Long, but Long: Free lectures in London
Ben Haines
FREE LECTURES IN LONDON
A selection of public lectures and meetings given and held from
January to May free in central London. Each note shows day, date,
time, subject, place, and nearest tube station. Those interested can
just turn up, except when the host asks for pre-booking. Some
interesting study days are here, too, although they are not free.
January
Friday 16th
12noon. Turkey and the electronic media. Room BG05, School of
Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube.
1.10. Mental disorder in children: past, present and future. The
Museum of London, St Paul's tube
Saturday, 17th
3pm. Victorian theatrical and musical personalities. Room 17,
National Portrait Gallery, Leicester Square tube.
Monday 19th
5pm. The public life of steady state cosmology. University College
London, Room 105, 24 Gordon Square, Euston Square tube
6pm. Social inclusion in the information society. Royal Society of
Arts, Charing Cross tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Tuesday 20th
1030. Resistance to Antimicrobial Agents. (i) vaccines, (ii)
research. House of LordsCommittee. Go to Parliament public entrance,
bypass the queue, ask the police officer how to reach the committee.
10.45. The operation of the European Central Bank: the Governor of
the Bank of England. The House of Lords committee, as above.
1pm. Secrecy, democracy, and human rights in Europe. Council Room,
Kings College, Temple tube
1.10. The trial and execution of Charles I. National Portrait
Gallery, Leicester Square tube.
1.15. Victorian Nonsense Poetry and the Romance of Empire. Darwin
Lecture Theatre, University College London, Euston Square tube.
5pm. Russian Policy towards Central Asian states. Rom D702, London
School of Economics, Holborn tube.
5pm. The Suffragettes. Institute of Historical Research, Senate
House, Russell Square tube
5pm. Ideal and other women in nationalist discourse in colonial
Tamilnadu. Room G3, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell
Square tube.
5.15. Globalisation and policy reform in developing countries. Room
332N Norfolk Building, Kings College, Temple tube.
5.30. The Intifada in Israeli literature. Lecture Theatre, School of
Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube.
5.30. The Geometry of Evolution. Gresham's College, High Holborn,
Chancery Lane tube
7pm. Moving Cathars: the Italian connection in the 13th century.
Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube.
Wednesday 21st
10.45. and 3.30. Social Security: Tax and Benefits. Committee Room
21, House of Commons Committee. Go to Parliament public entrance,
bypass the queue, ask the police officer how to reach the committee.
11.00 Landfill of Waste: European Commission policy. House of Lords
Committee, as above.
4pm. Proposed Strategic Rail Authority and railway regulation Deputy
Prime Minister and Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport
and the Regions. House of Commons Committee, as above
5pm. The theory of the Aryan invasion of ancient India. Room G52,
School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube.
6pm. Neurogenetic determinism and respect for human life. Royal
Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Thursday 22nd
10.30. Children looked after by Local Authorities: Sir William Utting
CB, former Chief Inspector of Social Services. House of Commons
Committee. Go to Parliament public entrance, bypass the queue, ask
the police officer how to reach the committee.
10.45. Preparations for stage three of economic and monetary union.
House of Commons Committee, as above.
10.45. Blood Alcohol Levels for Drivers. House of Lords committee,
as above.
1.15. Using novel drugs to explore biology in humans: examples from
the nitric oxide story. Darwin Lecture Theatre, University College
London, Euston Square tube.
2.10. The seventeenth century man of science. The Museum of London,
St Paul's tube
5pm. The Anglo-American Cold War alliance, 1947 to 53. Room 332N
Norfolk Building, Kings College, Temple tube.
5.15. Portugal, Brazil and the Atlantic economy in the 18th century.
Room G01N Norfolk Building, Kings College, Temple tube.
Friday 23rd
6pm. Innovation, invention, insight and investment, what is important?
Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Saturday 24th
3pm. Victorian Portrait Painting. Room 17, National Portrait
Gallery, Leicester Square tube.
Monday 26th
3pm. Literature, ethnicity and modernity among the Santals of India.
School of Oriental and African Studies, Room UG 10, 30 Russell Square
5pm. My vision of Europe -- the Prime Minister of Italy. Pre-book
0171 955 7377. Peacock Theatre, London School of Economics, Holborn
tube.
5pm. The League of Nations and Balkan minorities. School of Oriental
and African Studies, Russell Square tube.
Tuesday 27th
10.30. The Health Service. House of Commons Committee. Go to
Parliament public entrance, bypass the queue, ask the police officer
how to reach the committee.
10.45. The operation of the European Central Bank. House of Lords
Committee, as asbove.
1pm. Windows on the mind: brains of simple animals and of human
foestuses. Gresham College, High Holborn. Chancery Lane tube.
1.15. Unsquaring the circle: the story of Pi. Darwin Lecture Theatre,
University College London, Euston Square tube.
5pm. Politics in rural Gujurat 1890. Room G3, School of Oriental and
African Studies, Russell Square tube.
5pm. Russia's relations with the C I S. Room D702, London School of
Economics, Holborn tube
5.15. Algeria: Five years of Islamist smokescreen ? Room 332N
Norfolk Building, King's College, Temple tube.
5.30. What is at stake in liberalising the Moroccan economy ?
Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell
Square tube.
Wednesday 28th
11.00. Landfill of Waste. House of Lords Committee. Go to
Parliament public entrance, bypass the queue, ask the police officer
how to reach the Committee.
11.45. Social Security: Tax and Benefits. House of Commons
Committee, as above.
4pm. UK Air Traffic Control. House of Commons Committee, as above
4.30. Dealing with the Third Pillar of European Policy: the
Government's Perspective. House of Lords committee, as above.
To be confirmed. Aspects of Energy Policy - evidence on renewables.
House of Commons Committee, as above.
5pm. Literature, ethnicity and modernity among the Santals of India.
Room G52, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube.
5pm. The term "native" and colonial order in Dar es Salaam, 1919 to
1961. Room G3, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell
Square tube.
5.15. Craft and religious guilds in medieval and early modern
Hungary. School of Slavonic and East European Studies, Room 336, North
Wing, Senate House, Russell Square tube.
5.45. The Gospel of St John, first of three lectures, 28 to 30
January.
Pre-book 873 2333. Great Hall and Room 2C, Kings College, Temple
tube.
5pm. My vision of Europe -- the Prime Minister of Italy. Pre-book
0171 955 7377. Peacock Theatre, London School of Economics, Holborn
tube.
6pm. Moslem Fundamentalism and the Mediterranean. Room 332N Norfolk
Building, Kings College, Temple tube.
6pm. Volunteering and community action - Building The Future Together.
Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Thursday 29th
10.30. Children looked after by Local Authorities. Witnesses:
Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Health, Chief Inspector
of Social Services and Department of Health officials. House of
Commons Committee. Go to Parliament public entrance, bypass the
queue, ask the police officer how to reach the Committee.
10.45. Preparations for stage three of economic and monetary union.
Eddie George, Governor of the Bank of England. House of Commons
committee, as above.
1pm. Brains: mania, depression and schizophrenia. Gresham College,
High Holborn. Chancery Lane tube.
1.15. Shakespeare and the Craft of Writing. Darwin Lecture Theatre,
University College London, Euston Square tube
5pm. HMS Amethyst, the Royal Navy, and the Yangste. Room 332N
Norfolk Building, Kings College, Temple tube.
3.30. Re-Interpreting Russia. Start of Conference (to Saturday).
Pre-book 0171 637 4934: £50, £25 concessions. School of Slavonic and
East European Studies, Rooms 336 and 336A, Senate House, Russell
Square tube.
5.30. The Bill of Rights in Britain. Gresham College, High Holborn.
Chancery Lane tube.
Saturday, 31st
1.15. Women in the Ancient Near East. Basement Lecture Theatre,
British Museum, Russell Square tube.
3pm. Victorian males: contrasting portraits. Room 17, National
Portrait Gallery, Leicester Square tube.
February
Monday 2nd
1pm. Medical ethics: from maths to consumers. Room 11F Kings
College, Temple tube.
Tuesday 3rd
1pm. Brains: subjective states and known events. Gresham College,
High Holborn. Chancery Lane tube.
1.15. Ramsey Theory (Mathematics). Darwin Lecture Theatre, University
College London, Euston Square tube.
2pm. The use of video in development. Room G58, School of Oriental
and African Studies, Russell Square tube.
5pm. Breadth in education -- beyond key skills. Elvin Hall,
Institute of Education, Russell Square tube.
5pm. Flying in Britain and Germany 1910 to 1930. Institute of
Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube.
5.15. Indonesia: An International Crisis ? Room 332N Norfolk
Building, Kings College, Temple tube.
5.30. Engineering complex processes. Clore Lecture Theatre, Imperial
College, South Kensington tube.
5.30. New Judges in Britain. Gresham College, High Holborn. Chancery
Lane tube.
5.30. Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem. Lecture Theatre,
School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube.
5.30. The Networking of Academic and Industrial Research: the UK
Phenomenon. The Royal Society, Charing Cross tube.
6pm. Genetics in the 21st century. Manipulating the structure of
life, and surviving. Royal Instution debate. Green Park tube
7pm. Ceolfrid: 7th and 8th century Wearmouth and Jarrow. Institute
of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube.
Wednesday 4th
Day seminar. Science meets the City. Science in economic advance and
wealth creation. Preboook, Gresham College, 0171 831 0575
10.30. Resistance to Antimicrobial Agents. House of LordsCommittee.
Go to Parliament public entrance, bypass the queue, ask the police
officer how to reach the committee.
1.10. The achievement of N M Rothschild. The Museum of London, St
Paul's tube
6pm. Education for all - the impossible dream? Royal Society of Arts,
Charing Cross tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Thursday 5th
1.00. An American Dream: to link education with enterprise. Gresham
College, High Holborn. Chancery Lane tube.
1.10. Readings from 17th century writers and poets. Room 4, National
Portrait Gallery, Leicester Square tube.
1.15 Everything You Wanted to Know About Jeremy Bentham But Were
Afraid to Ask. Darwin Lecture Theatre, University College London,
Euston Square tube.
2.30. Saxon London. The Museum of London, St Paul's tube
5pm. European neutrals in American policy, 1945 to 61. Room 332N
Norfolk Building, Kings College, Temple tube.
5.30. The Image of Christ, Great Hall, Kings College, Temple tube.
Friday 6th
1.00pm Sojourning and surveying on Mars. Gresham College, High
Holborn. Chancery Lane tube.
Saturday, 7th
10 to 5. Method and madness: creativity and mental illness. The
Museum of London, St Paul's tube. Cost not known.
11 to 5. The Presence of the Past in the Frankish World.
Interdisciplinary day workshop. Cost not known. Prebook 0171 836
5454. Kings College, Temple tube.
3pm. Victorian Novelists and Playwrights. Room 17, National Portrait
Gallery, Leicester Square tube.
Monday 9th
5pm. Security in Sierra Leone. Room 332N Norfolk Building, Kings
College, Temple tube.
6pm. Are we getting better at exploiting our scientific and innovative
capability? Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Prebook: 0171
930 9286
Tuesday 10th
5pm. Multiculturalism and the Hungarian approach to human rights.
Room D702, London School of Economics, Holborn tube
5.15. The failure to contain Iraq. Room 332N Norfolk Building, Kings
College, Temple tube.
5.30. New Northern Ireland Policy. Gresham College, High Holborn.
Chancery Lane tube.
6pm. Sex: The ideal mate, moonlight, or roses ? Royal, Green Park
tube
Wednesday 11th
Time to be set. Aspects of Energy Policy - evidence on nuclear power.
House of CommonsCommittee. Go to Parliament public entrance, bypass
the queue, ask the police officer how to reach the committee.
10.30. Science and Technology Policy: aspct to be set. House of
Lords Committee, as above.
1pm. Why Have Sex? No evolutionary advantage. Gresham College,
High Holborn. Chancery Lane tube.
5pm. The land fetish: a case for Dr Freud. Harkness Hall, Birkbeck
College, Goodge Street tube.
5.15. Psychological warfare and the collapse of Austria-Hungary in
the First World War. School of Slavonic and East European Studies,
Room 336, North Wing, Senate House, Russell Square tube.
6pm. A home for life, and living into the next century. Royal Society
of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Thursday 12th
1pm to 5.30. Hollywood and its spectators: the reception of American
films. Prebook with Miss Nazneen Razwi, History Department, 0171 387
7050, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. £50:
students and unwaged £12. Euston Square tube.
5pm. Britain, the fall of Singapore, and after. Room 332N Norfolk
Building, Kings College, Temple tube.
5.15. The employment of frigate captains 1793 to 1815. Room G01N
Norfolk Building, Kings College, Temple tube.
5.30. Painting the Passion, Great Hall, Kings College, Temple tube
Thursday to Saturday, 12th to 14th
Friday 13th
1pm. Can Composers be Taught ? Gresham College, High Holborn.
Chancery Lane tube.
Saturday, 14th
1030 to 4. True to ourselves: how a believer can consider other
beliefs. Day school, £20, concessions £12, prebook 0171 631 6633,
Birkbeck College at 26 Russell Square.
2pm to 5.30. Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: a bicentenary
celebration. National Portrait Gallery afternoon at Conway Hall, Red
Lion Square, Holborn tube. £5, concession £3.
3pm. A Valentine's Day programme of Victorian love poetry. Room 17,
National Portrait Gallery, Leicester Square tube.
Monday 16th
1pm. Should Performers of Music be Taught ? Gresham College, High
Holborn. Chancery Lane tube.
1pm. Do embryos matter any more ? Room 11F, Kings College, Temple
tube
5pm. Before the beginning: our universe and others. Professor Martin
Rees. University College London, Room 105, 24 Gordon Square, Euston
Square tube
5.30. Manuscript production by Christians in 13th and 14th century
Syria: Byzantine-Moslem Interaction. Room 1B04, Kings College, Temple
tube
5.30. Chemicals and consciousness. Great Hall, Kings College, Temple
tube
6pm. The decline (and success) of science in England. Royal Society of
Arts, Charing Cross tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Tuesday 17th
1pm. The European Convention on the Exercise of Childrens' Rights.
Council Room, Kings College, Temple tube
1.15. Finding One's Way in the Roman Empire. Darwin Lecture Theatre,
University College London, Euston Square tube.
2pm. Media in development and training. Room G58, School of Oriental
and African Studies, Russell Square tube.
5pm. Desperate characters: transportation of Indian convicts to
Mauritius 1815 to 37. Room G3, School of Oriental and African
Studies, Russell Square tube.
5pm. Debates on nation state building in Russia since 1990. Room
D702, London School of Economics, Holborn tube
5pm. Historians and the Welfare State. Institute of Historical
Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube.
5.15 ASEAN's security discourses: balance of power vs cooprative
security. Room 332N Norfolk Building, Kings College, Temple tube.
5.30. A potter's view of art and time. Lecture Theatre, School of
Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube.
7pm. Innocent III mets his Martin Guerre. Institute of Historical
Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube.
Wednesday 18th
1.10. The Jewish community in N M Rothschild's London. The Museum of
London, St Paul's tube
5pm. Colonial and contemporary writing on reproduction and sexuality.
Room G52, School of Oriental and Africamn Studies, Russell Square
tube.
6pm. Turkey and the Middle East after the Cold War. Room 332N
Norfolk Building, Kings College, Temple tube.
6pm. Representation in building. Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross
tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Thursday 19 and Friday 20 February 1998.
Current issues in the sciences. Conference. Topics include ethics in
genetics, why send people into space, consciousness, and why preserve
endangered species ? The Royal Institution, Green Park tube. Prebook
0171 409 2992: £58.
Thursday 19th
1pm. The ethics of pre-natal screening, Room 11F, Kings College,
Temple tube.
1.15. Legal construction and protection of landscape: the case of
hedgerows. Darwin Lecture Theatre, University College London, Euston
Square tube.
5pm. The Foreign Office, European integration, and the Cold War, 1955
to 57. Room 332N Norfolk Building, Kings College, Temple tube.
5.30 Before the bay: the importance of vertical axes in
pre-Romanesque architecture. Room 2B23, Kings College, Temple tube
5.30 Telling Stories and Telling Tales The 'stealing our stories'
issue in copyright. Gresham College, High Holborn. Chancery Lane
tube.
5.30. Is Science dangerous ? The Royal Society, Charing Cross tube.
5.30. Teaching Christianity in paint. Great Hall, Kings College,
Temple tube
Friday 20th
9 to 5.15. Dimensions of sea power: strategic choices in the modern
world. Day Conference. Prebook, Fiona Paton, 0171 873 2796. Council
Room, Kings College, Temple tube.
1.00pm Teaching the audience for music. Gresham College, High
Holborn. Chancery Lane tube.
Saturday 21st
10 to 4. The literature of war. Day School, £20, concessions £12.
Prebook 0171 631 6633. Birkbeck College, at 26 Russell Square
3pm. A Victorian miscellany. Room 17, National Portrait Gallery,
Leicester Square tube.
Monday 23rd
12.30 Developments and effects of telecommunications from the 19th
century. Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Prebook: 0171
930 9286
1pm. Problems in claims arising out of birth. Room 11F, Kings
College, Temple tube
5pm. Nepali nightwatchmen as a transnational community. Room G58,
School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube.
5pm. Civil military relations and democracy in West Africa. Room
332N Norfolk Building, Kings College, Temple tube.
Tuesday 24th
1.15 Capturing Values for Nature. Darwin Lecture Theatre, University
College London, Euston Square tube.
5pm. Reformatory, factory, family, and child labour in Bombay
presidency 1860 to 1900. Room G3, School of Oriental and African
Studies, Russell Square tube.
5.15. NATO: out of area, out of business. Room 332N Norfolk
Building, Kings College, Temple tube.
7pm. Artists in Conversation. Guildhall University, Old Castle
Street, London E1. Pre-book 0171-522 7855, Goethe Institute, from 16
January.
Wednesday 25th
5pm. Political uses of English: Ghandi and Nehru. Room G52, School
of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube.
5pm. The history of East African churches. Room G3, School of
Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube.
5.15. Early humanism at Cracow: Scholars and Patrons. School of
Slavonic and East European Studies, Room 336, North Wing, Senate
House, Russell Square tube.
6pm. Whose health is it anyway ? Royal Society of Arts, Charing
Cross tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Thursday 26th
1.00pm Just Hardcore Writing Codes. The changing nature of
entrepreneurship in the new economic environment. Gresham College,
High Holborn. Chancery Lane tube.
1.15. Sticking Together or Breaking Apart: The Properties of
Multiply-Charged Molecules. Darwin Lecture Theatre, University
College London, Euston Square tube.
2.20. Barings Bank in its late 19th century context. The Museum of
London, St Paul's tubeThursday 26th
5pm. Japan, the USA, and the security of the Asian Pacific region.
Room 332N Norfolk Building, Kings College, Temple tube.
5.15. Cholera and the Royal Navy: maritime history. Room G01N
Norfolk Building, Kings College, Temple tube.
5.30 What's Your Poison? Which drugs should society tolerate and
which criminalise. ? Gresham College, High Holborn. Chancery Lane
tube.
6pm. The future of Marxist literary theory. Beveridge Hall, Senate
House, Russell Square tube.
Friday 27th
9.30 am. The future starts here: contributions for the new millenium.
Odeon Cinema, Leicester Square. Pre-book, Royal Society of Arts, 0171
930 9286
1pm. You are what you eat: isotope geochemistry. Gresham College,
High Holborn. Chancery Lane tub
March
Sunday 1st
9.30 to 5.30. Christians and the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust.
Day conference. Pre book Wiener Library 0171 636 7247. £12, concs
£8. At Harkness Hall, Birkbeck College, Goodge Street tube.
Monday 2nd
1pm. The Grin Without the Cat: the raison d'être of art, the wider
framework of theology, and the relationship between the two. Gresham
College, High Holborn. Chancery Lane tube.
5pm. Mathematics and public spectacle in Victorian England.
University College London, room 105, 24 Gordon Square, Euston Square
tube
5pm. Japanese theme parks as constructions of the world. Room G 58,
School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube.
6pm. Is there a crisis in leadership? Royal Society of Arts, Charing
Cross tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Tuesday 3rd
1pm. Human Rights and socio-economic development in the Mediterranean.
Council Room, Kings College, Temple tube
1.15. Reading Proust: The Pleasures of the Flesh. Darwin Lecture
Theatre, University College London, Euston Square tube.
4.30. The Moslem culinary tradition. Wellcome Institute, Euston
tube.
5pm. From nabob to sahib. The transformation of the British body in
India, c1800 to 1914. Room G3, School of Oriental and African
Studies, Russell Square tube.
5pm. Public transport 1870 to 1930. Institute of Historical
Research, Senate House, Russel Squarte tube.
5.15. CJTF "Out of Area" activities: Implications for the
Commonwealth of Independent States. Room 332N Norfolk Building, Kings
College, Temple tube.
5.30. Islam and the economic challenge. Old Theatre, London School
of Economics, Holborn tube.
5.30. Islam and the economic challenge. Old Theatre, London School
of Economics, Holborn tube.
5.30. Iran and the West: a time for change. Lecture Theatre, School
of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube.
7pm. Exploring inner space and Bernard of Clairvaux. Institute of
Historical Research, Senate House, Russell Square tube.
Wednesday 4th
5pm. Early print culture in South Asia. Room G52, School of Oriental
and African Studies, Russell Square tube.
6pm. Handing on the environmental baton: the first in a series of
three lectures which will hear from those who have shaped our
environmental thinking and those who will inherit the mantle. Royal
Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Thursday 5th
1.15. The Communist Party, the FBI and Me: Using the Freedom of
Information Act to Research US Labour History. Darwin Lecture
Theatre, University College London, Euston Square tube.
2.30. Suffragette banners. The Museum of London, St Paul's tube
4.30. Disability and the state in early modern Europe. Wellcome
Institute, Euston tube
5pm. Italy and Britain's entry to the European Community 1969 to 73.
. Room 332N Norfolk Building, Kings College, Temple tube.
5pm. Eugenics and the empire in Africa. Room G3, School of Oriental
and African Studies, Russell Square tube.
5.30. Individualization in late modern society. Old Theatre, London
School of Economics, Holborn tube.
Friday, 6th
1.10. The archaeology of the River Thames. The Museum of London, St
Paul's tube
Monday, 9th
1pm. Speaking Stones: how medieval church buildings speak out the
Christian message. Gresham College, High Holborn. Chancery Lane
tube.
5pm. Oral history, age and gender in Bengali elders in London. Room
G58, School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube.
5.30. Rationality, utility and the mind. Old Theatre, London School
of Economics, Holborn tube.
6pm. Can you teach leadership? Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross
tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Tuesday 10th
1pm. How international law promotes the rule of law in East Africa.
Council Room, Kings College, Temple tube
1.15. A Healthy State as Public Policy. Darwin Lecture Theatre,
University College London, Euston Square tube.
2pm. Development and the Internet. Room G58, School of Oriental and
African Studies, Russell Square tube.
5pm. Russian politics after 1990. Room D702, London School of
Economics, Holborn tube.
5pm. "Primitive" rebellion in colonial Bengal. Room G3, School of
Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube.
5.15. Alternative approaches to conflict resolution: new trends in
Africa. Room 332N Norfolk Building, Kings College, Temple tube.
5.30. Sufism in 19th and 20th century Iran. Lecture Theatre, School
of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube.
5.30. Mathematics of Queen Dido's Hide. City of London School, Queen
Victoria Street, London EC4. Blackfriars tube.
Wednesday 11th
5.15. Reforming popular religion in Hungary. School of Slavonic and
East European Studies, Room 336, North Wing, Senate House, Russell
Square tube.
6 pm. Moving the world forward. Royal Society of Arts, Charing
Cross tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Thursday 12th
1pm. Drafting a homegrown Bill of Rights for Britain. Council Room,
Kings College, Temple tube
1.15 The Invention of Gastronomic Tradition: Cuisine as Frenchness.
Darwin Lecture Theatre, University College London, Euston Square tube.
2.30. Tea and tallows: the grocer's wife in the 19th century. The
Museum of London, St Paul's tube
5pm. Britain, America, and the problems of covert operations. Room
332N Norfolk Building, Kings College, Temple tube.
5.15. Kipling's "Captains Courageous": Ends and Means. Room G01N
Norfolk Building, Kings College, Temple tube.
5.30pm The Politics of Abortion. Gresham College, High Holborn.
Chancery Lane tube.
Friday 13th
1.10. London Bridge is "broken down". The Museum of London, St
Paul's tube
5.30. The rhetoric of gender from Jerome to Gregory VII. Room 1B04,
Kings College, Temple tube
Monday 16th
1.00pm Sacred space: from the temple to the corporate headquarters.
College, High Holborn. Chancery Lane tube.
5pm. The Science Wars. University College London, room 105,
24 Gordon Square, Euston Square tube
5.30. Corporate disclosure. Old Theatre, London School of
Economics, Holborn tube.
6pm. The leadership of organisations. Royal Society of Arts, Charing
Cross tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Tuesday 17th
1pm. The evolving jurisprudence of torture. Council Room, Kings
College, Temple tube
1.15 What's Cool About Atoms? . Darwin Lecture Theatre, University
College London, Euston Square tube.
5pm. Soviet policy in the Third World. Room D702, , London School of
Economics, Holborn tube.
5pm. United States racial politics in the thirties. Institute of
Historical Research, Senate House, Ruussell Square tube
5.30. Algeria and Democracy. Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and
African Studies, Russell Square tube.
6pm. Christianity in Georgia. Room L65, School of Oriental and
African Studies, Russell Square tube.
Wednesday, 18th
4.30 Ecstasy in Edwardian England. Wellcome Institute, Euston tube
5pm. Geography, Policy, Housing and land. Harkness Hall, Birkbeck
College, Goodge Street tube
5pm. HIV prevention in India: studying sex and health. Room G52,
School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square tube.
6pm. Millennium mindsets: reasons to be cheerful. Royal Society of
Arts, Charing Cross tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Thursday 19th
1.15 "Not such a queer idea": is there a case for legalising same-sex
marriages? Darwin Lecture Theatre, University College London, Euston
Square tube.
5pm. The international implications of the Greek civil war 1946 to
49. Room 332N Norfolk Building, Kings College, Temple tube.
Friday, 20th
1.10. Geophysics and archaeology in London. The Museum of London, St
Paul's tube
Saturday 21st
9.30am to 4pm. Producing and working with Shakespeare's plays in
theatre traditions from Africa, Asia, America and Europe. Senate
House, Russell Square tube. Prebook, Gresham College. 0171 831 0575.
£15 to include light lunch; £7.50 students and unwaged.
Monday 23rd
1pm The Elusive Flight of Memory. Effect of the media on
consciousness of the Church and on religious art. Gresham College,
High Holborn. Chancery Lane tube.
Tuesday 24th
1pm. Securing Social Rights across Europe. Council Room, Kings
College, Temple tube
6pm. Bradshaws - ancient rock paintings of north-west Australia.
Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Wednesday 25th
6.00 Corporate citizenship in a global age. Royal Society of Arts,
Charing Cross tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Thursday 26th
5pm. Changes in China's strategic thought and American Asian-Pacific
policy, with reference to the South China Sea. Room 332N Norfolk
Building, Kings College, Temple tube.
5.15. British Shipping after 1945. Room G01N Norfolk Building, Kings
College, Temple tube.
5.30pm The Reproductive Supermarket: ethics of new techniques.
Gresham College, High Holborn. Chancery Lane tube.
Friday, 27th
1.10 Excavations at the Royal Opera House. The Museum of London, St
Paul's tube
Saturday, 28th
10 to 5. Imaging London. The Museum of London, St Paul's tube. Cost
not known. Prebook 0171 600 3699
April
Wednesday 1st
The importance of craft to design for industry. Royal Society of Arts,
Charing Cross tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Friday 3rd
1pm. Carbon skeletons or chemical fossils: what's in this meteorite ?
Gresham College, High Holborn. Chancery Lane tube.
1pm. From Agnelli to Woo-Chong. How mainland Europe and Asia have
tackled problems of education for enterprise. Gresham College, High
Holborn. Chancery Lane tube.
Wednesday and Thursday 8th and 9th
Insecticide resistance: from mechanisms to management. Discussion
meeting. Prebook 0171 839 5561. The Royal Society, Charing Cross
tube.
Wednesday to Friday, 15th to 17th
Nobles and Nobility in the Middle Ages. International Conference.
Prebook 0171 836 5454. Great Hall, Kings College, Temple tube
Wednesday, 15th
6pm. Life-long learning - a panel discussion. Royal Society of Arts,
Charing Cross tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Thursday 16th
5.30. Electronic Etiquette in the Global Community. Copyright,
censorship, authorship. Gresham College, High Holborn. Chancery Lane
tube.
5.30. The morphological evolution of the galaxies. The Royal Society,
Charing Cross tube.
Monday 20th
6 pm. Art, culture and health. Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross
tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Wednesday 22nd
6pm. The flight of the phoenix. Inaugural for the Royal College of
Art. Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Prebook: 0171 930
9286
Wednesday and Thursday, 22nd and 23rd
Superdarwinian modes of evolution. The Royal Society, Charing Cross
tube.
Wednesday 29th
6pm. Children: active citizens for the new millennium. Royal Society
of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
May
Date to be chosen. A level playing field and lots of them: the
National Playing Fields Association. Royal Society of Arts, Charing
Cross tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Dates to be chosen. RSA/ BBC World Service lectures. Royal Society
of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Tuesday, 5th
7pm. The treatment of political enemies in the British Isles in the
middle ages. Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Russell
Square tube.
Wednesday 6th
6pm. Tomorrow's Company. Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube.
Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Thursday 7th
5pm. Metrology and its application to the study of classical and
medieval material cuture. Room 2C Kings College, Temple tube
5.30. Lost in Hyperspace: aesthetic value, hypertext literacy and
morality. Gresham College, High Holborn. Chancery Lane tube.
Wednesday 13th
6pm. Partnerships as drivers for change in companies. Royal Society
of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Wednesday and Thursday, 20th and 21st
Response of the Earth's lithosphere to extension: how oceans and
oilfields arose from over-pressing the Earth's surface. Prebook
0171839 5361. The Royal Society, Charing Cross tube.
Wednesday 20th
6pm. Defining museums for the 21st century. Royal Society of Arts,
Charing Cross tube. Prebook: 0171 930 9286
Wednesday 27th
6pm. The medicalisation of distress. Royal Society of Medicine,
1 Wimpole Street, Oxford Circus tube. Prebook, Royal Society of Arts,
0171 930 9286
A new issue of this list in early February will give greater cover of
Kings College and of UCL. The following central London places have
events or diary web pages with lists of public lectures -- not all of
them updated.
Goethe Institute (http://www.goethe.de/gr/lon/enindex.htm)
Gresham's College (http://www.gresham.ac.uk)
House of Commons Select Committees
(http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk)
House of Lords Select Committees
(http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk)
Imperial College (http://www.ad.ic.ac.uk/xt/news)
Kings College (http://www.kcl.ac.uk)
War Studies at Kings College
(http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/war/index.htm)
London Business School (http://www.lbs.ac.uk/comms/pmt.html)
School of Oriental and African Studies (http://www.soas.ac.uk)
University College London (http://www-server.bcc.ac.uk/events)
The Royal Society (http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/rs)
The Royal Society of Arts (http://www.rsa.org.uk)
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 on weekdays from twelve to
two with a break over Easter
in the the dining room in the Norfolk Building, Surrey 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),
in 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 lectures),
and in the upper central refectory in the main building of University
College London (suitable for UCL and Wellcome Institute lectures).
There's a good self-service restaurant at MacMillans, ground floor,
Senate House (suitable for Senate House, SSEES, and the British
Museum).
Amanda Jones
If anyone is going to University College London (UCL) for any of the
lectures mentioned above it is equally accessible from Euston, Euston
Square, and Warren Street tube stations whichever is the more convenient
for you.
Amanda
bill daugherty
This is a sensational resource. Many thanks for the time and effort
required to make it available to us. bill