Conferences
Public Lectures : Arts, Music and Culture
26th April 2012
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
‘Close the Coalhouse Door’: Pre-performance talk
Samuel West
Free admission, no pre-booking required
19th April 2012
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
The Queen – art and image
Paul Moorhouse, curator, 20th century, National Portrait Gallery
Free admission, no pre-booking required
8th March 2012
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
From bi-versity to true university: bringing together the sciences and humanities
Professor Edward Slingerland, Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied Cognition, University of British Columbia
School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University Lecture
Free admission, no pre-booking required
6th March 2012
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
Enlisting Dumbledore’s army: children’s stories and human rights
Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty
Fickling Lecture on Developments in Children’s Literature
Free admission, no pre-booking required
7th February 2012
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
Medieval aesthetics and the heroic age of Gothic invention
Paul Binski, Professor of the History of Medieval Art, Cambridge University
Charlton Memorial Lecture
Free admission, no pre-booking required
15th November 2011
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
The Bohemian Diaspora: my relationship to the art world
Grayson Perry
Lecture in association with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
17th May 2011
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
Shami Chakrabarti : Common values, common politics: human rights in a new era of British government
Shami Chakrabarti , Director of Liberty
Sophia Lecture
12th May 2011
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
Beauty and nature: why the National Trust’s founding ambitions matter more than ever today
Dame Fiona Reynolds, Director-General of the National Trust
10th May 2011
17:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
The secrets of The Secret Garden: engaging modern children and modern adults
Professor Peter Hunt, Visiting Professor of Children’s Literature, Newcastle University
24th March 2011
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
Transmissions
Kate Adie, journalist, broadcaster and author