CRASSH

The theme of war in paintings like Twombly's Fifty Days at Iliam reveals how martial art becomes polemical in making the destructiveness of the past visible to contemporary viewers.

Professor Simon Goldhill responds, comparing Twombly's classicism with that of another modern artist, Andy Warhol.

In this year's Balzan-Skinner Lecture, Dr Joel Isaac (Queen Mary, University of London) discusses the analytic tradition of philosophy in the United States. The lecture will be followed by a colloquium on Friday 6 May 2011.

Ms Lily Ford (London Consortium): Views from the Air, Viewed in the Archive.

Covert Cultures: Art and the Secret State, 1911-1989

Dr David Hendy (University of Westminster): Radio, Mind-Control & Air War in the Early Twentieth-Century Britain

Covert Cultures: Art and the Secret State, 1911-1989

A colloquium with Cathy Caruth (Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Emory University). Professor Caruth will be talking about her paper Lying and History. This follows her lecture at CRASSH on Thursday 10 March.

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A colloquium with Cathy Caruth (Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Emory University). Professor Caruth will be talking about her paper Lying and History. This follows her lecture at CRASSH on Thursday 10 March.

This is Part 1 or 2

A lecture by Cathy Caruth (Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Emory University) in which she discusses Derrida's 'Archive Fever', Freud, and Jensen's 'Gradiva'.

The lecture will be followed by a colloquium on Friday 11 March in which Professor Caruth will be talking about her work.

Thomas W. Laqueur: Human Rights Pedagogy and the Politics of Humanitarianism

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.