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Social Policy and Social Work and
Centre for Applied Human Rights Lecture
Friday 6 November
Building female dignity and self-reliance in the conflict
zones of north-west Pakistan
Maryam Bibi, Khwendo Kor, Pakistan
1pm, The Bowland auditorium,
Berrick Saul building
Annual Riddy Lecture
Wednesday 11 November
Kneeling, calling and the Medieval self
Isabel Davis, Birkbeck, University of
London
5.30pm, Bowland auditorium,
Berrick Saul building
Computer Science Roundhouse Lecture
Wednesday 11 November
Pioneers of Computer Science
Sir Tony Hoare FRS FREng,
Microsoft Research (Cambridge)
TICKET ONLY 6.30pm,
SEE PAGE 8 Ron Cooke Hub
auditorium
York Medieval Seminar
Tuesday 17 November
Imagining the past: Interplay between textual
and visual imagery in late Medieval France
Professor Anne D Hedeman, Kress
Foundation, USA
6.15pm,
Room K/133, King’s Manor
Merchant Adventurers’
Arts Discovery Event
Thursday 19 November
Laughter in the ghetto:
Cabarets from a concentration camp
Dr Lisa Peschel,
Department of Theatre,
Film and Television
TICKET ONLY 6.30pm, Merchant
SEE PAGE 8 Adventurers’ Hall, Fossgate, York
Ken Dixon Lecture
Wednesday 25 November
Have we learned the lessons of the financial crisis?
Martin Wolf, Financial Times
TICKET ONLY 6.30pm,
SEE PAGE 8 Ron Cooke Hub auditorium
Illuminating Science
Thursday 12 November
Illuminating Biology: Vision in plants
Professor Seth J Davis, Department of Biology
Thursday 19 November
Illuminating Physics: Imaging disease
Professor Thomas Krauss, Department of Physics
Thursday 26 November
Illuminating Chemistry:
From fireflies to the stars
Dr Annie Hodgson,
Department of Chemistry
PSA Annual Lecture
(organised jointly by the Political Studies
Association and the University of York)
Thursday 26 November
Women and Islamaphobia
Lecture followed by a panel debate
with Baroness Haleh Afshar
TICKET ONLY 6.30pm to 8pm,
SEE PAGE 8 Ron Cooke Hub
auditorium
Social and Political Sciences Lecture
Thursday 3 December
Looking up in Scotland?
Multinationalism, multiculturalism and political elites
Dr Nasar Meer, Strathclyde University
TICKET ONLY 4pm,
SEE PAGE 8 Room W/222, Wentworth College
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Centre for Global Health Histories Lectures
York Biology Lectures
Black History Month Lecture
Tuesday 22 September
From colonial times to independence:
The Indonesian medical profession, 1900-1950
Dr Hans Pols, University of Sydney
6pm, The Treehouse, Berrick Saul building
Wednesday 7 October
Defusing an explosive issue: Engineering GM plants to
remove explosives and other pollutants from the biosphere
Professor Neil Bruce, Department of Biology
Tuesday 13 October
Shade matters
Dr Henrice Altink, Department of History
and Dr Shirley Tate, University of Leeds
TICKET ONLY 6.30pm,
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Thursday 1 October
Eugenics as a secular religion
Dr Marius Turda, Oxford Brookes
University
6pm, Bowland auditorium,
Berrick Saul building
Wednesday 11 November
Sex chromosomes and human infertility
Professor James Turner,
The Francis Crick Institute
Wednesday 2 December
Gene sharing and the evolution of complex cells
Dr Tom Richards, University of Exeter
Thursday 22 October
Trial and evolution:
Chemotherapy for tuberculosis in Britain, 1940-1970
Clare Leeming-Latham, Birkbeck, University of London
6pm, The Treehouse, Berrick Saul building
All lectures will take place at
1pm, Room P/X001, Physics
Department of History of Art
Research Seminar
Thursday 12 November
‘Not everyone can be a Gandhi’:
The global Indian medical diaspora in the post-WWII era
Professor David Wright, McGill University, Canada
6pm, The Treehouse, Berrick Saul building
Monday 12 October
Anglo-Norman attitudes:
Cross-channel antiquarianism
in the romantic age
Rosemary Hill, Honorary Visiting Fellow,
Department of History of Art
4.30pm, Bowland auditorium,
Berrick Saul building
Lifelong Learning Lectures
Monday 28 September
Stories from elsewhere:
Researching a novel in a foreign place
Guy Mankowski, Centre for Lifelong Learning
Wednesday 14 October
A history of school uniform
Kate and Felicity Stephenson,
Centre for Lifelong Learning
7pm, Room AEW/003,
Alcuin East Wing,
Alcuin College
Friday 23 October
Making amends:
Perspectives on shame
and punishment
David Worsley,
Centre for Lifelong Learning
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Monday 9 November
The Bayeux Tapestry:
Narrating the Norman Conquest
Cristina Figueredo, Centre for Lifelong Learning
Tuesday 24 November
Dandy highwayman:
Romantic rogue or roadway robber?
Alice Bennett, Centre for Lifelong Learning
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Doing the Right Thing
Philosophical reflections on morality
Thursday 15 October
Is morality objective?
Dr Richard Yetter-Chappell,
Department of Philosophy
Thursday 29 October
Moral responsibility
Dr Dorothea Debus,
Department of Philosophy
Thursday 12 November
Some reasons not to do the best you can
Dr Christopher Jay,
Department of Philosophy
Thursday 26 November
Should we aim for the greatest happiness
of the greatest number?
Dr Johan Gustafsson,
Department of Philosophy
All lectures will take place at
6.30pm, Bowland auditorium,
Berrick Saul building
Learning from Human Rights Defenders
Friday 16 October
Realities of an unrecognised conflict
situation in Northeast India
Bondita Acharya, Visiting Fellow,
Centre for Applied Human Rights
1pm,
Room ARC/014,
Alcuin Research
Resource Centre
(ARRC),
Alcuin College
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Friday 30 October
Shrinking spaces of civil society organisations
in Kyrgyzstan and Russia
Aida Baijumanova and Natalia Zviagina, Visiting Fellows,
Centre for Applied Human Rights
1pm, Room AEW/003, Alcuin East Wing,
Alcuin College
Friday 13 November
Sorcery related violence in
Papua New Guinea
Monica Paulus, Visiting Fellow,
Centre for Applied Human Rights
1pm, Room ARC/014, Alcuin Research
Resource Centre (ARRC), Alcuin College
The Morrell Memorial Address
on Toleration
Tuesday 20 October
The need to forgive criminals
Frances Cooke, Howard League for Penal Reform
TICKET ONLY 6.30pm,
SEE PAGE 8 Room P/X001, Physics
History Lecture
Friday 23 October
Remembering the Battle of
Agincourt (25 October 1415)
Dr Craig Taylor (University of York),
Dr David Green (Harlaxton College),
Professor Christopher Allmand
(University of Liverpool),
Professor Anthony Pollard (University of Teeside)
TICKET ONLY 2pm – 5pm, Bowland auditorium,
SEE PAGE 8 Berrick Saul building
Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture
Thursday 5 November
How do we know who killed
Roger Ackroyd? Evidence for
causation in the single case
Professor Nancy Cartrwright,
Durham University
6pm - 7.30pm,
Room V/045,
Vanbrugh College
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