#PoTW: It takes two to tango. Rethinking enlightenment and decolonisation
‘Decolonisation’ has become a buzzword. However, few of those who deploy the term know much about its history, and perhaps more surprisingly, the same is true for ‘enlightenment’. This blissful tandem...
View Article#PoTW: Writing women: reviving Kana Shodo (‘Woman-Hand’)
To celebrate National Writing Day, the Book and Print Initiative at the Institute of English Studies has invited Kaoru Akagawa to tell the story of Kana Shodo, a forgotten female script. It was...
View Article#PoTW: Pensions: law, policy and practice (W G Hart legal workshop 2019)
State pensions are the largest item in the UK social security budget. It is estimated to cost £91.6 billion in 2016/17, with 12.9 million recipients paid an average of £7,100 each. Enormous wealth is...
View Article#PoTW: Writing bilingually in early modern Europe: a symposium on...
Self-translation was a widespread phenomenon in early modern Europe, but remains largely uncharted in modern scholarship. There have been isolated studies of important figures – mainly literary authors...
View Article#PoTW: ‘Time Come’ Britain’s black futures past
‘It soon come’, runs the refrain in Linton Kwesi Johnson’s 1974 poem ‘Time Come’. ‘It soon come / look out! look out! look out!’. In the Institute of Historical Research’s 2019 Wiley Lecture, Dr Rob...
View Article#PoTW: Wellbeing and resilience for law school managers
Jointly organised by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) and the Committee of Heads of UK Law Schools (CHULS) this workshop, aimed at law school managers and leaders, will focus on wellbeing...
View Article#PoTW: Sketching art history: art historians’ drawings as epistemic tool
Many art historians, among the most famous of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, have used the graphic instrument to study art in all its forms (architecture, painting, sculpture …), but that fact is...
View Article#PoTW: Human rights research conference
Organised by the School of Advanced Study’s Human Rights Consortium (HRC), the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex and the University of Glasgow’s Human Rights Network, this conference is a...
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#PoTW:Children of the Windrush Generation
The modern Commonwealth is all round us, not least because of migration into Britain since the Second World War. These population flows included returning communities from the dissolving British...
View ArticlePoTW: Making theatre in exile
This premiere of a specially devised piece will bring to life some of the original theatre material from the Miller Archive, which comprises materials and recordings relating to the careers of Austrian...
View Article#PoTW: A celebration of Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759–1797
Activists, enthusiasts, students and scholars are invited to come and join the conversation about Mary Wollstonecraft’s legacy on 27 April, the 260th anniversary of her birth. The day’s programme...
View Article#PoTW: Taking humanitarian accountability to the next level
Accountability in humanitarian action is a hot topic. The 2016 World Humanitarian Summit called for more vigorous accountability, with reference to the Core Humanitarian Standard, which was launched a...
View Article#PoTW: Black Lives in England 1500–1800 Wikipedia workshop
AfroCROWD UK, part of an international initiative to create and improve information about the African diaspora, is holding a Wikipedia workshop at the Institute of Historical Research on 30 March,...
View Article#PoTW: A guided walk through Portobello Road and Notting Hill
When: 22 March, 12–2pm Who: Institute of Historical Research Where: Outside the Prince Albert, 11 Pembridge Road, W11 3H (nearest tube – Notting Hill Gate) Organised by Layers of London, the Institute...
View Article#PoTW: What is Plato’s Republic about? Towards a theory of resilience
When: 13 March, 5–7pm Who: Institute of Classical Studies Where: Woburn Suite, ground floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU The series of vivid, discrete episodes of an intellectual...
View Article#PoTW: Women and AI: harms, impacts and remedies
Our daily interactions with AI-driven technologies are becoming increasingly normalised. A prime example is the use of virtual personal assistants (VPAs) in the home such as Siri (Apple), Alexa...
View Article#PoTW: A horizon of (im)possibilities: reflecting on the social implications...
Confronted with realities considered unimaginable only a few of years earlier, Brazil’s political landscape has shifted rapidly. Crucial political events have been occurring at a dramatic pace, from...
View Article#PoTW: Women’s legal landmarks – in conversation
In the centenary year of women’s admission to the legal profession in the UK and Ireland, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies is launching a year-long series of talks, exploring key legal...
View Article#PoTW: Dickens Day 2018 – families and communities
This Dickens Day conference, jointly run by Birkbeck, University of London, Cardiff University, the Dickens Fellowship and the Institute of English Studies at the School of Advanced Study, will explore...
View Article#PoTW: Fulfilling indigenous peoples’ and minority rights to culture and...
This conference, organised by the Human Rights Consoritium, Institute of Modern Languages Research and Brunel University Law School, marks the 15th anniversary of the UNESCO Convention for the...
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