text: Past events in the College of Arts and Law In 'Events' Book to the FutureEventsPast events Back to 'Arts and Law' forthcoming events 2016 12th February - Visualising Sound 1: Art and Music Workshop Day12th February - Hermes Ensemble12th February - New Music Ensemble11th February - Shakespeare, Hegel, and the politics of freedom11th February - Launching the Corpus Statistics Group11th February - Leaders in Law: Karl Chapman, Riverview Law10th February - Ellen Fallowfield10th February - The printing of Andrew Marvell's Miscellaneous Poems (1681)10th February - Political crisis, legitimacy, and "culture" in Mali10th February - Middle Kingdom ritual reflected in writing. A case-study from Asyut10th February - Decisions at the end of life: Halachah (Jewish law) meets reality?9th February - Desterrada - the translation and reception of Maria Barbal's Stone in a Landslide9th February - From Europe to the Gulf: religious rituals among Shia women in London and Kuwait9th February - Tibetan identity, Buddhism and the Bonpos9th February - The Minimalisation of Christianity under Early Islamic Rule9th February - From the Constantinople agreement to San Remo: Middle East partition plans in their wartime context, 1915-19208th February - 'Authorship' talks7th February - Chamber Orchestra and EMVE5th February - Rachel Lee Priday and Michael Dussek4th February - Shakespeare Institute open afternoon for prospective students4th February - Interpreting: from the Basque Country to the UK4th February - Twelfth Night4th February - The Human Rights Record Of The Greek "Colonels" (1967-74), The Anti-Torture Campaign, And The Rise Of Global Standards4th-5th February - False but Useful Beliefs3rd February - Historically informed performance and the boundaries of musical discourse3rd February - 'Marmoreal Sisterhoods' and 'Mounting a poetic defence against 'fleshliness''3rd February - 'Saint Hunting with Saint Hannah' and 'Tagging Alongside'3rd February - 'The South-African "Children of the Mist"' and 'Riding like a Godiva'3rd February - Fantasy Figures: Inspiration and Reality3rd February - The emergency episteme of the 'tribe' in Afghanistan, 1850-20153rd February - "These unbelievers beyond the Nile": The geography of Jihad in Sokoto3rd February - Dr Matthew Gibson: Rape and Mistaken Consent3rd February - Ian Bostridge and Joseph Middleton2nd February - Muslims living in non-Muslim lands: anti-Sharia movements in the West in light of traditional Islamic jurisprudence2nd February - The King-Priest Quarrel in the Ādiparvan (Mahābhārata 1) and the Iliad (Bk 1)2nd February - The military education of the army's junior officers 1902-19141st February - Towards a grand unified theory of reference30th January - The social eye of Janet Mendelsohn29th January - Musical portraits: lecture-recitals28th January - Shakespeare Thursday Seminar28th January - Linguistic model or advocacy model? - the different faces of interpreting28th January - Engonopoulos And Pindar: The Poetics And Politics Of Praise27th January - Music and ritual in action: tackling HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa27th January - Issues, class, ethnic identities and religious affiliations: which is more Important in African elections?27th January - ISIS and the use and abuse of Early Islamic History27th January - Senses and Aesthetics of the Great Barrier Reef27th January - Everyman's Automaton? Who was the audience of Hero of Alexandria's treatise "On Making Automata"?27th January - The Afterlife of Biblical Texts26th January - Italian Ink and American Deserts: Influences, Adaptations and Fascist Exploitation of the Italian comics genre in a historical perspective26th January - The Houthis: their history, ideology and impact on the future of Yemen26th January - Afghanistan, South Asia and the Khilafat and Hijrat movements, 1914-192423rd January - Collaborative translation and self-translation22nd January - Musical portraits: lecture-recitals21st January - Technical translation - machine translation21st January - Mastersinger! Shakespeare20th January - Cadence and formal articulation in Nineteenth-Century Sonata forms20th January - 'The Aeriform Effusion' and 'Coleridge's Motion'20th January - Fascist Fountains20th January - The Vanquished: Europe and the Aftermath of the Great War19th January - Lost in Translation? – From Science to Regulation19th January - Hermeneutics of a justice orientated reading of Shari'a in Shi'i thought19th January - Book launch19th January - Kut 1916, the forgotten British disaster in Iraq15th January - Savitri Greer and Richard Uttley14th January - Strangely moving: Shakespeare's effective kneeling'.13th January - Film Screening: The Caiman12th January - IGS Project Seminar – (Not) Made in Germany? Imagining Germany from the Outside8th January - Will the real Ibn Taymiyya please stand up? Hunting for Ibn Taymiyya's theological ethics. 2015 11th December - Amy Harman and Tom Poster10th December - Human Rights Day 201510th December - Simple visualisations of corpus data using R Studio10th December - Performability, Laments And The Christos Paschon9th December - AHRC M3C and WRoCAH DTP Policy Engagement Workshop: Religion Education Government Policy9th December - Title to be confirmed9th December - Dr Mary L. Shannon and Dr Matthew Sangster9th December - Peter Blake's 'God's Own Junkyard' (1964)9th December - The Exclusion of Indian Doctors from the Colonial Medical Service in Kenya9th December - Pascal and Ami Rogé8th December - The Hidden World of Islam in Britain: Tawiz, Sihr and Exorcism8th December - Leaders in Law: Judge Brian Barker QC7th December - Transnational literature: paradigms and practices7th December - Connecting people, place and things in Sir Hans Sloane's botanical collection4th December - New Blues for Piano4th December - Disentangling the World: The Politics of Autarky after the First World War3rd December - Shakespeare at Oxford: University Plays and the Playhouse3rd December - Getting down to the 'nitty gritty': the daily practicalities of working as a freelance technical translator3rd December - Constantinople, Cairo Or Alexandria? Latin Merchants And Papal Trade Exemptions In The Late Medieval Mediterranean3rd-5th December - Love and Information2nd December - Assassination in Churches in Early Modern Europe2nd December - "Translated from Gikuyu by the Author": Ngugi' wa Thiong'o's Self-Translation of Wizard of the Crow1st December - Translating Zola and Bernard Noël: when can signifiers and signifieds 'play'?1st December - The Mosque in the Qur'an1st December - An Italian 'Marxian-Jungism'? Towards a Materialist Rethinking of Analytical Psychology1st December - Podcast: 'Writing La Serenissima: Identity, Willpower and Performance in Rilke's Idea of Venice'1st December - War studies seminar title TBC1st December - A Changing Career in Banking30th November - An Almost Carnapian Defence of Metaphysics30th November - Film Screening: The Lives of Others27th November - Belief and Emotion27th November - Alexander Ullman and Michael Petrov26th November - From translation practice to theory and back again26th November - Analyse your own corpus with AntConc26th November - Misremembering Shakespeare26th November - Interdisciplinary Italy: Experimentation and Transgression across the Arts26th November - Persons, Practices And Things In Circulation Between Byzantium And The British Isles In The Viking Age25th November - Title to be confirmed25th November - Tamburlaine's Gold25th November - The Eye Wandering the Ceiling25th November - Spirituality and Resistance in the Niger Delta25th November - Professor Yvonne Jewkes25th November - quartet-lab replaced by Pieter Wispelwey and Paolo Giacometti24th November - The Houthis: their history, ideology and impact on the future of Yemen24th November - Podcast: 25 Years of German Unification24th November - Shock and Awe at Amiens, 8 August 1918: Disaster Reconsidered21st November - Birmingham History Day21st November - Humans of Birmingham20th November - Morgan Pearse and Jonathan Ware20th November - Imperatives and their logic19th November - 'Ever great': Ben Jonson's Works through four centuries19th November - Podcast: Whose War? Whose Memory? Teaching the First World War in International Perspective19th November - 'What's In A Name?' Sculptors And Workships In Eleventh-Century Greece19th November - 'Inservi Deo et Laetare' (Serve God and be cheerful): the colourful history of the choral foundation at Lichfield Cathedral in the Georgian era18th November - War as Adventure. The Experience of the Condor Legion in the Spanish Civil War'18th November - The Erotic as Rhetoric of Subversion in Saint Janet's Juju Music17th November - Borrowed Words: Brodsky's collaborative self-translation17th November - Hermeneutics of a justice orientated reading of Shari'a in Shi'i thought17th November - "A Whip to the Flagging Horse": The Royal Air Force, Bomber Command, Aircrew Fatigue and the Use of Benzedrine Sulphate during the Second World War15th November - University Baroque Orchestra13th November - Automating Data Extraction from Chinese Texts13th November - King Edward's School and King Edward VI High School for Girls12th November - Shakespeare Institute open afternoon for prospective students12th November - Shakespeare's Poetical Justice12th November - Advanced CLiC - User-defined annotation12th November - A brief introduction and a "cost-benefit-analysis" from a member's point of view12th November - Muslim Oralcy in West Africa: A Neglected Subject12th November - Lessons From A New History Of Byzantium, 955-1097 AD12th-14th November - Landscapes, sources and intellectual projects in African history: rethinking historical evidence and its interpretation11th November - The interpretive process as research11th November - Professor Jim Davis and Dr Caroline Radcliffe11th November - The Avant-Garde's Alternative Professionalism10th November - The Minimalisation of Christianity under Islamic rule.10th November - Book launch10th November - Podcast: '"Lay Down Your Arms!" Anti-War Writing in German-Speaking Countries, 1905‒1924'10th November - CESMA Birmingham Postgraduates Panel9th November - Acquaintance with The Self9th November - Avarice and Fraud: Later medieval merchants and debt6th November - (Auto)-Mobility in the global Middle East: defining the field6th November - Nathaniel Vallois and David Quigley6th November - Public Lecture: Lady Hale - Appointing Judges to the UK Supreme Court6th-7th November - Appointing Judges in an Age of Diversity: An International Conference on the 10th Anniversary of the Judicial Appointments Commission5th November - Intersecting Discourses on Migration in the UK, Germany and Russia5th November - Astley Castle: Three Queens of England, George Eliot and the Stirling Prize for Architecture4th November - The Horn of Africa in Tel Aviv4th November - Nick Hardwick, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons1st November - Music Experience Day31st October - Death and the Afterlife in the Middle Ages30th October - Takahashi, Stringfellow and Whiffen29th October - Shakespeare's tailors29th October - Using CLiC to study literature29th October - On The Spot: The Appanage In Palaiologan Politics29th-31st October - Light Shining in Buckinghamshire28th October - What can democracy mean for music?28th October - Micro-Architecture28th October - Binchois Consort: the Battle of Agincourt27th October - The reception of contemporary classics in the English-speaking world27th October - Abrogation in the Qur'an: History and Myths27th October - Podcast: 'Nietzsche's Cultural Revolutions'26th October - Drawing on the Victorians23rd October - Apollo Saxophone Quartet22nd October - Henry V after the War on Terror22nd October - Nicholas Mesarites: A Man For All Seasons21st October - Bax's In Memorias [sic]21st October - The Syrian Entanglement21st October - The Global Transformation of Time 1870 – 195020th October - Islam in Europe: Retrenchment and Renewal20th October - 'The Urban Splash Story' - Tom Bloxham MBE, Urban Splash19th October - A call for bioethics' creative reengagement with SRISPR/Cas9 genome editing debate19th October - The Laurence Cadbury Collection at Selly Manor19th October - Professor Ian O'Donnell17th October - Black Country History Day17th October - Into the narrows17th October - The mystery at the heart of fiction17th October - Things that don't sell books and why you should do them anyway17th October - Book to the Future presents: SJ Watson16th October - Making a living from writing16th October - Dautricourt Trio16th October - Unravelling the story behind the Birmingham Qur'an16th October - Self and others - art and writing workshop16th October - The Art of Ghostwriting16th October - Bringing the past and present alive16th October - How to self-publish and market your book16th October - Ben Norris - Poetry Performance16th October - The Birmingham Revue of Books15th October - Finding Inspiration and Taking Chances in Writing15th October - Social media for authors15th October - Uncovering literature at the Barber15th October - Captive Children in Shakespeare and in Real Life15th October - A talk with Basque writer Kirmen Uribe15th October - Turning life writing into fiction15th October - Women Of The Komnenian House Under Manuel I, As Seen In The Poems Of Mangeneios Prodromos15th October - Noël Coward and transatlantic style15th October - Leaders in Law: Dame Linda Dobbs15th October - Phenomenal Women14th October - Lay Vernacular Piety in the Court of Edward the Confessor: Anglo–Saxon Chronicle C and the Vision of Leofric14th October - Godly Sorrow and the Protestant Imitatio Christi14th October - Firearms in Nineteenth-Century Central Africa: A Revisionist History14th October - Ecocritical Approaches in Medieval Studies: The Forest as a Symbolic Space13th October - Facts & Fictions13th October - The Making of Edward Mead Earle's "Makers of Modern Strategy"12th October - Book to the Future and BedSoc Presents: The Everyday Sexism Project with Laura Bates9th October - ensembleF2: Discovering Danzi9th October - Rita Dove, former U.S. Poet Laureate at the Birmingham Literature Festival8th October - Lord Harris of Haringey7th October - Negotiations with the Epic: poetry and the origins of Evolutionary Theory2nd October - Clara Mouriz and Joseph Middleton30th September - Podcast: Echoes and Aftermath: Legacies and Memories of the Past from the Twentieth Century Onwards9th September - 8th Philosophy of Religion One-Day Workshop9th-11th September - The Royal Musical Association annual conference 20158th September - Special Event: Germany's Confrontation with the Holocaust in a Global Context3rd September - Postgraduate discussion group with Professor Martha Fineman, Emory University2nd September - Sinclair Lecture and Seminar 201526th July-23rd August - Byzantine Greek Summer School 201521st July - Giving Women Their Place in Holocaust History20th July - German Concentration Camps Factual Survey14th July - Ways to Remember: The First World War through the lens of Florence Camm's war memorial windows13th-16th July - Conference: Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Cultural Heritage9th July - Picturing Balsall Heath9th-11th July - Screening Rights Film Festival9th-12th July - Ghost Streets Of Balsall Heath8th July - Virtual postgraduate open day3rd-4th July - House, work, artwork: feminism and Art History's new domesticities2nd-3rd July - Rethinking modern British studies conference30th June - Delusions lunchtime seminar30th June - From multilingualism to superdiversity in corpus linguistics: implications for research29th June - Making resources speak: themes and methods of the new materialism29th-30th June - Corporate Lawyers and Corporate Clients: Power, Practice and Privilege25th June - Good and Evil in Biblical and Post-Biblical Traditions19th-20th June - Music and Realism: comparative historical perspectives18th June - 'From Nigeria and the Bahamas but...currently living in Belgium: The superdiversification of Global English'18th-19th June - Artistic Interventions in the Virtual Space18th-19th June - Directing Projects18th-19th June - Directing Projects15th June-3rd July - The James Shirley Marathon12th June - From World History to World Literature: China, the South, and the Global 1960s11th June - A Micro-Historical Approach to Global China: The Daily Life of Europeans in Beijing in the Long 18th Century9th June - Law's Impact in the Real World8th June - Sir Terry Pratchett tribute seminar7th-19th June - Summer Festival of Music4th-5th June - Playwrights' Workshop3rd June - Newman Brothers Coffin Works, Birmingham. An introduction to a newly opened heritage event3rd-4th June - Professionals, practitioners and beauty norms30th May - CBOMGS 16th Annual Postgraduate Colloquium29th May - Wings of Modernity29th May - Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle that Gave Birth to the Globe29th May - Florentine Arts Ensemble28th May - The Origins and Transmission of Culture (OToC): An interdisciplinary approach28th May - Encallados (Stranded)28th May - Podcast: Is Germany to blame? Perceptions of Germany during the Eurocrisis28th-29th May - Practical Projects in Drama27th May - Romeo and Juliet27th-28th May - Birmingham workshop on probability and time travel26th May - Capital punishment23rd May - Greece in Crisis: Culture and the Politics of Austerity23rd May - Dementia and vulnerability22nd May - Clipper Erickson21st May - Tots volem el millor per a ella (We all want what's best for her)21st May - How is interpretation a form of judgment?: analysis21st-22nd May - Global Gender Justice: New Directions21st-23rd May - Cadbury Conference 2015: Money Judgments21st-31st May - Hay Festival 201518th May - Taking time - A Composer's reflection on how he works [full video available]18th-19th May - 'SHAPE': Enquiring into the Forces Shaping Subsidy and State Aid Laws15th May - Marcus Farnsworth and Joseph Middleton14th May - Shakespeare Institute open afternoon for prospective students14th May - Glocalizing Medicine in the Canton/Hong Kong Region in Late Qing China (1840-1911)14th May - Making Heritage Fun13th May - UK-India Exchange on World Heritage13th May - Ottiero Ottieri: un caso letterario. Industry, mental illness and politics in Ottieri's work13th May - The making of an African consumer price index: figures12th May - Podcast: 50 Years of German-Israeli Relations: Reflections on History, Memory and International Politics12th May - Fortunes of war: the West Midlands at the time of Waterloo8th May - Theatre Praxis8th May - Theatre Praxis8th May - Oliver She7th May - Aupa Etxebeste (Hurray Etxebeste)7th May - Trouble at the Vale: Chelsea anarchists in the 1890s6th May - Chinatowns and the Rise of China [video available]6th May - Making money circulate - velocity and judgment: fieldwork6th May - La Venexiana5th May - Visual anthropology in Sardinia1st May - Daniel Tones and Owen Underhill30th April-2nd May - BEAST Feast 201529th April - People's judgments of price fluctuation in soft currency economies: records29th April - What the editor learns (and why it might matter)29th April - The Birmingham Book Club, 1745 - 1900: an influential but little-known society at the heart of Birmingham life28th April - Mons revisited27th April-2nd June - Monday Lunchtime Series23rd-24th April - Translation talk20th-23rd April - Workshop on interdisciplinary approaches to the present economy14th April - To the Bull Ring! Policing and the early Chartist Protests in Birmingham14th April - To the Bull Ring! Policing and the early Chartist protests in Birmingham9th-10th April - Ethics and/or Politics: Approaching the Issues Concerning Nonhuman Animals30th March - Workshop: Re-imagining Clinical Legal Education27th March - Barber Lunchtime Series: Lady Barber's Legacy26th March - Early modern corruption and its representations26th March - Palpitatingly modern luxury: electrifying the country house26th March - CBOMGS seminar: The Photian schism (858-880): towards a cultural history25th March - Economic History as if People Mattered: A Workshop for Dr Francesca Carnevali25th March - Whither German Memory? Towards an Integrated Model of Remembering25th March - Modern and Contemporary History roundtable25th March - Becoming local citizens: migrants, the politics of difference and agrarian clientelism in the Gambia25th March - Writing in the Mansion of Gold: Inscriptions from the Egyptian alabaster quarries at Hatnub25th March - Barber Evening Series: Nash Ensemble24th March - Classicality and experimental writing in Giuseppe Pontiggia24th March - Expanding the oeuvre and patronage of Ricardus Franciscus: the case of British Library MS Arundel 24924th March - British tactics from WW1 to WW2 and beyond24th March - Big Band and Jazz Collective23rd March - Commerce, civilization and Christianity: Sierra Leone company policy, c. 1791-180723rd March - University Camerata22nd March - Philharmonic Orchestra21st March - Public Lecture: The Kalam Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God21st March - The Age of Choirs20th March - Barber Lunchtime Series: Tesla Quartet20th March - Just Pretend20th March - Brass in Concert19th March - Shakespeare's Insides: A Study of the Complete Soliloquies and Asides19th March - Seeing spiritually and seeing the spiritual: seeking some perspective on Pieter Bruegel's paintings19th March - Spain and Portugal in the early seventeenth century: a Viceroy's viewpoint19th March - BEAST: Evensong19th-20th March - Making Ontological Commitments19th-21st March - The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant18th March - Art History Speed Workshop18th March - Centre for Corpus Research special seminar18th March - The transatlantic context of the Salem witch trials18th March - Mrs Thatcher's peacock blue sari: ethnic minorities, electoral politics, and the Conservative Party, c.1951-198618th March - Zambia's commemoration of Livingstone in 1973: Kaunda, humanism and the politics of the uni-party state18th March - Anti-Platonic Realism18th March - Beckett goes nude: Breath, Oh! Calcutta! and the sexual revolution17th March - The Challenge of Platonism17th March - Lawrence of Arabia: the man, the myth and the movie16th March - The Descendants: Changing Identity to Rectify Injustice16th March - Divine Aseity16th March - AWAKE15th March - Saxophone Ensemble14th March - University Chorus14th-15th March - The Beauty of Letters text, type and communication in the eighteenth century13th March - Barber Lunchtime Series: Chetham's School of Music13th March - Presentation, Filmmaker Q&A and screening of En Attendant Godard, written and directed by William Brown13th March - Symphony Orchestra12th March - Shakespeare Institute open afternoon for prospective students12th March - Shakespeare and Equality12th March - CBOMGS seminar: The Saga of ancient statues in medieval Constantinople12th March - Time and space: another look at Jacopo de' Barbari's View of Venice, c. 150012th March - Creative Minds at Birmingham: Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy11th March - The rise of populism in Europe11th March - Title to be confirmed11th March - Taming the imperial imagination: sentiment, 'science', and colonial knowledge on the northwest frontier of India, 1857-187811th March - role of discourse in Zimbabwe's current succession politics11th March - Identities in the Roman Empire: Discrepancy and Heterogeneity in Provincial Societies10th March - Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages postgraduate session10th March - "Privileged greatly to serve his nation in days of mortal danger": Sir Eric Geddes and logistics on the Western Front10th March - Malcolm X and Marshall Street, Smethwick: 50 Years on10th March - Malcolm X and Marshall Street, Smethwick: 50 years on9th March - Museums and academe: from Maiden Castle to Thomas Hardy via Liverpool7th March - The Midlands and the Great War6th March - Holdsworth Presidential Address: Lord Hughes6th March - Barber Lunchtime Series: Piano4Hands5th March - The accidental interpreter5th March - Quoting the Queen: style, authority and reported speech in sixteenth century correspondence5th March - Greek Tragedy on the Small Screen: 'Agamemnon' and 'Of Mycenae and Men'4th March - Shakespeare on the brink of freedom4th March - Spotted throughout with red: Canadian state surveillance and the Women's Liberation Movement, 1969-19884th March - Podcast: DEFA's Last Gasp: Melancholy and the End of East German Filmmaking4th-7th March - Mary of Burgundy: the reign, the 'persona' and the legacy of a European princess3rd March - Title to be announced3rd March - The Evolution of a Fighting Force: Developments in British Infantry Uniforms, Weapons and Equipment 1914-152nd March - Unstable Betting Behaviour and Imprecise Probabilities2nd-5th March - Ninth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament1st March - Voyages of Discovery27th February - Barber Lunchtime Series: New Music Ensemble27th February - Barber Lunchtime Series: Alexander Ullman26th February - Handling Ophelia in recent stage productions of Hamlet26th February - 'Better Than Before'?: Actor-Network-Theory and László Moholy-Nagy's occupational therapy courses26th February - CBOMGS seminar: From Theophanes to Psellos: transformations of Byzantine historiography26th February - Greek Tragedy on the Small Screen: 'King Oedipus' and 'Oedipus the King'26th February-5th March - Careers in conference interpreting25th February - Music Research Colloquium: Agnieszka Pluta25th February - The Prohibited Peter Pan: Monteiro Lobato's politicized translation25th February - Modern contemporary history seminar25th February - Black power in Caribbean context25th February - Herodotus' travels in Britain (and beyond)25th February - Arts and crafts children's books: Birmingham women illustrators25th February - Julius Wellhausen and the history of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam24th February - Podcast: The Greenest Nation on Trial: German Environmentalism in Perspective24th February - Theme: the Estoria de Espanna Project24th February - I could not persuade myself it had been great fun: III Corps and the Advance to the Hindenburg Line, Spring 191723rd February - IEL Annual Lecture 2015: The EU Law Making Process - Engineering a Better Solution23rd February - A cabinet of curiosities: Birmingham as the toy-shop of Europe23rd February - Inaugural Lecture: Professor Simon Esmonde-Cleary20th February - Barber Lunchtime Series: Gansch and Middleton20th February - CBSO Friday Night Classics: Opera Gala19th February - Open day for MA Film and Television: Research and Production19th February - Leaders in Law: Andrew Caplen, President of the Law Society18th February - English song in the 15th century: was this a golden age?18th February - The Caribbean in translation18th February - The Caribbean in translation18th February - Barber Evening Series: Dante Quartet17th February - 'The Republic of the Mad'. radical psychiatry in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s and the end of the asylum17th February - Documentary Screening: 12th & Delaware16th February - The John Hick archives project15th February - Chamber Ensembles and Gamelan Ensemble13th February - Barber Lunchtime Series: Whelan and Smith12th February - Nicholas Okes & Co.: co-operative publication and Q1 King Lear12th February - Local concepts of Heritage and Tourism among the Mursi people in South-Ethiopia by Tamás Régi12th-14th February - Make The Dead Man Stand11th February - Life on mars before Life on Mars: music and Adam Adamant Lives11th February - Defining loyalty, redefining reformation: understanding conflict from Scottish pulpits, 1638-166011th February - Modern and contemporary history seminar11th February - From pride to humiliation: an Oral History project in Hialeah11th February - The Victorian dream11th February - Alioune Diop and the 1966 Festival mondial des arts nègres: cultural ideology under pressure11th February - Unsettling appropriations: Writing at the intersection of indigenous decolonization and the Canadian Avant-Garde10th February - Logistics revisited: reassessing the effects of the Allied anti-shipping campaign in the Mediterranean, 1940-4410th February - Black Poppies - Britain's Black Community and the Great War8th February - University Chamber Orchestra6th February - Barber Lunchtime Series: Rose Consort of Viols5th February - Shakespeare's voice5th February - Film screening: Nowhere to call home, a Tibetian in Bejing5th February - Living by the coast: economy, people and identity in a fourteenth-century coastal community5th February - Trickster, charlatan, apparition, king: representing royal impostors in post-revolutionary France5th February - CBOMGS seminar: Refashioning a maritime past in the Eastern Mediterranean5th February - Creative Minds at Birmingham: Award-winning poet and novelist Helen Dunmore4th February - CLEMT Symposium4th February - The language of leadership4th February - Re-enchanting modernity: The cultural networks of the Theosophical Society in Edwardian Britain4th February - Nyerere in Scotland: the roots of Ujamaa?4th February - From "Coventration" to Reconciliation: Coventry and Dresden after 1940/454th February - Archaic Greek society, politics and slavery: assumptions and evidence3rd February - Combat wound care: 1915 versus 20152nd February - Quantified Epistemic Modality29th January - Private iteration and public life: William Dering's 1623 adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry IV29th January - On the beach with The Fear: Judging a literary translation prize29th January - Dionysus Masterchef. Wine, Tourism and Archaeology in Post-Modern Society by Marxiano Melotti29th January - CBOMGS seminar: Friends, colleagues and grand vezirs: the Ottoman art of letter-writing29th January - "Utter lack of true dramatic feeling": Exploring Jan Steen's The Wrath of Ahasuerus29th January - Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association New Year Lecture29th January - Conservation and research of the Staffordshire Hoard28th January - In materna lingua: nuns and polyphony in early 16th-century Italy28th January - A Byrde of dyvers colors: a newly discovered Elizabethan romance in the Conway Papers28th January - D-Day in Asia: Japan's Operation Ichigo in China of 194428th January - Christian divine healing, zionism, and British imperial networks in Johannesburgh, Transvaal, 1896-191428th January - Lycurgus in Leaflets and Lectures: The Weiße Rose and Classics at Munich University 1941-4527th January - Family and faith: sensory experience and devotional memory in the Hours of Mary of Burgundy27th January - "Evil, wild and scurrilous sows"? Soldiers in 16th and 17th century German culture, a reassessment23rd-24th January - BEASTdome: Pantry Sessions23rd-30th January - Barber Lunchtime Series: Romantic Piano Fantasies22nd January - Beckett's Shakespearean Echoes22nd January - Life after the MA: Working for SDL and TBW22nd January - CBOMGS seminar: Byron's Greece 1809-182421st January - Music Research Colloquium: Richard Rijnvos21st January - Music Research Colloquium: Rodney Sharman21st January - Viola Klein and the problem of married women's employment in post-war Britain21st January - The Palatine Wedding of 1613 and its Impact on Confessional Politics21st January - Barber Evening Series: VOCES820th January - East or West? The false dilemma in German strategy, 1914-1519th January - Choosing To Change Your Values: Transformative Experience and Decision Making16th January - Barber Lunchtime Series: Baker and Limonov15th January - Postgraduate reading group with Anna Grear (Cardiff Law School)15th January - Genocide and gorillas: tourists in fiction about Rwanda15th January - CBOMGS seminar: The Christianization of Crete and the Peloponnese in the Late Antique period14th January - Language vs. Layout? Form and format in pre-periodical printed news translation14th January - Classical Sparta: An Exceptional Domination of State over Society?13th January - Breaking "the remarkable deadlock": British strategic options in 191513th January - Beyond Boulton: the archaeology of Birmingham's industries 2014 13th-14th December - Birmingham University Singers12th December - University Women's Choir11th December - Modelling the Middle Ages in grand strategy computer games11th December - Piety, peasants, proverbs, and other peculiar pictures: making sense of Pieter Bruegel's paintings11th December - CBOMGS seminar: Crisis and famine in island Greece: sovereign debt, political violence and topologies of memory in Chios10th December - MiniBEAST series10th December - "Pirating the Pachamama (Earth Mother)": mimesis, remix and distortion in the Bolivian Andes10th December - Slavery and Freedom in colonial Sierra Leone, 1898-195610th December - (Podcast) Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance in the last year of WWII10th December - The late Roman Gentry: whence and whither?9th December - Maternal dislocations: memory, selfhood and mother-tongue in Goliarda Sapienza's and Elena Ferrante's works9th December - 'And he shall stand there all day with a rod': peasant farmers and their farm workers in thirteenth-century England9th December - Ambulance Trains in the Great War: French Suggestions; British Solutions9th December - Ecology and politics in pre-modern eastern Eurasia8th December - The urban teenager: work, play and a final resting place8th December - University Carol Service7th December - Best of British: University Brass Band and Chamber Choirs6th December - Wind Band and Saxophone Ensemble5th December - Navarra Quartet with Alexander Boyd4th December - Shakespeare and Opera4th December - CIOL membership and what it can do for me?4th December - Queer Inheritance, Kinship, Law4th December - CBOMGS seminar: Mother vs maiden: Helena, Pulcheria and the formulation of imperial dynasty in late antiquity4th-6th December - Advice to Iraqi Women and Far Away3rd December - MiniBEAST series3rd December - War Artists Lecture Series3rd December - The agency of the spectator in the individualized society3rd December - 'A countrey life assists this study best': Robert Matthews and a new source for Katherine Philips3rd December - "Raising the level of public taste": utopian beliefs and vanguard design at the GPO, 1933-19383rd December - Love in a box: Reflections on youth, texts and personhood in mid-20th century Egypt; and on the poetics of archive-making in the early 21st3rd December - Niger's natural resources: blessing or curse?2nd December - Heteroglossia as practice and pedagogy2nd December - The Evolution of a Fighting Force: Developments in British Infantry Uniforms, Weapons and Equipment 1914-151st December - The Best Available Parent1st December - (Podcast) The Dark Side of EU-rope: Imperium Europaeum?30th November - Eternal Light: Symphony Orchestra and University Chorus29th November - Midlands3Cities DTP studentships 2015 - Application writing workshop28th November - In the Silence of the Secret Night28th November - University Big Band27th November - Shakespeare Institute open afternoon for prospective students27th November - What Does it Take to be a Great Shakespeare Actor?27th November - Living language27th November - History and Cultures double seminar27th November - CBOMGS seminar: Byzantine adolescence: real or imaginary?27th November - A collective response: feminism, film, performance and Greenham Common26th November - MiniBEAST series26th November - Keeping tracks: archiving sound in the 21st Century26th November - War Artists Lecture Series26th November - A case of goats mingling with sheep? The identification and employment of civilian experts in the British Army of the First World War26th November - A basket of food: Greece in the 1940s26th November - Memory and affect: issues from Spain and Portugal26th November - The Fage Lecture 201426th November - Global Justice and the Global South26th November - Narratives of occupation in The Eagle25th November - Global Justice and the Global South25th November - Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages Seminar25th November - War, Christianity and National Identity in the British Armed Services, 1939-4525th November-3rd December - The Edward Cadbury Lectures 201424th November - Voices from beyond the grave: how coroners' rolls can inform our understanding of Warwickshire life in the late Middle Ages24th November - Selfish Women and Other Inconvenient Deviants23rd November - Portuguese-English Verb Dictionaries: focus on students' needs and on cross-cultural language contrast22nd November - The tickle stick: the importance of happiness and how to get it21st November - Henry Fairs and David Hatcher21st November - Ebola: Towards an International Health Systems Fund21st November - University organ festival finale21st-22nd November - Conference: A Critical Exploration of Global Health Law20th November - Shakespeare and the Talkies20th November - Rediscovering the City of Łódź through Heritage: A Lecture by Waldemar Cudny20th November - CBOMGS seminar: Abul Abbas and all that: the caliphate and the West in the Age of Bede and Charlemagne19th November - MiniBEAST series19th November - Music Research Colloquium: Richard Baker19th November - War Artists Lecture Series19th November - Confessional Coexistence under Military Occupation in Seventeenth Century Germany19th November - Forging a feminist internationalisation: the British Women's International League between the wars19th November - Getting rich in rural Hausaland18th November - Young prisoners - A research discussion event18th November - Russia and Germany after the Cold War: A New Relationship?18th November - Voidances: on Maurice's Blanchot's fiction18th November - The RAF in Ireland 1918-2218th November - Documentary Screening: The Edge of Joy17th November - Epistemic Expansions17th November - Being Human in King Lear15th November - Henry Fairs14th November - King Edward's School and King Edward VI High School for Girls14th November - Thomas Trotter with Birmingham University Singers13th November - Translating for a multilingual Europe13th November - In shape and mind transformed'? Televised teaching and learning Shakespeare13th November - Second World War internment in America and Britain: experience and memory13th November - Cubomania: collage, destruction and desire13th November - Fischi per fiaschi - traduzioni e tribulazioni13th November - CBOMGS seminar: Making it last: the construction and repair of a seventh-century ship from Constantinople's Theodosian harbour13th November - Ironbridge Annual Lecture 2014 [video stream available]12th November - MiniBEAST series12th November - Music Research Colloquium: Orlando Garcia12th November - Monsters and prodigies in early modern Europe12th November - The Mixed Inheritance of Empire: Don Chesworth, Multiculturalism and the British Left12th November - Not your average superheroes12th November - Structure, function, and text of Iregun music in Yagbaland, Kogi State, Nigeria.12th November - Classicising modernity: performances of Greek tragedy and the cultural poetics of Fascism12th November - John Lill12th November - (Mis)representing and reconstructing the role of the "four women" in the Auschwitz Sonderkommando uprising11th November - The Simeon Manuscript and its Scribes11th November - The Last Battle: Crossing the Sambre, November 191810th November - 'Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered' (Ella Fitzgerald): researching the poor law8th November - History and Climate Change7th November - Total Brass7th-8th November - Quadrivium X6th November - Leaders in Law: Rachel Sandby-Thomas, Director General for Enterprise and Skills5th November - MiniBEAST series5th November - Once more, with singing (and dancing): musical episodes in television series5th November - The Midlands and the Great War4th November - The underlying principle in nuisance claims4th November - Debunking myths about language and social media4th November - Bringing history to life1st November - Nova Music Opera31st October - Crossing borders: Music's journey between Italy and France30th October - Stories and statistics: defining British anti-immigrationism 1955-198130th October - Dabru Emet: A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity - Creation, Reception and Impact30th October-1st November - Don Juan Comes Back From The War29th October - MiniBEAST series29th October - Music Research Colloquium: Patricia Alessandrini29th October - Workshop: The End of Stasiland?29th October - Joint seminar: Dr Adam Ledger and Dr Paul Geary29th October - Chinese 'Illegalities' in Colonial Southeast Asia: Lessons from the Fin-de-Siècle Maritime World29th October - Dokta Waziri Omari Nyange: fifty years of intervention in Tanzanian nation building29th October - CREMS Annual Lecture28th October - Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages Annual Public Lecture28th October - The Transformations of the Eastern Question from the eighteenth century to the present time28th October - Afghanistan during the First World War24th October - Presteigne Festival Tour23rd October - Global Shakespeares as Methodology23rd October - Of shepherds and sheep: the fortunes of pastoral metaphor in Christian imagery c. 110022nd October - MiniBEAST series22nd October - The musical refiguring of Shelley: Granville Bantock and The Witch of Atlas22nd October - The Global War: British Strategy 1914-1622nd October - Oil and rural infrastructure development22nd October - Aristotle and the dialektos of the public speaker in Athens21st October - GI Religion and Post-War Revival in the United States, 1940-5520th October - How Not To Talk About Anger20th October - The Auschwitz Sonderkommando Uprising: Piecing Together an Account18th October - Black Country History Day18th October - Crossing timelines18th October - Make the most of your time and stop procrastinating now18th October - Sleepwalking to war? Britain in 1914 and 193918th October - Ben Norris, UK all-stars poetry slam champion18th October - The Birmingham Revue of Books17th October - Hallé Soloists17th October - Uncovering literature at the Barber17th October - Performance poetry workshop17th October - Best European Fiction 2015 / How far can we read?17th October - Local author / local stories17th October - Self-publishing / marketing your book17th October - Spoken for the first time17th October - The Sheriff16th October - How comics can help your studies and career16th October - Picturing the Ten Commandments in the Post-Reformation English Parish Church16th October - Timeless fast foreign fiction16th October - Atheism and race in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world16th October - Part time and published16th October - History in an hour16th October - New voices: new creative writing15th October - Rehabilitation revolution? Young prisoners experiences of re-integration and resettlement15th October - MiniBEAST series15th October - The timeline of novel writing15th October - Becoming-minoritarian: embodiment and disembodiment in Szymanowski's Mythes, Op.3015th October - A 21st century odyssey15th October - Let your writing flow15th October - Global houses, global homes: mobility and migration in the long eighteenth century15th October - Editing medieval texts in the Digital Age: the Estoria de Espanna project15th October - Be graceful, patient, ever prayerful': negotiating femininity, respect and the religious15th October - How to write a novel very quickly15th October - Shakespeare on the road15th October - Adventures with time in fantasy, folktales and fairytales15th October - Winterreise15th October - Phenomenal women14th October - Shakespeare Unbard14th October - Timelines-Rewriting History14th October - Shakespeare and the idea of national theatre14th October - Adapting to the Mobile Battlefield: Communications in the BEF during the Hundred Days, 191814th October - Tasmina Perry14th October - Anthologies to apps: changing modes of study14th-18th October - Black History Month poetry trail13th-17th October - Insider's View: a festival of Russian art, performance and research11th October - The YMCA goes to War: a day school10th October - Peter Moore and Robert Thompson9th October - 7th Philosophy of Religion One-Day Workshop9th October - Humorous Comedy and the Melancholy Jakes9th October - CBOMGS seminar: Traveller's Tales9th October - Photo albums and fancy dress: encounters with the African archive8th October - MiniBEAST series8th October - Roundtable on Contemporary Global Environmental History8th October - The 'Incorruptible Kodak': Photography, lantern slide lectures and cultures of colonial mission and humanitarianism in the Congo Reform Association 1904-19118th October - Contemporary dance, self and social mobility in urban Senegal.8th October - Classical Sparta: an exceptional dominance of state over society?7th October - Archaeology and the natural environment7th October - Developing Infantry Battalion Leadership in the BEF, 1916-187th October - Leaders in Law: Adam Sampson, Chief Legal Ombudsman7th October - The Hip Hop Fellow7th October - Scotland and the British Army, 1707-17507th October - Ways to Remember: The First World War through the lens of Florence Camm's war memorial windows7th-10th October - Marrying texts with material culture: The Balkh Art and Cultural Heritage Project6th October - Empire, violence and the making of early colonial South Asia, c.1753-18173rd October - The University, the Study of Religion and the Public Square3rd October - Incus Ensemble2nd October - Shakespearean comedy and the boundaries of Europe2nd October - Ironbridge Institute Lecture by Inger Birkeland1st October - The art of life and death in Uganda1st-6th October - What is 'evil' in Paradise Lost?28th September - Music in the making24th September - Eyes on Central Asia22nd September - Sixth Annual Rabbi Tann Memorial Lecture20th September - History of Art taster day 201420th September - Greece: From Junta to Crisis17th September - Workshop: Re-imagining the Teaching of Criminal Law17th September - 'Goblin's market: commemoration, anti-semitism and the invention of "global Shakespeare" in 19166th August - K'antu Ensemble perform Shakespeare's Music6th-7th August - In the unjust meantime11th July - Premiere of music inspired by the work of Yves Bonnefoy4th July - Emergencies and affected peoples: philosophy, policy and practice3rd-6th July - Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference 201428th June - Cultural production in the early modern household26th-27th June - Reforming the EU: The Future of European Law & Policy25th June - Leaving Europe? The Legal, Political and Economic Implications of a UK Exit from the EU25th June - IEL Annual Lecture 2014: What have the Europeans done for us?24th June - Dogs, Owners & Responsibility: Law in the Doghouse?24th June - Heritage and Philanthropy: Turning Public Passion into Pounds24th-25th June - Conference: Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies 50 Years On24th-25th June - The Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies 50 years on23rd-24th June - Objects of Modernity: A Conference21st June - History and Climate change: What have we learnt?21st June - Art production in the Jewellery Quarter: past and present20th June - Literature and Conflict: English Graduate Conference 201420th June - Birmingham University Singers and University Women's Choir19th June - Creative Minds at Birmingham: Simon Stephens18th June - The contemporary restoration of Hagley Park18th June - Summer Festival Sinfonia17th June - Big Band16th June - Tadeusz Kantor's "Poor Object" as icon of truth16th-17th June - New Directions in Public Reason15th June - Brass Band14th June - Wind Band: stage and screen spectacular13th June - Transcending Boundaries in the Law: Postgraduate Research Conference13th June - Chamber Ensembles13th June - Philosophy of Religion one-day workshop13th-15th June - Summer Festival Opera12th June - 2014 Graduate Research Colloquium in Modern Greek Studies12th June - Fulbright Lecture: UK's New Home for Innovation: Its Industrial Past: Ironbridge, Birmingham's JQ, and Sheffield's Little Mesters Yards12th-13th June - Contemporary Caribbean visual culture: artistic visions of global citizenship10th June - Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies research seminars10th-29th June - Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies archival exhibition9th June - miniBEAST9th June - Are some Qumran caves more special than others?8th June - Saxophone Ensemble6th June - Playwrights' Workshop5th June - Care and Relationality Research Workshop5th-7th June - British Graduate Shakespeare Conference 20144th June - Scholars of Islam workshop3rd June - Modern Languages networking and workshop event for MFL teachers2nd June - Coalbrookdale: an eighteenth-century landscape of philanthropy2nd-4th June - Final Year recitalists2nd June-30th July - Back In the CCCS exhibition31st May - Digital publishing: pixels vs. paper. The Kills30th May - The ethics of humanitarian intervention29th May - Dialogues with the Dead: Egyptology in British culture and religion29th-30th May - Independent Practical Projects27th May - Wise choices25th May - 'Who wants to live forever?' Mortals, immortals and the undead24th May - CBOMGS 15th Annual Postgraduate Colloquium24th May - Perfect me! at the Hay Festival24th May - Romeo and Juliet for the young viewer - interpretation and adaptation23rd May - Sleepwalking to war? Britain in 1914 and 193922nd May - Exam stress-busting "Crafternoon"22nd May-1st June - Hay Festival20th May - Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies research seminars19th May - Beyond PhD: Post-doctoral Fellowships and career development in the Arts and Humanities19th May - The comparative badness for animals of death and suffering16th May - Birmingham Workshops in Philosophy: Metaethics15th May - Creative Minds at Birmingham: Alice Oswald15th May - La Plaga (The Plague)15th May - Harry Northwood: from Stourbridge to the USA15th-17th May - Cadbury Conference 2014: Class in Africa: A Reassessment13th May - Translation Studies Research Forum 2014 and BCT launch13th May - O Apóstolo (The Apostle)12th May - Ruinscape and slumscape: picturing history and violence in global East Asia12th May - Aesthetic adjectives10th May-29th June - CCCS 50 years on exhibition8th May - John Sinclair's idiom principle: an inspiration for learner corpus research8th May - Urte Berri On, Amona! (Happy New Year, Grandma!)8th-9th May - Theatre Praxis8th-9th May - Costs and Benefits of Imperfect Cognitions Workshop7th May - Comparative legal and ethical issues surrounding assisted reproductive techniques in animals7th May - Compensating the Victims of the Birmingham7th-8th May - Curating Art History6th May - Final Year recitalists6th May - Postgraduate lecture recitals6th May - What abilities are not3rd May - BEASTiary2nd May - BEASTiary1st May - Lucy Bolton, 'Murdoch and Margaret: Learning a Moral Life'29th April - Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies research seminars29th April - Abortion Privacy/Abortion Secrecy - What's the Difference and Why Does It Matter?29th April - John Terraine Memorial Lecture28th April - Final Year recitalists26th April - Midlands Viking Symposium16th April - Short stories in translation15th April - Elizabeth I and the "Monstrous Regiment" of Women in Tudor and Stuart England14th April - BECC-Warwick workshop on Global Humanity10th April - An important papier maché box presented by the manufacturer Henry Clay to the Birmingham Overseers of the Poor in 178410th-13th April - BAAS conference 201431st March - Urban Theology Forum guest lecture27th March - Postgraduate lecture recitals27th March - "The end of Shakespeare's verse" from an/other end: 'Trans-creating' Shakespeare in Spanish today.27th March - Translating the old and the new: how long does a translation last?27th March - Why things look different in the shade27th March - Schoenberg, Gesamtkunstwerk and fantasies27th March - CBOMGS seminar: Why was there no Renaissance in Byzantine art?27th March - Big Band26th March - The Limits of Solidarity: Europeanism, Anti-Colonialism and Socialism at the Congress of the Peoples of Europe, Asia and Africa in Puteaux, 194826th March - How archaeology contributes to African history and interdisciplinary research: evidence from Benin26th March - The Yenikapı 14 Shipwreck and Constantinople's Maritime Traffic in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries24th March - Final Year recitalists24th March - Advaita Vedanta and British Idealism24th March - Coming to America: Rubery Owen, a Black Country Business and the Drive for Efficiency23rd March - Symphony Orchestra21st March - Birmingham Workshops in Philosophy: Capacities21st March - Holdsworth Presidential Address: Lady Justice Hallett21st March - Back to back and Up the Yard: Life and Death in Back-Street Birmingham, 1880 – 196021st March - The Handsworth Scroll: Radical Politics on the High Street21st March - 366 Days of Kindness – A Talk21st March - Binchois Consort, Birmingham University Singers and University Women's Choir20th March - Postgraduate lecture recitals20th March - Images of Research20th March - Shakespeare Institute open afternoon for prospective students20th March - When Life means Death...20th March - Shakespeare and the Countess: The Formidable Elizabeth Russell and the Blackfriars Theatre20th March - Shakespeare and the Countess: The Formidable Elizabeth Russell and the Blackfriars Theatre20th March - The Stuart Hall Project20th March - CBOMGS seminar: Material culture and history: Byzantine and Ottoman Torone20th March - Creative Minds at Birmingham: Michael Longley [full video stream available]20th March - Transnational art education in the 19th Century20th March - What do we know about the Vikings now?20th March - 'Life and Death' and the Social Action Film20th-22nd March - Mary Shelley19th March - Representing Animals in Scientific Journals: A Corpus Linguistic Approach19th March - Law In Practice: His Honour Judge Martin Cardinal19th March - In our digital age, what value do books have?19th March - Title to be confirmed19th March - Living Classics in the Modern Community19th March - Bloodpeople, dangerous sex, and dead men walking: how to tell?19th March - Ban Polaris and Scrap the Force de Frappe: nationalism and internationalism in the first wave to ban-the-bomb in Britain19th March - '"Anglifizierung" und "Globalisierung": Aktuelle Diskurse zu Entlehnungen und moderner Sprachpurismus19th March - Sailing to Naukratis: Sappho on her Brothers19th March - Re-visualising the Inglorious Dead: The Abandoned Enemy from the Great Holiday of World War One19th March - Dying for Sex: Cultural and Forensic Narratives of Auto-Erotic Death19th March - The Birmingham Gun Trade - An Introduction19th March - Mad(e) in Hades18th March - Life and Death in Chekhov (event cancelled)18th March - Shakespeare's Global Communities: Shakespeare, Cultural Value and the Olympic World Shakespeare Festival18th March - Spatial Planning, Photography, and Modernity in Post-War France18th March - A World of World Heritage: Seduction, Dis-enchantment and New Intimacies [full video stream available]18th March - Birmingham Great War Centenary Lecture Series: Roads to War18th March - Ken Loach's 'Save the Children Fund Film'18th March - MA Film and Television Documentary Screenings17th March - Final Year recitalists17th March - Working with eighteenth-century museum collections17th March - Predictive Coding17th-21st March - What is it to be human? (event cancelled)16th March - University Chorus and Philharmonic Orchestra15th March - Chamber Choirs and Chamber Ensembles14th March - Brass in concert13th March - Postgraduate lecture recitals13th March - Laokoon, Dante, Shakespeare: a German view around 180013th March - Laokoon, Dante, Shakespeare: a German view around 180013th March - An introduction to the Institute of Translation & Interpreting13th March - Heaven and Hell13th March - CBOMGS seminar: Byzantine Greece: microcosm of empire? Retrospect and prospect13th March - Sarah Street, 'Synthetic Dreams: Color-Film-Music in the 1920s'13th March - Synthetic dreams: colour-film-music in the 1920s12th March - Birmingham Workshops in Philosophy: Belief12th March - The language of leadership12th March - Photographs of atrocity: lantern slides and humanitarian campaigns in the Belgian Congo in the early 20th century12th March - War in Northern Uganda: background and effects12th March - Cicero the historian11th March - Birmingham Great War Centenary Lecture Series: Roads to War11th March - Disgracing the Raj: white and mixed race prostitution in Colonial India10th March - Early Modern Vocal Ensemble10th March - I could have guessed it was full of water, can I have my money back": Town and Castle ditches from the Midlands – why it is worth doing the environmental archaeology9th March - Wind Band and Saxophone Ensemble6th March - Walking in a Windsor Wonderland: a few ramshackle reflections on directing Shakespeare's greatest comedy6th March - CBOMGS seminar: A Byzantine library: the Athonite Lavra in the thirteenth century6th March - Queer cinemas between France and Spain5th March - Employability event: Higher Education administration5th March - 'Begun at Westminster and ended at Wirksworth' : hearing sermons in town and country in the 1640s5th March - Ahead, Athwart, Askance: tropes of perversion in contemporary Hispanophone cinema5th March - Economy and Colonial History: German Togo and the Cotton Project5th March - "The Full Monty" into Europe? Issues of cultural untranslatability from a comparative perspective: investigating the German and French versions of this 1990s British comedy4th March - Modelling citizens: negotiations of agency and belonging through the medium of Italian migration literature4th March - Birmingham Great War Centenary Lecture Series: Roads to War3rd March - Final Year recitalists3rd March - TBA3rd March - A Painful Legacy: Martin Luther and the Jews28th February - Philosophy of Religion one day workshop27th February - Court on canvas: tennis in art27th February - Leaders in Law: Jacqueline Minor26th February - Birmingham Workshops in Philosophy: Truth and Vagueness26th February - The language of leadership26th February - Anti-Positivism and the Esoteric in early Twentieth-Century Mexican thought and literature26th February - Matter matters: outlines of a historiographic provocation26th February - From Tuareg nationalism to Jihad: changing patterns of miltancy in Mali26th February - CAHA research seminar (title to be confirmed)26th February - Creative Minds at Birmingham: Kathleen Jamie25th February - Translating Frantz Fanon24th February - Early Music Ensembles24th February - Structure and Quasi-Structure of Objects24th February - Manuscript Books for Medieval Midlands Readers24th February - Jewish Survival in early-modern Catholic Europe: Inquisition, Ghettoisation and Community20th February - Joseph Wright of Derby: the Philosopher's Painter19th February - Commemoration & conflict workshop - 'challenges for HE practitioners in history, area studies & philosophical and religious studies19th February - Taster day for MA Film and Television: Research and Production19th February - Introduction to postgraduate programmes in the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology19th February - Introduction to postgraduate programmes with the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage19th February - Introduction to postgraduate study in the School of English, Drama and American and Canadian Studies19th February - Introduction to postgraduate programmes in the Department of History19th February - Introduction to postgraduate study in the School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music14th February - Rethinking Foucault for 21st-Century Sexuality Studies14th February - BEAST@IKON13th February - Peculiar houses: the newness of early modern playhouses13th-15th February - Trust Not Your Daughters' Minds12th February - Theorising Informality from the ground up in Russia12th February - Birmingham Centre for Modern and Contemporary History Annual Lecture12th February - "Wir sind das Volk": the dominance of 198912th February - Maria Wyke, antiquity in silent cinema12th February - Antiquity in Silent Cinema11th February - Reincarnation11th February - Birmingham Great War Centenary Lecture Series: Roads to War11th February - The British State: Past, Present, and Future10th February - 'Creating an Early Colonial Order - From Corruption to Waste in Late Eighteenth-Century South Asia10th February - Naming, Saying and Structure10th February - Transport and fuel in the West Midlands in the late 17th century: Andrew Yarranton and the Stour Navigation7th February - Gilbert and Sullivan Gala6th February - Henry V after the War on Terror: Event Television, the Soldierly Body as Spectacle and the Uncertain Politics of Memorialisation6th February - Lucy Bolton, 'Murdoch and Margaret: Learning a Moral Life'6th February - CBOMGS seminar: Delphic festivals, mythologies and genealogies5th February - The global struggle for rubber in WWII5th February - Black Gold in Ghana: socio-economic implications for women in the oil communities4th February - Said Nursi's notion of sacred science: Its function and application in Hizmet High School education4th February - Birmingham Great War Centenary Lecture Series: Roads to War3rd February - The Winter We Danced: The Idle No More Movement and the Future of Canada3rd February - Could a Jew Be a Gentleman in Victorian England?2nd February - Sons of Bach31st January-2nd February - BEAST@CBSO Centre: pioneers of sound30th January - The Sensory Body in Shakespeare's Theatres30th January - Greek Mythology 3500 BC to AD 2014 [video stream available]29th January - Rochester at Rhyme29th January - China Trans Formed: How Sex Changed from Colonial to Sinophone Modernity29th January - Writing the History of the Jews of Poland and Russia29th January - A murder and its aftermath: land, race and violence after Apartheid29th January - The idea of the classical in classical antiquity28th January - The living and the poetic intention: Édouard Glissant's biopolitics of literature28th January - Birmingham Great War Centenary Lecture Series: Roads to War27th January - BEASTdome27th January - Climate Change, Warfare and Ecocide in the Early Fourteenth-century British Isles27th January - Freetown! Shakespeare and Social Flourishing23rd January - Shakespeare's Persia23rd January - Sarah Street, 'Synthetic Dreams: Color-Film-Music in the 1920s'23rd January - CBOMGS seminar: The Trier Ivory, the Icon of Christ on the Chalke Gate, empress Irene's triumph over Iconoclasm and the church of St Euphemia at the Hippodrome22nd January - Birmingham Workshops in Philosophy: Non-Standard Logic22nd January - Simon Harper: Freelance PR in Arts22nd January - South Africa, 1960-1: from 'Wind of Change' to armed struggle21st January - How can we research Islam properly in the current climate?21st January - Blacks out: Italy's melancholic whiteness21st January - Inter-theatre Learning in the British army of the First World War21st January - Leaders in Law Lecture: Lord Justice Rix20th January - Human dignity: a useful concept?20th January - Postgraduate panel on eighteenth-century art history17th January - 2013 Italian elections - Italian politics at the crossroads?16th January - Shakespeare Institute open afternoon for prospective students16th January - '"Grief best is pleased with grief's society": Shakespeare and Early Modern Sympathy'15th January - "How happy's the state where no discords are breeding": Harmony and the Politopop of later seventeenth-century England15th January - Water, Sovereignty and Global Science: The Grand Canal Project in China, 1910s-1930s15th January - Heroic Imperialists in Africa: the promotion of British and French colonial heroes, 1870-193915th January - Hitler's female helpers15th January - A world of choice: taking archaic Greek diversity seriously14th January - Fishing, ploughing and pesky pirates: people, power and personalities in a coastal manor ca.1270-13506th-8th January - The Royal Music Association's 2014 Research Students' Conference 2013 13th December - Barber Lunchtime Concerts: Trio Isimsiz13th December - #DearShakespeare12th December - Medieval Representations and Clerical Masculinities: Between Cultural and Gender History12th December - Unthinking Shah Rukh Khan and Global Bollywood12th December - CBOMGS seminar: Literature and culture in late Byzantine Thessalonica11th December - Alternatives to the nation-state? Political fiction and Joseba Sarrionandia´s 'The Frozen Man'11th December - Modern and Contemporary History seminar Title TBA11th December - Hiding in plain site: drone culture or sensing Africa remotely10th December - The Arabic-Afrikaans manuscript tradition: Its material production and theological impact on South Africa's Muslims10th December - The face that launched a thousand sonnets: Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci and the quest for Florentine identity at the turn of the 15th century10th December - John Baskerville and the power of print9th December - Beauty and the eye of the beholder: Jewish caricature and Christian devotions in the later twelfth century9th December - The University Carol Service8th December - Symphony Orchestra: Of myth and legend: Tales from Russia6th December - Barber Lunchtime Concerts: Bartosz Woroch6th December - Wind Band & Saxophone Ensemble5th December - Scholarship and Creativity: Adapting and Unadapting Shakespeare and Fletcher's Cardenio5th December - Three strategies for success5th December - Jazzlines presents... Alcyona Mick's Blink5th December - CBOMGS seminar: Cavafy and the not-so-Naughty Nineties5th-7th December - Department of Drama and Theatre Arts: Kindertransport5th-7th December - Kindertransport4th December - History and Cultures Workshop Skills Session4th December - The Kindertransport in History and Memory4th December - Pipelines and Protest in British Columbia: Aboriginal title, Wild Salmon, Jobs and Climate Change4th December - Seasonal speed workshop4th December - Will-making on the deathbed in Stratford-upon-Avon, c. 1540 – 16404th December - 'Wales England Wed'? English-Welsh hybridity in the two world wars4th December - Re-thinking race and class in twentieth century South Africa4th December - Barber Evening Concert: Simón Bolívar String Quartet3rd December - Drivers of change: investigating routine and emergence in newswriting3rd December - Living without why. A Muslim's attempt to authenticity3rd December - The BEF on 29 September, 19182nd December - CeSMA Annual Lecture 20132nd December - Dante and the Performative30th November - Brass in Space!29th November - Barber Lunchtime Concerts: Department of Music Postgraduates29th November - UMS Big Band29th November - Big Band28th November - Alba Fedeli, Early Qur'anic Manuscripts in the Mingana Collection28th November - What's the future for publishing literary translations?28th November - Archives and Anecdotes28th November - History and Cultures Workshop Skills Session28th November - Text Seminar, Autumn 201328th November - Sexology and literature: on the uses and abuses of fiction27th November - Mourning for the victims: Leningrad memorial cemeteries27th November - David Chariandy27th November - The politics and poetics of representing male bodies in contemporary Caribbean art: Cuba and the Dominican Republic27th November - Cities of vice: red light districts in Asian ports27th November - War in Northern Uganda: background and effects27th November - Reassembling the fragments in a digital age27th November - British memory and representation of the Kindertransport26th November - The first Queen in Scots? Margaret Tudor and English at the turn of the century26th November - "Soldiers of Christ arise": Religious Nationalism in the East Midlands during World War I25th November - IEL Annual Lecture 2013: The European Union in the World: the limits of law and the constraints of politics25th November - 'It's all a Gas': the development and provision of household technology in the Black Country 1800-193925th November - Heresy, orthodoxy and the Codex Amiatinus Christ in Majesty25th November - Ironbridge Annual Lecture 2013: 'Displaying the Past, Designing the Future' Dr Martin Roth, Director of the V&A23rd November - Birmingham History Day23rd November - Birmingham University Singers and Women's Choir22nd November - Birmingham Workshops in Philosophy: Semantics and Pragmatics22nd November - Barber Lunchtime Concerts:Di Xiao21st November - Where to find lost plays21st November - CBOMGS seminar: A grudging rescue: the French evacuation and the exodus of Armenians from Cilicia, 192121st November - 'Creative Minds at Birmingham' - Bernard MacLaverty [video stream available]21st November - Creative Minds at Birmingham - Bernard MacLaverty20th November - History and Cultures Workshop Skills Session20th November - Editing as a Critical Act: Reading The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick20th November - Theft on the trains: cheminot behaviours in wartime20th November - Youth and insecurity in the Niger Delta19th November - Michelangelo's Grace: self portrayal and religious identity in two of his Pietàs19th November - The British Army and the Learning Curve, 1793-181518th November - What happens when it rains: Virginia Woolf and the weather18th November - The Fourteenth Century in Zooarchaeological Perspective18th November - The Kindertransport in Retrospect17th November - Onyx Brass16th November - 54th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies15th November - Barber Lunchtime Concerts: Florin Ensemble14th November - Charles Mathews and his Gallery of British Theatrical Celebrity14th November - Succeeding as a freelance translator14th November - The Military Implications of Tudor Rebellions, 1536-155414th November - Great exhibitions in the margins. Cultures of international exhibitions 1840-194013th November - Masterclass: languages in action13th November - Helen Thomas, 'Freeze Frame: Paralysis in Film'13th November - Choteo: el humor, la política y la cultura en Cuba13th November - Saving the remnant or building a Soviet state? The dilemmas of international humanitarian intervention in early Soviet Armenia13th November - Sibyls, goddesses and women in republican Rome13th November - New maps of Classics: Oxbridge, metropolis and provinces 1850-192013th November - Büchner the optimist12th November - Popular science across cultures: cultural identities in image and text12th November - Foxhole Faith and the Religion of the GI in World War II12th November - The Napoleon of the Caucus' the career of Francix Schnadhorst, Britain's first professional political organiser11th November - Scholarly editing in a digital age11th November - The Staffordshire Hoard: An Insider's View9th November - Science and technology in 18908th November - Barber Lunchtime Concerts: rarescale8th November - BEASTdome6th November - Masterclass: try a new language1st November - History and Cultures Workshop Film Group1st-2nd November - Post-socialism playing global: computer gaming industries and digital media culture1st-2nd November - Consent: A capacious and contentious concept in feminist, legal, philosophical, and queer contexts31st October - Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Claustrophobic Reader31st October - CBOMGS seminar: Sir Steven Runciman and "the nicest Greek" he knew: the chronicle of his friendship with George Seferis31st October-2nd November - Be My Baby30th October - Genre Studies and Russian texts30th October - Humanitarianism and humdrum internationalism: British society at the end of30th October - CREMS Annual Lecture30th October - Class and informal economic restructuring30th October - Rethinking Ancient Literacy. Words, numbers and social complexity in the Near East and the Mediterranean world29th October - Storywalk – Annamation29th October - Robin Hobb29th October - After Such Kindness: Gaynor Arnold29th October - The World's Oldest Bible29th October - The World's Oldest Bible29th October - Why we need a sociolinguistics of writing and why sociolinguistics needs to re-think 'writing'29th October - Scouting for Brigands: Tank Corps Intelligence, 1916-191829th October - Book Quiz29th October - The Sceptre Press29th October - The Subject of Murder28th October - Text as Art/Art as Text: exploring the uses and possibilities of text within contemporary art28th October - Teaching Shakespeare and the Big Stuff [video stream available]28th October - Why virtue ethics does not have a problem with right action28th October - Research in literature28th October - 'It is generally thought that a city garden is an impossibility': exploring urban garden provision in five nineteenth-century English towns28th October - The Life and Afterlife of Early Musics28th October - Citizen Reader [video stream available]28th October - The Blank Screen: Productivity for Creative Writers28th October - Alan Plater's 'The Beiderbecke Affair'28th October - Phenomenal Women27th October - Birmingham University Women's Choir27th October - Birmingham University Women's Choir in Worcester27th October - Park Life27th October - So, You Want to Write a Novel?27th October - Do you want to be a record breaker?27th October - Self-Publishing: The right choice for you and your book?27th October - Empress of Fashion: Diana Vreeland27th October - Fiction, History and Other Lies27th October - UniSlam!27th October - Empress of Fashion: Diana Vreeland27th October - Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens, 'The Lighthouse': A dramatic situation never before exploited27th October - "Why do you dress me/ In borrowed Robes?" Shakespearean costume workshop27th October - The birth of Tania Carver and other pseudonyms27th October - The story of letter writing26th October - Telling Tales26th October - Being a Cosmo columnist and other stories [video stream available]26th October - Bosworth: the Birth of the Tudors26th October - The Ugly Renaissance25th October - Birmingham, the Great Working City [video stream available]25th October - Barber Lunchtime Concerts: Ulrich Heinen and Malcolm Wilson25th October - Whose Voices? Writing workshop25th October - Weird World of Wonders25th October - Books without Borders: A celebration of literature in translation25th October - The Letters of Paul Cézanne25th October - The Evolution of the Campus Novel25th October - Talking Brummie: The Vernon Manuscript25th October - The Kills [video stream available]24th October - Communication, communication, communication: the importance of creativity and innovation in business24th October - Books: read it and die!24th October - A Broken Coriolanus24th October - Imperial Purple to Denim Blue: The colourful history of textiles24th October - The Library: a World History24th October - Written Off24th October - Britain and the Balkans: war, peace and 'the strange death of Liberal England', c. 1900-192524th October - The paradigm of music: Kandinsky, Duchamp, & Nam June Paik24th October - 'Creative Minds at Birmingham' - Jamie McKendrick [video stream available]24th October - CBOMGS seminar: Homeric commentaries and paraphrases: Eustathius of Thessalonica in search of Demosthenes Thrax24th October - Creative Minds at Birmingham: Jamie McKendrick24th October - Doggerland24th-29th October - Book to the Future24th-29th October - Build the Birmingham Book23rd October - East African railways and harbours 1945-60: labour resistance to a 'crisis of accumulation'23rd October - Thinking queer/Rethinking the interwar22nd October - Back with the mates I left behind: a frontline medical officer from Passchendaele to allied victory22nd October - Adapting to Climate Change: Coping with the Effects of Weather Changes in Rural Sierra Leone22nd October - Counter narratives and controversial crimes: a cross-cultural comparison of revisions to the Wikipedia article, "The Murder of Meredith Kercher"22nd October - Postmemory and the graphic novel: how to tell your grandparents' stories of the Second World War22nd October - The World's First Expeditionary Air Force? The RFC in 191421st October - Printing Swift's hoaxes and parodies19th October - Black Country History Day18th October - The Futures of Legal Education and the Legal Profession 2013 CEPLER Conference17th October - The End of Shakespeare's Verse?16th October - West Midlands Remembers16th October - "Sua Sall You Tak New Troy": A New Sonnet and Jacobean Literary Culture Before 160316th October - 'Self-extermination or self-determination': the (re-)construction of east central Europe, 1917–2316th October - The monkey tablet and the dangers of not treating cuneiform tablets as archaeological objects16th October - Barber Evening Concerts: The Sixteen15th October - Officer Education at Sandhurst and Woolwich 1902-191414th October - "All the Formative Forces": Guy Butler and the emergence of a South African poetics14th October - Nineteenth century prison provision for juveniles in Birmingham12th October - Strategies of imperial control in arid and semi-arid environments12th October - Teacher Subject Days in Classics11th October - Barber Lunchtime Concerts: Kitty Whately and Joseph Middleton11th-12th October - Birmingham Workshops in Philosophy: Fundamentality10th October - The Stage History of Cymbeline10th October - Noemi de Haro García, 'Broadcasting Modernity in 1968 Spain'10th October - Broadcasting modernity in 1968 Spain10th October - CBOMGS seminar: Traveller's Tales10th October - Ray Krone to speak about the death penalty9th October - 'Truth be told': some problems with historical revisionism in Kenya9th October - French perceptions of Algerian society at the onset of colonial conquest (ca.1840-1860)9th October - Firing the canon: the politics and poetics of exclusion8th October - Strings Masterclass: Dancing with Bach8th October - Lecture-recital: Dancing with Bach8th October - The Combat Soldier7th October - Taking Morality Mathematically: Enoch's Indispensability Argument7th October - Poetic gems: metaphors of genius in Victorian poetry3rd October - Asia, Text, Performance 1692-20133rd October - VENICE OF THE GREEKS: The History of Hellenism in the City of Saint Mark2nd October - Secrets and spies: transgressing boundaries in sixteenth-century2nd October - World in motion: professional circuits through 19th-century China2nd October - The price of death: understanding the township funeral industry in South Africa2nd October - Family honour: the long life of Roman tombs30th September - Primary Sources for Local and Regional History held in Special Collections29th September - Music in the making28th September - History of Art taster day 201328th September - Genre and Memory26th September - Pompeii – a view from the street12th-13th September - Screening European Heritage conference9th September - Religion, Gangs, Community Cohesion and Youth Detention - a research discussion event4th-6th September - Crossroads in African Studies2nd September-29th November - BABEL: An exhibition of images and words by Stewart Brown6th July - Day School in Honour of Dr Bob Bushaway5th July - Birmingham International Jazz and Blues Festival3rd July - Unity and Diversity in Text and Tradition1st-2nd July - Negotiating Boundaries - The Plural Fields of Art History28th-29th June - New Times Revisited? Examining Society, Culture and Politics in the Long 1980s27th June - in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion27th June - Collaborative partnerships between universities and Muslim institutions: dismantling the roadblocks26th June - Race, Biopolitics and Violence in Francophone Postcolonial Studies26th-28th June - Sin and Salvation in Reformation England23rd-24th June - Brant International Piano Competition 201322nd June - Undergraduate open day22nd June - War Studies Summer Day School21st June - Undergraduate open day20th June - Undergraduate open day18th June - Ecology Politics in Pre-modern Eastern Eurasia14th June - Festival Voices - Melody Morris (conductor)13th June - Workshop: Interpersonal Narratives and Mental Health13th June - Big Band12th June - 'Caught in the Act: or, Practising Theatre History'12th June - Sinfonia - Taihei Yimiketa (conductor)11th June - Testing prayer: why Pentecostal healing should be studied empirically11th June - Chamber Ensembles10th June - Workshop 6 - Communicating Genre: the author, the text and the audience10th June - Lunchtime Postgraduate Concert10th June - "'O beastly Jews': Jewish Responses to that Venerable Tradition"9th June - Community Day7th-8th June - My night with philosophers7th-9th June - Matthew Knight (Director) and Georgina Wheatley (Music Director)6th June - Public engagement in health care priority setting6th-8th June - Fifteenth Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference2nd June - Doggerland1st June - Citizen Reader1st June - Playwrights' Workshop31st May - Playwrights' Workshop31st May - Human enhancement: three perspectives30th May - Rewriting the Book: The Library of Birmingham29th May - Collecting cultures: the eighteenth century29th May - Innocence, Desire and Loathing: Visiting the Book29th May - David Parker at the Hay Festival of Literature and Arts29th May - The World's Oldest Bible: How technology shapes belief28th May - Teaching Shakespeare and the Big Stuff28th May - Translation Studies Research Forum24th-26th May - BEAST: Vanishing Point23rd May - Els nens salvatges (The Wild Ones)23rd-24th May - Independent Practical Projects23rd-24th May - Birth, sex and death: rites of passage in the medieval and early modern world23rd May-2nd June - Hay Festival21st May - Subtitling The Wire: the impact of hearing-impaired subtitles on characterisation20th May - Creating a medieval history gallery17th May-18th June - The Cadbury Conference 2013: African newspaper cultures16th May - Doentes (Sick People)15th May - Final year recitals (15 May)15th May - Subjective well-being: when, and why, it matters14th May - Final year recitals (14 May)13th May - Final year recitals (13 May)13th May - Actions, reasons, and presuppositions10th May - Reanimating Playbooks10th May - Réseau-F Postgraduate Consortium for French and Francophone Studies10th May - Luca Luciano (clarinet)10th May - Professor Thomas Pogge (Yale)9th May - Between Theatre Histories and Performance Events9th May - Zorion perfektua (Perfect Happiness)9th May - Three puzzles about spatial experience9th May - Primed for Violence? A corpus analysis of jihadist discourse8th May - Philosophy of Religion one-day workshop8th May - James Rhodes piano3rd May - Richard Uttley (piano)3rd May - Hermes Ensemble & New Music Ensemble2nd May - Theatre Praxis2nd May - Getting Grants, Getting Published and Staying Sane? Life After the PhD1st May - Workshop: Metaphysics of Time1st May - MA presentations30th April - The John Terraine Lecture: John Terraine and the Naval History of the First World War30th April - Birmingham Centre for Modern & Contemporary History annual lecture30th April - The origins of Anglo Jewry in Birmingham29th April - Workshop 5 - Genre and canons of representation29th April - Final Year Recitalists (29 April)29th April - Conceptual Cosmopolitanism: What conceptual relativity might be and could do28th April - Binchois Consort & Birmingham University Singers26th April - Concert by Jack McNeill (clarinet) and Melissa Morris (piano)25th April - Staging Political Scandals: Two Brazilian Adaptations of William Shakespeare's Richard III25th April - Margaret Thatcher in modern British history24th April - Redcrosse, the secular and the sacred: an evening of performance and presentations on St George and the modern meaning of Englishness22nd April - Final Year Recitalists (22 April)22nd April - Interpreting what Achilles said to the tortoise19th April - An Artistic Director Prepares5th April - Total Brass22nd March - Early Music Concert22nd March - Big Band21st March - Moral Responsibility and Psychopathology Workshop21st March - Objective Faith? the Spiritual Object Studio Portrait Series21st March - Women & War - The Politics of Life Writing: Spying, Treason and Antifascist Resistance21st March - Time and The Tempest21st March - Homeric commentaries and paraphrases: Eustathius of Thessalonica in search of Demosthenes Thrax21st March - Danger and Disenchantment: Thoughts on Narrative and Neue Sachlichkeit21st-23rd March - Conference: the Challenges of Trans-national Investigations20th March - Irene Nemirovsky and Suite francaise20th March - Art History speed workshop20th March - Introducing our postgraduate courses in Shakespeare and Creativity20th March - Faith Schools - blessing or curse?20th March - 'The Matter of Mood in Lewis Klahr's "Engram Sepals (Melodramas 1994-2000)"'20th March - Modern and Contemporary History seminar20th March - 10 x 10: The Journey Home, at the Old Joint Stock Pub Theatre20th March - Concert by Clipper Erickson (piano) and Laurie Altman (composer)19th March - The Fifth Annual Rabbi Tann Memorial Lecture19th March - Online chat: Postgraduate programmes in Philosophy19th March - Hiding in plain site: drone culture or sensing Africa remotely19th March - Looking For Traces of Empire19th March - The Chiricahua Apache Warrior 1860-188619th March - The life and times of William Hutton: Birmingham's first historian 1723-181519th March - 10 x 10 The Journey Home18th March - Unearthing the Past: A boat laden with...18th March - Robert Atkinson, Architect of Cinemas18th March - Department of Music Recitals18th March - 'It's all a Gas': the development and provision of household technology in the Black Country 1800-193918th March - Dany Laferrière: A Restless Child of Haiti18th March - Introducing Christian-Muslim Relations: a bibliographical history18th March - Online chat: Postgraduate programmes in Philosophy18th March - A leg to stand on: prosthetics, art and robots18th March - Ecocritical readings of Modern Hebrew literature and recent Israeli fiction17th March - University Choir & Philharmonic Orchestra15th March - Anneke Scott horn and Steven Devine fortepiano15th March - Brass Band & Wind Band14th March - Open afternoon for prospective students14th March - Hamlet in the Cold War: Zbigniew Herbert's 'Elegy of Fortinbras' and its Contexts14th March - Urban Fox Folk Sessions14th March - Picture Post and the Photo Essay: Emigre Photographers and Cultural Narratives in Britain 1938-4514th March - The Invention and Oblivion of the Holy Lance of Antioch14th-16th March - The House of Bernarda Alba13th March - Research Round Table13th March - Modern and Contemporary History seminar12th March - Special Lecture (supported by Sir Barry Jackson Trust)12th March - Noticing and not noticing what's in a text: attention, depth of processing and text interpretation12th March - Wagner12th March - 'Sir Henry Rawlinson: A Reassessment'12th March - Birmingham and Beyond seminar series11th March - Birmingham Eighteenth-Century Centre Seminar Series at Special Collections: Eighteenth-Century Collections11th March - Early Music Concert11th March - Nature as metaphor in Modern Hebrew literature10th March - UMS Symphony Orchestra10th March - UMS Symphony Orchestra8th March - Juice8th March - UMS Chamber Choirs8th March - UMS Chamber Choirs7th March - 'What's so funny 'bout campus Shakespeare?'7th March - Joining a Professional Body7th March - Chris Mapp Group7th March - Chris Mapp Group7th March - Knight's Move. What can be the contribution of artistic research to World Art Studies?7th March - Meleager rides the rails: Kenneth Rexroth's Greek Anthology6th March - 'Coloured Sound: Timbre, Race and Recording in American Music'6th March - Known (un)knowns. Creating an Aesthetic of Knowing in Recent Cinematic Red Army Rote Armee Faction6th March - The Book of Invisible Bridges5th March - Second Stanley Wells Lecture5th March - Assessing the usability of raw machine translation output via eye tracking5th March - Urban slums in Durban, South Africa5th March - French research seminar5th March - The status of Basque: situations and prospects5th March - 'The BEF on 29 September 1918'5th-7th March - The Eighth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament4th March - Final year recitalists (4 March)4th March - The place of the dead: territory and identity in the early modern landscape4th March - Philosophy Society: Bart Streumer4th-6th March - Birmingham Colloquium 20132nd March - War Studies Spring Day School1st March - Hallé Soloists1st March - Imperial Humanitarianism28th February - Staging Shakespeare's Books: Intermedial Dramaturgy in 21st Century European Performance27th February - 'Surf Tourism and the Imperial Encounter.'27th February - Modern and Contemporary History seminar26th February - Radical Memorial Ethics. Peter Weiss' Trip to Auschwitz in 196426th February - The influence of age and aptitude on the development of a native-like second language lexicon26th February - 'A Case Study of the British Campaign Against the Blockade of Germany and Austria, 1918-1919'25th February - Final year recitalists (25 Feb)25th February - A Question of Sport and the Law: What now for sport in Britain and beyond?24th February - Birmingham University Singers23rd February - Workshop 4 - Genre in translation: crossing cultural, linguistic, disciplinary, media and other boundaries22nd February - Postgraduate Workshop: sites of memory22nd February - Philip Higham cello and Sam Armstrong piano21st February - Sam Wanamaker21st February - Working for a Translation Company21st February - Between Authenticity and the Multiple: Käthe Kollwitz, graphic dissemination and dealership21st February - Romespeak: Why de Lingua Latina?20th February - '"The Mississippi was a virgin field": Mark Twain and the rediscovery of the river, 1865-1875'20th February - Modern and Contemporary History seminar20th February - Sin and the Self: Confession and Individuality in Twelfth-Century German Literature20th February - Contempt of Court in the Age of the Internet20th February - Chamber Ensembles and Saxophone Ensemble20th February - Chamber Ensembles and Saxophone Ensemble19th February - Sufism Islamic mysticism or is it just an essential aspect of Islam?19th February - "Boring, pompous and arrogant" or "funny, interesting, and HOT!" What university students really think of their professors!19th February - Bach Reception in Korea19th February - French research seminar19th February - 'French Republican Universalism' and the 'Event' of Queer Theory19th February - 'Bloody Meadows: Investigating Battlefields as Landscapes'18th February - Final year recitalists (18 Feb)18th February - Accomplished ladies or professional women? Women in art and design in Birmingham in the late 19th and early 20th centuries17th February - BEAST presents... Encounters (Sunday)17th February - BEAST presents... Encounters (Sunday)16th February - BEAST presents... Encounters (Saturday)16th February - BEAST presents... Encounters (Saturday)16th-17th February - Birmingham University Singers15th February - Alkan: An Anniversary Lecture-Recital15th February - BEAST presents... Encounters (Friday)15th February - BEAST presents... Encounters Friday13th February - Jerusalem Quartet11th February - Final year recitalists (11 Feb)9th February - Unlocking the Private Library8th February - UMS Honorary President's Lecture7th February - Working as a Freelance Translator7th February - ''Olympic Performance in the Year of Shakespeare' and 'Actors and Academics: Ways of Seeing the Artefact'7th February - Percy Pursglove Quartet7th February - The Optical Neume Recognition Project7th February - Civil Liberty and the Irish Poor: the Visual Cultures of Catholic Emancipation 1828-97th-9th February - Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat6th February - Careers with Languages6th February - 'Connecting Viewers with Content: the promotional screen industries in the digital era'6th February - Modern and Contemporary History seminar5th February - Islamism and the empowerment of women in Syria5th February - Round Table: focus on sources5th February - Changing the bases for academic word lists: the Vocabulary for Academic Lecture Listening word list5th February - 'The Men Who Planned the War: The Staff of the British Army on the Western Front 1914-18'5th February - UG Philosophy Society: John Broome4th February - The Bull Ring, an iconic Birmingham landmark: the popularity of 19th century topographical views4th February - Maimonides Versus Nahmanides On Fighting for the Land of Israel: Some Reflections on Jewish Theology3rd February - In the House of the Devil3rd February - In the House of the Devil1st February - Annual Philosophy of Religion Workshop31st January - The Memory of the image in Jean-Luc Godard's "Histoire(s) du cinema" (1998)31st January - Shakespearean Verse Speaking31st January - August Sander and the Artists30th January - The rule of fear: state violence in colonial Kenya, 1952-195530th January - Modern and Contemporary History seminar30th January - Barber Evening Concert29th January - The impact of textual enhancement on EFL learners' grammatical development of expression of future plans and intentions29th January - Music research seminar29th January - Birmingham Visiting Writers' Programme Lecture 201329th January - 'Religion and the Vietnam War'28th January - How reliable is the story of the Nag Hammadi discoveries?28th January - Philosophy Society: Ben Colburn28th January - Postgraduate student workshop27th January - Atalante25th January - Trio Petrus - Barber Lunchtime Concert24th January - Open afternoon for prospective students24th January - Gregory Doran (Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company)24th January - Modern and Contemporary History seminar24th January - The Book of the Dead in Nineteenth-Century Britain23rd January - Shakespeare's Persia23rd January - 'Icons and Outtakes in Respite (2007) and A Film Unfinished (2010)'23rd January - Round Table: focus on the Danford Collection22nd January - Probing probabilistic grammars in diachrony22nd January - 'True to their Salt? Partnering Auxiliary Forces, Then and Now'22nd January-19th March - The Cadbury Lectures 2013 - Department of Theology and Religion21st January - Brilliant with all colours: Vesuvius and the evolution of it's image18th January - Chetham's School of Music - Barber Lunchtime Concert17th January - Lettered Men and Spineless Women: The Gendering of Early Modern Stoicism17th January - The Folk Sessions17th January - Kazimir Malevich and the Journey into Space16th January - Modern and Contemporary History seminar15th January - Kitab al-Majdal in the 11th century Historical setting15th January - Dante as a European poet15th January - Verb patterns in English for Academic Purposes: Towards a Corpus Pattern Analysis15th January - Seventh symposium: Making of Modernity15th January - "The idea of the nation was superior to race": transforming racial contours, social attitudes, and decolonizing French Empire from La Réunion 1946-197315th January - Music research seminar15th January - 'Zeppelins over the Black Country: 1916'14th January - 'After Katrina: Race, Transnationalism, and the End of the American Century'11th January - Hermes Ensemble - Barber Lunchtime Concert10th January - The Chronology of Christopher Marlowe10th January - Mike Williams Quartet10th January - Will the real Poseidonios stand up? The History and its recyclage9th January - Modern and Contemporary History seminar8th January - Conundrums of cash: wage rhythms, wealth circulation and the ethics of the economy on the Zimbabwean-South African border7th January - Deserted villages visited - new interdisciplinary approaches 2012 14th December - Silvio Berlusconi and Post-modern Politics12th December - Modern and Contemporary History seminar10th December - Workshop 3 - Genre and new technologies10th-11th December - Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World8th December - Ex Cathedra: Gaudete!7th December - Birmingham Contemporary Music Group6th December - Sixth symposium: Making of Modernity6th December - 'A Ghetto of Voluntary Formation: Israel Zangwill's Whitechapel' and 'The Split Man and the Crowd Master: John Rodker and Wyndham Lewis'6th December - University Music Society Big Band5th December - Black Histories, White Audiences: The Federal Theatre Project's Living Newspaper5th December - Postgraduate Research Seminar5th December - CESMA Research Seminar5th December - Birmingham Modern & Contemporary History seminar5th December - The Ironbridge Lecture 2012: Who owns, Who knows, Who cares? Legal Milestones on the Trail of Orphaned and Abducted Art5th December - Utterly Brassed Off4th December - Raffles Schools (Raffles Institution & Raffles Girls' School)4th December - Islamic Studies seminar4th December - Canzonettas in solo guitar anthologies: a possible strategy for reconstructing alfabeto songs4th December - War Studies Seminar2nd December - BEAST at 30 (Sunday)1st December - BEAST at 30 (Saturday)30th November - (Ex)Changes: Short Fiction in Portugal, the United Kingdom and Ireland (1980-2010)30th November - The end of the Ottoman Empire as twentieth-century history30th November - Bramall Festival Public Tour30th November - Bramall Festival Public Tour30th November - New Music Ensemble and BEER29th November - Shakespeare's Magic Books and the East African Explorers29th November - Text seminar series29th November - Feeling the Heat: The human cost of poor preparation for climate-related disasters29th November - Play Out29th November-1st December - Little Eyolf28th November - The Function and Viability of Regional Cinemas: Naples, a Case Study28th November - Postgraduate Research Seminar28th November - Early Modern Literature, Culture, and Society seminar28th November - Birmingham Modern & Contemporary History seminar28th November - The Diversity of Carnival Cultures and their Imported Versions in Post-Unification Berlin28th November - The Power of Music27th November - John Ireland: A semi-centenary tribute27th November - Islamic Studies seminar27th November - English Language Research Seminar27th November - Elgar: the Enigma27th November - Yesterdays slaves: politics of belonging and struggles for citizenship amongst the Gando of Benin27th November - Maghrebi-French Disidentifications: Queer Performances of Gender, Religion, and Citizenship27th November - Maghrebi-French Disidentifications: Queer Performances of Gender, Religion, and Citizenship27th November - War Studies Seminar27th November - MOSAIC Research Seminar26th November - Impertinent, clowdy, and darksome speech, or how to do things with words in seventeenth-century natural philosophy26th November - In conversation: 'Music and Architecture'25th November - University Music Society Philharmonic Orchestra24th November - Workshop 2 - Genre, gender and identity24th November - Birmingham History Day 201224th November - First World War Autumn Day School22nd November - Food and Identity in Shakespeare: The Inflections of Nationality, Gender, Rank and Age22nd November - Translating for the EU22nd November - Transnational and local feminisms: The campaign for legal abortion in 1970s Rome and the impact of French and US debates22nd November - Text seminar series22nd November - Joshua Reynolds: Portraiture in Action21st November - Postgraduate Research Seminar21st November - Birmingham Modern & Contemporary History seminar21st November - www.delightedbeauty.org/vvv - Exploring Shakespeare Translations with Digital Tools20th November - Islamic Studies seminar20th November - Taking corpus-assisted discourse analysis beyond our discipline20th November - Property and labour in Faya-Largeau, Northern Chad20th November - War Studies Seminar19th November-3rd December - Global Ethics Talks Autumn 201217th November - Re-engaging with the First World War - War Studies17th November - Redcrosse16th November - New Research in Military History15th November - Ruling the Court in Shakespeare's Late Tragedies14th November - Postgraduate Research Seminar14th November - Early Modern Literature, Culture, and Society seminar14th November - Birmingham Modern & Contemporary History seminar13th November - Islamic Studies seminar13th November - The social relations of 'participatory governance': a corpus-based critical discourse analysis of UK education policy13th November - Collisions of Sublimities: The Case of Gellert's Geistliche Oden und Lieder (1757)13th November - War Studies Seminar13th November - Birmingham and Beyond research seminar13th November - MOSAIC Research Seminar12th November - 1939 Revisited8th November - Multilingualism in the EU8th November - 'When all the breathers of this world are dead': Posthumous Perspectives in Shakespeare8th November - Text seminar series8th November - American Water: Industry and Contemplation in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Painting7th November - The Future of Fatherhood in 1990s' Hollywood7th November - CESMA Research Seminar7th November - Postgraduate Research Seminar7th November - Birmingham Modern & Contemporary History seminar7th November - Launch of the Baskerville Society6th November - Signs of the Times: A Discourse Perspective on Public Signage, Urban Space and the Law6th November - Famine and post-slavery society in tunduru, Tanzania 1929-19636th November - French research seminar6th-13th November - Islamic Studies seminar29th October - Biblical Studies Research Day25th October - Disintegration, 192425th October - Literary Translation – a Publisher's and a Translator's View25th October - Friends of the Centre for West Midlands Research Seminar25th-27th October - 'Pornography' by Simon Stephens24th October - A Call for U.S. Leadership: Congressional Activism on Human Rights24th October - CESMA Research Seminar24th October - CREMS Annual Lecture24th October-5th November - Postgraduate Research Seminar23rd October - Islamic Studies seminar23rd October - Birmingham Modern & Contemporary History seminar23rd October - Spoken discourse in the international construction industry23rd October - Soundscapes of the Global Eighteenth Century from the Sistine Chapel to Canton Harbor23rd October - Trajectories of activism: contemporary anti-slavery movements (Niger, Mauritania, Mali and the Parisian diaspora)22nd October - The Fourth Annual Rabbi Tann Memorial Lecture19th October - The use of scientific evidence in criminal and civil litigation19th October - Global History at Birmingham18th October - Demonic Macbeth and the Way We Live Now17th October - Julius Evola and European Neofascism17th October - The 2012 US Presidential Election: Who is going to win and why. What will it mean for the next 4 Years?17th October - Calculating Divas: Caribbean Economic Imaginaries in the Novels of Mayra Santos Febres17th October - Birmingham Modern & Contemporary History seminar17th October - Eric Hopkins Memorial Lecture17th October-5th November - Postgraduate Research Seminar17th October-5th November - Postgraduate Research Seminar16th October - Islamic Studies seminar16th October - English Language Research Seminar16th October - African warfare in Bahia and Cuba 1807-184416th October - Un barco cargado de...15th October - The Fearfulness of Forgiveness in Christina Rossetti's Later Life: A Double Sonnet of Sonnets and John Donne's Holy Sonnets?13th October - Black Country History Day 201211th October - The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne11th October - Professor Edith Hall - Why do women in Greek tragedy still speak to us today?10th October - Birmingham Modern & Contemporary History seminar10th October - Early Modern Literature, Culture, and Society seminar9th October - CESMA Research Seminar9th October - Islamic Studies seminar9th October - Islamic Studies seminar9th October - Community and audience on Facebook9th October - Memories of slavery and resistance to the slave trade in Northern Ghana: The kanbon (foreign enslaver) in time and space9th October - Late medieval tuning theory and performance implication: the case of the chromatic semitone8th October - The Mingana Collection and the Ancient Qur'anic Fragments8th October - Ezra Pound Goes to Venice: Modernism, Fascism, Tourism6th October - Workshop 1 - Genre: theory, methodology and practice6th October - Midlands Maidens: Women in the Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth Century4th October - 'In their Tables': Hamlet Q1 and its Audience4th October - Instructing the Prince through Text and Image: the 15th Century Burgundian Prose Romance of Florimont4th-15th October - Text Seminar Series3rd October - The Crisis in Syria - a Birmingham Round Table2nd October - Corpus perspectives on turn-taking in university seminars2nd October - History, memory and commemoration1st October - Where Do I Go From Here: Women's Poetry and its Aftermath27th September - A boy from Stratford, 1769-191627th-30th September - Barber Opera - Steffani's Orlando Generoso26th September - Barber Lunchtime Lecture26th September - Barber Lunchtime Lecture26th September - Modern Languages Lecture Series: Inaugural Lecture26th September - Migration and emancipation in West Africa's labour history: the missing links26th September-5th November - Postgraduate Research Seminar23rd September - Music in the making!22nd September - History of Art sixth form study day14th September - Revisiting Churchill's Army: New Directions in the Study of the British Army in the Second World War13th September - Jazzlines presents Matt Ratcliffe Coda Quartet4th September - The 'invisible people': Hratin of Mauritania and Southern Morocco19th-21st August - Stockhausen A Festival of Light3rd-5th August - Command, Control and Communications: The British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front 1914-191821st July - Enjoy some BEER at SUMMERsupper17th-21st July - DAAD German Studies Summer School13th July - Birmingham International Jazz and Blues Festival II6th July - Birmingham International Jazz and Blues Festival I4th July - BEER with Julian Rohrhuber23rd June - The Birmingham Jewellery Quarter: Past Present and Future23rd June - Summer Day School 2012: The Military Lessons of the Great war 1918-194023rd June - The Birmingham Jewellery Quarter: Past Present and Future23rd-24th June - The Robert William and Florence Amy Brant International Pianoforte Competition 201222nd June - Gendering impegno in modern Italian culture14th June - Big Band13th June - Chamber Ensembles and Choir11th-15th June - Postgraduate production10th June - The Greeks 12 – Drama10th June - The Greeks 13 – Sex10th June - Cider10th June - Music at University Community Day10th June - How The Light Gets In9th June - New Directions in Catholic Reformation Research8th June - Society for Italian Studies Postgraduate Colloquium 20128th June - The Good Life: Theory and Practice8th-10th June - Summer Festival Opera - Benjamin Britten's Paul Bunyan7th June - Shakespeare 2: Tragedy6th June - The Vernon Manuscript - An e-Reader on Parchment6th June - Biblical Texts and Reception History: retrospect and prospects6th June - Professor Geza Vermes1st June - Playwrights' workshop1st June - Continuity & Rupture with the Habsburg Regime, 1914–Today24th-25th May - Independent Practical Projects24th-26th May - 5x5 at the MAC16th May - Birmingham Centre for Modern and Contemporary History Annual Lecture15th May - Discovering the Vernon Manuscript: Secrets of a Literary Hoard Revealed11th May - Roles: 2nd Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Postgraduate Colloquium9th May - Sinclair Lecture 2012: Professor Ruth Wodak9th May - An evening with Owen Jones3rd May - Noisefloor Festival27th April - How a novel evolves, and other stories25th April - Substance Dualism: Public lecture19th-20th April - Politics, performance and popular culture in nineteenth century Britain31st March-2nd September - Style Africa - Celebrating the Textile Heritage of West Africa30th March-1st April - The Emergence of the West Midlands: Culture, Communities and Change 1779-191830th March-1st April - The Emergence of the West Midlands: Culture, Communities and Change 1779-191826th-27th March - After the 'New Art History'26th-27th March - Collapsing Europe?23rd March - Final Year Recitalists22nd March - Dennis Nurkse21st March - Power and Powerlessness: Africa's Capital Cities21st March - Fourth symposium: Making of Modernity20th March - Kippur18th March - University Choir and Philharmonic Orchestra16th March - Final Year Recitalists15th-17th March - Playhouse Creatures14th March - David Pyatt, Lucy Gould and Leon McCawley11th March - Symphony Orchestra9th March - 'From Paris to New York: Ravel and Gershwin for Violin and Piano'9th March - Chamber Choir6th-8th March - Lemon Tree4th March - Saxophone Ensemble3rd March - War Studies Spring Day School3rd March - War Studies Spring Day School3rd March - Wind Band and Brass Band2nd March - University Chamber Orchestra29th February - Natalie Clein and Alasdair Beatson24th February - Middle East Symposium24th February - Early Music Ensembles21st February - Biblical Studies Research Day17th February - Holly Cook and Yukiko Shinohara14th February - 'When Love's Soft Passion'13th-18th February - University community project to help young adults express their dreams10th February - University Music Scholars10th February - Rush Hour Blues9th-11th February - Dostoyevsky's Heroines8th February - Applicant Visit Day: Philosophy, Religion and Ethics VV568th February - Richard Goode4th February - University Music Society Chamber Ensembles3rd February - Birmingham University Singers30th January - On Preferring Gods Non-existence: Seminar27th January - Rosa Campos Fernandez and Pei Chun Liao23rd January - DASA seminars20th January - Barber Lunchtime Concert - Jayson Gillham13th January - Kenneth Hamilton: 'At the piano with Brahms' 2011 14th-16th December - CentralTAG6th December - The Ironbridge Lecture 20111st-3rd December - East Lynne1st-3rd December - East Lynne27th-29th October - The Wicked Lady18th October - The Value(s) of African Art28th September - Black Consciousness and Biomedical Opposition to Skin Lighteners in Apartheid South Africa17th-19th March - The Visit9th March - Third symposium: The Making of Modernity1st March - Femi Oyebode and Tolu Ogunlessi10th-12th February - The Red Vial 2010 9th-11th December - The Hero Rises Up4th-6th November - I (for Identity)27th October - Second symposium: The Making of Modernity19th May - First symposium: The Making of Modernity