OPEN LECTURE PROGRAMME SPRING 2013
WELCOME TO THE OPEN LECTURE SPRING BROCHURE The University has, for many years, provided a wide range of popular Open Lectures maintaining the University’s high profile at a local, national and international level. Our programme includes a variety of interesting speakers covering diverse subject matters. Open Lectures are free to all and no booking is required. This term we are delighted to invite you to enjoy the majority of Open Lectures in our newly refurbished Lecture venue, the Grimond Building. From time to time, Open Lecture details change after advertising material has been printed. We therefore strongly advise you to check the website for any last-minute changes: www.kent.ac.uk/openlectures. We look forward to welcoming you.
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Open Lectures are free and open to all, no booking required. For a comprehensive guide to public events at the University of Kent, please visit: www.kent.ac.uk/events
WEDNESDAY 16 JANUARY / LEVERHULME LECTURE
Professor Judy Fudge Women workers: Is equality enough?
Judy Fudge is Professor and Lansdowne Chair in Law at the University of Victoria, Canada. She adopts feminist, political economy, and historical approaches to the study of employment and labour law. She has held visiting positions at the European University Institute, Lund University, REMESO at Linköping University, McGill University’s Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, the University of Melbourne, the University of Oxford, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Saskatchewan. In 2009, she received the Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights for her research project “Labour Rights as Human Rights: Unions, Women, and Migrants”.
No booking required Grimond Lecture Theatre 1, Canterbury Campus / 6pm Contact the Events Team / T: 01227 827829 / E: events@kent.ac.uk 3
WEDNESDAY 23 JANUARY 2013 / VICE-CHANCELLOR’S LECTURE
Professor Stephen Peckham
How are Clinical Commissioning Groups navigating the choppy waters of NHS reform? Stephen Peckham, Professor of Health Policy is jointly appointed as Director of the Centre for Health Services Studies at the University of Kent (CHSS) and Professor of Health Policy in the Department of Health Services Research and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is Director of the Department of Health Policy Research Unit in Commissioning and the Healthcare System based at LSHTM, the University of Manchester and CHSS. Stephen has over twenty years of academic research experience, previously working in local government and the voluntary sectors.
No booking required Grimond Lecture Theatre 1, Canterbury Campus / 6pm Contact the Events Team / T: 01227 827829 / E: events@kent.ac.uk 4
FRIDAY 25 JANUARY / CHANCELLOR’S LECTURE
Professor Sir Robert Worcester Public opinion: Friend or foe
Professor Sir Robert Worcester KBE DL is Chancellor of the University of Kent, Council Member and Honorary Professor. He is Chairman of the Magna Carta 2015 800th Anniversary Commemoration. Sir Robert is Visiting Professor of Government at LSE and at the Institute of Contemporary British History at King’s, Honorary Professor at Warwick and a former Member of the Fullbright Commission. He founded MORI and is Past-President, World Association for Public Opinion Research. Sir Robert is co-author of Explaining Cameron’s Coalition.
No booking required Woolf Lecture Theatre, Canterbury Campus / 6.30pm Contact the Events Team / T: 01227 827829 / E: events@kent.ac.uk 5
WEDNESDAY 30 JANUARY / DARWIN COLLEGE ANNUAL LECTURE
Professor Rebecca Stott
‘Masterpieces are not single and solitary births’: Darwin's Predecessors Rebecca Stott is a novelist, non-fiction writer, historian of science and Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at UEA. She is the author of ‘Darwin and the Barnacle’ (Faber, 2003), ‘Darwin's Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists’ (Bloomsbury, 2012) and the two novels ‘Ghostwalk’ (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007) about Newton, alchemy and optics, and ‘The Coral Thief’ (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009) about Lamarckian ideas in post-Napoleonic Paris.
No booking required Grimond Lecture Theatre 1, Canterbury Campus / 6pm Contact the Events Team / T: 01227 827829 / E: events@kent.ac.uk 6
WEDNESDAY 6 FEBRUARY / LORD MAYOR’S LECTURE
Dominic Grieve, QC, MP, Attorney General TITLE TBC
Dominic Grieve QC MP was appointed Attorney General by Prime Minister David Cameron on 12 May 2010. He has been Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield since 1997. Mr Grieve has been Secretary of the Conservative Backbench Committee on the Constitution, Legal Affairs and Northern Ireland and was a member of the Select Committee on Environmental Audit and the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments from 1997-1999. Mr Grieve was Conservative spokesman for Scotland and for Criminal Justice and Community Cohesion, as part of the Shadow Home Affairs team. He served as Shadow Attorney General from 2003 to 2009 and Shadow Home Secretary from June 2008 to 2009. In January 2009 he became the Shadow Secretary of State for Justice. No booking required Grimond Lecture Theatre 1, Canterbury Campus / 6pm Contact the Events Team / T: 01227 827829 / E: events@kent.ac.uk 7
WEDNESDAY 13 FEBRUARY / OPEN LECTURE
Dr Joan Wolf
Is breast really best? Breastfeeding, motherhood, and the politics of care Joan Wolf is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Texas A&M University. She is author, most recently, of ‘Is Breast Best? Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood’ (New York University Press, 2011). Joan is currently researching neoliberalism and the politics of care in the United States.
No booking required Grimond Lecture Theatre 1, Canterbury Campus / 6pm Contact the Events Team / T: 01227 827829 / E: events@kent.ac.uk 8
THURSDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2012 / BOB FRIEND MEMORIAL LECTURE (MEDWAY)
Stephanie Flanders
Lessons of the global financial crisis for economists and economic journalists Stephanie Flanders is a graduate of Oxford University and a Harvard University Kennedy Scholar. She is the daughter of Michael Flanders the theatrical entertainer. Stephanie began her career as an economist at the London Business School and the Institute for Fiscal Studies and went on to become a columnist for the Financial Times. She was speechwriter and advisor to the US Treasury Secretary in 1997 and has also written for the New York Times. In 2002, Stephanie joined BBC’s Newsnight. She became Economics Editor in 2008, a position she still holds. Stephanie is a visiting fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.
No booking required Pilkington Lecture Theatre, Medway Campus / 7pm Contact the Events Team / T: 01227 827829 / E: events@kent.ac.uk 9
WEDNESDAY 6 MARCH 2013 / OPEN LECTURE
Professor Anthony Slinn Masterpieces of the twentieth century
Professor Slinn studied at Liverpool College of Art at the time of the Beatles, and came to study painting at London University’s Slade School where his History of Art tutor was the great Sir E H Gombrich. He spent thirty years teaching at various Art colleges and set up his ‘Roadshow’ in 1983 to share his enthusiasm for art and artists. Anthony continues to be a full time painter and lecturer giving close to 200 presentations a year.
No booking required Grimond Lecture Theatre 1, Canterbury Campus / 6pm Contact the Events Team / T: 01227 827829 / E: events@kent.ac.uk 10
THURSDAY 7 MARCH 2013 / OPEN LECTURE (MEDWAY)
Professor Mary Watkins
Efficiency and compassion – are they incompatible partners in healthcare? Professor Mary Watkins background is in mental health nursing. Professor Watkins led the Institute of Health Studies at Plymouth University, and later became Dean of the then Faculty of Health and Social Work, becoming Deputy Vice-Chancellor in 2007. She is a Non-Executive Director of the South Western Ambulance NHS Trust, a BUPA Medical Advisory Panel Member, and a Member of the UK Health Education Advisory Committee. This summer, Professor Watkins retired from her role as Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Nursing at Plymouth University, having led the negotiating team which in 2012 secured for Plymouth its own medical and dental schools. Professor Watkins has made a significant contribution to health education over her career, working in and with higher education, the NHS and the private and not-for-profit charitable sectors. No booking required Pilkington Lecture Theatre, Medway Campus / 6pm Contact the Events Team / T: 01227 827829 / E: events@kent.ac.uk 11
WEDNESDAY 13 MARCH 2013 / OPEN LECTURE
Amanda Nevill
Is cinema dead in the digital age? Amanda Nevill is Chief Executive of the British Film Institute, the UK’s lead body for film and a distributor of Lottery funding support with a combined cultural, creative and industrial role. Since joining in 2003, she has overseen the transformation of BFI Southbank into a buzzing venue for audiences and for the film industry, the BFI IMAX turning into one of the world’s highest grossing screens, the BFI London Film Festival growing to become a leading event in the international film calendar and the successful delivery of a multi-million pound capital build investment to preserve the UK’s Screen Heritage. Before joining the BFI, Amanda was Head of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (NMPFT) in Bradford for nine years and Chief Executive of the Royal Photographic Society.
No booking required Grimond Lecture Theatre 1, Canterbury Campus / 6pm Contact the Events Team / T: 01227 827829 / E: events@kent.ac.uk 12
WEDNESDAY 20 MARCH 2013 / OPEN LECTURE
Professor Tim Birkhead What Darwin thought about sex
Tim Birkhead is professor of behavioural ecology at the University of Sheffield. After a degree in Zoology (1972) at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tim completed a DPhil at Oxford on the biology of guillemots in 1976, before taking a lectureship at Sheffield in 1976, where he’s been ever since. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004. His main research interest is promiscuity.
No booking required Grimond Lecture Theatre 1, Canterbury Campus / 6pm Contact the Events Team / T: 01227 827829 / E: events@kent.ac.uk 13
WEDNESDAY 27 MARCH 2013 / ELIOT ANNUAL LECTURE
Dr John Guy Thomas Becket
John Guy is a Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge. His books include the bestselling ‘Thomas Becket’ (Viking, 2012), ‘A Daughter’s Love: Thomas and Margaret More’ (Fourth Estate, 2008), and ‘“My Heart is My Own”’: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots’ (Fourth Estate, 2004), which won the Whitbread Biography Award and the Marsh Biography Award. He appears regularly on BBC radio and has presented five documentaries for BBC television. He also writes for national newspapers and magazines, including The Sunday Times and The Literary Review.
No booking required Grimond Lecture Theatre 1, Canterbury Campus / 6pm Contact the Events Team / T: 01227 827829 / E: events@kent.ac.uk 14
WEDNESDAY 29 MAY 2013 / VICE-CHANCELLOR’S LECTURE
Professor David Latchman
Flexible learning: Removing the boundaries between full-time and part-time Higher Education Professor David Latchman CBE is the Master of Birkbeck College, University of London. He is Professor of Genetics at Birkbeck and UCL. After academic posts in the Departments of Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Pathology at UCL he was appointed to the Chair of Human Genetics at UCL and was Dean of the Institute of Child Health 1999 – 2002. He continues to publish in the field of Genetics and Molecular Biology and pursues a high level of research activity in addition to his management responsibilities. Professor Latchman serves on a variety of committees including: Universities UK Research Policy Network; CBI London Council; National DNA Database Ethics Group (Home Office). He was awarded the CBE for services to Higher Education in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List of 2010 No Booking required Keynes Lecture Theatre 1, Canterbury Campus / 6pm Contact the Events Team / T: 01227 827829 / E: events@kent.ac.uk 15
MONDAY 10 JUNE 2013 / VICE-CHANCELLOR’S LECTURE
Martin Bean TITLE TBC
Martin Bean has been Vice-Chancellor of The Open University since October 2009. Before then he was General Manager of Microsoft’s Worldwide Education Products Group, where he focused on developing solutions to help the global education community. Born in Australia, Martin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Adult Education from the University of Technology in Sydney.
No booking required Keynes Lecture Theatre 1, Canterbury Campus / 6pm Contact the Events Team / T: 01227 827829 / E: events@kent.ac.uk 16
HIGH TABLE DINNERS Booking Information
All College Honorary Senior Members and College Members are invited to attend the High Table Dinners
CHANCELLOR’S LECTURE AND HIGH TABLE DINNER Friday 25 January 2013
DARWIN ANNUAL FEAST Wednesday 30 January 2013
LORD MAYOR’S LECTURE AND HIGH TABLE DINNER Wednesday 6 February 2013
ELIOT ANNUAL HIGH TABLE DINNER Wednesday 27 March 2013
The price of a three-course dinner with wine is £35.00 per person.
If you would like to make a booking to attend one or more of the High Table Dinners, please contact: The Events Team T: 01227 827829 / E: events@kent.ac.uk 17
EVENTS Music events The University Music department promotes a range of music events throughout the year including lunchtime concerts, workshops with visiting professional musicians, concerts in Canterbury Cathedral and various other venues. For more information visit www.kent.ac.uk/music Gulbenkian Theatre and Cinema The Gulbenkian Theatre has a diverse programme including drama, comedy, dance and music. The Cinema is an independent film theatre which shows mainstream, alternative and foreign films. For more information visit www.kent.ac.uk/gulbenkian Sports events The University of Kent’s Sport, Physical Activity & Recreation department runs a varied programme of sporting events. For more information visit www.kent.ac.uk/sports
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Free hot drink upgrade* Located at the heart of the University campus, nestled amongst the theatre and cinema, the Gulbenkian Café offers the perfect place to catch up with friends before or after an Open Lecture. Our award winning chefs use fresh, seasonal and locally sourced produce to create delicious light lunches and mouth-watering snacks including delicious cakes and Fairtrade coffees.
Order a small and we will upgrade you to a large at no additional cost. * Redeem this voucher at the Café. Only one voucher valid per transaction.
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Enjoy 10% off* hot food when you visit to attend a University of Kent Open Lecture * Redeem this voucher at the Café. Only one voucher valid per transaction.
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Past Open Lecture speakers include LORD MAY LORD PUTTNAM SHIULE GHOSH MICHAEL MANSFIELD QC LORD WINSTON DR ROWAN WILLIAMS JOANNA LUMLEY OBE DR DAVID STARKEY CBE LORD ADONIS LORD BINGHAM OF CORNHILL BARONESS HALE OF RICHMOND DR MUHAMMAD ABDUL BARI DAME JENNY ABRAMSKY
For all other events taking place at the University of Kent, please see the University Events Calendar www.kent.ac.uk/events
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Autumn 2013 speakers will include DAME ATHENE DONALD DR SUE BLACK BELINDA STEWART-COX PROFESSOR SIR TIMOTHY WILSON