CRASSH Conferences 2011-12
Migration in Legal and Political Theory: Remaining Challenges
Friday, 28 Oct 2011 to Saturday, 29 Oct 2011
The conference aims to address some of the legal, political and ethical challenges posed by transnational migration that so far have received limited attention in the theoretical literature on the subject.
The conference aims to address some of the legal, political and ethical challenges posed by transnational migration that so far have received limited attention in the theoretical literature on the subject.
POSTPONED Symposium: Is there anything left to say about Impressionism?
Friday, 28 Oct 2011
Humanitas Visiting Professor in the History of Art 2011: Professor Richard Brettell will give a series of three public lectures and a concluding symposium on 'Is there anything left to say about Impressionism?'.
Humanitas Visiting Professor in the History of Art 2011: Professor Richard Brettell will give a series of three public lectures and a concluding symposium on 'Is there anything left to say about Impressionism?'.
Beyond revolutions: the use of ICTs for political mobilization and participation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Friday, 11 Nov 2011
The workshop will provide a platform for scholars studying the role of ICTs in political transformations to engage with the arguments put forward by researchers investigating governance processes in Africa.
The workshop will provide a platform for scholars studying the role of ICTs in political transformations to engage with the arguments put forward by researchers investigating governance processes in Africa.
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction 7
Friday, 18 Nov 2011
This workshop, the seventh in a successful series, aims to promote communication and exchange among people working on various aspects of reproduction.
This workshop, the seventh in a successful series, aims to promote communication and exchange among people working on various aspects of reproduction.
Symposium: Communication Power in the Network Society
Wednesday, 23 Nov 2011
Humanitas Visiting Professor in Media 2011: Professor Manuel Castells will give a series of three public lectures and a concluding symposium on 'Power in the Network Society'.
Humanitas Visiting Professor in Media 2011: Professor Manuel Castells will give a series of three public lectures and a concluding symposium on 'Power in the Network Society'.
Public Relations of the Cold War
Thursday, 1 Dec 2011 to Saturday, 3 Dec 2011
The conference seeks to examine the 'selling' of Cold War-motivated policies to national audiences during the second half of the twentieth century.
The conference seeks to examine the 'selling' of Cold War-motivated policies to national audiences during the second half of the twentieth century.
Impressions of Colour: Rediscovering Colour in Early Modern Printmaking, ca 1400-1700
Thursday, 8 Dec 2011 to Friday, 9 Dec 2011
This conference aims to explore new methodologies and foster new ways of understanding the development of colour printing in Europe.
This conference aims to explore new methodologies and foster new ways of understanding the development of colour printing in Europe.
Visualising Violence: Art, Memory and Dictatorship in Latin America
Friday, 13 Jan 2012 to Saturday, 14 Jan 2012
In the wake of many years of sustained political violence and military dictatorships in Latin America, images have played a crucial role in the construction of the traumatic past.
In the wake of many years of sustained political violence and military dictatorships in Latin America, images have played a crucial role in the construction of the traumatic past.
Nationalism and the City
Friday, 10 Feb 2012 to Saturday, 11 Feb 2012
This conference will move to ‘re-centre’ the urban in theories of nations and nationalism, facilitating a dialogue across disciplines to address the many layers of what has been described as ‘the urban palimpsest’.
This conference will move to ‘re-centre’ the urban in theories of nations and nationalism, facilitating a dialogue across disciplines to address the many layers of what has been described as ‘the urban palimpsest’.
The Illusion of Inclusion: Women and the Law
Tuesday, 14 Feb 2012
Humanitas Visiting Professor in Women's Rights 2012: concluding symposium
Humanitas Visiting Professor in Women's Rights 2012: concluding symposium
Rising Powers in the International System: Harnessing Opportunities, Managing Challenges
Friday, 24 Feb 2012 to Saturday, 25 Feb 2012
This conference asks what opportunities and challenges the rise of new powers bring to the international system, and how the opportunities can be optimally harnessed and threats curtailed.
This conference asks what opportunities and challenges the rise of new powers bring to the international system, and how the opportunities can be optimally harnessed and threats curtailed.
Ontological Choreography and Ethical Choreography: A Conversation with Charis Thompson
Wednesday, 29 Feb 2012
C Thompson (UV Berkeley). The workshop will be dedicated to an in-depth discussion of two pre-circulated papers. Places are limited, book by email please.
C Thompson (UV Berkeley). The workshop will be dedicated to an in-depth discussion of two pre-circulated papers. Places are limited, book by email please.
Witnessing War: Culture and Conflict in the 20th Century and Beyond
Thursday, 8 Mar 2012
Special Workshop with Jay Winter, CRASSH Humanitas Visiting Professorship
Special Workshop with Jay Winter, CRASSH Humanitas Visiting Professorship
Imagining War in the 20th Century and After
Thursday, 15 Mar 2012
Humanitas Visiting Professor in War Studies 2012: concluding symposium
Humanitas Visiting Professor in War Studies 2012: concluding symposium
Languages of Citizenship in Translation: Conversations Across Africa and the Indian Ocean
Friday, 16 Mar 2012 to Saturday, 17 Mar 2012
This conference will contribute to a growing field of interdisciplinary studies of innovation in languages and practices of citizenship in a variety of social and cultural contexts.
This conference will contribute to a growing field of interdisciplinary studies of innovation in languages and practices of citizenship in a variety of social and cultural contexts.
The New Public Good: Affects and Techniques of flexible Bureaucracies
Friday, 23 Mar 2012 to Saturday, 24 Mar 2012
This conference asks what is new about newly declared public goods such as transparency, accountability, devolution of power, efficiency, the offering of ‘choice’, the introduction of new technologies or the raising of measurable happiness.
This conference asks what is new about newly declared public goods such as transparency, accountability, devolution of power, efficiency, the offering of ‘choice’, the introduction of new technologies or the raising of measurable happiness.
Transforming Pregnancy Since 1900
Thursday, 29 Mar 2012 to Friday, 30 Mar 2012
Conference-CIRF Venue: HPS
Conference-CIRF Venue: HPS
Freedom, Creativity, and Decision: Towards an Anthropology of the Human Subject
Monday, 2 Apr 2012 to Wednesday, 4 Apr 2012
This conference is being held to celebrate the work of Caroline Humphrey DBE, the recently-retired Rausing Professor of Collaborative Anthropology in the University of Cambridge.
This conference is being held to celebrate the work of Caroline Humphrey DBE, the recently-retired Rausing Professor of Collaborative Anthropology in the University of Cambridge.
Development in the 21st Century
Tuesday, 17 Apr 2012
Humanitas Inaugural Visiting Professor in Statecraft and Diplomacy 2012: concluding symposium
Humanitas Inaugural Visiting Professor in Statecraft and Diplomacy 2012: concluding symposium
Darwin and Human Nature
Thursday, 19 Apr 2012 to Friday, 20 Apr 2012
This conference will explore the series of intersecting boundaries that have defined the human from the mid-19th century to the present and reflect on the legacy of Darwinian frameworks of the 'human' today, as well as challenges posed by post-humanism and recent developments in the social and natural sciences.
This conference will explore the series of intersecting boundaries that have defined the human from the mid-19th century to the present and reflect on the legacy of Darwinian frameworks of the 'human' today, as well as challenges posed by post-humanism and recent developments in the social and natural sciences.
The Art and Science of Medieval Church Screens
Friday, 27 Apr 2012 to Saturday, 28 Apr 2012
This conference will help shape new understandings of old barriers: the richly carved and painted screens which filled medieval churches.
This conference will help shape new understandings of old barriers: the richly carved and painted screens which filled medieval churches.
Still Architecture: Photography, Vision and Cultural Transmission
Thursday, 3 May 2012 to Saturday, 5 May 2012
An international conference that aims to analyze the potentialities of architectural photography as a source of creative imagination and as a tool for spatial knowledge.
An international conference that aims to analyze the potentialities of architectural photography as a source of creative imagination and as a tool for spatial knowledge.
Biodiversity Knowledge Politics: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the integration of biodiversity science, policy and publics
Friday, 11 May 2012 to Saturday, 12 May 2012
The conference will examine the case of biodiversity conservation science and explore what productive dialogue could look like between interpretative social science on science/ policy relationships and scientists whose everyday work entails navigating these relationships.
The conference will examine the case of biodiversity conservation science and explore what productive dialogue could look like between interpretative social science on science/ policy relationships and scientists whose everyday work entails navigating these relationships.
Writing, Art and Chinese Culture
Thursday, 17 May 2012
Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chinese Studies 2012 concluding symposium
Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chinese Studies 2012 concluding symposium
Applied Urban Modelling: Assessing Pathways Towards Energy Efficient and Climate-Wise City Regions (AUM2012)
Thursday, 24 May 2012 to Saturday, 26 May 2012
AUM2012 is the second in a series of annual symposia for discussing applied urban simulation models that offer insight into complex dynamics of urban change and inform practical initiatives.
AUM2012 is the second in a series of annual symposia for discussing applied urban simulation models that offer insight into complex dynamics of urban change and inform practical initiatives.
Cambridge Pragmatism: A Research Workshop
Thursday, 31 May 2012 to Friday, 1 Jun 2012
This research workshop aims to explore this distinctive Cambridge philosophical tradition – its origins, common themes, and connections, in both directions, with other movements in international philosophy.
This research workshop aims to explore this distinctive Cambridge philosophical tradition – its origins, common themes, and connections, in both directions, with other movements in international philosophy.
This Project Will Self-Destruct in Five Years
Friday, 8 Jun 2012
The beginning, middle and end of a digital humanities project, and how to keep it alive: Call for Presentations by 10 May
The beginning, middle and end of a digital humanities project, and how to keep it alive: Call for Presentations by 10 May
River Basin Management: Adaptive, Collaborative, Integrated..or just Chaotic?
Tuesday, 19 Jun 2012 to Wednesday, 20 Jun 2012
Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Rhetoric of Selfishness/Selflessness
Thursday, 21 Jun 2012
Online registration is open
Online registration is open
Charting Vanishing Voices: A Collaborative Workshop to Map Endangered Oral Cultures
Friday, 29 Jun 2012 to Saturday, 30 Jun 2012
A two-day collaborative workshop bringing together university-based researchers, heritage specialists and community organisations to draft and design a web catalogue and online map of existing resources on endangered oral cultures.
A two-day collaborative workshop bringing together university-based researchers, heritage specialists and community organisations to draft and design a web catalogue and online map of existing resources on endangered oral cultures.
New Approaches to Maternal Mortality In Africa
Monday, 2 Jul 2012 to Tuesday, 3 Jul 2012
An interdisciplinary workshop sponsored by King’s College
An interdisciplinary workshop sponsored by King’s College
Language Endangerment: Methodologies and New Challenges
Friday, 6 Jul 2012
This conference invites researchers and language-documentation practitioners from around the world to come together to share their methodologies and to learn from each other.
This conference invites researchers and language-documentation practitioners from around the world to come together to share their methodologies and to learn from each other.
Reproducing China: Childbirth, One Child, and Beyond
Friday, 13 Jul 2012 to Saturday, 14 Jul 2012
This major conference will bring together scholars and junior researchers to present their research on the different facets of reproductive science and medicine in twentieth-century China.
This major conference will bring together scholars and junior researchers to present their research on the different facets of reproductive science and medicine in twentieth-century China.
Poiesis: Interdisciplinary Interventions on Urban Transformation
Wednesday, 25 Jul 2012 to Friday, 27 Jul 2012
The Poiesis symposium is the culmination of a three year research project on the making and remaking of cities led by Richard Sennett and Craig Calhoun in partnership with the Herbert Quandt and Gerda Henkel Foundations.
The Poiesis symposium is the culmination of a three year research project on the making and remaking of cities led by Richard Sennett and Craig Calhoun in partnership with the Herbert Quandt and Gerda Henkel Foundations.
Design without Frontiers: Interdisciplinarity and Collaboration in Soviet Art, Architecture and Design
Thursday, 20 Sep 2012 to Friday, 21 Sep 2012
This conference will investigate the roots and legacies of collaborative networks in Soviet Russia in order to shed light on the circulations, interconnections, and dialogue between different designers and modes of design.
This conference will investigate the roots and legacies of collaborative networks in Soviet Russia in order to shed light on the circulations, interconnections, and dialogue between different designers and modes of design.
Investigating the Intoxication of the Senses Pleasure, Poison, and Perception in Europe, 1600 to the Present
Monday, 24 Sep 2012
A one-day symposium. Invitation only
A one-day symposium. Invitation only
