Events archive

Description: Professor Brad Epps (University of Cambridge) will give a paper titled 'Looping the Loop: The African Vector in Hispanic Trans-Atlantic Studies'.

Description: Foxconn, a Taiwanese-owned firm, is the world's largest electronics contract manufacturer and best known for the harsh working conditions at its mainland Chinese factories. In addition to its 32 factories in mainland China, Foxconn's has more than 200 subsidiaries around the world. Based on fieldwork in Eastern Europe, where Foxconn located its European assembly plants, this talk will examine firm's internationalization, namely the process by which the firm expands and subsequently organizes its operations in its overseas branch plants. The speaker for this event will be Dr Rutvica Andrijasevic (University of Bristol).

Description: THE ANTIBIOTIC ERA: REFORM, RESISTANCE, AND THE PURSUIT OF A RATIONAL THERAPEUTICS - Professor Scott Podolsky, Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard University, examines seven decades of reformers who have attempted to change how antibiotics are developed, marketed and prescribed. To be followed by a drinks reception. All are welcome to attend. There is no need to reserve a place

Description: The aim of this one-day workshop is to explore the nature of the (fractured) commitments to, and/or rejection of, secular humanist values on the part of Primo Levi and Jean Améry. Supported by the Centre for Enlightenment Studies at King's and the Departments of Theology and Religious Studies, Comparative Literature, and English.

Description: The aim of this one-day workshop is to explore the nature of the (fractured) commitments to, and/or rejection of, secular humanist values on the part of Primo Levi and Jean Améry. Supported by the Centre for Enlightenment Studies at King's and the Departments of Theology and Religious Studies, Comparative Literature, and English.

Description: Recent Advances on Nature Inspired Tissue Engineering Approaches for the Regeneration of Different Tissues

Description: Professor Sharon Marcus (Columbia University): "Sarah Bernhardt's Exteriority Effects: Affect, Performance, and Agency."

Description: Professor Sharon Marcus (Columbia University): "Sarah Bernhardt's Exteriority Effects: Affect, Performance, and Agency."

Description: Discussion of "The Resource Trap: How Do Russia's Economic Challenges Stack Up Against Other Petrostates?"- event co-organized by King`s Russia Institute and the Carnegie Moscow Center

Description: The Inaugural Lecture of Professor Ruth Harris, 'From idealism to realism: a Nursing development journey'. This lecture is part of the Nightingale Lecture Series hosted by Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery. This event is free and open to all.