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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 2012. Contact address: Karen Slater, Marketing andCommunications, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, [email protected].

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Public lectures/seminars/events Business School Lectures 9Centre for British Politics Norton Lecture 10Centre for Systems Studies Research Seminar 11Classical Association, Hull and District Branch 12Distinguished Drama Lecture 13East Riding Archaeology Society 14Engineering 15Ferens Fine Art Lectures 18Film Studies Public Lecture 20Garnet Rees Memorial Lecture 21Hull and District Theological Society 22Hull Geological Society 24Inaugural Lectures 26Institute of European Public Law 30Institute of Physics Sponsored Lectures 31Mary Wollstonecraft Lecture 32Music Lecture 33Music Research Seminars 34Physical Sciences Seminar Programme 37Politics 50th Anniversary Lecture Series (Part 2) 38Shakespeare Lecture 39Victorian Lecture 40Wilberforce Institute (WISE) Public Lectures 41

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19 January Classical Association: Roman cities from the outside in: the visitor’s perspective Danish Church, Osborne Street, Hull 7.30pm 01482 470119 12

25 January Engineering Lecture: Nissan Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus 7.00pm 01482 465654 1525 January Hull and District Theological Society: Martin Luther – Ghostbuster Seminar Room, Graduate School,

Hull Campus 7.30pm 01482 466548 221 February Centre for Systems Studies Seminar: Rethinking soft OR: models as Seminar Room 3, Derwent Building, susan.humphrey

boundary objects Hull Campus 1.30pm @hull.ac.uk 116 February Inaugural Lecture: Living in a microbial world: the good, the bad and the

beautiful Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6.00pm 01482 466326 267 February Business School Lecture: Can we inspire a sustainable future by combining

societal and technological changes? The Great Hall, ICAEW, London EC2R 6EA 01482 463183 98 February Physical Sciences Seminar: Current and emerging trends in liquid crystal Lecture Room A, Chemistry Building,

research Hull Campus 4.15pm 01482 465027 378 February Ferens Fine Art Lecture: ‘The excessive realism of his mental vision’:

Dickens and art Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6.00pm 01482 465620 188 February Engineering Lecture: Formula Student Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus 7.00pm 01482 465654 159 February Institute of Physics Sponsored Lecture: Evolution of biological complexity Basil Reckitt Lecture Theatre,

Ferens Building, Hull Campus 7.00pm 01482 465050 3110 February Centre for British Politics Norton Lecture: Better o! out? Britain and Europe Council Chamber, Venn Building,

Hull Campus 6.00pm 01482 465800 1013 February Ferens Fine Art Lecture: Sketches by Boz: Charles Dickens, visual culture

and the theatre Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6.00pm 01482 465620 1815 February Film Studies Lecture: Uncanny children, haunted houses, hidden rooms: Lecture Room 28, Wilberforce Building,

Children’s Gothic television in the 1970s and 80s Hull Campus 4.15pm 01482 466907 2015 February East Riding Archaeology Society: The archaeology of the Easington to Lecture Room 1, Wilberforce Building,

Ganstead pipeline Hull Campus 7.30pm 01482 465543 1416 February Hull and District Theological Society and the Hellenic Society Joint

Lecture: Pompeii and St Paul: using Pompeian evidence to think about Seminar Room, Graduate School, early house church life Hull Campus 7.30pm 01482 470119 22

16 February Hull Geological Society: Mineralogical misfits: minerals formed through biological intervention, and anthropogenic substances such as slag Department of Geography, Hull Campus 7.30pm 01482 346784 24

20 February Physical Sciences Seminar: Structural characterisation of biological Lecture Room C, Chemistry Building, macromolecules Hull Campus 4.15pm 01482 465027 37

20 February Inaugural Lecture: ‘How do I know what I mean until I see what I say?’ Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6.00pm 01482 466326 2721 February Music Seminar: The metaphor of voice in Stravinsky’s music Lecture Room 201, Larkin Building,

Hull Campus 4.15pm [email protected] 3422 February Engineering Lecture: Siemens wind turbines Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus 7.00pm 01482 465818 1623 February WISE Public Lecture: Defending the colonies against malicious attacks of WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street,

philanthropy: Scottish imperial networks and the anti-abolition campaigns Hull HU1 1NE 4.30pm 01482 305176 4123 February Ferens Fine Art Lecture: Dickens and London Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6.00pm 01482 465620 1823 February Politics 50th Anniversary Lecture Series Part 2: Reform and Parliament Allam Lecture Theatre, Hull Campus 7.00pm 01482 465845 38

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1 March Ferens Fine Art Lecture: Dickens and the picturesque Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6.00pm 01482 465620 182 March Institute of European Public Law Lecture: Public law protection under the Lecture Theatre 29, Wilberforce Building,

Human Rights Act 1998: the rise and fall of Article 6 ECHR Hull Campus 2.15 pm 01482 466055 305 March Inaugural Lecture: Narrative lifelines for a world in peril Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6.00pm 01482 466326 286 March Music Seminar: Roberto Gerhard revisited Lecture Room 201, Larkin Building,

Hull Campus 4.15pm [email protected] 346 March Founder’s Day Service University Chapel, Middleton Hall,

Hull Campus 6.00pm 01482 466326 448 March Ferens Fine Art Lecture: Kindred spirits: the influence of Charles Dickens

on the cinematic artistry of Charlie Chaplin Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6.00pm 01482 465620 1810 March Music lecture: Professor Brian Newbould on Beethoven Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6.30pm 01482 465631 3312 March Mary Wollstonescraft Lecture: The good embodied life: thinking with

Spinoza Meaux Room, Sta! House, Hull Campus 6.00pm 01482 465995 3213 March Engineering Lecture: Nuclear safety – seismic and external hazards Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus 7 for 7.30 pm 01482 465818 1715 March Garnet Rees Memorial Lecture: Reclaiming the middlebrow Meaux Room, Sta! House, Hull Campus 4.30pm

to 6.30pm 01482 466372 2115 March WISE Public Lecture: Where’s the harm in that? Immigration WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street,

enforcement, tra"cking and the protection of migrants’ rights Hull HU1 1NE 4.30pm 01482 305176 4115 March Classical Association: Euripides: misanthrope, misogynist, Lecture Room, Graduate School,

misunderstood? Hull Campus 7.30pm 01482 470119 1219 March Distinguished Drama Lecture: Vishal Bhardwaj’s Shakespeare on film: Donald Roy Theatre, Gulbenkian Centre,

questions of generic and cultural exchange Hull Campus 12.30pm 01482 465972 1319 March Inaugural Lecture: Standing on the shoulders of giants: the contribution

of primary care to improving cancer outcomes Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6.00pm 01482 466326 2920 March Music Seminar: The performer as listener: the practice of practising Lecture Room 201, Larkin Building,

Morton Feldman’s late piano music Hull Campus 4.15pm [email protected] 3521 March Physical Sciences Seminar: Luminescence: providing a glowing report Lecture Room A, Chemistry Building,

Hull Campus 4.15pm 01482 465027 3721 March Hull and District Theological Society: Secular indoctrination? The very Seminar Room, Graduate School,

idea of value-free education Hull Campus 7.30pm 01482 466548 2321 March East Riding Archaeology Society: Ticknall pots and potters: research in the Lecture Room 1, Wilberforce Building,

round – a Derbyshire pottery industry revealed Hull Campus 7.30pm 01482 465543 1422 March Politics 50th Anniversary Lecture Series Part 2: Multiculturalism Middleton Hall, Hull Campus 6.00pm 01482 465845 3822 March Hull Geological Society: People and the environment: a geoarchaeological

approach to the Yorkshire Wolds landscape Department of Geography, Hull Campus 7.30pm 01482 346784 2427 March Business School Lecture: Can accountants save the world? The Great Hall, ICAEW, London

EC2R 6EA 01482 463183 911 April Engineering Lecture: Deep/Neptune The Deep, Hull 7.00pm 01482 465818 1718 April East Riding Archaeology Society: The archaeology of the Easington to Lecture Room 1, Wilberforce Building,

Paull pipeline Hull Campus 7.30pm 01482 465543 1419 April WISE Public Lecture: The great African slave revolt of 1825: Cuba and WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street,

the fight for freedom in Matanzas Hull HU1 1NE 4.30pm 01482 305176 41

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19 April Institute of Physics Sponsored Lecture: Exploring the Solar System with Basil Reckitt Lecture Theatre, robotic spacecraft and European e!orts to explore Uranus Ferens Building, Hull Campus 7.00pm 01482 465050 31

23 April Annual Shakespeare Lecture: Shakespeare from the page to the stage Lindsey Suite, Sta! House, Hull Campus 6.00pm 01482 465309 3924 April Music Seminar: The new arpeggione Lecture Room 201, Larkin Building,

Hull Campus 4.15pm [email protected] 363 May WISE Public Lecture: Anti-slavery, British imperialism and the scramble WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street,

for Africa Hull HU1 1NE 4.30pm 01482 305176 4110 May Victorian Lecture: Art and the literary in Victorian England Myton Suite, Sta! House, Hull Campus 6.00pm 01482 466918 4016 May Hull and District Theological Society: God save the Queen: the spiritual

dimension of monarchy Seminar Room, Graduate School 8.00pm 01482 466548 2326 June WISE Public Lecture: Performing the unspeakable: post Truth and WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street,

Reconciliation Commission Hull HU1 1NE 7.00pm 01482 305176 42

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Can we inspire a sustainable future by combiningsocietal and technological changes?

Tuesday 7 February 2012The Great Hall, ICAEW, London, EC2R 6EA

Rashik Parmar, IBM’s Chief Technology O"cer for North EastEurope, a Distinguished Engineer and a member of the IBMAcademy of Technology

This session will explore an approach of combining societalchanges led by ‘digital natives’ and the technological advances toinspire the next wave of change programmes. The intersection ofthese worlds highlights and helps prioritise the issues that shouldbe focused on. It also touches on the complex, interconnectedrange of stakeholders who need to invest if we are to succeed,concluding with some case-study examples and showing thekinds of inspiring visions that can drive tangible progress towardsa sustainable future.

Can accountants save the world?

Tuesday 27 March 2012 The Great Hall, ICAEW, London, EC2R 6EA

Gay Coley, Managing Director, Eden Project

Gay Coley joined Eden in 1997 as Finance Director, when themulti-award-winning project was based in a garden shed in anursery, shared by a few passionate champions. In the 14 yearssince, with her hand firmly on the tiller, Eden has attracted 13million visitors, generated more than £1 billion for the regionaleconomy and sustained 500 jobs at the former clay quarry near St Austell, Cornwall, and thousands more beyond. Now ManagingDirector, Gay is a relentless advocate of daring to dream andorganising to deliver. She championed the governance structurethat has enabled Eden to become a model social enterprise. She iscurrently leading the strategy to extend Eden’s influentialenvironmental brand and programmes across the world.

Further informationIan Calvert, Hull University Business School:[email protected], 01482 463183

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Friday 10 February 2012Council Chamber, Venn Building, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm(followed by a wine reception at 7.15 in the Tranby Room, Sta! House)

Professor Andrew Gamble, FBA, University of Cambridge

A wine reception will follow at 7.15 pm in the Tranby Room, Sta! House.

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

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Rethinking soft OR: models as boundary objects

Wednesday 1 February 2012SR3, Derwent Building, Hull Campus, 1.30 pm

Professor L Alberto Franco, Hull University Business School

This presentation pays attention to how groups use models withinthe context of soft OR interventions. This focus is critical becauseit can shed light on the mechanisms through which models a!ectgroup interaction and, ultimately, the intervention outcomes. Tothis end Professor Franco draws on the boundary objectsliterature, and characterises model-supported group problemsolving in terms of the relative complexity of the ‘boundaries’traversed by those involved in tackling the problem of concern.This characterisation enables us to produce a framework thatconceptualises models as boundary objects with specific roles,uses and e!ects according to the boundary faced in groupinteraction. The framework is then illustrated via a series of casevignettes drawn from an ongoing research programme studyingthe impact of soft OR interventions in multi-organisationalsettings. Finally, Professor Franco discusses the conceptual andprescriptive value of the framework, and identifies implicationsfor research into the evaluation of soft OR interventions.

Alberto Franco is Professor of Problem Structuring Methods atHUBS. He also holds visiting posts at Radboud University,Nijmegen (Netherlands), IE Business School (Spain) andUniversidad del Pacifico (Peru). Prior to joining Hull, he worked atthe University of Warwick, the University of Strathclyde and theLondon School of Economics. His main research interests focuson evaluating the impact of model-supported dialogue onstrategising, decision making and collaborative problem solving.His work is regularly published in academic journals such as theEuropean Journal of Operational Research, Omega, the Journal ofthe Operational Research Society and Group Decision andNegotiation. He has extensive experience in areas such as issuemanagement. strategy evaluation, value-focused thinking,uncertainty management and resource allocation, and he has ledmore than 60 consulting and action research projects in theconstruction, transport, hospitality, health, legal services, highereducation, government and defence sectors.

Further informationSusan Humphrey, Hull University Business School:[email protected]

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Vishal Bhardwaj’s Shakespeare on film: questions ofgeneric and cultural exchange

Monday 19 March 2012 Donald Roy Theatre, Gulbenkian Centre, Hull Campus, 12.30 pm

Professor Shormishtha Panja, University of Delhi

The Department of Drama and Music is delighted to hostProfessor Shormistha Panja, Head of English at the University ofDelhi and President of the Shakespeare Society of India, who willspeak on recent Indian film adaptations and appropriations bythe award-winning Bollywood director Vishal Bhardwaj of two ofShakespeare’s greatest tragedies: Othello and Macbeth. ProfessorPanja has lectured and taught extensively in India, Europe andthe USA and has published numerous critically acclaimed studiesin the areas of Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, postcolonialliteratures, visual culture, and feminism and gender studies.

Further informationDr Christian Billing: [email protected], 01482 465972

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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

Penny Goodman, University of Leeds

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

Euripides: misanthrope, misogynist, misunderstood?

Thursday 15 March 2012 Lecture Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Karla VickersKarla Vickers taught Classics for 36 years in the Wirral and, morerecently, at Hymers College. She has also contributed to theteaching of Latin at the University of Hull and is a past Presidentof this branch of the Classical Association.

Further informationMargaret Nicholson: [email protected], 01482 470119

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The archaeology of the Easington to Ganstead pipeline

Wednesday 15 February 2012Lecture Room 1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Paul Flintoft, Network Archaeology

Ticknall pots and potters: research in the round – a Derbyshire pottery industry revealed

Wednesday 21 March 2012Lecture Room 1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Janet Spavold and Sue Brown

The archaeology of the Easington to Paull pipeline

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

Stephen Rowland, Oxford Archaeology North

Further informationHelen Fenwick, Department of History: [email protected],01482 465543

Engineering

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Wednesday 25 January 2012Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus, 6:30 for 7.00 pm start

Mark Fowler, a senior engineer from Nissan, will be giving a talkon the future of zero carbon motor vehicles.

Nissan LEAF, the world’s first a!ordable, zero-emission car hasbeen awarded the 2011 Car of the Year. Designed specifically forlithium-ion battery-powered chassis, Nissan LEAF is a medium-size hatchback that comfortably seats five adults and has a rangeof around 100 miles to satisfy real-world customer requirements.The talk will o!er an insight into this breakthrough electricvehicle.

Formula Student

Wednesday 8 February 2012 Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus, 7.00 pm

Formula student is an annual event run by the IMechE(Institution of Mechanical Engineers) where teams of studentsfrom around the world race cars which they have designed andmanufactured against each other. Students from the University ofHull have come together to form a team with the view ofcompeting in the 2012 event. A current Formula Student TeamCaptain from She"eld University will present his experiences ofFormula Student before a Formula Student alumni talks about thebenefits of the competition to his career. The event will finish witha talk from the Captain of the Hull University team and theunveiling of the first car which is to be raced at the 2012competition.

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

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11 April 2012The Deep, Hull, 7.00 pm

Professor Jack Hardisty, University of Hull

The experimental Neptune Proteus tidal stream power device hasbeen installed on the north bank of the Humber Estuary. This talkdescribes the analysis of the resource using harmonic methodsand the analysis of the technology using CFD and FEA techniqueswhich were undertaken as part of the Proteus’ design phase. Theconstruction and deployment of the device are then describedfollowed by an explanation of the electrical and electronic controlsystems necessary to generate G59 compatible power forconnection to grid. Data from the experimental device arediscussed in the context of the development of the massproduction design and supply chain systems and of thedevelopment of the Renewables industry in the Humber Region.

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

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Siemens wind turbines

Wednesday 22 February, 2012Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus, 7.00 for 7.30 pm

Matthew Knight, Business Development Director – Round 3,Siemens Energy

Britain has the best o!shore wind resource in Europe: 50 GW ofprojects are planned, representing an investment of around £150billion. But building the wind farms is only part of the story.Connecting o!shore wind farms to the onshore grid presents awhole string of challenges – planning, regulation and financingas well as the practical issues of trying to put electrical equipmentin the midst of the sea. This talk will cover these technical andnon-technical issues, progress to date and the future for o!shoreelectricity grids.

Nuclear safety – seismic and external hazards

Tuesday 13 March, 2012Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus, 7.00 for 7.30 pm

Andrew CoatsworthIn the light of recent events surrounding the Fukushima Daiichinuclear disaster, this seminar will address the topic of nuclearsafety with attention to seismic and external hazards. Theseminar will be presented by Andrew Coatsworth, CapabilityLeader for Seismic, External Hazards and Geotechnical Centre ofExpertise Civil, Structural & Architectural DepartmentEngineering Directorate Sellafield Ltd

Prior to joining Sellafield, Andrew worked for almost twenty yearsat NII (now the O"ce of Nuclear Regulation), and led NII’sregulation of civil engineering and external hazards aspects ofnuclear safety cases, including that of the Westinghouse AP1000nuclear power reactor currently being considered for the UK.

During that time he worked on the concept of the IntelligentCustomer as a regulatory expectation. Prior to joining NII Andrewled a team to carry out the Sellafield Seismic Damage Assessmentas an input to the Sellafield Seismic Site Emergency Plan.

Further informationDepartment of Engineering, [email protected], 01482 465818

Sponsored by the Institution of Engineering and Technology –[email protected]

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‘The excessive realism of his mental vision’: Dickensand art

Wednesday 8 February 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Dr John Drew, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University ofBuckingham

Sketches by Boz: Charles Dickens, visual culture andthe theatre

Monday 13 February 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Professor Kate Newey, Department of Drama and Theatre Arts,University of Birmingham

Dickens and London

Thursday 23 February 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Professor Andrew Sanders, University of Durham

Dickens and the picturesque

Thursday 1 March 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Professor Malcolm Andrews, University of Kent

Kindred spirits: the influence of Charles Dickens onthe cinematic artistry of Charlie Chaplin

Thursday 8 March 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Professor Neil Sinyard

Further informationMarianne Lewsley-Stier, [email protected], 01482 465620

The Ferens Fine Art Lecture Series 2012 is run in conjunction withthe University of Hull’s Victorian Studies Centre.

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Reclaiming the middlebrow

Thursday 15 March 2012Meaux Room, Sta! House, Hull Campus, 4.30 pm to 6.30 pm

Professor Diana Holmes, School of Modern Languages andCultures, University of Leeds

Professor Holmes will talk about French female-authored novelsthat have won critical acclaim but have also found a wide popularreadership, thus crossing the divide between high and popularculture. Professor Holmes teaches 20th- and 21st-century cultureat Leeds. She has published widely on French women writers andon French film.

Further informationAngela Kimyongür, Department of Modern Languages:[email protected], 01482 466372

Sponsored by the Garnet Rees Memorial Fund

Uncanny children, haunted houses, hidden rooms:Children’s Gothic television in the 1970s and 80s

Wednesday 15 February 2012Lecture Room 28, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm

Helen Wheatley, Associate Professor in Film and TelevisionStudies at the University of Warwick

Helen Wheatley is the author of Gothic Television (2006) and theeditor of Re-viewing Television History: Critical Issues in TelevisionHistoriography (2007). She is currently undertaking research onthe notion of television spectacle and visual pleasure ontelevision and is also co-investigator on the AHRC-funded projectA History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947–1989.

This presentation will examine two key moments in thedevelopment of Gothic television for children: (mainly) originalserials produced for ITV in the 1970s and Gothic heritage dramasproduced by the BBC in the 1980s. In looking at these dramas,Helen is particularly interested in the child hero, their placewithin the domestic spaces of these dramas, and theirrelationship to the idea of the uncanny. She will pay particularattention to the representation of interstitial or hidden spaceswithin these texts and the ways in which the young protagonistsinhabit and traverse these spaces. Helen also wants to o!er sometentative discussion of the particular meanings and attractions ofGothic television for children, understanding childhood as anunsettling time of transition, where the family home becomes thekey site of this period of uncertainty and when the child must alsocome to understand their place within wider society.

Further informationJames Zborowski, Department of Humanities:[email protected], 01482 466907

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Secular indoctrination? The very idea of value-freeeducation

Wednesday 21 March 2012Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Joint meeting with the Hull Branch of the Classical Association

Dr Stephen Burwood, Lecturer in Philosophy and Head of theDepartment of Humanities, University of Hull

Secularists frequently allege that compulsory Religious Educationin schools amounts to state-sponsored indoctrination. But can anyeducation be truly ‘value-free’ – and would such an education beworth having in any case? In this lecture, Stephen Burwood willexamine some of the assumptions about education which liebehind current debates on the place of RE in schools. Dr Burwoodhas particular interests in the philosophy of mind and thephilosophy of education, and is a member of the HumanistPhilosophers’ Group of the British Humanist Association.

God save the Queen: the spiritual dimension ofmonarchy

Wednesday 16 May 2012, at 8.00 pm (preceded by the AGM at 7.30 pm)Seminar Room, Graduate School

A lecture by Dr Ian Bradley (Reader in Practical Theology,University of St Andrews)

The British national anthem is unusual, if not unique, in being aprayer to God for a person, not a hymn of praise for a flag,landscape, battle, or legendary hero. Our monarchs are anointedand consecrated as well as crowned, and our coinage proclaimsthem as ‘Defenders of the Faith’ reigning ‘by the grace of God’.But are these spiritual elements of monarchy anything more thanrelics of the medieval past? In the year of the Diamond Jubilee, DrBradley will argue that a re-sacralized monarchy holds the key toa"rming spiritual values at the heart of public life in Britaintoday. Dr Bradley is a former Times journalist and a well-knownbroadcaster on the BBC.

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

The Hull and District Theological Society

Martin Luther – Ghostbuster

Wednesday 25 January 2012, at 7.30 pmSeminar Room, Graduate School

A lecture by Dr David Bagchi (University of Hull)

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 (Boydell, 2009)

Pompeii and St Paul: using Pompeian evidence tothink about early house church life

Thursday 16 February 2012Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Joint meeting with the Hull Branch of the Classical Associationand the Hellenic Society

Dr Peter Oakes, University of Manchester

Dr Oakes is Greenwood Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studiesat the University of Manchester, where he has been a member ofsta! since 1997. His principal interest is in the lives of 1st-centuryChristians and how they would have received New Testamenttexts, beginning with the Roman colony of Philippi and St Paul’sletter to that city, and moving more generally into Pauline studiesand into the archaeology of Rome and Pompeii. His publicationsinclude Reading Romans in Pompeii (2009).

Because of the disaster which befell them in AD 79, the remains ofPompeii and Herculaneum continue to tell us a great deal abouturban life in the Roman Empire. In addition, in recent years theapplication of the social sciences to biblical interpretation hasrevealed fresh insights into the New Testament. In the second oftwo lectures this year on cities and the Bible, Dr Oakes willdemonstrate how the Vesuvian towns can help ourunderstanding of the social world of the first Christians.

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Mineralogical misfits: minerals formed throughbiological intervention, and anthropogenic substancessuch as slag

Thursday 16 February 2012 Department of Geography, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Richard Lamb

People and the environment: a geoarchaeologicalapproach to the Yorkshire Wolds landscape

Thursday 22 March 2012 Department of Geography, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Preceded by the Annual General Meeting

Dr Cath Neal, University of York

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

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impact of human activity on marine microbial communitystructure and function, namely to investigate the impacts ofocean acidification due to elevated carbon dioxide concentrationsin sea water and the impact and fate of man-made plasticpollutants. Following his appointment as a Professor of MicrobialEcology at the University of Hull, research on these topics iscontinuing, while a new avenue of research is being developed toinvestigate the role of natural environments as reservoirs forbacterial antibiotic resistance.

Professor Osborn has published over 50 journal articles andsecured over £2 million in research grant funding. He has servedas Editor of the journal Plasmid, as Associate Editor ofMicrobiology and BMC Microbiology and on the Editorial Boardsof the ISME Journal and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.He has served on the Environmental Microbiology Groupcommittee and on the Prokaryotic Division of the Society forGeneral Microbiology. He was elected as a Fellow of the Society ofBiology in 2010.

‘How do I know what I mean until I see what I say?’ *

Monday 20 February 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Professor Christine Coupland, Professor of OrganisationalBehaviour

The lecture will include a snapshot of life from a researchperspective that makes visible alternative systems of meaning andvalue. A constructionist, discourse analytic, methodologicalapproach to issues in a range of contexts has resulted intheoretical and empirical contributions to knowledge in the areasof careers and identities.

Leaving school at 16 and working for a local authority for anumber of years, Professor Coupland turned to academia in hermid 30s. Enjoying the challenge of a first degree in Psychology,she went on to complete a PhD inside three years as a GraduateTeaching Assistant at Nottingham University Business School.She took up her current post at Hull University Business School inJune 2001.

Christine’s research interests centre on issues of identity andlanguage, drawing on theoretical perspectives from organisationstudies and constructionist social psychology. More specifically,the individual in interaction with the institution of work and

Living in a microbial world: the good, the bad and thebeautiful

Monday 6 February 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Professor Mark Osborn, Professor of Microbial Ecology

We live in a microbial world. Yet the general public has anunpopular perception of microbial life as the agents of disease. Inthis lecture Professor Osborn will challenge this assertion byexploring the microbial world from the poles to the tropics, todemonstrate the importance of microbial life in providing criticallife-support systems to planet Earth and in the role of microbes asglobal degraders of man-made pollutants.

Professor Osborn studied at Yarborough High School, prior tograduating with a BSc (Hons) in Genetics and Microbiology fromthe University of She"eld in 1990. He then studied for a PhD inGenetics and Microbiology at the University of Liverpool,conducting research on the distribution, diversity and evolutionof mercury resistance genes in mercury-polluted environments.He undertook postdoctoral positions at the University ofLiverpool, studying the ecology and evolution of bacterialplasmids, and subsequently at the National Research Centre forBiotechnology in Braunschweig, Germany, studying microbialcommunities in soils polluted by polychlorinated biphenyls.

Professor Osborn returned to the UK in 1999 as a Lecturer inMicrobiology at the University of Essex, where he established aresearch group using molecular (DNA- and RNA-based) methodsto study the ecology of microorganisms. This research includedinvestigation of the impact of agricultural management practiceson soil microbial communities and the characterisation ofmicrobial communities degrading petroleum hydrocarbons in seawater. During his time at Essex, Professor Osborn initiated a long-term research interest in bacterial nitrogen cycling in estuarinesystems. He returned to the University of She"eld in 2005 as aSenior Lecturer in Environmental Microbiology, where heextended his research on nitrogen into tropical ecosystems and toinvestigate the impact of man-made nitrogen deposition onfragile Arctic tundra ecosystems. He additionally undertookresearch to study the biodiversity of microbial communities onthe surface of glaciers and on microbial biofilms present indrinking-water pipe distribution systems. Most recently, he hasdeveloped two important new research areas to investigate the

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Standing on the shoulders of giants: the contributionof primary care to improving cancer outcomes

Monday 19 MarchMiddleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Professor Una Macleod, Professor of Primary Care Medicine

Una Macleod trained in medicine in Glasgow and remained thereuntil moving to the Hull York Medical School in September 2010as Professor of Primary Care Medicine. She took an individualroute to training in general practice, including posts in hospitalmedicine and oncology. Following general practice training, shewas awarded the first Cancer Research Campaign Primary CareOncology Research Training Fellowship in 1995. She used this tostudy inequalities in outcomes for women with breast cancer andthe extent to which patterns of care in primary and specialist careimpact on these outcomes. Following the Fellowship she becamea GP principal in the east end of Glasgow, combining that withacademic posts at the University of Glasgow, where she built onthe Fellowship by developing a programme of research in cancerand primary care.

Further informationKaren Slater, [email protected], 01482 466326

organisations in intersection with their various audiences havebeen the foci of her research. Her published work is broadly anexploration of language and identities in the contexts of corporateweb pages; careers; newcomers and older workers; and changingenvironments. Christine is currently working on studies in thecontext of a professional sports organisation and on the careers ofmusicians.

* Adapted from Weick and Sutcli!e, 2005.

Narrative lifelines for a world in peril

Monday 5 March 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Professor Martin Goodman, Professor of Creative Writing andDirector of the Philip Larkin Centre for Poetry and CreativeWriting

The US Congress has voted that pizza is a vegetable. Where doyou find the truth amidst such state-sponsored insanity? FromHomer through Shakespeare to Zen, this lecture seeks desperatelyneeded wisdom from the masters.

Martin Goodman has published eight books (fiction andnonfiction), from On Bended Knees (1992 – shortlisted for theWhitbread First Novel Award) to Su!er & Survive: The Extreme Lifeof Dr J. S. Haldane (2007 – Winner, First Prize, Basis of Medicine,BMA Book Awards 2008). His PhD in Creative Writing fromLancaster University focused on dystopian fiction, while his mostrecent novel, Look Who’s Watching (2011), follows the murder of aTibetan boy lama in the USA and considers the role of the mediain manipulating the political and news agenda. Current research,based on the 20th-century life story of the Zen master Maezumi,considers how Zen’s recent entry into the West might e!ectsocietal change in the way it once did in Japan. Other areas ofcross-cultural exploration in creative nonfiction include studies ofAmazonian shamanism; sacred mountains of the world; the gurutradition; and the evolution of new religions. Of particular focusin his fiction is the inheritance of war guilt by succeedinggenerations, while a short story sequence maps the berdachetradition of Native American society onto Western culture.

‘Such narrow, narrow confines we live in. Every so often, one of usprimates escapes these dimensions, as Martin Goodman did. Allwe can do is rattle the bars and look after him as he runs into thehills. We wait for his letters home.’ – The Los Angeles Times

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Evolution of biological complexity

Thursday 9 February 2012Basil Reckitt Lecture Theatre, Ferens Building, Hull Campus,7.00 pm

Professor Ray Goldstein, Department of Applied Mathematicsand Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University

Professor Goldstein’s research area is biological physics. The talkwill address one of the most fundamental issues in biology,namely the nature of evolutionary transitions from single-cellorganisms to multicellular ones. It is a general rule of nature thatlarger organisms are more complex, at least as measured by thenumber of distinct types of cells present. This reflects the fitnessadvantage conferred by a division of labour among specialisedcells over homogeneous totipotency. Yet increasing size has bothcosts and benefits, and the search for the driving forces behindthe evolution of multicellularity is becoming a very active area ofresearch. Suitable for a general audience.

Exploring the Solar System with robotic spacecraft andEuropean e!orts to explore Uranus

Thursday 19 April 2012Basil Reckitt Lecture Theatre, Ferens Building, Hull Campus,7.00 pm

Dr Chris Arridge, Mullard Space Laboratory, University CollegeLondon

Although we think of space as a vacuum, the space surroundingthe giant planets is filled with atoms, molecules and chargedparticles. Some of these have come from the planets, their moonsor their ring systems. Chris is interested in how the giant planetsinteract with the rest of the Solar System. He is involved in theCassini mission to Saturn and studied some of the first data to bereturned by the craft; he later studied the plumes of Enceladus,Saturn’s enigmatic moon. His work is funded by the EuropeanSpace Agency and NASA.

Further informationDr Angela Dyson, Department of Physics: [email protected],01482 465050

Sponsored by the Institute of Physics

Public law protection under the Human Rights Act1998: the rise and fall of Article 6 ECHR

Friday 2 March 2011Lecture Theatre 29, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 2.15 pm

Professor Gordon Anthony, School of Law, Queen’s UniversityBelfast

Gordon Anthony was appointed as a Professor in 2010. His mainresearch interests lie in the fields of judicial review, publicauthority liability, and the relationship between UK public lawand EU law and the ECHR. His authored books include Textbookon Administrative Law (6th edition, 2009, with Peter Leyland);Judicial Review in Northern Ireland (2008); and UK Public Law andEuropean Law: The Dynamics of Legal Integration (2002). He hasalso been a contributing editor to a number of books that includeValues in Global Administrative Law (2011) and Judges, Transitionand Human Rights: Essays in Memory of Stephen Livingstone(2007).

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The good embodied life: thinking with Spinoza

Monday 12 March 2012Meaux Room, Sta! House, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Professor Susan James, Birkbeck College London

Susan James received her BA, MA and PhD degrees in Philosophyat the University of Cambridge. She taught for two years at theUniversity of Connecticut before returning to Cambridge, whereshe held a Research Fellowship at Girton College and then aLectureship in the Faculty of Philosophy. She moved to Birkbeckin 2000. Her overlapping areas of philosophical research are thehistory of 17th- and 18th-century philosophy, political and socialphilosophy, and feminist philosophy. Within the history of earlymodern philosophy her work has focused on the passions andtheir ethical and political implications. She has recently exploredthese themes in a series of articles about Spinoza and in aforthcoming book, Spinoza on Philosophy, Religion and Politics:The Theologico-Political Treatise.

The Annual Mary Wollstonecraft Lecture was established inhonour of the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, whospent her formative years in Beverley.

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

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Professor Brian Newbould on Beethoven

Saturday 10 March 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.30 pm

Emeritus Professor Brian Newbould (University of Hull),internationally known as a Schubert scholar, is a specialist in themusic of the Classical period, with wider historical interestsbeyond that. His realisations of symphonies left unfinished bySchubert first brought him to international attention, since whenhe has written books on Schubert, pursued related musicologicalissues in articles, and completed other non-orchestral sketches.He is active as lecturer, composer, conductor, pianist and criticand is equally at home presenting research papers at leadinguniversities (including Cambridge, Princeton, Berkeley andStanford) and talking about music to audiences of ‘lay’enthusiasts.

Please note that this event is to be followed by a concert featuringthe internationally renowned pianist Benjamin Frith. For moredetails about tickets for the concert, please see the Hull ChamberMusic (www.hullchambermusic.org.uk) brochure or the ArtsProgramme.

Further [email protected], 01482 465631

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The performer as listener: the practice of practisingMorton Feldman’s late piano music

Tuesday 20 March 2012 Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm

Dr Catherine Laws, University of York

This paper explores Morton Feldman’s late piano music, using itas a lens through which to focus the essential contingencies andunpredictabilities of the moment of performance. Feldman o!ersa predisposition towards a certain kind of experimental practice,one that prompts a return to questions about the creative role ofthe performer, the nature of a performer’s listening, and the aimof practising an instrument. Most importantly, the questionsFeldman asks, and the implications beyond his music, are rootedin the nature and experience of instrumental sound; if there is tobe a research process, it needs to be primarily practical.

The process of practising and performing Feldman’s music throwsinto stark relief issues that lie at the heart of piano playing butwhich often become submerged elsewhere in the piano repertoire.In playing Feldman’s music, one is forced to confront theconnection between resonance and the perception of form. Assuch, the pianist’s practice is always, self-consciously, part of aprocess of enquiry that tests the relationship between subtletiesof sounds across time.

While Feldman is generally considered an Experimentalcomposer, through this project Dr Laws is arguing for practisingas an experimental process. In this sense, the aim of practice is tohone the ability, in and beyond performing Feldman, truly tolisten and to respond to the contingencies of sound in themoment of performance, leading towards an openness to whatcannot be planned for.

The metaphor of voice in Stravinsky’s music

Tuesday 21 February 2012 Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm

Dr Nicholas McKay, University of Sussex

Stravinsky’s music has been somewhat ‘silenced’, whileparadoxically ‘trumpeted’, by much formalist scholarship intenton eliminating the idea of ‘voice’ (music’s human subjectivity)from its aesthetic equation. In The Composer’s Voice, Cone asked,‘If music is a language, then who is speaking?’ ‘To the proponentof a dehumanized, geometricized art, literally no one is speaking,’responded Taruskin on behalf of the composer and his formalistfollowers. By such accounts Stravinsky’s ‘voice’ is thus anirrelevance, something lost in authorial absence (the abnegationof subjectivity) or surrogacy (the eclectic borrowing, or parodicplay, of other voices). Through semiotic, linguistic and literarytheory readings of musical gestures, this paper critiques thesesotto voce accounts of Stravinsky’s music. Challenging thisabsence–surrogacy polemic – one articulated by Harvey as thevoices of the ‘unconscious shaman’ (The Rite of Spring) and the‘amusing impresario’ (The Rake’s Progress) – Dr McKay o!ersinstead a close reading of the metaphor of voice in Stravinsky’smusic seen through the interplay of characteristic (topics) andpersonified (other voiced) intertextual gestures.

Roberto Gerhard revisited

Tuesday 6 March 2012Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm

Professor Michael Russ, University of Huddersfield

More than 40 years after his death in 1970, the music of thisCatalan composer and pupil of Schoenberg – who came to live inBritain in 1939 – continues to be performed and recorded and it isnow the focus of a biennial conference. Gerhard’s music has anumber of sources and influences, Catalan, Spanish andmodernist, which do not always sit easily together; but, as ArnoldWhittall wrote recently, the ‘fracture’ between the folkism and theserial techniques, and the failure to integrate these variousinfluences, is perhaps the key to understanding his music. In thispaper Professor Russ explores this and other ideas in the contextof Gerhard's fine Violin Concerto (1944–45) and Piano Concerto(1951).

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The new arpeggione

Tuesday 24 April 2012 Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm

Nicolas Deletaille, Orpheus Institute, Ghent

After Schubert, the arpeggione had not inspired composers untilthe end of the 20th century. The last generation of composers hashowever shown a new interest in this bowed guitar, the repertoireavailable today approaching fifty opuses. This recentdevelopment is the topic of the presented paper and is discussedfrom a performer’s perspective.

Further informationDr Alexander Binns: [email protected]

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Current and emerging trends in liquid crystal research

Wednesday 8 February 2012Lecture Room A, Chemistry Building, 4.15 pm

The Chemistry Department at the University of Hull has a longtradition of research into liquid crystals. Professor Georg Mehl, a current member of academic sta! in the department, willpresent his pioneering research into this area.

Structural characterisation of biologicalmacromolecules

Monday 20 February 2012Lecture Room C, Chemistry Building, 4.15 pm

Professor Marius Clore received the Centenary Prize 2011 fromthe Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) for his pioneering work onthe structural characterisation of large biological molecules. He isbased at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive andKidney Diseases, which forms part of the National Institutes ofHealth in the USA.

Luminescence: providing a glowing report

Wednesday 21 March 2012Lecture Room A, Chemistry Building, 4.15 pm

Dr Andrew Beeby, from the Department of Chemistry at DurhamUniversity, will present his research into luminescence. DrBeeby’s team studies the e!ect of light on chemical reactions.This can help in the design of sunscreens or in the optimisation of photodynamic therapy for cancer patients.

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

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Shakespeare from the page to the stage

Monday 23 April 2012Lindsey Suite, Sta! House, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Professor Ti!any Stern, University of Oxford

Ti!any Stern is Professor of Early Modern Drama at Oxford. Herbooks are Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan (2000),Making Shakespeare (2004), Shakespeare in Parts (with SimonPalfrey, 2007) and Documents of Performance in Early ModernEngland (2009). She is a general editor of the New Mermaids playseries and has produced editions of the anonymous King Leir(2002), Sheridan’s Rivals (2004) and Farquhar’s Recruiting O"cer(2010). She is currently editing Brome’s Jovial Crew andembarking on a monograph about theatres and fairgrounds.

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

Reform and Parliament

Thursday 23 February 2012Allam Lecture Theatre, Hull Campus, 7.00 pm (doors open6.30)

Rt Hon John Bercow, MPParliamentary reform is much discussed but seemingly rarelydelivered. Is this a fair assessment? What should be the principlesand purpose of reform, not merely within the UK but in thedemocratic world more broadly? How should the House ofCommons respond to the twin pressures of a restless executiveand demands for a more truly representative polity? Is it possiblefor any parliament to meet these challenges while undertaking itstraditional functions? The Speaker of the House of Commons willset out a framework for the debate about parliamentary reform inthis decade and encourage comments and questions from theaudience.

Multiculturalism

Thursday 22 March 2012Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm (doors open 5.30)

Professor Lord Bhikhu ParekhFor some people in Britain multiculturalism has integratedminorities and created a vibrant and lively society. For others ithas fragmented the country and encouraged domestic terrorism.This lecture explains why people take such divergent views,traces the history of multiculturalism in Britain, and o!ers a newway of understanding it.

Further informationLesley Dye: [email protected], 01482 465845

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Defending the colonies against malicious attacks ofphilanthropy: Scottish imperial networks and the anti-abolition campaigns

Thursday 23 February 2012WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE, 4.30 pm

Dr Douglas Hamilton, Lecturer in the Department of History,University of Hull

Where’s the harm in that? Immigration enforcement,tra"cking and the protection of migrants’ rights

Thursday 15 March 2012WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE, 4.30 pm

Dr Bridget Anderson, Senior Researcher, Centre on Migration,Policy and Society, University of Oxford

The great African slave revolt of 1825: Cuba and thefight for freedom in Matanzas

Thursday 19 April 2012WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE, 4.30 pm

Dr Manuel Barcia, Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies,University of Leeds

Anti-slavery, British imperialism and the scramble forAfrica

Thursday 3 May 2012 WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE, 4.30 pm

Dr Richard Huzzey, Lecturer in History, School of Humanitiesand Performing Arts, University of Plymouth

Art and the literary in Victorian England

Thursday 10 May 2012Myton Suite, Sta! House, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Hilary Fraser, Geo!rey Tilltoson Professor of Nineteenth-CenturyStudies and Executive Dean of Arts, Birkbeck College, Universityof London

Professor Fraser is currently working on an AHRC-funded projectentitled ‘Gender, History, Visuality: Women Writing Art History inthe Nineteenth Century’.

Born in London and educated at the universities of Leicester andOxford, Hilary moved to Australia in 1982. After teaching at theUniversity of Western Australia for 18 years, she moved back tothe UK in 2000 to take up a Visiting Fellowship at Clare Hall,Cambridge. She was a Professeur Invité at the University ofAvignon in 2000-2001, then became Dean of Arts and Humanitiesat Canterbury Christ Church University College.

In October 2002, Hilary moved to Birkbeck, where she has taughtundergraduate courses in nineteenth-century literature and onthe MA programme in Victorian Studies. She continues tosupervise postgraduate students in nineteenth-century studies.She is Director of Birkbeck’s Centre for Nineteenth-CenturyStudies and Editor of its online journal ‘19: InterdisciplinaryStudies in the Long Nineteenth Century’.

Further informationProfessor Valerie Sanders, Department of English:[email protected], 01482 466918

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During the 2011/2012 academic year, the Scarborough Campuswill host a series of public lectures. These will be open toeveryone and free of charge. Details are available online athttp://pocketcampus.scar.hull.ac.uk.

Performing the unspeakable: post Truth andReconciliation Commission

Tuesday 26 June 2012WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE, 7.00 pm

Dr Marcia Blumberg, Associate Professor of English, YorkUniversity, Toronto

This lecture is part of the Humber Mouth Literary Festival.

Further informationDr Nicholas Evans, WISE: [email protected], 01482 305176

Tea and co!ee will be available before the lectures.

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The University of Hull Founder’s Day Service

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

Everyone is welcome.

Further informationKaren Slater: [email protected], 01482 466326

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