26 February 2010 – This event brings together leading London theatre critics for an evening of conversation about the changing craft of theatre criticism.
After Human Rights?
26 February 2010 – panelists will examine, challenge and rethink the tension between ‘particular, nationally-bounded’ citizenship and ‘natural’ human rights drawing on the insights of theoretical and empirical scholarship and of the politics of human rights activism.
Moving Performers, Travelling Performance (session 3)
25 February 2010 – Third in a series of roundtable discussions on the theme of ‘Moving Performers, Travelling Performance’ aiming to stimulate interdisciplinary dialogue on the movement of performers, their practices, and their artefacts. speakers to be announced
Pakistan: business as usual?
25 February 2010 – A round table event with David Taylor, Umar Khan, Ali Usman Qasmi, Daniel Haines, Sarah Ansari, Humayun Ansari, Markus Daechsel
Words and Music: Listening to Song
24 February 2010 – The two half-day sessions of the seminar “Words and Music” will set up a dialogue between speakers, including a musicologist, an audio scientist, a practising poet, a composer, and literary specialists.
Robert C. Merton – Observations on the Science of Finance in the Practice of Finance: Past, Present, and Future
23 February 2010 – This year the annual Kolmogorov Lecture will be given by Nobel Prize winner Professor Robert Merton, from Harvard Business School. Professor Merton will discuss the economic crisis and the important role of financial innovation and regulation in the future beyond the economic crisis.
Mark Fisher – Nubureaucracy and Capitalist Realism
12 February 2010 – This symposium will explore nu-bureaucracy and other related concepts developed in Capitalist Realism, such as ‘business ontology’ and ‘market Stalinism’. How has nu-bureaucracy affected education and public services, and how can it be resisted? What implications might the attack on nu-bureaucracy have for a renewed anti-capitalism?
John Foot – Italy’s Divided Memory. World War Two, 1940-1945
11 February 2010 – part of the Birkbec / Wiener Library Lecture Series
Owen Wright – How French is frenkçin?
11 February 2010 – Professor Owen Wright (School of Oriental and African Studies) – How French is frenkcin?
Rosemary Deem – The 21st century University – Dilemmas of Leadership and Organisational Futures
11 February 2010 – Professor Deem’s lecture will consider the ways in which new conceptions of the purposes of universities could lead to reshaping of the organisational structures and cultures of higher education institutions.