What's On?

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22 February 2010 - 28 February 2010
 
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Future University, Neo-Liberal Reforms and the Israeli Example Future University, Neo-Liberal Reforms and the Israeli Example
Monday, 22 February
CRASSH Visiting Fellow Professor Ilan Gur-Ze'ev presents his Work in Progress.
The Physiologist at the Opera: Claude Perrault and the Politics of Pleasure in the Ancien Régime The Physiologist at the Opera: Claude Perrault and the Politics of Pleasure in the Ancien Régime
Monday, 22 February
A lecture by Professor Veit Erlmann in conjunction with the CDI Mellon Teaching Seminars
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Risk and Uncertainty Reading Group
Tuesday, 23 February
Professor Nigel Thrift: Life World Inc. Professor Nigel Thrift: Life World Inc.
Tuesday, 23 February
A lecture by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick.
The Translation of Research-Based Knowledge to Practical Application and the Public Role of the Future University The Translation of Research-Based Knowledge to Practical Application and the Public Role of the Future University
Wednesday, 24 February
CRASSH Visiting Fellow Dr Patricia Baron Pollak presents her Work in Progress.
Black and Yellow Memories: The Legacy of Lamas and Feudals in Post-Socialist Mongolia Black and Yellow Memories: The Legacy of Lamas and Feudals in Post-Socialist Mongolia
Wednesday, 24 February
Part of the East European Memory Studies Research Group. Alternate Wednesdays in term
Music and Society Music and Society
Thursday, 25 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.
Deconstructing Propaganda Art Deconstructing Propaganda Art
Thursday, 25 February
Part of the Modern China Reading Group series. Alternate Thursdays in term
Digital Humanities User Group Digital Humanities User Group
Thursday, 25 February
An initiative aimed at mapping digital work in the humanities at Cambridge. Open to all. Registration necessary.
The Moving Image: Reconfiguring Spaces of Loss and Mourning in the 21st Century
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The Moving Image: Reconfiguring Spaces of Loss and Mourning in the 21st Century
Friday, 26 February to Saturday, 27 February
This conference will explore the aesthetic and institutional origins and characteristics of the recent efflorescence of ‘mourning films’ after Trauma Studies and in the wake of the Benjaminian ‘age of mechanical reproduction’.