http://backdoorbroadcasting.net Sat, 26 May 2012 13:33:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/medical-prognosis-in-the-middle-ages/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/medical-prognosis-in-the-middle-ages/#comments Sat, 26 May 2012 13:33:03 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=13106
  Event Date: 26 May 2012 Royal Holloway, University of London 11 Bedford Sq London WC1E 6DP The Department of History Royal Holloway University of London presents: Medical Prognosis in the Middle Ages This is the first gathering of this kind of experts on medieval medical prognosis. While scholarly work has been carried out on [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/medical-prognosis-in-the-middle-ages/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/seeing-and-being-seen-postcolonial-visual-culture-and-performance/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/seeing-and-being-seen-postcolonial-visual-culture-and-performance/#comments Fri, 25 May 2012 18:44:10 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=13117
Event Date: 25 May 2012 MY120 Avenue Campus University of Northampton NN2 6JD Seeing and Being Seen: Postcolonial Visual Culture and Performance The University of Northampton is proud to present an exciting day of postcolonial performance, poetry and visual culture at Avenue Campus, School of the Arts. The Seeing and Being Seen: Postcolonial Visual Culture [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/seeing-and-being-seen-postcolonial-visual-culture-and-performance/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/understanding-equality/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/understanding-equality/#comments Fri, 25 May 2012 13:04:07 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=13103
Event Date: 25 May 2012 Senate House Room S349 University of London Malet Street London WC1E 7HU The Institute of Philosophy presents Understanding Equality PROGRAMME: 10.00 Registration 10.15 Joseph Raz (Columbia & King’s College London) – Equality: Political not Philosophical 11.45 Coffee 12.00 Veronique Munoz-Darde (UCL & Berkeley) – All the Fun in the Fair: [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/understanding-equality/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/jane-harrigan-the-politics-of-food-and-the-arab-spring/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/jane-harrigan-the-politics-of-food-and-the-arab-spring/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 09:08:09 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=13171
Event Date: 24 May 2012 Clore Management Centre Torrington Place Birkbeck, University of London London WC1E 7HX Department of Geography, Environment and Development Studies presents: Second Annual Development Studies Lecture: ‘The Politics of Food and the Arab Spring’ Professor Jane Harrigan (SOAS) -  The Politics of Food and the Arab Spring This lecture assesses the [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/jane-harrigan-the-politics-of-food-and-the-arab-spring/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/doron-rabinovici-andernorts/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/doron-rabinovici-andernorts/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 08:49:17 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=13168
    Event Date: 24 May 2012 Austrian Cultural Forum London 28 Rutland Gate London SW7 1PQ The Ingeborg Bachmann Centre London presents:  A Reading by Doron Rabinovici Doron Rabinovici, a novelist, essayist, and historian, was born in 1961 in Tel Aviv and has lived in Vienna since 1964. He has written three novels and [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/doron-rabinovici-andernorts/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/marina-warner-whats-hecuba-to-him-terror-pity-and-the-matter-of-troy-from-homer-to-alice-oswald/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/marina-warner-whats-hecuba-to-him-terror-pity-and-the-matter-of-troy-from-homer-to-alice-oswald/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 12:45:13 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=13100
Event Date: 23 May 2012 Windsor Building WIN 1-04 Royal Holloway Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX   The Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) at
 Royal Holloway University of London presents: What’s Hecuba to him?: Terror, pity and the matter of Troy (from Homer to Alice Oswald) Professor Marina Warner (Essex) – What’s Hecuba to him?: [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/marina-warner-whats-hecuba-to-him-terror-pity-and-the-matter-of-troy-from-homer-to-alice-oswald/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/speculating-on-slums/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/speculating-on-slums/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 11:57:55 +0000 admin http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=13124
...... Event Date 22 – 23 May 2012 Royal Holloway University of London 11 Bedford Sq London WC1E 6DP The Department of Geography at Royal Holloway University of London presents: Speculating on Slums   .... This two day workshop in May 2012 in Bedford Square, London will examine the role played by global financial investments [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/speculating-on-slums/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/paul-lawrence-rose-wagner-%e2%80%93-antisemitism-in-music/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/paul-lawrence-rose-wagner-%e2%80%93-antisemitism-in-music/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 10:17:04 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=13089
Event Date: 22 May  2012 Room B36 Birkbeck Main Building Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1E 7HX Making History: Archives, Artefacts and Interpreting the Past lecture series in partnership with the Wiener Library  Professor Paul Lawrence Rose (Mitrani Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of European History, The Pennsylvania State University) – Wagner: -Antisemitism in [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/paul-lawrence-rose-wagner-%e2%80%93-antisemitism-in-music/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/david-wills-bloodless-coup-love-in-the-heart-of-technology/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/david-wills-bloodless-coup-love-in-the-heart-of-technology/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 09:25:04 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=13179
  Event Date: 22 May 2012 Swedenborg Hall 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH THE LONDON GRADUATE SCHOOL Presents Professor David Wills (SUNY Albany) – Bloodless Coup: Love in the Heart of Technology David Wills has written widely on literary theory, especially the work of Jacques Derrida, film theory, and comparative literature. He has translated [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/david-wills-bloodless-coup-love-in-the-heart-of-technology/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/branka-arsic-memorial-life-thoreau-and-benjamin-on-nature-in-mourning/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/branka-arsic-memorial-life-thoreau-and-benjamin-on-nature-in-mourning/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 09:23:34 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=13177
  Event Date: 22 May 2012 Swedenborg Hall 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH THE LONDON GRADUATE SCHOOL Presents Dr Branka Arsic (SUNY Albany) – Memorial Life: Thoreau and Benjamin on Nature in Mourning Branka Arsic specialises in nineteenth-century literature and culture, and early American literature. She is the author of On Leaving: A Reading [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/branka-arsic-memorial-life-thoreau-and-benjamin-on-nature-in-mourning/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/michael-thompson-you-and-i/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/michael-thompson-you-and-i/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 10:00:57 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=13085
Event Date: 21May 2012 Senate House University of London London WC1E 7HU The Aristotelian Society presents: Professor Michael Thompson (University of Pittsburgh) – You and I Michael Thompson received his PhD in Philosophy at UCLA, where he was a student of Philippa Foot. He is a Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, and was formerly [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/michael-thompson-you-and-i/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/the-history-of-pain-without-lesion-in-the-mid-to-late-19th-century-west/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/the-history-of-pain-without-lesion-in-the-mid-to-late-19th-century-west/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 10:47:06 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=12969
Room 416,  Birkbeck University of London Malet Street, Bloomsbury London WC1E 7HX The Birkbeck Pain Project & Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities present: The History of Pain without Lesion in the Mid to Late 19th Century West Organised by Visiting Fellow to the Birkbeck Pain Project Daniel S. Goldberg (East Carolina University, U.S.), Much work [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/the-history-of-pain-without-lesion-in-the-mid-to-late-19th-century-west/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/peter-goodrich-an-instance-of-the-fingerpost-an-excursus-on-the-legal-and-the-digital/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/peter-goodrich-an-instance-of-the-fingerpost-an-excursus-on-the-legal-and-the-digital/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 10:28:08 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=12963
Event Date: 18 May 2012 Room B34 Birkbeck Main Building Birkbeck, University of London Malet Street, Bloomsbury London WC1E 7HX Birkbeck School of Law presents School of Law, Annual Law Lecture 2012 Professor Peter Goodrich (Cardozo School of Law, New York) – An Instance of the Fingerpost: An Excursus on the Legal and the Digital [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/peter-goodrich-an-instance-of-the-fingerpost-an-excursus-on-the-legal-and-the-digital/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/ken-corbett-the-transforming-nexus-psychoanalysis-social-theory-and-queer-childhood/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/ken-corbett-the-transforming-nexus-psychoanalysis-social-theory-and-queer-childhood/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 09:58:28 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=13201 Event Date 17 – 18 May 2012 Day 1: Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London WC1. Day 2: Large Common Room, Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, London WC1N Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy Presents: Transdisciplinarity and the Humanities: Problems, Methods, Histories, Concepts 2011–2013 (AHRC 914469) Workshop 3 Case Studies 2. Transdisciplinary Problematics: Anti-humanism and [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/ken-corbett-the-transforming-nexus-psychoanalysis-social-theory-and-queer-childhood/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/sara-heinamaa-sex-gender-and-embodiment-a-critique-of-concepts/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/sara-heinamaa-sex-gender-and-embodiment-a-critique-of-concepts/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 09:55:22 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=13199 Event Date 17 – 18 May 2012 Day 1: Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London WC1. Day 2: Large Common Room, Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, London WC1N Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy Presents: Transdisciplinarity and the Humanities: Problems, Methods, Histories, Concepts 2011–2013 (AHRC 914469) Workshop 3 Case Studies 2. Transdisciplinary Problematics: Anti-humanism and [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/sara-heinamaa-sex-gender-and-embodiment-a-critique-of-concepts/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/tuija-pulkkinen-disciplinarity-and-transdisciplinarity-in-gender-studies/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/tuija-pulkkinen-disciplinarity-and-transdisciplinarity-in-gender-studies/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 09:52:28 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=13197 Event Date 17 – 18 May 2012 Day 1: Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London WC1. Day 2: Large Common Room, Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, London WC1N Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy Presents: Transdisciplinarity and the Humanities: Problems, Methods, Histories, Concepts 2011–2013 (AHRC 914469) Workshop 3 Case Studies 2. Transdisciplinary Problematics: Anti-humanism and [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/tuija-pulkkinen-disciplinarity-and-transdisciplinarity-in-gender-studies/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/george-steiner-homelands/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/george-steiner-homelands/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 11:08:15 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=12976
Event Date: 17 May 2012 Room B34, Birkbeck College, University of London, London WC1E 7HX.   The Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism presents: Professor George Steiner (Churchill College, Cambridge) -  Homelands    The history of Judaism and of Jewish identity has been characterized by radical inner tensions. These tensions, Professor Steiner suggests, oscillate between priest [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/george-steiner-homelands/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/transdisciplinary-problematics-anti-humanism-and-gender-study/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/transdisciplinary-problematics-anti-humanism-and-gender-study/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 10:16:22 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=12959
Event Date 17 – 18 May 2012 Day 1:  Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London WC1. Day 2:  Large Common Room, Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, London WC1N Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy Presents: Transdisciplinarity and the Humanities: Problems, Methods, Histories, Concepts 2011–2013 (AHRC 914469) Workshop 3          Case Studies 2. Transdisciplinary Problematics: Anti-humanism [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/transdisciplinary-problematics-anti-humanism-and-gender-study/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/victorian-sentimentality-a-panel-discussion/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/victorian-sentimentality-a-panel-discussion/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 10:15:37 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=13007
Event Date: 17 May 2012 Room B06 Birkbeck Main Building Birkbeck, University of London Malet Street, Bloomsbury London WC1E 7HX Birkbeck Arts Week Victorian Sentimentality Panel discussion:  The curators (Nicola Bown, Vicky Mills, Alison Smith) of a new display opening at Tate Britain this week talk about the display which aims to shed new light [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/victorian-sentimentality-a-panel-discussion/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/david-cunningham-intersciences-philosophy-and-writing/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/david-cunningham-intersciences-philosophy-and-writing/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 09:40:38 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=13195 Event Date 17 – 18 May 2012 Day 1: Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London WC1. Day 2: Large Common Room, Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, London WC1N Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy Presents: Transdisciplinarity and the Humanities: Problems, Methods, Histories, Concepts 2011–2013 (AHRC 914469) Workshop 3 Case Studies 2. Transdisciplinary Problematics: Anti-humanism and [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/05/david-cunningham-intersciences-philosophy-and-writing/feed/ 0