Tonbridge Open Evening

The evening will promote the part-time courses for adults that are available from January 2009 with friendly staff on-hand to advise and answer queries.

There is no need to book but further information is available by telephoning on 01732 352316 or by emailing the Tonbridge Administration team.

Spring Term begins

Darzi Conference

A high quality workforce, from policy to practice: a focus on Medway

Guest speakers include Anne Keen MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary for Health; Paul Clark MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary for Transport; Marion Dinwoodie, Chief Executive, NHS Medway; Cheryl Lee, HR Director, Medway Foundation Trust; and Cheryl Clements, HR Director, NHS Medway.

School of Physical Sciences Lecture

A voyage through the solar system

Dr Cyril Isenberg, University of Kent

To mark International Astronomy Year the School of Physical Sciences at the University of Kent is presenting a series of public lectures on astronomy, cosmology and the universe.

When the weather permits they will be followed by an observing session at the university observatory.

CHSS Open Seminar

Dementia and clothing

Professor Julia Twigg, University of Kent

This seminar explores the neglected subject of clothing and dementia. Addressing questions of the body, identity and selfhood, it argues that clothes continue - against the dominant perception - to be significant in the lives and wellbeing of people with dementia.

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Leverhulme Lecture

Key concepts in aesthetics lecture 1 - the aesthetic

Professor Jerrold Levinson, University of Maryland

In association with the SECL Distinguished lecture series.

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Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar

Cohesion and Diversity in the Early Franciscan Order

Dr Jens Rohrkasten, University of Birmingham

A research seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, covering historical, literary and cultural topics.

Kent Physics Centre Lecture

The world of radioactive polonium - 210

Dr Patrick Regan, University of Surrey

The nucleus Polonium – 210 made the news recently for all the wrong reasons. It was used to kill former Russian security officer, Alexander Litvinenko.

Come and explore the properties of this isotope, how it is made, how it is detected, its biological effects and how these can be quantified and measured.

SECL Distinguished Lecture

Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt

Dr Dorothy Thompson, University of Cambridge

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Leverhulme Lecture

Key concepts in aesthetics lecture 2 - beauty

Professor Jerrold Levinson, University of Maryland

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Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar

Camões and the Sea: Maritime Modernity in The Lusiads

Professor Bernhard Klein, University of Kent

A research seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, covering historical, literary and cultural topics.

Department of Politics and International Relations lecture

Parliamentary accountability: myth or reality?

Michael Howard, MP for Folkestone and Hythe, former Home Secretary and Leader of the Conservative Party.

Chancellor's lecture and Court

The Channel Tunnel - reflections on a transport revolution

Lord Andrew Adonis
Minister of State for Transport

Lord Adonis was appointed Minister of State for Transport in October 2008. Prior to this, his other roles have included being a special advisor to Tony Blair, a Fellow in Politics at Oxford, an Editor for the Financial Times and a leader-writer on the Observer. He was made a life peer in 2005.

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European Theatre Research Network symposium

Training for performance - tradition and innovation: Britain/Russia a symposium

A day-long symposium on the occasion of the visit to Kent of three teachers from the celebrated Moscow Art Theatre School (MXHAT). Focussed principally on actor training in the UK and Russia, it will explore how we can train in a range of contexts, from universities to conservatoires, for multiple possibilities.

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CSPS Brown Bag Lunch

Reflections on Karol Wojtyla’s (Pope John Paul II) philosophy of personhood

Dr Stefan Rossbach (Politics)

These lunches are designed to foster conversation across faculties on subjects that fall under the heading of politics, history, spirituality and ethics. Speakers will talk for roughly 15 minutes on an area of their thinking or research. People are encouraged to bring sandwiches and engage in debate.

School of Physical Sciences Lecture

The sun as a typical star

Dr Kaz Krynicki, University of Kent

The Sun is our most available laboratory for the study of stars in general. The talk will summarise the Sun’s physical properties. Solar activities and various types of solar radiation will also be discussed.

SECL Popular Lecture

Should assisted dying be legalized?

Professor Robin Gill, University of Kent

Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar

Visual narratology as an index of artistic identity; the case of the 'Good Samaritan Master' at Bourges

Stuart Whatling, Courtauld Institute of Art

A research seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, covering historical, literary and cultural topics.

Leverhulme Lecture

Key concepts in aesthetics lecture 3 - art

Professor Jerrold Levinson, University of Maryland

More information on the Leverhulme Lecture series

Postgraduate Open Day

A chance to meet the staff and students, see the campus, and take a tour of our new multi-million pound graduate college dedicated to postgraduate study

Sky Bob Friend Memorial Lecture

The inaugural annual Sky Bob Friend Memorial Lecture will be delivered by John Ryley, head of Sky News. Mr Ryley will also present the 2009 Sky Bob Friend Memorial Scholarship to the Centre for Journalisms first recipient of this new annual undergraduate award.

Attendance is strictly by invitation only. Drinks reception 6pm.

More information on the Centre for Journalism

Creative Wiriting Series

Maureen Freely and Abdulrazak Gurnah

Each term, the University presents a series of Tuesday Readings. The School of English invites distinguished writers to the University so they can share their work with the surrounding community. The Series is designed to showcase the work of both established and up-and-coming artists.

Dame Tanni Grey Thompson Lecture

Seize the day: the battle to be the best

Dame Tanni Grey Thompson, Eleven-time Paralympic gold medallist

The talk will focus on fighting for equality, the importance of the Paralympics in changing attitudes to disability sport and how Medway can maximize the benefits of the 2012 Games.

Leverhulme Lecture

Key concepts in aesthetics lecture 4 - artwork

Professor Jerrold Levinson, University of Maryland

In association with the SECL Distinguished lecture series.

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CHSS Open Seminar

Communicating risk to patients

Doctor Karen Ballard, University of Surrey

Barely a week goes by without national news reporting on risky behaviour and its impact on health: we are advised to alter our diet in case of heart attacks; we are told of rapidly spreading ‘superbugs’ that are accountable for the death of newborn babies; and when given a medical treatment, we are cautioned of the risks associated with it.

In this seminar, we will consider the ways in which risks are presented to patients, and how coercive risk presentation can be.

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Brodsky Quartet

Lutoslawski - String Quartet

Haydn - String Quartet No.4 in D major, Opus 20

Purcell - Fantasias

Mendelssohn - String Quartet in A minor, Opus 13

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BioMeRG Inaugural event

Hosted by Prof Darren Griffin

Keynote lecture to be given by Professor Peter Goodfellow 'Will gene therapy work?' Followed by a reception in which displays of research work and sci-art will be displayed.

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Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar

Edmund Spenser, Religion and Sex

Professor Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex

A research seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, covering historical, literary and cultural topics.

Darwin 200 exhibition

This exhibition will showcase the recent gift of the Jack Johns Collection: books by and about Darwin, his influences, followers and opponents collected by Mr Johns over the last 60 years.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a selection of cartoons from the British Cartoon Archive.

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Annual Pfizer Lecture

The discovery of new medicines: challenges for industry

Professor Sir Tom Blundell, University of Cambridge

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CSPS Brown Bag Lunch

Jesus in Christianity and Islam

Rev’d Dr Stephen Laird (Chaplaincy)

These lunches are designed to foster conversation across faculties on subjects that fall under the heading of politics, history, spirituality and ethics. Speakers will talk for roughly 15 minutes on an area of their thinking or research. People are encouraged to bring sandwiches and engage in debate.

School of Physical Sciences Lecture

Life in space

Professor Mark Burchell, University of Kent

The origin of life is one of the big questions of the age - what we know about it will be discussed, but what we don’t know may be even more interesting. The talk will cover what we know about life on Earth, where it might appear elsewhere and what form it might take.

Leverhulme Lecture

Key concepts in aesthetics lecture 5 - artform

Professor Jerrold Levinson, University of Maryland

In association with the SECL Distinguished lecture series.

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Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the limits of chivalry

Dr Laura Ashe, Worcester College, University of Oxford

A research seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, covering historical, literary and cultural topics.

Lord Mayor's Lecture

The crash and beyond

David Freud

From the financial crash of 2008 and what it means for the rest of us, to the economics of the Israeli/Palestinian impasse.

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University Concert Band and Big Band

Signed, sealed, delivered!

The University Concert Band and Big Band return to the Gulbenkian for their annual spectacular concert.

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Jobshop@Kent Summer Jobs Fair 2009

Local companies will be attending, to advertise summer employment opportunites to the students at the university.

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Jobshop@Kent Summer Jobs Fair 2009

Local companies will be attending, to advertise summer employment opportunites to the students at the university.

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Kent Physics Centre Lecture

The Cassini - huygen mission to Saturn and Titan

Dr Caitriona Jackman, Imperial College London

An overview of the hugely successful Cassini – Huygens mission, launched in 1997 and currently in orbit around the planet Saturn. What will be shown are some of the scientific highlights from the tour of Saturn, along with hints of what is to come from future orbits of the space craft over the next few years.

Darwin Annual Lecture

Is human evolution over?

Professor Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics, University College London

This Lecture is part of both Kent's Open Lecture series and the Darwin 200 celebration.

Department of Politics and International Relations lecture

The curse of Berlin: Africa’s security architecture

Adekeye Adebajo, Visiting Fellow, Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University

SECL Distinguished Lecture

Religion and politics: private matters?

Professor David McLellan

CREAte Spring Lecture Series

Thinking Outside the Box: Sustainable Homes and Communities

Architect, academic and author Professor Avi Friedman from McGill University in Canada is to launch the CREAte (Centre for Research in European Architecture) Spring Lecture Series.

Leverhulme Lecture

Key concepts in aesthetics lecture 6 - artistic form

Professor Jerrold Levinson, University of Maryland

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WorldFest

The first of a four-day extravaganza celebrating the University of Kent's international community and ethos.

Samba Band, Tango and Flamenco workshops, Ethnic Market, ice-skating rink and much, much more.

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University Chamber Choir

The University Chamber Choir performs amidst the wonderful setting and acoustics of the Cathedral’s Norman Crypt.

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WorldFest

The second of a four-day extravaganza celebrating the University of Kent's international community and ethos.

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WorldFest

The third of a four-day extravaganza celebrating the University of Kent's international community and ethos.

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WorldFest

The fourth of a four-day extravaganza celebrating the University of Kent's international community and ethos.

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CSPS Brown Bag Lunch

Akbar's Multiculturalism: Lessons for Diversity Management in the 21st Century

Dr Jawad Syed (Kent Business School)

These lunches are designed to foster conversation across faculties on subjects that fall under the heading of politics, history, spirituality and ethics. Speakers will talk for roughly 15 minutes on an area of their thinking or research. People are encouraged to bring sandwiches and engage in debate.

Café petit scientifique

Designer babies and evolution; myths and magic

Professor Darren Griffin

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Crab & Winkle line and tunnel lecture

The construction of Victorian railways tunnels and the Canterbury to Whitstable line tunnel

Alan Auld

Centre for Modern European Literature Distinguished Lecture

Motion is madness: how the idea of motion transformed eighteenth-century Aesthetics

Professor Dirk Oschmann, Jena

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Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar

Broadcasting Medieval Culture

Dr Alixe Bovey, University of Kent

A research seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, covering historical, literary and cultural topics.

Art Exhibition

A celebration of the joy of life

Sonia McNally

After five years study, Sonia graduated from Christchurch University in Canterbury in 2008 with a 1st Class Honours Degree in Fine Art Painting.

Prior to her painting studies she worked as a prop maker, stylist and set builder in film, theatre commercials and music videos. Clients include The National Theatre and Ralph Lauren. Collaboration in local community arts projects fostered her interest in installation art and creative decoration leading to the formation of Big Sky, an event decoration company. She has have travelled extensively and also has a degree in Agriculture and the Environment from Wye College, University of London.

Exhibition runs from 26 January to 27 March.

Colyer-Fergusson Concert

Mass in Time of War, Haydn

Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Eroica, Beethoven

University chorus and symphony orchestra

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Samaggi Games

The University will be home to this year’s Samaggi Games, a day of Thai influenced sport and culture attended by Thai students from across the country and representing over 27 universities.

Official opening ceremony 09:00 – 09:30, and the sports will begin at 10:00. The day will finish with a closing ceremony scheduled for around 5:30.

All visitors are welcome.

CHSS Open Seminar

Smoking, mental health and human rights

Dr Joanne Warner, University of Kent

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PVC's Lunchtime Research Seminar

Centre for Biomedical Imaging

Following the success of the first two lunchtime seminars, for this seminar there will be speakers addressing each of these themes:

• Data analysis: Dr Colin Johnson and Professor Bill Gullick will make a presentation about modelling and receptors.
• Knowledge Discovery: Dr Anthony Baines will make a presentation about evolution.
• Imaging: Professor Adrian Podoleanu will make a presentation about imaging.

Lunch is available from 12:30 in the Senate Building, with the Seminar taking place between 1 - 2.

All are welcome.

Centre for Modern European Literature Distinguished Lecture

Excessive form: is modernism a formalism?

Professor Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania

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Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar

Poisoned kisses – the 17th century case of Mary and Robert Hampson of the inner temple

Dr Jessica Malay, University of Huddersfield and Dr Alison Johnson, University of Leeds

A research seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, covering historical, literary and cultural topics.

KIASH Lecture

Disappearing acts: obscure lives and precarious identities in the twentieth-century literature

Professor Michael Sheringham BA, PH.D. Kent at Canterbury, Marshal Foch Chair French Literature, All Souls College, University of Oxford

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Big Band Squared!

Big Band Squared: for Comic Relief!

Two for the price of one, the Big Bands of the Universities of Kent and Christ Church come together for the first time for a mighty evening of jazz, swing and funk, all in a good cause!

Featuring staff and student musicians from both campuses playing the music of Ellington, Basie, Stevie Wonder and more, this promises to be a unique and lively musical revelry, as two titans get their – and your – feet moving to the beat of the big bands.

Tickets are ₤4. Profits from the evening in aid of Comic Relief.

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Lunchtime Concert

The Carnival Band

Take a sideways look at music from all over the world, and from a host of styles and periods. Witty and unpredictable, they’ll bring out the reveller in you!

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Kent Law School Guest Lecture

Peace in Our Time: Beyond the Science Wars

Professor Susan Haack

Susan Haack, Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Miami, will give a talk at the University of Kent on the current relationship between scientific rationality and the social sciences, humanities and the law.

Seeds for Africa Photo and Poster Exhibition and Sale

Come and join us for the official launch of a range of Seeds for Africa posters. All images have been captured and designed by charity trustee Darryn Payne, and will be available for purchase at the exhibition. All proceeds will go towards the University of Kent’s official charity, Seeds for Africa.

CSPS Brown Bag Lunch

Religion and Politics: Private Matters?

Prof. David McLellan (Politics)

These lunches are designed to foster conversation across faculties on subjects that fall under the heading of politics, history, spirituality and ethics. Speakers will talk for roughly 15 minutes on an area of their thinking or research. People are encouraged to bring sandwiches and engage in debate.

Kent Crime and Justice Centre seminar Medway

The Girls in the Gang

Tara Young, Senior Research Fellow at London Metropolitan University, and a leading expert on group delinquency and gang culture, will discuss the growing problem of girls and gangs.

SSPSSR Open Lecture

Representatives from the Department of Health Project Evaluation Team for the Social Work Degree will be giving a presentation on their findings.

They will offer an overview of key findings from the project as well as findings that are specific to University of Kent. The presentation will last approximately 45 minutes, followed by time for questions and light refreshments.

The session will be chaired by Jo Warner.

Kent Physics Centre Lecture

Our universe and others

Professor John Barrow, University of Cambridge

We will explore the latest ideas about the structure of the universe and the possible theories which explain it , together with the idea of cosmological ‘inflation’, dark energy, and the future of the universe and the possibility that other universes exist.

Jazz @ 5

Come and be entertained by student and staff musicians in the Gulbenkian Café Bar, with a mix of instrumental and vocal standards, cabaret and songs. Admission free.

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Leverhulme Lecture

Key concepts in aesthetics lecture 7 - artistic expression

Professor Jerrold Levinson, University of Maryland

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DICE Annual Lecture

The past and future of coral reefs: exploitation, tourism and climate change

Professor Callum Roberts, University of York

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Cheese and Jazz

A chance to hear our Darwin Music Scholar and sample some of the Darwin cellar wine with nibbles.

Darwin members enter free of charge, guests £3.00.

Pride in Medway Awards

Awards night, featuring presentations to winners. Pride in Medway is sponsored by the University, alongside the Medway Messenger, Medway Council and mhs homes.

Jobshop@Kent Medway Recruitment Fair 2009

Are you looking for employment? If so please make sure you come along to the Jobshop@Kent Recruitment Fair 2009, to be held at the Medway Campus. Companies attending include Kent Police, Grassroots Soccer School, Bunac, Medway Council, plus many more...

School of Physical Sciences Lecture

Our universe, our origin and our future

Professor Michael Smith, University of Kent

This talk will outline the tremendous advances, in our understanding of the universe, that were made largely during the last century. They have allowed us to deduce how the universe began and then to expand to its present state. Although our knowledge of the universe is quite appreciable, we still know little about the nature of the, so called, dark matter and dark energy, whose existence follows from reliable observations.

Centre for Modern European Literature research seminar

Dr Charlie Louth, University of Oxford

Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar

Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale and Medieval Political Theory

Professor Steve Rigby, University of Manchester

A research seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, covering historical, literary and cultural topics.

Tizard lecture

President Kennedy's legacy in intellectual disability: success and failures of reform in the USA

Professor Stephen Eidelman, University of Delaware, USA, The Robert Edelsohn Chair in Disabilities Studies

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Politics and International Relations seminar

Discussion on Human Rights and Good Governance

Mark Canning (HMA Rangoon, Burma) and Andrew Mace (HMA Phnom Penh, Cambodia), will give a discussion on Human Rights and Good Governance with UK Ambassadors to Burma and Cambodia.

Lunch will be provided from 12.15 in the Marlowe Foyer.

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Darwin's 200th birth date celebration – Darwin goes public

What does the public know about Darwin and his theory of evolution?

Students on the masters course Science, Communication and Society present their surprising and entertaining findings regarding this intriguing question. Historian of science Charlotte Sleigh comments on how these facts and fictions have become public knowledge.

Followed by a reception.

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Grass Roots event

Diversity and Change after Full-time Employment – a talk followed by open discussion

Professor Sarah Vickerstaff from the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent and Professor Richard Scase, former staff Kent Business School, University of Kent invite you to their presentation. There will also be an opportunity to participate in lively discussion.

To be followed by buffet at 7.30pm in the window area of Rutherford Dining Hall.

Buffet cost £7.50 per person – closing date for bookings Monday 23 March.

CSPS Brown Bag Lunch

Faith for an Ideological Age: The Ideas of Semyon Frank (1877-1950) and Frank Buchman (1878-1961)

Dr Philip Boobbyer (History)

These lunches are designed to foster conversation across faculties on subjects that fall under the heading of politics, history, spirituality and ethics. Speakers will talk for roughly 15 minutes on an area of their thinking or research. People are encouraged to bring sandwiches and engage in debate.

Creative Wiriting Series

Marina Warner

Each term, the University presents a series of Tuesday Readings. The School of English invites distinguished writers to the University so they can share their work with the surrounding community. The Series is designed to showcase the work of both established and up-and-coming artists.

Entry £2, concessions £1.

School of Physical Sciences Lecture

Star formation

Dr Dirk Froebrich, University of Kent

We know little about how stars were formed in the early universe, but our knowledge about the star formation, occurring in our galaxy, is appreciable. This talk will concentrate on physical models and observations of current star formation in cold molecular clouds which appear in the interstellar matter of the galaxy.

Woolf College Inaugural Lecture

Energy security and climate change: what role for Europe?

Lord Hannay of Chiswick

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Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar

Ductus and Memoria. Chartres cathedral as rhetoric

Professor Paul Crossley, Courtauld Institute of Art

A research seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, covering historical, literary and cultural topics.

Department of Politics and International Relations Guest Lecture

Russian military reform and strategic challenges

Roger McDermott

Centre for Modern European Literature research seminar

Fabien Arribert-Narce, University of Kent

Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar

A queen's ransom? The social, religious, financial and political significance of jewellery for early Tudor queenship

Dr Maria Hayward, University of Southampton

A research seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, covering historical, literary and cultural topics.

Leverhulme Lecture

Key concepts in aesthetics lecture 8 - artistic interpretation

Professor Jerrold Levinson, University of Maryland

In association with the SECL Distinguished lecture series.

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Psychology Lecture

The Modern Threefold Human Being and The Crucial Significance of the 21st Century in the Story of Humanity

Terry Boardman

Terry Boardman, author of "Mapping the Millennium - Behind the Plans of the New World Order" (1998) and "Kaspar Hauser - where did he come from?" (2006), will speak on the subject of why it is not contemporary egoism but historical and spiritual fact that supports the idea of the 21st century as the most critical time in humanity's biography in the last 2000 years.

School of Architecture Lecture

Graham Stirk of Rogers, Stirk Harbour and Partners

Graham Stirk joined Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners (formally RRP) in 1983 and was made a Senior Director in 1995. He has been involved in the design of a number of prestigious UK projects including Lloyd's of London and the Channel 4 Headquarters, as well as projects worldwide - in Japan, the USA, France, Italy, Spain, Germany and Ireland.

School of Physical Sciences Lecture

The contribution of amateurs to astronomy

Dr John Kemp, Journal Editor, SEKAS

Astronomy is one of the few sciences where the amateur can make useful contributions: amateurs educate and entertain the populace with public stargazing events; they help to maintain the political will to fund what is literally ‘blue sky’ research; they have written software that the professionals use; and they provide for the next generation of professional astronomers - there is even an amateur member of the Hubble team.

This lecture will discuss this contribution and how it is continuing to evolve in the 21st Century.

CHSS Open Seminar

Feasibility and acceptability of a new stroke self-management programme: how will it work in practice?

Dr Fiona Jones, St Georges Hospital University of London

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SECL Distinguished Lecture

On having a mind, having a body and being a human being

Dr Peter Hacker, University of Oxford

Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar

End of Term Party

Leverhulme Lecture

Key concepts in aesthetics lecture 9 - artistic value

Professor Jerrold Levinson, University of Maryland

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Spring Term ends

ESRC/University of Kent Colloquium

Defining the metropolitan region: town, countryside and environment in London and the South-East, 1580-1914

The event will bring together experts in urban, agrarian and environmental history to discuss changing relations between town and country in London and the South-East over the past four centuries.

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Plenary Lecture

Greater London. The Trading Metropolis as an Ecological System, 1500-1800

Paul Warde

Part of the ESRC/University of Kent Colloquium

ESRC/University of Kent Colloquium

Defining the metropolitan region: town, countryside and environment in London and the South-East, 1580-1914

The event will bring together experts in urban, agrarian and environmental history to discuss changing relations between town and country in London and the South-East over the past four centuries.

More information on the ESRC Colloquium

Kent Innovation & Enterprise

Local Innovation, Global Opportunities, Accessing Europe with Enterprise Europe South-East

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Alumni London Pub Night

Open Lecture

Child protection and social work: what needs to change

Professor David Shemmings, Chair of Social Work, and Deputy Head of the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent

Professor Shemmings, who will be giving his inaugural lecture at Kent, has been studying social work with children and families for more than 20 years. One of his areas of expertise is in the assessment of child protection, and in particular the involvement of families in open and transparent decision-making.

Drinks reception 5.30-6pm

This event is free and is open to the public.

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Kent Innovation & Enterprise

Eliminating mistakes in the pharma and health industries

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Summer Term begins

Distinguished Lecture

Poetry beyond text: vision, text, cognition

From avant-garde to digital

Professor Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University

Europe day celebrations

Come and celebrate with us. Enjoy live music, a special European menu and a game of boules!

European office staff will also be there with information about:

• New University of Kent courses in Paris
• Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies
• Study and work placements in Europe
• Kent’s European activities

This event is open to all!

For more details please contact the European Office.

Poetry Event

Between the Lines by SaveAs

Admission Free and open to all followed by light refreshments.

Creative Writing Awards

Awards night, featuring presentations to winners. The awards are sponsored by the University and the Medway Messenger.

Kent Innovation & Enterprise

Business Link 1hr clinics

1hr sessions from 09:30 to 16:30

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CHSS Open Seminar

The employment support needs of carers

Professor Sarah Vickerstaff, University of Kent

There is increasing policy emphasis on promoting employment amongst carers, with estimates suggesting that over 3 million combine work and caring.

This discussion is based on research which aimed to examine the employment support needs of carers or those having recently ended a spell of caring.

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Bolt Open Lecture

The failure of US "Strategic Communications" since 9/11

Professor Phil Taylor, University of Leeds

Kent Cancer Trust Lecture

Concepts of holism in orthodox and alternative medicine

Professor Michael Baum
Emeritus Professor of Surgery and visiting Professor of Medical Humanities, University College London

Professor Baum is a leading oncologist who specialises in the treatment of breast cancer. He and his team contributed to the 20 per cent reduction in breast cancer mortality over the last 15 year by illustrating the effectiveness of Tamoxifen in clinical trials.

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Anthropology Conference

Youth violence and identity

Globalization has changed the structures and forms of war and conflict in general, and with it the ways in which we view issues of nationalism and resistance. The studies being presented here focus on ‘new wars’, and the ways young actors communicate political and symbolic meaning through acts of violence.

Anthropology Conference

Youth violence and identity

Globalization has changed the structures and forms of war and conflict in general, and with it the ways in which we view issues of nationalism and resistance. The studies being presented here focus on ‘new wars’, and the ways young actors communicate political and symbolic meaning through acts of violence.

Rutherford Grass Roots

Living in a 13th Century Medieval Castle: Allington Castle, Kent

Professor Sir Robert Worcester KBE, DL, Chancellor, University of Ken

Free and open to all followed by light buffet.

Centre for Modern European Literature Research Seminar

The work of the spectre in Diderot's salons

Dr Thomas Baldwin, University of Kent

Inaugural Professorial Lecture

Doctors perfect way to guarantee sex of a baby!

Professor Darren Griffin, Professor of Genetics

Professor Griffin will describe, in a series of accessible demonstrations, what chromosomes are and how we go about analyzing them.

More importantly, the talk will explore how chromosomes influence sex determination, evolution (as this is Darwin year), cancer, fertility and birth defects (and how his work has prompted headlines such as the one in the title of his talk).

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European Elections - a chance to talk to your candidates

This husting has been organised by a group of students from the UKC. Its goal is to foster public awareness and political debate on the European Parliamentary Elections taking place on the 7th of June.

One candidate for each of the main parties will be present :

• Richard Ashworth: Conservatives
• Hazel Dowe: Greens
• Steve Harris: UKIP
• Lisa Homan: Labour
• Antony Hook: Liberal-Democrats

Hullabaloo meets UKCBB

After their sell-out concert last year, the University of Kent Big Band joins forces again with the popular Kent-based quartet Hullabaloo for another evening of jazz, jive and big band swing.

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The third annual Universities at Medway Boat Race

Men's and women's teams from Kent, Greenwich and Canterbury Christ Church universities will compete for the coveted trophies.

Centre for Modern European Literature Research Seminar

On sado-masochist paradigms in kafka's the trial

Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner, University of Kent

Brodsky Quartet

Isidora Žebeljan – New Work (first performance)

Verdi – String Quartet in E minor

Schubert – String Quintet in C major, Opus 163

The exciting partnership between the Brodsky Quartet and the University is enhanced still further with a specially commissioned work for this concert, to mark the fortieth anniversary of Keynes College.

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ESRC Public Lecture

We are impatient because we die. But why do we die?

Professor ArThu Robson, Simon Fraser University, Canada Research Chair in Economic Theory and Evolution

A Darwinian perspective sheds light on why we are impatient, that is, why we discount future rewards.

This lecture is part of both the ESRC-funded seminar series and Kent's Darwin 200 celebration.

Centre for American Studies workshop

'Whip crack away!': Calamity Jane, the west and American popular culture

Featuring lectures from Dr Karen Jones and Dr Tamar Jeffers-McDonald.

The Centre for American Studies is hosting an afternoon workshop and reception in conjunction with a film showing of Calamity Jane, the 1953 musical starring Doris Day, at the Gulbenkian theatre that evening.

Full details of the programme will be announced shortly. Tickets for the workshop are £5. To book a place please contact Claire Taylor.

Those wishing to attend the film showing should buy their tickets from the Gulbenkian box office.

ESRC-funded Workshop

Charity giving, philanthropy and volunteering: implications from evolutionary and social sciences

Evolutionary psychology has emerged over the past decade as a vibrant, novel, inter-disciplinary research programme. These workshops aim to explore the implications.

This seminar is part of both the ESRC-funded seminar series and Kent's Darwin 200 celebration.

UMSA Summerball 2009

The student associations Summerball, with headline acts including N Trance, MistaJam and a Take That Tribute band and a fun fair on the Drill Hall Car Park.

Opens at 8pm and closes at 3am, tickets can be purchased from Pilkington reception and cost £28.

40 glorious Gulbenkian years exhibition

An exhibition of memorabilia covering the 40 years since the Gulbenkian came into existence.

Costumes, programmes, posters, photographs…see how the Gulbenkian building has changed over the years!

The exhibition is free and open to all until 30 June.

SECL Book Launch

Chris Deacy (co-ed.), Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age (Ashgate, 2009) Csaba La'da, Greek Documentary Papyri from Ptolemaic Egypt: Corpus Papyorum Raineri, Band XXVIII (de Gruyter, 2008)

Luke Lavan (co-ed.), Technology in Transition, AD 300-650 (Brill, 2008)

Ellen Swift, Style and Function in Roman Decoration: Living with Objects and Interiors (Ashgate, 2009)

Alan Thomas, Thomas Nagel (Acumen, 2008) Ken Westphal (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit' (Blackwell, 2009)

French Symposium

Picturing language: the art book tradition in twentieth-century Europe

This one-day colloquium explores the relationship between poetry and illustration in the context of the art book tradition in Europe from the early decades of the twentieth century to the 1960s.

For more information, including speaker details, please see the SECL website

Kent Union Summer Ball

With the Zane Low, Noisettes and Dizzee Rascal

Tickets for the Summer Ball are now on sale for £45 each. You can buy yours from EXTRAS (located next to Essentials).

The Summer Ball has sold out for the last 2 years, so buy yours now to avoid disappointment!

Grotowski: theatre and beyond - a multi-modal exhibition

As part of the British Grotowski Conference, there will be an exhibition of Grotowski-related set material, props, costumes, theatre posters, design sketches and specially commissioned films and photographs by two Italian theatre photographers.

The exhibition is open 8 - 18 June.

Special Symposium

Translational Medicine, an alternative approach

Half day Seminar to discuss bi-directional paradigm on Translational Medicine, (from bench to bedside / from bedside to bench).

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Centre for Modern European Literature Research Seminar

The Swiss Nabokov: pastoral time and the cold war in pale fire and ada

Dr Will Norman, University of Kent

Open Lecture

Leonardo and the poetics of portraiture

Professor Martin Kemp
Emeritus Professor in the History of Art, Oxford University

The discovery of a new portrait of a Milanese ‘princess’ by Leonardo da Vinci and new information about the Mona Lisa provides the basis for Professor Kemp’s lecture.

More information about Open Lectures

Creative industries alumni reception

Postponed

Due to the London tube strike this event has been postponed until a later date.

Gulbenkian Open Day

40th Anniversary Celebration at the Gulbenkian

Take a look behind the scenes at the Gulbenkian, walk onto the stage, take a peek at the cinema and see where the films are projected from…

ArtsFest 2009

Music and drama of every sort - together with BBQ, ice-creams, candy-floss, drinks tent and face-painting - culminating in a fantastic firework display and dancing 'til midnight!

More information about the day, and ticket details for the evening events

Fine Art exhibition

The BA and MA Fine Art students will be holding a private view of their work in the Giles Lane Studios. The show will be open for a week after this event, and will include paintings, sculpture, installations and films.

CHSS Open Seminar

Privacy and dignity in continence care for older people

Jenny Billings, University of Kent

More information on the CHSS Open Seminar series

Medway Public Lecture

Lecture to mark the 25th anniversary of Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust

Professor David Harvey

Renowned geographer and social theorist Professor David Harvey will reflect on the recent history of Medway, drawing on his own intellectual work and his family history.

Professor Harvey, a recent recipient of an honorary degree from the University of Kent, is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Drinks will follow the lecture.

This event is free and is open to the public.

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End of term strawberries and wine/coffee

The Master of Rutherford Dr Rachel Forrester-Jones invites you all to celebrate the end of the academic year.

Admission Free and open to all.

Summer Term ends

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, which is home to several award-winning, multi-million-pound buildings, containing state-of-the-art teaching and learning facilities.

More information on Open Days

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

Benefactors' Garden Party

An event to thank those who have supported the University over the past year.

By special invitation only.

Kent Innovation & Enterprise

Knowledge transfer partnership workshop

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Canterbury Graduation ceremonies

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Canterbury Graduation ceremonies

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Canterbury Graduation ceremonies

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Medway Graduation ceremonies

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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

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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

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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

hosted by Kent Innovation and Enterprise, in partnership with Thames Gateway Chamber of Commerce

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

Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar

PG Colloquium organised by Diane Heath and Emma Rose Barber

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)

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.

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