All CRASSH events


2007-01-30 17:00: Alternative spatialities for a global city (Doreen Massey (Geography; The Open University))

2007-02-13 17:15: Title to be confirmed (Mette Ramsgard Thomsen (Centre for Information Technology and Architecture; Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen))

2007-02-27 17:15: Kierkegaard & Copenhagen: From Genius in a Market-Town or Philosopher-Flâneur (George Pattison (Theology; University of Oxford))

2007-03-13 17:15: Title to be confirmed (Mirjam Struppek (Urban Media Research; Berlin))

2007-10-16 17:00: The Magic of the Corner: Getting Lost with Walter Benjamin (Alex Regier, Research Fellow, King's College Cambridge)

2007-10-22 17:00: Klaatu barada nikto - Climate Change and other acts of Imagination (Caspar Henderson, Author and Journalist)

2007-10-30 17:00: The Global Conservation Crisis (Anthony M Tung, author of 'Preserving the World's Great Cities: The Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis')

2007-11-05 17:00: What is a Climate Refugee? (Deborah Staines, Macquarie University and CRASSH Visiting Fellow)

2007-11-13 17:00: TBC (Dalibor Vesely, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge)

2007-11-19 17:00: ICT and Climate Change (Molly Webb, The Climate Group)

2007-11-27 17:00: Conflict and recovery: archaeology and planning in post-war Beirut (Dominic Perring, Director, Centre for Applied Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London)

2007-12-03 17:00: Climate of Fear or Fear of Climate? 'Lines of Defence' on the East Coast of England (Bettina Furnee, www.ifever.org.uk and 2008 UL Artist-in-Residence)

2008-01-28 17:00: Imaging the Arctic (Nick Cobbing, www.nickcobbing.co.uk)

2008-02-11 17:00: The Political Aesthetics of Climate Change (Kathryn Yusoff, University of Exeter)

2008-02-22 10:00: Sound and the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Janet Cardiff, Eric Clarke, Michael Bull, Graham Jeffrey, Jacob Kreutzfeldt, Juliana Hodkinson, Robin Rimbaud/Scanner)

2008-02-25 15:00: Le Corbusier: Ecology and Sustainable Development (Dr Emma Dummett (Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh))

2008-02-25 17:00: "Serious Things": On Literature and Environmentalism (Gregory Norminton)

2008-03-10 17:00: The Bounding Main: On Poetry and Frost (Melanie Challenger, award-winning poet and writer)

2008-04-28 17:00: Climate Refugees: Destabilising an Unstable World (Norman Myers, University of Oxford)

2008-05-12 17:00: The Ecological Thought (Timothy Morton, UC-Davis)

2008-05-19 17:00: The Disjointed Temporality of Climate Change (Karen Pinkus, USC)

2008-10-17 16:00: Kyoto 2: A New Future for Energy Policy (Oliver Tickell, author of "Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse")

2008-11-11 17:00: Listening in Place (Dr Katharine Norman, City University)

2008-11-20 19:00: The Climate Crunch: Ethics, Ecology and the End of Civilisation (Dr Michael Northcott, Divinity, University of Edinburgh)

2008-11-25 17:00: Film Screening and Discussion: "The Happening" (2008) (Benjamin Morris and Bradon Smith (University of Cambridge))

2008-12-11 17:45: Still in the Aftermath of Waterloo (Margaret Miles, American School of Classical Studies, Athens; UC Irvine)

2008-12-12 09:00: Culture Wars: Heritage and Armed Conflict in the 21st century (Abbas Alhussainy, Michael Barry, Reinhard Bernbeck, Patrick Boylan et al)

2009-01-27 17:00: The Cultures of Climate Change: Reading Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-02-10 17:00: The Cultures of Climate Change: Max Boykoff (ECI, Oxford) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-03-26 16:30: Introducing "Zomia": Site of the Last Great Enclosure Movement of (relatively) Stateless Peoples in Mountainous Southeast Asia (James Scott (Political Science, Yale))

2009-03-26 19:30: Screening of: 'Terlena: the Breaking of a Nation' (2004) (Andre Vltchek (Filmmaker and Political Commentator))

2009-03-27 16:30: Cosmic Centers and the Subject of the 21st Century (Shelly Errington (Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz))

2009-05-26 17:00: The Economic Downturn and the Carbon Economy (Seb Henbest, New Carbon Finance)

2009-10-15 17:00:  José Scheinkman, 'Speculation and Bubbles' ( José Scheinkman)

2010-01-21 17:00: Sir Michael Rawlins - Keynote Lecture (Sir Michael Rawlins (National Institute of Clinical Excellence))