UCL Grand Challenge of Intercultural Interaction (GCII): Events

1 May 2013

Negotiating Religion: Inquiries into the History and Present of Religious Accommodation

This conference is the closing event of a four-worshop series which took place at UCL in 2010-12. It offers a cross-disciplinary assessment of these different forms in which religious identity, commitment and community are negotiated in the contemporary world. Further details

16 May 2013

Staging Daniel’s ‘Cleopatra’
The team behind Helen Hackett’s recent production of Samuel Daniel's Cleopatra, supported by GCII, will give a presentation about the project. This will include live-action scenes performed by two leading cast-members, and clips from the DVD of the full performance in March.  Further details

7-17 May 2013

UCL Festival of the Arts
Discover the arts at UCL with a range of free events, from bite-size lectures, readings and exhibitions, to poetry, panel discussions, film screenings and debate. Further details

31 May 2013

"Gained in Translation": A one day colloquium
JZ Young Lecture Theatre, University College London

The School of European Languages, Culture and Society
UC: Centre for Early Modern Exchanges 

Panels on "Travelling Texts" (papers by Zoran Milutinovic (SSEES) on Sava Nemanjic, Professor Simon Gaunt (KCL) on Marco Polo, Professor Stephen M. Hart (SELCS) on Santa Rosa de Lima), "Literature in Translation" (papers by Dr Alexander Samson and Dr Gareth Wood) and "Translation and Hip Hop" (chaired by Wen-chin Ouyang; papers by Cristina Moreno Almeida on Moroccan hip hop and Nichola Smalley on Scandinavian hip hop). Key-note speaker at 5.00 pm: Professor Terry Eagleton, "The Problem of Literature and the Question of Culture". Reception: Haldane Room 6.00-7.00pm.  There are a limited number of tickets for this event. To sign up for this event click here.

Upcoming programmes of events for 'Gained in Translation' are available from:

The School of European Languages, Culture and Society
UC: Centre for Early Modern Exchanges 

21 June 2013

Wonderments of Cosmos: a Trans-Disciplinary Conversation on Cosmological Horizons
A half-day GCII workshop convened by Martin Holbraad, Reader in Social Anthropology, Department of Anthropology

Questions about the origins and contours of the universe and human beings’ position within it are capturing the public’s imagination as never before. The Big Bang on the BBC, CERN and God particles colliding across the press, Stephen Hawking in the opening ceremony of the London Paralympics: all would indicate that ‘the cosmos is cool again’, as the Guardian put it recently. This half-day workshop brings together scholars from across UCL to present the different ways in which their work engages with the wonderments of cosmos, and explore how these may speak to each other.

Please note:

  • 25 places are available at the workshop for UCL academics and research students (PhD and MRes)
  • Interested participants must make a short online application to obtain a place at the workshop
  • On-line application form and further details

3 July 2013

Gained in Translation

Sculptural Mobilities: Tracing the flows of sculptural artworks between the Nordic Countries and Europe from the early modern period to the present day
Organised collaboratively by University College London’s Department of Scandinavian Studies, and Kingston University’s Visual and Material Culture Research Centre. This interdisciplinary symposium will investigate the cultural mobility of sculptural artworks. Positioning the Nordic Countries as a contact zone of sculptural exchange, the project will trace the flows of artworks to and from the Nordic Countries and Europe and examine the impacts these flows generate on both local/regional contexts of display and the nature of the sculptural artwork itself.
Call for papers: deadline 15 March 2013
Further details and registration

UCL Lunch Hour Lectures

An opportunity to sample the exceptional research work currently being undertaken at the university. Speakers are drawn from UCL's wide-ranging academic departments and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications.

UCL Centre for Digital Humanities

UCL European Institute

UCL Institute for Human Rights

UCL Migration Research Unit 

10–13 April 2013

Interdisciplinary Conference on Migration: Global Development, New Frontiers

Conference Website


Previous GCII events

2013

April 2013

UCL Digital Humanities Month
How can the use of computational tools and techniques transform your research in the humanities? How can the use of humanities approaches transform your research in the digital sciences? Digital Humanities Month at UCL aims to explore the cross-disciplinary research between computing, the humanities, culture, and heritage at UCL through a series of talks and workshops which will highlight the opportunities that exist at UCL, introduce you to the projects, tools, and individuals engaged in this space at UCL, and encourage others to get involved. UCL Digital Humanities Month, supported by GCII, is convened by Melissa Terras, UCL Digital Humanities.

Interdisciplinary Conference on Migration: Global Development, New Frontiers   Conference Website

March - September 2013

Gained in Translation
'Gained in Translation' is a series of events at UCL exploring and celebrating the intercultural importance and societal impact of poetry, prose, and drama translated from its original language. The series, supported by GCII, and organised by the School of European Languages, Culture and Society and UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchanges will run in terms 2 and 3 of Academic Year 2012-13.

21 March 2013 (6.30 pm) Bloomsbury Theatre, UCL

Gained in Translation: From Poetry to Film: Roland-Francois Lack, David Harsent, Graham Henderson

Roland-Francois Lack, 'Voltaire in Wandsworth', a talk about famous French writers in London

Screening of No. 8 New College Street, a documentary about the house where Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine lived in 1873

Screening of House of Knives, which re-creates the passionate relationship between the two poets when they lived at No. 8 New College Street, followed by Q&A with directors and actors.  For more information about this event, please contact the PI of "Gained in Translation", Stephen M. Hart stephen.malcolm.hart@ucl.ac.uk

3 March 2013

Gained in Translation: Samuel Daniel's Tragedie of Cleopatra
Daniel's tragedy (composed in 1594) was one of the earliest English plays about Cleopatra, and almost certainly influenced Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Its original performances would have included female actors in country house settings. Our Jacobean-style production will shed light on female participation in drama in Shakespeare's time, and on early modern ideas of female heroism. It will also illuminate the history of perceptions of race; and, since it draws on classical and French sources, the importance of international influences in shaping the English Renaissance.

1 March 2013 

Cultural Heritage - Values, Identity and Wellbeing Domain
2.18 Chadwick Building, Main Quadrangle, UCL, Gower StreetThe domain co-leads: Beverley Butler (Institute of Archaeology), Anne Lanceley (Women's Cancer), Murray Fraser (Bartlett School of Architecture) and Andrew Flinn (Dept of Information Studies) are holding a preliminary meeting / workshop to introduce research and researchers at UCL interested in heritage and value, well-being and identity.  This workshop will provide an opportunity for individuals with similar interests to meet each other and discuss potential collaborations and to contribute to the discussions on the vision and priorities for the domain. Register

29 January 2013

Grand Challenges Small Grants Showcase Reception

Learn more about our small grants scheme, which supports cross-disciplinary projects up to a maximum of £5,000, and the projects which have been made possible in the past. Four UCL researchers will make short presentations about their projects. Further details and registration. Interested in applying for a small grant in the 2012-13 financial year? Apply online (closing date: Friday, 15 February). 

15 January 2013

Inaugural Lecture by Prof Lisa Jardine (UCL Centre for Editing Lives & Letters)
Temptation in the Archives
Details and booking

2012

14 September 2012

Intercultural Communication for Tourism Professionals Workshop
This workshop, supported by GCII, offers tourism professionals the opportunity to gain a further understanding of  the interplay between language, communication and culture in the context of tourism. Dr Clyde Ancarno, Linguist and Project Manager of Language and Culture in Tourism at UCL.   Workshop flyer

21 September 2012

Communication in London's tourism industry
This roundtable meeting, supported by GCII and convened by Dr Clyde Ancarno, Linguist and Project Manager of Language and Culture in Tourism at UCL, will focus on communication practices within London’s tourism industry. A range of questions will be examined, such as, for example, issues related to communicating in a culturally diverse workplace.  A wide range of experience and knowledge will be pooled together: tourism professionals, academics, trainers with experience in training tourism staff, representatives of tourism-related institutions and local authorities. Roundtable flyer

28 June 2012

The pursuit of Olympic ideals – physical, neural and aesthetic
Organised by UCL Events

What were the ideals surrounding the ancient Greek Olympic games?

8-9 June 2012

Language Diversity in the Nordic countries and the UK
Organised by UCL Scandinavian Studies

The aim of this seminar is to take a different approach to talking about language practices. The seminar brings together ‘witnesses’ (incl. a Saami speaker) who have personal experience of speaking or working with people who speak minority languages, regional dialects or urban vernaculars, and academics who study languages in the Nordic countries and the UK.

6 June 2012

Peacemaker: The Foraker Act (1900) and the Poetry of Evaristo Ribera Chevremont by Professor Benigno Trigo (Vanderbilt University)

Organised by UCL Spanish & Latin American Studies and supported by GCII.

This paper explores an early book of poems by Evaristo Ribera Chevremont (1896-1976) titled The Slinger Hurled the Stone (El hondero lanzó la piedra). Trigo analyses the effect of the first Constitution of Puerto Rico under the government of the United States on that book in particular, and on Puerto Rican cultural expression in general during the first decades of the twentieth century.

25 May 2012

Workshop on the Right to Work

Organised by UCL Institute for Human Rights and the UCL Labour Rights Institute. The value of work cannot be underestimated in today’s world. Work is instrumentally valuable because productive labour generates goods needed for survival, like food and housing; goods needed for self-development, like education and culture; and other material goods that people wish to have in order to live a fulfilling life.

April 2012

Rousseau 300
A series of events, supported by UCL GCII, commemorating Rousseau’s tercentenary. Organised by the UCL Centre for Transnational History, these events aimed at a comprehensive re-evaluation of Rousseau's enduring legacy after 300 years.  The opening keynote lecture of the conference: ‘The vicissitudes of recognition: the legacy of J-J Rousseau’ can be listened to again. It was given by Professor Axel Honneth (Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt, and Columbia University). 

30 April 2012

Where next for social media research?
A Town Meeting supported by GCII.
This meeting is intended to bring together people from different parts of UCL who may be interested in research on social media, both theory and practice. The aim is to foster greater research collaboration and identify future potential at UCL.

13 March 2012

Debating Social Rights
Organised by UCL Institute for Human Rights and the UCL Labour Rights Institute.
Professor Conor Gearty (LSE) and Dr Virginia Mantouvalou (UCL) will debate the role of courts and the role of legislatures in the protection of rights such as the right to housing and the right to work.

February to June 2012

Negotiating Religion: Inquiries into the History and Present of Religious Accommodation
A series of workshops to discuss the complex processes through which religious communities create or defend their place in a given commonwealth, both in history and in our world today.  Funded through the UCL Grand Challenges Small Grants Scheme.  Convened by Dr François Guesnet (UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies) and UCL European Institute.

2011

12 December 2011

Cultural Heritage and Global Change
A workshop organised by GCII and European Institute on behalf of the League of European Research Universities (LERU).

23 November 2011

Negotiating Religion: Workshop 1: European Legacies, European Challenges
This first workshop addressed the history of religious conflict and accommodation, and gauges the impact of religious skepticism and secularization in Europe.

2 November 2011

A UCL Civilisations Network?
A Town Meeting organised by GCII.
Civilisations constitute important counters in the global play of politics and warfare in the twenty-first century. Nations and other communities (religious, political, ethnic) find their identity and their legitimacy in a perceived continuity with ancient civilisations.

23 June 2011

How It All Began: The origin of the universe
How the Universe came into existence is a subject of strong international scientific interest, involving widely different methodologies.

16 June 2011

Migration, Law and the Image: Beyond the veil of ignorance
Supported by GCII.
Examining a range of examples from science fiction narratives of alien species, to stories of conquest, colonization, and ethnic cleansing, to the development of contemporary practices of detention and border policing, the lecture will argue that immigration in our time has ceased to be a merely transitional phase in human life, and threatens to become a permanent condition for growing numbers of people.

15 June 2011

Intercultural Knowledge Transfer: Europe and Islam in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
This workshop investigates the role of culture and knowledge transfer between different religious communities, focusing, in this case, on exchanges between Mediterranean culture of late antiquity and emerging Islam, Jewish-Islamic cultural transfer, and instances of knowledge transfer from Islamic sources to Jewish communities.

8 June 2011

Francis Bacon in International Collaboration
Supported by GCII

4-8 April 2011

UCL Migration Week 2011
A series of lectures, panel discussions, conferences and exhibitions, organised by GCII, exploring migration from a number of academic perspectives.

14 February 2011

UCL Science, Medicine and Society Network
A Town Meeting organised by GCII.
The proposed UCL Science, Medicine & Society Network would act as a mechanism and as a forum to bring key players together from departments across UCL and UCL Partners, facilitating interdisciplinary analysis and response to major issues impacting health and wellbeing during a period of profound demographic, social, political, economic, environmental and technological change.

11-12 February 2011

/carmen/karmen/s/
A three-part exploration of Carmen across times, cultures and media. An interdisciplinary conference will explore issues of intercultural and intermedial translation and adaptation through the prism of Carmen.

2010

The Financial Crisis and the Labour Market – Prof Edward P Lazear (Stanford)

Backlash? The resurgence of homophobia in contemporary cities

Romani politics in Contemporary Europe

Migration and the Body – Prof Nancy Scheper-Hughes (University of California Berkeley)
Migration and Wellbeing: Lecture Series at the British Museum

Examining the Relationship between Migration and Security – Prof Elspeth Guild
UCL Global Migration Symposium Series

Rewriting Histories: The Transnational Challenge

Migration and the Clinic – Dr Sushrut Jadhav (UCL Mental Health Sciences)
Migration and Wellbeing: Lecture Series at the British Museum

Critical Minds: Critical Spaces

Infrapolitical literature: Hispanism and the Border – Prof Alberto Moreiras (Aberdeen)
GC Associated Guest Lecture Series

Managing Immigration Policy in High Income Countries – Professor Gordon Hanson (UC San Diego)
UCL Global Migration Symposium Series

Migration and Democracy – David Nugent (Emory University)
Migration and Wellbeing: Lecture Series at the British Museum

Beyond the Ghetto: An interdisciplinary perspective on patterns of ethnicity in the built environment

Caught in Flux: Housing and communities in transition

Migration and Human Trafficking – Sophie Day (Goldsmiths College)
Migration and Wellbeing: Lecture Series at the British Museum

The Humanities and the Anxiety of Violence beyond the Ghetto – Professor Homi Bhabha (Harvard)

Globalisation and Cosmopolitan Citizenship: Migrating Bodies, Practices and Ideas – Prof Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College)
UCL Global Migration Symposium Series

Accommodating Religious Diversity in a Secular Society – Prof Lord Bhikhu Parekh
GC Associated Guest Lecture Series

Migration and Social Suffering – Richard Rechtman (Institute Marcel Rivière, Paris)
Migration and Wellbeing: Lecture Series at the British Museum

Crime and the Humanities

Sexuate Subjects: Politics, Poetics, Ethics

2009

UCL Institute for Human Rights: Official Launch Event

An Early Career Researchers' Evening: the Blue Sock Salon

Destination London: Writing Cities from Eastern Europe

Nominal Commitment to Human Rights: A Global Survey

The Current Crisis: Alternative histories – Prof Charles Maier (Harvard)
Global Perspectives on the Current Economic Crisis

Action to End Genocide – Dr James Smith, Aegis Trust
GC Associated Guest Lecture Series

Migration, Climate Change and Indigenous Rights – Mary May Simon (President, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami)
Migration and Wellbeing: Lecture Series at the British Museum

The Social Craftsman – Prof Richard Sennett (LSE)
Global Perspectives on the Current Economic Crisis

Migration and Religion –  Ehsan Masoon (The British Council') in conversation with Wendy Kristiansen (Le Monde Diplomatique)
Migration and Wellbeing: Lecture Series at the British Museum

The Impact of the Current Crisis on the Developing World – Prof Frances Stewart (Oxford)
Global Perspectives on the Current Economic Crisis

UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchanges: Launch Event

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