Lectures & Talks Academic Year 2011 - 2012
The Hidden Self Grown Strong: Christian Anthropology
6 October 2011
1730hrs
M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre – Gateway
Faculty of Theology
Michael A. Sant Memorial Lecture
19 October 2011
1745hrs
at the National Curriculum Centre, Farsons Street, Hamrun
Faculty of Education and the History Teachers' Association
Challenges in Human Trafficking Cases
27 October 2011
1100hrs – 1200hrs
M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre – Gateway Hall B2
Department of International Relations (Faculty of Arts) in conjunction with the
Embassy of the United States of America.
Climate Change: Impacts and Evidence
3 November 2011
1800hrs - 2000hrs
Maths and Physics Building Room 401
Islands and Small States Institute in collaboration with the Faculty of Science
Ralph Arrigo Lecture
3 November 2011
1945hrs
Main Auditorium, Mater Dei Hospital, Block C, Level 3
Faculty of Medicine and Surgery
Pride and Prejudice in Fidelity Criticism
7 November 2011
1830hrs
M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre (Gateway Building - GW) Hall E
'Literature and Comparison' Research Seminar Series
Sinkhole Hazards: Analysis and Mitigation
11 November 2011
1100hrs
Old Humanities Building Room 116
Geography Division, Mediterranean Institute
Battlestar Galactica Online - Next Generation Browser Game
Development
10 November 2011
1930hrs
Lecture Theatre 1 - Erin Serracino Inglott Hall
Faculty of Media & Knowledge Sciences
The Geopolitics of South Korea’s Foreign Policy
11 November 2011
1500hrs - 1600hrs
Science Lecture Theatre
The Department of International Relations 2011/2012 Lecture Series, Faculty of Arts
The Social, Political, Economic and Religious Background to
Art in Utrecht in the 16th and 17th Centuries
16 November 2011
1830hrs
Lecture Theatre 2 - Francis Ebejer Hall
Department of History of Art, Faculty of Arts
Engagements with Contemporary Philosophy
17 November 2011
1930hrs - 2130hrs
Aula Magna, Junior College
Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts
Seminar: Geography and the Census
15 November 2011
1000hrs - 1200hrs
Common Room, Students’ House
Geography Division, Mediterranean Institute
Principles and Context
17 November 2011
1000hrs - 1200hrs
Old Humanities Room 112
Geography Division, Mediterranean Institute
Automated Zone Design
18 November 2011
0900hrs - 1000hrs
M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre - Gateway Hall C
Geography Division, Mediterranean Institute
Geography and Employability
18 November 2011
1100hrs - 1200hrs
Junior College - Conference Hall
Geography Division, Mediterranean Institute
Alcohol and Young People
17 November 2011
1800hrs - 1930hrs
Arts Lecture Theatre
Department of Youth & Community Studies and the Department of Psychology,
Faculty of Education
The Palestinian Question: Future Solutions
22 November 2011
1300hrs - 1500hrs
M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre - Gateway Building Hall C
Department of International Relations 2011/2012 Lecture Series, Faculty of Arts
Lessons from the Euro Crisis
25 November 2011
1800hrs - 1900hrs
M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre - Gateway Hall E
Department of Banking & Finance, Faculty of Economics, Management and
Accountancy
Shostakovich, Britten, Stravinsky-Painting and Literature in
Between: 1936
28 November 2011
1830hrs
Gateway Building, Hall E,
Literature and Comparison Research Seminar Series
Seismic Hazard and Local Site Response Evaluation: issues and
case studies
30 November 2011
1430hrs
Room 119 Dun Mikiel Xerri Lecture Centre
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science
The Recent Upheavals in North Africa and the Middle East
29 November 2011
0900hrs - 1000hrs
Room 113, Old Humanities
Department of International Relations 2011/2012 Lecture Series, Faculty of Arts
Literature and Reclusiveness
5 December 2011
1900hrs
Arts Lecture Theatre
'Literature and Comparison' Research Seminar Series
"'Minn kull xorta ta’ qżież.' Dun Karm u l-konfini tal-identità
fil-mument tal-metafora,"
9 December 2011
1900hrs
Francis Ebejer Hall - Lecture Theatre 2
Fondazzjoni Karmen Mikallef Buħaġar and the Department of Maltese, Faculty of
Arts
The Resilience of Small Island Jurisdictions
16 December 2011
1600hrs - 1700hrs
M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre Gateway Building Hall A
The Department of International Relations2011/2012 Lecture Series
Institutions and Elections: France vs the United States
10 January 2012
1000hrs - 1100hrs
Video Conferencing Hall, New IT Services Building
The Department of International Relations2011/2012 Lecture Series
'Mother tongue, Fatherland. The Concept of Kulturnation in
German History and Literature'
9 January 2012
1830hrs
Gateway Building Hall E
Literature and Comparison' Research Seminar Series
'An Overview of Levy Processes with Stable Distributions'
18 January 2012
1300hrs
Room 606 Maths and Physics Building
Statistics and OR Seminars, Faculty of Science
'Dealing with Jumps'
25 January 2012
1300hrs
Room 606 Maths and Physics Building
Statistics and OR Seminars, Faculty of Science
Encounters: Preserving Palestine
25 Januray 2012
1200hrs – 1300hrs
Hall BEN C Faculty for the Built Environment
Faculty for the Built Environment
''On the Semiharmonic Characterization of the Optimal Payoff
Functions in Nonzero-Sum Games''
8 February 2012
1030hrs
Room 606 Maths and Physics Building
Statistics and OR Seminars, Faculty of Science
Series of Lectures by Professor Frédéric Royall
13 February 2012
1000hrs -1200hrs
Hall BEN B
Department of Arts and Languages in Education, Faculty of Education
Series of Lectures by Professor Frédéric Royall
14 February 2012
1000hrs -1200hrs
M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre - Gateway (GW) Hall E
Department of Arts and Languages in Education, Faculty of Education
'Rethinking the Threshold: A critique of liminal space in world
literary and postcolonial critical discourses'
27 February 2012
1830hrs
Lecture Theatre 2
Literature and Comparison Research Seminar Series
A New Kind of Fiction? Humanities vs The Ludic Object
5 March 2012
1830hrs
at the Arts Lecture Theatre
Department of English, Faculty of Arts
The Arab Spring: One Year On
7 March 2012
1600hrs - 1700hrs
in Training Room 107, IT Service New Building
The Department of International Relations 2011/2012 Lecture Series, Faculty of Arts
Turkey’s New Role in the Balkans & Middle East
12 March 2012
200hrs - 1400hrs
Gateway Hall B2
The Department of International Relations 2011/2012 Lecture Series, Faculty of Arts
Series of Lectures by Prof. John F. Healey
12 March 2012
0900hrs-1100hrs
TBA
Department of Oriental Studies, Faculty of Arts
Series of Lectures by Prof. John F. Healey
13 March 2012
1100hrs-1300hrs
TBA
Department of Oriental Studies, Faculty of Arts
Public Lectures on Technologies for Underwater Exploration
13 March 2012
1600hrs
Room MP101, Maths & Physics Building
Department of Systems & Control Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Series of Lectures by Prof. John F. Healey
15 March 2012
0900hrs-1100hrs
TBA
Department of Oriental Studies, Faculty of Arts
Public Lectures on Technologies for Underwater Exploration
20 March 2012
1600hrs
Room MP101, Maths & Physics Building
Department of Systems & Control Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Public Lecture by Dr Mohamed-Salah Omri
20 March 2012
1815hrs
ELT
Department of Maltese, Faculty of Arts
Public Lecture by Dr Mohamed-Salah Omri
21 March 2012
1000hrs
LC216
Department of Maltese, Faculty of Arts
Public Lecture by Dr Mohamed-Salah Omri
22 March 2012
1815hrs
NALR
Department of Maltese, Faculty of Arts
Geographies of Water
22 March 2012
1100hrs – 1300hrs
Common Room, University House
Geography Division, Mediterranean Institute
Public Lectures on Technologies for Underwater Exploration
23 March 2012
1600hrs
Engineering Lecture Theatre, Engineering Building
Department of Systems & Control Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Analiżi tal-ġens grammatikali fil-Malti skont nisel in-nom
28 March 2012
1830hrs
EB1, Engineering Building
The Akkademja tal-Malti and the Department of Maltese, Faculty of Arts
Cheminformatics
2 April 2012
1300hrs - 1400hrs
Chemistry Lecture Room (CLR)
Metamaterials Unit Seminar Series, Faculty of Science
The Arab Spring: One Year On
18 April 2012
1600hrs - 1700hrs
VC Room 101, IT Services Building
Department of International Relations 2011/2012 Lecture Series, Faculty of Arts
Remembering the Present
18 April 2012
1800hrs-1900hrs
Mediterranean Institute Room 124
Work in Progress in the Social Studies (WIPSS)
A Couple of Morphologies
20 April 2012
1500hrs
Lecture Centre Room 216
Institute of Linguistics and Department of Maltese
The Pragmatic Enrichment of Figurative Lexical Meaning
23 April 2012
1600hrs
Lecture Centre Room 120
Institute of Linguistics
Works in Search of a Literature: The Canon in the Maltese
Context
23 April 2012
1830hrs
Arts Lecture Theatre
'Literature and Comparison' Research Seminar Series
The Order of St John's Fleet
23 April 2012
1700hrs - 1900hrs
M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre - Gateway GW Room 307
Department of History, Faculty of Arts
The Order of St John's Fleet
24 April 2012
1700hrs - 1900hrs
M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre - Gateway GW Room 157
Department of History, Faculty of Arts
Legal Translation & Interpreting
24 April 2012
1000hrs-1200hrs
GWHB
Department of Translations and Interpreting Studies, Faculty of Arts
Applying Relevance-Theoretic Pragmatics in Second Language
Teaching (25 Apr.)
25 April 2012
1200hrs
Boardroom - Room 301, Media and Knowledge Sciences Building
Institute of Linguistics
Literary Translation with reference to Collodi’s Pinocchio
Translations
25 April 2012
1400hrs-1600hrs
LBR2
Department of Translations and Interpreting Studies, Faculty of Arts
History of Art Public Lectures
25 April 2012
1830hrs
M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre - Gate Way (GW) Hall E
Department of History of Art, Faculty of Arts
Single European Currency and recent developments in the
Euro area
2 May 2012
1000hrs - 1200hrs
Engineering Building, Room 1
The Department of International Relations 2011/2012 Lecture Series, Faculty of Arts
History of Art Public Lectures
2 May 2012
1830hrs
M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre - Gateway Building (GW) Hall B2
Department of History of Art, Faculty of Arts
St Thomas Aquinas Lecture
3 May 2012
1000hrs
Francis Ebejer Hall, Lecture Theatre 2 (LT2)
Faculty of Theology
International Migration and its economic causes and effects
3 May 2012
1000hrs - 1200hrs
M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre Gateway Building (GW), Hall C
The Department of International Relations 2011/2012 Lecture Series, Faculty of Arts
Lecture in German by Prof. Dr. Carola Hilmes from the Goethe
Universität of Frankfurt
3 May 2012
1700hrs
LC116
Department German, Faculty of Arts
St Thomas Aquinas Lecture
4 May 2012
1100hrs
M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre - Gateway (GW) Hall D2
Faculty of Theology
Public Lectures at IPES
4 May 2012
1100hrs - 1200hrs
Main Lecture Hall, Institute for PE and Sport
Institute for PE and Sport
Public Lectures at IPES
7 May 2012
1500hrs - 1600hrs
Main Lecture Hall, Institute for PE and Sport
Institute for PE and Sport
US Foreign Policy in the 2012 Elections
9 May 2012
1600hrs - 1700hrs
VC Hall 101, IT Services Building
The Department of International Relations 2011/2012 Lecture Series, Faculty of Arts
Changing Religious Identities at the Edge of European
Secularity
9 May 2012
1800hrs-1900hrs
Mediterranean Institute Room 122
Work in Progress in the Social Studies (WIPSS)
History of Art Public Lectures
9 May 2012
1830hrs
M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre - Gateway Building (GW) Hall B2
Department of History of Art, Faculty of Arts
Public Lectures at IPES
14 May 2012
1500hrs - 1600hrs
Main Lecture Hall, Institute for PE and Sport
Institute for PE and Sport
Chesterton as a Journalist
15 May 2012
1800hrs
Erin Serracino Inglott Hall - Lecture Theatre 1 (LT 1)
Department of English, Faculrt of Arts
Public Lectures at IPES
17 May 2012
1500hrs - 1600hrs
Main Lecture Hall, Institute for PE and Sport
Institute for PE and Sport
Power, Spectacle, and Representation: Liliana Cavani's
Transgressive Gaze
17 May 2012
1900hrs
M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre - Gateway (GW) Hall C
'Literature and Comparison' Research Seminar Series
Conference on the Teaching of Italian
21 May 2012
1500hrs -1700hrs
M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre - Gateway (GW) Hall E
The Department of Arts and Languages, Faculty of Education, in collaboration
with the Società Dante Alighieri
DMSTE Dissertation Showcase
23 May 2012
1600hrs -1730hrs
Main Hall, Institute for Physical Education & Sport
Department of Mathematics, Science & Technical Education (DMSTE), Faculty of
Education
At Loggerheads or in Dovetails? The individual and the state
from the early modern jus gentium to contemporary
international jurisprudence
23 May 2012
1800hrs-1900hrs
Mediterranean Institute Room 122
Work in Progress in the Social Studies (WIPSS)
Lecture on Peking Opera
24 May 2012
1840hrs
Sir TemiZammit Hall
Confucius Institute and The China Culture Centre
Supreme but not Final: the role of the Supreme Court in the
United States
30 May 2012
1800hrs-1900hrs
Mediterranean Institute Room 122
Work in Progress in the Social Studies (WIPSS)
A Flat Earth Society? Imagining academic freedom
4 June 2012
1800hrs-1900hrs
Mediterranean Institute Room 122
Work in Progress in the Social Studies (WIPSS)
What’s Wrong With Business Ethics? Can Catholic Morality
Help?
4 June 2012
1830hrs
M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre - Gateway Building (GW) Hall E
Faculty of Theology
Historical and Fictional Narratives of Slaves in North Africa
and Malta
12 June2012
1800hrs-2030hrs
Hall D, M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre - Gateway Building (GW)
Department of Maltese, Faculty of Arts
Ultimate Moral Experiences: analysing conflict resolution
among African immigrants in the light of Emmanual Levinas'
moral philosophy
13 June2012
1800hrs-1900hrs
Mediterranean Institute Room 122
Work in Progress in the Social Studies (WIPSS)
Talk by Prof. Wasin So – Matrices and Graphs: A Two-Way
Street
3 July 2012
1100hrs
Room 307 Maths and Physics Building
Department of Maths, Faculty of Science
Talk by Prof. Wasin So – Integral Graphs with Special
Structures
5 July 2012
1100hrs
Room 307 Maths and Physics Building
Department of Maths, Faculty of Science