Backdoor Broadcasting Company

25 Feb, 2009
Professor Fran Bartkowski (Rutgers U) ‘In Praise of Mixing’

This talk takes up the questions surrounding contemporary ideas of kinship. How in times of constantly expanding knowledge from the biological sciences, neurosciences, and genetics do we continue to determine in our daily lives those whom we invest with intimacy? Who counts as our kin? What are the forms of care to which we commit ourselves? What about our relations with our pets, or companion animals, as some suggest we call them?
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The Humanities and Arts Research Centre at Royal Holloway University of London was established to foster a ‘community of enquiry’. It promotes innovative thought, interdisciplinary initiatives and collaborative research.

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Royal Holloway University of London Department of History

Tuesday, 24 February 2009 17:30 GMT

Nikolaos Chrissis (Royal Holloway)

‘The Common Cause of Christendom: Crusading Rhetoric in Byzantine Diplomacy towards the West (12th-13th century)’

Using a wide variety of sources, Dr. Chrissos analyses the rhetoric applied by Constantinople to deal with the influx of crusaders from the West, as well as their wider implication for the Church (such as the granting of indulgences).

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The Humanities and Arts Research Centre at Royal Holloway University of London (HARC) presents:

18 Feb, 2009
Dr. Fiona McIntosh ‘Aeschylus and the Enlightenment’

The often overlooked first complete translation of Aeschylus’ plays into French by Le Franc de Pompignan (1770) lies at the centre of Dr. Macintosh’s investigation into the reception of the Oresteia in pre- and post-revolutionary France.

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Royal Holloway University of London

Department of History

17 February, 2009

Dr. Nelida Fuccaro (School of Oriental and African Studies)

‘Middle Eastern Urban Frontiers, Migrants and States: The Persian Gulf 1820 – 1947’

Dr. Fuccaro traces the development of the urban settlements of Bahrain and Kuwait and their (predominantly Iranian) migrant communities, as well as the rapid economic change from pearl fishing and merchants to the modern petroleum industry.

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Public lecture presented by the Humanities and Arts Research Centre of Royal Holloway, the School of Psychosocial Studies (Birkbeck) and the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research

Professor Judith Butler

‘Frames of War’

Professor Butler presents from her forthcoming book from Verso, Frames of War: The Politics of Ungrievable Life. Butler explores the way that recent US-led wars have enforced a distinction between those lives that are recognized as grievable, and those that are not. more