Events
The School's extensive events programme is a critical component of its national mission to support and promote research in the humanities and social sciences.
The scale of the programme is unparalleled, offering a wide range of opportunities for early-career and established researchers and for collaborative research at the national and international level.
Each year more than 40,000 participants from around the world attend over 1,500 academic events - from seminars, lectures and workshops to major international conferences.
The majority of our events are free and open to all.
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| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Institute of Historical Research |
Further Medieval and Renaissance Latin A third course, carrying on from the first two IHR Medieval and Renaissance Latin courses, to round out students’ grasp of the language and allow them to tackle more advanced Latin … |
| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Institute of Historical Research |
Explanatory Paradigms: An Introduction to Historical Theory A critical introduction to current approaches to historical explanation, taught by Prof John Tosh, Dr John Seed and Prof Sally Alexander. The contrasting explanatory frameworks offered by Marxism, psychoanalysis, gender analysis … |
| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
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| 10:30 | Institute of Philosophy |
One-day Conference: Politics of Secession in the European Union Organised by LSE Dept of Philosophy and Forum for European Philosophy. Supported by LSE Annual Fund. Registration |
Room 349 (SH) |
| 13:10 | Warburg Institute |
From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Commedia. Summer term: Paradise Week 4: Canto X. Heaven of the sun. Thomas Aquinas. After reading Dante in Italian, with English translation and visual and verbal commentary, there will be time for informal and … |
Warburg Institute |
| 17:00 | Institute of Historical Research |
The holy maid of Wales: Visions, politics and Catholicism in Elizabethan Britain |
Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:00 | Institute of Historical Research |
Creolising London? Caribbean activists and the geographies of race and empire in 1930s Britain
Venue: Gordon Room G34, Senate House, South block, Ground floor |
Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| 17:30 | Institute of Commonwealth Studies |
Commonwealth Research Seminar Series |
Room 103 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 17:30 | Institute of Historical Research |
Transcending the Western/Indigenous Binary: Punjabi Dalit Hymnody
Venue: Room STB9, Stewart House, Basement |
STB9 (Stewart House, basement) |
| 17:30 | School of Advanced Study |
Changing Tastes: How Foods Tasted in the Early Modern Period and How They Taste Now 2011-12 ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellow Lecture and wine tasting In dietetic and natural philosophical frameworks of the period from Antiquity to the seventeenth century, the subjective experiences of taste, and indeed … |
Macmillan Hall |
| 17:30 | School of Advanced Study |
2011-12 ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellow Lecture and wine tasting Changing Tastes: How Foods Tasted in the Early Modern Period and How They Taste Now |
Macmillan Hall |
| 18:00 | Institute of Historical Research |
The British Way in Cold Warfare: The Case of the Empire's Caribbean Communists 1952-1964
Athlone Room (102), First floor, South block, Senate House |
Room 102 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
| 18:00 | Institute of English Studies |
Wyndham Lewis Reading Group Nathan Waddell (University of Birmingham): 'Providing Ridicule: Wyndham Lewis and Satire in the Postwar-to-end-war World' |
Room 261 (Senate House, second floor) |
| 18:00 | Institute of English Studies |
Literary London Reading Group Brycchan Carey (Kingston) introducing 'Ignatius Sancho: An Eighteenth-Century African in London.' Ignatius Sancho's (1729-1780) origins were African while his earliest memories were of Greenwich, where he was forced to work as a … |
Room 264 (Senate House, second floor) |
| 19:00 | Institute of Historical Research |
Visual Representations of Knighting Ceremonies |
Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor) |
| Time | Institute | Title | Venue |
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| 09:00 | Institute of Philosophy |
One-day Conference: Olympic Ideals? In association with the University of East London. Directions to UEL Stratford campus. Room CC.G05, Conference and Computer Centre Bldg marked in Brown here. Registration. |
Other |
| 09:15 | Institute of Advanced Legal Studies |
Banking Law Conference 2012: Basel III, the Vickers Report and Regulatory Restructuring For a copy of the programme for the 2012 Banking Law Conference on 'Basel III, the Vickers Report and Regulatory Restructuring', please click here. REGISTRATION AND PAYMENTS: … |
The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 10:30 | Institute of Advanced Legal Studies |
How to get a PhD in Law: Preparing yourself for the Vivas. Getting yourself known - presenting skills, publishing your work, and networking. MPhil/PhD law students from across the UK are warmly invited to attend this specially tailored day of presentations and networking opportunities at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Topics to be covered: Preparing for the … |
IALS |
| 12:30 | Institute of English Studies |
Institute of English Studies Director's Seminar William Radice (Research Associate, SOAS): 'Yeats's impact on Gitanjali'Well known for his translations for Penguin Books of the poems and stories of Rabindranath Tagore, Dr Radice will discuss W. B. Yeats's … |
The Court Room (Senate House, First Floor) |
| 14:15 | Warburg Institute |
The Sound and the Silence: A Drawing by Lucas de Heere for Joris Hoefnagel Full programme at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/seminars/work-in-progress/ |
Warburg Institute |
| 17:00 | Institute of Historical Research |
Finding a nation, founding a nation: Tacitus's 'Germania' and German nationalism
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Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor) |
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Changing Tastes: How Foods Tasted in the Early Modern Period and How They Taste Now
22nd May 2012
School of Advanced Study
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