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Event Date: 9 February 2012
The Shakespeare Institute
Mason Croft
Church Street
Stratford-upon-Avon
CV37 6HP

Professor  Liam Semler (University of Sydney) Emergence in Ardenspace: System and Exile in Shakespeare Pedagogy

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The Shakespeare Institute
An internationally renowned research institution established in 1951 to push the boundaries of knowledge about Shakespeare Studies and Renaissance Drama. The Shakespeare Institute offers a wide range of innovative postgraduate degrees, including postgraduate research.
During the Autumn and Spring terms, the Institute runs a series of Thursday seminars which are given by members of staff and invited speakers. The seminars start at 2.00pm lasting approximately 45 minutes followed by a question and answer session. University of Birmingham staff and students, and guests are welcome to attend.

Event Date 9 February 2012

Windsor Auditorium

Royal Holloway University of London

2012 Dabis Lecture

‘Why Pericles Matters‘

Professor Robin Lane Fox (Fellow New College, Oxford and University of Oxford Reader in Ancient History): Why Pericles Matters

Robin Lane Fox is Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at New College, Oxford and University Reader in Ancient History. His books and articles include major works on Alexander the Great and the relation between the pagan and early Christian religions of the Roman Empire. He has also taught Greek and Latin literature and early Islamic history, in which he held an Oxford Research Fellowship. He was historical adviser for the film, ‘Alexander’, and is a gardening correspondent for the Financial Times.

Event Date; 7 February 2012 

Royal Asiatic Society

Stephenson Way 
London NW1 2HD

Dr Monika Bincsik (Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto):   The Japanese Incense Culture and its Lacquer Implements

Event Date 7 February 2012
Windsor Auditorium
Royal Holloway University of London

‘Let the Games Begin’: Indigenous Performance and Global Spectacle, 1976-2010

Professor Helen Gilbert (RHUL)
Director of the International Centre for Theatre and Performance Research

Olympic Games provide unique opportunities for marginalised peoples to express their cultural traditions in pageants prepared for a vast media audience. This lecture will look at Opening Ceremonies in Canada, Australia and the USA with a specific focus on performances by Aboriginal/Native groups. The aim is to weigh the exoticising effects of spectacle against the benefits of global visibility while also paying attention to the protest movements that have accompanied such events.

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Event Date: 7 February
Christodoulou Meeting Room 11
Walton Hall campus
Open University,
Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA

Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship

The conference addresses the performative and creative side of social movements, practices of identity negotiation and political participation questioning the meaning of citizenship. Which actors, sites and rights are constituted in contemporary power struggles redefining ‘the political’? Which neo-colonial or neo-imperial nodes emerge from the analysis of issues such as democracy or secularism? Under this light, how is the language of law challenged and remoulded?

Panel 20: New Cartographies of Citizenship

Brenna Bhandar (Queen Mary University London)
Metamorphic property: Practices of ownership in Palestine

Nacira Guénif-Souilamas (University Paris-Nord/13)
Blurred citizens. An orientalist mapping of other beings, belongings and becomings

Kim Rygiel (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Camp cartographies: Forging transgressive citizenship in transit

The presentations are part of the International Conference ‘Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship’ by the ERC funded Oecumene project (www.oecumene.eu)

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Event Date: 7 February
Christodoulou Meeting Room 11
Walton Hall campus
Open University,
Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA

Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship

The conference addresses the performative and creative side of social movements, practices of identity negotiation and political participation questioning the meaning of citizenship. Which actors, sites and rights are constituted in contemporary power struggles redefining ‘the political’? Which neo-colonial or neo-imperial nodes emerge from the analysis of issues such as democracy or secularism? Under this light, how is the language of law challenged and remoulded?

Panel 19: Colonial Legacies and Migration

Uma Kothari (University of Manchester)
Contesting colonial rule: Politics of exile in the Indian Ocean

Parvati Nair (Queen Mary University London)
Immigration, indignation, integration: Reinventing citizenship and democracy in Spain

Catherine Neveu (LAIOS – IIAC)
Rescuing citizenship from its theories: Anthropological perspectives

The presentations are part of the International Conference ‘Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship’ by the ERC funded Oecumene project (www.oecumene.eu)

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Event Date: 7 February
Christodoulou Meeting Room 11
Walton Hall campus
Open University,
Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA

Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship

The conference addresses the performative and creative side of social movements, practices of identity negotiation and political participation questioning the meaning of citizenship. Which actors, sites and rights are constituted in contemporary power struggles redefining ‘the political’? Which neo-colonial or neo-imperial nodes emerge from the analysis of issues such as democracy or secularism? Under this light, how is the language of law challenged and remoulded?

Panel 18: Religion and the Political

Suhraiya Jivraj (Oxford Brookes University)
Religion and citizenship values: Interrogating New Labour’s faith schools policy

Ian Morrison (Wilfrid Laurier University)
‘Like a mighty wind’: Locating the apolitical Buddhist subject within orientalist narratives of citizenship

Trygve Wyller (University of Oslo)
The spatial and the religious: The emergence of an embodied ‘act of citizenship’?

The presentations are part of the International Conference ‘Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship’ by the ERC funded Oecumene project (www.oecumene.eu)

Event Date: 6 February 2012
Senate House
University of London
London WC1E 7HU

The Aristotelian Society

presents:

 Dr Stacie Friend (Heythrop): Fiction as a Genre

Standard theories define fiction in terms of an invited response of imagining or make-believe. I argue that these theories are not only subject to numerous counterexamples, they also fail to explain why classification matters to our understanding and evaluation of works of fiction as well as non-fiction. I propose instead that we construe fiction and non-fiction as genres: categories whose membership is determined by a cluster of non-essential criteria, and which play a role in the appreciation of particular works. I claim that this proposal captures the intuitions motivating alternative theories of fiction.

Stacie Friend is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London, where she has been teaching since 2007. Her research is at the intersection of aesthetics and philosophy of language and mind, focusing primarily on issues relating to fiction. She has published papers on the nature of fiction, discourse and thought about the non-existent, the metaphysics of fictional characters, emotional responses to fiction and tragedy and the cognitive values of literature. She is currently working on a monograph, Matters of Fiction.

Before coming to Heythrop, Dr Friend taught at Birkbeck College (2005-7) and at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania (2003-05). She was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2002-03. She received her BA in Philosophy and English Literature from the University of Miami, Florida (1995) and her PhD in Philosophy from Stanford University (2002).

Dr Friend is the Secretary of the British Society of Aesthetics, as well as an organiser of the London Aesthetics Forum series of talks at the Institute of Philosophy in London.