CRASSH

Professor Prasenjit Duara (National University of Singapore), 'Translating Religion and Secularism in China', a lecture in association with the AHRC China Network.

Professor Jay Winter (History, Yale University) 'Moving Images: From Silent Film to Film Silences in War Films, 1914-2009'. Keynote lecture at CRASSH conference 'The Moving Image' (26-27 February, 2010). This paper explores the long history of representation of war in film, from the Great War to the present. It suggests first that silent film provided a form of public séance in an era when spiritualism was at its apogee, and secondly, that it is the silences in later 'talkies' which enable us to see how cinematic mourning practices work.

Professor Veit Erlmann (Butler School of Music, University of Texas at Austin), 'The Physiologist at the Opera: Claude Perrault and the Politics of Pleasure in the Ancien Régime'. Professor Erlmann was speaking to the Mellon-funded seminar series 'Music and Society' as a Mellon Invited Fellow (22, February 2010).

A dance performance by Tzo Zen Ang and Sandy Kwok choreographed by Jennifer Hersch with music by Ruth Boswell. This piece explores the madness which can arise when beauty and pain cannot be assimilated in the psyche as a woman finds herself on the edge between love and loss. The performance was part of the CRASSH conference, 'Pain in Performance and 'Moving Beauty'' (21-22 May, 2010).

A dance performance by Tzo Zen Ang, Saba Hinrichs and Jennifer Hersch, choreographed by Lise Smith. The performance was part of the CRASSH conference, 'Pain in Performance and 'Moving Beauty'' (21-22 May, 2010).

Dr Havi Carel (Philosophy, University of the West England), 'Subjective Wellbeing and Objective Health'. Keynote lecture at the Health and Welfare Group Annual Symposium at CRASSH (16 June 2010).

Lines from a verse-letter by John Keats, set to music by Jeremy Thurlow. Performers: Gwylim Bowen (tenor), Misha Mulloy-Abbado (horn), Jeremy Thurlow (piano). The performance was part of the CRASSH conference, 'Pain in Performance and 'Moving Beauty'' (21-22 May, 2010).

A performance by Jeremy Hardingham with Lucy Beynon and Lisa Jeschke in Berlin. The performance was part of the CRASSH conference, 'Pain in Performance and 'Moving Beauty'' (21-22 May, 2010).

An event co-organised by the Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CG+HR), Cambridge, The Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA) and CRASSH, in which refugee academics shared their experiences confronting professional and personal threats in their native countries along with the challenges of settling and working in the UK.

Professor David Spiegelhalter re-caps on the scope of the year-long Mellon Sawyer sponsored seminar series Modelling Futures and looks towards the Series-concluding international conference in September 2010.