Podcasts about School of Advanced Study

Ahead of the prestigious Kennedy Summer School, we spoke to one of the keynote speakers Professor Sarah Churchwell who is a professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities at the school of Advanced Study

Book Collecting Seminar, Collecting Middle Eastern Books and Manucripts. With Nick McBurney, Alex Day (Quaritch), Roxana Kashani (Bloomsbury Auctions). June 9.

On the phone with Kafka and Benjamin - Syamala Roberts

Dr Steven Connor

Speaker: Anne Fuchs (University College Dublin) talks about her recently published book 'Precarious Times'.

Nine Memos Composer: Paul Archbold Artist: Arditti Quartet Director: Colin Still Copyright: Optic Nerve ©2020 28.05.2020 School of advanced studies: www.sas.ac.uk

Institute of Modern Languages Research Speaker(s): Prompted by the Royal Ballet’s streaming of its 2011 ballet ‘Metamorphosis’ (‘Die Verwandlung’), Seán Williams (University of Sheffield) talks about reading and watching Kafka in confined a...

Book Collecting Seminar - Magic: from John Dee to Aleister Crowley. With Katie Birkwood (Royal College of Physicians) and Christina Oakley Harrington (Treadwell’s Books) The focus of these lectures and seminars is on bibliophilia and the book trade....

Book Collecting Seminar - Elisabeth Grass

Queer books - an academic, an artist, a collector and a librarian discuss the field

Shopping for pets in nineteenth and twentieth-century London Jane Hamlett , Royal Holloway, Rebecca Preston , Royal Holloway

Beat Furrer in conversation with Edward Nesbit AHRC OWRI project ‘Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community' A series of talks on the relationship between music and language, created as part of the AHRC Open World Research Initiative; ‘Cro...

Ghostly geographies: in search of medieval Swansea today Catherine Clarke (IHR)

The city under the railway arches: Infrastructures of social value in Victorian London Peter Jones, IHR

How to navigate an archive: Looking for witchcraft trials in the State Archive of Venice and in the ecclesiastical Archive of Udine: a personal experience from the early 1960s Carlo Ginzburg is one of the most original and influential historians of ...

Professor Steven Matthews, University of Reading.

Roland Quinault, IHR

T.S. Eliot International Summer School

Professor Christoph Frank, Università della Svizzera italiana Christoph Frank received his PhD in the History of the Classical Tradition from the Warburg Institute in 1993. Since 2005 he has been Professor of the History and Theory of Art and Arc...

Peter Burke (Professor Emeritus of Cultural History, University of Cambridge) Jonathan Jones (Art critic for The Guardian and former judge of the Turner Prize) Martin Ruehl (Senior Lecturer in German History and Thought, University of Cambridge)

Speaker: Glyn Davies, Museum of London

Carla Mereu (Bristol); Katie Brown (Bristol); Kit Yee Wong (BBK)

Speaker: Adam Lowe, Factum Arte, Madrid

Lucas Fels performs Helmut Lachenmann’s revolutionary work ‘Pression’ for solo cello of 1969. The documentary features a rehearsal session with Lachenmann and Fels exploring the novel instrumental techniques, and several conversations discussing ...

This one-day workshop aims to probe whether the label and concept of a ‘minor literature’ (Deleuze/Guattari, 1975) can be usefully applied to contemporary writing by female Jewish authors in Germany and Austria. The workshop will explore what the t...

On 20 April 2018, the Warburg Institute (in conjunction with the Cervantes Institute) will host an event on books and readers in the Spanish-speaking world, with the theme 'The Book as World, the World as Book'. The day will culminate in a conversation...

Dr Jorge Pinto (University of Lisbon) This seminar focuses on the language situation in Cape Verde. Portuguese pidgins were the first Romance pidgins to emerge and gave rise to creoles throughout the world. Since independence, the role and status of...

Tessa Murdoch, Victoria and Albert Museum Re-opening the Workshop: Medieval to Early Modern - Lecture Series Workshop and workshop practices represent a core and dynamic research strand in the history of art. This strand encompasses the study of ...

Ruth Byrne, Lancaster

Victor Morgan, University of East Anglia

Rebecca Jennings, University College London

Speaker: Sheila Lecoeur (Imperial College London) A lecture by Dr Sheila Lecoeur on the publication of her volume Mussolini's Greek Island: Fascism and the Italian Occupation of Syros in World War II. The lecture will focus on the legacy of the Ital...

Speaker: Manuel Arias, Museo Nacional da Escultura, Valladolid Re-opening the Workshop: Medieval to Early Modern - Lecture Series Workshop and workshop practices represent a core and dynamic research strand in the history of art. This strand enco...

This seminar investigates the relation between thought, spontaneity and movement - in short, living thought, or thought thinking experience. Spontaneity and movement are nothing fixed, and so it seems that a philosophical understanding of them must als...

This conference, organised by the Centre for Metropolitan History, aims to explore the shifting experiences, representations and status of vagrancy in relation to the history of British settlement. How can exploring the images and realities of vagrancy...

acob Blanc, University of Edinburgh This talk uses the history of the Itaipu hydroelectric dam and the struggle of displaced farmers, peasants, and indigenous groups to understand how Brazil's dictatorship was experienced and contested in the countr...

This conference, organised by the Centre for Metropolitan History, aims to explore the shifting experiences, representations and status of vagrancy in relation to the history of British settlement. How can exploring the images and realities of vagrancy...

Speakers: Dr Andrea Hammel (Aberystwyth), Stephanie Homer (IMLR), Ursula Krechel (Berlin) and Ruth Barnett (London) The Kindertransport enabled nearly 10,000 child refugees to flee from Nazi-occupied territories to the UK in 1938-39. It is remembere...

Debby Banham

The Warburg Institute Addressing and Undressing the Female Body in the Magdalene Chapel at San Francesco, Assisi Keynote address Penny Jolly (Skidmore College)

The Warburg Institute Addressing and Undressing the Female Body in the Magdalene Chapel at San Francesco, Assisi Keynote address Penny Jolly (Skidmore College)

Keynote speakers Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon,General Oscar Naranjo, Justina Demetriades

Zosia Edwards, Royal Holloway

Katie Sutton, Australian National University

The 2017 London Lecture with Professor Sir Drummond Bone Wordsworth and Byron fell out in a not very dignified way over politics, and there was heavy co-lateral damage in their opinion of each other’s poetry. But there was a fundamental intellectu...

Institute of Historical Research History Day 2017 Panel 3 - Discovery in Libraries and Archives Chair: Anne Welsh (Lecturer in library and information studies, UCL) Christian Algar (Curator, printed heritage collections, British Library) Ge...

Institute of Historical Research History Day 2017 Panel 2 - Public History Chair: Sarah Churchwell (Chair in public understanding of the humanities, SAS) Justin Bengry (Lecturer in History, MA in Queer History course convenor, Goldsmiths, Un...

Institute of Historical Research History Day 2017 Panel 2 - Public History Chair: Sarah Churchwell (Chair in public understanding of the humanities, SAS) Justin Bengry (Lecturer in History, MA in Queer History course convenor, Goldsmiths, Un...

TUDY DAY IN COLLABORATION WITH THE INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL RESEARCH, SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON AND KINGSTON UNIVERSITYIn addition to his music, Satie left a remarkable set of writings, including Le Piégede Méduse (1913) featuring music for prepared piano. Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde. He was a precursor to later artistic movements such as minimalism, repetitive music, and the Theatre of the Absurd.This study day will include material on French cinema, lecture/recitals and a performance.This part of the study day included the following talks:Composers' Forum: The Impact of Satie on music today by Howard Skempton, Michael Parsons and James Nye. Chaired by Paul ArchboldSatie in performance by Grace CheungErik Satie and Visual Art by Simon Shaw-Miller

TUDY DAY IN COLLABORATION WITH THE INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL RESEARCH, SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON AND KINGSTON UNIVERSITYRobert Orledge, Emeritus Professor at the University of Liverpool and a panel of expertsIn addition to his music, Satie left a remarkable set of writings, including Le Piégede Méduse (1913) featuring music for prepared piano. Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde. He was a precursor to later artistic movements such as minimalism, repetitive music, and the Theatre of the Absurd.This study day will include material on French cinema, lecture/recitals and a performance.This part of the study day included the following talks:Satie's musical and personal logic by Robert OrlegeSatie as poet, playwright and composer by Caroline Potter