What's On
Between Sound and Silence: Avraamov’s Symphony of Sirens in Baku (1922)
Monday, April 28, 2025, 6:00 PM
Centre for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CEREES) event; a screening of Arseny Avraamov's 'Symphony of Sirens in Baku' (1922)
Living for Rent: Centre for Studies of Home Annual Lecture 2025Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 6:00 PM
An award-winning journalist and author Vicky Spratt and academic Dr Matt Ingleby (QMUL), co-director of the Rent Cultures Network, conversation on the range of issues related to rental domesticity at the Centre for Studies of Home, a partnership between Queen Mary University of London and the Museum of the Home
Thursday, May 1, 2025, 4:00 PM
Discussion with Dr Ilias Alami, co-author of the book 'The Spectre of State Capitalism' organised by the Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production (CLaSP)
Book Launch: Wanted, More Than Human Intellectual PropertyThursday, May 1, 2025, 5:00 PM
Professor Johanna Gibson's book 'Wanted, More Than Human Intellectual Property: Animal Authors and Human Machines' launch, organised by the Centre for Commercial Law Studies in collaboration with the Forum on Decentering the Human
Seminar 'Slave Insurgents and the Political Impact of Free Blacks in a Revolutionary Age: The Revolt of 1795 in Coro, Venezuela'.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 5:15 PM
Queen Mary Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies seminar by Global Professorial Fellow at the School of History Herman L. Bennett
Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 3:00 PM
Panel discussion with Chris Brian, Adam Elliott-Cooper and Sita Balani
CROLAC Public Lecture: The Things We Carried
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 5:00 PM
IHSS Visiting Fellow Professor Gaiutra Bahadur's (Rutgers University) lecture about South Asian indentured workers to the West Indies, and their descendants' journey from Guyana to the USA, organised by the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CRoLAC)
Launch of Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Empire Lifeworlds
Historicising the ImageTuesday, May 20, 2025, 9:30 AM
The workshop is a part of the Imagination Days 2 events, organised by Maks Del Mar, the IHSS Imagination Research Network convenor.
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Imagining JusticeTuesday, May 20, 2025, 3:00 PM
The symposium is on Valerie Hayaert's Lady Justice: An Anatomy of Allegory and a part of the Imagination Days 2 events, organised by Maks Del Mar, the IHSS Imagination Research Network convenor.
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Imagining NatureWednesday, May 21, 2025, 9:30 AM
The workshop is a part of the Imagination Days 2 events, organised by Maks Del Mar, the IHSS Imagination Research Network convenor.
Imagining LivesWednesday, May 21, 2025, 3:00 PM
The symposium is on Catherine Hall's Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism and a part of the Imagination Days 2 events, organised by Maks Del Mar, the IHSS Imagination Research Network convenor.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 2:00 PM
Two-day end-of-year event organised by the Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production (CLaSP)
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