanian Holocaust 5pm-7pm • CRASSH (SG1) Marianne Hirsch (Columbia), Em Leo Spitzer (Dartmouth) • Places of Amnesia www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25798

31 OCT SYMPOSIUM From Sustainable Development to Global Sustainability 2pm-6pm • CRASSH (SG1) Johan Rockström (Stockholm) • Humanitas in Sustainability Studies www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25845

3 NOV SEMINAROvid Revisited: Locating the Heroides in Michael Drayton and Madhusudan Dutt12:30pm-2pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Sukanya Dasgupta (Loreto College, Calcutta) • Work in Progress Seminar www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25531

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BER 2014 3 NOV SEMINARIssues in the Study of Spiritualism 1:30pm-3:30pm • CRASSH (SG1) Tim Jenkins (Cambridge) • Locating Religion www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25807

3 NOV SEMINAR Refugees and the Urban Poor: In Two Palestinian Enclaves 5:30pm-7:30pm • CRASSH (SG1) Silvia Pasquetti (Cambridge) • City Seminar www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25778

4 NOV SEMINAR Medical Intervention and Political Autonomy (British India) 12pm-2pm • CRASSH (SG1)Zujaja Tauqeer (Oxford) • Global Science www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25760

4 NOV READING GROUP Cambridge Psychoanalysis Reading Group 12:45pm-2pm • CRASSH (S3) Cambridge Psychoanalysis www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25734

4 NOV SEMINAR Langtoft’s Chronicle, Multilingualism of the Other 5pm-7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Jane Gilbert (University College, London) • Multilingualism www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25753

4 NOV LECTURE The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Separating Fact from Fiction 5pm-7pm • CRASSH (SG1)Michael Hagemeister (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) • Conspiracy and Democracy www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25765

4 NOV SEMINAR Screen Media5:15pm-7pm • Venue TBA Eugenie Brinkema (MIT) • Screen Media www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25744

5 NOV READING GROUP The Ordinary and the Extraordinary 12pm-2pm • CRASSH (SG2) Rethinking Life www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25757

5 NOV SEMINAR Explosive Things 12pm-2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Simon Werrett (UCL) and Haileigh Robertson (York) • Things That Matter, 1400-1900 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25803

5 NOV SEMINAR Technology, Climate Change, and Engineering Solutions 2:30pm-4:30pm • CRASSH (SG2)Herta Nobauer (Vienna) • Climate Histories www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25822

5 NOV SEMINAR Religious Belief3pm-5pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Convenors: Arif Ahmed and Daniel Weiss (Cambridge) • Mellon Teaching Seminar www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25708

5 NOV SEMINAR Late Antiquity Network Seminar5pm-7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Ellen Swift (Kent) • Late Antiquity Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25780

5 NOV SEMINAR Pleasure and Well-Being 5pm-7pm • CRASSH (S1) Roger Crisp (Oxford) and Andrew MacLeod (London) • Moral Psychology www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25793

6 NOV CONFERENCEThe Bible and the Novel in Nineteenth-century Britain One day • CRASSH (SG1)Norman Vance (Sussex), Ruth Abbott (Cambridge), Richa Dwor (Leicester), Jan-Melissa Schramm (Cambridge) • The Bible and Antiquity www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25683

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BER 2014 10 NOV SEMINAR Johannes Althusius and the Problems of Writing Gender in Early Modern Political Thought 12:30pm-2pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Anna Becker (Basel) • Work in Progress Seminar www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25596

10 NOV SEMINAR Rehearsal: Performing the Everyday 5pm-7pm • CRASSH (SG1) Rachel Davies (Kingston), Tracy Davis (Northwestern), Clare Foster (Cambridge) • Performance Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25812

11 NOV READING GROUP Cambridge Psychoanalysis Reading Group12:30pm-1:30pm • CRASSH (S3)Cambridge Psychoanalysis www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25735

11 NOV SEMINAR Exposure, Ethics and Art-Anthropology in Post-Disaster Japan 1:30pm-3:30pm • CRASSH (SG1) Jennifer Clarke (Aberdeen) • Civic Matterwww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25769

11 NOV LECTURE False Flags, True Lies: Recycled Photography in Conspiracy Theories after 9/11 5pm-7pm • CRASSH (SG1) David Hickman (York) • Conspiracy and Democracy www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25766

11 NOV SEMINAR Screen Media5:15pm-7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Scott Anthony and James Purdon (Cambridge) • Screen Media www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25745

12 NOV FILM Documentary Screening: Sirs and Misters 2:30pm-4:30pm • CRASSH (SG2)Yulia Serdyukova (Film producer) • Places of Amnesia www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25799

12 NOV SEMINARReligious Belief3pm-5pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Convenors: Arif Ahmed and Daniel Weiss (Cambridge) • Mellon Teaching Seminar www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25709

13 NOV SEMINARTeaching Sustainability to Engineering Students 2pm-4pm • CRASSH (SG1)Mike Ashby (Engineering/Granta Design Ltd) • Greenbridge www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25816

13 NOV READING GROUP Researching (with) Social Media: A Reading Group2pm-4pm • Department of Sociology (Tea Room) Digital Humanities Network and Sociology www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25839

17 NOV SEMINARAnglo-European Cultural Exchange in the Early Modern Period 12:30pm-2pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room)Eoin Devlin (Cambridge) • Work in Progress Seminar www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25725

17 NOV SEMINAR The Invention of Lubaland: Katanga, Belgian Congo 1:30pm-3:30 PM • CRASSH (SG1) David Maxwell (Cambridge) • Locating Religion www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25808

17 NOV SEMINAR Skateboarding and the City5:30pm-7:30pm • CRASSH (SG1)Ian Borden (UCL) • Civic Matter and City Seminar www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25774

18 NOV SEMINAR Scientific Capacity Building in East Africa: Global Science 12pm-2pm • CRASSH (SG1)Branwyn Polykett and Emma Hunter (Cambridge) • Global Science www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25761

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BER 2014 18 NOV READING GROUP Cambridge Psychoanalysis Reading Group 12:45pm-2pm • CRASSH (S3) Cambridge Psychoanalysis www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25736

18 NOV SEMINAR Pots, Languages and Peoples: Ancient Western Europe 5pm-7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Alex Mullen (Oxford) • Multilingualism www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25754

18 NOV LECTURE What Causes the Paranoid Style of American Public Opinion?5pm-7pm • Wolfson College (Gatsby Room)Eric Oliver (Chicago) • Conspiracy and Democracy www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25767

19 NOV SEMINARCollected Things12pm-2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Chris Wingfield (Cambridge) and Leah Clark (Open University) • Things That Matter, 1400-1900 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25804

19 NOV READING GROUPAnimisms12pm-2pm • CRASSH (SG2)Rethinking Lifewww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25758

19 NOV SEMINARTrails and Mapping of Climate Change in North America2:30pm-4:30pm • CRASSH (SG1) Michael Bravo (Cambridge) • Climate Historieswww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25824

19 NOV SEMINARReligious Belief3pm-5pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Convenors: Arif Ahmed and Daniel Weiss (Cambridge) • Mellon Teaching Seminar www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25710

19 NOV SEMINARThe Legacy of a Late Antique Prophecy 5pm-7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Levi Roach (Exeter) • Late Antiquity Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25781

19 NOV SEMINARInterdisciplinary Exchange of Ideas 5pm-7pm • CRASSH (S1) Moral Psychologywww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25794

21 NOV SEMINAR Freud and RomeOne day • CRASSH (SG1)John Forrester (Cambridge), Whitney Davis (Berkeley), Mary Jacobus (Cambridge/Cornell), Miriam Leonard (UCL), Daniel Orrells (Warwick) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25854

24 NOV SEMINARParticipatory Sonic Arts in Rio and Belfast1:30pm-3:30pm • CRASSH (SG1)Pedro Rebelo (Belfast) • City Seminar and Civic Mat-ter www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25770

24 NOV SEMINARHomo Ludens: Parties, Participation, and Play 5pm-7pm • CRASSH (SG1) Renaud Gagné, Sir Patrick Bateson and Anthony Pickles (Cambridge) • Performance Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25813

25 NOV READING GROUPCambridge Psychoanalysis Reading Group 12:45pm-2pm • CRASSH (S3) Cambridge Psychoanalysis www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25737

25 NOV SEMINARScreen Media5:15pm-7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Presentations by research students • Screen Media www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25746

26 NOV SEMINARHolocaust Novels as Places of Amnesia2:30pm-4:30pm • CRASSH (SG2)Elena Zezlina (Cambridge) • Places of Amnesia www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25800

26 NOV SEMINARReligious Belief 3pm-5pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Convenors: Arif Ahmed and Daniel Weiss (Cambridge) • Mellon Teaching Seminar www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25711

27 NOV SEMINAR Sustainability in the Built Environment 2pm-4pm • CRASSH (SG1) Peter Guthrie (Centre for Sustainable Development) • Greenbridge www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25817

1 DEC SEMINARMissions and the Global Turn in German Historiography 1:30pm-3:30pm • CRASSH (SG1) Rebekah Habermas (Gottingen) • LocatingReligion www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25809

1 DEC SEMINAR Relocating Urban Asylum 5:30pm-7:30pm • CRASSH (SG1) Jonny Darling (Manchester) • City Seminar www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25776

2 DEC SEMINAR Ethnographic Imagery and the Tribes of India, 1850-1900 12pm-2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Cam Sharp-Jones (Kent) and Shinjini Das (Cambridge) • Global Science www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25762

2 DEC READING GROUP Cambridge Psychoanalysis Reading Group12:45pm-2pm • CRASSH (S3) Cambridge Psychoanalysis www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25738

2 DEC LECTURE Nausea in New York: the FBI & CIA vs Sartre and Camus 5pm-7pm • CRASSH (SG1) Andy Martin (Cambridge) • Conspiracy and Democracy www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25768

02 DEC SEMINAR Welsh Poetry and English Politics in the Wars of the Roses 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Helen Fulton (York) • Multilingualism www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25755

03 DEC SEMINAR Printing Things 12pm-2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Adam Smyth (Oxford), Nicholas Smith and Colin Clarkson (Cambridge) • Things That Matter, 1400-1900 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25805

3 DEC READING GROUP Review of the Term 12pm-2pm • CRASSH (SG2) Rethinking life www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25712

3 DEC SEMINAR Communicating Climate Change through Art 2:30pm-04:30pm • CRASSH (SG2) Steve Waters (Theatre Director) and Edvard Hviding (Bergen) • Climate Historieswww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25825

3 DEC SEMINAR Religious Belief 3pm-5pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Convenors: Arif Ahmed and Daniel Weiss (Cambridge) • Mellon Teaching Seminar www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25712

03 DEC SEMINAR Self-Control and Weakness of Will 5pm-7pm • CRASSH (S1)Todd Hare (Zurich) and Lubomira Radoilska (Kent/Cambridge) • Moral Psychology www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25795

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Here is an introduction to this term’s new CRASSH Fellows. You can read more about their work, and that of all of CRASSH’s researchers, at www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/people.

3 DEC SEMINAR Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar5pm-7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Lesley Abrams (Oxford) • Late Antiquity Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25782

4 DEC READING GROUP Researching (with) Social Media:A Reading Group 2pm-4pm • Department of Sociology (Tea Room) Digital Humanities Network and Sociology www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25840

5 DEC CONFERENCE Plague and the City: Disease, Epidemic Control and the Urban Environment Two days • CRASSH (SG1) Convenors: Lukas Engelmann (CRASSH), John Henderson (Wolfson College/Birkbeck, London) and Christos Lynteris (CRASSH) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25544

8 DEC CONFERENCE The Politics of Framing and Staging: Performance as Paradigm II One day • CRASSH (SG1) Convenors: Clare Foster, Floris Schuiling, Zoe Svendsen and Jonas Tinius (Cambridge) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25656

12 DEC CONFERENCE Does the Museum Just Preserve the Museum? Two days • CRASSH (SG1) Convenors: Liz Hide (Cambridge Museums), Tim Knox (Fitzwilliam Museum), Robin Osborne (Museum of Classical Archaeology), Liba Taub (Whipple Museum) and Caroline Vout (Classics) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25655

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RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

Dmitri Levitin Mellon Sawyer Seminar/Loyd Dan David Fellow on Comparing Comparatisms

Raphaële Garrod Genius Before Romanticism: Ingenuity in Early Modern Art and ScienceJose Ramon Marcaida Genius Before Romanticism: Ingenuity in Early Modern Art and ScienceRichard Oosterhoff Genius Before Romanticism: Ingenuity in Early Modern Art and Science

Ewan Jones Concept LabGabriel Recchia Concept LabJohn Regan Concept Lab

Tim Stuart-Buttle Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of LiteratureElizabeth Swann Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of LiteratureKoji Yamamoto Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of Literature

WHO’S NEW MICHAELMAS 2014

Ruth Abbott (English/St John’s College) George Eliot’s Forms of ResearchJoel Isaac (History/Christ’s College) The Cold War EnlightenmentSarah Pearsall (History/Robinson College) Beyond One Man and One Woman: A History of Early American Polygamy

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Anna Becker (University of Basel - Balzan Skinner Fellow) Johannes Althusius and the Problems of Writing Gender in Early Modern Political ThoughtSukanya Dasgupta (Loreto College, University of Calcutta - Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow) Ovid Revisited: Locating the Heroides in Michael Drayton and Madhusudan DuttEoin Devlin (University of Cambridge) ConversionsDavid Hickman (University of York) Conspiracy and DemocracyGábor Kósa (Eötvös Loránd University - CRASSH/Clare Hall Eurias Fellow) A Comparative Analyses of Manichean Texts and PaintingsKristin Zeiler (Linköping University, Pro Futura Scientia Fellow) Towards an Ethics of Bodily Giving and Sharing in Medicine

EARLY CAREER FELLOWS

Yolana Pringle The International Committee of the Red Cross, Race, and Africa, 1935-80Alexia Yates Stock in the Nation: Finance and French Economic Modernity

MELLON/NEWTON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

MELLON TEACHING FELLOWS

Arif Ahmed (Philosophy) Religious BeliefDaniel H Weiss (Divinity/Murray Edwards) Religious Belief

VISITING FELLOWS

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