CJCR Plenary Lectures and Research Seminars

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:41:46 +0000

Date:

25 January 2012 - 4 June 2012

The Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations (CJCR, Cambridge) is pleased to announce its programme of plenary lectures and research seminars for the remainder of the academic year 2011/12. Speakers include Jay Geller, Daniel Langton, Amy-Jill Levine, Susanne Kord, James Carleton Paget and Aaron Rosen. For details please see the full schedule.

All members of the scholarly community welcome!

Organiser(s):

CJCR

'Greek Temples in Crowded Lanes: Pugin in the Strand’, a public lecture by Rosemary Hill

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:03:39 +0000

Date:

13 February 2012

The Centre for Life-Writing Research at King's College London is pleased to announce a forthcoming lecture in its StrandLives series: six distinguished lectures, discussing life stories associated with London’s famous road, the Strand.

On Monday 13th February, Dr Rosemary Hill, author of God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain, will be speaking about:

'Greek Temples in Crowded Lanes: Pugin in the Strand’

Organiser(s):

Centre for Life-Writing Research, King's College London

25 years after: Soviet lessons for security transition in the Afghanistan of 2014

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:39:59 +0000

Date:

22 February 2012

How do we remember the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1989, and how does history relate to today’s state of affairs in that country?

Organiser(s):

LSE IDEAS Cold War Studies Programme

Transgressive Behaviour: 100 years of rule-breaking in Manchester's parks 1840 – 1940

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:21:50 +0000

Date:

23 February 2012

The Friends of the Manchester Centre for Regional History warmly invite you to:

Transgressive Behaviour: 100 years of rule-breaking in Manchester's parks 1840 – 1940

By Carole O'Reilly, University of Salford

Organiser(s):

Manchester Centre for Regional History, Manchester Metropolitan University

New Light on the Babylonian exile and its implications

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:37:43 +0000

Date:

1 March 2012

A talk by Dr Irving Finkel, Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian Scripts, Languages and Cultures at the British Museum
Thursday, 1 March - 7.30 for 8.00 pm at Wimbledon & Dstrict Synagogue.

Organiser(s):

Adult education Wimbledon Reform Synagogue

Lecture by Charles Webster: 'Paracelsus: Chemistry and Revolution'

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:36:46 +0000

Date:

6 March 2012

CHARLES WEBSTER was senior research fellow at All Souls College and previously Reader in the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford. Webster is well known for his magisterial study of the Baconian tradition in seventeenth-century science, The Great Instauration. Science, Medicine, and Reform, 1626-1660 (1975).

Organiser(s):

Dr Anna Marie Roos, University of Oxford; chaired by Professor Pietro Corsi, Professor, History of Science, University of Oxford

Neale Lecture 2012: Prof Robin Blackburn, Slavery and Finance in Britain's Empire of Free Trade

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:20:35 +0000

Date:

29 March 2012

We are pleased to announce that Professor Robin Blackburn (Essex) will give this year's UCL Neale Lecture in British History, on 'Slavery and Finance in Britain's Empire of Free Trade'.

This a free, public lecture, and will start at 5.30pm.

Organiser(s):

Legacies of British Slave-ownership, History Dept, UCL