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Light in Darkness: The mystical philosophy of Jacob Böhme

Free special guided tours of the exhibition.

This one-day symposium is a collaboration between Film and Television Studies at ÌÇÐÄTV and Film, Radio and Television at the University of São Paulo (USP) and brings together scholars and practictioners to discuss the historical, social, political and ecological interventions cinema and related media can make in making visible a disappearing world. It includes a keynote from Prof. Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths) and a conversation with filmmaker and scholar Joshua Bonnetta, who will be screening and talking about his award-winning film El Mar, La Mar (Joshua Bonnetta and J.P. Sniadecki, 2018).

DAY 1 Thursday, 30 May

12.40 LUNCH BREAK

PANEL 1: FOOD CULTURE AND HISTORY

Chair: Rebecca Earle

Ricardo Aguilar. History of Food in Sixteen-Century New Spain: Relaciones de

Indias and Materia médica

Louise Morgan. ‘Eat Better, Not Less’: Finding the History of Clean Eating

09.30 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

09.45 WELCOME ADDRESS

10.00

11.20

13.40

11.00 COFFEE BREAK

PANEL 3: MODERN BRITAIN, COLONIAL GOVERNANCE AND INFORMAL

IMPERIALISM

Chair: Robert Fletcher

Ahmad Shaviz Fawad. British foreign policy towards Afghanistan in the late-19th

century

Ali Al Khalifa. The Adviser: The Role of Charles Belgrave in Bahrain within Britain’s

Informal Empire in the Gulf

Bobby Tam. Stories of Fear: Colonial State Inquests of Suicides and unreported

Burials in Nineteenth-century Hong Kong

PANEL 2: TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITAIN - WELFARE AND SOCIAL CHANGE

Chair: Mathew Thomson

Ed Devane. True Pioneers? Modernity and the Austerity Health Centre

Pierre Botcheby. ‘Representing local interests in post-industrial town centre

regeneration: a case study of St. Helens, Merseyside’

Josh Patel. Realising the ‘Good Society’ through Economic Science: the Robbins

Report into Higher Education (1963)

15.00 END OF DAY ONE