CRASSH

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The Moving Image: Re-configuring Spaces of Loss and Mourning in the 21st Century (26-27 February 2010).

Dr Heather Webb (French and Italian, Ohio) and Dr Florian Mussgnug (Italian, UCL), preview their CRASSH conference 'Apocalissi: Eschatological Imagination in Italian Culture from Dante to the Present' (9-10 October 2009).

Harald Wydra: Understanding New Wars (Conference trailer)

Understanding New Wars (12-13 February 2010).

Dr Saad Eskander (Director, Iraq National Library, Baghdad), 'Iraq National Library and Archives in Transition: Old Tasks and New Responsibilities'. This lecture was part of the Postcolonial Empires Grad/Fac group (October 2009).

James Elkins: 'The Variable Relation of Photography and Science'

Professor James Elkins (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), 'The Variable Relation of Photography and Science'. Professor Elkins was delivering the keynote address for the conference 'William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography' (CRASSH, Cambridge, 24-26 June, 2010).

Hannah Dawson: The normativity of nature in early-modern thought

The Balzan-Skinner inaugural lecturer by Dr Hannah Dawson of the University of Edinburgh, the theme is the normativity of nature. Examining the relationship between nature and morality in early enlightenment thought

Chaired Debate: Is Building Bigger and 'Better' Climate Change Models a Poor Investment? Jonathan Rougier (University of Bristol) and Tim Palmer (University of Oxford)

Deliberating new media: creating alternative politics in the Middle East and Africa?

The New Media / Alternative Politics conference on 14-16 October debated the relationship between communication technologies and political change in the Middle East and Africa. Amy Saunderson-Meyer, from FreedomFone in Zimbabwe, Herman Wasserman of Rhodes University and Firoze Manji, editor of Pambazuka News joined this panel discussion at the opening session.

Chris Gregory: On Money, Debt and Morality: Before Smith, Smith, After Smith

Debt Conference

Keynote Address

Introduced by Dame Marilyn Strathern

Chris Gregory (The Australian National University):

On money, debt and morality: Before Smith, Smith, After Smith