LAHP Annual Research Day – 17th May 2022
We are pleased to invite our current students to the LAHP Annual Research Day which will take place in person and via live streaming on 17th May 12.30pm to 6pm at Mary Ward House in Bloomsbury. The event will include a sandwich lunch to start and a drinks & canapes reception with music at the end. As this will be our first in person event since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, we expect you to attend in person where possible and encourage students from all cohorts to join us and think about their research collectively. The event will include short student presentations, a three-minute thesis competition, a photo competition and a presentation from Professor Shakuntala Banaji.
Keynote speaker: Professor Shakuntala Banaji (Programme Director, MSc Media, Communication and Development – London School of Economics and Political Science) – ‘The uses of historical and intertextual analysis in the study of visual disinformation.
Programme
12.30 Registration & Lunch
13.20 Welcome
Johanna Malt, LAHP Director
13.30 Student Presentations
13.30 Joseph MacDonald (QMUL, History Dept, Yr3) ‘The Medicine Murder Panic in Post-war Basutoland: Emergence, Response and Impact’
13.42 Varvara Keidan Shavrova (RCA, School of Arts & Humanities, Yr1) ‘Dreamworlds of Flight in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism’
13.54 Tobi Poster-Su (QMUL, School of English & Drama, Yr2) ‘Bodies that slip: Critical puppetry, material vulnerability and the category of the Human’
14.06 Bryn Blake (UCL, Theology & Religious Studies Dept, Yr1) ‘An Obscure Fellow’? The Enduring Impact of William Perkins’ Soteriology upon English Protestantism, 1584-1648
14.18 Sophia Sakellaridis Mangoura (KCL, Music Dept, Yr4) ‘In Search of a Heroine: Gertrude Stein’s Conjured Fantasy of Susan B. Anthony, in The Mother of Us All’
14.30 Harshadha Balasubramanian (UCL, Anthropology Dept, Yr3) ‘Sound and the Sensory Politics of Virtual Reality’
14.45 Tea & Coffee break
15.15 Three minute thesis competition
15.15 Sari Arraf (KCL, School of Law, Yr1) ‘When natives outnumber settlers: Apartheid in Colonial Algeria, South Africa and Palestine’
15.19 Thomas Dwyer (UCL, Archaeology Dept, Yr2) ‘Reconstructing the ecology and extinction dynamics of Late Quaternary megafauna in China’
15.23 Jonathan Egid (KCL, Comparative Literature, Yr2) ‘In Search of Zera Yacob, or, on a 17th century Ethiopian Philosopher, and the question of whether or not he existed’
15.27 Nicola Hurt (KCL, Classics Dept, Yr3) ‘Roman Folding Knife Hanldes’
15.31 Kangyu Wang (LSE, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, Yr1) ‘I don’t know about that’
15.45 Photo Competition & Three-minute thesis competition winner announcements
| Sari | Arraf | KCL | Yr1 | School of Law |
| Jonathan | Egid | KCL | Yr2 | Comparative Literature |
| Nicholas | Makoha | KCL | Yr3 | English |
| Georgina | Robinson | KCL | Yr1 | Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies |
| Brad | Scott | QMUL | Yr1 | English |
| Emily | Sparkes | RCA | Yr3 | SoAH |
| Isabel | Stuart | QMUL | Yr3 | Drama |
16.00 Keynote Speaker
Professor Shakuntala Banaji (Programme Director, MSc Media, Communication and Development – London School of Economics and Political Science) – ‘The uses of historical and intertextual analysis in the study of visual disinformation’
16.30 Q&A with Prof Shakuntala Banaji
16.45 Public engagement competition winner and runners up
16.55 Student Reps update
17.00 Closing remarks
Drinks Reception with live music (Michael Durrant – classical guitar/Rianna Walcott & Chris Diamand – jazz duo)
18.00 Event finishes