March 2007

Inaugural Lecture - Organising and Innovation: Anglo-American Comparisons & Consequences

Professor Peter Clark

Transatlantic transfers are more typically hybrids, retreats and failures than emulation and appropriation. Future consequences are emergent and nationally shaped. This specific is generic. Therefore, analytical narratives of innovation should explain the capacities of the national cultural repertoire. Critical realism and the 'history turn' require 'time-place periods as cases'.

Time and Date : 7th March 2007, 5.30
Venue:Clinical Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft Building , Mile End
Contact : Events office, events@qmul.ac.uk

Event: Seminar in Dissenting Studies - Literacy and Devotion in the Henry Family: The Evidence of Sarah Savage's Diaries, 1714-1748

Academic: Dr Gillian Wright, University of Birmingham

Time and Date : 14 March 2007, 5.15-6.45pm
Venue: The Board Room, Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, WC1H 0AR
Contact : Professor Isabel Rivers, i.rivers@qmul.ac.uk

Event: QUORUM: The Queen Mary Performance Research Forum

Following in Flanagan's Footsteps: US Theatre and Internationalism
Charlotte Canning, University of Texas
This meeting will be followed by a drinks reception hosted by Queen Mary's Graduate School .

Time and Date : 14th March, 5.15
Venue: Rehearsal Room 2, Arts Building , Mile End
Contact : Bridget Escolme, b.m.escolme@qmul.ac.uk

Event: Anglo-German Mythologies Colloquium - In Nature's Mines: Falun as a Nineteenth Century German Myth

In Nature's Mines: Falun as a Nineteenth Century German Myth
Matt Ffytche, Royal Holloway

Time and Date : 16th March, 4-6
Venue: Steiner Room, Lock-keeper's Cottage, Mile End
Contact : Angus Nicholls, a.j.nicholls@qmul.ac.uk

Event: Department of Russian Alumni Celebrations

A day to mark the teaching of Russian at Queen Mary; open to all alumni and particularly those who studied Russian language, history and culture as part of their degree.

The programme will include a three-course lunch in the Octagon, hosted by Professor Philip Ogden, Senior Vice-Principal; a history of the department presented by Professor Emeritus Donald Rayfield in conversation with Senior Lecturer Dr Jeremy Hicks; film footage of Alexander Medvedkin introduced by Dr Nikolai Irzvolov from the Cinema Art Institute, Moscow; roundtable discussions; afternoon tea and campus tours.

At 4.30pm , Simon Sebag Montefiore, the author, historian and winner of the History Book of the Year Award 2004, will present the keynote address on 'Young Stalin'. For more information, visit www.simonsebagmontefiore.com

The programme will culminate with a three-course Russian-inspired dinner in T h e C u r v e, the College's newest catering premises which will open in late January 2007. Dinner will be followed by a student performance of Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Bulgakov, performed in Russian with English translation.

Bulgakov wrote Fatal Eggs in 1924. The play tells of a Professor who, while experimenting with eggs, discovers a red ray that accelerates growth in living organisms. At the same time an illness has killed off the majority of chickens in Moscow . The government then decides to use the ray at a government-run farm but a mix-up occurs between the egg shipments and the trouble that follows is levelled upon the Professor. It is said that this tale of a bungling government earned Bulgakov his renown as a counter-revoluntionary.

Tickets:
Lunch, talks, tour and afternoon tea, £26.50 per person
Talks, tours, afternoon tea, dinner and play, £33.50 per person
Dinner and play, £32 per person
Lunch, talks, tour, afternoon tea, dinner and play, £55 per person

Time and Date : 17th March from 12.30
Venue: Mile End
Contact : Stephanie Mannion
Alumni Relations and Events Office, s.j.mannion@qmul.ac.uk, Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 7790

Event: Poetry and Poetics after Celan Lecture Series - "Arkadien für alle". Über den Lyriker Drs Grünbein

Dr Sandra Pott, Kings College London

Time and Date : 20 March 2007, 6 pm
Venue: Room 2.07, Arts Building, Mile End
Contact : Professor Leonard Olschner l.m.olschner@qmul.ac.uk

Event: Renaissance Seminar Series - The Renaissance and Graduate Studies: problems, approaches, new directions

Speakers: Pete Langman, Queen Mary, University of London; Jacqueline Johnson, Queen Mary, University of London; Judith Hudson, Birkbeck College

Chair: Rosanna Cox and Chloe Houston

This seminar series will review what the Renaissance now means to scholars across the disciplines, and consider how new interdisciplinary methods and approaches have refigured our understanding of developments traditionally associated with the term and period Renaissance. This series will continue in the summer term.

Time and Date : 21 March 2007, 6.30
Venue: Drapers Lecture Theatre, Geography Building , Mile End
Contact : Events Office events@Qmul.ac.uk

Event: Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations Occasional Lecture

The Influence of English on Swiss German

Dr Felicity Rash, Queen Mary, University of London

Organised by CENTRE FOR ANGLO-GERMAN CULTURAL RELATIONS Linguistics Section.

Time and Date : 23rd March 4-6
Venue: Lock-keeper's Cottage, Mile End
Contact : Angus Nicholls a.j.nicholls@qmul.ac.uk

Event: Workshop on Knowledge Flows

Professor Brigitte Granville and Dr Pedro Martins

The Centre for Globalisation Research at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London, invites submissions of papers that study the transmission of knowledge within and/or across countries.

While the most visible dimensions of globalisation tend to be the flows of goods, services, capitals and people, globalisation is also playing the important role of fostering the international spread of knowledge.

This one-day international workshop aims to become an outlet for the dissemination and debate of new research about this and other topics. Other issues include: patents and citations, multinationals, universities, worker mobility, outsourcing, research and development, social networks, knowledge management, etc.

The conference fee for participants at the workshop is £100 (£30 for PhD students).

Time and Date : 23rd March
Venue: Centre for Globalisation Research, Mile End
Contact : Pedro Martins p.martins@qmul.ac.uk

Event: QUORUM: the Queen Mary Performance Research Forum

Playing a Moor Playing a Moor: Ira Aldridge and Abolition
Bernth Lindfors, University of Texas , Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Queen Mary, University of London
This meeting will be followed by a drinks reception hosted by Queen Mary's Graduate School .

Time and Date : 28th March 5.15
Venue: Rehearsal Room 2, Arts Building, Mile End
Contact : Bridget Escolme b.m.escolme@qmul.ac.uk

Event: Anglo-German Mythologies Colloquium - Memories of WWII in contemporary British and German Fiction

Christopher Barenberg, Nottingham Trent University

Time and Date : 30 March 2007
Venue: Steiner Room, Lock-keeper's Cottage, Mile End
Contact : Angus Nicholls a.j.nicholls@qmul.ac.uk

April 2007

Event: QUORUM: the Queen Mary Performance Research Forum

Queen Mary Postgraduate Panel, to include Leonore Easton's performance project 'I want to suck your bones'.

Time and Date : 4 April 2007 5.15
Venue: Pinter Studio, Arts Building , Mile End
Contact : Bridget Escolme b.m.escolme@qmul.ac.uk

Event: School of Business and Management One-Day Workshop

Hearts and Minds: the Ethos of Commercial and Political Advocacy in Twentieth-century Britain

This workshop will examine how an increasingly professionalised persuasion industry changed the ways corporations and governments communicated with citizens and consumers throughout the twentieth century.

The workshop will bring together historical research from the fields of political and marketing history and aims to increase our knowledge of how Britain 's overt and hidden persuaders negotiated their collective identity in the age of extremes.

Time and Date : 14 April 2007 9.30am-5pm
Venue: Mile End
Contact : Stefan Schwarzkopf s.schwarzkopf@qmul.ac.uk

Event: Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies - Crabb Robinson Workshop

Please see www.english.qmul.ac.uk/drwilliams for more details.

Time and Date : 21st April, All Day
Venue: The Board Room, Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, WC1H 0AR
Contact : Professor Isabel Rivers i.rivers@qmul.ac.uk

Event: Seminar in Dissenting Studies - Dissenting from the Dissenters: Harriet Martineau, Unitarianism, and Social Reform

Professor Deborah Logan, Western Kentucky University

Time and Date : 25 April 2007, 5.15-6.45
Venue: The Board Room, Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, WC1H 0AR
Contact : Professor Isabel Rivers i.rivers@qmul.ac.uk

May 2007

Event: Inaugural lecture: Judges, Markets and Politicians: Litigation and commerce in the EU

Takis Tridimas,
Sir John Lubbock, Professor of Banking Law
Centre for Commercial Law Studies

The influence of the European Court of Justice in the construction of the European Union has been enormous. The lecture will seek to assess the influence of the Court on the law of the Member States with particular reference to commercial law. What are the boundaries of market freedom? How much should be regulated by the nation State and how much should be done at EU level? What should be decided by the judiciary and what should be left to the politicians? Market freedom, separation of powers, and multi-level governance set the parameters within which the case law of the European Court of Justice will be examined.

Reception to follow at Dean Rees House

Time and Date : 17 May 2007
Venue: G0 2, Charterhouse Square
Contact : Sandra Baird s.a.baird@qmul.ac.uk

Event: Third Annual One-Day Conference: 'Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America , 1750-1865

For details see website: www.english.qmul.ac.uk/drwilliams/

Time and Date : 19 May 2007, All day
Venue: Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, WC1H 0AR
Contact : Professor Isabel Rivers i.rivers@qmul.ac.uk

June 2007

Event: Renaissance Seminar Series - The Renaissance Body: Medicine, Natural Philosophy and Representation

Speakers: Ian Maclean and Ludmilla Jordanova

Chair: Colin Jones

This seminar series will review what the Renaissance now means to scholars across the disciplines, and consider how new interdisciplinary methods and approaches have refigured our understanding of developments traditionally associated with the term and period Renaissance. This series will continue in the summer term.

Time and Date : 7th June, 6.30
Venue: Drapers Lecture Theatre, Geography Building , Mile End
Contact : Events office
events@qmul.ac.uk

Event: Toleration and the Development of Religious Dissent in Cheshire during the late 1680s

Speaker: Dr David Wykes (Dr Williams's Library)

Time and Date : 13 June 200, 5.15-6.45pm
Venue: the Board Room, Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, WC1H 0AR
Contact : Professor Isabel Rivers i.rivers@qmul.ac.uk

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