Upcoming Public Lectures
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Saturday, 20th March 2010
10:00AM - 5:00PM
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)
WHATEVER WILL THEY THINK OF NEXT?
Newcastle University is looking ahead in a sparkling series of science conversations to celebrate Science Week 2010. Lectures, debates and fringe workshops offer you the chance to meet scientists, hear about their research, and tell them your views. The future starts here! For further information about these events please visit www.newcastlesciencefest.co.uk
Thursday, 15th April 2010
6:00PM - 7:00PM
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)
SIR LIAM DONALDSON, Chief Medical Officer for England and Chancellor of Newcastle University
Health Challenges: Today's and Tomorrow's
Chancellor's Inaugural Lecture
NOTE: you are asked to register for this event by contacting Northern Stage box office on 0191 230 5151 or visit: http://www.northernstage.co.uk/WHATSON/Performance/tabid/79/PerformanceId/641/Default.aspx
For any other queries about the event please contact the Public Lectures Office on: 0191 222 6136
Saturday, 17th April 2010
11:00AM
Marriott Gosforth Park Hotel, Newcastle upon Tyne
Oral health, the cause of all ills?
Professor Robin Seymour
Founders and Benefactors Day Lecture
Tuesday, 20th April 2010
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)
PROFESSOR BHIKHU PAREKH, FBA, Emeritus Professor, Universities of Westminster and Hull
Changing Discourses on Multiculturalism
Multiculturalism appeared on the British public agenda in the early 1970s and has since undergone several important changes. This lecture traces the changes and discusses the problems raised by cultural diversity.
Thursday, 22nd April 2010
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)
ANDREW SAINT, General Editor of the Survey of London
Art and Science at the Service of Romance: Sir William Armstrong, Norman Shaw and the Making of Cragside
Lecture to Mark the Bicentenary of Lord Armstrong’s Birth
Cragside is a grand expression of the English romantic dream. It is also a fusion of art, science, architecture and technology, drawn together by two remarkable Victorian talents. This is the story, often strangely obscure, of how the house came into being.
Tuesday, 27th April 2010
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)
JULIET NICOLSON, Author
The Great Silence: 1918-20 Living in the Shadow of the Great War
Despite the relief after the signing of the Armistice ending the First World War, Britain remained paralysed by grief. This is the moving story of a nation struggling to regain hope.
Thursday, 29th April 2010
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)
BRITAIN AND THE GENERAL ELECTION 2010
A panel of parliamentarians, in conversation with each other and the audience, reflect on the Election: on the campaign, on the parliament that preceded it, and on the prospects for Britain.
Tuesday, 4th May 2010
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)
PROFESSOR STEPHEN HOPPER, Director, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew
Plant Diversity, Science and Solutions for a Rapidly Changing World
Lecture to Mark International Year of Biodiversity
Plant diversity underpins human lives, from the air we breathe to the greatest of aesthetic pleasures and wonderment. Yet wild plants continue to be destroyed at an alarming rate. Targeted plant science, in botanic gardens and elsewhere, offers solutions to global problems and an important message of hope.
Thursday, 6th May 2010
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)
PROFESSOR SHEILA ROWAN, Director, Institute for Gravitational Research, University of Glasgow
Ripples from the Dark Side of the Universe
This lecture discusses the current searches for gravitational waves from astrophysical sources. These elusive signals – ‘ripples in the curvature of spacetime’ – carry unique information about what is happening deep in the heart of some of the most violent events in the Universe.
Thursday, 13th May 2010
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building (opposite Haymarket Metro)
VIVIAN COOK, Professor of Applied Linguistics, Newcastle University
Words Matter
We know a vast number of words – imported from many places, showing our history, crucial to our children’s language development, used by advertisers to influence us and built from our names to tease us! We use them to think and often get them wrong. Our life is words, and words are our life.
