CRASSH Fellows Work in Progress Seminar Series

The Fellows Work-in-Progress seminar series takes place on Mondays in term time at CRASSH, 12.45-2pm.  All welcome, no registration necessary.  Sandwich lunch and refreshments provided.

Michaelmas Term 2011

Dr Rory O'Bryen (Spanish and Portuguese, King's College)
Monday, 3 Oct 2011
Towards a Cultural History of the River Magdalena, Colombia, 1810-1940
Dr Brigitte Steger (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Downing College)
Monday, 10 Oct 2011
Coping with Disaster: Life in Tsunami Evacuation Shelters in Yamada Town, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Professor Robert Aldrich (University of Sydney)
Monday, 17 Oct 2011
Exiling Potentates: Colonial Governments and the Banishment of Indigenous Rulers
Dr Lori Allen (Middle Eastern Studies, King's College)
Monday, 24 Oct 2011
A Genealogy of Political Proof: One Hundred Years of Investigative Commissions to Palestine
Professor Claudio Aporta (Carleton University, Ottawa)
Monday, 31 Oct 2011
The Northwest Passage and the construction of Inuit pan-Arctic Identities
Professor Giuliana Giusti (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)
Monday, 7 Nov 2011
Structural Protocols for linguistic awareness enhancing language identity
Dr Kate Spence (Archaeology, Homerton)
Monday, 14 Nov 2011
Comfort, experience and society in ancient Egypt
Dr Jan-Melissa Schramm (English, Trinity Hall)
Monday, 21 Nov 2011
On Goodness and Genre: talking about virtue in law, literature, and philosophy
Dr Pieter R Adriaens (University of Leuven)
Monday, 28 Nov 2011
Culture-bound syndromes and psychiatric classification: A philosophical perspective
 

Lent Term 2012

Dr Marcus Waithe (English, Magdalene)
Monday, 16 Jan 2012
The Aura of Copies: A Study in Victorian Museology
Dr Georgina Evans (French, St John's)
Monday, 23 Jan 2012
Beyond the five senses in cinema
Dr Lisa Hodgetts (University of Western Ontario)
Monday, 30 Jan 2012
HMS Investigator as a locus of transregional exchange and debates in the Western Canadian Arctic
Professor Dirk Uffelmann (University of Passau)
Monday, 6 Feb 2012
Towards a Cyberlinguistic Definition of Eurasia
Professor Robert Rouse (University of British Columbia)
Monday, 13 Feb 2012
Writing the World: The Regional and Transregional Geographies of Medieval Romance
Dr Ivan Scales (Geography, St Catharine's)
Monday, 20 Feb 2012
The 'biofuel complex' and the emerging political economy of agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa
Dr Edward Holberton (English, Girton)
Wednesday, 22 Feb 2012
Literature and the Atlantic Empire, 1660-1740
Dr Meredith Terretta (University of Ottawa)
Monday, 27 Feb 2012
Local to Global: Human Rights and Anti-colonialism in Africa's UN Trust Territories
Dr Jens Martin Scherpe (Law, Gonville and Caius)
Monday, 5 Mar 2012
Comparative Family Law
Dr Leslie Topp (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Monday, 12 Mar 2012
Confinement Amid Flux: Asylum Boundaries in Early 20th-Century Central Europe

 

Easter Term 2012

Dr Kimberley N Trapp (Law, Newnham)
Friday, 27 Apr 2012
Competing Security and Economic Perspectives in International Law's Response to Globalisation
Dr Felicitas Becker (History, Peterhouse)
Thursday, 3 May 2012
Recorded Sermons and the History of Islamic Reform in East Africa
Dr Farid Uddin Ahamed (South Asian University, India)
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Migration Aspirations and their Transformative Effects on the Integration of Bangladeshi Migrants in the UK
Dr Sucheta Bhattacharya (Jadavpur University, India)
Monday, 14 May 2012
The Mysterious Women of G W M Reynolds and their Indian Sisters: A Study in Cross-cultural Transformations of the Female Figure in Popular Culture
Dr Mina Gorji (English, Pembroke)
Thursday, 17 May 2012
Poetics of Mess: Accidental Readings
Professor Rachel Cowgill (University of Cardiff)
Thursday, 24 May 2012
Empire, Internationalism and Remembrance in British Musical Culture, 1918-1939
Dr Monica Popescu (McGill University)
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Postcolonial Cultures and the Cold War
Dr Andrew Jones (University of California, Berkeley)
Thursday, 7 Jun 2012
Circuit Listening: Electric Folk Music and the Chinese 1960s
Dr Annu Jalais (Jawaharlal Nehru University/LSE)
Thursday, 14 Jun 2012
Religion, Community, and the Working Classes of Bengal