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Public events at UCL: January–April 2015

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Welcome to UCL’s public events leaflet, showcasing a range of public talks, lectures, exhibitions, workshops, film screenings and performances taking place throughout spring 2015. There are many great events from January right through until April. Join us to hear UCL Vice-Provost (International) Dame Nicola Brewer speak about her experiences as an ambassador in South Africa (p4) or visit Your Universe, UCL’s festival of astronomy, cosmology, astrobiology and particle physics (p14). The UCL Lunch Hour Lecture series is once again full of fascinating speakers for the spring term and we are delighted to welcome back Professor Steve Jones who will ask the question ‘Did God evolve?’ (p15). The events listed here are only a selection of what’s on offer, and correct at time of going to press. For more information on each event or for a full listing, please visit our online events calendar: www.ucl.ac.uk/events

Cover image: Strange Creatures: the art of the unknown animals, p27 © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

Talks

Activities

Lunch Hour Lectures

Performances

Exhibitions

Events diary

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Talks Lectures Discussions

Venture research and other adventures: are we getting the most out of UK research? This panel discussion, hosted by UCL Public Policy and chaired by Professor Graeme Reid, Professor of Science and Research Policy at UCL, will explore how creativity and innovation in research can best be supported, with perspectives from academics, venture researchers and research funders. Wed 14 Jan | 6–8:30pm Pre-booking essential Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre, Roberts Building +44 (0)20 7679 8584

UCL Art Museum new acquisitions – Amy Feneck in conversation Join Amy Feneck, UCL Slade artist, and Lynette Cawthra, Library Manager of the Working Class Movement Library, to discuss one of UCL Art Museum’s latest acquisitions: the Spanish Civil War series.

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Thur 15 Jan | 1–2pm Pre-booking essential South Wing Committee Room G12 college.art@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

Book online: www.ucl.ac.uk/events

The Septuagint and its role in the birth and spread of Christianity

Love, lust and longing in Greek poetry and image

Dr Aleksander Gomola (Jagiellonian University) discusses the extent to which the Septuagint – the third century BCE Koine Greek translation of the Hebrew – may be responsible for the transformation of Christianity from a minor Jewish sect into the religion that lies at the foundations of western civilisation.

The Petrie Museum ventures north from Bloomsbury to the Freud Museum for a view of its current temporary exhibition, ‘Freud & Eros’ and a discussion of Freud’s substantial private antiquity collection and Greek lyric poetry with Dr Peter Agocs (UCL Greek and Latin) and Egyptologist John J. Johnston.

Thur 22 Jan | 6–7:30pm Pre-booking essential Lecture Theatre G6 UCL Institute of Archaeology g.brodie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 1317

Tue 27 Jan | 6–8:30pm Tickets: £10, £8 concessions, book online Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens London NW3 5SX events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

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. Having chosen her object, Jennifer Adams will join us to discuss her work on the biodiversity of the wetlands surrounding Lake Baikal in Siberia. Fri 23 Jan | 1–2pm UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Image courtesy of Freud Museum London

Show ‘n’ tell: Lake Baikal

Love, lust and longing in Greek poetry and image, 27 Jan 03

Talks/lectures/discussions

The Grant Museum’s living library Join us for an evening of conversation as UCL researchers bring to life our collection and share some of their stories. For one night only, they will be your living library books. Come find out more about their exciting research and discover more about our specimens. Wed 28 Jan | 6:30–9pm UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Social geographies of cuneiform scholarship in ancient Iraq This talk focuses on the individuals and communities who wrote in cuneiform script on clay tablets some 5,000–2,000 years ago in and around modern-day Iraq. Who learned to write in cuneiform? How, why and where did they do so? How have they shaped our view of the first half of history? Tue 3 Feb | 6:30–7:30pm Pre-booking essential Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre t.rickards@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 1346

Eleanor Roosevelt Annual Lecture: The rebellious life of Rosa Parks

Being an ambassador: four years in South Africa

Rosa Parks is best known as the woman whose refusal to get off a segregated bus sparked the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott of 1955–56 – a key event in the development of the Civil Rights Revolution. Distinguished historian Professor Jeanne Theoharis explores how her life was dedicated to rebellion against racism.

Vice-Provost (International) Dame Nicola Brewer will give a view from personal experience of what ambassadors do all day (and most evenings). She will also talk about diplomatic practice and ‘tradecraft’, and the years that she spent in the beautiful, complicated and self-critical country that South Africa is today.

Thur 29 Jan | 6pm–8pm J. Z. Young Lecture Theatre ucl-ia@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 9721

Thur 5 Feb | 5:30–7pm Pre-booking essential A. V. Hill Lecture Theatre +44 (0)20 7679 4902

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Translating culture thickly – Mashiho Chiri and translation of Ainu oral tradition In 2009, the Ainu people of Japan were finally recognised as a ‘first nation’, after having their language and culture repressed by Japanese colonisation for more than a century. This lecture will focus on the Japanese translations of Ainu oral tradition by linguist/ethnographer Mashiho Chiri – an Ainu himself. Thur 5 Feb | 6–7:30pm Pre-booking essential Lecture Theatre G6 UCL Institute of Archaeology g.brodie@ucl.ac.uk; +44 (0)20 3108 1317

How does stuff get into museums? An introduction to a new AHRC-funded research project that links field archaeology in Egypt to museum collections across the world. Emma Libonati and Alice Stevenson will explore the complex networks and stories that emerge from the circulation of excavated finds and why the recent sales of Egyptian antiquities are so concerning. Thur 5 Feb | 6–8pm Pre-booking essential UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

Being an ambassador: four years in South Africa, 5 Feb 05

Talks/lectures/discussions

Show ’n’ tell: Reptiles of the Seychelles

Staging Greek tragedy today: a public symposium

We have invited UCL PhD students to showcase just one object from the Grant Museum’s collection of 68,000 and tell you what they know about it. Having chosen his object, Simon Maddock will talk about his work using cutting-edge DNA sequencing and CT scanning on the evolutionary relationship between reptiles and amphibians in the Seychelles.

Academics and theatre practitioners in conversation, discussing the challenges of staging ancient Greek tragedy in the modern world. Participants include Professor Edith Hall (King’s), Ben Power (Associate Director, National Theatre) and Helen Eastman (Director of the Cambridge Greek Plays). A wine reception will follow.

Fri 6 Feb | 1–2pm UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Plucked hens and principals: tackling Dutch politics in 17th-century England

Fri 13 Feb | 2:30–6pm Pre-booking essential Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre r.andujar@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 7522

Caroline Lawrence: The Scribes from Alexandria

This talk will offer new perspectives on 17th-century European politics, by drawing attention not just to the English fascination with the Dutch political system, but also to contemporary recognition of the need to work with and through Dutch institutions, and to confront the limitations of state sovereignty.

Join Roman Mysteries writer Caroline Lawrence for a reading from, and quiz based on, her Egypt-based book, The Scribes from Alexandria. There will be a chance to win signed copies of the book and explore a trail of riddles around the museum with the young detectives Nubia, Flavia, Jonathan and Lupus.

Tue 10 Feb | 6:30–7:30pm Pre-booking essential Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre t.rickards@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 1346

Wed 18 Feb | 2–4pm Ticket price: £3, book online UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

Book online: www.ucl.ac.uk/events

The 2015 UCL Global Citizenship Lecture: Shami Chakrabarti on liberty Shami Chakrabarti, whom the Sun has called ‘the most dangerous woman in Britain’, is Director of Liberty and an outspoken advocate of human rights. She will talk about the vital importance of civil liberties for citizenship, both local and global, and the way that these liberties are increasingly under threat in a post-9/11 world. Tues 24 Feb | 6.30–7.30pm Pre-booking essential Cruciform Lecture Theatre 1 s.abrams@ucl.ac.uk

Bible translation and South Asian Christianity The Bible’s history in India is a history of translation and cultural transfer. In this talk, Dr Hephzibah Israel will discuss the significant role played by key translation principles and strategies in shaping language use, energising wider debates on religion and scriptures and in structuring Protestant identities in South Asia. Thur 26 Feb | 6–7:30pm Pre-booking essential G6, UCL Institute of Archaeology g.brodie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 1317

Show ’n’ tell: The living glass We have invited our Leverhulme Artist in Residence to showcase just one object from the Grant Museum’s collection of 68,000 and tell you what they know about it. How do animals grow from glass? Find out more with Eleanor Morgan as she explores the museum’s glass sponge collection. Wed 25 Feb | 1–2pm UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052 Caroline Lawrence: The Scribes from Alexandria, 18 Feb 07

Talks/lectures/discussions

Focus on the positive

Show ‘n’ tell: Ponds

Worried about the world’s problems? Here’s 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.

We have invited UCL PhD students to showcase just one object from the Grant Museum’s collection of 68,000 and tell you what they know about it. Having chosen her object, Helen Greaves will join us to discuss her work on agricultural ponds and how their restoration supports some of the UK’s rarest animals and plants.

Thur 26 Feb | 6:30–9pm UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Objects of desire Join Egyptologist John J. Johnston and a host of academics and artistes as they discuss artefacts from the Petrie Museum and the stories that they tell about the concepts of desire, both ancient and modern. Part of LGBT History Month. Thur 26 Feb | 6–9pm Ticket price: £3, book online UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

Fri 27 Feb | 1–2pm UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Politics, academia and the real world Drawing on her own research Professor Meg Russell (UCL Constitution Unit) will argue that closer engagement between political practitioners and academics is highly desirable, but also challenging, in the quest by both groups to comprehend, and shape, the world beyond. Tue 3 Mar | 6:30–7:30pm Pre-booking essential Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre t.rickards@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 1346

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The politics of rewriting Haitian translation The work of André Lefevere has sensitised us to the politics of colonial translation, but what of authors from the ‘cultural periphery’? Professor Andy Leak looks at Gary Victor’s A l’angle des rues parallèles, first published in Haiti in 2000 and republished in France in 2003. Thur 12 Mar | 6–7:30pm Pre-booking essential Lecture Theatre G6 UCL Institute of Archaeology g.brodie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 1317

World TB Day TB remains one of the world’s top infectious killers, despite being curable and preventable. Join us on World TB Day to explore how to find and treat those with this curable disease, and hear about the latest research from leading scientists. Tue 24 Mar | 9:30am–5:30pm Kennedy Lecture Theatre s.welsher@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 6932

Why study the history of psychotherapy? Suspended between science, medicine, religion, art and philosophy, modern psychotherapies represent one of the distinctive features of 20th century western societies. This talk explores how studying their history may reveal the way that they have shaped contemporary notions of psychological disorder, wellbeing and identity itself – and continue to do so. Tue 17 Mar | 6:30–7:30pm Pre-booking essential Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre t.rickards@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 1346

Translation in History events: 22 Jan, 5 Feb, 26 Feb and 12 Mar 09

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. Tue 13 Jan | 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9pm Pre-booking essential UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Explore zoology We have rifled through drawers and cabinets to bring out some of 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.

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Sat 17 Jan | 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4:30pm UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

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The imaginary menagerie

Explore zoology

In the Grant Museum, we have amazing and beautiful animals on display, but some have to be seen to be believed, such as the quagga, a not very stripy zebra, or the duck-billed platypus. Come along and be inspired by the natural world to create your own animal artwork with a museum artist.

We have rifled through drawers and cabinets to bring out some of 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.

Sat 31 Jan | 1–4pm UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Sat 7 Feb | 1–4:30pm UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Life and death drawing: war, art and surgery at the Hunterian Museum

Thur 5 Feb | 2–5pm Pre-booking essential Tickets £5, which includes materials The Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, 35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, WC2A 3PE Life and death drawing: war, art and surgery college.art@ucl.ac.uk; +44 (0)20 7679 4138

Join UCL Art Museum, Dr Chiara Ambrosio and Dr Carole Reeves to explore the Hunterian’s ‘War, art and surgery’ exhibition and develop your drawing practice in discussion with a philosopher of science and a historian of medicine. The class is suitable for adults of all levels, from beginners to more confident artists.

at the Hunterian Museum, 5 Feb

Activities/workshops/family events

Drawing Life

Incredible invertebrates

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.

Creepy crawlies, bugs, pests – call them what you like, but, this half-term, we will be celebrating the wonderful world of invertebrates. Join us for our fun hands-on, specimen-based activities with our incredible invertebrates and get inventive with designing your own insect.

Tue 10 Feb | 6:30–9pm Pre-booking essential UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Mon 16–Sat 21 Feb | 1–4:30pm UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Valentine’s at the Grant

The imaginary menagerie

Whether you’re looking for love or seeking to impress your Valentine, join us for a special late opening. Discover the museum after-dark, enjoy a drink and uncover how seduction is done in the animal world with our Valentine’s-themed specimen labels.

Sat 14 Feb | 6:30–9pm Tickets £5 on the door (includes a glass of wine or soft drink) UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Sat 28 Feb | 1–4pm UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

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Third Grant Museum (not in a) pub quiz Bring along your brainiest friends to form the ultimate team and compete for the much-coveted Golden Glittery Lion. Do you know your jellyfish from your swordfish or your rabbits from your hares? Join us as we delve into rounds of popular natural history with lots of treats in store throughout the night. Wed 4 Mar | 6:30–9pm Pre-booking essential UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

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. Tue 10 Mar | 6:30–9pm Pre-booking essential UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

UCL Art Museum and the girl at the door: equality, gender and society

Fri 6–Sat 7 Mar | Fri 1–8pm, Sat 2–6pm UCL Main Quad college.art@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

June Jung

Join UCL Art Museum and artist Kristina Clackson Bonnington on the eve of International Women’s Day 2015 to explore the legacy of suffrage and investigate the relationship between art and social change. UCL’s quad will become a site for investigation and discovery during this two-day creative get-together. Drawing Life, 13 Jan, 10 Feb, 10 Mar

Activities/workshops/family events

Fossil forage

The imaginary menagerie

Get stuck in at this free, hands-on activity by sieving through our sediment that dates from more than 50 million years ago – a time when London was underwater and patrolled by sharks and rays. Any fossils that you find, you get to keep – and they are all real. Part of British Science Week.

Sat 21 Mar | 1–4:30pm UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Sat 28 Mar | 1–4pm UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Your Universe

Thur 26–Sat 28 Mar | All day Wilkins Building fd@star.ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)7974917878

UCL’s festival of astronomy, cosmology, astrobiology and particle physics will feature exhibits, practical demonstrations, telescopes looking at the Sun, Moon and the planets Venus and Jupiter (weather permitting) – not to mention, lectures on the Rosetta comet mission, the Large Hadron Collider and the ALMA array of telescopes.

Your Universe, 26–28 Mar

Lunch Hour Lectures Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:15â&#x20AC;&#x201C;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 Follow on Twitter @ucllhl

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Did God evolve? Professor Steve Jones UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment

Many scientists are atheists. Even so, religion itself is open to scientific study and Professor Jones will discuss what science can tell us about how it may have begun. Science has no insight into its mysteries, myths and parables, but shows that from the beginning, economics has driven belief. Tue 20 Jan

Visualising time: calendars, timelines and other time images from ancient Egypt to early modern Europe Professor Sacha Stern UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies

This lecture will trace the history of time visualisation, from ancient Egypt to early modern Europe. It will attempt to explain why visual representations of time developed in some ancient and medieval cultures, but remained unknown in others. Thur 22 Jan

Lunch Hour Lectures

Places=spaces+people Professor Peter Rees UCL Bartlett School of Planning

As Professor of Places, Peter Rees draws on four decades of experience as an architect-planner. Although buildings and spaces are designed by professionals, it is people who turn them into places. Come prepared to share his passion about places and the ways in which they form and change our lives. Tue 27 Jan

The impact of impacts: how the media play in the death of the dinosaur debates Professor Steve Miller UCL Physics & Astronomy

Many people now believe that the dinosaurs were wiped out by the impact of a large asteroid about 66 million years ago. Professor Steve Miller will talk about the threat to Earth from asteroids and comets and the role of the media in making this known. Tue 3 Feb

How can we deal with prejudice and gender bias in the collaborative and competitive world of science? Professor Snezana Djordjevic UCL Institute of Structural & Molecular Biology

Synopsis will be available at www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl Thur 29 Jan

Global citizenship and the problem of global fellow feeling from the Polis to the World Wide Web Dr Tim Beasley-Murray UCL SSEES & Global Citizenship

When Diogenes of Sinope, the Greek philosopher, claimed to be a “citizen of the whole world”, his listeners knew then that he was mad for certain. This lecture will examine the difficulties and importance of global citizenship today, and the contentious concept of ‘global fellow feeling’ that it needs to be based in. Thur 5 Feb

Social harmony and religious diversity: is conciliation possible? Dr Myriam Hunter-Henin UCL Laws

The tensions between social harmony and religious diversity are no longer exclusively a matter of scholarly interest. This lecture will examine when social harmony can legitimately trump individual rights of dissenters and when individual rights to express minority religious beliefs should, on the other hand, triumph. Tue 10 Feb

Nature-inspired chemical engineering: addressing challenges in sustainability by taking guidance from nature Professor Marc-Olivier Coppens UCL Centre for Nature-Inspired Engineering

Evolution has made nature a treasure trove of clever solutions to sustainability, resilience and ways to efficiently utilise scarce resources. This lecture will discuss the fundamental mechanisms found in nature that can help engineer innovative solutions to grand challenges in energy, water, and health. Tue 24 Feb

Protecting usersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; privacy in modern web applications Professor Brad Karp UCL Computer Science

In this talk, targeted at a lay audience, Professor Karp will describe how todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s web architecture forces app developers and users to choose between functionality and privacy, and explain his research on how to end that unpalatable choice. Thur 12 Feb

Places=spaces+people, 27 Jan

Lunch Hour Lectures

Accounting for nature: past, present and future Professor Georgina Mace UCL Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research

Vermeer’s Camera and Tim’s Vermeer Professor Philip Steadman Emeritus Professor of Urban & Built Form Studies and Research Fellow

Rapid changes are now underway that jeopardise many of the irreplaceable benefits that people gain from nature. Professor Mace will discuss various approaches to understanding and reacting to these trends, bringing the benefits from nature closer to everyday planning for people, businesses and governments.

In 2001, Philip Steadman published a book, Vermeer’s Camera, about the Dutch painter’s use of the camera obscura – the predecessor of the photographic camera. The book inspired engineer Tim Jenison to rebuild Vermeer’s studio and ‘paint a Vermeer’ using optical methods. The process was recorded in the Oscar-nominated film Tim’s Vermeer.

Thur 26 Feb

Thur 5 Mar

The grand challenge of education – the IOE, UCL and the world of education

How can we improve growth of small babies before birth?

Professor Chris Husbands UCL Institute of Education

Education has never been more important to more people than it is today. But it is contradictory: global, yet driven by local relationships between teachers and learners; emancipatory, but it often reinforces inequalities. As the IOE joins UCL, this is a chance to ask about its place in the challenges of the 21st century. Tue 3 Mar 18

Dr Anna David UCL Institute for Women’s Health

The failure of a baby to grow normally in the womb is a common pregnancy complication. Every year, it affects up to 70,000 UK pregnancies. Yet there is no treatment. Marking International Women’s Day, Dr David will discuss her work developing a therapy to improve the growth of small babies before birth. Tue 10 Mar

Nature as an economic asset: a new Rethinking the English country era for environmental law and policy? house: ‘Indians’ at home Dr Ben Milligan UCL Laws

Professor Margot Finn UCL History

The term ‘natural capital’ is now widely used to describe parts of the environment that provide valuable goods or services. Dr Milligan will highlight the potentially transformative consequences of recognising nature’s role as an economic asset and how environmental laws and policies around the world are beginning to respond.

This lecture explores the Englishness of the English country house in the Georgian and Victorian periods. Focusing on material culture, wealth accumulation and social relations, its focus will be on the impact of the English East India Company on elite domestic spaces in the Georgian and Victorian eras. Thur 19 Mar

Thur 12 Mar

Language and the brain: insights from deafness and sign language

How does experience shape language development? This lecture will examine what we currently know about how the brain processes a signed language and how you learn to read a language that you can’t hear. It will also examine how this research can be used to drive forward evidence-based language and education interventions. Tue 17 Mar

Chris Clunn

Dr Mairead MacSweeney UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

Vermeer’s Camera and Tim’s Vermeer, 5 March

Performances Film screenings Music

Bright Club Bright Club, the comedy night where UCL researchers try their hand at stand-up comedy, is back at the Bloomsbury Theatre for a bumper-sized night of laughs. Join 10 researchers – supported by three comedy acts, including the brilliant Pappys – for a night of laughter and learning. Tue 20 Jan | 7:30–10pm Pre-booking essential Tickets £8 Bloomsbury Theatre boxoffice@thebloomsbury.com +44 (0)20 3108 1000

UCL Chamber Music Club concert New performers’ concert featuring several performers making their Chamber Music Club début. Works include Felix Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio in D minor Op. 49 and J.S Bach’s Air for the G-string for violin and piano. Thur 22 Jan | 5:30–6:30pm Haldane Room j.house@ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/chamber-music +44 (0)7903 104764

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Petrie Film Club presents Xena: Warrior Princess, ‘For Him the Bell Tolls’ In this episode of cult television series Xena: Warrior Princess, we are introduced to Aphrodite and her son Cupid. The showing will be accompanied by a talk by Amanda Potter on the different aspects of Aphrodite from Greek myth.

UCL Chamber Music Club concert A mixed programme, to include Bloch’s Suite hébraïque for viola and piano and music from the baroque era. Thur 29 Jan | 5:30–6:30pm Haldane Room j.house@ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/chamber-music +44 (0)7903 104764

Thur 22 Jan | 6–8pm Tickets: £3, book online UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

UCL Art Museum Film Club – Nightwatching Join UCL Art Museum Film Club for a screening, of Peter Greenaway’s Nightwatching with an introduction and viewing of some of our Rembrandt prints. Thur 22 Jan | 6:30–8:30pm Pre-booking essential Tickets: £5 Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre college.art@ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/uclart/whats-on +44 (0)20 7679 4138

UCL Chamber Music Club concert ‘Figure 8’: a concert inspired by the number eight, to compliment the exhibition in the Octagon. The programme will include Fauré’s 8th Nocturne, Op.84 No.8 from his Huit pièces brèves. Thur 5 Feb | 5:30–6:30pm Haldane Room j.house@ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/chamber-music +44 (0)7903 104764

Performances/film screenings/music

The UCL Classical Play: Euripides’ Bacchae The UCL Classical Drama Society and UCL Greek & Latin present an amateur production of Euripides’ last play, directed by Emily Louizou with associate director Kyriaki Ioannidou and in a modern English translation by James Morwood. Tue 10–Thur 12 Feb 2:30–5pm & 7:30–10pm Pre-booking essential Tickets: £10, concessions £6 Bloomsbury Theatre boxoffice@thebloomsbury.com +44 (0)20 3108 1000

UCL Chamber Music Club concert A guest fortepiano recital by Professor John Irving of Trinity Laban Conservatoire, Associate Fellow of the Institute for Musical Research and Vice President of the Royal Musical Association. He will play pieces from Mozart’s London Notebook – an astonishingly rich collection by the eight-year-old genius. Fri 13 Feb | 1:10–1:55pm Haldane Room j.house@ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/chamber-music +44 (0)7903 104764

UCL Art Museum Film Club – A Harlot’s Progress

Petrie Film Club presents The Hunger (UK, Tony Scott, 1983)

Join UCL Art Museum Film Club for a screening of A Harlot’s Progress, with an introduction and viewing of some of our Hogarth prints.

Catherine Deneuve’s elegant, ancient Egyptian vampire prowls early 80s New York in this visually and aurally stunning tale of immortality, yearning, solitude…and blood – based on Whitley Streiber’s bestselling novel. Introduced by John J. Johnston. Adults only. Part of LGBT History Month.

Thur 12 Feb | 6:30–8:30pm Pre-booking essential Tickets: £5 Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre m.rouleau@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

Wed 18 Feb | 6–9pm Tickets: £3, book online UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

Book online: www.ucl.ac.uk/events

UCLU Musical Theatre Society presents Spring Awakening Powerful rock musical based on a controversial German play. Set in late-19th century Germany, this show tells the story of teenagers discovering the inner and outer tumult of sexuality and the progression to adulthood. Thur 19–Sat 21 Feb | 7:30–10pm Pre-booking essential Tickets: £10, concession £8, book online Bloomsbury Theatre boxoffice@thebloomsbury.com +44 (0)20 3108 1000

The Glass Ball Game A live reading by members of UCL Classical Drama Society of Mike Walker’s radio play set in Egypt 130 CE, examining the ultimately tragic relationship between Emperor Hadrian and the beautiful youth, Antinous. Followed by a discussion with John J. Johnston. Part of LGBT History Month. Thur 24 Feb | 6–8:30pm Tickets: £10, includes glass of wine, book online UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

UCL Chamber Music Club concert A concert presented jointly with performers from the UCL Institute of Education, with a focus on “collaboration”. Mon 23 Feb | 5:30–6:30pm Haldane Room j.house@ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/chamber-music +44 (0)7903 104764

The Glass Ball Game, 24 Feb

Performances/film screenings/music

UCLU CSSA New Year gala

Synergy

This performance, presented by the UCLU Chinese Students and Scholars Association, will showcase a Chinese family having ‘Nian Ye Fan’ (the New Year’s Eve dinner), chatting about a time in the recent past that they’d wish to travel back to, whether to re experience that moment or change any decisions made.

UCLU Dance Society’s production of Synergy will take you on an exploration into busy city life through hip-hop, contemporary, latin, ballet, jazz and much more… Thur 12–Sat 14 Mar | 7:30–10:30pm Pre-booking essential Tickets: £10, concessions £8 Bloomsbury Theatre boxoffice@thebloomsbury.com +44 (0)20 3108 1000

Tue 24 Feb | 7–9pm Pre-booking essential Tickets: £15, concessions £10 Bloomsbury Theatre boxoffice@thebloomsbury.com +44 (0)20 3108 1000

Petrie Film Club presents Justine (1969) Based on the Lawrence Durrell novel and set in 1930s Alexandria, Justine tells the story of Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet who is introduced by British official Pursewarden to Justine, the mysterious wife of an Egyptian banker. Introduced by Michael Berkowitz (UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies). Thur 5 Mar | 6–8:30pm Tickets: £3, book online UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138 24

UCL Chamber Music Club concert The concert will be presented by members of UCLU Music Society. Fri 13 Mar | 1:10–1:55pm Haldane Room j.house@ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/chamber-music +44 (0)7903 104764

Book online: www.ucl.ac.uk/events

UCL Chamber Music Club concert The concert will celebrate contemporary music and feature music written in the 20th and 21st centuries, including a large scale ensemble piece by Mark-Anthony Turnage and new compositions by our own CMC composers. Tue 24 Mar | 5:30–6:30pm Haldane Room j.house@ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/chamber-music +44 (0)7903 104764

Petrie Film Club presents The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) Karnak and the pyramids make spectacular backdrops to the action as James Bond travels across Egypt with KGB agent Anya Amasova, tracking stolen microfilm. Introduced by John J. Johnstone (UCL Institute of Archaeology). Thur 26 Mar | 6–8:30pm Tickets: £3, book online UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4138

Grant Museum Film Club: Skippy the Bush Kangaroo To celebrate our display of George Stubbs’s The Kongouro from New Holland as part of our Strange Creatures exhibition, the Grant Museum film night will show back-to-back episodes of the Australian TV series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. Introduced by Professor Joe Cain – followed by a free drinks reception and a private view. Tue 24 Mar | 6:30–9pm Roberts Lecture Theatre, Roberts Building zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Petrie Film Club presents, Justine, 5 Mar

Exhibitions

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 students from the arts, politics, science, archaeology, protest and poetry, it will illustrate their diverse experiences from 1914–1918. Fri 2 May 2014–Sun 5 Apr 2015 | 8am–6pm UCL Institute of Archaeology maya.makker.13@ucl.ac.uk http://voicesofwar.tumblr.com

Queen of the sciences: a celebration of numbers and the London Mathematical Society

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In 2015, the London Mathematical Society – closely associated with UCL since its foundation – is 150 years old. We celebrate its anniversary with an exhibition of documents and correspondence from important figures such as Augustus de Morgan – alongside items from Special Collections that represent the numbers one to nine. Mon 2 Feb–Fri 18 Dec | 9:30am–5pm UCL Main Library k.cheney@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 9676

Book online: www.ucl.ac.uk/events

This exhibition will explore the world of animal representations, centred on the painting of a kangaroo by George Stubbs, which was recently saved for the nation. It will feature medieval accounts of exotic creatures, art from the ages of exploration and empire, contemporary taxidermy and reconstructions of dinosaurs based on cutting-edge engineering principles.

Strange creatures: the art of unknown animals

Strange creatures: the art of the unknown animals, 16 Mar–27 Jun

Mon 16 Mar–Sat 27 Jun | 1–5pm Not open Sundays UCL Grant Museum of Zoology zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052

Queen of the sciences: a celebration of numbers and the London Mathematical Society, 2 Feb–18 Dec 27

Exhibitions

Red Mansion Art Prize 2015 Seven leading art colleges in the country nominate six postgraduate students each year for the Red Mansion Art Prize, which encourages artistic exchange between China and the UK. This year’s winners will present work that was produced during a month-long residency in China in summer 2014.

Red Mansion Art Prize 2015, 19–27 Mar

Thurs 19–Fri 27 Mar | 10am–6pm Slade Research Centre slade.enquiries@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2313

Eights in the Octagon: Medieval and Renaissance perspectives Inspired by the Octagon’s shape and location, historians of science and culture will investigate the number eight as a significant principle in Medieval and Renaissance systems of measurement, cosmology, design and creativity. Mon 19 Jan–Tues 30 Jun | 7am–9pm Octagon Gallery sussanah.chan@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 3163 Eights in the Octagon: Medieval and Renaissance perspectives, Mon 19 Jan–Tues 30 June 28

Book online: www.ucl.ac.uk/events

Events diary 2 May – 5 Apr

8am–6pm

Voices of war: UCL in WWI

p26

2 Feb – 18 Dec

9:30am–5pm

Queen of the sciences: a celebration of numbers and the London Mathematical Society

p26

16 Mar –27 Jun

1–5pm

Strange creatures: the art of unknown animals

p27

19–27 Mar

10am–6pm

Red Mansion Art Prize 2015

p28

19 Jan– 30 Jun

7am–9pm

Eights in the Octagon: Medieval and Renaissance perspectives

p28

13 Jan

6:30–9pm

Drawing Life

p10

14 Jan

6–8:30pm

Venture research and other adventures: Are we getting the most out of UK research?

p02

15 Jan

1–2pm

UCL Art Museum new acquisitions – Amy Feneck in conversation

p02

17 Jan

1–4:30pm

Explore zoology

p10

20 Jan

1:15–1:55pm

Did God evolve?

p15

20 Jan

7:30–10pm

Bright Club

p20

22 Jan

6–7:30pm

The Septuagint and its role in the birth and spread of Christianity

p03

22 Jan

1:15–1:55pm

Visualising time: calendars, timelines and other time images from ancient Egypt to early modern Europe

p15

22 Jan

5:30–6:30pm

UCL Chamber Music Club concert

p20

22 Jan

6–8pm

Petrie Film Club presents Xena: Warrior Princess, ‘For Him the Bell Tolls’

p21

22 Jan

6:30–8:30pm

UCL Art Museum Film Club – Nightwatching

p21

23 Jan

1–2pm

Show ‘n’ tell: Lake Baikal

p03

27 Jan

1:15–1:55pm

Places=spaces+people

p16

27 Jan

6–8:30pm

Love, lust and longing in Greek poetry and image

p03

28 Jan

6:30–9pm

The Grant Museum’s living library

p04

29 Jan

1:15–1:55pm

How can we deal with prejudice and gender bias in the collaborative and competitive world of science?

p16

29 Jan

5:30–6:30pm

UCL Chamber Music Club concert

p21

29 Jan

6–8pm

The Eleanor Roosevelt Annual Lecture: The rebellious life of Rosa Parks

p04

31 Jan

1–4pm

The imaginary menagerie

p11

3 Feb

1:15–1:55pm

The impact of impacts: how the media play in the death of the dinosaur debates

p16

3 Feb

6:30–7:30pm

Social geographies of cuneiform scholarship in ancient Iraq

p04

5 Feb

1:15–1:55pm

Global citizenship and the problem of global fellow feeling from the Polis to the World Wide Web

p16

5 Feb

2–5pm

Life and death drawing: war, art and surgery at the Hunterian Museum

p11

5 Feb

5:30–6:30pm

UCL Chamber Music Club concert

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Events diary 5 Feb

5:30–7pm

Being an ambassador: four years in South Africa

p04

5 Feb

6–7:30pm

Translating culture thickly – Mashiho Chiri and translation of Ainu oral tradition

p05

5 Feb

6–8pm

How does stuff get into museums?

p05

6 Feb

1–2pm

Show ’n’ tell: Reptiles of the Seychelles

p06

7 Feb

1–4:30pm

Explore zoology

p11

10 Feb

1:15–1:55pm

Social harmony and religious diversity: is conciliation possible?

p17

10 Feb

6:30–9pm

Drawing Life

p12

10 Feb

6:30–7:30pm

Plucked hens and principals: tackling Dutch politics in 17th-century England

p06

10–12 Feb

2:30–5pm & 7:30–10pm

The UCL Classical Play: Euripides’ Bacchae

p22

12 Feb

1.15–1.55pm

Protecting users’ privacy in modern web applications

p17

12 Feb

6:30–8:30pm

UCL Art Museum Film Club – A Harlot’s Progress

p22

13 Feb

1:10–1:55pm

UCL Chamber Music Club concert

p22

13 Feb

2:30–6pm

Staging Greek tragedy today: a public symposium

p06

14 Feb

6.30–9pm

Valentine’s at the Grant

p12

16–21 Feb

1–4:30pm

Incredible invertebrates

p12

18 Feb

2–4pm

Caroline Lawrence: The Scribes from Alexandria

p06

18 Feb

6–9pm

Petrie Film Club presents The Hunger (UK, Tony Scott, 1983)

p22

19–21 Feb

7:30–10pm

UCLU Musical Theatre Society presents Spring Awakening

p23

23 Feb

5:30–6:30pm

UCL Chamber Music Club concert

p23

24 Feb

1:15–1:55pm

Nature-inspired chemical engineering: addressing challenges in sustainability by taking guidance from nature

p17

24 Feb

6–8:30pm

The Glass Ball Game

p23

24 Feb

6.30–7:30pm

The 2015 UCL Global Citizenship Lecture: Shami Chakrabarti on Liberty

p07

24 Feb

7–9pm

UCLU CSSA New Year gala

p24

25 Feb

1–2pm

Show’n’ tell: The living glass

p07

26 Feb

1:15–1:55pm

Accounting for nature: past, present and future

p18

26 Feb

6–7:30pm

Bible translation and South Asian Christianity

p07

26 Feb

6:30–9pm

Focus on the positive

p08

26 Feb

6–9pm

Objects of desire

p08

27 Feb

1–2pm

Show ‘n’ tell: Ponds

p08

28 Feb

1–4pm

The imaginary menagerie

p12

3 Mar

1:15–1:55pm

The grand challenge of education – the IOE, UCL and the world of education

p18

3 Mar

6:30–7:30pm

Politics, academia and the real world

p08

4 Mar

6:30–9pm

Third Grant Museum (not in a) pub quiz

p13

5 Mar

1:15–1:55pm

Vermeer’s Camera and Tim’s Vermeer

p18

5 Mar

6–8:30pm

Petrie Film Club presents Justine (1969)

p24

Book online: www.ucl.ac.uk/events 6–7 Mar

Fri 1–8pm Sat 2–6pm

UCL Art Museum and the girl at the door: equality, gender and society

p13

10 Mar

1:15–1:55pm

How can we improve growth of small babies before birth?

p18

10 Mar

6:30–9pm

Drawing Life

p13

12 Mar

1:15–1:55pm

Nature as an economic asset: a new era for environmental law and policy?

p19

12 Mar

6–7:30pm

The politics of rewriting Haitian translation

p09

12–14 Mar

7:30–10:30pm

Synergy

p24

13 Mar

1:10–1:55pm

UCL Chamber Music Club concert

p24

17 Mar

1:15–1:55pm

Language and the brain: insights from deafness and sign language

p19

17 Mar

6:30–7:30pm

Why study the history of psychotherapy?

p09

19 Mar

1:15–1:55pm

Rethinking the English country house: ‘Indians’ at home

p19

21 Mar

1–4:30pm

Fossil forage

p14

24 Mar

9:30am– 5:30pm

World TB Day

p09

24 Mar

5:30–6:30pm

UCL Chamber Music Club concert

p25

24 Mar

6:30–9pm

Grant Museum Film Club: Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

p25

26 Mar

6–8:30pm

Petrie Film Club presents The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

p25

26–28 Mar

all day

Your universe

p14

28 Mar

1–4pm

The imaginary menagerie

p14

Venues/map

1 UCL main campus Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT +44 (0)20 7679 2000 www.ucl.ac.uk 2 Cruciform Lecture Theatre 1 Cruciform Building, Fower Street, London WC1E 6BT 3 A.V. Hill Lecture Theatre Medical Sciences Building, Malet Place London WC1E 6BT 4 UCL Institute of Archaeology 31–34 Gordon Square London WC1H 0PY Mon–Fri, 9–5pm (term time only) +44 (0)20 7679 7495

8 UCL Grant Museum of Zoology Rockefeller Building 21 University Street London WC1E 6DE Mon–Sat, 1–5pm zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 3108 2052 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/ zoology 9 Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre Wilkins Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT 10 Haldane Room Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT 11 J. Z. Young Lecture Theatre Anatomy Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

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

12 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

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

13 Roberts Building Torrington Place London WC1E 6BT (access via Malet Place)

7 Darwin Lecture Theatre (accessed via Malet Place) London WC1E 6BT

14 Slade Research Centre Slade Research Centre Woburn Square London WC1H 0AB +44 (020) 7679 2313

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Getting to UCL By Tube

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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

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