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Page 1: What's on at CRASSH, Easter 2015

CR

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EASTER TERM 2015

& WHO’S HERE

Adam and Eve by Lucas Cranach the Elder ©

Creative Comm

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WHAT’SON

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From intensive small-group seminars to international conferences and major research projects, CRASSH’s programmes provide for the exchange and development of ideas at every level - www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes

CRASSH AT GLANCE

RESEARCH PROJECTS• Bible and Antiquity in 19th-century Culture • Centre for Digital Knowledge: Concept Lab

and Technology and Democracy• Centre for the Study of Existential Risk• Conspiracy and Democracy• Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of Literature• Digital Humanities Strategic Network• Early Modern Conversions: Religions, Cultures, Cognitive Ecologies• Genius before Romanticism: Ingenuity in Early Modern Art and Science• History of Cross-Cultural Comparatism• Limits of the Numerial• Making Visible: The visual and graphic practices of the early Royal Society• Mellon Centre for Disciplinary Innovation• Postdoctoral Research Forum• Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic

CONFERENCES CRASSH is running 20 conferences this year with the following to come:• African Heritage Challenge: Development and Sustainability • 15-16 May• The Drama of Intellectual Life: Performativity in the Study of Ideas • 29-30 May• Objects in Motion: Material Culture in Transition • 18-20 June• Sonorous Sublimes: Music and Sound 1670–1850 • 23-25 June• Erotic Literature: Adaptation and Translation in Europe and Asia • 29-30 June• Sound Studies: Art, Experience, Politics • 8-10 July• Counting the Cost of Drink in Britain, 1830-1918 • 16-17 July• The Making of Measurement • 23-24 July• Sovereignty and Imperialism: Non-European Powers in the Age of Empire • 10-12 September

RESEARCH GROUPS • City Seminar• Civic Matter: Infrastructure as Politic• Climate Histories• Global Science• GreenBRIDGE• Late Antiquity Network (CLANS)• Locating Religion: Modern Era• Moral Psychology

• Multilingualism and Exchange in the Ancient and Medieval World

• Performance Network (CIPN)• Places of Amnesia• Rethinking Life• Screen Media• Things that Matter, 1400-1900

Protester with a megaphone from Toulouse by Pierre-Selim

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21 APR LECTUREWorld Order: Definition and Description 5pm - 6.30pm • Law Faculty (LG18)Richard Haass (American Diplomat)• Humanitas in Statecraft and Diplomacy www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25994

22 APR SEMINAR Gifted Things 12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Timothy Wilson (Oxford), Sarah Haggarty (Cambridge) • Things www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26106

22 APR READING GROUP Words for Life 12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG2) Rethinking Life www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26138 22 APR SEMINAR Climate Histories 2.30pm - 4.30pm • CRASSH (SG2) Thomas Thornton (Oxford) • Climate Histories www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26143

22 APR LECTUREThe Decline of World Order: Causes and Explanations5pm - 6:30pm • Law Faculty (LG18)Richard Haass (American Diplomat) • Humanitas in Statecraft and Diplomacy www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25995

22 APR SEMINAR Geopolitics or Geo-Ecclesiology? Chalcedonian Conflict 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2)Philippe Bleaudeau (Angers) • Late Antiquity Network (CLANS) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25787

23 APR CONFERENCE / WORKSHOPSymposium: Concept of Performance 2pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1) Performance Network (CIPN) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25619

23 APR LECTUREWorld Order: What Can be Done?5pm - 6:30pm • Law Faculty (LG18)Richard Haass (American Diplomat) • Humanitas in Statecraft and Diplomacywww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25996

24 APR CONFERENCE / WORKSHOPWorld Order: Its Past, Present and Prospects 10am - 12.30pm • CRASSH (SG1)Richard Haass (American Diplomat), Chris Brown (LSE), Ned Lebow (KCL), Zara Steiner (Cambridge) • Humanitas in Statecraft and Diplomacywww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26023Register online

27 APR SEMINAR The Historical Assumptions Behind the General Scholium: a Non-Metaphysical Newton12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Dmitri Levitin (Cambridge) • Work-in-Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26128

27 APR LECTURE The Reactivation of Tradition 5pm - 6.30pm • Mill Lane Lecture Room 9Xu Bing (Artist) • Humanitas in Chinese Studieswww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26042

27 APR SEMINARCurrent Trends in African Christian Scholarship 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (S1)David Maxwell (Cambridge), John Peel (SOAS), Andrea Grant (Cambridge) • Locating Religion and African Studieswww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26081

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Flags at the ONU Building, Geneva

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AY 2015 27 APR SEMINARVisual Performativity: What Do Images Do?5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1)Massimilano Fusari (SOAS) • Performance Network (CIPN) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26118

28 APR SEMINAR Origins of Enviromental Science and Domestic Energy: Case Studies12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG2) Dean Hawkes, Hui Ben (Cambridge) • GreenBRIDGE www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26112

28 APR SEMINAR Surveillancinema 5pm - 7pm • Corpus Christi College Garrett Stewart (Iowa) • Screen Media www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26099

28 APR FILMWomen, Feminism, and Hollywood 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Dance, Girl, Dance (D Arzner,1940) • Screen Media www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26101

28 APR EXHIBITION Xu Bing at the Fitzwilliam Museum 6pm - 8pm • The Fitzwilliam Museum Courtyard Xu Bing (Artist) • Humanitas in Chinese Studieswww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26078Register online

29 APR LECTUREThe Energy of Reality and the Creativity of Art 5pm - 6.30pm • Mill Lane Lecture Room 3 Xu Bing (Artist) • Humanitas in Chinese Studieswww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26043

29 APR SEMINARSeven Types of Forgetting 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Paul Connerton (Cambridge) • Places of Amnesiawww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26132

30 APR CONFERENCE / WORKSHOPChinese Tradition: Chinese Reality 2pm - 5.30pm • The Pitt Building (Darwin Room) Xu Bing (Artist), Joshua Jiang (Birmingham City), Wenny Teo (Coutauld), Shane McCausland(SOAS), Vimalin Rujivacharakul (Delaware), Ros Holmes, Xiaofan Amy Li (Oxford)• Humanitas in Chinese Studieswww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26048 Register online

1 MAY CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP Early Modern Visual Marginalia 9.30pm - 1pm • Trinity Hall (Graham Storey Room) William Sherman (V&A), Julian Luxford (St Andrews), Francesco Benelli (Columbia), Alex Marr, Kate Isard, Richard Oosterhoff (Cambridge) • Genius before Romanticism www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26149Register online

5 MAY SEMINARDiscourses of Science, Technology and Progress in Central America 1790-1840 12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1)Sophie Brockmann (ILAS, London) • Global Science www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26125

5 MAY LECTURELeo Strauss and Public Intellectual Culture 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1) Benjamin Wurgaft (UCLA/MIT) • Conspiracy and Democracy www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26007

Xu Bing

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Visibility and Multilingualism5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2)Philippa Steele (Cambridge) • Multilingualismwww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26136

6 MAY READING GROUPVersions of the Fetish12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG2)Rethinking Lifewww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26139

6 MAY SEMINARContained Things12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1)Anne Secord, Lucy Razzall (Cambridge) • Thingswww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26107

6 MAY SEMINARClimate Histories 2.30pm - 4.30pm • CRASSH (SG2)Tom White (Cambridge) • Climate Histories www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26144

6 MAY SEMINARRecording Court Cases: Northern Iberia 19th-20th-Centuries 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2)Wendy Davies (UCL) • Late Antiquity Network (CLANS)www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25788

7-8 MAY CONFERENCE/WORKSHOPKnowledge, Belief and Literature in Early Modern England 2 Days • Trinity Hall (Graham Storey Room) Brian Cummings (York), Regina Schwartz (Northwestern), Alec Ryrie (Durham), Rowan Williams (Cambridge) • Crossroads of Knowledge www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26089Register online

11 MAY SEMINARThe Age of Assassination: Monarchy and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Europe 12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Rachel Hoffman (Cambridge) • Work in Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26150

11 MAY SEMINARNoise Pollution 1.30pm - 3.30pm • CRASSH (SG1)Aga Tamiola (Artist - Berlin) • Civic Matter www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26147

11 MAY SEMINARPerformance Network 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1) Performance Network (CIPN) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26122

12 MAY SEMINAR Low Energy Buildings - Reality vs. Expectations12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG2) Marialena Nikolopoulou, Richard Watkins (Kent) • GreenBRIDGE www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26110

12 MAY FILM The Feminist Avant-Garde5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Thriller (S Potter, 1979) • Screen Media www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26102

13 MAY SEMINAR Places of Amnesia in the Holocaust in Italy5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Emiliano Perra, Damiano Garofalo, Elena Zezlina (Cambridge) • Places of Amnesiawww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26133

‘Truth & Prejudice’ by quinn.anya (Flickr)

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14 MAY LECTURETruth and Method; or Humanities Scholarship as a Science of Exceptions 5pm - 6.30pm • Mill Lane Lecture Room 3 Jerome McGann (Virginia) • Mellon CDI www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26069

15-16 MAY CONFERENCE/WORKSHOPAfrican Heritage Challenges: Development and Sustainability 2 Days • CRASSH (SG1&2)Keynotes: Paul Lane (Uppsala), Chris Boonzaaier (Pretoria), Webber Ndoro (African World Heritage Fund) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25667Register online

18 MAY CONFERENCE/WORKSHOPGraphical Display: Challenges for Humanists 11.30am - 2.30pm • CRASSH (S1) Convenors: Anne Alexander, Michael Hawkins, Lauren Kassell (Cambridge) • Digital Humanities www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26096

18 MAY SEMINARThe Body in Words: Sacred Oratory in 17th century Peru 1.30pm - 3.30pm • CRASSH (Room 204, 2nd Floor)Gabriela Ramos (Cambridge) • Locating Religion www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26082

18 MAY SEMINAREveryday Citizenship in the Urban Margins 5.30pm - 7.30pm • CRASSH (SG1) Mette Berg, Ben Gidley (Oxford) • City Seminar www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26130

19 MAY SEMINAR The Visual Plague 12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Christos Lynteris (Cambridge) • Global Science www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26126

19 MAY LECTURERumours, Conflict, Conspiracy 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1) Ben Oppenheim (New York/Stanford), Kelly Greenhill (Tufts/Harvard) • Conspiracy and Democracy www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26008

19 MAY SEMINARMultilingualism Round Table5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Multilingualismwww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26137

20 MAY SEMINARReproduced Things 12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Helen King (Open University), Michelle O’Malley (Sussex) • Things www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26108

20 MAY READING GROUP Ethnography and Architecture12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG2) Rethinking Life www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26140

20 MAY SEMINARClimate Histories2.30pm - 4.30pm • CRASSH (SG2) Aloisio Cabalzer (Geneva) • Climate Historieswww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26145

20 MAY SEMINARThe Birth of ‘Scientific’ Heresiology in Late Antiquity5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Richard Flower (Exeter) • Late Antiquity Network (CLANS) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25789

Djenne market © Ferdinand Reus

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21 MAY CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP The Victorians and Classical Form 1 Day • CRASSH (S1) Stefano Evangelista (Oxford), Edith Hall (KCL), Liz Prettejohn (York), Yopie Prins (Michigan) • Bible and Antiquity www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25871 Register online

21 MAY SEMINARMoral Challenges of New Reproduction Technologies 2pm - 4pm • CRASSH (SG1)Eve-Marie Engels (Tübingen), Martin Richards (Cambridge) • Moral Psychology www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26114

21 MAY SEMINARPerformance Network5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1) Performance Network (CIPN) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26123

22 MAY CONFERENCE/WORKSHOPGender in the History of Early Modern Political Thought 11am - 5.30pm • CRASSH (SG1) Sylvana Tomasell, Clare Chambers (Cambridge)• Balzan Skinner www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26148 Register online

26 MAY SEMINAR GreenBRIDGE12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG2) Douglas Crawford-Brown (4CMR) • GreenBRIDGE www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26111

26 MAY FILMWomen, Conflict, and Feminist Filmmaking 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1) Panj e Asr (Samira Makhmalbaf, 2003)• Screen Mediawww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26148

29-30 MAY CONFERENCE/WORKSHOPThe Drama of Intellectual Life: Performativity in the Study of Ideas 2 Days • CRASSH (SG1&2) Conveners: Patrick Baert, Marcus Morgan (Cambridge)www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25666Register online

1 JUNE SEMINARMathematics for University Reform: Lefèvre d’Étaples in Classroom and Print 12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Richard Oosterhoff (Cambridge) • Work in Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26157

1 JUNE SEMINARComparing American Women Missionaries’ Agendas in South Africa 1.30pm - 3.30pm • CRASSH (Room 204, 2nd Floor)Miriam Levin (Case Western Reserve) • Locating Religion www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26083

1 JUNE SEMINAR Has the Obsession with Sacrificial Dilemmas Derailed Moral Psychology? 2pm - 4pm • CRASSH (SG1&2) David Pizarro (Cornell), Guy Kahane (Oxford) • Moral Psychologywww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26116

1 JUNE SEMINARYouth and Modes of Operating in Abidjan, Hyderabad, and Jakarta5.30pm - 7.30pm • CRASSH (SG1) AbdouMaliq Simone (Goldsmiths) • City Seminar and Civic Matterwww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26131

The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)

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2 JUNE SEMINAR Volcanoes on Borders: Managing Liminal Science in Latin America 12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Amy Donovan, Marta Magalhaes (Cambridge) • Global Science www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26129

2 JUNE LECTUREJudaeo-Masonic-Bolshevik Conspiracy in Spain 1931-36 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1) Christopher Bannister (European University Institute) • Conspiracy and Democracywww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26009

3 JUNE SEMINARSexy Things 12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Will Fisher (New York), Jen Evans (Hertfordshire) • Thingswww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26109

3 JUNE SEMINARClimate Histories2.30pm - 4.30pm • CRASSH (SG2) Ken Webster, William Scott (Ellen Macarthur Foundation) • Climate Historieswww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26146

4 JUNE SEMINARPerforming Exchange: Art and Gifts 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1&2) Roger Sansi (Goldsmiths), Marilyn Strathern (Cambridge) • Performance Network (CIPN) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26119

8 JUNE SEMINARPerforming the Future: ‘The Electronic Frontier’ (1992)5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1) Sheila Hayman (Film maker) • Screen Media and Performance Network (CIPN)www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26120

9 JUNE SEMINARUrban Heat Island Effect in the Subsurface 12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG2) Kathrin Menberg (Cambridge) • GreenBRIDGE http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26113

9 JUNE LECTURETechnological Conspiracies 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1) Lawrence Quill (San Jose) • Conspiracy and Democracywww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26010

9 JUNE FILM The Politics of Feminist Documentary Film5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2) The Witches of Gambaga (Yaba Badoe, 2010) • Screen Media www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26104

10 JUNE SEMINARRethinking Life 12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG2)Robert Mitchell (Duke) • Rethinking Life www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26141

10 JUNE SEMINAROttoman Heritage in the Balkans as a Place of Amnesia5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Milos Jovanovic (Illinois), LIz Cohen (Cambridge) • Places of Amnesiawww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26134

11 JUNE SEMINARWhat Pictures Do 4pm - 6pm • Corpus Christi College Ludger Schwarte (Kunsthochschule Düsseldorf ) • Screen Mediawww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26100

Noire et Blanche, Man Ray 1926 (Flickr)

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12 JUNE CONFERENCE/WORKSHOPMatter and Materiality in the Early Modern World1 Day • CRASSH (SG1) Keynote: Helen Smith (York) • Thingswww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26066Register online

18-20 JUNE CONFERENCE/WORKSHOPObjects in Motion: Material Culture in Transition 3 Days • CRASSH (SG1&2) Convener: Alexi Baker (Cambridge)www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25668Register online

23-25 JUNE CONFERENCE/WORKSHOPSonorous Sublimes: Music and Sound 1670-1850 3 Days • CRASSH (SG1&2) Conveners: Miranda Stanyon (Cambridge), Sarah Hibberd (Nottingham)www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25670Register online

25-26 JUNE CONFERENCE/WORKSHOPHebrew Melodies: Music and the Bible in Nineteenth-Century Europe2 Days • King’s College London Convenors: James Grande (KCL),Brian Murray (Cambridge) • Bible and Antiquityhttp://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25698Register online

29-30 JUNE CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP Erotic Literature: Adaptation and Translation in Europe and Asia 2 Days • CRASSH (SG1&2) Keynotes: Eva Illouz (Jerusalem), Laura Moretti (Cambridge)www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25657Register online

8-10 JULY CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP Sound Studies: Art, Experience, Politics 3 Days • CRASSH (SG1&2) Keynote: Steven Connor (Cambridge) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25663Register online

16-17 JULY CONFERENCE/WORKSHOPCounting the Cost of Drink in Britain, 1830-1918 2 Days • CRASSH (SG1&2) Convener: David Beckingham (Cambridge)www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25665Register online

23-24 JULY CONFERENCE/WORKSHOPThe Making of Measurement 2 Days • CRASSH (SG1&2) Keynotes: Nancy Cartwright (Durham), Graeme Gooday (Leeds), Terry Quinn (International Bureau of Weights and Measures)www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25661 Register online

10-12 SEP CONFERENCE/WORKSHOPSovereignty and Imperialism: Non-European Powers in the Age of Empire 3 Days • CRASSH (SG1&2) Convener: David Motadel (Cambridge) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25662Register online

17-19 SEP CONFERENCE/WORKSHOPSuspect Science: Climate Change, Epidemics, and Questions of Conspiracy 3 Days • CRASSH (SG1&2) Conspiracy and DemocracyConvenors: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26179Register online

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En Chine - Le gâteau des Rois et... des Empereurs’ (French political cartoon from 1898)

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MELLON CDI VISITING FELLOW

Richard Haass (President of the American Council on Foreign Relations)

World Order: Its Past, Present & Prospects21-24 April

Richard Haass has been president of the Council on Foreign Relations since July 2003, prior to which he was Director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State and a close advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell. He has been U.S. Coordinator for the Future of Afghanistan. He succeeded George J. Mitchell as the United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland, for which he received the State Department’s Distinguished Service Award.

Xu Bing (Artist)

Chinese Tradition: Chinese Reality27-30 AprilXu Bing has become one of China’s best known and critically acclaimed artists, exhibiting in solo exhibitions and winning awards around the world. He currently serves as the Vice President of Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). He is most known for his printmaking skills and installations, among which, the famous “A Book for the Sky”.

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

HUMANITAS VISITING PROFESSORS

Jerome McGann (University of Virginia)

Truth and Method; or Humanities Scholarship as a Science of Exceptions11-15 May

Jerome John McGann is an American academic and textual scholar whose work focuses on the history of literature and culture from the late eighteenth-century to the present. His most notable works are The Romantic Ideology and A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the founder of the Applied Research in Patacriticism Digital Laboratory.

WHO’S NEW EASTER 2015

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IF YOU MISSED IT...

Videos of past CRASSH events are published on our website. You can also download them from our youtube channel: www.youtube.com/user/crasshpublicity

MURRAY PERAHIA (pianist)• On Performing the Classics • In Conversation with John Rink on Chopin• Open Rehearsal with Doric String Quartet op. 130

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/gallery/video/murray-perahia-on-performing-the-classics

CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF EXISTENTIAL RISK (CSER)• Professor Lipsitch (Harvard University): Risks and benefits of

gain-of-function experiments in potentially pandemic pathogens

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/gallery/video/risks-and-benefits-of-gain-of-function-experiments-in-potentially-pandemic

SIR JOHN TOMLINSON (singer) in conversation with SIR HARRISON BIRTWISTLE (composer)• The construction of the role of the Minotaur

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/gallery/video/the-construction-of-the-role-of-the-minotaur-john-tomlinson-and-harrison-bi

CONSPIRACY AND DEMOCRACY• Nicci Gerrard and Sean French (writers): Lying in the Dark:

The Stories we Tell Ourselves to Keep Ourselves Sane

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/gallery/video/lying-in-the-dark-the-stories-we-tell-ourselves-to-keep-ourselves-sane

NATASHA WALTER (writer and activist)• From Sexism to Solidarity• From Reform to Revolution• Making Waves

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/gallery/video/natasha-walter-from-sexism-to-solidarity

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