Index of Talks
Below are links to all recordings (plus any associated materials) archived during 2011
December
- Juliane Rebentisch – Return to Sender: Why Democrats Should Not Accept Rousseau's Letter on the Theatre
- Celebrating Rozsika Parker 1945 – 2010
- Age Spots and Spotlights: Celebrity, Ageing and Performance
- Julia Reinhard Lupton – The Renaissance Republic of Furniture: From Political Theology to Political Ecology
- François Laruelle – Pourquoi une éthique à l’usage des philosophes?
- Protected: Rosie Thomas – Not Quite (Pearl) White: Visceral Cosmopolitanism in 1930s Bombay Action Films
- Geoffrey Alderman – Defending the Indefensible: Reflections on the Anglo-Jewish Reaction to Domestic Antisemitism, 1931 – 1940
- Wallich and Indian Natural History: Collection Dispersal and the Cultivation of Knowledge
- Daniel Rothschild – Expressing Credences
- Newcastle Animal Ethics and Sustainable Food Policy Conference: A Minding Animals International Pre-Conference
- From Fascism to the “Years of Lead”: Italian Responses to Trauma
- Paul Fiddes and Paul Edmondson – Shakespeare & Theology?
- City/ State/ Resistance: Spaces of Protest in the Middle East and Mediterranean
- Intimacy and Responsibility: The Criminalisation of HIV Transmission
- Simon Critchley – Do it, England (The Hamlet Doctrine, Part I)
- Filippo del Luchese – When the Slaves Go Marching Out: Indignatio, Invisible Bodies and Political Theory
- Gilbert Ashcar – The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives
- Shakespeare Institute Academic Panel on ‘Measure for Measure’
- David Barnett – Counterfactual Entailment
- Slavoj Zizek – The Silent Voice of a New Beginning
- Dora Osborne – What Remains: Trauma and the Archive in Contemporary German Memory Culture
- Siobhan Keenan – Adapting Shakespeare for a "dark corner" of the land: The Simpson Players in Jacobean Yorkshire
- Developing Your Research Career – Publishing a Book
- Being-In-Human: The Critical Theory and Law of Human Rights
- The Assault on Universities: What We Can Do About It
- Reclaiming our futures: people, science and environmental change
- Briony Llewellyn – Painted Embroideries: interwoven threads in the Orientalist images of John Frederick Lewis
- Alan Rusbridger – Hacking away at the truth
- Eric Kaufman – Sacralisation by Stealth?: Religion, Demography and Politics in the 21st Century
- After the Holocaust: Challenging the Myth of Silence
- Øystein Linnebo – Reference by Abstraction
- Rodolphe Gasché – An Immemorial Remainder: The Legacy of Derrida
- The Big Society in Question
- Rhythm and Event
- Anchoring Biodiversity Information: From Sherborn to the 21st century and beyond
- Edward Dickinson – Reinforcing the foundations: Filling in the bibliographic gaps in the historical legacy
- Gordon McOuat – Sherborn’s context: Cataloguing nature
- Neal Evenhuis – Charles Davies Sherborn and the Indexer's Club
- Russ McDonald – Shakespeare's Sonnets in Context
- David de Haan – Access and Conservation – Part 2
- David de Haan – Access and Conservation – Part 1
- Gianfranco Soldati – Direct Realism and the Properties of Experience
- Visions of the Trial: Courts and Visual Culture
- Barbara Villez – Telephone camera technology and courtroom images
- Leslie J Moran – Watching the judiciary
- Leif Dahlberg – The uses and effects of video technology on social interaction and legal space in the Swedish Court of Appeal
- Erin Sullivan – A Disease unto Death: Sadness in the Time of Shakespeare
- Christopher Young – What is World Heritage?
- Christopher Young – World Heritage Committee Concerns
- Alan O’Cain – The Tempest – a visual artist's perspective
- Jenny Parkes – Research at the ethical borderlands
- Priya Muqit – Children's participation in the legal process and the challenges facing torture surviving children
- Emilie Medeiros – Ethics and ethnography with former Maoist youngsters in Nepal
- Judith Ennew – Designing and implementing research on violence and children in three Asian contexts
- Childhood and violence: international and comparative perspectives – Seminar 6: The ethics of researching violence and childhood
- Marie Mcginn – On the Idea of Non-Inferential Knowledge
- Fighting Together for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street
- Howard Caygill – Also Sprach Zapata: Philosophy and Resistance
- Nicholas Draper – Compensation for slave-owners: individual, state and nation in British Emancipation
- Graeme Were – On the Materials of Mats: thinking through design in a Pacific society
- Michael Dobson – Towards the next RSC 'Taming of the Shrew': a think-tank, with director Lucy Bailey
- Godfrey Merlin – Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf
- Rose Cairns – Social barriers to the generation and implementation of appropriate biosecurity policies in Galapagos
- Simon Goodman – The Future of Biosecurity and Biosecuring the Future
- Anton Shekhovtsov – Far-Right Music in Britain
- Nigel Copsey – Au Revoir to "Sacred Cows"? The Nouvelle Droite's Impact on Britain's Far Right
- Gavin Schaffer – The Vision of a Nation: Making Multiculturalism on British Television 1960-1980
- Sonia Gable – Are Griffin's Appeals for Race and Civil War Helping Britain's Far Right?
- Gerry Gable – The Devil's Disciples: From Fiore to Griffin
- Alfio Bernabei – The Mind of Julius Evola: Between Fascism and Mysticism
- Aristotle Kallis – The "Contagion" Dynamic of the Far-Right
- Matthew Feldman – Comparative Lone Wolf Terrorism
- The Future of Biosecurity and Biosecuring the Future – conference page
- Populist Racism In Britain and Europe since 1945 – conference page
- Daniel Simberloff – Non-Native Species Risk: When, Where and to Whose Interests?
- Kezia Barker – Surveilling and Preventing Possible Biosecurity Futures
- Niall Moore – The Future of Biosecurity and Biosecuring the Future
- Jeff Waage – Future bioinvasions – viewing future risk from different sectors and cultures
- Trev Preston – Boots, Braces and Blogs: Representations of Right-Wing Extremism in Britain
- Darya Malyutina – From Racism to Cosmopolitan Sociability: Perceptions of "Others" in the Conditions of Superdiversity by Russian-speaking Migrants in London
- Paul Crofts, "Us" and "Them" in Defining the "Other". A Case Study on Framing Muslims and Islamaphobia and Racism from Kettering
- Jane Callaghan – There's Something Happening Here: Visual Images of the EDL and BNP
- Aurelien Mondon – Nicolas Sarkozyís Legitimisation of the Front National
- Brigitte Beauzamy – The Role of the Radical Right in the Politicization of Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
- Gabriela Augustynowicz-Casey – The Roma: The Need of a New Language of Social Communication
- John Coxhead – Roma: Deconstructing Populist Xenophobia
- Zbigniew Wojcik and Lukasz Gazda – Roma: NOT Hard to Reach Community
- Andreas Umland – Zhirinovskii as a Fascist: Palingenetic Ultra-Nationalism in Documents of the Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia in the early 1990s
- Parikrama Gupta – Racism in Russia: Not a Problem for the Russian State
- Alina Polyakova – Civil Society and Right-Wing Politics: Explaining the Right's Success and Failure in Central Eastern Europe
- Kristina Boreus – Right-Wing Populism and Discursive Discrimination in Austria, Denmark and Sweden
- Simon Oja – From Skinheads and Shouting to Suits and Debating
- Daunis Auers – Mapping Populist Racism in the Baltic States
- Simon Wolfgang Fuchs – Third Wave Shi‘ism: Sayyid ‘Arif Husayn al-Husayni and the Islamic Revolution in Pakistan
- Hasan Ali Khan – The role of the Auqaf Department in re-defining Sufi and Shi‘a built heritage in Pakistan
- Saleem Khan – The Shia dominance of the legal profession in British India: A Study of Lawyer-Politicians of Bihar
- Sajjad Rizvi – Establishing the principles of the faith for a new Shi‘i polity: the theology of Sayyid Dildar ‘Ali Nasirabadi
- Justin Jones – Khandan-i-Ijtihad: authority and transition in a family of Shi‘a ‘ulama in north India, c.1850-1950
- Francis Robinson – Reflections on the Shi‘a in South Asia and the wider Muslim World.
- Michel Boivin – The Ithna ‘Ashari- Isma‘ili divide among the Khojas: exploring forgotten judicial sources from Karachi around 1910.
- Ian G Williams – Shared and disputed symbols within Twelver Shi‘ite and Ahl-i-Sunnat Traditions of Islam: an examination of theological constructions and devotional practices amongst leaders and adherents of these traditions, from nineteenth century South Asia to the contemporary UK.
- Ludovic Gandelot – Religious and social identities of the Aga Khani Isma‘ilis, as seen through the firmans of Sultan Muhammad Shah at the beginning of the twentieth century
- Soumen Mukherjee – Of ‘religious and social welfare’ and ‘progress of the community’: religious inspiration, leadership and idioms of welfarism among Shi‘a Imami Isma‘ilis in twentieth century South Asia and East Africa
- Bashir Damji – The Khoja Shi‘a Ithna ‘Ashari communities of East Africa: from newcomers to flag bearers
- Tahir Kamran – Sufi Shrines, electoral politics and sectarian violence in Punjab: a case study of the dargah of Sial Sharif
- Contesting Shi‘ism: Isna ‘Ashari and Isma‘ili Shi‘ism in modern South Asia
- London Critical Theory School – Friday Debate II
- Stephen Frosh – Psychoanalysis outside the Clinic
- London Critical Theory School – Friday Debate I
- Liz Yarrow – Administrative detention of children involved in armed conflict
- Siobhan McAlister – Childhood in Transition: Experiencing conflict and marginalisation in Northern Ireland
- David Rosen – Child soldiers and the age of enlistment
- Helen Buxton – Bringing the child soldiers home: True life stories from Peace Direct's disarmament programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Srirak Plipat – Current challenges of child soldiering and strategies to deal with them
- Claudia Seymour – Ambiguous agencies: coping and survival in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
- Susan Shepler – Trends in scholarship on child soldiering over the past decade
- Childhood and Violence: international and comparative perspectives – Seminar 5: Children affected by war, with a focus on "child soldiers"
- Paul Henderson – On being interviewed for Museum Lives: An Oral History of the Natural History Museum
- Malcolm Longair – The challenges of writing Royal Society Biographical Memoirs
- Dr Michael Shiner – Politics and drug policy reform
- Sophie Strachan – Drugs and HIV
- Niamh Eastwood – How are Drugs policed and prosecuted in the UK?
- Rick Lines – Deliver us from Evil
- Tilli Tansey – Hidden voices: an oral history of medical laboratory technicians
- Simone Turchetti – Scientists with a safebox: perspectives on the oral history of science and secrecy
- Brian Cathcart – Subjects, objects and expectations in Museum Lives: an oral history of the Natural History Museum
- Keith Moore – Society life: from presidents to 'Personal Information Files'
- Sue Hawkins – Whose story is it anyway? The challenges of doing institutional oral history
- Peter Collins – Writing the recent history of the Royal Society
- Soraya de Chadarevian – An historian’s perspective: doing and using interviews
- Paul Merchant – Oral history and the scientific self
- Elizabeth Haines – Let’s talk about science
- Drugs, social control and social exclusion
- Jakob Bek-Thomsen – Tracing the Functions of Nicolaus Steno's Networks
- Delphine Montoliu – Uomini di scienza e accademie scientifiche di Sicilia nel Seicento
- Andrea Lattes – Jewish Academies and the spreading of mystic manuals in seventeenth-century Italy
- G. Cultrera – “Provando e riprovando”: il motto distintivo degli accademici del Cimento
- Michaele Favaro – L’Accademia udinese degli Ermafroditi fra curiosità scientifiche e censura religiosa
- Maurizio Sangalli – Grazio Maria and Sallustio Grazi between the Venetian Academy and the Ambrosiana
- Eveline Chayes – Academic interlopers and their Texts: from Eterei to Incogniti
- Paula Findlen – Science, Learning and Censorship
- Science, Learning and Censorship
- Justine Walden – The early period of the Accademia Olimpica di Vicenza
- Patricia Tuitt – Used up and misused: the Nation State, the European Union and the Insistent Presence of the Colonial
- Science Voices: Scientists speak about science and themselves
- The BBC World Service and British Soft Power in perspective
- Innovators on Innovation – Sophie Howarth
- Innovators on Innovation – Ori Gersht
- Innovators on Innovation – Noma Bar
- Innovators on Innovation – Matthew Taylor
- Innovators on Innovation – Matthew Herbert
- Innovators on Innovation – Matt Kingdon
- Innovators on Innovation – Judith Hemming
- Innovators on Innovation – London Graduate School
- Daniel Monk – Reading the Queer Will
- The Rise of the Indignant: Spain, Greece, Europe
- Jens Andermann – The journey and the garden: landscape and modernity in Latin America
- Andrew Jones – After Globalization: The Asianization of the Global Economy?
- The Humanities and Money: a Power Breakfast
- Stella Baraklianou – Unruly Creatures: The Art and Politics of the Animal
- Phillip Warnell – Projections of Animality
- Robert McKay – Unruly Creatures: The Art and Politics of the Animal
- Katerina Kolozova – Unruly Creatures: The Art and Politics of the Animal
- Vinciane Despret – Experimenting with Politics and Happiness – through Sheep, Cows and Pigs
- Wahida Khandker – Unruly Creatures: The Art and Politics of the Animal
- Cary Wolfe – Biopolitics, Biopower, and the (Non-Human) Animal Body
- NOMOS: Carl Schmitt & his Interlocutors
- Chandaria Lecture Series: Reasons, Reasoning and Rationality: A Cognitive and Social Perspective
- Claudio Minca – NOMOS: Carl Schmitt & his Interlocutors
- Nathan Moore – NOMOS: Carl Schmitt & his Interlocutors
- Julia Chryssostalis – NOMOS: Carl Schmitt & his Interlocutors
- Dan Sperber – Reasoning and Rationality
- Unruly Creatures: The Art and Politics of the Animal
- SCARCITY EXCHANGES
- Saskia Sassen – Fabricating Scarcity
- Dan Sperber – Reasons for Reasoning
- Providing Public History: Challenges and Opportunities
- Sarah Hutton – The dictatorship of the archivist?
- Paul Carter – From Private to Public: the Poor Law enquiries into medical neglect
- Jane Golding – Historic Environment Records: meeting the challenge and opportunities for local engagement
- Mark Stevens – Broadmoor Revealed: High Security Patients and Their Stories
- Julian Pooley – Private Minds, Public Histories
- Simon Chaplin – How Public? Medical History and Open Access
- Quintin Colville – Naval history, National Heritage and Public Display: a case study of the National Maritime Museum
- Tim Boon – Public History at the Science Museum
- Martha Fleming – Natural History, Global History
- Ludmilla Jordanova – Historians and Museums
- Robert Skelton – Some Evidence of Material Culture during the Sultanate Period in India
- Jonathan Simon – From the Medical Model to the Humanitarian Crisis Model: California’s Prison Health Crisis and the Future of Imprisonment
- Ben Golder – The Limits and Possibilities of a Foucauldian Politics of Rights
- Peter Miller – The Calculating Self
- Giovanna Procacci – Exploring security
- Bernard Harcourt – The Punitive Order: Free Markets, Neoliberalism, and Mass Incarceration in the United States
- Fabienne Brion – Governmentality, citizenship and dangerousness
- Paul Patton – Governmentality and public reason: the critique of Neo-liberalism revisited
- Graham Burchell – Reflections on governmentalities and political culture (with Italy in mind)
- Peter Fitzpatrick and Maria Carolina Olarte – Foucault and the Laws of Death
- The Foucault Effect
- Colin Gordon – Governmentality and the genealogy of politics
- Daniel Defert – The emergence of power in Michel Foucault’s 1970-71 lectures
- Dan Sperber – Reasons in Reasoning
- Iain Boal and Lyla Mehta – Concepts of Scarcity
- Time, Politics and Becoming
- Media, New Media, Post-Media: What is German Philosophy of Media?
- Mark Nuttall – Maps to resources: energy, environment and Canada's Northern Strategy
- Talking Books – Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain
- Roundtable Discussion on ‘Dawn of the Dead’
- William E. Connolly – Two Images of Becoming: Whitehead, Nietzsche, and Cosmopolitics
- Craig Lundy – The Movement and Rest in William E. Connolly's Conception of Becoming
- Stuart Elden – Of: Becoming-World
- Robin Dunford – Immanence and Transcendence: A Matter of Faith?
- Victoria Ridler – The Torsion of Meaning: exploring the forces impelling us to cultivate sensibility in the work of William Connolly
- Terrell Carver – Evil Eye for the Nice Guy
- Rory Rowan – A Political Cosmology?: The world beyond the ‘long line of death
- Kimberly Hutchings – Against Geist: Hegel, Feminism and Expressive Sovereignty
- Clayton Chin – Connolly's Questions: Ontology, Mastery, and Becoming
- Steve Broome – Scarcity and Consumption
- Ed van Hinte – Scarcity and Consumption
- Ed van Hinte and Steve Broome – Scarcity and Consumption
- Theatre Conversation – Image, Text, Theatre: Contemporary Performance and its Sources
- Michael Rosen – Poetry as Performance; performance as Poetry
- Michael Hatt – England arise! Carpenter, Ashbee and the Visual Culture of Song in Late-Nineteenth-Century England
- Javier Moscoso – The Topics of Pain and the Anthropology of Experience
- Jeremy Davies – The Distinction between Mental and Physical Pain
- Lucy Bending – Translating pain – overcoming the ineffability of pain
- Anna Carden-Coyne – Cultures of Pain: The Political, Social and Sexual Provocations of War Wounds
- Sander Gilman- Seeing Pain
- Rhetorics of Pain: Historical Reflections
- Amanda Crawley-Jackson – Ruins in Contemporary Art from France: Exploring the Post-Urban
- Gladys Pak Lei Chong – Nostalgia in the Making: New Beijing, Old Qianmen
- Jonathan Harris – East Jerusalem, Ramallah: Global Alienations and Concrete Determinations
- James C. Kent – Staging Havana: the Buena Vista Social Club Project
- Christoph Lindner – Between Global Cities: Dutch-American Urban Photography
- Martin Caraher – Food and Urban Space
- Richard J. Williams – Globalization’s Uncanny Ruins
- Paul Smyth – An Unrban Farming Experiment
- Carolyn Steel – Citopia: Thinking through Food
- Ben Reynolds – Sustainable Food matters
- Food and Public Space in a Global City
- Beyond the Global City: Visual, Verbal and Virtual Experiences
- Jodi Dean – The Communist Horizon
- Slavoj Žižek – Screening Thought: The Media’s Philosophical Problem
- Aleksander Naymark – International and Local Coinage of Sogd
- David Satterthwaite – Cities and Scarcity
- Alfredo Brillembourg – Simply Built: a chance for our urban planet
- Alfredo Brillembourg and David Satterthwaite – Cities of Scarcity
- Cécile Fabre – The Philosophy of Humanitarian Intervention
- Collaborative Art: Practices, Spaces, Communities
- Samuel Weber – Towards a Politics and Poetics of Singularity
- Irini-Mirena Papadimitriou – Open Souce communities in Arts Institutions and beyond
- John Roberts – Collaborative Art: Practices, Spaces, Communities
- Mel Jordan – Collaborative Art: Practices, Spaces, Communities
- Irit Rogoff – Collaborative Art: Practices, Spaces, Communities
- Karen Mirza – Collaborative Art: Practices, Spaces, Communities
- Janna Graham – Collaborative Art: Practices, Spaces, Communities
- John Jordan – Collaborative Art: Practices, Spaces, Communities
- Protected: Tom Meade – Much concerned with death
- Engin Isin – Reorienting Europe
- Kalypso Nicolaidis – Federalism – Democracy, and Nationalism
- Ulrich Bielefeld – Europe as new polity and socialization process
- Albena Azmanova – Eastern and Western Europe: which “community of fate”?
- Pierre-Noël Giraud – Globalization and the crisis of the European construction
- Trauma and the Early Modern (2)
- Etienne Balibar – Europe, final crisis?
- State of the European Union
- Hugh Kennedy – The Reign of al-Muqtadir (908-932) and the Decline of the Abbasid Caliphate
- Antisemitism and the Law: A Round-table Discussion
- Dougald Hine and Andrew Simms – Economies of Scarcity
- Antony Field – The CIA and counter-terrorism intelligence
- Ricardo Noronha – The most revolutionary law ever approved”: social conflict and bank nationalization in the Portuguese revolution (1974-75)
- Luís Trindade – The States of Ideology
- José Neves – Against and For the State – The Invention of the Communist Militant
- Joana Estorninho de Almeida – Representing the state: civil servants and their images
- Diego Palacios Cerezales – Weak state and civic culture
- Victor Pereira – The Government of Mobility
- Elisa Lopes da Silva – Time to settle down: property, state and its subjects
- Frederico Ágoas – Science, State and Society: early social research in a late industrial country
- The Making of State Power in Portugal
- The Luddites, without Condescension
- Psychoanalysis and Politics – Roundtable Discussion
- Thomas Allcock – Deeper and deeper in trouble on the intervention side’: Lyndon Johnson, Thomas Mann, and the Dominican Republic intervention of 1965
- Aidan Condron – Bound to be stillborn’? American-Egyptian post-bellum strategic dialogue and American policy during the fourth Arab-Israeli War, 1973
- Ben Offiler – Rethinking America and Iran in the 1960s
- Wes Ullrich – Same as the Old Boss? US Perceptions of the Soviet Leadership and the “New Course”, 1953
- Postgraduate Panels – Landscapes of Secrecy: The CIA in History, Fiction and Memory
- David Robarge – Recent CIA initiatives in the field
- Philip Davies – The CIA versus the NIE
- Matthew Aid – The CIA sigint programme and its relations with the NSA
- Jason Harding – The CIA and Encounter magazine
- Chris Pocock – The Black Bats: Covert Air Operations over China from Taiwan, 1951-1969
- Wesley K. Wark – The CIA and Western Culture
- Kathryn Olmsted – The CIA and Conspiracy Theories
- Paul Maddrell – The CIA and the GDR in the Cold War
- Jonathan Haslam – Soviet counter-intelligence against US operations in Moscow
- Hayden Peake – On the Origins of Cold War Counterintelligence in the United States
- Kristian Gustafson – Nixon, Kissinger, the CIA, and Chile
- John Prados – Whither Covert Operations?
- Randall B. Woods – William E. Colby and the CIA
- David Ryan – Mining Nicaragua’s Harbours and Undermining CIA Recovery
- Amira Bennison – The city as a site of power in the Islamic West: The Alhambra (Madīnatal-Ḥamrā’) of the Nasrids and New Fes (Madīnat al-Bayḍā’)
- Maria Ryan – 'Wilful Blindness or Blissful Ignorance? The United States and the Successful Denuclearisation of Iraq
- Stephen Marrin – The CIA’s analysis in the post-Cold War World
- David Robarge – CIA Covert Action and Democracy
- John Hollister Hedley – The CIA and the review of publications by CIA authors
- Len Scott – The CIA and the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Chris Moran – Memories and Memoirs
- Mark Fenster – Varieties of Deference to ‘Extraordinary Needs’: CIA and Secrecy in the Courts
- Tess Knighton – The road to Granada: royal ritual in and around the ‘Capilla Real’
- Robert McNamara – US intelligence assessments and the ‘Unholy alliance’ of Southern Africa c. 1960-80
- James Perry – The Necessary Failure: the Bay of Pigs in Global Context
- David Milne – Excessive Optimism and the politicization of intelligence on Vietnam
- Peter Kornbluh – Cuba, the Bay of Pigs and the CIA
- María Luisa García Valverde – Religión y cultura en la Granada del Antiguo Régimen: La Abadía del Sacro Monte
- Chris Andrew – The CIA and US Intelligence: the view from Moscow and London
- Luis F. Bernabé Pons – Sólo Dios es vencedor: imágenes especulares de Granada y sus moriscos
- Dominik Smyrgala – The Image of the CIA in the Film and Literature of the Communist People’s Republic of Poland
- Helen Laville – Women and the CIA
- Paul McGarr – Playing Games with History’: The State Department, the CIA, and the FRUS series
- Robert J. McMahon – The CIA and the FRUS series: the Indonesian case
- Zakia Shiraz – White Out: The CIA and the Drugs Debate
- Ted Keefer – The Foreign Relations series and secrecy
- Adam Svendsen – The CIA and the Globalisation of Intelligence
- Eugene S. Poteat – The Ever-Changing Role of the CIA: From OSS Covert Operations, to Analysis, to High-Tech and Back
- Robert Irwin – Andalusia, the orientalist portal
- Shearer West – Landscapes of Secrecy: The CIA in History, Fiction and Memory
- Mercedes Castillo Ferreira – Música y contrarreforma en la abadía del Sacromonte de Granada
- Robert Jervis – Why the CIA Doesn't Do Better
- Kaeten Mistry – Landscapes of Secrecy: The CIA in History, Fiction and Memory
- Scott Lucas – Landscapes of Secrecy: The CIA in History, Fiction and Memory
- Matthew Jones – Landscapes of Secrecy: The CIA in History, Fiction and Memory
- Steve Hewitt – Landscapes of Secrecy: The CIA in History, Fiction and Memory
- Peer Henrik Hansen -Cooperation, complications and covert operations: CIA and Danish Intelligence, 1946-63
- Sites of Power: The City of Granada as Cultural Icon
- Stefania Paladini – Viewed by the Allies: The Agency’s (mis)perception in Italy
- Hugh Wilford – America’s Great Game: The CIA and the Arab World in the Early Cold War
- Richard J. Aldrich – Renegades and Outriders: The CIA and Journalism
- Cees Wiebes – Oh my God, the Dutch did it again” : The Dutch-CIA intelligence liaison
- Laura Moorhead – Norwood Allman, the CIA and Representations of Intelligence
- David Robarge – Origins and Development of the CIA Paramilitary function in the early Cold War
- Nick Cullather -The CIA, the Culture of Intelligence Failure and the Bogotázo of 1948
- Fred Hitz – The Myths and Reality of Espionage
- Trevor McCrisken – The CIA and American Television
- Landscapes of Secrecy: The CIA in History, Fiction and Memory
- Simon Willmetts – Louis De Rochemont, Hollywood and the CIA: A Volatile Relationship
- Richard Immerman – From the OSS to the CIA: Whither Go Covert Operations?
- Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones – The Origins of the CIA
- Landscapes of Secrecy: The CIA in History, Fiction and Memory
- Nina Parish – Digital Communities: Literature and the Internet in France
- Sonia Gable – The British National Party's Finances
- Gerry Gable – Lone Wolves: Myth or Reality? An Overview
- Think Global – Hate Local – conference page
- Paul Jackson – Colin Jordan: The Universal Nazi
- Raphael Cohen-Almagor – Hate on the Internet
- Nigel Copsey – Sustaining a Mortal Blow? The British National Party, the 2010 General and Local Elections, and After
- Étienne Balibar – Eleven Theses on Marx and Marxism
- Lesley Pullen – Naga Material Culture: 1826-2008
- Mairéad Hanrahan – Genet after Derrida
- Is the Alternative Vote worth voting for?
- Keith Thomas – Heritage or History? Conflicting Views of the Past
- Marie-Hélène Brousse – Tough Love
- Scott Wilson – Psyche, That Inglourious Basterd
- Fred Botting – Screen, Drive, Romance
- Hager Weslati – Post-Phallic Libidinal Economies
- Quentin Tarantino and Cinema’s Other Enjoyment
- Gérard Wajcman – Tarantino’s Girls
- Brian Cathcart – The Phone-hacking Scandal
- Giorgio Agamben – What is a Commandment?
- Karen Wells – Whose Children: Child protection in the global world
- Slavoj Zizek – Masterclass – The Limits of Hegel
- Stephen Butterfill – Expression and Expressive Communication
- Natalie Sebanz – On Contagion, Empathy, and Other Mechanisms of Behaviour
- Leonardo Fogassi – Neuroscience of Communication, Mirror Neurons
- Hans-Johann Glock – Expression and Expressive Communication
- Juan Carlos Gomez – Expressive Communication in Apes
- Expression and Expressive Communication
- Jim Hurford – On Problems and Prospects in the Study of language Evolution
- Slavoj Zizek – Masterclass – Lacan and Sexual Difference
- The Philosophy of Literature – The Intentional Act
- Slavoj Zizek – Masterclass – The Idea of Communism and its Actuality
- The Philosophy of Literature
- Protected: Anne Carson – Uncle Falling
- Ruth Harvey – The Lady and the Song
- Orbiting London – A Conversation with Iain Sinclair
- Susan James – Imagining Political Consensus
- Jasmine Gideon – Social Policy and Social Reproduction: Reflections from the Chilean Case
- Karen Wells – The place of children and childhood in social reproduction
- Sam Punch – Young Migrant Livelihoods and Youth Transitions in Bolivia
- Penny Vera-Sanso – Social reproduction: an expanding reliance on older people?
- Tanja Bastia – Social reproduction across space: reconciling mobility and care
- Nicola Yeates – Global care chains (GCCs): a state-of-the-art review and future directions
- The political economy of social reproduction across the lifecourse: global perspectives
- The Philosophy of Literature – (T)exteriors
- Protected: Barry Bergdoll – Out of Site, in Plain View: the Modernity of the Architecture Exhibition since 1750
- Part Time Students are Special: Recent Research Findings
- Protected: Suzanne Spicer – Interpreting Learning for All Framework & Providing Formal and Informal Education Services
- Rei Terada – Politics After Expectation
- Andreas Wittel – Towards a Higher Education Commons
- Michael Kimaid – Toward a Resistance of Commodified Time and Space
- Mao Xin – Ethically rethinking utopia in the contemporary world – from a Levinasian perspective
- Fabian Balardini – Taking Control and moving beyond the ‘extractivist’ model of development: socialist state-owned National Oil Companies and permanent profitability crisis in the global oil industry
- Önder Çelik (École Normale Supérieure) – Decentralization as a possible way of struggling against late capitalism: the case of Turkish Kurdistan
- Sumit Chakrabarti – From 'Corporation' to 'Crowd': the rhetoric of control in the politics of West Bengal
- Ben Whitham – The Millbank Riot: A Step in the Direction of Control?
- Christian Garland – A Dual-power situation? Communization and the Materiality of Anti-power
- Phil Edwards – Terrible Beauty seeks Geometric Potency: arms and the law in the anni di plombo
- Vassilis Fouskas – Deconstructing Hub and Spoke Imperialism
- David Chandler – The Problematic of Control in a Global World
- Taking Control – conference page
- Jodi Dean – Revolutionary Theory and Communist Organisation
- Ewan Fernie – Mea Culpa: Measure for Measure and Complicity' or 'Shakespeare Found Me Out'
- Christopher Long – Thoughts on the Ground Plan: Spatial Ideas in Loos, Strnad, Frank, and Schindler
- Paul Quigley – The American Civil War and the International Boundaries of Citizenship
- Tony Wright – In defence of Politicians
- Steph Mastoris – Oral History and Reminiscence
- Françoise Balibar in Conversation
- Roundtable on theatre and citizenship
- The Weird: a discussion of fiction and politics with China Miéville
- Civilizational Collapse: Dystopian Imaginings of the Past, Present, and Future (1880 – Present) – conference page
- Ika Willis – Apocalypse Then: Carl Schmitt and Civil War
- Ahuvia Kahane – The Jewish Ruin
- Joanna Paul – Vesuvian Apocalypse
- Klaus Dodds – Geographies of the end of the world: Hollywood and the contemporary disaster movie
- Richard Overy – Will Civilization Crash?
- Patrick Parrinder – Suburban Apocalypse
- Phiroze Vasunia – Ends of Empires
- Lindsay Allen – Finding Identity in Ruins: Post-War Children’s literature
- Greg Claeys: Utopia: A question of definition
- Jean Marc Dewaele – Trilingual First Language Acquisition: Perspectives from the child, the father and the researcher
- The Philosophy of Literature – The Intentional Subject
- Problematising Danger
- Vivian Nutton – Galen, from Byzantium to Basle
- Alex Hamilton – ‘Dangerous tools’ in ‘dangerous hands’: How synthetic biology is imagined as a ‘bioterrorist threat’
- Casey McNeill – Danger and un-governed spaces in the US
- Charlotte Heath-Kelly – Counter-Terrorism and the Counterfactual: Producing the ‘Radicalisation’ Discourse and the UK PREVENT strategy
- Jerry White – Vengeance and the Crowd in Eighteenth-Century London
- Marieke de Goede – Networked Danger and Speculative Security
- Sam Okoth Opondo – Fearscapes / Securescapes : Urban Anxieties, Securities and the Domestic Scene
- Debbie Lisle – Danger’s Other: Pleasure, Leisure & Travel
- Jonas Hagmann – Risk registers and the measurement of everything: Security scientism and the reassertion of modernism
- Christopher Zebrowski – Falling-out: Examining the problematising capacities of danger
- Lisa Stampnitzky – Constituting terrorism: three attempts at rational governance
- Cerelia Athanassiou- Changing the Global War on Terror: Who is the ‘Ready’ Citizen Arming Against?
- Andrew Neal – The Entropy of Dangerousness
- David Chandler – The Ontology of Danger:Recasting the Human Subject in Discourses of Vulnerability and Resilience
- Joscha Wullweber – Strategies of Danger and Dangerous Strategies
- Btihaj Ajana – Re-ontologising Danger
- Protected: Eurovision and the ‘New’ Europe: European Margins and Multiple Modernities
- Interpreting Imaginary Jews
- Jacquelyn Bessell – Advice from the Players
- Anna Whitelock – ‘Woman, Warrior, Queen’: Rethinking Mary I and Elizabeth I
- Lynne Segal & Stephen Frosh – Intimacy and Love
- Hito Steyerl- Look out, it’s real : Documentary truth and tear gas
- Benedek Peri – Turki in Mughal India
- Robin du Boulay – Servants of Empire
- Jane Hamlett – Institutional Space in Schools for Middle-Class Girls and Boys
- Johannes Fabian – Cultural Anthropology and the Question of Knowledge
- Nira Yuval-Davis – Exile, diaspora and the politics of belonging
- Jasmine Gideon – Transnational health seeking strategies: a study of Latin American migrants in London
- Philip Marfleet – Sanctuary past and present
- Sunil Amrith – Migration and Citizenship in Modern Asia
- Migration: a joint Birkbeck College/University of East London Symposium
- Rainer E. Zimmermann – Basic Concepts of Transcendental Materialism
- Kate Ferris – Experiencing fascism: everyday articulations of power and agency in 1930s Venice
- Protected: Museums, Researchers and Engagement: Working together to develop our skills 25 January 2011
- Zoë Waxman – Words of Pain: Interpreting Personal Memories of the Holocaust
- Simon Schama – The Fate of the Idea of Toleration
- Siavush Randjbar Daemi – The Presidency in Iran
- Dan Michman – The Reasons Behind the Emergence of Ghettos During the Shoah – Trying to Solve the Enigma
- Andrew Benjamin – Hegel's Other Woman: The Figure of Niobe in Hegel's Lectures on Fine Art
- Tony Harrison in Conversation and Performance
- Graham Smith – 'Changing embodied narratives in oral histories of general practice in Britain c.1948-1990'
- Capitalist Realism: Is there No Alternative?
- Andrew Robinson – The Apu Trilogy: Satyajit Ray and the Making of an Epic
- Dark Materialism
- Jean-Jacques Lecercle – Dark Epiphanies
- Eugene Thacker -Divine Darkness
- Gabriel Catren – The Thing and the Shrink
- Dorothée Legrand – Constitutive Self-Negation
- Caroline Finkel – Travelling the Evliya Çelebi Way: Equestrian and Pedestrian Adventures in Northwest Anatolia
Index of talks