News – May 2012
May 2012 Newsletter
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Welcome to our May newsletter.
This academic year Easter fell right in the middle of April, so subsequently we have had only a few April recordings, as the universities were shut for the holidays. But the ones we do have are excellent, and I even have the time to elaborate a little on each of them, starting with
This was a public event at the Royal Asiatic Society, London, where Dr Kevin Greenbank (Cambridge) presented a showcase for the Film and Oral History Collections of the Centre of South Asian Studies, with old cine films and audio recordings from the British Raj. We have added the film clips to the talk.
On the 17th April, a conference took place at the Natural History Museum, London, exploring the collections of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753). These items have laid the foundations of the museum and form a fascinating array of plant and mineral specimens. The event can be listened to here.
at the UCL Kennedy lecture theatre. A remarkable lecture, combining neuroscience, technology and ‘being human’.
And now for events at Birkbeck College:
brought together demographers, historians and Politics scholars to launch a book – Political Demography: How Population Changes Are Reshaping International Security and National Politics (Paradigm/Pluto, 2012), and a research group: Population, Environment and Resources Group, based at the Politics department in Birkbeck College.
From the School of Law:
This two-day conference on W.H. Auden and Hannah Arendt , conceptualised and chaired by Homi Bhabha, is an intellectual tour-de-force: with Homi Bhabha, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera , Maria Aristodemou, Costas Douzinas, Susannah Gottlieb, William Kentridge and others. Highly recommended.
- Then there was the long-awaited ‘Ideology Now’ conference,
with Eliane Glaser, Esther Leslie, Matthew Beaumont , Ferdinand Mount, Nick Pearce, Steven Poole, Dan Hind, Owen Hatherley, Louise Owen, Nina Power and Renata Salecl. Already very popular.
More on technology from the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research:
And finally, a very powerful public lecture on the issue of race by
We have bookings coming in now for the new academic year, but we can certainly accommodate still more for the period up to August. So should you have any seminars, conferences, workshops or symposia you would like recorded and podcast, please email or telephone.
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Yours,
René
