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Public lectures/seminars/eventsBusiness School 9Centre for Security Studies 11Centre for Idealism and the New Liberalism 12Classical Association, Hull and District Branch 13East Riding Archaeology Society 15Engineering 16English Lecture 18Ferens Distinguished Lecture 19George de Boer Biennial Lecture 20History Lecture 21History of Art Public Lectures 22Hull and District Theological Society 24Hull Geological Society 26Inaugural lectures 27Institute of Physics Sponsored Lecture 30Josephine Onoh Memorial Lecture 32Music special lectures and conferences 33Music research seminars 35Physical Sciences Seminar Programme 38Politics 50th Anniversary Lecture Series 39St John’s College Lecture 40University Public Lecture 41Wilberforce Institute (WISE) Public Lectures 42

Public lectures at Scarborough 43Religious services 44

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29 Sept Classical Association: Alexander the Great: the world’s greatest conqueror? Lecture Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 470119 13

3 Oct Inaugural lecture: Blood, fat and gas: the clot thickens Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6.00 pm 01482 466326 27

4 Oct Music research seminar: From Mindbenders to Unknown Pleasures: remembering Strawberry Recording Studios, 1967 –1993 Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus 4.15 pm [email protected] 35

5 Oct Annual English Lecture (Part of Larkin25): Philip Larkin and the end of the line Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6.00 pm 07917 876150 18

6 Oct WISE Public Lecture: ‘Mixture is a neoliberal good’: Fanon’s children and the WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, post-racial public sphere Hull, HU1 1NE 4.30 pm 01482 305176 42

6 Oct Ferens Distinguished Lecture: Title to be confirmed Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6.00 pm 01482 465845 19

6 Oct Hull and District Theological Society: The King James Bible: myth and monument Holy Trinity Church, Market Place, Hull 7.30 pm 01482 466548 24

12 Oct Physical Sciences Seminar: New vistas in catalysis and synthesis Lecture Room A, Chemistry Building,Hull Campus 4.30 pm 01482 465027 38

12 Oct Biennial de Boer Lecture (Geography Department): Water management in Leslie Downs Lecture Theatre, social-ecological systems: services, rights, obligations Ferens Building, Hull Campus 6.15 pm 01482 465352 20

13 Oct Annual History Lecture: Publishing secrets: the challenge of writing British Leslie Downs Lecture Theatre, espionage history Ferens Building, Hull Campus 6.30 pm 01482 465192 21

14 Oct WISE Public Lecture: Revealing Hidden Histories: The Life of Venture Smith Hull History Centre, Worship StreetHull, HU2 8BG 6.30 pm 01482 305176 42

19 Oct East Riding Archaeology Society: Mitigation impossible? Lecture Room 1, Wilberforce Building, The Conservation of Scheduled Monuments in Cultivation project Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 465543 15

20 Oct Politics 50th Anniversary Lecture: A View from the Foothills To be confirmed, Hull Campus 6.00 pm 01482 465845 39

20 Oct Hull Geological Society: A record of winter severity in the Holocene of the Northwest Balkans Department of Geography, Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 346784 26

21 Oct Stokowski’s transcriptions Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 4.00 pm 01482 462045 33

21 Oct Musorgsky–Stokowski, Night on Bare Mountain Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 4.30 pm 01482 462045 33

24 Oct Politics 50th Anniversary Lecture: Representing Hull Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6.00 pm 01482 465845 39

25 Oct Music research seminar: Exploring musical identities Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus 4.15 pm [email protected] 35

25 Oct Engineering: Routes to Registration Clinic Engineering Innovation Institute Building, Hull Campus 5.30 pm 01482 465818 16

27 Oct History of Art Public Lecture: Art and Belief: Devoting time to design: therecent exhibition of Italian altarpieces at the National Gallery Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6.00 pm 01482 465192 22

29 Oct Hull Geological Society: Geotourism Department of Geography, Hull Campus 2.00 pm 01482 346784 26

29 Oct Classical Association: Visit to Hull Museums Roman section Hull and East Riding Museum, High Street, Hull 2.00 pm 01482 470119 13

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1 Nov University Public Lecture: Japan’s energy policy – pre-Fukushima and post-Fukushima Tranby Room, Staff House, Hull Campus 1.30 pm 01482 465131 41

3 Nov History of Art Public Lecture: Displaying devotion in Renaissance Venice Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6.00 pm 01482 465192 22

7 Nov Inaugural lecture: Down at the doctor’s: how should GPs and their teams help people with mental health problems? Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6.00 pm 01482 466326 28

8 Nov Music research seminar: Soliloquy Cycle – sweet and/or sour? Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus 4.15 pm [email protected] 36

9 Nov Physical Sciences Seminar: Probing the chemistry of natural waters, soils and Lecture Room A, Chemistry Building,sediments with in situ dynamic measurements Hull Campus 4.30 pm 01482 465027 38

9 Nov Centre for Security Studies: Royal Air Force in transition To be confirmed tbc 01482 465800 11

9 Nov Business School: Big Thinking Allam Lecture Theatre, Esk BuildingHull Campus 6.30 pm 01482 463596 10

9 Nov Hull and District Theological Society: Biblical cities: holy and unholy Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 466548 24

10 Nov History of Art Public Lecture: Epstein’s Religious Works Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6.00 pm 01482 465192 22

14 Nov Centre for Idealism and the New Liberalism: Title to be confirmed To be confirmed tbc 01482 465800 12

16 Nov Centre for Security Studies: ‘A strategy for action’: using force wisely in the 21st century To be confirmed tbc 01482 465800 11

16 Nov Engineering: Get registered Engineering Innovation BuildingHull Campus 7.00 pm 01482 465654 16

16 Nov East Riding Archaeology Society: Recent portable antiquities finds from Lecture Room 1, Wilberforce Building, Lincolnshire Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 465543 15

17 Nov WISE Public Lecture: French perceptions of slavery in the Indian Ocean Basin WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, in the early modern era Hull, HU1 1NE 4.30 pm 01482 305176 42

17 Nov History of Art Public Lecture: Art and belief in the Renaissance: madonnas, miracles and museums Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 465192 23

17 Nov Institute of Physics Sponsored Lecture: Einstein’s universe Basil Reckitt Lecture Theatre, Ferens Building, Hull Campus 7.00 pm 01482 465050 30

17 Nov Hull Geological Society: Which came first – the dinosaur or the egg? Dinosaur eggs from a Chinese perspective Department of Geography, Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 346784 26

18 Nov Centre for Idealism and the New Liberalism: Title to be confirmed To be confirmed tbc 01482 465800 12

21 Nov St John’s College Lecture: Richard of Gloucester and the renewal of the York Mystery Plays Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6.00 pm 01482 466326 40

22 Nov Music research seminar: ‘How should we end this?’: creativity, knowledge and conduct at a jazz jam session Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus 4.15 pm [email protected] 36

24 Nov History of Art Public Lecture: Art and belief in Romanesque Yorkshire Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6.30 pm 01482 463596 23

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24 Nov Business School: Keeping it simple in a complex world? Responsible SR1/2, Nidd Building, Business School, leadership and the ethic of care in small firms Hull Campus 6.30 pm 01482 463596 9

29 Nov Music research seminar: Shakespeare and popular music Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus 4.15 pm [email protected] 37

1 Dec WISE Public Lecture: The Mother Benefactress and the Redeemer: Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna, Princess Isabel and the emancipation of WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, servile labour in Russia and Brazil Hull, HU1 1NE 4.30 pm 01482 305176 42

1 Dec Classical Association: Malevolent gods and Promethean birds: the dynamics Lecture Room, Graduate School, of Roman religion and the case of augury Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 470119 13

4 Dec University of Hull Carol Service Holy Trinity Church, Market Place, Hull 4.30 pm 01482 466326 44

5 Dec Inaugural lecture: On the pill: sewage and aquatic organisms Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6.00 pm 01482 466326 29

6 Dec Engineering: Domestic solar PV systems Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus 7.00 pm 01482 465818 17

6 Dec Hull Geological Society: Why a social scientist became a ‘denier’: an interdisciplinary journey from geology to politics and vice versa Department of Geography, Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 346784 26

7 Dec Engineering: Development in LCD technology Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 465654 17

7 Dec Josephine Onoh Memorial Lecture: Title to be confirmed LT1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus 4.15 pm 01482 465857 32

7 Dec Hull and District Theological Society: The spirituality of Stanley Spencer Seminar Room, Graduate School,Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 466548 25

21 Dec East Riding Archaeology Society: Street House Farm, North East Yorkshire: Lecture Room 1, Wilberforce Building, a multi-period archaeological site Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 465543 15

5–7 Jan Royal Musical Association: Annual Research Students’ Conference – a programme of presentations by music research students and distinguished invited scholars Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 01482 465627 34

18 Jan East Riding Archaeology Society: Iron and Arras culture: power in the Lecture Room 1, Wilberforce Building, landscape of Iron Age East Yorkshire Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 465543 15

19 Jan Business School: Conquering command and control commerce? Learning and SR1/2, Nidd Building, Business School, leadership for global sustainable supply chains Hull Campus 6.30 pm 01482 463596 10

19 Jan Classical Association: Roman cities from the outside in: the visitor’s perspective Danish Church, Osborne Street, Hull 7.30 pm 01482 470119 14

19 Jan Hull Geological Society: Members’ Evening Department of Geography, Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 346784 26

25 Jan Hull and District Theological Society: Martin Luther – Ghostbuster Seminar Room, Graduate School,Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 466548 25

6 Mar University of Hull Founder’s Day Service University Chapel, Hull Campus 6.00 pm 01482 466326 44

Business School

Responsible Leadership for a ComplexWorld Seminar SeriesHull University Business School and the Institute of CharteredAccountants in England and Wales

The aim of the RLCW Seminar Series is to select four exceptionalpeople who have the potential to make a real difference throughtheir ideas and suggestions, based on their research or practice. It brings together theory with practice and invites participationnot only in the seminar series but by putting learning intopractice.

This academic year brings four outstanding leaders of theory andpractice who dare to tackle complexity and care enough to offerresponsible solutions: Dr Laura Spence, Director of the Centre forResearch into Sustainability; Professor Stephen Brammer,Associate Dean for Research at Warwick Business School; MrRashik Parmar, Chief Technology Officer at IBM; and Ms GaynorColey, Managing Director of the Eden Project.

Keeping it simple in a complex world? Responsibleleadership and the ethic of care in small firms

Thursday 24 November 2011SR 1/2, Nidd Building, Hull University Business School, Hull Campus, 6.30 pm

Dr Laura J Spence, Director of the Centre for Research intoSustainability and a Reader in Business Ethics at Royal Holloway,University of London

The everyday life of a small business, while sophisticated in manyrespects, escapes some of the complexity of large, cumbersomebureaucratic organisations. This seminar explores the nature ofresponsible leadership in small firms, arguing for the ethics ofcare as a suitable lens through which to understand the form thatresponsible leadership takes in this fascinating and importantcontext, which combines the social, the economic and sometimesfamily relationships as well.

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Conquering command and control commerce? Learningand leadership for global sustainable supply chains Thursday 19 January 2012SR 1/2, Nidd Building, Hull University Business School, Hull Campus, 6.30 pmProfessor Stephen Brammer, Professor of Strategy and AssociateDean for Research at Warwick Business SchoolThe era of globalisation has had profound implications formanaging companies at the strategic and operational levels.Numerous recent cases show that firms continue to grapple withthe challenges of addressing sustainability in their supply chains.Why is this and what practices and approaches might companiesadopt in order to more effectively manage a global supply chainsustainably? In this seminar, alternative approaches to tacklingthe complexities of sustainability in global supply chains will bediscussed and evaluated.

Two further events will take place in London at the ICAEW.Further details will be available at www.hull.ac.uk/hubs.

Big ThinkingWednesday 9 November 2011Allam Lecture Theatre, Esk Building, Hull Campus, 6.30 pm(refreshments from 6.30 pm)Brendan Dineen, IBM’s Director of Demand Programmes for theUK and IrelandAs the creator of Deep Blue, a machine that defeated the world’sreigning chess champion back in the 90s, IBM has always beenknown for its thinking skills. Brendan Dineen will provide aninsight into IBM’s appetite for organisational change, its successin transforming its business model to include ROI, and itsapproach to remaining true to its strategic vision and measuringits success. Add to all this its aim to build a smarter planet, andthat really is big thinking. The lecture will be followed by a Q&Asession.

Further informationJulie Arnold, Hull University Business School:[email protected], 01482 463596, www.hull.ac.uk/hubs

Centre for Security Studies

Britain’s Approach to Making Strategy inthe 21st Century The Centre for Security Studies is pleased to host a number ofserving and former officers from Britain’s armed forces. The focusof this year’s series of lectures is on British strategy making in the21st century. Two speakers are confirmed; others will be added.For more information please see www.hull.ac.uk/pas under‘News and Events’ or contact Dr Matthew Ford [email protected] or on 01482 466309.

Royal Air Force in transitionWednesday 9 November 2011Venue and time to be confirmedAir Commodore Malcolm Brecht, CBE, MA, FRAeS, RAFAir Commodore Brecht is a pilot with more than 5,000 hours’ flyingtime and has been involved in numerous operations in Afghanistanand Iraq, commanded Basrah Air Station / 903 Expeditionary AirWing, RAF Brize Norton, and was NATO Commander of KandaharAirfield. Formerly Defence Team Lead on the Strategic Defence andSecurity Review at the Cabinet Office, he is currently with the AirStaff at the Ministry of Defence. Having been intimately involved inthe SDSR, Air Commodore Brecht will discuss the implications ofthe recent review and explore what defence reform means for theRoyal Air Force. He will go on to summarise recent RAF operationalactivities undertaken while defence has been in transition.

A Strategy for Action: using force wisely in the 21stcenturyWednesday 16 November 2011Venue and time to be confirmedCommodore Steve Jermy, MPhil, RN (Rtd), former StrategyDirector, British Embassy, KabulSteven Jermy retired from the Royal Navy in 2010, after a successfuland varied career that encompassed carrier aviation, sea commandand high-level staff appointments. His commands included HMShips Tiger Bay, Upton, Arrow and Cardiff, the 5th DestroyerSquadron and the Fleet Air Arm. His staff appointments includedthe MoD Directorate of Policy Planning and Principal Staff Officer tothe Chief of Defence Staff. He saw active service in the FalklandsWar, and deployed operationally to the Caribbean, to the firstBosnia crisis and to the Kosovo crisis. His final tour was inAfghanistan in 2007, as Strategy Director in the British Embassy inKabul. He will be discussing his recent book A Strategy for Action inrelation to recent operations in Afghanistan.

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Alexander the Great: the world’s greatest conqueror?

Thursday 29 September 2011 Lecture Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Preceded by the Annual General Meeting

Dr David Lonsdale, University of Hull

Dr Lonsdale joined the Department of Politics at Hull in 2006 afterholding posts at the University of Reading and King’s College,London. His main areas of research are in strategic studies andmilitary history, particularly strategic theory and its application tohistorical and contemporary strategic settings. His recentpublications include Alexander the Great: Lessons in Strategy(2008).

Visit to Hull Museums Roman section

Saturday 29 October 2011Hull and East Riding Museum, High Street, Hull. Meet in foyer 1.50 for 2.00 pm

Instead of a lecture, for this month’s meeting Paula Gentle willgive a guided tour of the Roman section of Hull and East RidingMuseum, which has collections, in particular the mosaics, ofnational importance.

Malevolent gods and Promethean birds: the dynamicsof Roman religion and the case of augury

Thursday 1 December 2011Lecture Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Joint lecture with the Roman Society

Dr Steven Green, University of Leeds

Dr Green is a specialist in the literature and society of Rome in thefirst centuries BC and AD, particularly the Augustan andNeronian periods, and has produced a major commentary on thefirst book of Ovid’s religious poem Fasti. Current projects includebooks on changing discourses on Roman astronomy in Latinliterature from Cicero to Manilius and on the Emperor Nero.

Classical Association

Title of lecture to be confirmed

Monday 14 November 2011Venue and time to be confirmed

Louise Knight on Jane AddamsJointly hosted by the Centre for Victorian Studies


Friday 18 November 2011Venue and time to be confirmed

John Cruddas, MPJointly hosted by the Centre for British Politics

Further informationSophie Appleton: [email protected], 01482 465800

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Roman cities from the outside in: the visitor’sperspective

Thursday 19 January 2012Danish Church, Osborne Street, Hull, 7.30 pm

Joint lecture with the Historical Association

Dr Penny Goodman, University of Leeds

Dr Goodman studied at Bristol and Oxford and taught at theUniversities of Oxford, Warwick and Reading and Queen’sUniversity, Belfast, before moving to Leeds in 2006. Her researchinterests centre round the organisation of space in Romanurbanism. Her publications include The Roman City and itsPeriphery: From Rome to Gaul (2006).

Further information Margaret Nicholson: [email protected], 01482 470119

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Mitigation impossible? The Conservation of ScheduledMonuments in Cultivation project

Wednesday 19 October 2011 Lecture Room 1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Dr Vince Holyoak, English Heritage

Recent portable antiquities finds from Lincolnshire

Wednesday 16 November 2011 Lecture Room 1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Adam Daubney, Portable Antiquities Scheme

Street House Farm, North East Yorkshire: a multi-period archaeological site

Wednesday 21 December 2011 Lecture Room 1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Steve Sherlock, Freelance Archaeologist

Iron and Arras culture: power in the landscape of IronAge East Yorkshire

Wednesday 18 January 2012 Lecture Room 1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Peter Halkon, Department of History, University of Hull

Further informationHelen Fenwick: [email protected], 01482 465543

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Domestic solar PV systems

Tuesday 6 December 2011Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus, 7.00 for 7.30 pm

The Energy Saving Trust provides free and impartial advice aboutenergy efficiency, insulation and renewable technologies. EmmaDavies from the EST will provide a guide on how to go aboutinstalling a renewable technology in your home, primarilyfocusing on solar electricity panels. Information will include howto identify if your house is suitable, how to make an income fromrenewable technologies, sourcing qualified installers and how tomake the most of your technology.

Further informationDr Philip Rubini, Department of Engineering:[email protected], 01482 465818

Sponsored by the Institute of Engineering and Technology,[email protected]

Development in LCD technology

Wednesday 7 December 2011Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Historical and technical development of LCDs from watches,clocks, calculators, though PDAs, mobile phones, to LCD TVs andlaptops.

Further informationAndrew Smith, Engineering Innovation Institute:[email protected], 01482 465654

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Routes to Registration Clinic

Tuesday 25 October 2011Engineering Innovation Institute Building, Hull Campus, 5.30 to 8.30 pm

Professional registration demonstrates your commitment toprofessionalism and recognises your skills and experience. If youare interested in booking an appointment, please send an emailto [email protected] with the heading ‘Humber – 25October’ in the subject line. You will need to provide details of thelevel of professional registration you wish to apply for, a contactphone number, your membership number (if applicable) and anapproximate time for your appointment. Twenty-minute meetingsare available between 5.30 and 8.30 pm.

Further informationDr Philip Rubini, Department of Engineering:[email protected], 01482 465818

Sponsored by the Institute of Engineering and Technology,[email protected]

Get registered

Wednesday 16 November 2011Engineering Innovation Institute Building, Hull Campus, 7.00 pm

Dennis Healey, IMechE

The presentation will advise engineers on the routes they canfollow to become chartered.

Further informationAndrew Smith, Engineering Innovation Institute:[email protected], 01482 465654

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Thursday 6 October 2011 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Dr Assem Allam

Assem Allam graduated from Ain Shams University in Cairo in 1960with a BSc in Accountancy and went on to complete a PostgraduateDiploma in Business Administration in 1968. However, as anoutspoken critic of Gamal Abdel Nasser (the then President ofEgypt) while working as a senior auditor for the Ministry ofFinance, Assem was imprisoned and tortured. He subsequentlyfled, initially arriving in Germany before moving on to the UK.

Assem studied for a Masters degree in the University of Hull’sDepartment of Economics while working as an accountant for amerchant banking group. In 1977 he joined Lincolnshire-basedgenerator manufacturer Tempest Diesel as Sales and FinancialDirector and was made Managing Director within a year.

Assem bought Tempest in 1981. In 1992 he renamed the companyAllam Marine and relocated to Hull. Initially Allam Marinemanufactured under its own name but – realising volume was thekey to business growth – later began to manufacture for othercompanies, thus becoming Britain’s largest independentmanufacturer and supplier of generating sets.

This innovative strategy has led to both Assem himself and AllamMarine Ltd winning a host of awards, including the Queen’sAward for Enterprise (2006 and 2010), Ernst & Young UKEntrepreneur of the Year (2006) and Yorkshire Exporter of theYear (2007). Mr Allam was last year placed at number 45 inManagement Today’s list of Britain’s leading 100 entrepreneurs.Allam Marine has three times been ranked among the top 100 UKprivate companies for profit growth by the Sunday Times.

Assem is a generous philanthropist. In 2009 he donated £1.5 millionto the University for a new biosciences research centre, while he is atrustee of the Daisy Appeal at Castle Hill Hospital, Hull and EastYorkshire Medical Research Centre and the British Egyptian Societyand a director of the Aswan Heart Centre in Egypt. In 2010 Assembought Hull City (saving the club from entering administration) andis presently the Tigers’ Chairman. He was awarded an honorarydegree from the University of Hull in July 2011.

Further informationLesley Dye: [email protected], 01482 465845

Philip Larkin and the end of the line

Wednesday 5 October 2011 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 to 7.30 pm

Carol Rumens considers musicality in poetry and specifically inLarkin’s poetry. She goes on to discuss the ways in which melodyis still relevant to 21st-century poetry, and attempts to trace thoseunder-noticed writers who continue in what might be broadlycalled the lyric tradition.

Professor Rumens is an acclaimed and prolific poet, dramatist,critic, editor and translator, and publishes a weekly on-linepoetry feature for the Guardian newspaper. She is a member ofthe Welsh Academi (now Literature Wales) and the Society ofAuthors, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a boardmember of the Philip Larkin Society.

Further informationMartin Arnold, Department of English: [email protected],07917 876150

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Ferens Distinguished Lecture

(Part of the Politics 50th Anniversary celebrations)

Publishing secrets: the challenge of writing Britishespionage history

Thursday 13 October 2011 Leslie Downs Lecture Theatre, Ferens Building, Hull Campus,6.30 pm

Professor Keith Jeffery, Professor of British History, Queen’sUniversity, Belfast

Further informationDepartment of History: 01482 465192

Water management in social-ecological systems:services, rights, obligations

Wednesday 12 October, 2011Leslie Downs Lecture Theatre, Ferens Building, Hull Campus,6.15 to 7.15 pm

Professor Keith Richards, University of Cambridge

Keith Richards is one of the world’s leading physical geographerswho, after training at Cambridge, lectured in Hull (1978–1984).His research focuses on modelling fluvial processes in riverenvironments ranging from Alpine glacial contexts to large-scaleAsian river systems. He also investigates how hydrological, fluvialand ecological processes shape floodplains and their ecosystems.In addition, Keith embeds these concerns within wider social andeconomic contexts – exploring how institutional structures forwater management develop, and how science and technologiesinflect environmental policies.

Keith is also pivotal within British geography. He was Vice-President (Research) of the Royal Geographical Society – Instituteof British Geographers (2004–2007) and Chair of the GeographySection, British Association for the Advancement of Science(2006). He chaired the Geography sub-panel for the 2008Research Assessment Exercise and repeats this role for the 2014Research Excellence Framework. Keith is also a former editor ofEarth Surface Processes and Landforms, and a past chair of theGeomorphological Research Group. Given this experience, he hasalso written on the prospects for geography and environmentalsciences in our 21st-century world.

Further informationDr David Atkinson, Department of Geography:[email protected], 01482 465352

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Art and belief in the Renaissance: madonnas, miracles and museums

Thursday 17 November 2011 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

John G Bernasconi, University of Hull

Art and belief in Romanesque Yorkshire

Thursday 24 November 2011Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Barbara English, Professor Emeritus, University of Hull

Further informationDepartment of History, 01482 465192

Art and Belief

Devoting time to design: the recent exhibition ofItalian Altarpieces at the National Gallery

Thursday 27 October 2011Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Scott Nethersole, Lecturer in Italian Renaissance Art, CourtauldInstitute, London

Dr Nethersole curated the highly successful National Galleryexhibition Devotion by Design: Italian Altarpieces before 1500(July – October 2011) and wrote the accompanying book.

In his lecture he will discuss his general aims in curating theexhibition, what he thought were its successes and failings andtalk through the decisions made in selecting themes for the roomsand the works to fill them. He will then focus on a few casestudies, particularly relating to construction, ‘as this aspect of theshow seems to have been very well received’, introducing somematerial that did not make the catalogue and would not havebeen evident from the exhibition itself.

Displaying devotion in Renaissance Venice

Thursday 3 November 2011Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Vicky Avery, Keeper of Applied Art, Fitzwilliam Museum,University of Cambridge. Before that she taught at WarwickUniversity. Her major study on Venetian bronzes, Vulcan’s Forgein Venus’ City: The Story of Bronze in Venice 1359–1650 is to bepublished by OUP/British Academy this October.

Epstein’s religious works

Thursday 10 November 2011 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Evelyn Silber, Professorial Research Fellow, University of Glasgow

Dr Silber was until recently Director of the Hunterian Museumand Art Gallery at the University of Glasgow. She was previouslyDirector of Leeds Museums and Assistant Director. She is theauthor of several books on Epstein and Gaudier-Brzeska.

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The King James Bible: myth and monument

Thursday 6 October 2011Holy Trinity Church, Market Place, Hull, 7.30 pm

A joint meeting of the Hull and District Theological Society andthe Hull Branch of the Historical Association

Dr Peter McCullough, Lincoln College, Oxford

The atheist Richard Dawkins recently stated, ‘Not to know theKing James Bible is to be in some small way barbarian’, while theformer Poet Laureate and Hull University lecturer Andrew Motionhas hailed it as ‘the cornerstone of our culture and language’. TheKing James (or Authorized) Version of the Bible has had anenormous cultural and religious impact on the English-speakingworld since its publication in 1611. To mark its fourth centenary,we are delighted to welcome to Hull Dr Peter McCullough. DrMcCullough’s particular expertise is in John Donne and especiallyLancelot Andrewes, arguably the most gifted of the AVtranslators.

Biblical cities: holy and unholy

Wednesday 9 November 2011Seminar Room, Graduate School, 7.30 pm

Professor Mary Mills, Liverpool Hope University

Although it has been only in this decade that the human racebecame predominantly urban, cities have been with us formillennia, shaping not only our behaviour but also ourunderstanding of ourselves, of the world and of God. In the first oftwo lectures on cities and the Bible, Professor Mary Mills will lookat how the interface between cultural geography and biblicalinterpretation can increase our understanding of the OldTestament prophets.

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The spirituality of Stanley Spencer

Wednesday 7 December 2011Seminar Room, Graduate School, 7.30 pm

Professor Keith Tester, University of Hull

Visitors to the University’s Art Gallery will be familiar withStanley Spencer’s painting Villagers and Saints (1933), the firstpart of a never-completed project intended to demonstrate hisconviction that the sacred and the secular are not separate butfully integrated. In this lecture, Keith Tester, Professor ofSociology at the University, will draw on insights fromcontemporary sociological literature to explore Spencer’ssacramentalising of the material world.

Martin Luther – Ghostbuster

Wednesday 25 January 2012Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism, did not believe inghosts. And yet his writings are filled with references to ghosts ofevery conceivable type, from poltergeists to phantoms and fromspectres to spooks. In this lecture, David Bagchi will argue thatthis intriguing paradox opens up new and revealing perspectiveson the German reformer’s thought, and on the origins of the newrelationship between the living and the dead which theReformation brought about in much of Europe. Dr Bagchi haswritten widely on the theology of Luther and the Reformation,including the main early-modern chapter in The Church and theAfterlife (2009).

Further informationDr David Bagchi, Department of History: [email protected],01482 466548

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Blood, fat and gas: the clot thickens

Monday 3 October 2011Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Professor Khalid Naseem, Professor of Cardiovascular Biology

The formation of a blood clot within an artery is known as arterialthrombosis. This usually affects individuals who already haveatherosclerosis or narrowing of the arteries. Togetheratherosclerosis and arterial thrombosis are responsible for heartattacks, strokes and peripheral vascular disease. These diseasesare the leading causes of mortality in the UK and consequentlythey impose a significant burden on the National Health Service.As these diseases develop there is a progressive dysfunction ofblood platelets. In this lecture the role of blood platelets inarterial disease will be examined and particularly how fat in theblood turns these protective cells into propagators of disease.

Professor Naseem gained his PhD and undertook postdoctoralstudies in the Department of Biochemistry at the Royal FreeHospital School of Medicine, where his work focused on the roleof lipoproteins in cardiovascular disease. In 1999 he joined theUniversity of Bradford as a lecturer in Biomedical Sciences andeventually progressed to become a Professor of CardiovascularBiology. Professor Naseem joined Hull York Medical School inFebruary 2009.

Further informationKaren Slater: [email protected], 01482 466326

A record of winter severity in the Holocene of theNorthwest Balkans

Thursday 20 October 2011Department of Geography, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Tim Horsfield, University of Hull

Geotourism

Saturday 29 October 2011 Department of Geography, Hull Campus, 2.00 pm

Joint afternoon meeting with Yorkshire Geological Society

Speakers include Chris Woodley-Stewart, Professor PatrickBoylan and Will Watts.

Which came first – the dinosaur or the egg? Dinosaureggs from a Chinese perspective

Thursday 17 November 2011 Department of Geography, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Martin Whyte, University of Sheffield

Why a social scientist became a ‘denier’: aninterdisciplinary journey from geology to politics andvice versa

Tuesday 6 December 2011Department of Geography, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, University of Hull

Members’ Evening

Thursday 19 January 2011 Department of Geography, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Further informationMike Horne: [email protected], 01482 346784, websitewww.hullgeolsoc.org.uk

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On the pill: sewage and aquatic organisms

Monday 5 December 2011Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Professor Jeanette Rotchell, Professor of Aquatic Toxicology

Aquatic organisms are exposed to a wide variety of environmentalcontaminants. Aquatic toxicologists aim to assess the possiblebiological impacts as well as using that knowledge to thendevelop early warning ‘biomarkers’ of damage. Sewage containsmany human-derived steroid hormones and the impact of theseon the reproductive system of marine organisms, particularlymussels and clams, will be discussed.

Jeanette Rotchell is currently a Professor of Aquatic Toxicology atthe University of Hull, as well as a Visiting Professor at the PacificBiosciences Research Center, University of Hawaii, and at EastChina Normal University, Shanghai. She is also a Private in theBritish Army (Territorials).

Her previous employment was at the University of Sussex, whichshe joined in 2001 as a Lecturer in Environmental Science(Biochemistry). Here she worked with colleagues from Sussex, LeHavre and Tohoku to move into the research area of endocrinedisruption.

Her postdoctoral work was conducted in the area of fish cancer,involving both a medical application, at Johns HopkinsUniversity, Baltimore, and an environmental application, at theUniversity of the West of England, Bristol.

Her education was conducted at the then Napier College ofCommerce and Technology, Edinburgh, with a general BiologicalSciences degree; Heriot-Watt University with a Masters in amarine subject; and Glasgow Caledonian University with ScottishOffice Agriculture and Fisheries Department sponsorship with aPhD on cancer in fish.


Down at the doctor’s: how should GPs and their teamshelp people with mental health problems?

Monday 7 November 2011Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Professor Tony Kendrick, Professor of Primary Care and Dean ofHull York Medical School

This lecture describes 20 years of fascinating research into thegeneral practice care of depression, schizophrenia and othermental health problems, which has informed NICE guidelinesand performance indicators in the national GP contract qualityand outcomes framework (QOF).

Tony Kendrick qualified in Medicine at St George's HospitalMedical School, London, in 1981. Following five years as a full-time GP in Surrey, he was awarded a national Mental HealthFoundation Research Training Fellowship, completing his MDthesis at St George’s on the care of people with long-term mentalillness in general practice. He subsequently became SeniorLecturer and then Reader in General Practice and Primary Care atSt George’s, while working as a half-time GP.

From 1998 to 2010 he was Professor and Head of the Departmentof Primary Medical Care at the School of Medicine, University ofSouthampton, where he carried out research into the care ofdepression, eating disorders, carers’ health and bereavement. In2001 he became Director of the Community Clinical SciencesDivision of the School, and in 2008 he was appointed AssociateDean for Clinical Research for the Faculty of Medicine, Health andLife Sciences.

Over the last 20 years Tony Kendrick has published six books,more than 80 research papers, and numerous book chapters andjournal articles. He has been invited to speak regularly atconferences in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand andEurope as well as across the UK.

He took up the post of Dean of Hull York Medical School inSeptember 2010. He is also an Associate Non-Executive Director atHull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust, and continues to practisepart-time as a GP in New Hall Surgery, Hull.


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Einstein’s universe

Thursday 17 November 2011Basil Reckitt Lecture Theatre, Ferens Building, Hull Campus,7.00 pm

Professor Brian Forster, Oxford University, and Jack Liebeck(solo violinist)

This lecture brings together Einstein’s favourite instrument, theviolin, and many of the concepts of modern physics that he did somuch to found. The performance begins with an introduction toEinstein’s life and involvement with music and how his ideashave shaped our concepts of space, time and the evolution of theuniverse. These slides are accompanied by music from J S Bach’sSonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, some of Einstein’s favouritemusic. The lecture is punctuated by other interludes of musicrelated to Einstein. Suitable for a general audience.

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Wednesday 7 December 2011LT1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm (with drinks reception afterwards)

Professor Jutta Brunnée, Metcalf Professor of Environmental Lawat the University of Toronto

Jutta Brunnée is a leading expert in international law and hasheld the Metcalf Chair since 2000. Prior to joining the Universityof Toronto, she taught at the University of British Columbia and atMcGill University; she also served as Scholar-in-Residence at theOceans, Environmental and Economic Law Division of theCanadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade,where she advised on the Biodiversity and Climate ChangeConventions. She holds Law degrees from Dalhousie Universityand Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, as well as an undergraduatediploma from the Université de Dijon.

Professor Brunnée’s research centres on international law andinternational environmental law, and she has published widelyon issues such as international law and international relationstheory, compliance with international law, the use of force, thedomestic application of international law, multilateralenvironmental agreements, and international environmentalliability regimes. Her most recent book (co-authored with S JToope), Legitimacy and Legality in International Law: AnInteractional Account (2010), was awarded the American Societyof International Law’s 2011 Certificate of Merit for a pre-eminentcontribution to creative scholarship.

The Josephine Onoh Memorial Fund was established in 1984, withthe aim of supporting and encouraging the study of internationallaw at the University of Hull. The first public lecture sponsored bythe fund took place in 1985, and the Memorial Lecture remains anannual event of great distinction, delivered by some of the mosteminent and influential international lawyers of our time.

Further informationAnn Ashbridge, Law School: [email protected], 01482 465857

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Stokowski’s transcriptions

Friday 21 October 2011Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 4.00 pm

Stokowski’s Transcriptions by Dr Lee Tsang

An introduction to Stokowski’s art of transcription and thedifferent versions of Night on Bare Mountain.

Dr Tsang is Director of Performance at the University of Hull. Hisresearch interests span timbre, music analysis, performance andfilm. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and thefounding director and principal conductor of the professionalchamber ensemble Hull Sinfonietta, which was awarded theUniversity of Hull Vice-Chancellor’s Prize in 2005.

Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 4.30 pm

Musorgsky–Stokowski, Night on Bare Mountain

Rehearsal Orchestra

Lee Tsang (conductor)

Stokowski, a master orchestrator with a pioneering approach toaudience engagement, is perhaps most famous for his role asconductor and arranger in Disney’s Fantasia. At this special eventyou have a rare chance to hear live his thrilling large orchestralarrangement of a Russian work that has captured the imaginationof generations.

The performance, led by members of Hull Sinfonietta, will featureschool pupils, students, teachers and local amateurs. Players whoare interested in participating on the day should contact Dr LeeTsang as soon as possible on 01482 465019 or [email protected].

Further information01482 462045 or [email protected]

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From Mindbenders to Unknown Pleasures:remembering Strawberry Recording Studios,1967–1993

Tuesday 4 October 2011 Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm

Dr Peter Wadsworth, University of Manchester

Founded in 1967, Stockport’s Strawberry Recording Studios wasone of the first UK professional recording studios outside London,and by the time it closed in 1993 it had become a major studiowithin the industry, playing host to a variety of local, nationaland international artists. As well as challenging some of the moreconventional narratives concerning music in Manchester,particularly in the 1970s, the study of Strawberry's history alsoraises some interesting questions. For example, how does thehistorian approach the study of an industry so rooted in scienceand technology? And how did Strawberry evolve from a workingstudio into a ‘site of memory’, simply represented by a blueheritage plaque, a name on the front of the building, a display inthe town’s museum and a website / Facebook page?

Exploring musical identities

Tuesday 25 October 2011 Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm

Dr Karen Burland, University of Leeds

This paper considers the role of identity in motivating individuals’musical participation in a variety of musical contexts. Drawing ona range of empirical studies investigating university musicstudents, studio producers, and jazz audiences, it exploresthemes of identity, motivation and transition and considers theapplication of this approach to understanding musical behaviour.

Royal Musical Association5–7 January 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus

Annual Research Students' Conference

A programme of presentations by music research students anddistinguished invited scholars, including the Peter Le HurayLecture by Professor Martin Cloonan (University of Glasgow) andthe Jerome Roche Prize Lecture by Dr David Irving (University ofCambridge). Among the highlights, the event will featurespecialist workshops and a concert of new music inspired byPhilip Larkin’s life and work.

Featured artists (in association with Hull Sinfonietta and thePhilip Larkin Society):

Sarah Leonard (soprano)Maria Insua Cao (clarinet / bass clarinet)Jonathan Gooing (piano)

Further programme and registration details to be released earlyNovember (see www.rma.ac.uk).

Further informationConference Director, Dr Elaine King: [email protected], 01482 465627

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Soliloquy Cycle – sweet and/or sour?

Tuesday 8 November, 2011 Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm

Dr Thomas Simaku, University of York

In this talk, Thomas Simaku will discuss the genesis andprocesses involved in his composition Soliloquy Cycle.

‘How should we end this?’: creativity, knowledge andconduct at a jazz jam session

Tuesday 22 November 2011Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm

Dr Mark Doffman, University of Oxford

Musical creativity has been explored largely at the level of theindividual and through disparate approaches – usually conceivedeither as detailed expressive behaviours in performance or asineffable innovation. With reference to a tranche ofinterdisciplinary research that moves towards a morecollaborative understanding of ‘creativity’, this paper examinesthe notion of being creative by analysing how musicians end ajazz standard at a jam session. In exploring this moment ofcollaborative creativity, the study looks to the relationshipbetween the mundane shaping of an ending and its occurrencewithin a cultural tradition that demands radical inventiveness onthe part of performers. Dr Doffman looks to the different sets ofknowledge that musicians draw on, analyses the momentaryinteractive conduct of the performers and thus sees creativity asan emergent amalgam – a blend of knowledge and conduct thatbrings a song to a close.

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Shakespeare and popular music

Tuesday 29 November 2011Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm

Dr Adam Hansen, University of Northumbria

This talk explores the relationships between Shakespeare andpopular music. It tries to address these questions: how haveShakespearean characters, words, texts and iconography beenrepresented and reworked through popular music; do all types ofpopular music represent Shakespeare in the same ways; if not,why not; and in what ways do the links between Shakespeare andpopular music challenge what we think we know aboutShakespeare, and what we think we know about popular music?Exploring this interaction reveals as much about the functions ofthe diverse genres of popular music as it does about Shakespeareas a global cultural form. In turn, this can tell us much about thepolitics of appropriation, production and consumption incontemporary cultures.

Further informationDr Alexander Binns: [email protected]

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A View from the Foothills

Thursday 20 October 2011 Venue to be confirmed, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Chris Mullin

The former government minister and Hull graduate Chris Mullintalks about his best-selling diaries.

‘Every once in a while, political diaries emerge that are soirreverent and insightful that they are destined to be handed outas leaving presents in offices across Whitehall for years to come…’ (David Cameron)

‘A political diary that stands with the best, alongside Alan Clarkand Chips Channon’ (Joan Bakewell)

‘The most wickedly indiscreet and elegant memoirs since those ofAlan Clark’ (Mail on Sunday)

Representing Hull

Monday 24 October 2011 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Rt Hon Alan Johnson, MP

Being a Member of Parliament for any constituency is a privilege.However, Hull is a city with a special history and being asuccessor to Marvell and Wilberforce makes the task moredaunting but much more enjoyable.

Further informationLesley Dye: [email protected], 01482 465845

New vistas in catalysis and synthesis

Wednesday 12 October 2011Lecture Room A, Chemistry Building, Hull Campus, 4.30 pm

Professor Andrew Evans visits us from the University ofLiverpool, Department of Chemistry. The event will be co-hostedby the Royal Society of Chemistry, from which Professor Evansreceived the Pedler Award for his innovative approaches in thecontrolled chemical synthesis of natural products.

Sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry

Probing the chemistry of natural waters, soils andsediments with in situ dynamic measurements

Wednesday 9 November 2011Lecture Room A, Chemistry Building, Hull Campus, 4.30 pm

Professor William Davison is based at the University ofLancaster’s Environmental Science Department. He received theSustainable Water Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry forhis major and lasting contributions to the field of aquaticenvironmental chemistry, including his invention of dynamicmeasurement techniques.

Sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry

Further informationDr Nicole Pamme, Department of Chemistry:[email protected], 01482 465027

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Tuesday 1 November 2011Tranby Room, Staff House, Hull Campus, 1.30 pm

Jun Arima

Mr Arima will first talk about various boundary conditions ofJapanese energy supply/demand, the development of Japan’senergy policy to date and then its possible direction afterFukushima, including the role of renewable energy.

Jun Arima is Director General, JETRO (Japan External TradeOrganization), in London, and Special Advisor on GlobalEnvironmental Affairs for the Ministry of Economy, Trade andIndustry (METI), Japan.

Before coming to London in April 2011, he held variousenergy/environment-related positions in METI and overseas,including Deputy Director General on Global EnvironmentalAffairs, METI (Chief Negotiator for the AWG/KP in the UNFCCC)(2008–2011), Counsellor, International Energy Negotiation,Agency of Natural Resources and Energy (ANRE), METI(2007–2008), Director, International Affairs Division, ANRE/METI(2006–2007), Head of Country Studies Division, InternationalEnergy Agency (2002–2006), and Director, Energy EfficiencyPolicy and Renewable Energy (1999–2001), Energy Advisor at thePermanent Delegation of Japan to the OECD (1996–99). Hispublications include Energy Policies of the IEA Countries (2003,2004, 2005 editions) and Energy Security in Europe (IFRI, 2003).He has a BA in Economics (1982) from Tokyo University.

Further informationHeather Budgen: [email protected], 01482 465131

Richard of Gloucester and the renewal of the YorkMystery Plays

Monday 21 November 2011 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Professor Richard Beadle

Richard Beadle is Professor of Medieval English Literature andPalaeography in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge,where he is a Fellow of St John’s College.

The York Mystery Plays were performed annually along the streetsof the city by its craft guilds in a theatrical run that stretched over200 years, from the late 14th to the late 16th century. This lecturelooks closely at an episode midway through the cycle's career, inthe 1470s, when Richard Duke of Gloucester was consolidatinghis power base in the north of England. It explores new evidenceabout how the single surviving manuscript containing the text ofthe plays came to be written down, and it proposes that the futureKing Richard III had a hand in promoting the York Corpus ChristiPlay (to give it its authentic name) as a renewed expression ofcivic pride during a period of economic depression in the city.


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During the 2011/2012 academic year, the Scarborough Campuswill host a series of lectures and events that are open to thepublic. Details will be made available online atwww.hull.ac.uk/scarborough.

‘Mixture is a neoliberal good’: Fanon’s children and thepost-racial public sphere

Thursday 6 October 2011 WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE, 4.30 pm

Dr Daniel McNeil, Lecturer in the Department of Media andCulture Studies, University of Newcastle

Revealing Hidden Histories: The Life of Venture Smith

Friday 14 October 2011Hull History Centre, Worship Street, Hull, HU2 8BG, 6.30 pm

Professor Robert P Forbes, Assistant Professor of American Studiesand History, University of Connecticut, Torrington

Organised in association with the Hull History Centre, the HullBlack History Partnership and the Beecher House Center for theStudy of Equal Rights, Connecticut

French perceptions of slavery in the Indian Ocean Basinin the early modern era

Thursday 17 November 2011 WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE, 4.30 pm

Dr Michael Harrigan, Assistant Professor in the Department ofFrench Studies, University of Warwick

The Mother Benefactress and the Redeemer: GrandDuchess Elena Pavlovna, Princess Isabel and theemancipation of servile labour in Russia and Brazil

Thursday 1 December 2011 WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE, 4.30 pm

Dr Shane O’Rourke, Senior Lecturer in the Department of History,University of York

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Sunday 4 December 2011Holy Trinity Church, Market Place, Hull, 4.30 pm

Mulled wine and mince pies will be served afterwards. Everyoneis welcome. Tickets will be available for collection from thereception desks in the students’ union and the Venn Buildingfrom early November 2011.

The University of Hull Founder’s Day Service

Tuesday 6 March 2012University Chapel, Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Everyone is welcome. A buffet supper will be served in the ArtCafe foyer immediately after the service.


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