On Friday 4th December 2015 there will be a showing and discussion of the corruption and conflict in Seven Days in May, led by Warwick University PhD student and film historian Hannah Graves and hosted by Institute of Advanced Studies Junior Research Fellow Ellen Filor. Written by The Twilight Zone's Rod Serling and starring some of the foremost actors of the era (Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster and Fredric March), this film follows an attempted military coup to overthrow the American president because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty. Pederson-Graves will unpick the Cold War paranoia of the era and show how outside events impacted its reception by examining how Kennedy's assassination shortly before the release led to a new strategy for the premiere.

 

In the 1970s academics at Warwick were involved in bringing persecuted colleagues out of Pinochet's Chile. The Warwick Humanities Research Centre is hosting a session at 5pm on Monday 16th November 2015 in the Helen Martin Studio of the Warwick Arts Centre that will re-unite Alan Phillips, General Secretary of the World University Service, Catalina Palmer who came to the UK from Chile, and John King, Emeritus Professor of Latin American Literature, to talk about Warwick's role in this endeavour. To book your attendance at the session, please complete the online booking form.

 

Warwick History Department graduate student Anna Bruzzone will deliver a lecture on 21st May 2015 in Nairobe as part of the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) Nairobi Seminar Series, entitled 'The making of the Somalia-Kenya borderlands: boundary politics, trade and the emergence of colonial regimes of territorialisation (1925-1930)'.

Professor David Anderson will present his paper, Military Madness? Co-Option, Coercion, and Counter-Insurgency in the (Re)Making of Kenya, 2008-2014, at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) seminar:

Revisiting the Politics of State Survival: Violence, Legitimacy and Governance in the Greater Horn of Africa
Thursday, 8 May 2014
2.00pm-7.30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony’s College, Oxford

Friday 30 April, University of Manchester, University Place Rm. 6.207

Stefan Boness (IPON Photography, Berlin) presents his reportage series Frozen City and Asmarinos, exploring Fascist colonial architecture of the 1930s and its legacies in contemporary Asmara, Eritrea. Roberta Cremoncini (Director, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London) considers how artworks such as those presented by Stefan Boness might be displayed in the museum context, drawing on case studies of previous exhibitions. Derek Duncan (Professor of Italian Cultural Studies, University of Bristol) responds to the work of Stefan Boness with a discussion of cultural memory and amnesia. This seminar is free of charge and open to all.

For directions please visit: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/visitors/travel/maps/ University Place is building no. 37 on the Campus Map. For further information, please contact: francesca.billiani@manchester.ac.uk or lara.pucci@nottingham.ac.uk.

 

Centre for Russian & East European Studies, University of Birmingham, Muirhead Tower, Rm.113. February 3 2010, 5pm.

Speaker: Robert Service (St Antony’s College, Oxford), 'Trotsky and the Bolshevik Revolutionary Project: Who Betrayed What?'.

Refreshments will provided for a small charge. To assist with catering arrangements, please send a message in advance to Rosalind Lucas r.m.lucas@warwick.ac.uk at Warwick's Institute for Advanced Study if you plan to attend.

7 December 2009, 17:30,  Rothley Court Hotel, Rothley, Leicestershire, LE7 7LG (Wilberforce Rm)

To mark the 150th anniversary of the death of Thomas Babington Macaulay, Prof. Catherine Hall will present a critical reassessment of Macaulay at his birthplace, Rothley Temple, Leicestershire. For more information please download the poster here.

N.B. As seating is limited please book beforehand with Natalie Martin Csig@lboro.ac.uk. For further information please email Csig@lboro.ac.uk, or Dr. Robert Knight R.G.Knight@lboro.ac.uk.

5 November, 18:30, The British Museum, Stevenson Lecture Theatre £5, £3

Guardian columnist Madeline Bunting will discuss her new book The plot: a biography of an English Acre, with JD Hill of the British Museum. In the book Bunting investigates the human need to be connected to a place and how humans shape the land on which they live.

Book tickets through British Museum Ticket Desk: 020 7323 8181 or tickets@britishmuseum.org