Written on 29.1.10 by D1 Property Finder
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, the Institute of Historical
Research and the London Legal History Seminar are pleased to announce
the following Seminar and Book Launch:
Speaker: DR LORIE CHARLESWORTH, Reader in Law and History, Liverpool
John Moores University
Title: 'Welfare's Forgotten Past. A socio-legal history of the poor law'
Chair: Professor Michael Lobban, QMUL
Date: Friday 5 February 2010, 6pm – 7pm
Venue: To be held at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17
Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
Followed by a wine reception and book launch for "Welfare's Forgotten
Past. A socio-legal history of the poor law" by Lorie Charlesworth
(published by Routledge)
Website: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/7066
Admission Free – All Welcome
If you wish to attend, RSVP to Belinda Crothers, IALS, Email:
IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk
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Dr Charlesworth addresses the fact that 'poor law was law', a fact
that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in
England and Wales, and in North America. Dr Charlesworth remedies
this situation by tracing the history of the legal right of the
settled poor to relief when destitute. Poor law was not simply local
custom, but consisted of legal rights, duties and obligations that
went beyond social altruism. This legal 'truth' is, however, still
ignored or rejected by some historians, and thus 'lost' to social
welfare policy makers. This forgetting or minimising of a legal,
enforceable right to relief has not only led to a misunderstanding of
welfare's past; it has also contributed to the stigmatisation of
poverty, and the emergence and persistence of the idea that its relief
is a 'gift' from the state.
Documenting the history and the effects of this forgetting, whilst
also providing a 'legal' history of welfare, Lorie Charlesworth argues
that it is timely for social policy-makers and reformists - in
Britain, the United States and elsewhere - to reconsider an
alternative welfare model, based on the more positive, legal aspects
of welfare's 400-year legal history.
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Belinda Crothers
Academic Programmes Manager
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
Tel: 020 7862 5841. Fax: 020 7862 5850.
Email: IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk
Web: http://ials.sas.ac.uk
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Written on 13.1.10 by D1 Property Finder
On Friday 15th of January at 4:30 in the Daryl Forde lecture theatre Kristien Geenen of KU Leuven will be giving a paper to the West Africa seminar entitled
The pursuit of pleasure in a war weary secondary city. The focus of her talk will be aspects of her fieldwork in Butembo. Butembo is a town of 700,000 people in the North Kivu province of Congo, bordering Uganda, a region which in the last decade has been at the centre of the worst conflict (in terms of deaths) anywhere in the world since since world war II.
Kristien has already produced fascinating research on street gangs in Kinshasa which was published in the journal Africa, and I think that this will be an interesting and important paper which many of you would be interested in attending.
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Written on 13.1.10 by D1 Property Finder
The Market Abuse Association is pleased to announce the following lecture in association with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London:
SIMON MORRIS, Partner, CMS Cameron McKenna
will speak on
'Market Abuse in the Context of Fund Management: What the FSA (and some EU regulators) are looking for – and how firms seek to manage the risk'
on Thursday 14 January 2010 at 6.00pm
at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies,17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
If you wish to attend, please RSVP - Email:
IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk ADMISSION FREE
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Belinda Crothers
Academic Programmes Manager
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
Email:
IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk Web:
http://ials.sas.ac.uk
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Written on 10.1.10 by D1 Property Finder
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Written on 10.1.10 by D1 Property Finder
13 January 2010, 13:30 - 14:30
Event Type: Seminar
Speakers
James Chiriyankandath (Senior Fellow at ICwS)
Zionists and Indian nationalists: imagining nations, creating states
ICwS PhD Student (TBC)
Venue : Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
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Written on 10.1.10 by D1 Property Finder
12 January 2010, 17:15 - 19:15
Event Type: Seminar
Speakers: Adam Lyons (University of Birmingham)
Venue: The Wolfson Room (IHR)
The Wolfson Room is located on the third floor of the North Block of Senate House.
Related Events: British Maritime History
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Written on 10.1.10 by D1 Property Finder
The Collector as Artist: Lady Eccles and Oscar Wilde
11 January 2010, 18:00
Event Type: Lecture
Speakers
John Stokes (Emeritus Professor of Modern British Literature, King's College London). Together with Dr Mark Turner (King's College London), he is now editing Wilde's journalism for the Oxford English Texts edition of the Complete Works.
Description
Mary, Viscountess Eccles (1912 - 2003), was one of the foremost collectors of her time, amassing an outstanding wealth of material relating to Wilde which she bequeathed to the British Library. The Eccles Collection of Oscar Wilde comprises almost 2,000 items, including manuscripts (correspondence, works, etc.) printed books (among them a number of presentation copies and books from Wilde's own library) and a wide range of ephemera.
This talk celebrates the completion of the cataloguing of the Collection, which is now available through the Library's online catalogues, and explores the ways in which the creativity of the collector can inspire the imagination of the scholar.
Followed by a drinks reception. Attendance is free, but please register your name with Teresa Harrington at the British Library.
Venue : British Library
96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
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Written on 10.1.10 by D1 Property Finder
Date: 19 January 2010
From: 13:00 to 14:00
Speaker: Dr Gareth Millington (Roehampton University) & Dr David Garbin (CRONEM, University of Surrey)
Location: Room 253, Malet St.
Free entry; first come, first seated.
All welcome - and bring your sandwiches
Event web page(s).
Event submitted by: External Relations
email: m.cook@bbk.ac.uk
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Written on 10.1.10 by D1 Property Finder
Date: 13 January 2010
Start time: 13:00
Location: Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square
Free entry; first come, first seated.
Birkbeck Research in Representations of Kinship and Community (BRRKC) presents Robert Aldrich's classic 1962 melodrama, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. What is at stake in a cinematic portrait of sisterhood that has unquestionably entered the canon of the grotesque?
Event web page(s).
Event submitted by: School of Languages, Linguistics and Culture
email: brrkc@sllc.bbk.ac.uk
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Written on 10.1.10 by D1 Property Finder
Location
JZ Young Lecture Theatre | Medical Sciences and Anatomy Building (
Map)
Gower Street | London | WC1E 6BT | United Kingdom
Open to: Academic | Alumni | Public | Student
Admission: Free
Inaugural lecture by Professor Penny Florence, Professor of Fine Art History and Theory, UCL Slade School of Fine Art.
Contact
Stephen Cadywold, UCL Slade School of Fine Art
020 7679 1384 | s.cadywold@ucl.ac.uk
Speaker information
Professor Penny Florence , Professor of Fine Art History and Theory , UCL Slade School of Fine Art
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Written on 10.1.10 by D1 Property Finder
Location
Darwin Lecture Theatre - entrance via Malet Place | Darwin Building ( Map)
Gower St | London | WC1E 6BT | United Kingdom
Open to: Academic | Alumni | Public | Student
Admission: Free and open to anyone on a first-come first-served basis
Economics is largely about interpretation: about questioning and analysing worldly phenomena as the economist finds them; whether they are the pricing policy of a company or the structure of a market. Professor Huck will take economic analysis to a different context, using key tools, including counterfactual reasoning, to anlayse the actions of fictional characters. He will focus on two examples from Richard Wagner's operas, Tannhauser and Lohengrin.
Contact
Dan Martin
+44 (0)20 7679 7675 | dan.martin@ucl.ac.uk
Speaker information
Professor Steffen Huck , UCL Economics
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Written on 10.1.10 by D1 Property Finder
Location
Roberts G08 Lecture Theatre - entrance via Malet Place | Roberts Building ( Map)
Malet Place | London | WC1E 7JE | United Kingdom
Open to: Academic | Alumni | Public | Student
Jill Duggan is Head of International Emissions Trading for the UK government. She has advised US states developing cap and trade programmes on the lessons learned over the last five years.
Contact
Marianne Knight
+44 (0)20 7679 0534 | marianne.knight@ucl.ac.uk
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Written on 10.1.10 by D1 Property Finder
Location
Darwin Lecture Theatre - entrance via Malet Place | Darwin Building ( Map)
Gower St | London | WC1E 6BT | United Kingdom
Open to: Academic | Alumni | Public | Student
Admission: Free and open to anyone on a first-come first-served basis
One fifth of adults in Britain still smoke, and half of those who do not stop will be killed by their addiction a typical 20 years before their time. Cigarettes deliver nicotine to the brain faster than an intravenous injection, changing the brain so that it craves cigarettes, and of the four million British smokers who will try to stop this year, fewer than five per cent of them will succeed. Fortunately research has found ways of boosting the chances of success by some 300 per cent. This lecture will present the latest evidence on the best ways of beating cigarette addiction.
Contact
Dan Martin
+44 (0) 20 7679 7675 | dan.martin@ucl.ac.uk
Speaker information
Professor Robert West , UCL Epidemiology & Public Health
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Written on 10.1.10 by D1 Property Finder
18:15 - 20:30 18 January 2010
Open to: Academic | Alumni | Public
Roundtable discussion featuring experts including Lady Shirley Williams (House of Lords), Robert Chote (Institute of Fiscal Studies), Martin Daunton (Trinity Hall), Cambridge), William Keegan (The Observer), chaired by Professor Stephen Smith (UCL Economics).
Location
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre | Wilkins Building ( Map)
Gower St | London | WC1E 6BT | United Kingdom
Contact
Dr Bernhard Rieger
+44 (0)20 7679 7396 | b.rieger@ucl.ac.uk
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Written on 10.1.10 by D1 Property Finder
Professor Sang-Hie Han (Konkuk University / SOAS)
Date: 15 January 2010Time: 5:00 PM
Finishes: 15 January 2010Time: 7:00 PM
Venue: Russell Square: College BuildingsRoom: G50
Type of Event: Seminar
Series: CKS Seminar Programme
The seminar will be in Korean.
Further information Centres & Programmes, rb41@soas.ac.uk or Tel 020 7898 4892/3
Organiser: Centres & Programmes, REO
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Written on 10.1.10 by D1 Property Finder
Susanne Freidberg (Associate Professor of Geography, Dartmouth College (USA))
Date: 14 January 2010Time: 6:30 PM
Finishes: 14 January 2010Time: 9:00 PM
Venue: Russell Square: College BuildingsRoom:Khalili Lecture Theatre
Type of Event: Lecture
Series: SOAS Food Studies Centre Distinguished Lectures
A SOAS Food Forum Distinguished Lecture
Biography
Susanne Freidberg is author of French Beans and Food Scares: Culture and Commerce in an Anxious Age (Oxford University Press, 2004), and Fresh: A Perishable History (Harvard University Press, 2009).
The event is free and open to the public but booking is essential.
Registration
To register please contact Centres & Programmes, events@soas.ac.uk or Tel 020 7898 4893/2
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Written on 10.1.10 by D1 Property Finder
Bayram Balci (Institut Français d'Etudes sur l'Asie Centrale (IFEAC))
Date: 14 January 2010Time: 5:30 PM
Finishes: 14 January 2010Time: 7:00 PM
Venue: Russell Square: College BuildingsRoom: G50
Type of Event: Seminar
Series: CCCAC Seminar Programme
Biography
Bayram Balci is director of the Institut Français d'Etudes sur l'Asie Centrale, (IFEAC) in Tashkent. He holds degrees in Political Science and Arab-Islamic Civilization (Sciences Po Grenoble and Aix en Provence) and a PhD in Political Science for a dissertation about Turkish missionaries in Central Asia, followed by further research on Uzbek and Uyghur communities in Saudi Arabia. He worked in Istanbul and Baku as scientific secretary of the Institut français d'études anatoliennes, where he realized and fostered research projects on Sunni and Shia Islam and its re-compositions in contact with Iran and Turkey. He is the author of Les Missionaires de l'Islam: Les ecoles turques de Fethullah Gulen. He is also an Associate Researcher with CERI, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, in Paris.
Further information Centres & Programmes, centres@soas.ac.uk or Tel 020 7898 4892/3
Organiser: Centres & Programmes, REO
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Written on 10.1.10 by D1 Property Finder
Professor Elaine Unterhalter
Date: 14 January 2010Time: 5:00 PM
Finishes: 14 January 2010Time: 6:30 PM
Venue: Russell Square: College BuildingsRoom: G52
Type of Event: Seminar
Series: Centre for Gender Studies Seminar Series
Professor Unterhalter will look at the range of ways in which goals about gender and education have been positioned in development frameworks and the tensions between international, national and local contexts in realizing an approach based on participation, sustainability, equity and human rights.
Bio
Elaine Unterhalter is a Professor of Education and International Development at the Institute of Education. She has more than 25 years experience working on themes concerned with gender, race and class inequalities and their bearing on education. Her specialist interests are in the capability approach and human development and education in Africa, particularly South Africa. Her current concerns are with education, poverty and global social justice. Elaine's book Gender, Schooling and Global Social Justice won first prize in the Society of Education Studies book awards in 2008. She is currently working with a number of UN agencies on aspects of gender and the MDGs.
Organiser: Bloomsbury Gender Network and the Centre for Gender Studies (SOAS)
Contact email: N.S.Al-Ali@soas.ac.uk
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