School of Advanced Study Dean's Seminar - Moral Constitution: Elizabeth Carey's 'Tragedy of Mariam' and the Color of Blood Professor Kimberly Anne Coles, School of Advanced Study Visiting Fellow, 2012/13 Chair: Professor Roger Kain, CBE, FBA, Dean of the School of Advanced Study If The Tragedy of Mariam is “about” anything, it is about rank—and the privileges of moral courage and superiority that rank inherently bestows. Mariam’s whiteness against the blackness of the characters of...

School of Advanced Study Dean's Seminar - Moral Constitution: Elizabeth Carey's 'Tragedy of Mariam' and the Color of Blood Professor Kimberly Anne Coles, School of Advanced Study Visiting Fellow, 2012/13 Chair: Professor Roger Kain, CBE, FBA, Dean of the School of Advanced Study If The Tragedy of Mariam is “about” anything, it is about rank—and the privileges of moral courage and superiority that rank inherently bestows. Mariam’s whiteness against the blackness of the characters of...

School of Advanced Study & The Warburg Institute Looting, stealing and purchasing: the Western acquisition of Arabic manuscripts in the early modern period Professor Alastair Hamilton, Arcadian Visiting Research Professor, The Warburg Institute Chair: Professor Peter Mack, Director, The Warburg Institute The lecture surveys the various means by which European collectors acquired Arabic manuscripts in the early modern period and how they established which manuscripts they wanted to...

School of Advanced Study & The Warburg Institute Looting, stealing and purchasing: the Western acquisition of Arabic manuscripts in the early modern period Professor Alastair Hamilton, Arcadian Visiting Research Professor, The Warburg Institute Chair: Professor Peter Mack, Director, The Warburg Institute The lecture surveys the various means by which European collectors acquired Arabic manuscripts in the early modern period and how they established which manuscripts they wanted to...

Dean's Seminar - Modern Homes in the Making: Otto Neurath, Josef Frank and Anglo-Austrian Policies of Social Housing, 1919-1945 During the summer of 1932, the International Housing Exposition offered working-class families in Vienna the opportunity to purchase homes designed by a diverse group of leading international architects. For the sociologist Otto Neurath, who collaborated closely with the architect Josef Frank on the planning and promotion of this exhibition, this new approach to...

Dean's Seminar - Modern Homes in the Making: Otto Neurath, Josef Frank and Anglo-Austrian Policies of Social Housing, 1919-1945 During the summer of 1932, the International Housing Exposition offered working-class families in Vienna the opportunity to purchase homes designed by a diverse group of leading international architects. For the sociologist Otto Neurath, who collaborated closely with the architect Josef Frank on the planning and promotion of this exhibition, this new approach to...

Dean's Seminar Dean's Seminar - Are we all synaesthetes? Rare and common cases of sensory unions Speakers:Dr Ophelia Deroy, Marie Curie Researcher (FP7), Centre for the Study of the Senses Chair: Professor Barry Smith, Director, Institute of Philosophy Synaesthesia (‘perceiving together’ in Ancient Greek) is a condition where people have “a conscious experience of systematically induced sensory attributes that are not experienced by most people under comparable conditions” (Grossenbacher...

Dean's Seminar Dean's Seminar - Are we all synaesthetes? Rare and common cases of sensory unions Speakers:Dr Ophelia Deroy, Marie Curie Researcher (FP7), Centre for the Study of the Senses Chair: Professor Barry Smith, Director, Institute of Philosophy Synaesthesia (‘perceiving together’ in Ancient Greek) is a condition where people have “a conscious experience of systematically induced sensory attributes that are not experienced by most people under comparable conditions” (Grossenbacher...

Dean's Seminar: Disciplinarity, multi- and interdisciplinarity in Area Studies Dr Bala Chandra (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) Chaired by Dr James Chiriyan, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies Disciplinarity, multi- and interdisciplinarity in Area Studies. The presentation will discuss knowledge taxonomies used in academia.

Dean's Seminar: Disciplinarity, multi- and interdisciplinarity in Area Studies Dr Bala Chandra (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) Chaired by Dr James Chiriyan, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies Disciplinarity, multi- and interdisciplinarity in Area Studies. The presentation will discuss knowledge taxonomies used in academia.

School of Advanced Study Speakers:Dr Peter Toth, Long Term Frances A Yates Fellow, Warburg Institute Dean's Seminar: Prophets-Play: Personifying the Old Testament from Early Christian Homiletics to Medieval Drama Referring to sayings from revered figures of the past has always been a very delicate and controversial matter so special techniques and methods have been developed in order to quote them persuasively. The paper sets out to investigate the origin and afterlife of a particular...

School of Advanced Study Speakers:Dr Peter Toth, Long Term Frances A Yates Fellow, Warburg Institute Dean's Seminar: Prophets-Play: Personifying the Old Testament from Early Christian Homiletics to Medieval Drama Referring to sayings from revered figures of the past has always been a very delicate and controversial matter so special techniques and methods have been developed in order to quote them persuasively. The paper sets out to investigate the origin and afterlife of a particular...

School of Advanced Study Professor Robert Patten, Senior Visiting Fellow, IES and Lynette S Autry Professor in Humanities, Rice University

School of Advanced Study Professor Robert Patten, Senior Visiting Fellow, IES and Lynette S Autry Professor in Humanities, Rice University

Dean's Seminar November 11, 2009

Dean's Seminar November 11, 2009

Dean's Seminar April 21, 2010

Dean's Seminar April 21, 2010

Dean's Seminar April 21, 2010

Dean's Seminar April 21, 2010

Dean's Seminar February 24, 2010

Dean's Seminar February 24, 2010

Dean's Seminar January 27, 2010

Dean's Seminar January 27, 2010

Dean's Seminar June 15, 2010