Victoria Research Web "VRW Guide to Budget Travel to Britain"

Free Lectures in London, 2007

A selection of public lectures and meetings given and held in central London. Those interested can just turn up, except when the host asks for pre-booking. Some interesting study days are here, too, as well as some full-scale academic conferences, although neither are free. The host for each event holds copyright in that event's title. These meetings usually take 90 minutes, but may take up to 120 minutes. Lunchtime lectures are shorter: 50 minutes at University College London and the National Portrait Gallery, and often an hour elsewhere. At the end of this document will be found some advice about where to find an inexpensive lunch in Bloomsbury.

Prepared by Ben Haines for the Victoria Research Web

Webmaster note: This lecture list is the last one prepared by Ben Haines, who died in March of 2007. As his "publisher," I was privileged to come to know him over the years that this popular feature has appeared here, and I will miss his kindliness, his energetic generosity, and his unfailing courtesy. Never has there been a traveler who took such joy in helping others to savor their own travels. Godspeed, Ben, and thanks.


Thursday 1 March. 12 noon. Biology and signalling of isoforms of PI 3-kinase. UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, Lecture Theatre, 11-43 Bath St, Old Street tube

Thursday 1 March. 3pm. An Austrian and German Post-War Identity: Literary Contributions. Room ST276, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 1 March. 5pm. Constructing Female Sanctity in Late Medieval Naples: The Funerary Monument of Queen Sancia of Majorca. 3rd Floor Seminar Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday, 1 March. 5pm. Malaysia, The Rough Guide: Urban Refuges, Jungle Sites, and Border Zones in the New Plural Society. Room G51, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Thursday 1 March. 5.15. 'Ueber die Soldatenehen': The Project for Social Reform of J M R Lenz, 1751 to 1792. Room 273, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 1 March. 5.30. Rhetoric and Space in Medieval Architecture: Ductus. Room LG39 or the Weston Room, Lower Ground Floor, Kings College London , Chancery Lane tube

Thursday, 1 March. 5.30. Kazakhstan 1954 to 2006. A commemoration of Prof Nurbulat Masanov, scholar, public figure, political activist and independent critic in Kazakhstan, and Director of Kazakhstan’s Institute of Nomadic Studies when he died. Room G52, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Thursday 1 March. 5.30. Strengths and Weaknesses of Cultural History 1980-2006. After the cultural turn? History and the return of the social. Pollard Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 1 March. 5.30. Slavery, Baltimore and cultural memory, the Great Blacks in Wax. Woolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 1 March. 5.30. Perfuming Gloves in London, 1580-1640: 'All Oiled in Ambergris'. Ecclesiastical History Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 1 March. 5.30. Women's (working) lives, marital breakdown and the marriage bar in the General Post Office, 1918-1939: 'My husband was a brute and a drunkard and I left him owing to his habits'. Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 1 March. 5.30. The British Film Institute's Special Collections: A Discussion of New Acquisitions and Research Trends. Room NG15, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 1 March. 5.30. Rolf Gardiner, died 1971, farmer, forester, folk dancer, poet and visionary, Anglo-German youth movements and education. Germany Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 1 March. 6pm. There's nowt so queer as folk - Gender and sexuality. Staple Inn Hall, Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Wednesday 1 March. 6.30. The United States, global polluter. Kyoto and after. Old Theatre, London School of Economics. Holborn tube

Thursday 1 March. 6.30. United Nations Reform in an Era of Soft Balancing. Old Theatre, Old Building, London School of Economics, Holborn tube

Thursday 1 March. 6.30. Can the European Constitution be Saved ? U8, Tower One, London School of Economics, Holborn tube

Thursday 1 March. 7pm. Realm of the Black Mountain: A History of Montenegro. Book launch. Masaryk Room, East European Languages and Culture, 16 Taviton Street, Euston Square tube

Friday 2 March. 12.30. The 1835 painting ‘The Posterman’ by John Orlando Parry. London concert life in 1835, the professional careers of singers such as John Orlando Parry, and the function of playbills past and present. Piano Gallery, York Gate Collections, Royal Academy of Music, Baker Street tube

Friday 2 March. 3 to 7. Nationalism in the Americas. Venue to be confirmed, Institute for the Study of the Americas.

Friday 2 March. 5pm. The Japanese Pantheon on Paper Charms. Room G3, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Friday 2 March. 5.30. Making Black Freedom in the American South, 1863-1900. Register by e-mailing Tina Bashford t.bsshford@ucl.ac.uk or 020 7679 2013. Chadwick Lecture Theatre, University College London, Euston Squre tube

Friday to Sunday 2 to 4 March. Faith and Action in a pluralist society. Detail at www.theology-centre.org or 020 7780 1600. Register Pat Wright at admin@theology-centre.org . Contextual Theology Centre, Docklands Light Railway to Limehouse station

Saturday, 3 March. 9am. Understanding Afghans. Launch Conference of the European Centre for Afghan Studies. Free. Info and Register Angela Schlenkhoff , angela@ecasonline.org or www.ecasonline.org/, or 0208 815 9111. Khalili Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Saturday 3 March. 10 to 4. A current London production, to illustrate contemporary theatre. 45 pounds, concessions 25 pounds. Information on 020 7631 6640 or drama@fce.bbk.ac.uk. Register on http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ce/courses/enrolment/ce.shtml Birkbeck College, Russell Square tube

Saturday 3 March. 10.30 to 4.30. Art and culture of Islam. 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Saturday 3 March. 10.30 to 4.30. The Green Man. 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Saturday 3 March. 11am. Two talks. ‘Soft Links: H.D. and Nicole Brossard, twentieth century lesbian poet, novelist and essayist)' and 'H.D. and the Angelus Militans '. Room NG14 NG14, North Block, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Saturday 3 March. 2pm. New Perspectives on Newton's Theology. Detail via http://ies.sas.ac.uk, then events, then conferences. Room ST274 Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Monday 5 March. 5pm. Seminar in series: Understanding and the Aims of Science. Room 508, Roberts Building, University College London, Torringdon Place, Goodge Street tube

Monday 5 March. 5pm. British imperial networks and South Africa in the era of the South African War. International Relations Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Monday 5 March. 5.15. The Creative Partnership of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn: of Interdiction and Intellectual Rivalry. Woolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Monday 5 March. 5.15. Contacts along the late medieval silk road: West and Central Asian interchanges with the Ming, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Monday 5 March. 5pm. Lecture in Science and Technology Series. Room 508, Roberts Building, University College London, Torringdon Place, Goodge Street tube

Monday 5 March. 5.30. Adelaide d'Orleans and the July Monarchy. Pollard Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Monday 5 March. 6pm. The voyages of Europa: Ritual and trade in the eastern Mediterranean, c. 2300-1850 BC. Room G51, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Monday 5 March. 6pm. Egypt and the Bronze Age Aegean: a special relationship? Room G51, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Monday 5 March. 6pm. Slavery: the emancipation movement in Britain. Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Monday 5 March. 6.30. Brown’s Britain. Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, Economics, Temple tube

Tuesday 6 March. 9.30 to 6. Doctoral research in architecture. Detail on http:// www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/events/conferences/conferences.htm/. Room G02 and Lobby Gallery, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, Wates House, Russell Square tube.

Tuesday 6 March. 1pm. Licensing and Revalidation of Safety-critical Professions in Industry and Healthcare. Safe in their Hands? H615, Connaught House, London School of Economics, Holborn tube

Tuesday 6 March. 4pm. Experiencing near-death states through the use of chemicals. Room 309, Main Building, Goldsmiths College, New Cross Gate tube

Tuesday 6 March. 5pm. Infantry Tactics and the development of a British Assault Rifle, 1945-1952: Making the case for change. International Relations Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Tuesday 6 March. 5pm. The costs of growing inequality Professor George Irvin. Room G50, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Tuesday 6 March. 5pm. Fragrance, gardens and the self: nobles in the medieval Deccan. Room G52, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Tuesday 6 March. 5.15. Music of Japan’s Bunraku puppet theatre: a demonstration. Room LG67, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Tuesday 6 March. 5.15. South Shoreditch and the East End furniture trade 1850-1910: An industrial suburb. Ecclesiastical History Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Tuesday 6 March. 5.15. The Royal Navy and malaria, 1750-1850. Woolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Tuesday, 6 March. 5.15. Political Anthropology and the War in Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina. Room 433, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, Taviton Street, Euston Square tube

Tuesday 6 March. 5pm tea. 5.30. Inaugural in Developmental Neurobiology. Lecture Theatre 1, New Hunts House, Guys Campus, Kings College, London Bridge tube

Tuesday 6 March. 5.30. Celtic Origins, the Western and the Eastern Celts. British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, Piccadilly Circus tube

Tuesday 6 March. 5.30. Children’s Understanding of Economics. Theatre, Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Tuesday 6 March. 6pm. What do rulers do when they rule? Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Tuesday 6 March. 6pm. Detail via http://ies.sas.ac.uk, then events, then seminars. Register Jessica Dunne a few days in advance of the session. Room ST275, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Tuesday 6 March. 6.30. Will the 21st Century Be Chinese ? Old Theatre, Old Building, London School of Economics, Holborn tube

Tuesday 6 March. 7.30 reception. 8pm What do Zionists Believe? Book launch. Khalili Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 7 March. 1pm. Cyrillo-Methodian Studies at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century: Problems and Prospects. Room 535, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, Taviton Street, Euston Square tube

Wednesday 7 March. 1pm. Vivekananda and Radhakrishnan’s influence on the life and work of Juan Mascaro. Room B103, Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 7 March. 1pm. The rainbow in the 14th century: the case of Kamal al-Din. Room G52, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 7 March. 2.15. The Daimon in Astrological Technique. Warburg Institute, Goodge Street tube

Wednesday 7 March. 3pm. The Construction of Ignorance and Ethnographic Knowledge in a Colonial Context. Room G50, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 7 March. 3pm The construction of ignorance and ethnographic knowledge in a colonial context. Room G50, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 7 March . 4.45. A tale of two translations: anthropomorphic and anthropophagic strategies in the reception of Cage at Darmstadt. St Davids Room, opposite the chapel, Kings College London. Charing Cross tube.

Wednesday 7 March. Time not given. New inscriptions from Argos: the archives of the sacred treasury, 4th century BC. Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, Senate House, Russell Square tube.

Wednesday 7 March. 5pm. Safeguard policies and large scale development projects. Room G50, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 7 March. 5pm. Re-constructing women’s discources in Medieval Japan: Chujohime as religious or social outcast? Room G51, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 7 March. 5pm. Intuition in Medical and Moral Reasoning. Room 2107, Richard Hoggart Building (Main Building), Goldsmiths College, New Cross Gate tube

Wednesday 7 March. 5pm. The Grunwick Dispute and the media in the summer of 1977. Woolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 7 March. 5.15. Sir Ronald Cross, UK High Commissioner in Canberra during World War II. Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, The Australia Centre, Corner Strand and Melbourne Place, Temple tube

Wednesday 7 March. 5.15. Confession and Nation in Early Modern Central Europe: Decennial Reflections. Warburg Institute, Goodge Street tube

Wednesday 7 March. 5.30. Remembering Refugees: Then and Now. Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Annual Lecture . Room 273, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 7 March. 5.30. Germans on Society and Social Reform in Urban Britain in the Nineteenth Century. Pollard Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 7 March. 5.30. The German Occupation of Italy 1943-1945: Perceptions of Violence. International Relations Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 7 March. 5.30pm. The forgotten women in an uncertain entity: February 28 Incident Art Exhibition: sadness transformed in Formosa. Room B104 Wednesday 7 March. 6pm. Islamic Barbie: ideology, gender and performativity for a diasporic ummah. Room VG06, School of Oriental and African Studies, Kings Cross tube

Wednesday 7 March. 6pm. Japanese Concert: Bunraku Chanting and Shamisen Performance of the play Kikai ga Shima (Devils Island), an 18th-century drama set in the 12th century. Theatre, Brunei Gallery, Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 7 March, 6pm. The powers in law of the UN Security Council. Main Lecture Theatre, Faculty of Laws, University College London, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, Euston Square tube

Wednesday 7 March. 6pm. Schools and politics. Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Wednesday 7 March. 6.30. Complexities of peacebuilding: some lessons from Afghanistan, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 7 March. 6.30. Abraham Lincoln and the almost chosen people. Old Theatre, London School of Economics. Holborn tube

Wednesday 7 March. 6.30. Through UN peacekeeping in sexual economies to state consent in international law: Dissonances between Survival and Consent. Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, Economics, Temple tube

Wednesday 7 March. 6.30. Weapons of Mass Destruction, Terrorism and Human Security: a debate. Old Theatre, Old Building, London School of Economics, Holborn tube

Thursday 8 March. 4pm. Shared histories: a Palestinian-Israeli dialogue. Khalili Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 8 March. 4.15. After Fox's Libel Act: The discourse on the liberty of the press in the 1790s. Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 8 March. 5pm. The failure of international policy towards Burma. Room G51, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Thursday 8 March. 5pm. The Englishness of English architecture: modernism and the making of a national International Style, 1927-1957. Woolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 8 March. 5pm. Preachers and preaching technique in medieval and pre-modern Japan. Room G3, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Thursday 8 March. 5pm. Cash crops and freedom: export agriculture and the decline of slavery and debt bondage in colonial West Africa. Room B102, , Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Thursday 8 March. 5pm. Cross-cultural feminist criticisms in South Asia: pitfalls and strategies. Room VG01, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Thursday, 8 March. 5pm. Burma: the Failure of International Policy. Room G51, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Thursday 8 March. 5.15. Alternating Allegiances in the English Revolution. Ecclesiastical History Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square

Thursday 8 March. 5.30. When transition visits mountains: education, work and careers in Southeastern Tajikistan. Room G52, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Thursday 8 March. 5.30. The Medieval Jewish Antichrist and Hieronymus Bosch. Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 8 March. 5.30. The versions of English comedies of Nestroy, Austrian, 1801 to 1862. Room 273, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday, 8 March. 5.30. Education, Work and Careers in Southeastern Tajikistan: when Transition Visits Mountains. Room G52, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Thursday 8 March. 5.30. Annual Palaeography Lecture. Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies, Senate House Library, 4th Floor, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 8 March. 5.30. Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and the Press in the US, 1950-53. The Pollard Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 8 March. 6pm. Building science regions and cities . Register maria.negro-chacon@rsa.org.uk or 020 7451 6928. Royal Society of Arts, John Adam Street, Charing Cross tube.

Thursday 8 March. 6pm. Drugs: facing facts. Launch of the report of the RSA Commission on Illegal Drugs, Communities and Public Policy. Register Layla Theiner, RSAdrugscommission@lexcomm.co.uk or 020 7025 2327. Royal Society of Arts, John Adam Street, Charing tube

Thursday 8 March, 6pm. Mediating Civil Disputes: Judicial Policy and Mediation Behaviour. Main Lecture Theatre, Faculty of Laws, University College London, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, Euston Square tube

Thursday 8 March. 6.30. Mental Health – A New Frontier For Human Rights Protection? Old Theatre, Old Building, London School of Economics, Holborn tube

Thursday 8 March. 6.30. The Politics of Culture Talk in the Contemporary War on Terror. Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, London Schoo of Economics, Temple tube

Thursday 8 March. 7pm. Recital by three players from China to Celebrate International Women’s Day. Theatre, Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Friday 9 March. 9.30 to 6.30. English Studies: University College London annual Post graduate conference. Details to follow. Institute of English Studies, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube.

Friday 9 March. 2pm. Early inscriptions and archaic Chinese Problems of philology in dead languages; Babylonian and Ancient Mesopotamian. Register: Send an email with Historical Linguistics as the subject header to Katrina Kelsey (kk48@soas.ac.uk). Include the following information: Name, department, institutional affiliation, and the dates you will be attending. Room 116, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Friday 9 March. 3.15. Sergei Kitaev and the Japanese art collections in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow. Room B104, Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Friday 9 March. 3.30. Many Tathagataguhyakas: a web of confusion? Room G2, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Friday 9 March. 4pm. Kabarett Fledermaus: Cultural nightlife in fin-de-siecle Vienna. Room Mech Eng 311, Imperial College London, South Kensington tube

Friday 9 March. 5pm. Rubens at War. Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House. Russell Square tube

Friday 9 March. 5pm. The Religious Significance of Settlement Enclosures in the Yayoi Period in Japan. Room G3, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Friday 9 March. 5pm. Western Himalayan paintings of the 15th and 16th centurie. Room B101, Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Friday 9 March. 5pm. ‘Gli scribi ispirati’. Alcune considerazioni sui rapporti tra l’Histoire critique du Vieux Testament di Richard Simon e il Tractatus theologico-politicus di Spinoza. Warburg Institute, Goodge Street tube

Friday 9 March. 6pm. Loansharks and the limits of public service broadcasting: The 1969 Seven Days Tribunal. Room ST273, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Saturday 10 March. 10.30 to 4.30. Contemporary Muslim societies 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Saturday 10 March. 10.30 to 4.30. Pleasure and danger in the city: the fiction of Sarah Waters, born 1966. 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Saturday 10 March. 10.30 to 4.30 Music: how composers use their skills to communicate to our souls. 35 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register on http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ce/courses/enrolment/ce.shtml/. Birkbeck College, ,Russell Square tube

Saturday 10 March, 10.30 to 4.30. Music...the art of thinking with sounds. 35 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register on http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ce/courses/enrolment/ce.shtml/. Birkbeck College, 32 Tavistock Square,Russell Square tube

Saturday 10 March. 5.30. Writing the biography of Bernie Grant MP. Germany Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Monday 12 March. 1pm. Slavery - The US perspective: From the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement. Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Monday 12 March. 5.15. How Stealthy Is East European Democracy? Room 433, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 16 Taviton Street, Euston Square tube

Monday 12 March. 6pm. The human right to access to essential medicine. Register 020 7451 6868 or lectures@rsa.org.uk. Royal Society of Arts, 8 John Adam Street, Charing Cross tube

Monday 12 March. 6pm. Flora's Cabinet: The collection and display of plants in seventeenth century England. NG15, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Monday 12 March. 5pm. French political economy and the making of public opinion as a political concept (1750-1765) . Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Monday 12 March. 5pm. The personal laws of Indian Christians: exploring an imperial tradition? International Relations Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Monday 12 March. 5.30. Trade Union Poetics: Poems in The Flint-Glass Makers' Magazine over the great strike of 1858-9. Room 273, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Monday 12 March. 5.30. Eleventh century Byzantine rationality and revelation: Michael Psellos and John Italos. Room LG39, Maughan Library, Kings College London, Chancery Lane

Tuesday 13 March. 5pm. Magistracy and Insubordination in Elizabethan Ireland. International Relations Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House. Russell Square tube

Tuesday 13 March. 5pm. Marxism and the Art of Geopolitics: the Cold War photography of Paul Strand. Woolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Tuesday 13 March. 5.15. Queering apartheid: the national party's 1987 'gay rights' election campaign in Hillbrow. Room 238 (English Department Common Room), 2nd floor, Strand Building, King's College London, Charing Cross tube

Tuesday 13 March. 5.15. The Western Balkans on their Road towards European Union Integration: Union Policies. Room 433, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, Taviton Street, Euston Square tube

Tuesday 13 March. 5pm tea. 5.30. Inaugural in Cardiovascular Biology and Medicine. Lecture Theatre 1, New Hunts House, Guys Campus, Kings College, London Bridge tube

Tuesday 13 March. 5.30. Education and Gender, Inaugural Lecture. Register Matthew Grew, 020 791 7033 or m.grew@gold.ac.uk. Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, Goldsmiths College, New Cross Gate tube

Tuesday 13 March. 6pm. Entrepreneurship in Greece. J116, Cowdray House, London School of Economics, Holborn tube

Wednesday 14 March. 1.15. Human rights and peace agreements. Negotiating Justice. D302, Clement House, Economics, Temple tube

Wednesday 14 March. 2.15. Lorenzo Valla on the Authenticity of Sacred Texts. Warburg Institute, Goodge Street tube

Wednesday 14 March. 2.15 to 5.30. Latin American immigrants in the United States and Britain. Seminar Room 12, Institute for the Study of the Americas. 31 Tavistock Square. Russell Square tube

Wednesday 14 March. 3pm. Marguerite Duras's 'Hiroshima, Mon Amour'. , Room ST276, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 14 March. 3pm. Learning to Weave, Weaving to Learn. Room G50, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 14 March. 4pm. The New Wave: A Cinema in the First Person Masculine Singular. Register Stephanie Green, 020 7848 2315 or . Kings College London, Charing Cross tube

Wednesday 14 March. 4.15. Montesquieu on obligation. Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 14 March . 4.45. The early music movement: what sort of history do we need? St Davids Room, opposite the chapel, Kings College London. Charing Cross tube.

Wednesday 14 March. 5pm. Merlin the Prophet in Malorys Morte DArthur. Room 273, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 14 March. 5pm. The influence of the Boer War on Canada's response to the first world war. Menzies and Hancock Rooms, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Russell Square

Wednesday 14 March. 5.15. Bill Henson, photographer, active 1975 to 2005: in flagrante delicto. Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, The Australia Centre, Corner Strand and Melbourne Place, Temple tube

Wednesday 14 March. 5.15. New approaches to digital research on eighteenth-century London: Armadillo and the Plebeian Lives projects. Woolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 15 March. 5pm. Quality and the pressure of reputation: Re-thinking Perugino. 3rd Floor Seminar Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Wednesday, 14 March. 5.30. Anthropology is not Ethnography. To overturning the relation between observation and description will enhance anthropology's potential to engage with biology, psychology and archaeology. British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, Piccadilly Circus tube

Thursday, 15 March. 5pm. Indonesian singleton women - Bridget Jones? Some thoughts on being 'alone'. Room G51, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Thursday 15 March. 5.30. That Feminine Angle: Female Film Critics in Postwar British Cinema. International Relations Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 15 March. 5.30. Europe in the high-modern era. Thoughts on a theory of the 20th century . German Historical Institute, 17 Bloomsbury Square. Holborn tube

Thursday 15 March. 5.30. Promoting 'la Libre Pensee Internationale': Transnational Campaigning and its National Dimensions, from the 1880s to the 1930s. Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 15 March. 5.30. Europe in the high-modern era. Thoughts on a theory of the 20th century . German Historical Institute, 17 Bloomsbury Square

Thursday, 15 March. 5.30. Local Government and State-Building in Afghanistan: Failing to Change the Rules. Room G52, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Thursday 15 March. 5.30. Promoting 'la Libre Pensee Internationale': Transnational Campaigning and its National Dimensions, from the 1880s to the 1930s. Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 15 March. 5.30. Public History, memory and the slave trade. Discussion. Woolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 15 March. 5.30. The Smell of Macbeth. Ecclesiastical History Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 15 March. 5.30. London: Forging an Identity. Series: the Cultural Identity of European Cities. Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies. Room 273, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 14 March. 6pm. The psychiatry of love. Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Wednesday 14 March. 6.30. traders and technology from Chicago to London: Out of the Pits. Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, Economics, Temple tube

Wednesday 14 March. 6.30. European Union: the next 50 years. Old Theatre, Old Building, London School of Economics, Holborn tube

Thursday 15 March . 5.30. Stereotypical formulae in colophons of western manuscripts: an unsuspected source for codicology and the history of medieval culture. Detail via http://ies.sas.ac.uk, then events, then seminars. Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies, Senate House Library, 4th Floor, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 16 March. 5pm. Thomas Hyde on ancient Persian religion (1700) . Warburg Institute, Goodge Street tube

Thursday 15 March. 6pm. Lifestyle diseases: The burden of choice? Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Thursday 15 March. 6.30. What’s Wrong with the UN ? Old Theatre, Old Building, London School of Economics, Holborn tube

Friday 16 March. 5pm. Pure Land Buddhism in Europe. Room G3, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Friday 16 March. 5.30. Representation and reality in nineteenth-century views of the suburban landscape: pestilent suburban cottage or respectable villa residence? Woolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Friday 16 March. 6pm. The Iconic Symphony: ways of engaging with Symphony no 9, whether as listener or performer. David Josefowitz Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music, Baker Street tube

Friday 16 March. 6.30. Equity in Health and Health Care: lessons from an Asian comparative study. Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, London School of Economics, Temple tube

Friday 16 March. 10 to 12.45. Leisure and Pleasure in South-East Europe. Room 532, Centre for South-East European Studies, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 16 Taviton Street, Euston Square tube

Saturday 17 March. 10.30 to 4.30. The fairy faith, with special reference to the Celtic tradition. Comparisons between life histories and patterns of narrative occuring in fairy tales. 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Saturday 17 March. 10.30 to 4.30. Beckett Day: his writing. 20 pounds. Register on http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ce/courses/enrolment/ce.shtml/. Birkbeck College, ,Russell Square tube

Saturday 17 March 10.30 to 4.30. Thomas Hardy: the short stories and poems. 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Friday 17 March 2.15 and Saturday 18 March 10.30. Anglo-Saxon Futures and languages. International Workshop. Topics include Juliana, The Peterborough Chronicle, Old English Riddles, the Letter of Alexander to Aristotle, The Lindisfarne Gospels, Beowulf, and Judith: please see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/english/events/futures.html/. Register by 1 March with Clare A. Lees, Department of English on clare.lees@kcl.ac.uk/. or on http://www.kcl.ac.uk/content/1/c6/01/02/23/ASFreplyslip.doc. Council Room, Kings College London, Charing Cross tube

Monday 19 March. 9.30. Identity in the Information Society: security, privacy and the future. Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, London School of Economics, Temple tube

Monday 19 March. 1pm. Liverpool and the slave trade. Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Monday 19 March. 5pm. Contemporary Death: system, lifeworld and medical autonomy. Division of Medicine, University College London, Room G3, 22 Gordon Square Euston Square tube

Monday 19 March. 5pm. Death: system, lifeworld and medical autonomy. Room G3, University College London, 22 Gordon Square, Euston Square tube

Monday 19 March. 5pm. British Power in Malayan Towns, 1895-1935: Grass-roots Governance. International Relations Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Monday 19 March. 5.15. Why Poles Love the European Union - But Not (Necessarily) the Constitutional Treaty? Room 433, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 16 Taviton Street, Euston Square tube

Monday 19 March. 5.15. Halle the Businessman, and the Finances of a Touring Nineteenth-century Symphony Orchestra. Woolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Monday 19 March. 5.30. The myth of Byzantium in modern Greek literature and culture. Room LG39, Maughan Library, Kings College London, Chancery Lane

Monday 19 March. 6pm. The perils of too much risk-aversion: Does society risk my life through safety? Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Monday 19 to Tuesday 20 March. Mixed valency in chemistry, physics and biology. The Royal Society. Piccadilly Circus tube.

Tuesday 20 March. 5pm. The rise of British special forces in North Africa and the Middle East, September 1940 to May 1943. International Relations Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Tuesday 20 March. 5.15. The Sick and Hurt Board c.1715-1805: fit for purpose. Woolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Tuesday 20 March. 7pm. Cyborgs and cybernetics: implanting a device to link a man’s nervous system directly to a computer, and the main humane issues in robotics. Imperial College London, South Kensington tube

Wednesday 21 March. 2.15. Pliny and the Renaissance Antiquarian: ‘Partem novisse est melior quam totum ignorasse’ : the Historia Naturalis in Flavio Biondo’s Roma Instaurata. Warburg Institute, Goodge Street tube

Wednesday 21 March. 3pm. Beyond Duality: the prototype and its methodological and theoretical implications. Room G50, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 21 March. 5pm. Psycho-sciences and Selfhood in Colonial India: Governments of the Mind. Room 2.107, Main Building, Goldsmiths College, New Cross Gate tube

Wednesday 21 March. 5pm. The 1970s crisis in British housing policy. Woolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 21 March. 5.15. African American Cultural Influences in Australia: Gentle Invasion of a fleeting diaspora. Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, The Australia Centre, Corner Strand and Melbourne Place, Temple tube

Wednesday 21 March. 5.30. Biography and History. Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube Wednesday 21 March. 5.30. The Rise of the Foreign Restaurant in London, c.1870-1940. Pollard Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 21 March. 6pm. Redesigning financial regulation of pensions and other retail products. Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Wednesday 21 March. 6.30. Renoir and Renoir Beyond Biography. The National Gallery, Leicester Square tube

Wednesday 21 March. 6.30. Teaching History: The Final Lecture in a series. Register 020 7451 6868 or lectures@rsa.org.uk. Royal Society of Arts, 8 John Adam Street, Charing Cross tube

Wednesday 21 to Thursday 22 March. Alfred Doblin (1878-1957): Beyond the Alexanderplatz . Contact Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk. Room ST274/275, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 22 March. 12.30. Music and the Architecture of Daniel Libeskind, by a composer and an architect. Piano Gallery, York Gate Collections, Royal Academy of Music, Baker Street tube

Thursday 22 February. 1pm. Private Equity: the unacceptable face of capitalism ? Register www.theRSA.org/events. Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube

Thursday 22 March. 5pm. The Problem with Punch: cartoons and local difference. Woolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square

Thursday 22 March. 5.15. Enlightened Intolerance: Lancelot Addison (1632-1703), Dean of Lichfield, and the Empires of Britain and Morocco. Ecclesiastical History Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 22 March. 5.30. The Northern Roots of Henry Bolingbroke's Conquest of England, July 1399. Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 22 March. 5.30. The Reading Experience Database 1800-1945: New Directions. The mission of the database is to accumulate data about the reading experiences of British subjects from 1450 to 1945. NG15, North Block, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 22 March. 6pm. Abortion, euthanasia and human rights. I did it my way - Respect for Life. Staple Inn Hall. Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Thursday 22 March. 6pm. Public openness private privacy. Register 020 7451 6868 or lectures@rsa.org.uk. Royal Society of Arts, 8 John Adam Street, Charing Cross tube

Saturday 23 March. Hobbes and Hume on Justice: day conference. Institute of Philosophy. Room ST274 and 275, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube.

Friday 23 March. 5pm. 'Flat shadows' in Dutch art and theory, 1600-1680. Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House. Russell Square tube

Friday 23 March. 5pm. Practicing a Ritual Image in Buddhism. Room G3, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Friday 23 March. Reflections on European Integration : 50 years of the Treaty of Rome. Conference. Detail on Detail and registration http://www.uaces.org/Rome.htm. Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Westminster tube

Friday 23 March. 9.30 to 6. Graham Martin: Literature and Liberation, a one-day conference in celebration of his work. Details to be confirmed. Institute of English Studies, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube.

Saturday 24 March. 10.30 to 4.30. Post-war German cinema. 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Saturday 24 March. 10.30 to 4.30. What is happiness? 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Monday 26 March. 1pm. Slavery in the world today. Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Monday 26 March. 5pm. Espionage and Military Intelligence in the Holy Land, 1095-c.1120. Ecclesiastical History Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Monday 26 March. For time contact Mr Tim Fuller, 020 7665 2234 or tim.fuller@ice.org.uk. Construction of a 70m high concrete faced rockfill dam. Institution of Civil Engineers, 1 Great George Street. Westminster tube

Thursday 26 April. 5.30. Decline, Fall and the Barbarians. Room LG39 or the Weston Room, the Maughan Library of Kings College London in Chancery Lane

Tuesday 27 March. 5pm. Laboratories of Fashion: Retail design and the accommodation of the West End consumer 1957-1975. Woolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Tuesday 27 March. 5pm tea. 5.30. Inaugural in Womens Health. Lecture Theatre 1, New Hunts House, Guys Campus, Kings College, London Bridge tube

Tuesday 27 March. 6pm. The Gladstonian Settlement revisited: Northern Ireland and the British-Irish relationship. Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Tuesday 27 March. 6pm. The 'Yellow Peril' and the Russo-Japanese War. Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 28 March. 2pm. The archive of the grocers, Sainsbury: egg boys and gondola girls. Hidden gems from this important retail collection show how business archives can be used for research into local, family and national history. Register via http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk. Museum in Docklands, West India Quay, by Dockland Light Railway

Wednesday 28 March. 5.15. Geoff Page, poet born 1944, retired 2006, reads from his work and discusses Australian poetry, followed by launch of the first issue of Studies in Australasian Cinema. Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, The Australia Centre, Corner Strand and Melbourne Place, Temple tube

Wednesday 28 March. 6pm. Urban regeneration and public spaces. Register 020 7451 6868 or lectures@rsa.org.uk. Royal Society of Arts, 8 John Adam Street, Charing Cross tube

Thursday 29 March. 1.10. Finds from Jamestown, routine and unexpected things from London products unearthed in the colony’s early years. Free with annual Museum ticket at 5 pounds. Register via http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk. Museum in Docklands, West India Quay, by Docklands Light Railway

Thursday 29 March. 3pm. Literary Contributions to an Austrian and German Post-War Identity . Room ST276, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 29 March. 5.30. Senator McCarthy, the Cold War and the Roman Empire. International Relations Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube Friday to Saturday 30 to 31 March. The Eastern Mediterranean in the thirteenth century: identities and allegiances. Building a prosopographical methodology. 30 pounds, concessions 20 pounds. Register www.britac.ac.uk/events. Telephone enquiries: 020 7969 5246 Email: events@britac.ac.uk/. The British Academy, Piccadilly Circus tube

Thursday 29 March. 5pm. Lord Burghley and Elizabethan Maps of Lancashire. Warburg Institute, Goodge Street tube

Thursday 29 March. 6pm. Global organised crime. Register 020 7451 6868 or lectures@rsa.org.uk. Royal Society of Arts, 8 John Adam Street, Charing Cross tube

Thursday, 29 March. 6.15. Why Criminal Law? The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, Piccadilly tube

Saturday 31 March. 10 to 5. Burhs and the ninth to tenth century origins of early English towns. 35 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register on http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ce/courses/enrolment/ce.shtml/. Birkbeck College, Russell Square tube

Sunday to Wednesday 1 to 4 April. The consumer as focus in inclusive design. Include 2007, International Conference. Royal College of Art, http://www.hhrc.rca.ac.uk/programmes/include/2007/cfp/index.html calls for papers and contributions and will later take registrations. Royal College of Art. South Kensington tube.

Monday 2 April at 9 to Tuesday 3 April at 5. Depression: Brain Causes - Body Consequences. Conference. Register 020 7290 2983 or . The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, Oxford Circus tube

Wednesday 4 April. 5.15. Ockers in Adland Australia. Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, The Australia Centre, Corner Strand and Melbourne Place, Temple tube

Wednesday 4 April. 6pm. Sir Robert Moray - Soldier, scientist, spy, freemason and founder of The Royal Society. Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Midday 10 to early afternoon 13 April. Tourism: conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists. Detail http://www.theasa.org/asa07/index.html Register t.selwyn@londonmet.ac.uk. London Metropolitan University. Place, to be confirmed, Tower Building, 166-220 Holloway Road, Holloway Road tube

Thursday 12 April. 5.30. Electronic editions for everyone: changes in reading habits. Room NG14, North block, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Saturday 14 April. 2pm. Conrad Gesner's correspondence: Between the Particular and the General in a sixteenth century naturalist. Detail via http://ies.sas.ac.uk, then events, then conferences. Room ST273 Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Monday 16 April. 6pm. Donizetti and Paris. Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Tuesday 17 April. 5pm tea. 5.30. Inaugural in War Studies Great Hall, Kings College. Charing Cross tube

Tuesday 17 April. 6pm. The Oslo peace accord as a case study of international mediation, conflict management and religious fundamentalism: False Dawn? Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Tuesday to Thursday 17 to 19 April. The Dark Face of Nationalism: Violence, Extremism and the Nation. Conference. Detail http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ASEN/conference2007.htm Register asen@lse.ac.uk London School of Economics, Holborn tube

Wednesday 18 April. 5pm. Michael Foot and British history. Woolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 18 April. 6pm. The psychology of financial participants and its implications for finance. Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Wednesday 18 April. 7.15. Africa and the developing world: an evening with George Alagiah, reporter, presenter, and specialist. Register events@londonmet.ac.uk/. Graduate Centre, North campus , London Metropolitan University, Holloway Road, , Caledonian Road tube

Thursday 19 April. 12 noon. Metabolic control of T cell function in autoimmune neuroinflammation. UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, Lecture Theatre, 11-43 Bath St, Old Street tube

Thursday 19 April. 5.15. Nietzsche's Goethe: in Sickness and in Health: Room 273, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 19 April. 6pm. God's law and secular justice: 'Thus saith the Lord'. Staple Inn Hall, Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Thursday and Friday 19 and 20 April. Chaucer and Time: London Chaucer Conference 2007. Institute of English Studies, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube.

Thursday to Saturday 19 to 21 April. 9 to 5. Henry Fielding, 1707 to 1754, in our Time. Institute of English Studies, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube.

Saturday 21 April. Harriet Martineau, 1802-1876, economist and writer: day conference. Details to be confirmed. Institute of English Studies, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube.

Saturday 21 April. 10 to 5. The Archaeology of Folklore: ways in which objects and objects relate meaning. 35 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register on http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ce/courses/enrolment/ce.shtml/. Birkbeck College, ,Russell Square tube

Saturday 21 April. 2pm. Who Was Perkin Warbeck? Historical Association, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House. Russell Square tube

Saturday 21 April. 2pm. Women and Laughter, Women's Studies Group, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, Register rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk. Room 273, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Monday 23 and Tuesday 24 April. How nature uses sunlight to split water. Register https://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/events/forms/apr07_form.htm/. Free. The Royal Society. Piccadilly Circus tube.

Tuesday 24 April. 1pm. Valuing British music - Jazz futures. Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Tuesday 24 April. 2.30. Valuing British music - Jazz futures. Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Tuesday 24 April. 5pm. Particular preaching in post-Reformation England. 'A cockpit of contention'. International Relations Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House. Russell Square tube

Tuesday 24 April. 5pm. Tea. 5.30. Protein turnover: the biological basis of repair. Inaugural in Nutrition and Metabolism. Room B5, Franklin Wilkins Building, Kings College London., Waterloo tube

Tuesday 24 April. 5.15. What's so different about upland society? Continuity and change on Exmoor. Ecclesiastical History Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 25 April . 5pm. Medical Knowledge, Mentalities and Religious Stereotypes in the 16th Century, and a Monstrous Birth By a Jewess. Room to be found, Goldsmiths College, New Cross Gate tube

Wednesday 25 April. 5pm. English Studies Graduate Seminar. Room ST274, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 25 April. 6pm. Brahms the progressive; Schumann the visionary. Played by Chamber Domaine. Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Thursday 26 April. 1pm. Limits to health in the 21st century: Getting a life. Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Thursday 26 April. Time and invitation from Kirsten McIntyre at menzies.centre@kcl.ac.uk/. Living the Past: Public memories of empire in twenty-first century Britain, Great Hall, Kings College London, Charing Cross tube

Thursday 26 April. 5pm. The Parks on John Warburton’s Map of Hertfordshire (c. 1724): Surveyor or Plagiarist? Warburg Institute, Goodge Street tube

Thursday 26 April. 5.30. Decline, Fall and the Barbarians. Room LG39 or the Weston Room, Lower Ground Floor, Kings College London , Chancery Lane tube

Friday 27 April. 12pm. Educational Professional Development. Vera Anstey Room, Old Building, London School of Economics, Holborn tube

Friday 27 April. Theatre and Politics in the Austrian Second Republic . Room 273, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Friday 27 April. 4pm. Four Neuraths, two rivers and one boat: Jewish refugees and their impact on visual culture in Britain. Room Mech Eng 311, Imperial College London, South Kensington tube

Friday 27 April. 5pm. Daoism in the Meiji Period in Japan, 1868-1912. Room G3, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube

Saturday 28 April. Proms Conference. Institute of Advanced Musical Studies. St Davids Room, opposite the chapel. Kings College London, Charing Cross tube.

Saturday 28 April. 10.30 to 4.30. Chinese philosophy. 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Saturday 28 April. 10.30 to 4.30. The fourth crusade: clash of East and West. 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Wednesday 2 May. 1pm. The new constitution of Britain. Register. Allen and Overy, Canary Wharf

Wednesday 2 May. 5pm. The tragedy of parliamentary socialism after 1945. Woolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 3 May. 5.30. The role of the slate in nineteenth century English education. Germany Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 3 May. 5.30. 'But is it Gay?' Kissing and Love in Eighteenth-Century Germany. Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies. Room 273, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 3 May. 6.30. Vietnam and the American dream from Saigon to Baghdad. Old Theatre, London School of Economics. Holborn tube

Friday 4 May. 5pm. Educating orphans: science, technology and economic reform in the 18th-century Netherlands. Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Saturday 5 May. 10.30 to 4.30. Love, nostalgia and exile in Dante's Purgatorio part 2. 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Saturday 5 May. 11am. 'Modernism at Home'. NG14, North Block, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Saturday 5 May. 2pm. The Information Order of Newtonianism. Detail via http://ies.sas.ac.uk, then events, then conferences. Room ST273 Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Tuesday 8 May. Utopia, the idea and the philosophy. Register on http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event_booking.asp?PageId=59andEventId=594andEventURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Egresham%2Eac%2Euk%2Fevent%2Easp%3FPageId%3D45%26EventId%3D594. Detail to follow. Free family conference run with the Warburg Institute and the Institute of Philosophy, University of London. Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Tuesday 8 May. 1pm. Peaceful rise: a discourse on China. Shaw Library

Tuesday 8 May. 5pm. The Reform of the Early Stuart Church and Sir Benjamin Rudyerd. International Relations Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House. Russell Square tube

Tuesday 8 May. 5.15. Sir Thomas Smith's decorative painting at Hill Hall, Essex 1568-69: local achievement - international aspiration. Ecclesiastical History Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Tuesday 8 May. 8pm. The Marriage of Philip and Mary: the Life and Afterlife of a Historical Relationship. Historical Association North London. Jublilee Hall, Parsonage Lane, Enfield. Train from Kings Cross to Enfield Town

Wednesday 9 May. 1pm. Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), the Mozart of mathematics. Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Wednesday 9 May. 4pm. Friends of Germanic Studies at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, Annual Meeting. Details to be announced: Contact Jane.Lewin@sas.ac.uk. Room 273, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 9 May . 5pm. A Preliminary History of Sentience in Southern Africa: pain and laughter. Room to be found, Goldsmiths College, New Cross Gate tube

Thursday 10 May. 3pm. An Austrian and German Post-War Identity: Literary Contributions. Details to be announced: contact: godela.weiss-sussex@sas.ac.uk. Room ST276, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 10 May. 5.15. August Wilhelm Iffland, German actor and dramatic author, 1759 to 1814: Acting and Autobiography. Room 273, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 10 May. (To be confirmed). Behind-the-Scenes @ Environmental Engineering. Imperial College is in the forefront of development of environmental policies. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Skempton Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington tube

Thursday 10 May and Friday 11 May. Eminent Europeans' conference. Films Studies Department. Further information soon. King’s College London, Charing Cross tube

Friday 11 May. 4pm. Italian Cinema during the Second World War. Room Mech Eng 311, Imperial College London, South Kensington tube

Friday 11 May. 6pm. Hans Sahl, critic in Germany, France, and the USA, 1902-1993: The Exile Writer as Mediator. Room 273, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Friday and Saturday 11 and 12 May. Self and other in philosophy and neuroscience: conference. Institute of Philosophy. Room ST274 and 275, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube.

Saturday 12 May. Magical Thinking day conference. Magical thinking is a kind of non-scientific causal reasoning. Details to be confirmed. Institute of English Studies, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube.

Saturday 12 May, 10 to 5. The Archaeology of Death: Bodies Burials, Beliefs, practical aspects, social and ethical issues, and implications of excavating bodies. 35 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register on http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ce/courses/enrolment/ce.shtml/. Birkbeck College, ,Russell Square tube

Saturday 12 May, 10.30 to 4.30. The Genius of Nielsen, Danish Composer 1865-1931. 35 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register on http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ce/courses/enrolment/ce.shtml/. Birkbeck College, 32 Tavistock Square,Russell Square tube

Saturday 12 May. 10.30 to 4.30. Love, nostalgia and exile in Dante's Purgatorio part 4. 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Wednesday 13 to Saturday 16 June. Giordano Bruno: Seminar. Information Centro Internazionale di Studi Bruniani at segreteria@giordanobruno.it. Warburg Institute, Goodge Street tube

Monday 14 May. 5pm. Dirigisme, dialogue or disorder? Regulating the French textile industry, 1700-25. Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Tuesday 14 May. 6pm. Renaissance sculptors as collectors. NG15, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Monday 14 May. 6pm. Photography: Theory, Practice and Debate . Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, Room ST274/275, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Monday 14 May. 6pm. Verdi and Milan. Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Tuesday 15 May. 6pm. Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen and Anglo-Turkish relations during WWII. Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Friday 15 to Saturday 16 June. Continuities and disruptions between the middle ages. Information Jacqueline Hamesse, jacquelinehamesse@yahoo.fr. Warburg Institute, Goodge Street tube

Wednesday 16 May. 1pm. Mental health and illness: nature and nurture. Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Wednesday 16 May. 5pm. The Design Council and industrial design since 1945. Woolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 17 May. 5pm. Nursery Instruction: Cartographical Novelties for Georgian and Victorian Children. Warburg Institute, Goodge Street tube

Thursday 17 May. 5.30. The Smell of Jewish Meat During Lent: A Case from Sixteenth-Century Italy. Ecclesiastical History Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday and Friday 17 and 18 May. German-Jewish Women Writers 1900-1933. Detail godela.weiss-sussex@sas.ac.uk. Room ST274/275 Stewart House, near Senate House. Russell Square tube

Thursday 17 to Friday 18 May. 9.30 to 6. Rethinking Canadian History (title to be confirmed). 17 May in Seminar Room 12, Institute for the Study of the Americas. 31 Tavistock Square. Russell Square tube 18 May in Canada House, Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross tube

Friday 18 May. 5pm. Enlightenment and education: revolution in Holland seen through the eyes of a child, 1791-1797. Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Saturday 19 May. 10.30 to 4.30. The genius of Tennesse Williams. 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Saturday 19 May. 10.30 to 4.30. Daily life in Ancient Egypt. 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Saturday 19 May. 2pm. Somerset Maugham and Anthony Burgess in Colonial Malaya. Historical Association, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House. Russell Square tube

Monday 21 May. 5pm. "Gentilshommes simplement": the Burgundian sword nobility in the eighteenth century. Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Monday 21 to Tuesday 22 May. Carbon-based electronics: fundamentals and device applications. The Royal Society. Piccadilly Circus tube.

Tuesday 22 May. 5.15. The development of the port of Sunderland, ferry, bridge and harbour. Ecclesiastical History Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 23 May. 3pm. 'Draussen vor der Tuer' by Wolfgang Borchert, 1921 to 1947. ST276, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 23 May . 5pm. Towards a History of Death in Africa. Room 2107, Richard Hoggart Building (Main Building), Goldsmiths College, New Cross Gate tube

Wednesday 23 May. 6pm. The Moslem minority, the Great Powers and the end of Ottoman power in Crete, 1888-1913. Council Room, Kings College London, Charing Cross tube

Thursday 24 May. 5.30. Diminished Rationality in the Middle Ages. Room LG39 or the Weston Room, Lower Ground Floor, Kings College London , Chancery Lane tube

Thursday and Friday 24 and 25 May. The Islamic Book conference. Details to be confirmed. Institute of English Studies, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube.

Friday 25 May. 4pm. The Free German League of Culture: an organisation in wartime Britain. Room Mech Eng 311, Imperial College London, South Kensington tube

Saturday 26 May. 10 to 5. African Archaeology, focusing on later periods of prehistory in sub-Saharan Africa. 35 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register on http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ce/courses/enrolment/ce.shtml/. Birkbeck College, Russell Square tube

Saturday 26 May. 10.30 to 4.30. Aristophanes: the politics of comedy. 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Saturday 26 May. 10.30 to 4.30. Philosophy and the Ancient Greeks: Aristotle. 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. CityLit, Holborn tube

Tuesday 29 May 5pm (to be confirmed) The Fortification of Flushing and Great Power-Small Power Relations before 1914: Conflicting Interests of Powerful Neighbours. Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Tuesday 29 May. 6pm. The new constitution of Britain. Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Wednesday 30 May. 5pm. The death of David Oluwale: a Leeds story of racial politics in 1969. Woolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 31 May. The Hanseatic League of medieval guilds and cities on the Baltic and in most of northern Europe. Detail to follow. Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Thursday 31 May. 5.30. Controlling the Butchers in Late Medieval English Towns. Ecclesiastical History Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Saturday 2 June. 10.30 to 4.30.. Medieval medicine: spells, charms and wortcraft. 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Saturday 2 June. 10.30 to 4.30. Modern China. 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Saturday 2 June. 2pm. The Doctor and the Witches: Bartholomaeus Carrichters "On the Healing of Magical Illnesses" (1551). Detail via http://ies.sas.ac.uk, then events, then conferences. Room ST273, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Monday 4 June. 5pm. The Inquisition and the Index in sixteenth-century Venice. Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Tuesday 5 June. 5pm. Witchcraft, politics and religion in 17th century England: the case of Anne Bodenham. International Relations Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House. Russell Square tube

Tuesday 5 June. 5.15. Gardens, parks and conceptions of landscape in England at the end of the Middle Ages: Artificial compositions. Ecclesiastical History Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Wednesday 6 June . 5pm. Jacob Boehme, 1575-1624, Christian Gnostic of Goerlitz, Influence on Early Modern Medical Thought in Curing and Healing Decayed Nature. Room 2107, Richard Hoggart Building (Main Building), Goldsmiths College, New Cross Gate tube

Thursday 7 June. 5pm. The Baby Ivies: preschools and privilege in the USA. Germany Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday to Friday 7 to 8 June. Austrian Literature. 4th International Postgraduate Workshop on Current Research. Contact: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk Room 273, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Friday 8 June. Literary Tourism day conference, Details to be confirmed. Institute of English Studies, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube.

Friday 8 June. 4pm. Localisation. Room Mech Eng 311, Imperial College London, South Kensington tube

Saturday 9 June. Children's Literature day conference. Details to be confirmed. Institute of English Studies, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube.

Saturday 9 June. 10.30 to 4.30. Ancient robberies of pharoahs' tombs. 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Saturday 9 June. 10.30 to 4.30. Canals and parks of Regency London 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Saturday 9 June. 10.30 to 4.30. Aztecs: life and death. 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Saturday 9 June. 2pm. Greek Women: Four lectures. 2pm. Gender and the Divine. Whats this? A girl in armour? The sexuality of Athena, and Fair-ankled Hebe: Youth and the female in the cult of Herakles. 3.40 AGM. 4.10. tea. 4.30. Constructs of the Feminine. on rape and Menander - title to be confirmed and the feminine delights of pantomime dancing, Playing at being a Woman on the imperial stage: 6pm: Drinks Reception. Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, Senate House, Russell Square tube.

Monday 11 June. 6pm. Puccini and New York. Gresham College, between Holborn, Furnival Street and Fetter Lane, reached via exit 3 of Chancery Lane tube

Tuesday 12 June. 6pm What Americans really mean by freedom. Old Theatre, London School of Economics. Holborn tube

Tuesday 12 June. 6pm. Chile and the Cold War. Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday 14 June. 3pm. An Austrian and German Post-War Identity: Literary Contributions. Details to be announced: contact: godela.weiss-sussex@sas.ac.uk. Room ST276, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Thursday and Friday 14 and 15 June. Pretence, conference in philosophy with Mind and Language. Institute of Philosophy. Room ST274 and 275, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube.

Thursday and Friday 14 and 15 June. Tilsit and the Baltic in 1807: Copenhagen – Warsaw – Sveaborg. International conference. Register Administrator for Scandinavian Studies, Ms Karin Charles, k.charles@ucl.ac.uk or 020 7679 7176. School of Slavonic and East European Studies , University College London, 16 Taviton Street, Euston Square tube

Friday and Saturday 15 and 16 June. 9.30 to 6pm. London Old and Middle English Research Seminar Annual Conference. Friday. Irishness(es) and Middle English Literary Culture. Saturday. Cornishness(es) and Middle English Literary Culture. Institute of English Studies, NG14 & NG15, Senate House, Russell Square tube.

Saturday 16 June. 10 to 5. Psychology of Terrorism. 35 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register on http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ce/courses/enrolment/ce.shtml/. Birkbeck College, Russell Square tube

Saturday 16 June. 10.30 to 4.30. Latin America’s globalisation and development 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Saturday 16 June. 10.30 to 4.30. Joseph Conrad: an introduction. 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Monday 18 to Tuesday 19 June. The evolution of the animals: a Linnean tercentenary celebration. The Royal Society. Piccadilly Circus tube.

Monday to Wednesday 18 to 20 June. The Call of the Homeland: Diaspora Nationalisms, Past and Present. Conference. Admission free. Register uclhvtm@ucl.ac.uk or 020 7679 3520. Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London, Russell Square tube

Monday to Friday 18 to 22 June. Manuscript Studies Summer School. Institute of English Studies, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube.

Friday 29 to Saturday 30 June. Observation in early modern letters, 1500 to 1650. Information, Dirk van Miert e-mail: dirk.vanmiert@sas.ac.uk. Warburg Institute, Goodge Street tube

Saturday 23 June. 10 to 5. Archaeology and Ritual. 35 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register on http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ce/courses/enrolment/ce.shtml/. Birkbeck College, ,Russell Square tube

Saturday 30 June. 10.30 to 4.30. Return of the western: riding back to new frontiers. 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Monday to Tuesday 2 to 3 July. Words, Notes, and the Nineteenth Century. How texts refer to music, how texts and music relate, and how study of different languages, genres or cultural contexts can help explore the two. Detail on http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Music/Golden-pages/Conferences/07-7-wnn.html/. Programme ready January 2007. Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk. Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, Room ST274/275, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Monday to Thursday 2 to 5 July. Comparative Literature, International Conference on folly, madness and delerium. Register 020 79197453 or folly@gold.ac.uk. Goldsmiths College, New Cross Gate tube

Tuesday to Wednesday 3 to 11 July. Classics: London Summer School. Closing date for applications 1 June 2007. Information on arrangements for 2007 will be available in January, but please consult the detail for the 2006 Summer School, http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/classics/news.html. Programme http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/hrc/making/makingprog.pdf. University College London. Euston Square tube

Wednesday to Friday 4 to 6 July. Identities in history, national, regional and personal. Anglo-American history conference. Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube.

Thursday and Friday 5 and 6 July. 9 to 5. The Poetry of Robert Graves. Institute of English Studies, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube.

Tuesday 10 July to Wednesday 18 July. Classics. The London Summer School. Details on the programme and application information will be published early in 2007. The closing date for applications will be 1 June 2007. University College London, Euston Square tube

Saturday 15 July. 10.30 to 4.30. Satres existentialism: roads to freedom. 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Saturday 15 July. 10.30 to 4.30. The art of Stanley Kubrick: exploring film. 26 pounds, concessions 15 pounds. Register 020 7831 7831, with course code taken from www.citylit.ac.uk/courses.php/, then under subject Humanities, then under start Sat day. City Lit, Keeley Street, Holborn tube

Monday to Saturday 30 July to 4 August. 10.15 to 6.15. International Society of Anglo-Saxonists. Institute of English Studies, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube. Saturday 22 September. The Fantastic in French writing since 1980. Contact: rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk. Room ST274/275, Stewart House, Senate House, Russell Square tube

Monday 24 to Tuesday 25 September. Networks, their modelling and control: Discussion Meeting. The Royal Society. Piccadilly Circus tube.

Sunday 30 September and Monday 1 October 2007, King Henry III of England: 800th anniversary of his birth. David Carpenter david.carpenter@kcl.ac.uk for news. King's College London. Charing Cross tube

Tuesday 16 to Wednesday 17 October. The neurobiology of violence: implications for prevention and treatment. The Royal Society. Piccadilly Circus tube.

Monday 3 to Tuesday 4 December. Titan: atmosphere and space environment. The Royal Society. Piccadilly Circus tube.


The following central London places have events or diary web pages with lists of public lectures -- not all of them updated. 
* AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures 
* AHRB Centre for evolutionary analysis of cultural behaviour 
* Archaelogical institutes supported by the British Academy 
Bartlett School 
BCCB Board Room, 1 Westminister Palace Gardens, Artillery Row.  
* British Academy 
British Association Natural Science Week 
British Friends of Peace now
* British Jewish Women 
* British Museum 
* British Yemeni Society 
*City Literary Institute 
*City Circle
* City University 
* Courtauld Institute
* Geological Society 
* Greenwich University 
* Gresham's College 
* Guildhall of the City of London 
* Historical Association 
* House of Commons Select Committees 
* House of Lords Select Committees 
* Imperial College 
* Imperial College Humanities Research Seminars 
* Institute of Advanced Legal Studies 
* Institute of Child Health 
* Institute of Civil Engineers 
* Institute of Classical Studies 
* Institute of Electrical Engineers 
* Institute of English Studies 
* Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies 
* Institute of Historical Research. The largest open access history collection in the world, open very long hours. Friends can attend any lecture, not just a few, and use the comfortable tea room. Cost 25 pounds a year: please direct inquiries to morgane.lhote@sas.ac.uk 
* Institute for the Study of the Americas 
* Iran Society 
* Kings College 
* London Business School 
* London Metropolitan University (then choose 'News and Events,' then 'Forthcoming Events') 
* London Middle East Institute 
The London School of Economics 
LSE daily list http://www.lse.ac.uk/events/Dailylist/Dailylist/today___2/0.htm
* LSE Cold War Studies Centre 
* LSE Department of Economics 
* LSE Department of Information Studies 
* LSE Mannheim School 
* London Socialist Historians 
* Middlesex University 
* National Portrait Gallery 
* Nehru Centre 
* Palestine Exploration Fund 
* Royal African Society 
* The Royal Society 
* The Royal Society of Arts 
* Royal United Services Institute 
* St Ethelburga's Bishopsgate (then, "Coming Events") 
* St Mary le Bow church 
* School of Oriental and African Studies 
* Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 
* University College London 
* University College Hebrew and Jewish Studies 
* University College, School of Slavonic and East European Studies 
* Victoria and Albert Museum 
* Warburg Institute 
* Westminster Abbey 
* Wiener Library
Other places may list public lectures on departmental or seminar pages: the School of Slavonic and East European Studies is an example. 
Some societies give webcasts of all lectures. These include Gresham College, the Royal Society, and the Royal Society of Arts. 
Lunches with service at table are served on weekdays from twelve to two,

  • in the dining room of the School of Oriental and African Studies. Go to basement level and the dining room is straight ahead. Suitable for Warburg, SOAS, SSEESS and Institute of Education lectures. The restaurant now offers no tap water.

  • in the upper central refectory in the main building of University College London. Suitable for UCL and Wellcome Institute lectures.

    There are good self-service restaurants for lunch at MacMillans, ground floor, Senate House (suitable for Senate House, SSEESS, and the British Museum), and for lunch and supper (to 7.30) in the Senior Common Room, fifth floor, Birkbeck College (suitable for Wellcome Institute, UCL, Warburg, Institute of Education, SOAS, SSEES, and other Senate House lectures).

    This update posted February 24, 2007.


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