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Public lectures Spring/summer 2013

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At a glance

Public lectures/seminars Centre for British Politics Annual Norton Lecture Centre for Gender Studies Seminar Series Chemistry Lecture Chemistry Seminar Programme Classical Association, Hull and District Branch Distinguished Drama Lecture East Riding Archaeology Society Engineering Seminars Ferens Fine Art Lectures Garnet Rees Memorial Lecture Faculty of Health and Social Care Research Seminars Hull and District Theological Society Hull Geological Society Inaugural Lectures Institute of European Public Law Lecture Institute of Physics Sponsored Lectures Law and Politics Annual Lecture Mary Wollstonecraft Annual Lecture Music Lectures and Events Music Research Seminars Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Physics and Mathematics Seminar Programme Religion Postgraduate Seminar Annual Shakespeare Lecture Annual Victorian Lecture Wilberforce Institute (WISE) Public Lectures

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Public Lectures at Scarborough Religious Service

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Further information Map of the Hull Campus

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Contents

All lectures are free except where otherwise stated.

For further events in 2013

Public lectures

At a glance Key Music Lectures Seminars

Date

Event

Venue (All at Hull Campus unless indicated otherwise)

Start time Enquiries

16 Jan 16 Jan 17 Jan

Faculty of Health and Social Care Research Seminar: Foucault and sexuality East Riding Archaeology Society: Aspects of burial archaeology in Yorkshire Hull Geological Society: A history of the glacial formations at South Landing, Danes Dyke and the Sewerby Buried Cliff over the last 120 years in old and new photographs and maps: recent processes of deposition and erosion Faculty of Health and Social Care Research Seminar: Making questionnaires better with item response theory Chemistry Seminar: Chemical aspects of photodynamic therapy Hull and District Theological Society: God and the quantum Universe Annual Norton Lecture: Is the party over? Inaugural Lectures: ‘Babies on the brain’: childbearing women’s psychological health – a research and service development story Music Research Seminar: Image, song, and the presence of prima donnas beyond the opera house Physics and Mathematics Seminar: Silicon doped boron carbide – the hardest ceramic material in existence? Centre for Gender Studies Seminar: Trans and sexuality – theory and pragmatics Chemistry Seminar: Inorganic materials for energy applications Ferens Fine Art Lecture: Title to be conﬁrmed WISE Public Lecture: The Cherokee Freedmen: caught between indigenous identity and the legacies of slavery Institute of Physics Sponsored Lecture: Are we alone? Inaugural Lecture: Tales from the archives: the dramatic lives of Ellen Terry and her invisible daughter, Edith Craig Music Research Seminar: Performance studies as creative practice Engineering Seminar: Solar ﬂares and the potential disruption associated with them Faculty of Health and Social Care Research Seminar: A Foucauldian view on the professionalisation of nursing in Singapore

Meeting Room 1, Dearne Building LT1 Wilberforce Building

12.30 pm 7.30 pm

01482 463342 01482 465543

22 17

Department of Geography, Cohen Building

7.30 pm

01482 346784

Meeting Room 1, Dearne Building Lecture Theatre A, Chemistry Building Seminar Room, Graduate School Council Chamber, Venn Building

12.30 pm 4.15 pm 7.30 pm 6.00 pm

01482 463342 01482 465418 01482 466548 01482 465724

23 13 25 10

Middleton Hall

6.00 pm

01482 4666326

L201, Larkin Building Lecture Theatre C, Robert Blackburn Building South-East Asia Museum, 1st Floor, Wilberforce Building Lecture Theatre A, Chemistry Building Middleton Hall WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull HU1 1NE Basil Reckitt Lecture Theatre, Ferens Building

4.15 pm

a.binns@hull.ac.uk

2.00 pm

01482 466149

4.15 pm 4.15 pm 6.00 pm

01482 466323 01482 465418 01482 465620

11 13 20

4.30 pm 6.30 pm

01482 305176 01482 465050

49 36

Middleton Hall L201, Larkin Building

6.00 pm 4.15 pm

01482 466326 a.binns@hull.ac.uk

29 40

Robert Blackburn Building

7.30 pm

01482 465818

Meeting Room 1, Dearne Building

12.30 pm

01482 463342

30 Jan 30 Jan 30 Jan 4 Feb 4 Feb 5 Feb 6 Feb 6 Feb 6 Feb 6 Feb 7 Feb 7 Feb 11 Feb 12 Feb 12 Feb 13 Feb

Public lectures

Page

Public lectures

Date

Event

13 Feb

Faculty of Health and Social Care Research Seminar: NIHR Research Design Service – how it can help you Physics and Mathematics Seminar: $6 to $30 in 15 seconds: insights into laser applications Chemistry Seminar: Fabrication of organic monoliths Hull and District Theological Society: The image of Eve in contemporary advertising Music Lecture: Neil Heyde and Roy Howat on Debussy, Britten and Fauré Inaugural Lecture: Music, sport and a domestic dispute: constructions of meaning from Beethoven to the present Chemistry Seminar: Single molecule imagining in living cells using TIRF microscopy Ferens Fine Art Lecture: Preserving the heritage: whose responsibility? Annual Law and Politics Lecture: Putting faith in hate: religion as the source and subject of hate speech Engineering Seminar: Bringing wind power ashore East Riding Archaeology Society: Perspectives on ancient East Yorkshire: the archaeology of the Gansted to Asselby Pipeline Hull Geological Society: The ice that build the Holderness landscape Classical Association: The Iron Age under new management Music Research Seminar: I asked for water but they gave me gasolie: Philip Larkin on jazz, and ‘progress’ in music Physics and Mathematics Seminar: Light – the world’s most unlikely construction material Chemistry Seminar: Using NMR spectroscopy to understand the speciﬁcity of cancer imaging peptides Founder’s Day Service Centre for Gender Studies Seminar: Polyamory activism

13 Feb 13 Feb 13 Feb 16 Feb 18 Feb 20 Feb 20 Feb 20 Feb 20 Feb 20 Feb 21 Feb 21 Feb 26 Feb 27 Feb 27 Feb 5 March 6 March 6 March 6 March 6 March 6 March 7 March

Public lectures

Chemistry Seminar: Ligand effects on metal-mediated polymerisation processes Ferens Fine Art Lecture: Museums, knowledge and objects Garnet Rees Memorial Lecture: The story of Germany, told by its prisoners: prisoner narratives after 1949 Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture: Belief, choice and responsibility WISE Public Lecture: The apprenticeship of liberated Africans in Sierra Leone in the early 19th century

Venue (All at Hull Campus unless indicated otherwise)

Start time Enquiries

Page

Meeting Room 1, Dearne Building Lecture Theatre C, Robert Blackburn Building Lecture Theatre A, Chemistry Building

12.30 pm

01482 463342

2.00 pm 4.15 pm

01482 466149 01482 465418

44 13

Seminar Room, Graduate School Middleton Hall

7.30 pm 6.30 pm

01482 466548 01482 465998

25 39

Middleton Hall

6.00 pm

01482 466326

Lecture Theatre A, Chemistry Building Middleton Hall

4.15 pm 6.00 pm

01482 465418 01482 465620

13 20

Nidd Seminar Room, Business School Robert Blackburn Building

4.30 pm 7.00 pm

01482 465620 07772 714597

37 18

LT1 Wilberforce Building Department of Geography, Cohen Building Seminar Room, Graduate School

7.30 pm 7.30 pm 7.30 pm

01482 465543 01482 346784 01482 470119

17 27 15

L201, Larkin Building Lecture Theatre C, Robert Blackburn Building

4.15 pm

a.binns@hull.ac.uk

2.00 pm

01482 466149

Lecture Theatre A, Chemistry Building University Chapel, Middleton Hall South-East Asia Museum, 1st Floor, Wilberforce Building

4.15 pm 6.00 pm

01482 465418 01482 466326

13 51

4.15 pm

01482 466323

Lecture Theatre A, Chemistry Building Middleton Hall

4.15 pm 6.00 pm

01482 465418 01482 465620

13 20

Meaux Room, Staff House Staff House WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull HU1 1NE

4.30 pm

01482 466372 01482 465662

21 43

4.30 pm

01482 305176

Public lectures

Date

Event

8 March

Institute of European Law Lecture: Contemporary aspects of the promotion of democracy by the European Court of Human Rights Music Lecture: Professor Brian Newbould on Brahms and Prokoﬁev Inaugural Lecture: Intersections of philosophy, logic and biology in design Music Research Seminar: Art or doctrine? Another look at Wagner’s Meistersinger and its sources, literary and visual Faculty of Health and Social Care Research Seminar: Sufferers’ perspectives on eating disorders Chemistry Seminar: Synthesis of bridged natural products Ferens Fine Art Lecture: Ferens Fine Art Film Evening Physics and Mathematics Seminar: Nanostructured materials – there’s still plenty of room at the bottom Distinguished Drama Lecture: The mystery of space: mapping the scenographic landscape in production and performance Classical Association: Augustan propaganda in the Aeneid Ferens Fine Art: The birth of a collection: the early years of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham Engineering Seminar: Engineering the system East Riding Archaeology Society: The East Coast Water Pipeline excavations Hull and District Theological Society: RE and spiritual development Hull Geological Society: Mining geology – resources into reserves Faculty of Health and Social Care Research Seminar: Managing nor not managing expectations: a grounded theory of intimate partner violence form the perspective of Pakistani people Physics and Mathematics Seminar: Magnetic molecules: a chemical toolkit to explore magnetic properties at the molecular level Chemistry Lecture: Communicating science is part of doing science Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture: A lecture on philosophy and action Inaugural Lecture: A new method for modelling liquidity in the light of the ﬁnancial crises

9 March 11 March 12 March 13 March 13 March 13 March 13 March 14 March 14 March 20 March 20 March 20 March 20 March 21 March 10 April

10 April 10 April 10 April 15 April 17 April

Physics and Mathematics Seminar: Energy harvesting for wireless sensors

17 April

Centre for Gender Studies Seminar: Reassessing agency and consent in queer and feminist theory Chemistry Seminar: Bench to bedside development of the caspase 3/7 speciﬁc radiotracer

17 April

Public lectures

Venue (All at Hull Campus unless indicated otherwise)

Start time Enquiries

Lecture Theatre F, Larkin Building Middleton Hall Middleton Hall

2.15 pm 6.30 pm 6.00 pm

01482 466055 01482 465998 01482 466326

35 39 32

L201, Larkin Building

4.15 pm

a.binns@hull.ac.uk

Meeting Room 1, Dearne Building Lecture Theatre A, Chemistry Building Middleton Hall Lecture Theatre C, Robert Blackburn Building

12.30 pm 4.15 pm 6.00 pm

01482 463342 01482 465418 01482 465620

24 13 20

2.00 pm

01482 466149

Donald Roy Theatre, Gulbenkian Centre Seminar Room, Graduate School

2.15 pm 7.30 pm

01482 466210 01482 470119

16 15

Middleton Hall Robert Blackburn Building LT1 Wilberforce Building Seminar Room, Graduate School Department of Geography, Cohen Building

6.00 pm 7.00 pm 7.30 pm 7.30 pm 7.30 pm

01482 465620 07772 714597 01482 465543 01482 466548 01482 346784

20 19 17 25 27

Meeting Room 1, Dearne Building Lecture Theatre C, Robert Blackburn Building Lecture Theatre A, Chemistry Building Staff House

12.30 pm

01482 463342

2.00 pm 4.15 pm

01482 466149 01482 465418 01482 465662

44 12 43

6.00 pm

01482 466326

Middleton Hall

Page

Lecture Theatre C, Robert Blackburn Building South-East Asia Museum, 1st Floor, Wilberforce Building

2.00 pm

01482 466149

4.15 pm

01482 466323

Lecture Theatre A, Chemistry Building

4.15 pm

01482 465434

Public lectures

Date

Event

17 April

East Riding Archaeology Society: Where East meets West: Iron Age brooches from Yorkshire and Wales WISE Public Lecture: Forced labour in the UK: a review of the evidence

18 April 18 April 22 April 23 April 24 April 24 April 24 April 29 April 30 April 30 April 1 May 2 May 8 May 15 May 15 May 15 May 16 May 1 June 28 June

Public lectures

Institute of Physics Sponsored Lecture: Looking for Mars Inaugural Lecture: Why big decisions fail: decision management vs decision leadership Annual Shakespeare Lecture: Shakespeare’s inhumanity Faculty of Health and Social Care Research Seminar: Retelling stories: the educational experiences of pregnant girls and teenage mothers Physics and Mathematics Seminar: Nanophotonics: small is beautiful Chemistry Seminar: Multiplexed and sensitive bioanalysis usin Surface Enchanced Raman Scattering Mary Wollstonecraft Annual Lecture: title to be conﬁrmed Religion Postgraduate Seminar: Religion matters ... Music Research Seminar: Working (at) ensemble interaction Physics and Mathematics Seminar: Our plasma future WISE Public Lecture: Harriet Wilson, humour and indentured servitude in antebellum America Centre for Gender Studies Seminar: Can antropocentrism be redeemed? Physics and Mathematics Seminar: Optical properties of hybrid organic/ plasmonic nano-structures Physics and Mathematics Seminar: Laser processing of ﬁbre reinforced materials Hull and District Theological Society: The gospel in the city Annual Victorian Lecture: Victorian studies in the context of world literatures and globalisation studies Hull Geological Society: 125th Anniversary meeting, lectures about local geology and geologists Faculty of Health and Social Care Research Seminar: Hepititus C, injecting drug use and Eatern Europeans

Venue (All at Hull Campus unless indicated otherwise)

Start time Enquiries

Page

LT1 Wilberforce Building 7.30 pm WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull HU1 1NE 4.30 pm Basil Reckitt Lecture Theatre, Ferens Building 6.30 pm

01482 465543

01482 305176 01482 465050

49 36

Middleton Hall Lindsey Suite, Staff House

6.00 pm 6.00 pm

01482 466326 01482 465315

33 47

Meeting Room 1, Dearne Building Lecture Theatre C, Robert Blackburn Building

12.30 pm 2.00 pm

01482 463342 01482 466149

24 45

Lecture Theatre A, Chemistry Building Lindsey Room, Staff House SR217, Cohen Building L201, Larkin Building Lecture Theatre C, Robert Blackburn Building WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE South East Asia Museum, 1st Floor, Wilberforce Building

4.15 pm 6.00 pm 3.15 pm 4.15 pm 2.00 pm

01482 465434 01482 465995 01482 465995 a.binns@hull.ac.uk 01482 466149

14 38 46 42 45

4.30 pm

01482 305176

4.15 pm

01482 466086

Lecture Theatre C, Robert Blackburn Building

2.00 pm

01482 466149

Lecture Theatre C, Robert Blackburn Building Seminar Room, Graduate School

2.30 pm 7.30 pm

01482 466149 01482 466548

45 26

Myton Room, Staff House

6.00 pm

01482 465315

Department of Geography, Cohen Building

7.30 pm

01482 346784

Meeting Room 1, Dearne Building

12.30 pm

01482 463342

Public lectures

Centre for British Politics Annual Norton Lecture Public lectures

Gender, sex and power

Monday 4 February 2013 Council Chamber, Venn Building, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Trans and sexuality â&#x20AC;&#x201C; theory and pragmatics

Professor Tony Wright, Professor of Government and Public Policy at University College London Professor Wright was Labour MP for Cannock Chase between 1992 and 2010 and is a former Chairman of the Select Committee on Public Administration and the Select Committee on Reform of the House of Commons. Professor Wright is a Senior Fellow of the Centre for British Politics. Further information Dr Matt Beech, Department of Politics and International Studies, m.beech@hull.ac.uk, 01482 465724

Wednesday 6 February 2013 South-East Asia Museum, 1st Floor, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm Christina Richards, West London Mental Health NHS Trust (Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic) Further information Rob Clucas, Law School, r.j.clucas@hull.ac.uk, 01482 466323

Polyamory activism Wednesday 6 March 2013 South-East Asia Museum, 1st Floor, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm Grant Denkinson, polyamory community activist volunteer Further information Rob Clucas, Law School, r.j.clucas@hull.ac.uk, 01482 466323

Reassessing agency and consent in queer and feminist theory Wednesday 17 April 2013 South-East Asia Museum, 1st Floor, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm Professor Lisa Downing, University of Birmingham Further information Rob Clucas, Law School, r.j.clucas@hull.ac.uk, 01482 466323

Can anthropocentrism be redeemed? Wednesday 8 May 2013 South-East Asia Museum, 1st Floor, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm

Centre for Gender Studies Seminar Series

Is the party over?

Vicki Kirby, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales Further information Mark Johnson, Social Sciences, j.m.johnson@hull.ac.uk, 01482 466086

Public lectures

Chemistry Lecture

Wednesday 10 April 2013 Lecture Theatre A, Chemistry Building, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm

Chemical aspects of photodynamic therapy â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and the m-THPC story Wednesday 30 January 2013

Dr Suzie Sheehy, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, Oxford

Professor Raymond Bonnett, Emeritus Professor of Organic Chemistry, Queen Mary University of London

Dr Suzie Sheehy is actively involved in public engagement with physics, with many years of science communication experience including an array of outreach initiatives, schools programmes and public lectures.

Inorganic materials for energy applications

Further information Georgios Kyriakou, g.kyriakou@hull.ac.uk, 01482 465418

Wednesday 6 February 2013 Professor Matthew Rosseinsky, Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool

Fabrication of organic monoliths Wednesday 13 February 2013 Dr Norman Smith, School of Biomedical Sciences, Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College London

Single molecule imaging in living cells using TIRF microscopy Wednesday 20 February 2013 Dr Justin Molloy, National Institute for Medical Research, London

Using NMR spectroscopy to understand the specificity of cancer imaging peptides Wednesday 27 February 2013 Dr Mark J Howard, School of Biosciences, University of Kent

Chemistry Seminar Programme

Communicating science is part of doing science

Ligand effects on metal-mediated polymerisation processes Wednesday 6 March 2013 Dr Gregory Solan, Department of Chemistry, University of Leicester

Synthesis of bridged natural products Wednesday 13 March 2013 Professor Nigel Simpkins, School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham

Bench to bedside development of the caspase 3/7-specific radiotracer [18F]ICMT-11 Wednesday 17 April 2013 Dr Graham Smith, Department of Biology, University of Hull

Public lectures

The Iron Age under new management

Wednesday 24 April 2013

Joint lecture with the Historical Association

Dr Karen Faulds, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde

Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

All seminars will be held in Lecture Theatre A, Chemistry Building, Hull Campus at 4.15 pm. Further information Georgios Kyriakou, g.kyriakou@hull.ac.uk, 01482 465418, or Maxine Tyler, m.tyler@hull.ac.uk, 01482 465434

Thursday 21 February 2013

Bill Coultard, Southburn Archaeological Museum Bill Coultard is an archaeologist and historian and is Chairman of the group running Southburn Archaeological Museum, near Driﬃeld, in an area rich in archaeological evidence about people of the Iron Age. Sites in the district include the Wetwang chariot burial. The talk will use the museum’s exhibits to show how Iron Age life in East Yorkshire changed or remained the same in the Roman era.

Augustan propaganda in the Aeneid Thursday 14 March 2013 Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Classical Association

Multiplexed and sensitive bioanalysis using Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)

Dr Stephen Green, University of Leeds Stephen Green studied at the Universities of Nottingham and Manchester and lectured at various universities before joining the Classics Department at Leeds in 2004. He is a specialist on the literature and society of Rome in the ﬁrst centuries BC and AD, especially the Augustan and Neronian periods. His works concentrate on Ovid, including a major commentary on Book 1 of his Fasti, the astronomical works of Manilus and various aspects of Imperial literature, including the interaction between Augustan literature and both Roman religion and Augustan monuments. Further information Margaret Nicholson, 17 Sycamore Court, Park Grove, Hull, HU5 2UL, m.nicholson@hull.ac.uk, 01482 470119

Public lectures

Distinguished Drama lecture

Thursday March 14 2013 Donald Roy Theatre, Gulbenkian Centre, Hull Campus, 2.15 – 4.05 pm Professor Pamela Howard, OBE Known as a designer for major theatres in the UK, Europe and the United States of America, Professor Pamela Howard was awarded an OBE in 2008 for services to drama. She has worked as a stage designer in the UK, Europe and the USA since 1960 and has realised over 200 productions, working at all the major national and regional theatres, including the creation of several large-scale site-speciﬁc works in Glasgow with the late John McGrath. Since 2000, Professor Howard has been developing in particular her work as director and scenographer for 20th-century opera and music theatre— and has staged numerous major works at the Czech National Theatre (Prague and Brno), the Reduta and La Fabrika theatres; the Opera of Thessaloniki; the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland; and Tricycle Theatre London. In 2006 she was Visiting Professor in Drama at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA), where she staged works by Bohuslav Martinů at the Pittsburgh Gallery of Contemporary Art. She has held further distinguished Visiting Professorships at the University of the Arts, Belgrade, and the National Theatre School, Copenhagen. She is the author of the key textbook What is Scenography? (second edition published in 2009) and is Professor Emeritus of the University of the Arts, London.

Aspects of burial archaeology in Yorkshire Wednesday 16 January 2013 Lecture Theatre 1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm Dr Malin Holst, University of York / York Osteoarchaeology

Perspectives on ancient East Yorkshire: the archaeology of the Gansted to Asselby Pipeline Wednesday 20 February 2013 Lecture Theatre 1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm Patrick Daniel, Network Archaeology

The East Coast Water Pipeline excavations Wednesday 20 March 2013 Lecture Theatre 1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm Oliver Cooper, Northern Archaeological Associates

Where East meets West: Iron Age brooches from Yorkshire and Wales Wednesday 17 April 2013 Lecture Theatre 1, Wilberforce Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm Sophie Adams, University of Leicester Further information Dr Helen Fenwick, Department of History, h.fenwick@hull.ac.uk, 01482 465543

East Riding Archaeology Society

The mystery of space: mapping the scenographic landscape in production and performance

Further information Dr Christian M Billing, Department of Drama and Music (Drama), c.m.billing@hull.ac.uk, 1482 466210

Public lectures

Engineering Seminars

Solar flares and the potential disruption associated with them

Engineering the system

Tuesday 12 February 2013 Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm Refreshments 7.00 pm

Wednesday 20 March 2013 Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus, 7.00 pm Refreshments 6.30 pm

Although the Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field shield its surface from any direct effects of solar flares, these flares can still wreak havoc on terrestrial communication systems and national power grids. Power grids are affected by the interaction between the corona ejection and the Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field. When these particles hit the ionosphere, they create a voltage between the atmosphere and the Earth. As a result, power systems that use the earth as a grounding voltage no longer work properly, and this can disrupt power delivery to large areas. Our speaker, Bob Dean, from ERA Technology, will give an overview of the properties of solar flares, the problems they can cause and how the electrical generation industry can seek to mitigate these effects. Bob is the head of forensic engineering at ERA Technology. He joined ERA’s Cable Group in 1983 and has since specialised in failure analysis and the non-destructive testing of HV electrical equipment.

Simulation based analysis, including CFD and FEA, has delivered huge improvements to engineering design and understanding over the last 40 years. This talk, given by colleagues from ANSYS, will look at examples of how engineers are using the range of tools available to simulate entire systems, including component design, structural design, control systems and environmental condition. Sponsored by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) Further information Paul Cunningham, IMechE East Yorkshire Secretary, eyorkssec@imechenetwork.org, 07772 714597

Sponsored by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Further information Dr Philip Rubini, Department of Engineering, p.a.rubini@hull.ac.uk, 01482 465818

Bringing wind power ashore Wednesday 20 February 2013 Robert Blackburn Building, Hull Campus, 7.00 pm Refreshments 6.30 pm Britain has the best offshore wind resource in Europe. Some 50GW of projects are planned, representing an investment of around £150 billion. But building the wind farms is only part of the story. Connecting offshore wind farms to the onshore grid presents a whole string of challenges – planning, regulation, ﬁnancing as well as the practical issues of trying to put electrical equipment in the midst of the sea. This talk by Matthew Knight (Siemens Power) will cover these technical and non-technical issues, progress to date and the future for offshore electricity grids. Sponsored by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) Further information Paul Cunningham, IMechE East Yorkshire Secretary, eyorkssec@imechenetwork.org, 07772 714597 18

Public lectures

Ferens Fine Art Lectures

The story of Germany, told by its prisoners: prisoner narratives after 1949

Title to be confirmed

Wednesday 6 March 2013 Meaux Room, Staff House, Hull Campus, 4.30 pm

Wednesday 6 February 2013 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm Professor Deborah Swallow, Director, Courtauld Institute, London

Preserving the heritage: whose responsibility? Wednesday 20 February 2013 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm Lord Patrick Cormack

Museums, knowledge and objects Wednesday 6 March 2013 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm Professor Malcolm Baker, Professor of History of Art, University of California, Riverside

Ferens Fine Art Film Evening Wednesday 13 March 2013 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm Professor Andrew Higson, Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York

Sarah Colvin, Professor of German Studies, University of Warwick Before taking up her position at Warwick, Professor Colvin was Director of the Institute for German Studies at the University of Birmingham (2010–2013) and Eudo C Mason Chair of German at the University of Edinburgh (2004–2010). In her most recent work, she has looked at West Germany’s period of left-wing terrorism, more speciﬁcally at the writings of West German journalist-turned-terrorist Ulrike Meinhof (Ulrike Meinhof and West German Terrorism (2009)). Her current project, upon which the lecture is based, looks at prisoner narratives and the uses and meaning of literature in (and outside of) prisons. It will culminate in a monograph, provisionally entitled From the Inside: The Story of Germany, Told by Its Prisoners. The Memorial Lecture is given to commemorate Professor Garnet Rees, professor of French until 1978, and the leading role he played in establishing the discipline of French at the University. The lecture now encompasses the work of scholars from languages within the broader community of Modern Languages at Hull.

Garnet Rees Memorial Lecture

Heritage, art and enterprise

Further information Angela Kimyongür, Department of Modern Languages, a.m.kimyongur@hull.ac.uk, 01482 466372

The birth of a collection: the early years of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham Wednesday 20 March 2013 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm Robert Wenley, Acting Director, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham Further information Marianne Lewsley-Stier, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, m.lewsleystier@hull.ac.uk, 01482 465620

Public lectures

Faculty of Health and Social Care Research Seminars 22

Public lectures

Foucault and sexuality

alpha) of whole questionnaires or sub-sets of items. The utility of these methods is well established but the disadvantage – that any combination of items can lead to a particular score – is rarely discussed.

Wednesday 16 January 2013 Meeting Room 1, Dearne Building, Hull Campus, 12.30 pm Professor Mark Hayter, University of Hull

Mokken scaling is a non-parametric method for analysing questionnaires and belongs to a range of methods knows as item response theory. It is becoming increasingly popular and recent developments include the ability to investigate a crucial property of questionnaires – invariant item ordering. With these methods the scores on a questionnaire can be related to a speciﬁc set of items.

The philosopher Michel Foucault (1926–1984) has made a substantial contribution to our understanding of sexuality – especially how sexuality can be thought of as a social construct and a subject that serves as a focal point for disciplinary and surveillance practices. This seminar explores how Foucault’s work on the history of sexuality – especially the period around the industrial revolution in Europe – marked an important period in shaping how sexuality was constructed in the West. It explores how this work explains contemporary social attitudes towards sex, gender and sexuality and presents Foucault’s work as a theoretical lens through which contemporary sexuality and sexual health issues can be viewed.

Roger Watson is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh with a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Sheffield who qualified in nursing at St George’s Hospital, London. Working in care of older people, he has a special interest in the feeding and nutritional problems of older people with dementia. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Advanced Nursing and a frequent visitor to China and Australia, where he has visiting positions. He was most recently Professor of Nursing at the University of Sheffield and is a member of the Research Excellence Framework sub-panel in Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy.

Mark Hayter is Professor of Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at the University of Hull. His Bachelors degree is in the Social Dimensions of Health and he holds a Masters degree in Clinical Nursing. His PhD, a sociological analysis of family planning consultations, was awarded in 2004 by the University of Sheffield. Mark is a Visiting Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and has extensive academic contacts in Asia, Australia, the Middle East and the United States. He works closely with the World Health Organization (WHO) Asia-Pacific Collaborative Centre for Community Health Sciences in Hong Kong. He is an Editor for the Journal of Clinical Nursing and is a Fellow of the European Academy of Nursing Science and the Royal Society of Arts. He has served on numerous international scientific committees. One strand of Mark’s research is the sociological analysis of sexuality and sexual health.

A Foucauldian view on the professionalisation of nursing in Singapore Wednesday 13 February 2013 Meeting Room 1, Dearne Building, Hull Campus, 12.30 pm Dr Jennifer Loke, University of Hull Jennifer has a special interest in health care education and practice. She ﬁrst started using quantitative approaches in her research work and was later exposed to various critical discourse theories. Fairclough’s Textually Oriented Discourse Analysis (TODA) was among those that she employed in her PhD work. This allowed her to creatively deconstruct the health care student interprofessional online learning experience based on asynchronous text-based discussions. She is now continuing to explore other critical theories and ﬁnds Foucault’s analysis particularly useful for investigating issues of nurse education and practice in relation to the professionalisation process. In this paper, she uses Foucault’s analysis to unpack the route to professionalisation of nursing in Singapore. The paper is part of a larger study to evaluate nurse education in Singapore and is supported by the International Scholarship Scheme that was awarded to her by the Higher Education Academy in 2012.

Making questionnaires better with item response theory Wednesday 30 January 2013 Meeting Room 1, Dearne Building, Hull Campus, 12.30 pm Professor Roger Watson, RN, FRCN, FAAN, University of Hull This seminar will describe the application of Mokken scaling to a range of questionnaires and how this method can improve the design and use of questionnaires. Reliability and validity of questionnaires generating multivariate data are usually investigated using methods based on classical test theory. These methods are very useful for separating groups of items (factor analysis) and for single sample test-retest methods of reliability (e.g. Cronbach’s 22

Public lectures

God and the quantum Universe

Wednesday 13 February 2013 Meeting Room 1, Dearne Building, Hull Campus, 12.30 pm

Wednesday 30 January 2013 Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Dr Yvonne Birks, University of York

Dr Nigel Young, University of Hull

Managing nor not managing expectations: a grounded theory of intimate partner violence from the perspective of Pakistani people

The building of the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the so-called ‘God’ Particle has brought home to many non-specialists the strange and paradoxical world of quantum physics. But does it provide a meeting place for both a scientiﬁc and a religious understanding of the Universe, and potentially spell the end of the long separation between science and religion? In this lecture, Nigel Young will offer a scientist’s perspective on this fascinating question. Dr Young has been at Hull since 1993, ﬁrst as an EPSRC Advanced Fellow, then as Lecturer and now as Senior Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry.

Wednesday 10 April 2013 Meeting Room 1, Dearne Building, Hull Campus, 12.30 pm

The image of Eve in contemporary advertising

Sufferers’ perspectives on eating disorders Wednesday 13 March 2013 Meeting Room 1, Dearne Building, Hull Campus, 12.30 pm Professor Marie Reid, University of Hull

Dr Parveen Ali, University of Hull

Retelling stories: the educational experiences of pregnant girls and teenage mothers

Hepatitis C, injecting drug use and Eastern Europeans Friday 28 June 2013 Meeting Room 1, Dearne Building, Hull Campus, 12.30 pm

RE and spiritual development

Kay Brown, postgraduate research student, Centre for Educational Studies, University of Hull, and a member of the Board of Trustees for the Family Planning Association

Karen Murray, Hepatitis C Nurse Specialist, Lincoln County Hospital Further information Helpdesk, Faculty of Health and Social Care, fhsc-helpdesk@hull.ac.uk, 01482 463342

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Dr Katie Edwards, University of Sheﬃeld Although it is often thought that the Bible is increasingly irrelevant to modern society, there is one biblical image which seems to have been passed down to our own times almost intact: the portrayal of Eve as a temptress and primal sinner who causes the downfall of Adam and subsequently of all humanity. In this lecture, Dr Katie Edwards will examine the reception history of this powerful idea and in particular its exploitation by modern advertisers. Dr Edwards is Lecturer in the Bible in Contemporary Culture and Society at the University of Sheﬃeld.

Wednesday 24 April 2013 Meeting Room 1, Dearne Building, Hull Campus, 12.30 pm

Wednesday 13 February 2013 Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Hull and District Theological Society

NIHR Research Design Service – how it can help you

Wednesday 20 March 2013 Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm Andrew Wright, King’s College London Andrew Wright is Professor of Religious and Theological Education at King’s College London and is the author of Learning to Teach RE in the Secondary School (2000), Religion, Education and Postmodernity (2004) and numerous articles on multicultural education, faith schools and the development of children’s spirituality.

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Wednesday 15 May 2013 Seminar Room, Graduate School, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm Rt Revd Dr Steven Croft, Bishop of Sheffield Dr Croft has been Bishop of Sheffield since 2009. A Yorkshireman by birth, he attended grammar school in Halifax before reading Classics and Theology at Oxford, and completing a doctorate on the Psalms at Durham, which was published in 1987. After parish work in London and Wakefield he was appointed Warden of Cranmer Hall, Durham, and then leader of the joint Anglican/Methodist ‘Fresh Expressions’ project. He is the author of 22 books, including one novel. Further information Dr David Bagchi, Department of History, d.v.bagchi@hull.ac.uk, 01482 466548

A history of the glacial formations at South Landing, Danes Dyke and the Sewerby Buried Cliff over the last 120 years in old and new photographs and maps: recent processes of deposition and erosion Thursday 17 January 2013 Department of Geography, Cohen Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm Ian Heppenstall, Hull Geological Society

The ice that built the Holderness landscape Thursday 21 February 2013 Department of Geography, Cohen Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm Professor Mark Bateman, Sheﬃeld University

Mining geology – resources into reserves Thursday 21 March 2013 Department of Geography, Cohen Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm

Hull Geological Society

The gospel in the city

Preceded by the Annual General Meeting Dr John Knight, Harworth Minerals Consultancy

125th Anniversary meeting – lectures about local geology and geologists Saturday 1 June 2013 Department of Geography, Cohen Building, Hull Campus, 7.30 pm (contact the Secretary for more details) Non-members are welcome to attend but please arrive before the start of the meeting. Further information Mike Horne, secretary@hullgeolsoc.org.uk, 01482 346784, website www.hullgeolsoc.org.uk

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Inauguaral Lectures

‘Babies on the brain’: childbearing women’s psychological health – a research and service development story

Tales from the archives: the dramatic lives of Ellen Terry and her invisible daughter, Edith Craig

Monday 4 February 2013 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Monday 11 February 2013 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Professor Julie Jomeen, Professor of Midwifery

Professor Katharine Cockin, Professor of English and Head of Department of English

Pregnancy and childbirth is a dynamic psychobiosocial experience for women. Perinatal mental illness (PMI) is now acknowledged as an important global public health problem which can have deleterious and sometimes dramatic consequences for women. Further it may have enduring consequences for women’s long-term mental health and the wellbeing of their children and families. As academics in health care disciplines we seek to undertake research which is relevant to our clinical practice. This lecture presents a journey from practice into research in this ﬁeld, focusing on both women and practitioners, and the application of that research back into policy, service development work, clinical practice guidelines and practitioner training.

Ellen Terry (1847–1928) was one of the most famous performers on the Victorian stage, acting with Henry Irving as England’s ambassadors for Shakespeare. Her daughter, Edith Craig, was an internationally famous suffragette and theatre director but her son, Edward Gordon Craig, has achieved a lasting reputation as an artist and designer. This lecture will explore the myths and mysteries surrounding Ellen Terry’s celebrity and Edith Craig’s invisibility, with new insights from the National Trust’s Ellen Terry and Edith Craig archive.

Julie Jomeen is Professor of Midwifery in the Faculty of Health and Social Care. She has also been Associate Dean for Research in the faculty since 2007. She is a midwife who both trained and worked in Hull’s maternity services for 15 years. Her interest in women’s psychological health began in clinical practice, was the focus of her PhD at the University of Leeds and continues to be a major focus of her work. Her research work continues to be closely aligned to clinical practice. Informed by her work and under her leadership, the Hull and East Riding Maternal Mental Health Stategy Group were successful in persuading local NHS commissioners to support a specialist perinatal mental health service to meet the needs of local women. She has been consulted by several other localities across the UK which seek to develop services in this area. Her research has considered the utility of psychological measures, the impact of training on practitioner skills and confidence, the effectiveness of clinical and non-clinical ‘interventions’ and challenging existing models of understanding in perinatal mental health. Professor Jomeen has a significant number of publications to her name, and her profile in this field has led to invitations to speak nationally and internationally.

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Katharine Cockin studied at the University of Leicester (BA Hons English 1985; MA in Modern Literature: Theory and Practice 1988; and PhD in English 1995). She was awarded British Academy Studentships for both her MA and PhD and in 1997 was awarded the Elizabeth Howe Research Fellowship by the Open University. In the same year she was appointed to a lectureship in English at the University of Hull, which she took up in January 1998. She was promoted to a Senior Lectureship in 2002, a Readership in 2006 and Personal Chair in English in 2011. As Principal Investigator of an AHRC grant awarded in 2006, she completed the online Ellen Terry and Edith Craig archive database, describing over 20,000 documents in the National Trust’s archive, which went live in October 2008 (www.ellenterryarchive.hull.ac.uk). The completion of this project led the majority of the archive to be deposited on loan by the National Trust with the British Library. Lives and letters and the relationships between literature, history, theatre and politics have been a continuing interest and have informed her publications. She is the author of the biography Edith Craig: Dramatic Lives (1998) and a monograph on the Pioneer Players theatre society, Women and Theatre in the Age of Suffrage (2001). She has edited two volumes of women’s suffrage literature (2007), one of which was awarded an AHRC Small Grant in the Performing Arts in 2004. Her project to edit the Collected Letters of Ellen Terry (8 vols, 2010 onwards) was funded by the British Academy. She has contributed essays to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography on Edith Craig and other individuals. She is series editor of Pickering and Chatto’s Dramatic Lives. Other research interests include contemporary literature (an edited volume, The Literary North, appeared in 2012) and literature and law (she edited a special issue of the journal Law and Literature, also 2012). She is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College.

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Music, sport and a domestic dispute: constructions of meaning from Beethoven to the present Monday 18 February 2013 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm Professor Alastair Borthwick, Professor of Composition and Musicology Interpretations of individual pieces of music are often contrasting even to the point of contradiction. This lecture examines how music (especially music without a clear narrative given by the composer) is able to embrace meanings related to such diverse areas as sport, domestic dispute, nature, mathematics, war hammers, linguistic structures, eternity, sleep and a range of other surprising topics, with examples taken from music by Beethoven, Sibelius, Tippett and Borthwick (!), among others. Professor Borthwick originally trained as a physicist at Imperial College London while studying composition privately with John Lambert next door at the Royal College of Music. After completing a BSc in Physics he focused on music, albeit sometimes with a mathematical slant, particularly in the early years. An MMus from the University of Sheﬃeld followed by a PhD at King’s College London ﬁrmly established a more conventional career trajectory. From 1995 to 1996 he was a Research Fellow at Brunel University, after which he was appointed as a Lecturer in Music at the University of Hull, becoming Senior Lecturer in 1999, Head of Department in 2008 and Professor in 2011. His book Music Theory and Analysis: The Limitations of Logic was published in 1996. Other publications have been in the area of British music since 1900 (especially on Tippett’s music) and the philosophy, cognition and theory of music (all of which remain ongoing large-scale projects). As a composer he has had music (including solo and ensemble chamber works, choral and orchestral pieces) performed in the UK, continental Europe and China (he was a featured composer at the 2006 Beijing Modern Music Festival).

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Intersections of philosophy, logic and biology in design Monday 11 March 2013 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm Professor Yiannis Papadopoulos, Professor of Computer Science Professor Papadopoulos will discuss the way in which ideas of philosophy, logic and biology have influenced research on the design of complex engineering systems. In particular, he will focus on his own work in a method for analysis and design of dependable systems that has achieved wide academic recognition and technology transfer to several industries. He will then show that the same principles can be applied to the design of new dynamic and evolutionary art forms. The lecture will conclude with a computer-aided art show where a vast audiovisual design space that contains trillions of possible configurations of a musical painting will be explored, and where original art will be produced with the aid of a computer. Yiannis Papadopoulos is Professor of Computer Science and leader of the Distributed Reliable Intelligent Systems (DRIS) Group in the University of Hull. He has studied Engineering and Computer Science in the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki and the University of Cranfield and holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of York. Over the last 20 years he has pioneered a body of work on model-based dependability assessment and evolutionary optimisation of complex engineering systems known as Hierarchically Performed Hazard Origin and Propagation Studies (HiP-HOPS), and has co-authored EAST – an emerging Architecture Description Language (ADL) developed as standard by the automotive industry. These technologies have gained wide academic recognition and have been successfully transferred to several industries, where they have been commercialised and successfully deployed in organisations which include Volvo, Toyota, Honda, Fiat, Continental, Honeywell, Germanischer Lloyd and Embraer. Professor Papadopoulos is actively involved in two technical committees of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) on design and control of distributed dependable systems, and has co-founded the IFAC Conference on Dependable Control of Discrete Systems (DCDS) which provides the key event on ‘dependability research’ within IFAC. The next edition of DCDS is taking place in 2013. It is hosted jointly by the Universities of Hull and York and is co-chaired by Professor Papadopoulos.

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A new method for modelling liquidity in light of the financial crises Monday 15 April 2013 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm Professor Andros Gregoriou, Head of Accounting and Finance, Hull University Business School The lecture is about the importance of liquidity in financial markets and how this has been ignored in the academic literature for many decades. The recent financial crises showed us the importance of liquidity and how we measure it. Professor Gregoriou will present the current measures and their problems and propose his new measure. The presentation is nontechnical and designed to interest a general audience in a very topical issue. Professor Gregoriou joined Hull University Business School in February 2012, as Head of Accounting and Finance and Research Director of the Empirical Finance and Banking Research Centre. Professor Gregoriou has held senior academic positions in various academic institutions throughout his career, including Brunel University and the University of East Anglia. A leading authority in finance, he has published over 70 research papers in internationally recognised journals and generated over £5 million in research funding. He is a regular consultant for the CFA and the London Stock Exchange.

Why big decisions fail: decision management vs decision leadership Monday 22 April 2013 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm Professor Luis Alberto Franco, Professor of Problem Structuring Methods, Hull University Business School Today’s managers make decisions in an atmosphere of increasing time pressure and decreasing resources. Making recurring decisions that need to combine facts and judgement, and require the consideration of multiple objectives and trade-offs, is an even more demanding task. These demands have given rise to a science of Decision Management that relies on the application of robust analytical procedures to improve decision making. It will be argued that although Decision Management plays an important role in modern organisations, there are other decision situations for which it may not be appropriate. Big decisions that are highly contested, involve a high degree of uncertainty, and have no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answer, require a different approach: Decision Leadership. This approach demands that Public lectures

Contemporary aspects of the promotion of democracy by the European Court of Human Rights

Professor Franco has a background in civil engineering, and he holds an MSc in Operational Research from Lancaster University and a PhD in Operational Research from the London School of Economics (LSE). He started his career as a civil engineer in the area of soil mechanics, before gradually moving to academia full-time in the early 1990s. Professor Franco has held research and academic positions at the London School of Economics, Strathclyde Business School, Kingston Business School and Warwick Business School. As a management scientist, Professor Franco has led several research and consulting projects in a variety of sectors, including construction, transport, hospitality, health, legal services, government and defence. His main research interests focus on the study of management interventions that use methods, models or tools to support dialogue and analysis in a group setting.

Professor Alastair Mowbray, University of Nottingham

Further information Karen Slater, k.slater@hull.ac.uk, 01482 466326

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Friday 8 March 2013 Lecture Theatre F, Larkin Building, Hull Campus, 2.15 pm

Professor Mowbray, has taught the law of the ECHR to postgraduate and undergraduate students at the University of Nottingham for 25 years. He has also delivered the lecture course on the ECHR for the annual study session of the Institut International Des Droits De Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Homme (Strasbourg). His book for students on the ECHR is now in its third edition. He is the author of many research papers on this body of law and the Rapporteur in respect of the European Court of Human Rights for European Public Law. Further information law@hull.ac.uk, d.k.townsend@hull.ac.uk, 01482 466055

Institute of European Law Lecture

leaders ask the right questions, rather than give the right answers, and lead a collaborative process to make progress with respect to the decision. The potential role that formal problem structuring approaches may play in the conduct of Decision Leadership will then be examined.

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Institute of Physics Sponsored Lectures

Thursday 7 February 2013 Basil Reckitt Lecture Theatre, Ferens Building, Hull Campus, 6.30 pm Dr Simon Goodwin, University of Sheﬃeld There are now well over 700 planets known around other stars. This has renewed the interest in the possibility of alien life. I will talk about how we have found other planets and what they are like. I will also discuss how we are soon going to able to look for life on other planets, what that life might be like, and if there are any other intelligent alien civilisations out there ...

Looking for Mars Thursday 18 April 2013 Basil Reckitt Lecture Theatre, Ferens Building, Hull Campus, 6.30 pm Dr Gillian Butcher, University of Leicester From the earliest civilisations, mankind has looked at Mars and wondered what it is like. With advances in science and technology, from the invention of telescopes to probes and landers, each generation has gained new insights into the planet. In this talk I will discuss Mars exploration through history, including my own involvement in the Beagle 2 lander, up to more recent and future missions. I will also ask whether when we look for Mars we truly see it as it is or as we want to see it. Further information Dr Angela Dyson, Department of Physics and Mathematics, a.dyson@hull.ac.uk, 01482 465050 Sponsored by the Institute of Physics

Putting faith in hate: religion as the source and subject of hate speech Wednesday 20 February 2012 Nidd Seminar Room, Business School, Hull Campus, 4.30 pm Professor Richard Moon, Faculty of Law, University of Windsor, Canada Many recent hate speech cases in Canada and elsewhere involve religion either as the source of views that are alleged to be hateful or as the subject of such views. These cases are difficult for the reason that all hate speech cases are difficult. There is significant disagreement in the community about whether or to what extent the restriction of hate speech can be reconciled with the public commitment to freedom of expression. However, there is another reason the religion cases are so difficult, which has to do with our conception of religious adherence. While religious commitment is sometimes viewed as a personal judgment made by the individual that is in theory revisable, it is also, or sometimes instead, viewed as a central element of the individual’s identity. In hate speech regulation a distinction is generally made between attacks on the individual/group, which if sufficiently extreme may amount to hate speech, and attacks on the individual’s or group’s beliefs, which must be open to debate, even that which is harsh and intemperate. However, our complex conception of religious adherence/membership – as personal judgment and cultural identity – complicates this distinction in several ways. Richard Moon is the author of The Constitutional Protection of Freedom of Expression (2000), editor of Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada (2008) and a contributing editor of Canadian Constitutional Law (4th edition, 2010). His current research deals with freedom of religion and is funded by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Annual Law and Politics Lecture

Are we alone?

Further information Marianne Lewsley-Stier, m.lewsleystier@hull.ac.uk, 01482 465620

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Mary Wollstonecraft Annual Lecture Public lectures

Neil Heyde and Roy Howat on Debussy, Britten and Fauré

Monday 29 April 2013 Lindsey Room, Staff House, Hull Campus, 6.00 pm

Saturday 16 February 2013 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.30 pm

Professor Moira Gatens, University of Sydney

Neil Heyde (cello) and Roy Howat (piano) are renowned both for their superb performances and for their scholarly expertise, particularly in the music of Fauré and Debussy. In this event they talk about works by Fauré, Debussy and Britten which they will be performing in the concert which follows. For more details about tickets for the concert, please see the Hull Chamber Music (www.hullchambermusic.org.uk) brochure or the Arts Programme.

Professor Gatens’s research areas are social and political philosophy, ethics, 17th-century philosophy (especially Spinoza) and feminist theory. Her many awards and visiting fellowships include: 2007–08, Fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin; 2010, the Spinoza Chair at the University of Amsterdam. Her publications include Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza (editor, 2009); Collective Imaginings: Spinoza, Past and Present (co-written with G Lloyd, 1999); Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Power and Corporeality (1996); and Feminism and Philosophy: Perspectives on Difference and Equality (1991, reprinted 1993 and 1995). This annual lecture was established in honour of the 18th-century philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft, who spent her formative years in Beverley. The lecture is given by a distinguished philosopher continuing in the tradition of Wollstonecraft’s work. Sponsored by the Department of Humanities , Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Further information Kathleen Lennon, Department of Humanities, k.lennon@hull.ac.uk, 01482 465995

Professor Brian Newbould on Brahms and Prokofiev Saturday 9 March 2013 Middleton Hall, Hull Campus, 6.30 pm Emeritus Professor Brian Newbould has great expertise across a wide area of music, and Hull Chamber Music are always delighted to welcome him as a speaker. He will be focusing on Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet and Prokoﬁev’s Overture on Hebrew Themes. Please note that this event is to be followed by a concert featuring Fibonacci Sequence (an ensemble comprising piano, clarinet and string quartet), playing the works that Professor Newbould will discuss as well as works by Mozart and Puccini. For more details about tickets for the concert, please see the Hull Chamber Music (www.hullchambermusic.org.uk) brochure or the Arts Programme.

Music Lectures and Events

Title to be confirmed

Further information Katie Manasse, Music Department, music@hull.ac.uk, 01482 465998

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Music Research Seminars

Image, song, and the presence of prima donnas beyond the opera house

I asked for water but they gave me gasoline: Philip Larkin on jazz, and ‘progress’ in music

Tuesday 5 February 2013 Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus, 4.15pm

Tuesday 26 February 2013 Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm

Dr George Biddlecombe, Royal Academy of Music

Professor James Connelly, University of Hull

This paper investigates the means by which 19th-century female opera singers sought to remould the way they were perceived by the broader public through exploiting non-operatic genres and publicity. Focusing on sheet music illustrations and popular song, the speaker will consider the extent to which the illustrations projected images of female singers that were manipulated to accord with desiderata concerning physical appearance and moral character. He will also consider how, by means of choice of repertoire, the vocalists aligned themselves with contemporary cultural reverence for domesticity, nationalism and nostalgia as expressed in song, predominantly in the vernacular. Using examples relating to Jenny Lind, Adelina Patti and others, the paper will propose links between such promotional appeals to middle-class hegemony and other aspects of a leading singer’s career, involving, synergetically, impresarios, publishers, composers and, notably in Patti’s case, photography, commodity advertising and the recording industry.

This paper argues that, despite the enduring fascination of Larkin’s writings on jazz, and despite the reliable pungency and frequent accuracy of many of his judgements, he mischaracterised the jazz tradition ways and failed to developments in modern jazz. Against Larkin, I argue that the relation between jazz and non-jazz is not akin to the relation between a waltz and a march, and that to speak of ‘bop instead of jazz’ is to beg the question. I maintain that, personally, Larkin sought to maintain American jazz (and blues) from the 1920s as his private as his personal escape into the world of his youth and his imagined USA. Musicologically, Larkin misconceived the nature of jazz as a tradition of composition, improvisation and performance. Philosophically this misconception was rooted in a confusion of a ‘tradition’ with the idea of the ‘traditional’ and also in a narrow view of the deﬁnition of the very word ‘jazz’.

Performance studies as creative practice

Tuesday 12 March 2013 Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm

Tuesday 12 February 2013 Larkin Building, L201, Hull Campus, 4.15 pm Professor John Rink, University of Cambridge This paper will survey some recent developments in musical performance studies, including the establishment in 2009 of the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP). After describing some of the projects being conducted by the CMPCP team, I will present some examples from my own research in an attempt to show that the ﬁeld of performance studies needs not only to reﬂect but also to emulate the creative practices of performers themselves if it is to realise its full potential.

Art or doctrine? Another look at Wagner’s Meistersinger and its sources, literary and visual

Professor John Deathridge, King’s College London Rehearing the case for and against Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg inevitably raises the question of Wagner’s relation to his sources and how useful they can be in evaluating this most loved, but also most problematic, of all his works. This paper considers literary and visual sources that have not been given much attention so far and asks whether a reassessment of them can break the carousel of controversy surrounding this ‘lance against civilization’ (Nietzsche) and encourage a new critical engagement with him now possibly more urgent than it ever has been in the past.