Events archive

Description: Colloquium series 2016-17. On Wednesday afternoons at 4.45pm in room SWB21, the Music Department hosts colloquia by speakers both from within and outside the Department.

Description: Book launch of The Origins of ISIS: The Collapse of Nations and Revolution in the Middle East by Simon Mabon and Stephen Royle.

Description: This panel discussion will invite provocative reflections from theorists, activists and artists, on the possibilities of reclaiming radical Utopias as a response to an increasingly dominant 'financial imagination'. The panel will address questions such as: What types of imagination drive economic fiction and financial utopias/dystopias? How do contemporary debt dependencies, risk speculations and fictitious capital produce dominant visions of the future?

Description: Russia Institute seminar "The Turkish Winter & the Russian Spring: Similarities in Historical Context" with Ayse Zarakol (University of Cambridge)

Description: Professor Grocott will discuss how patient-researcher collaboration leads to new ways of helping people with rare skin conditions. She will talk about her research, which led to the development of ground-breaking new stretchy garments for patients with the rare skin condition Epidermolysis Bullosa.

Description: Professor Sabin and a team of umpires from his Conflict Simulation MA module will run another session of 'Kriegsspiel' at King's College London.

Description: Join the War Crimes Research Group for a panel discussion of the UK launch of the first-ever set of international standards for recording casualties for use in the field and as a resource for conflict analysts (published 23 November 2016).

Description: Professor Elena Korosteleva from the Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics , University of Kent will talk on bringing "the political" back in the eastern region.