Brainfood September–December 2014

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Public events at UCL: September–December 2014

www.ucl.ac.uk/events

Welcome to UCL’s public events leaflet, showcasing a range of public talks, lectures, exhibitions, workshops, film screenings and performances taking place throughout autumn 2014.

There are many great events from September right through until December. Join us to hear the acclaimed novelist, Man Booker prize-winner and political activist Arundhati Roy, who will be delivering this year’s UCL-Lancet Lecture on the subject of India’s caste system, (​ p9) or attend the Graffiti Sessions (p10).

The UCL Lunch Hour lecture series is once again full of fascinating speakers for the autumn term, come and hear our UCL experts speak on ‘The powerful effect of placebo’ (p19) and ‘Who wants to work forever’ (p20).

The events listed here are only a selection of what’s on offer; for more information on each event or for a full listing, please visit our online events calendar: ​​www.ucl.ac.uk/events Cover image: Exploring the influence of science and technology on prostate cancer, p31.

Talks

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Activities

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Lunch Hour Lectures

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Performances

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Exhibitions

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Events diary

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Venues/maps

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Please note: all events are free and open to all, unless otherwise stated.

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Talks Lectures Discussions

The impact of World War I on the Jews and their Europe All-day symposium with leading academics speaking about the aftermath of the First World War and its effect on European Jewish communities. Organised by the Jewish Historical Society of England in association with the UCL Institute of Jewish Studies.

Tue 11 Sep | 10am–6pm Pre-booking essential Anatomy Building s.benisaac@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 3520

Gates to Egypt: mapping alternate worlds Join James Kneale (UCL Geography) for a guide to mapping alternate London and creating gates that link the imperial metropolis to real and imagined visions of Egypt, while drawing on work such as Tim Powers’ The Anubis Gates.

Wed 24 Sep | 6–8pm Pre-booking essential UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

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Show ‘n’ tell: Chagos Islands We have invited UCL PhD students to showcase just one object from the museum’s collection of 68,000 and tell you what they know about it.

David Curnick will be joining us after rummaging through the drawers to choose his object and will talk about his work around the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean.

Thur 25 Sep | 1–2pm UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Interrogating race and achievement in Trinidad In Trinidad, discourses on race and education often label Afro-Trinidadian boys as the lowest achievers and link this to deficient cultural values and single female-headed homes. In contrast, this lecture will employ a model that takes into account the nuances of the intersecting trajectories of race, social class and gender.

Wed 1 Oct | 5:30–7:30pm Lecture Theatre 103 UCL Institute of Americas ucl-ia@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 9721

Space beads from ancient Egypt: making objects from meteorites A joint event between the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and the Royal Observatory Greenwich (Royal Museums Greenwich) on the making of the beads – more than 5,000 years old – hammered out of pieces of meteorites in Egypt.

Sat 27 Sep | 2–5pm Pre-booking essential. Tickets £5 Royal Observatory Greenwich, Royal Greenwich Park, London SE10 9NF events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

Space beads from ancient Egypt, 27 Sep

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Talks/lectures/discussions

Show ‘n’ tell: Peatlands

Focus on the Positive

We have invited UCL PhD students to showcase just one object from the museum’s collection of 68,000 and tell you what they know about it. Hannah Robson will be joining us after rummaging through the drawers to choose her object and will discuss her work investigating the Flow Country peatlands of northern Scotland.

Worried about the world’s problems? Focus on the Positive gives you a chance to hear solutions and decide which ones will get funded. For a very special edition, the Grant Museum welcomes some of UCL’s inspiring researchers who will tackle the big issues of today, inspired by the collection.

Wed 8 Oct | 1–2pm UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Sense and sensibility? Translations of the Old English Boethius The late 9th century saw seminal Latin works, such as Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy, translated into English as part of a programme authorised by King Alfred. Versions appeared first in prose, then in prose and verse. Professor Susan Irvine discusses the rich insights that these variations give into the formative years of English literature.

Thur 9 Oct | 6–7:30pm Pre-booking essential Lecture Theatre G6, UCL Institute of Archaeology g.brodie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 1317 04

Thur 16 Oct | 7–9pm UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Show ‘n’ tell: Soda lakes We have invited UCL PhD students to showcase just one object from the museum’s collection of 68,000 and tell you what they know about it. Antonia Ford will be joining us after rummaging through the drawers to choose her object and will discuss her research on the unique soda lakes of East Africa.

Wed 22 Oct | 1–2pm UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Medieval Latin Christian texts on the Jewish calendar This talk will explore a barely known chapter in the history of medieval science and learning, which deals with the intellectual exchange between Jews and Christians between the 12th and the 15th centuries.

Wed 22 Oct | 6:15–8pm Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre s.benisaac@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 3520

Evo’s Bolivia: continuity and change When Evo Morales came to power in 2006, expectations were high that Bolivia’s first indigenous president would transform the country. Based on a forthcoming book written with Ben Kohl, Linda Farthing’s talk will examine how well Morales has done in achieving goals of greater equality and inclusion in South America’s poorest country.

Thur 23 Oct | 6–8pm Pre-booking essential Lecture Theatre 103 UCL Institute of Americas ucl-ia@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 9721

Translating the poem: Henri Meschonnic’s poetics of translating Translating poetry is a notoriously difficult task – often considered impossible. But what exactly does that mean? What conception of language is such an assertion based on? This talk by Dr Marko Pajević (Royal Holloway, University of London) examines Henri Meschonnic’s historical anthropology of language and his theory of translation.

Thur 23 Oct | 6–7:30pm Pre-booking essential Lecture Theatre G6 UCL Institute of Archaeology g.brodie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 1317

Focus on the Positive, 16 Oct

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Talks/lectures/discussions

David Barnett: Gideon Smith and fantasy Egypt in Victorian London Join writer David Barnett in conversation about his Gideon Smith alternate history books.

His first book in the series takes the reader from Victorian Whitby to London, then down the Nile in Egypt, where the reality behind Penny Dreadfuls and the heroes of empire becomes more clear.

Wed 29 Oct | 6–8pm UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

The faith of Abraham and the trials regarding his sons In this Raymond Westbrook Memorial Lecture, we will be assessing the biblical story in the light of modern-day conflict resolution.

Wed 29 Oct | 6:45–9pm Garden Room, Wilkins Building s.benisaac@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 3520

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Race, religion and culture in Brazilian social thought This lecture explores how, for the past 14 decades, Brazilian social thought has asked why the country has not developed along similar lines to western Europe and North America. Racial and religious explanations have been proposed since the 19th century and are still present in current Brazilian thought.

Thur 30 Oct | 6–8pm Pre-booking essential Lecture Theatre 103 UCL Institute of Americas ucl-ia@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 9721

Stewardship for planet Earth Climate change, unprecedented urbanisation and transnational flows of people, capital and materials are profoundly challenging a sustainable management of resources. UCL Institute of Sustainable Resources and UCL Grand Challenge of Intercultural Interaction will host a two-day conference that will explore the concept of stewardship for planet Earth from a multitude of perspectives.

Thur 6–Fri 7 Nov | 12:30–2pm Pre-booking essential Room G06, Roberts Building k.dhillon@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 5935

Berman on Benjamin: a trilingual translation journey

18th Annual Grant Lecture: Why aren’t there any This lecture from Dr Chantal Wright marsupial whales?

(University of Warwick) explores the challenges that she has experienced in translating the commentary, ‘L’Âge de la traduction’, by Antoine Berman into English. ‘L’Âge’ is itself based on a lecture series given by Berman on Walter Benjamin’s (German) seminal essay ‘The Task of the Translator’.

Reproductive strategies vary wildly across vertebrates. Dr Anjali Goswami will present her research on the evolutionary consequences of these different strategies, focusing on marsupials and using data drawn from broad sources such as museum fossils.

Thur 13 Nov | 6–7:30pm Pre-booking essential Lecture Theatre G6 UCL Institute of Archaeology g.brodie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 1317

Tue 18 Nov | 6:30–9pm J. Z. Young Lecture Theatre Followed by a drinks reception and a private view of the UCL Grant Museum. zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Empires, nationalisms and the First World War An examination of the dramatic changes in the perception of power bases as a result of the First World War. Thur 13 Nov | 6:30–8:30pm Garden Room, Wilkins Building s.benisaac@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 3520

Empire, nationalisms and the First World War, 13 Nov © UCL 07

Talks/lectures/discussions

Total war: Mexico and Europe, 1914 Hunt for the Jews: the case of occupied Poland, 1942–1945 This paper, originally given as the Luis González lecture at the Colegio de México in early 2014, compares the (neglected) military dimension of the Mexican Revolution to the First World War in Europe, using the concept of ‘total war’ as the bridge, and argues that it involved very costly, mass conventional warfare.

Wed 19 Nov | 5:30–7:30pm Pre-booking essential Lecture Theatre 103 UCL Institute of Americas ucl-ia@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 9721

The 2014 UCL Lancet Lecture: The half-life of caste – the ill-health of a nation The acclaimed novelist, Man Booker prize-winner and political activist Arundhati Roy will deliver this year’s UCL-Lancet Lecture on the subject of India’s caste system.

She will argue that caste has been modernised and entrenched by democracy in India, with grave implications for health, equality and human rights.

Thur 20 Nov | 5:30–7pm Pre-booking essential Logan Hall, Institute of Education https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2014-ucllancet-lecture-tickets-12542237169 08

In 1942 and 1943, thousands of Jews escaped transports to death camps and sought shelter in the Polish countryside. Few survived until 1945. Using previously unexplored archival documents, Canadian-Polish historian Jan Grabowski argues that the greatest enemies of Poles attempting to save Jews were other Poles.

Thur 20 Nov | 6:30–8pm Pre-booking essential Garden Room, Wilkins Building s.benisaac@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 3520

Show ‘n’ tell: Great apes We have invited UCL PhD students to showcase just one object from the museum’s collection of 68,000 and tell you what they know about it.

Josephine Msindai will be joining us to discuss her research on the social structure and conservation of primates around Africa’s Lake Victoria.

Wed 26 Nov | 1–2pm UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Derrida and translation In ‘This Strange Institution Called Literature’, Jacques Derrida speaks of his search for a place from which to challenge the ‘frontier’ between philosophy and literature. In this talk, Dr Danielle Sands (Royal Holloway, University of London) will address this ‘frontier’. Do philosophy and literature offer us different models for the practice of translation?

Thur 27 Nov | 6–7:30pm Pre-booking essential Lecture Theatre G6 UCL Institute of Archaeology g.brodie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 1317

Christian and Jewish tombstones from ancient Zoara/Zoora This talk focuses on the biblical town of Zoara – known as Zoora in the 6th century CE – which is located by modern Ghor es-Safi in Jordan. Regular and illegal archeological excavations that took place there in the 1980s and 1990s unearthed an unparalleled number of Greek and Aramaic gravestones, dating to the 4th–6th centuries CE. Mon 1 Dec | 6–7:30pm s.benisaac@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 3520

Moses Gaster and the Anglo-Jewish community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries Moses Gaster was one of the key figures in the Zionist movement in England and played an important role in the negotiations that led to the Balfour Declaration. He left behind a vast archive of more than 170,000 items, which his heirs deposited at UCL. This talk will use items from the collection to describe Gaster’s life.

Thur 27 Nov | 6:30–8pm G08, Chadwick Building s.benisaac@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 3520

Moses Gaster, 27 Nov

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Talks/lectures/discussions

The Graffiti Sessions This three-day series of talks and panel debates, hosted by UCL Urban Laboratory, the Graffiti Dialogues Network and Southbank Centre, will gather a group of experts to debate issues surrounding graffiti and aim to identify future city strategies and opportunities for evolving creative practice.

Wed 3–Fri 5 Dec | 10am–10pm Pre-booking essential See Urban Lab website for venue information urbanlaboratory@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 9402 www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanlab/events/the-graffitisessions

Michelle Bachelet’s presidencies: gender, politics and institutional change in Chile Michelle Bachelet, Chile’s first female president, was elected in 2006 with an explicit gender agenda, promising to appoint new faces (including women). This lecture focuses on her efforts to introduce progressive measures and the constraints that she has faced from both formal and informal political institutions.

Wed 10 Dec | 5:30–7:30pm Lecture Theatre 103 UCL Institute of Americas ucl-ia@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 9721

The archaeology of Lawrence of Arabia The UCL Petrie Museum presents an afternoon and evening exploring the legend of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, including a lecture by historian Dr Neil Faulkner on the archaeology of T. E. Lawrence’s guerrilla warfare, a drinks reception, a Lawrence-themed display and a screening of Lawrence of Arabia (1962).

Sat 6 Dec | 2–10:30pm Pre-booking essential. Tickets £5 Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138 10

The Graffiti Sessions, 3–5 Dec

Activities Workshops Family events

Drawing Life Join the Drawing Life workshops and find out how the act of drawing can unlock the complex relationships at work in nature.

We will immerse ourselves in ecology while exploring the wonderful specimens in the collection. Join us for just one workshop or come to all three.

Wed 10 Sep | 6:30–8:30pm Pre-booking essential.

UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk http://drawinglifeworkshops.eventbrite.com +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Drawing Life, 10 Sep

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Activities/workshops/family events

Explore zoology We have rifled through drawers and cabinets to find our most amazing animals for our family hands-on, specimen-based activities. Ever wondered what the skin of a python feels like or how many spots a leopard has? Bring along your budding zoologists and ask our enthusiastic educators these questions and more.

Sat 13 Sep | 1–4:30pm UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Treasure hunt – great lives from ancient Africa Join the hunt around the Petrie Museum to find the identity of famous and not so famous figures from Egyptian history. Can you find the object and work out the name? Prizes are to be won! Clues set by writer K. N. Chimbiri.

Register at museum at 3pm. The answers will be given out at 4.15pm. Appropriate for all ages – families welcome.

Sat 4 Oct | 3–5pm UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

Maya-on-the-Thames

Drawing Life

Come to Maya-on-the-Thames for some fun and games! The third Annual Hieroglyphic Workshop at the UCL Institute of Archaeology will give you the opportunity to learn about the ancient Maya, their culture and writing, art and agriculture and their exciting ball game. Everyone is very welcome, no prior knowledge is necessary!

Join the Drawing Life workshops and find out how the act of drawing can unlock the complex relationships at work in nature.

We will immerse ourselves in ecology while exploring the wonderful specimens in the collection. Join us for just one workshop or come to all three.

Fri 19–Sun 21 Sep Fri 5:30–7:30pm, Sat 10am–6pm, Sun 10am–4pm Pre-booking essential UCL Institute of Archaeology mayaglyphsucl@gmail.com +44 (0)20 7679 7532 12

Wed 8 Oct | 6:30–8:30pm Pre-booking essential UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk http://drawinglifeworkshops.eventbrite.com +44 (0)20 3108 2052

UCL Art Museum on tour: Japanese woodblock printing Join artist Hiroko Imada for this hands-on workshop introducing the participants to the art of Japanese woodblock printing. Taking inspiration from UCL Art Museum’s Japanese prints collection, the participants will learn from an experienced artist how to design, carve and print their own work.

Wed 8 Oct | 6–9pm Pre-booking essential UCL Art Museum Tickets £20, which includes materials m.rouleau@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2540

Black History Month: Tours of the Petrie Museum Tours on the hour (5pm, 6pm and 7pm) with an introduction to the museum and why the collection of objects from more than 7,000 years of Nile Valley history are so relevant for understanding black history by K. N. Chimbiri. These 40-minute tours (approx.) are followed by a chance for a private view of the museum.

Thur 9 Oct | 5–8pm Pre-booking essential UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

Japanese woodblock printing, 8 Oct UCL Art Museum 13

Activities/workshops/family events

Explore zoology

Experiments in form

We have rifled through drawers and cabinets to find our most amazing animals for our family hands-on, specimen-based activities. Ever wondered what the skin of a python feels like or how many spots a leopard has?

Bring along your budding zoologists and ask our enthusiastic museum educators these questions and more.

Join artist Nadine Mahoney for this workshop exploring the influence of surface in the creation and the understanding of art. You will explore UCL Art Museum’s collection to discuss how artists both past and present have worked with pigments to create complex works. You will then explore mark and tone by making your own pastels and using them to create your own masterpiece.

Sat 18 Oct | 1–4:30pm UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Wed 29 Oct | 1–3pm Pre-booking essential Suggested donation of £10 per ticket UCL Art Museum m.rouleau@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2540

Marvellous mammals

The subversive millinery: collective creativity

From rhinos to wombats, this half-term, we will be celebrating the beautiful and furry world of mammals. Come handle some of our marvellous mammal specimens such as elephant tusks, tiger skulls and leopard skin.

Mon 27 Oct–Sat 1 Nov | 1–4:30pm UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

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Join Dr Susannah Walker, artist and lecturer in UCL History of Art, to make a unique headdress out of recycled materials.

During this evening of “anti-establishment” millinery, you will look at the history of headpieces and find inspiration in artworks from our collection.

Thur 30 Oct | 6–9pm Pre-booking essential Suggested donation of £15 per ticket UCL Art Museum m.rouleau@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2540

Halloween at the Grant Where better to spend Halloween than in a room of scary skeletons and skulls? Join us, if you dare, for a special late opening and discover the museum after-dark, enjoy a drink and uncover some ghoulish animal facts along the way with Halloween-themed specimen labels.

Fri 31 Oct | 6:30–9pm £5 tickets are sold on the door and include a free glass of wine UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Festival of Geology The Festival of Geology is a partnership between UCL, the Geologists Association and Rockwatch. Try your hand at gem panning, identifying minerals and casting fossils, or listen to talks on topics as varied as Mars exploration or the colour of dinosaurs at this day-long celebration of all things geological.

Sat 1 Nov | 10am–4pm Pre-booking essential Wilkins Building w.kirk@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 7900

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Activities/workshops/family events

Drawing Life

Explore zoology

Join the Drawing Life workshops and find out how the act of drawing can unlock the complex relationships at work in nature.

We will immerse ourselves in ecology while exploring the wonderful specimens in the collection. Join us for just one workshop or come to all three.

We have rifled through drawers and cabinets to find our most amazing animals for our family hands-on, specimen-based activities. Ever wondered what the skin of a python feels like or how many spots a leopard has? Bring along your budding zoologists and ask our enthusiastic museum educators these questions and more.

Wed 12 Nov | 6:30–8:30pm Pre-booking essential UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Sat 15 Nov | 1–4:30pm UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Art Macabre: life drawing at the Petrie

UCL Art Museum on tour: a thousand words at the Petrie

Join Art Macabre for life drawing in an artistic journey back to ancient Egypt to explore the beauty, power and potency of some of the Petrie Collection’s most stunning objects.

Join us to explore the longstanding relationship between creative writing and the visual arts. Using the Petrie Museum’s rich collection of artefacts and works of art, participants will be led through creative writing exercises exploring rhetorical means to relate to art differently.

Wed 12 Nov | 6–8:30pm Pre-booking essential. Tickets £10 UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

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Thur 20 Nov | 6:30–8pm Pre-booking essential UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology m.rouleau@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2540

UCL Art Museum on tour: deconstructing demolition Join Hilary Powell, Leverhulme Artist in Residence in UCL Chemistry, on a scrap and salvage demolition tour in east London.

We will start by meeting at Moka East Café, near the Olympic site, for a discussion on materials, building and demolition sites.

Thur 27 Nov | 1–3pm Pre-booking essential Moka East Café, The View Tube, Marshgate Lane, London E15 2PJ m.rouleau@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2540

Worlds collide: fin de siècle fantasy Egypt Jump from the 21st century back more than 100 years, then back to ancient Egypt and forward again with author Roger Luckhurst as he talks about occult mappings of London. This mini-festival will include fortune telling with Astrampsychos, making 3D postcards from 1890s Egypt and a 1880s to 1920s disco.

Fri 28 Nov | 6–9pm Pre-booking essential UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

Worlds collide, 28 Nov

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Lunch Hour Lectures Tuesdays and Thursdays 1.15–1.55pm Darwin Lecture Theatre (accessed via Malet Place) Free, no need to book Places are on a first-come, first-served basis. Please arrive by 1pm to avoid disappointment. events@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 3839 Watch live www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl/streamed Watch online www.youtube.com/ucllhl

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On supernovae and serendipity Dr Steve Fossey UCL Physics and Astronomy

In January 2014, the closest thermonuclear supernova in a generation was serendipitously discovered by Dr Fossey and his students. Such supernovae signal the explosive destruction of a white-dwarf star, yet they rarely occur in our immediate cosmic neighbourhood. This discovery promises new insight into the nature of these cosmologically significant events.

Tue 7 Oct

Does parliament matter?

Dr Meg Russell, UCL Constitution Unit

Many people dismiss the Westminster parliament as an ineffective ‘talking shop’, and similar allegations are commonplace about parliaments in other democracies. But, based on substantial research, Dr Russell argues that Westminster is increasingly influential. Her lecture seeks to dispel some common misconceptions about how parliamentary institutions work, in the UK and beyond.

Thur 9 Oct

The powerful effect of placebo Professor Oscar Della Pasqua UCL School of Pharmacy

Placebos have been a component of healing since the beginning of medicine. Today, placebo response remains enigmatic and elicits mixed attitudes from diverse disciplines. In this presentation, we discuss the implications of placebo effect for patients, clinical researchers and regulators.

Tue 14 Oct

Truth and illusion in philosophy and theatre Dr Tom Stern UCL Philosophy

This lecture explores the relationship between philosophy and theatre via the notions of truth and illusion. Theatre is traditionally taken to be a place for illusions and deceit while philosophers, on the other hand, like to present themselves as truth-seekers. Dr Stern’s research explores this apparent conflict.

Tue 21 Oct

Distracted, confused and unaware: the elusive gift of attention Professor Nilli Lavie UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

At times, we are highly distracted and can’t focus our minds; at other times, we are so focused we may fail to notice important things and not even hear a person talking to us. In this lecture, Professor Lavie will describe the psychology and brain research of attention that explains these effects.

Thur 16 Oct

Distracted, confused and unaware, 16 Oct

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Lunch Hour Lectures

How to read paintings Liz Rideal UCL Slade School of Fine Art

Liz Rideal discusses the language of painting and how to read artworks, with particular reference to artists such as Van Dyck, Daumier, Morandi and Frankenthaler.

Thur 23 Oct

Bright sparks: the history and science of fireworks Dr Simon Werrett UCL Science and Technology Studies

Dr Werrett explores the changing relationship between science and art in the 16th to 19th centuries by looking at interactions between pyrotechnicians and scientists.

Fireworks, used to celebrate grand occasions of state, inspired new ideas about the natural world, while scientific advances in physics and chemistry helped to create innovative pyrotechnic effects.

Thur 30 Oct

The powers of the EU: myths and realities Professor Piet Eeckhout UCL Laws

The growing and ever-more intrusive powers of the EU are a constant refrain in political discourse. This lecture will examine what is myth and what is reality, and will discuss the mechanisms contributing to expanding EU powers and the constraints on such expansion.

Tue 28 Oct

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Who wants to work forever?

Professor Tarani Chandola UCL International Centre for Lifecourse Studies in Society and Health

With state pension age increasing, people are retiring from work at an older age. Is this good or bad for your health? Is the choice between working longer or retiring poorer going to affect your wellbeing? This talk examines some of the evidence on this debate.

Tue 11 Nov

Short films from a small nation: marketing postwar Denmark Dr Claire Thomson UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: understanding other people’s actions Dr James Kilner UCL Institute of Neurology

Fifty years before Borgen hit British TV screens, Danish directors were making films for British audiences.

Driven by the need to market Danish produce and culture abroad after World War II, the government funded hundreds of short films in many languages, encompassing topics from pensions to bacon and handicrafts.

Successful human interactions depend upon the verbal and non-verbal signals from one individual to another. Our ability to read and understand other people’s actions is essential, and is part of what makes humans such a pro-social species. Dr Kilner will describe our current understanding of the neural mechanisms involved.

Thur 13 Nov

Thur 20 Nov

Toilets and taboos Dr Barbara Penner, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture

Marking World Toilet Day (19 November), this talk exposes the global sanitation crisis. Every person in the UK flushes 50 litres of drinking water down the toilet daily. In the rest of the world, 2.5 billion people have no sanitation at all. This talk examines toilet taboos and radical projects that challenge them.

Tue 18 Nov Bright Sparks, 30 Oct

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Lunch Hour Lectures

The archaeology of Easter Island Professor Sue Hamilton UCL Institute of Archaeology

Easter Island is famous for its colossal statues (moai), which were quarried and sculptured c. 1200–1500 CE and are the product of a prehistoric society.

Study of this society has focused on its demise, but the neglected mystery is why the statues were put up in the first place.

Tue 25 Nov

Accessibility engineering: enabling a human right Dr Catherine Holloway UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering

Disabled people make up the world’s largest minority; in the UK, about 10% of a person’s life will be spent with a disability. Access to buildings and services is a human right, however making the world accessible for everyone is challenging.

Dr Holloway will explore accessibility engineering – from exoskeletons to transport.

Tue 2 Dec

Dying to have a baby

Can big data attack heart disease?

Dr Gwyneth Lewis UCL Institute for Women’s Health

Professor Harry Hemingway UCL Epidemiology and Public Health

Dr Lewis explores the underlying political, social and medical factors contributing to continuing, and inexcusable, global health inequities. This lecture will explain how these factors lead to the innumerable and preventable maternal and newborn deaths that continue to occur throughout the world in 2014.

How can the data collected in hospitals be used to help improve quality of care? What benefits might come from linking health record data with genomic data?

And how can we build public trust in the research uses of health data?

Professor Hemingway will discuss these using the example of cardiovascular diseases.

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Thur 4 Dec

Performances Film screenings Music

Bright Club Bright Club, the comedy night where UCL researchers try their hand at stand-up comedy, is partnering with Kew Gardens for a special series of events.

Supported by a professional comedian, our performers will be focusing on the theme of alcohol.

Sun 21 Sep | 3–4pm Free with entrance ticket to Kew Gardens Kew Gardens, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AB www.brightclub.org +44 (0)20 3108 1198

Bright Club Bright Club, the comedy night where UCL researchers try their hand at stand-up comedy, continues a successful partnership with the National Trust with a special event at Ham House.

Supported by a professional comedian, our performers will be focusing on history and heritage.

Wed 24 Sep | 7–10pm Pre-booking essential. Tickets £8 Ham House and Garden, Ham, Richmond, TW10 7RS www.brightclub.org +44 (0)20 3108 1198

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Performances/film screenings/music

Bright Club

Bright Club

Bright Club, the comedy night where UCL researchers try their hand at stand-up comedy, is partnering with Kew Gardens for a special series of events. Supported by a professional comedian, our performers will be focusing on the theme of cannabis.

Bright Club, the comedy night where UCL researchers try their hand at stand-up comedy, is partnering with Kew Gardens for a special series of events.

Supported by a professional comedian, our performers will be focusing on the theme of coffee.

Sun 28 Sep | 3–4pm Free with entrance ticket to Kew Gardens Kew Gardens, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AB www.brightclub.org +44 (0)20 3108 1198

UCL Chamber Music Club concert A festive baroque concert to start the season, featuring J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No 4, BWV 1049 and cantatas by Thomas Arne, including The School of Anacreon. Refreshments will be served after the concert.

Thur 2 Oct | 5:30–6:30pm Haldane Room j.house@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)7903 104 764

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Sun 5 Oct | 3–4pm Free with entrance ticket to Kew Gardens Kew Gardens, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AB www.brightclub.org +44 (0)20 3108 1198

Bright Club Bright Club, the comedy night where UCL researchers try their hand at stand-up comedy, is partnering with Kew Gardens for a special series of events.

Supported by a professional comedian, our performers will be focusing on the theme of magic mushrooms.

Sun 12 Oct | 3–4pm Free with entrance ticket to Kew Gardens Kew Gardens, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB www.brightclub.org +44 (0)20 3108 1198

UCL Chamber Music Club concert

UCL Chamber Music Club concert

A concert of music by Brahms, including his Piano Quartet No.3 in C minor, Op.60.

The Chamber Music Club’s annual joint concert with the Oxford and Cambridge Musical Club. Our contribution will include the song-cycle Songs of Travel by Vaughan Williams.

Tue 14 Oct | 5:30–6:30pm Haldane Room j.house@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)7903 104 764

Wed 29 Oct | 7–9:30pm Haldane Room j.house@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)7903 104 764

The Petrie Film Club: Immortal (2004) In 2095, a pyramid appears over New York City, populated by humans and genetically altered humans, some of whom have secret powers. John J. Johnson introduces Immortal, a French-produced film based on the comic book, The Carnival of Immortals, which resets the Egyptian gods as space deities in the 21st century.

Wed 15 Oct | 6–8:30pm Pre-booking essential UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

Bright Club, 28 Sept, 5 Oct & 12 Oct

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Performances/film screenings/music

UCL Chamber Music Club concert ‘Ein Heldenleben’ (A hero’s life): a portrait of composer Richard Strauss, whose 150th anniversary is celebrated in 2014.

The programme will include movements from his Cello Sonata in F major, Op.6 and from his Piano Quartet in C minor, Op.13, together with a selection of songs.

“I died in hell – (They called it Passchendaele)”: WWI through Europe’s literatures We can no longer speak to those who fought in the trenches. But we can speak their languages. In German, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian and Turkish, and with English narration and surtitles, the imaginative response to conflict will be explored in a unique multimedia performance.

Fri 31 Oct | 1:10–1:55pm Haldane Room j.house@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)7903 104 764

Tue 4 Nov | 7–8pm Pre-booking essential Tickets: £10, £5 concessions Bloomsbury Theatre boxoffice@thebloomsbury.com +44 (0)20 3108 1000

Gentlemen of horror: Mr Cushing and Mr Lee

Petrie Film Club: Lucifer Rising (1980)

When they first worked together in The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Mummy, Peter Cushing was one of the most famous actors in Britain, while Christopher Lee was unknown. As Lee became internationally famous, Cushing gradually retired into a life of quiet obscurity. And yet neither quite lost their taste for blood...

A rare opportunity to see Kenneth Anger’s avant-garde classic, Lucifer Rising. The screening is accompanied by a talk from Ethan Doyle White (UCL), focusing on the film’s occult themes and the way in which Anger reflected the esoteric views of archaeology and Egyptology, promulgated in the ideas of infamous British occultist Aleister Crowley.

Fri 31 Oct | 6–9pm Pre-booking essential. Tickets £10 UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

Thur 6 Nov | 6–8pm Pre-booking essential UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

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Science Showoff at the Bloomsbury Theatre Science Showoff is the chaotic scientific cabaret night where you never know what science is coming next. Join host Steve Cross and 10 amazing communicators of science from UCL and beyond for an evening of laughs and learning. Your ticket money will be given to charity.

Suitable for over 18s only.

Thur 6 Nov | 7:30–10pm Pre-booking essential. Tickets £8 Bloomsbury Theatre boxoffice@thebloomsbury.com +44 (0)20 3108 1000

Bright Club Bright Club, the comedy night where UCL researchers try their hand at stand-up comedy, heads to London Zoo to celebrate UCL’s links with the Institute of Zoology. Supported by a professional comedian, our performers will be looking at all things animal.

Wed 12 Nov | 7–10pm Pre-booking essential. Tickets £5 London Zoo, Regents Park Outer Circle, London NW1 4RY www.brightclub.org +44 (0)20 3108 1198

UCL Chamber Music Club concert A lunchtime concert featuring performers from UCLU Music Society.

Wed 12 Nov | 1:10–1:55pm Haldane Room j.house@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)7903 104 764

UCL Chamber Music Club concert, 31 Oct, 12 Nov, & 21 Nov 27

Performances/film screenings/music

Henry IV, Part I

Rhythm & booze

UCLU Drama Society presents Shakespeare’s first instalment of King Henry IV, chronicling the rise of Hal from licentious lout to moral monarch. In this adaptation, his celebrated characters will be hurtled forward 400 years into London, 1940, where the city is on the cusp of a different war.

On 16 January 1920, alcohol in America was prohibited. However, this didn’t stop the gangster-filled speakeasies of Chicago cropping up to a soundtrack of riotous jazz.

As the trendy ‘20s came to an end, jazz had only just started to mature into some of the styles that we recognise today.

Thur 13–Sat 15 Nov | 7:30–10pm Pre-booking essential. Tickets: £10, £5 UCL students, £7 concessions Bloomsbury Theatre boxoffice@thebloomsbury.com +44 (0)20 3108 1000

Fri 21–Sat 22 Nov | 7:30–9:30pm Pre-booking essential. Tickets: £10, £5 UCL students, £6 concessions Bloomsbury Theatre boxoffice@thebloomsbury.com +44 (0)20 3108 1000

UCL Chamber Music Club concert

One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975) on the big screen

‘Composers on composers’: a programme of music in which one composer has celebrated or commemorated another, including works by Byrd, Couperin, Grieg, Ravel, Takemitsu and Gershwin.

A team of nannies joins forces with Scotland Yard to find top secret documents stolen and hidden within the skeleton of a dinosaur in the Natural History Museum. Professor Joe Cain (UCL Science and Technology Studies) will introduce the film, which is followed by a free drinks reception and a private view of the UCL Grant Museum.

Fri 21 Nov | 1:10–1:55pm Haldane Room j.house@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)7903 104 764

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Tue 25 Nov | 6:30–9pm JZ Young Lecture Theatre zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

UCLU charity concert in the Quad

UCL Chamber Music Club concert

Join us for a festive celebration as a market takes over the Quad during the day and an evening concert takes place from 5:30pm – all in an effort to raise vital funds for worthy, charitable causes. Performances will feature many UCLU student societies.

Join the club’s choir and players in the North Cloisters to celebrate Christmas with a feast of seasonal music. Refreshments will be served after the concert.

Tue 2 Dec | 1–8pm UCL Main Quad a.breen@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2506

Tue 9 Dec | 6–7pm North Cloisters j.house@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)7903 104 764

UCL Chamber Music Club concert We present two important pieces for the unusual septet combination of violin, viola, cello, double bass, horn, clarinet and bassoon. Beethoven’s Septet, Op. 20, premiered in 1800, was one of his most successful, popular and rearranged works. Sweden’s Franz Berwald wrote his own highly innovative Septet in 1828.

Tue 2 Dec | 5.30–6.30pm Haldane Room j.house@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)7903 104 764

UCLU Charity concert in the Quad, 2 Dec

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Exhibitions

Art and honour: contemporary impressions of WWI This exhibition commemorates the start of World War I and has at its centre the UCL Roll of Honour.

Drawing on UCL Special Collections’ Little Magazines, college archives and the 1914–18 collection, the exhibition also recalls the European avant-garde and more personal impressions of the Great War. Mon 3 Feb–Fri 19 Dec | 9:30am–5pm UCL Main Library k.cheney@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 6141

Voices of war: UCL in WWI Highlighted by personal stories and artefacts, this exhibition tells not only of UCL boys fighting in the trenches, but also demonstrates the effect that the war had on UCL at home. Focusing on seven UCL students from the arts, politics, science, archaeology, protest and poetry, Voices of War will illustrate their diverse experiences from 1914–1918.

Fri 2 May 2014– Sun 5 Apr 2015 | 8am–6pm UCL Institute of Archaeology http://voicesofwar.tumblr.com maya.makker.13@ucl.ac.uk 20 2 0 28

Exploring the influence of science and technology on prostate cancer Curated by Dean Barratt (UCL Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering) and Mark Emberton (UCL Surgery and Interventional Science), the exhibition is divided into four themes – perceptions of prostate cancer and men’s health; anatomy; medical imaging; and treatment. It includes objects from the UCL Museums collections and digital content from UCL research.

Exploring the influence of science and technology on prostate cancer, 30 July–19 Dec

30 July–19 Dec | 7am–9pm Octagon Gallery, Wilkins Building sussanah.chan@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 3163

Art and honour, 3 Feb–19 Dec

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Cities Methodologies 2014 UCL Urban Lab’s annual exhibition and events programme returns, showcasing innovations in urban research methods and cross-disciplinary work on cities worldwide. The exhibition shows different methods of scrutinising the city and processes of urbanisation, while the curated programme features live music nights, film screenings and guided walks.

Tue 28–Fri 31 Oct | All day Pre-booking essential for some events Slade Research Centre urbanlaboratory@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 9402

Slade Print Fair The annual fundraising Slade Print Fair returns with works for sale by Slade staff and students, live printing and the latest exclusive Slade Edition. All proceeds will go to support student scholarships.

Wed 26–Fri 28 Nov | 12–8pm Slade Research Centre o.mills@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2313

Slade Print Fair, 26–28 Nov

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Events diary 3 Feb– 19 Dec

9:30am–5pm

Art and honour: contemporary impressions of WWI

p30

2 May 14– 5 Apr 15

8am–6pm

Voices of war: UCL in WWI

p30

30 July– 19 Dec

7am–9pm

Exploring the influence of science and technology on prostate cancer

p31

10 Sep

6:30–8:30pm

Drawing Life

p11

11 Sep

10am–6pm

The impact of World War I on the Jews and their Europe

p02

13 Sep

1–4:30pm

Explore zoology

p12

19 Sep

5:30–7:30pm

Maya-on-the-Thames

p12

20 Sep

10am–6pm

Maya-on-the-Thames

p12

21 Sep

10am–4pm

Maya-on-the-Thames

p12

21 Sep

3–4pm

Bright Club

p23

24 Sep

6–8pm

Gates to Egypt: mapping alternate worlds

p02

24 Sep

7–10pm

Bright Club

p23

25 Sep

1–2pm

Show ‘n’ tell: Chagos Islands

p03

27 Sep

2–5pm

Space beads from ancient Egypt: making objects from meteorites

p03

28 Sep

3–4pm

Bright Club

p24

1 Oct

5:30–7:30pm

Interrogating race and achievement in Trinidad

p03

2 Oct

5:30–6:30pm

UCL Chamber Music Club concert

p24

4 Oct

3–5pm

Treasure hunt – great lives from ancient Africa

p12

5 Oct

3–4pm

Bright Club

p24

7 Oct

1.15–1.55pm

On supernovae and serendipity

p18

8 Oct

1–2pm

Show ‘n’ tell: Peatlands

p04

8 Oct

6:30–8:30pm

Drawing Life

p12

8 Oct

6–9pm

UCL Art Museum on tour: Japanese woodblock printing

p13

9 Oct

1.15–1.55pm

Does parliament matter?

p18

9 Oct

6–7:30pm

Sense and sensibility?

Translations of the Old English Boethius

p04

9 Oct

5–8pm

Black History Month: Tours of the Petrie Museum

p13

12 Oct

3–4pm

Bright Club

p24

14 Oct

1.15–1.55pm

The powerful effect of placebo

p19

14 Oct

5:30–6:30pm

UCL Chamber Music Club concert

p25

15 Oct

6–8:30pm

The Petrie Film Club: Immortal (2004)

p25

16 Oct

1.15–1.55pm

Distracted, confused and unaware: the elusive gift of attention

p19

16 Oct

7–9pm

Focus on the Positive

p04

18 Oct

1–4:30pm

Explore zoology

p14

21 Oct

1.15–1.55pm

Truth and illusion in philosophy and theatre

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Events diary 22 Oct

1–2pm

Show ‘n’ tell: Soda lakes

p04

22 Oct

6:15–8pm

Medieval Latin Christian texts on the Jewish calendar

p05

23 Oct

1.15–1.55pm

How to read paintings

p20

23 Oct

6–7:30pm

Translating the poem: Henri Meschonnic’s poetics of translating

p05

23 Oct

6–8pm

Evo’s Bolivia: continuity and change

p05

27 Oct–1 Nov 1–4:30pm

Marvellous mammals

p14

28 Oct

1.15–1.55pm

The powers of the EU: myths and realities

p20

28–31 Oct

All day

Cities Methodologies 2014

p32

29 Oct

1–3pm

Experiments in form

p14

29 Oct

6–8pm

David Barnett: Gideon Smith and fantasy Egypt in Victorian London

p06

29 Oct

6:45–9pm

The faith of Abraham and the trials regarding his sons

p06

29 Oct

7–9:30pm

UCL Chamber Music Club concert

p25

30 Oct

1.15–1.55pm

Bright sparks: the history and science of fireworks

p20

30 Oct

6–8pm

Race, religion and culture in Brazilian social thought

p06

30 Oct

6–9pm

The subversive millinery: collective creativity

p14

31 Oct

1:10–1:55pm

UCL Chamber Music Club concert

p26

31 Oct

6–9pm

Gentlemen of horror: Mr Cushing and Mr Lee

p26

31 Oct

6:30–9pm

Halloween at the Grant

p15

1 Nov

10am–4pm

Festival of Geology

p15

4 Nov

7–8pm

“I died in hell – (They called it Passchendaele)”: WWI through Europe’s literatures

p26

6 Nov

6–8pm

Petrie Film Club: Lucifer Rising (1980)

p26

6 Nov

7:30–10pm

Science Showoff at the Bloomsbury Theatre

p27

6–7 Nov

12:30–2pm

Stewardship for planet Earth

p06

11 Nov

1.15–1.55pm

Who wants to work forever?

p20

12 Nov

1:10–1:55pm

UCL Chamber Music Club concert

p27

12 Nov

6:30–8:30pm

Drawing Life

p16

12 Nov

6–8:30pm

Art Macabre: life drawing at the Petrie

p16

12 Nov

7–10pm

Bright Club

p27

13 Nov

1.15–1.55pm

Short films from a small nation: marketing postwar Denmark

p21

13 Nov

6–7:30pm

Berman on Benjamin: a trilingual translation journey

p07

13 Nov

6:30–8:30pm

Empires, nationalisms and the First World War

p07

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13–15 Nov

7:30–10pm

Henry IV, Part I

p28

15 Nov

1–4:30pm

Explore zoology

p16

18 Nov

1.15–1.55pm

Toilets and taboos

p21

18 Nov

6:30–9pm

18th Annual Grant Lecture: Why aren’t there any marsupial whales?

p07

19 Nov

5:30–7:30pm

Total war: Mexico and Europe, 1914

p08

20 Nov

1.15–1.55pm

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: understanding other people’s actions

p21

20 Nov

5:30–7pm

The 2014 Lancet Lecture: The half-life of caste – the ill-health of a nation

p08

20 Nov

6:30–8pm

Hunt for the Jews: the case of occupied Poland, 1942–1945

p08

20 Nov

6:30–8pm

UCL Art Museum on tour: a thousand words at the Petrie

p16

21 Nov

1:10–1:55pm

UCL Chamber Music Club concert

p28

21– 22 Nov

7:30–9:30pm

Rhythm & booze

p28

25 Nov

1.15–1.55pm

The archaeology of Easter Island

p22

25 Nov

6:30–9pm

One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975) on the big screen

p28

26– 28 Nov

12–8pm

Slade Print Fair

p32

26 Nov

1–2pm

Show ‘n’ tell: Great apes

p08

27 Nov

1.15–1.55pm

Dying to have a baby

p22

27 Nov

1–3pm

UCL Art Museum on tour: deconstructing demolition

p17

27 Nov

6–7:30pm

Derrida and translation

p09

27 Nov

6:30–8pm

Moses Gaster and the Anglo-Jewish community in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries

p09

28 Nov

6–9pm

Worlds collide: fin de siècle fantasy Egypt

p17

1 Dec

6–7:30pm

Christian and Jewish tombstones from ancient Zoara/Zoora

p09

2 Dec

1.15–1.55pm

Accessibility engineering: enabling a human right

p22

2 Dec

1–8pm

UCLU charity concert in the Quad

p29

2 Dec

5.30–6.30pm

UCL Chamber Music Club concert

p29

4 Dec

1.15–1.55pm

Can big data attack heart disease?

p22

3–5 Dec

10am–10pm

The Graffiti Sessions

p10

6 Dec

2–10:30pm

The archaeology of Lawrence of Arabia

p10

9 Dec

6–7pm

UCL Chamber Music Club concert

p29

10 Dec

5:30–7:30pm

Michelle Bachelet’s presidencies: gender, politics and institutional change in Chile

p10

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Venues/Map

7 Chadwick Lecture Theatre Chadwick Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT 8 Darwin Lecture Theatre (accessed via Malet Place) London WC1E 6BT 36

13 Logan Hall Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL 14 UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Malet Place, London WC1E 6BT Tues–Sat, 1–5pm events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/ petrie 15 Slade Research Centre Slade Research Centre Woburn Square Goodge Street London WC1H +44 (020) 7679 2313

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12 J. Z. Young Lecture TheatreUNIVERSITY STREET Anatomy Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

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6 UCL Bloomsbury Theatre 15 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AH +44 (0)20 3108 1000 www.thebloomsbury.com

11 Haldane Room Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Anatomy

5 UCL Art Museum South Cloisters, Wilkins Building, Gower Street London WC1E 6BT Mon–Fri, 1–5pm college.art@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2540 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/ uclart

10 Gustave Tuck GRAFTON WAY Lecture Theatre Wilkins Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

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4 UCL Institute of Archaeology 31–34 Gordon Square London WC1H 0PY +44 (0)20 7679 7495

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3 UCL Institute of the Americas 51 Gordon Square London WC1H 0PN +44 (0)20 3108 9721 www.ucl.ac.uk/americas

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2 Sir Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre (G06) Malet Place, London WC1E 6BT

9 UCL Grant Museum Warren Street of Zoology Rockefeller Building 21 University Street London WC1E 6DE Mon–Fri, 1–5pm zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/ zoology TOTTEN HAM

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Getting to UCL

By Tube

ACCESSIBILITY

Underground stations near to UCL’s main campus:

UCL aims to provide accessibility to all its events.

If you require any information about any accessibility requirements, please contact UCL Disability Services on:

Euston Square (Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City Lines) Goodge Street (Northern Line) Warren Street (Northern and Victoria Lines)

+44 (0)20 7679 0100 disability@ucl.ac.uk

By Rail Mainline train stations near to UCL’s main campus: Euston, King’s Cross and St Pancras International

By Bus Buses serving Gower Street: 134, 390, 10, 73, 24, 29, 14

By Car The Bloomsbury area has metered parking and visitors are strongly advised not to travel to UCL by car.

University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT +44 (0)20 7679 2000 For further information about any of our events, please visit our website:

www.ucl.ac.uk/events