CRASSH Postdoctoral Research Seminar Series

Easter 2013 Programme

Anxiety, Profusion and the Nineteenth-Century Natural History Object
Wednesday, 24 Apr 2013
Alison Wood (English; Divinity; Lucy Cavendish) presents at the CRASSH Postdoctoral Research Seminar
Bilingualism and Biliteracy in Oscan South Italy?
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Nicholas Zair (Peterhouse; Classics) presents at the CRASSH Postdoctoral Research Seminar
The Articulation of Bureaucratic Everydayness in the Indian Himalaya
Wednesday, 8 May 2013
Nayanika Mathur (Social Anthropology; CRASSH) presents at the CRASSH Postdoctoral Research Seminar
Memory, Cosmology and Materiality in Prehistoric Malta
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Isabelle Vella Gregory (Christ's; Archaeology) presents at the CRASSH Postdoctoral Research Seminar
Jaroslav and the Taste for Folkloric Performances in Socialist Mongolia: an Ideal–Type Inspired from Fictional Literature
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Laurent Legrain (Social Anthropology) presents at the CRASSH Postdoctoral Research Seminar
Personhood, the State, and the International Community in the Thought of Charles Malik
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Andrew Arsan (Corpus Christi; History) presents at the CRASSH Postdoctoral Research Seminar
The Artist and the Museum: a Clash of Disciplinary Cultures?
Wednesday, 5 Jun 2013
Alana Jelinek (Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology) presents at the CRASSH Postdoctoral Research Seminar

If you would like to present at any point this academic year, please contact postdocforum@crassh.cam.ac.uk, with a suggested title and abstract.

We also welcome proposals for extended seminars (for example in a 'mini-workshop' type format with two papers and discussants over 3 hours).

Aims:

These seminars provide a space for postdocs in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences to find new audiences for their work and share ideas across disciplinary boundaries. The seminars aim to create a supportive environment in which postdocs can critique each others’ work in progress, rather than acting as another venue for polished papers.

We are keen to encourage papers on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary themes, and we hope that the series will be particularly suitable for researchers who are exploring new directions in their own work and would benefit from opportunities to discuss their ideas with colleagues from different disciplines.

However, the seminar series is open to all postdocs in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, whether or not they consider their work to be interdisciplinary.

Senior colleagues and PhD students are also very welcome to attend the seminars, and we will encourage presenters to invite a wide range of colleagues who can provide useful critical feedback on their work. We will also occasionally invite established colleagues to give presentations on research methods and practice.

Format:

  • Short paper circulated by email (6 pages max)
  • Short, informal presentation (30 mins)
  • Discussion (1hr)

Venue:

Seminar room, CRASSH 

 

Past presentations:

Lent 2013 Programme

Revolution as moral contract: reflecting on the social revolution of Western Sahara’s liberation movement
Wednesday, 16 Jan 2013
Alice Wilson (Social Anthropology; Homerton College) presents at the CRASSH Postdoctoral Research Seminar
Villainy and the Figure of the 'vilain' in French Renaissance Satire
Wednesday, 27 Feb 2013
Jonathan Patterson (French) presents at the CRASSH Postdoctoral Research Seminar
The Truth of Literary Criticism
Wednesday, 13 Mar 2013
Josh Robinson (Queens'; English) presents at the CRASSH Postdoctoral Research Seminar

 

Michaelmas 2012 Programme

'Nature’s Office & Work': Recovery from Illness in Early Modern England, 1580-1720
Wednesday, 17 Oct 2012
Dr Hannah Newton (History and Philosophy of Science) presents at the Postdoctoral Research Seminar
The Criminal Tribe in India Before the British
Wednesday, 31 Oct 2012
Anastasia Piliavsky (Social Anthropology) presents at the CRASSH Postdoctoral Research Seminar
Translating the Rousseauvian Legislator: Female pedagogues in the works of Félicité de Genlis and Mary Wollstonecraft
Wednesday, 21 Nov 2012
Dr Laura Kirkley (French) presents at the CRASSH Postdoctoral Research Seminar
 

Lent 2012 Programme


The Example of Poetry
Wednesday, 15 Feb 2012
Dr Bridget Vincent (English)

 

Lent Term 2011:

Thursday 20 January, 12.00 - 13.30
Status Anxiety, or Missing the Pictures: Film Performativity in the Museum Space
Dr Jenny Chamarette
Abstract

Thursday 3 February, 12.00 - 13.30
Masculinity in Graciliano Ramos
Dr Lucia Villares
Abstract

Thursday 17 February, 12.00 - 13.30
Reframing Ethnicity: Academic Tropes, Political Desires and Ritualized Action in Nepal and India
Dr Sara Shneiderman
Abstract

Thursday 3 March, 12.00 - 13.30
Ports and Power: Patterns of Trade at a South Indian Capital

Dr Robert Harding
Abstract