LONG: Free lectures in London, Now to July
benh...@aapi.co.uk
A selection of public lectures and meetings given and held from
October to June free in central London. Each note shows day, date,
time (when known), 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.
Please write if I can help further
benh...@aapi.co.uk.
Wednesday 30 September at 1. Ethnographic film: 'The tribe than hides
from man', in Lecture Theatre School of Oriental and AfricanStudies.
Russell Square tube
6.00pm-8.00pm. Preview: Islamic Art and Patronage: treasures from
Kuwait.
A selection from the al-Sabah collection, in Brunei Gallery, School of
Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube
Friday 2 Oct. Gender, Rights and Justice in LatinAmerica. Workshop,
Institute of Latin American Studies, 31 Tavistock Square. Russell
Square tube.
Paramagnetic resonance: new approaches to structure, function and
disease. Kings College. Temple tube.
12 noon . Seminar: 'Ataturk and the Kurds'
in Room 116, School of Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square
tube
1pm. Anatomy of a Space Mission. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn
Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
Sunday 4 October from 9.00am. Ataturk Society Conference: 'Thoughts
of Ataturk' in Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African
Studies. Russell Square tube. Prebook: 0958 608961
Monday 5 October at 1. Work and Trading in London in AD2020.
Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
5.30. Lecture and recital of traditional Korean Music. School of
Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube
Tuesday 6 October at 1 pm. The Seamen’s Hospital Board: a Victorian
charity. Wellcome Institute, Euston tube
5pm. Rethinking the South East Asian City. Room G58, School of
Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube
5.30. Environmental change in northern Cyrenaica over the last
250,000 years and its archaeological implications. The British
Academy, Charing Cross tube.
5.30. The future of Saudi Arabia. Lecture Theatre, School of
Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube
6.30. The Astonishing Miracle of Seeing. The Clore Lecture Theatre,
Imperial College, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7
Prebook: Penny Berkut email: p.be...@ic.ac.uk
tel: 0171 594 8740 fax: 0171 594 6700
Wednesday 7 October. Stravinsky and Machaut. Kings College. Temple
tube
4pm. Identiuties and politics in Turekey. Seminar. Room G59, School
of Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube
5pm. Survivors and Settlers - the Religious health of the State of
Israel at 50. Tottenham Campus, Middlesex University, White Hart
Lane, N7. Wood Green tube. Prebook Penelope Weald on 0181 362 5461
5.30. Plants and people in Bronze Age Jordan: a view from the
microscope. Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
Euston Square tube
6pm. Socotra: cultural heritage of ancient Southern Arabia, still
extant. Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies.
Russell Square tube
6.30. Redefining wealth. Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube.
Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
7pm. Early examples of architecture, art and calligraphy in the
Islamic West. Eagle House, High Stereet, Wimbledon. In Arabic, with
simultaneous translation.
7 - 8 October: Glutamine Repeats and Neurodegenerative Diseases:
Molecular Aspects, The Royal Society, Trafalgar Square tube. Prebook
0171 451 2574/5 or email discussio...@royasoc.ac.uk
Thursday 8 October. Article 85. Kings College. Temple tube
5.30 for 6 p.m. Theatre of War. The Austrian Exile Theatre
'Laterndl'. Institute of Germanic Studies, 29 Russell Square.
Friday 9 October, 2.15 to 4.30. Between Continuity and Change. 150
Years of Modern Switzerland 1848-1998. Institute of Germanic
Studies, 29 Russell Square.
Monday 12 October. Urea salvage and essential amino acid synthesis
in man. Kings College. Denmark Hill station or Temple tube
1pm. Governance in London in AD2020. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn
Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
1pm. Planning in Israel, modernism and post-modernism. Room B104,
School of Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube
1.15. Why Isn't Everybody Black? Darwin Lecture Theatre, University
College London. Euston Square tube
4.30. Medico-philosophical controversies in Judaism and Islam: Mathan
b. Jeol Falaquera’s "Balm for the body". Wellcome Institute, Euston
tube.
Tuesday 13 October. Care pathways and medical decision making. Kings
College. Temple tube
5pm. Beirut in Mamluk times. Room G57, School of Oriental and
African Studies. Russell Square tube
5pm. Learner managed learning - a revolution or back to basics?
Trent Park Campus, Middlesex University, Bramley Road, N14. Oakwood
tube. Prebook Sue Goldstein on 0181 362 6147
5.30. Law and the New Technology. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn
Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
5.30pm. Preventing the looting of antiquities: the search for a legal
basis. Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, University of Cambridge.
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square.
6pm tea. 6.30 Armed struggle and the search or State: the Palestinian
National movement, 1949 to 93. Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House,
Russell Square tube
7pm. Lecture recital on Japanese dance. Lecture Theatre, School of
Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube
Wednesday, October 14. Turbulence in stirred tanks: anisotropic,
approximate and applied. Kings College. Temple tube
Haydn's false recapitulations, late eighteenth-century theory, and
modern paradigms of sonata form. Kings College. Temple tube
1. New Learning for a new City: Starting Points. Gresham’s
College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
5pm. What do they know of India who only India know ? Room G52,
School of Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube
5.30. Sex, Politics (and Religion?): Contemporary Plays and Classic
Revivals in British Theatre. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall,
Chancery Lane tube.
5.30. Weighty matters: insaugural lecture in Physics. Lecture
Theatere 1, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, South Kensington
tube
6pm. An Arts Council for the future. Royal Society of Arts, Charing
Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Thursday, 15 October . Article 86 & the European Community Merger
Regulation. Kings College. Temple tube
1.15. Children Are Unbeatable. Darwin Lecture Theatre, University
College London. Euston Square tube
5pm. Black Angels. An Anglican Canon addresses the Anglo-Ethiopian
Society.. Room BG05, Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African
Studies. Russell Square tube
5.30 for 6p.m. Das Deutsche als Minderheiten-Sprache in Europa.
Institute of Germanic Studies, 29 Russell Square.
6pm. An alternative history of Peter the Great. Chancellor’s Hall,
Senate House, Russell Square. Prebook, Caroline Newlove, School of
Slavonic and East European Studies, Senate House, Russell Square tube
Fridasy 16 October at 5. Indian Overseas Workers in Flores. School of
Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube
16-17 October The United States, Latin America and Europe: Analysis of
the New Agenda. Conference. Institute of Latin American Studies, 31
Tavistock Square. Russell Square tube.
Monday, 19 October. Language and literacy in education: Trends and
conflicts. Kings College. Waterloo or Temple tube
1.00pm. Education and Leisure in London in AD2020. Gresham’s College,
Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
5pm. Egyptian and foreign staff in the Suez Canal Company umntil
1956: the labour market in a multi-ethnic, semin-coloniasl
environment. Room G57, School of Oriental and African Studies.
Russell Square tube
6pm. Environmental changes in Kuwait after the Gulf War. Brunei
Gallery Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies.
Russell Square tube
7.30. Germany 1948 to 1998. Lord Ralf Dahrendorf. The Goethe
Institute, Princes Gate. South Kensington tube
Tuesday 20 October. 10am. Royal Society of Arts and Radio Authority
seminar to celebrate 25 years of independent radio. Royal Society of
Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
1pm. The miracles of Jesus in the Qur’an and Tafsir. Seminar. Room
B102, Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies. Russell
Square tube
1.15. University College London Library Services - Past, Present and
Future. Darwin Lecture Theatre, University College London. Euston
Square tube
5pm. Democracy in Thailand. School of Oriental and African Studies.
Russell Square tube
5.30. Fascism and the Italian Exhibition of 1930. Courtauld Gallery,
Somerset House, Charing Cross tube
5.30. The politics of agrarian transformation in Egypt. Lecture
Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube
6pm. Security in the Gulf. Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, School of
Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube
Wednesday 21 October. Molecular fungal ecology: new views of the
ectomycorrhizal community. Kings College. Temple tube
Nazi semiotics: Karajan's Pathétique and Walter's 1938, Mahler's
Ninth. Kings College. Temple tube
1pm. Evolution of the Brain the Past. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s
Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
5pm. Performance and popular authors in West Bengal. Room G52,
School of Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube
5pm. The Japanese intellectual closed shop. Room G50, School of
Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube
5.30. Will Cross-Cultural Theatre ever work on the English Stage?
Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
6pm. Frameworks for early learning. Royal Society of Arts, Charing
Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
21-22 October. Deformation Processing Of Metals. The Royal Society,
Trafalgar Square tube. Prebook 0171 451 2574/5 or email
discussio...@royasoc.ac.uk
Thursday 22 October. 1.15. The New Human Rights Act: Power to the
People or to the Judges? Darwin Lecture Theatre, University College
London. Euston Square tube
5.15 for 5.45p.m. Hermann und Dorothea: An Early Example of
'Heimatliteratur'. Institute of Germanic Studies, 29 Russell Square.
5.30pm. T S Eliot: Anti-semitism and censorship. Institute of
Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square.
Monday 26 October at 1.00 London in 2000: Technology, Globalisation
and the City of Finance. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall,
Chancery Lane tube.
4.30. Cooking Traditions in Islam. Wellcome Institute, Euston tube
5pm. The uses of disorder: Egypt 1945 to 1952. Room G57, School of
Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube
6pm - 9.45pm. What is Brechtian Cinema? Seminar. Prebook with SAE
and £4. The Goethe-Institut, Reception Desk, 50 Princes Gate,
Exhibition Road, London SW7 2PH. South Kensington tube.
Tuesday 27 October. 10.00 to 3.30. Linking child research and policy.
£15 including lunch. Freiends House, Euston tube. Prebook Jackie
Lee, 0171 612 6397
1pm. Ultra-orthodox Messianism in contemporary Israel. Room B104,
School of Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube
1.15. Why Did Aristotle's School Decline? Darwin Lecture Theatre,
University College London. Euston Square tube
5.30. Reform and refinement: the Hadhrami reform movement in the
early 20th century. Room B102, Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and
African Studies. Russell Square tube
6pm. Art and design in the new educational revolution. Royal Society
of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Wednesday 28 October. Vicenzo Galilei: modernity and the division of
nature. Kings College. Temple tube
1pm. New Learning for a new City: Globalisation. Gresham’s College,
Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
5pm. Sind, 1940 to 1960. Room G52, School of Oriental and African
Studies. Russell Square tube
5.15. Prince Henry of Prussia’s visit tro Russia 1770 to 1771. Room
336, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, Senate House,
Russell Square tube
6pm. Transforming businesses: Innovation in action. Royal Society of
Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Thursday, 29 October. What works with young people at risk. Kings
College. Temple tube
What prevents women leaving violent partners? Kings College. Temple
tube
1.15. Scapegoating the Gypsies: Eastern Europe Today. Darwin Lecture
Theatre, University College London. Euston Square tube
5pm. It’s not kitsch, dear, it’s theirculture. Premodern pedigreesof
South East Asian postmodernity. Room G58, School of Oriental and
African Studies. Russell Square tube
5.30 for 6 p.m. A Sacred Tragicomedy of Reason: Kaiser's Der
gerettete Alkibiades as a Revision of Nietzsche's Die Geburt der
Tragödie. Institute of Germanic Studies, 29 Russell Square.
Saturday and Sunday, 31 October and 1 Novermber. Conferences.
Muslim Identity in the 21st century: challenges of modernity. Two day
conference. Fee £60: students £35. School of Oriental and African
Studies. Russell Square tube. Further detail on
http://www.ic-el.org/iis. Prebook with the Secretary, Institute of
Islamic Studies, 0181 459 1000, or at I I S website.
Twenty-fourth national postgraduate colloquium in German Studies.
Institute of Germanic Studies, 29 Russell Square. Prebook.
Monday 2 November. European Human Rights in the French
Constitutional Court. Kings College. Temple tube
1pm. AD2020: The End of the Professions; or a New Beginning?
Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
1pm. Christian Zionism. Room B104, School of Oriental and African
Studies. Russell Square tube
1.15. The Old Radical: Representations of Jeremy Bentham. Darwin
Lecture Theatre, University College London. Euston Square tube
5pm. Moslem scholarship and mystics in South West Bengal from the
1890s to the 1920s. Room G58, School of Oriental and African Studies.
Russell Square tube
6.30. Medical Imaging and Visualisation - The Stethoscope of the 21st
Century? Clore Lecture Theatre, Imperial College, 180 Queen's Gate,
London SW7. Prebook: Penny Berkut, email: p.be...@ic.ac.uk, tel:
0171 594 8740 fax: 0171 594 6700
Wednesday 4 November at 1. Evolution of the Brain: the Present.
Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
5pm. The Challenge of Change - new for old, good or bad? Bounds
Green Campus, Middlesex University, Bounds Green, N11. Prebook
Marianne Panic on 0181 362 5176
5.30. What is the Use of God? Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall,
Chancery Lane tube.
6 pm. Literacy in an age of images. Royal Society of Arts, Charing
Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
4 -5 November . Programmed Proteolysis And The Control Of Cell
Division. The Royal Society, Trafalgar Square tube. Prebook 0171 451
2574/5 or email discussio...@royasoc.ac.uk
Thursday 5 November at 1.15. The Scientific Case for Human
Spaceflight. Darwin Lecture Theatre, University College London.
Euston Square tube
5pm. Writers in England who don’t use English. Room G60, School of
Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube
5pm. Modernity and democracy in contemporary India. Room G52, School
of Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube
5pm. Forest fires in Indonesia: plus ca change. Room G58, School of
Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube
5.15. Landmark Buildings in Archangelsk Province. Room 336, School
of Slavonic and East European Studies, Senate House, Russell Square
tube
5.30. Mathematics: Truth, Beauty and Depth. Professor Sir Roger
Penrose FRS. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane
tube.
5.30 for 6p.m. 'Anpassung oder Widerstand?' Switzerland and the Nazi
Gold Controversy. Institute of Germanic Studies, 29 Russell Square.
Friday 6 November. Seventh 19th Century History Workshop: The 1848
Revolutions Beyond Europe. Institute of Latin American Studies, 31
Tavistock Square. Russell Square tube.
1pm. Cosmic Dust. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane
tube.
Monday 9 November at 5.30. Sir John Simon, First Medical Officer of
Health, as Surgeon and Scientist. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn
Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
5.30. The Rise and Fall of Thatcherism. Beveridge Hall, Senate
House, Russell Square tube
Tuesday 10 November. Uses and abuses of qualitative research and
palliative care. Kings College. Denmark Hill station or Temple tube
1.00pm. Evolution of the Brain: the Future. Gresham’s College,
Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
5.30. Law and the Internet: Security and Contract at a Distance.
Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
Wednesday 11 November. Twentieth-century music and the stage: 1 -
Opera without narrative: Luciano Berio's Outis. Kings College.
Temple tube
6.00pm. Patronage and the Russian State. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s
Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
Thursday 12 November, 5.30 for 6p.m. 'Modell Deutschland': a Model
from the Past as a Model for the Future. Institute of Germanic
Studies, 29 Russell Square.
Friday 13 November at 12 noon. Educational Reform in the late Ottoman
Empire. School of Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube
Monday 16 November at 1. Work and Education: Caribbean Migrations.
Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
5.30. Sir John Simon, First Medical Officer of Health, the
Administrator. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane
tube.
6 pm. The Space of Play: children and public space. Royal Society of
Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Tuesday 17 November at 1.15. The New Library at Alexandria - The
World's First Research Library is Reborn. Darwin Lecture Theatre,
University College London. Euston Square tube
5.30 Mathematics in the Arts. Professor Sir Roger Penrose FRS. M C
Escher, other artists, and music. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn
Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
5pm. Mughal households. Room G58, School of Oriental and African
Studies. Russell Square tube
6pm. What the universities and industry have to say to each other.
Institute of Education, Russell Square tube
Wednesday, 18 November. Is beer oestrogenic? Kings College. DenmaRK
Hill station or Temple tube
1.00pm. Is Letter-Writing Literature? And what about Diaries?
Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
5pm. Contemporary Tibetan literature. Room G52, School of Oriental
and African Studies. Russell Square tube
5pm. Rooting out pollution: is natural treatment sustainable ? Large
Lecture Theatre, 10 Highgate Hill, London N19, Middlesex University.
Highgate tube. Prebook Vanessa Saward on 0181 362 6640
5.30. The General Counsel of the Financial Services Authority on a
topic related to financial services regulation to be announced.
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square.
Thursday 19 November at 1.15. "We are All Noblemen Here": Supralocal
Communities and the Development of Lordship in Medieval Northern
Castile. Darwin Lecture Theatre, University College London. Euston
Square tube
5pm. Kiswahili in East Africa schools: lessons from Israel. Room
G60, School of Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube
5pm. Ecological movements in Thailand. Room G58, School of Oriental
and African Studies. Russell Square tube
5.30 for 6pm. Continuity and Change: German European Policy.
Institute of Germanic Studies, 29 Russell Square.
Friday, 20 November, 2.30 to 5pm In Memoriam Erich Fried: a
Celebration of his Life and Work on the Tenth Anniversary of his
Death. Institute of Germanic Studies, 29 Russell Square.
Monday 23 November at 1. From West Indian Immigrants to Caribbean
Communities. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane
tube.
5.30. Sir John Simon, First Medical Officer of Health, and the
Politics of Poverty. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery
Lane tube.
7.30. Germany 1948 to 1998. Sir Christopher Mallaby. The Goethe
Institute, Princes Gate. South Kensington tube
Tyesday 24 November 1pm. Classical music in modern Israel. Room
B104, School of Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube
1pm. How Students Learn: Perceptions and Realities. Darwin Lecture
Theatre, University College London. Euston Square tube
5pm. Has hazards research become a disaster for Geography ? Enfield
Campus, Middlesex University. Prebook Kate Jarvis on 0181 362 5543
5pm. Unani medicine in North India 1900 to 1950. Room G58, School of
Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube
5.30. Michaelangelo as model for Pater and Symonds. Courtauld
Institute, Somerset House, Charing Cross tube
Wednesday 25 November. Gendering the nations. Kings College. Temple
tube
1pm. New Learning for a new City: Competence and Capability.
Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
4 to 5.30p.m. History in German Studies (Changing Conceptions of
German Studies VII) . Institute of Germanic Studies, 29 Russell
Square.
5pm. Masculinity, Britain and India in the Victorian Era. Room G52,
School of Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube
5.30pm The Rt Hon The Lord Nolan, Chairman of the Board of the
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Title to be confirmed. Institute
of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square.
6pm. Transport: now, then and tomorrow. Royal Society of Arts,
Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
26 November at 1.15. Empire and Us. Darwin Lecture Theatre,
University College London. Euston Square tube
Thursday 26 November. Trusts, the IUS commune & Scots law. Kings
College. Temple tube
Invisible women: what's wrong with women's prisons? Kings College.
Temple tube
5pm. Language use in Ethiopia. Room G60, School of Oriental and
African Studies. Russell Square tube
5pm. Non Governmental Organisatiuons, politics, and the environm,ent
in the Phillipines. Room G58, School of Oriental and African Studies.
Russell Square tube
5.15 for 5.45p.m. 'Man halte sich ans fortschreitende Leben ...':
Goethe's Late Essays 'Wohlgemeinte Erwiederung' and 'Ein Wort an junge
Dichter'. Institute of Germanic Studies, 29 Russell Square.
6pm. Beauty with a smile. Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube.
Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
26-27 November. Intellectuals, Culture and National Identity in
Pre-Revolutionary Cuba, 1902-1958. Conference. Institute of Latin
American Studies, 31 Tavistock Square. Russell Square tube.
Friday 27 November at 2.30p.m. Das Wiener Kabarett im Exil.
Institute of Germanic Studies, 29 Russell Square.
Monday, 30 November. What is education for? Kings College. Temple
tube
1pm. Messiaen: Visions and Apocalypse. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s
Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
1pm. Some Stay and Some Return: Caribbean Migration Outcomes.
Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
Tuesday 1 December at 1pm. Stockhausen and Mantra. Gresham’s College,
Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
1pm. Fabricating Israeli history. Room B104, School of Oriental and
African Studies. Russell Square tube
1.15. Design, Invention and New Subject Matter in Fifteenth-Century
Florentine Art. Darwin Lecture Theatre, University College London.
Euston Square tube
5.30. Law and the Internet: Copyright and Intellectual Property.
Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
6.30. Ecological Effects of Climate Change. Professor John Lawton
CBE, FRS Clore Lecture Theatre, Imperial College. Prebook: Penny
Berkut email: p.be...@ic.ac.uk. tel: 0171 594 8740 fax: 0171 594
6700
Wednesday 2 December. Passion and precision: the piano music of
Maurice Ravel (illustrated lecture) . Kings College. Temple tube
5pm. Managing health and environmental risks into the 21st century.
Large Lecture Theatre, 10 Highgate Hill, London N19, Middlesex
University. Highgate tube. Prebook Vanessa Saward on 0181 362 6640
5.30. What is the Use of Jesus? Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn
Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
6pm. Working to learn. Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube.
Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
3 December at 1.15pm. Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression.
Darwin Lecture Theatre, University College London. Euston Square tube
Thursday 3 December at 5pm. Entrepreneurship Education.
Hendon campus, Middlesex University, The Borroughs, NW4
Prebook Judith Abrahams on 0181 362 5829
5pm. Proverbs in Eritrea. Room G60, School of Oriental and African
Studies. Russell Square tube
5pm. Mis-reading the South East Asian ecology. Room G58, School of
Oriental and African Studies. Russell Square tube
5.15. Property and morality in Imperial Russia. Room 336, School of
Slavonic and East European Studies, Senate House, Russell Square tube
Friday 4 December, 0930 to 1700. Symposium on the Centenary of the
Royal Army Medical Corps. Wellcome Institute, Euston tube
11.30a.m. to 4.30p.m. Fontane at the End of the Century. Institute
of Germanic Studies, 29 Russell Square.
1pm. Accelerating Exploration of the Solar System. Gresham’s College,
Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
Monday 7 December. Civil society and its enemies. Kings College.
Temple tube
1pm. West Indian Writers in Britain: Are We True to Type? Gresham’s
College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
6pm. The single European currency and its consequences for Britain.
Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or
email lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
7.30. Germany 1948 to 1998. Ignatz Bubis. The Goethe Institute,
Princes Gate. South Kensington tube
Tuesday 8 December. Euthanasia. Kings College. Denmark Hill station
or Temple tube
Vitamin D and diabetes. Kings College. Denmark Hill station or Temple
tube
1.15 How and Why Did Fairness Norms Evolve? Darwin Lecture Theatre,
University College London. Euston Square tube
5.30. Mathematics in the Natural World. Professor Sir Roger Penrose
FRS. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
9 - 10 December. Astronomical (Milankovitch) Calibration Of The
Geological Timescale. The Royal Society, Trafalgar Square tube.
Prebook 0171 451 2574/5 or email discussio...@royasoc.ac.uk
10-12 December. The End of the Spanish Empire: History, Discourse,
Representation Conference. Institute of Latin American Studies, 31
Tavistock Square. Russell Square tube.
Friday 11 December at 1. Jonathan Harvey’s Le Tombeau de Messiaen.
Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
Tuesday 15 December at 5. The fertile computer: how does your garden
grow? Cat Hill Campus, Middlesex University. Cockfosters tube.
Prebook Lesleyann Last on 0181 362 5035
5.30pm. Stakeholding and company law. Institute of Advanced Legal
Studies, 17 Russell Square.
Monday 21 December at 2.30. Do you believe in magic? Childrens’
Lecture. Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930
9286 or email lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Wednesday 6 January at 6. Rekindling the philosphical spirit. Royal
Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Monday 18 January at 6. The state of reviewing today. Royal Society
of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Tuesday 19 January at 1. A Career in Neuroscience Research. Gresham’s
College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
Wednesday 20 January. The application of molecular techniques to the
study of hydrothermal vent fauna. Kings College. Temple tube
Thursday 21 January 1999 at 1. Neuroscience and Art: Conflict or
Complement? Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane
tube.
Monday 25 January at 6. The changing child and the evolving picture
book. Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930
9286 or email lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Tuesday 26 January at 1pm. Neuroscience and Society: Some Moral
Issues. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
Wednesday 27 January at 1. Einstein’s Curved Space-Time and How to
See It. Professor Sir Roger Penrose FRS. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s
Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
6pm. Political correctness: who benefits? Royal Society of Arts,
Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Thursday 28 January. Rabbinic Judaism in Christian Palestine. Kings
College. Temple tube
5pm. The end of art. Tottenham Campus, Middlesex University, White
Hart Lane, N11. Wood Green tube. Prebook Penelope Weald on 0181 362
6147
Monday 1 Feb at 1. How Science Contributes to Wealth Creation. Sir
Mark Richmond FRS. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery
Lane tube.
6pm. The future of the pharmaceutical industry. Royal Society of
Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Tuesday 2 February at 5. Title to be announced . Alan Stainer,
Professor of Productivity and Performance Management . Hendon Campus,
Middlesex University, The Borroughs, NW4. Prebook Judith Abrahams on
0181 362 5829
5.30. Law and the Internet: Pornography and Censorship. Gresham’s
College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
Wednesday 3 Febuary at 6. Proportional Representation and its
consequences for British politics. Paddy Ashdown, Leader of the
Liberal Party Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book
0171930 9286 or email lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Thursday 4 February at 1. New Learning for a new City: When Worlds
Collide. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
Friday 5 February at 1. The Giant Planets. Gresham’s College,
Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube
Monday 8 February at 1. Transport: The Road Narrows From Here On.
Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
6pm. A future of man, woman and machine. Royal Society of Arts,
Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Tuesday 9 February at 5.30. The UK Development Assistance Programme.
Clare Short, Minister for International Development. Royal Society
of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Wednesday 10 Feb at 5.30. Impossible Crystalline Patterns and How to
Construct Them. Professor Sir Roger Penrose FRS
The London Oratory School, Seagrave Road, London SW6
6pm. The place of traditional stories in contemporary society. Royal
Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Thursday 11 February at 1. Do You Take Risks When You Read? or
Risk-Taking in Reading. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall,
Chancery Lane tube.
Monday 15 February at 1. Healthcare and the Medical Engineering
Phoenix. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
6pm. The Chemical Industry in the 21st century. Royal Society of
Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Wednesday 17 Feb at 6. Air Power in a new era. Royal Society of
Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Thursday 18 February at 1. New Learning for a new City: Through a
Glass Darkly. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane
tube.
5pm. Title to be announced. Roger Matthews, Professor of Sociology.
Enfield Campus, Middlesex University. Prebook
Kate Jarvis on 0181 362 5543
Monday 22 February at 1. From Calculating Machines to Wearable
Computers. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
6pm. The 24 hour society. Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube.
Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Wednesday 24 February at 6. What's radio for? Royal Society of
Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Thursday 25 February at 5.30. What is the Use of the Church? The
Bishop of Edinburgh. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery
Lane tube.
Monday 1 March at 1. Wealth and Science: Avoid the Gain and Block
the Drain. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
6pm. Changing Places. Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube.
Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk
Tuesday 2 March at 5.30. Law and Electronic Commerce: Legal and
Policy Considerations. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery
Lane tube.
Wednesday 3 March at 1. Goedel, Turing, and the Limits of
Computation. Professor Sir Roger Penrose FRS. Gresham’s College,
Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
6pm. Smell: can it be used to manipulate behaviour? . Royal Society
of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Thursday 4 March at 1. New Learning for a new City: Ciphers and
Codes. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
Friday 5 March at 1. What Does it Take to Put a Man on Mars?
Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
Wednesday 10 March at 5pm. title to be announced. Sir Bernard
Ingham, Visiting Professor. Hendon Campus, Middlesex University, The
Burroughs, NW4. Prebook Philomena D'Costa on 0181 362 5834
6pm. Might bad sportsmanship produce winners? Royal Society of
Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Wednesday to Fr iday, 10-12 March. Fontane and Europe. Institute of
Germanic Studies, 29 Russell Square.
Thursday 11 March at 1. Video Cicero: Modern Orators on Television
and Radio. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
5.30. Is the Church worth saving? The Bishop of Edinburgh. Gresham’s
College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
Monday 15 March at 6. Licensed to skill: the matching of skills to
tomorrow's needs. Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube.
Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Wednesday 17 March at 5. Title to be announced. Peter Osborne,
Professor of Modern European Philosophy. Tottenham Campus, Middlesex
University, Whitew Hart Lane, N17. Prebook Penelope Weald on 0181 362
5461
6pm. Sustainable cities or town cramming? Royal Society of Arts,
Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Thursday 18 March at 1. Textual Communities: How Do We Recognise
Value in the Verbal Arts? Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall,
Chancery Lane tube.
Wednesday 24 Mar at 6. Ethics and the role of business in society.
Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or
email lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Thursday 25 Mar at 5.30. Where did Hell come from and can any use be
made of it today? The Bishop of Edinburgh. Gresham’s College,
Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
Wednesday 7 April at 6. Ageing - the lifespan challenge. Royal
Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Friday 9 April at 1. Eclipse. Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall,
Chancery Lane tube.
Monday 12 April at 6. Young entrepreneurs: where are the new
businesses coming from? Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube.
Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Tuesday 13 April at 5.30. Law and Electronic Banking. Gresham’s
College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
Wednesday 14 April at 6. Only one medicine: areas of convergence and
contrast between animal and human medicine. Royal Society of Arts,
Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Monday 19 April at 6. The flight of the phoenix. Royal Society of
Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Wednesday 21 April at 6. Campaign for Learning Lecture. Royal
Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Wednesday to Friday, 21-23 April. Goethe 250. Institute of Germanic
Studies, 29 Russell Square.
Wednesday 28 April at 6. Trinity House and the millennium. Royal
Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Tuesday 11 May at 5. Title to be announced. David Smallbone,
Professor of Small and Medium Enterprises. Hendon Campus, Middlesex
University, The Burroughs, NW4. Prebook Judith Abrahams on 0181 362
5829
Wednesday 12 May at 5. Learning to be a citizen in Modern Britain.
Trent Park Campus, Middlesex University, Bramley Road, N14
Prebook Sue Goldstein on 0181 362 6147
6pm. Prison and psychiatric illness. Royal Society of Arts, Charing
Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Monday 17 May at 6. How to determine a curriculum. Royal Society of
Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Tuesday 18 May at 5. Title to be announced. Vincenzo Ruggiero,
Professor of Sociology. Enfield Campus, Middlesex University
Prebook Kate Jarvis on 0181 362 5543
6pm. What is a treasure and whose treasure is it anyway? Royal
Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email
lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Wednesday 19 May at 6. The interaction between dance, choreography
and IT (provisional title) . Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross
tube. Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Friday 21 May 1999 at 1. Music and Ancient Myths, Same Old Problems.
Gresham’s College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
Monday 24 May at 6. Save the Children and Royal Society of Arts
Millennium Lecture. Royal Society of Arts, Charing Cross tube.
Pre-book 0171930 9286 or email lect...@rsa-uk.demon.co.uk.
Tuesday 25 May 1999 at 1. Music and Folk Tales Rewritten. Gresham’s
College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
Friday 28 May at 1. Music and Religious Fervour. Gresham’s College,
Barnard’s Inn Hall, Chancery Lane tube.
Thursday 10 June at 5. Title to be announced. Barry Curtis,
Professor of Visual Culture. Cat Hill Campus, Middlesex University.
Prebook Lesleyann Last on 0181 362 5035
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)
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (http://www.sas.ac.uk)
Institute of Germanic Studies (http://www.sas.ac.uk)
Institute of Latin American Studies (http://www.sas.ac.uk)
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)
Middlesex University (http://www.midx.ac.uk)
The Royal Society (http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/rs)
The Royal Society of Arts (http://www.rsa.org.uk)
School of Oriental and African Studies (http://www.soas.ac.uk)
University College London (http://www-server.bcc.ac.uk/events)
Warburg Institute (http://www.sas.ac).
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, in term time
- 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
Warburg, SOAS, SSEESS 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 are good self-service restaurants for lunch at MacMillans,
ground floor, Senate House (suitable for Senate House, SSEESS, and the
British Museum), and for lunch and supper (to 7.30) at the Senior
Common Room, fifth floor, Birkbeck College (suitable for Wellcome
Institute, UCL, Warburg, Institute of Education, SOAS, SSEESS, and
other Senate House lectures)