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A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the rise of the slave trade to the age of revolution
27th January 2020
Dr Toby Green, winner of the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2019, discusses his groundbreaking history, A Fistful of Shells, in conversation with Zeinab Badawi.
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Murder in a cathedral: the life, death, and legacy of Thomas Becket
11th November 2020
On 29 December 1170, four knights murdered Archbishop Thomas Becket inside Canterbury Cathedral. News of this sacrilegious violence spread quickly and Becket became one of the most famous martyrs in medieval Europe.
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‘…In or about 1970…’: artists, writers, and feminist thought
02nd July 2020
Fifty years later we consider how the arts shaped the Anglophone 1970s women’s movement and how the legacy of that relationship resonates today
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Technology and the future of labour: historical and contemporary perspectives
21st May 2020
This conference brings together leading economic historians and labour economists with policy-makers and promises to yield important new insights on technological progress, economic growth, and the future of labour.
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Roberto Gerhard (1896–1970): reappraising a musical visionary
07th July 2020
This conference marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Roberto Gerhard in 1970.
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Cut-Ups@60: an anniversary of unlimited potentials
10th September 2020
Cut-Ups@60 explores a landmark in cultural history: the 60th anniversary of the cut-up methods launched in Paris and developed in London by Brion Gysin and William Burroughs.
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Terror from the right: forms, function and future
21st July 2020
As far-right violence grows in both volume and visibility globally, this timely symposium takes a close look at its core aspects.
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Ancient plaster: casting light on a forgotten sculptural material
06th April 2020
This conference explores plaster as a material in its own right and addresses the contentious question of its use in life-casting.
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Quentin Skinner's 'Meaning and Understanding' after 50 years: interdisciplinary perspectives
22nd July 2020
Quentin Skinner's 1969 essay 'Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas' was a groundbreaking challenge to textual interpreters. This conference will critically examine the essay and it's legacy.
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Anthropology and geography: dialogues past, present and future
04th June 2020
Anthropology and geography have much in common. At this conference, further conversations can take place on vital issues including the Anthropocene, ethnology, methodology and fieldwork, education and public awareness, and the place of our disciplines in the modern world.
