by Mariana Mazzucato (IIPP)
The false dichotomy between "the public sector" and "the private sector" leaves out the vital role that government has played - and must continue to play - in acting as financial backer and risk-taker in the most important innovations of our time that can help tackle the grand challenges facing us. Furthermore the lie ends up causing a situation by which risks are socialised while returns are privatised.
Find more information at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2018/jul/myths-around-public-sector-and-whose-interests-are-served-underlying-lies
279
7/18/2018
by Dr Satish Padiyar (IAS)
This talk focused on art’s complicity with social secrecy in eighteenth-century France, when it became topical – indeed agonizingly questionable - in public discourse, against a new ideology of social transparency. Satish thinks of this ‘deep’ communication through the work of one artist of the European Enlightenment, Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806).
Find more information at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/ias-events/ias-talking-points-incommunication-the-logic-of-secrecy-in-history-and-the-image
91
6/6/2018
by Professor Sylvain Briens (Paris Sorbonne) with responses from Dr Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen (UCL Scandinavian Studies), Dr Claire Thomson (UCL Scandinavian Studies) and Dr Pierre-Brice Stahl (Paris Sorbonne)
Find more information at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/ias-events/borealism-in-search-for-the-north
112
5/4/2018
by Prof Anthony Julius (Chair in Law and Arts, UCL)
Find more information at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/ias-events/vulnerability-and-censorship
24
5/4/2018
by Lola Frost and Edmund Clark in conversation with Anna Marazuela Kim
What is the relation of vulnerability to precarity, fragility and risk in the making of art? How might art make visible vulnerable states and subjects in ways that challenge conventional aesthetic, political and social categories, subverting existing hierarchies of power while staging quiet, yet potent, modes of dissent?
Find more information at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/ias-events/landscapes-of-vulnerability-a-conversation-with-artists-lola-frost-and-edmund-clark
201
4/26/2018
by Dr Alex Mills (UCL Laws), Prof Rachael Mulheron (Queen Mary Law), Robert Sharp (Head of Campaigns, English PEN), Dr Judith Townend (Sussex Law)
As part of this year’s research theme on ‘Lies’, the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies hosted a panel discussion on the present and future of defamation law. How can the law best protect rights of speech and of privacy in a digital age? Has the Defamation Act of 2013 allowed for the publication of truths, opinions honestly held, or speech in the public interest? How has a new standard of harm respected the rights of the claimants and defendants in practice?
The discussion was hosted by Harry Eccles-Williams, Associate at Mischon de Reya.
Find more information at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/ias-events/defamation-a-roundtable-on-lies-and-the-law
568
3/27/2018
by Dr Jelena Martinovic (IAS, UCL) with responses by Dr Chiara Ambriosio (Department of Science and Technology Studies, UCL) and Prof John Tresch (School of Advanced Study, University of London)
Dr Martinovic presented a remarkable case of mescaline research by neurophysiologist Heinrich Klüver (1897-1967), a German émigré to the United States who experimented with mescaline to study mechanisms of hallucination, personality and intelligence. The talk connected a history of anthropology (based on the analysis of medicinal and shamanic use of peyote) with a history of scientific investigation of pharmaceutical agents. It showed that the Interwar period played a crucial role in redefining the relationship between nature and culture, reductionism and holism.
Find more information at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/ias-events/ias-talking-points-looking-beyond-the-psychedelic-60s-mescaline-experiments-in-the-early-20th-century
279
3/27/2018
by Andrew Gardner (Institute of Archaeology, UCL)
This talk discussed the impact of the demise of the British empire upon identities within the UK in the narrow majority for the Leave campaign in the 2016 UK referendum on EU membership.
A comparative dimension was also pursued, with analysis of the Roman empire - which inspired many aspects of British imperialism - shedding further light on the politics of identity in colonial and post-colonial contexts.
Find more information at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/ias-events/ias-vulnerability-seminar-vulnerability-and-post-imperial-identities-from-brexit-to-ancient-rome-and-back
158
3/21/2018