Brain Food Autumn 2011

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PUBLIC EVENTS AT UCL

TALKS, EXHIBITIONS, WORKSHOPS & MORE SEPTEMBER–DECEMBER 2011 www.ucl.ac.uk/events

Welcome to Brain Food. In these pages you’ll find highlights from UCL’s wide range of public events. For a full listing and the most up to date information, please visit our public events website at: www.ucl.ac.uk/events As London’s leading multidisciplinary university, we’re passionate about bringing our research into the community and welcoming visitors into UCL to share in our activities. Everything from talks, workshops and seminars through to film screenings and exhibitions is featured here.

UCL’s famous LUNCH HOUR LECTURES return on Tuesday 11 October featuring topics including 19th century slavery, osteoporosis and divorce as well as the American Civil War and fundamental physics in the space environment. All the lectures will be available to watch online after the event and the recordings are now also subtitled too.

UCL Museums & Collections are hosting a wide variety of events, including a new series of pop-up displays at the UCL Art Museum (formerly UCL Art Collections) and lots of fun and free family activities for half-term.

Sign up online to receive UCL’s events e-newsletter with regular updates about new events: www.ucl.ac.uk/events

The majority of UCL events are free, open to everyone and require no booking unless otherwise stated. The events listed in this leaflet are just a small selection of what’s on offer – for a full listing please visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/events If you would like to subscribe to our Brain Food email newsletter, or to receive future copies of the UCL events leaflet, please send your details to: events@ucl.ac.uk or call +44 (0)20 3108 3842.

PUBLIC EVENTS AT UCL

CONTENTS 2 Events diary 15 Chamber Music Club concerts 16 Lunch Hour Lectures 30 Exhibitions 32 Venue locations 33 Getting to UCL 34 Visitor information

+44 (0)20 7679 2000 www.ucl.ac.uk/events University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT Cover image: The Eyes Have It, p.31

EVENTS DIARY SEPTEMBER–DECEMBER 2011 Thursday 15 September 6.30–7.30pm Talk Doors open at 6pm UCL Petrie Museum

Saturday 17 September 10am–4pm

Heads of Memphis: Talking Points +44(0)20 7679 4138; events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk

Sally-Ann Ashton (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) considers the identity of the ‘racial type’ heads collected by Flinders Petrie in Memphis from 1910–11. What do these heads tell us about ancient Memphis and the Egyptians, Persians, Greeks and Romans who lived there? What do they tell us about Petrie’s and Edwardian attitudes to race?

Open House London

UCL Main Campus

Full details at www.ucl.ac.uk/events and www.open-city.org.uk

and UCL Museums

See below.

& Collections

OPEN HOUSE LONDON SATURDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 10AM–4PM UCL opens its doors to the public for this annual showcase of the capital’s architecture. Guided tours every 30 minutes will feature the main building designed by William Wilkins and will include Jeremy Bentham’s auto-icon, and the Grant Museum will offer special family activities.

6.30–7.30pm Film screening Doors open at 6pm UCL Institute of Archaeology Lecture Theatre Pre-booking essential

Monday 3 October 6.30pm Film screening UCL Darwin Lecture Theatre

Cybertut: Archaeology Discovery, Tutankhamen and Cyberman +44(0)20 7679 4138; events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk http://cybertut.eventbrite.com

What do Cyberman and Tutankhamen have in common? Answer: the celebrated discovery of their tombs (yes, one is fictional!). Preview screening of a short documentary to be released as a DVD extra for the classic Dr Who series Tomb of the Cyberman. This documentary considers the influence of the archaeological discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen on Tomb of the Cyberman, followed by a conversation with author, Sir Christopher Frayling (The Face of Tutankhamen), John J Johnston (Egypt Exploration Society) and sci-fi expert Simon Guerrier.

War of the Worlds (1953) on the Big Screen +44 (0)20 3108 2052; zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/whats-on/ grant_listings

Exploring one of the greatest mysteries of the universe – whether we are alone – this classic adaptation of the HG Wells novel tells the story of a devastating alien attack on Earth. When all our weapons, including atomic bombs, cannot deter the invaders, how will the human race be saved? At the height of the Cold War frenzy, this film has a lot more to it than just alien occupations.

Film buff and science historian Dr Joe Cain (UCL Science & Technology Studies) will introduce the film. Following the film join us for a free glass of wine in a private view of the Museum. Part of the Natural Mystery Season at the Grant Museum.

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Thursday 29 September

Tuesday 4 October 1–2pm Display and drop in session UCL Art Museum

Pop-Ups at UCL Art Museum: Anne Welsh presents ‘Word Minus Image’ Anne Welsh (UCL Department of Information Studies) +44 (0)20 7679 2540; college.art@ucl.ac.uk

Anne Welsh explores arguments about what happens when illustrations that were custom-made for publications become works of art in their own right. Can an image ever escape its words?

Tuesday 11 October 1–2pm Display and drop in session UCL Art Museum

Pop-Ups at UCL Art Museum: Helen Hackett presents ‘England Looking Outwards’ Dr Helen Hackett (UCL Department of English) +44 (0)20 7679 2540; college.art@ucl.ac.uk

Helen Hackett, Co-Director of the UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchanges, considers the cultural factors which influenced how England defined itself politically in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

LUNCH HOUR LECTURE Tuesday 11 October

The State of the Nation: Taking Stock

1.15–1.55pm

Professor Malcolm Grant CBE (UCL President & Provost) +44(0)20 3108 3840; www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl

Lunch Hour Lecture Darwin Lecture Theatre

The Provost will reflect on two years of exceptional turbulence in British higher education funding and policy, and consider the long-term consequences for UCL. He will touch on major events in the UCL calendar over that period, and reflect on the current state of the university. The Provost’s Green Paper has now been formally adopted as the UCL Council’s strategy for the coming 10 years, with a clear vision for the future and commitment to several transformational projects.

The Provost will outline the priorities for its implementation and his aspirations for UCL for the coming years.

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POP-UPS AT UCL ART MUSEUM What would happen if you gave someone free reign to select and share their favourite artworks from a museum collection? UCL Art Museum has decided to find out. Collaborating with lecturers and researchers in UCL departments from Anatomy to Zoology, Pop-Up Displays at the UCL Art Museum are a novel and engaging way to explore UCL’s world-class art collections from new and antique perspectives. Look out for Pop-Ups at UCL Art Museum and drop in anytime between 1–2pm to see what’s on show.

LUNCH HOUR LECTURE Thursday 13 October 1.15–1.55pm Lunch Hour Lecture Darwin Lecture Theatre

The Perfect Storm: Can Disaster Reduction Occur in the Face of Climate Change and Population Growth?

Professor Mark Maslin (UCL Geography) +44(0)20 3108 3840; www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl

In the near future we face the perfect storm; where the combination of climate change and population growth is set to increase the numbers of people affected by ‘natural’ disasters. By 2030 globally we will need 50 per cent more energy, with much of this energy generated through fossil fuels, accelerating climate change.

By 2030 we will need 50 per cent more food and 30 per cent more water to feed our expanding population. Professor Maslin will look at these dire predictions for the future and discuss how we, as a global society, can deal with these problems and ultimately reduce society’s vulnerability and save lives. This lecture marks International Day for Disaster Reduction on 12 October.

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IDEAS MAN: THE STRANGER NOTIONS OF FRANCIS GALTON THURSDAY 13 OCTOBER, 7PM NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY Comedy writer Daniel Maier examines the stranger side of the Victorian polymath and scientist Francis Galton.

Take a tour through some of Galton’s odder investigations, from measuring insect hearing to better cake slicing in this entertaining event at the National Portrait Gallery organised by UCL Libraries & Museums.

Thursday 13 October 7pm Talk/Stand Up

Ideas Man: The Stranger Notions of Francis Galton

Pre-booking essential

+44(0)20 7679 4138; events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk Book via National Portrait Gallery: http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson

Tickets £5/£4

See above.

National Portrait Gallery

concessions

LUNCH HOUR LECTURE Tuesday 18 October 1.15–1.55pm Lunch Hour Lecture Darwin Lecture Theatre

Voicing Slavery: Elizabeth Barret Browning and Mary Prince Professor Catherine Hall (UCL History) +44(0)20 3108 3840; www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl

Women’s voices were central to the struggle against slavery in the early 19th century. This lecture, in conjunction with the exhibition The Slave Owners of Gower Street, will explore the lives and writings of two women with strong connections to Bloomsbury; Mary Prince, an enslaved woman whose published narrative provided a moving testimony of the cruelties of slavery; and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a poet and daughter of a slave owner, whose

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Tuesday 18 October 1–2pm Display and drop in session UCL Art Museum Repeat performance on Saturday 22 October for the Bloomsbury Festival (drop in 10am–4pm)

Wednesday 19 October 6.30–8.30pm Panel Game JZ Young Lecture Theatre

Pop-Ups at UCL Art Museum: Subhandra Das Presents ‘Strange Creatures’ Subhadra Das (UCL Museums & Collections) +44 (0)20 7679 2540; college.art@ucl.ac.uk

In order to illustrate published accounts of the journeys of early travellers, some artists had to draw animals which they themselves had never seen. Subhadra Das, from UCL Museums & Collections, offers you a chance to take inspiration from these works and others from the UCL Art Museum to create and draw your own strange creatures. Art supplies will be provided.

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Mystery Object Panel Game +44 (0)20 3108 2052; zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/whats-on

What’s that object? Join our panel of experts to guess what some of the weird, wonderful and wacky objects in UCL Museums & Collections are. In this light-hearted recreation of the classic TV panel game, outwit the experts and come up with funnier explanations as they try to identify our mystery specimens and artefacts from our fantastic art, archaeology, zoology and geology collections. Following the event join us for a free glass of wine in a private view of the Grant Museum. A UCL Museums & Collections event.

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anti-slavery sympathies were complicated by her privileged upbringing and family money from Jamaican plantations.

See p.31 for accompanying exhibition The Slave Owners of Bloomsbury. This lecture marks Black History Month in October.

Thursday 20 October– Sunday 23 October Thursday & Friday:

The UCL Festival of Astronomy: Your Universe

(school groups)

+44(0)20 7679 3458; fd@star.ucl.ac.uk For programme details, please visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/youruniverse

Saturday & Sunday:

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10.30am–8.30pm

11am–8pm (general public/families) Exhibition UCL Main Campus

LUNCH HOUR LECTURE Thursday 20 October 1.15–1.55pm Lunch Hour Lecture Darwin Lecture Theatre

Osteoporosis: Bouncing Babies to Crumbling Wrinkles – the Need to Own Our Bones Professor Allen Goodship (UCL Institute of Orthopaedics & Musculoskeletal Science) +44(0)20 3108 3840; www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl

The skeleton is key to our ability to undertake everyday movements and activities related to wellbeing and high-quality independent living. The devastating degenerative conditions such as osteoporosis and associated fragility fractures represent a time bomb for society and healthcare requirements in our ageing population. Through an understanding of the pathobiology of bone and the skeleton we can develop strategies to mitigate the risk of these conditions and thus promote an active and independent life in old age.

This lecture marks World Osteoporosis Day on 20 October.

Monday 24 October– Friday 28 October 1–5pm Also on Saturday 22 October for the Bloomsbury Festival (drop in 11am-4pm) Family activities UCL Grant Museum

Dinos, Dodos and Dugongs: Family Activities +44 (0)20 3108 2052; zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk

Come and explore amazing extinct animals for half term at the Bloomsbury Festival.

Discover creatures ranging from endangered to long ago extinct in the Museum’s super specimen-based activities. Take the chance to discover dinosaurs, marvel at mammoths, tickle tigers and handle hippos with our skulls, skins, skeletons, scales and fossils.

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THE UCL FESTIVAL OF ASTRONOMY: YOUR UNIVERSE 20–23 OCTOBER For the first time, Your Universe will be part of the new London Science Festival. Highlights include the science of the Large Hadron Collider, life in the solar system and the exploration of planet Mars, with a full size model of Bridget, the future European Mars Rover and the wonders of UCL science presented on recent television documentaries.

This popular event features a diverse range of fun hands-on activities, demonstrations and exhibits.

This four day festival is open to all.

Monday 24 October 5.30–6.30pm Lecture Pre-booking essential Cruciform Lecture Theatre 1

UCL Clinical Prize Lecture 2011: Molecules to Image Biology and Disease in Living Colour Professor Rodger Y Tsien (University of California) +44 (0)20 7679 6944; http://uclclinicalprizelecture2011.eventbrite.com

Professor Tsien received the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (shared with Osamu Shimomura and Martin Chalfie) for the discovery of Green Fluorescent protein (GFP) and seminal work to design and create fluorescent molecules that enter cells and light up their inner workings. Professor Tsien is now developing new ways to target contrast agents and therapeutic agents to tumor cells based on their expression of extracellular proteases.

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LUNCH HOUR LECTURE WHAT HAS THE KING’S SPEECH DONE TO IMPROVE PUBLIC AWARENESS ABOUT STUTTERING? TUESDAY 25 OCTOBER,1.15–1.55PM The King’s Speech provides a backdrop against which to review our current understanding of stuttering/stammering.

Although speech is one of the primary features that indicates stuttering, there are also physical signs of the disorder.

How do language, motor performance and psychological adjustment in school affect stuttering? Professor Howell will discuss the scientific evidence behind treatment of the condition and whether stuttering can be treated successfully.

This lecture marks Stammering Awareness day on 22 October.

LUNCH HOUR LECTURE Tuesday 25 October 1.15–1.55pm Lunch Hour Lecture Darwin Lecture Theatre

What Has The King’s Speech Done to Improve Public Awareness About Stuttering?

Professor Peter Howell (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) +44(0)20 3108 3840; www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl

See above.

Tuesday 25 October 6.30pm Lecture Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre

Inspector Sangiorgi and the Sicilian Mafia, 1875-1877 Inaugural Lecture – Professor John Dickie (UCL Italian) +44 (0)20 7679 7784; j.dickie@ucl.ac.uk

Inspector Ermanno Sangiorgi was the courageous Italian policeman who, in late 1875, discovered the most important piece of evidence in mafia history: the ritual undergone by anyone seeking to become a Man of Honour. In 2009 Professor Dickie unearthed a document in Sangiorgi’s own hand explaining how the mafia took revenge against him. His story takes us deep into the world of the early mafia, and explains how Italy ignored the significance of the initiation ritual, and continued to believe that the mafia did not exist even until 1992.

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2–4.30pm drop in Exhibition

Hair Then and Now: Half-term family activity +44(0)20 7679 4138; events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk

UCL Petrie Museum

Take a tour around combs and hair in the collections and then decorate a pick or ‘Afro’ comb with Egyptian designs and shapes.

Wednesday 26 October

The Space Shuttle: Thirty Years of Flight, Thirty Years of Lessons Learned

6.30pm Lecture/demonstration Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre

Dr Matthew Melis (NASA Glen Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio) +44 (0)20 7679 3458; fd@star.ucl.ac.uk

Dr Melis provides a look into the inner workings of the Space Shuttle and a behind-the-scenes perspective on the impact analysis and testing done for the Columbia Accident Investigation and NASA’s Return to Flight programs.

His image-packed presentation also demonstrates how NASA conducts its operations differently today as a consequence of the lessons learned from Challenger and Columbia.

Wednesday 26 October

Bill of Rights Debate

7–8.30pm

Lord McNally, Chris Bryant MP, Saladin Meckled-Garcia (UCL), Chaired by Joshua Rozenberg +44 (0)20 7679 1514; lisa.penfold@ucl.ac.uk http://british-bill-of-rights-evenbrite.com

Panel Discussion Registration 6.30pm Pre-booking essential Cruciform Lecture Theatre 1

In March 2011, the Coalition government launched a Commission to investigate the case for a British Bill of Rights which would replace the Human Rights Act (HRA).

The HRA was passed by the Labour government in 1998, giving legal effect to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and allowing domestic courts to rely on the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. The question of whether Britain needs a UK Bill of Rights and the precise role of the ECHR on a domestic level, divides experts and members of the public alike. The UCL Institute for Human Rights invites you to a public debate on this important constitutional question.

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Wednesday 26 October

LUNCH HOUR LECTURE Thursday 27 October 1.15–1.55pm Lunch Hour Lecture Darwin Lecture Theatre

Photons, Spacecraft, Atomic Clocks and Einstein – Fundamental Physics in the Space Environment Professor Marek Ziebart (UCL Space Geodesy & Navigation) +44(0)20 3108 3840; www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl

Satellites designed, built and launched by humans orbit the earth to carry out a myriad of tasks, friendly and hostile, commercial and scientific. Many of these missions supply critical data to model, mitigate and predict planet-scale processes such as El Niño events, sea level rise, plate tectonics and the earthquake cycle. The spacecrafts move at 4–8 kilometres per second, and are 500–20,000 kilometres above the earth’s surface but for scientific purposes we need to know where they are to within a few centimetres, and we need to know the time they transmit their signals at the nano-second level. This lecture explains how that is achieved using concepts from fundamental physics.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS AT UCL AND IN BLOOMSBURY During this annual festival, Bloomsbury’s open spaces and venues will be coming alive with an amazing programme of contemporary dance, music, arts, guided walks, theatre, workshops, debates, talks, secret sessions and much, much more. UCL will be taking part with a number of free, fun activities and events.

See website below for full programme: www.bloomsburyfestival.org.uk

6.15–7.45pm Lecture Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre

Smuggled in Potato Sacks: Fifty Stories of the Hidden Children of the Kaunas Ghetto Dr Solomon Abramovich (Imperial College London) +44 (0)20 7679 3520; ijs@ucl.ac.uk

Approximately 5,000 children were imprisoned in the Kaunas Ghetto from 1941–44 of whom some 250–300 were smuggled out of the ghetto, hidden by gentiles and survived. This talk is about the collective memory of events that happened to the Kaunas Jewry during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania. Based on a book of fifty stories of survivors, including Dr Abramovich (co-editor), this talk will retell those incredible human stories of survival in adversity.

Thursday 27 October 6.30–7.30pm Lecture Doors open at 6pm UCL Petrie Museum

All Connected? Immigration, Politics and Eugenics Dr Gavin Schaffer (University of Birmingham) +44(0)20 7679 4138; events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk

Headlines about immigration are nothing new. Gavin Schaffer considers the relationship between anxieties around immigration and racial science in Britain, considering the legacy of eugenics and thinking about race beyond the early 20th century up to 1948. Dr Gavin Schaffer is Senior Lecturer in British History at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Racial Science and British Society, 1930–62.

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Thursday 27 October

Monday 31 October 5.30–8pm Exhibition UCL Grant Museum £4 payable at the door, includes a glass of wine or a soft drink

Witches and Lizards: Halloween at the Grant +44(0)20 3108 2052; zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/whats-on/ grant_listings

Where better to spend Halloween than in a room of scary skeletons and skulls? Come and join us, if you dare, for this special spooky night exploring the role of animals in scare-stories, rituals and superstitions from across the world. From werewolves and vampires to eyes of newt and animal bogeymen, take part in this chilling evening drinks reception with unusual exhibit labels for the ghoulish occasion. Part of the Natural Mystery Season at the Grant Museum.

LUNCH HOUR LECTURE Tuesday 1 November 1.15–1.55pm Lunch Hour Lecture Darwin Lecture Theatre

London: the Divorce Capital of the World. ‘Big Money’ Divorce Cases: Fairness, Gender and Judicial Discretion Professor Alison Diduck (UCL Laws) +44(0)20 3108 3840; www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl

The law gives the courts very broad discretion to determine ‘fair’ property and financial awards when couples divorce.

While that discretion is exercised in all cases, it has been shaped by principles developed in the so-called ‘big money’ cases decided in the Appeal Courts since 2000 which have led to increased awards to homemaker wives. Many are unhappy with this turn of events and have said that London has now become the ‘divorce capital of the world’.

Professor Diduck will review these leading cases, the principles on which they were based and their importance for promoting broader gender equity.

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UCL CHAMBER MUSIC CLUB 60TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON CONCERT SERIES HALDANE ROOM, UCL MAIN CAMPUS Check for up-to-date details at: www.ucl.ac.uk/chamber-music THURSDAY 6 OCT, 5.30–6.30pm Our anniversary season will open with Bach’s Violin Concerto in E major, Dutilleux’s Sonatine for flute & piano, and songs by Barber.

Refreshments will be served.

TUESDAY 18 OCT, 5.30–6.30pm A concert with a nocturnal theme: Night Songs by Madeleine Dring, and selected Nocturnes by Poulenc.

FRIDAY 21 OCT, 1.10–1.55pm A lunchtime concert to celebrate the Bloomsbury Festival. The programme will include Poulenc’s Sonata for flute & piano, and Schumann’s Fantasiestücke Op.73 for cello & piano.

WEDNESDAY 2 NOV, 7–10pm A joint concert with Oxford and Cambridge Musical Club. Including Handel’s aria ‘Va tacite e nascosto’ from Giulio Cesare with horn obbligato.

FRIDAY 4 NOV, 1.10–1.55pm Lunchtime concert, including a selection of Bach’s Preludes and Fugues.

THURSDAY 17 NOV, 5.30–6.30pm A concert featuring performers from UCL Union Music Society.

FRIDAY 25 NOV, 1.10–1.55 pm From Cornysh to Clarke: a Brief History of the Flute. Including baroque pieces played on authentic instruments, Malcolm Arnold’s Divertimento for flute, oboe & clarinet and Ian Clarke’s Hypnosis for flute & piano.

THURSDAY 8 DEC, 5.30-6.30pm The programme will include Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No.6 and Schumann’s Piano Quartet in E flat, Op. 47.

Contact: Jill House j.house@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 4231

TUESDAY 13 DEC, 6–7pm, NORTH CLOISTERS, MAIN CAMPUS The Christmas concert will feature Bach’s Magnificat and a new work by Roger Beeson. Seasonal refreshments will be served after the concert.

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

Tuesday 11 October The State of the Nation: Taking Stock Professor Malcolm Grant CBE (UCL President & Provost) See page 4.

Tuesday 1 November London: the Divorce Capital of the World. ‘Big money’ Divorce Cases: Fairness, Gender and Judicial Discretion Professor Alison Diduck (UCL Laws) See page 14.

Thursday 13 October The Perfect Storm: Can Disaster Reduction Occur in the Face of Climate Change and Population Growth?

Professor Mark Maslin (UCL Geography) See page 5.

Thursday 3 November When Technology Design Provokes Errors Professor Ann Blandford (UCL Interaction Centre) See page 18.

Tuesday 18 October Voicing Slavery: Elizabeth Barret Browning and Mary Prince Professor Catherine Hall (UCL History) See page 6.

Tuesday 15 November Prometheus and I: Building New Body Parts from Stem Cells Professor Martin Birchall (UCL Ear Institute) See page 20.

Thursday 20 October Osteoporosis: Bouncing Babies to Crumbling Wrinkles – the Need to Own Our Bones Professor Allen Goodship (UCL Institute of Orthopaedics & Musculoskeletal Science) See page 8.

Thursday 17 November Against Nature?

Homosexuality and Evolution Professor Volker Sommer (UCL Anthropology) See page 21.

Tuesday 25 October What has The King’s Speech Done to Improve Public Awareness About Stuttering?

Professor Peter Howell (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) See pages 9 & 10.

Thursday 27 October Photons, Spacecraft, Atomic Clocks and Einstein – Fundamental Physics in the Space Environment Professor Marek Ziebart (UCL Space Geodesy & Navigation) See page 12.

Tuesday 22 November Child Development in Developing Countries Professor Orazio Attanasio (UCL Economics) See page 22.

Thursday 24 November Did Democracy Cause the American Civil War? Dr Adam Smith (UCL History) See page 23.

Tuesday 29 November The Highs and Lows of Our Nearest Star, the Sun Dr Lucie Green (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory) See page 25.

Autumn/Winter 2011

DECEMBER Thursday 1 December From Pathogen to Ally: Engineering Viruses to Treat Disease Professor Mary Collins (UCL Immunology) See page 26.

Tuesday 6 December Designing for Students Professor Sir Peter Cook (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture) See page 27.

Thursday 8 December The Price of the Pouch: the Evolutionary Ramifications of Mammalian Reproductive Strategies Dr Anjali Goswami (UCL Genetics) See page 28.

VISITOR INFORMATION 1.15–1.55pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Darwin Lecture Theatre (see page 32 for map) Free and open to all. No need to book. Places are on a first-come, first-served basis.

CONTACT Dan Martin +44 (0)20 3108 3840 dan.martin@ucl.ac.uk Watch lectures streamed live online at www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl/streamed or watch after the event at www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl or www.youtube.com/UCLLHL NEW – Lunch Hour Lectures are now being subtitled following the live event.

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LUNCH HOUR LECTURE Thursday 3 November 1.15–1.55pm Lunch Hour Lecture Darwin Lecture Theatre

When Technology Design Provokes Errors Professor Ann Blandford (UCL Interaction Centre) +44(0)20 3108 3840; www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl

Did you ever forget your chip & pin card in a card reader? Leave the original on a photocopier? Send an email to the wrong person from your address book? The way technology is designed can make errors more or less likely. Most everyday examples are just annoying, but if a pilot or a nurse makes similar errors in the course of their work, the consequences can be much more serious. This talk will discuss some of the causes of these errors and how the design of technology can provoke or mitigate them. This lecture marks World Usability Day on 10 November.

Thursday 10 November 6.30–8pm Panel Discussion Doors Open at 6pm Wilkins Garden Room,

Galton’s Asylum Photographs: Case Studies from the Bethlem Archives +44(0)20 7679 4138; events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Main Campus

Friday 11 November 7.30–10pm Performance UCL Bloomsbury Theatre Pre-booking essential Tickets £8

Bright Club Presents: Stars +44(0)20 7388 8822; www.thebloomsbury.com

After both of our Bloomsbury Theatre gigs completely sold out last year, we’re back for more. This time UCL’s comedy, variety and research night looks at stars, with performances from space scientists, geographers, literary experts, archaeologists and more. As ever, professional comedy and musical talent will hold the evening together. Visit the Bright Club website or follow us on Twitter (@BrightClubLDN) to find out more about the lineup as it develops.

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1–2pm Display and drop in session UCL Art Museum

Pop-Ups at UCL Art Museum: Alex Samson Presents ‘Dictionaries and Dialogues’ Alex Samson (UCL Department of Spanish & Latin American Studies) +44 (0)20 7679 2540; college.art@ucl.ac.uk

Alex Samson, Co-Director of the UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchange, investigates the interplay between England and Spain in the early modern period by looking at how language was learned and translated and some of the earliest dictionaries.

GALTON’S ASYLUM PHOTOGRAPHS: CASE STUDIES FROM THE BETHLEM ARCHIVES THURSDAY 10 NOVEMBER 6.30–8PM A chance to put the personal stories, lives and greater historical context to the images of six of the patients that Galton photographed at Bethlem asylum in the 1880s. A panel discussion also considers some of the assumptions about asylums held to day and issues around mental health and representation. Joint event with the Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives Museum Servce.

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Tuesday 15 November

LUNCH HOUR LECTURE Tuesday 15 November 1.15–1.55pm Lunch Hour Lecture Darwin Lecture Theatre

Prometheus and I: Building New Body Parts From Stem Cells Professor Martin Birchall (UCL Ear Institute) +44(0)20 3108 3840; www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl

Prometheus created life from clay, and within many biologists and surgeons there is a primal desire to do the same from the materials at hand, in an effort to stave off death and disease. Organ transplantation has been one solution, but a lack of donor organs, ethical and other issues limits the stretch of this technology. We performed the world’s first stem-cell-based organ transplants and the results suggest a new future for organ replacement. However, science is incrementally offering more and more opportunities to provide alternatives to extend the scope of transplantation, and ultimately an understanding of the innate properties of tissues and organs to heal themselves may obviate the need for organ replacement altogether.

Tuesday 15 November 6–7.30pm Panel Discussion & Reception Pre-booking essential Cruciform Lecture Theatre 1

Tweeting to Topple Tyranny: Social Media and Corporate Social Responsibility Professor Erika George (University of Utah), Dr Nina Seppla (UCL), chaired by Professor Dame Hazel Genn QC (Dean of UCL Faculty of Laws) +44 (0)20 7679 1514; lisa.penfold@ucl.ac.uk http://ethicsandlaw-erikageorge.eventbrite.com

This lecture will offer critical reflections on the role of social media in social change and the obligations of corporations in the information communications and technology sector. It will also explore the Internet’s potential to further democratic discourse and inclusion, or indeed foster discrimination and exclusion, whilst considering whether the Internet industry has an obligation to protect against hate propaganda.

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November 6pm Lecture JZ Young Lecture Theatre

15th Annual Robert Grant Lecture Zoology and Mythology: Looking at Angels, Fairies and Dragons Professor Roger Wotton (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment) +44 (0)20 3108 2052; zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/whats-on/grant_listings

See below.

LUNCH HOUR LECTURE Thursday 17 November 1.15–1.55pm Lunch Hour Lecture Darwin Lecture Theatre

Against Nature?

Homosexuality and Evolution Professor Volker Sommer (UCL Anthropology) +44(0)20 3108 3840; www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl

Same-sex sexual behaviour is often condemned on the grounds that it is “against nature”. Indeed, biology tells us that selection favours those who leave more offspring. But then, homosexual behaviour is widespread – not only amongst humans, but other animals alike.

Doesn’t this constitute a paradox for Darwinian Theory? And is there a connection between what goes on in nature and what is morally desirable? This talk will address these controversial topics.

ZOOLOGY AND MYTHOLOGY: LOOKING AT ANGELS, FAIRIES AND DRAGONS WEDS 16 NOVEMBER, 6PM Mythological creatures are made to seem real in representational art.

Among these creatures are some that fly. Angels, fairies and dragons are all shown as having wings and an otherwise naturalistic form. Yet, biologically speaking, are they able to fly? Putting art and myth under scrutiny, Professor Wotton will investigate the biological feasibility of the existence of these animals.

Following the lecture join us for a free glass of wine or soft drink in a private view of the Museum. Part of the Natural Mystery Season at the Grant Museum.

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Thursday 17 November 6.30–7.30pm

A Question of Breeding? Francis Galton and Florence Nightingale

Lecture

+44(0)20 7679 4138; events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk

Doors open at 6pm

Talk by Natasha McEnroe, Director of the Florence Nightingale Museum, on the relationship between Francis Galton and Florence Nightingale.

UCL Petrie Museum

7.30–10pm

UCLU Drama Society Presents: William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing

Performance

+44 (0)20 7388 8822; www.thebloomsbury.com

Tickets £10, Concs £5

Set in World War II during the Allied invasion of Sicily, the valiant Don Pedro and his men are on leave from duty and arrive to stay with Leonato, the Governor of Messina.

Shakespeare’s witty story evolves through a maze of mistaken identity, suspected infidelity and deception, with two love stories emerging triumphant. With an original score and 1940s Swing Dance choreography, this timeless play has never been so jazzy.

Thursday 17 November– Saturday 19 November

UCL Bloomsbury Theatre

LUNCH HOUR LECTURE on Tuesday 22 November 1.15–1.55pm Lunch Hour Lecture Darwin Lecture Theatre

Child Development in Developing Countries Professor Orazio Attanasio (UCL Economics) +44(0)20 3108 3840; www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl

In this lecture Professor Attanasio will talk about the recent interest in child development in developing countries, through intervention in early years, and will describe a pilot intervention programme that his research team has been developing in Colombia and India. Early years intervention has proved to be very effective in having long lasting impacts on individual development, and this lecture will discuss the challenges of identifying modalities that can be delivered at low cost and therefore scaled up in developing countries and understanding the mechanisms through which these interventions work.

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7–8pm Lecture Pre-booking essential Cruciform Lecture Theatre 1

Annual Mishcon Lecture: British Foreign Policy in a Changing World Lord Malloch-Brown, Chairman of EMEA & Global Affairs, FTI Consulting. Chaired by Robin Lustig, Journalist and Presenter, BBC’s World Tonight +44 (0)20 7679 2000; lisa.penfold@ucl.ac.uk Register via http://mishcon-2011.evenbrite.com

The Mishcon Lectures were established at UCL in 1990 in honour of Lord Mishcon to mark his 75th birthday and in recognition of his achievements and service in the fields of law, education, religion, government and politics, both central and local.

LUNCH HOUR LECTURE Thursday 24 November 1.15–1.55pm Lunch Hour Lecture Darwin Lecture Theatre

Did Democracy Cause the American Civil War? Dr Adam Smith (UCL History) +44(0)20 3108 3840; www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl

A hundred and fifty years ago the first shots of the American Civil War were fired.

It was a war that was to result in the deaths of perhaps three quarters of a million people. Yet the United States in 1861 was the world’s first modern democratic nation – a place in which virtually all white men could vote and in which mass political parties vied for votes in noisy and hotly contested elections. What was the relationship between the coming of the war and this kind of democratic politics? Contrary to the assumptions of International Relations specialists who have posited that democracies do not go to war with one another, was this a war made more likely, and, once it started, more bloody, by the principles and practice of popular sovereignty?

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Tuesday 22 November

Thursday 24 November 6.15–7.45 pm Lecture & Reception Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre

The Golem Returns: From German Romantic Literature to Global Jewish Culture, 1808–2008 Dr Cathy Gelbin (University of Manchester) +44 (0)207 7679 3520; ijs@ucl.ac.uk

The Hulk, Superman, the Terminator: they are all modern popular culture echoes of the golem, that mystical, artificial man of legend, a sort of friendly Jewish version of Frankenstein’s monster. Widely seen as an icon of authentically Jewish lore, the golem has inspired a broad range of writers across ethnic, cultural, and national affiliations. The Golem Returns contends that the popular culture theme of the golem as it is known today is the product of the complex cultural interaction between Jews and non-Jews since the early modern period. The Golem Returns will be of interest to scholars of German and Jewish Studies, as well as readers examining popular culture, film, and the illustrated novel.

UCL LANCET LECTURE: WHY ECONOMIC GROWTH DOES NOT NECESSARILY LEAD TO BETTER HEALTH OUTCOMES MONDAY 28 NOVEMBER, 6.30–9PM World leading economist Jayati Ghosh is professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi) and the executive secretary of International Development Economics Associates (Ideas). She is an active member of the National Knowledge Commission, playing an advisory role for the prime minister of India and is closely involved with a range of progressive organisations and social movements. Professor Ghosh also regularly writes for The Guardian and several Indian publications.

9.30–7.30pm Lecture UCL Petrie Museum

Monday 28 November 6.30–9pm Doors open 6.15pm Lecture Pre-booking essential Cruciform Lecture Theatre 1

Excavating ‘Egypt’ in the African American Imagination +44(0)20 7679 4138; events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk

From the land of the Pharaohs to the contemporary bridge between African and Islamic worlds, the idea of ‘Egypt’ has played a crucial role in the African American imagination of freedom from the bondage of slavery and its legacy. This talk explores the idea of ‘Egypt’ – both ancient and contemporary – as a key imaginative touchstone for the black liberation struggle in the United States, from the 19th century through to the ‘age of Obama’.

UCL Lancet Lecture: Why Economic Growth Does Not Necessarily Lead to Better Health Outcomes Professor Jayati Ghosh (Jawaharlal Nehru University) +44(0)20 3108 3842; c.harley@ucl.ac.uk Booking for this event will be available from October 2011 at http://ucllancetlecture2011. eventbrite.com/

See opposite.

LUNCH HOUR LECTURE Tuesday 29 November 1.15–1.55pm Lunch Hour Lecture Darwin Lecture Theatre

The Highs and Lows of Our Nearest Star, the Sun Dr Lucie Green (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory) +44(0)20 3108 3840; www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl

There is more to the Sun than meets the eye. Recent reports have given seemingly contradictory information that the Sun is entering a period of high activity but also that in the coming decades the overall solar activity will significantly decline, and could stop altogether. This talk will discuss the science behind this activity, or lack of, and show the latest images of the Sun taken by telescopes in space provided by the European, American and Japanese space agencies.

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Thursday 24 November

Tuesday 29 November

A Curator’s View of ‘Word and Image’

1–2pm

Dr Andrea Fredericksen (UCL Art Museum) +44 (0)20 7679 2540; college.art@ucl.ac.uk

Talk UCL Art Museum

Tuesday 29 November 6.30pm Workshop Pre-booking essential UCL Grant Museum

Join UCL Art Museum’s curator, Dr Andrea Fredericksen, for an in-depth look at this term’s exhibition. See also p.30.

How to Get a Head: A Hands-On History of the Skull +44(0)20 3108 2052; zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk http://getahead.evenbrite.com/

Join Grant Museum zoologists Jack Ashby and Mark Carnall as they unravel the story of the animal skull. In a light-hearted exploration of the evolution of the skull, the museum’s amazing specimens will be used to explain how to identify their owners and what evolutionary mysteries have been solved by scrutinising skulls. Following the workshop a free glass of wine will be served. Part of the Natural Mystery Season at the Grant Museum.

LUNCH HOUR LECTURE Thursday 1 December 1.15–1.55pm Lunch Hour Lecture Darwin Lecture Theatre

From Pathogen to Ally: Engineering Viruses to Treat Disease Professor Mary Collins (UCL Immunology) +44(0)20 3108 3840; www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl

Recombinant DNA technology has been in widespread use since the 1980s. It has allowed the engineering of viral genomes to produce a number of safe and useful medicines. To mark World AIDS Day, this lecture will discuss the development of engineered viruses, such as HIV, to treat rare genetic disorders – “gene therapy” – and the use of these engineered viruses as vaccines.

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6.30–7.30pm Lecture UCL Petrie Museum

Two faced? A Case Study of the History of Collecting at the Petrie Museum +44(0)20 7679 4138; events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk

In the uncertain world of heritage and cultural property – where archaeological sites are regularly looted and the trade in illicit antiquities is thriving – museums are generally considered to be a good thing.

This however has more to do with what people think a museum does and what it should be rather than historical fact.

This lecture will outline how museums – and the Petrie Museum in particular – are bound up in very particular historical and political contexts, and why it is vital to consider these contexts if we are ever to come to a satisfactory solution to the question of who owns the past.

LUNCH HOUR LECTURE Tuesday 6 December 1.15–1.55pm Lunch Hour Lecture Darwin Lecture Theatre

Designing for Students Professor Sir Peter Cook (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture) +44(0)20 3108 3840; www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl

Sir Peter Cook and his CRAB STUDIO have two new university buildings under construction: in Austria and Australia. He designs from the experience of more than 40 years’ teaching and weaves ‘stories’; in and out of the designs. The title can also be read as designing the curriculum... which he sees as being very similar to designing a building – the lecture will be illustrated by drawings and cartoons.

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Thursday 1 December

1–8pm

UCLU Charity Concert in the Quad and Festive Market

Family Activities

+44 (0)20 7679 7985; dc.officer@ucl.ac.uk

Tuesday 6 December

UCL Main Quad

Join UCLU and local schools for the switching on of the festive lights with a celebration of all that’s merry. All is for charity, you can donate towards our selected charity to get mince pies and mulled wine, there’s also a winter market with many gift ideas, fun workshops for all children and Santa will be on hand to give gifts to them all. On that note, families are most welcome!

Tuesday 6 December

The Blob (1958) on the Big Screen

6.30pm

+44(0)20 3108 2052; zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/whats-on/ grant_listings

Darwin Lecture Theatre

In potentially the gooiest horror film of all time, the most mysterious of creatures, “the most horrifying monster menace ever conceived” arrives in a small US town and begins to feast on its inhabitants.

“It crawls… It creeps… It eats you alive”.

How can it be stopped? Film buff and science historian Dr Joe Cain (UCL Science & Technology Studies) will introduce the film. Following the film, join us for a free glass of wine in a private view of the museum. Part of the Natural Mystery Season at the Grant Museum.

LUNCH HOUR LECTURE Thursday 8 December 1.15–1.55pm Lunch Hour Lecture Darwin Lecture Theatre

The Price of the Pouch: the Evolutionary Ramifications of Mammalian Reproductive Strategies Dr Anjali Goswami (UCL Genetics) +44(0)20 3108 3840; www.ucl.ac.uk/lhl

See opposite.

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LUNCH HOUR LECTURE THE PRICE OF THE POUCH: THE EVOLUTIONARY RAMIFICATIONS OF MAMMALIAN REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES THURSDAY 8 DECEMBER Mammals are characterised by lengthy maternal care. This has been linked to many attributes of this successful group including humans.

However, living mammals display remarkable reproductive diversity, from egg-laying monotremes, to pouchbearing marsupials, to long-gestating placentals. The differences in species numbers, geographic breadth and diversity across these three groups begs the question of how much their reproductive strategies are responsible for their success, or lack thereof.

Monday 19 December– Friday 23 December Drop in 1–5pm

Family Activities, but the museum is suitable for all ages UCL Grant Museum

Christmas Creatures – School Holiday Activities +44(0)20 3108 2052; zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/whats-on/ grant_listings

How do Arctic animals cope with the cold?

Do penguins shiver and why don’t fish freeze? From mountains to icebergs, and glaciers to tundra, the Grant Museum’s specimen-based hands-on activities investigate the world’s snowbound beasts.

Interactive games will also look at ice-age animals and what will happen if all our ice melts.

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EXHIBITIONS Thursday 15 September– Friday 16 December UCL Art Museum

Word and Image +44 (0)20 7679 2540; college.art@ucl.ac.uk

Exploring cultural exchange from 1450– 1800 and featuring highlights from UCL’s art and rare book collections, Word and Image delves into themes such as early travel, translation and the traffic of objects and ideas. Objects on show include a 17th century volume on the history of Lapland and images of costumed Jesuits in China.

Accompanies the launch conference for the UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchanges.

See also p.26 for details of the curator’s talk.

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Typecast: Flinders Petrie & Francis Galton

December

+44(0)20 7679 4138; events.petrie@ucl.ac.uk

Museum Opening Times Exhibition UCL Petrie Museum

Until Friday 23 December Library opening hours Exhibition Main Library, UCL Main Campus

In 1886 Francis Galton commissioned Flinders Petrie to take photographs of different ‘racial types’ in Ancient Egypt.

This was part of Galton’s research into racial difference and the start of a lifelong friendship between Galton and Petrie.

This exhibition explores the contentious legacies of this relationship, examining and inviting comment on Galton and Petrie.

From September the tray of ‘racial type’ heads from Memphis will go on to display in the Petrie Museum. Part of the Legacies of Galton: Centenary Programme at UCL.

An Enquiring Mind: Francis Galton 1822-1911 020 7679 2594; e.lawes@ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/library/exhibitions/francisgalton/

Marking 100 years since the death of Francis Galton. Exhibits from the UCL Galton Papers & Galton Collection display his life, many diverse interests, investigations and associations. Includes an exciting new find, a deathbed photo of Galton.

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November University opening hours Exhibition UCL North Cloisters

26 September– 14 December 2011 UCL North Lodge and North Cloisters UCL Main Campus

The Eyes Have It +44 (0)20 7679 2540; college.art@ucl.ac.uk

UCL Museums & Collections presents an eclectic and light-hearted exhibition on, around and about the eye. Learn how the eye works and check out eye-related objects and specimens from across the collections, along with the devices we use to widen our window on the world.

The Body in Pieces: Fragments from the Great Ormond Street Hospital Collection +44 (0)20 7679 0664; j.dunn@ucl.ac.uk

Founded in 1852, the Great Ormond Street Hospital was Britain’s first hospital for poor children, and has been in continuous operation at the same site ever since.

In 2007, UCL acquired a significant collection of human specimens, documents, implements and casts, ranging from 1860 to 1970. Featuring two displays of artefacts: a selection of plaster body casts from the 1870s and a richly illustrated history of the Hospital. Together, these two displays celebrate the pioneering spirit of Great Ormond Street, and draw attention to the importance of preserving such rare medical collections for research.

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The Slave-Owners of Bloomsbury

9 January 2012

+44 (0)20 7679 3163; lbs@ucl.ac.uk

UCL South Cloisters

Slave-ownership was central to the formation of modern Britain. Even at the moment of abolition in 1833, owners, rather than the enslaved, were compensated to the tune of £20 million. Through words and images, this exhibition traces the contentious lives and legacies of those slave-owners who lived close to the newly-founded UCL. Organised by the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project to mark Black History Month 2011.

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VENUE LOCATIONS

4 UCL Bloomsbury Theatre 15 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AH +44 (0)20 7388 8822 www.thebloomsbury.com Check online for full Bloomsbury Theatre event listing

1 UCL Main Campus Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT +44 (0)20 7679 2000 www.ucl.ac.uk

5 UCL Darwin Lecture Theatre UCL Darwin Building, Malet Place, London, WC1E 6BT

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

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

3 UCL Institute of Archaeology Lecture Theatre UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1HU0PY

7 JZ Young Lecture Theatre UCL Anatomy Building Gower Street, WC1E 6BT

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11 Wilkins Garden Room UCL, Main Campus 12 UCL Cruciform Lecture Theatre 1 UCL Cruciform Building Gower Street WC1E 6BT

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GETTING TO UCL

VENUE LOCATIONS / GETTING TO UCL

8 UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Malet Place, UCL, WC1E 6BT Tuesday to Friday 1–5pm and Saturday 10–1pm petrie.museum@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7679 2884 www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk

VISITOR INFORMATION ADMISSION All events are free and open to everyone with no need to book in advance – unless otherwise stated.

WATCHING ONLINE If you are unable to attend any of our lectures, many are now being filmed and are available to download for free from our website, our YouTube site or on iTunes U. FURTHER INFORMATION For further information please contact individual events or visit www.ucl.ac.uk/events TERM DATES 26 September–16 December

ACCESSIBILITY UCL aims to provide accessibility to all its events.

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