What's On?

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8 February 2010 - 14 February 2010
 
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An Historical Geography of Famine Policy, Colonial Welfare, and Political  Economy in India and Ireland An Historical Geography of Famine Policy, Colonial Welfare, and Political Economy in India and Ireland
Monday, 8 February
CRASSH Early Career Fellow Dr David Nally presents his Work in Progress.
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Risk and Uncertainty Reading Group
Tuesday, 9 February
Changing Climates: A View from the Planet, Challenges on the Ground Changing Climates: A View from the Planet, Challenges on the Ground
Tuesday, 9 February
Conversation with Professor Charles Kennel (Sustainability Solutions Institute and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego)
The University in the Face of a Pharmacology of the Mind The University in the Face of a Pharmacology of the Mind
Wednesday, 10 February
A lecture (in French with English translation) by leading French philosopher, Bernard Stiegler (Director, Department of Cultural Development, Centre-Georges Pompidou, Paris)
East European Memory Research Group East European Memory Research Group
Wednesday, 10 February
Part of the East European Memory Research Group seminar series. Alternate Wednesdays in term.
Music and Society Music and Society
Thursday, 11 February
Mellon Teaching Seminar. The course will seek to develop ways to create a dialogue between musicology and the anthropology and sociology of music, culture and media.
Minority Revolution Minority Revolution
Thursday, 11 February
Part of the Modern China Reading Group series. Alternate Thursdays in term
Understanding New Wars
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Understanding New Wars
Friday, 12 February to Saturday, 13 February
This conference explores psychological and spiritual forms of reciprocity underlying ‘new wars’, in particular how narratives of victimhood and suffering feed the continuity of combat in times of peace.