public lecture winter 2012
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Every term, the University organises free public lectures on a wide variety of topics and aimed at a general audience.TRANSCRIPT
Autumn/winter 2012
Public lectures
All lectures are free except where otherwise stated.
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Public lectures/seminarsThe Annual Bronowski Lecture 10Business School (including JSG Wilson Lecture) 11Chemistry 13Chemistry Seminar Programme 14Classical Association, Hull and District Branch 16East Riding Archaeology Society 18Engineering 19English Lecture 20Ferens Distinguished Lecture 23History Lecture 25History of Art 26Hull and District Theological Society 29Hull Geological Society 31Humanities/Religion 33HUU LGBT+ Trans/Gender Awareness Week 34Inaugural Lectures 36Institute of Physics Sponsored Lecture 41Josephine Onoh Memorial Lecture 42Music Events 43Music Research Seminars 44Polish Season 46Religious Services 51Scarborough Public Lectures 50St John’s College Lecture 48Wilberforce Institute (WISE) Public Lectures 49
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At a glance
Date Event Venue Start time Enquiries Page(All at Hull Campus unless indicated otherwise)
4 Oct WISE Public Lecture: The Zong. slavery, evil deeds, and re-thinking WISE, Oriel Chambers, the past: a basis for discussion 27 High Street, Hull HU1 1NE 4.30pm 01482 305176 49
4 Oct Classical Association: What Made the Greeks Laugh? Seminar Room, Graduate School 7.30pm 01482 470119 16
5–7 Oct Hull Geological Society: Sedimentology: process and product Cohen Building – 01482 346784 31
16 Oct Music Research Seminar: Creative performers – creative performances: Constructs and processes L201, Larkin Building 4.15 pm [email protected] 44
17 Oct Chemistry Seminar: Soft Matter Chemistry at the Lecture Room A, Proto-life/Synthetic Biology Interface Department of Chemistry 4.15pm 01482 465027 14
17 Oct Engineering Lecture: Siemens Power Gas Turbines Robert Blackburn Building 7.00pm 07772 714597 19
17 Oct East Riding Archaeology Society: The Roman pottery kilns atMarket Rasen, Lincolnshire: some thoughts on landscapes of production LT1 Wilberforce Building 7.30pm 01482 465543 18
17 Oct Hull and District Theological Society: Ordinary Christology: Answers from the Pews Seminar Room, Graduate School 7.30pm 01482 466548 29
22 Oct Inaugural Lecture: Crime, Life, Death and Recovery: 25 years of research on heroin injectors Middleton Hall 6.00pm 01482 466326 36
24 Oct Chemistry Seminar: New functional polymeric materials Lecture Room A, for delivery, catalysis and sensing Department of Chemistry 4.15pm 01482 465027 14
24 Oct Ferens Distinguished Lecture: How a Hull invention helped to change the way we see electronic information Middleton Hall 6.00pm 01482 465845 22
25 Oct History of Art Public Lecture: Art and the Sea. Poems to the Sea: Lyrical Waves in the work of Turner, Monet and Twonbly Middleton Hall 6.00pm 01482 465035 26
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Date Event Venue Start time Enquiries Page(All at Hull Campus unless indicated otherwise)
29 Oct Annual Bronowski Lecture Middleton Hall 6.00pm 01482 465845 10
29 Oct Business School Seminar: Decision making capabilities for competitive advantage – part of the Business Bites seminar series Nidd Building 5.30pm 01482 347500 11
31 Oct Chemistry Seminar: Small molecules and functionalised carbon Lecture Room A, nanotubes for biomedical imaging applications Department of Chemistry 4.15pm 01482 465027 14
31 Oct JSG Wilson Lecture: Central Banking in Boom and Slump Hull Campus 6.00pm 01482 347500 12
1 Nov History of Art Public Lecture: Art and the Sea. Translucent waters of the sea / Mirror of Heaven’s lucid splendour: Dutch Art and the Sea Middleton Hall 6.00pm 01482 465035 26
1 Nov Classical Association: The Emperor and his Passions: the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Seminar Room, Graduate School 7.30pm 01482 470119 16
5 Nov Inaugural Lecture: Overdue and overspent – why do our projectsgo so badly wrong? Middleton Hall 6.00pm 01482 466326 37
6 Nov Music Research Seminar: Adam Zamoyski Chopin with Adam Zamoyski Middleton Hall 6.00pm [email protected] 44
7 Nov Chemistry Seminar: Nature’s nanoparticles: the Lecture Room A, bionanoscience of plant viruses Department of Chemistry 4.15pm 01482 465027 15
8 Nov Humanities/Religion Lecture: When religious communities meets new media: negotiating technology religiously SR1, Foss Building 2.15pm 01482 465995 33
8 Nov Annual English Lecture: Bram Stoker Birthday Lecture: Visual Gothic: how artists have seen the unseen Middleton Hall 6.00pm 01482 465315 20
9 Nov Music Lecture: Poles Apart: Chopin Transformed Middleton Hall 4.00pm 01482 462045 43
10 Nov Music Lecture: Graham Saunders on Arensky Middleton Hall 6.30pm 01482 465998 43
12 Nov St John’s College Lecture: The protein tangles that killed Chopin Middleton Hall 6.00pm 01482 465131 48
13 Nov Music Research Seminar: Music and the Politics of Piety in Renaissance Italy L201, Larkin Building 4.15pm [email protected] 45
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Date Event Venue Start time Enquiries Page(All at Hull Campus unless indicated otherwise)
14 Nov Annual History Lecture: The Battle of the Somme, 1916: New Leslie Downs Lecture Theatre, 6.00pm 01482 465192 25Perspectives Ferens Building
14 Nov Josephine Onoh Memorial Lecture: title tbc LT15, Wilberforce Building 4.15pm 01482 465857 42
14 Nov Hull and District Theological Society: The Book of Common Prayer,1662–2012: Relic or Resource? Seminar Room, Graduate School 7.30pm 01482 466548 29
15 Nov Chemistry Seminar: Symposium on Analytical Chemistry To be confirmed 2.00pm 01482 465027 15
15 Nov WISE Public Lecture: The archaeology of slavery: some recent WISE, Oriel Chambers, work in Nevis and St Kitts 27 High Street, Hull HU1 1NE 4.30pm 01482 305176 49
15 Nov History of Art Public Lecture: Art and the Sea. Picturing the Sea in Eighteenth-Century Britain Middleton Hall 6.00pm 01482 465035 27
15 Nov Institute of Physics Sponsored Lecture: Making use of Basil Reckitt Lecture Theatre, uncertainty: From quantum physics to quantum technologies Ferens Building 6.30pm 01482 465050 41
15 Nov Hull Geological Society: The Geology of Malta Department of Geography 7.30pm 01482 466548 31
19 Nov Inaugural Lecture: Shining Stones and Marble Halls: encountering sculpture in the long nineteenth century Middleton Hall 6.00pm 01482 466326 38
19 Nov HUU LGBT+ Seminar: Transgender people and the media: Lecture Theatre 27, the good, bad and ugly Wilberforce Building 7.15pm [email protected] 34
20 Nov HUU LGBT+ Seminar: Overcoming the barriers: Trans inclusion in Lecture Theatre 27, Sport Wilberforce Building 7.15pm [email protected] 34
21 Nov Chemistry Seminar: From anion receptors to transporters Lecture Room A, Department of Chemistry 4.15pm 01482 465027 15
22 Nov HUU LGBT+ Seminar: The Law and the Transgender person Lecture Theatre 27, Wilberforce Building 7.15pm [email protected] 35
21 Nov East Riding Archaeology Society: Olive oil and wine producing Roman North Africa LT1 Wilberforce Building 7.30pm 01482 465543 18
22 Nov History of Art Public Lecture: Art and the Sea in Renaissance Venice Middleton Hall 6.00pm 01482 465035 27
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Date Event Venue Start time Enquiries Page(All at Hull Campus unless indicated otherwise)
27 Nov Music Research Seminar: The Invention of Global Opera L201, Larkin Building 4.15pm [email protected] 45
2 Dec University of Hull Carol Service Holy Trinity Church, Market Place 4.30pm 01482 466326 51
3 Dec Inaugural Lecture: ‘Zombies, Run!’ Can we use technology to build pro-societal behaviours? Middleton Hall 6.00pm 01482 466326 39
5 Dec Polish Season: Zygmunt Bauman Seminar Hull Campus 3.15pm [email protected] 46
6 Dec Classical Association: Olympic Myths from Pelops to the Present Day Seminar Room, Graduate School 7.30pm 01482 470119 16
6 Dec Polish Season: Facing the Future, Facing the Past Hull Campus 6.00pm 01482465620 47
12 Dec Engineering Lecture: Effects of Fluid Dynamics on High Performance Sports Robert Blackburn Building 7.00pm 07772 714597 19
12 Dec Hull and District Theological Society: Some popcorn and a movie:Thoughts on what Theology can/should learn from Moving Images Seminar Room, Graduate Room 7.30pm 01482 466548 30
13 Dec WISE Public Lecture: Why was the Atlantic slave trade so big? WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull HU1 1NE 4.30pm 01482 305176 49
13 Dec Hull Geological Society: Stacking it up: glacitectonics and morainedevelopment in north Norfolk during the Middle Pleistocene Department of Geography 7.30pm 01482 466548 32
17 Dec Chemistry Lecture: Primary Schools’ Show Middleton Hall 10.30am 01482 465464 13
17 Dec Chemistry Lecture: Public Show for all the Family Middleton Hall 7.00pm 01482 465464 13
17 Dec Chemistry Lecture: Secondary Schools’ Show Middleton Hall 10.30am 01482 465464 13
19 Dec East Riding Archaeology Society: Fin Cop Hillfort – Archaeology of a Massacre? LT1 Wilberforce Building 7.30pm 01482 465543 18
16 Jan East Riding Archaeology Society: Aspects of burial archaeology in Yorkshire LT1 Wilberforce Building 7.30pm 01482 465543 18
17 Jan Classical Association: Everyday Latin in the Empire Seminar Room, Graduate School 7.30pm 01482 470119 17
17 Jan Hull Geological Society: A History of the Glacial Formations at South Landing, Danes Dyke and the Sewerby Buried Cliff over the last 120 years in old and new photographs and maps: Recent processes of deposition and erosion. Department of Geography 7.30pm 01482 466548 32
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The Annual Bronowski Lecture Title to be confirmed
Monday 29 October Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm
Professor Lisa Jardine CBE, MA PhD (Cambridge)
Further information: Lesley Dye, [email protected], 01482 465845
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Business SchoolDecision making capabilities for competitive advantage –part of the Business Bites seminar series
Monday 29 October 2012 Nidd Building, Hull Campus, 5.30 to 7.00 pm
Making decisions in an atmosphere of increasing time pressure,uncertainty, and conflicting expert opinions creates challengesfor any director.
Presented by Professor L Alberto Franco, Hull UniversityBusiness School, and Kevin Walsh, Chief Executive of Kcom, thisseminar looks at the process of decision making and how criticalbusiness decisions are made. It will present a roadmap formaking winning decisions every time, by alerting directors tocommon thinking traps and by offering practical remedies.
The seminar will be followed by a Q&A panel with the guestspeakers.
Sponsored by Grant Thornton, presented in conjunction with TheInstitute of Directors.
Further information: Ian Calvert, Hull University Business School,[email protected], 01482 347500.
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Chemistry Lectures
Enjoy an entertaining morning of Christmas themedchemical curiosities for Primary school pupils
We will be presenting three shows, one aimed for primaryschools, one for secondary schools and one for the rest of thefamily.
Primary schools’ showMonday 17 December 2012 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 10.30 am
Public show for all the familyMonday 17 December 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 7.00 pm
Tickets £4. Free to students and under 18’s.
Secondary schools’ showTuesday 18 December 2012 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 10.30 am
For more information and tickets please contact:
Mrs Margaret Fitzsimmons, [email protected], 01482465464 or Mrs Maxine Tyler, [email protected], 01482 465434,Department of Chemistry
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Business School: JSG Wilson Lecture Central Banking in Boom and Slump
Wednesday 31 October 2012Business School, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm
Charles Bean, Deputy Governor Monetary Policy, Bank of England
Through the generosity of JSG Wilson, we are pleased to presentthis prestigious lecture, delivered by senior figure Charles Bean ofthe Bank of England.
Sponsored by JSG Wilson
To book your place please email [email protected], 01482 347500.
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Nature’s nanoparticles: the bionanoscience of plantviruses
Wednesday 7 November 2012 Lecture Room A, Department of Chemistry, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm
Professor David Evans is a newly appointment academic memberof staff in the Department of Chemistry. He will introduce hisresearch into ‘Nature’s nanoparticles: the bionanosciene of plantviruses’.
Symposium on Analytical ChemistryThursday 15 November 2012Venue to be confirmed, 2.00 pm
The Department of Chemistry in connection with the RoyalSociety of Chemistry will be hosting an award ceremony withpresentation from two recent prize winners. Professor AaronWheeler from the University of Toronto in Canada will speak on"Digital microfluidics for chemical synthesis, processing, andanalysis". Professor David Stuckey from Imperial College Londonwill present on "Recycling treated wastewater: Feasible andsustainable?" The seminar is supported by a talk from local DrNicole Pamme on "Attraction and Repulsion – magnetic forcesinlab-on-a-chip devices”.
Sponsored by: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
From anion receptors to transporters
Wednesday 21 November 2012Lecture Room A, Department of Chemistry, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm
Professor Philip Gale, University of Southampton
Professor Gale’s lecture is on his research into the chemistry ofanion transporters which have potential applications in thedevelopment of future treatments for cystic fibrosis and cancer.
Further information: Dr Nicole Pamme, [email protected],01482 465027
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Chem
istry Seminars Soft Matter Chemistry at the Proto-life/Synthetic Biology
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Wednesday 17 October 2012Lecture Room A, Department of Chemistry, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm
Professor Steve Mann, University of Bristol
The lecture is co-organised by the Royal Society of Chemistrywho awarded Professor Mann with the de Gennes Prize 2011 for‘outstanding and exceptional work in the field of materialschemistry’.
Sponsored by: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
New functional polymeric materials for delivery, catalysisand sensing
Wednesday 24 October 2012 Lecture Room A, Department of Chemistry, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm
Professor Rachel O’Reilley, University of Warwick
Professor O’Reilley has recently been awarded the RSCHickingbottom Award for ‘ground-breaking work in the synthesisof new macromolecular architectures and in the development ofnovel functionalisation reactions and organic transformations formaterials chemistry’.
Small molecules and functionalised carbon nanotubes forbiomedical imaging applications
Wednesday 31 October 2012 Lecture Room A, Department of Chemistry, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm
Dr Sofia Pascu, Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Departmentof Chemistry, University of Bath.
Dr Pascu will be presenting a lecture into small molecules andfunctionalised carbon nanotubes which have applications, forexample, in medical imaging.
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Everyday Latin in the Empire
Thursday 17 January 2013Joint lecture with the Roman Society
Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm
Professor David Langslow, University of Manchester
David Langslow came to the University of Manchester in 1999after 14 years at Wolfson College, Oxford. His main researchinterests lie in the history of Latin and Greek language andlinguistics and include work on a comprehensive grammar ofancient Greek. His publications include The Latin AlexanderTrallianus (2006) and Medical Latin in the Roman Empire (2000)
Further information: Margaret Nicholson,[email protected], 01482 470119
What Made the Greeks Laugh?
Thursday 4 October 2012 Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm
Professor J Michael Walton, University of Hull
Michael Walton joined the Drama Department of the University ofHull in 1965 and remained there until his retirement 38 years later,having been awarded a professorship in 1992. Classical theatrewas one of his main areas of teaching. He also directed about 50plays, including many Greek plays in his own translations. He haspublished many translations from Greek, and these have beenwidely performed .
The Emperor and his Passions: the Meditations of MarcusAurelius
Thursday 1 November 2012Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm
David Walker, University of Hull
David Walker taught for almost 40 years in the PhilosophyDepartment of the University of Hull. He has written on moralphilosophy and Greek philosophy
Olympic Myths from Pelops to the Present Day
Thursday 6 December 2012Joint lecture with the Hellenic Society
Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm
Dr Emma Stafford, University of Leeds
Emma Stafford specialises in Greek cultural history, especiallyreligion. Her works include Life, Myth and Art in Ancient Greece(2004) and Herakles (2012). At present she is writing books onNemesis and on the Trojan War
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The Roman pottery kilns at Market Rasen, Lincolnshire:some thoughts on landscapes of production
Wednesday 17 October 2012LT1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm
Ian Rowlandson, Freelance Ceramic researcher
Olive oil and wine production in Roman North AfricaWednesday 21 November 2012 LT1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm
Matthew Hobson, University of Leicester
Fin Cop Hillfort – Archaeology of a Massacre?
Wednesday 19 December 2012LT1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm
Jim Brightman
Aspects of burial archaeology in Yorkshire
Wednesday 16 January 2013LT1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm
Dr Malin Holst, University of York/York Osteoarchaeology
Further information: Dr Helen Fenwick, Department of [email protected] 01482 465543
East Riding Archaeology Society Siemens Power Gas Turbines
Wednesday 17 October, 2012Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus, 7.00 pm
Refreshments 6.30 pm
Presentation on the latest developments undertaken withinSiemens Gas Turbines.
Sponsored by The Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)
Effects of Fluid Dynamics on High Performance Sports
Wednesday 12 December 2012 Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus, 7.00pm
Refreshments 6.30 pm
This presentation gives an overview of the effects of fluiddynamics on high performance sports and focuses on a study ofthe aerodynamics of a snowboarder. A combination of athletescanning, CFD analysis and wind tunnel testing has been the routetaken on many projects.
Sponsored by The Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)
Further information: Paul Cunningham, IMechE East YorkshireSecretary, [email protected], 07772 714597
Engineering Lectures
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The Annual English Lecture
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Visual Gothic: how artists have seen the unseen
Thursday 8 November 2012 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6 pm
Professor Sir Christopher Frayling
Sir Christopher is an internationally eminent historian, critic andbroadcaster. He was until recently Rector of the Royal College ofArt in London and is currently Professor Emeritus of CulturalHistory there. He was the College’s first professor of CulturalHistory and founded the Department of Cultural History. He wasalso until recently Chairman of the Arts Council England. On NewYear’s Eve 2000 he was knighted for services to art and designeducation. He has served as a Chairman or as a member on all themajor UK committees/funding bodies for art, craft, design, film,and the performing arts.
Sir Christopher has published eighteen books, including: TheVampyre: Lord Ruthven to Count Dracula (1977; 1991), Nightmare:The Birth of Horror (1996), and critical editions of The Hound of theBaskervilles (2001) and Dracula (2003). He has written andpresented numerous TV series including The Face of Tutankhamun(BBC2, 1992), Strange Landscape – The Illumination of the MiddleAges (BBC2, 1995), and Nightmare – the Birth of Horror (BBC 1,1996–1997).
Sir Christopher is a passionate campaigner for the importance ofarts education in the UK and breaking down the boundariesbetween ‘high’ and ‘low’ in the arts. He is currently Fellow ofChurchill College Cambridge and an 1851 Commissioner andVisiting Professor at Lancaster University.
Further information: Pru Wells, Department of English,[email protected], 01482 465315
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How a Hull invention helped to change the way we seeelectronic information
Wednesday 24 October 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm (doors open at 5.30 pm)
Professor Peter Raynes, Leverhulme Emeritus Research Fellow,University of York
Liquid crystal displays now completely dominate the way we seeinformation generated within electronic equipment. LCDs arefound in a range of products from simple watches andcalculators through mobile phones, all forms of computers, tolarge area televisions. In 1972 chemists at Hull led by ProfessorGeorge Gray FRS invented the world’s first stable roomtemperature liquid crystal material which helped change LCDsfrom a laboratory curiosity into the multibillion dollar industry oftoday. The lecture will describe the background to thetechnology, the Hull invention itself, and how it was developedinto highly successful commercial products. As the LCD marketdeveloped towards larger displays showing ever larger amountsof information, the technology diversified considerably, and thelecture will conclude with a glimpse of the UK’s widercontribution to this development.
Following a PhD in low temperature Physics at Cambridge, PeterRaynes joined the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (nowpart of QinetiQ) at Malvern in 1971 where he started research intoliquid crystals materials and devices. In 1992 he moved to theSharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd at Oxford, where he wasDirector of Research until he took up the Chair of Optoelectronicsin the Department of Engineering Science at Oxford in 1998. In2010 he retired from Oxford and moved to York, where he is nowa Leverhulme Emeritus Research Fellow and an Honorary VisitingProfessor in the Department of Chemistry. Earlier this year hereceived an honorary doctorate from the University of Hull.
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Ferens Distinguised Lecture
Annual History Lecture
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The Battle of the Somme, 1916: New Perspectives
Wednesday 14 November 2012 Leslie Downs Lecture Theatre, Ferens Building, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm
Professor William Philpott
Professor William Philpott lectures in military history in theinternationally-renowned Department of War Studies at King’sCollege, London. He is a specialist in the history of the FirstWorld War, in particular British strategy and the history of theFrench Army. He has published widely in the field of Anglo-French relations in the era of the two world wars. His bookBloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme (2009) was awardedthe 2010 Templer Medal for British military history.
Further information: Laura Wilson, Department of History, 01482465192
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Throughout his research career Peter has worked on liquidcrystal materials and displays, and for many years workedclosely with Professor George Gray FRS and his Liquid CrystalGroup in the Department of Chemistry at Hull. His work with HullUniversity and BDH Chemicals Ltd helped develop several highlysuccessful ranges of liquid crystal materials which for manyyears dominated the world market; this work gained twoQueen’s Awards for Technological Achievement. He also mademany contributions to liquid crystal displays; some of these arestill in widespread use including one, known as the supertwistdisplay, used in the first generation of mobile phones and laptopcomputers. Professor Raynes was elected a Fellow of the RoyalSociety in 1987.
Further information: Lesley Dye, Marketing andCommunications, [email protected], 01482 465845
Picturing the Sea in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Thursday 15 November 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm
Geoffrey Quilley
Dr Geoffrey Quilley is Senior Lecturer in Art History at theUniversity of Sussex. He was previously Curator of Fine Art at theNational Maritime Museum, Greenwich. He has been responsiblefor two major exhibitions at Greenwich and the establishment of anew research centre for the study of art and travel. He haspublished extensively on a wide range of themes and his mostrecent book is the very well received, Empire to Nation: Art,History, and the Visualisation of Maritime Britain (Yale, 2011)
Art and the Sea in Renaissance Venice
Thursday 22 November 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm
John Bernasconi
John Bernasconi is Director of Fine Art at Hull University. Heexamines not only the treatment of maritime themes in Venetianpainting and sculpture but Renaissance Venetians’ relationshipwith the sea as expressed in writings and civic ritual and theirperception of their unique floating city, at times very from ourstoday.
Further information: John Bernasconi, Department of History,[email protected], 01482 465035
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LECTURES ON ART AND THE SEA
Poems to the Sea: Lyrical Waves in the Work of Turner,Monet and Twombly
Thursday 25 October 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm
Eleanor Clayton
Eleanor Clayton is Assistant Curator: Exhibitions and Displays atTate Liverpool, having trained at the Courtauld Institute. She hasrecently been working on the exhibition, Turner, Monet,Twombly: Later Paintings, which runs until 28 October at TateLiverpool. The sea provided a frequent and important theme forall three of these prolific and celebrated artists.
Translucent waters of the sea / Mirror of Heaven’s lucidsplendour: Dutch Art and the Sea
Thursday 1 November 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm
Jenny Gaschke
Dr Jenny Gaschke is currently Collections Officer, Bristol Museumand Art Gallery. She was formerly Curator of Fine Art at theNational Maritime Museum, Greenwich, where she curatored theexhibition (and edited the catalogue) Turmoil Tranquility: the Seathrough the Eyes of Dutch and Flemish Masters, 1550–1700.Before that she was Assistant Curator at the Staatsgalerie,Stuttgart. She examines Dutch marine painting at its height. Thequotation in her title comes from Karel van Mander, thesixteenth-century Dutch painter and poet.
History of Art Public Lectures
Jacopo de Barbari, Bird’s eye view of Venice, 1500, woodcut (detail).
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Ordinary Christology: Answers from the Pews
Wednesday 17 October 2012The Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm
Dr Ann Christie, York St John University
Jesus once asked his disciples, ‘Who do you say that I am?’Christology – the question of who Jesus is and what he has donefor us – has been debated ever since by generations oftheologians. But how do Christians who have received little or notheological education answer Jesus’s question? Ann Christie’sresearch has focussed on mapping and critically analysing‘ordinary Christology’, using social-scientific methods, and herfindings have recently been published in a monograph of thesame name by Ashgate. Dr Christie, a former biochemist, isSenior Lecturer in Theology and Ministry at York St JohnUniversity.
The Book of Common Prayer, 1662 –2012: Relic orResource?
Wednesday 14 November 2012 The Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm
Dr David Bagchi, University of Hull
After the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer is the mostfrequently cited book in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, andmust be one of the few world liturgies regularly to supply titlesfor detective novels. But does this make it a cultural museumpiece rather than a theological resource from which Christianstoday can still learn? In the 350th anniversary year of the famous1662 BCP, David Bagchi will look at the Prayer Book’s past, itspresent, and its potential for the future. Dr Bagchi is SeniorLecturer in Ecclesiastical History at the University of Hull, and isthe author of several studies on Reformation theology, includingthe early Tudor chapter for the Oxford Handbook of Early ModernEnglish Literature and Religion (forthcoming).
Hull and District Theological Society
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Sedimentology: process and product
Friday 5 to Sunday 7 October 2012 Weekend Conference and field meetingCohen Building
Joint meeting with the Hull Geological Society, University of Hulland Yorkshire Geological Society. Speakers include
• Emrys Phillips, British Geological Survey • Jim Best , University of Illinois • Martyn Pedley, University of Hull • Maurice Tucker, University of Durham • Mike Horne and Rodger Connell, Hull Geological Society. • Rachel Flecker, University of Bristol • Pete Talling, National Oceanographic Centre
(registration required £50 for the weekend)
• Friday – Conference lectures with Keynote speakers • Saturday Morning – ‘Talking Posters’, displays and postersSaturday Afternoon – YGS Lectures – speakers include MauriceTucker and Emrys Phillips free admission
• Sunday – HGS field meeting.
The Geology of Malta
Thursday 15 November 2012 Department of Geography, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm
David Hill of the Hull Geological Society
Hull Geological SocietySome Popcorn and a Movie: Thoughts on What TheologyCan/Should Learn from Moving Images
Wednesday 12 December 2012The Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm
Dr Alexander Ornella, University of Hull
Alexander Ornella joined the University of Hull from theUniversity of Graz in 2011 as Lecturer in Religion. He is also theCoordinator of the Austrian-Swiss-Italian research projectCommun(icat)ing Bodies. His particular interests lie in therelationship of religion to media, culture, and the arts, and hispublications include ‘Posthuman pleasures’ (2009), TheNetworked Subject (2010), Identity 2.0: Between Tradition andNew Media (2010) – and a theological treatment of QuentinTarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (sic) (2011).
Further information: Dr David Bagchi, Department of History,[email protected], 01482 466548
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When Religious Communities Meet New Media:Negotiating Technology Religiously
Thursday 8 November 2012 SR1, Foss Building, Hull Campus, 2.15 pm
Professor Heidi Campbell
This talk will explore how and why religious communities makecertain choices regarding their new media usage. Through thelens of the religious-social shaping of technology we see severaldistinct factors shaping Jewish, Muslim and Christian groups’negotiation with new technologies. This process is exploredthrough the rise of the kosher cell phone in Israel and howreligious values and practices influenced ultra-Orthodox Jews’response and innovation to the mobile phone.
Heidi Campbell is Associate Professor of Communication at TexasA&M University where she teaches in Telecommunications andMedia Studies. Since 1997 she has studied religion and theinternet and what impact new media technologies are having onreligious communities. She has written on a variety of topicsincluding religion online, new media ethics, technology andtheology and religious communities response to mass media.Her work has appeared in a variety of books and journals onthemes related to religion and media including New Media andSociety, Journal of Media and Religion, Journal of ContemporaryReligion, the book Religion Online (Dawson & Cowan, Routledge2004). She is author of Exploring Religious Community Online(Peter Lang, 2005) and When Religion Meets New Media(Routledge, 2010).
Further information: Dr Alexander D Ornella,[email protected], 01482 465995
Department of Hum
anities/Religion LectureStacking it up: glacitectonics and moraine development innorth Norfolk during the Middle Pleistocene
Thursday 13 December 2012Department of Geography, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm
Dr Jonathan Lee of the British Geological Survey
A History of the Glacial Formations at South Landing, DanesDyke and the Sewerby Buried Cliff over the last 120 years inold and new photographs and maps: Recent processes ofdeposition and erosion.
Thursday 17 January 2013 Department of Geography, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm
Ian Heppenstall of the Hull Geological Society
Further information: Mike Horne, [email protected],01482 346784, website www.hullgeolsoc.org.uk
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The Law and the Transgender Person
Thursday 22 November 2012Lecture Theatre 27, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus 7.15 pm
Professor Stephen Whittle, from Manchester MetropolitanUniversity, has been cordially invited to lecture on the historyand consideration of transgender people and their place in theUK’s legal system. His work, personal experience and researchinto the development of this area is unparalleled and will affordthe audience with a unique insight into the legalities of genderidentity.
Further information: [email protected]
Transgender people and the media: the good, bad and ugly
Monday 19 November 2012 Lecture Theatre 27, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 7.15 pm
HUU LGBT+ are delighted to welcome Jenny-Anne Bishop, fromTransForum Manchester and the Parliamentary Forum on GenderIdentity, for an informed and relaxed discussion about therepresentation of trans people in the papers and on television.This talk will consider the information and misinformationsurrounding trans people, their lives and their experiences. All welcome.
Overcoming the barriers: Trans inclusion in sport
Tuesday 20 November 2012Lecture Theatre 27, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 6.15 pm
Dave Merchant will be leading a session on the inclusion of transpeople in sport at all levels. The session will include anintroduction to some of the issues facing trans people whenaccessing sport, current legislation and the duty that sports clubshave to ensuring that they are accessible for trans people, andexamples of good practice. There will be an opportunity to askquestions and discuss the issues raised. All are welcome toattend – no prior knowledge or experience is assumed!
Dave is the founder of Marlin Swimming Group, the longestcontinually running trans swimming group in the UK. He hasworked with Pride Sports to promote the inclusion of trans peoplein sport, and has spoken at a number of events around the UK andin Europe, including the launch of LGBT History Month in 2010 and2011, LGBT Question Time and the European Gay and LesbianSport Federation Annual General Assembly in 2012.
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Overdue and overspent – why do our projects go so badlywrong?
Monday 5 November 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6 pm
Professor Terry Williams, Professor of Management Science andDean of Hull University Business School
This lecture will look at why many of our major projects can go sodrastically wrong. By modelling those projects and getting abetter understanding of how they behave, we’ll look at someimplications not only for how we manage projects, but also what‘complexity’ is, how we think about risk, and the place of somephilosophical ideas in business studies.
Terry Williams has 35 years experience in Management Science.After degrees at Oxford and Birmingham, and a few yearslecturing, he spent 9 years building up a successful practice (anda small team) in Management Science in engineeringconsultancy YARD; this started in logistics but later specialisedin Project-Risk Management (PRM) of major projects, includingacting as Risk Manager for some major defence projects. He thenspent 13 years in the Management Science Department ofStrathclyde University, latterly as Professor and Head ofDepartment. A team was developed to support major post-project litigation claims, which supported major post-projectclaims, particularly Delay and Disruption, totalling over$1.5billion in Europe and North America. On his 2005 marriagehe moved to the University of Southampton, later becomingHead of the School of Management there. In 2011 he becameDean of the Hull University Business School.
His research and consultancy continues in project behaviour,and particularly in post-project claims. He has become athought-leader in the worldwide Project Management researchcommunity, particularly playing a role in the US-based ProjectManagement Institute. He maintains his discipline as aManagement Scientist – as well as project modelling Hisresearch has covered modelling many uncertain systems, from
Crime, Life, Death and Recovery: 25 years of research onheroin injectors
Monday 22 October 2012 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm
Professor Richard Hammersley, Professor of Health Psychology
There is great concern about drug problems and drug injecting,but interventions to prevent and treat them are not as successfulas they could be. The most common explanation of addiction isthat it is something like a brain disease so that when people takecertain drugs like heroin they cannot help but become addicted.Research on drug problems has found that the reality is morecomplex and involves a mixture of psychological and socialfactors. This lecture will draw upon 25 years of research toexplore the following questions: Why is heroin use linked tocrime? Why do people take drugs? Why do most drug users notbecome addicted? Why do people overdose? What patterns ofdrug dependence are there? What can be done to help recovery?What options are there for changing drug laws?
Richard Hammersley is Professor of Health Psychology in theDepartment of Psychology. He has been researching drug useand drug problems since 1986 in work that crosses boundariesbetween psychology, sociology and health. His publicationsinclude books on drugs policy, drugs and crime, ecstasy, andcocaine, and a number of major reports for the Home Office, theScottish Office and the Youth Justice Board. His many papersinclude work on how young people grow out of crime and growinto drug use, on drug overdoses in Scotland, on cannabis andon ‘legal’ highs. He has just completed a large study collectingthe life stories of people who have injected drugs, to improveunderstanding of their pathways into and out of drug injectingand identify the strengths that they bring to recovery.
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Recently completed major research projects include the AHRC-funded Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture inBritain and Ireland 1851–1951 and Mobilising Mapping, bothcollaborative, inter-institutional research projects withcolleagues at the University of Glasgow, the V&A Museum, andthe Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. She was academic advisor tothe Chatsworth Sculpture Gallery redisplay that opened in March2009 and continues to research this collection. She is alsodeveloping research with colleagues at Hull into maritimesculpture, in particular figureheads and associated sculpturaldecoration.
Alison is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow ofthe Society of Antiquaries of London, and FRSA. She is Chair ofthe Association of Art Historians, a Governor of the GlasgowSchool of Art, and on the Advisory Council of the Paul MellonCentre for Studies in British Art
‘Zombies, Run!’ Can we use technology to build pro-societal behaviours?
Monday 3 December 2012 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm
Professor Richard Vidgen, Professor of Systems Thinking
Society is facing many challenges. Poor diet and lack of exercisecontribute to obesity and an unsustainable burden on healthservices; many households are in fuel poverty while as a nationwe need to reduce carbon emissions; greater social engagementand participation in communal life are needed to improve well-being. This lecture will consider how technology can be used toencourage pro-societal behaviours.
Richard Vidgen is Professor of Systems Thinking in the HullUniversity Business School. He worked for fifteen years in the ITindustry as a project manager and consultant. On leavingindustry he studied for a PhD in Information Systems at theUniversity of Salford and then worked at the School ofManagement, University of Bath and the Australian School of
the economics of the UK renewable energy market to battles toproduction systems – and for 10 years he was joint editor of theJournal of the Operational Research Society. He is the author ofaround 70 peer-reviewed papers and a considerable number ofmonographs and books.
Shining Stones and Marble Halls: encountering sculpture inthe long nineteenth century.
Monday 19 November 2012 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm
Professor Alison Yarrington, Professor of Art History and Dean ofthe Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Viewing sculpture in the historic interior can be an unsettlingbusiness, as the heroines of the film adaptations Room with aView (1985) and Pride and Prejudice (2005) demonstrate. Theexperiences of Lucy Honeychurch ‘in Santa Croce with noBaedeker’ or Elizabeth Bennet suddenly seeing the light as atourist visiting Pemberley, are indicative of the ways in which theinterplay between theatre, literature, history and art cancontribute to sculpture’s impact in particular settings: apalimpsest of past and present, intention and reception. Thislecture will consider modes of displaying and viewing sculpture inspecific private and public locations, including Chatsworth,London, Florence and Rome, and will suggest several questions toask of some key objects.
Alison Yarrington was appointed Dean of FASS in May 2011. Herdegree in Fine Art and the History of Art (Reading University) wasfollowed by a PhD (Darwin College, University of Cambridge). Herfirst academic post was at the University of Leicester, where shewas promoted to a personal chair in Art History. She was Dean ofthe Faculty of Arts at Leicester before her appointment asRichmond Professor of Fine Art at the University of Glasgow in2003. Her research and publications are in the history of sculpturein the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including British-Italian marble trade and cultural transactions, women andsculpture, public sculpture, and collecting and display.
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Institute of Physics Sponsored LecturesMaking use of uncertainty: From quantum physics toquantum technologies
Thursday 15 November 2012Basil Reckitt Lecture Theatre, Ferens Building, Hull Campus, 6.30 pm
Dr Jacob Dunningham, University of Leeds
On a microscopic level the universe is governed by quantumphysics. This is a strange wonderland where things are not asthey seem. Objects can be in two places at once, cats can beboth alive and dead, and objects can pass straight throughwalls. One of the most unsettling aspects of quantum physics isthat it has at its very heart the idea that the universe isfundamentally uncertain. I will discuss the nature of thisuncertainty and show how, far from being a hindrance, it can beput to use in a range of cutting edge new technologies. Theseinclude the codes that cannot be cracked, a new generation ofsuperfast computers, and the ability to teleport objects overlarge distances.
Further information: Dr Angela Dyson, Department of Physicsand Mathematics, [email protected], 01482 465050
Sponsored by: The Institute of Physics
Business, University of New South Wales. He has publishedresearch articles in leading journals including InformationSystems Research, Information and Management, EuropeanJournal of Information Systems, Journal of InformationTechnology, Omega, Journal of Strategic Information Systems,and the Information Systems Journal. He has also worked closelywith industry in a number of UK Government funded knowledgetransfer projects on e-commerce and worked with the AustralianGovernment on a large survey of workplace performance. Hiscurrent research interests include: the application of systemsthinking and technology to organisational and societal issues;high performance workplaces and employee engagement; and,Internet quality and Website usability.
Further information: Karen Slater, [email protected], 01482466326
Title to be confirmed
Wednesday 14 November 2012LT15, Wilberforce Building, 4.15 pm
Professor Malcolm Shaw QC
Having retired from the Sir Robert Jennings Chair in InternationalLaw, University of Leicester, in 2011, Professor Shaw is currentlya Senior Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law atthe University of Cambridge, and part-time Research Professor inInternational Law at the University of Leicester – as well as apractising barrister with Essex Court Chambers.
An eminent scholar and practitioner with numerous publications,Professor Shaw will be well known to students as the author ofperhaps the leading textbook on international law (Shaw,International Law, Cambridge University Press), currently in itssixth edition. With enormous experience of advising foreigngovernments and international corporations, he has appeared innumerous cases before the International Court of Justice, theEuropean Court of Human Rights, the House of Lords, the HighCourt and the Court of Appeal. He also served as a member ofthe Law RAE Panels in 1996 and 2001.
Further information: Ann Ashbridge, Law School,[email protected], 01482 465857
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Poles Apart: Chopin Transformed
Friday 9 November 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 4.00 pm
Rehearsal OrchestraLee Tsang (conductor)Chopin-Stokowski Préludes, Op. 28, Nos. 4 and 24, ‘FuneralMarch’ from Op. 35
Dr Lee Tsang introduces these epic, idiosyncratically sentimentaland powerful transformations of Chopin’s music by LeopoldStokowski, the pioneering master orchestrator and conductor ofthe famous Philadelphia Orchestra.
The event features a performance that will be led by members ofHull Sinfonietta and will feature school pupils, members of theUniversity Orchestra, teachers and local amateurs. Externalplayers who are interested in participating on the day (9.45 am –5.00 pm) should contact Dr Tsang as soon as possible on 01482465019, [email protected].
Further information: 01482 462045 or [email protected] Supported by: Department of Drama and Music, Hull Sinfonietta,Longcroft College, Doncaster Music Service, Kingston upon HullMusic Service.
Graham Saunders on Arensky
Saturday 10 November 2012 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.30 pm
Graham Saunders has long been well-known in the region as aLecturer in the University’s Department of Adult Education, andis welcomed back to Hull Chamber Music’s pre concert talkseries. Please note this event is to be followed by a concertfeaturing the Atrium String Quartet, playing Arensky, Haydn andSchubert. For more details about tickets for the concert, pleasesee the Hull Chamber Music (www.hullchambermusic.org.uk)brochure or the Arts Programme.
Further information: Katie Manasse, Music Department,[email protected], 01482 465998
Music Events
Josephine Onoh Mem
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Music and the Politics of Piety in Renaissance Italy
Tuesday 13 November 2012L201, Larkin Building, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm
Dr Timothy Shephard, University of Sheffield
During the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, several Italiandespots established large chapel choirs, and built magnificentcourt chapels to house them. Traditionally, musicologists readthese choirs in terms of the ruler’s personal taste for music, butmore recently it has become clear that large chapel choirs playedimportant roles in establishing and sustaining a regime. Inparticular, a large choir could play a very visible role inpresenting a ruler to his subjects in a favourable light, as a piousand powerful prince. In this paper, I use various contemporarywritings on government and the ideal prince (including, ofcourse, Machiavelli) to establish and describe the politicalimportance of piety to the Renaissance prince, giving a couple ofpractical case studies involving chapel choirs.
The Invention of Global Opera
Tuesday 27 November 2012L201, Larkin Building, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm
Dr Benjamin Walton, University of Cambridge
In this presentation I want to address the question of themeanings of Italian opera beyond Europe during the first half ofthe 19th century. Taking as a starting point JürgenOsterhammel’s remark that ‘opera globalized early’, I will usethe case of the first opera company to go around the world toargue for an understanding of Italian operatic globalisation thatdiffers both from its 18th-century antecedents, and from thesteamship-driven network that would develop later in thecentury. In these terms, the performances of small and oftenprecarious touring groups ended up resonating far beyond thesometimes ramshackle theatres in which they performed.
Further information: Dr Alexander Binns, [email protected]
Creative performers – creative performances: Constructsand processes
Tuesday 16 October 2012 L201, Larkin Building, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm
Dr Mirjam James and Dr Karen Wise, University of Cambridge
Research on creativity in educational environments mainlyfocuses on the creation of new musical material such ascomposition and improvisation. However, a growing number ofstudies recognise the need for spontaneous and creativedecisions made by a performer while reproducing existingmaterial. To date, studies of one-to-one teaching and learningwithin conservatoires have not adequately examined aspectsthat enable students to develop as creative performers. Thestudy reported here has taken a novel approach to theinvestigation of concepts of creativity in performance andaspects of creative learning in a conservatoire environment.
Sponsored by Sempre
Adam Zamoyski Chopin with Adam Zamoyski
Tuesday 6 November 2012 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm(a reception will follow this event)
We are delighted to welcome the acclaimed author AdamZamoyski, who speaks about his recent book Chopin Prince ofthe Romantics (Harper Press, 2011). Drawn to Poland by hispowerful family lineage and a fascination with its history, AdamZamoyski’s insights on Chopin take us into the heart of Polishculture. In conversation with Dr Alexander Binns and you, theaudience, interspersed with live musical performances of Chopinby music students at the University of Hull.
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Facing the Future, Facing the Past
Thursday, 6 December 2012, 6pmIdentity and Self-Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Polish Art
This lecture will examine different ways in which national andpersonal identity was represented in Polish painting andsculpture in the early 20th century. During a period marked bystruggles for Poland’s independence, and by the changes ofmodernity across Europe, works of art variously looked tosubjects and styles drawn both from the past, from artistictradition or from the pantheons of national heroes, such asAdam Mickiewicz and Fryderyk Chopin, and looked to the futureby creating new artistic idioms and drawing upon their modernsurroundings. This lecture will consider sculpted portraits andpublic monuments by Xawery Dunikowski and WacławSzymanowski, reinventions of folk art by Zofia Stryjeńska, andexpressions of national identity in the paintings of JacekMalczewski, as well as considering the brooding and moreintrospective self-portraits of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz andBruno Schulz.
All Welcome. Venue to be confirmed.
For further details please contact Marianne Lewsley-Stier (01482)465620 or [email protected]
Zygmunt Bauman Seminar
Wednesday 5 December 20123.15pm - 6.00 pm
3.15: Professor Keith Tester (University of Hull): Introduction
3.45: Professor Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds andWarsaw) 'The Haunting Spectre of Westphalian Sovereignty'
4.30: Professor Aleksandra Kania (University of Warsaw) 'Polish Values in a European Context: Results of the EuropeanValues Study 1990-1999-2008'
5.15: Questions and Discussion
Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most significant global socialthinkers of our age. His work, spanning nearly five decades,steadfastly refuses to be constrained by arbitrary disciplinaryboundaries within the arts, humanities and social sciences. Anextraordinarily productive scholar, his writings continue to berelevant to his host subject of sociology, but also to social andpolitical theory, philosophy, ethics, art theory,media/communications studies, cultural studies, and theology.His unique contribution of the conceptual framework 'liquidmodernity' has influenced international research within all ofthese disciplines.
Prof. Aleksandra Jasińska-Kania works on sociological theoryand studies national stereotypes, prejudices, and social values;she collaborates with the Sociology Committee of the PolishAcademy of Sciences
All Welcome. Venue to be confirmed.
For further details please contact Prof. Keith Tester([email protected])
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The Zong. Slavery, Evil Deeds, and Re-thinking the Past: A basis for discussion
Thursday 4 October 2012 WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE, 4.30 pm
Professor James Walvin, Emeritus Professor of History, Universityof York
The Archaeology of Slavery: Some recent work in Nevis andSt Kitts
Thursday 15 November WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE, 4.30 pm
Dr Rob Philpott, Curator of Roman and Later Archaeology,National Museums Liverpool
Why was the Atlantic Slave Trade so big?
Thursday 13 December WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE, 4.30 pm
Professor David Richardson, Department of History, University of Hull
Further information: [email protected], 01482 305176.
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ISE) Public LecturesThe protein tangles that killed Chopin
Monday 12 November 2012 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm
Professor David Lomas PhD, ScD, FRCP, FMedSci
Frederick Chopin was born in 1810 and had a distinguishedcareer as a composer, pianist and sometimes crayon caricaturist.He was however a sickly man with recurrent episodes ofbreathlessness and coughing up blood. He spent time in theSouth of France and then in Majorca to help with this recoverybut ultimately died at the young age of 39. It is long believed thathe suffered with consumption (tuberculosis) however his post-mortem carried out by an expert in tuberculosis showed that hehad a disease that had not previously been encountered. Thistalk will focus on a disease called antitrypsin deficiency whichmay have accounted for the death of Chopin. It will describe ourinvestigative studies into the cause of the disease and willdemonstrate how understanding antitrypsin deficiency providesinsights into a whole range of other diseases as diverse as bloodclots (thrombosis) and dementia. Our understanding of thecomplexity of protein tangles allows the development of smallmolecules as potential therapies for this condition. One day wehope to be able to cure the disease that may have killedFrederick Chopin.
Professor David Lomas is Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge,University Professor of Respiratory Biology, Deputy Director ofthe Cambridge Institute for Medical Research and HonoraryConsultant Physician at Addenbrooke’s and Papworth Hospitals.His research interests are focused on the pathobiology of α1-antitrypsin deficiency, the serpinopathies and COPD.
Further information: Heather Budgen, Vice-Chancellor’s Office,[email protected], 01482 465131
St John’s College Lecture
During the 2012/2013 academic year, the Scarborough Campuswill host a series of public lectures. The lectures will be open toeveryone and are free of charge. Details are available online atwww.hull.ac.uk/scarborough
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The University of Hull Carol Service
Sunday 2 December 2012Holy Trinity Church, Market Place, Hull, 4.30 pm
Mulled wine and mince pies will be served afterwards. Everyoneis welcome. Entry tickets are required and will be available forcollection from the reception desks in the students’ union andthe Venn Building from early November 2012.
Further information: Karen Slater, [email protected], 01482 466326.
The University of Hull Scarborough Campus Carol Service
The University of Hull Scarborough Campus will be hosting itsannual carol service in early December 2012.
Further details will be available via the website in due coursewww.hull.ac.uk/scarborough
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Further information Future events
Details of all public lectures should be forwarded to Karen Slaterfor inclusion in the next programme, which will be published inlate January. Contact address: Karen Slater, Marketing andCommunications, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, [email protected].
Further informationIf you would like to receive further copies of this booklet or haveyour name and address included in the Public Lectures/Eventsmailing list, please contact
Karen Slater Marketing and Communications University of Hull Hull, HU6 7RX
01482 466326 [email protected]
Front cover image Henry Redmore, Shipping of the Port of Hull, 1868, oil oncanvas. Presented to the University of Hull Art Collection by Mrs Joan Marshall,2012
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