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By Simon Jarrett. Find out more about the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies: http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/

Cara Dobbing explores patient engagement and the equality of care in the nineteenth-century lunatic asylum. Find out more about the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies: http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/

By Peder Clark. Find out more about the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies: http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/

Emily Turner discusses Craiglockhart staff and Hydra writers as medical activists. Find out more about the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies: http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/

Sophie Almond discusses the socio-medical activism of the Association of Registered Medical Women (ARMW), who acted ‘In the interests of medical women, of medical men, and of the nation as a whole’. Find out more about the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies: http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/

Jo Waugh explores the impact of the typhus epidemic of 1847. Find out more about the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies: http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/

Ian Miller discusses force feeding, female prisoners, and medical activism in Britain, c. 1909–75. Find out more about the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies: http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/

Whistleblowing is a hot topic from Hollywood to Canary Wharf. It is rarely out of the media. But have you ever stopped to think about how we ‘talk’ about whistleblowing? Which words do we choose and why? Do those words matter? Liz Hornby, PhD candidate in the Department of Management discusses all these things and more, ahead of her Big Ideas talk on 15 November. Big Ideas is Birkbeck's public lecture series, bringing ground-breaking Birkbeck research to our local communities. They are free to attend and open to everyone. Book your place here to Liz's talk here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/birkbecks-big-ideas-did-i-just-blow-the-whistle-how-do-we-talk-about-whistleblowing-tickets-51706248782

Waiting is one of healthcare’s core experiences. It is there in the time it takes to access services; through the days, weeks, months or years needed for diagnoses; in the time that treatment takes; and in the elongated time-frames of recovery, relapse, remission and dying. Professor Lisa Baraitser from Birkbeck’s Department of Psychosocial Studies explores how waiting can itself be a form of care, and challenges assumptions about the value of waiting, counteracting the current political use of ‘waiting times’ as a tool for dismantling the NHS. This is part of interdisciplinary research project, Waiting Times (http://waitingtimes.exeter.ac.uk/), funded by the Wellcome Trust. Professor Baraitser will be discussing these ideas further in a free public lecture on 31 October, as part of the Big Ideas series. Book your place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/birkbecks-big-ideas-waiting-and-care-in-rushed-times-tickets-50949666825

A panel discussion with Prof Veena Das, Prof Lyndsey Stonebridge and Dr Anna Rowlands, 4 June 2018.

Dr Sarah Thomas from Birkbeck's Department of History of Art examines the powerful impact of slave-ownership on some of Britain’s key cultural institutions, and how the brutal system of colonial slavery infused the world of aesthetics and taste during the first half of the nineteenth century. In particular, she looks at the impact of the £20 million paid by the British government to former slave-owners to compensate for their loss of income on the abolition of slavery on artworks, collections and cultural institutions. She will be discussing these ideas further at a Big Ideas lecture on 5 July 2018 at Birkbeck's Stratford campus. Free places can be booked here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/birkbecks-big-ideas-the-art-of-compensation-slavery-and-british-culture-stratford-tickets-43164879316

The Centre for the Study of Internationalism launched with a lecture by Professor Holly Case examining ‘The Age of Questions’. The talk focused on a period in modern history – roughly 1810 to 1950 – when ‘questions’ reigned. The Russian writer Leo Tolstoy wrote his views on the ‘Eastern question’ through the character in Anna Karenina, the future president of Czechoslovakia penned over 700 pages on the ‘social question’, and a German novelist expressed his immoderate views on the ‘oyster question’. When and why did people start thinking in terms of ‘questions’ and what did it mean? The Centre for the Study of Internationalism provides an intellectual home for researchers from a range of academic disciplines with interests in internationalism, broadly conceived. For more information: https://centreforthestudyofinternationalism.wordpress.com/2017/06/21/the-age-of-questions .

The Centre for the Study of Internationalism recently welcomed Alanna O’Malley, Assistant Professor of History and International Relations at Leiden University, to talk on her book, The Diplomacy of Decolonisation: America, Britain and the United Nations during the Congo Crisis 1960-64. The book examines the role of the UN during the Congo Crisis from 1960 to 1964 and in her talk Dr O’Malley argued this was a pivotal moment in the Cold War. Through examining the divergent positions adopted by the US and Britain in response to the crisis, and the effect of this on relations, she demonstrated how the UN helped to position the crisis as a lightning rod for debates regarding decolonisation. The Centre for the Study of Internationalism provides an intellectual home for researchers from a range of academic disciplines with interests in internationalism, broadly conceived. For more information: https://centreforthestudyofinternationalism.wordpress.com/2018/04/23/the-diplomacy-of-decolonisation .

The collision of the sublime and the ethical is as unavoidable as the political crises that make us attend to antique ruins with sudden and renewed urgency. This presentation addresses the difficulty of reaching a perspective on damaged objects—a challenge that is both methodological and conceptual. The Comte de Volney’s memorable evocation of Palmyra in his widely influential Reflections on the Revolutions of Empires (1791) and John Ruskin’s searching reflections on the power of ruins and the creative drives of modernity in Modern Painters (1843-1861) offer an opportunity to explore the implications of a question that has never been more pressing: is the surveying of damage always only synonymous with overlooking it? Responding to the acute pressures of a not too-distant past, Volney and Ruskin enjoin us to consider how looking over ruins might become a new mode of seeing. The much publicized situation of antiquities at risk in zones of conflict, and the challenges posed by the movements of displaced peo

Shooting Galleries: Soldiering, Domesticity and Art Trooper George’s shooting gallery turned refuge in Dickens’s Bleak House encourages us to think about the interleaving of military and domestic cultures in mid-Victorian Britain. I take George and his shooting gallery community as representative of the Victorian investment in domesticating the military man. At the same time soldiers themselves made strenuous efforts to forge connections between their military and home identities, often using art and craft to keep in touch with family and friends and to emphasise shared skills and experiences. After a Dickens prologue, this paper focuses on my research for the current exhibition ‘Created in Conflict: British Soldier Art from the Crimean War to Today’, exploring continuities in the emotional work of soldier art and considering the ways in which soldiers’ creativity can be deployed to make us feel both better and worse about war.

Why did Britain vote to leave the European Union in 2016? Dr Dionyssis Dimitrakopoulos argues that many of the reasons people voted to leave the EU are directly related to key decisions made by British governments: politicians who were voted into power by the British people. He will be discussing these ideas further at the next Big Ideas event, at Birkbeck's Stratford campus on 28 June 2018. Tickets are free but booking is required. Find out more and book your place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/birkbecks-big-ideas-why-brexit-is-unbritish-stratford-tickets-43127122384

Militant suffragettes’ public demonstrations often deployed the visual arts. Exploring their campaigns, Gillian Murphy (Women’s Library, LSE) introduces the Artists’ Suffrage League and banners from their archive, while Monica Walker (Old Operating Theatre Museum) investigates links between art and militancy through the defacing of the Rokeby Venus.

Militant suffragettes’ public demonstrations often deployed the visual arts. Exploring their campaigns, Gillian Murphy (Women’s Library, LSE) introduces the Artists’ Suffrage League and banners from their archive, while Monica Walker (Old Operating Theatre Museum) investigates links between art and militancy through the defacing of the Rokeby Venus.

As part of the CIMR Financing Innovation Workshop, held on 16th April 2014, Pierre Nadeau presents his talk "A Global Overview of Venture Capital and Alternative Sources of Entrepreneurial Finance". More information: www.bbk.ac.uk/cimr/2014/02/14/fi…nnovation-workshop The Birkbeck Centre for Innovation Management (CIMR) is a college-wide research Centre of Birkbeck, University of London. Launched in 2008, it undertakes international research focusing on multi-disciplinary academic, industrial and commercial themes relating to the management of innovation. It is a hub for enabling collaborations, teaching and sharing of research, ideas and practice to create impact and facilitate more effective management, commercialisation of innovation and the development of effective policy. Our researchers regularly publish in top quality journals, present at international conferences and undertake consultancy for national and international policy-making bodies and research for influential think tanks. More information

As part of the CIMR Financing Innovation Workshop, held on 16th April 2014, Benjamin Hamilton, of ZEQUS, presents his talk "ZEQUS: Crowdfunding Platform as Featured in BBC, CNN and Bloomberg". More information: www.bbk.ac.uk/cimr/2014/02/14/financing-innovation-workshop The Birkbeck Centre for Innovation Management (CIMR) is a college-wide research Centre of Birkbeck, University of London. Launched in 2008, it undertakes international research focusing on multi-disciplinary academic, industrial and commercial themes relating to the management of innovation. It is a hub for enabling collaborations, teaching and sharing of research, ideas and practice to create impact and facilitate more effective management, commercialisation of innovation and the development of effective policy. Our researchers regularly publish in top quality journals, present at international conferences and undertake consultancy for national and international policy-making bodies and research for influential think tanks. More informatio