Free lectures in London: long
Ben Haines
FREE LECTURES IN LONDON
A selection of public lectures given in October and November free in
central London. Each note shows day, date, time, subject, place, and
nearest tube station. You can just turn up, except the college asks
for pre-booking. Phone numbers start with 0171. Some interesting
study days are here, too, although they are not free.
I'd be glad to know whether this list is useful.
Ben Haines. benh...@easynet.co.uk
OCTOBER
Wednesday, 15th.
Cost £20. 10 to 5. Study day on Roman Britain. British Museum.,
Russell Square tube. Pre-book 636 1555
5pm. Nazi Dance Culture. St David's Room, Kings College, Temple tube
5.15. Role of CTFs within the CIS. Room GOIN, Norfolk Building,
Kings College. Tube Temple.
5.30. What is Literary Value ? Gresham College, Barnards Hall,
Chancery Lane tube
6.30 coffee, 7.15 The Middle East in the Fifties. Kufa Gallery, 26
Westbourne Grove, Bayswater tube.
Thursday, 16th
1.15 Surrealism and portraiture. National Portrait Gallery, Leicester
Square tube.
1.15. Surat: young woman powdering herself. Darwin lecture theatre,
University College London, Gower Street, Goodge Street tube
1.15. Moslem architecture of Cairo. Lecture Theatre, British Museum.
Russell Square tube.
2pm. A resource for learning about difficult concepts: BBC science in
action. Room G12, Cornwall House, Kings College, Waterloo. Pre-book:
Ms Heagren, 872 3189
5pm. Radio for African development. Room G60, , School of Oriental
and African Studies, Russell Square tube.
5.15. North Atlantic Ports and Trade. Room GOIN, Norfolk Building,
Kings College. Temple tube
5.30 Feeling my way in science: inaugural in physiology. Nevin
Lecture Theatre, East Wing, St Thomas Hospital, Westminster tube
(across the river from Parliament)
Saturday, 18th. Cost £25. 9.30 to 5.30. Issues in the teaching of
the Queen's English. Institute of Education. Pre-book 01923 824 217.
Russell Square tube
Monday, 20th.
2pm. X-ray microscopy. Room 2C, Kings College, Temple tube.
5.30. The rise of new slavery. Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental
and African Studies, Russell Square tube.
Tuesday, 21st
1pm. Changes in heights and weights of children in Britain since 76.
Room P11, Kings College, Campden Hill Road, Kensington tube
1pm. Protection of children nunder Shariah and Pakistani law.
Council Room, Kings College, Temple tube
1.15. Legal problems of the art market. Darwin Lecture Theatre,
University College London, Gower Street, Goodge Street tube
5pm. Regulations and Regimens in the CIS. Room D702, London School
of Economics, Holborn tube
5.30. Virtual Reality: a revolution. The Royal Society, Trafalgar
Square tube.
7pm. Inquisition practices in the thirteenth century. Institute of
Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube
Wednesday, 22nd.
Cost not known. Two day seminar. Criminal Judicial Procedure in
Shariah Law. Brunei Gallery, Pre-book, 637 2388 extension 2997
5pm. Ich singe, wie der Vogel singt: nature and genre in Wolf's
Wilhelm Meister songs. St David's Room, Kings College, Temple tube.
6pm. Sacred territories and national conflict (Medieval Studies).
Room 332N, Norfolk Building, Kings College. Temple tube.
Thursday, 23rd
10.30. Digital images as evidence in English law. Evidence to House
of Lords Committee. Public entrance (go direct to policeman),
Parliament, Westminster tube
1. Nelson's Navy. Chancellor's Hall, Senate House, Russell Square
tube
1.10. Picture Post magazine in the fifties. National Portrait
Gallery, Leicester Square tube
1.15 Anti-communism and American painting 1938 to 1956. Darwin
lecture theatre, University College London, Gower Street, Goodge
Street tube
5. Religion, participation, and rural development in Africa. Room
G60, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube.
5.30. Domesticity and urban culture in late medieval England. Room
2B23, Kings College, Temple tube
6pm. What U S Liberals can teach the British. Senate Room, Senate
House. Pre-book, Institute of United States Studies, 636 8000.
Russell Square tube
Friday, 24th
Cost not known. Day conference: Refashioning of identity in
post-colonial South Asian literature. School of Oriental and African
Studies, Russell Square tube. Pre-book, 323 6251.
Cost about £25. 9.30 to 5. Cause, effect and catalysts of London as
"coolest city on earth". Study Day. The Museum of London, St Paul's
tube. Pre-book 600 3699
Cost £30. 9 to 5. The influence of the Empire on Britain. Royal
Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book, the Archivist, 930
5115
Monday, 27th.
12 noon. Roman Catholic missions to nineteenth century Sudan. Room
350, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube
2pm. From DNA to carbon nanotubes. Room 2C, Kings College, Temple
tube.
5.30 Child Brides. Film. Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and
African Studies, Russell Square tube
Tuesday, 28th
1pm. Religion in America. Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and
African Studies, Russell Square tube
1pm. Respecting human rights in business. Council Room, Kings
College, Temple tube
1.15. The sexual biology of humans. Darwin lecture theatre,
University College London, Gower Street, Goodge Street tube
5.30. Vote rigging and the solution. The Prime Minister of
Bangladesh. Old Theatre, London School of Economics, Holborn tube.
5.30. Science, technology and responsibility. The Royal Society.
Trafalgar Square tube
Wednesday, 29th.
10.30. Current government policy in science and technology. Evidence
to House of Lords Committee. Public entrance (go direct to
policeman), Parliament, Westminster tube.
12.30. Learning skills of poor readers. Room 826, Institute of
Education, Russell Square tube.
5.15 Women and Germanisation of occupied Poland 1939 to 1944. Room
NG15, School of South and East European Studies, Senate House, Russell
Square tube
5.30. Writing in English from Africa and Asia. Gresham College,
Barnards Hall, Chancery Lane tube
Thursday, 30th
1.15. Chemical sensors. Darwin lecture theatre, University College
London, Gower Street, Goodge Street tube
2pm. Undergraduate learning of thermodynamics. Room G12, Cornwall
House, Kings College, Waterloo. Pre-book: Ms Heagren, 872 3189
5.30. Equality, law, and the New Labour government. Gresham College,
Barnards Hall, Chancery Lane tube
Friday 31st
Cost unknown. One day conference in Romance Studies. Institute of
Romance Studies, Senate House. Pre-book. Russell Square tube
Cost £15. 1015 to 6.15. Britain and Soviet Europe 1944-47. Prebook
Caroline Novlove, Room NG21, Scool of South and East European Studies,
Senate House. Russel Square tube.
NOVEMBER
Saturday, 1st.
Cost £ 15. 9.30 to 5.30. Weimar and Third Reich Cinema: day
conference. Goethe Institute, South Kensington tube. Pre-book 411
3400.
3pm. R L Stevenson on the paintings of Raeburn. National Portrait
Gallery, Leicester Square tube.
Monday, 3rd. Extra-sensory perception. Royal Society of Arts, John
Adam Street. Chasring Cross tube.
Tuesday, 4th.
1.10. Dickens and Thackeray. National Portrait Gallery, Leicester
Square tube.
5pm. Russian peace-keeping and the CIS. Room D702, London School of
Economics, Holborn tube
7pm. Is the idea of a nation post-medieval ? Institute of Historical
Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube
Wednesday, 5th.
2.30. Henry James and male hysterias. Institute of United States
Studies, Senate House, Russell Square tube
5pm. Philanthropic housing in late Victorian London. Institute of
Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube
5.15. International responses to the Rwanda crisis. Room COIN,
Norfolk Building, Kings College, Temple tube
6pm. The rise of the extreme right in France. Room 332N, Norfolk
Building, Kings College, Temple tube
6pm. The Role of Government in health care. Old Theratre, London
Schgool of Economics, Holborn tube
6pm. The Crafts and their industrial future. Royal Society of Arts,
John Adam Street. Charing Cross tube.
5.30 The organisation of British defence policy 1903 to 1964. Great
Hall, Kings College, Temple tube
6pm. Strategies, regions, and trans national organisattions. The
President of Catalonia. Old Theatre, London School of Economics,
Holborn tube
Friday, 7th. 1pm. Why did the dinosaurs die ? Gresham College,
Barnards Inn, Chancery Lane tube
Saturday, 8th.
Cost not known. 10 to 7. The renaissance of economic history.
Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube
3pm. Winstanley, seventeenth century radical. National Portrait
Gallery, Leicester Square tube.
Sunday, 9th. 3pm. Women's Poetry of the two world wars. National
Portrait Gallery, Leicester Square tube.
Monday, 10th.
12.30. Explaining the slow acceptance of gas as home lighting in
London 1800 to 1875. Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube.
5.30 India: end of bthe First Republic. Lord Desai. Gresham
College, Barnards Inn, Chancery Lane tube
5.30. The book in France 1460 to 1970. Beveridge Hall, Senate House,
Russell Square tube
Tuesday, 11th.
1pm. Cloning and human rights. Council Room, Kings College, Temple
tube.
1.15. Merasuring the quality of life. Darwin Lecture Theatre,
University College London. Goodge Street tube.
5pm. Local government in Romania and Moldavia. Room D702, London
School of Economics, Holborn tube
5pm. The Indian economy 1870 to 1900. Room G3, School of Oriental
and African Studies. Russell Square tube
Wednesday, 12th. 5.15. The influence of Josephinism on the Polish
Enlightenment. Room 336, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies, North Wing, Senate House. Russell Square tube
Wednesday, 12th.
5.30 Black and African oral art forms. Gresham College, Barnards
Inn, Chancery Lane tube
6pm. The arts and disability. Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross
tube
Thursday, 13th
1.15. Desertion and the death penalty. Room G58, School of Oriental
and African Studies. Russell Square tube
2pm. Actual science classrooms for ages 11 to 17. Room G12, Kings
College, Cornwall House, Waterloo tube.
5pm. Corruption in South East Asia. Room G58, School of Oriental and
African Studies. Russell Square tube
5.30 Divide and burn. The geography of arson in contemporary India.
. Room G58, School of Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square
tube
5.30. How to measure the age of the universe. Tower Lecture Theatre,
Guys Hospital. London Bridge tube.
Friday, 14th.
1pm. Who needs new music ? Gresham College, Barnards Inn, Chancery
Lane tube
1.10. 1897 to 1947. Fifty years of royalty on film. Museum of
London. St Paul's tube.
5.30 Charles the Bold and his court ordinances. Institute of
Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube
Saturday, 15th. 3pm. The politics of succession 1595 to 1610.
National Portrait Gallery, Leicester Square tube.
Sunday, 16th. 3pm. Jack Hawkins. National Portrait Gallery,
Leicester Square tube.
Monday, 17th.
2pm. Galileo: the Jupiter space probe. Room 2C, Kings College,
Temple tube
5.30. South Asian Story: contradiction. Gresham College, Barnards
Inn, Chancery Lane tube
6pm. The new model engineer and her role. The Royal Society.
Trafalgar Square tube.
6pm. British interpretations of World War I. Great Hall, Kings
College, Temple tube
Tuesday, 18th.
1pm. The challenge of tradition in music. Gresham College, Barnards
Inn, Chancery Lane tube
1.10. Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill. National Portrait
Gallery, Leicester Square tube.
5pm. Nazi war crimes and the security and intelligence services 1939
to 51. Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell
Square tube
7pm. Lawyers, litigants and justices in Englisjh royal courts in the
later Middle Ages. Institute of Historical Research, Senate House,
Russell Square tube
Wednesday, 19th.
1pm. Entrepreneurs, idiots savants. Gresham College, Barnards Inn,
Chancery Lane tube
1.10. Victorian royal jewelry. Museum of London, St Paul's tube
2.30. Violence and Metaphysics in Hollywood fifties biblical epics.
Institute of United States Studies, Senate House, Russell Square tube
5.15. Empress Alexandra Federovna of Russia and her sister Elizabeth.
Room 336, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, North Wing,
Senate House, Russell Square tube
6pm. Psychological implications of the changing patterns of work.
Royal Society of Arts, John Adam Street. Chasring Cross tube.
Thursday, 20th.
1pm. Parkinson's Disease. Gresham College, Barnards Inn, Chancery
Lane tube
5.30. Jazz as ethical model. Gresham College, Barnards Inn, Chancery
Lane tube
Friday, 21st.
1pm. The tradition of musical challenge. Gresham College, Barnards
Inn, Chancery Lane tube
1.10. The old tradition of sighseeing at Bedlam. Museum of London.
St Paul's tube.
Monday, 24th.
12.30. Coffee houses and great rooms. Royal Society of Arts,
Charing Cross tube.
2pm. Antimatter -- imagination to application. Room 2C, Kings
College, Temple tube
Tuesday, 25th.
1pm. Alzheimer's Disrease. Gresham College, Barnards Inn, Chancery
Lane tube
5.30. Tagore, Gandhi, Nehru and the West. Gresham College, Barnards
Inn, Chancery Lane tube
Wednesday, 26th.
Cost not known. Day conference on young people in prison: what's to
be done. Great Hall, Kings College. Book ahead 873 2822. Temple
tube.
1pm. The schooling of entrepreneurs. Gresham College, Barnards Inn,
Chancery Lane tube
5.15. Entrepreneurship, government and society in Russia. Room 336,
School of Slavonic and East European Studies, North Wing, Senate
House. Russell Square tube
6pm. Law reform and the political process. The Chair of rhe Law
Commission. Great Hall, Kings College, Temple tube
Thursday, 27th.
1pm. The Brain as a Computer. Gresham College, Barnards Inn,
Chancery Lane tube
1.10. William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience. National
Portrait Gallery, Leicester Square tube.
6pm. Rethinking imprisonment. Committee Room, Kings College, Temple
tube
6pm. Design: those that go down to the sea in ships. Pre-book,
Joanna Thackeray, 930 9286. Royal Society of Arts, John Adam
Street. Charing Cross tube.
Friday, 28th. 1.10. Myth and reality in medieval Bedlam hosapital.
Museum of London, St Pul's tube
Saturday, 29th. 1pm. 1.10. William Blake: Songs of Innocence and
Experience. National Portrait Gallery, Leicester Square tube.
Sunday, 30th. 3pm. Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor.
National Portrait Gallery, Leicester Square tube
The following central London places have events or diary web pages
with lists of public lectures -- not all of them updated. The letters
in brackets replace the letters "xx" in the address
http://www.xx.ac.uk.
London Business School (lbs) Imperial
College (ic)
School of Oriental and African Studies (soas) Kings College (kcl)
Gresham's College (gresham)
University College London (http://www-server.bcc.ac.uk/events)
House of Commons Select Committees
(http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm/cmwib/sel.htm)
House of Lords Select Committees
(http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm/cmwib/lords.htm#ldselcom)
Other places may list public lectures on departmental or seminar
pages: the School of Slavonic and East European Studies is an example.
Lunches with waitress service are served from twelve at the the dining
room in the Norfolk Building, Norfolk Street, Kings College (go
upstairs to level one, through the union canteen, and down to the
service dining room: suitable for Kings and LSE lectures), and the
dining room of the School of Oriental and African Studies (go to
basement level and the dining room is straight ahead: suitable for
SOAS, SSEES and Institute of Education events). There's a good
self-service restaurant at MacMillans, ground floor, Senate House
(suitable for Senate House, SSEES, and the British Museum).
Serge Moes
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997 06:20:14 GMT, benh...@easynet.co.uk (Ben Haines)
wrote:
[snip]
>I'd be glad to know whether this list is useful.
Phew ! Long list indeed, hope you didn't type this off ;-).
Would it not have been easier to post the relevant web sites along
with the specific subjects (eg History, Physics, etc) of their
respective diaries?=20
Cheerio,
Serge Moes
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