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Public lectures/seminars/eventsCentre for Security Studies 7Classical Association, Hull and District Branch 8East Riding Archaeological Society 9Engineering lectures 10Ferens Fine Art Public Lectures 12Hull and District Theological Society 14Hull Geological Society 15Inaugural lectures 17Jay Appleton Biennial Public Lecture 20Mary Wollstonecraft Lecture 21Music research seminars 22Centre for British Politics – Norton Lecture 23Physical Sciences seminars 24Reading the Vulnerable Body seminar series 25Shakespeare Lecture 27Venn Lecture 28Victorian Lecture 29Wilberforce Institute (WISE) public lectures 30Religious services 31Public lectures at Scarborough 32

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27 Jan WISE public lecture: ‘The Key to India’: Southern Africa, Troop Movements WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, and Britain’s Indian Ocean World, 1795–1820 Hull, HU1 1NE 4.30 pm 01482 305176 30

3 Feb Ferens Fine Art Lecture: El Greco: The Greek of Toledo Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 464577 12

15 Feb Centre for Security Studies: The Death of Counter-Insurgency Council Room, Venn Building, Hull Campus 5.30 pm 01482 462071 7

7 Feb Inaugural lecture: More Malignant than Cancer – The Great Medical Success Story of the Last 30 Years Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 466326 17

7 Feb Centre for British Politics – Norton Lecture: The Politics of England Council Chamber, Venn Building, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 465800 23

8 Feb Music research seminar: Timbre in (Popular) Music Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus 4.15 pm [email protected] 22

16 Feb Hull and District Theological Society: Decoding the Florentine Frescoes: Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hidden Religious Meanings in the Church of San Lorenzo Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 466548 14

16 Feb Physical Sciences seminar: Bio-inspired Materials for Biosensing and Lecture Theatre A, Department of Regenerative Medicine Chemistry, Hull Campus 4.15 pm 01482 465027 24

16 Feb Reading the Vulnerable Body: Life and Temporality in Sickness Care Dearne Meeting Room, Dearne Building, Hull Campus 5.15 pm 01482 46???? 25

16 Feb East Riding Archaeological Society: The Monastic Estates of the Gilbertine Priory of Watton, East Yorkshire S1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 465543 9

17 Feb WISE public lecture: The Hobgoblins of the Middle Passage: The Cape WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade Hull, HU1 1NE 4.30 pm 01482 305176 30

17 Feb Hull Geological Society: The Chalk and Climate Change: The Greenhouse Connection Department of Geography, Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 346784 15

17 Feb Ferens Fine Art Lecture: Velasquez Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 464577 12

17 Feb Ferens Fine Art Lecture: title tbc Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 464577 12

17 Feb Classical Association: The Ship of State Danish Church, Osborne Street, Hull, HU1 2PN 7.30 pm 01482 470119 8

21 Feb The Mary Wollstonecraft Lecture: Professor Luce IrigarayThe Ethical Gesture Allam Lecture Theatre, Esk Building,towards the Other Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 465995 21

21 Feb Inaugural lecture: ‘What Will I Do if It Doesn’t Work?’ – Consumers, Cross-Border Shopping and the Law Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 466326 18

22 Feb Music research seminar: Jazz in Paris Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus 4.15 pm [email protected] 22

24 Feb Ferens Fine Art Lecture: Salvador Dali's Metamorphosis of Narcissus Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 464577 12

3 March Ferens Fine Art Lecture: Spanish Cinema Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 464577 12

4 March Music research seminar: Mahler’s Fourth Symphony in Performance Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus 3 pm [email protected] 22

8 March Founder’s Day Service University Chapel, Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 466326 31

9 March Reading the Vulnerable Body: Neurophenomenology: First-Person Dearne Meeting Room, Dearne Building,Experiences of Changed Bodies and Body Image after Cancer or Trauma Hull Campus 5.15 pm 01482 46???? 25


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10 March Classical Association: Tacitus and Varieties of Nationalism in Reformation Lecture Room, Graduate School, Germany Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 470119 8

15 March Music research seminar: Patrick Hadley’s Symphonic Ballad The Trees So High: The Idea of the Folk Song Symphony in Early-20th-Century British Music Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus 4.15 pm [email protected] 22

15 March Engineering lecture: Amendment to the 17th Edition Wiring Regulations Department of Engineering, Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus 7 pm 01482 465818 10

16 March Reading the Vulnerable Body: Reading and Health Dearne Meeting Room, Dearne Building, Hull Campus 5.15 pm 01482 465618 26

16 March East Riding Archaeological Society: Death Brought Us Together: Urns, Cooking Pots and the Early Anglo-Saxon Cremation Cemeteries of North Lincolnshire S1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 465543 9

17 March Hull Geological Society: Presidential Address by Stuart Jones and the AGM Department of Geography, Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 346784 15

23 March Jay Appleton Biennial Public Lecture: The Art of Landscape Leslie Downs Lecture Theatre, Ferens Building, Hull Campus 6.15 pm 01482 465352 20

24 March WISE public lecture: Where’s the Harm in That? – Immigration Enforcement, WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street,Trafficking and the Protection of Migrants’ Rights Hull, HU1 1NE 4.30 pm 01482 305176 30

25 March Annual Victorian Lecture: The Late-Victorian ‘New Man’ and the Millennial ‘Neo-Man’ Lindsey Suite, Staff House, Hull Campus 6 pm [email protected] 29

28 March Annual Venn Lecture: Making and Hearing Sound Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 465128 28

30 March Reading the Vulnerable Body: The Lived Body: A Medical Topic? Dearne Meeting Room, Dearne Building, Hull Campus 5.15 pm 01482 46???? 26

31 March Engineering lecture: The Design and Testing of the Neptune Proteus Tidal Department of Engineering, RobertStream Power Device Blackburn Building, Hull Campus 7 pm 01482 465654 10

4 April Inaugural lecture: How Special was the Anglo-American ‘Special Relationship’ in the Middle East, 1945–72? Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 466326 19

5 April Annual Shakespeare Lecture: No Holds Bard: Empathy and Cruelty in The Lindsey Suite, Staff House,Directing Shakespeare’s Comedies Hull Campus 6 pm 01482 465309 27

20 April East Riding Archaeological Society: Curses, Collapsed Walls and Lost Churches: Recent Work in Roman and Medieval Leicester S1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus 7.30 pm 01482 465543 9

4 May Reading the Vulnerable Body: Neurasthenia, Masculinity and Chronic Dearne Meeting Room, Dearne Building,Fatigue Syndrome in the Late 19th Century Hull Campus 5.15 pm 01482 46???? 26

10 May Engineering lecture: Project Icarus – Space Plane Department of Engineering, Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus 7 pm 01482 465818 11

25 May Hull and District Theological Society: Institutional Religion in a Seminar Room, Graduate School,Non-institutional Age Hull Campus 8 pm 01482 466548 14


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Centre for Security Studies

The Death of Counter-Insurgency

Monday 15 February 2011Council Room, Venn Building, Hull Campus, 5.30 pm

Professor Clive Jones, Professor of International Studies andMiddle East Studies, University of Leeds

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The Ship of State

Thursday 17 February 2011Danish Church, Osborne Street, Hull, HU1 2PN, 7.30 pm

Joint lecture with the Hull Branch of the Historical Association

Dr Roger Brock, University of Leeds

Roger Brock has written widely on Greek history and literatureand is at present working on a book on Greek Political Imageryfrom Homer to Aristotle.

Tacitus and Varieties of Nationalism in ReformationGermany

Thursday 10 March 2011 Lecture Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

David Bagchi, University of Hull

David Bagchi is a Senior Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History at theUniversity of Hull, specialising in the history and thought of theReformation. He is currently working on books about the conceptof heresy in the Reformation period and the media revolution inearly modern Europe.

Further informationMargaret Nicholson: 17 Sycamore Court, Park Grove, Hull, HU5 2UL, [email protected], 01482 470119

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The Monastic Estates of the Gilbertine Priory ofWatton, East Yorkshire

Wednesday 16 February 2011S1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Mike Stephenson, Worcester College of Technology

Death Brought Us Together: Urns, Cooking Pots andthe Early Anglo-Saxon Cremation Cemeteries of NorthLincolnshire

Wednesday 16 March 2011S1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Joint lecture with the Roman Society

Gareth Perry, University of Sheffield

Curses, Collapsed Walls and Lost Churches: RecentWork in Roman and Medieval Leicester

Wednesday 20 April 2011S1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm (AGM followed by lecture)

Dr Nick Cooper, University of Leicester Archaeological Services

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Amendment to the 17th Edition Wiring Regulations(BS7671: 2008)

Tuesday 15 March 2011Department of Engineering, Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus, 7 pm

The BS7671 (17th Edition) wiring regulations were originallyissued back in 2008, and the first amendment to the regulations isnow due for publication in July 2011. In this lecture, Mark Coles, asenior engineer from the Institute of Engineering and Technology,will discuss the technical aspects of this first amendment.

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

Sponsored by the Institute of Engineering and Technology

The Design and Testing of the Neptune Proteus TidalStream Power Device

Thursday 31 March 2011Department of Engineering, Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus, 7 pm

Professor Jack Hardisty will give an introduction to thebackground and future of the Neptune Proteus Tidal StreamPower Device.

Alternative energy sources for electricity generation are at theforefront of governmental policy. In the UK the Government hascommitted us to meeting a target of 10% of energy generationfrom renewable sources by 2010 and 20% by 2020 (DTI, July2006). Much of this renewable energy so far has been derivedfrom wind power since the technology is now well advanced andproven.

Marine renewable energy is available in the waves and tidalcurrents of the coastal water around our shores. It is clean andaccessible with the right technology. Neptune Renewable EnergyLtd (NREL) is currently developing two second-generation,commercially focused technologies to exploit both tidal and waveresources. These are the Neptune Proteus Tidal Stream PowerDevice and the Neptune Triton, a shallow water-wave powerdevice.

NREL has built a full-scale Proteus Demonstrator which wasbrought to the Humber in July 2010. Upon successful completionof trials with the Demonstrator, the world’s first tidal streampower array, consisting of advanced NP1500s, will be built anddeployed during 2011–12.

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

Sponsored by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and theInstitute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology

Project Icarus – Space Plane

Tuesday 10 May 2011Department of Engineering, Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus, 7 pm

Project Daedalus was a landmark theoretical engineering study todesign an interstellar probe undertaken in the 1970s. The studywas carried out by a volunteer group of members of the BritishInterplanetary Society (BIS), and their final design was a two-stage vehicle that used inertial confinement fusion engines toreach its selected destination, Barnard’s Star. Over three decadeslater, the opportunity has been taken to revisit this unique designstudy. Project Icarus is a Tau Zero Foundation initiative incollaboration with the BIS and sets out to design a successorinterstellar spacecraft, using current or near-future technologyand with other terms of reference similar to those of ProjectDaedalus. Robert Swinney, BSc, MSc, MIET, CEng, will introduceProject Icarus and provide the latest technical details and anoverview of the programme.

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

Sponsored by the Institute of Engineering and Technology

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A Celebration of Spanish Art and Culture

El Greco: The Greek of Toledo

3 February 2011Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6 pm

Xavier Bray, National Gallery, London

Velasquez


Dawson Carr from the National Gallery

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Salvador Dali's Metamorphosis of Narcissus


Professor David Lomas, University of Manchester

Spanish Cinema

3 March 2011Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6 pm

Sarah Wright, University of London

Further informationPat Du Boulay: [email protected], 01482 464577

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The Chalk and Climate Change: The GreenhouseConnection

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

Dr Mark Woods, British Geological Survey

Presidential Address

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

Address by Stuart Jones and the Annual General Meeting

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

Decoding the Florentine Frescoes: Hidden ReligiousMeanings in the Church of San Lorenzo

Wednesday 16 February 2011Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Dr Patrick Preston, retired Lecturer in Theology and ReligiousStudies, University of Chichester

For the last ten years of his life, the painter Jacopo Pontormo(1494–1557) worked in Florence’s San Lorenzo church on a seriesof frescoes on the subject of the Last Judgment. The resultshocked both the artistic and the theological establishment ofCounter-Reformation Florence. By the mid 18th century, thefrescoes had been destroyed. In this lecture Dr Preston, ahistorian of religious art, will attempt to unravel the mysteries ofPontormo’s frescoes from contemporary sources, and to discoverthe religious vision that motivated the man.

Institutional Religion in a Non-institutional Age

Wednesday 25 May 2011Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 8 pm(preceded by the Society’s AGM at 7.30 pm)

Revd Greg Hoyland, Director of the Centre for Religion in Society,University of York St John

We live in a society in which traditional patterns of social activityare changing fast. Voluntary associations such as politicalparties have been losing members in recent years; rural pubsand working-men’s clubs are struggling to survive. The internet iscreating virtual communities of people who may never meet inreal life. What does this mean for traditional religiousinstitutions – will they have to adapt or die? In this lecture, GregHoyland will consider the problem in relation to communityidentity. He has written on Anglican denominational identity inthe city of York, and is the co-editor of Peace and Reconciliation:In Search of a Shared Identity (2008).

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Inaugural lectures

More Malignant than Cancer – The Great MedicalSuccess Story of the Last 30 Years

Monday 7 February 2011Middleton Hall, Hull Campus

Professor Andrew L Clark, Professor of Clinical Cardiology andHonorary Consultant Cardiologist, Castle Hill Hospital

Heart failure is the single commonest medical cause ofhospitalisation in the United Kingdom. Its prognosis is worsethan for most forms of cancer. Despite this bleak outlook,enormous strides have been made in the management of heartfailure, leading to an approximate doubling of life expectancy,and for some patients remission of their condition.

Professor Clark will explore the nature of heart failure and itspathophysiology, and show how modern therapy works. The nextstage of heart failure care is going to focus on individualisation ofcare, and he will pay particular attention to the possibility thatexercise therapy, and not rest (as commonly supposed), isbeneficial.

Further informationKaren Slater: [email protected], 01482 466326

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How Special Was the Anglo-American ‘SpecialRelationship’ in the Middle East, 1945–73?

Monday 4 April 2011Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6 pm

Professor Simon C Smith, Professor of International History

This lecture will examine the extent to which the much-vauntedAnglo-American ‘special relationship’ had relevance in andapplicability to the Middle East region in the quarter-centuryfollowing the Second World War.

Simon C Smith was brought up in Kent and studied at RoyalHolloway, University of London. In 1989 he was awarded a firstclass degree and won the Derby/Bryce Prize for the best degree inthe School of History, University of London. Having been granteda British Academy Major Studentship, he stayed on at RoyalHolloway to read for a PhD. In 1992–93 he was a ScouloudiResearch Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. In 1994 hebecame a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, and hehas lectured in the History Department at Hull since 1997. In 2008he was promoted to Professor.

Professor Smith’s publications include British Relations with theMalay Rulers from Decentralization to Malayan Independence,1930–1957 (Oxford University Press, 1995); British Imperialism,1750–1970 (Cambridge University Press, 1998; Korean translation,2002); Kuwait, 1950–1965: Britain, the al-Sabah, and Oil (OxfordUniversity Press, 1999); Britain’s Revival and Fall in the Gulf:Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the Trucial States, 1950–71(RoutledgeCurzon, 2004); British Documents on End of EmpireProject: Malta (The Stationery Office, 2006); and ReassessingSuez 1956: New Perspectives on the Crisis and Its Aftermath(Ashgate, 2008). He is currently working on a study of post-warAnglo-American relations in the Middle East which will bepublished by Routledge in 2011.


‘What Will I Do if It Doesn’t Work?’ – Consumers,Cross-Border Shopping and the Law

Monday 21 February 2011 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6 pm

Professor Christian Twigg-Flesner, Professor of Commercial Law

Consumers are no longer restricted to purchasing goods fromtheir local high street, or even from traders within their owncountry. The internet has opened the door to cross-bordershopping. Moreover, the EU is actively encouraging consumers toshop across borders and make full use of the internal market.Creating a suitable legal framework for consumers has proved tobe a challenge. This lecture will critically evaluate past practicewithin the EU and consider alternatives for the future.

Christian Twigg-Flesner read law and completed his doctorate atthe University of Sheffield. He was appointed Professor ofCommercial Law at Hull in September 2010, having joined theLaw School as Lecturer in 2004 and having been successivelypromoted to Senior Lecturer (2005) and Reader (2008). He is alsothe Convenor of the Law School’s Trade and Commercial LawCentre. Before coming to Hull he lectured at Nottingham TrentUniversity (1999–2002) and at the University of Sheffield (2002–2004).

He has written widely on European consumer and contract law.His most recent monograph is The Europeanisation of ContractLaw (Routledge, 2008), and he edited the Cambridge Companionto EU Private Law (CUP, 2010). He is one of the editors of theinterdisciplinary Journal of Consumer Policy and a member of theAcquis Group, a pan-European research network on EU privatelaw. He is regularly consulted by the Law Commission and theDepartment for Business, Innovation and Skills. His currentresearch and teaching interests include European andinternational consumer law, transnational commercial law andthe sale of goods.


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The Ethical Gesture towards the Other

Monday 21 February 2011Allam Lecture Theatre, Esk Building, Hull Campus, 6 pm

PROFESSOR LUCE IRIGARAY

This year’s Mary Wollstonecraft Lecture celebrates 25 years ofGender Studies at the University of Hull.

Luce Irigaray is currently the most famous feminist writer in theworld. She is an interdisciplinary thinker who works betweenphilosophy, psychoanalysis and linguistics. She was originally astudent of the famous analyst Jacques Lacan. Her critiques of theexclusion of women from both philosophy and psychoanalytictheory have earned her recognition as a leading feminist theoristand Continental philosopher. Irigaray’s writings not only providea revolutionary rereading of the history of philosophy but alsoaddress urgent contemporary questions of political and socialviolence, cultural conflict and environmental degradation.‘Sexual difference’, she says, ‘is probably the issue in our timewhich could be our “salvation” if we thought it through.’ In thislecture she considers how the ethics of sexual difference can beextended to other categories of social difference.

Further informationKathleen Lennon, Department of Humanities:[email protected], 01482 465995

Sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the Centrefor Gender Studies, the Department of Humanities and theDepartment of Modern Languages

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The Art of Landscape

Wednesday 23 March 2011Leslie Downs Lecture Theatre, Ferens Building, Hull Campus,6.15 pm

Professor Stephen Daniels, FBA, University of Nottingham

Stephen Daniels is one of the world’s leading thinkers onlandscape. He was trained and works as a human geographer andis a key figure in that discipline – not least for his roles as apioneer of the ‘new cultural geography’ and as a pivotal voice ofthe humanities tradition within geography. In 2011 he will alsoserve as Chair of the Annual Royal Geographical Society –Institute of British Geographers Conference. Yet his highlyregarded books and articles also extend his influence into therealms of history, art history and landscape studies. Thisinterdisciplinary reach was recognised with his appointment asProgramme Director for the recent AHRC Landscape andEnvironment Programme, and he is currently the recipient of anAHRC Impact Fellowship.

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

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The Politics of England

Monday 7 February 2011Council Chamber, Venn Building, Hull Campus, 6 pm

Professor Arthur Aughey, University of Ulster

Professor Aughey is a Leverhulme Fellow engaged in research onEnglish political identity and is a Senior Fellow of the Centre forBritish Politics in the Department of Politics and InternationalStudies.

Further informationSophie Appleton, Department of Politics and InternationalStudies: [email protected], 01482 465800

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Timbre in (Popular) Music

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

Dr Mark Slater, University of Hull

Jazz in Paris

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

Dr Andy Fry, King’s College, London

Mahler’s Fourth Symphony in Performance

Friday 4 March 2011 Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus, 3 pm

Professor Paul Banks, Royal College of Music

Patrick Hadley’s Symphonic Ballad The Trees So High:The Idea of the Folk Song Symphony in Early-20th-Century British Music

Tuesday 15 March 2011Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm

Dr Roland Dee, University of Hull

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An interdisciplinary seminar serieslooking at the lived experience of illness

Life and Temporality in Sickness Care

Wednesday 16 February 2011Dearne Meeting Room, Dearne Building, Hull Campus, 5.15 pm

Professor Ingunn Elstad, Department of Health and CaringSciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Norway

Ingunn Elstad’s interests lie between philosophy (Aristotle,phenomenology) and nursing (Nightingale). This paper exploreshow the temporal features of sickness may warrant temporalcontinuity of nursing. Three temporal characteristics of sicknessare discussed: the immediacy of patients’ suffering, the basiccontinuity of life through sickness and health care, and theindeterminism and precariousness of sickness. The timing ofnursing acts is discussed. The paper explores how sickness ispart of the continuity of life and at the same time threatens thiscontinuity.

Neurophenomenology: First-Person Experiences ofChanged Bodies and Body Image after Cancer orTrauma

Wednesday 9 March 2011Dearne Meeting Room, Dearne Building, Hull Campus, 5.15 pm

Dr Susan Peake, University of Melbourne (Visiting ResearchFellow, University of Teesside)

Susan Peake has both a Masters and a PhD in medicalanthropology. Her current interest is in the social andneurological effects of amputation, including phantom pain andbody image. She is developing a project looking at experiences ofliving with amputation and prosthetics and a methodology toinclude this ‘first-person’ experience.

Reading and Health


Dr Josie Billington, School of English, University of Liverpool

Josie Billington has published on Victorian literary realism in themain – George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell and Leo Tolstoy. She is

Bio-inspired Materials for Biosensing andRegenerative Medicine

Wednesday 16 February 2011Department of Chemistry, Lecture Theatre A, Hull Campus,4.15 pm

Professor Molly Stevens, Department of Materials, ImperialCollege, London

Molly Stevens is a Professor of Biomedical Materials andRegenerative Medicine at Imperial. Her research group is focusedon both high-quality fundamental science and translation forhuman health. Research in regenerative medicine includes thedirected differentiation of stem cells, the design of novel bioactivescaffolds and new approaches towards tissue regeneration ofhuman bone and vital organs such as liver and pancreas. In thefield of nanotechnology the group creates new dynamicnanomaterials, biosensors and drug delivery systems.

Professor Stevens’s academic excellence is internationallyrecognised. In 2010 she was named by The Times as one of the topten scientists under the age of 40. In the same year she receivedthe Polymer International–IUPAC award for creativity in polymerscience, the Rosenhain Medal and the Norman Heatley Prize forinterdisciplinary research from the Royal Society of Cemistry.

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

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No Holds Bard: Empathy and Cruelty in DirectingShakespeare’s Comedies

Tuesday 5 April 2011Lindsey Suite, Staff House, Hull Campus, 6 pm

Carl Heap

Carl Heap is the Founding Artistic Director of the MedievalPlayers. He has adapted and directed versions of Pericles, Romeoand Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth and TwelfthNight for the National Theatre.

Further informationPaula Shaw, Department of English: [email protected], 01482465309

currently writing a monograph on Elizabeth Barrett Browning.She is also also interested in the relationship of reading tomental health. She is collaborating with colleagues in medicineand health sciences on research projects examining the benefitsof reading in respect of depression, dementia, neurologicalrehabilitation and personality disorder and is teaching literaturemodules for medical students.

The Lived Body: A Medical Topic?


Dr Anna Luise Kirkengen

Anna Luise Kirkengen has been in general practice in Oslo since1975. She is a specialist in general medicine. In 1998 she gainedher MD, successfully defending a dissertation entitled ‘TheEmbodiment of Sexual Boundary Violation in Childhood: A P.

Neurasthenia, Masculinity and Chronic FatigueSyndrome in the Late 19th Century

Wednesday 4 May 2011Dearne Meeting Room, Dearne Building, Hull Campus, 5.15 pm

Dr Jane Thomas, Department of English, University of Hull

Jane Thomas’s research spans the 19th and 20th centuries, withparticular emphasis on the work of Thomas Hardy. She has alsopublished on William Morris, Thomas Woolner, the interactionbetween literature and the visual arts, and Victorian womenwriters of the fin de siècle.

Further informationKathleen Lennon, [email protected], 01482 465618

Sponsored by the Centre for Research into Embodied Subjectivity,the Department of Humanities, the Department of English and theFaculty of Health and Social Care

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The Late-Victorian ‘New Man’ and the Millennial ‘Neo-Man’

Friday 25 March 2011Lindsey Suite, Staff House, Hull Campus, 6 pm

Professor Margaret D Stetz, University of Delaware

Margaret Stetz is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’sStudies and Professor of Humanities at the University ofDelaware. Her books include Facing the Late Victorians: Portraitsof Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection(University of Delaware Press, 2007); Gender and the LondonTheatre, 1880–1920 (Rivendale Press, 2004); British Women’sComic Fiction, 1890–1990 (Ashgate, 2001); a co-edited volume ofessays (with Bonnie B C Oh) on military sexual slavery, Legaciesof the Comfort Women of WWII (M. E. Sharpe, 2001); and a co-edited volume of essays (with Cheryl A Wilson) on two Victorianwomen poets, Michael Field and Their World (Rivendale Press,2007); as well as co-authored books (with Mark Samuels Lasner),such as England in the 1880s: Old Guard and Avant-Garde(University of Virginia Press, 1989) and England in the 1890s:Literary Publishing at the Bodley Head (Georgetown UniversityPress, 1990), which combine book history with cultural history.Her next book will be Oscar Wilde, New Women, the Bodley Headand Beyond (Rivendale Press, forthcoming). She is also at work ona digitised edition of Fantasias (1898), a volume of short fiction bythe Anglo-Irish feminist George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Dunne),for Rice University Press.

Professor Stetz has published more than a hundred essays andreviews about 19th- and 20th-century literature, film, publishinghistory, feminist pedagogy, politics, curatorial issues and otheraspects of culture in journals and edited collections, and she hasco-curated numerous exhibitions on gender, art and publishinghistory at venues such as the National Gallery of Art Library,Harvard University, the University of Virginia, Bryn Mawr Collegeand the Grolier Club in New York City.

Professor Stetz’s lecture will be followed, on Saturday 26 March,by a symposium on neo-Victorianism.

Further informationProfessor Ann Heilmann: [email protected]

Making and Hearing Sound

Monday 28 March 2011Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6pm

Professor David Howard, Professor of Music Technology,University of York

We are pleased to welcome David Howard to the University again,this time to present the 11th Venn Lecture and to tell us moreabout his work associated with the music industry. His lecturewill consider how mathematics is linked to the process of makingor synthesising sound acoustically and electronically, with anemphasis on sound generation for musical purposes. Effortsmade when synthesising sound are really only useful if any subtlechanges can be heard by us. The second part of the lecture willtherefore focus on how we ourselves perceive sound. Both audioand visual illustrations will be provided throughout the session,with references audio illusions.

Further informationDr Tim Scott, Centre for Mathematics: [email protected], 01482465128

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The University of Hull Founder’s Day Service

Tuesday 8 March 2011University Chapel, Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6 pm

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


‘The Key to India’: Southern Africa, Troop Movementsand Britain’s Indian Ocean World, 1795–1820

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

Dr John McsAleer, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

The Hobgoblins of the Middle Passage: The Cape andthe Transatlantic Slave Trade

Thursday 17 February 2011WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE, 4.30 to 6 pm

Professor Patrick Harries, University of Basel

Where’s the Harm in That? – Immigration Enforcement,Trafficking and the Protection of Migrants’ Rights

Thursday 24 March 2011Hull Campus, 4.30 to 6 pm

Dr Bridget Anderson, COMPAS, University of Oxford

Further [email protected], 01482 305176

Please join us for tea or coffee from 4.15 pm.

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Future eventsDetails of all public lectures should be forwarded to Karen Slaterfor inclusion in the next programme, which will be published inSeptember 2011. 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 yourname and address included in the Public Lectures/Events mailinglist, please contact

Karen Slater Marketing and Communications University of Hull Hull, HU6 7RX

01482 466326 [email protected]

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