Royal Holloway - What's on events guide 2017/18

2017/ 18

What’s on

events guide

Welcome I am delighted to introduce Royal Holloway, University of London’s events programme for 2017/18.

Royal Holloway is one of the UK’s leading research intensive universities. We were founded by two social pioneers, Elizabeth Jesser Reid and Thomas Holloway, who each founded colleges that were among the first to make higher education accessible to women.

In 2018 the UK will mark the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People act, which extended the vote to some women for the first time.

I’m delighted that Royal Holloway will work with partners including Arts Council England to celebrate this national anniversary. You can find out more about our plans on page 10.

Open Days 2017/18 for prospective students 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 teaching staff, and find out more about both studying and living here. For further information and to book: royalholloway.ac.uk/opendays

When Thomas Holloway invested his personal fortune in the Founder’s Building and surrounding land, he set the conditions for an iconic UK university campus. We take our responsibility to protect the historic nature of Royal Holloway very seriously. We also have a responsibility to develop the campus so that it meets the modern needs of people who study, live and work at the university today. Open to students for the start of the 2017/18 academic year, our new Emily Wilding Davison Building is a £57m investment to provide students, staff and visitors with some of the most up-to-date study and support services and facilities, including a brand new exhibition and events space. As a visitor to the university, I hope that you will make use of this new facility, which also includes a bank, shop and café.

Once again this year, our diverse events programme covers the arts and humanities, science and social sciences. Events showcase the skills of our talented students and include music concerts and dramatic performances.

There are days out for all of the family to enjoy at our Festivals of History and Science. Lectures will be delivered by our own academics, many of whom are world leaders in their fields and by invited academics and individuals from institutions and organisations that we collaborate with.

I hope that you will be inspired by what’s happening at Royal Holloway.

Professor Paul Layzell Principal, Royal Holloway, University of London 2

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Highlights

St Cecilia’s Concert

Royal Holloway in Concert

Suffrage Exhibition

Saturday 18 November

Wednesday 31 January

For full details see p 19

For full details see p 25

Thursday 22 February For full details see p 27

Discover Science at Royal Holloway

Fawcett Lecture with Jayne Anne Gadhia CBE

Festival of History

Saturday 10 March For full details see p 29

Tuesday 20 March

For full details see p 32

Sunday 3 June

For full details see p 31 3

Essential information and how to book Members of the public, students and staff 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 and check listings for further details.

Music Tickets can be purchased online, please visit: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events Limited 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 prices are £12.50, £10 (over 60, Royal Holloway alumni), £5 (non-Royal Holloway students), FREE (current Royal Holloway students and staff, children under the age of 16).

For more information please contact: Events Office (general information, lectures, community events, tours) 01784 443004/events@royalholloway.ac.uk Concert Office (music events) 01784 443853/concerts@royalholloway.ac.uk Exhibitions and art collection (Picture Gallery opening hours, exhibitions and workshops) 01784 276267/exhibitions@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

Term dates 2017/18 Autumn term: Monday 18 September to Friday 8 December 2017 Winter graduation ceremonies: 12-14 December 2017

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

Spring term: Monday 8 January to Friday 23 March 2018

Season tickets (£50) can be purchased online or on the door. This provides free admission for one person to most events (exceptions being the Royal Holloway in Concert at St John’s Smith Square, St Cecilia’s Concert and Hellenic Institute’s 25th anniversary events). If you attend four or more of our events throughout the series, you will save a minimum of £12.50.

For more information, please contact: concerts@royalholloway.ac.uk

Summer term: Monday 23 April to Friday 8 June 2018

Exhibitions and art collection Community Admission is free unless otherwise stated. Please refer to individual event listings for further information.

Royal Holloway and Bedford New College is an exempt charity (XN69536) 4

Summer graduation ceremonies: 9-13 July 2018

Emily Wilding Davison Building 5

Directions, car parking and campus map Latest information For comprehensive information including travel, directions, car parking and maps please visit: royalholloway.ac.uk/aboutus and select ‘Our campus’.

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

Event parking Please note that we operate an Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system on campus, however if you are here for an organised event, parking is unrestricted for event guests in car parks 12, 4 or 14 (or display your blue badge permit if parking in a disabled bay). If you have any questions about parking, please email: premisesadmin@royalholloway.ac.uk 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. Lecture theatres on campus are fitted with facilities for the hard of hearing.

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.

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What to do on campus Our university campus is open to the public to enjoy.

View our Picture Gallery and art collection As well as joining us for one of the events listed in this guide, why not come and see Royal Holloway’s world class paintings housed in our Grade I-listed Picture Gallery. Royal Holloway’s art collection includes works by famous Victorian painters including John Everett Millais, William Powell Frith and Edward Burne-Jones as well as sculptures, drawings, watercolours, prints and contemporary art. The Picture Gallery is open every Wednesday from 10am-3pm in the autumn and spring terms (except 18 and 25 October 2017) and a special open day will be held on Saturday 11 November (10am-4pm) with tours of the collection and activities for families. Throughout the year a series of free talks will explore the collections and more information and dates will be announced via our website: royalholloway.ac.uk/events Explore the arboretum Our leafy campus has 135 acres of wooded grounds to explore and includes the Royal Holloway Arboretum. Listed on the Tree Register,

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the Arboretum contains one of the most notable tree collections in Surrey. Visitor information features a guided walk to help you navigate your way around this special site and learn more about the trees within the collection.

New for 2017/18 – visit the Exhibition Space in The Emily Wilding Davison Building Opening in September 2017, the Emily Wilding Davison Building houses a range of amenities including a shop, bank and café, open to the public.

The 2017/18 exhibition programme will feature four exhibitions ranging from Suffrage to digital art, all of which will be accompanied by lively engagement activities. Exhibitions are free and open to all, please see our website for more information.

Other places to eat We also have a number of other cafés on campus which are open to visitors, including Crosslands in the Founder’s Building and the Boilerhouse Café. Why not have a coffee or a bite to eat before attending one of our events?

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.

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 and Victorian Corridor • lunch in the beautiful Picture Gallery • a talk on the paintings To discuss your tour requirements please contact: Sue Heath, 01784 443004/sue.heath@royalholloway.ac.uk Prices vary.

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Vote100@RoyalHolloway: A year of celebration for the centenary of suffrage In 2018 the UK will mark the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act, which extended the right to vote to some women aged over 30 and almost all men aged over 21.

Royal Holloway, University of London, will mark this centenary through a year-long commemoration series about suffrage called Vote100@Royal Holloway.

At the heart of the commemoration will be an exhibition in the Emily Wilding Davison Building during February and March 2018, titled Suffrage!

Education, activism and votes for women. This will draw on the archives of Royal Holloway’s founding colleges, Royal Holloway College and Bedford College. In 1849, Bedford College was the very first institution to make higher education accessible to women, followed by Royal Holloway College, which opened in 1886.

Vote100@Royal Holloway will be delivered in partnership with organisations including Arts Council England and will sit alongside the university’s Heritage Lottery funded Citizens’ Project and the Government’s own Vote 100 suffrage campaign.

In 2017 the university’s students, staff, alumni and prospective students honoured one of Royal Holloway’s most famous alumna, suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, by naming our new library and student services centre after her. The building will be officially opened by HRH The Princess Royal in October 2018.

On 20 March the Fawcett Lecture, created by a Bedford College alumna in honour of Dame Millicent Fawcett, a prominent campaigner for women’s access to the vote, will be held at Senate House in London. The lecture will be delivered by Jayne Anne Gadhia, alumna of Royal Holloway (History, 1980-83) now Chief Executive of Virgin Money and in November 2016 announced as the government’s Women in Finance Champion.

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Tea on terrace, c1900 Emily Wilding Davison

For more information on Vote100@RoyalHolloway, please see our website and event listings.

Students and staff in classroom, 1907

Student tea party, c1900

Students, 1897

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At a glance

Community

September 2017 18 Sep – 29 Oct Hidden/Revealed – Royal Holloway 2017 24 Sep Dance and sing and shout: Welcome Week Concert 28 Sep Fidelio Trio

October 2017

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3 Oct Thomas Holloway and the College’s remarkable art collection 15 10 Oct Values, sleep and emotions 15 12 Oct Tippett Quartet 15 16 Oct What are rainbow foods and why should we eat them?

15 21 Oct Mark Simpson (clarinet) and Richard Uttley (piano) 16 25 Oct What the Churches have learned from the Reformation 16 26 Oct Motherhood in literature and culture 16 26 Oct Royal Holloway New Voices Consort 16 30 Oct Dark Matter Day 2017: Don’t be afraid of the dark 17 31 Oct Murder, mystery and intrigue!

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November 2017 3 Nov London Mozart Players at Royal Holloway 6 Nov – 8 Dec Hospitality on the Pilgrim Road to Santiago de Compostela 8 Nov To change or not to change the Wallace Collection?

8 Nov What’s the(ir) difference? Primes, twin primes and other relatives

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Exhibitions and art collection

Lectures and talks

Music

9 Nov Music Showcase 18 11 Nov Picture Gallery Open Day 18 14 Nov Bon voyage!

18 14 Nov On truth 19 16 Nov Florian Mitrea (piano) 19 18 Nov St Cecilia’s Concert and Reception 19 21 Nov Global warming and the Ice Age 19 23 Nov Jazz Session with Undergraduated Big Band 20 27 Nov Why learn? Evolutionary functions of learning 20 27 Nov Launch of the Centre for Contemporary British Theatre 20 28 Nov Multiplying musicians, unheard chattering actors, mysterious gramophones: listening to ‘silent films’ 20 29 Nov Bon voyage!

21 29 Nov Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra 21 30 Nov The challenges of ethical and sustainable entrepreneurship 21 30 Nov Memory and Harmony: An evening celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Hellenic Institute 22

December 2017

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Lessons and Carols Service Picture Gallery Composer-in-Residence Showcase Christmas Extravaganza with Choir of Royal Holloway Lessons and Carols Service Physics Christmas Lecture

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January 2018 11 Jan Cook and Stanley Piano Duo 15 Jan – 17 Mar Suffrage! Education, activism and votes for women 16 Jan Poetry: The true language of religion 18 Jan Alumni recital: Edoardo Lenza (piano) 25 Jan rarescale and Friends 30 Jan Co-Presents to the Holocaust: The British in Auschwitz and Belsen 31 Jan Royal Holloway in Concert with the London Mozart Players

February 2018

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Tippett Quartet and John Carnac (clarinet) Jazz Session with Royal Logistics Corp Orchestral immersion: Chiltern Music Academy Crossing Borders: Andean Band and Balkan Ensemble Vote100@RoyalHolloway Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Frye’s Suffrage diary Chamber Music Competition Dramatic Foundations from England to Italy

March 2018

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1 Mar Royal Holloway New Music Collective 28 5 Mar The Empire has no clothes: Nudity and the Imperial imagination 28

Exhibitions and art collection

Lectures and talks

Music

6 Mar The Ruins of Athens: ancient modes reimagined: A piano recital by Carlo Grante for the benefit of The Hellenic Institute 28 8 Mar Crossing Borders: Gamelan Puloganti 28 9 Mar Dame Ethel Smyth: Composer, Suffragette, Surrey resident 29 10 Mar Discover Science at Royal Holloway 29 12 – 23 Mar Runnymede Literary Festival 29 12 Mar Inaugural Lecture: Professor Jay Mistry 29 13 Mar Quantum engineering: leading the way to a new technological era 30 14 Mar Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra 30 19 Mar The interplay of local and global aspects of Diophantine equations 31 20 Mar Fawcett Lecture with Jayne Anne Gadhia CBE 31 22 Mar Television as digital media 31 23 Mar Arvo Pärt’s Passio: Choir of Royal Holloway 32

April 2018

23 Apr – 14 Jul Digital Forest

May 2018

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29 – 31 May Play! Festival 2018 32

June 2018 3 Jun

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September

Community

Exhibitions and art collection

Monday 18 September - Sunday 29 October

Dance and sing and shout: Welcome Week Concert

Exhibition Space, Emily Wilding Davison Building

Sunday 24 September, 7.30pm

Monday-Wednesday, 10am-6pm Thursday, 10am-8.30pm Friday-Sunday, 10am-6pm

Windsor Building Auditorium

Hidden/Revealed – Royal Holloway 2017

Our opening exhibition is both community created and curated. Staff, students and alumni were invited to respond to the theme of ‘Hidden/Revealed: Royal Holloway 2017’ with three photographs. Our photographers have also written texts to accompany their submissions. The resulting triptychs and their labels provide fascinating insights into working, living and learning at Royal Holloway. Seize the opportunity to see what goes on behind the scenes at the university and enjoy our new exhibition space.

Admission free, no booking necessary.

Lectures and talks

Music

Join conductor Rebecca Miller and the Welcome Week Orchestra and Chorus for our opening musical extravaganza at Royal Holloway with a smorgasbord of orchestral and choral music. From Dvořák’s boisterous Slavonic Dances, to the melodious air of Copland’s Old American Songs and Tchaikovsky’s toe-tappingtarantella Capriccio Italien, this is sure to kick-start our season in style, whilst all performed by our fresh new students.

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

Fidelio Trio Thursday 28 September, 7.30pm Picture Gallery The “…virtuosic Fidelio Trio…” (Sunday Times), shortlisted for the 2016 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, are international champions of the piano trio genre. We welcome them back to Royal Holloway to open our 2017/18 Concert Series with Ernest Moeran’s Piano Trio in D major, Adrian Williams’ Piano Trio (a 2016 commission to mark the 21st birthday year of the Piano Trio Society) and Ravel’s Piano Trio. £12.50 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

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October

Community

Exhibitions and art collection

Lectures and talks

Music

Thomas Holloway and the College’s remarkable art collection

Thursday 12 October, 7.30pm

Tuesday 3 October, 1.15-2pm

Picture Gallery

Picture Gallery

For over a decade and a half, our Quartet-inResidence Tippett Quartet has delighted critics and audiences alike with its animated, virtuosic performances. For their first instalment in this year’s concert series, they are joined by acclaimed Neapolitan pianist Emma Abbate for Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E flat Major. The programme will also include Borodin’s lively String Quartet No. 2.

In this joint talk Archivist, Harriet Costelloe and Art Curator, Laura MacCulloch, discuss Thomas Holloway, his business, and what motivated him to build the College and buy its exceptional art collection.

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

Values, sleep and emotions Tuesday 10 October Demonstrations, 5.15-6pm Lectures, 6-7pm Windsor Building Professor Anat Bardi, Dr Jakke Tamminen, Dr Rebecca Brewer and other academic staff from the Department of Psychology Staff and students from the Department of Psychology will run handson demonstrations and activities about psychological research. This will be followed by taster lectures from our academic staff showing different perspectives on psychological knowledge, and where a Psychology degree can take you. The taster lectures will be on Values (Professor Bardi); The power of sleeping and dreaming (Dr Tamminen); Autism and emotions (Dr Brewer).

The lectures relate to many areas of psychology, including social psychology and individual differences, clinical psychology, cognitive psychology and neuroscience.

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

Tippett Quartet

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

What are rainbow foods and why should we eat them?

Monday 16 October, 6.15pm Boilerhouse Auditorium Professor Peter Bramley Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry The World Health Organisation recommends that a balanced diet should contain a good proportion (400g) of fruit and vegetables – the so called ‘five‑a‑day’ diet. This advice is based upon numerous studies that have shown such a diet reduces the incidence of certain cancers, cardio-vascular disorders and age-related diseases. Furthermore, the fruits and vegetables should encompass the ‘rainbow foods’ that include not only those that are green, but also those that are coloured yellow, orange, red and purple, in order to consume a wide range of antioxidants, including carotenoids (yellow, orange and red) and anthocyanins (purple). This lecture will explain how these phytonutrients are beneficial to health, the best sources of them and how plant biotechnology can be used to modify their levels.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events Jack Pridham Lecture 15

October

Community

Exhibitions and art collection

Lectures and talks

Thursday 26 October, 7-9pm

Saturday 21 October, 1pm

Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens, London NW3 5SX

Picture Gallery Mark Simpson (first winner of both the 2006 BBC Young Musician of the Year and BBC Proms/Guardian Young composer of the Year Competitions) and Richard Uttley (recognised for his ‘musical intelligence and pristine facility’; International Record Review) present a concert featuring some of the highlights – both old and new – of the English clarinet and piano repertoire. Former BBC New Generation artists, they have performed together at Sage Gateshead and Wigmore Hall, and appeared on BBC Four and Sky Arts. They will present us with music by Finzi, Ireland, Mark Bowden (Professor of Composition; Royal Holloway) and Mark Simpson.

Motherhood in literature and culture © Mark Simpson

Mark Simpson (clarinet) and Richard Uttley (piano)

Music

This event will celebrate the launch of Motherhood in Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe, a volume of essays from Routledge that raises urgent and fascinating questions about the experience and construction of maternity in contemporary Europe. Dealing with a range of topics including maternal ambivalence, mothering and disability, pregnancy and childbirth, and the formation of families, this book aims to provoke discussion and debate about that most crucial of human activities, mothering.

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

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

What the Churches have learned from the Reformation

Thursday 26 October, 8pm

Wednesday 25 October, 6pm

The Royal Holloway New Voices Consort continue their exploration of exciting, contemporary vocal music with composer/conductor Nathan James Dearden in an evening of hauntingly beautiful music from Nico Muhly, John Cage and a performance of David Lang’s 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning work, the little match girl passion.

Chapel The Rt Revd Dr Christopher Cocksworth (Anglican), Revd Emke Jelmer Keulen (Dutch Reformed) and Father John Dickson (Catholic) will explore what, from their own point of view, their Church has learned from the Reformation.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events 500th Reformation Anniversary Lecture

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Royal Holloway New Voices Consort Windsor Building Auditorium

£5 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

October/November

Community

Exhibitions and art collection

Lectures and talks

Music

Dark Matter Day 2017: Don’t be afraid of the dark

Friday 3 November, 7.30pm

Monday 30 October, 6.30pm

Windsor Building Auditorium

A global hunt for the universe’s missing matter is underway, and this autumn everyone is invited to join in. On and around Halloween 2017 events around the world will celebrate the hunt for the universe’s unseen dark matter, mysterious particles that make up 25% of the universe, approximately five times more than all the particles we know about!

Royal Holloway’s Dark Matter Group is part of the current and next-generation world’s largest dark matter direct detection experiments, DEAP-3600 at SNOLAB, and LZ at SURF.

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 Haydn and Rossini, Royal Holloway has the rare opportunity of working alongside experts in the field. Our Director of Orchestras, Rebecca Miller, presents an evening featuring Rossini’s treasured Overture to William Tell and showcasing a College Concerto Competition Winner, Amelia Hale, in Glazunov’s rhapsodic Saxophone Concerto in E flat major.

Join Professor Jocelyn Monroe on the Eve of Halloween to find out about the most favourable candidates for dark matter, WIMPs (otherwise known as Weakly-Interacting Massive Particles) and the wind of dark matter particles created by the motion of the Earth through the galaxy. Discuss the latest experiment results and join the global celebrations for this exciting area of Physics!

Hospitality on the Pilgrim Road to Santiago de Compostela

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

Murder, mystery and intrigue!

Tuesday 31 October, 1.15-2pm Picture Gallery Join Art Curator Laura MacCulloch and hear the sinister stories behind some of the university’s most-loved paintings.

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

London Mozart Players at Royal Holloway

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

Monday 6 November – Friday 8 December Exhibition Space, Emily Wilding Davison Building Monday-Wednesday, 10am-6pm Thursday, 10am -8.30pm Friday-Sunday, 10am-6pm For eleven centuries, the Road to Santiago de Compostela – the ‘Camino de Santiago’, ‘Jakobsweg’, ‘Cammino di Santiago di Compostela’ or ‘Way of St James’ has been a highway of knowledge. The network of routes has enabled and encouraged the dissemination and exchange of ideas, culture and artistic movements. This is a chance to see a collection of 48 photographs, taken over a period of 26 years by Manuel G Vicente. His images focus on ‘Hospitality’, a cornerstone of the pilgrimage and in so doing capture the solidarity, friendship and mutual understanding forged by people of all ages and nations, of all faiths and none, who walk the Road.

This exhibition is sponsored by Xacobeo Galicia and the Xunta de Galicia.

Admission free, no booking necessary.

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November

Community

Exhibitions and art collection

To change or not to change the Wallace Collection?

Lectures and talks

Music

Music Showcase

Wednesday 8 November, 5-6.30pm

Thursday 9 November, 7.30pm

Picture Gallery

Windsor Building Auditorium

Dr Xavier Bray Director, The Wallace Collection

Join us for an evening showcasing the talents of the students from the Department of Music.

Curated by the students themselves, this concert will feature a variety of solo and chamber works from their undergraduate and postgraduate studies.

Dr Bray, Director of the Wallace Collection, will address the Making Space for Art seminar series. The Wallace Collection has unsurpassed displays of French 18th century painting, furniture and porcelain with superb Old Master paintings and a world class armoury. Dr Bray’s talk will explore the relationship between curating, display, and space, examining the ways in which different practices of curating can shape our understanding of physical as well as cultural environments.

£5 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

Picture Gallery Open Day

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

Wednesday 8 November, 6.15pm Windsor Building Auditorium Dr Julia Wolf Heilbronn Reader in Combinatorics and Number Theory School of Mathematics, University of Bristol Prime numbers have fascinated mathematicians and amateur numberphiles alike for millennia. They underlie modern-day cryptography and continue to be the subject of much research (and some speculation). In this talk Dr Wolf will look at a handful of open problems concerning the primes which all involve taking differences.

Admission free but booking is essential: coultermcdowell@royalholloway.ac.uk by 18 October.

Coulter McDowell Lecture

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Picture Gallery © Chrystal Cherniwchan

What’s the(ir) difference? Primes, twin primes and other relatives

Saturday 11 November, 10am-4pm A special Picture Gallery open day with tours of the collection and activities for families. If you missed out on the talk Murder, mystery and intrigue! in October you have another chance at 1.30pm to hear Curator Laura MacCulloch talk about the sinister stories behind some of the university’s most-loved paintings.

Admission free, no booking necessary.

Bon voyage!

Tuesday 14 November, 1.15-2pm Picture Gallery Holloway’s Pills and Ointments were particularly popular with travellers across the globe. Art Curator Laura MacCulloch explores how this aspect of Holloway’s business is reflected in the art collection which includes paintings depicting all forms of transport available in the 19th century.

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

November

Community

Exhibitions and art collection

On truth Tuesday 14 November, 6.15pm Tamsyn Challenger Tamsyn Challenger will try to unpick and dissect ‘truth’ in an age of spin, duplicity and brand management. Weaving together strands from her own life and practice, whilst referencing historical reputation, identity and perception. Tamsyn will attempt to scrutinise the social media age from the facade to reassert a means of making work reliant on an essential sense of truth.

Tamsyn Challenger is a British artist known for her acclaimed gender-political work 400 Women. The work took five years to create and addresses issues of mortality and the capacity of art to imagine the dead, violence and trauma.

Since 2010 her work has been exhibited across the UK and internationally.

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

© Rob Van Hilten

Picture Gallery

Lectures and talks

Music

St Cecilia’s Concert and Reception Saturday 18 November, 6-7.30pm Chapel and Picture Gallery The Choir of Royal Holloway Brandenburg Baroque Soloists Rupert Gough, conductor The Choir of Royal Holloway will be joined by the Brandenburg Baroque Soloists for a varied selection of odes, songs and anthems in praise of our patron saint of music. The programme includes music by Purcell, Handel and Elgar as well as the first performance of a newly-commissioned setting of Cecilia virgo from American composer Daniel J Knaggs. £15 (free to Royal Holloway students) Please book tickets online: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

David Vilaseca Memorial Lecture

Florian Mitrea (piano) Thursday 16 November, 7.30pm Windsor Building Auditorium Current recipient of a Making Music Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artist Award, British/ Romanian pianist Florian Mitrea performs a kaleidoscopic concert of masterpieces including Beethoven’s Sonata in C major, Op. 53 No. 21 ‘Waldstein’ and Liszt’s great Sonata in B minor, among works by Haydn and Rachmaninov. A multi-award winning performer, Florian held the Hodgson Memorial Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music in 2014-2015 and continues to teach there and features regularly as performer and tutor at Dartington International Music Festival. £12.50 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

Global warming and the Ice Age: What interglacials tell us about future climates and what they meant for early humans Tuesday 21 November, 6.15pm Boilerhouse Auditorium Professor Ian Candy Department of Geography Global warming is a crucial issue facing society but it can only be properly understood by investigating past warm periods, known as interglacials. Are current patterns of warming unique? How warm would our climate be naturally?

Should we expect sudden and rapid climate change to occur? Professor Candy will address these questions whilst also considering what interglacial climates meant for early humans.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events Inaugural Lecture 19

November

Community

Exhibitions and art collection

Lectures and talks

Music

Jazz Session with Undergraduated Big Band

Launch of the Centre for Contemporary British Theatre

Thursday 23 November, 8pm

Monday 27 November, 6.30-9pm

Windsor Building Auditorium

Caryl Churchill Theatre

Back from an immensely successful season, our university’s Big Band Undergraduated returns to the 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.

Join us for the launch of the new Centre for Contemporary British Theatre in the Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance. The event includes a platform discussion with one of the most important and influential theatre directors in the country – Vicky Featherstone, Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre.

£5 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

Why learn?

Evolutionary functions of learning

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

Monday 27 November, 6.15pm

Multiplying musicians, unheard chattering actors, mysterious gramophones: listening to ‘silent films’

Boilerhouse Auditorium

Tuesday 28 November, 6.15pm

Professor Chris Watkins Department of Computer Science

Boilerhouse Auditorium

Professor Watkins will talk about Q-learning, reinforcement learning, and other abstract models of learning, and their relationships to evolution, and he will show how basic reasoning about evolution can suggest multiple different roles for learning.

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

Professor Julie Brown Head of the Department of Music Although the moving pictures of early cinema were in a sense silent, they almost always had some sort of music and/or sound created for them within the space of exhibition; they also typically implied sound. Even when they ran unaccompanied – which they sometimes did – ‘silent films’ begged a species of virtual listening on the part of the audience. Early musical trick films and comedies on musical topics are particularly fascinating examples of this phenomenon, because they sometimes involved imaginary visualisations of the marvels and problems of new sound technologies. This lecture will explore an often forgotten dimension of early moving pictures.

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

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November

Community

Bon voyage!

Wednesday 29 November, 1-1.45pm Picture Gallery Holloway’s Pills and Ointments were particularly popular with travellers across the globe. Art Curator Laura MacCulloch explores how this aspect of Holloway’s business is reflected in the art collection which includes paintings depicting all forms of transport available in the 19th century.

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

Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra Wednesday 29 November, 7:30pm Windsor Building Auditorium Given the great success of the Adagio for Strings, Samuel Barber could have been forgiven for resting on his musical laurels in the late 1930s. But the American composer was having none of it: he set about working on his only violin concerto in 1939, just a year after the Adagio’s premiere. For our closing orchestral concert of the series, conductors, Rebecca Miller and Claire Clyne, and College Concerto Competition Winner, Rock Lee, present an evening featuring Barber’s stunning Violin Concerto, Smyth’s Overture to ‘The Wreckers’, Britten’s Soirees Musicales and Respighi’s Pines of Rome. £12.50 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

Exhibitions and art collection

Lectures and talks

Music

The challenges of ethical and sustainable entrepreneurship Thursday 30 November, 6.15pm Windsor Building Auditorium Mr Surinder Arora Founder and Chairman, The Arora Group The Royal Holloway Entrepreneurship Lecture provides an opportunity to hear first-hand entrepreneurial insights and experiences from high profile business leaders. We are delighted to welcome Surinder Arora, Founder and Chairman of the Arora Group to deliver this year’s lecture.

Having arrived in the UK as a teenager from India, Surinder founded the business in 1999, running a luxurious four-star hotel at Heathrow for airline staff. From there, he built a business based on strong principles of enterprise, including the purchase of the Renaissance London Heathrow Hotel in 2012 where he had worked as a waiter in the 1970s.

Today, the Arora Group is a successful private group of UK-focussed companies, with specialist property, construction and hotel development and management divisions. The Group owns and manages a diverse portfolio of assets across Britain’s key business locations, with particular presence in airport regions.

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

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November/December

Community

Exhibitions and art collection

Lectures and talks

Music

Memory and Harmony: An evening celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Hellenic Institute

Picture Gallery Composer-in-Residence Showcase

Thursday 30 November, 7pm

After the inaugural residency taking place in 2016, we are pleased to showcase the newest cohort of the Picture Gallery Composer-in-Residence Programme, presenting new music inspired by our beautiful Picture Gallery and its collection. Curated by composer/conductor Nathan James Dearden and Curator Laura MacCulloch, we are also pleased to announce that the three successful applicants for this programme will have the opportunity to write new music for our Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and acclaimed pianist, Zubin Kanga.

The Hellenic Centre 16-18 Paddington Street, Marylebone, London W1U 5AS This year Royal Holloway, University of London’s Hellenic Institute celebrates its 25th anniversary with a lecture on the study of Hellenism by the well-known historian, author and broadcaster Dr Bettany Hughes, followed by a recital of music by the celebrated Greek pianist Panayiotis Gogos, under the theme Metamorphoses. The repertoire includes a series of Liszt transcriptions of works

by Schubert, Wohin, Barcarolle, Liebesbotschaft, Aubade, Der Doppelgänger, Erikönig, Litaney; it concludes with Chopin’s Scherzo No 2 op. 31. The event is followed by a reception.

Admission free but donations are invited for The Hellenic Institute (£15 per person is suggested while further donations would be most welcome).

Booking is essential. Please contact: ch.dendrinos@royalholloway.ac.uk

Lessons and Carols Service Saturday 2 December, 6pm Thursday 7 December, 6.15pm Chapel Admission free, by ticket only. Tickets are released on Wednesday 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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Tuesday 5 December, 5pm Picture Gallery

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

Christmas Extravaganza with Choir of Royal Holloway Wednesday 6 December, 7.30pm Chapel The Choir of Royal Holloway’s annual Christmas concert will this year feature highlights from Handel’s famous Messiah alongside traditional favourites. Alongside the acclaimed Bristol Ensemble and their Director, Rupert Gough, the Choir features on a major new Christmas album on the Decca Classics label and the concert will present an opportunity to hear some of this beautiful music from Norwegian composer, Ola Gjeilo.

For more information and to book your tickets, please visit: chapelchoir.co.uk

December/January

Community

Physics Christmas Lecture

Exhibitions and art collection

Lectures and talks

Suffrage! Education, activism and votes for women

Friday 8 December, 6.30pm

Monday 15 January - Saturday 17 March

Windsor Building Auditorium

Exhibition Space, Emily Wilding Davison Building

Professor Glen Cowan Department of Physics

Monday-Wednesday, 10am-6pm Thursday, 10am -8.30pm Friday-Sunday, 10am-6pm

Professor Glen Cowan’s work in high energy Physics is internationally acclaimed and he has recently been awarded a grant from the European Union for INSIGHTS, the ‘International Training Network for Statistics in High Energy Physics and Society’. He is involved in coordinating and developing statistical methods and software for use by many studies carried out with ATLAS data in CERN. He is also involved with the discovery of the Higgs boson and with searches for physics beyond the Standard Model, such as supersymmetry. Join us this Christmas and find out about high energy Physics in a festive environment, at Royal Holloway!

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

Cook and Stanley Piano Duo Thursday 11 January, 7.30pm Picture Gallery Four hands. One piano. We welcome back the award-winning Cook and Stanley Piano Duo for a special Charity Concert with Mozart, Schubert, Schmitt, Poulenc and Ravel’s Rapsodie Espagnole. Formed in 1984, the duo has broadcast and been interviewed on Radio 3, Classic FM and have established themselves as one of Britain’s leading specialists of the duet partnership. In 1996 they were selected to represent Britain in the 3rd International Piano Duo Competition (Tokyo), where they went on to win the First Prize, the Kodama Prize and the Ongaku No Tomo Sponsor’s Prize.

Music

The provision of women’s education provides a unique insight into the campaign for Suffrage. Archival material from Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, including commentaries by students and staff in the form of diaries, magazines and letters, charts the reception of both Suffrage and the Suffragettes in the colleges and beyond. Loans from the Museum of London and Women’s Library, including hunger strike medals and sashes, position the College material in the wider context of the campaign for women’s rights.

The exhibition culminates in an examination of what the Representation of the People Act really meant and for whom.

Admission free, no booking necessary.

Poetry: The true language of religion Tuesday 16 January, 6.15pm Boilerhouse Auditorium The Revd Canon Mark Oakley Chancellor and Canon Pastor, St Paul’s Cathedral Whereas many think of religious belief as being literalistic and binary, Mark Oakley argues that poetry is the native language of faith and that religion is “poetry plus not science minus”.

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

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January

Community

Alumni recital: Edoardo Lenza (piano)

Exhibitions and art collection

Lectures and talks

Thursday 18 January, 7.30pm

Co-Presents to the Holocaust: The British in Auschwitz and Belsen

Picture Gallery

Tuesday 30 January, 6.15pm

Now an annual event for the university, we invite back the 2017 recipient of the Alice Dougherty Chaplin Prize.

This year we will be presenting Italian pianist, Edoardo Lenza. Having graduated from Royal Holloway in 2017 and received a travel award to study in Melbourne Conservatorium of Music; Edoardo developed a keen interest in the Classical and Romantic eras, through to the work of contemporary composers. We will hear music by Scarlatti, Chopin and Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, ‘Moonlight’.

Windsor Building Auditorium

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

rarescale and Friends Thursday 25 January, 7.30pm Picture Gallery College Honorary Research Associate and internationally-renowned flautist Carla Rees presents a concert of original works and arrangements from the baroque and contemporary eras, in conjunction with the acclaimed rarescale Flute Academy, Royal Holloway Flute Choir and conductor Nathan James Dearden. This concert will include solo and ensemble works using the full range of the flute family from piccolo to contrabass, and also including the baroque flute. Hear Monteverdi to C.P.E. Bach, Steve Reich to Telemann, and prepare to be dazzled by what the flute family can offer. £5 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

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Music

Professor Tony Kushner University of Southampton Dr Aimee Bunting Godolphin and Latymer School Long after 1945, memory of World War II in Britain was not linked to the Holocaust despite an intimate connection. Best known is the liberation of Belsen. More marginalised were the 1,400 British prisoners of war in Auschwitz. Our lecture explores how these British liberators and POWS wrote and re-wrote their experiences from 1945 through to the 21st century, juxtaposing Britishness, Jewishness, universality and particularism through the autobiographical process.

Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events David Cesarani Holocaust Memorial Lecture

January

Community

Exhibitions and art collection

Lectures and talks

Music

Royal Holloway in Concert with the London Mozart Players Wednesday 31 January, 7.30pm St John’s Smith Square, Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA Royal Holloway, University of London, has a tradition of inspiring musical excellence spanning over 100 years. Founded as a ladies’ college, at a time when few universities admitted women, the campus community in Surrey is home to one of the world’s top university music departments.

The Choir of Royal Holloway is considered to be one of the UK’s finest mixed-voice collegiate choirs. The 24 choral scholars undertake a busy schedule under the supervision of Director of Choral Music, Rupert Gough.

The Royal Holloway Chamber Orchestra includes scholars from the university’s orchestral scholarship programme. They are conducted by Director of Orchestras, Rebecca Miller, and participate in a unique sideby-side performance scheme with the UK’s oldest chamber orchestra, The London Mozart Players.

Following their 2017 debut performance together at St John’s Smith Square, these ensembles unite with the London Mozart Players for a showcase including Beethoven’s masterpiece 5th Symphony and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music.

Celebrating the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, the programme includes the world premiere of a new commission from composer Joanna Marsh, reflecting on the 1913 Derby, where suffragette and Royal Holloway alumna, Emily Wilding Davison, famously stepped in front of the king’s horse. £20 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

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January

Community

Exhibitions and art collection

Lectures and talks

Music

Tippett Quartet and John Carnac (clarinet)

Friday 9 February, 7:30pm

Thursday 1 February, 7.30pm

Windsor Building Auditorium

Picture Gallery

Since 2015, the orchestras of the Chiltern Music Academy and Royal Holloway have worked together on a unique side-by-side project, bringing together musicians to exchange knowledge alongside their passion for orchestral performance. Under the expertise of Royal Holloway’s Director of Orchestras, Rebecca Miller, over 100 students from both institutions have the opportunity to work alongside professional musicians. This event showcases this fascinating work.

The Tippett Quartet’s broad and diverse repertoire highlights our Quartet-in-Residence’s unique versatility. They are equally at home with the giants of the classical world as they are with the music of today and have had the great pleasure of collaborating with soloists from across the world. Alongside Beethoven’s serene String Quartet No. 12 in E flat major and Hugo Wolf’s Italian Serenade, we are honoured to welcome internally-acclaimed clarinettist Jon Carnac for Brahms and Mark-Anthony Turnage’s pensive An Invention on ‘solitude’. £12.50 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

Jazz Session with Royal Logistics Corp Thursday 8 February, 8pm Windsor Building Auditorium The Band of the Royal Logistic Corps was formed in 1993 following the amalgamation of the Bands of The Royal Corps of Transport and The Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

Currently based at The Princess Royal Barracks in Deepcut, the band comprises of 32 musicians from the Corps of Army Music. The Big Band is one of the most popular ensembles, playing a range of music from Glenn Miller up to modern favourites from Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band. £5 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

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Orchestral immersion: Chiltern Music Academy

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

Crossing Borders: Andean Band and Balkan Ensemble Thursday 15 February, 7.30pm Boilerhouse Auditorium As part of our Crossing Borders music series the unique Andean band, the only one of its type in the UK, join hands with the university’s Balkan Ensemble for an evening of joyous, foot-tapping music from across the world. This is an evening not to be missed, particularly if you love to get up and dance.

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

February

Community

Vote100@RoyalHolloway

Exhibitions and art collection

Thursday 22 February, 7.30pm

Windsor Building Auditorium Exhibition Space, Emily Wilding Davison Building

Boilerhouse Auditorium

Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Frye’s Suffrage diary Thursday 22 February, 6.15pm Windsor Building Auditorium Elizabeth Crawford Researcher and Writer Kate Frye (1878-1959) kept a diary from the age of nine until a few months before her death. This voluminous diary is now held in Royal Holloway’s Archives.

Between 1906 and 1915 Kate was actively involved in the women’s suffrage campaign, first as a volunteer and then, from 1911 as a paid organizer for the New Constitutional Society for Women’s Suffrage. This illustrated talk will recount something of her life as a suffrage foot-soldier as well as drawing on her accounts of the many spectacular suffrage scenes she witnessed – such as the ‘Black Friday’ riot in Parliament Square (18 November 1910), Emily Wilding Davison’s funeral procession through London (14 June 1913), and the riot as Mrs Pankhurst led a demonstration at the gates of Buckingham Palace on 21 May 1914.

Music

Chamber Music Competition

Thursday 22 February

To mark the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act, which extended the right to vote to some women over 30 and almost all men over the age of 21, the university presents a series of celebrations in 2018. Our launch event will take place on the 22 February, starting with a lecture by researcher and writer Elizabeth Crawford. There will then be an opportunity to visit our exhibition Suffrage! Education, activism and votes for women, enjoy a glass of wine and hear more about the other events taking place throughout the year.

Lectures and talks

Join us for an evening of chamber music presented by students from the Department of Music as members of the Quartet-in-Residence, The Tippett Quartet, adjudicate this year’s competition.

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

Dramatic Foundations from England to Italy Friday 23 February, 7.30pm Picture Gallery The staff-student Early Music Ensemble return to showcase the flourishing of secular vocal music from the English Restoration period, from the ancestors of J S Bach following the 30 Years War, and music from Handel’s sojourn in Italy that were to lay the foundations for opera. Directed this season by acclaimed countertenor and teacher, Tim Travers Brown, and international early music specialist, Stephen Rose, early instrumentalists and singers alike showcase vocal works by Monteverdi, Purcell, Handel among others. £5 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/events

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

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March

Community

Thursday 1 March, 8pm Boilerhouse Auditorium After their acclaimed performance of Gavin Bryars’ The Sinking of the Titanic, the Royal Holloway New Music Collective are back with a programme featuring home-grown talent and fresh, new music by composers past and present associated with the university. Curator and conductor, Mary Dullea and Nathan James Dearden, present an evening of music written in the past thirty years by British composers such as Mark-Anthony Turnage to Tansy Davies. £5 (concessions available) Tickets available on the door or book online:

royalholloway.ac.uk/events

The Empire has no clothes: Nudity and the Imperial imagination Monday 5 March, 6.15pm Windsor Building Auditorium Professor Philippa Levine University of Texas at Austin

Lectures and talks

Music

The Ruins of Athens: ancient modes reimagined: A piano recital by Carlo Grante for the benefit of The Hellenic Institute Tuesday 6 March, 7pm Windsor Building Auditorium A concert of classical piano works with links to ancient and modern Greece.

The eminent pianist Carlo Grante begins with Beethoven’s thrilling Variations on The Ruins of Athens, in Liszt’s transcription. They were written in 1811 as incidental music for a play of that name in which Minerva and Mercury meet Greeks dreaming of their liberation. The rest of the concert, featuring some of the best-loved works in the classical repertoire, illustrates how the music of the ancient world lives on in the DNA of western music. The concert is followed by a reception. £17.50/free to Royal Holloway students Tickets on the door or book online: royalholloway.ac.uk/events All proceeds from this concert will go to the The Hellenic Institute.

Crossing Borders: Gamelan Puloganti

Please join us for the Department of History’s annual lecture, more information will be available on the website in due course.

Thursday 8 March, 7.30pm

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

The Gamelan Ensemble ‘Puloganti’, directed by Honorary Lecturer Simon Cook, specialises in the Sundanese style of West Java (gamelan degung and salendro) and returns to our Concert Series for another evening of transcendental sounds. Considered one of the finest sets of Sundanese instruments in the UK, join us for an evening to hear these fine instruments playing Javanese music performed by our talented students.

Hayes-Robinson Lecture

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Royal Holloway New Music Collective

Exhibitions and art collection

March

Community

Dame Ethel Smyth: Composer, Suffragette, Surrey resident Friday 9 March, 7.30pm Picture Gallery As part of Suffrage/100 this concert celebrates the life of Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944). As well as being a recognised, pioneering female composer, as a result of her friendship with the Pankhursts she devoted her energies to the movement for two years, suspending most of her musical activities, and composed the battle song The March of the Women.

Curated by Dr Mary Dullea, this concert will facilitate rare performances of chamber music and song by student performers from the Department of Music to mark this remarkable figure who is in fact buried locally in Woking.

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

Discover Science at Royal Holloway Saturday 10 March Join us to celebrate British Science Week with our own Science Festival.

Our Science Festival is a great opportunity to discover some of the amazing science research we do at our university campus, with interactive displays and talks from, and for, people with a passion for science. This special day really does have something to offer for all ages and will leave you inspired!

Exhibitions and art collection

Lectures and talks

Music

Runnymede Literary Festival Monday 12 – Friday 23 March For further information please contact: r.hampson@royalholloway.ac.uk

Inaugural Lecture Monday 12 March, 6.15pm Boilerhouse Auditorium Professor Jay Mistry Department of Geography Jay Mistry is a Professor of Environmental Geography and her research interests include environmental management and governance, participatory visual methods and Indigenous geographies. Her work involves supporting local livelihoods and biodiversity conservation, action research using participatory video and capacity building for natural resource management. She is also concerned with fire management in tropical savannas, particularly the social-ecological interactions and policy implications.

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

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March

Community

Exhibitions and art collection

Lectures and talks

Music

Quantum engineering: leading the way to a new technological era

Wednesday 14 March, 7:30pm

Tuesday 13 March, 6.30pm

Windsor Building Auditorium

Boilerhouse Auditorium

Romanian pianist Alexandra Dariescu, recently named as “one of 30 pianists under 30 destined for a spectacular career” (International Piano Magazine), dazzles audiences worldwide with her effortless musicality and captivating stage presence. From recent appearances in New York’s Carnegie Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw to the Royal Albert Hall, she now joins us at Royal Holloway for Tchaikovsky’s thunderous Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor. Under the helm of Rebecca Miller and Assistant conductor, Claire Clyne, we will also be treated to Borodin’s In the Steppes of Central Asia and Rachmaninov’s monumental Symphonic Dances. This is not to be missed!

Professor Phil Meeson Department of Physics Fundamental and universal, quantum physics has been, in the century since its discovery, more thoroughly explored and more precisely tested than any other physical law. It stands as a shining beacon of human achievement resisting all attempts to undermine it and yet, it remains hugely enigmatic. In this lecture, Professor Meeson will use live demonstrations of quantum physics experiments, including the famous single-photon double-slit experiment, to support a greater appreciation of the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics, such as wave-particle duality. The lecture is aimed at all those interested in quantum physics and will be particularly suitable for GCSE/A level Physics students Admission free but booking is essential: royalholloway.ac.uk/events Schools Lecture

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Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra

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

March

Community

Exhibitions and art collection

The interplay of local and global aspects of Diophantine equations

Thursday 22 March, 6.15pm

Monday 19 March, 6.15pm

Boilerhouse Auditorium

Boilerhouse Auditorium

Professor James Bennett Department of Media Arts

Professor Rainer Dietmann Department of Mathematics One of the most classical areas of Mathematics is the study of Diophantine equations, named after the Greek mathematician Diophantus of Alexandria.

Diophantine equations are polynomial equations such as x^2+y^2=2018 that we want to solve in integers as for example x=43 and y=13. The subject has seen tremendous progress in recent decades and it is only now that we begin to understand many old problems. In this lecture we take a modern look on such questions and will see that in order to handle integer solutions one needs to consider the underlying equations in a more general context than just over the integers.

Lectures and talks

Music

Television as digital media

The digital revolution has long promised the ‘death of TV’.

However, over the last 20 years television has become the digital media form par excellence, dominating our internet experiences and even slaying some of its supposed interactive executioners. This lecture explores what television’s formation as digital media means for the medium itself and digital culture more widely.

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

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

Fawcett Lecture Tuesday 20 March, 6.30pm Beveridge Hall, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Jayne Anne Gadhia CBE Chief Executive, Virgin Money and Alumna Jayne Anne Gadhia is the CEO of Virgin Money. A Chartered Accountant, she spent six years at Norwich Union (now Aviva) before becoming one of the founders of Virgin Direct in 1995. In 1998 she set up the Virgin One account which was acquired by the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2001. After five years at RBS as part of the Retail Executive Committee, she returned to Virgin as the CEO of Virgin Money.In 2012 Virgin Money acquired Northern Rock and, in 2014, successfully listed on the London Stock Exchange.

A vocal supporter of businesses responsibility to make a positive contribution to society Jayne Anne is a trustee of Business in the Community.

In November 2016 Jayne Anne was announced as the government’s Women in Finance Champion.

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March/April/May/June

Community

Arvo Pärt’s Passio: Choir of Royal Holloway

Exhibitions and art collection

Lectures and talks

Music

Play! Festival 2018

Friday 23 March, 7.30pm

Tuesday 29 – Thursday 31 May

Chapel

After a year’s break, the annual Play! Festival returns in 2018.

For the season of Lent, Rupert Gough and the Choir of Royal Holloway presents a dramatic evening featuring Arvo Pärt’s powerful setting of the St John Passion, Passio. One of the most significant choral works of the 20th century, Passio sees the suffering at the heart of the Easter story unfold in a work which never fails to connect with listeners in an intensely powerful way. The programme will also include Allegri’s Miserere and works by other Baltic composers.

Held in the penultimate week of the summer term, Play! is a cross-departmental festival of culture presented by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. It showcases some of the best and most innovative modern and classical music, theatre and creative writing as well as talks, tours and exhibitions created and performed by the university’s students and staff.

For more information and to book your tickets, please visit: chapelchoir.co.uk

Digital Forest Monday 23 April - Saturday 14 July Exhibition Space, Emily Wilding Davison Building Monday-Wednesday, 10am-6pm Thursday, 10am -8.30pm Friday-Sunday, 10am-6pm Digital Forest, a new multi-sensory moving image installation by media artist Madi Boyd, is informed by the latest attention research conducted by Professor Polly Dalton, in particular, the notion that the ‘soft fascination’ provided by natural environments can restore people’s mental resources. As well as being art in its own right, the creation of a ‘natural’ environment in a constructed performative space will enable the restorative effects of installation art to be investigated.

Admission free, no booking necessary.

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For the latest information and what to expect visit: royalholloway.ac.uk/play

Festival of History Sunday 3 June, 11am-5pm North Quad Royal Holloway, University of London invites you to join us for the second Festival of History.

This free event will bring to life women’s struggle for the vote and the end of the First World War in a family-friendly spectacular.

The day will feature an exciting programme of talks, performances, live music, re-enactments and children’s activities.

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Finals recitals These free daytime performances by students in Advanced Performance take place in a variety of venues across campus between Monday 21 - Friday 25 May 2018. Please see our website for further details: royalholloway.ac.uk/music/events

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.

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

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Our founders, Elizabeth Jesser Reid (Bedford College) and Thomas Holloway (Royal Holloway College), left a legacy that shaped the future of education with the founding of colleges for women. Today, their vision continues through the education and research of students, and the alumni that continue to inspire and change the world around us in over 164Â countries.

Since then many more have joined our philanthropic history. From sports facilities to support for scholarships and research across various disciplines, legacy donors have contributed to the lives of many students, for which we are truly thankful.

In addition to having tax benefits with the reduction of your Inheritance Tax by 4%, you have the opportunity to invest in an area you feel passionate about. We will work with you to ensure your gift is carried out to your specifications.

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