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Lifelong Learning Lectures
Tuesday 27 January
50 Shades of Clay: Sensuality and eroticism
in twentieth-century ceramic art
Helen Shaw, History of Art
6.30pm, Room AEW/003,
Alcuin East Wing, Alcuin College
Tuesday 3 February
‘There is nothing outside the box’:
Considering the institutional
narratives and object histories
of the Franks Casket
Dr Meg Boulton,
Centre for Lifelong Learning
6.30pm, Room AEW/003,
Alcuin East Wing, Alcuin College
Monday 16 February
After 1066: Normans in England
Cristina Figueredo,
Centre for Lifelong Learning
6.30pm,
Room AEW/003,
Alcuin East Wing,
Alcuin College
Thursday 19 February
York: A rocky history
Dr Liam Herringshaw, Centre for Lifelong Learning
7pm, Room AEW/003,
Alcuin East Wing, Alcuin College
Thursday 5 March
Cracking the cistern:
A brief history of the loo
Alice Bennett, Centre for Lifelong Learning
7pm, Room AEW/003,
Alcuin East Wing, Alcuin College
Tuesday 17 March
Riot at the Rite (and the rest):
The music of Igor Stravinsky
Martin Scheuregger,
Centre for Lifelong Learning
6.30pm,
Room ATB/056
and 057,
Seebohm
Rowntree Building,
Alcuin College
TICKET ONLY
SEE PAGE 8
Department of Politics Lecture
Wednesday 28 January
Roundtable on the Islamic State
A panel of experts
4pm to 6pm,
Room D/056, Derwent College
York Medieval Seminar
Tuesday 17 February
York: The making of a city 1068-1350
Dr Sarah Rees Jones,
Centre for Medieval Studies
TICKET ONLY 5.30pm,
SEE PAGE 8 Room K/133,
King’s Manor
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All lectures are
by free ticket only
Archbishop Holgate’s
Annual Science Lecture
Monday 16 March
Medical imaging
Dr Michael Wilson,
University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust
7.30pm,
National Science Learning Centre
Sponsored by the Institute of Physics
and Engineering in Medicine
Merchant Adventurers’
Science Discovery Event
HOLD THE DATE – Tuesday 31 March
Speaker to be announced on our website
TICKET ONLY 6.30pm, Merchant Adventurers’ Hall,
SEE PAGE 8 Fossgate, York
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York Society of Engineers Lecture
History of Art Research Seminars
Law, Government, and the Public
Thursday 8 January
The wider role of flood risk management in our society
Innes Thomson, Environment Agency
7.30pm, Room P/L001, Physics
Monday 19 January
Polyfocal perspective and the ‘Bewilderment’ principle
in medieval art and rhetoric
Mary Carruthers, University of Oxford
4.30pm, Bowland auditorium,
Berrick Saul building
Tuesday 27 January
Wikkountability:
Publicity and accountability
in the contemporary
counter-terrorist state
Professor Fiona de Londras,
Durham Law School
6.30pm,
Room LMB/002X,
Law and Management,
Heslington East
York Biology Lectures
Wednesday 14 January
Folding a protein: Nature’s origami
Professor Sheena Radford, University of Leeds
1pm, Room P/X001, Physics
Wednesday 18 February
Reservoirs of bovine TB in wildlife and
livestock: An environmental perspective
Professor Liz Wellington, University of Warwick
1pm, Room ATB/056 and 057,
Seebohm Rowntree Building
Wednesday 7 January
Berrick Saul Building
9am to 5.30pm
Wednesday 29 April
Dressed to kill: What do infectious disease agents
have in their wardrobes?
Professor Sunetra Gupta, University of Oxford
1pm, Room P/X001, Physics
School of Social and
Political Sciences Lectures
This January sees the second showcase
of some of the University’s finest research
with the return of York Talks on
Wednesday 7 January.
No specialist knowledge of the
subjects under discussion is required
and each speaker will present an aspect
of their research, in 15 minutes or less,
demonstrating its wider impact.
Visit our website to find out more
about our exciting, wide-ranging research
and what it could mean for our future.
www.york.ac.uk/events
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Thursday 15 January
Benefits Street: Culture of worklessness
and inter-generational inequality
Professor Rob MacDonald, University of Teesside
Thursday 5 February
Pressed for time: The acceleration of life in digital capitalism
Professor Judy Wajcman, London School of Economics
Thursday 12 February
Constructing the active citizen:
Political aesthetics and audio-visual form
Professor John Corner, University of Liverpool
Thursday 26 February
The contradictions of media power
Professor Des Freedman,
Goldsmiths University London
TICKET ONLY All lectures are by free ticket
SEE PAGE 8 only, and will take place at 4pm,
Room W/222, Wentworth College
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Monday 16 February
Rossetti on paper:
Re-examining the drawings
of a Pre-Raphaelite
painter-poet
Dr Colin Cruise,
Aberystwyth University
4.30pm,
Bowland auditorium,
Berrick Saul building
Tuesday 3 February
Why punish?
Professor Matt Matravers,
Department of Politics
6.30pm, Room LMB/002X,
Law and Management,
Heslington East
Learning from Human Rights Defenders
Friday 23 January
Working for social justice in Brazil
Valdênia Paulino Lanfranchi
and Renato Paulino Lanfranchi,
CAHR Visiting Fellows
1.30pm, Room V/045,
Vanbrugh College
Friday 6 February
Empowering women and girls
through theatre in Afghanistan
Abdul Hakim Hashemi Hamidi,
CAHR Visiting Fellow
1.30pm, Room V/045,
Vanbrugh College
Friday 20 February
Fighting against violence:
Teaching peace to youth in Mexico and Yemen
Ahmed Al-Kolaibi
and Irene Miramontes Montes,
CAHR Visiting Fellows
1.30pm, Room V/045,
Vanbrugh College
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Tuesday 10 February
EU migrants and
xenophobic law making
Dr Charlotte O’Brien,
York Law School
6.30pm,
Room LMB/002X,
Law and
Management,
Heslington East
Tuesday 17 February
One law for us,
another law for them?
Professor John Gardner,
University of Oxford
6.30pm,
Room LMB/002X,
Law and Management,
Heslington East
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