Index of Talks
Below are links to all recordings (plus any associated materials) archived during 2019
December
- Slavoj Zizek – The Rise of Obscene Masters: Taking Donald Trump seriously
- Aby Warburg’s Leonardo Lectures: A Reconstruction
- Werner Oechslin – Of Buildings and Books
- Light | Sensitive | Material
- Meena Dhanda – Philosophical Foundations of Anti-Casteism
- Margot Finn – Material Turns in British History III: Collecting: Colonial Bombay, Basra, Baghdad and the Enlightenment Museum
- Henry Bial – Jewish on Demand: Representation and Difference in the Streaming Era
- Roger Chartier – Between Cultural History and History of the Book
- Polly Toynbee – The Lost Decade
- Royal Holloway Christmas Physics Lecture
- Humphrey Ocean and Phillip King – Leonardo’s “Paragone” and Contemporary Art
- Cosimo I de’Medici and Granducal Florence – Oscar Schiavone
- Stephen Green – The Human Odyssey – East, West and the search for Universal Values
- Tim Anstey – The Tenant’s Furniture: re-inscribing the Warburg Institute
- Tilman Frasch – Bagan and the Theravada Buddhist Ecumene in the 12-13th Centuries CE
- Helen Thompson – Popular politics and referendums: the long journey to a referendum on Brexit
- Xavier Dectot – A not-so-recent Archaeological Discovery in Saint-Germain-des-Prés
- Michael Franklin – Phebe Gibbs, Our Calcutta Correspondent
- Yael Tamir – Why Nationalism
- Cosimo I de’Medici and Granducal Florence – Eliana Carrara and Philippe Canguilhem
- Giles Tillotson – Vision and Landscape: New Perspectives on Oriental Scenery by Thomas and William Daniell
- Paul Bromberg – Thai Silver and Nielloware
- Robert Priest – The Oberammergau Passion Play: Actors, Audiences, Antisemitism c.1860-1910
- Colleen Murphy – On Principled Compromises
- Cosimo I de’Medici and Granducal Florence: Henk van Veen and Guido Rebecchini
- Stephen West – The Theory Behind Dark Matter
- Philip Mansel – The Sun King and the Sultan: Louis XIV and the Ottoman Empire
- Elizabeth Sears – Academic Refugees in the 1930s: In and Around the Warburg Circle
- Glen Pettigrove – Ambition, Love, and Happiness
- Annual Public Lecture: Rt Hon David Lammy MP
- Saidiya Hartman – Beautiful Experiments
- Stephen Martin – Surviving Asia, Sponsoring Mozart. The Polymathic Portrait of Dr Ferdinand Dejean
- Rethinking Democracy: Populism, Post-democracy and the Politics of Resentment
- Lesley Pullen – Hindu Buddhist Java: Examining the Evolution of Dress on Sculpture
- Helen Steward – Free Will and External Reality: Two Scepticisms Compared
- Catherine Flood – Food: Bigger than the Plate
- Marc Loopuyt – Music of the Three Andalusias
- Stefan Halikowski-Smith – Two Missionary Accounts of Southeast Asia in the Late Seventeenth Century
- Penny Roberts – Truth during the French religious wars
- Philippa Gregory in conversation with Stella Tillyard
- Sujit Sivasundaram – Waves Across the South: Monarchs, Travellers and Empire in the Pacific
- 2019 London Critical Theory Summer School – Friday Debate II
- Séamus Davis – Quantum Technology – Challenges and Opportunities
- Sara Lipton – Jewish Money and the Image of the Jewish Body in the Middle Ages
- 2019 London Critical Theory Summer School – Friday Debate I
- Veronique Boisvert – A Tunnel to the Beginning of Time
- On Rosa Luxemburg: Drucilla Cornell and Jacqueline Rose In Conversation
- National Trust and Egham Museum in partnership with academics and artists – Learning from Runnymede
- Cosimo I de’Medici and Granducal Florence – Alessandro Cecchi and Antonio Geremicca
- Hasia Diner – On the Road: Jewish Peddling and the Shaping of Jewish History
- Cosimo I de’Medici and Granducal Florence – Alessio Assonitis and Stefano Dall’Aglio
- A Century of Radical Right Extremism: New Approaches
- Olga Lucia Lizzini – Intellect, imagination and the role of philosophy: exploring the interpretation of religion in classical Arabic philosophy
- Edward Weech – Systems of Religion and Morality in the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society
- Kathleen Stock – What is Sexual Orientation?
- Birkbeck Arts Week 2019
- Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: In Conversation with Saidiya Hartman
- Brigitte Marin – Urban government, the police and citizen participation in eighteenth-century Naples: a comparative perspective
- Adam Teller – From Amsterdam to Istanbul: Fundraising and Jewish Refugee Relief in the Seventeenth Century
- Jérémie Koering – Sketching Art History: Art Historians’ Drawings as Epistemic Tool
- Cheryl Porter – Painting Manuscripts with Metals and Insects: Grind or flatten, catch and cook
- Thomas Sattig – The Flow of Time in Experience
- Collections in Circulation Conference
- Christian List – What’s Wrong with the Consequence Argument: A Compatibilist Libertarian Response
- Mary Vincent – The ‘Martyrdom of Things’: Iconoclasm and its Meanings in the Spanish Civil War
- Philip Davies – Lost Warriors- Seagrim and Pagani of Burma – The Last Great Untold Story of WWII
- Peter Goodrich – Retinal Justice: Rats, Maps, and Masks
- Animals and the Home Conference
- Slavoj Zizek – Disorder Under Heaven: Nomadic proletarians? No, thanks!
- Cheshire Calhoun – Responsibilities and Taking On Responsibility
- Slavoj Zizek – Disorder Under Heaven: Was Antigone a man? Masculinity and other toxic entities
- Simon Wolfgang Fuchs – When Tehran was the Brightest Star: A Global History of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
- Rayna Denison – The Hidden History of Studio Ghibli: Short Films, Advertising and the Industrial Reality of Japanese Animation
- Nathan Abrams – Treyf Jews?: Jewish Gangsters in McMafia and Peaky Blinders
- Palestinian Childhoods: Human Rights, Mental Health and Resistance
- Paul Morland – The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World
- Mirjam Zadoff – Shidduchim – Deals Made in Heaven: Romance, Politics and Economics
- David Cunningham and Peter Osborne – Poetics of Contemporary Art
- T.J. Clark – Capitalism Without Images
- Ali Smith – Entitlement
- Ron Zweig – German Reparations and the Impact of Post War Jewish Politics
- Sheila Heti in Conversation
- Ali Smith and Marina Warner in conversation
- Stephen Mulhall – Heidegger’s Fountain: Ecstasis, Mimesis and Engrossment in the Origin of the Work of Art
- Yossef Rapoport – Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo
- Étienne Balibar – Towards a Socialist Cosmopolitanism
- Melanie Holcomb – Exchanging Glances: The Challenges of Cross-Cultural Exhibitions
- Steven Zipperstein – Excavating Philip Roth: On Beginning a Biographical Study
- Jharna Gourlay – Forceps, Stethoscopes and Sisterhood: British Female Doctors in 19th Century India
- Thomas Cogswell – Adultery and politics in Jacobean London
- Sophia Connell – Care and Parenting in Aristotelian Ethics
- Feminist Flashpoints: Sexual Harassment in the Academy
- Dissecting the Visceral Body, Across Time and Disciplines
- Radha D’Souza & Peter Hallward – What’s Wrong with Human Rights?
- Word and Image in times of Crisis – Roundtable Discussion
- Magnificent Women
- Jane O. Newman – Warburg on Luther and Dürer: Media Wars and the Freedom to Think
- Oliver Crawford – The Languages of Indonesian Socialism
- Nicholas Jones – Propositions and Cognitive Relations
- Placeless People: The Calamity of Statelessness
- Richard I. Cohen – Moses Mendelssohn – The German-Jewish Icon of Modernity
- Silvia Davoli – Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill
- Simon MacLean – Charles the Bald, the Origins of the Medieval Castle and the End of the Carolingian Empire
- Stella Sandford – Reason in Reverse – Kant and Freud on Faults
- John Clarke – Collecting Tibet at the South Kensington Museum: the legacy of the 1904 expedition and beyond
- Eric Hobsbawm: A life in History
- James Nicholls – The secret life of electrons in lower dimensions
- Richard Evans – ‘Warrant for Genocide’? Hitler, the Holocaust and the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’
- Amia Srinivasan – On Genealogy
- Marilyn Monroe: a reappraisal
- Decolonising the curriculum: what’s all the fuss about?
- Rachel Seiffert – Lest we forget
- Lucy Bond & Howard Caygill – Is Memory the Basis of History (After Trump)?
- The Venice Time Machine Project: Digitising Heritage in Time and Space
- Cilly Kugelmann – Jewish Museums between Self-Assertion and Self-Defence
- Keith Allen – Should We Believe Philosophical Claims on Testimony?
- Catherine Malabou – Is Science the Subject of Philosophy? Miller, Badiou and Derrida
- CRMEP/IMCC Public Lectures on Philosophy, Politics and Culture 2019
- Cailah Jackson – The Arts of the Book in a Time of Conflict: Manuscripts of Late Medieval Konya
Index of talks