University of London, School of Advanced Study Events Programme Feb-April 2012

I am delighted to share with you our new events brochure, which details all academic and public events organised in the University of London's School of Advanced Study during February and April 2012. The online version of the events brochure is available from www.sas.ac.uk/eventsbrochure.

The School is the UK's national centre for the promotion and facilitation of research in the humanities and social sciences and a core component of our mission is the hosting of academic and public events for the benefit of the scholarly community and wider society. The School's events programme is both extensive and diverse and includes workshops, conferences, seminars, lectures, recitals and readings. Each year the School hosts over 1,600 separate events and welcomes over 6,000 speakers, around one-third of whom are from outside the UK. The vast majority of these events are free and open to the public.

The Global Economy: Crisis Without End-From Europe to Beijing to Washington, Can the World's Economic System Cope?

Friday, February 17, 6:00 p.m.

The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10028-0198
Phone: 212-535-7710

A panel discussion co-organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Review of Books Foundation, and the Fritt Ord Foundation of Oslo

Introduced by Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Paul Krugman*
Edmund Phelps*
Jeffrey D. Sachs
George Soros
Chair: Robert Silvers

* Winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics

30 & Under Rush: $15 tickets for audience members 30 years and younger when purchased the day of the event (subject to availability). Call 212-570-3949 or visit the box office.

http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/lectures-and-panels/subscription-lectures/the-global-economy-crisis-without-end-with-paul-krugman-edmund-phelps-jeffrey-d-sachs-george-soros-robert-silvers?eid=3720

Organized by Simon Head, former Senior and Associate Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute

Postgraduate American History Conference: Call for Papers

Taxing & Spending

29 May 2012 

Attitudes Towards Federal Government Investment in Public Services, 1945-2010

We are happy to invite papers for the Rothermere American Institute's Annual Postgraduate Conference. Bringing together postgraduate and early-career academics, this conference will investigate the conflicting demands of the American public for fiscal responsibility coupled with expensive programmatic commitments. By examining this paradox in practice, the conference committee hopes to develop a novel perspective on domestic postwar political development. The committee is also pleased to announce that the plenary lecture will be given by Lawrence Glickman, Chair of History at the University of South Carolina, entitled "The Public Spending Debate in the Postwar United States."

Submissions are encouraged from postgraduate scholars and early-career academics working on all aspects of political and institutional history, social and economic history, and the history of race and southern partisan change. To give all papers proper consideration, proposals of no more than 300 words should be submitted by March 9, 2012. Submissions should be sent to the email address below. Applicants will be informed whether their paper has been accepted by March 16, 2012.

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The full programme of seminars and events for Hilary Term is now available from the termcard page on our website.

Fifth week events (13-17 February)

Full termcard

In September, the VHL Librarian, Jane Rawson, travelled to the United States to visit libraries and archives as the 2011 recipient of the CILIP/ESU Travelling Librarian Award. Her full report is now available to download from the CILIP website at: http://www.cilip.org.uk/about-us/medalsandawards/travellinglibrarian/Pages/travelling-librarian-reports.aspx.

Registration is now open for the following conference:

Assessing the Impact of the Financial Crisis and Budget Deficit on American Power

Sponsored by the AHRC Research Network on the Obama Presidency and Rothermere American Institute

23-24 February 2012

The RAI's summer newsletter is now available to download from our website. The 2010/11 annual report will be available later in the summer.