What's on 2016/17

2016-2017

What’s on

events guide

Welcome

Open Days 2016/17 for prospective students I am delighted to introduce Royal Holloway’s events programme for 2016-2017.

Royal Holloway, University of London is one of the UK’s leading research intensive universities, founded by two Victorian social reformers who pioneered the ideal of education and knowledge for all who could benefit.

Today our community continues to be inspired by the egalitarian spirit of our founders. We are passionate about the personal and social values that come from education and knowledge and proud of the economic, social and cultural contribution our university makes locally, nationally and across the globe.

Every year we host a wide range of events that cover the arts and humanities, science and social sciences. Several lectures will be delivered by our own academics, many of whom are world leaders in their fields.

We have also invited academics and individuals from institutions and organisations that we collaborate with to present their work. These lectures will give you an opportunity to hear about cutting-edge research that is changing lives. Musical concerts and dramatic performances showcase the talent of our students, staff and professional partners.

Many of our events are free of charge. I hope to welcome you to our university, and that you will be inspired by what’s happening at Royal Holloway.

Professor Paul Layzell Principal Royal Holloway, University of London

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Thinking about university?

The best way to get a feel for life at Royal Holloway is to come along to one of our Open Days. It's a chance to look around the campus, meet our students and staff, and find out more about both studying and living here. For further information and to book: royalholloway.ac.uk/opendays

Highlights

Thomas Holloway’s College 1886-2016

St Cecilia’s Evening

Monday 14 November

Saturday 19 November

For full details see p 18

For full details see p 20

Wednesday 11 January

Stevenson Science Lecture

Magna Carta Lecture Her Honour Judge Khatun Sapnara

Heritage Open Day

Thursday 8 June For full details see p 32

For full details see p 32

Wednesday 15 March For full details see p 30

Royal Holloway in Concert at St John’s Smith Square For full details see p 23

Sunday 10 September

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Essential information and how to book Members of the public, students, staff and alumni are welcome to attend all events. Accompanied children are also welcome and are free of charge at most events.

How to book Information on how to book is listed under each event within this guide.

Where a charge applies, this is also shown under the event listing.

Lectures

• Admission to all lectures is free unless otherwise stated

• Booking in advance is essential, please visit:

royalholloway.ac.uk/events

• All lectures are followed by a reception

• Doors open 15 minutes before lectures

Recitals

Concerts • Tickets can be purchased online, please visit: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

A season ticket from the Department of Music provides free admission for one person to most evening performances (exceptions being events organised by the Department of Choral Music, St Cecilia’s Evening and Royal Holloway in Concert at St John’s Smith Square). A season ticket costs £60 which represents an excellent saving on full-price tickets and can be purchased on line or on the door. For further information please contact the Concert Office (details below).

Community Events Workshops Please refer to individual event listings for booking information.

For more information please contact: Events Office (general information, lectures, community events, tours) 01784 443004 / events@royalholloway.ac.uk Choral Office (choral concerts) 01784 414970 / choraladmin@royalholloway.ac.uk Concert Office (concerts, recitals, music workshops) 01784 443853 / concerts@royalholloway.ac.uk Details are correct at the time of going to press, but additions, changes or cancellations to the programme may occur. Stated end time of events is approximate. Please check our website for updates: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

• Tickets can also be purchased on the door. Please arrive 30 minutes prior to event start time to avoid disappointment

• Information is given under event listings where tickets must be purchased in advance

• Ticket price £12.50. Concessions £10 (alumni and over 60), £5 (Non Royal Holloway students), FREE (Royal Holloway students, staff and children under 14)

Term dates 2016–17

• Wine and soft drinks are on sale during the interval at many of these events

Spring term: Monday 9 January to Friday 24 March 2017

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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College is an exempt charity (XN69536)

Autumn term: Monday 19 September to Friday 9 December 2016 Winter Graduation ceremonies: 13-15 December 2016 Summer term: Monday 24 April to Friday 9 June 2017 Summer Graduation ceremonies: 10-14 July 2017

Directions By road The College is on the A30, 19 miles from central London and about a mile south-west of the town of Egham. It is two miles from J13 of the M25.

On foot from Egham The College is about one mile from the station, approximately a 20-minute walk.

Directions from the M25 After leaving the M25, follow the A30 west (signposted Bagshot and Camberley); this is the Egham by-pass. At the end of the Egham by-pass, continue on the A30 up Egham Hill (a BP petrol station is on your left).

The main entrance to Royal Holloway, University of London, is on the left immediately after the second footbridge.

Directions from Egham station Turn right out of the station and walk along Station Road to the traffic light junction. Turn left at this junction and follow the main road to the large roundabout. Proceed left up Egham Hill (passing the BP petrol station on your left). The main entrance to Royal Holloway is towards the top of the hill, on the left, immediately after the second footbridge

Directions from the west From the west leave the M3 at Junction 3 and follow the A30 towards Staines and London. Continue on the A30, you will pass Wentworth Golf Course on your right and Virginia Water Lake on your left. Approximately 1.5 miles further along the A30 you will come to the next major set of traffic lights. After these traffic lights, you will see the Founder’s Building and the College entrance on the right.

By bus The following buses stop outside Royal Holloway: Abellio Surrey 441 (Heathrow to Englefield Green) and First 71 (Heathrow to Slough).

For local bus information, visit Surrey County Council’s website: surreycc.gov.uk and select ‘Roads and transport, buses and trains’.

By train There are frequent services from London Waterloo to Egham (40 minutes); Reading to Egham (40 minutes); and Woking to Egham (35 minutes; change at Weybridge). Services at weekends, especially those on Sunday, are less frequent than on weekdays. For local train timetables, visit South West Trains’ website: southwesttrains.co.uk Reading For national rail enquiries, visit: nationalrail.co.uk By taxi from Egham There is a taxi rank at the station. Otherwise, turn right out of the station onto Station Road and there is a taxi office on the left, next to the builder’s yard. The fare is about £5.

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Car parking and campus map Further information For College maps please visit: royalholloway.ac.uk/ aboutus and select ‘Our campus’.

Car parking When you arrive for a College event at our Egham campus, please park in car parks 12, 4 or 14.

Car park 12 can be accessed by turning right as you enter the main College gates and is located next to the tennis courts. If this car park is full, please exit and re-enter the main gate, driving further onto our campus to car park 4, which can be accessed by turning left at the miniroundabout behind the Students’ Union. If you find both of these car parks full, we have a further large car park 14, which can be used by event guests and is located across the A30 on our North Campus, accessed via Harvest Road. You can see each of our car parks on the map opposite. We would advise that you bring the College map to campus with you and give yourself plenty of time to park. We operate a car parking permit system on our campus, however if you are visiting for an event, you can park without the need for a permit in car parks 12, 4 or 14.

If you have any questions about parking, please email: premisesadmin@royalholloway.ac.uk

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Blue Badge parking Blue Badge holders can find designated parking spaces in car park 1W, as well as between Gardener’s Lodge and the Williams Annexe. You can find these locations by looking at our campus map opposite.

If you require any assistance on arrival, please contact our premises team in advance of your visit by emailing: premisesadmin@royalholloway.ac.uk and they will be happy to help.

Accessible facilities on campus Blue badge parking is available throughout campus and marked on the map. Step free access routes are also shown on the map. The Windsor Building Auditorium is fitted with facilities for the hard of hearing.

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Enjoy our campus The Royal Holloway campus is open to the public.

Picture Gallery The Picture Gallery is located in our Founder's Building and houses a large part of Royal Holloway's art collection, considered to be one of the most comprehensive collections of Victorian art in the UK. The Picture Gallery is open to the public every Wednesday from 10am to 3pm during term time. Entry is free of charge and there is no need to book. Throughout the year our Curator will be giving presentations and holding workshops on the collection. Concerts are also regularly held in the gallery. For more information about these events, please refer to the listings pages within this guide. You can find out more about the Picture Gallery and collection at: royalholloway.ac.uk/artcollections.

Cafés Crossland’s, located in the Founder’s Building, and the Boilerhouse Café are open to the public, so why not enjoy a coffee, a drink, or a bite to eat before attending one of our events.

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Arboretum Our leafy campus has 135 acres of wooded grounds to explore and includes the Royal Holloway Arboretum.

Listed on the Tree Register, the Arboretum contains one of the most notable tree collections in Surrey. Visitor information has recently been installed, featuring a guided walk to help you navigate your way around this special site and learn more about the trees within the collection.

The Arboretum is also home to many species of wildlife, including woodpeckers, heron, roe deer and rare butterflies. The Arboretum is open to the public from dawn until dusk, further details, including location and directions, can be found at: royalholloway.ac.uk/arboretum Bed and breakfast accommodation If you require accommodation for your visit to Royal Holloway, we have a number of comfortable 4 and 5 star campus rated bed and breakfast guests rooms on site which are available all year round. Please enquire about availability well in advance of your visit to Royal Holloway, to avoid disappointment. You can find more information and book a room by visiting: venue.royalholloway.ac.uk/accommodation

Campus improvements Developing our historic estate At Royal Holloway, we’re developing our historic estate to provide a 21st century campus that meets the needs of people studying and working at our university today.

In 2015 we embarked on our most ambitious campus development programme since the completion of our iconic Founder’s Building in 1886; the creation of a new Library and Student Services Centre.

This exciting development is well underway and the building is due to open in late summer 2017. Sitting at the heart of our campus, the Library and Student Services Centre has been designed to complement our Grade I-Listed Founder’s Building. A newly landscaped area between the two buildings will, in the future, be used for a variety of College events and activities, from outdoor performances in the summer, to festivals and the campus Christmas tree in the winter.

At the start of 2017, work will begin on our science building. This will become home to our new Department of Electronic Engineering.

We’ve started work to build new student residences on our north campus. This town house style accommodation is expected to be ready for the start of the 2017/18 term.

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At a glance

 Concerts  Community  Lectures  Recitals  Workshops

October 2016

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14 Oct Piano Series 2016-17

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19 Oct Look and Learn:

William Powell Frith, The Railway Station, 1862

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20 Oct Tippett Quartet ‘Lest we forget’: Festival in Memoriam

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15 Nov Queer uses of cinephilia in Moix' memoirs

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15 Nov Silent But Active Women Improvising to Silent Film

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16 Nov Look and Learn: David Roberts,

Pilgrims approaching Jerusalem, 1841

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18 Nov College Music Student Showcase

24-30 Oct 9th International Open Access Week

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19 Nov St Cecilia’s Evening

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25 Oct New Music Collective Spotlight Series: Finnissy at 70

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21 Nov Thomas Holloway and the Formation of

Royal Holloway’s Picture Gallery

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23 Nov Art and Poetry in the Picture Gallery

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25 Nov Undergraduated Big Band

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29 Nov Picture Gallery Composer-in-Residence

Showcase Concert

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26 Oct Exploration of Royal Holloway’s lesser known paintings 15 26 Oct Spotlight Series: Finnissy at 70

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26 Oct Open Composition Workshop:

Spotlight Series: Finnissy at 70

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27 Oct Michael Finnissy in Conversation Spotlight Series:

Finnissy at 70

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27 Oct Spotlight Series: Finnissy at 70 31 Oct Spooky fish in extreme environments aquarium fishes go toxic 31 Oct ISBI West Javanese Gamelan Crossing Borders Series

November 2016

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2 Nov How many…? What can we do when we cannot count? 17 4 Nov The Chris Whiter Quintet Crossing Borders Series

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14 Nov Thomas Holloway’s College 1886-2016,

130 years of evolution

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21 Oct Royal Holloway Chamber Orchestra and Chiltern Music

Academy ‘Lest we forget’: Festival in Memoriam 13 22 Oct Royal Holloway Chorus ‘Lest we forget’:

Festival in Memoriam

11 Nov London Mozart Players and

Royal Holloway Chamber Orchestra

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29 Nov Leading and innovating in challenging times Question time with our panel of entrepreneurs

to discover the secrets of success

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30 Nov Insights from our Student Volunteers

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30 Nov Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra

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December 2016 1 Dec The mantle of the Earth: myth, metaphor

and the geographical imagination 3 Dec Lessons and Carols Service

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At a glance

 Concerts  Community  Lectures  Recitals  Workshops

7 Dec The Founder’s Gift

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7 Dec Christmas Concert

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8 Dec Lessons and Carols Service

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9 Dec Yuletide Feast

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January 2017

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20 Jan Piano Series 2016-17

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27 Jan Early Music Ensemble

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3 Feb Tippett Quartet

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7 Feb Writing as a Popularis: ancient history

outside the university

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9 Feb ‘An Die Musik’: Spring Mini-Festival

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10 Feb Words and Music ‘An Die Musik’: Spring Mini-Festival 25 12 Feb Royal Holloway Chorus and Royal Holloway Chamber

Orchestra ‘An Die Musik’: Spring Mini-Festival

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13 Feb Radical Mercy

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17 Feb Andean Band Crossing Borders Series

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21 Feb The Rise of the Scientific Society

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24 Feb New Music Collective

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March 2017 2 Mar Not All Cohorts Are Born Equal:

Economic Activity and Parental Selection

6 Mar Managing sustainably through accounting

without numbers

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11 Jan Royal Holloway in Concert

February 2017

3 Mar College Alumni Recital

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7 Mar Russia and 1914: Nothing New to Say?

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10 Mar College Chamber Music Competition

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13 Mar Difference, time and micropolitics

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14 Mar Light at the end of the tunnel;

the new field of quantum engineering 15 Mar Should I really just have clicked on that?

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15 Mar Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra

Heroines of the Orchestra

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16 Mar The Greek Communities in Turkey:

Past, present and future

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17 Mar CHROMA Ensemble

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10 – 24 Mar Runnymede Literary Festival

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April 2017 28 Apr The anatomy of moments

June 2017

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8 Jun Black and minority ethnic families and

the family justice system

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24 Jun Summer Feast

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September 2017 10 Sep Heritage Open Day

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October

 Concerts  Community  Lectures  Recitals  Workshops

Kammerkoret Musica Such stuff as dreams are made of Friday 7 October Chapel, 7.30pm Filipe Carvalheiro, conductor Pernille Stockfleth, storyteller Programme to include: Jaako Mäntyjärvi: Come Away Death Purcell: If Music Be The Food of Love Frank Martin: You Are Thee Men of Sin Amy Beach: Through The House Vaughan Williams: Full Fathom Five

Piano Series 2016-17 Friday 14 October Boilerhouse Auditorium, 7.30pm Mary Dullea, piano Described as “exquisitely sensitive” (The Strad) and “agile, incisive and impassioned” (BBC Music Magazine), acclaimed Irish pianist and the College’s new Director of Performance, Mary Dullea, gives her inaugural recital with an exciting programme of seminal piano works from the 20th and 21st centuries. £12.50 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

2016 marks the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. Danish choir, Kammerkoret Musica and storyteller, Pernille Stockfleth, celebrate his legacy through a programme of storytelling and music – old and new, Thomas Morley to the present day – inspired by the Bard’s words, with a little Nordic twist.

Look and Learn: William Powell Frith, The Railway Station, 1862

£12.50 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

During this session we will examine The Railway Station by William Powell Frith from a number of perspectives and by employing a range of different learning methods including drawing, discussion and source-based enquiry. Active participation necessary!

Wednesday 19 October Picture Gallery, 2pm

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

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October

 Concerts  Community  Lectures  Recitals  Workshops

Tippett Quartet ‘Lest we forget’: Festival in Memoriam Thursday 20 October

Royal Holloway Chamber Orchestra and Chiltern Music Academy ‘Lest we forget’: Festival in Memoriam

Picture Gallery, 7.30pm

Side-by-side orchestral masterclass

Holst: Phantasy for String Quartet on British Folksongs (reconstruction by Roderick Swanston) Britten: Three Divertimenti for String Quartet Ravel: String Quartet in F Mendelssohn: String Quartet No 2 Op 13 in A minor

Friday 21 October

Our Quartet-in-Residence, the Tippett Quartet, open our Festival in Memoriam ‘Lest we forget’, commemorating the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. Composed in 1916, the Quartet will perform Holst’s Phantasy for String Quartet on British Folksongs, as reconstructed by Roderick Swanston especially for this performance, plus Britten’s Three Divertimenti for String Quartet, Ravel’s String Quartet in F and Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No 2 Op 13 in A minor. £12.50 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

Boilerhouse Auditorium, 8pm Rebecca Miller, conductor Holst: Selection of The Planets, Op 32 Inspiring the next generation of musicians is core to our ethos in the Department of Music. The College has provided world-class professional support from members of the London Mozart Players, The King’s Singers and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, educating our students to become wellrounded performers when leaving. Students are also encouraged to explore and outreach to the generations preceding them. Students from Royal Holloway have been working with Chiltern Music Academy in creating a diverse and exciting music making experience. This open orchestral masterclass showcases exactly what the students have been getting up to.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

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October

 Concerts  Community  Lectures  Recitals  Workshops

Royal Holloway Chorus ‘Lest we forget’: Festival in Memoriam

New Music Collective Spotlight Series: Finnissy at 70

Saturday 22 October

Choral music and the masses

Chapel, 7.30pm

Tuesday 25 October

Rupert Gough, conductor

Picture Gallery, 7.30pm

Faure: Requiem James Whitbourn: Son of God Mass Rihards Dubra: Te Deum

Nathan James Dearden, conductor

Royal Holloway’s Choirs all combine for this choral concert as part of the Department of Music’s mini-festival marking the anniversary of the battle of the Somme. Fauré’s ever-popular Requiem Mass is combined with a contemplative new mass setting by James Whitbourn. The piece combines choir, organ and saxophone and has been described as “a masterpiece, a work that compels you to listen in a new way”. The grand finale is a Te Deum by the Latvian composer Rihards Dubra. His award-winning setting will surround the audience in sound from 3 choirs, organ, percussion, French horn and saxophone. £12.50 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: chapelchoir.co.uk

9th International Open Access Week Monday 24 – Sunday 30 October Open Access Week is a global event for researchers to hear about and share the benefits of Open Access, the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research and the right to use and re-use those results as needed.

For details of events at Royal Holloway, including training and drop-in advice clinics, please see the Library Research Support web pages: royalholloway.ac.uk/library/researchsupport/researchsupport.aspx

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Finnissy’s choral music “penetrates the ear with an ambience and clarity that easily transforms the listener from the present to a Renaissance Burgundian court” (Classical Source). Finnissy's avowedly spiritual choral music, inspired by his religious faith, embodies the marriage between the intellectual, the cultural, the creative, the political, and often most importantly, the humane. Nathan James Dearden presents an evening of celebration for Finnissy’s 70th birthday year and presents choral music written for the community by Michael Finnissy, Judith Weir, Howard Skempton and Robert Ashley. £12.50 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

October

 Concerts  Community  Lectures  Recitals  Workshops

Exploration of Royal Holloway’s lesser known paintings

Open Composition Workshop Spotlight Series: Finnissy at 70

Wednesday 26 October

Wednesday 26 October

Picture Gallery, 2pm

Windsor Building Auditorium, 5-9pm

The dense Victorian hang in the Picture Gallery sometimes means that a number of Royal Holloway’s pictorial treasures are dwarfed by their more famous counterparts. Spend an hour discussing and learning about the occasionally overlooked paintings in our collection.

Composer Michael Finnissy leads a new music workshop with Darragh Morgan (violin) and Mary Dullea (piano) and successful applicants from a national Call for Scores.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

Spotlight Series: Finnissy at 70 Wednesday 26 October Windsor Building Auditorium, 3pm Darragh Morgan, violin Mary Dullea, piano Finnissy's work is never easy, but that does no justice to the depth of inspiration, from literary, folksong, cultural, and the skill and virtuosity required of the performers. The applauded duo, Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea present an afternoon of Finnissy’s music for violin and piano, featuring the Violin Sonata.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

Michael Finnissy in Conversation Spotlight Series: Finnissy at 70 Thursday 27 October Wetton’s Terrace Room 1.01m, 4pm Join us for discussion and questions with the composer and pianist, Michael Finnissy, as we delve into matters that arise in his music and issues composers face in the 21st century.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

£5 Tickets available on the door or book on line: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

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October

 Concerts  Community  Lectures  Recitals  Workshops

Thursday 27 October

Spotlight Series: Finnissy at 70

‘Spooky' fish in extreme environments aquarium fish go toxic

Picture Gallery, 7.30pm

Monday 31 October, 6.15pm

Ian Pace, piano

Boilerhouse Auditorium

Programme to include:

Dr Rüdiger Riesch School of Biological Sciences

Finnissy: Kemp’s Morris (1978) Finnissy: Beethoven’s Robin Adair (2015) London premiere Finnissy: White Rain (1981) Finnissy: Australian Sea Shanties Set 2 (1983) Finnissy: Stanley Stokes, East Street 1836 (1989-94) Finnissy: Strauss-Walzer (1967, rev 1989) Finnissy: Free Setting (1981, rev 1995)

Animals that live in extreme environments are fascinating, and provide biologists with valuable tools to study ecology and evolution. This lecture gives an overview of the types of extreme environments inhabited by livebearing fishes (for example guppies and mollies), and will then specifically focus on those that are known from caves and toxic springs, and the fascinating traits that help them survive in those environments. The talk links with several common A-level biology topics, such as ‘how organisms exchange substances with their environment,’ organismal responses to changing environments’ and ‘genetics, populations, evolution and ecosystems’.

Michael Finnissy’s manuscripts are labyrinthine. The real ‘difficulty’ of Finnissy's music is the richness and complexity that is really part of all music – if we choose to hear it. Finnissy's transcriptions of other composers' music prove this point. This programme includes works featuring mediated renditions of English folk song and dance, Australian sea shanties, Beethoven and Strauss, but also responses to Japanese woodcuts, to the story of Stanley Stokes, who was murdered for his sexuality in Brighton in 1836, and to Finnissy’s work with dancers.

Join us for a rare experience of conversation with Michael Finnissy and pianist Ian Pace, as we explore music influenced by that of the past. £12.50 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

Jack Pridham Lecture (part of the Science for Schools Series) Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

ISBI West Javanese Gamelan Crossing Borders Series Monday 31 October Handa Noh Theatre, 8pm Whilst on tour in the UK, a delegation of artists and scholars from the Institute of Arts and Culture (ISBI) in Bandung (West Java) perform a blend of traditional and new music and dance in the wonderful setting of the College’s Handa Noh Theatre. This event is co-sponsored by the Centre for Asian Theatre and Dance and supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. £5 Tickets available on the door or book on line: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

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November

 Concerts  Community  Lectures  Recitals  Workshops

How many…?

What can we do when we cannot count?

The Chris Whiter Quintet Crossing Borders Series

Wednesday 2 November

Friday 4 November

Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm

Boilerhouse Auditorium, 7.30pm

Professor Ruth King School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh

An emerging talent on the jazz scene, Chris Whiter has already been listed as ‘one to look out for’ (Jazzwise Magazine). Chris’ layering of instrumental textures and rhythmic patterns have become a trademark of his compositions, with his works being featured at the BBC Proms and Ronnie Scott’s. He has performed at top UK venues on multiple occasions, working with renowned composer and conductor Vince Mendoza, and Grammy-award winning vocalist Gregory Porter.

The question “How many...?” is frequently asked every day. For example, “how many steps do I take in a day?” or “how many times do I check my e-mail?” For many such questions it is possible to simply count (possibly with some help, for example, with a Fitbit). However, the question can be more difficult to answer. For example, “how many individuals are sleeping rough in London” or “how many injecting drug users are there in Scotland?” For these questions, it is much more difficult to answer than simply counting, as individuals may be “hidden” or difficult to observe. In this talk Professor King will discuss statistical tools that can be used to estimate such populations when we can only partially observe the population using a variety of different sources. Real examples will be provided to demonstrate a range of underlying issues.

Professor Ruth King is the Thomas Bayes’ Chair of Statistics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research concentrates on the development of statistical tools and techniques for analysing different forms of data, primarily within the areas of ecology and epidemiology.

The Chris Whiter Quintet features new and exciting original works, and some of the best musicians on the London jazz scene: Sam Miles on saxes, Sandy Suchodolski on bass, Chris Eldred on keys and Joe Evans on drums. Combining top-class performance with contemporary charts, the Chris Whiter Quintet promise a fresh and provocative sound. £12.50 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

Admission free, to book please email: coultermcdowell@royalholloway.ac.uk by 17 October 30th Coulter McDowell Lecture

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November

 Concerts  Community  Lectures  Recitals  Workshops

London Mozart Players and Royal Holloway Chamber Orchestra The Beethoven Project

Thomas Holloway’s College 1886-2016, 130 years of evolution

Friday 11 November

Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm

Boilerhouse Auditorium, 8pm

Richard Williams College Tour Guide

Rebecca Miller, conductor Programme to include: Mozart: Beethoven: Symphony No 4 in Bb Major After a successful last season, the exciting partnership with the London Mozart Players continues with a trailblazing side-by-side performance at Royal Holloway.

Featuring the music of Beethoven and continuing the exploration of Mozart, Royal Holloway has the rare opportunity of working alongside experts in the field.

Our Director of Orchestras, Rebecca Miller, presents an evening with Mozart’s Great G Minor Symphony and Beethoven’s wink to the Classical Viennese, his Symphony No 4. £12.50 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

Monday 14 November

Opened by Queen Victoria in June 1886, Royal Holloway was founded by Thomas Holloway, a wealthy entrepreneur and patent medicine manufacturer, solely for the further education of women. The College became part of the University of London in 1900 and in 1985 merged with Bedford College, another pioneering women’s college founded in 1849. This illustrated talk will describe the early years of Thomas Holloway’s life and will highlight some of the significant changes the College has seen through the 20th century to the present day.

Richard Williams has been associated with Royal Holloway for over 50 years, working in the Department of Chemistry from 1962 until 1992, before taking on the role of College Tour Guide. He has a keen interest in local history and is currently Vice-Chairman of the Egham-by-Runnymede Historical Society.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events General Interest Lecture

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November

 Concerts  Community  Lectures  Recitals  Workshops

Queer uses of cinephilia in Moix' memoirs Tuesday 15 November

Silent but active women: Improvising to Silent Film

Picture Gallery, 6.15pm

Tuesday 15 November

Dr Alberto Mira School of Arts, Oxford Brookes University

Windsor Building Auditorium, 7.30pm

Autobiographical writing by Hispanic queer authors shows a recurring interest on the movies both as a source for queer education and as a key marker of identity. Queer children in autobiographical writing by Manuel Puig, Terenci Moix and Eduardo Mendicutti among others thrive on movies and use movies to articulate their identities. This lecture will focus on the first volume of El peso de la paja (the first volume of Terenci Moix' Memoirs) and will discuss a certain relationship between cinema and writers central to queer identity. Following David Vilaseca's work on queer autobiography Hindsight and the Real, Dr Mira will look into the strategic uses of cultural discourse in order to construct a sense of stable selfhood out of unstable experience.

Improvising to silent film showcases the artistry of silent film pianist John Sweeney. A regular at silent film festivals around the world, including the British Silent Film Festival and the Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone, Italy, Sweeney has also brought many silent films to life on DVD.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

John Sweeney, piano

John Sweeney will accompany Silent But Active Women, a celebration of both pioneering women filmmakers and the New Woman on-screen. Including everything from comedy to paper-cut animation to impressionist shorts, this programme of silent films pays tribute to the early screen legacies of some extraordinary women.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

David Vilaseca Memorial Lecture

Look and Learn: David Roberts, Pilgrims approaching Jerusalem, 1841 Wednesday 16 November Picture Gallery, 2pm During the second in our series of ‘Look and Learn’ sessions, we will examine Pilgrims approaching Jerusalem by David Roberts, exploring the painting from a number of perspectives and by employing a range of different learning methods including drawing, discussion and source-based enquiry. Active participation necessary!

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

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November

 Concerts  Community  Lectures  Recitals  Workshops

College Music Student Showcase Friday 18 November Picture Gallery, 7.30pm Join us for an evening showcasing the talents of the students in the Department of Music. Curated by the students themselves, this concert will feature a variety of solo and chamber works from their studies here at Royal Holloway. £12.50 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

St Cecilia’s Evening Saturday 19 November Concert and Reception Chapel and Picture Gallery, 6-7.30pm Chapel Choir of Royal Holloway Rupert Gough, conductor Music of our generation To mark the 80th birthday of composer Steve Reich, the Choir of Royal Holloway present a cross-section of music from this period from the sublime beauty of Pierre Villette and the mystic combination of saxophone, choir and organ in the music of James Whitbourn, to an exploration of minimalism. John Tavener and Arvo Pärt feature alongside Steve Reich himself with two pieces combining singers and percussion. £15 (free to Royal Holloway students) Feast Founder’s Dining Hall, 7.45pm A splendid dinner with wine, coffee and petits fours. The Choir will perform between courses. Dress code for the feast is black tie. £80 (includes a suggested donation of £20 per ticket to support our Chapel Choir scholars).

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Guests are welcome to attend either or both parts of the St Cecilia's Evening. Please book tickets to both concert and feast online: royalholloway.ac.uk/events.

Thomas Holloway and the Formation of Royal Holloway’s Picture Gallery Monday 21 November Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm Dr Harriet O’Neill College Curator Thomas Holloway (1880-1883) used part of the fortune he amassed from the manufacture and sale of his ‘cure-all’ pills and ointment to create a modern art collection for his College, its students and visitors. What is astonishing is that he formed the collection in just over two years at the age of 83. This talk will illuminate the stories that lie behind Holloway’s collecting; addressing questions such as where and from whom he purchased these extraordinary paintings and what do these acquisitions tell us about his own taste and relationships with contemporary artists? The important role Charles Carey, the Gallery’s first curator, played in developing the early scholarship on, and display, of the collection will also be addressed.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events General Interest Lecture

Art and Poetry in the Picture Gallery Wednesday 23 November Picture Gallery, 2.30-4pm Academic, author and poet Robert Fraser is currently writing a series of poems inspired by the paintings in the Picture Gallery. Come and listen to his work so far and write a poem under his guidance.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

November

 Concerts  Community  Lectures  Recitals  Workshops

Friday 25 November

Undergraduated Big Band

Question Time - Leading and innovating in challenging times

Windsor Building Auditorium, 8pm

Tuesday 29 November

In last year’s Concert Series the College’s big band, Undergraduated, presented a hugely successful evening of Sinatra hits and best-known tunes to a full-capacity audience, celebrating 100 years of the singing legend, Frank Sinatra. Undergraduated return to the College’s Concert Series with another evening of toe-tapping tunes that will be sure to leave you with a tune or two to sing on the way home.

Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm

£12.50 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

Picture Gallery Composer-in-Residence Showcase Concert Tuesday 29 November Picture Gallery, 1.30-2.30pm This concert is the culmination of a ground-breaking programme in which final year and postgraduate composers from the College work with the paintings in the Picture Gallery. Three students from the Department of Music will have their musical responses to the Picture Gallery and some of its paintings performed by members of New Music Collective. These new compositions are the result of a special collaboration between the College’s Curator, Dr Harriet O’Neill and Nathan James Dearden, a College Composer, Conductor of the New Music Collective and Performance Manager at the Department of Music.

Join our high profile panel of business leaders for topical debate around the challenges facing entrepreneurs in today’s global marketplace.

The panel includes Dr Ravi Mehrotra CBE, Founder and Chairman of global shipping empire Foresight Ltd, Ms Viktoria Kish, Owner and Managing Director of International Study Programs, Mr Surinder Arora, Founder and Chairman of the Arora Group and Sir Alec Reed CBE, Founder of Reed Executive Ltd and the Reed Foundation. Our facilitator, Lady Chisholm, is Founder of Boardwalk specialising in leadership development.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events Entrepreneurship Lecture

Insights from our student volunteers Wednesday 30 November Picture Gallery, 2pm We are able to open the Picture Gallery thanks to our student volunteers. This is your opportunity to listen to their insights about the paintings on display and learn about the collection from different perspectives – everybody will see a painting slightly differently!

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

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November/December

 Concerts  Community  Lectures  Recitals  Workshops

Wednesday 30 November

Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra

The mantle of the Earth: Myth, metaphor and the geographical imagination

Windsor Building Auditorium, 7.30pm

Thursday 1 December

Mark Vines, horn Rebecca Miller, conductor

Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm

Programme to include: Debussy: Prélude à l’Apres-midi d’un Faune Strauss: Horn Concerto No 1, Op 11 Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919 version) Although The Firebird was the work that elevated Stravinsky to international renown, he was offered the commission to compose the ballet for the newly formed Ballet Russes only after several prominent Russian composers had already rejected it. The ballet is based on the Russian legend of the Firebird, a powerful good spirit whose feathers supposedly convey beauty and protection upon the earth. Today, the ballet remains in repertoire across the world – and the concert suite, which you will hear during this event, has placed Stravinsky at the core of the orchestra’s catalogue. £12.50 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

Professor Veronica Della Dora Department of Geography The mantle is a powerful metaphor for geographical knowledge. It best expresses geography’s dual nature as a scientific as much as an aesthetic practice. And yet, its usages and representations have changed throughout western history. These changes reflect significant shifts in ways of apprehending and describing the world: from the closed space of medieval mappae mundi (literally, ‘world cloths’) to the mantles and curtains opening on the expanding world of the Age of Discovery; from Romanticism’s vapoury veils shrouding sublime landscapes and nature’s mysteries to twentieth-century geographers’ conceptualization of landscape as a surface at once revealing and concealing the complex workings of society. As our world is being enveloped in a digital mantle and our existences are being increasingly interlaced in its texture, today the metaphor is acquiring a new and yet unexplored significance.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events Inaugural Lecture

Lessons and Carols Service Saturday 3 December, 6pm Thursday 8 December, 6.15pm Chapel Admission free, by ticket only. Tickets are released on Tuesday 1 November at 9am and you may book up to a maximum of four. Please book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

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December/January

 Concerts  Community  Lectures  Recitals  Workshops

The Founder’s Gift Wednesday 7 December Picture Gallery, 2pm As we approach Christmas, the season of giving, we reflect on Thomas Holloway’s gift to his College. College Curator, Dr Harriet O’Neill talks about her top ten paintings in the Picture Gallery.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

Christmas Concert

Royal Holloway in Concert Wednesday 11 January St John's Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA, 7.30pm Rebecca Miller, Rupert Gough, conductors Tim Travers-Brown, countertenor Royal Holloway Chamber Orchestra Chapel Choir of Royal Holloway London Mozart Players

Wednesday 7 December

Programme to include:

Chapel, 7.30pm

Mozart: Symphony No 40 in G Minor Mozart: Coronation Mass Mozart: Selections from Mitridate, re di Ponto, K 87

i. 'Va, va, l'error mio palesa' (Aria)

ii. 'Ah giacché son tradito' (Recitative)

iii. 'Son reo l'error confesso' (Aria)

Chapel Choir of Royal Holloway Rupert Gough, conductor Now a popular annual event, the Chapel Choir once again present an evening of carols and the first part of Handel’s Messiah. Wine and mince pies will be available in the interval. £12.50 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

Yuletide Feast

Royal Holloway, University of London is proud to present an evening of some of Mozart’s greatest and much-loved music, performed by the students and staff of our Chamber Orchestra and Chapel Choir and featuring the London Mozart Players.

Don’t miss this exciting new addition to our events calendar.

Friday 9 December

£20 (Please also consider a donation to our music scholarships fund when booking this concert.)

Sparkling cocktails and canapés reception, Picture Gallery, 7.30pm

To book please visit: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

Feast, Founder’s Dining Hall, 8pm Join us for a festive evening of fine dining, with carols performed by the Choir.

Please note that the dress code is black tie. £85 (includes a suggested donation of £20 per ticket to support our Chapel Choir scholars) To book please visit: royalholloway.ac.uk/events 23

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Piano Series 2016-17 Friday 20 January Picture Gallery, 7.30pm Eva Doroszkowska, piano Rameau: Selection from Pièces de Clavecin Beethoven: Bagatelles, Op 126 Dvarionas: Winter Sketches Ravel: Tombeau du Couperin Chopin: Scherzo No 4, Op 54 “A Winter's bagatelle explores the ‘trifles that make the sum of life’ with piano music from the melancholic eloquence of Rameau to the dazzling gems of Beethoven's late bagatelles. Conjuring evocative descriptions of the Winter Sketches by Lithuanian composer Balys Dvarionas and with the exuberant force of Chopin's last scherzo, a programme with a microcosm of changing moods.” Eva Doroskowka £12.50 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

Early Music Ensemble Friday 27 January Picture Gallery, 7.30pm Stephen Rose, conductor Henry Stobart, recorder Geoff Baker, recorder The staff-student Baroque ensemble returns for a programme of cantatas and sonatas from the decades around 1700. Royal Holloway’s Department of Music hosts several staff who are specialists in the performance of early instrumental and vocal music, and owns a double-manual harpsichord, a chamber organ,

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a fortepiano and a chest of viols. The Early Music Ensemble, composed of students and staff, is regularly formed and performs in the department's concert series and fringe events. £12.50 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

Tippett Quartet Friday 3 February Picture Gallery, 7.30pm Mary Dullea, piano Programme to include: Dvorák: Piano Quintet No 2 in A Major, Op 81 Dvorák’s Piano Quintet in A Major occupies a lofty place in the chamber music canon shared perhaps only by two other works for the same ensemble from Schumann and Brahms. Throughout Dvorák’s, the muscular drama freely intermixes with numerous sections of pure, euphoric beauty with a constant interlacing of magical dance music abounding with spontaneity and vitality.

Dvorák’s direct and poignant lyricism begins with the very first bars of music for piano and cello and it continues to bubble up in fresh new springs of melody: in pools, fountains and waterfalls across all four movements. £12.50 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

February

 Concerts  Community  Lectures  Recitals  Workshops

Writing as a Popularis: Ancient history outside the university Tuesday 7 February Picture Gallery, 6.15pm Tom Holland Author Tom Holland talks about how he came to write ancient history for the general reader, and how his books differ - and don’t differ - from those written by academics.

He has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for the BBC. His translation of Herodotus was published in 2013 by Penguin Classics and in 2016 from Allen Lane, a history of Æthelstan published under the Penguin Monarchs series. In 2007, he was the winner of the Classical Association prize, awarded to ‘the individual who has done most to promote the study of the language, literature and civilisation of Ancient Greece and Rome.’ He is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Making History. He has written and presented a number of TV documentaries, on subjects ranging from religion to dinosaurs.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events Dabis Lecture

‘An Die Musik’: Spring Mini-Festival Thursday 9 February

has sung with Bach Collegium Japan in concerts and recordings in Tokyo, with the Oslo Cathedral Choir, with the Israel Chamber Orchestra in Tel Aviv, and at the Royal Opera House, Wigmore Hall and Royal Festival Hall in the UK, to name but a few. Opening our Spring Mini-Festival, ‘An Die Musik’, Tim TraversBrown presents a programme of music bred from the German art tradition and imbeds a few surprises that have been influenced in turn, featuring music by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. £12.50 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

Words and Music ‘An Die Musik’: Spring Mini-Festival Friday 10 February Boilerhouse Auditorium, 7.30pm At the beginning of the 15th century, German classical music was revolutionized

by Oswald von Wolkenstein, who travelled across Europe learning about classical traditions, spending time in countries like France and Italy. Ever since, the music of Germany, Bach to Haydn, Beethoven to Schumann, Brahms to Schoenberg, has been a favourite from the household to the concert hall.

Students of the Department of Music present an evening of lieder from the great Germanic tradition that we are so indebted to.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

Picture Gallery, 7.30pm Tim Travers-Brown, countertenor Matthew Stanley, piano Tim Travers-Brown has a long established career as a countertenor that has seen him perform across the globe both as a soloist and ensemble singer. He

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February

 Concerts  Community  Lectures  Recitals  Workshops

Royal Holloway Chorus and Royal Holloway Chamber Orchestra ‘An Die Musik’: Spring Mini-Festival

Monday 13 February

Sunday 12 February

Abdul-Rehman Malik

Windsor Building Auditorium, 5pm

Abdul-Rehman Malik is an award winning Londonbased journalist, educator and organiser.

Nura Jahanpour, piano Rebecca Miller, Rupert Gough, conductors Programme to include: Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3 in C Minor, Op 37 Haydn: Missa in tempore belli The most soulful of all Beethoven’s music is arguably found in his piano concertos. If you need any proof, listen to his Piano Concerto No 3. There’s a beauty and elegance here that truly confirms Beethoven’s status as the one composer who quickened the pace of change in classical music by welcoming in the Romantic era that was to follow. Winner of the 2016 College Concerto Competition, pianist Nura Jahanpour, joins Rebecca Miller and the Royal Holloway Chamber Orchestra, and later Rupert Gough and the Royal Holloway Chorus for an evening of true German classics. £12.50 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

Radical mercy Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm

He is Programmes Manager for the Radical Middle Way. Since 2005, Radical Middle Way has worked alongside grassroots partners – in the UK and around the world – to provide powerful, faith-inspired guidance that gives tools to enable change, promote social justice for all and combat exclusion and violence. He has most recently pioneered a creative capacity-building co-lab with the UN Alliance of Civilization aimed at empowering Somali diaspora voices.

Since January 2015 he has also been Director of the Insight Film Festival, a unique festival which celebrates the intersection between faith and film.

Abdul-Rehman Malik is a regular contributor to BBC Radio, a trustee of the Sandford St Martins Trust, and a consultant on global programs to SeekersHub. He has a keen interest in harnessing cultural capital for social change and is currently working with colleagues from around the world to establish a global network of Muslim cultural leaders committed to supporting cutting edge Muslim cultural production and building cultural capital.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events Chaplaincy Lecture

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February/March

 Concerts  Community  Lectures  Recitals  Workshops

Andean Band Crossing Borders series

Friday 24 February

Friday 17 February

Boilerhouse Auditorium, 7.30pm

Boilerhouse Auditorium, 7.30pm

Nathan James Dearden, Mary Dullea, conductors

Henry Stobart, leader

The creation and performance of new music is an important part of the Department of Music’s output. Composer and conductor Nathan James Dearden and pianist Mary Dullea join the New Music Collective to present brand new works by undergraduate and postgraduate students at the College.

The unique Andean band, the only one of its type in the UK, specialises in the performance of music from the Bolivian Andes and gives a diverse range of performances, often in collaboration with the UK-based Andean musicians.

It is directed by Henry Stobart and performs on his collection of several hundred instruments (panpipes, flutes, drums and guitars).

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

The Rise of the Scientific Society Tuesday 21 February Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm Professor Justin Champion, Department of History Professor Andrew Scott, Department of Earth Sciences Reflecting the increasing interest across Europe in what we now call science (the discovery of the natural world), Prince Federico Cesi founded the Accademei dei Lincei or Academy of the Linxes, the first Scientific Academy in Europe (1603). One of the early members of the Society was Galileo. The Society was the first to publish observations using both the telescope and microscope. After Cesi’s death in 1630 the Society underwent difficulties including the trial of Galileo. By the 1650s the interest in natural philosophy (science) in England saw the foundation of the Royal Society under the patronage of the restored King of England Charles II, along with a periodical publication - the Philosophical Transactions (1665-). Both the RS and the journal remain today one of the most significant scientific fellowships in the world.

This lecture will examine the historical context and legacy of these two societies.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events Special Interest Lecture

New Music Collective

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

Not all cohorts are born equal: Economic activity and parental selection Thursday 2 March Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm Professor Arnaud Chevalier Department of Economics Potential parents may consider the economic situation when planning to conceive. Theoretically, an economic downturn has two opposite effects on the demand for children; it reduces household income and the time-costs of having children. The relative size of these effects may depend on family characteristics; families with a greater attachment to the labour market may be more sensitive to the income effect than families whose labour market participation is more marginal. This would lead to differences in parental composition and long-term consequences on the outcomes of children conceived at different points of the business cycle. This lecture will provide empirical evidence on this phenomenon.

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March

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Friday 3 March

College Alumni Recital

Managing sustainably through accounting without numbers

Boilerhouse Auditorium, 7.30pm

Monday 6 March

Mirjam Frank, mezzo-soprano Matthew Stanley, piano

Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm

Programme to include: Vivaldi: Stabat Mater, RV 621 Quilter: ‘Fear no more the heat o’ the sun’ from Five Shakespeare Songs Mahler: ‘Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen’ from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Zemlinsky: Elfenlied from Sechs Lieder, Op 22 Zemlinsky: Gib ein Lied mir wieder and Wanderers Nachtlied from Twelve Songs, Op 27 Gideon Klein: Lullaby Ilse Weber: Wiegala and Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt Beethoven: In questa tomba oscura Colonel Thomas Traill: My luve’s in Germanie Charles Ives: In Flanders Fields “This programme explores songs that were either composed in or engage with fraught circumstances: songs about shadow and dream worlds, night-time rather than day-time. Some of them directly reflect on the turmoil of a war, or were written in concentration camps. Others talk about loss and alienation in more universal terms.

Uncertainty, instability and a growing fear of the failure of our current world order are ever-present today.” Mirjam Frank Mirjam Frank sings with renowned ensembles and as soloist. She performed her own project Monodrama – Hommage à Cathy Berberian at NYU in the spring of 2015, and was invited to sing Dvořák’s Biblical Songs at the Bohemian National in New York. In addition to her solo work, Mirjam sings with the Arnold Schoenberg Choir in Vienna (director, Erwin Ortner). Conductors she worked with include Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Marc Minkowski, Diego Fasolis, Franz Welser-Möst and Cornelius Meister. Mirjam graduated with a BA in Music and Drama from Royal Holloway in 2011. £12.50 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events 28

Professor Jeffrey Unerman School of Management Managers rely on a variety of information to effectively and efficiently run their operations. Much of this information is quantified and evaluated through accountancy practices. In this lecture, Jeffrey Unerman explains that as organisations recognize the urgent need to manage their operations in a more socially and environmentally sustainable manner, over-reliance on quantified data in decision-making becomes increasingly problematic. He argues that to remain relevant in addressing the added complexities involved in managing for social and environmental sustainability, accountancy needs to capture and communicate a diverse range of qualitative information.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events Professorial Lecture

March

 Concerts  Community  Lectures  Recitals  Workshops

Russia and 1914: Nothing new to say?

Difference, time and micropolitics

Tuesday 7 March

Monday 13 March

Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm

Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm

Professor Dominic Lieven Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge and Fellow, British Academy

Professor Nathan Widder Department of Politics and International Relations

One hundred years to the day after a mass strike in Petrograd launched what became the February Revolution (7 March 1917 = 22 February o.S.), distinguished historian of Russia Dominic Lieven will focus on the international history of one of the great turning points of the 20th century, while also reflecting on the scholarly journey that has taken him from his first book Russia and the Origins of the First World War (1983) to his latest study Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia (2015). What might appear as ‘in one sense a self-indulgent intellectual autobiography’ can at the same time serve as an object lesson in how shifting questions and fresh archival sources ensure that 'History' as a discipline never stands still.

Over the past three decades, political theory and political philosophy have seen the return to ontology – that is, the study of fundamental categories of being or existence, such as identity, difference, space, time, and relation – in order to address questions concerning language, the unconscious, and the constitution of human subjectivity. This lecture will elaborate on and place Professor Widder's past and current research in relation to these debates, in particular setting out how they relate to “micropolitics,” or ethical practices of the self-implicated in political and social life.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events Hayes-Robinson Lecture

College Chamber Music Competition Friday 10 March Picture Gallery, 7.30pm Join us for an evening of chamber music presented by students from the Department of Music as members of the College’s Quartet-in-Residence, The Tippett Quartet, adjudicate this year’s competition.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events Inaugural Lecture

Light at the end of the tunnel; the new field of quantum engineering Tuesday 14 March Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm Professor Phil Meeson Department of Physics Fundamental and universal, the field of quantum physics has been, over the century since its discovery, more thoroughly explored and more precisely tested than any other physical law, ever. It stands, unsullied by any attack, as a shining beacon of human achievement, and yet it remains overwhelmingly enigmatic. To convey his fascination with the subject Professor Meeson will demonstrate some fundamental quantum phenomena and explain in lay terms how the race is now on to convert what we have learned as scientists in the laboratory to possible future technologies.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events Inaugural Lecture

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March

 Concerts  Community  Lectures  Recitals  Workshops

Should I really just have clicked on that?

Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra Heroines of the orchestra Wednesday 15 March

Wednesday 15 March

Windsor Building Auditorium, 7.30pm

IET London, Savoy Place, London, WC2R 0BL, 6.30pm

Rebecca Miller, conductor

Cybersecurity and personal privacy are now everyday considerations when we interact with new technology. In this lecture, leading experts in Cybersecurity and Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London, will explore real life scenarios and the sometimes menacing consequences when people and technology come together.

Programme to include:

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events Stevenson Science Lecture

Grace Williams: Four Illustrations for the Legend of Rhiannon Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade From the legendary queen and the storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights to four portrayals of heartache to bliss of the Rhiannon of Welsh mythology as depicted in the Mabinogion, Director of Orchestras Rebecca Miller presents a sumptuous evening of orchestral works inspired by heroines of past tales. £12.50 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

The Greek communities in Turkey: Past, present and future Thursday 16 March Moore Building Lecture Theatre, 6.15pm Dr Alexis Alexandris Diplomat and historian, Former Consul General of Greece in Istanbul and Representative of Greece to the UN, Geneva After the Ottoman conquest of the Byzantine Empire, the Greek Orthodox communities of the Near and Middle East were accorded a certain level of ethno-religious autonomy by their Muslim rulers. With the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923, state policy towards these communities changed. In his lecture, Dr Alexandris will trace the history of the leading Greek communities of the Ottoman Empire and of the Ecumenical Patriarchate 30

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of Constantinople during the transition to republican rule. He will also offer insights into more recent developments in Turkey and their impact on the long term future of the Greek Orthodox community of Istanbul, one of the oldest religious and ethnic minorities in a rapidly changing region.

Runnymede Literary Festival Friday 10 – Friday 24 March For further information please contact: r.hampson@royalholloway.ac.uk

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events Hellenic Lecture

CHROMA Ensemble Friday 17 March Picture Gallery, 7pm Mark Bowden, conductor Programme to include: Edmund Finnis: Focus/Pull Selection of new works by student composers of the College Composer Edmund Finnis “creates glistening, dancing music with an air of diffident mystery. It’s mentally tough, often focusing on just a few elements which are carefully weighed and transformed. But the sounds themselves are delicate and glowing, with an intriguing quality of being familiar and strange at once.” (The Telegraph)

The anatomy of moments Friday 28 April Court Room, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, 6pm Professor Finn Fordham Department of English How do we think about moments? Moments are fuzzy-edged measures of time, containing a public or private event, charged with intense significance, whereby the future – expected or unexpected - bursts open the door of the present, bringing with it revelation or mystery, surprise or transformation, questions or answers. What part does literature – and culture more broadly play in the development of such intensity; how does it construct the roles that ‘moments’ play in the way we write, live and think?

Mark Bowden joins our New Music Ensemble-in-Residence, CHROMA, to perform Finnis’ 2011 work Focus/Pull alongside brand new works by our very own undergraduate and postgraduate students whom have been working with the ensemble in workshop all day.

In this lecture, Professor Fordham will reflect on the problems and pleasures of moments in order to offer an anatomy of moments. In particular he will allude to his current project of creating a mosaic of cultural life as it unfolded at a particular moment: when Britain and France declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events Inaugural Lecture

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June/September

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Black and minority ethnic families and the family justice system

Sunday 10 September

Thursday 8 June

North Quad, Founder’s Building, 11am-5pm

Windsor Building Auditorium, 6.15pm

Royal Holloway, University of London, welcomes the public to explore its spectacular Grade I-Listed Founder's Building, Picture Gallery, Chapel and extensive grounds.

Her Honour Judge Khatun Sapnara Circuit Judge In the 2017 Magna Carta Lecture, Her Honour Judge Khatun Sapnara considers the challenges faced by British courts in dealing with cases involving honour based violence, forced marriage, female genital mutilation and radicalisation.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events Magna Carta Lecture

Summer Feast Saturday 24 June Reception, North Quad, 7.30pm Feast, Picture Gallery, 8pm Join us to celebrate the summer in the spectacular surroundings of our Founder’s Building. Please note that the dress code for the feast is black tie. £80 (includes a suggested £20 donation to our scholarship funds) To book please visit: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

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Heritage Open Day

The Founder's Building, commissioned by entrepreneur, Thomas Holloway and opened by Queen Victoria in 1886, is modelled on the Château de Chambord in the Loire Valley. Its flamboyant architecture makes it one of the most impressive university buildings in the world.

The Picture Gallery will be open between 11am-5pm and guided tours of Founder's Building, archives and library will start at 11.30am. Tickets available on the day only, for further information visit: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

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Lectures David Cesarani Holocaust Memorial Lecture Women In Science Lecture Gordon Manley Lecture

Festivals

Free weekly music events We also have a free Midweek Concert Series hosted by Director of Choral Music, Rupert Gough and a free Friday Lunchtime Concert Series showcasing the talents of our 2nd and 3rd year students, and regular performance and composition workshops taking place during Term 1 (19 September to 16 December 2016) and Term 2 (9 January to 17 March 2017).

For further details concerning the Midweek Concert Series, please contact: choraladmin@royalholloway.ac.uk For further details concerning the Friday Lunchtime Concert Series or workshops, please visit: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events or contact: concerts@royalholloway.ac.uk

Also, keep your eyes peeled for Play! 2017.

Play! is Royal Holloway’s annual festival of culture showcasing music, theatre, creative writing, film, art and more, created and performed by Royal Holloway students and staff.

Check out: royalholloway.ac.uk/play for updates and news on upcoming events.

Finals recitals These free daytime performances by students in advanced performance take place in a variety of venues across campus between 22 - 26 May 2017. Please see our website for further details: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

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Group tours of the Founder’s Building Royal Holloway, University of London, welcomes the public to explore its spectacular Grade I-Listed Founder’s Building, Picture Gallery, Chapel and extensive grounds.

The Founder’s Building, commissioned by entrepreneur, Thomas Holloway and opened by Queen Victoria in 1886, is modelled on the Château de Chambord in the Loire Valley. Its flamboyant architecture makes it one of the most impressive university buildings in the world.

Royal Holloway’s world-famous collection of Victorian paintings gives an insight into scenes of contemporary Victorian life and romanticised mythology.

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In addition to the Heritage Open Day, we organise tailor-made guided tours for groups of 25 or more (maximum 45). The tours consist of the following: • a guided tour of the Chapel, North Quad, Founder’s Dining Hall, South Quad, Founder’s Library and Victorian Corridor • lunch in the beautiful Picture Gallery • a talk on the paintings To discuss your tour requirements and cost, please contact: Sue Heath, 01784 443004 / sue.heath@royalholloway.ac.uk

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College books Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Surrey The Public Catalogue Foundation This Surrey volume brings together 1,538 paintings from 58 collections in the county.

Palaces, Patronage and Pills John Elliott Thomas Holloway, the Sanatorium, the College and the Picture Collection. The book, first published in 1996, was redesigned and reprinted in 2006 and again in 2010 with new spectacular photographs both of the College and of the former Sanatorium, now Virginia Park.

The Holloway Sanatorium Guy Blythman A new and comprehensive book of photos and history about the former Holloway Sanatorium in Virginia Water, founded in 1885 by Thomas Holloway.

The Price of Beauty: Edwin Long’s Babylonian Marriage Market This publication was produced to accompany the exhibition of the same title at Leighton House Museum.

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Thomas Holloway’s College – The First 125 Years Richard Williams A fascinating pictorial record of the first 125 years of the College. The book, first published in 1993 under the title A Pictorial History has been redesigned and reprinted with new material added to cover the years up to 2012.

Thomas Holloway, Victorian Philanthropist Anthony Harrison-Barbet A biographical essay on the founder of Royal Holloway College.

Victorian Taste – The Complete Catalogue of Paintings Jeannie Chapel Thomas Holloway, who founded this collection, has several claims to fame; not only did he purchase his pictures in the short space of two years and built the College in which they are housed, but his preferences for the work of living artists of his own day ensures that this catalogue represents and comments at length upon some of the most famous academic paintings of the 19th century.

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What's On: Your updated contact details From 2017/18 we expect What's On to become a digital publication, which means it will be available via email or to download from our website.

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Legacy giving: shaping the future

Thomas Holloway Founder of Royal Holloway College

Elizabeth Jesser Reid Founder of Bedford College

The College owes its existence to the bequests of Elizabeth Jesser Reid and Thomas Holloway. Without their vision and passion, today’s College would not exist and the pioneering research and alumni that have inspired and changed the world would not have had such an impact. Recent legacies have contributed to its ongoing success.

By leaving a gift in your will, you would be helping students to become the future leaders of our global community.

Legacy giving also has tax advantages; by leaving just 10% of your estate to charity, the rate of Inheritance Tax applicable to the rest of your estate is reduced to 36%, therefore by giving to the College your beneficiaries would benefit as well.

The College is incredibly grateful to more than 100 generous individuals who have already chosen to remember students in their wills.

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Legacies are an increasingly important source of funding, as well as an attractive way of giving for benefactors. For those of you considering a gift of £10,000 or more, scholarships can be set up in your name or a name of a loved one.

If you would like to discuss the tax benefits and options of leaving a gift in your will, please contact me in confidence on laura.bassani-merron@rhbnc.ac.uk or call me on 01784 27 6538. Thank you.

Laura Bassani-Merron, Regular Giving and Legacies Manager

The names of non-anonymous legacy pledgers were included in the College’s Year End Review, as a way of recognising those of you who are already planning to help shape the College’s future.

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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College is an exempt charity (XN69536)