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SeminarsListed below are forthcoming seminars in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Also available: past seminars. Any HuSS staff or postgrads may always attend. Anyone else should contact the department in question. Monday 23th November, 4:00 - 6:00pm "Forever young? Life extension and the ageing mind" Professor Michael Hauskeller, Department of Sociology & Philosophy, University of Exeter Amory 315 Contact: Department of Sociology and Philosophy Tuesday 24th November, 15:30 - 17:00 Egenis seminar - 'Clinical Trials, Pharmaceutical Logics and Transnational Translations: Three Entry Points into Biocapital Downstream' Assoc. Prof Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine GF7, Byrne House Time Contact: Department of Sociology and Philosophy Wednesday 25th November, 12.15 pm Reading Group in Political Theory, Philosophy and Interdisciplinary studies. Paper: 'Polis, monetisation, and the Greek genesis of “philosophy”' Richard Seaford Amory, room 239ab Contact: Department of Politics Wednesday 25th November, 2.00pm Environmental Agencies and Global Governance. Jean Monnet Lectures on EU governance Anthony Zito, Newcastle University Amory C501 Contact: Department of Politics Wednesday 25th November, 4.00 - 6.00 pm Indian Ocean Trade, 1600-1800. Professor Sushil Chaudhury, Royal Historical Society, University of Calcutta, (Retd.) Room 128, Amory Building Contact: Centre for Maritime Historical Studies Wednesday 25th November, 5.15pm “Al Qaeda and the Dividends of Asymmetry” Dr. Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou (Former Mauritanian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Lecture Theatre 1, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies Contact: Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies Thursday 26th November, 1 - 3pm To be announced Hannah Newton, University of Exeter Room 115, Amory Building Contact: Centre for Medical History Thursday 26th November, 5 p.m. The Fall of the Roman Republic: Was it Cicero's Fault? (C.A. Lecture) Peter Wiseman Amory 417 Contact: Department of Classics and Ancient History Friday 27th November, 2.00pm What makes news new? Information Society seminar series Terhi Rantanen, LSE Amory 239AB Contact: Department of Politics Tuesday 1st December, 15:30 - 17:00 Egenis seminar - title TBC Prof Michael Parker, Director of Ethox Centre, University of Oxford GF7, Byrne House Time Contact: Department of Sociology and Philosophy Wednesday 2nd December, 12.15 pm Reading Group in Political Theory, Philosophy and Interdisciplinary studies. Text: ‘Privacies: An Overview’ introductory chapter in Rossler's Privacies: Philosophical Investigations; and preface of Raymond Geuss, Public Goods, Private Goods Introduced by Janice Richardson Amory, room 106 Contact: Department of Politics Wednesday 2nd December, 2pm Digital television switchover policies: identifying patterns and lessons. Information Society seminar series María Trinidad García Leiva, University of Glasgow Queens MR2 Contact: Department of Politics Wednesday 2nd December, 5.15pm “The Other in Contemporary Arabic Literature” Dr. Najim A. Kadhim (University of Baghdad) Lecture Theatre 1, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies Contact: Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies Thursday 3th December, 4 p.m. The Tragedian and the Art of Supplication Rowan Fraser Amory 417 Contact: Department of Classics and Ancient History Monday 7th December, 4pm - 6pm 'The 'Thorny Issue' of Cultural Genocide' Damien Short, Institute of Commonwealth Studies Amory 315 Contact: Department of Sociology and Philosophy Tuesday 8th December, 5.15pm "The Dynamics of Global Jihad" Prof. Jean-Pierre Filiu (Sciences Po, Paris) Lecture Theatre 1, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies Contact: Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies Wednesday 9th December, 11am Policy diffusion: how policies spread. Jean Monnet Lectures on EU governance Fabrizio Gilardi, University of Zurich Amory B105 Contact: Department of Politics Wednesday 9th December, 12:15 pm Reading Group in Political Theory, Philosophy and Interdisciplinary studies. Paper: Lena Isayev, ‘De-placing future memory’ Lena Isayev Amory, room 239ab Contact: Department of Politics Wednesday 9th December, 4.00 - 6.00 pm Purgatory at the Ends of the Earth: The Destiny of Souls in Counter Reformation Brittany Liz Tingle (University of Plymouth) Room 417, Amory Building Contact: Centre for Early Modern Studies Thursday 10th December, Ethnic Politics is Local: Votes, Power, and Relations in Mixed Cities Sherrill Stroschein (UCL) Contact: Department of Politics Thursday 10th December, 1 - 3pm ‘Globalizing Flu: Pandemic surveillance and the making of international health’ Michael Bresalier, University of Bristol Room 115, Amory Building Contact: Centre for Medical History Thursday 10th December, 4 p.m. The Impact of Inequality in Late Roman Britain: Connectivity, Materiality and Health Status Rebecca Griffin (Liverpool) & Martin Pitts Amory 417 Contact: Department of Classics and Ancient History Monday 14th December, 4pm - 6pm TBC Professor Jan Marontate, Simon Fraser University Amory 315 Contact: Department of Sociology and Philosophy Wednesday 16th December, 12.15 pm Reading Group in Political Theory, Philosophy and Interdisciplinary studies. Text: Arjun Appadurai: ‘Playing with modernity: The decolonization of Indian Cricket’ Introduced by Dario Castiglione Amory, room 239c Contact: Department of Politics Wednesday 16th December, 5.15pm “From Empire to Republic: Through the pages of Ottoman/Turkish children's reading materials” Dr. Benjamin Fortna (SOAS) Lecture Theatre 1, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies Contact: Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies Wednesday 12th January,
Michael Barnett (University of Minnesota) Contact: Department of Politics Thursday 14th January, 5 p.m. t.b.c. (C.A. Lecture) Rebecca Langlands Amory 105 Contact: Department of Classics and Ancient History Tuesday 19th January, 14:00 - 15:30 Egenis seminar - 'The Transparent Gene' Prof Helga Nowotny, Vice President of the European Research Council and Emertia Professor of ETH Zur GF7, Byrne House Time Contact: Department of Sociology and Philosophy Wednesday 20th January, 1.00 - 4.30 pm Exeter Interdisciplinary Institute Workshop on the Politics of Recognition Jean Philippe Deranty (Macquarie, Sydney) & Lois McNay (Oxford) XFi conference room 2 Contact: Department of Politics Wednesday 20th January, 4.00 - 6.00 pm 'When Roman Liberty opprest should dy': Romano-English Politics and the Crisis of the late 1620s Ed Paleit (English) Room 417, Amory Building Contact: Centre for Early Modern Studies Thursday 21st January, The Centre for European Governance will run a 2-day workshop on "The Future of Europe" on 21st & 22nd January 2010. Please contact Sarah Heeks for details: s.j.heeks@ex.ac.uk Contact: Department of Politics Thursday 21st January, 1 - 3pm To be announced Mike Emanuel, Research Affiliate, Oxford Brookes Room 115, Amory Building Contact: Centre for Medical History Wednesday 27th January, Roundtable: Complexity Science William Medd (University of Lancaster) and David Byrne (University of Durham) Contact: Department of Politics Wednesday 27th January, 2.00pm Mass media effects - from economic news to coverage of climate change. Information Society seminar series Neil Gavin, University of Liverpool Amory B308 Contact: Department of Politics Friday 29th January, 2:15 - 3:30pm 'Beyond Bronze Bombards: The Artistic Production of the Arsenal Gun-Founders in Renaissance Venice'. Dr Victoria Avery, Assistant Professor, Dept of History of Art, University of Warwick. Room 128, Amory Building Contact: Centre for Maritime Historical Studies Friday 29th January, 4:00 to 5:15pm 'Maritime Affairs: James Thornhill and the art of navigation at Greenwich in the seventeenth century.' Dr Richard Johns, Curator of Prints and Drawings, National Maritime Museum Room 128, Amory Building Contact: Centre for Maritime Historical Studies Wednesday 3th February, 4.00 - 6.00 pm Holland's Medieval History in the Early Modern Period Sjoerd Levelt (The Warburg Institute) Room 417, Amory Building Contact: Centre for Early Modern Studies Thursday 4th February, 1 - 3pm ‘Physicians in the Crusades’ Piers Mitchell, Imperial College London Room 115, Amory Building Contact: Centre for Medical History Wednesday 10th February, 2.00pm Puzzling vs. powering? Framing in EU decision-making revisited. Jean Monnet Lectures on EU governance Falk Daviter, (University of Potsdam Streatham Court D Contact: Department of Politics Thursday 11th February, 5 pm Carry on Columns (C.A. Lecture) Edmund Thomas (Durham) Amory 417 Contact: Department of Classics and Ancient History Wednesday 17th February, 4.00 - 6.00 pm Writing on Ornithology in the Seventeenth Century: Faultrier's Traitte des Oysseaux Isabelle Charmantier (History, Exeter) Room 417, Amory Building Contact: Centre for Early Modern Studies Thursday 18th February, 1 - 3pm To be announced Mark Jackson, University of Exeter Room 115, Amory Building Contact: Centre for Medical History Monday 22nd February, The Centre for European Governance will run a 2-day workshop on "Europeanisation" on 22nd & 23rd February 2010. Please contact Sarah Heeks for details: s.j.heeks@ex.ac.uk Contact: Department of Politics Wednesday 24th February, Roundtable: Climate change Contact: Department of Politics Wednesday 3th March, 4.00 - 6.00 pm Child Sexual Abuse in Early Modern England Sarah Toulalan (History, Exeter) Room 417, Amory Building Contact: Centre for Early Modern Studies Thursday 4th March, 1 - 3pm 'Birthing Tales by physicians, surgeons and midwives in Early Modern France' Valerie Worth-Stylianou, University of Exeter Room 115, Amory Building Contact: Centre for Medical History Monday 8th March, 4:00 - 6:00pm TBC Dr Gisa Weszkalnys, Sociology & Philosophy, University of Exeter Amory 315 Contact: Department of Sociology and Philosophy Tuesday 16th March, 15:30 - 17:00 Egenis seminar - 'Biomedicine And Decision Making “In Vitro” And “In Vivo”: From Mathematics To Ethics' Prof Giovanni Boniolo, Foundations of the Life Sciences, Ethics and Epistemology, IFOM-IEO Campus, M GF7, Byrne House Time Contact: Department of Sociology and Philosophy Thursday 18th March, 1 - 3pm ‘Urban Nature: Rats, Stress and the Welfare State’ Ed Ramsden, University of Exeter Room 115, Amory Building Contact: Centre for Medical History Thursday 18th March, 5 p.m. Thessaly and Epic (C.A. lecture) Emma Aston (Reading) Amory 417 Contact: Department of Classics and Ancient History Tuesday 23th March, 15:30 - 17:00 Egenis seminar - TBC Dr Alison Kraft, Institute for the Study of Genetics, Biorisks and Society, University of Nottingham Room no: GF7, Byrne House Contact: Department of Sociology and Philosophy Wednesday 24th March, Title TBA Edward Page (LSE) Contact: Department of Politics Wednesday 24th March, 11.00am A Copyright for News? Uses of Intellectual Property Rights to Protect Traditional Media from Competition. Information Society seminar series Robert Picard, Jönköping International Business School Queens N Contact: Department of History Tuesday 30th March, 15:30 - 17:30 TBC Professor Steven Fuller Hatherly Labs B10 Contact: Department of Sociology and Philosophy Wednesday 5th May, 4.00 - 6.00 pm Mini-Colloquium on 'Print Culture in Elizabethan England.' Bibliophiles and Private Libraries: Public versus Private Knowledge Lee Durbin (English) Room 417, Amory Building Contact: Centre for Early Modern Studies Wednesday 5th May, 4.00 - 6.00 pm Mini-Colloquium on 'Print Culture in Elizabethan England.' 'I am a scribbled form': Shakespeare's King John and Catholic-Protestant Polemic' Daniel Cattell (English) Room 417, Amory Building Contact: Centre for Early Modern Studies Thursday 7th May, 5 p.m. The Gnome in Greek Tragedy (C.A. Lecture) Matthew Wright Amory 417 Contact: Department of Classics and Ancient History Wednesday 12th May, 4.00 - 6.00 pm 'The Social Status and Identity of the Tucker Family, Stone Merchants of Weymouth, Dorset 1700-1800' Susan Whyman Room 417, Amory Building Contact: Centre for Early Modern Studies Tuesday 8th June, 3:00-5:00pm 'Reading and writing the book of life: linguistic metaphors in the history of genomics and biotechnologies.' Prof Bernardino Fantini, Director, Institut d'Histoire de la Médecine et de la Santé Byrne House Contact: Centre for Medical History Monday 18th October, 4:00 - 6:00pm TBC Professor Steve Bruce Amory 315 Contact: Department of Sociology and Philosophy |
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