USA Africa Dialogue Series - What's on at CRASSH, 21 November - 25 November [ Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge]

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Newsletter of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge View this email in your browser Public Lectures this week The Conspiratorial World of European Politics in the 1820s 22 November 2016, 17:00 - 18:30 SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge A public lecture by Professor Sir Richard Evans (University of Cambridge) After Napoleon's final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, the conservative regimes of the Restoration quickly developed a paranoid suspicion of conspiracies which, they feared, were being hatched to overthrow them. For their part, democrats across Europe formed secret societies like the carbonari, while groups of junior army officers from Spain to Russia plotted to remove Restoration governments and drive the programme of the French Revolution forward. This lecture asks why the politics of the 1820s were so dominated by conspiracy, and attempts to fit the dynamics of plot and counter-plot into the larger framework of the history of conspiracies and conspiracy theories in the modern age.  This event is open to all and will be followed by a wine reception. 2084: Cryptography, Magic, and Politics 24 November 2016, 17:00 - 18:30 SG1 & SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge. A public lecture by Professor Thomas Rid (King's College London) Where does the extraordinary political and emotional appeal of encryption come from? To understand the future of the politics of encryption, we must first understand its past. The art and science of secret writing had a unique, dark, and magnetic appeal for centuries. Indeed the origins of the study of secret writing are not in science and mathematics, but in 'magick' thinking of the Renaissance. Yet 20th-century historians of cryptography have deliberately ignored the non-scientific history of secret writing. As encryption is becoming ever more ubiquitous and ever more politically charged, it is time to confront its ancient angels and demons. This event is free and open to all, please register via the link above  Vacancies at CRASSH We're hiring! Here are our current opportunities: Research Project Administrator Communications Manager Deputy-Director of CRASSH (Secondment - Internal Applicants only) Conferences at CRASSH Conferences - Registration Open Now: Diagrammatic: Beyond Inscription, 2-3 December 2016 Global Muslim Encounters: Homogenisation and Diversity across Time and Space, 9-10 December 2016 New Directions in the Evolutionary Social Sciences, 13-14 December 2016 After the Soviet Collapse, 12-14 January 2017 'After Idealism: Sound as Matter and Medium in the 19th Century',17-18 March 2017  Conferences - Call for Papers Legacies of Conquest: Transnational perspectives on the conquest and colonization of Latin America (11-12 April 2017) Proposals, with an abstract no longer than 200 words please, should be sent to legaciesofconquest@gmail.com by 30 November 2016. CRASSH conference funding competition, 2017-18 We are now inviting applications for our 2017-18 conference programme from University of Cambridge faculty members and graduate students.  Support for CRASSH conferences includes: funding of up to £2,500 for a two-day event administrative assistance (including budgeting and management of accounts, creating a website, publicity, organising catering, and booking speaker accommodation) a conference venue. Further information on the conference competition, including a sample budget and programme, can be found here. The deadline for submissions is 27 January 2017. Summer Institute Summer Institute - Application deadline 9 January 2017: CCKF-CHCI Summer Institute China in a Global WWII  Research Seminars Our Research seminars are open to all. Unless otherwise stated, they all take place at Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT. From Across the Genkai Sea 21 November 2016, 12:30 - 14:00 CRASSH Meeting Room Professor Samuel Perry (ACLS Visiting Fellow, CRASSH) CRASSH Fellows Work in Progress Seminar series Landscape, Dwelling and Site-Specific Practice 21 November 2016, 17:00 - 19:00 *NB Different day and seminar room today* Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building Professor Stephen Bottoms (School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester) Yvonne Salmon (University of Cambridge and Convenor of The Alchemical Landscape Research Group) In collaboration with CRASSH Faculty Research Group, The Alchemical Landscape and  Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network (CIPN) Knowledge 23 November 2016, 12:30 - 14:00 Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building Professor Michael Wheeler (University of Stirling) Professor Gunther Rolf Kress MBE  (UCL) Part of  Embodied Things: Histories of Cognition, Practices, and Theories Research Group series Fact-checking and the Production of Political Knowledge 23 November 2016, 12:00 - 14:00 Seminar room SG2, Alison Richard Building Reading group. Tanya Filer (Cambridge, CRASSH) Jason Reifler (Exeter) Participants – please Register Online and contact the organizers (Dr McPherson or Dr Moore) for a copy of the papers. Part of The Politics and Paradoxes of Transparency, Research Group series   Art at the Alison Richard Building - new exhibition.  David Kefford: Pocket Sculptures 21 Nov 2016 - 13 January 2017

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