Homecoming programme 12-14 September 2014: Celebrating 50 years of the University of Essex

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50 Years of the University of Essex Friday 12 September - Sunday 14 September 2014 @Uni_of_Essex #Essex50

Thank you for coming to our Homecoming weekend marking the

beginning of our 50th anniversary celebrations.

We are thrilled to welcome graduates, staff, students, friends and supporters from around the world to our Colchester Campus.

Our weekend programme is playful, provocative and packed full of the Essex spirit. We are bringing together our global community to renew and foster new friendships, to reflect on our achievements and discover fresh perspectives.

I am excited to have this opportunity to meet so many people who are proud of the University and cherish the memories, experiences and lasting impact that Essex has had on their lives.

I hope you enjoy your weekend and that you join us for the range of events we have planned for the coming year. You are all part of our illustrious and sometimes rebellious history, and with great affection we say ‘Welcome Home’.

Professor Anthony Forster Vice-Chancellor

Make the most of your day

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Listen to a bite-size lecture From sex to spectacles, from tattoos to terrorism.

What’s the thinking at Essex?

See Something Fierce Our stunning exhibition has a five-decade tale to tell

Meet a robot Our automatons can help the disabled and protect the environment

Take your picture Share it and tag it: #Essex50

Sport for all Family fun, Frisbee golf and cricket on Sunday

50th anniversary exhibition -

Highlights

Something Fierce

Something Fierce investigates the ground-breaking architectural plans, the bold academic ideas of the University’s founders, the excitement of the first one hundred students arriving in October 1964, and the student protests culminating in the events of 1968.

University of Essex: Vision and Reality

The exhibition includes:

From 1964 “Something Fierce” emerged in Essex – a new University determined to look to the future and break with tradition. In September a major new exhibition opens giving you the chance to discover the story of the foundation of the University of Essex and 50 years of student life.

The exhibition celebrates the bold, ‘brutalist’ sixties architecture of the Colchester Campus; the unique academic vision and the vibrant community of scholars and students they created.

The Hexagon – one of the iconic buildings built at the birth of the University – hosts the displays and has been especially refurbished in time for our 50th anniversary.

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why the Albert Sloman Library was named an icon of British design in 2012 how The Hexagon became commemorated on a Royal Mail stamp why there is so much more to a ‘concrete’ campus than meets the eye how an eighteenth-century landscaped parkland painted by Constable became the home of a twentieth-century university why controversy still surrounds the original architectural designs how world-famous architects Le Corbusier, Kenzo Tange and Louis Kahn inspired the designs

Share your memories We want to hear from people who have photos and memorabilia or who just want to share memories on our Memory Map. u www.essex.ac.uk/see/memorymap

Who’s behind Something Fierce?

The curating team is leading art historian Professor Jules Lubbock, Emeritus Professor of Art History at Essex, and Jessica Kenny, Arts and Gallery Director.

They have legendary designer David Hillman, who created the graphic identity of The Guardian newspaper, overseeing the exhibition’s design.

By explaining the thinking behind our Colchester Campus they hope to help students old and new become aware of our heritage and be proud of it.

About the title So what does Something Fierce mean? Those are the words of original architect and master planner Kenneth Capon of Architects Co-Partnership who said he wanted to avoid the trap of “softening everything up” and “do something fierce to let them work within”.

Five decades later and Essex has developed a reputation for its fiercely independent mindset. Fortunately, alongside our intellectual fierceness we have fostered a supportive community with an incredible international outlook.

10am - 6pm, The Hexagon

film: Mustard Mustard is a documentary centering on the student activists and campus events of May 1968 and beyond at Wivenhoe Park. The fall-out following the visit of a government research scientist from Porton Down, who apparently needed rescuing from his own lecture by the police, has long been regarded as a moment in the history of the University of Essex that was both traumatic and, in many different ways, defining. Meanwhile, the story of how students and staff at the institution (in only its fourth year of existence at the time) went out on strike in protest at its Vice-Chancellor’s treatment of three individual demonstrators, declaring instead a ‘Free University’, was also for decades treated as taboo and written out of the official history of the University.

For the first time, Mustard weaves together a series of filmed life story interviews with participants in the events, archival documents from both the ‘official’ institution and the ‘Free University’, the perspectives of current students and staff, and contemporary media reports. The result is anything but a neat, coherent story about the protestors themselves, germ warfare, freedom of speech, the right and/or obligation to protest, the growing pains of an institution, and the struggles to define the structure and role of any university within the wider contexts of national and global student activism of 1968.

TC2.1. Tony Rich Teaching Centre, 10.30am and 2.30pm

Alumni zone

Must see...

Did you study or work at Essex? It’s good to see you

1. Visit the decade bedrooms in Keynes Tower

Get round to these five things, get a stamp in each place and we’ll give you a little gift.

again. We hope you have a fantastic weekend. Here are a few ideas for things you can do…

2. See the plaque on Keynes Tower

Wear your badge Your alumni pin badge is colour-coded, so you can spot people from your era, make new friends or re-make old friendships from decades past.

Feeling lost?

If you’re here on your own or in a small group and you want to see people from your decade, we’ve set up designated meeting points:

1960s and 1970s Top Bar

1980s and 1990s Blues

2000 onwards Zest

3. Go to a bite-sized lecture

4. Go round the Hexagon exhibition 5. Re-live graduation with a gown photo-op (Square 4) 1

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Keep celebrating into the evening Bandi-oke

Fire Performance

SU Club Night

Philanthropy

Like karaoke but with a live band! Join our professional musicians on stage playing a huge range of hits, whilst you shine on lead vocals.

Essex was built on it, and generous donors have made a difference ever since.

Find out more on the bridge from the Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall and on the pillars around Square 4.

Including sets from the live band whilst you pick your song.

Come down to our Students’ Union night club, Sub Zero, for a night of the best music of the last 50 years!

We’ll help you recapture those nights out in our SU club whether it was The Underground, Dance Hall or even further back.

Sabbs’ reunion

5.00pm to 8.30pm, Square 3

With the combination of fire and dance, these fire performers create a graceful, elegant and entrancing performance.

The burlesque sultriness of body burning and fire eating is followed by the high energy of fire poi reaching a climax in a finale that will get the sparks flying.

Take a photo There are photo opportunities all over campus – ‘decade’ pillars on Square 4, the ‘enormoboard’ poster, the Essex letters. (Feel free to share it and tag yourself #essexalumni and #Essex50)

Were you one of our dedicated Students’ Union Sabbs? There’s a special reunion for all past officers from 5pm to 7pm on Saturday in Top Bar.

9pm, Square 3

10pm ‘til late, Sub Zero

Saturday 13 September The main event

Bite-sized lectures Bite-sized lectures on everything from sexual attraction, tattoos and terrorism, to Johnny Depp’s glasses, conquering Everest and happy cows.

Shaping our world – changing the future Dr Valerie Gladwell

The great outdoors: the benefits of green exercise for everyone

10.30-11.30

LTB 3

How exercising in an outdoor green space can be a fight back against the spread of physical inactivity and related diseases.

Dr Murray Griffin and Dr Matt Taylor

Putting the fun into therapy: how gaming can change lives

3.30-4.30

LTB 2

Computer games which get your whole body moving are being used more and more for rehabilitation, but do they work and what is the future of exergaming in health care?

Professor Christine Raines

Nine billion - how can we feed our ever-growing population?

11.30-12.30

LTB 9

Essex research is looking to meet the challenge of developing crops to feed the world in the face of our booming global population.

Lorna McGregor

Human rights and technology: challenges and opportunities in an era of big data

2.30-3.30

LTB 2

How can human rights best be promoted and protected in the face of new and emerging technologies which allow our data to be collected and analysed at an unprecedented level?

Professor David Voas

Does religion have a future in the west?

10.30-11.30

LTB 6

Discover how attitudes to religion and values have been changing in modern societies and what this means for religion.

Dr Vineeta Chand

BBC English: should we bovver?

11.30-12.30

TC2.8 and TC2.9

There are a host of dialects and styles of speaking across the UK, but they’re not all treated equally. What is the social value of our local accents and are we alll moving towards a BBC way of speaking?

Professor Noam Lubell

Robot warriors

2.30-3.30

LTB 1

Dramatic developments in robotics and artificial intelligence are changing the face of the battlefield. Get ready for a future which challenges our ability to legally regulate warfare.

Dr Audrey Guinchard

50 years fighting cybercrime: towards a revival of 1984?

11.30-12.30

LTB 3

With governments establishing mass surveillance programmes supposedly to fight cybercrime and private monitoring by corporations, are we entering an Orwellian society and can we reverse the trend?

Dr Edd Codling

Happy cows! How maths is making the farmyard a happier place

11.30-12.30

LTB 2

Can Maths help cows? Why are cows connected to the internet? What is a cow social network?

How can 24-hour surveillance improve cow health and welfare?

Professor Nigel South

Consuming the planet and denying the consequences

3.30-4.30

LTB 7

We are told our planet is under threat yet we remain silent and carry on consuming. Why is our consumption a problem and why don’t we seem to care?

Professor Edward Higgs

State surveillance and the Census

2.30-3.30

LTB 8

Does our Census help the British state keep tabs on us? From 1911 this became a real possibility thanks to mechanised processes and in the future technology will make this an even bigger issue.

Bold research Professor Aletta Norval

Biometrics and identity: what are the real costs?

10.30-11.30

LTB 8

Biometric forms of identification are becoming ever more common, but do policymakers really understand public attitudes towards the trade-off between privacy and security and are there enough safeguards?

Professor Gillian Green

Living with long-term illness

3.30-4.30

TC2.8 and TC2.9

As the population ages, living with long-term illness becomes increasingly common. What can we learn about the changing experiences of people living with illness over recent decades and the stigmas they’ve faced?

Dr Pamela Cox

Shopgirls: making a TV history on consumer culture

11.30-12.30

LTB 7

The amazing tales behind the making of Dr Pamela Cox’s BBC Two series and book, Shopgirls: The True Story of Life Behind the Counter. You’ll never shop in the same way again!

Dr Matt Lodder

Tattooing: making human picture books

10.30-11.30

LTB 9

The all-too-little-told history of tattooing is finally uncovered. Discover how pictures on the skin have been a popular part of British culture for far longer than you think.

Dr Chris Nicholson

Dear little monsters…! Can Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein help us understand childhood violence?

2.30-3.30

LTB 9

Adults and children can engage in frightful violence. Written 36 years before the birth of Freud and 130 years before attachment theory, Frankenstein vividly illustrates why.

Dr Ilaria Boncori

Creating a global classroom

10.30-11.30

LTB 2

Essex staff are supporting students from around the world to become global learners both inside and outside the classroom by using innovative techniques and strategies.

Dr Adrian Clark

Take a virtual tour of London

3.30-4.30

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Take a walk down a London street and interact with our computerised 3D model, then find out how it was created in our state-of-the-art virtual reality facility.

Professor Chris Cooper and Harriet Tuckey

On top of the world: sport science and the conquest of Everest

11.30-12.30

LTB 6

Essex alumna Harriet Tuckey has written an award-winning book about her father Griffith Pugh, whose scientific expertise helped conquer Mount Everest. Professor Chris Cooper will put Pugh’s work into modern context.

Professor Eric Smith

The Economic crisis: what went wrong and what did we learn?

3.30-4.30

TC2.6 and TC2.7

The impact of the global downturn which seized the world in 2009 is still being felt five years later. So what are the lessons we have learnt and can we avoid it happening again?

Professor Claudia Girardone

Vulnerability, crisis and reform: trends and challenges in UK banking

10.00-11.00

TC2.6 and TC2.7

What trends in UK banking made the industry particularly vulnerable to a crisis? How can the UK respond to meet the challenge of reforming the sector?

Professor Sanja Bahun

On home and homecoming: remarks on Literature

10.30-11.30

LTB 1

What is the affiliation between the concepts of literature and home and how can we interpret writing and reading as forms of homecoming?

Dr Chris Saker

Feel the love of numbers

3.30-4.30

LTB 8

Essex is helping promote maths in the eastern region thanks to links with the Further Mathematics Support Programme. Find out how we share our love of maths and some fun pieces of mathematics along the way.

Dr. Jeffrey Howard

The Ransoms of ISIS

3.30-4.30

LTB 3

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has beheaded two American hostages in the past month and threatens to kill more hostages—Britons among them—unless the West pays up.

While France, Germany, and other European nations have paid terror groups like ISIS to free hostages, the UK and US both refuse. Who is right?

Pushing the frontiers of knowledge Professor Simon Lucas

Beyond Candy Crush: how artificial intelligence can transform mobile game development

11.30-12.30

LTB 8

Candy Crush and Angry Birds are now household names and advances in statistical artificial intelligence will push back the boundaries of mobile game development.

Dr Gerulf Rieger

Fancy that! The nature of sexual orientation

3.30-4.30

LTB 6

How does our sexual orientation develop? How do we express it? What are the social consequences? Could studying gender nonconformity unlock the answers and offer insights into the origin of important sex differences?

Dr Geoff Cole

The most common phobia you have never heard of?

10.30-11.30

TC2.8 and TC2.9

Science has only just begun to recognise a seemingly bizarre phobia approximately one in six people of us have. Find out what it is and if you have it.

Dr Philippe Laissue

The beauty of life in its smallest form

2.30-3.30

TC2.6 and TC2.7

Dr Philippe Laissue, the biologist responsible for imaging tiny things from human cells to corals and plants, talks about (and shows) life as seen through the microscope.

Professor Arnold Wilkins

Eye-strain and the brain: disturbing vision

3.30-4.30

LTB 1

Did you know your brain finds it easier to look at scenes from nature and is less efficient and uses more oxygen when trying to interpret ‘unnatural’ images? Find out why even Hollywood stars know coloured filters can help.

Professor Peter Higgins

The Mathematics of Social Networks

2.30-3.30

LTB 3

Professor Higgins recreates the lecture given in Turin to mark winning the Premio Peano Prize, 2012, for the best book on mathematics published in Italian.

We are Essex Professor Paul Thompson

Essex: radical experiment

2.30-3.30

LTB 7

Essex was founded in 1964 as a radical experiment. Oral history pioneer Professor Thompson draws together the memories he has recorded to tell its remarkable story.

Professor Vania Sena

Big data and Essex

2.30-3.30

TC2.8 and TC2.9

Big data offers so many opportunities and Essex is a recognised leader in this field. Professor Sena, Director of the Economics and Social Research Council Business and Local Government Data Research Centre, explains the opportunities.

Anne Corrin

Essex nurses

11.30-12.30

LTB 1

Explore the growth and development of nurse education at the University of Essex, against a backdrop of constant social, economic and political change.

Professor James Raven

Recreating a lost mansion: Marks Hall, local history and rediscovering our heritage

11.30-12.30

TC2.6 and TC2.7

Marks Hall is one of the lost mansions of Britain. Find out how Marks Hall’s past was uncovered and its original walls and architectural features digitally recreated as part of an exciting research project.

Dr Hersh Mann and Louise Corti

digital data Delights: 50 years of bits and bytes

10.30-11.30

LTB 7

The UK Data Archive is a world-class and pioneering digital archive established at Essex in 1967. Discover its secrets, its best-loved collections and how researchers and students from across the world use them.

Nintendo Wii Grab some friends and indulge your competitive side with interactive games on our giant screen, but also learn about the important research being undertaken at Essex - exergaming, using computer games in rehabilitation, has the potential to be a valuable tool for health professionals. The Nintendo Wii can be a used in balance training with elderly fallers and it also uses less energy to play than other rehabilitation modes – potentially offering a rehabilitation option for frailer individuals.

10am to 5pm, Square 2

Robotics Displays Come and see our amazing robots and learn about their impact in the world through videos and real robot action!

Interactive Zone

Square 2

Testing your brain activity

Lego sculptures

Whenever we do something, for instance waving our hand, thinking about our favourite celebrity or speaking to a friend, thousands of neurons are active in our brain. We can measure this brain activitiy with a non-invasive method called electroencephalography (EEG) which has been used to study the brain for 90 years.

Join us at the psychology stall to learn how we set up an EEG, see your own brain waves and learn more about what we can find out about the human mind by studying brain waves.

Did you know that the original designs for our Colchester Campus were created using Lego?

Come along to Square 2 to create your own masterpieces or build on the work of others.

10am to 5pm, Square 2

10am to 5pm, Square 2

The Essex Robotics Group has worked on two research areas: assisted living; environment protection. It has developed new sensor technologies and learning algorithms that enable autonomous robots to assist disabled and elderly people and carry out pollution detection to protect our environments. Its research activities were highlighted by a large number of worldwide media such as BBC, CNN, Discovery and NHK, with significant social impact locally and globally.

Displays at 10.30am, 12.00pm, 1.30pm, 3.00pm and 4.30pm, the Robot Arena

Is speech the only way we communicate? Speech and language therapy – fit for the twenty-first century Be a speech and language therapy student for 50 minutes as we ask the question “is speech the only way we communicate?” We’ll find the answer through a series of fun games and activities, perfect for any budding speech and language therapists. Suitable for adults and children over five.

Workshops at 11am, 12pm, 2pm and 3pm, Square 2

Cycle sprint challenge The Human Performance Unit is the premier sport science facility in the east of England. Join us for a 10 second cycle sprint challenge and see how you compare to the professionals. There might even be a prize in it for the best score!

Also, come and find out what sport science services we offer and how we are working with elite athletes and clubs to enhance their performance. Suitable for ages 16 and over.

10am to 5pm in Square 2

From floppy disks to digital servers: data through the decades Your laptop has crashed – and now your thesis proposal has disappeared. Or you’d like to revisit your research from the 1970s, but it’s on punched cards. When it comes to precious data, it’s important to ensure it’s kept safe for years. For nearly five decades, the UK Data Archive has been preserving valuable research data and making it available to researchers around the world, and providing advice to researchers on managing their data to prevent it becoming obsolete.

Come and see an exhibition of technology from the last 50 years, including an optional tour of the Archive’s new state-of-the-art digital Data Centre.

10am to 5pm, off Square 2

Griddle Griddle is the simple but addictive word game that strikes a fine balance between skill and luck.

Score as many points as you can, but be careful: once a letter is placed, it cannot be moved!

Join us for interactive games with a competitive streak and see if you can win a prize.

2pm to 4pm, Square 2

Photo booth Have your photo taken in the Employability and Careers’ booth on Square 2 and let us know what your top tips are for our current students and graduates.

Social Zone

Square 3

Live music from The Bears Blazing a successful trail through the venues and clubs of London and England, we introduce The Bears, a wildly addictive, charismatic four piece covers band currently wowing audiences the length and breadth of the UK. With their enthusiasm and passion for live music, and the attention to detail with which they reproduce great rock and pop, this combo of two guitars, bass, drums and four part harmonies, never fail to deliver a great show.

Sets between 12.00pm and 3.40pm, Square 3

Zasmar Magic Zasmar specialises in ‘close up magic’, a unique, versatile and intimate presentation of magical effects. From card manipulation to mind reading, Zasmar adopts a modern approach to magic and uses everyday objects, often borrowed from spectators, to create his illusions. The impossibilities are endless.

10am to 7pm, in the Squares

Markmark roving theatre company The Last Chance to See is the very last performance of an act, a duo, which has been touring the halls, piers, theatres, festivals and venues for far too long. They are a variety act that has adapted and changed throughout the years and so has become a well-rehearsed, slick but bizarre mixture of music, dance, cabaret, puppetry and magic. They can still surprise and delight but also create confusion and bewilderment and not just for the audience. The costumes, props and performers are all showing signs of wear and age. Not only has the act itself become slightly perplexing, the performers find themselves in a world that has moved on around them - and possibly without them - so they have decided to retire and this is the last chance to see their act.

11am to 4pm, find them roaming in the Squares

IMPACT Zone

Square 5

Junior Grads Do you want to be a Junior Grad of Essex? Simply collect six stamps at certain activities around campus and then come to Square 4 to your very own graduation between 2pm and 4pm, where you will dress up in a graduation gown and have your picture taken! Collect your card for stamping at the registration desks in the Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall.

Graduate between 2pm to 4pm, Square 4

Parkour Team Kinetix have some of the most highly skilled and experienced performers in the UK. Their amazing acrobatic displays will involve the Team Kinetix acrobats demonstrating technical balance and floor acrobatics as well as high-flying stunts.

11am, 12pm, 2pm and 3pm, Square 5

Live music from The Dhol Enforcement Agency The Dhol Enforcement Agency are original innovators of live Punjabi folk music. Check them out in Square 5.

Sets between 10.00am and 1.15pm, Square 5

East 15 combat display Fight! Fight! Fight! See East 15 Acting school’s combat skills on show in an amazing piece of contemporary street theatre.

Directed by Nick Hall, Head of Stage Combat at East 15.

1.30pm, 2.30pm and 4.00pm, Square 5

Exhibition – Simon Carter: A Walk in the Park For the past four months, Simon Carter has been in residence at the Art Exchange, making a response to John Constable’s famous painting, Wivenhoe Park, 1816. Simon’s challenge has been to see if the Essex parkland Constable depicted almost 200 years ago can still be found today. While the landscape has evolved, the sky, often full of the same blustery clouds that Constable painted, remains remarkably similar.

Attempting to capture the essence of Wivenhoe Park is the focus of Simon Carter’s newly commissioned exhibition.

Commissioned to celebrate the University of Essex’s 50th anniversary, this exhibition creates a dialogue between the University’s historic parkland and one of East Anglia’s most respected contemporary painters.

Todd Landman is Professor of Government and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

12pm to 4pm, Art Exchange

He is also Professor of Performance Magic.

Home from Home Memory Tree Share your memory...we’ll write the play.

Drop into the Lakeside Theatre Café on Square 5 and adorn our memory tree with your stories of life at Essex. Big, small, life-changing or all-but-forgotten, from roots to leaves we’d like to know the stories of life at Essex.

Once the tree blooms, 50 stories will be picked and transformed into 50 mini performances for the University’s first weekend arts festival in May 2015 - 50 plays – 50 seconds each – 50 locations.

Whet your appetite as we preview a selection of mini plays in surprising locations throughout the day. A map and schedule are posted at Lakeside Theatre Café.

Come and play! #50EssexPlays

Then and Now: A Magical Exploration of the History of the University of Essex 1964 - 2014 Then and Now is a 60 minute magical celebration of the history of the University of Essex, brought to you by Professor of Performance Magic, Todd Landman. The show features key moments and academic highlights from the University’s history, which are explored through a variety of uncanny coincidences, precognition, predictions and demonstrations of mind reading.

This show is most appropriate for alumni and is aimed at an adult audience, although children over 8 may attend.

4pm and 6pm, Lakeside Theatre

Sports Raise your pulse rate We have a huge range of exciting sporting activities available in and around the Sports Centre. Take a look at our planner to decide what you want to do, then head up to the Sports Centre to put your name down*. Hurry, it’s first come, first served!

Climbing wall 10am to 4pm Family sports activities dodgeball, benchball, handball and more!

10am to 12pm Frisbee golf 10am to 5pm

Comedy Club 4 Kids Cracking entertainment for everyone over six years old and under 400 years old (no vampires or Highlanders!) We have the best comedians from the UK and world circuit doing what they do best... but without the rude bits! Suitable for ages 6 upwards.

11am and 1pm, Lakeside Theatre

The Lost Laws of Livy – Adventure Trail

Glow-in-the-dark badminton 2pm to 3pm Glow-in-the-dark volleyball 3pm to 4pm Glow-in-the-dark Zumba 1pm to 2pm and 4pm to 5pm Zorb football 11am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm From 10am, sign up at the Sports Centre *some age restrictions apply – see planner for details

Interactive activities for big and little kids

In Frisbee Golf players throw a flying disc at a target. Our course is set in over 200 acres of mature parkland.

When Claudius invaded Britain in AD 43, one of the many things he wanted to do was set up a new school, along Livy’s Laws. It was built just outside the Roman capital of Camulodunum, very close to where our Colchester Campus is now. Unfortunately, the school as well as the Laws themselves were lost when Queen of the Iceni, Boudica, burnt Camulodunum to the ground. Or so it was thought. Following a number of intercepted communications by the Department of Lost Historical Treasures, it is believed these Laws have not been destroyed and in fact have been returned to the very place where Emperor Claudius placed them nearly 2,000 years ago. Now we just need to find them.

Suitable for ages 6 - 11. Sorry, but unfortunately the activity is not pram-friendly.

11am and 3pm, Constable Building foyer (next to Wivenhoe House)

Please remember children must be accompanied at all times by a responsible adult, even when taking part in our kids’ activities.

Zoe and Beans – Illustration workshop with Chloe Inkpen Join Zoe and Beans creator Chloe Inkpen for interactive storytelling, games, live drawing and a book signing with special guest appearance from Chloe’s dad Mick Inkpen, creator of Kipper and Wibbly Pig (he helped make Zoe and Beans too). Chloe will take you on a hilarious action packed adventure to the moon and back, followed by a trip to the seaside in search of Pirate Treasure.

Chloe and Mick’s books will be available to buy on the day and they will be happy to sign them for you. Suitable for ages 3-6.

11.30am and 2.30pm, Ivor Crewe Lecture Hal

Snoop around campus Tours of Wivenhoe House See how Wivenhoe House has been transformed over the years with a 30 minute tour from those in the know – our current students at the Edge Hotel School.

11.00am, 1.00pm and 4.30pm, meet in Wivenhoe House foyer

Estates tours Join Director of Estate Management, Simon Neale, on a 60 minute tour of our Colchester Campus. From historic parkland to our very newest buildings, this tour will tell you everything you need to know about the fabric of the University.

10.30am, 11.30am, 2.30pm and 3.30pm, meet in Square 4

Sculpture in the Park

Charting our history

Join our art tutor in the beautiful grounds of Wivenhoe Park in this playful art session. Create giant sculptures with light and easily handled materials in response to the natural environment. For ages 7 upwards.

To coincide with a major exhibition in the iconic Hexagon that looks back at the founding years, the architecture of the Colchester Campus and 50 years of student life, we want tell your story and share your experiences in a unique interactive map of the Campus.

1.30pm, in the parkland (meet in Square 5)

u www.essex.ac.uk/see/memorymap

decade bedrooms There are six themed bedrooms in Keynes Tower, flat 2, decked out as they might have been by students in every decade from the 1960s to today. Check them out and see if they remind you of your old room.

Saturday 10am to 6pm and Sunday 10am to 12pm, Keynes Tower, flat 2

1.45pm A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester, 1964) Released at the height of Beatlemania this comedy, starring the world’s most famous band, was shot in black and white and in a cinéma vérité style. The film was a financial and critical success and went on to become one of the most influential music films ever made.

3.45pm Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964) The Cuban missile crisis was still fresh in the viewer’s memory when director Stanley Kubrick delivered this brilliant send up of the Cold War nuclear stand-off. Peter Sellers turns in three excellent performances in one film to help create one of the greatest political satires of all time.

film programme

LTB 10, Lecture Theatre Building

A selection of cinema classics that are also celebrating their 50th anniversary!

11am Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964) A comic musical fantasy set in London, the enduring popularity of Disney’s Edwardian Mary Poppins is in part due to wonderful songs by the Sherman brothers and an Academy award winning performance by Julie Andrews in her first ever movie role. Not everyone was a fan though. Author PL Travers disliked the adaptation so much she blocked any future adaptations of her work by Disney.

6pm The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964) Pasolini, one of the directors to emerge from Italy’s Neo-Realist period, made his film about the story of Christ using harsh textures, raw images, jump-cuts and dreamlike montages. The result is an undeniably powerful film that takes the teachings of Christ as its central focus. The Gospel According to St. Matthew is widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made.

Sunday 14 September wind down with...

Sports For anyone with any energy left, we have rounders and volleyball on the sports fields and basketball in the Sports Centre. All sessions are dropin, just bring yourself and your trainers.

From 10am to 2pm, on the sports fields and the Sports Centre

Exhibition – Something Fierce

Pantasy Steel Band The finest steel pan sounds around! The Pantasy Steel Band mix traditional laid-back Caribbean music with upbeat, instantly recognisable tunes. Set includes songs by Bob Marley and UB40.

11am to 2pm, on the sports fields

See page 5 10.00am to 5.00pm, The Hexagon

Service of Thanksgiving Our local Anglican parish church, St Mary’s in Wivenhoe, will be staging a service of thanksgiving, in honour of the University and our 50th anniversary. All welcome.

10.30am, St Mary’s Church, Wivenhoe

Celebratory Cricket Match – University Founders’ XI v University Past & Present XI Join us for a commemorative cricket match between Essex founding donors Wivenhoe Cricket Club and West Essex Cricket Club and an Essex team of students, staff and alumni.

From 11am, on the sports fields

Essential information Accessibility If you need any help, please ask a staff member or one of our student ambassadors. If you are a visitor with a disability, let a staff member know and they can advise you on the accessible routes around campus.

Safety Please pay attention to all warnings when on campus and take special care if touring our laboratories. We would kindly ask that you do not touch any equipment unless asked and that you follow staff instructions for your own safety. We welcome children but please keep them with you at all times, as our staff and students are not able to look after children. We also have trained medical first aiders who can assist you.

Emergency If the fire alarm sounds continuously you must immediately leave the building you are in by the nearest available exit. Evacuation stewards and student Homecoming Assistants will assist you. Please move away from the exit doors and do not re-enter the building until informed by a member of staff that it is safe to do so. In case of serious emergency, alert a member of staff or student ambassador. Alternatively, dial 2222 on an internal telephone or 01206 872222 on an outside line and give details of the incident to our security staff. Please do not call the emergency services as the University has agreed arrangements with them.

Lost Children and lost property Lost children and vulnerable adults will be looked after at the Information Centre on Square 3 (see map). Those lost or looking for lost people should make themselves known to staff who will be in radio contact with Security.

Breastfeeding, bottle warming and nappy changing The Day Nursery will be open between 10am and 4pm to provide a quiet space for breastfeeding, bottle warming and nappy changing. Please note that this is not a crèche facility - babies and children must be accompanied at all times by a parent or carer.

Food and drink Happy Days Diner – our classic American diner. Choose from burgers, hot dogs, pizza, baked potatoes, chilli, bagels and wraps, shakes and sodas. Saturday and Sunday 7.30am – 8.00pm Zest – our stylish café offers a range of speciality teas and coffees, alongside paninis, homemade pastries, cakes and cookies.

Saturday and Sunday 10am – 5pm Canteen – wholesome, freshly-cooked dishes from around the world. Saturday 7.30am – 11.30am, 12.30pm – 2.30pm, 6.00pm – 8.00pm. Sunday 7.30am – 11.30am Blues – Blues Café serves Italy’s favourite coffee, Lavazza, speciality tea and cold drinks, tasty snacks and cakes. The Deli Bar provides freshly baked breads and baguettes with a variety of fillings, as well as a salad bar, jacket potatoes, soups, daily hot dishes, including a vegetarian hot dish. Saturday and Sunday 10am – 6pm Students’ Union bar – Serving as a social hub for students, the SU Bar offers a packed menu of quality food that doesn’t cost the earth, from full English breakfasts through to tasty salads and heart-warming main meals like sausage and mash. Friday 10am – late, Saturday 8am – late, Sunday 9am – late

Top Bar – Top Bar has a wide range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks as well as a pool table and darts board. Showcasing our Students’ Union’s proud heritage, Top Bar is a laidback place to enjoy a drink. Friday 12pm – late, Saturday 12pm – late Sub Zero - Sub Zero is an underground club that is recognised as one of the best student venues in the UK. 11pm – late Frango’s - A brand new Portuguese restaurant and bar, Frango’s will serve a range of marinated chicken with spices from Europe, South America and Mexico. The menu will offer light bites, tapas and vegetarian options.

Friday – Lunch and dinner. Saturday - Lunch and dinner Lakeside Theatre Café is a great place to pick up a coffee and pastry. Throughout the day, this stylish cafe situated in the Lakeside Theatre foyer, offers hot and cold drinks, paninis and pastries, sandwiches, cakes and snacks.

10am – 5pm

Circular Sudoku Each of the numbers 1-8 must appear in each of the four rings and each adjoining pair of ‘slices’.

6 5 7 8

3

1

2

8

1

3

Professor Peter M Higgins, the inventor of Circular Sudoku, is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Essex. He won the Premio Peano Prize (awarded to the best book published about mathematics in Italian) in 2012.