Athens alumni reception

Bio. Pics: life goes on

An exhibition of works inspired by artist Annie Halliday’s year-long residency in the School of Biosciences, which was supported by a grant from Arts Council England: SE. Annie trained as a biologist before studying fine art in the Chelsea College of Art and Design. Work completed during her residency includes pin-hole photos and colourful canvasses, presenting a visual metaphor for research projects in the School.

Admission free and open to all.

Autumn Term begins

Cooking and human origins

Professor Richard Wrangham

Hosted by the School for Anthropology and Conservation, this lecture is part of the University of Kent’s Darwin200 events, and commemorates the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species.

Centre for Modern European Literature Research Seminar

‘Film, Architecture, Poetry: Reading Architectural Space in Man Ray’s Les Mystères du Château du Dé’

Dr Kim Knowles, University of Kent

'Hospices without walls? Breaking barriers and the final taboo'

Nigel Hartley, Director of Supportive Care, St Christopher’s Hospice, Sydenham, London

This event marks the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Wisdom Hospice, hosted by the Centre for Professional Practice, Division of Palliative Care.

Refreshments follow at 7.30pm

Public Poetry Reading by Marilyn Hacker

As part of her two-week residency at the University of Kent, Marilyn Hacker will give a public poetry reading of her works. Author of the acclaimed sonnet sequence Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons (1985), her most recent collections are Desesperanto (2003) and Essays on Departure: New and Selected Poems 1980-2005 (2007).

Her new book, Names, will be published by Norton; advance copies will be available by early October.

£5 payable on the door

Centre for Research in European Architecture (CREAte)

Experimentation and Public Space

Liza Fior, muf

Liza Fior is an architect and a  lead partner at muf architecture /art, London.  Since 1996 muf has been pioneering innovative projects that address the social, spatial and economic infrastructures of the public realm. The practice philosophy is driven by an ambition to realize the potential pleasures that exist at the intersection between the lived and the built. Amongst many other projects,  Liza Fior has recently been involved working with KCC at Dover advising on the strategy for public spaces.

SECL Popular Lecture

‘What Happens When You Sell Your Soul to the Devil?’

Professor Osman Durrani, University of Kent

Canterbury Open Day

A chance to see first hand the huge array of campus facilities, including: the Gulbenkian Theatre and Cinema, The Venue nightclub, our state-of-the-art Sports Centre, accommodation and over 100 student clubs and societies.

More information on Open Days

Rutherford Grass Roots Lecture

in association with the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science

Mathematics in literature

Speaker Donald Preece, Emeritus Professor

Professor Donald Preece joined the University of Kent in 1969 and worked within the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science until he retired a few years ago. Still very much involved with the School, Donald is Emeritus Professor. He has also been a member of Rutherford College since his arrival at Kent. To celebrate his 70th birthday, Donald will present us with a lecture concerning how maths and literature can coalesce.

This event is free and open to all.

SECL Distinguished Lecture

‘The Comparative Method: Why Postmodernists and Others Cannot Escape Operating Comparatively'

Professor Robert Segal, University of Aberdeen

CHSS Open seminar

Can parents ever be ‘good enough’?'

Dr Jan Macvarish, Research Associate, CHSS, reports back from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) seminar series ‘Changing Parenting Culture’ examining the impact of today’s ‘intensive parenting’ on family life. It will cover aspects of modern child-rearing including decisions about feeding babies, risk and freedom to play and ‘intensification’ of mothering and fathering.

Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar

Using Computers to Explore Manuscripts

Yiqing Liang (School of Engineering & Digital Arts, University of Kent)

Medway Open Day

Open Days start in the Pilkington Building, home to the Students' Association, which runs sports clubs, societies, a bar and a nightclub at the campus.

It is a chance to see the University's impressive Medway campus, based at Chatham Maritime, is home to several award-winning, multi-million-pound buildings, containing state-of-the-art teaching and learning facilities.

More information on Open Days

Centre for Research in European Architecture (CREAte)

The City is not a Park: urbanity and natural systems

Susannah Hagan, Professor of Architecture, The University of Brighton

The ecological narrative and environmental practice are in their infancy. Are there more interesting urban models latent within the ecological narrative than the ‘green’ city, hairy with generic shrubbery, and the ‘Cadillac’ city, guzzling resources and polluting with abandon?

Centre for Modern European Literature Distinguished Lecture

‘“Programmatic Modernism”: Totalizing Grand Narrative or a Key Concept for Understanding Modern Society?’

Professor Roger Griffin, Oxford Brookes University

Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar

‘Reading Practice & Experience c 1400-1600: is there really any evidence?’

Dr Elisabeth Salter (Aberwysth)

Centre for American Studies open lecture

'Eagle Strong Voice' - Unrepentant: Genocide and Canada's Residential School System.

Kevin Annett, ex-minister, film-maker and activist

The lecture will be about Kevin Annett's award winning documentary on the treatment of First Nations in Canada.

Global Youth Cultures Conference

Day one of two-day international conference on Global Youth Cultures held by the School of English, featuring Tjinder Singh, lead singer of renowned pop group Cornershop, in conversation, and a reading by Gautam Malkani, author of novel Londonstani. Plus other keynote speakers and readings.

Registration details can be found on the School of English website.

Global Youth Culture, Hip Hop: Rebel Music

Day two of two-day international conference on Global Youth Cultures, held by the School of English. Featuring three events:

Performance by Gabriel Teodros (featuring Ana Fee)
Postcolonial rapper of Ethiopian descent
2pm, Aphra Theatre

The Rebel Cell (Baba Brinkman and Dizraeli)
Political hip hop theatre: "1984 meets 8 Mile";
3.30pm, Aphra Theatre

Suhell of DAM presents "Slingshot Hip Hop"
Palestinian rap documentary with director Jackie Salloum
6pm, Grimond Lecture Theatre 3

Tickets available from:

http://www.canterburyfestival.co.uk

Centre for Research in European Architecture (CREAte)

Research and Architectural Practice

Alex Lifschutz, partner at  Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands Architects, London and the President of the Architectural Association London.

The modern movement axiom of form following function is an unsustainable and bankrupt concept in an age of economic and social change. Highly expressionistic buildings are equally questionable if we really mean to save the planet. These are some of the issues to be discussed by Alex Lifschutz.

Politics and International Relations Guest Lecture

From Religious Cleavage to Religious Voting: Establishing the Phenomenon

Professor Jose Ramón Montero Department of Political Science and IR, Autonomous University of Madrid

Centre for Modern European Literature Distinguished Lecture

'Mauriac, Collaboration and the French Theatre'

Professor John Flower, University of Kent

Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar

Eternal Town Servants; Civic Elections and the Stuppeny Tombs of New Romney & Lydd’

Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh (University of Kent)

Brown Bag Lunch Seminar - Centre for the Study of Politics and Spirituality

‘Towards a Green Spirituality?’

Dr Charlotte Sleigh (History)

All welcome to attend.

Talk and Walk: The Canterbury Labyrinth

Dr. Jan Sellers will provide a brief introduction to the Canterbury Labyrinth and to labyrinth walking. The Labyrinth, part of the University's Creative Campus Initiative, is a beautiful work of art designed to be walked on.

Join Jan at 12 for this talk, and at any time 12-1.30pm to walk the labyrinth. Jan will be available to answer any questions during this time.

This event will be repeated on the first Wednesday of each month during term-time. All welcome! See the Creative Campus website for more information.

The Canterbury Labyrinth, Canterbury Campus

The Canterbury Labyrinth is below Eliot College (follow footpath from Becket Court).

Politics and International Relations Guest Lecture

FDR's Foreign Policy in WW2, the Peak of US Internationalism: Implications for Global Governance

Dan Plesch, Director, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS

SECL Distinguished Lecture

'What is Byzantium?'

Professor Judith Herrin, King's College London

British lithographs of the 20th century: from Pastoral to Pop Art

Lithography literally means “drawing on stone”, and as a printmaking method found favour with many leading 20th-century artists, including Moore, Sutherland, Piper, Bacon and Hockney. Exhibits have been chosen by Stephen Laird to illustrate variation and innovation in the printing method.

Admission free and open to all

Centre for Research in European Architecture (CREAte)

Cities, Interiors and Design by Nigel Coates

Nigel Coates, architect, author, furniture designer and the Professor of Architecture at  Royal College of Art, London.

Coates designed the British Pavilion at Expo '98 in Lisbon, the Body Zone at London's Millennium Dome, and the National Centre for Popular Music in Sheffield. He is also an innovative experimental designer of many everyday objects. His client include Alessi, Varaschin etc. He is the author of  City in Motion, Body Buildings and City Scapes, Ecstacity  (3 separate vols.)and most recently Superior Interiors (2009).

School of English Creative Writing Readings

Charlie Williams

£2 entry - pay the pink bucket at the door.

Tickets available at the door or by post. Please email english-office@kent.ac.uk to reserve or purchase a ticket.

Centre for Modern European Literature Research Seminar

‘Reflections on Fin-de-Siècle Cosmopolitanism’

Dr Richard Hibbitt, University of Leeds

Opening of the New Centre for Research on Social Climate

The School of Psychology has a new Research Centre – the Centre for Research on Social Climate. The centre was set up to investigate how social conventions frame and constrain human behaviour.

An opening lecture will take place at 4pm.

More details can be found via a link on the School of Psychology’s website.

Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar

'Conserving and Interpreting Canterbury's Early Glass'

Leonie Seliger (Head of stained glass conservation at Canterbury Cathedral

Inaugural Professorial Lecture

The Origin of Stars

Professor Michael D Smith, Professor of Astronomy, University of Kent

Professor Michael D Smith will present a short inaugural lecture which will be an introduction to the subject of Astronomy. This will be followed by an Astrophysical Forum to debate “Man on the Moon: Past, Present and Future” . The panel will comprise the academic members of the Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Science: Professor Michael D Smith, Professor Mark Burchell, Dr Dirk Froebrich, Dr Jingqi Miao and Dr Stephen Lowry.

Great Mobility Road Show

Where would you like to go? 

As part of Global Enterprise Week, the University of Kent is staging the Great Mobility Roadshow, an event highlighting the many opportunities for study and work overseas as part of your study.  Each day, the roadshow will be in a different University location, offering freebies, information, advice and the chance to win a trip for two to Paris! 

• Monday 16th November - Darwin College entrance, Canterbury Campus
• Tuesday 17th November - Rutherford College entrance, Canterbury Campus
• Wednesday 18th November - Rochester building entrance, Medway Campus
• Thursday 19th November - Eliot College outside Mungos, Canterbury Campus
• Friday 20th November - Keynes College atrium, Canterbury Campus

For more information visit http://www.kent.ac.uk/goabroad/

School of Politics and International Relations Guest Lecture

Skyful of Lies and Black Swans: who controls shifting information power in sudden crises?

Nik Gowing Presenter for BBC World

Brown Bag Lunch Seminar - Centre for the Study of Politics and Spirituality

'Apocalypse Now? Towards a Cinematic Realized Eschatology’

Dr Chris Deacy (Religious Studies)

All welcome to attend.

School of English Creative Writing Readings

The Common Room Poets: Launching Mirror Writing

£2 entry - pay the pink bucket at the door. All proceeds to Children in Need

Tickets available at the door or by post. Please email english-office@kent.ac.uk to reserve or purchase a ticket.

2009/2010 Stirling Lecture

Biological relatives: kinship after embryo culture

Professor Sarah Franklin (London School of Economics)

Sarah Franklin is currently Professor of Social Studies of Biomedicine, and Associate Director of the BIOS Centre at the London School of Economics. She is particularly interested in reproductive and genetic technologies, and has conducted fieldwork on IVF, cloning, embryo research and stem cellls. Her lecture will draw on material from the book she is currently writing about the history of IVF.

This is a return to Kent for Professor Franklin, who did her initial postgraduate work here in Women's Studies.

The lecture will be followed by a buffet reception in Keynes Atrium, to which all are welcome. This event is free of charge and no booking is required.

Medway Winter Graduation ceremony

More information about graduation ceremonies

Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar

Virtual Medieval Parish Church

Dr Anthony Masinton (University of York)

Centre for Federal Studies Annual Lecture

Liberal and Federal Deficits in Multinational Democracies: The Case of Catalonia and the Spanish Estado de las Autonomias

Professor Ferran Requejo, University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Medical practices in Roman Spain

Dr Patty Baker, Classical and Archaeological Studies, School of European Culture and Languages in association with Friends of Canterbury Archaeological Trust

Conventional views state that medical treatments were the same throughout the Roman Empire, imposed and adopted as new provinces were colonised.Yet, this ignores the fact that these provinces comprised societies with various backgrounds and beliefs that would have affected how they chose to practise medicine. Patty questions the conventional view by examining and comparing evidence for medical treatments in the form of medical instruments, votive offerings and epigraphy from the three provinces of Roman Spain (Tarraconensis, Baetica and Lusitania).

Admission free and open to all

Centre for Research on Social Climate Lecture

The nature and value of initiative: 'Chaos and Uncertainty - Heaven sent for the Clown

Dr. David McGavin

Dr. McGavin is the founding Director of the Blackthorn Medical Centre, Doctor of the Year, and prolific speaker and initiative-taker.

Canterbury Winter Graduation ceremony

More information about graduation ceremonies

Origin of Species celebration

Open Lecture, more details coming soon

Centre for Sports Studies - student special interest day

The Centre for Sports Studies is staging a day-long programme of activities for students based on the theme of cycling. The event is open to all staff and students from across the University.

Highlights include a question and answer session with triple Olympian mountain bike rider Oli Beckingsale, and a Dragons’ Den activity, where students will market a new type of sports drink to a panel of experts.

Talks feature Michele Verroken, from Sporting Integrity, discussing doping issues in sport; Dr Gary Brickely, a GB Paralympic coach, on paralympic cycling; and Dr David Bailey from British Cycling on the subject of ‘From Beijing to Britain’.

School of English Creative Writing Readings

Allen Fisher

£2 entry - pay the pink bucket at the door.

Tickets available at the door or by post. Please email english-office@kent.ac.uk to reserve or purchase a ticket.

Celebration of DICE’s 20th Anniversary

The Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) was founded on November 24, 1989. This evening we will celebrate 20 years of achievement in training conservationists from 82 countries. The vision behind DICE was never orthodox. We are a mission-driven institute, striving to build capacity in countries high in biodiversity, taking an interdisciplinary approach to human-centred conservation. Our goal is to break down the barriers between the natural and social sciences in conservation, training people to think practically and innovatively about the challenges that lie ahead. This evening will be dedicated to the army of DICE-trained conservationists and the great advances they have made in saving species from Sumatran tigers to Mallorcan midwife toads, and habitats from the Amazon to the rangelands of Abu Dhabi.

Admission Free and open to all

Strengthen Your Business

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The University of Kent is host to a wealth of knowledge that can provide you and your business with the solutions you seek. Opportunities are available to suit your every need, whether it is student placements, graduate recruitment, consultancy or Government funded Knowledge Transfer Partnerships. Find out exactly how we can help you strengthen your business by booking your place today.

Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar

'Sapience and Uncertainty: Everlasting Wisdom and the Changing Text'.

Dr Sarah James (University of Kent)

Talk and Walk: The Canterbury Labyrinth

Dr. Jan Sellers will provide a brief introduction to the Canterbury Labyrinth and to labyrinth walking. The Labyrinth, part of the University's Creative Campus Initiative, is a beautiful work of art designed to be walked on.

Join Jan at 12 for this talk, and at any time 12-1.30pm to walk the labyrinth. Jan will be available to answer any questions during this time.

This event will be repeated on the first Wednesday of each month during term-time. All welcome! See the Creative Campus website for more information.

The Canterbury Labyrinth, Canterbury Campus

The Canterbury Labyrinth is below Eliot College (follow footpath from Becket Court).

Postgraduate open evening

Open events give you the opportunity to:

• find out about funding opportunities
  meet academic and admissions staff
  learn about all our programmes (full and part-time)
• find out more about our campuses in Canterbury, Medway, Brussels and Paris
  view the dedicated accommodation and study facilities in Woolf College

Research excellence

In the 2008 RAE exercise we were ranked 24th in the UK and our students voted us number 1 in London and south-east England in the 2008 National Student Survey.

Woolf College, Canterbury Campus

Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies one day Colloquium

AHRC Bad Behaviour In Medieval & Early Modern Europe

Keynote address: 13:30 - 14:45, titled 'Images of Infamy'

For further details and to register: www.kent.ac.uk/mems/

Brown Bag Lunch Seminar - Centre for the Study of Politics and Spirituality

‘Religious Alternatives to Secular Capitalism’

Dr Adrian Pabst (Politics and International Relations)

All welcome to attend.

School of English Creative Writing Readings

Christopher Reid, Charles Boyle

£2 entry - pay the pink bucket at the door.

Tickets available at the door or by post. Please email english-office@kent.ac.uk to reserve or purchase a ticket.

Politics and International Relations Guest Lecture

Relativising Human Rights: A New Method for Country Ranking

Professor Todd Landman, Professor & Director, Centre for Democratic Governance, University of Essex

SECL Popular Lecture

‘Is David Beckham a God?: Football as Religion’

Professor Jeremy Carrette (University of Kent)

Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar

"Law courts and liturgy? The ritual life of Ambrose and Chrysostom before the Church."

Dr Luke Lavan (University of Kent)

Medway campus carol service

Mulled wine and mice pies to follow

Inaugural Professorial Lecture

Evaluating new innovation in health care: pragmatism and the scientific method

Professor Simon Coulton, Professor of Health Services Research, Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent

New treatments and new ways of delivering treatment in health are constantly evolving. It is recognised that, prior to adoption into clinical practice, new innovations should be rigorously evaluated. This creates a natural conflict between the strict rigorous controls of the scientific method and the pragmatic nature of health care systems. Professor Simon Coulton will discuss the role of the pragmatic randomised controlled trial in understanding the potential effectiveness of new innovation in health care.

The BIG little Challenge

In aid of Cancer Research & Hospice Care

The BIG little Challenge will run non-stop for three days, raising money through sponsorship and participation for Cancer Research and Hospice Care.

Do something little as part of the big challenge. From playing sports to taking on the Wii, there will be plenty of ways for you to raise money for charity.

At the end of each day, there will be a variety of entertainment suitable for all, including local bands and DJs.

Everyone is welcome to participate. You can also be part of the BIG little challenge by hosting your own activities, helping to raise money for this worthy cause.

University Chorus and Orchestra celebrate anniversaries

The University Chorus celebrates the anniversaries of two great German composers, Handel and Mendelssohn, both of whom made an enormous impact on the English choral scene in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Tickets £12.00 (adults), £7.00 (students), £4.00 (balcony – standing only) available from: Canterbury Bookings Box Office, 12/13 Sun Street, The Buttermarket, Canterbury. Tel. 01227 378188; and the University Music Office, Tel. 01227 827335, email Musictickets@kent.ac.uk (credit/debit card payment available).

For more information please see the music concert diary (pdf).

Centre for Health Services Studies Open Semiar

'Social Exclusion and the Way Out: Developing an evidenced-based approach for measuring impact of third sector support of vulnerable people in the UK and Ireland.'

Dr Adrian Bonner, Reader, Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent

This seminar will provide an insight into:

• The development of a web-based system for the assessment and care support of people accessing
  homeless services
• A UK-wide diagnostic survey of the mental health needs of 967 people accessing homeless services
• Research into the biomedical monitoring of problematic alcohol and drug users

For further information please see the CHSS website.

Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar

"Shakespeare and Archaism"

Joint seminar with English Dr Lucy Munro (Keele University)

Followed by Christmas Drinks & Mince Pies

Christmas Tree Carols

University Student Music Societies and Concert Band

Admission Free and open to all Festive fun, roasted chestnuts and Christmas refreshments.

SECL Book Launch

Kim Knowles, A Cinematic Artist: The Films of Man Ray (Peter Lang, 2009)
Paul March-Russell, The Short Story: An Introduction (Edinburgh University Press, 2009)
Peter Read (co-ed.), Giacometti: Critical Essays (Ashgate, 2009)
Jeremy Scott, The Demotic Voice in Contemporary British Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
Axel Stähler, Konstruktionen jüdischer Postkolonialität. Das britische Palästinamandat in der anglophonen jüdischen Literatur (Winter, 2009)
Axel Stähler (co-ed,), Writing Fundamentalism (CSP, 2009)
Shane Weller (ed.), Samuel Beckett, Molloy (Faber & Faber, 2009)

Autumn Term ends

Centre for Health Services Studies Open Seminar

‘Learning to Learn English: Motivations for language acquisition by a minority community’

Dr Ferhana Hashem, Research Fellow, Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent

This seminar reports upon a study funded by the Nuffield Foundation's Social Science Grants Scheme on a project exploring the question of 'What kind of language services should public authorities provide to minority groups: the case of Bangladeshis in London'. It will consider some key factors that are instrumental and integral to learning including fluency in English, motivations to acquire English language skills, barriers to accessing services and an assessment of the need for ESOL using a needs-based approach.

University Open Lecture

Japan: A new political era?

Mr David Warren, British Ambassador to Japan

David Warren joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1975, and has spent much of his career dealing with Japanese and East Asian affairs, in both Tokyo and London.

In 2000, he became one of the Directors and senior management team for the new Government trade promotion organisation, British Trade International, (now UK Trade and Investment), where he spent the next four years in charge of different aspects of sector and marketoriented international trade development.

In 2004, he was appointed Director, Human Resources, for the FCO and a member of the FCO Board of Management. He left this post in October 2007 and took up the post of British Ambassador to Japan in July 2008 in succession to Sir Graham Fry

Centre for Research on Social Climate

Searching for Initiative: Co-creating the Social Future

Martin Large

Martin Large works as a facilitator of individual, organisational and societal development. Having worked as an academic, he is a community land trust pioneer, and as chair of Stroud Common Wealth he enables co-op, cultural and social development.

His new book Common Wealth for a free, equal, mutual and sustainable society draws on anthropology, social psychology, social ecology and his work as a facilitator.

Large will explore how the Tavistock-inspired search process creates the conditions for initiative so that individuals, groups, organisations and communities can exercise more creativity in response to the changing world.

Vice Chancellor’s Special Lecture

Perspectives on global health

Dr Yamada, President Global Health Programme, Gates Foundation

Dr Yamada is President of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Program. He oversees grants totaling over $9 billion in programs to address major health challenges of the developing world including TB, HIV, malaria, malnutrition and maternal and child health.

Prior to joining the Gates Foundation, Dr Yamada was Chairman of Research and Development and a Member of the Board of Directors of GlaxoSmithKline.

In recognition of his contributions to medicine and science he has been elected membership to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (US), the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK) and the National Academy of Medicine (Mexico). In 2007, he received an honorary appointment as Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

Please note the time of this lecture is 6.30pm not 6pm as previously advertised.

Tizard Research Seminar

Can we prevent challenging behaviour in people with intellectual disabilities?

Peter McGill, Reader in Clinical Psychology of Learning Disability, Tizard Centre, University of Kent

The Seminar will be followed by an informal drinks reception in the Kent Business School foyer, where you will have the opportunity to meet with the speaker and members of the Tizard Team.

Further details of the seminars are available on the Tizard website.

SSPSSR Seminar Series

Rigid Relations through Shifting Substance: the Changing Face of Social Class

Dr Will Atkinson, University of Bristol

Most SSPSSR seminars are followed by a 'social occasion' that includes drinks and a meal in Canterbury. SSPSSR will subsidise the costs of meals for postgraduate students. For further details, please contact Dr Miri Song tel: 01227 827042.

Centre for Modern European Literature Research Seminar

'Adorno and the 1968 Generation'

Hans Kundnani, journalist

Form more information please see the Centre for Modern European Literature website.

Canterbury Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies Renaissance Lecture

‘Vital or Vulnerable; The English Church in the Late Medieval Ages’

Professor George Bernard, University of Southampton

You are most welcome to join us for these exciting open lectures, part of the research culture of the Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent.

The lecture will take place at 6pm, followed by a drinks reception at 7pm, then the high table dinner 7.30 for 8pm.

Crime, Culture, Control Research Cluster Seminar Series: Engaging Ethnographies

Researching female drug mules in Ecuador prisons: Ethnographic reflections

Dr Jennifer Fleetwood, University of Kent

This year, the CCC group will be hosting a themed seminar series that will explore the interplay between theory and the ethnographic enterprise within the field of crime, criminal justice and deviance. Invited speakers are all early career academics. It is intended that the series will provide them with the opportunity to showcase their ethnographic work and to explore how they have engaged with theory.

Chancellor’s Lecture

The Law Today

Lord Bingham of Cornhill, formerly the Senior Law Lord

Lord Bingham became Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales in 1996. In England and Wales, he was the highest-ranking judge in regular courtroom service and was personally responsible for adding ‘and Wales’ to the office's title.

Appointed Master of the Rolls in 1992 he was created a life peer as Baron Bingham of Cornhill, of Boughrood in the County of Powys in 1996. In 2000, he was the first appointed Senior Law Lord, retiring from the position in 2008. In 2005, he was appointed a Knight of the Garter.

From 2001 to 2008, Lord Bingham held the office of High Steward of the University of Oxford. He is a Visitor of Balliol College, Green-Templeton College, and Chairman of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and the UK Charity, Reprieve.

School of Politics and International Relations Guest Lecture

Territorial Terrorists

Dr Alex Braithwaite, School of Public Policy, University College London

Dr Braithwaite's research investigates the causes and geography of various forms of political violence, with a focus in examining where terrorist attacks and international conflicts are located. He has also worked on domestic political theories of terrorism, geographic explanations for conflict diffusion and joining behaviors, and the strategic interaction of insurgent and counter-insurgent forces.

Gemma Chapman

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School of European Culture and Languages Lecture and Seminar Series

SECL Distinguished Lecture

'Cléo's Masks: Exoticism and the French New Wave'

Professor Elizabeth Ezra, University of Stirling

Futher information

University Open Lecture

Better health care in a cold financial climate – how volunteers, communities and charities can take the lead when money is short

Mr Thomas Hughes-Hallett, Chief Executive of Marie Curie Cancer Care

Thomas Hughes-Hallet studied at Oxford university from 1971-1974 gaining am MA in Modern History. In 1974 he commenced studies at the College of Law and qualified as a Barrister at Law in 1977.

He spent 22 years in the banking profession. In 1993 he was appointed Chairman of Robert Fleming Securities. Formerly the Chairman of English Churches Housing Group, Tom became Chief Executive of Marie Curie Cancer Care in 2000.

In addition to his work for Marie Curie, Tom also works for several external directorships, including Chairman of the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children and Trustee of the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.

Film and Advocacy Series

US Now Film Screening and Q&A

The Film and Advocacy Series at the University of Kent continues with the screening of director Ivo Gormley's US Now, a 60 minute documentary that explores how new types of participation could transform the way countries are governed.

The screening will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with the director.

For the complete programme or further information on the Series, go to www.filmadvocacy.moonfruit.com

Research for Patient Benefit Funding Workshop

Run by Research Design Service South East (RDS SE) within the Centre for Health Services Studies

RDS SE is part of the National Institute for Health Research who fund bid around NHS ‘Research for Patient Benefit’.

Collaboration is encouraged between NHS and academics, the RDS SE lead within CHSS is currently in the process of identifying suitable academics willing to collaborate with the NHS in this research path, and therefore would like to give academics the opportunity of finding out more about Research for Patient Benefit applications.

Further information

Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar Series

'The Making of the British Library's exhibition Henry VIII: Man and Monarch'

Dr Andrea Clarke, Curator of Early Modern Historical Manuscripts, British Library

School Seminar Series

The Redemption Ideal in Criminal Justice and Society: Is Redemption Dead?

Professor Shadd Maruna, Queen's University, Belfast

Most seminars are followed by a 'social occasion' that includes drinks and a meal in Canterbury. SSPSSR will subsidise the costs of meals for postgraduate students. For further details, please contact Dr Miri Song tel: 01227 827042.

Postgraduate Open Day

The event will cover the University's extensive range of full- and part-time programmes incorporating those at Medway, Brussels and the new centre at Paris. You will have an opportunity to learn about the University's £3.6 million postgraduate scholarship fund.

Visitors will be able to tour the campus and the dedicated accommodation and study facilities in Woolf College. Academic staff will be available to discuss the wide range of courses on offer and admissions staff will be on hand to help with questions about applications.

Kent Physics Centre

Joint Meeting with SEKAS

'End in fire'

Dr Robert Smith, Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Sussex

In the distant future, the Sun will run out of nuclear fuel and expand to become a red giant star. This will have dramatic consequences (some 7.6 billion years hence) for the Earth. The talk will give an overview of what will happen as the Sun expands, and will also discuss whether life can survive on the Earth on a much smaller timescales.

The Kent Physics Centre lectures are sponsored by the Institute of Physics.

School of Politics and International Relations Guest Lecture

Colonial Violence, Postcolonial Historical Sociology: Insights into State Formation from French Mandate Syria

Dr Daniel Neep, Lecturer in International and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Exeter

Dr Neep's research focuses on state formation, imperialism, military politics and authoritarianism in the Middle East. His principal empirical focus is Syria, where he has lived for several years, from the colonial period to the present day. His book, Colonizing Syria: Space, Violence and State Formation under the French mandate, is to be published by Cambridge University Press.

Strengthen Your Business

Discover how the expertise of staff and students can benefit your business - Join us for our free cheese and wine networking event.

The University of Kent is host to a wealth of knowledge that can provide you and your business with the solutions you seek, inlcuding student placements, graduate recruitment or Government funded Knowledge Transfer Partnerships.

Book online today - For more information please call 01227 827376

Film and Advocacy Series

Participatory Video & Empowerment

Gareth Benest

Screening, audience discussion and Q&A with Gareth Benest (www.insightshare.org)

The Film and Advocacy Series at the University of Kent continues with the screening of three participatory film projects raising important and pressing issues being faced by frontline health workers in Tanzania, East Javanese villagers fighting for their livelihoods and Philippine indigenous communities tracking the effects of large-scale mining and climate change on their environment.

For the complete programme or further information on the series, go to www.filmadvocacy.moonfruit.com

School Seminar Series

Relationships of Consumption and Interdependency: Citizens, Clients and Customers of Public Services

Professor Andrew Gray

Most seminars are followed by a 'social occasion' that includes drinks and a meal in Canterbury. SSPSSR will subsidise the costs of meals for postgraduate students. For further details, please contact Dr Miri Song tel: 01227 827042.

Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar Series

'The Trial of the Templars in the British Isles'

Helen Nicholson, Cardiff University

Centre for Modern European Literature Research Seminar

'Ciaran Carson and Poetic Exchange: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé'

Dr Adam Watt, Royal Holloway, University of London

Form more information please see the Centre for Modern European Literature website.

'Privacy and the Individual' conference, organised by KLS

Sir David Eady, a High Court judge, will be giving the first talk of the day. Other speakers include Glenda Cooper, a writer and journalist, as well as several colleagues from Kent Law School. Steven Mitchell, Deputy Head of News at the BBC, will be a member of the panel at the end of the afternoon.

This event is FREE to all students (all you have to do is register). The cost for academics and other visitors is £25.

Please register as soon as possible by contacting Sarah Slowe in KLS.

Changing Parenting Culture Seminar Series

Changing Parenting Culture

This fourth seminar provides the opportunity for participants to revisit some of the themes and issues identified through the ‘Changing Parenting Culture’ series as most important. Seminar series website

Crime, Culture, Control Research Cluster Seminar Series: Engaging Ethnographies

Dirty Dancing? An ethnography of lap-dancing

Dr Rachela Collosi, University of Teeside

This year, the CCC group will be hosting a themed seminar series that will explore the interplay between theory and the ethnographic enterprise within the field of crime, criminal justice and deviance. Invited speakers are all early career academics. It is intended that the series will provide them with the opportunity to showcase their ethnographic work and to explore how they have engaged with theory

School of European Culture and Languages Lecture and Seminar Series

'The Last Statues of Antiquity'

Dr Bryan Ward-Perkins, University of Oxford

Futher information

Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar Series

'The Sherborne Missal and the Visual Culture of the Cartulary'

Jessica Berenbeim, Courtauld Institute/Harvard

Inaugural Professorial Lecture

Steady the buffs! The East Kent Regiment on the Western Front, 1914-1918

Professor Mark Connelly, Professor of Modern British History

The lecture will examine the way the East Kent Regiment reacted to the flood of volunteers in 1914 and how it integrated them into new battalions and set about imposing the ethos of the regiment. It will then turn to the experience of the fighting on the Western Front exploring the way in which officers and men of the East Kent Regiment coped with the fighting and maintained their distinct East Kent identity.

A reception will follow in the foyer

WorldFest

Students, staff and the general public are invited to shake off the winter doldrums and take part in the University’s annual WorldFest to celebrate diversity and multiculturalism at Kent. The event kicks off on Monday 22 February 2010, and gives you the opportunity to explore and enjoy exciting activities from around the globe, with all proceeds going to Seeds for Africa.

A 30 foot high Yurt will be host to an Ethnic Market, giving you the chance to tickle your taste buds with exciting foods from all four corners of the world. Film, music, sports and much more will also be on the agenda, there’s also a chance to learn and develop your language skills with taster sessions in Arabic, Mandarin, Japanese, Portuguese and Polish, or to show off your moves in the Dance Workshops for Flamenco, Tango, Hip Hop, Salsa, Bellydancing and Bollywood!

For more information visit www.kent.ac.uk/worldfest

School of Politics and International Relations Guest Lecture

'Federalism and European Union: American and European Perspectives'

Dr Robert Schuetze, Law School, University of Durham

Tizard Research Seminar

Developing a supported employment hub for people with complex needs: The story so far

Dr Nick Gore, Lecturer in Learning Disability and Dr Rachel Forrester-Jones, Senior Lecturer in Community Care, Tizard Centre

The Seminar will be followed by an informal drinks reception in the Kent Business School foyer, where you will have the opportunity to meet with the speakers and members of the Tizard Team.

Further details of the seminars are available on the Tizard website.

University Open Lecture

“Open fields”: Darwin and the humanities

Professor Brian Boyd, University Distinguished Professor of English, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Brian Boyd is University Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Known as the foremost Vladimir Nabokov scholar, he has also for the last ten years worked on evolution and literature, from Homeric epics to Spiegelman comics.

As well as many evolutionary articles on writers from Shakespeare and Austen to Dr Seuss, he has published On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition and Fiction, which provides the first comprehensive account of the evolutionary origins of art and storytelling.

Brian Boyd also co-edited Evolution, Literature and Film: A Reader (Columbia, 2010) and is currently writing On the Ends of Stories: Literature and Evolution (Harvard).

School Seminar Series

Working with fish: socio-economy, craft, and social relations in the everyday life of fishmongers

Dr Dawn Lyon

Most seminars are followed by a 'social occasion' that includes drinks and a meal in Canterbury. SSPSSR will subsidise the costs of meals for postgraduate students. For further details, please contact Dr Miri Song tel: 01227 827042.

Centre for Modern European Literature Research Seminar

‘Hyperdialectic in Gertrude Stein’s Cézannian Compositions’

Dr Ariane Mildenberg, University of Kent

Form more information please see the Centre for Modern European Literature website.

Pride in Medway Awards - Presentation Evening

The awards are sponsored by the University of Kent, Medway Council, mhs homes, E.ON and the Medway Messenger.

Kent Physics Centre

'Chaos in action'

Professor Mohammed Sohby, School of Engineering and Digital Arts, University of Kent

Chaos is a branch of mathematics that deals with systems that seem to exhibit chaotic or hard-to-predict behaviour. The weather is a famous example of a natural chaotic system and its study led to the first mathematical understanding of chaos. This is a demonstration lecture.

The Kent Physics Centre lectures are sponsored by the Institute of Physics.

School of European Culture and Languages Lecture and Seminar Series

SECL Popular Lecture

'The Lives of Statues'

Dr Angela Voss, University of Kent

Futher information

Bob Friend Memorial Lecture hosted by the Centre for Journalism and sponsored by Sky News

Mark Thompson, Director General of the BBC

A first-year student from the Centre for Journalism will also be presented with the Bob Friend Memorial Scholarship.

A limited number of tickets are available, allocated strictly on a first come, first served basis. Bookings to Gulbenkian Booking Office on 01227 769075.

School Seminar Series

Post-Secular Urban Spaces? Secularisation, Sacralisation and the Resurgence of Religion in the “Global City”

Professor John Eade, Roehampton University

Most seminars are followed by a 'social occasion' that includes drinks and a meal in Canterbury. SSPSSR will subsidise the costs of meals for postgraduate students. For further details, please contact Dr Miri Song tel: 01227 827042.

Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar Series

'Beyond books: towards a corpus of inscriptions from late medieval England'

Dr David Griffiths, Birmingham

Kent Physics Centre

'Medical physics 21st anniversary of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)'

Professor Steve Webb, Royal Marsden NHS foundation Trust

IMRT is particularly competent for treating head and neck cancers, prostrate, lung, breast and other targets where adjacent organs at risk are present. Clinical IMRT started in 1994 and commenced in a very limited number of specialist institutions, but rapidly gained worldwide recognition and application.

The Kent Physics Centre lectures are sponsored by the Institute of Physics.

Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar Series

'The Namierite Fallacy: Royal Annulments in the Middle Ages' (ANSELM).

Professor David D’Avray FBA

School of European Culture and Languages Lecture and Seminar Series

SECL Distinguished Lecture

'Prisons and Religions: Britain and France'

Professor James Beckford, University of Warwick

Futher information

Rutherford Lecture

An English renegade: John Piper’s pivotal role within high modernism

Professor Francis Spalding

Frances Spalding is an art historian and biographer. She is the author of British Art since 1900, in the Thames & Hudson World of Art series, has written a centenary history of the Tate, as well as biographies of Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, John Minton, Gwen Raverat and of the poet and novelist, Stevie Smith.

Her introduction to the Bloomsbury Group is published in the National Portrait Gallery's 'Insights' series. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, received a CBE in 2005 for services to literature and is currently Professor of Art History at Newcastle University.

She has written extensively on 20-century British art in books, exhibition catalogues, magazine articles and reviews. Her most recent book, John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: Lives in Art, is published by Oxford University Press.

Canterbury Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies Anselm Lecture

‘Royal Annulments in the Middle Ages’

Professor David D’Avray, Fellow of the British Academy

You are most welcome to join us for these exciting open lectures, part of the research culture of the Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent.

The lecture will take place at 6pm, followed by a drinks reception at 7pm, then the high table dinner 7.30 for 8pm.

Centre for Modern European Literature Research Seminar

'Post-Wende Photography of Berlin'

Professor J. J. Long, University of Durham)

Form more information please see the Centre for Modern European Literature website.

Inaugural Professorial Lecture

Professor Alistair Mathie, Professor of Pharmacology, Medway School of Pharmacy

After completing his PhD at the University of Leicester, Alistair spent five years at University College London. In 1989, Alistair went to the US and spent 2 years at the University of Washington in Seattle. On his return, Alistair established his own laboratory at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine/UCL. In 1999, as Reader in Molecular Neuroscience, he moved his laboratory to Imperial College London. In 2007, Alistair became Professor of Pharmacology, Head of Biological Sciences and Director of Research at the Medway School of Pharmacy, University of Kent.

The Colyer-Fergusson Cathedral Concert

The University of Kent Chorus and Symphony Orchestra

Susan Wanless conductor
Jeremy Ovenden leader

Tickets £22.00, £18.00, £14.00, £10.00, £8.00
available from Canterbury Bookings Box Office,
12/13 Sun Street, The Buttermarket,
Canterbury, Tel. 01227 378188 and the
University Music Office, Tel. 01227 827335,
email Musictickets@kent.ac.uk
(credit/debit card payment available).

CHSS Open Seminar

'The Seeds of Exclusion: A detailed investigation of mental health needs of homeless people in the UK and Ireland '

Claire Luscombe, NMES Project Manager, The Salvation Army

The Seeds of Exclusion research is a collaborative project between the University of Kent and Cardiff Universities, commissioned by The Salvation Army. The study has been ongoing since 2006 and has involved 2 phases of detailed interviewing of 967 single homeless individuals accessing residential and day services in multiple cities across the UK and Ireland. Within this seminar an outline of the research methodology will be given and some of the findings and reflections shared. This research provides a unique insight into the needs of people accessing homeless services across the UK and also the provision of statutory and non statutory support for this vulnerable group.

School of European Culture and Languages Lecture and Seminar Series

SECL Distinguished Lecture

'Greek Tragedy and Its Transformations: Performance, Reception, Education'

Professor Pat Easterling, University of Cambridge

Futher information

Open Lecture

details to follow shortly

Please note the Lord Mayor's lecture will now take place on May 11.

School Seminar Series

From tomatoes, via genomes to biofuels - by public road: Developing a neo-Polanyian approach to understanding capitalism

Professor Mark Harvey, University of Essex

Most seminars are followed by a 'social occasion' that includes drinks and a meal in Canterbury. SSPSSR will subsidise the costs of meals for postgraduate students. For further details, please contact Dr Miri Song tel: 01227 827042

Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar Series

'The British Museum's New Medieval Gallery'

James Robinson, Curator of Medieval Collections, British Museum

Kent Physics Centre

'Paul Dirac and the religion of beauty'

Dr Graham Farmelo Senior Research Fellow, The Science Museum, London

Paul Dirac was the greatest English theoretical physicist since Newton. He is famous for co-discovering quantum mechanics, for his beautiful equation for the behaviour of the electron and for brilliantly predicting the existence of antimatter. Although sceptical of philosophy and religion in later life, Dirac became an apostle for the great importance of mathematical beauty in fundamental physics. It was ‘almost a religion’ for him. In this talk the speaker will examine the basis and efficacy of this belief and also look at the remarkable character of this great theoretician, once dubbed ‘ the Mozart of Science’.

The Kent Physics Centre lectures are sponsored by the Institute of Physics.

Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar Series

'Materialist politics in the seventeenth century: Lucretius and his readers'

Professor David Norbrook, Merton College, Oxford

Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar Series

‘Chaucer in Bohemia’

Jan Cermak’s, University of Prague

Centre for Modern European Literature Research Seminar

'"Father, Where Art Thou?": Remembering/Replacing the Father in Twentieth-Century French Women's Writing'

Dr Ana de Medeiros, University of Kent

Form more information please see the Centre for Modern European Literature website.

School Seminar Series

Telling policy stories: an ethnographic study of the evidence-policy link

Dr Alex Stevens, University of Kent

Most seminars are followed by a 'social occasion' that includes drinks and a meal in Canterbury. SSPSSR will subsidise the costs of meals for postgraduate students. For further details, please contact Dr Miri Song tel: 01227 827042

Inaugural Professorial Lecture

His mother and her mother won: Auden and women

Professor Janet Montefiore, Director of Learning and Teaching and Director for the Centre for Sexuality, Gender & Writing

Jan Montefiore has a long-standing interest in poetry and gender, the theme of her first book Feminism and Poetry (1987, 2004) which is also prominent in her Men and Women Writers of the 1930s (1996) and in several essays in her Arguments of Heart and Mind (2002). Her lecture will focus on W.H. Auden’s representations of women in his poetry, from the devouring mothers, frustrated spinsters and expensive sirens his 1930s poetry and plays to the symbolic maternal landscapes and sympathetic female figures of his post-war poetry. A member of the W.H. Auden Society, the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society and the Kipling Society which she also serves as member of its Council, Jan is a consultant on women’s poetry and poetics for Liverpool University Press, a member of the editorial board of the US-based journal The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, and general editor of Kipling titles for Penguin Classics.

A reception will follow in the Staff Common Room

School of European Culture and Languages Lecture and Seminar Series

SECL Popular Lecture

'Archaeo-Astronomy and Its Importance for Archaeology'

Dr Efrosyni Boutsikas, University of Kent

Futher information

School Seminar Series

Cross-border flows and the future of the US-Mexico border region

Professor Larry Herzog, San Diego State University

Most seminars are followed by a 'social occasion' that includes drinks and a meal in Canterbury. SSPSSR will subsidise the costs of meals for postgraduate students. For further details, please contact Dr Miri Song tel: 01227 827042

Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar Series

‘Manhood, violence and justice in late medieval France and England’

Dr Chris Fletcher, University of Kent

Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar Series

'Framing Domestic Devotion: The Wall Paintings in the Oratory of Château de Busset, Allier'

Melena Hope, Courtauld Institute

Centre for Modern European Literature Research Seminar

‘On What Can’t Be Said: Judith Butler, Charlotte Delbo and the Story of One’s Death’

Professor Colin Davis, Royal Holloway, University of London

Form more information please see the Centre for Modern European Literature website.

Vice Chancellor’s Special Lecture

Looted art 1933-45 and its restitution

Professor Richard J Evans, Regius Professor of Modern History and Chairman of the History Faculty University of Cambridge

Professor Evans FBA is now Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge having previously taught at the University of East Anglia and at Birkbeck College, London, where he was Vice-Master. He is also currently Gresham Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, London.

He has been Editor of the Journal of Contemporary History since 1998 and a judge of the Wolfson Literary Award for History since 1993. Over the years, his work has won numerous awards, including the Wolfson Literary Award for History, the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History and the Hamburg Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft.

He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society, and an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and Birkbeck College, London.

Lord Mayor's Lecture

Sir Christopher Frayling

Sir Christopher Frayling is well-known as an historian, critic and an award-winning broadcaster. Educated at Churchill College, Cambridge, his PhD was on Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the arts. He is Rector of the Royal College of Art, the only wholly postgraduate university of art and design in the world, and also Professor of Cultural History there. In addition, he was until recently Chairman of Arts Council England, the largest funding body for the arts in the UK, he is the longest-serving Trustee of the V&A, and Chairman of the Royal Mint Advisory Committee, which selects the designs for new coins.

School Seminar Series

Work after globalization: building occupational citizenship

Professor Guy Standing, University of Bath

Most seminars are followed by a 'social occasion' that includes drinks and a meal in Canterbury. SSPSSR will subsidise the costs of meals for postgraduate students. For further details, please contact Dr Miri Song tel: 01227 827042.

School of European Culture and Languages Lecture and Seminar Series

SECL Distinguished Lecture

Professor Peregrine Horden, Royal Holloway, London

‘Early Medieval Medicine’

Futher information

Open Lecture

Mr Jonathan Kestenbaum, Chief Executive of NESTA, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts

NESTA is the largest endowment in the UK exclusively dedicated to fostering innovation and the country's biggest source of seed finance for technology start-ups. Jonathan Kestenbaum graduated from the LSE and Cambridge, followed by an MBA with distinction from the Cass Business School. He is a graduate of the Cabinet Office Top Management programme as well as the Strategic Agility programme at Harvard Business School.

Mr Kestenbaum will be giving an Open Lecture, further details to follow.

Open Lectures are free and open to all.

Anne-Marie Rigley

01227 824428

Open Lecture

title tbc

Professor John Beddington CMG FRS, Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government

Professor John Beddington succeeded Sir David King as the Government Chief Scientific Adviser and Head of the Government Office for Science on 1 January 2008. The Government Chief Scientific Adviser is responsible to the Prime Minister and Cabinet for the quality of scientific advice within Government and for providing personal advice to them on scientific and science policy issues. Open Lectures are free and open to all.

Further details will be published in due course.

Anne-Marie Rigley

01227 824428

More details coming soon

More details coming soon