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MICHAELMAS TERM 2015

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WHAT’SON& WHO’S HERE

From intensive small-group seminars to international conferences and major research projects, CRASSH’s programmes provide for the exchange and development of ideas at every level - www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes

CRASSH AT GLANCE

RESEARCH PROJECTS CRASSH continues to grow with 10 major research projects hosted at the centre.• Bible and Antiquity in 19th-century Culture • Centre for Digital Knowledge: Concept Lab

and Technology and Democracy• Centre for the Study of Existential Risk new!• Conspiracy and Democracy• Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of Literature• Early Modern Conversions: Religions, Cultures, Cognitive Ecologies• Genius before Romanticism: Ingenuity in Early Modern Art and Science• Limits of the Numerial new!• Making Visible: The Visual and Graphic Practices of the Early Royal Society new!• Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic

CONFERENCES CRASSH runs around 20 conferences every year, with the following to come:• Moral Psychology Interdisciplinary Conference • 9 October• Interdisciplines: Drama, Economics and Law in Early Modern England • 17 October• Leadership, Authority and Legitimation in South Asia • 20-21 November• Solomon Schechter’s Life and Legacy • 22 November• Corpses, Burials and Infection • 4-5 December• Why We Disagree About Human Nature • 10-11 December• The Matter of Mimesis • 17-18 December• Digital Editing Now • 7-9 January

RESEARCH GROUPS Regular seminars and workshops will take place throughout the year.• Cambridge Conversations in Translation new!• Climate Histories / Paris 2015• Ethics of Big Data new!• Food: Field to Table? new!• In Search of Good Enery Policy new!• Performance Network (CIPN)

• Rethinking Work new!• Science Non Fiction and the Bottom

Billon new!• The Subversive Good: Disrupting Power,

Transcending Inequalities new!• Things that Matter, 1400-1900

Casketing of a dead body by a plague hygiene team in Madagascar 1935 © Institut Pasteur - Musée Pasteur

5 OCT SEMINAR Theatre, Philosophy, Pedagogy 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1)Martin Puchner (Harvard) • Performance Networkwww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26400

6 OCT SEMINAR Introduction to the Series 2015-16 12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1)GEP Conveners and Advisors • In Search of Good Energy Policy www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26375

7 OCT WALKSHOP What is Big Data?2pm-4pm • Cambridge Railway StationAlison Powell (LSE), Alex Taylor (Microsoft Research) • Ethics of Big Data www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26406 Register online

7 OCT SEMINAR The Road to Paris and Beyond2.30pm - 4.30pm • CRASSH (SG2)Richard Fraser (Cambridge), Mark Aldenderfer (California) • Climate Histories/Paris 2015 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26424 7 OCT SEMINAR The Importance of Food: Calories and Culture 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2)Erik Millstone (Sussex) • Food: Field to Table?www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26405

9 OCT CONFERENCE/WORKSHOPMoral Psychology Interdisciplinary Conference 1 Day • CRASSH (SG1&2) Convenors: Juliet Griffin, Nora Heinzelmann, Gabriela Pavarini (Cambridge)www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26237Register online

12 OCT SEMINAR Blood and Earth: Shakespeare’s Apothecarist Language in the Mid 1590s 12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Bonnie Lander Johnson (Cambridge) • Work in Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26318

12 OCT SEMINAR Imagining the Digital Future: A Social Revolution? 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1) John Naughton (Cambridge), Sheila Hayman (Filmmaker BAFTA award-winning) • Performance Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26401

12 OCT CONFERENCE/WORKSHOPBecoming a Research Leader: Know the Landscape 1 Day • Mill Lane (Committee Room, OPdA) Convenor: Alison Wood (Cambridge) • Postdoc Forum www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26361Closed event, by application only

13 OCT SEMINARCurating Kinship Through Education 12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Tom Hawker, Jasmine Bourne, Rowan Williams (Cambridge), Matthew Russell (Project CURATE) • The Subversive Good www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26374

13 OCT READING GROUPCambridge Psychoanalysis Reading Group 12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (S3) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26266

13 OCT SEMINAR Material Culture: Crossing Disciplines and Analysing Things 1.30pm - 3.30pm • CRASSH (S2) Convenors: Melissa Calaresu, John Robb (Cambridge) • Mellon Teaching Seminar www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26290Closed event, by application only

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BER 2015 14 OCT SEMINARScience Non Fiction12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG2)www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26420

14 OCT SEMINARFragments 12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Ben Outhwaite (Cambridge) • Thingswww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26412

14 OCT SEMINAR Translation and Poetry 2.30pm - 4.30pm • CRASSH (SG2) James Montgomery, Rowan Williams (Cambridge), Matthew Reynolds (Oxford) • Conversations in Translation www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26381

14 OCT SEMINAR Negotiating Law and Work (Session 1)5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Amy Ludow (Cambridge), Colin Williams (Sheffield), Pietro Saitta (Messina) •Rethinking Work www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26362

17 OCT CONFERENCE/WORKSHOPInterdisciplines: Drama, Economics and Law in Early Modern England1 Day • Fitzwilliam College (Trust Room)Maria Fusaro (Exeter), Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary), Rebecca Tomlin (Birkbeck), Andy Wood (Durham) • Crossroads of Knowledge www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26308Register online

19 OCT SEMINARSincerity, Science and Values12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room)Stephen John (Cambridge) • Work in Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26319

19 OCT LECTUREPreventing Conflicts and Building Fair Societies: What Can We Learn From the Nordic Countries?5pm - 6.30pm • Law Faculty (LG18)Martti Ahtisaari (Former President of Finland) • Humanitas in Statecraft and Diplomacywww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26370

19 OCT CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP Researching Global Labour Movements: Where Do Digital Methods Fit In? 1 Day • Institute of Criminology (Room B4)Jenny Chan (Oxford), Anne Alexander (Cambridge) • Digital Humanities www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26429

20 OCT SEMINARGeopolitics of Energy/ Russian-European Gas 12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1)Jonathan Stern (Oxford), Marc Ozawa (Cambridge) • In Search of Good Energy Policy www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26376


20 OCT SEMINAR Material Culture: Crossing Disciplines and Analysing Things 1.30pm - 3.30pm • CRASSH (S2) Convenors: Melissa Calaresu, John Robb (Cambridge) • Mellon Teaching Seminar www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26310Closed event, by application only 21 OCT SEMINARInside Snowden’s Suitcase 12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1)Evan Light (Concordia) • Ethics of Big Data www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26416

© SACOM (Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior)

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21 OCT SEMINARRobots, Insects and Lab Meat: Food in the Future 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Ian Hardy (Nottingham) • Food: Field to Table? www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26407

21 OCT LECTUREIn Order to Succeed in Peace Mediation You Have to Be an Honest Broker5pm - 6.30pm • Law Faculty (LG18)Martti Ahtisaari (Former President of Finland) • Humanitas in Statecraft and Diplomacywww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26371

22 OCT IN CONVERSATIONHow Can Peace Be Made?5pm - 6.30pm • Law Faculty (LG17)Martti Ahtisaari (Former President of Finland), John Dunn (Cambridge) • Humanitas in Statecraft and Diplomacywww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26372

23 OCT CONFERENCE/WORKSHOPHow Can Peace Be Made? (Symposium)2pm-6pm • CRASSH (SG1&2) Martti Ahtisaari (President of Finland) • Humanitas in Statecraft and Diplomacywww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26373Register online

26 OCT SEMINARCitizens, States and Social Policy in the Latin Atlantic, 1930-1945 12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room)Pedro Ramos Pinto (Cambridge) • Work in Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26324 26 OCT SEMINARText and Scores as Spaces of Interaction5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2)Margaret Faultless (Cambridge / Royal Academy of Music), Margherita Laera (Canterbury / European Theatre RN) • Performance Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26402

26 OCT ILLUSTRATED LECTUREOn Keys and Music (Lecture 1)5pm - 6.30pm • West Road Concert HallMitsuko Uchida (pianist) • Humanitas in Chamber Music www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26357

27 OCT SEMINAR Taking it to the Streets: Borders, Boundedness... 12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1)Richard Sennett (LSE), Anoop Nayak (Newcastle) • The Subversive Good www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26397


27 OCT SEMINARMaterial Culture: Crossing Disciplines and Analysing Things 1.30pm - 3.30pm • CRASSH (S2) Convenors: Melissa Calaresu, John Robb (Cambridge) • Mellon Teaching Seminar www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26311Closed event, by application only

27 OCT LECTUREConspiracy and Democracy Public Lecture5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1)Simon Schaffer (Cambridge) • Conspiracy and Democracy www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26336

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BER 2015 28 OCT SEMINAR Science Non Fiction12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG2) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26421

28 OCT SEMINARConservation 12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Penny Bendall (Ceramic Conservator), Spike Bucklow (Cambridge) • Thingswww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26413

28 OCT WORKSHOP Translation and Poetry 2.30pm-4.30pm • CRASSH (SG2) Timothy Mathews (UCL), Ian Patterson, Marcus Tomalin (Cambridge) • Conversations in Translationwww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26382

28 OCT READING GROUPNegotiating Law and Work (Session 2) 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2)Rethinking Work www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26366

29 OCT ILLUSTRATED LECTUREOn Keys and Music (Lecture 2)5pm - 6.30pm • West Road Concert HallMitsuko Uchida (pianist) • Humanitas in Chamber Musicwww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26358

2 NOV SEMINARRepresentations of the Urban Space in Select Elizabethan and Jacobean English Texts12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Ananya Dutta Gupta (Visva-Bharati) • Work in Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26320

3 NOV SEMINARPhilosophy and Ethics of Energy / Nuclear Power 12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1)Sabine Roeser (TU Delft) • In Search of Good Energy Policy www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26377

3 NOV READING GROUPCambridge Psychoanalysis Reading Group 12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (S3) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26269

3 NOV SEMINAR Material Culture: Crossing Disciplines and Analysing Things 1.30pm - 3.30pm • CRASSH (S2) Convenors: Melissa Calaresu, John Robb (Cambridge) • Mellon Teaching Seminarwww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26312Closed event, by application only

4 NOV SEMINARWho Makes Data Big?12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1)Paolo Gerbaudo (KCL), Anne Alexander (Cambridge) • Ethics of Big Data www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26417

4 NOV SEMINARKnowledge, Scales and Paris 2015 2.30pm-4.30pm • CRASSH (SG2) Michael Bravo, Hildegard Diemberger (Cambridge) • Climate Histories/Paris 2015www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26426

4 NOV READING GROUPGlobal Food System 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Food: Field to Table?www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26408

5 NOV CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP Becoming a Research Leader: Know Yourself1 Day • CRASSH (SG2) Convenor: Alison Wood (Cambridge) • Postdoc Forumwww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26363Closed event, by application only

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BER 2015 9 NOV SEMINAR Animal Worlds: Film, Philosophy and Time12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Laura McMahon (Cambridge) • Work in Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26333

9 NOV SEMINARCan Performance Teach Us About History and Historical Time? 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1) Sanja Perovic (KCL), Stuart Brisley (Scultor, Performance artist) • Performance Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26403

10 NOV SEMINAR Free Me: Education as the Practice of Freedom 12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1)Baz Dreisinger (CUNY), Karen Graham (Newman), Ingrid Obsuth (Cambridge) • The Subversive Good www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26398 10 NOV READING GROUPCambridge Psychoanalysis Reading Group 12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (S3) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26270

10 NOV SEMINAR Material Culture: Crossing Disciplines and Analysing Things 1.30pm - 3.30pm • CRASSH (S2) Convenors: Melissa Calaresu, John Robb (Cambridge) • Mellon Teaching Seminarwww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26313Closed event, by application only

10 NOV LECTUREConspiracy and Democracy Public Lecture 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1) David Vincent (Open University) • Conspiracy and Democracy www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26396

11 NOV SEMINARTranslation and the Sacred Text 2.30pm-4.30pm • CRASSH (SG2) Theodor Dunkelgrün, Simone Kotva, Tony Street (Cambridge) • Conversations in Translationwww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26383

11 NOV SEMINARVulnerable Work (Session 1) 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Louise Waite (Leeds), Francisco Calafate Faria (Goldsmiths), Lydia Hayes (Cardiff) • Rethinking Work www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26367

11 NOV SEMINAR Science Non Fiction12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG2) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26422

9 NOV SEMINAR The Hidden Seed of their Survival: The Lives of Art in Benjamin and Adorno12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Ross Wilson (Cambridge) • Work in Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26321

17 NOV SEMINAR History of Energy / Clean Air Policies12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1)Stephen Mosley (Leeds Beckett), Paul Warde (Cambridge) • In Search of Good Energy Policy www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26378


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18 NOV SEMINARWhy does Ethics Matter to Big Data?12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1)Aidan White (Ethical Journalism Network) • Ethics of Big Data www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26418

18 NOV SEMINARJane Austen 12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG2) Hilary Davidson (Independent Scholar) • Things www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26414

18 NOV SEMINAR Land Use Conflicts: They’re Not Making It Any More 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Jeremy Woods (London) • Food: Field to Table? www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26409

20-21 NOV CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP Leadership, Authority and Legitimation in South Asia 2 Days • CRASSH (SG1&2) Convenors: Nicholas Evans, Anastasia Piliavsky (Cambridge) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26168Register online

22 NOV CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP Solomon Schechter’s Life and Legacy: A Jewish Scholar in Victorian England (1882 - 1901) 1 Day • St John’s College (Divinity School) Convenor: Theodor Dunkelgrün (Cambridge) • Bible and Antiquity www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26067Register online

23 NOV SEMINARPhantasmatic Shakespeare: Imagination in the Age of Early Modern Science12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Suparna Roychoudhury (Mount Holyoke College) • Work in Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26327

23 NOV SEMINARWhat’s in a Frame: Art Interacting with Life5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1) Victorial Miguel (John Cage Trust), Luke Skrebowski (Cambridge) • Performance Network www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26404

24 NOV SEMINAR‘Not Shut Up’: Education in Prison…12.00pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Ben Crewe, Patrick McKearney (Cambridge), Marek Kazmierski (Not Shut Up) • The Subversive Good www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26399


24 NOV SEMINARMaterial Culture: Crossing Disciplines and Analysing Things 1.30pm - 3.30pm • CRASSH (S2) Convenors: Melissa Calaresu, John Robb (Cambridge) • Mellon Teaching Seminarwww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26315Closed event, by application only

24 NOV LECTUREConspiracy Theories about Jews in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey5pm - 6.30pm • CRASSH (SG1) Marc Baer (LSE) • Conspiracy and Democracy www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26335 © Anastasia Piliavsky

25 NOV SEMINAR Science Non Fiction 12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG2)www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26423

25 NOV SEMINARTaste12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1) Emma Spary (Cambridge), Iona McCleery (Leeds) • Things:www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26415

25 NOV CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP Translation and the Sacred Text 2.30pm - 4.30pm • CRASSH (SG2) Nick King (Oxford), James Montgomery, Nathan MacDonald (Cambridge) • Conversations in Translation www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26384

25 NOV READING GROUP Vulnerable Work (Session 2) 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2) Rethinking Work www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26368

27 NOV LECTURE RECITALOn Keys and Music: Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations 7.30pm-9.30pm • West Road Concert HallMitsuko Uchida (pianist) • Humanitas in Chamber Music www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26359Book tickets online

30 NOV SEMINARA Disciplinary Museum? Locating Knowledge at the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Chris Wingfield (Cambridge) • Work in Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26344

1 DEC SEMINARTheology and Ethics of Energy / Oil Sands 12pm - 2pm • CRASSH (SG1)Michael Northcott (Edinburgh), Jonathan Chaplin (Cambridge) • In Search of Good Energy Policy www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26379

1 DEC READING GROUPCambridge Psychoanalysis Reading Group 12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (S3) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26273

1 DEC SEMINARMaterial Culture: Crossing Disciplines and Analysing Things 1.30pm - 3.30pm • CRASSH (S2) Convenors: Melissa Calaresu, John Robb (Cambridge) • Mellon Teaching Seminarwww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26316Closed event, by application only

1 DEC LECTUREConspiracy and the Gullible Cynic: the real ideology of Putin’s Russia5pm - 6.30pm • CRASSH (SG1) Peter Pomerantsev (TV Producer) • Conspiracy and Democracywww.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26430

2 DEC SEMINARThe Morality of Climate 2.30pm - 4.30pm • CRASSH (SG2)Charles Kennel (San Diego), Richard Irvine (Cambridge) • Climate Histories/Paris 2015www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26427

2 DEC SEMINARParis 2015: Securing Food in a Changing Climate 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG2)Nazia Habib-Minz (Cambridge) • Food: Field to Table? www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26410

3 DEC LECTUREConspiracy and Democracy Public Lecture 5pm - 7pm • CRASSH (SG1) Pablo Piccato (Columbia) • Conspiracy and Demoracy www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26428

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3 DEC CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP Global Political Murder Symposium1 Day • Gonville & Caius College (The Cavonius Centre, Stephen Hawking Building) Convenor: Tanya Filer (Cambridge) • Conspiracy and Democracy www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26385 Closed event, by application only

3 DEC CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP Becoming a Research Leader: Know About Others1 Day • CRASSH (SG2) Convenor: Alison Wood (Cambridge) • Postdoc Forum www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26365Closed event, by application only

4-5 DEC CONFERENCE/WORKSHOPCorpses, Burials and Infection 2 Days • CRASSH (SG1&2)Convenors: Christos Lynteris, Nicholas Evans (Cambridge) • Visual Plague www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26034Register online

7 DEC SEMINARTrue and False: The Journalistic Turn in Late Soviet Literature12.30pm - 2pm • CRASSH (Meeting Room) Rebecca Reich (Cambridge) • Work in Progress www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26355

10-11 DEC CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP Why We Disagree about Human Nature 2 Days • CRASSH (SG1&2)Convenors: Beth Hannon (Leeds), Tim Lewens, Sam Murison (Cambridge) www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26169Register online

17-18 DEC CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP The Matter of Mimesis 2 Days • CRASSH (SG1&2)Convenors: Emma Spary (Cambridge), Marjolijn Bol (Amsterdam/Max Planck Institute)www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26170 Register online

7-9 JAN CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP Digital Editing Now 3 Days • CRASSH (SG1&2)Convenors: Andrew Webber (Cambridge)www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26264 Register online

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Here is an introduction to this term’s new CRASSH Fellows. You can read more about their work, and that of all of CRASSH’s researchers, at www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/people

HUMANITAS VISITING PROFESSORS

WHO’S NEW MICHAELMAS 2015

Martti AhtisaariFormer President of FinlandHow Can Peace Be Made?19-23 October

Mitsuko Uchidapianist On Keys and Music26 October, 29 October & 27 November

VISTING FELLOWS

David Vincent Conspiracy and Democracy Visiting Fellow, Michaelmas 2015

Angela Breitenbach ProFuture Fellow 2015-18The Ideal of Unity: Regulative Principles in Science and Beyond

Fernando Chavarría-Múgica Eurias Fellow 2015-16Borderland Entanglements: A Comparative Approach to Civil-Military Relations During the First Global Age

Ananya Dutta Gupta Charles Wallace Fellow 2015-16“This goodly Cittie”: Representations of the Urban Space in Select Elizabethan and Jacobean English Texts

Khaled El-Rouyhab Leverhulme Visiting FellowMichaelmas 2015

Christian Ilies (Visiting Fellow, Michaelmas 2015)Manipulation as a Challenge for Ethics and Political Philosophy

Anastasia Piliavsky Leverhulme Early Career Fellow 2015-16

Suparna Roychoudhury Conversions Fellow, Michaelmas 2015Phantasmatic Shakespeare: Imagination in the Age of Early Modern Science

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Material Culture: Crossing Disciplines and Analysing Things

John Robb Archaeology and Anthropology

Melissa Calaresu History

EARLY CAREER FELLOWS

Stephen John History and Philosophy of Science Sincerity, Science and Values

Bonnie Lander Johnson EnglishBlood and Earth: Shakespeare’s Apothecarist Language in the mid 1590s

Laura McMahon FrenchAnimal Worlds: Film, Philosophy and Time

Pedro Ramos Pinto HistoryCitizens, States and Social Policy in the Latin Atlantic, 1930-1945

Rebecca Reich Slavonic StudiesTrue and False: The Journalistic Turn in Late Soviet Literature

Chris WingfieldArchaeologyA Disciplinary Museum? Locating Knowledge at the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Technology and Democracy Nora Ni Loideain

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Bible and Antiquity in 19th-century Culture Jocelyn Betts and Ruth Jackson

Centre for the Study of Existential Risk Shahar Avin, Yang Lui and Bonnie Wintle

Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of LiteratureRachel Holmes

Limits of the Numerical Gabriele Badano and Trenholme Junghans

Making Visible: The Visual and Graphic Practices of the Early Royal Society Sietske Fransen and Katherine Reinhardt

Three new research projects start this term and we are pleased to welcome seven new Research Associates on these projects:

Four new Research Associates are also joining existing research projects:

IF YOU MISSED IT...

Videos of past CRASSH events are published on our website. You can also download them from our youtube channel: www.youtube.com/user/crasshpublicity

XU BING (Artist)• The Reactivation of Tradition• The Energy of Reality and the Creativity of Art• Xu Bing at the Fitzwilliam Museum• Chinese Tradition: Chinese Reality

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/gallery/video/xu-bing-at-the-fitzwilliam-museum

BALZAN SKINNER LECTURE 2015• Anna Becker (University of Basel): Gender in the History of Early Modern

Political Thought

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/gallery/video/anna-becker-gender-in-the-history-of-early-modern-political-thought

AFRICAN HERITAGE CHALLENGE CONFERENCE• Webber Ndoro (African World Heritage Fund): Heritage Places in Africa• Paul Lane (Uppsala University): African Cultural Heritage and Economic

Development• Chris Boonzaaier (University of Pretoria): The Role of Traditional

Knowledge

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/gallery/video/webber-ndoro-heritage-places-in-africa-what-benefits-from-preservation-and

RICHARD HAASS (American Diplomat)• World Order: Definition and Description• The Decline of World Order: Causes and Explanations• World Order: What Can be Done?

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/gallery/video/richard-haass-world-order-definition-and-description

THE TOTAL ARCHIVE CONFERENCE• Katherine Hayles (Duke University): A Theory of the Total Archive

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/gallery/video/katherine-hayles-a-theory-of-the-total-archive

Summaries of conferences can be found on Storify: storify.com/CRASSHlive

Podcasts are availaible on the University Streaming Media Service: www.sms.cam.ac.uk/institution/CRASSH

MORAL PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH GROUPThis series brought together researchers from different disciplines who have a common interest in understanding moral behaviour.

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THE MAKING OF MEASUREMENT CONFERENCE• Nancy Cartwright (Durham University): The Theory of Measurement • Graeme Gooday (University of Leeds): A Measured Hearing• Terry Quinn (International Bureau of Weights and Measures): From Artefacts to

Atoms: The Basis of Reliable Measurement


THINGS SEMINARThe 2014-15 series emphasised the importance of materiality in object study, and was entitled “Things that Matter, 1400-1900”.


THE DRAMA OF INTELLECTUAL LIFEThis conference explored new perspectives for the study of intellectuals. It investi-gated how new theoretical and methodological approaches can reinvigorate the study of intellectuals.

storify.com/CRASSHlive/the-drama-of-intellectual-life-performativity-in-t

SONOROUS SUBLIMESThis interdisciplinary conference was the first dedicated to the musical sublime circa 1670-1850.

storify.com/CRASSHlive/sonorous-sublimes-music-and-sound-1670-1850

SOUND STUDIES: ART, EXPERIENCE, POLITICSThis 3-day conference drew attention to the international growth of sound studies. It aimed to facilitate dialogue between academics and artists/practitioners across the many disciplinary areas of sound studies.

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