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Human security as ontological security: a postcolonial approach?

Description: Professor Giorgio Shani's research interests focus on religion, security and 'post-western' international political theory, with particularly with reference to South Asia and Japan.

Towards an inclusive school mathematics: learning with disabled students

Description: Professor Lulu Healy discusses a research programme developed over several years in Brazil. Part of the CRESTEM seminar series.

Joint Modern Languages Seminar

Description: Professor Josh Cohen (Goldsmiths) will present a paper on the theory and cultural treatment of sluggishness - from Diderot to Homer Simpson!

A family Easter at the Florence Nightingale Museum

Description: This Easter Holidays, join us at the Florence Nightingale Museum, for a variety of family events all inspired by the life of Florence Nightingale. Make your own Easter bonnet on 5 April, or see history come to life and meet Miss Nightingale during one of our actor interpreter performances.

The Great Victorian Quiz Night

Description: Victorian Quiz Night at Florence Nightingale Museum: Come and test your knowledge about the everyday lives of the Victorians, from their health and hygiene to personal grooming habits. Every team member wearing a real or false beard will score an extra point!

'Precious Relics': Hair Jewellery and the Victorians

Description: An evening Talk at the Florence Nightingale Museum. The zeal with which men adopted beards and whiskers in the 19th century is surely matched by the Victorians' enthusiasm for wearing jewellery containing human hair. Everyone, it seems - from Queen Victoria herself to Florence Nightingale and the serving men of the Crimea - understood the 'sacred worth' of a lock of hair from the head of a loved one.

The Age of the Beard

Description: The Florence Nightingale Museum attempts to unravel the astonishing appeal of mutton chops, goatees and the most flamboyant of moustaches with a photographic exhibition and season of special events dedicated to the Great British Beard. What is a Soup Strainer? Or a Thigh Tickler? Find out at the Florence Nightingale Museum this winter – if you dare.

Stathis Kalyvas - The Impact of Revolutionary Actors in Civil Wars: The Marxist Paradox

Description: Stathis Kalyvas is Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and Director of the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence, Yale University.

State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic

Description: Anthropologist Professor Louisa Lombard (Yale) discusses her ground-breaking new book on the violence of the Central African Republic

CFP EBAAS 2018 London

Description: CALL FOR PAPERS: EBAAS - The 32nd European Association for American Studies and 63rd British Association for American Studies Conference (call for papers and conference dates)

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